updated Fri. January 18, 2019
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The Zimbabwe Mail
March 14, 2018
Britain's media regulator said RT (Russia Today) could lose its UK licence if Prime Minister Theresa May's government determines Moscow was behind the poisoning. The state-run RIA news agency cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying in response. “Not a single BritishÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 11, 2018
Khupe has refused to recognise Chamisa as new party president following the death last month of founding leader and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai. She is backed by national chairman Lovemore Moyo and national organising secretary Abedinico Bhebhe and the now suspended nationalÃÂ ...
CNBCAfrica.com
March 6, 2018
Vice President Mohadi, upon delivering a letter from President Mnangagwa to Prime Minister Abe, expressed his gratitude towards Japan's assistance and stated that he wishes to further strengthen the friendly relationship with Japan built since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 and that Zimbabwe willÃÂ ...
VOA Zimbabwe
February 27, 2018
Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai's widow, Elizabeth Macheka Tsvangirai, has allegedly kicked out the late Movement for Democratic Change leader's children from his Highlands mansion amid reports that she has "grabbed" all of the deceased's properties. She has allegedly blocked Tsvangirai'sÃÂ ...
WTVA
February 20, 2018
February 11, 2009 - Is sworn in as the second Zimbabwean prime minister. March 6, 2009 - With head and neck injuries, walks away from a head-on collision that kills his wife Susan. October 16, 2009 - Along with the MDC, Tsvangirai boycotts the coalition government after violence increases and RoyÃÂ ...
Irish Times
February 16, 2018
He took the country's political scene by storm, becoming President Robert Mugabe's only serious rival for the better part of two decades, and campaigned until the end for a better country with greater democracy and transparency. Tsvangirai became prime minister of Zimbabwe in September 2008 as part ofÃÂ ...
The Australian
February 14, 2018
Tsvangirai for years was the most potent challenger to longtime ruler Robert Mugabe and even became prime minister in an uncomfortable coalition government for a few years. Mugabe resigned in November after pressure from the military and ruling party, and this year's election will be the first without theÃÂ ...
PaZimbabwe
February 13, 2018
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe visits Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a hospital in Harare in this March 6, 2009 video grab. Mugabe visited Tsvangirai in hospital on Friday ... REUTERS/ZBC via Reuters TV (ZIMBABWE DISASTER POLITICS TRANSPORT HEALTH) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES.
The Zimbabwe Mail
February 13, 2018
... that is devouring the MDC, with fresh cracks emerging in the Bulawayo provincial executive of the party — where one of the key figures has broken ranks with his regional comrades and is now punting Nelson Chamisa as his preferred candidate to succeed ailing former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
DailyNews
February 12, 2018
Elizabeth has been barred from seeing her husband by senior figures within the Tsvangirai family who, according to a leaked audio tape, have also seized his diplomatic passport as the factionalism ripping the MDC apart is said to have extended to the former prime minister's family. The sad developmentsÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 12, 2018
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set himself up for an early test to his scant popularity in hostile Matebeleland North where he is due to hold two rallies this coming weekend. The ruling Zanu PF presidential candidate for this year's elections seems to have hit the campaign trail, beginning with a homeÃÂ ...
The Zimbabwe Mail
February 12, 2018
Mnangagwa has expressed optimism that British Prime Minister Theresa May could improve relations between the two countries as Zimbabwe seems to do better under British women leaders. Zimbabwe attained its independence in 1980 thanks to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Minister of StateÃÂ ...
Zimbabwe Independent
February 10, 2018
While Smith told British prime minister Harold Wilson to keep his cold and uncharitable England, Mugabe told former British prime minister Tony Blair the same vitriol urging Blair to keep his Britain, while he kept his Zimbabwe. However, what is more fascinating is that the sun set on these leaders (bothÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 3, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May has been impressed by statements made by President Mnangagwa so far on economic and political reforms, which ... From the Zimbabwean side, the high-level meeting was attended by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant-General Sibusiso MoyoÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
January 29, 2018
While seemingly blaming naivety for his tacit approval of then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's policies, Coltart said he regretted not doing enough ... Coltart said Zimbabwe needed to break the cycle of political violence that dates back to Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 throughÃÂ ...
NewsDay
January 29, 2018
Other parties in the coalition are Transform Zimbabwe (Jacob Ngarivhume), Agrippa Mutambara (ZimPF), Mathias Guchutu (MCD) and Denford ... the youthful Kuwadzana East MP as potential MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate in the event the former Prime Minister remained bed-ridden.
