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Chissano impressed by Mnangagwa, Chamisa's peace pledges
Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano says he is impressed by the two frontrunners in the race for Zimbabwe's presidency for their promises of peace – during and after the polls.Speak...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Bishop Lazi
Ramaphosa appoints Khumbudzo Ntshavheni as his communication/ propaganda minister
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Khumbudzo Ntshavheni as the new communication minister.She replaces Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, who has been moved to the small business development minist...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa put KZN protesters on notice, wants 'concomitant action'?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on communities in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to desist from undermining the rule of law and inflicting damage on the economy.Ramaphosa's call comes after sporadic...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is a terrorist organisation, claims Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday branded the MDC Alliance a terrorist organisation that was "pro-violence" and "anti people".Mnangagwa's remarks made at the launch of empowerment program...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF policies attractive to MDC-T'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday claimed that its policies were attracting MDC-T legislators who voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill, which was signed into law by President E...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Violence won't save MDC-Alliance from mass defections
THE MDC-Alliance is reeling from mass defections and recalls by rival formations, further weakening the troubled movement at a time when it should be tightening its belt ahead of the 2023 elections. E...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head
Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded i...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one-and-a-half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on February 14, 2018. The guy is already show...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Her secret pain!!!
"The pain she carries in heart is known to her alone, it's her secret pain. Being a woman is not easy and had never been. She brings to life another life battling and dealing with an unbearable pains....Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 13:23hrs | | by Eric Shikobela
Impatience, tactlessness expose Chamisa's immaturity
It is just one and a half years since Nelson Chamisa seized control of the MDC following his predecessor, the late Morgan Tsvangirai's death on 14 February 2018. The guy is already showing signs of fa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 13:21hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's govt cracking down on Chamisa's MDC
Fearful authorities are intensifying their crackdown against the opposition, with police arresting a number of MDC officials at the weekend - in addition to banning anti-government protests that were ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Business against MDC demo, police bans it
BULAWAYO police yesterday issued a prohibition order banning MDC's planned protests set for the city today and threatened a one-year jail term for those that defy the ban.The MDC had lined up ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must ignore Chamisa's calls for anarchy
TODAY is the day for peace-loving and patriotic Zimbabweans to shame merchants of violence by ignoring calls for violent demonstrations by the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance whose agenda is to try...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:00hrs | 1 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
Today, the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for public se...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Of enemies of democracy and lovers of money
This Friday the Nelson Chamisa-led is set to stage a protest in Harare over almost everything that the opposition party's members could think of. Some of its members such as secretary for publ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:28hrs | 16 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Zimbabweans must be proud patriotic ambassadors' - deny truth, we are serfs in a banana republic
"The peace loving Zimbabweans must condemn the violence and destruction that has accompanied the visit of the minister of Foreign Affairs by the misguided elements of the opposition in the UK state," ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 17:56hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans must condemn the violent protest by MDC in the UK
The peace loving Zimbabweans must condemn the violence and destruction that has accompanied the visit of the minister of Foreign Affairs by the misguided elements of the opposition in the UK.V...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF youths push for all-inclusive talks
In a surprise move, the Zanu-PF youth league has called for broad-based inclusive dialogue to fix the country's worsening socio-economic meltdown. The call comes after talks launched by Presid...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The scourge of greedy political businesspeople
Zimbabweans are on tenterhooks as unscrupulous businesspeople pursuant to aiding and abetting the ambitions of some political losers who are seeking to blackmail government into a political union of s...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:34hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Of poor political performers, protests and stupid protestors
Those who attended or listened to the speeches delivered during Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) May Day commemorations in Dzivarasekwa, Harare, last week will testify of how the labour body's...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:50hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa has not seen Chamisa's letters
President Mnangagwa says he is not averse to holding talks with MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa if the opposition leader recognises him as the legitimately-elected leader of the country. ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trashes MDC talks reports
ZANU-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa has poured cold water on calls for a negotiated political settlement with the opposition MDC, saying there is no basis for such talks.Mnangagwa also...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he has no basis to hold talks with Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he has no basis to hold talks with MDC leader Nelson Chamisa as long as the opposition politician does not recognise him as the country's legitimate leader.&n...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers divided over onslaught on Judiciary
The fallout in the legal fraternity continues as a handful of lawyers embarked on a march dubbed #MarchForJustice yesterday, confirming revelations by The Herald on Monday that shadowy forces had rope...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube condemns violence
