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Bulawayo bomb scare: Army called in
The Zimbabwe National Army bomb disposal squad and police were on Monday called to Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb after residents stumbled on a hand grenade believed to have been left in the area during ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
The year Sadc lost its purpose and relevance
SADC, then known as SADCC, was formed in 1980 with a memorandum of understanding on common economic development. Among its goals were to introduce programs and projects which would influence the South...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 12:19hrs | 1250 | by AT Kadada
Zimbabwe and the crisis of one-sided democracy narrative
THE co-existence of political dissent is healthy for any political set-up. However, it is risky to reduce the density of political dissent to the narrowest of extremes of allowing certain political ac...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:36hrs | 103 | by Richard R Mahomva
Rhodesian days are back in Zimbabwe
This is a litmus test for democracy. We have prophets of doom who have already forseen the negativity of holding a peaceful demonstration. The rule of law must be observed and it is the duty o...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:40hrs | 1116 | by Leonard Koni
Acquittals prove political abuse of the courts
While we welcome the good news of the acquittal of Honourable Settlement Chikwinya and Lloyd Mukapiko on spurious charges of incitement to commit public violence; we have to place it on record that th...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:15hrs | 861 | by Innocent Gonese
Economy as the superstructure in Zimbabwe
There were a number of by-elections in Zimbabwe over the last month.One was for the local government in my rural home district of Bikita East in Masvingo province. The others were for the parl...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | 685 | by Takura Zhangazha
Quick-fix solutions to Zimbabwe's huge electricity crisis
THE Zimbabwe government has announced that it’s facing critical power shortfalls. The country's anchor power producer, Kariba Dam, might have to stop production in weeks due to dropping water levels...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:28hrs | 703 | by Tafadzwa Makonese
Zapu plots mock govt in exile
LATE national hero, Dumiso Dabengwa's party, Zapu says it is planning to set up shadow government structures in exile whose main purpose shall be to push for the formation of a national transitional a...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 925 | by newzimbabwe
Ex-guerillas custodians of economic revolution
The freedom we enjoy today in the Southern Africa region is a product of a generation's sacrifice. The freedom which we have is at a cost of the sacred human life, with some having been deformed perma...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 199 | by Collen Mharadzano
Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe
Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 658 | by Takura Zhangazha
Gukurahundi solution is to tackle poverty
GUKURAHUNDI has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former Zapu cadre and former Mi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:57hrs | 291 | by Nicholas Ncube
Gukurahundi and the battle against Shona supremacy
Gukurahundi has long been debated as a tribal issue and was presented to the younger generations and the world at large as a battle for tribal supremacy. This was until former ZAPU cadre and former Mi...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 11:40hrs | 3684 | by Nicholas Ncube
Considerations on Zimbabwe's future
ZIMBABWE'S future is rarely discussed in holistic terms in everyday conversations. This is because the future is always in the immediate.This may appear contradictory or even complex, but it i...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 262 | by Takura Zhangazha
Closed banks: Depositors to be compensated in Zimdollars
GOVERNMENT has instructed its insurer to compensate holders of nostro accounts in closed banks in either US dollars or the equivalent in local currency, it was revealed.Currently, the Deposit ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
'Nostro accounts balances won't be compensated'
Balances in nostro foreign currency accounts will not be compensated as they are currently not covered by the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), in the event of bank failure, an official has said. ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nostro accounts have no deposit cover
Nostro account holders in Zimbabwe have no fall back in the event of bank failures amid startling revelations their accounts do not have deposit cover.Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) chai...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:53hrs | 3577 | by Staff reporter
More turn to suicide as economic hardships bite
During the early seventies it was taboo to come across a person who had killed himself but now it is a norm in Zimbabwe. As the country plunges deeper into economic turmoil more people are committing ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:36hrs | 1077 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Zimbabwe's social protection lack co-ordination, under-financed
ZIMBABWE'S social protection interventions lack coordination and are generally under-financed as a result of the poor performance of the economy, a new report has shown.A report titled: Action...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Singapore on economic development
