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With the Zanu PF congress set to confirm that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has outsmarted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, the late former president Robert Mugabe’s warning to the ex-military general amid the 2017 coup has now come to pass. Mugabe warned Chiwenga that Mnangagwa would use and dump coup leaders unless he …

Harare East legislator Tendai Biti has come under fire for allegedly peddling false claims against West Properties Zimbabwe, a company owned by business mogul Kenneth Raydon Sharpe. Through a statement released to the press Thursday, West Properties public relations manager Michael Chideme said the claims were false and inflammatory. The …

A Bid by Zanu PF Mashonaland West Youth League secretary for administration, Tendai Chiwetu to grab Eiffe Blue Mine in Kadoma backfired after the ruling party slapped him with a prohibition order. According to a letter dated October 21, 2022, written by the ruling party provincial investigation chairperson Phineas Makombe, …

Presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, has poured scorn on Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa’s Chikurubi visit, telling the opposition leader he can meet his party members at their next court appearance. Prior to Charamba’s remarks, Chamisa was denied access to visit incarcerated lawmakers, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved the acquisition of a presidential jet, ZimLive can reveal. The aircraft is a long-range Dassault Falcon, military sources said. “It has already been bought, and pilots have left the country to undergo training. It should be in service very soon,” a source said. Officials at …

Villagers in the Chiadzwa area of Marange in Manicaland province are continuing to endure human rights abuses in the hands of security forces manning diamond-rich fields in the area, despite multi-stakeholder meetings between government and civil society aimed at ending the violations, The NewsHawks has established. The government declared the …

Zimbabwe has cleared 90% percent of its obligations to international airlines which amounted to about US$100 million, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) revealed Wednesday. As of July this year, The Harare administration, together with Nigeria, had between them owed some US$565 million of the $1.4 billion in airline revenues …

Business was as usual in Bulawayo on Tuesday, as most residents ignored the few hundreds of government sympathisers marching against sanctions in the central business district. The march, convened under the so-christened SADC anti-sanctions day, started from government’s Mhlahlandlela Complex, with the placard waving group proceeding onto Joshua Nkomo Street …

Traditional chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order to bring closure to the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide. The demands include the return of more than 100 …

A preliminary report on food poverty line (FPL) for October released yesterday by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) reveals that the FPL for one person was $21 455, while the total consumption poverty line (TCPL) for the same person stood at $28 144. “The food poverty line represents the …