AllAfrica.com
January 29, 2018
... in New Zimbabwe. He added, "At that time, Chiwenga was the commander of 1 Brigade in the Region, whilst EDiot Mnangagwa was the Minister responsible for intelligence". Zhuwao's comments come two days after Mnangagwa told reporters in Davos that he was eager to meet British Prime minister,ÃÂ ...
Chronicle
January 29, 2018
Zimbabwe was yesterday honoured together with five other African countries for leading the way to a Malaria Free-Africa by 2030. The country ... Swaziland Prime Minister Dr Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini said it was important that African countries allocate budgets to eliminate malaria. “When we take ourÃÂ ...
NewsDay
January 28, 2018
And as the former Prime Minister's health continues to deteriorate, it is quite clear that he may not be able to pull off an electoral race in his present condition, and the need to have a new leader in MDC-T has never been so clear despite the fact that some of his die-hard supporters would rather he be theirÃÂ ...
The Herald
January 26, 2018
“In India and the leadership of my Prime Minister Narendra Modi we have also very forward looking economic policy such as making India and skill India. India and Zimbabwe have a young population and we would like to cooperate and utilise the energy of these young people who are very innovative, veryÃÂ ...
The Times
January 26, 2018
Zimbabwe is “open for business” and will seek to rejoin the Commonwealth, its new president said this morning. President Mnangagwa praised Theresa May's enthusiastic approach to his new government, saying that his country always got on well with British women prime ministers. Mr MnangagwaÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 26, 2018
Mnangagwa eagerly awaiting Theresa May meeting as 'male prime ministers have not been good to us' ... The despotic ruler clashed with nearly every male British prime minister he met during his rule over Zimbabwe, and was particularly disdainful of Tony Blair, once quipping: "Blair, Blair, who is he?".
New Zimbabwe.com
January 6, 2018
The visit, hitherto unthinkable in Zimbabwe's often spiteful nature of politics, also allowed the country's new leader to pledge what was an elusive prime minister's retirement package under former President Robert Mugabe. These included confirmation the embattled MDC-T leader was keeping his plushÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
January 6, 2018
Tsvangirai met President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier in the day after the Zanu PF leader paid a courtesy call on the former Prime Minister in the company of Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga. Mudzuri, a former Harare Mayor, is one of Tsvangirai's three deputies and his appointmentÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2018
The meeting was also attended by one of Tsvangirai's three deputies, Nelson Chamisa, who praised Mnangagwa's gesture. "It is a welcome thing. It's African to care for one another and it is very Zimbabwean," Chamisa said. The former Prime Minister shared power with former president Robert Mugabe in aÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
January 5, 2018
James Campbell: Prime Minister not in clear on gangs crisis ... MAYBE because my mother was born in what is now Zimbabwe, I struggle to suppress a smile when I hear warnings about youths of African appearance. ... It's ridiculous for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to wash his hands of the gangs crisis.
NewsDay
January 4, 2018
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia will release politicians jailed on charges including involvement in terrorism, its Prime Minister said yesterday — an unexpected shift in stance from the government, which has ... Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the move was intended to “foster national reconciliation”.
Politicsweb
December 28, 2017
The Catholics sent me a report on the problems in the District (it was the start of Gukurahundi – the “storm that cleans”) and I took this report with me on a business trip to Scandinavia where I shared it with four foreign Ministers and asked them to get their Prime Ministers to call our Prime Minister and urgeÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 28, 2017
In a letter dispatched two days later to Mark Williams, the Zimbabwean correspondent of the Cricketeer magazine who had arranged the match, the prime minister confessed his initial nervousness. “May I thank you for the tremendous work you put into the organisation of Friday's cricket match,” he wrote.
Christian Science Monitor
December 13, 2017
Dislike for Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, was a big factor in the Zimbabwean president's downfall. But her ... December 13, 2017 Harare, Zimbabwe—During his 37 years as Zimbabwe's prime minister and president, Robert Mugabe ordered the massacre of thousands of political opponents, ran the country'sÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is critically ill in a South African hospital, reports say. Local media quoted family sources as saying the 65-year-old former prime minister - who is being treated for colon cancer - is suffering from weight loss, exhaustion and muscle thinning.