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has condemned the violence and destruction of property during protests saying while the people have the right to express themselves, th...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for MDC officials
POLICE have launched a manhunt for at least 27 MDC-Alliance officials and activists, including their civil society partners, for allegedly organising the so-called stay-away that degenerated into an o...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WANTED: Peter Gift Mutasa, Promise Mkwananzi, Lovemore Chinoputsa, Shadreck Mashayamombe
Police are keen to interview Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Gift Mutasa, activist Promise Mkwananzi and some MDC-Alliance party members in connection with looting, incitement...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warn plotters
Serious fresh ructions have emerged in Zanu-PF, resulting in two prominent members of the former liberation movement revealing explosive details over the past few days of an apparent plot to topple Pr...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Use of children in protests condemned
Christian Legal Society and Freedom First Project note with concern the recurrent involvement and use of children in politically motivated violence including looting of goods and destruction of proper...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 15:52hrs | 3 | by CLS and FF
Zimbabwe's horror 2019 unfolds
The palpable fear among many Zimbabweans that 2019 would become yet another "annus horribilis" — Latin for a horrible year — has become a harrowing reality, with the country's political and econom...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police should probe vandalism, looting
Whenever the bulls fight it is always the grass that suffers.The aforementioned adage is true as witnessed by the recent destruction of ordinary people's properties, including retail shops whi...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Minister suspects hidden hand behind infernos
A FIRE razed a girls' hostel at Mbuyazwe Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North yesterday amid calls for security services to investigate the alarming cases of infernos being experien...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plans massive demo 'to topple Mnangagwa'
A titanic clash is looming between increasingly twitchy authorities and the MDC, over the main opposition's plans to mount a massive demonstration to protest the country's falling standards of living ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube, Cain Mathema clash over demos.
Media mogul Trevor Ncube has clashed with Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage over the later's statements that the government will crush any demonstration organised by the opposition. ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Anti-Mnangagwa protests to be crushed'
Government has put in place security measures to deal with malcontents planning to disturb the peace prevailing in the country through illegal demonstrations, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minis...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 04:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns against demonstrations
The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Ambassador Cain Mathema has warned some political leaders and civic organisations planning to unseat a constitutionally elected government through i...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time for change
The government should stop brewing such cheap political statements that there is a third hand or force behind the demonstrations currently prevailing in the country. The people are allowed to protest ...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe opposition takes Mugabe head-on
OPPOSITION parties under the banner of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) have launched a court battle against Statutory Instrument 101a of 2016, which banned protests in Harare for two weeks...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Herald takes a stab at the Daily News after the flopped mass stayaway
On Wednesday, the excitable Daily News, which has been overzealously praying for political violence to precipitate some kind of Arab Spring, ran an Armageddon-like apocalyptic lead story headlined "An...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 10:32hrs | | by Features Writer
'Western embassies behind protests'
Foreign countries that have been sponsoring violent demonstrations through opposition parties and their proxies in the civil society have finally come out in the open. Demonstrators drawn from mai...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
US, Canada, Australia expose role
Foreign countries that have been sponsoring a wave of violent demonstrations in Zimbabwe through opposition parties and their proxies in the civil society have finally come out in the open support...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
NANGO lambast police over excessive force on demonstrators
The National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO) has lambasted the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over violence against peaceful demonstrators.The organisation said the Polic...Published: 22 Jul 2016 at 08:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
A stay-away, 'Third Force' and lessons (un)learnt
July 6, 2016 is the day a section of Zimbabwean civil service, urged on by their unions, embarked on a nationwide "stay-away" in protest over a delay in the payment of their June salaries.Due ...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Tight security ahead of Mugabe visit to SA, as Zimbabwe opposition asks for invitation to be withdrawn
THE South African government (today) Thursday today assured the country that the high-profile centenary celebrations, which Zimbabwean President Mugabe will attend tomorrow, at Fort Hare Univers...Published: 20 May 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rallies expose empty Tsvangirai, Mujuru
Rallies held over the weekend by MDC-T and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leaders respectively, have done nothing but expose the two opposition parties for shallow entities devoid of any new ideas that t...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Abusing Mugabe's name lands man in jail
A Harare conman was yesterday jailed for an effective two years after luring a Harare man to donate his Toyota Vigo to him purporting that it would be handed over to President Mugabe.Tawanda M...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 08:13hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
In Zimbabwe land reform, a golden lining
When Roger Boka started his auction business in the 1990s, this city's tobacco trading floors were hushed places, save the mellifluous patter of the auctioneer. A handful of white farmers, each sellin...Published: 21 Jul 2012 at 06:19hrs | | by Lydia Polgreen
Tsvangirai promised more 'Western funding' to oust Mugabe
State Media reports that the MDC-T leader and Zimbabwe Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai visited Morocco last week where he received more lessons on the North African uprisings.Accord the Sund...Published: 19 Nov 2011 at 20:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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