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Chamisa to be arrested
Reports from MDC Alliance rallies in recent days echo a common theme: if their candidate loses there will be anger, despair, and even revolution. Chamisa's supporters site the election as being r...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 19:32hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MPs castigate Mnangagwa
Parliamentarians yesterday castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa for dropping two of his Cabinet ministers barely 48 hours after their appointment.At the weekend, Mnangagwa dropped two...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 14:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The reason(s) General Chiwenga 'stole' Mugabe's Resignation Speech!
As the whole world waited impatiently for the former president Robert Mugabe (and I don't miss him at all) to deliver his last speech, but when the moment of truth came he then read what we beli...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 07:17hrs | 4 | by Mthokozisi Ndiweni
Did the Zimbabwe 'coup' happen to protect the military chief?
THE fall of Robert Mugabe, who was a fixture in global affairs for nearly four decades, was sudden, swift and bloodless.A little more than a week after the military warned the government it mi...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 15:09hrs | 1 | by BBC
Adios Robert Mugabe!
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday finally succumbed to pressure from the masses, legislators and the military when he resigned as Head of State and Government ending his 37 year (mis)rule in a dramati...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Good luck, Grace Mugabe
"Someone, anyone, with close links, please make sure Uncle Bob reads the correct speech … Old man reads the 2013 inauguration speech and we're in kak for another 5 years," tweeted Mubaiwa Bandambira...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Gwynne Dyer
Mugabe has until 12 to stand down or face impeachment
President Robert Mugabe has until noon (1000 GMT) on Monday to stand down or the ruling ZANU-PF will begin impeachment proceedings after the 93-year-old leader defied expectations he would resign. ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Reuters
Grace Mugabe on Succession: Is this the beginning to an end?
Just about a month ago, War Veterans Minister Cde Tshinga Dube was rebuked for suggesting that President Mugabe must consider naming his successor to avoid confusion surrounding the ongoing succesion ...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 21:10hrs | | by James Katso
Failed Mugabe cannot lecture us on coalition - PDP
President Mugabe is a little big man who cannot lecture us on any subject let alone give advice on how the democratic contingent must remove him from power.The fact of the matter is that Mugab...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP Spokesperson
Mugabe living in cloud cuckoo-land
President Robert Mugabe (93) in his election manifesto ahead of the 2013 general elections, promised to create 2,2 million jobs under an ambitious programme known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainabl...Published: 07 May 2017 at 22:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe skirts bond notes, bonuses
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday skirted tackling the contentious bond notes, civil servants' bonuses and the current economic and political crisis when he presented a largely disappointing 2016 ...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe told use Sona to announce resignation
Opposition parties have told President Robert Mugabe to use Thursday's State of the Nation Address (Sona) to announce his retirement as he no longer has any viable solutions to extricate Zimbabwe ...Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe unfit to run in 2018
AS Zimbabwe's 2018 election draws closer, important questions are emerging with regards President Robert Mugabe's state of health and fitness to vie for re-election.The leader's growing st...Published: 11 Nov 2016 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must retire to save Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is at crossroads. The country is facing a multifaceted political and economic crisis, stemming largely from a lack of political legitimacy that has arisen out of persistently disputed ele...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 08:21hrs | 4 | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Mugabe 'charms' his enemies
Any visitor to Zimbabwe watching local television on Thursday afternoon would have been forgiven for thinking that the characterisation of President Robert Mugabe and his government by the media i...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Death threats frighten MDC-T MPs
Dozens of opposition legislators who received death threats on the eve of the opening of Parliament by President Robert Mugabe on Thursday are scared stiff for their lives despite Vice President E...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health worries Zanu-PF
FOR the first time in many years, there is immense doubt within Zanu PF as to whether President Robert Mugabe will be fit to stand as the party's presidential candidate in 2018 due to his deterior...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe jokes about wrong speech in Parliament
President Robert Mugabe burst into uncontrollably laughter in parliament while asking officials if he was handed the correct speech to read.In a delayed ZBC broadcast of the opening of parliam...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 12:35hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Outgoing French envoy mocks Mugabe
Laurent Delahousse the outgoing French ambassador to Zimbabwe, used his farewell dinner on Wednesday to mock President Robert Mugabe over the Zanu-PF leader's embarrassing "wrong speech" gaffe las...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Mugabe exposed
THE plot to push President Robert Mugabe out of office has thickened, amid reports the opposition MDC-T has rekindled its impeachment motion in Parliament and wants the matter treated as urgent....Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Comedian feasts on Mphoko's hotel stay
LOCAL comedian Nqobizitha "Q The Boss" Dube on Saturday night feasted on Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's continued stay in an upmarket Harare hotel at taxpayers' expense since his appointment ...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Slippery slope for Zimbabwe and its leader
Forget Cecil the Lion: for Zimbabweans, 2015 was mostly about President Robert Mugabe, lack of money, and how long both would last.While Cecil and his death at the hands of an American dentist...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 13:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is a presidential hard sell
The humiliation that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa suffered at Rufaro Stadium last week where he found himself addressing a small crowd of mostly uniformed forces is not anything that any politici...Published: 08 May 2016 at 11:00hrs | | by Tangai Chipangura
Mugabe bringing Zimbabwe into disrepute
The shocking videos coming from Japan clearly showing Robert Mugabe unable to walk to a podium and sleeping at a press conference are disturbing and unwelcome.It is so clear that Mugabe is not...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 10:34hrs | | by Settlement Chikwinya - PDP Secretary for Elections
Mugabe, Charamba relations at all-time low
RELATIONS between President Robert Mugabe and his longtime spokesperson George Charamba are reportedly at an all-time low over his dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics, top government official...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery surrounding Mugabe's whereabouts deepens
