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Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 269 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mzi Khumalo urged to dispose of Zimbabwe mines
SOUTH African mining magnate Mzi Khumalo is under pressure to dispose of Redwing Mine in Penhalonga, Manica- land province and Mazowe Gold Mine in Mashonaland Central as the mines have become hotbeds ...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Maguwu fears for his life
Zanu-PF functionaries are reportedly baying for Farai Maguwu's blood, with the human rights activist claiming that he recently received death threats for exposing gold looting ostensibly orchestrated ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo ZANU PF warlords bury hatchet
Feuding ZANU PF Masvingo province warlords Ezra Chadzamira and Robson Mavhenyengwa have buried the hatchet after a bruising provincial election campaign. The two made peace and pledged to work togethe...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe sliding back to 2008 crisis'
ZIMBABWE is in economic and political crises which are threatening peace, particularly ahead of the 2023 elections.Observers say corruption and looting of public resources have reached alarmin...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe military won't hand over power'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday said it would not surrender power to the opposition, citing the Zanu-PF leadership's war credentials.Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamb...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Informal traders to blame for demolitions'
THE Harare City Council yesterday blamed informal traders over the demolitions carried out by council and police, accusing them of choosing to operate at undesignated areas.Council spokesperso...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers desert school over machete gangs
TEACHERS at Mangwande Primary School in Lower Gweru have reportedly deserted the learning institution for security reasons after machete gangs terrorised the area since July 2018.As a result, ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Behave or else, Zanu-PF warns
THE ruling Zanu-PF said yesterday that it would deal ruthlessly with senior officials who interfere with its eagerly-awaited District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections to be held this weekend....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa calls on Zanu-PF to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers
WAR veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has called on Zanu-PF leaders to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers whom he accuses of fomenting chaos in the ruling party ahea...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF must crack whip on troublemakers'
WAR veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has called on Zanu-PF leaders to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers whom he accuses of fomenting chaos in the ruling party ahea...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's recolonization complete with Mnangagwa land giveaway to Europeans
The Zimbabwe Government has decided it will give back retaken stolen land--to the white Europeans who stole it in the first place during the colonial era.2020 is indeed a strange year....Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi can only be resolved with the victims
The Gukurahundi sanitisation project fronted by Jenni Williams and her cabal is a dismal failure except for its obscenity and vulgarity of holding vile celebrations in Bhalagwe - a scene of heinous cr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:04hrs | 1 | by Lizwelethu Dube
Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Editorial - chronicle
Dear Mr President Mnangagwa
Dear Emmerson,I am writing this in response to your call on Zimbabweans to cherish the peace we are enjoying as you addressed members of the Defence forces.I would to like to bring to your...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 22:41hrs | | by AT Kadada
$4 million bitumen vanishes
AT least 215 drums of bitumen worth RTGS$4 million were stolen at a road construction site in Chivhu last week and Government has rolled out extensive investigations to apprehend the culprits. ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
EFF's independence day message to Zimbabweans
The 18th of April is a monumentally historic date in the history of our country. It is the date our country achieved a hard-fought political independence. Zimbabwe's gallant sons and daughters sacrifi...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by CIC Innocent Ndibali.
Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF babysitting a time bomb
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party, Zanu-PF, have a ticking bomb on their lap. And they look quite cozy with that.The so-called "mabhemba" wars - a group reference to violence involvin...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
A time to impose sanctions on America!
America has imposed a new set of sanctions that must run for the next 12 months against Zimbabwe. This is not new. America has been doing this for the past 18 years since Zimbabwe took the bold but lo...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Not awarding Tsvangirai a hero's status is a great omission
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. I reiterate that Zimbabwe is for all who live in it, not for a selected few Zanu members and their disciples. All Zimbabweans must be afforded the opportun...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 21:22hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Time to end Zanu-PF election rigging, Cdes
MY Comrades, I am pleased to finally announce to you that something is happening on the ground. As you are now all aware, a lot of work is underway to ensure that the New Patriotic Front (NPF), a gran...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by CZ
In this hour of truth, let us be reminded the enemy is not just Mugabe
All of them - all of the above - have are responsible for building this people-eating monster called Zanu-PF, together with Mugabe. And all of them, are not just directly implicated in Gukurahundi gen...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 12:31hrs | | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Former ZPRA High Command speaks on Heroes' Day celebrations
The surviving members of the former ZPRA High Command would like to give honour and praise to the Head of State, the President of this country for allowing special dispensation for Heroes and Defence ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwe army regiments are now led by warlords
Zimbabwe is in state of a political crisis and decay. The political authority, influence, responsibility and control has debilitated and collapsed. The central power holder is now shrunken and malfunc...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 21:23hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Rebuild Africa
Africa needs the citizens to focus about future generation. Who is going to stand up and say I am ready to rebuild t Africa? Liberia is just one example on a long list of African states that have spen...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Democracies that have thrived on feminine disempowerment within The African Union
Extract from Reginald Thabani Gola's Operation Save Africa Campaign: The Multi-National Silent Holocaust.Democracy - as defined in the Dictionary of Con...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 19:05hrs | | by Reginald T. Gola
