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‘Zanu PF used Zimdef funds to fight #ThisFlag’ The surprise popularity of exiled cleric, Evan Mawarire and his #ThisFlag movement rattled Zanu PF, which tried to counter the new wave of anti-government protests using money sourced from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef), NewsDay has established. BY XOLISANI NCUBE Documents …

Yet for keen watchers of Zimbabwe’s politics, the performance also offers a rare insight into Mugabe himself – his precarious health, waning rhetorical power, and political priorities in the year ahead. Clearing the low bar set in 2015, when the President shambled his way through the wrong speech amid opposition …

VICE president Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared that the law should take its course on the ZIMDEF scandal involving Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo. Mnangagwa, allegedly leads the Lacoste Zanu PF faction which Moyo believes to be behind the revelation of the scandal, said Wednesday that only the State …

  About 25 passengers aboard a Kurai Bus Services coach travelling from Plumtree to Harare were detained for about 17 hours by the police border control unit in Bulawayo yesterday. The passengers said the police pounced on the bus in the city centre on Monday around 11PM and accused them of …

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s foot soldiers, the youth league, have demanded that its members be given stands across the country or else there will be no votes for Zanu PF. Mugabe, who has fallen out of favour with war veterans, has of late shown he is banking on the youths to …

Pro-democracy activist Patson Dzamara has threatened to drag police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to court over his subordinates’ failure to provide any leads into the disappearance of his brother Itai who has been missing for 17 months now. In a strongly-worded petition copied to minister of Home Affairs Ignatius Chombo, Dzamara …

President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF, whose stone-broke government is struggling to pay civil servants their salaries and keep social services ticking, is to spend tens of millions of scarce dollars to buy 480 top-of-the-range off-road vehicles to be used in the party’s campaigns ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national …

Why Is A Former Zimbabwean Vice President Offering Personal Restitution To A White Farmer? Joice Mujuru launches her new political party in Harare. Photo: Aaron Ufumeli/EPA/The GuardianOusted former Zimbabwean Vice President Joice Mujuru, 61, has agreed to pay $1.4 million in personal funds to a white farmer whose land her …

By Stephen Gowans In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, hosannas continue to be sung to the former ANC leader and South African president from both the left, for his role in ending the institutional racism of apartheid, and from the right, for ostensibly the same reason. But the right’s …

WHY PRESIDENT MUGABE IS AN AFRICAN HERO President Mugabe stands for the downtrodden African countries on the international stage. He is the voice of the voiceless. There are a few men who are as controversial as the Zimbabwean President. Even Western foreign policy has proven to be ill-equipped to deal …