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How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2518 | by Samantha Power
Zimbabwe to fund white farmers' compensation with mine revenue
Zimbabwe plans to use profits from a mining venture to help settle a $3.5 billion compensation claim from white farmers and settle a two-decade dispute that's soured the country's relations with Weste...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Trumpism - Sanctions, Sex and Infiltration
That the MDC-Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is an ailing force is no longer a subject for debate.The party suffers mostly from self-inflicted wounds - ones that its opponents are grac...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:00hrs | 4484 | by Grace Kwinje
Sanctions maintaining discipline on Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa must listen to what the people are saying. We have had election disputes in Zimbabwe since time immemorial. They became more pronounced in 2000 when the late MDC founding ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2268 | by Worried
Zimbabwe government systems among most improved in Africa, says Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Zimbabwe is slowly improving its governance systems according to the latest results from the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) which have seen the country ranked among the five most improved ...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 05:59hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
White farmers lease farms as beneficiaries give up, says Biti
MDC Alliance co-vice president Tendai Biti says a growing number of white commercial farmers are quietly returning back to their farms and leasing the land from non-productive black beneficiaries who ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | 3944 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa impoverishing MDC members on the altar of political correctness
A "RATIONAL economic" Zanu-PF has been masterminding massive wealth transfers to their enlightened members since 2000. The ruling party members are winning on the economic front by creating wealth whi...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:58hrs | 2320 | by Brian Sedze
Mnangagwa warned
Businesses have issued a stern warning to the government to effectively deal with a "poisoned political environment" which has the potential to scare away investors.In its submissions for the ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 14405 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF Youth league commends SADC
ZANU-PF Youth League has commended SADC for standing by Zimbabwe and in support of the removal of unjustified illegal sanctions imposed by Western countries, two decades ago. In a statement ye...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 301 | by Leonard Koni
Sanctions meant to weaken Zimbabwe
ILLEGAL economic sanctions unilaterally imposed on Zimbabwe by Western nations are motivated by a desire to slowly weaken the nation, leaving the country vulnerable to poverty, droughts and epidemics ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for slavery reparations
Zanu-PF has joined the rest of the continent in calling for reparations from Western countries that enslaved and looted resources from Africa years ago.The clarion call comes as the Namibian G...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 20697 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
FULL TEXT: Cyril Ramaphosa defends white farmers
Just over a week ago, Brendin Horner, a young farm manager in the Free State, was murdered in an appalling act of cruelty. His killing should anger and upset every one of us. ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 1989 | by Cyril Ramaphosa
Farms deal 'complicates' Zimbabwe crisis
A LANDMARK deal recently inked between white former commercial farmers and the government of Zimbabwe will make it difficult for the country to repay debts, negotiate fresh lines of credit and ask for...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 5657 | by Staff Reporter
Bheki Cele calls for 'lawless' white farmers to be arrested
South Africa's police minister Bheki Cele has labelled actions by white farmers protesting outside the Senekal Magistrate's Court on Tuesday as "lawlessness", and has called for those found to have ta...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 1902 | by Staff reporter
White farmers burn police car in South Africa
A group of farmers stormed the Senekal Magistrate's Court building on Tuesday demanding that the suspects who are accused of killing a white farmer be handed over to them. According to picture...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 15:24hrs | 3546 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | 852 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Has Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch signed a treaty with Zimbabwe?
I READ with great interest a re cent letter to the editor by Ben Freeth in which he raises issue with the government of Zimbabwe regarding the land compensation question and property rights of individ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 312 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 3401 | by Irvine Sibhona
Mnangagwa takes message of no crisis in Zimbabwe to UN General Assembly
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday called for the lifting of "illegal economic sanctions" imposed by the West on his nation, and appealed to the United Nations to help bring an end to t...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1462 | by Staff repporter
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe's land reform disaster?
