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Mnangagwa praises Chiwenga
President Mnangagwa has heaped praise on Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, describing him as a symbol of the country's gallant war of liberation and a cadre who has executed national assignments...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Beatrice Mtetwa not happy with Chiwenga testifying in camera
Harare magistrate, Feresi Chakanyuka blocked the media from following proceedings in a case Marry Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga when he was hospitalised ...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's reappointment met with dismay
The reappointment of Kembo Mohadi as vice president of Zimbabwe has been met with dismay by many observers, who say it is a sign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is not serious about...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Mohadi and Chiwenga sworn in as Vice Presidents
Chief Justice Luke Malaba this morning presided over the swearing in of Vice Presidents Hon Kembo Dugish Campbell Mohadiand Dr Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyakadzino Chiwenga at State House in H...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Record crowds proof of Zanu-PF's strength,' claims Mutsvangwa about bussed crowds
The good works achieved by President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, which are the party's manifesto, are behind the bumper crowds at Presidential star rallies countrywide, the ruling party's spokesperson has ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates frog-marched to Mnangagwa's events
Zanu-PF's Parliamentary candidates have been ordered to attend all of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's events, with a register set to be signed according to Harare Province Chairperson Godwills Masimire...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The many political lives of Mohadi
WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternit...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'mutilates' Zanu-PF constitution
Zanu-PF president and first secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa has mutilated the party constitution introducing sweeping changes, ostensibly, to remove some provisions that hounded his firm grip to power....Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: Fireworks expected
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will storm into next week's Zanu-PF elective congress seeking to tighten his grip on power as his age is likely to trigger a fierce succession debate.The ruling pa...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi faces arrest
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and Attorney-General Prince Machaya face arrest for contempt of court after they defied a ruling ordering them to craft a code of conduct for the country's Vice-Presid...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Court orders code of conduct for VPs, ministers
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday ordered government to craft a law within 45 days stipulating the code of conduct for Vice-Presidents, ministers and deputy ministers.Mangota ma...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to appoint 2nd VP
AN opposition MP yesterday said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should appoint a second Vice-President to fill in the void left by former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi who resigned last year after a s...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mum on 2nd VP appointment
ZIMBABWE has clocked a year without a second Vice-President after Kembo Mohadi resigned in March last year following a sex scandal.The post of the second VP was created following the 1987 Unit...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Kore disorderly conduct trial pushed to winter
CITIZENS Coalition For Change (CCC) co-vice presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi-Kore trial for public disorder has been moved to May.They were arrested in 2020 at Harvest House (now Mo...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF scoffs at Chiwenga, Mnangagwa rift
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu on Saturday claimed that there was no rift between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga.Mpofu made the remarks at a...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwean minister honoured in United States
FIVE years after retiring from swimming, Zimbabwe's swimming icon Kirsty Coventry is still being regarded as one of the greatest swimmers to compete at university level in the United States.Co...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking
I have dwelt a lot regarding Chamisa's infantile approach to politics and his policies that do not make too much sense. However, I wish to commend Chamisa's visit to Matabeleland South two days ago. T...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 17:20hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 6 | by Tawanda Majon
Zanu-PF, MDCs spar over law amendments
THE ruling Zanu-PF and the MDC continue to butt heads over Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, with opposition legislators arguing that this will give a sitting president too much power if approve...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to checkmate Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behind Zanu-PF's renewed push for sweeping amendments to the constitution to put a leash on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is said to harbour ambitions for th...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs differ on Constitution Amendment Bill
Zanu-PF and MDC MPs have expressed divergent views regarding Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2, which will see, among other things, the dropping of the presidential running mate clause ahead of the 20...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Student demands code of conduct for VPs, ministers
A STUDENT at the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) has filed a High Court application demanding that the government comes up with a code of conduct for vice presidents and ministers. In ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 21:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku rubbishes shallow and simplistic Magaisa
THE question, does section 96(2) of the Constitution apply to resignations of Vice-Presidents? has arisen in the following situation: After the resignation of Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, Presidential...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Lovemore Madhuku
Implied and expressed constitutional provisions: The elusive concept
DOES Section 96 (2) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe apply to our current unelected Vice-Presidents?Did Vice-President Kembo Mohadi quote the wrong section of the Constitution in his resignatio...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | 6 | by Arthur Mutambara
Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi saga: Fresh details emerge
FRESH details have emerged that embattled former Vice-President Kembo Mohadi tendered his resignation last week, although he made it known to the public in a statement on Monday.This was confi...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi successor, phone tapping, 2 VPs dominate talk in Matebeleland
THE resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi has triggered frenzied talk in Matebeleland with political activists and parties expressing different views about who and how the former VP could best be...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi's replacement as Vice-President of Zimbabwe found?
