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MSU to mentor law schools in Sadc
THE Midlands State University (MSU)'s Faculty of Law will guide other law schools in Sadc to meet international standards of excellence, the institution's Vice-Chancellor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa has sa...Published: 19 hrs ago | 520 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo explains Chiwenga fall-out
EMMERSON Mnangagwa manipulated his way to become vice president at the Zanu-PF congress in 2014, deceitfully side-lining party stalwart Oppah Muchinguri, a former cabinet minister has claimed....Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 06:26hrs | 13265 | by newzimbabwe
Gweru to introduce water shedding
GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has revealed that the city will soon introduce water shedding that will see most suburbs, particularly those in the western areas, going for days without water as council gr...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube tax evokes memories of 2008 crisis in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a comparatively youthful, Cambridge-trained economist as finance minister in September, he gave him an almost impossible task: repay billions of ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:25hrs | 1110 | by Bloomberg
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Law School set for Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is not only Open for Business but for dialogue too, as it forges ahead with engaging locals and foreigners in its quest to attain a middle class economy by 2030....Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Why has Africa not developed after attaining independence?
Dear AfricaI grew up thinking that Africa was once referred to as a dark continent because most of its inhabitants are dark in complexion. Honestly it didn't bother me because to me black is r...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:21hrs | 360 | by Munya Shumba
UZ vice chancellor challenges students
University of Zimbabwe, (UZ)'s ultimate goal is to produce graduates who can demonstrate real value to industry, commerce and the wider community, the institution's acting vice chancellor Paul Mapfumo...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:53hrs | 1341 | by Staff reporter
Court endorses Mnangagwa's Commission of Inquiry
THE High Court has endorsed the Commission of Inquiry set up by President Mnangagwa to investigate the causes of the violence that claimed six people in Harare's central business district on August 1 ...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:53hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
'Rushed currency reform could harm Zimbabwe economy'
Rushing to implement currency reforms without sufficient stocks of foreign currency to back up the transition would have serious adverse effects on Zimbabwe's economy, which would cause suffering of c...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | 3398 | by Staff reporter
Do magistrates matter in Zimbabwe?
"IT is in the magistrates' courts that justice is tested in its most crucial, most pervasive, most voluminous, most pressurised, and logistically most demanding dimensions – in literally thousands o...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 515 | by Sandra Kayereka
Zimbabwe must set a clear development agenda
First and foremost, Zim is poised with toxic politics. We must deal with our politics first before we table economic matters. , it is important to admit that we have a crisis so that whoever comes on ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 16:27hrs | 501 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, At the Crossroads: A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Zimbabwe
(University of Bamberg Press, 2018, pp. 113) Masiiwa Ragies Gunda's book is timely as the ‘Zimbabwe crisis' is traced from 1997 to 2018. Although the...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:19hrs | 380 | by Brian Maregedze
'I resigned from ZANU PF before the coup' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled Former G40 kingpin has revealed for the first time that he resigned from ZANU PF on the 8th of November the day when President Mnangagwa skipped the country alleging Mugabe wanted to kill him. ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 07:16hrs | 5960 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabweans no longer respects the law, police'
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga yesterday admitted that the general public no longer respected the law and its enforcers.Officiating at the Zimbabwe Republic Police Staff College 20...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:00hrs | 5068 | by Staff reporter
Judgement reserved on Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry challenge
High Court judge David Mangota has reserved ruling in a matter in which a Zimbabwean woman is challenging the legality and composition of a commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 12:22hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Five stubborn common English errors
I CALL them stubborn because they refuse to go. We hear them everywhere, in the bank, queues, on the bus, radio and television, at home when we are relaxed and enjoying family communion, watching TV, ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1373 | by Morris Mtisi
Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography
The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate th...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 453 | by Brian Maregedze
Mangudya RBZ ouster speculation gains momentum
GOVERNMENT sources have downplayed as mere speculation reports that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya's ouster from the apex bank is imminent.Linked with the increasingly t...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 06:30hrs | 5791 | by NewZimbabwe.com
Austerity begins with the Executive, Mr Mnangagwa
As promised in our previous article, this week we focus on ways in which government can cut expenditure. It is a commonly accepted fact that our government has a weakness when it comes to spending. Go...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2723 | by Paul Kaseke
Political refugee Machaya claims ZANU PF wants to kill him
Shepherd Machaya - a second year Management of Information Technology and Information Systems student - at the Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland fears for his life should he have to return to Zi...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 16:15hrs | 2079 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prophet Magaya is now an HIV/Aids Scientist
According to Prophet Magaya, the HIV/Aids cure is now found as well as the cure for cancer related diseases. I am neither writing this piece to disprove the claim of prophet Magaya nor approving it. I...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 14:43hrs | 5372 | by Don Chigumba
Chitungwiza mayors concede suspension
SUSPENDED MDC Alliance Chitungwiza mayor Gift Tsverere and his deputy Jabulani Mtunzi have conceded their suspension from the council and called for the holding of fresh mayoral elections, adding thei...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
AFM leader to step down
ONE of the longest serving leaders of a Pentecostal church in Zimbabwe, AFM president Dr Aspher Madziyire will step down from the helm of the church after elections to choose a new leader are held thi...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:38hrs | 2502 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa commission
Pressure is mounting on the commission of inquiry into the August 1 shootings that left at least six people dead to do more to probe the role of the army in the whole incident.South Africa-bas...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 14:41hrs | 3847 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM Student Wing prepares for a Matebeleland Genocide Conference in RSA
We would like to thank the opportunity that we have been given by the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) to be part of this great Human Rights Restoration Movement and a gre...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 17:11hrs | 703 | by Jabulani Skhosana, 1893 MHRM RSA Student Wing Secretary
Zimbabwe's economic woes self-inflicted
THE Zimbabwean economy is bedeviled with self-inflicted woes.However, the economic tribulations largely emanate from government portfolios and their episodic fiscal blunders.The fiscal...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:43hrs | 758 | by Paddington Masamha
Best advice on how to deal with current Zimbabwe economic crisis
Patience pays for our situation. What has contributed much to our current situation is that Zimbabwe pressed the panic button after contested elections. We need to move on and deal with what is curren...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1546 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
What good is Ncube's professorship, etc. without the most precious virtue there is!
