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Mnangagwa's New Dispensation lacks communication strategy
The ordinary person at the grass-roots level is constantly asking the question: what has President Emmerson Mnangagwa achieved since he became President.President ED Mnangagwa in his opening r...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1300 | by Nicholas Ncube
Effective government messaging can save lives
It goes without saying that during a crisis such as the pandemic the world is currently facing; clear, consistent and concise communications can be an effective tool in curbing the spread of diseases ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 226 | by Agencies
'Mwonzora and Komichi to be expelled form MDC' Welshman Ncube reveals
MDC former Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora and his ally Morgen Komichi will soon be expelled from the MDC, Professor Welshman Ncube has revealed. In a meeting with the MDC North America Pro...Published: 20 hrs ago | 2708 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'I'm proud of your discipline during lockdown' said Mnangagwa - contrarily 'Soldiers go crush our enemies!'
"Wishing a blessed Sunday to my brothers and sisters in lockdown. I am proud of the way you have responded to this challenging situation, with discipline, commitment, and spirit. The road is long, but...Published: 20 hrs ago | 447 | by Nomusa Garikai
Gold buyer ambushed and robbed
THREE men have been arrested after they allegedly robbed an illegal gold buyer of R27 000, $900 and 35 grammes of gold after ambushing and smashing all the windows of a taxi that he was travelling in....Published: 21 hrs ago | 680 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's bone headed ZRP, likely engaging in human ights abuses
ZANU PF's bone headed ZRP, likely engaging in Human Rights Abuses, whilst Destroying Essential Food during Worlds fight against COVID-19.Allegedly Horri...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 23:19hrs | 860 | by Thabo Makuyana
What does the supreme court ruling against MDC tell us
The opposition MDC with all its divisions and branches has been put on the limelight again. The task before the MDC is a very easy one. It is for the MDC to show that they are capable and able to prac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3624 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC MPs urged to resign en masse
Former Deputy Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Godfrey Gandawa has urged opposition Members of parliament to resign from the August house and leave ZANU PF to fail on its own. Said Ga...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 13:25hrs | 7523 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDCT and MDC Alliance are two distinct parties - Mashakada
MDC Alliance top official and economist Tapiwa Mashakada has said the MDC-T and MDC-Alliance are two distinct parties that are registered with ZEC and they contested the 2018 General and Presidential ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 13:11hrs | 3596 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe central bank faces mammoth task on inflation, says Fitch
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will likely face strong headwinds in its quest to bring inflation down to its target of 50 percent by year-end and also stabilise the weakening Zimbabwe dollar, glob...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 12:04hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
WFP declares Zimbabwe a hunger hotspot
THE World Food Programme (WFP) has classified Zimbabwe as one of the 18 countries in the world that will likely come out of the deadly coronavirus pandemic in a worse off situation.According t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:57hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
IMF warns of adverse Covid-19 impact on Zimbabwe's economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Zimbabwe's economy is likely to take a battering from the coronavirus outbreak that has paralysed the world as it would make it harder to balance ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:52hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Local artistes in dire straits
As Zimbabwe enters into the second week of the 21-day Covid-19 lockdown, most artistes say they can longer endure the remaining days as they are failing to make ends meet.A myriad of artistes,...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:52hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube urged to craft coronavirus stimuli
The government has been urged to roll out fiscal incentives to cushion companies reeling from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak that might cripple an already bleeding economy.Local compan...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's COVID-19 hole
ORDINARILY the 2020 domestic Premiership football season would have been entering its third week, and today some of its stars would have been away with the Warriors in Yaounde, Cameroon, on what also ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:27hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Rethinking paltry pension payouts
WITH the coronavirus (Covid-19) causing significant economic and social disruptions across the globe, its impact is likely to be keenly felt by the most vulnerable members of society.The pande...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Coal concessions: Zesa fights back
ZESA Holdings is seeking legal recourse after Government withdrew its coal concessions in the Western Areas of Hwange District.The power utility intended to venture into mining to guarantee co...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Mr Trump, please cut us some slack
Despite romanticising rural life perhaps a tad too much, Bishop Lazi will openly admit that some village folk are an idiosyncratic lot.For those who might not know them, it takes time getting ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 188 | by Bishop Lazi
Liverpool a step closer to title after behind-closed-doors games cleared for broadcast
Broadcasters will be able to screen Premier League games kicking off at 15:00 live for the remainder of the season after UEFA lifted restrictions.The English and Scottish Football Associations...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 09:42hrs | 2072 | by Staff reporter
Family feuds over tombstones
A family feud has spilled into the courts following the alleged mistreatment of tenants, The Weekender reports.House Number 39 Tenderere is at the centre of the dispute between Patience Jimu and her e...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
$19m Econet loot sold on black market
Two suspected fraudsters, both employees of Econet Wireless have appeared in court facing charges of stealing RTGS$19 984 475 which is probably the biggest fraud ever to hit the country's telecommunic...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:46hrs | 4309 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive too slow, says IMF
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not impressed with President Emmerson Mnangagwa re-engagement drive describing it as being "much slower than expected".The details are contained in the...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 472 | by newzimbabwe
'Lockdown-defying' journalist released on free bail
Freelance journalist Nunurai Jena, arrested and charged with disorderly conduct on Thursday, was Friday released on free bail.Jena was arrested for taking video images of a police roadblock in...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns instruments of repression into weapons against coronavirus
Zimbabwe's police began using water cannon on Friday to disinfect markets and bus ranks, turning instruments associated with repression into weapons against the new coronavirus.Zimbabwean poli...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 18:55hrs | 1442 | by Reuters
