The United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with other senior officials, for corruption and human rights abuses. On Monday the US government said leaders in Zimbabwe were siphoning off public resources for personal gain. This move scraps the old executive sanction order introduced in …
Read More »Ousted ZBC CEO Says Information Minister “Made Advances To Me Via WhatsApp”
Former ZBC CEO Adelaide Chikunguru, who was forced out last week, has made startling claims information minister Jenfan Muswere once “made advances” towards her but she turned him down. Chikunguru said Muswere made the approaches in 2021 when he was still ICT minister, and she insists this was the real …
Read More »El Nino To Decrease By May: Masuka
Lands, Fisheries, Wildlife and Resource Development Minister Anxious Jongwe Masuka says El Nino spell currently being experienced in the country will decrease by May this year giving way to a neutral phase. He was speaking Wednesday at a media briefing soon after his meeting with Bulawayo Technical Committee on Improving …
Read More »Has Chamisa Led Zimbabwe’s Main Opposition astray?
On January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoil. In a 13-page statement, the 46-year-old lawyer and clergyman listed a litany of reasons why he was taking …
Read More »Legal Hurdles Surround Bid For Mnangagwa Third Term
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of presidential term limits, albeit cumbersome and requiring a referendum, cannot benefit the incumbent. Mnangagwa’s pushing for a third term was supposedly …
Read More »Sanyatwe Kicks Out 3 Army Generals Embroiled In Multi-Million Dollar Housing Scandal
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country’s army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dollar hard currency housing corruption scandal, in an unprecedented action against venality, security sources told The NewsHawks. The high-level sources said …
Read More »Dubai AI Policing System Dazzles Mnangagwa, Zim To Emulate
President Mnangagwa, who is in Dubai for the World Governments Summit, was yesterday charmed by artificial intelligence systems that assign police patrols across Dubai without human intervention, and vowed to get his ministers working on cooperation and training opportunities. The President said this after touring the Dubai Police General Headquarters …
Read More »Gateway, Lomagundi Schools Sued Over Withheld Exam Results
Two prestigious schools, Gateway High School and Lomagundi College, have been taken to court by parents of students who are aggrieved over the schools’ decision to withhold their “O” and “A” Level exam results due to outstanding tuition fees. The parents of the affected students sought the assistance of Tinashe …
Read More »Zimbabwe Launches Advanced Early Learning Policy
Government will today launch the Zimbabwe Early Learning Policy (ZELP), a complete blueprint that has become the first indicator to the country’s commitment to both the United Nations transforming education summit recommendations and the Tashkent Declaration on the provision of early education globally, President Mnangagwa has said. The President’s note …
Read More »SA Political Activists Protest Against Teaching Of Shona At Pretoria School
Activists from a small South African anti-immigrant opposition party marched on a public school in Pretoria on Monday “to stop” the teaching of the Shona language. Twenty percent of pupils enrolled at Esikhisini Primary School in the Atteridgeville area are allegedly Zimbabwean, according to Kenny Kunene, the deputy president of …
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