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CCC councillors hire retired Zanu-PF apologist as chamber secretary
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors in Chinhoyi have curiously enlisted the services of retired chamber secretary, Abel Gotora, despite battling for years to fire him in a protracted boar...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:49hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube divorced from reality
On November 30, 2023, in the bustling halls of the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube , a proud holder of a diplomatic ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 566 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
A weird Presidency
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, the appointment of the Commander of the Defence Forces, General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the Zanu-PF politburo as an ex-officio member, (by vi...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:55hrs | 528 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
More woes for Kwekwe Messenger of Court
It never rains but pours for Kwekwe Messenger of Court (MOC) as more corruption allegations continue to pile.This follows a public outcry on the operations of the government entity after being...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 22:13hrs | 520 | by Desmond Nleya
WATCH: Prof Ibbo Mandaza did not proffer any new data to support his unorthodox call
Herewith is a link to the OR Tambo School of Leadership Public Lecture given today by Prof Ibbo Mandaza on "The State of Democracy in the Sadc Region: a Reflection on the National Elections of Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:19hrs | 697 | by Jonathan Moyo
Highlanders issue apology
Highlanders have issued an impassioned apology to the Zimbabwean football family over crowd skirmishes that rocked the club's high profile premiership fixture with archrivals Dynamos just 33 minutes i...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 15:12hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's losing candidates dispute election results, winning candidates accepts
CITIZENS Coalitions for Change (CCC) candidates for Mbare and Mutasa South constituencies have rejected the election results saying they were rigged.Voting in Mutasa South constituency, Manica...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 07:00hrs | 2097 | by Staff reporter
Simba Bhora frustrate Dembare
Dynamos 0 - 0 Simba BhoraSIMBA Bhora collected a precious point from Dynamos after forcing a draw in their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) match at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday....Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Losing CCC candidates dispute election results
CITIZENS Coalitions for Change (CCC) candidates for Mbare and Mutasa South constituencies have rejected the election results saying they were rigged.Voting in Mutasa South constituency, Manica...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 08:58hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo uses fear mongering, cash in bid to win elusive constituency on August 23
Fear pervades the peri-urban farming community of Matava in the Midlands Province's Redcliff Constituency on the eve of Zimbabwe's harmonised elections following a campaign allegedly anchored on coerc...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:28hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Dembare juju takes centre stage
THE Dynamos leadership has come out against the use of juju amid reports of a dressing room split over some unorthodox practices pushed by members of the technical department.Dynamos fired coa...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:59hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tried to kill opposition, says Mutambara
Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara says President Emmerson Mnangagwa wanted to destroy the country's main opposition party by denying it funding and using other unorthodox means.Mut...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:24hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's battle to topple Mnangagwa
ON 23 August 2023, Zimbabweans return to the polls to elect members of local councils, the national assembly, and a president. As a country with a hyper-presidentialist system, voting will largely be ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:28hrs | 91 | by Simukai Tinhu
Disgruntled CCC candidates go rogue
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s house is on fire in Manicaland as aspiring candidates who were unfairly disqualified during the candidates' selection process are up in arms with t...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells his supporters to pretend to be Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has advised his supporters to attend Zanu-PF campaign rallies for their safety, but vote it out in the ballot box on August 23....Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa failed to improve Zim's economic prospects
IT is now more than five years since President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed power with a mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, Robert Gabri...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:29hrs | 15 | by Martin Majaji
Chamisa vows to stop Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa from manipulating the forthcoming elections through unorthodox means as the two prepare for ano...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Al Jazeera documentary an attempt to sully Zimbabwe'
THE documentary series titled "Gold Mafia", produced by Qatar-based international news network Al Jazeera, was an attempt to sully the ZANU PF Government and prompt the West to tighten economic sancti...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scott Vincent: the Zimbabwean golfer who won the golden ticket
Even in Scott Vincent's wildest dreams, it's unlikely that he would have been able to imagine how much his life would change over the space of a year. He's seen such a dramatic shift in personal circu...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 17:25hrs | 66 | by Staff Reporter
Senior Zanu-PF officials elbow out Young Turks
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials have been accused of using unorthodox means to elbow out ambitious Young Turks seeking to challenge them in party primary elections slated for this Saturday.President ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Religion influences politics
The religion is very influential in shaping the lives of the people this is because it directs their way of life. Zimbabwe is largely Christian dominated and the people's behavior is influenced by the...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Grace Chekai
Mnangagwa says days numbered for name-droppers
NAME-droppers, the corrupt and malcontents who pursue narrow selfish interests at the expense of broad-based development, will face the full wrath of the law, with Government departments on high alert...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Cotton farmers give Mnangagwa's Intwasa middle finger
Some cotton farmers who got free inputs from President's Emmerson Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza programme have chosen the most unorthodox way to pay back the Zimbabwean leader's presumed benevolence through s...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF plans to weaponise gold in dirty 2023 elections campaign
Zanu-PF officials in Manicaland have devised a plan to rope in smallscale gold miners and their workers in a dirty 2018 elections campaign that will see the party supporting them in the plunder of the...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa afraid of live-streamed court proceedings?
