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Address current challenges before adding more teachers
GOVERNMENT last week said it would recruit 10 000 more teachers to fill the skills gap in the education sector.But teachers' unions have argued that this figure is a drop in the ocean, given t...Published: 4 hrs ago | 55 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's mustn't greenwash his govt's crimes
SINCE becoming President in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly paid lip service to calls for democratic reform, did little to further human rights and democratic freedoms in the co...Published: 4 hrs ago | 91 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe drifts into 2023 election mode
NO date has been set for the 2023 elections, but Zimbabwe is already getting into election mode, with evident electioneering and voter registration awareness campaigns by political parties and various...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:02hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Voter registration suspension raises eyebrows
PROJECT Vote 263, a non-governmental organisation that is pushing for civic education to promote inclusive participatory democracy by encouraging people to register to vote, has expressed disappointme...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:01hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
The Hypocrisy Of Mnangagwa
SINCE becoming the president of Zimbabwe in November 2017, despite repeatedly paying lip service to calls for democratic reform, Emmerson Mnangagwa did little to further human rights and democratic fr...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to preside over monthly clean-up in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will tomorrow preside over this month's main clean up exercise in Bulawayo, as Government intensifies efforts to build sustainable environmental management and waste disposal syste...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alleges assassination attempts by Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE'S opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, believes that the country's ruling Zanu-PF has decided to assassinate MDC-A leader Nelson Chamisa because all its other effort...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 10:04hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Sanyangore faces jail
Victory World International Ministries church leader Paul Sanyangore is facing a three-month jail term after failing to settle a US$10 200 debt with satellite transmission company, Viewsat Limited (Vi...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:32hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Lionel Messi wins Ballon d'Or for 7th time
Lionel Messi admitted winning the Copa America with Argentina might have been the determining factor in him claiming the men's Ballon d'Or prize for the seventh time after a turbulent year, as Spain's...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:37hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF monitoring Chamisa's movements
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has said the ruling party was monitoring all movements made by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance to make sure it does not receive foreign fund...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 5195 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa warns Chamisa
Zanu-PF national acting political commissar, Patrick Chinamasa Saturday made a chilling warning to MDC Alliance activists against intimidating its members who defect to the ruling party.Chinam...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 4844 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, govt face off today
TEACHERS and Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu will today meet in Harare under the cloud of threats to boycott public school examinations that are scheduled to begin today....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 2333 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in fresh call for dialogue following murder of MDC activist - implement reforms, hypocrite
The sheer hypocrisy and duplicity of MDC leaders when it comes to dealing with the thorny issue of Zimbabwe's political culture of violence, never seize t...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 1307 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chinese firm yet to start airport job seven months after contract
The multi-million-dollar contract to fix Zimbabwe's Air Traffic Control Communication Systems (ATCCS) by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is yet to commence, seven months after the Chinese mul...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for infecting lover with HIV
A woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested over allegations of deliberately infecting her lover with HIV.The 32-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld, allegedly didn't d...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:03hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
3 in Japan to develop Zimbabwean satellite
THREE local scientists have been sent to Japan to produce a Zimbabwean satellite so that the country has presence in space amid reports that the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) has used mo...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:50hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Who is Sybeth Musengezi?
