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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 11:51
HARARE - Flamboyant rhumba and sungura musician Energy Mutodi has claimed he is being intimidated and threatened for bidding to stand on a Zanu PF ticket in Goromonzi constituency. On Saturday, the Chigorodanda hit-maker claimed two men threatened to force their...Read More
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:42
HARARE - “Our majority rule could easily turn into inhuman rule if we oppressed, persecuted or harassed those who do not think like the rest of us,” once said President Robert Mugabe on his inaugural independence address in 1980. True to...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Monday, 13 May 2013 11:16
HARARE - Crusading on an indigenisation programme — the corporate version of the farm invasions a decade ago — President Robert Mugabe is seeking to shore up his support ahead of an election which promises not only to be his last,...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 11:16
HARARE - Fireworks are expected at tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting as the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC takes the electoral war to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF over a voter registration programme mired in controversy and renewed crackdown on pro-democracy groups. Matters...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 11:16
HARARE - Information minister and Zanu PF political commissar Webster Shamu says the country cannot be taken through a pen — in remarks that could set the tone for potentially-violent polls. The Chegutu East MP made the chilling remarks as he...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:55
BULAWAYO - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s says delays in conducting primary elections are due to infiltration by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. A senior MDC official claimed Zanu PF had infiltrated the party and was causing confusion. Speaking at a Bulawayo...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:39
HARARE - Zanu PF has appealed for divine intervention to deal with endemic corruption, with a Cabinet minister telling church leaders on Friday that he is ashamed of the riches amassed by some of his comrades. Addressing an Apostolic Christian Council...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Monday, 13 May 2013 10:30
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has given a smooth passage for securocrats and other civil servants keen to stand on the party ticket in the forthcoming elections. While the fate of these two groups is seemingly secure following the...Read More
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Features » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Sunday, 12 May 2013 12:07
HARARE - Zimbabweans will soon troop to the polls for the umpteenth time in less than a decade-and-a-half to “choose” a new government. The new vote comes in the wake in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his band of democrats...Read More
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Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:52
MUTARE - An axed senior Zanu PF official in court for allegedly stealing party beasts has sensationally claimed she is being fixed for spurning party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa’s sexual advances. Through her lawyer, Dorothy Mabika, who was suspended as...Read More
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Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:46
MASVINGO - Zanu PF national party chairman Simon Khaya Moyo and political commissar Webster Shamu are set to descend on Masvingo Province today for a mission that could leave Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction reeling. Mnangagwa is reportedly engaged in a...Read More
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Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:36
HARARE - State agency, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has taken Zanu PF central committee member and former Chipinge South legislator Enock Porusingazi to court to recover a $100 000 debt. According to a lawsuit filed in the High Court,...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:45
HARARE - An iron curtain has been drawn across Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF erects an access denial policy to perceived foreign critics, analysts have said. Zanu PF negotiators — ministers Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche last week boycotted...Read More
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Opinion & Analysis »
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:38
HARARE - The future has arrived. Tomorrow is now here. This is a call for action. The time for hate-mongering and mud-slinging is over. A New Zimbabwe is beckoning and this is our generational challenge to rise and shine. The politics...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:36
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti has threatened to undo empowerment deals signed by Indigenisation minister Savior Kasukuwere, if his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party wins the forthcoming elections. Biti, also MDC’s secretary general, said Kasukuwere’s controversial policy would be...Read More
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