Politics

Former President Robert Mugabe’s son, Robert Junior has reportedly set his eyes on contesting for the Zvimba West Legislative seat in the upcoming 2023 elections to secure power in his rural home. Highly placed sources told the reporter that plans for him to contest for the seat are already in …

The late Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s son Robert Junior made a surprise appearance at a Zanu PF rally in Chitungwiza where President Mnangagwa has a star rally. In pictures circulating on social media, Robert Junior was spotted shaking hands with Mnangagwa. He was also pictured in the company of Emmerson Mnangagwa …

A new political outfit named United Zimbabwe Alliance has been launched amid calls for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to be accountable and stick to their mandate as enshrined in the constitution. Speaking at the launch in Harare, party president Elisabeth Valerio said most citizens believe that their votes are …

Zimbabwe was up for debate in both houses of the British Parliament yesterday with a full debate in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Ruth Jones asked two questions one on what the government was doing about the deportation of Joram Nechironga, a Zimbabwean who joined the …

POLITICAL parties must desist from violence but compete for power on the basis of ideas, a prominent Kenyan public intellectual and lawyer says. In an interview with The NewsHawks on the sidelines of his public lecture in Harare this week, Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba said politicians must unite to rebuild …

Opposition led municipalities have failed to prioritise the importance of having a clean environment for the benefit of the people of Zimbabwe, ZANU PF Second Secretary  Kembo Mohadi has said. Mohadi said this while addressing stakeholders at Number One Old grounds after a clean-up campaign of Hwange Colliery Company Concession …

NJNC Captured, Misrepresenting Civil Servants: Teachers UnionsTeachers unions have distanced themselves from a salary deal that was agreed and signed between the government and the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) on Monday. This comes after it emerged that more than 50 school heads and 32 teachers had been suspended after …

Police have arrested 16 suspects allegedly connected with the murder of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter who was murdered during a rally addressed by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in Kwekwe yesterday. According to a police memorandum seen by Nhau, the deceased, Mboneni Ncube (30) of house number 917/19 …

File Picture: US Diplomat George Kennan The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are being ignored. Winston Churchill once famously quipped that the …

Close to 50,000 new voters were registered between February 1 and 20, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has revealed. ZEC is on a month-long mobile voter registration outreach which runs until February 28. The exercise has been hampered by apathy, which opposition political parties blame on the government’s failure to …