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South African International Relations Minister speaks on Zimbabwe
South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor was interviewed by SABC's Sherwin Bryce-Pease on the issue of the ANC's government with Zimbabwe's ZANU PF.Read the interview below...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1558 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lessons from Uganda: What Nelson Chamisa can learn from Bobi Wine
Yesterday two despots shared the same birthday - that is one Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe and the other being Yoweri Kaguta Museveni from Uganda. Despite old age, these two brothers in de...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:38hrs | 2618 | by Leonardo Makuya
Why is Zanu-PF afraid of the ANC?
ZANU-PF has been throwing tantrums against the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa over the last two weeks and that peevishness clearly exposes fright on their part.Spin-doctors in...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2923 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa needs more diplomatic muscle to crack Zimbabwe's defiant government
Amid a spiralling economic and political crisis, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the people of his country on August 4. His speech, though sudden - four days after his government's v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 1929 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
No to megaphone diplomacy Zimbabwe, US agree
Zimbabwe and the United States have agreed to cooperate and resolve their differences diplomatically as opposed to the public spats that had characterised their relations since the turn of the millenn...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
ANC wants peace, stability in its Zimbabwe 'province'
SOUTH Africa's governing party, ANC's secretary-general Ace Magashule has described Zimbabwe as a "province" that needs peace and stability recognising it has just emerged from a contested election....Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2209 | by newzimbabwe
The binding African spirit in challenging the Zimbabwean crisis
The Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union Patriotic Front is indebted to the steeped bona fide pan-Africanist spirit which facilitated the convening of the interparty dialogue with our sister revolutiona...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 357 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Mnangagwa reaches out to political foes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again reached out to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and other opposition leaders for dialogue to end the country's myriad crises.In addition, the 77-y...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 6522 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Tom says Sadc should do more to end Zimbabwe crises
AMERICA'S ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols urged the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to be more proactive in helping resolve the challenges faced by the country. The regional bloc sh...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:09hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites Chamisa for talks
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again reached out to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and other opposition leaders for dialogue to end the country's myriad crises.In addition, the 77-y...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 20:17hrs | 24777 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa: Quiet diplomacy 2.0
ZIMBABWE is in turmoil. It is facing the twin political and economic challenges again. Political tensions are high and activists are paying the price. Inflation, while now a bit stagnant, but it is ab...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1262 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Ramaphosa to dismantle and illegitimatise Mnangagwa's Polad?
Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba said it was disconcerting to see that some Zimbabweans expected the country's problems to be resolved by outsiders. This comes as President Cyril Ramap...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:40hrs | 5888 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warms up to national dialogue
MANY Zimbabweans are warming up to the recent calls for national dialogue and an internal resolution of the country's decades-long political and economic crises, while also imploring President Emmerso...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:39hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spokesperson says SA is beset with its own problems
THE government reiterated yesterday that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country's myriad challenges, warning that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation out of its current...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
South Africa interference in Zimbabwe 'problematic'
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest diplomatic push to find a solution to the crisis in Zimbabwe drew an angry response from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesmen on Tuesday.Mn...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 5261 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa being used as a pawn in US diplomacy on Zimbabwe'
President Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba has said that only Zimbabweans could resolve the country’s myriad challenges and that it was futile for anyone to expect outsiders to lift the nation ...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:13hrs | 6194 | by Staff reporter
ANC mediation divides Zanu-PF
SHARP divisions have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF party with hardliners rubbishing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts to intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis while moderates have welcome...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 9035 | by Staff reporter
How many chances does Mnangagwa require?
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement on Monday that his special envoys will be coming back to Harare to meet all stakeholders to understand the country's multi-faceted crisis better ...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
'US ambassador's claims on Zimbabwe baseless'
The Government yesterday called to order the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nichols for violating the Vienna Convention which governs diplomatic missions, as he is dabbling in local po...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Freeze Zanu-PF bigwigs' assets, says SA politician
South African opposition politician Herman Mashaba yesterday called for the freezing of assets belonging to Zanu-PF officials in the neighbouring country.Mashaba, who launched his new politica...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Mashaba calls for harsher action on Zimbabwe
South Africa should adopt harsh policies against the Zimbabwean government which includes freezing the assets of Zanu-PF leaders in South Africa, the leader of the newly launched Action SA party, Herm...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 6412 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the cult of mediocrity in Zimbabwe politics
ZIMBABWE has finally arrived at its Idi Amin moment in history.This is a moment where the vulgar, obscene and grotesque performances of leaders get tragically normalised. It is a true "gods mu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1197 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 529 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe problems won't lead to civil war'
AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe's long running crises, University of Zimbabwe's politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and h...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2085 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crisis is sapping Zanu-PF's supremacy
ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises that have gone on for two decades are weakening Zanu-PF's hold on power and could soon have dire consequences on the ruling party, one of the country's leading...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3424 | by Staff reporter
Civic society castigates Sadc 'quiet diplomacy'
LOCAL civic society organisations yesterday said they were disappointed by Sadc's decision to ignore the crisis in Zimbabwe and said they will push for an inclusive dialogue to end the multifaceted ch...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Dear SADC, if you genuinely love your ZANU PF comrades, please advise them that evil never ends well!
