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Ngarivhume says Zanu-PF, military backing demo
OPPOSITION Transform Zimbabwe leader and organiser of the July 31 national protests against corruption, Jacob Ngarivhume has hit back at Zanu-PF commissar Victor Matemadanda over claims the citizen ac...Published: 6 hrs ago | 6600 | by newzimbabwe
SA based Zimbabwean records own suicide
A SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean phoned his relatives telling them that he was committing suicide, shot photos of a poisonous substance before drinking it after his wife of 15 years allegedly had an en...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1362 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases reach 985
The number of confirmed infections of Covid-19 tested in Zimbabwe reached 985 by last night, with 18 deaths and 328 confirmed recoveries. The Ministry of Health and Child Care reported three m...Published: 6 hrs ago | 477 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zindzi Mandela dies
South African media has reported that Zindzi Mandela, daughter of the late Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died.She was 59. The cause of the death for the South Africa...Published: 7 hrs ago | 2002 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa bans alcohol 'immediately'
South Africa will not be moving back to Alert Level 4 or 5, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday night - but a curfew will be imposed, alcohol sales will be banned, and new mask rules will be...Published: 18 hrs ago | 8888 | by Business Insider SA
Zanu-PF SA dismisses July 31 planned demo
ZANU-PF South Africa has dismissed the planned July 31 demonstrations by the opposition as mere attention-seeking manoeuvres meant to cause alarm and despondency.The ruling party's SA district...Published: 19 hrs ago | 3889 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2761 | by City Press
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 death rate increase to 18
THE number of deaths due to COVID-19 has increased to 18 following the death of 5 other people this Saturday.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care announced the dea...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2785 | by Staff reporter
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2988 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Willard Katsande's Amapiano track
Willard Katsande has now emerged as the latest player to have a track named after him. Check it out!Amapiano is a South African genre of music and is deemed to be a mix of deep house, jazz and...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3304 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
Fighting at funerals unAfrican, stop it
MY Dear People,I would like to start by paying my deepest condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following the death of his mother recently.The loss of a mother is a major blow ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 326 | by Dr Stop It
Demystifying Zimbabwe's Cyber Bill
This past week I was among those that were observing the Zimbabwean parliamentary publichearings on the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, gazetted on May 15 2020. These public hearings ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 160 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Zimbabwe's new cyber law to target online government and military critics
ZIMBABWE could sanction the search for government critics online, thanks to a planned cyber-security law earmarked to make it an offence to spread falsehoods and deal with leakage of official informat...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:53hrs | 248 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 10074 | by Staff reporter
Does Lobengula deserve a monument?
I read with great interest the report that a monument is to be built in honour of Mbuya Nehanda at long last. But then i said to myself: Why not do the same for King Lobengula or even Mukwati (Makwati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 505 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa against 'catch and release syndrome'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the justice system to step up the fight against corruption and put an end to the "catch and release syndrome", while the arrest of "small and big fish" shou...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 461 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabweans in the UK vulnerable to Covid-19, embassy warns
The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic.It is a revelation which under...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 408 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1057 | by Staff Reporter
The Chinamasa versus Matematanda race of ZanuPF Political Violence and Intolerance: Deplorable.
Zimbabweans are stunned by the venomous threats of violence vomited through the press by the two high ranking ZanuPF leaders Chinamasa and Matematanda against organisers of a yet to happen demonstrati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1174 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
NO to screening and testing of foreign initiated vaccines in Africa: ICAC
African countries have been challenged to reject any foreign initiated Coronavirus vaccines which the first world are deploying to the poor nations for te...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 1842 | by Stephen Jakes
July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 6876 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10395 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:31hrs | 9685 | by Stephen Jakes
Matter of Fact
ON June 22, 2020, we ran a story headlined Lawyer in bribery storm about a lawyer from Kantor and Immerman, Agmos Moyo, who was representing South African firm, Umbrella Holding and Golstone against l...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1778 | by Editor
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1415 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe - South Africa border reopens
Zimbabwe and South Africa re-opened their border yesterday, with customs officials from both countries prioritising the clearance of essential cargo, especially perishable food, medication and explosi...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 16:05hrs | 6144 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 965 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 256 | by Vince Musewe
SA government is digging mass grave: Ndiweni
BULAWAYO Traders and Vendors Association director Micheal Ndiweni has warned that South African government is digging a mass grave by opening up operations in full when there is still an increase in t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:16hrs | 3904 | by Stephen Jakes
Mozambique becomes a hub of extremist islamic terrorists
The' “European” Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs says it fears that the nighbouring Mozambique is becoming a hub of extremist Islamist terrorism.According to reports, the EU Commi...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 4247 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The owners of Zimswitch revealed
On Wednesday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect.According to the statement, all mobile money transmissio...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 13835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 4150 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4398 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2406 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP approaches court over mandatory fuel blending
HARARE North member of the National Assembly and businessman Allan Markham has approached the High Court for an order to set aside regulations for the mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol with unle...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2464 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 468 | by Jonathan Chando
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4565 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for diaspora vote
INDEPENDENT electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to use the postal voting system it administers to allow Zimbabweans in the di...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
South Africa Zimbabwe border still closed until further notice
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has said it will use the pre-clearance facility to expedite the movement of commercial cargo between Zimbabwe and South Africa when the two countries' border reo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri aide defends Malawi President
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's Spokesperson Ephraim Nyondo has come out in defence of newly elected Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera fater he attracted criticism over appointing related persons t...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 22:16hrs | 4036 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's father was a Rhodesian soldier?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's father is a Rhodesian African Rifles soldier who does not know the definition of a war veteran, according to Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans and Deputy Minis...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 21:32hrs | 12313 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 831 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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