THERE is something that happened in Zanu-PF in 2017. The play is about to be staged in a court of law.So many skeletons will pop out of the political cupboard. It is understandable why Preside...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | 11 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Cartels, manipulators on the radar
Cartels and those that collude to unjustifiably increase prices, engage in illegal dealings and manipulating the local currency for their benefit have been put under the microscope, President Mnangagw...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anger will not solve Zimbabwe's plight
ANGER doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything," wrote one African-American lawyer and politician, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.As Zimbabwe battles to navigate a tre...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's mythical 3,9m registered members
ZIMBABWE'S ruling party claims that its membership base is growing astronomically. A cursory glance at the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF)'s cell registers shows that its sco...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 14 | by Phillan Zamchiya
No return to horrors of 2008, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has warned economic saboteurs involved in illicit financial dealings to stop forthwith as they were reversing the wins gained so far in trying to grow the economy.President...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Old habits die hard
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as Bulawayo hosted the 42nd independence anniversary, one thing for certain is that there was apparent resentment all over. Ordinarily, there ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
When the West, opposition believe their own propaganda
Following the March 26, 2022, by-elections, the Western media and the opposition have been very childishly excited by the performance of the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC.In the process, the West and...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 10 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zec goes after whistleblowers
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday threatened to sue activists and other pressure groups for exposing discrepancies on the voters roll, with the electoral management body saying public ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
CCC project exposes Chamisa's poor political pedigree
For the past week the adherence of the MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, some interested distant watchers and anti-Government elements have been head over heels in excitement.This follows Cha...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 14 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Malaba slammed
JUDICIAL independence and impartiality in dispensing justice, not over-emphasis on the use of information communication technology, will provide useful tools to ensure effective administration of just...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora afraid of election
The centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces creamy milk as it used to do.Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiokor and it is now crystal clear that he is...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Elections will cut Mwonzora to size
THE centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces milk as it used to do.MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiorkor and it is clear that he is a Za...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe slips into election mode
Zimbabwe is in perpetual election mode because of disputed poll outcomes, analysts have said, as political parties start to run visible campaigns ahead of the 2023 contest.Both the ruling Zanu...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Warriors cry foul in Ghana
WARRIORS technical team has accused their hosts Ghana of employing dirty tricks to frustrate them ahead of the two teams' World Cup qualifying Group G clash in Cape Coast tomorrow.The match, w...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZEC spot on in excluding MDC Alliance
Recently Zimbabweans woke up to a NewsDay story entitled "ZEC bias exposed." The article informed that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had not invited the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance (MDC-...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance using unorthodox means to fundraise
The MDC Alliance has embarked on using unorthodox means to fundraise to keep the party afloat as the embattled opposition party's coffers are reportedly dry on account of donor fatigue.An impe...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 15:39hrs | | by Political Reporter
Herd boy on the run after stealing employer's car
A man employed as a herd boy in Empandeni, Plumtree is on the run after reportedly stealing a vehicle belonging to his elderly employer.The vehicle is a red Honda Fit registration number AFH 4...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why fighting against Malaba and Patriotism & The Judiciary in Zimbabwe
Separation of powers refers to the division of a state's government into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict wit...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 16:42hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Harare mayor's appeal an admission of failure
THE appeal by acting mayor Stewart Mutizwa has been received with mixed reactions by residents of Harare, who feel that it lacks sincerity and practical application.The City of Harare has to i...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:03hrs | 7 | by Harare Residents Trust
Zanu-PF cajoles business for support
THE ruling party Zanu-PF says businesses owe President Emmerson Mnangagwa votes in the 2023 elections since his policies are responsible for their success and they should repay by supporting the presi...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Young college students abusing family planning pills to stop periods
SHOCKING details have emerged that some female students at tertiary institutions around the country are using birth control pills to suppress their periods.One of the main reasons is that some...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4 | by Arthur Mutambara
Idolisation of champions of corruption
We are just two days away from celebrating Zimbabwe's independence from the shackles of colonialism. For some painful years, we have been trying to decide how best we can fight the cancerous worm of c...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Sharon Hofisi
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