Togarepi fumes at MDC Alliance for delaying Mnangagwa’s inauguration
The Zanu-PF Youth League has accused the opposition MDC-Alliance of holding the nation to ransom through their court application challenging President Mnangagwa’s win in the Presidential elections, saying the winning candidate should be inaugurated. Zanu-PF Secretary for Youth Affairs Cde Pupurai Togarepi (54) yesterday said they were also going to take the MDC-Alliance leaders Mr […]
So far, signs not pointing to investor interest in Zimbabwe
A quick search done on Zimbabwe on the Google search engine yesterday in the morning under the news section, before scrolling down the page, gave eight stories on the country, with five being negative. Therefore, if a foreign investor did a simple web search of the country today, the news they would be met with, […]
Divisions rock President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legal team
DIVISIONS have reportedly rocked President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legal team after it emerged that some of his lead lawyers gave him a wrong interpretation of the operations of the law regarding MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s Constitutional Court (ConCourt) presidential election challenge. Highly-placed sources in the legal fraternity told NewsDay yesterday that Mnangagwa had pencilled his […]
Zimbabwe’s contested election muddles its pitch for foreign investment
Zimbabwe’s presidential elections in July were supposed to be a chance for the southern African nation to show the world that it’s moved beyond the authoritarianism and economic isolationism that marked former President Robert Mugabe’s rule. That hope faded when six people were killed in post-election protests. Officially, ruling-party candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa won a razor-thin […]
Zimbabwe Army Boss Defends Commander-in-Chief Overthrow On Defence Forces Day Eve
Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chimonyo has defended former state President and Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander-in-Chief Robert Mugabe’s ouster in a military coup November last year. Chimonyo was addressing the media at the Josiah Magama Tongogara barracks on the eve of Tuesday’s Defence Forces Day, the first to be presided over […]
VP General Chiwenga won’t be fired: SB Moyo
GOVERNMENT has vowed not to give in to international pressure to fire Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga or neutralise his grip on the country’s security ministries amid speculative reports that he ordered the fatal shooting of seven MDC Alliance protestors in Harare on August 1. Addressing journalists in Harare early this week, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo […]
Let’s put elections behind us: Emmerson Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabweans to put the just-ended disputed elections behind them and move to rebuild the economy, unite the divided people and maintain peace throughout the country. Mnangagwa was addressing thousands of people, among them police, soldiers and Zanu PF supporters, who thronged the National Heroes Acre to commemorate Heroes Day. […]
Chamisa’s Three Killer Punches In Poll Petition Which Will Leave Mnangagwa Scurying For Cover
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has a formidable case against his arch rival Zanu Pf’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was declared winner of the July 30 elections after he garnered 50.8 percent. Politics aside, Chamisa’s election petition confirms his remarks earlier in which he declared that he had won the 2018 elections. Chamisa’s petition chronicles […]
Angry Emmerson Mnangagwa hunts Zanu-PF rebels
HARARE – An angry President Emmerson Mnangagwa has joined war veterans in accusing some senior Zanu PF officials of trying to engineer his downfall during the July 30 polls by encouraging party followers to vote for opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. This comes after Mnangagwa came perilously close to going into a run-off against Chamisa in […]
Zimbabwe army crackdown against opposition widens as NGOs raise alarm
An army crackdown against opposition supporters and polling agents in the aftermath of the July 30 elections has driven several people into hiding across the country, human rights groups have revealed. Soldiers have been accused of launching a reign of terror after opposition MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa rejected the election results that saw […]
