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Mnangagwa calls for private sector-govt dialogue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called on private players in the economy to dialogue with his government to find ways of improving the country's ease of-doing business and attract direct ...Published: 1 hr ago | 24 | by Staff reporter
'You like us dead' unions tell government over new US$500 funeral cover
Public sector workers accused the government of being "insensitive" on Tuesday after a new US$500 funeral cover was announced.Information ministry spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana announced the n...Published: 2 hrs ago | 75 | by Staff reporter
US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on. The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Ndavaningi...Published: 2 hrs ago | 33 | by Staff reporter
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 2 hrs ago | 24 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Govt to pay US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on.The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Nda...Published: 15 hrs ago | 3488 | by Staff Reporter
Government concerned over low uptake of youth fund in remote areas
GOVERNMENT has raised concern over the low uptake of the athletes and artists relief fund in Masvingo's rural districts of Zaka and Mwenezi.Launched in mid-July, the athletes and artists relie...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 15:29hrs | 681 | by Staff Reporter
2 borders with SA proposed
The Department of Immigration has advised the Government to consider formalising two proposed borders with South Africa to relieve pressure on Beitbridge and curb irregular migration and smuggling alo...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:43hrs | 3900 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho magistrate in trouble over judgment
TSHOLOTSHO magistrate Rogers Mawarire is in trouble after a Chiredzi woman Violet Chauke, who was severely bitten on the nose by a soldier lodged a complaint against him with the Judicial Services Com...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
Bonuses for civil servants
Since President Mnangagwa came into power in November 2017, the Government has shown commitment to improve the welfare of its workforce.In an interview after touring a food manufacturing and p...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:18hrs | 2005 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF tell whites 'to shut up' on reforms - madness, hurting blacks not whites
One of the most offensive and exasperating things the white colonial oppressors did was to deny the blacks their voice and human dignity. In the workplace blacks were called "boyi" and were expected t...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:13hrs | 1308 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF calls for slavery reparations
Zanu-PF has joined the rest of the continent in calling for reparations from Western countries that enslaved and looted resources from Africa years ago.The clarion call comes as the Namibian G...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1583 | by Staff reporter
Ngadziore freed on $5,000 bail
The High Court on Friday ordered the release on bail of Takudzwa Ngadziore, the president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union held since September 18 for allegedly participating in an illegal gath...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:28hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Kurauone slaps Govt with $2 million lawsuit for unlawful arrest
MDC-Alliance party youth leader Godfrey Kurauone has slapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and other accomplices with a $2.4 million lawsuit over his unlawful arrest, detention and malicio...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 757 | by Stephen Jakes
'Militarisation worse in post-Mugabe era'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has used the military to infringe on the rights of Zimbabwean citizens and the media, far more than his late predecessor, Robert Mugabe, a fresh report by the Zimbabwe Dem...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:20hrs | 2599 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tells West to 'Shut up'
ZANU-PF has told Western countries, especially Britain and United States, "to shut up" and stop pontificating about democracy and human rights, adding that Britain and the US's hands were historically...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Clergy predicts spike in land disputes
THE Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) has warned of a looming spike in land ownership wrangles between landless Zimbabweans and white former commercial farmers after the government signed a US$3,5 bil...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Govt called to upgrade border post systems
AUTHORITIES at Plumtree Border Post have called for the adoption of innovative border management systems to improve security as the country prepares to re-open its borders.Briefing the Home Af...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:33hrs | 1150 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Tops Southern Africa as ATU Ends African-wide Competition to Reward Innovators Targeting Solutions to Fight COVID-19
Zimbabwe's Kudakwashe Clinton Nyamhuka was among finalists of the ATU Africa Innovation Challenge 2020. The 24 year old topped the Southern Africa region together with fellow contestant Tiisetso Masil...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 287 | by Agencies
Preparations for the Econet Victoria Falls Marathon gather pace
HARARE - Econet Wireless Zimbabwe will this year hosts its annual Victoria Falls Marathon on December 13, as a virtually event, due to movement restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.Th...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 16:21hrs | 315 | by Agencies
Women Kill robber
Mathew Gunungo was disarmed of his iron bar and hit by one of the ladies after attempting to strangle the other. The two women, Phoebe Tembo and Petronella Ndlovu, have, however, been arrested...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3229 | by Staff reporter
Teacher pay increased US$30 to 157 pm - 500% pay rise, 838% inflation, etc. = breakneck speed we sinking
"The Public Service Commission is pleased to advise Government workers that the USD 75 Covid 19 allowance for September 2020 is being paid today. Going forward, the USD 75 Covid allowance will be paid...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 16:24hrs | 5657 | by Nomusa Garikai
Julien Balkany's and Stephane Rigny's Lelouma Mining Project Gains New Positive Momentum
CONAKRY, Guinea - The Lelouma Bauxite Project, led by Canadian mining tycoon Stephane Rigny and ...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 09:02hrs | 610 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC youth leader sues for illegal detention
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance youth leader and Masvingo ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone, has given notice to sue police for $2,4 million in damages following his arrest on trumped-up violence charges....Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mereki leisure spot takes Harare City Council to court
A HARARE outdoor leisure spot, popularly known as Mereki (Warren Park D) Community Trust, has taken the city council to court seeking transfer of the stand it operates from into its name.Accor...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Demagogues are abandoning democratic values and high ground to defend recalled sell-out MPs
