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Mnangagwa Term Extension Plan Sparks Outcry In Zimbabwe

Mnangagwa Term Extension Plan Sparks Outcry In Zimbabwe

October 19, 2025 2:41 pm

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party has endorsed a proposal to amend the constitution and extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term by two years, a move that opposition leaders have denounced as unconstitutional and a threat to democracy.

The resolution, adopted at the ZANU-PF annual conference on Saturday, would prolong Mnangagwa’s presidency until 2030 — beyond the constitutional limit of two five-year terms. The 83-year-old leader, who came to power after a 2017 military coup that ousted longtime ruler Robert Mugabe, is currently serving his second term, due to end in 2028.

“The party and government are therefore directed to initiate the …

Zimbabwe Resolves To Mint Gold Coins To Tackle

Zimbabwe Resolves To Mint Gold Coins To Tackle Inflation

July 6, 2022 7:48 am

Zimbabwe has announced that it has concluded plans to introduce gold coins later this month as it continues to intensify efforts geared at curbing the soaring inflation amid a slump in its currency.

The nation’s central bank also provided details on its plans to declare the US dollar to be legal tender for the following five years.

After the annual rate of inflation surpassed 190 percent this month, the central bank’s primary interest rate was more than doubled to 200 percent.

This year, the value of the Zimbabwean dollar relative to major currencies has plummeted.

The one troy ounce, 22-carat

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CAF Rules Out Kenya, Zimbabwe From 2023 AFCON Qualifiers

CAF Rules Out Kenya, Zimbabwe From 2023 AFCON Qualifiers

May 25, 2022 3:43 am

Kenya and Zimbabwe have been ruled out from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers having ‘failed to have their suspensions by FIFA set aside’ the Confederation of African Football has confirmed.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that FIFA had on February 24 suspended both federations over what they termed ‘government interference.’

‘As a consequence of having failed to have their suspensions by FIFA set aside, CAF has confirmed that both Kenya and Zimbabwe will not participate in the Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 qualifiers,’ read the CAF statement.

Read Also: Contract: FIFA Orders NFF To Pay

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Zimbabwe: Jilted Husband Axes Wife To Death, Hangs Self

Zimbabwe: Jilted Husband Axes Wife To Death, Hangs Self

August 13, 2020 11:10 am

A jilted man has axed his estranged wife to death and then hung himself in a bizarre manner in Zimbabwe.

The jilted man from Gweru was said to have hung himself after fatally axing his estranged wife once on the neck following a dispute over suspected infidelity.

iHarare reports that Patience Matura, 22 received a love text message on her cell phone, which angered her estranged husband leading to a misunderstanding that turned violent.

Surprisingly even after a neighbour had spent two hours counseling the troubled couple, Pride Hove (30), still went on to axe Patience once on the neck …

Zimbabwe Nixes Coup Rumours

Zimbabwe Nixes Coup Rumours

June 11, 2020 1:01 pm

National Security Council (NSC) of Zimbabwe has debunked rumours of an impending military coup, saying the country is stable.

The NSC at a maiden news conference accused allies of the late former leader Robert Mugabe and some opposition officials for peddling the rumour.

Zimbabwe’s worst economic crisis in more than a decade and rising public anger have stoked concern the military, which ended Mugabe’s more than three-decades rule in November 2017, might step in again.

Read Also: Coronavirus: Zimbabwe Extends Lockdown

Giving its first news conference since being formed in 2013, the NSC said speculation was intensifying that Mugabe allies …

Bob Marley And The Zimbabwean Independence

Bob Marley And The Zimbabwean Independence

April 17, 2020 2:45 pm
Harare, Zimbabwe – Forty years ago, Bob Marley and his band, the Wailers, stepped onto the stage at Rufaro Stadium in Harare to help usher in Zimbabwe’s independence from British and local white minority rule.

It was electrifying. The unmistakable reggae thump of the legendary Jamaican musician filled the air as chants of “Viva Zimbabwe” boomed out over the crowd in-between songs.