0N August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under the late former President Robert Mugabe's controversial l...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 416 | by Tafi Mhaka
Ex-farm workers deserve compensation: War vets
WAR veterans and labour activists have urged government to channel part of the US$3,5 billion meant to compensate white former commercial farmers towards ex-farm workers who lost their sources of live...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:04hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
War vets sue Mnangagwa
A WAR veterans group has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court seeking the nullification of the recently signed US$3,5 billion deal by government and commercial white farmers who lost their land...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 5630 | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions: New tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a house...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 534 | by Emmanuel Murema
'SA has no role to play, it is controlled by white men,' says Chinamasa - fighting dirty, as usual
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies know the pressure on them to end the Zimbabwe crisis is mounting and will not go away until there is change. They know their iron grip on power is under serious threa...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2672 | by Wilbert Mukori
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 277 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
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 | 421 | by Staff reporter
Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | 2725 | by Emmanuel Murema
Zanu-PF warns MPs from bunking Parly
THE Zanu-PF caucus meeting held at the party headquarters yesterday warned Members of Parliament from bunking sessions. In an interview soon after the caucus meeting, Zanu-PF chief whip Pupura...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF, ANC tackle social media abuse
SOCIAL media machinations by fugitives who are running phantom accounts to drive a wedge between ZANU-PF and South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) are not only designed to harm the image of Z...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Robert Mugabe documentary goes viral
A documentary by British-born Ghanaian filmmaker Roy Agyemang on the life of the late founding president of Zimabwbe Robert Gabriel Mugabe has gone viral on the internet. According to his own ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:26hrs | 17207 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 946 | by Staff reporter
Bitter first anniversary for Mugabe
DESPONDENT and waiting in a long queue for daily food handouts from a well-wisher, Milka Mandimutsa gets nostalgic about Zimbabwe's autocratic and longtime ex-leader Robert Mugabe, who died a year ago...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2698 | by Staff reporter
War vets reassure farmers over land
WAR veterans, who played a leading role in the Land Reform Programme at the turn of the millennium, have reassured farmers to prepare their land and disregard acts of mischief from the opposition whic...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
'Reallocation of land won't remove sanctions'
Various political figures have castigated the move taken by the government in reallocating land to some white commercial farmers who lost their farms during the land reform program in the early 2000s....Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1483 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF in a countrywide tour to clarify land compensation agreement
The ruling Zanu-PF party has embarked on a countrywide tour to clarify the correct position regarding the land issue.Following the signing of the Global Compensation Agreement on the 29th of J...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 14:46hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens ministers
ANU-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said the Cabinet must answer to the ruling party, and threatened they would fire ministers that do not file reports with the secretariat, igniting a...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | 9350 | by Staff reporter
Farm workers angry with Mnangagwa over compensation
FARM workers rendered jobless during the chaotic land reform programme after government forcibly grabbed farms from their employers, mainly white commercial farmers, have accused President Emmerson Mn...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to set up social media teams
ZANU-PF is set to come up with provincial social media teams to defend the party and Government programmes on social media following campaigns by opposition elements fomenting violence while tarnishin...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC just playing to gallery
It is laughable that a political party that was always opposed to the Land Reform Programme now claims rather incredulously that the Zanu-PF Government which restored stolen land to black Zimbabweans ...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 897 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
A year after Mugabe's death
WHEN Zimbabwe's founding leader Robert Mugabe died exactly a year ago today, for many it was unimaginable any leader who comes after him would repeat hismistakes.Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
White farmers compensation gets murkier
Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between t...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2220 | by Ben Freeth
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 370 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Political nobodies should not comment about land
I write to dissect and expose the lies and hypocrisy in the statement issued yesterday by one Kudakwashe Ndavara on behalf of the so called Zimbabwe National Service Graduates Association (ZIM-NASGA)....Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 1830 | by Kundayi Masekesa
U-turn on white farmers: Mugabe turning in his grave
GOVERNMENT's dramatic turnaround to offer farms to former white farms is indicative of the Zanu-PF government's policy inconsistency, which has decimated the once flourishing agriculture sector, and i...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 7490 | by Tinashe Kairiza
No need to panic over land?
Zimbabweans who benefited under the Land Reform Programme should not panic, but focus on improving productivity since their farms will not be repossessed, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
MDC wants govt compensation extended to former farm workers
MDC Alliance says government should extend its new compensation policy on farm workers who also lost property during the country's chaotic land grab period initially targeted at a tiny minority white ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:05hrs | 849 | by newzimbabwe
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