Process vs populism: Unpacking the Supreme Court ruling against Chamisa
Populism without process has turned out to be wholly inadequate for the party of excellence.The judgement is germane to the MDC. MDC-T was a moniker developed to distinguish the Tsvangirai faction...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:22hrs | 2039 | by David Hofisi
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1146 | by Sibanengi Dube
Chamisa faces disciplinary action, Mwonzora threatens
REINSTATED MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has delivered stinging criticism of his long-time nemesis Nelson Chamisa and his allies, saying they faced disciplinary action for failing to comply w...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:06hrs | 4987 | by Staff reporter
NewsDay correspondent arrested over lockdown breach
POLICE in Chinhoyi yesterday arrested NewsDay correspondent Nunurai Jena on allegations of contravening President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 21-lockdown order.Media Institute of Southern Africa (Zim...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Wenera strikes UK TV deal
THE executive director of local popular soap opera Wenera Eddie Ndhlovu has struck a screening deal with VoxAfrica Television UK, a United Kingdom Pan-African bilingual television channel for the scre...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
BCC 2020 budget dealt blow by COVID-19 pandemic
BULAWAYO City Councils' $2,7 billion budget for 2020 which saw rates and tariffs shoot by 716% has been dealt a huge blow by the coronavirus pandemic, with mayor Solomon Mguni predicting tough times a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown laws draconian, excessive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's announcement of a 21-day national lockdown across Zimbabwe to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus was accompanied by a raft of laws, which are draconian, excessive a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 185 | by Dewa Mavhinga
COVID-19, CEO suspension hits Bosso, Caps NetOne sponsorship packages
NETONE chief executive officer Lazarus Muchenje is tight-lipped about when they will unveil this year's sponsorship packages for Highlanders and Caps United. The mobile network operator has al...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:22hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
'Lake Kariba may fill up next year'
Lake Kariba will reach its full mark next year, Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) experts predicted yesterday. With almost 11 metres to go before the lake is full, and with evaporation losses and the rati...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Global COVID-19 cases top 1 million
The coronavirus pandemic has passed its landmark moment, as over one million people worldwide have tested positive for the disease, according to figures from multiple sources.The total number ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1337 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'infiltrates' MDC structures in South Africa
ANOTHER breakup is projected for the troubled Zimbabwean official opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).This follows a Supreme Court ruling ousting Nelson Chamisa as party presi...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 20:36hrs | 3991 | by Agency staff
Mwonzora's hands are clean
Embattled MDC deputy secretary for International Relations Douglas Mwonzora has said his hands are clean and he is not leading any faction plotting to depose the party's leader Nelson Chamisa....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:25hrs | 3033 | by Staff reporter
What the Khupe-Chamisa Supreme Court ruling means
On March 31, 2020, the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling in the seemingly interminable battle over stewardship of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In the case of MDC and O...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:26hrs | 4696 | by David Hofisi
'MDC Alliance died in 2018' Mwonzora explains
Former MDC Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora says the political entity called MDC Alliance fell away immediately after the 2018 elections when none of the alliance partners managed to get enough poli...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 5392 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC criticises top court's ruling on Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabwe's top court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the country's largest opposition party.Chamisa's leadership was contes...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:53hrs | 765 | by Agency Staff
Alliance executives stampeded to voice their support for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office-bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:47hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1003 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
MDC Alliance leaders rally behind Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 2574 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa court ruling does not affect MDC Alliance'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is deeply concerned about the threat that Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance party poses to its hegemony and on Tuesday it went to extraordinary lengths to try to neut...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 2499 | by David Coltart
Kariba power generation remains constrained
ELECTRICITY generation at Kariba Hydropower Station remains constrained despite the dam level rising by 97 centimetres between January and March this year, data from the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
BCC to intensify water shedding
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is proposing to increase the weekly water shedding exercise from four to five days as the city's water situation turns desperate. Bulawayo has been experiencing water c...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:26hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's Bulawayo structures back Chamisa
THE MDC Alliance's Bulawayo structures have scorned party leader Nelson Chamisa's ouster in a watershed Supreme Court ruling Tuesday and further expressed unwavering support for the under-fire opposit...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:23hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Khupe has more to worry over Supreme Court MDC leadership verdict than Chamisa
---- as this could signal end of her political careerThe 31 March 2020 verdict by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, over the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leadership wrangle, between...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:53hrs | 10838 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SA Revenue Service's misses tax collection target
SARS has collected R1.356 trillion in tax revenue so far for the 2019/20 fiscal year compared to the 2019 national budget estimate of R1.422 trillion.The revenue agency's financial year runs f...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 16:34hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Challenging the attempt to remove Nelson Chamisa as MDC president in Zimbabwe
On 30 March, Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has issued a judgement that would effectively remove Nelson Chamisa as the leader of the MDC-A. Although the name of the party is not essential as a new moniker c...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 4139 | by David Coltart
Mnangagwa awards son-in-law with top hospital post
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed his son in law Gerald Mlotshwa as a Trustee for the CAPS holdings owned St Anne's hospital in Harare. Said P...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 13:40hrs | 6601 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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