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'West seeks to regain control of Zimbabwe's levers of power'

Martin Zharare, executive director of Citizens Against Economic Sanctions (CAES), has likened Zimbabwe's current situation to a "Fourth Chimurenga," describing it as an economic war waged by the West, particularly through sanctions. A…

Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:42hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter

Prophet Magaya's Yadah FC hit by FIFA transfer ban

YADAH Stars has been slapped with a transfer ban by FIFA due to its failure to settle an $82,000 debt owed to three Brazilian players. The club breached its contract by terminating the players' agreements, which led to a complaint to the F…

Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 10:05hrs | 500 | by Staff reportrer

Zanu-PF warns West over destabilizing Zimbabwe

As the SADC Heads of State Summit nears, Zanu-PF Secretary of Information Christopher Mutsvangwa has issued a stern warning to Western nations, urging them to refrain from interfering in Zimbabwe's internal politics. At a recent press conf…

Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 10:05hrs | 533 | by Staff reportrer

South Africa is testing the West's claim to moral superiority

Supporters of Palestine have long been told their position is fringe. But this case gives them legitimacy â€“ and tests the limits of human rightsIt was only a little over six hours of legal argument, but the genocide case brought by South…

Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 05:44hrs | 3 | by Nesrine Malik

Zimbabwe urbanites and the politics of the West

The country is nearing the conclusion of the election period, with the appointment of Cabinet ministers, deputies, Mayors, and council chairpersons being among the final steps in the process. This election period has been marked by peace, …

Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's diatribe against Western nations sad

IT is beyond doubt that the election silly season is upon us.This is a period when all unimaginable things are said and jaws drop at the farfetched promises made to voters, who are also spoilt silly - in typical Zimbabwean context â€” by a…

Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Exposing Western duplicity over criminal law amendment

WHILE Zimbabwe's promulgation of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act has sparked criticism from Western forces, a similar law has been silently embraced in the United Kingdom, exposing the double standards of the West and its sp…

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:31hrs | 9 | by Zvamaida Murwira

West told not to interfere in Zimbabwe elections

WITHOUT undue interference from foreign forces, Palestine is confident that Zimbabwe will hold free and fair elections that will pass the credibility test.Zimbabwe is expected to hold its harmonised elections on 23 August and yesterday, a …

Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Russia warns West against 'playing with fire'

The US and its allies are "playing with fire" by doubling down on their support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, including by planning to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said."Of co…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'Zanu-PF was also called a puppet of the West'

Local journalist Zenzele Ndebele says Zanu-PF should stop describing those who disagree with it as puppets of the West as that is ahistorical with regards to itself and even irony writ large.This presentation by Ndebele was made at the Uni…

Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Family crisis in the West

I KNOW this is sensitive  ground and most people avoid commenting on, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as another feature of a failed society.Society in the West has …

Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe abstains from inflammatory UN vote condemning Russia

Zimbabwe on Wednesday joined 34 other countries that abstained from a United Nations vote to condemn Russia's "attempted illegal annexation" of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.The UN resolution, which passed with the support of …

Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe arms smuggling saga deepens as new details on the deal emerge

THE recent saga involving the botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines is deepening as it takes a new political twist amid fresh details.Those close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa are demanding a thorou…

Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter

Sanctions not root cause of crisis: SA?

SOUTH Africa does not believe that the root cause of Zimbabwe's socio-economic problems is sanctions imposed on Harare by the West as widely thought.Instead, Pretoria says it currently supports the anti-sanctions drive in solidarity with a…

Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'West responsible for chaos in Africa'

Zimbabwe's long held position that Western countries should not dictate to African countries how they should run their affairs has been reaffirmed by South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor.Spea…

Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa slams western hypocrisy

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has slammed western hypocrisy where "false environmental and mining lobby groups" are paid to agitate local communities to fight non-western investment in their localities. The country has recorded a series of coordinat…

Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft

THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body was finally hoisted out of the shaft.Afte…

Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 12 | by Fungi Kwaramba

Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners

FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped underground since Saturday.The miners are feare…

Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Sanctions on Russia expose West's double standards

Sanctions, whether targeted or not should be considered a crime against humanity, their  impact is like that of a full-fledged war.Sanctions have the capacity to destroy a nation's infrastructure, its economy, but most of all they are…

Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 19 | by Prosperity Mzila

+50 Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Members Fall Sick With Suspect Covid

A Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial coordinating committee (PCC) meeting scheduled for Saturday was postponed indefinitely after over 50 members sent apologies they could not attend after exhibiting flu-like symptoms, which are suspected…

Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:10hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Parly shortlists 12 ZHRC candidates

