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May 2016

The big stink – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary

Fresh from his ‘million man’ charade in Harare, Mugabe flew off on Air Mugabe to enjoy being the only President from the 79 members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States to attend a meeting in Papua New Guinea. Apparently not even the Papua New Guinea President was attending.  Papua New Guinea? If […]

Update on Itai Dzamara – #‎BBID‬

By Patson Dzamara Today was yet another eventful day. For the entire day, I was either at the lawyers or at the police. I was called by Assistant Commissioner Makadenge this morning and he asked me to meet him and his team at central police station with regards the press statement I released yesterday. (See […]

Uebert Angel’s father dies

S.K Mudzanire, the father of prominent preacher Prophet Uebert Angel has died in Zimbabwe at the age of 80. Officials from his Good News Church confirmed the death on Monday.

Jonathan Moyo, Trevor Ncube escalate Twitter war of words

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | HARARE – Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, has escalated his Twitter war of words with Trevor Ncube, the Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner and a former friend, accusing the publisher of trying to bribe him. Moyo and Ncube took to Twitter on Sunday to trade insults […]

Did the President of Zimbabwe really say that?

By Bishop Dave Chikosi Social media is awash with various humorous sayings attributed to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Some of the jokes are neither family-friendly nor respectful, and will not therefore be reproduced here. But here are eleven of these sayings that I thought were really funny (and quite sagacious). And while two or three […]

Zanu PF and corruption are like inseparable siamese twins

By Obert Gutu The MDC is thoroughly unimpressed with the indifference exhibited by President Robert Mugabe when issues of corruption in his government are exposed. Everyone is getting concerned with the level of inertia that Mugabe continues to show; particularly when cases of corruption by top government officials are exposed. The past 36 years under […]

Chivayo deal brings trouble for ZPC bosses

By Felex Share The Zimbabwe Power Company board has launched investigations into how management unprocedurally made a down payment of $5 million to Wicknell Chivayo for pre-commencement works on the 100 megawatt Gwanda solar power project. The money was paid without Chivayo’s Intratek Zimbabwe — which won the $200 million contract — submitting a performance guarantee […]