By Blessing-Miles Tendi he day before he died, General Solomon Mujuru — also known as Rex Nhongo — ordered whisky from the bar at the Harare Sports Club. “He would stand up and cheer each time our guys hit four or six runs. He was very relaxed and joyful, just […]
Zimbabwe’s vice president Constantino Chiwenga was flown at the weekend to China for medical checks, an official said Tuesday. Presidential spokesman George Charamba told AFP Chiwenga, a former army general who led President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise to power following a brief military takeover in 2017, “flew back to China for […]
Company denies receiving US$3 billion from RBZ By Veneranda Langa Sakunda Holdings has denied capturing government, insisting the Command Agriculture deal was approved by Cabinet and that the company was allocated US$1,010 billion by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), contrary to claims that US$3 billion was advanced towards the […]
Donor countries and international organizations are propping up a corrupt government rather than criticizing it—leaving millions of Mozambicans mired in poverty. On Jan. 15, 2020, Filipe Nyusi was sworn in for his second term as the president of Mozambique following his reelection in October. Elections have been held every five […]
As coronavirus spreads across Africa with six new countries confirming cases over the weekend, Zimbabwe found itself trending in global news reports following bizarre comments by the minister of defence and war veterans, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, suggesting coronavirus was unleashed by God to deal with US President Donald Trump and other […]
By Olivier Marbot Dr Michel Yao, Emergency Operations Programme Manager at the WHO’s Regional Office in Africa, discusses Africa’s next step now that COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic. Now that COVID-19 has been declared a “pandemic,” Dr Michel Yao, Emergency Operations Programme Manager at the World Health Organization’s Regional […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been told by his allies that he has no choice but to implement reforms and end human rights violations in order to win over western countries that are increasingly tightening the noose on his government. According to reports produced by the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), a […]
*So bad is the situation, the workers claimed, that some employees had died on-site while others suffered life-threatening injuries after being forced to work without safety clothing. *Twenty-four-year-old Brighton Shara lost four fingers from his left hand when he was forced to operate a pole machine without the requisite training. […]
It has been widely reported that children are less likely to get severely ill and die from the new coronavirus. A recent study of 44,672 people with confirmed covid-19 infection found that children under 10 years old made up less than 1 per cent of those cases and none of […]
The mainstream opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says Zanu PF has infiltrated its structures by planting intelligence agents and sponsoring some top-ranking officials to destabilise the party ahead of the 2023 general election. In an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent on Wednesday, MDC president Nelson Chamisa’s spokesperson, Nkululeko Sibanda, […]
