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The dangers of colonial nostalgia and Amnesia
The legacy of colonialism remains a stain on our society - something that cannot be whitewashed. It remains a source of trauma - a source of collective pain. Four decades after independence, its...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 11:21hrs | 448 | by Innocent Mpoki
Zimbabwe under pressure over debt clearance
Zimbabwe is facing increasing pressure to implement the key reforms demanded as part of the ongoing arrears clearance and debt resolution process. With international mediators aiming to conclude the p...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:12hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Phala Phala scandal back to haunt Ramaphosa
The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has expressed strong approval of the Constitutional Court's recent decision to hear the Phala Phala farm matter, a significant step in an ongoing saga that ha...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 12:24hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Zimbabwe economist says ZiG is old wine in new bottles
Prominent Zimbabwean economist and financial analyst Professor Gift Mugano says the new local currency launched today - unimaginatively named Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) amid noisy claims by government offici...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra tightens screws on businesses
GOVERNMENT and the business sector are headed for a showdown after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday announced a raft of tough measures limiting the formal traders' access to commoditie...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
US tightens screws on Zimbabwe
A representative of the United States government has indicated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration should satisfy sanctions conditions in full for Washington to approve its arrears clea...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 10:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not ready for free, fair elections
FOR decades after independence, Zimbabwe seems to have been disillusioned by the electoral system.Democracy has been elusive. Elections have been marred by violence. Every past election has be...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mpoki
Zimbabwean woman secures AU ambassadorial post
ZIMBABWEAN Ms Cynthia Chingwena has been selected as the second cohort of African Youth Ambassadors for Peace (AYAPs) to represent the Southern Africa region by the Political Affairs, Peace and Securi...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on course to rejoin Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE'S re-engagement efforts continue to bear fruit with the country now on course to rejoin the Commonwealth. The country is already in the second stage of the application process.In May ...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Local supplies fill up supermarkets
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the worst of the country's economic woes is over as Zimbabwe is witnessing a revival of its manufacturing sector that is filling up supermarkets, with an economic growth p...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth, sanctions removal Mnangagwa's top priority
Rejoining the Commonwealth and seeking the removal of illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, principally by the United States (US) and her allies, are the top priorities of the Ministry of Fo...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government systems among most improved in Africa, says Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Zimbabwe is slowly improving its governance systems according to the latest results from the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) which have seen the country ranked among the five most improved ...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Voter intimidation rife in African polls
DESPITE 46 African countries, including Zimbabwe, having signed the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) and 33 ratified it, elections in most African countries are sti...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No freedom after expression in Africa'
A PRELIMINARY report on the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), has revealed gaps in implementing the African Union charter on human rights such as fr...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mirrors Mugabe - report
ZIMBABWE'S new dispensation mirrors the previous regime as President Emmerson Mnangagwa - who won a disputed election last year - fails to walk the talk on democratic reforms, the latest annual Freedo...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 21:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe climbs up Africa's governance ranks
THE Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), a tool that measures and monitors governance performance in African countries, has listed Zimbabwe as one of Africa's four most improved countries over ...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zim needs political will to realise democracy'
Zimbabwe needs the political will, and has a long way to go to achieve the requirements and guidelines for creating a democratic society as set out in the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and G...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 08:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Respect chiefs, says Mphoko
VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko has urged the nation to respect chiefs, saying they play a leading role as custodians of cultural heritage and tradition.Addressing mourners at Matopo...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZUNDE challenges SADC to learn from The Gambia
An official statement by Zimbabweans United for Democracy published under the authority of Justice Benjamin Paradza, Exiled Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe and President of ZUNDE.There...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by May. Chamboko
Jumbo show for Bongani, as protest poet releases DVD
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean protest poet Bongani Mncube will later this month launch the first-ever DVD of his musical career in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.Ncube, widely known for his radical poetry...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Mxolisi Ncube
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: the Zimbabwe case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: The Zimbabwe Case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 22:18hrs | 7 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Africa Day 2016; reflections of a continent in need of new leadership
On 25 May 2016, Africa commemorates the 53rd anniversary of the formation of the Organisation for African Union (OAU) now the African Union (AU).It has been a momentous journey for Africa, fro...Published: 24 May 2016 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Tendai Laxton Biti
Thabo Mbeki on Nkandla Judgement
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the "Nkandla Matter". On 31 March, 2016, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng conve...Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 13:04hrs | | by Thabo Mbeki
South Africa retains ranking in 2015 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
South Africa has retained its rank of 4 of 54 countries assessed in the Index JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has retained its position in the 2015 I...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 11:52hrs | | by APO
Zimbabwe ranked lowest in SADC governance survey
ZIMBABWE has been ranked the worst country in the region on overall governance despite registering a slight improvement on the continental scale over the last four years, the latest Ibrahim Index on A...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
African governance: does it have steadfast love, justice and accountability?
I have lived to witness three military coups under my watch either in transit or while visiting a country. The experiences were unforgiving and very taxing. The doubt of whether you will ever be able ...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 09:45hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Zimbabwe improves on Africa 2014 Index
ZIMBABWE moved two points up and is now ranked 46 out of 52 African countries in the 2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, ahead of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Centra...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fared poorly on the Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Zimbabwe is ranked 51 out of 53 in the 2011 Ibrahim Index of governance quality in Africa, it fared poorly in most of the areas, the latest index shows. None of the categories investigated were abo...Published: 12 Oct 2011 at 11:40hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Africa's Best and Worst Governed Nations Revealed
The 2010 Ibrahim Index shows that governance has improved in Liberia, Angola, and Togo, but declined in Eritrea and MadagascarGovernance standards have improved significantly in Angola, Liber...Published: 05 Jan 2011 at 17:12hrs | | by Byo24
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