Democracy is the greatest gift the Greeks gave to mankind. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," as US President Abraham Lincoln defined democracy in his famous Gettysburg speech ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1690 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kazembe Kazembe faces 2 months in jail
A HARARE magistrate has ordered the imprisonment of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage minister Kazembe Kazembe for 60 days for contempt of court.Kazembe failed to compensate a Gweru student, ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2482 | by Staff reporter
Phased border reopening proposed
The Department of Immigration has advised the Government on health grounds to consider phasing the reopening of land borders for passenger traffic, especially at Beitbridge Border Post where 500 000 p...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | 1676 | by Staff reporter
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 548 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Ex-Zanu-PF activist's farm invaded
A GROUP of Zanu-PF activists have allegedly invaded a farm in Mvuma owned by a former ruling party activist and started parcelling out land to each other.Nothiwani Dlodlo, who recently resigne...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu-PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:41hrs | 2604 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 130 | by Bloomberg
All on course for agric season
MORE than 500 000 farmers registered under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme have already received inputs for the forthcoming summer cropping season as the Government ramps up preparation...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:01hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Managing fisheries sustainably at Lake Kariba
ACCORDING to the Commercial Fishing Industry - Global Market Outlook, the global commercial fishing industry market accounted for US$240,99 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $438,59 billion by ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:48hrs | 173 | by Tinashe Farawo
Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners listed on multi-million Covid-19 fund for the poor
FIRST lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's business partners, among them a ruling Zanu PF senator, are on the list of people meant to benefit from a $600 million (US$25 million) fund to cushion vulnerable popula...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1254 | by Staffg Reporter
Africa must address its debt burden once the pandemic is under control - says World Bank Vice President
Carlos Felipe Jaramillo was recently appointed the World Bank's Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. He was, until his recent appointment, the bank's country director for Ken...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 12:13hrs | 738 | by Raphael Obonyo
RBZ boss survives hellish Covid-19 experience
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo views himself as a lucky and blessed man after surviving what he described as a hellish and nasty Covid-19 ordeal. Dr Mlambo had to...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
SA soldiers facilitating illegal entry of Zimbabweans
Some rogue elements within the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) are ripping off Zimbabwean business people by demanding huge bribes to facilitate their entry into South Africa for the purp...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Teachers slam Mnangagwa 'aggression'
Teachers' unions on Friday said they were "unmoved" by fresh threats by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who warned that his government could exclude from the payroll thousands of teachers who are boycot...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2047 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown pregnancies: +400 girls drop out of Manicaland schools
ATLEAST 415 school going girls dropped out of exam classes in Manicaland province during the Covid-19 lockdown period mainly due to marriage and pregnancy.However, only five boys dropped out o...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
Dr. Masimba Mavaza, please do not excite!
I have hardly recovered from the last article you wrote on Bulawayo24: an article that sees female gender as unreasonable and out of sic with African traditions and culture. Here we go again today: "M...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 20:57hrs | 497 | by Nomazulu Thata
Impala approached over stake in giant Zimbabwe platinum project
The owners of a Russian-backed project to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine have held talks to sell a stake of at least 20% to Impala Platinum Holdings, according to people familiar with the matt...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has lowest mobile money transaction limits in Africa
Zimbabwe has been singled out as one of the countries with a lowest daily mobile money transaction limits in Africa, a development seen as hindering the growth of the mobile money sector and hampering...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 528 | by Agencies
Sinohydro restarts Hwange power plant facelift
A CHINESE firm undertaking the US$1,1 billion refurbishment and expansion of Zimbabwe's largest thermal power station says it has resumed operations on the project, seven months after construction was...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 163 | by Pardon Muzavazi
Zimbabwe struggles to pay for electricity imports, power cuts resurface
The resurfacing of power cuts across the country as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) battles to meet national demand owing subdued production mainly at the Hwange...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 21:21hrs | 4007 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF creating fake MDC to win 2023' - why bother, won 2018 with genuine MDC
Dear Knowledge Hakata, "As a political student this is my prediction of what is happening and what is going to happen in Zimbabwe. Zanu PF knows that they won't stand a chance in 2023 presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1930 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Striking teachers dig in
TEACHERS have vowed to press on with their industrial action after talks with the government collapsed yesterday as they also complained bitterly over alleged favouritism towards the army and police....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:55hrs | 3351 | by Staff reporter
Bid to take over Khupe's offices foiled
A BID to take over Mashonaland East provincial MDC-T offices in Marondera on Friday night hit a brickwall after 10 MDC Alliance youths were arrested by the police and charged with public violence....Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2452 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths in court for forcibly occupying MDC-T offices
Eight MDC-Alliance activists on Saturday appeared in court charged with public violence after they tried to forcibly occupy the MDC-T's provincial offices in Marondera. They appeared before ma...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Broncleer lands man in court
TWO bottles of illicit alcohol broncleer landed a Mvurwi man in court on Friday.Washington Chingwaza (35) was slapped with $500 fine by...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 13:00hrs | 1236 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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