The mystery surrounding President Robert Mugabe's whereabouts deepened yesterday, as it emerged he might not have travelled directly to India as announced by government, but had instead made his way t...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Indian trip stinks- analyst
A political analyst Budiriro Peter Moyo has said the President Robert Mugabe's trip to India for a cultural function stinks betrayal by his spokesperson and permanent secretary in the ministr...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai is lying, he was plain negligent and caught napping
Whatever we may say Tsvangirai certainly needed to be a little bit more careful and responsible to know the consequences of finding himself in those photos and worse the consequence of them leaking to...Published: 25 Feb 2016 at 20:55hrs | 1 | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Mujuru harvests more from Zanu-PF
More Zanu-PF officials, including former ministers, continue to stampede to join former Vice President Joice Mujuru's recently registered Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party.Among those who rece...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinyoka now a legal nuisance
A UK based Zimbabwean lawyer and government critic, Tinomudaishe Chinyoka filed a Constitutional Court application on Friday seeking a court order to have parliament probe President Mugabe's health to...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 11:52hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mugabe faces fitness probe
A United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean lawyer, Tinomudaishe Chinyoka on Friday filed a Constitutional Court application seeking an interdict to have Parliament investigate whether President Robert Mugabe i...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Probe Mugabe's ability to hold office'
A Zimbabwean lawyer has asked the country's highest court to order an investigation to determine President Robert Mugabe's fitness to hold office, after a series of blunders that prompted speculation ...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 19:47hrs | | by AFP
Unpacking Jonathann Moyo - George Charamba tiff
KENT - The latest episode in Zanu-PF's intriguing drama in the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe involves two men blessed with the gift of the garb, Professor Jonathan Moyo and George Charamba...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Alex T. Magaisa
Jonathan Moyo blasts Herald
As Zanu-PF's deadly factional and succession wars continue unabated, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo took to Twitter yesterday, querying The Herald's coverage of the ruling party's worsening i...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wanted speech translated, says Charamba
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said President Robert Mugabe referred to his prepared speech at the just-ended Zanu-PF conference in Victoria Falls as he wished to use it for maximum...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in another speech blip
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe came within a whisker of going through another script of a wrong speech at the just-ended Zanu PF conference in Victoria Falls over the weekend, before his alert lieutenants, l...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's succession game plan unravels
After eight rallies across the country's provinces in a whirlwind campaign almost similar to her blitz against ousted Vice-President Joice Mujuru, First Lady Grace Mugabe might not have been prepared ...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe hints at new leadership for 2018 election
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe last week hinted that Zanu-PF was likely to choose a new presidential candidate to represent the party in the 2018 general elections, in what was seen as an admission that Pres...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Special wheelchair to be designed for Mugabe
Zimbabwe's first lady says she plans to get a 'special' wheelchair for her 91-year-old husband so that he can continue to rule.Speaking at a political rally on Saturday, Grace Mugabe told supp...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 10:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's aide in explosive WhatsApp chats - Full transcript
DAYS after President Robert Mugabe embarrassingly read the wrong speech during the official opening of parliament in September, a war of words through popular social media application Whatsapp explode...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Go hang on a banana tree,' Mutsvangwa told
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba and War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa are embroiled in a vicious fight over President Mugabe's parliament wrong speech mistake.The pair is...Published: 21 Nov 2015 at 09:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa, Charamba in vicious fight
A war of words erupted between War veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa and Presidential spokesperson George Charamba days after President Robert Mugabe read the wrong speech during the official opening...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 07:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
George Charamba amplifies discord in ZANU PF
"All political lives, unless they are cut off mid-stream at happy junctures, always end in failure because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs." Surely Enoch Powell who said these true...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 11:08hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Regime change is coming, hope it is peaceful but are helpless to ensure it is
Until a year ago, Zimbabwe was a one-party state dominated by one man - Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Last year Mugabe surprised everyone but much more so Mai Mujuru and over 150 senior party members behind ...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 21:50hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace can wish to be president but can she stop the Tsunami wave demanding regime change!
Some people are saying Grace Mugabe is set to replace her husband as president; they could not be more wrong. Before she can take over the presidency Grace has two mountains to climb. First, she must ...Published: 11 Nov 2015 at 20:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe moves into the 'Hastings Kamuzu Banda phase'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe appears to have entered what can be termed the "Hastings Kamuzu Banda phase" at this stage of his long career, what with the frequent stumbling in public and - by his own admis...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Herbert Moyo
Zimbabwe dismiss speculation on Mugabe's health
Zimbabwe government officials have dismissed speculation about Mugabe's health after the elderly leader stumbled in public.Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba was quoted in the State-run The He...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe stumbles breaks fall in India
President Robert Mugabe yesterday almost fell over backwards as he tried to climb onto a one-step dais, with Indian Premier Narendra Modi and some aides rushing to his rescue in New Delhi. ...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zim man in trouble over Mugabe 'wrong speech' jibe
ZIMBABWE Lawyer for Human Rights Communications officer Kumbirai Mafunda said police have arrested a man over some comments, which he allegedly expressed following the recent embarrassing gaffe by Pre...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 11:09hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
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