Columnist / Lloyd gumbo
Zanu-PF MP stirs a hornest nest with his comments on Ndebeles
Zanu-PF MP for Marondera Central, Lawrence Katsiru stirred a hornet's nest this week when he made unfortunate statements to the fact that Ndebele people must first pay lobola and compensate Shonas "fo...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
CZI speaks on demos
Business has called for peace and stability in the country, describing these as a prerequisite for economic growth.The call by business comes in the wake of MDC-T and ZimPF-instigated violent ...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Sekeramayi claims Mugabe firmly in control of Zimbabwe
THE Government is completely in control of the country with the police having managed to deal with MDC T- led illegal demonstrations in Harare, Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi said yesterday....Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Gupta news channel irks Mugabe's government
SOUTH Africa's Gupta-family owned news channel Africa News Network 7 (ANN7) was yesterday taken to task for carrying falsehoods that Zimbabwe's security forces had joined the opposition-led demonstrat...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Chombo warns protestors
THE Government has warned opposition parties and their appendages in the civil society against holding unsanctioned demonstrations that often turn violent, saying the police would crack down on such m...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Stop the rot at border posts
The recent transfer of police officers from Beitbridge district and the impending transfer of officials from other departments over alleged corruption at the border came as good news to the majority o...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:28hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zimbabwe, Mozambique sign deal on prisoners
Zimbabwe and Mozambique yesterday signed a Memorandum of Agreement that will see prisoners from either country being repatriated to serve their jail sentences in their home country. Vice President Emm...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
MPs tarnishing Parliament's image
When the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation started giving live coverage to Parliamentary Question Time every Wednesday and radio coverage by Spot FM for ordinary sittings from Tuesdays to Thursdays in...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:12hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Farmers attack chiefs for hijacking land allocation
Traditional leaders in Masvingo have come under fire from land reform beneficiaries for hijacking land allocation by corruptly giving land to people on undesignated plots.Some farmers also acc...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:40hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Resettled farmers fume over Mugabe's land tax
SOME beneficiaries of the land reform programme owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals that were introduced by the Government last year, after payments were backdated to 2009, a situation that has mad...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mugabe heaps praise on Zimbabwe army
PRESIDENT Mugabe has hailed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces for their role in protecting the country and offering social services to critical sectors. The Head of State and Government and Commande...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Resettled farmers owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals
SOME beneficiaries of the land reform programme owe up to $60 000 each in land rentals that were introduced by the Government last year, after payments were backdated to 2009, a situation that has mad...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 07:41hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mnangagwa launches National Plan of Action on Human Trafficking
The Government has launched the National Plan of Action on Human Trafficking (NAPLAC) as it consolidates its fight against the scourge following reports that hundreds of Zimbabweans were being traffic...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Let's adopt rand, says MDC-T MP
MDC-T National Assembly Member for Hatfield Dr Tapiwa Mashakada says Government must implement a number of mechanisms to improve liquidity in the economy. Among the interventions are repac...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zanu-PF's Kereke loses Parliamentary seat
CONVICTED rapist and Bikita West National Assembly Member Munyaradzi Kereke automatically lost his Parliamentary seat by operation of the law after he was convicted of rape by Harare regional magistra...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Gumbo
'We've the right to travel our own path'
Zimbabwe is a shareholder to regional and international financial institutions and as such will not be embarrassed to request funding from the organisations, Finance and Economic Development Minister ...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 06:32hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mudenda raps Govt bureaucracy
National Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda has rapped excessive bureaucracy in Government saying it was inhibiting investment in the country. He made the remarks at the Zimbabwe National...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
MDC-T in bid to escalate violence
ANALYSTS yesterday rapped the MDC-T after the opposition party hastily convened a Press conference urging its members to join hooligans who were blocking roads in Epworth and Ruwa.The beleague...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo and Elita Chikwati
Grace Mugabe to present ZNCC awards
First Lady, Dr Amai Grace Mugabe has arrived in Victoria Falls for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Congress where she is expected to hand over awards to companies and individuals who excelle...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 15:32hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zinara, Central Vehicle Registry integration starts
THE Government's integration of systems under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to enhance enforcement of laws and reduce revenue leakages, has started with the Central Veh...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Govt urged to abolish 21,000 posts
THE Auditor-General's Office has recommended that Government abolishes about 21,000 vacant posts in line ministries and the Office of the President and Cabinet, a development that will result in about...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
'Ghost workers' haunt government
THE Auditor-General's Office has confirmed 12 500 people are providing services to Government chewing about $85 million annually yet they are not on its payroll. In her audit report, Mrs Mildred Chiri...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:10hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Government loses millions to AWOL educators
The Auditor-General's Office has unearthed massive absenteeism at schools after auditors found over 160 headmasters, deputy headmasters and teachers absent from their workplaces without leave. ...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Pensioners gobble $500 million
GOVERNMENT paid 400 000 civil service pensioners about $500 million last year alone, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. He was responding to a question on Wednesday ...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:44hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Chinamasa defends imports ban
THE Government has defended its decision to control the importation of specified goods that are locally produced saying this was meant to curtail externalisation of the United States dollar and to pro...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Sexual abuse rampant in banks