Parliament is next week expected to hold interviews to fill two vacancies that have arisen in the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission.At least 12 candidates have been shortlisted for the interviews set to take place at Parliament building nex…

Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Muchinguri slams West for advancing regime change agenda

Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has criticised Western countries for advancing a regime change agenda through funding opposition aligned non-governmental organisations.  She said this on Thursday whi…

Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Chinese vaccines inject fear into West as Zimbabwe rejoices

The coming in of Covid-19 has highly exposed global vulnerability. The pandemic has left the whole world puzzled, without any amenable solution to the devastating effects. But the vaccination programme all over the word is throwing some in…

Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Dylan Chiwawa

Cyberspace new frontier for US regime change agenda

Just a few days ago, while receiving a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Chinese government, President Mnangagwa pointed out that Zimbabwe was reeling under a sustained cyber-attack. "The social media attack is most …

Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Isdore Guvamombe

Coordinated attacks as weapons to destabilise Mnangagwa's gov't

The West is very proud of its relationship with Africa and has invested heavily in ensuring that its economic interests on the continent are not threatened, undermined or dislodged. The rise of China as an economic powerhouse unsettles man…

Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Let's deal with puppets

Back in the village, in Rhodesia, colonialism came in several waves, imposing itself on our people, who had their original political ideas, economic innovations and cultural idiosyncrasies, and sought to establish a new system in which the…

Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

'West must listen to Mnangagwa, not Chamisa'

This past weekend, Zimbabwe took a dramatic step towards national reconciliation. In an effort to improve the country's difficult economic situation and bring about unity among its confrontational politicians, President Mnangagwa officiall…

Published: 21 May 2019 at 23:25hrs | 2 | by Martin Banks

Africa has no divine duty to heed the West

IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as perfect, on the one hand, while, on th…

Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Conway Tutani

Mnangagwa considered illegitimate by The West

WHEN Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the presidency following the November 2017 coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, he did not waste time in telling the world that his government would adopt a political approach that d…

Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Simukai Tinhu

Zimbabwe: Under Western eyes, again

Come July 30 2018, the harmonised elections shall be won and lost. There shall be celebrations and anger, laughter and crying, joy and sorrow, vindication and vilification. On that day, a destination for Zimbabwe shall be set. The country …

Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by RADAR

'Don't be fooled by Mnangagwa,' Biti warns Western powers

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa did not seize power in coup and then, miraculously, become a reformer or a democrat overnight, former finance minister Tendai Biti has warned the West.In an opinion article for the US-based Washington Post, Bit…

Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

The West suspicious of Mnangagwa

In recent years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa seem to have discovered that Britain and the West are good.For example, when newly-appointed as vice-president in 2013, Mnangagwa was not ashamed to demonstrate his new obsession: "We cannot do…

Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Tinhu

Grovelling for sanctions then canvassing for votes from suffering masses

Grovelling for sanctions from the USA then coming canvassing for votes from the suffering masses, what rank madness? How can the povo forget so early, sanctions hurt the vulnerable. Is this not the same man who had Zimboz fired en-mas…

Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 22:18hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo Murisa

Armchair representation is unproductive

Those MPs who are always on 'mute' during parliamentary debates do not deserve our votes, we want active representation in that august house. Week in week out some honorable members are known to just go in and doze off or sit there be…

Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 21:36hrs | 5 | by Tondorindo Murisa

The West cannot tell Zimbabwe what to do

The very nations who underdeveloped Africa or their agents must not come here to us as if they are the only ones with economic solutions for the problems we face. We as Zimbabweans will implement our own informed economic development solut…

Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 18:47hrs | | by Vince Musewe

West to rescue Mugabe?

The West seems hell-bent on saving the beleaguered Zanu-PF regime - in spite of a Zanu-PF minister accusing Western embassies of fomenting the mounting unrest. The West apparently believes that there will be regional chaos if the regime co…

Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Zimbabwe Vigil

How the West Won Control Over Africa

THE popular uprisings in north Africa affecting Tunisia, Egypt and Libya took Africa by surprise.Stunned by the events we watched unfolding on TV, and unable to quickly decide how we should respond, we, as Africans, instinctively resolved …

Published: 13 Apr 2011 at 09:42hrs | | by TM

West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Atheltic, race to sign El-Hadji Diouf

West Bromwich Albion and Wigan Atheltic have joined the race to sign El-Hadji Diouf from Blackburn Rovers, according to The Daily Mail.Diouf had been the subject of a âˆšÃ‡Â¬Â£3 million bid from Turkish side Konyaspor, but his agent Willie…

Published: 27 Jan 2011 at 03:04hrs | | by Byo24NEWS Sports

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