Politics

The Chinese Communist Party has passed a “historical resolution”, cementing Xi Jinping’s status in political history. The document, a summary of the party’s 100-year history, addresses its key achievements and future directions. It is only the third of its kind since the founding of the party – the first was …

Defence and War Veterans Affairs Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has revealed liberation war veterans are set to receive end-of-year bonuses denominated in United States Dollars, a privilege not extended to civil servants. The move is widely seen as aimed at appeasing the restive and easily irritable veterans of the 1970s liberation …

‘He has delivered no single promise since he was elected’‘It’s time for true Banket sons to represent us’ An article recently published in an online magazine, Spiked, has opened a can of worms in Zanu PF politics (Mashonaland West), attracting a strongly worded response from a grouping of Banket residents, …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime has broken its contract with the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and hired Actum International UK, which was set up last month by a band of Mercury alumni led by Kirill Goncharenko. Zimbabwe signed the US$90,000-a-month lobbying contract with Mercury in 2019, and it was renewed most recently …

NEWLY formed Front for Economic Emancipation (FEEZ) leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party for fronting foreign interests by looting the country’s mineral wealth. The former Zanu PF youth league political commissar was speaking at the launch of his party in Harare, Saturday where …

The European Council, which includes all European Union Heads of Government that sets the EU agenda, is ready to work with Zimbabwe, including in the fight against climate change, Council President Charles Michel said yesterday after meeting President Mnangagwa. The meeting was on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zanu PF administration is ready to engage in “direct structured dialogue” with the United Kingdom and the United States to break the impasse on sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe. The sanctions were imposed against the Zanu PF government by the West some 20 years ago. He said …

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa Chiwenga has brought into focus the relationship between her husband and President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the ongoing Zanu PF annual conference in Bindura. In a very revealing tweet, Marry said the power relations between Mnangagwa and Chiwenga (pictured) have not significantly shifted since …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to descend heavily on party members engaged in violence as Zanu PF continues to burn amid reports that the party’s restructuring exercise has divided membership. The restructuring exercise has led to violence erupting with elections for new district structures failing to take off due to …

While President Emmerson Mnangagwa is relishing his forthcoming visit to the United Kingdom for COP26 — the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference — the Zimbabwean leader will fly into Glasgow at a time when diplomatic relations between the two countries have deteriorated again after briefly thawing in 2017 following …