“It was a moment I fully savoured,” Christopher Mutsvangwa, one of the fighters during the liberation struggle, known as Second Chimurenga (1966-1979), told Al Jazeera.

“Tears of pain-filled delight rolled down my cheeks,” he recalled of the

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Line Between Child Smuggling And Trafficking

February 24, 2020 2:57 pm

 

Elton Ndumiso*, a bus-conductor who works the route from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, to neighbouring South Africa, sees it all the time: Zimbabwean women travelling with three or four children, who are clearly not their own kids, and taking them across the border.

It’s a crime that most bus drivers or conductors either turn a blind eye to, or become accomplices in by assisting the women.

Ndumiso told IPS that in many cases some bus drivers and conductors go as far as “talking to” or even bribing border officials, to allow them to let the children and women enter neighbouring

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Zimbabwe

Sanctions Can’t Stop Investment In Zimbabwe – France

February 14, 2020 4:21 pm

 

Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western countries cannot stop international businesses from investing in this country, French Ambassador to Zimbabwe Richard Boidin has said.

Boidin made the remarks while addressing invited guests at the official commissioning of a USD$ 1 million Weber plant for tile adhesives in Harare by a French-owned company, Saint-Gobain Construction Products Zimbabwe yesterday.

Boidin said while government persistently uses the excuse of sanctions for lack of investment in Zimbabwe, individual Western companies would not ignore chances of high margin profits in any country despite imposed sanctions on the subject nation

“That a company like Saint-Gobain

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa

President Pleads With Church To Cast Out Zimbabwe Demons

February 4, 2020 2:46 pm

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded with indigenous interdenominational church leaders to fight ‘demons’ haunting Zimbabwe, which have seen its economy on a free fall.

Speaking at the National Day of Prayer at the Indigenous Interdenominational Council of Churches (ZIICC) at the National Sports Stadium in Harare Saturday, Mnangagwa told the churches gathered it was critical for them to pray for Zimbabwe and cast out demons.

“We continuously depend on the church for the spiritual guidance, shaping and moulding of individuals and societal moral values,” he said.

“I, the President urge churches to continue fasting and interceding for us in leadership …

Wife Orders Husband To Sleep With Her Mum In Zimbabwe

January 20, 2020 10:14 am

THE story of a man who was being seduced by his mother-in-law has taken a new twist as he claims his wife not only knew about her mother’s antics, but was actually encouraging him to have sex with her in order for them to get rich.

Manfred Nhemachena recently left many people disconcerted after he sensationally claimed that his estranged wife’s mother Beatrice Marabwa allegedly demanded to have sex with him because her husband was sexually starving her.

This was revealed at the Bulawayo Civil Court where his estranged wife, Tariro Nhemachena, had sought a protection order against him claiming …

Zimbabwe Facing ‘Man-Made’ Starvation, UN Expert Warns

November 29, 2019 4:39 pm

Zimbabwe is facing “man-made” starvation with 60 percent of the people failing to meet basic food needs, a UN special envoy said Thursday after touring the southern African country.

Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, ranked Zimbabwe among the four top countries facing severe food shortages outside nations in conflict zones.

“The people of Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suffering a man-made starvation,” she told a news conference in Harare, adding that eight million people would be affected by the end of the year.

“Today, Zimbabwe counts amongst the four highest food insecure states,” …

Winning Zimbabwe Coach Quits, Losing Burundi Boss Stays

November 20, 2019 1:57 pm

Joey Antipas said on Wednesday he was quitting as caretaker coach of Zimbabwe, one day after achieving the best result of his four months in charge.

Zimbabwe scored a rare victory in neighbouring Zambia on Tuesday with the 2-1 win placing them second behind defending champions Algeria in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group.

In other matches under Antipas, Zimbabwe drew with Botswana in the Cup of Nations and recovered from a shock loss in Somalia to beat them on aggregate in a 2022 World Cup eliminator.

He replaced fellow former international defender Sunday Chidzambwa, who quit after

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