Singapore is a tiny island-city state in Southeast Asia with a total area of 718km2 (543 times smaller than Zimbabwe) and part of the four Asian Tigers (Others include Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Kore...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1326 | by Victor Bhoroma
Obert Mpofu, Jacob Mudenda emerge as Mnangagwa's new targets for purging
AFTER weeding out his new rivals - who brought him to power - in the security sector, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now shifted the purges to Zanu-PF, targeting the ruling party's heavyweights seen...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 12905 | by Staff reporter
Crucifying 'Wiwa' for a mere political rhetoric: A countenance of the Devil
While we mutually admonish instigators of anarchy, despondency, divisiveness and secessionism we loudly criticize an all-out war on the deputy chairperson of MDC-Alliance over an address at a politica...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1341 | by Benny Gudo
Job Sikhala faces a death penalty for treason
Former president Mugabe once said of Madhuku "that once he is broke he provokes the law enforcement so that when he is arrested his sponsors will vilify Zimbabwe and consequently pour money to his poc...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 11:36hrs | 7050 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Perverse opulence amid squalor likely to sink Zimbabwe
The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amids...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Is there any need for Zimbabwean banks to be technologically updated?
If a bank is stuck in last century thinking with last century leadership such cultural strategy will lead to eventual failure.I was in a hotel for lunch with a friend, when he asked me: "What ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1010 | by Elvis Dvene
Is there any need for Zimbabwean banks to be technologically updated?
If a bank is stuck in last century thinking with last century leadership such cultural strategy will lead to eventual failure.I was in a hotel for lunch with a friend, when he asked me: "What ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1221 | by Elvis Dvene
Devolution options for Zimbabwe
AS the country searches for a solution to its economic and, indeed, governance quagmire, the debate on the implementation of devolution as enshrined in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Chapter 14 especia...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 389 | by Abednico Bhebhe
Ngarivhume says ban on forex will further destroy the economy
The ban on forex by the ED regime is an ill advised move, a sugar cotted plot to swindle all the forex in the nation and land it in the hands of cartels who seem desperate to destroy the country. The ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:27hrs | 624 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli's mortal fight with the Hydra
If you ask the Bishop what will distinguish E D's Presidency, he will tell you that it is his fierce decisiveness, keen pragmatism and a commendable ability to swiftly change and adjust as the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1206 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa gets honorary PhD degree
THE University of Zambia (UNZA) yesterday conferred Special Honorary PhD Law Degrees to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and his Zambian counterpart Edgar Lungu in recognition of transforma...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1529 | by Staff Reporter
It's up to us to make Zimdollar work
The record needs to be set straight that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has done nothing outrageous and/or unprecedented by banning the use of foreign currencies in domestic transactions.Accord...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:25hrs | 2065 | by Conway Tutani
ZANU PF Lack of Consultation Dragging Zimbabwe into the Abyss
The announcement of Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 which outlawed the use of multi-currency system that has been in operation since 2009, adds another chapter, or rather a new low in ZANU PF's non-c...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1214 | by Farai Maguwu and Darlington Nyambiya
Job Sikhala talks tough
Following the MDC Alliance elective congress recently, our deputy editor, Tangai Chipangura (TC), spoke to the newly-elected vice-chairman of the party Job Sikhala (JS) on a wide range of issues....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:16hrs | 4877 | by Staff reporter
Unite against big business' deathly grip
THERE is a lot to criticise about what is going on, but not all price increases we are seeing are that inevitable because in many cases, these are contrived with many big retailers taking advantage of...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1009 | by Conway Tutani
President Mnangagwa's government condemned
Human Rights lawyer Pedzisayi Ruhanya has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of turning Zimbabwe into a circus. Ruhanya was speaking after a Mutare man was arrested and de...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 11:58hrs | 6324 | by Mandla Ndlovu
High Court sets rules for ZACC interviews
INTERVIEWS for the appointment of commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Friday must be steered by a full Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) of Parliament and no...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs complete transformation, not patchworks.
