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Trial of Zanu-PF activist who 'incited' Chiwenga to topple Mnangagwa falters
The trial of a Zanu-PF activist accused of circulating messages instigating vice president Constantino Chiwenga to stage a coup against President Emmerson Mnangagwa suffered a false start on Monday af...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:40hrs | 2633 | by Staff reporter
2008 terror leader dies
ZAKA residents say they are not sorry about the recent death of a Zimbabwe National Army colonel, Christopher Rufu Mayoyo, who led a murderous terror campaign against opposition supporters in the dist...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:32hrs | 5447 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chef in hot soup over army brutality remarks
MIDLANDS senator Maybe Mbohwa, who is also a senior Zanu PF official and women's league commissar, is in soup after she exposed cases of army brutality for which she will likely be dragged before the ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2652 | by Staff reporter
'Lift ban on private transport operators'
HUMAN rights groups and the clergy have urged Local Government minister July Moyo to lift the ban on private transport operators and end the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) monopoly because ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Ralph Mguni: my Mentor, my Teacher
His proud self is still intact. He has never been different at any time and space. We should accept that the Nguni people are known for their high self-esteem are a proud people. In the interview he m...Published: 02 May 2021 at 17:13hrs | 1220 | by Nomazulu Thata
Solutions to eliminating the demon of tribalism
The demon of tribalism that has affected the Ndebele nation since 1980 can be eliminated from Zimbabwean society. Hate and resentment between the Ndebele and Shona will not solve any challenges faced ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1045 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
'You (VP) work at the mercy of the President' MDC reminded Mnangagwa - that's hen shtick to the eagle
MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and, like all cowards, they love being portrayed as courageous fighters. They loved the News Day headline "Mwonzora's senators reject Mnangagwa Bill"...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2102 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa's govt must admit Zupco failure'
GOVERNMENT should admit that its mass public transporter, Zupco, is failing to cope with demand, a consumer watchdog and commuters said in response to the transport shortages bedevilling Bulawayo. ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1692 | by Staff writer
Vote overwhelmingly to counter rigging
The 2023 election is going to be the most interesting do or die battle for both the main two political rival parties Zanu PF and MDC-Alliance who are playing their cards right on their chests....Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 15:34hrs | 1132 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwean secrets leaked to a high profile sexivist
Zimbabwe has once again woken up to some Twitter messages sent by the ever attention seeking Susa Mutami. It is important to understand who Susan Mutami is. She is if you remember the official mistres...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 7361 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
G40 wary of Zanu-PF overtures
FORMER loyalists of the late Robert Mugabe have questioned Zanu-PF's overtures to members of their G40 faction inviting them to return to the ruling party, saying it could be part of desperate moves t...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
Dougie is following Ngwena everywhere
My Dear People,If there's one thing that Ngwena and his people don't have -it is taste -sartorial taste.When I saw Ngwena at a function about the national dress, he was in the stranges...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1567 | by Dr Stopit
Constitution changes: Understanding the history and motivation
There are extensive deliberations back and forth in May, June and July 2012, resulting in Copac (Constitution Parliamentary Committee) formally adopting a draft national constitution on July 21....Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 131 | by Arthur Mutambara
Army chopper horror crash details emerge
VILLAGERS in the Arcturus area in Ruwa where an Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crashed on Friday say they watched helplessly as the plane exploded with people inside because they were afraid t...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 3861 | by Staff reporter
Board of inquiry for helicopter crash
GOVERNMENT has set up a board of inquiry to investigate the cause of Friday's helicopter crash which killed two Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) pilots and a flight technician in Goromonzi, Mashonaland Eas...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 8 ZNA colonels
President Mnangagwa has promoted eight colonels to the rank of substantive brigadier general as they retire. Their retirements are between July 2020 and April 2021.The eight Generals are David...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defense forces (ZDF) refutes land grab allegations
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF)has dismissed reports in some sections of the media that ZDF commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, invaded Goede Hoop Farm in Mazowe. In a statement yest...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 08:31hrs | 853 | by Shelton Muchena
Mutare man forges O-Level certificate
A MUTARE man appeared in court yesterday for forging his ordinary level certificate in a bid to apply for a job with the Zimbabwe National Army.Arnold Jokoto (19) pleaded guilty to a forgery c...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:39hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
ZDF dismisses reports of farm invasion by commander
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismissed reports in some sections of the media that ZDF commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, invaded Goede Hoop Farm in Mazowe. In a statement yest...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
South Africa tightens security on Zimbabwe borders
SOUTH AFRICA says it will make use of drones and other technologies to tighten security at its borders to stop Zimbabweans and other foreigners from illegally crossing into the country.The cou...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 5118 | by Staff reporter
'Parliament must closely monitor security sector'
PARLIAMENTS have been urged to strictly monitor the security sector in their countries especially in times of conflict to avoid human rights violations.This came up during debate last Thursday...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Identity theft fraudsters arrested
Fraudsters responsible for the identity thefts that allowed them access to WhatsApp groups and EcoCash accounts of others to con people into foreign currency deals had not hacked into the phones of th...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo urges police to engage army to deal with pirate taxis
LOCAL Government Minister, July Moyo has urged police to enlist the services of the army in operations meant to get rid of private transport operators who are plying various routes in cities and towns...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi longs for apartheid-era electric fence on Zimbabwe border
South Africa's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says removing apartheid-era electric fences to secure the border was a "terrible mistake."Motsoaledi spoke on Monday as he expressed his e...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 17:14hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Soldier ties note in full military honour
