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Beitbridge border fence useless and compromised
An investigation into the Beitbridge border fence project has uncovered several alleged procedural irregularities, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille revealed on Saturday....Published: 8 mins ago | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF members openly defy Mnangagwa...call for his immediate ouster
ZANU PF members and activists are coming out in the open voicing their displeasure at the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The unfolding leadership drama bedeviling the ruling party...Published: 8 hrs ago | 17358 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe did not condemn Ramaphosa when Marikana massacres happened, says Chinamasa
Zanu-PF has, however, reacted angrily to African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule's comments during a televised interview that the South African ruling party was concerned with ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3391 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to ignore rumblings
UNDER-FIRE President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hit back at his critics saying his government would ignore rumblings from "fugitives".In what appeared to be a response to local and regional ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2901 | by Staff reporter
Another long weekend for Chin'ono, Ngarivhume
Zimbabwe 'crisis': UN steps inTHE United Nations says it is following the Zimbabwean crisis with concern, urging Harare to respect human rights amid pressure for the matter to be tabled at the glo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo not yet off the hook
THE High Court has ordered the trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe boss, Wicknell Chivayo and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) former board chair Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje, to proceed before a Harare magistrate....Published: 10 hrs ago | 878 | by Staff reporter
ZCC urges Zimbabweans to be masters of their own destiny
LOCAL churches have hailed South Africa's intervention into the country's political and socio-economic crisis, but urged Zimbabweans to be masters of their own destiny.This came after South Af...Published: 10 hrs ago | 710 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa body-shames 'flat-bottomed' Zanu-PF rivals
FIERY Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has waded into simmering Zanu-PF factional wars, accusing some party elements of plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa.In a leaked 16-minute audio...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2286 | by newzimbabwe
Biti's Civic society demands answers over US$18 billion debt
CIVIC society groups have amplified their voices seeking to know how the country's debt ballooned to US$18 billion.The lobby groups are demanding debt transparency after taxpayers have been fo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2387 | by Staff reporter
Zesn presses for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political actors not to abandon the push for electoral reforms in the face of COVID-19 that has forced the country's electoral body, Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 10 hrs ago | 167 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweLivesMatter Twitter revolution: Boots still needed on the ground
THE year 2011 redefined the African Arab world. The world witnessed what generally became known as the Arab Spring. The revolutionary demonstrations were in the main led by tech-savvy youths on their ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 267 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
What becomes of unwanted babies?
IT is a common national habit to turn a blind eye or be very judgmental about problems that we are too uncomfortable to deal with such as unwanted teen pregnancies or the necessity of providing contra...Published: 10 hrs ago | 221 | by Miriam Tose Majome
'Ignore the rumblings of fugitives' - Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called on Zimbabweans to unite towards the development of the country and ignore rumblings of fugitives engaged in attempts to destabilise the nation. Speaking as...Published: 10 hrs ago | 328 | by Staff reporter
Bosso release Prince Dube
HIGHLANDERS yesterday agreed to release hitman Prince Dube to free-spending Tanzanian side Azam following three-hour negotiations between the club and Dube's manager Gibson Mahachi in Bulawayo yesterd...Published: 10 hrs ago | 457 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet meetings go virtual
Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda has said next week's Cabinet meeting rescheduled to August 18 would be held on a virtual platform. In a statement, Dr Sibanda ad...Published: 10 hrs ago | 240 | by Staff reporter
My true prophets stand up against Covid-19
We watched crutches being thrown away, demons being driven out of tormented souls, was this real or stage managed and choreographed acts of deception? Later day flamboyant 'prophets' mad...Published: 10 hrs ago | 378 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Zanu-PF, ANC unite against renewed onslaught
African countries have once again become targets of a smear campaign to discredit former liberation war movements, with the continent erstwhile colonisers working with opposition parties to cause disc...Published: 10 hrs ago | 257 | by Staff reporter
Why internationals visit Zimbabwe in peak tourist seasons
Zimbabwe reported 1.8 million international visits in 2018. This number was a 4 percent increase from 2017. Why are internationals interested in Zimbabwe, a country located in Southern Africa? The cou...Published: 10 hrs ago | 233 | by Staff Writer
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 241 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3514 | by Nomazulu Thata
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 21 hrs ago | 1060 | by Victor Bhoroma
Masarira pens open letter to Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition LEAD party, has penned an open letter to the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, over the country's status quo.Masarira who some believe is linked...Published: 21 hrs ago | 7996 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Do not be a statistic, stay safe
The figures on Covid-19 infections continue to rise and as if not to be out done, so are the fatalities. The lackadaisical approach by some rural folk on precautions against the disease may see the pa...Published: 21 hrs ago | 975 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mliswa turns to God on Chin'ono's case