"In a world of conspicuous institutional failure, one entity that still offers some important lessons for the practice of governance is Singapore." Kent CalderZimbabwe is experiencing a struct...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:13hrs | 323 | by Dr Gus Manatsa
NRZ eyes regional markets for turnaround
GOVERNMENT plans to improve the interconnectivity of the National Railways of Zimbabwe with other countries in the region to improve the parastatal's market share and revenue, a Cabinet Minister said ...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Farewell fighter: Tribute to Vimbai Tsvangirai
Death has robbed Zimbabwe of one of her most esteemed and accomplished daughters, Vimbai Tsvangirai - Java.The heroic conquests of the Tsvangirai's over the years can never be overstated, howe...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2776 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Chamisa not plotting to purge security chiefs
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was not plotting to purge security chiefs, but the political leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa that has been 'abusing Zimbabweans to pursue a parti...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2884 | by Staff reporter
A coup in Zimbabwe again
In the past weeks Zimbabwe has received rumours of coup and a pending coup. Zimbabwe has received rumours of strikes stay aways and many things followed as a form of reaction. We have comrades who hav...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 18:04hrs | 7735 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dabengwa burial snub cannot erase his legacy
Twitter: @MuckrakerZimTHE presidium was last week conspicuously absent at the burial of Zimbabwe's liberation war stalwart, the late Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, at his Ntabazin...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 522 | by MUCKRAKER
Churches to expose people plotting to remove Mnangagwa
WE, the collective of over 100 likeminded peace loving Civic Society Organizations, Community Based Organizations and churches across denominations from across Zimbabwe that are representative o...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 14:00hrs | 5697 | by CSCJF (Pastors and Bishops)
No one has the right to cause anymore bloodshed in Zimbabwe
CHURCHES AND CIVIC SOCIETY FORUMPRESS STATEMENTON THECURRENT SOCIO, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWEReleased at BULAWAYO, this 6th day of J...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:55hrs | 1624 | by Pastors and Bishops
From Bingu wa Mutharika to Dambudzo wa Malaba & Chigumba
The deteriorating economy of Zimbabwe is a vindication that President ED Mnangagwa was imposed on Zimbabweans by none other than the controversial Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) and the Supreme Co...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:36hrs | 2437 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's women blasts Chamisa
The Zanu-PF Women's League has castigated MDC-Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, for calling for violent anti-Government protests to unseat a constitutionally-elected government. The sentimen...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:28hrs | 3440 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A timeline of an almost failed state
I. Stone Age; hunter-gatherer San (Twa) presence (20,000–15,000 BC) of modern homo sapiens.II. Iron Age; Niger-Congo Bantu pastoral migrations (2000–1500 BC).III. Ophir; alleged "p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:01hrs | 2770 | by Sonny Jermain
Forex shortages grossly affect BCC service delivery
THE Bulawayo City Council is getting less than one percent of its revenue collection in forex as the local authority is still struggling to raise foreign currency required to boost some of its service...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
A uniquely Zimbabwean problem
As inflation, among other key economic indicators, keeps worsening at a pace reminiscent of the 2008 experience, public demands, often through protests, for dollarisation have become more pronounced. ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1412 | by Livison Bhebhe
Zimbabweans should not put high expectations on Chamisa, says Coltart
Newly elected MDC treasurer general David Coltart and party president Nelson Chamisa seem to have different timelines on the turnaround period of economic revival should they assume power....Published: 29 May 2019 at 18:33hrs | 6875 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should decisively deal with anarchists
The recently-held, disputed MDC- Alliance congress has revealed the toxic politics of chicanery, vote-rigging, vote-buying, vote manipulation and violent streak imbued in the party's DNA. It was sober...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 428 | by Philemon Mutedzi
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