After the unceremonious resignation of the vice president Kembo Mohadi from the office of the vice president, it has become incumbent to discuss the esteemed office of the Vice President. Cde Kembo Mo...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 16:38hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Leaders should lead by example
The much-talked scandal of our vice president is less expected of him. While vice president's social life should be separated from his office I personally finds it very disheartening to find someone f...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Isaac Nkomah
Vice President Mohadi's weapon of mass destruction misfired or was he trapped?
One American writer by the name Samantha Rose Hill once said" we can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don't stand on common ground"So how vulnerable ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:34hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kembo Mohadi embarrasses the presidium
The vice president's power to lead comes from a ceremonial reverence Zimbabweans grant their presidents. To deserve the reverence, a vice president must act as a steward of the dignity and stature of ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Allowances for President, VPs spouses
The spouses of the President and VPs will now be entitled to allowances following amendment to legislation as the government moves to pamper some of the country's VVIPs, Business Times can report....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in low spirits as COVID-19 ravages allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in "low spirits" as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two vice-presidents...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints Khupe, Mudzuri as his VPs
MDC-T newly elected president, Mr Douglas Mwonzora assumed his newly found role at the helm of the opposition party today by unveiling a new executive in which he retained his fellow election rivals t...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonso's mortal combat
EXILED Professor Jonathan Moyo has been busy burning the midnight candle. This week he ran a long Twitter thread that purportedly exposed with raw evidence the first family, that is, President ED Mnan...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube says Mnangagwa can't fix country
ZANU-PF stalwart Tshinga Dube has warned that the ugly factionalism and succession wars plaguing the ruling party are derailing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to resolve the country's decades-...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ally in COVID-19 fraud?
THE probe on Health deputy minister John Mangwiro over an alleged US$5,6 million COVID-19 tender scam has become a proxy for the factional fights ravaging the ruling Zanu-PF party, with dog fights ove...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$5,6m COVID-19 tender scandal
THE probe on Health deputy minister John Mangwiro over an alleged US$5,6 million COVID-19 tender scam has become a proxy for the factional fights ravaging the ruling Zanu-PF party, with dog fights ove...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Khupe parliament return a fraud, cries Mahere
MDC Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere has maintained the controversial return of acting MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe to parliament was a fraud.Khupe bounced back to parliament on the back ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko further remanded
A HARARE magistrate yesterday remanded former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko to October 4, where he is expected to be furnished with a trial date in a case in which he is facing charges of criminal...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo Museum stalls due to funding challenges
FUNDING challenges have stalled the completion of the John Landa Nkomo Museum located in Bulawayo City Centre despite work having started in earnest in 2016.The museum, which is situated along...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's grandstanding much ado about nothing
Chamisa's grandstanding much ado about nothingThe MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa seems to have perfected the art of making so much noise like a cricket when there is nothing proportional in terms ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 14:40hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
Newsday, Standard websites disconnected as they fail to make payments
Alpha Media Holdings, Publishers of Newsday, Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard have been blocked from their administrative rights to access the website due to none payment TechnoMag reported....Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'If ED resigns I give him a farm, whisky and women!' - has all that plus absolute power, for Pete's sake
"At the (Lupane East by-election) rally, Mr Chamisa left his supporters holding their mouths in disbelief when he said he had already hatched a retirement plan for President Mnangagwa, with women and ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 19:30hrs | 11 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa to give Mnangagwa a farm & women if he resigned & leave him to run Zimbabwe
IN a bizarre off-the-cuff speech yesterday at St Luke's, Lupane, MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa said he would give President Mnangagwa a farm, women and whisky if he resigned and left him to...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga, Mohadi must explain electricity crisis'
KAMBUZUMA MP Willias Madzimure (MDC Alliance) yesterday demanded that Vice-President Kembo Mohadi or his counterpart, Constantino Chiwenga, should come to Parliament to explain the gripping electricit...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 14:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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