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has expressed his concern over the arrest and detention of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who was denied bail by High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi yesterd...Published: 21 hrs ago | 4269 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3391 | by Staff reporter
Duduzile Shinya new ICAZ President
Medical Investments Limited's chief financial officer, Duduzile Shinya has been elected the new president of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) for the term 2020/21.She w...Published: 21 hrs ago | 983 | by Staff reporter
'Need new GNU, too polarised for democracy' argue Gono - bull, Zanu PF doesn't want democracy
"The nature of our politics today demands, in my view, greater tolerance, cross-fertilisation of ideas from different corners of political and economic thought and inclusiveness. If I had my way into ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1521 | by Wilbert Mukori
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 22 hrs ago | 562 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 4155 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Jonathan Moyo and Zhuwao's letter to ANC
We are requesting the ANC to positively and substantively intervene to help save the tradition, ethos and values of the liberation movement in Zimbabwe. We believe that the ANC faces a very high risk ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:39hrs | 5933 | by Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao
Peace begins with you
Each and every call for the phantom demos leaves Zimbabweans more poorer and our economy much closer to the 'black hole'. The only people that remain smiling from ear to ear are the ones calling for s...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:12hrs | 837 | by Tincuts
Unity for power and development
In order to consolidate unity of our people as Zimbabweans, provincial names indicative of what tribe is found where are not helping bind the tapestry of oneness. Manicaland, Mashonaland, ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 305 | by Tondo
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 314 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 138 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sex for sanitiser proposal backfires
FOR a Zvishavane man, Again Madzivire, it was supposedly not a bad move to secretly admire his female neighbour's "voluptuous" behind but there seems to be just one big flaw which he made and it all e...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:53hrs | 2330 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet rescheduled
THE Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda has said next week's Cabinet meeting rescheduled to August 18 would be held on a virtual platform.In a statement, Dr Sibanda...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Venezuela condemns US sanctions against Zimbabwe
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned on Thursday the US punitive actions against Zimbabwe.On Twitter, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy also expressed his solidarity with that n...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:44hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew times challenged in court
A RUWA man Ronald Magweta and Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) have approached the High Court seeking an extension of the starting time of the curfew to 8pm.This...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor in questionable land deal
MAYOR Solomon Mguni is in the news once again after being granted a development permit to construct six townhouses on a piece of land measuring 4 287 square metres.Two months ago, Mguni attrac...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:20hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers challenge regulated business hours
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has taken the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to court challenging timelines that dictate that businesses should close ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4423 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
South Africa plays an unofficial Big Brother to Zimbabwe
The government of South Africa and the ruling ANC have raised concern over the latest developments in Zimbabwe - perhaps so much earlier than many would have anticipated.South Africa plays an ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:41hrs | 2897 | by finx
ZIMRA doesn't require proof of recent negative COVID-19 tests
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to correct misleading information that was contained in an internally generated notice that was issued to clearing agents on the 6th of August, 2020. ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:38hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe commemorates World Breastfeeding week
Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating the World Breastfeeding Week held during the first week of August each year.Officially launching the National World Breastfeedi...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 110 | by MoHCC Comms
George Charamba exposed by Trevor Ncube's newspaper
The Standard Newspaper has exposed Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba over his tweet accusing the Zimbabwean activists of doctoring images of a woman being beaten by a soldier. Charamba...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:06hrs | 5587 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO: Mnangagwa dumps expensive jet...uses Air Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has resorted to using the national Airline Air Zimbabwe with reports from ZANU PF saying the expensive jet that he usually charters terminated the contract it had with ZAN...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 13:18hrs | 6197 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SADC called to intervene in Zimbabwe's crisis
South African opposition leader General Bantu Holomisa has called upon SADC to intervene and assist Zimbabweans to find a solution to the crisis that is intensifying in their country.In a pres...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 12:05hrs | 2963 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's wife sends special message to Zimbabwean women
Yesterday, Zimbabwe official launched its 2020 World Breastfeeding Week commemorations under the theme; Promoting breastfeeding for a Healthier Planet!As a mother, I am taking part in these co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 2488 | by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 6299 | by Staff reporter
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