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President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Morton Dizzy Paul Malianga (91) who both died on Friday.
The Government is set to vaccinate at least 80 percent of the population once negotiations with potential suppliers of the vaccine, China, Russia and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been completed.
South Africa based Zimbabwean businessman Frank Buyanga is alive and well quashing swirling rumours that he was missing or had been killed in an alleged gun shooting incident.
At just 6 years old, Anastasia Radzinskaya has made the Forbes list of high-earning YouTubers once again.
Four people appeared before a Harare court yesterday on allegations of trying to stash part of the loot stolen by suspected armed robbers that were arrested last week in connection with the US$2,5 million heist that occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road.
DR Congo on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of former president Laurent-Desire Kabila with calls for reconciliation in the badly divided country.
The US Justice Department on Saturday threatened to end law enforcement cooperation with Mexico after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused American authorities of fabricating drug trafficking evidence against a former Mexican defense chief.
A heavily armed man has been arrested in Washington at a security checkpoint near the US Capitol, where he tried to use a phony credential to access the restricted area where President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated next week, authorities said.
Former CAPS United chairman, Shepherd Bwanya, brought in a fresh approach to the game’s administration and his death will be a loss to the local football fraternity, his father, Cornelius, who is a ZIFA life member, has said.
By Taona Blessing Denhere
However, in the smouldering wreckage of the plane crash disaster of the mobocracy that engulfed the Rainbow Towers on the 27th December 2020, there was a schadenfreude moment when Douglas Mwonzora emerged as the new sheriff in town for the MDCT through becoming the controversial winner of the race to become president of MDCT.
Therefore, this opinion piece aims to unpack the likely ideological trajectory or lack thereof of MDCT under the stewardship of Mwonzora. I argue and expose that, just as under Thokozani Khupe, MDCT under Mwonzora will not enjoy any ideological realignment. But, rather there is going to be ideological reinforcement of business-as-usual approach to the politics of puppetry.