A BAYONET fixed on a rifle was used to cut the wedding cake that was adorned with the Zimbabwe Defence Forces badge and the national flag. The wedding came as an early Independence Day celebration for...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere was ready to die
Former Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has spoken in detail about how his family and that of former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo survived an assault on his Harare home by ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 2789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secretly deploys key special forces to Mozambique
FOLLOWING a recent military siege on the northern Mozambican town of Palma by Islamist insurgents, killing dozens, including a Zimbabwean, while leaving a trail of bloodshed and destruction in its wak...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:28hrs | 5151 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo says 'old politics' is dead
THE ruling Zanu-PF is no longer practising "old politics" and is pushing committedly for unity and tolerance among all Zimbabweans, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said.Speaking to the...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2680 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing must be left to chance' declares Mnangagwa, mobilising his vote rigging juggernaut
President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to mobilise Zanu PF's vote-rigging juggernaut in preparation for the by-elections and 2023 harmonised elections. Two weeks ago he called on the war veter...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:23hrs | 688 | by Nomusa Garikai
Soldier killed with shovel in gold dispute
A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) member Richard Makoto (32) of Inkomo baracks was allegedly murdered on Tuesday at Amatola farm, Mazowe in a gold dispute....Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:02hrs | 1792 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jonathan Moyo calls for justice on gukurahundi genocide perpetrators
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says those who took part in the early 1980s civilian massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces should face justice for the crimes.An estimat...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:07hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Opposition worried about recurrence of Mugabe era barbarities
THE imminent return of the national youth service training programme has triggered jitters among many in the opposition who have bad memories of the project's cadets.The programme's recruits w...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 5303 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's govt resurrects youth militia
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the return of its infamous National Youth Service programme for its youth militia, also known as "Border Gezi graduates", with analysts saying the move was meant to inst...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2379 | by Staff reporter
Fake soldiers on the prowl, says ZNA
ARMED criminals masquerading as soldiers and police officers are on the prowl across the country where they are carrying out well-co-ordinated armed robberies.In a statement yesterday, Zimbabw...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
13 000 border jumpers, smugglers nabbed at Beitbridge
A COMBINED security forces blitz at Beitbridge Border Post has led to the arrest of 13 288 suspected border jumpers and smugglers between January and to date.National police spokesperson Assis...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:27hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Be wary of bogus soldiers, says ZNA
A group of armed robbers masquerading as members of the Zimbabwe National Army and Criminal Investigation Department detectives is on the prowl, robbing people using fake search warrants. The ...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:21hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4597 | by Staff reporter
Rogue security agents warned
GOVERNMENT is dealing with armed robbery cases involving members of the security sector and has said those who resist arrest will be shot. Increasing armed robberies, mainly targeting banks an...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:26hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Farmers sue army, police chiefs
GOEDE Hoop Farm proprietors have approached the High Court for a second time seeking to rescind offer letters for land granted to Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Valerio Sibanda and police commissio...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:37hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:19hrs | 4002 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Security officers leading most armed robberies in Zimbabwe'
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on Thursday admitted before the Senate that serving and former police officers and soldiers were involved in the majority of armed robberies recorded throughout t...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man remains missing after Mozambique's Palma terrorist attack
FEARS are growing for a 38-year-old Zimbabwean man missing since March 24 when Islamist insurgents launched an attack on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma, a town of approximately 75,000 r...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Clubs progress delights PSL
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has expressed delight at the progress, which local clubs have made towards the resumption of local football after 17 of the 18 teams managed to conduct Covid-19 tests g...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:45hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Parliament warns of aviation disaster in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S airports could cause an aviation disaster due to poor weather-detecting instruments, outdated radar, few emergency vehicles, inadequate fire-fighting capacity and deplorable runways....Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:34hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Withdrawal of Lionel Dyck's mercenaries creates tricky vacuum
MOZAMBIQUE'S military may fail to fill a vacuum created by the exit of private military contractors (PMCs) such as retired Zimbabwean senior army officer Lionel Dyck whose company was providing air su...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:33hrs | 2645 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops ready for war
Zimbabwean troops are girding for war after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other regional leaders agreed an "immediate technical deployment" to help Mozambique fight Islamic insurgents who have rece...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:01hrs | 5741 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga backs down on junior doctors
A MAJORITY of junior doctors have declined to be conscripted into the army and will now be deployed to public hospitals, it has emerged. Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 3097 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect
United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to all...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Catch and release has the prosecutor general failed the fairness test in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe legal system bleeds and limps and trudge on as it staggers towards shame and doom. The people of Zimbabwe have always pointed blood-dripping fingers in the direction of the legal system. The ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 15:29hrs | 1221 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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