The Herald
December 31, 1999
A lot has happened in the past two decades between the two countries beginning at least in 1997 when the administration of then Prime Minister Tony Blair reneged on Britain's colonial obligations to fund land reform in Zimbabwe with Claire Short dramatising the crisis by writing a defining letter to the thenÃÂ ...
PaZimbabwe
December 31, 1999
Mnangagwa Tells Davos He Only Wants to Meet Theresa May Because All British Male Prime Ministers Have Been Horrible to Zimbabwe ... Zimbabwe's new leader Emmerson Mnangagwa who is in the Swiss city of Davos, where he is looking to use the World Economic Forum as a platform to show theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
"The Catholics sent me a report on the problems in the District (it was the start of Gukurahundi - the "storm that cleans") and I took this report with me on a business trip to Scandinavia where I shared it with four foreign Ministers and asked them to get their Prime Ministers to call our Prime Minister and urgeÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 4, 2017
"That is why, despite winning the only credible election on 29 March 2008, he still agreed to be part of an inclusive government, albeit in the junior position of Prime Minister of the country. "President Tsvangirai has never been fixated with personal positions but about the people. This time his only concern is ...
AllAfrica.com
December 4, 2017
We are using the 1980 reconciliation as a cut-off date for two reasons: First, the reconciliation policy of 1980 by then Prime Minister went largely uncontested, at least publicly. We assume everyone decided to let bygones be bygones. Second, past efforts to seriously engage the issue of national healing and ...
Amnesty International
December 4, 2017
Imprisoned and later exiled for his political activities, he was one of more than 900 prisoners of conscience adopted in Zimbabwe by Amnesty International between 1965 and 1979. Becoming Prime Minister following independence in 1980 on a wave of popular support, he called for reconciliation and ...
Las Vegas Sun
December 2, 2017
But I also remember during that time when Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia, was linked to its neighbors in the Central African Federation, how the prime minister drove his own car and picked up hitchhikers. No security. No worries. No color barrier. I learned about this firsthand. One day, as I stood ...
Zimbabwe Independent
December 1, 2017
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, I write this open letter to you as a way of sharing my thoughts as a patriotic Zimbabwean on matters that are dear to each and every citizen — the socio-economic prosperity of our country that tangibly translates to a better life for all who call Zimbabwe home.
HuffPost
December 1, 2017
He may just remember how it was when Zimbabwe was a functioning country; when it was the jewel of Africa, as well as being the breadbasket in its ... during that time when Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia, was linked to its neighbors in the Central African Federation, how the prime minister drove his ...
iAfrica.com
November 20, 2017
As the political crisis in Zimbabwe continues, Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders are preparing to discuss the impasse at the troika summit in Angola on Tuesday. President Robert Mugabe has defied calls for him to leave office while military veterans call for protests against his ...
CNN
November 15, 2017
Mugabe has been in control of the country for almost four decades -- first as Prime Minister and then as President. For the 1980s and part of the 1990s he was feted at home and abroad, but gradually became more authoritarian and by 1993 had instituted the Land Acquisition Act permitting the government ...
The Zimbabwe Mail
October 26, 2017
Next, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe lost his honorary status as a ... Mugabe, 93, is blamed in the West for destroying Zimbabwe's economy and ... his 37 years leading the country as either president or prime minister.
The Zimbabwe Mail
October 26, 2017
The former prime minister in the inclusive government was rushed to ... According to Cancer Association of Zimbabwe, early detection of ...
AllAfrica.com
October 26, 2017
The former top Zimbabwe national army official is accused of raping Judith Todd the daughter of Former Rhodesian Prime Minister, Sir Garfield ...
The Zimbabwe Mail
October 26, 2017
Karimatsenga disclosed during the interview that aides of the former prime minister came to her residence in South Africa with a request that ...
AllAfrica.com
October 26, 2017
Mutambara, former diplomat and retired brigadier-general, was sacked for forming an alliance with former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai ...
Daily Maverick
October 25, 2017
... acquaintance after he became prime minister of the new Zimbabwe ... recognised their role as the backbone of the Zimbabwean economy”, ...
Becker's Hospital Review
October 24, 2017
I have also consulted with the government of Zimbabwe and we have ... Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and various Zimbabwean ...
The Zimbabwe Mail
October 17, 2017
Tsvangirai, the country's former Prime Minister, made shock revelations last year that he was battling cancer of the colon. The ailment has ...
