(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe High Court has ordered for removal of former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere from the presidential race after nullifying his nomination saying he is not a registered voter. Kasukuwere, a former cabinet colleague of Mnangagwa under Mugabe was among the 11 presidential candidates in the harmonised elections set for August 23. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi is expected in Zimbabwe on Thursday on a two-day State visit. The two countries started having cordial relations in 1983 at the height of Zimbabwe’s civil war which saw thousands of Ndebeles being massacred in the hands of the former President Mugabe’s reign. Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign […]
English Premiership side Aston Villa’s captain John McGinn is in Zimbabwe in the company of girlfriend Sara Stokes for a two day holiday in Victoria Falls. The Scotland national team captain arrived at the end of day from South Africa where he said he had an experience with wildlife. Zimbabwe international star, Marvelous Nakamba invited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s Ruling Zanu-Pf On Saturday Launched Its Election Campaign days after the nomination court received applications from candidates who want to contest the August 23 harmonized elections. President Mnangagwa, one of the 11 that filed for the presidential race, proclaimed August 23 as the date for the election to election a president, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Zimbabwe Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko’s son, Siqokoqela who was last month jailed for an effective 20 years for raping his niece on three occasions and threatening her with death, has been released on $200 000 bail pending appeal against conviction and sentence. Siqokoqela was in May sentenced to 20 years in jail […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Zimbabwe Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko’s son, Siqokoqela has been jailed for an effective 20 years for raping his niece on three occasions and threatening her with death. Bulawayo Regional magistrate Elijah Singano said the juvenile’s rights were violated. Mphoko (44) had been on $50 000 bail granted last year as he denied […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwean Government has started repatriating Zimbabweans that have been caught up in the Sudanese armed conflict which has resulted in the death of over 400 civilians and maimed 3 551 others. Zimbabwe has dozens of its citizens resident in Sudan and many have indicated their desire to return home. There is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of Africa’s modern monarchs, King Mswati III of the Kingdom of ESwatini on Friday officially opened the 63rd edition of Zimbabwe’s annual prime trade exhibition, the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair for the second time in his reign after officiating at the expo when he was 27 years old in 1995. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was a historic moment for the resort city of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe when five heads of state gathered for the official opening of the 6th Transform Africa Summit on Wednesday. This is the first time the summit has been held outside Rwanda which is home to Smart Africa Alliance that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some civil activists are pushing a petition to invoke the International Court of Justice to arrest and charge Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa for genocide, murder, rape and torture. A petition that has been started on Change.org and initiated by United States based Mark Patrick Themann seeks to gather 1500 signatures to force […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has extended the current Covid-19 level four lockdown by another two weeks saying deaths and new cases were still worryingly high. Announcing the extension as the country celebrated the 41st Heroes Day in the capital, President Mnangagwa said while infections have decreased over the last two weeks the number of deaths […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has suspended all sporting events as the Southern African country experiences a surge in new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases. Only the athletes that are preparing for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic games as well as the cricket national team’s encounter with Bangladesh, senior national soccer team’s COSAFA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe faces another national lockdown as Covid-19 cases continue to rise, with selected towns and districts already on localized lockdown. As at 24 June 2021, the country had a total of 44, 306 confirmed cases including 37 524 recoveries and 1 709 deaths. On Thursday 24 June, there were 826 new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe government has declared national hero status to Roman Catholic Church priest Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro who died last week, and the nation is to mourn him for three days. Born in 1935 in Chivhu, Fr Ribeiro died at the age of 86. Burial arrangements will be announced in due course. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe international midfielder Marvelous Nakamba who plays for English Premier League’s Aston Villa midfielder has charmed President Mnangagwa with his philanthropic work. The 21-year-old Hwange born who made a historic move to the EPL club and had a momentous season, met President Mnangagwa at State House in the capital where the Head […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mnangagwa has fired with immediate effect High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere for gross incompetence after a Tribunal Mr Mnangagwa set last year recommended that she be removed from office. The sacking of Justice Ndewere coincides with setting of another Tribunal to investigate Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa who is being charged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, one of the most famous Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Church priests who contributed to the country’s liberation struggle has died at the age of 86. Fr Ribeiro, a theologian, music composer, educationist, writer, media activist and nationalist, died Thursday morning, hours before Zambia’s nationalist founding father Kenneth Kaunda also […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen companies are to face sanctions from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for allegedly abusing the country’s foreign exchange auction system. Dr John Mangudya, the RBZ governor on Tuesday said the companies face allegations of flouting the Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 (SI 127) put in place to provide for penalties […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has announced new lockdown measures as the Southern African country bans all gatherings except funerals with effect from Monday 14 June following a surge in new cases and deaths. Government rolled out vaccination of citizens in February and while hope was high that new infections were being contained, the country witnessed […]