If there is one single conspicuous thing that seriously worries me about SADC (Southern Africa Development Community), more than anything else - it is the apparently fake, insincere, and totally stage...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 1800 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Senator Monica Mutsvangwa The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Commission ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 3684 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda - ADGN President
APA tells Zimbabweans to wait for 2023
SINCE the disputed 2018 elections, Zimbabwe has been undergoing difficult circumstances characterised widespread poverty, unemployment, hyperinflation, fuel and drug shortages and the COVID-19 crisis ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Is Sadc too conflicted to handle the Zimbabwe crisis?
ZIMBABwE is back in the limelight for the same wrong reasons. Corruption, abuse of power and human rights violations form the core of the allegations. The Harare authorities have insisted "there is no...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:25hrs | 579 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe ruling elite unfit to govern a democratic state - as not trained to serve and protect, but only to kill and destroy
Yesterday I experienced two things that clearly opened my eyes to why I have never seen eye-to-eye with those in power in Zimbabwe, and will forever be at loggerheads.The first was having to t...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 2507 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Politics in Zimbabwe Today
Since so called independence in 1980, governance by zanu pf has been that of horrific human treatment, deaths and total destruction of the national economy. We have seen capture of government institut...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1034 | by Clemen Moyo
Honeymoon over for 'new dispensation'
South Africa's insistence that Zimbabwe is facing a crisis that needs urgent intervention should send a clear signal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government that our neighbours are getting fed up...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3652 | by Staff reporter
SADC opposition parties pile pressure on Mnangagwa
Opposition political parties in South Africa and Botswana have ratcheted pressure on their countries' leaders to intervene on growing reports on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.Civic society a...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 19:31hrs | 4769 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa, You risk Isolation & Sad departure
When I looked at Nick Mangwana speaking, I simply said it's all about pleasing his master, scrambling for few pieces falling from the master's table, when I listened to George Charamba, he was spittin...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 16:03hrs | 9417 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa jittery as pressure mounts
CORNERED President Emmerson Mnangagwa blocked envoys sent by his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa from meeting opposition political party leaders and civil society organisations fearing humil...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:08hrs | 11664 | by Staff reporter
'There is no crisis in Zimbabwe'
GOVERNMENT has refuted wide claims South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa sent special envoys to Zimbabwe to investigate alleged human rights violations, which include rampant state sponsored abductio...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1718 | by Staff reporter
Zapu seeks meeting with ANC, uMkhonto we Sizwe Over Zimbabwe crisis
OPPOSITION Zapu has requested a meeting with South Africa’s main liberation movements, the ANC, South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and uMkhonto we Sizwe to demand the adoption of an inclusive engag...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not on Sadc agenda
Zimbabwe is not on the agenda of the Sadc summit to be held next Monday, neither is it up for discussion at the African Union (AU), since there is no crisis to warrant its placement on anyone's agenda...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
'No crisis in Zimbabwe which needs external intervention'
THESE has been a number of assertions, claims and even misconceptions in the media space on a number of very topical issues. The government has since felt duty-bound to put the record straight....Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 21:28hrs | 1169 | by Statement by Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa:
Abusive rogue regimes that violate international law shouldn't be allowed to hide behind 'protocol' and 'diplomacy'
When I was growing up, whenever an abusive husband battered his wife, the best she could do was either, keep quiet and accept her fate (even blaming herself as having 'deserved' the brutality as punis...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1122 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'SA envoys not obliged to meet political parties'
SOUTH African envoys who came to Zimbabwe early this week and delivered a message to President Mnangagwa from his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa had no obligation to meet opposition parties and civic soc...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:48hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's emissaries will return to Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mphakama Mbete, has refuted claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys snubbed the country's opposition and civil society organisations when they cam...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4362 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa should travel to Zimbabwe
African Union chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa should travel to Zimbabwe and seek a solution to the ongoing human rights abuses and political paralysis, South Africa's main opposit...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean political allegory: A dystopian complex
Read it to me Benjamin, Muriel the goat bleats pleadingly; "…, and all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."This quote from George Orwell's Animal Farm novel is pe...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 959 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
Ramaphosa fights to end Zimbabwe's political crisis
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday and immediately went to work - meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country.Interesti...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2270 | by Staff reporter
SA's Mbeki once claimed there was no crisis in Zimbabwe - then hundreds of people were butchered... Ramaphosa needs to show real
Saturday 12 April 2008, will forever be the day that most Zimbabweans would wish had never happened, and will forever be embedded in their minds as the day that a prominent and respectable statesman h...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 20:53hrs | 817 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Ramaphosa has failed Zimbabweans' South African opposition party says
The decision by the Zimbabwean government to deny President Cyril Ramphosa's envoys an opportunity to meet with opposition leaders was not only disrespectful to the office of the African Union Chairpe...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 16:52hrs | 3745 | by Democratic Alliance
South Africa is in no position to help Zimbabwe
This week President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and former Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi as special envoys to Zimbabwe. Their reported br...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 1319 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa to cooperate with SA's envoys
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa conferred with President Emmerson Mnangagwa before he appointed his two special envoys to Zimbabwe last week - amid allegations of human rights violations in the country - it...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
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