IN the aftermath of his High Court application challenging his own party Zanu-PF over how it unconstitutionally and illegally convened, constituted and conducted a Central Committee meeting on 19 Nove...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:57hrs | 2955 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to acquire a new chopper after scary incidents
GOVERNMENT has set in motion plans to acquire a helicopter for President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid concerns over his security following a spate of hair-raising incidents aboard ageing and unreliable Air...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 2338 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Musengezi claims to have strong case against Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi, also a local businessman and economist, says he has a strong case against the ruling party which installed President Emmerson Mnangagwa at its helm unconstitutionally ...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:53hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
MDC still can't 'do the obvious - withdraw from (sham) elections' out of greed - will SADC continue punish povo for it
There is a real danger of Zimbabwe sending the wrong and confused message to SADC and the international community at large; yet again. SADC and the world at large want to know whether Zimbabweans want...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:26hrs | 629 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Woman (32) arrested for infecting lover with HIV
A woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested over allegations of deliberately infecting her lover with HIV.The 32-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld, allegedly didn't d...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:00hrs | 1545 | by Staff Reporter
Biti dismisses Mthuli's 2022 budget 'mediocrity'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday presented a $927,3 billion budget with an ambitious gross domestic product growth projection of 5,5% for 2022, but former Finance minister Tendai Biti dismissed...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1855 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MP arrested for assault
MDC-T proportional representation MP, Yvonne Musarurwa was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting party vice-president Thokozani Khupe's aide Kudzanai Mashumba at a Press conference last month....Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:13hrs | 958 | by Staff Reporter
'No individual can be bigger than Zimbabwe,' says Kasukuwere
EXILED former Zanu PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday urged the country's political leaders to stop pursuing selfish interests and unite to heal a deeply divided and impoverished Zimba...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 10:34hrs | 3633 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans' own political myopia and desperation underpin their continued suffering
This morning I was planning to write an article imploring our veterans of the liberation struggle to revert to their 1960s and 1970s unrelenting resolve - anchored by unquestionable patriotism and uns...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:04hrs | 611 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zanu PF 2017 coup coalition has collapsed' hyenas are fighting fiercely - it's no place for timid MDC jackals
Zanu PF is a party of thugs who got into politics for the sake of securing political power, absolute power, and the influence and wealth it brings. They don't care about anything or anyone else. ...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:32hrs | 2483 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
NPA revives criminal charges against suspended ZIFA boss Felton Kamambo
Zimbabwean authorities have revived criminal charges against the Zimbabwe Football Association president, days after his board was suspended over a poor run of results by the national team.Fel...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
ICC give Zimbabwe thumbs-up in World Cup hosting
INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council representative, Sally Higgins, is confident the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, currently taking place in Harare, will be a huge success.Zimbabwe is host...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 13616 | by Staff reporter
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Second Republic marred by litany of unfulfilled pledges
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa got into power in 2017, a lot of promises were made, creating the impression that Zanu-PF was ready to give Zimbabweans a fresh start.Four years later, it see...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
'Stop criminalising human rights defenders'
HUMAN rights defenders have been under siege in the Sadc region amid calls for governments to respect the law, democracy and rights.The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
IDC throws out bids for Deven
TWO local companies seeking a shareholding in Deven Engineering had their bids thrown out after they failed to offer the "best value for money" for the coach builder.Deven's core competence is...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:50hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Malaria cases decline in Matabeleland South
MATABELELAND South province has recorded 800 malaria cases and four deaths since January this year down from 2 823 registered cases and 11 fatalities during the same period last year.Matabelel...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:55hrs | 274 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe is a prima facie failed state and incapable of self-governing - will we finally take the cure
"Blacks are incapable of self-governing!" was the standard justification for continued white colonial rule. Not many things said and done by the white supremacists got under my skin half as deep as th...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:35hrs | 872 | by Wilbert Mukori
2019-2020 Merit Awards to be held next year
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has said 2019 and 2020 Secretary's Merit Awards are going to be held next year after being disturbed by COVID-19. The matter came to light yeste...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 07:28hrs | 484 | by Lloyd Rabaya
Matebeleland South records decrease in malaria cases
THE implementation of malaria elimination activities in Matebeleland South is now paying dividends as the province has this year recorded a decrease in malaria cases with four deaths from about 800 pa...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Teachers say to strike over poor pay
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) says its members will go on strike beginning today, a week before "O" and "A" Level students are due to sit for the November Zimbabwe Schools E...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 3986 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 192 | by Nobleman Runyanga
NRZ to cut on hired wagons, locomotives
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is working on a framework to reduce wagons and locomotives hired from third parties as part of a broader scope to save the organisation millions of dollars in f...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set for Intra African Trade Fair
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to join other African Heads of State in Durban, South Africa at the opening session of the Intra African Trade Fair (IATF 2021), which seeks to boost the volume o...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Cash-rich ex-Zanu-PF councillor funds chaos to stop district elections
FORMER Zanu-PF Chinhoyi Ward 7 councillor, Charles Mutisi has been accused of financing hoodlums to destabilise the smooth conduct of party internal elections to choose a new district leadership....Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
The letter of deceit
Prodigious things always happen. Reading the letter which Emerson Mnangagwa wrote to Zimbabweans and published on the 9th of November 2017 after he had been dismissed from both government and party is...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:27hrs | 1219 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Chamisa says dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe from its deep socio-economic crisis and put the country on a recovery path.Chamisa said...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
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