To say I am disappointed and disgusted by Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, is only because I cannot find a stronger and more incisive language to express my outrage. Words have ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 18:31hrs | 1625 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's lieutenants in political storms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vow to clean up the image of the government and its officials is increasingly coming under the spotlight - as his lieutenants keep getting embroiled in self-inflicted po...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:17hrs | 4522 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga is not dying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that he once considered throwing in the towel, but changed his mind after he was persuaded by his new boss.Last year Ch...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 4264 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army faces grilling over killings
A commission set to investigate the August 1 deadly shooting of protestors began public hearings last week to establish what led to the killings.The inquiry led by former South African preside...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:45hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Mbonisi Gumbo of MRP gives his 2018 election analysis
Mbonisi Gumbo of MRP offers a post-mortem and surgical assessment of the 2018 Elections. Mbonisi Gumbo is MRP's founding Secretary for Information and Publicity. In this wide ranging interview we are ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:33hrs | 264 | by Thulani Nkala
The White Man who sent fear down Mugabe's spine
Canadian mining company Falconbridge Inc. had a big problem in Zimbabwe during the Gukurahundi disturbances in the early 1980s.Its operations in war-torn Zimbabwe were in chaos. ZIPRA rebels o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | 5507 | by Globe and Mail
Mnangagwa warns on manipulation of economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his Government was aware and is gravely concerned by the manipulation of the economy by a group of people and some businesses aimed at destabilising the mar...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:13hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dictatorship, ideological dominance
The European Union Observer Mission's (EU OM) final report showed the ruling Zanu-PF dominance in the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe was achieved, not by popular vote, but a cocktail of manipulation....Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:24hrs | 1284 | by Vivid Gwede
Zimbabwe army killings probe hots up
After a near-farcical start, temperatures rose a notch up yesterday at the government's commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence - which ended up with the army killing at least s...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:51hrs | 2491 | by Staff reporter
Professor Manyureke under attack over her questions
The Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 post election violence's public hearings at Cresta Lodge in Masasa Harare enters a third day with witnesses appearing before the ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:06hrs | 2258 | by Sithabile Mafu
ZAOGA: Celebrating 70 years of Non Stop Preaching
The seventy years of non-stop preaching have necessitated the birth and establishment of a great ministry called ZAOGA Forward In Faith Ministries International. ZAOGA FIF has various ministri...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:09hrs | 600 | by Brian Mutembedza
Documentary on Zimbabwe genocide takes aim at Mnangagwa
A new documentary on massacres by Zimbabwe's military has led to harsh exchanges as the 1980s killings challenge a new president who preaches unity but refuses to apologise for his alleged role in one...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:09hrs | 2598 | by AP
Lets support the man on the ball
Dear Zimbabweans Growing up my poor father used to tell me that no team gonna win a match if other players dont support the man on the ball! Wise words from an old man as this surely makes sen...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 13:32hrs | 786 | by Munya Shumba
Lobengula was King of both Matebeleland and Mashonaland
My last article titled "Mthwakazi was never a Ndebele Kingdom but a San Kingdom " received a mixed reaction from my readers. Some were angry but same gave me a pat for a factual article. While I won't...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 16:26hrs | 2956 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mnangagwa PhDs slammed
Teachers' unions have castigated tertiary institutions' conferment of honorary degrees to politicians.This comes after the conferment of three honorary doctorates to President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:40hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
Varsities PhDs - a farce - Gukurahundi PhDs
IF the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) was a human being, it could be wrinkled and grey haired by now. All things being equal, it could be a seasoned citizen, mellowed by maturity; an individual who no lo...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 814 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Judiciary open to criticism, says CJ
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has challenged lawyers to critique court decisions as this can have a beneficial impact in the improvement of the country's legal system. He said the Judiciary was open to ro...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:16hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean waiter uses his wages to run a free soccer academy in SA
A 24-year-old Zimbabwean has co-established a soccer academy in Capricorn, an informal settlement in the Western Cape near Muizenberg, from wages he earns working as a waiter.Cavin Muodzi tell...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 08:01hrs | 3146 | by Staff reporter
Egodini project developer to start registering job seekers
EGODINI Mall project developer, Tearracotta Private Limited, will on Monday start registering job seekers and businesses that will participate in the implementation of the mega-project after it commis...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3767 | by Staff reporter
English made easy by the Language Coach (writing articles)
Articles are magazine and newspaper style essays. As part of your ZIMSEC English Language examination you can be asked to write an article on a chosen topic in Section B of Paper 1. The given topics n...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:19hrs | 433 | by Language Coach
Mthuli Ncube fuelled parallel market rates, price increases
UNCERTAINTY hangs over the future of bond notes and real time gross settlement (RTGS) transfers, as more businesses are rejecting the two payment methods and the economy is effectively re-dollarising....Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 18:20hrs | 5024 | by Staff reporter
Kriegsverbrecher is given Honorary Doctor of Law
Here is someone who is supposed to be at the Haig: criminal court of law, answering crimes against humanity he committed in the early independence of Zimbabwe. The name Gugurahundi spells the name of ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:44hrs | 933 | by Nomazulu Thata
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