There is rampant sexual harassment of female workers in the banking sector where managers threaten those who decline their advances with expulsions, parliamentarians heard on Monday.Representa...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Harare-Beitbridge Highway: Contractors fall prey to conmen
Several contractors could have been prejudiced of thousands of dollars by conmen who have been claiming that they are subcontracted in the dualisation of Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway.Tra...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zanu-PF to hold series of meetings on economy
ZANU-PF will hold a series of meetings next week where it will deliberate on issues affecting the economy, the party and the country in general. Party secretary for administration Ignatius Cho...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:29hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Grand coalition in false start
THE proposed coalition of opposition political parties in Zimbabwe to challenge Zanu-PF and President Mugabe in the 2018 harmonised elections had a false start yesterday after some of the opposition p...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Code of conduct for Zimbabwe MPs
MEMBERS of Parliament will soon be regulated by a code of conduct and ethics currently being drafted by the legislature to uphold good corporate governance tenets.A code of conduct and ethics ...Published: 26 May 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
MPs to declare assets
Parliament will soon institute a lifestyle audit for legislators including Cabinet ministers that is expected to compel them to declare their assets in compliance with the provision of the Constitutio...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mugabe's nephew implicated
The Ministry of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment engaged an event management company that is not registered with the State Procurement Board to do work for it on the proposed National In...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
'Spot fines to end,' Minister Chombo says
TRAFFIC police officers will soon stop collecting fines for traffic offences in cash at roadblocks to curb corruption in the force, the Minister of Home Affairs, Ignatius Chombo, said yesterday....Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Palestinian President to visit Zimbabwe
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to visit Zimbabwe in July to thank President Mugabe for his support for the liberation of his country.President Mugabe has been consistent in hi...Published: 18 May 2016 at 15:48hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Ministry of Transport to educate public on road signs
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development will soon embark on awareness campaigns to educate motorists on the new road signs, common to all SADC states, that are being erected on all r...Published: 16 May 2016 at 06:05hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Air Zimbabwe failing to break eve
AIR Zimbabwe is leasing two airbus aircraft at $200,000 each per month since 2012 from a Chinese company Sonangol, which has seen the national airline accruing arrears as it is failing to break even, ...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zimbabwe scores high in human development
ZIMBABWE has made great strides in human development over the past six years with positive improvements in critical areas such as health, education, income and gender equality, overtaking many countri...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
16 more Zimbabwean women found in Kuwait
Sixteen more Zimbabwean women who were lured to Kuwait to work as housemaids, but ended up being abused as sex slaves, have escaped from captivity and are now under the care of the country's Ambassado...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
New building society on cards
THE government will this year launch a national building society to cater for low income earners who cannot afford the high interest rates on loans and mortgages being charged by financial institution...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Transformer crisis hits Zesa
ZESA needs about 3 000 transformers to provide power to thousands of homes throughout the country, parliamentarians heard last week. Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company managing...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Govt addressing liquidity crunch, says Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT is working to address the liquidity crunch that has seen most banks reducing maximum withdrawals to about $200 per day while others have stopped loading money into Automated Teller Machines...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo and Brenda Ziga
Rescued trafficking victims expected today
Thirty-two Zimbabwean women who were lured to Kuwait to work as housemaids, but ended up as sex slaves, are expected back in the country today after a Parliamentary delegation secured their evacuation...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 20:25hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Chivayo rescues 32 Zimbabwean women in Kuwait
HARARE businessman Wicknell Chivayo has come to the rescue of 32 Zimbabwean women who were lured to Kuwait to work as housemaids but ended up being abused as sex slaves.Chivayo bought air tick...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mugabe sets up appeals tribunal
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Mugabe has appointed a National Disciplinary Appeals Committee (NDAC) to consider appeals from cadres aggrieved by either their suspension or expulsion as oversee...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Join hands to fight graft, says Mnangagwa
Bickering among Government ministers over the implementation of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act had the effect of undermining business confidence in the country, prompting President Mu...Published: 22 Apr 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Mugabe to open ACBF summit
PRESIDENT Mugabe is expected to officially open the Capacity Development Forum organised by the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) early next month.About 500 delegates drawn from all ...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Minerals varsity takes shape
PLANS to establish the Pan-African Minerals University of Science and Technology (Pamust) have started in earnest with Government presenting the Bill in Parliament last week.Enrolment begins i...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
'We want beer on campus,' says UZ students
STUDENTS at the University of Zimbabwe say they want access to beer on campus despite acknowledging that there are problems with cocaine and marijuana at the university.The students also calle...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
University of Zimbabwe students demand beer on campus
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students say they want access to beer on campus despite acknowledging that there was a rise in the abuse of drugs such as cocaine and marijuana at the institution of higher lear...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 10:34hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Firstel Cellular dodges $11m debt
Former NetOne management led by suspended CEO Mr Reward Kangai who owned Firstel Cellular do not want to pay the $11 million that they owe the Government-owned mobile operator after they applied for l...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
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