Mugabe General's corruption warning invites scorn
Top Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Major General Douglas Nyikayaramba's call to the government to deal decisively with corruption, especially by senior officials, has been met with scorn a...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unleashing the power of Africa's civil society
A Liberian women's peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil w...Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
#ThisFlag pastor is nothing but only seeking political relevance
The economic problems that are currently a talk in every Zimbabwean`s lips have driven people into believing and applauding any Tom and Dick who comes over saying that he/she can come up with solution...Published: 24 May 2016 at 14:24hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies
NEW YORK - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who served as the United Nations secretary-general between 1992 and 1996, has died at the age of 93, the UN Security Council announced yesterday.Venezuela's U...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 05:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Jonas Savimbi's children challenge court to punish popular vedio game 'Call of Duty" makers
THE children of slain Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi urged a French court on Wednesday to punish the makers of the wildly popular video game “Call of Duty” for representing their father as a ...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ncube stars in US show
TEMPE-BORN and-raised actress Alexandra Ncube is about to have the best week of her life.Knock on wood, of course.Ncube - pronounced NOO-bay - is starring in the first national tour of...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by AZ Central
Zimbabwe is not, should not be a chicken bus
My Two Cents When we were growing up, "chicken" buses were the popular mode of transport especially to the rural areas. A "chicken" bus is a colloquial English name for a colourful, modified and decor...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff writer
Mphoko warns Zanu-PF warlords
Zanu-PF Second Secretary and Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday launched the Marondera Central by-election campaign in which Lawrence Katsiru will be representing the revolutionary party in p...Published: 09 Sep 2015 at 06:28hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Zanu PF warlords swindle thousands of dollars from Harare vendors - MDC-T
MDC-T has told rival Zanu PF warlords to stop collecting money from vendors as the cash does not find its way into the official coffers of the city council.MDC National spokesperson Obert Gutu...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 10:44hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Three hours at the ICC- a journalist's perspective
I had in mind a court housed at an opulent building with massive security, but alas, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is temporarily located at a modest building in The Hague, Netherlands wi...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani recently at The Hague, Netherlands
ICC case against Uhuru Kenyatta collapses
THE International Criminal Court case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta collapsed on Friday as prosecutors admitted they lacked evidence, casting doubt on whether the decade-old court can hold t...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 12:04hrs | | by Reuters
Don't only fight Mugabe, fight the system
Been reading an article in which Job Sikhala says that he will be working with a Zanu-PF supposed faction said to be planning to "overthrow" Mugabe. I haven't been able to get the how of the "overthro...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 18:27hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Economy becomes Mugabe's biggest undoing
The government of Zimbabwe's core business appears to have been reduced to paying civil servants' salaries, abandoning other responsibilities, as the economy becomes President Robert Mugabe's biggest ...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 10:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Can Africa produce another Mandela?
MTHATHA - As tributes continue to pour in for the departed global icon and great son of Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, I have been asking myself whether the continent will be able to produce anoth...Published: 19 Dec 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Hooligan armchair academics determined to bring ANC down
Mozambique's founding president, Samora Moises Machel, was clear about his country and Africa's future - political freedom does not mean free from economic slavery. Machel used the cry-of-resistance, ...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 12:44hrs | | by Udo W Froese
Farai Maguwu discusses conflict diamonds on Al Jazeera
This Friday on Al Jazeera's talk show South2North, author and media personality Redi Tlhabi discusses conflict diamonds in Africa with journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, author of Blood Diamonds: ...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 03:29hrs | | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Expelled MDC chairman refuses to go down without a fight
EXPELLED MDC Matabeleland South chairperson Petros Mukwena has described his axeing as a non-event saying the party has ceased to exist having been turned into a group of three people.Mukwena,...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obama warns tyrants in Africa, condemns the rule of Mugabe
Cape Town - US President Barack Obama warned on Sunday that Africa could only fulfil its rising potential with leaders who serve their people, not tyrants who enrich themselves.In a strident ...Published: 30 Jun 2013 at 18:16hrs | | by AFP
Car bomb claims seven in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation.General ...Published: 06 May 2013 at 04:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Let the 2013 Real Change Winner be Democracy …and If its Zanu-PF so let it be!
Considering the unfolding events in the Zimbabwean political scene today, it would appear history constantly repeats itself. But then again, as it pans out, Zimbabweans, a so called 'educated' lot ar...Published: 13 Mar 2013 at 10:34hrs | | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Anti-Kony campaign successful despite activist's meltdown
Los Angeles - The public meltdown of the man behind the viral "Kony 2012" video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world's attention to capturing an elusive...Published: 24 Mar 2012 at 09:22hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Kenyan soldier killed by an improvised explosive device near Somalia border
A Kenyan soldier was killed after an improvised bomb struck a military truck near the Somali border on Thursday, the army said, the latest in a spate of attacks near the frontier since Kenya sent troo...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 09:36hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Tsvangirai’s hypocrisy on political violence
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Zimbabwe's last chance
SADC leaders meet in South Africa for what is expected to be one of the final conflict management stages of the Zimbabwean crisis at which the long-awaited adoption of a process, with indelible bench...Published: 10 Jun 2011 at 08:30hrs | | by MDC
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