Category Archives: Press reports

Nehanda Radio By Hopewell Chin’ono 22nd April 2018 Elections are not necessarily about bravado, faith and hope only, they are also about strategy, rationale and logic. Nelson “Wamba Dia Wamba” Chamisa’s supporters are high on unrestrained hope and faith and refusing to learn from lessons of not so long ago. History is the best teacher […]

Cricbuzz By Tristan Holme & Brian Goredema 10th April 2018 Two weeks of turbulence in Zimbabwe cricket will reach a critical juncture on Wednesday (April 11) when the country’s sports minister meets with representatives from the Zimbabwe Cricket board as well as a group calling for the board to resign. Among those who will be […]

The Zimbabwe Mail 18th February 2018 HUNDREDS of people from different churches and political parties yesterday thronged the Large City Hall in Bulawayo for an inter-denominational memorial service for the late former Prime Minister and MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai. Speaker after speaker spoke glowingly of Mr Tsvangirai describing him as a humble person who respected […]

Pindula 18th February 2018 Former Minister of Education David Coltart has expressed his disgust at the leadership squabbles in the opposition MDC-T party. The party’s three co-vice presidents Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Nelson Chamisa all claimed that they were the rightful acting president of the party before veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had died. […]

AFP 16th February 2018 Zimbabwe was plunged into grief on Thursday following the death of veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, roundly praised as a hero, champion of democracy and symbol of resistance who will be hard to replace. The former trade union stalwart who posed the most formidable challenge to the ruling ZANU PF party’s […]

iNews By Karl McDonald 15th February 2018 Morgan Tsvangirai, a long-time rival of the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, has died at the age of 65. The leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) died yesterday of colon cancer in a hospital in Johannesburg. For years, Tsvangirai presented the biggest challenge to Mugabe and […]

Daily Mail 14th February 2018 Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died at the age of 65, bringing an end to his long campaign to lead his country. Elias Mudzuri, a vice president of his Movement for Democratic Change party, said Mr Tsvangirai died on Wednesday evening in a Johannesburg hospital. He had been […]

Zimeye By Farai D Hove 1st February 2018 President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blundered by appointing to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, a judge who has been fingered for alleged corruption, a legal expert says. Former Senator David Coltart says, “whilst President Mnangagwa has made good appointments to the Procurement Board & ZIMRA when it came to […]

The Chronicle By Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter 29th January 2018 FORMER Education Minister Senator David Coltart has lauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Government following the passing of the National Peace and Reconciliation Act, saying it was a step in the right direction. In a statement he posted on his page on micro-blogging site, twitter on Friday, […]

Business Day and Bloomberg By ANTONY SGUAZZIN 23rd January 2018 Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa is urging the country to put behind it one of its most painful episodes: the army’s massacre of as many as 20,000 people from the minority Ndebele ethnic group in the 1980s. Mnangagwa, who replaced Robert Mugabe as president in November, […]