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Zanu-PF factions square off in Parliament
ZANU-PF factionalism has spilled into Parliament as rival camps position themselves ahead of the long-awaited restructuring exercise to elect new provincial structures and district coordinating commit...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1895 | by Staff reporter
Lupane State University relocates more faculties to Lupane campus
Lupane State University has announced that it has relocated more other faculties to the Lupane campus with effect from early this month....Published: 5 hrs ago | 457 | by Stephen Jakes
Mangudya under fire over currency
The collapse of the Zimbabwe dollar and government's denial that the country is dollarising will precipitate a collapse of the economy, a local securities firm has warned.According to a review...Published: 6 hrs ago | 625 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 680 | by Nomusa Garikai
Agric ministry justifies Zhuwao farm seizure
Lands and Agriculture ministry has defended its decision to repossess the late former President Robert Mugabe's nephew Robert Zhuwao's farm in Zvimba, arguing the previous occupier allegedly abandoned...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commissions nothing but a waste of taxpayers money
The meeting that took place between ZANU-PF president Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa , who is also the chief architect of the Matabeleland Gukurahundi Genocide and so called Matabeleland Civic Society (fo...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 197 | by Mr Mbonisi Gumbo
US threatens South Africa over land reform
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that the South African government's plan to expropriate land without compensation will be "disastrous" for the economy and the nation.Mr Pompeo mad...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
'Maize being smuggled to DRC from Zimbabwe'
LOCAL small-scale millers yesterday sensationally accused large milling companies of collecting subsidised maize from the Grain Marketing Board and smuggling it to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Matutu loses Kwekwe farm
The High Court has confirmed the eviction of former Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary Lewis Matutu from a Kwekwe farm which he had violently grabbed from Onisimo Zhavairo with the help of over 20 ruling ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:41hrs | 3398 | by Staff reporter
Millers 'smuggle' maize out of the country
SMALL and medium scale millers yesterday accused bigger industry players of abusing the Government maize subsidy scheme by smuggling the commodity out of the country. Late last year, the Gover...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:34hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Support for gold producers
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has declined to increase foreign currency allocation to gold miners, preferring to work on improving material support to the sector in a bid to ramp up production an...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Matutu ordered off farm
Former Zanu-PF Youth League deputy secretary Lewis Matutu and his associates have been barred by the High Court from entering or occupying a farm in Kwekwe belonging to Mr Onsimo Zhavairo. Jus...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Maize scam sucks in GMB executives
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were yesterday accused of allocating subsidised maize to millers who are allegedly diverting it to the black market and countries like the Democratic Repu...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1090 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
GMB executives implicated in grain scam
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were today fingered in a maize subsidy abuse scam through allocation of grain to undeserving people who would divert it onto the black market and neighbou...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Shiri defends Zanu PF land barons
Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri has denied that Zanu PF officials are behind the chaotic and illegal settlements around the country, a strategy long u...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 17:02hrs | 998 | by Staff Reporter
Govt announces hectares for land allocation
The Government through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement has gazetted the maximum number of hectares an individual can own in any ecological region. This was revealed to...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:17hrs | 2553 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains wreak havoc countrywide
HEAVY rains which have been pounding most parts of the country continue causing infrastructural damage while landslides in Vumba on Saturday blocked access to the iconic Leopard Rock Hotel, a favourit...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 3310 | by Staff reporter
RBZ sets inflation targets
ZIMBABWE is projected to record single digit monthly inflation this quarter with annual inflation seen coming down to about 50 percent by the end of the year. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Go...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe remains on EU sanctions
LATE former President Robert Mugabe has been removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list but his widow, Grace remains "restrictive measures".Mugabe died September 6 last year, aged 95....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1249 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe removed from sanctions
The European Union has renewed its arms embargo on Zimbabwe, as well as a targeted asset freeze on the state arms company.In a statement on Monday, the Council of the European Union said the l...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:19hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pay off Eskom debt in March
President Mnangagwa says the government will pay off its debt to South Africa`s power utility - Eskom, by March, a development expected to improve power supply in the country.According to the ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:11hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Grace, Chiwenga, Velario Sibanda, Shiri still in the EU sanctions list
The European Union has announced that four Zimbabwean top officials still remain under its restrictive measures despite them having applied for the suspension of the measures on them....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:01hrs | 3245 | by Stephen Jakes
Mathema hails late King Lobengula for fighting first war
MINISTER of Primary and Secondary Education Cain Mathema has hailed late Ndebele King Lobengula Khumalo for being the first king to fight for the country.Mathema made the remarks recently duri...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:37hrs | 837 | by Stephen Jakes
Forex accounts are safe, secure, says Dr Mangudya
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has reassured holders of free funds that their funds are safe and secure in Zimbabwe as the bank has no appetite to temper with the legal status of the public's foreign cu...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:56hrs | 2097 | by Staff reporter
The market has redollarised, says Biti
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti (TB), who during the inclusive government era, served as Finance minister speaks to NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga on the failing Zimbabwe dollar and other...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:45hrs | 1950 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Wadyajena misled the nation on GMAZ?
Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Chairperson Mayor Justice Wadyajena has been accused of misleading the nation into believing that the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has refused to appear bef...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 09:48hrs | 921 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO: Tagwirei visits Mnangagwa
A photo of embattled business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei with President Emmerson Mnangagwa has surfaced on the internet. The photo shows Tagwirei at what looks like Mnangagwa's office and he is hold...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 08:25hrs | 17241 | by Mandla Ndlovu
100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt reduces farm sizes
Government has streamlined the sizes of all individual farms in the country's five ecological regions, in a move that will see more people having access to land after failing to benefit from the land ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 2163 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:35hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economy most vulnerable in the region'
ZIMBABWE'S economy is vulnerable, with its growth trends now 2% below the average of sub-Saharan Africa's economic expansion, partly due to exchange rate misalignment, volatile weather patterns, and u...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Land Reform: Zimbabwe's biggest independence milestone
ON 18 April this year, Zimbabwe will be celebrating 40 years of self-rule from British colonial domination. It is the right time for the country to take stock of its achievements, developments and cha...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:34hrs | 217 | by Vincent Gono
Zimbabwe secures more maize from Uganda
ZIMBABWE has secured maize from Uganda, a development that will go a long way in reducing mealie-meal shortages that have been exacerbated by recurrent droughts over the last three years. Pres...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Defending the Undefendable: The unending list of Zanu Pf apologists
When the Zanu PF Youth league members held a press conference to name and shame people linked to Zimbabwe's economic woes some applauded the move.These were youth leadership members who belong...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 14:02hrs | 2397 | by A Kadada
MLO applauds Sudanese government for handing over genocidist Omar al Bashir to ICC
MLO would like to commend the brave decision taken by the government of Sudan to handover genocidist former President, Omar al Bashir and others to the International Criminals Court to face the charge...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1193 | by Israel Dube
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7555 | by Staff reporter
Court ruling costs industry US$20bn
ZIMBABWE's industrial and financial sector is estimated to have lost more than US$20 billion following the Supreme Court ruling allowing for the settling of United States dollar debts, acquired before...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
CBZ vows to thwart dodgy transactions
CBZ Holdings Limited has vowed to stop dodgy transactions involving political bigwigs that had blighted the bank's operations over the years.CBZ Holdings board chairperson Marc Holtzman in an ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:47hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube backs wage increase calls
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has backed calls for public and private sector wage increases to cushion workers from price escalation linked to foreign currency exc...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 844 | by Staff reportert
This is how Zimbabwe's economy will overcome its hurdles
Zimbabwe's economy will overcome the numerous hurdles which lay before us on the path towards prosperity. These obstacles are patent, and in some cases potent. But with hard work, proper plannin...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:49hrs | 2428 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
'Revolutions if don't chuck out leaders a.s.a.p' said G Orwell - 40 years, our supremacists still there
"Despite all the hurdles and all the barriers, Zimbabwe in 2019 leaped 15 places in the Global Ease of Doing Business rankings. As we look to improve this in 2020, privatisation is a big part of this ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1242 | by Nomusa Garikai
Perence Shiri's bloody history detailed
Perence Shiri is a man who operated in the Gaza front line during the liberation war, this area was largely Mashonaland central, he became some sort of legend and hero in the Mashonaland Central provi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 15:40hrs | 5971 | by Dr S Utete
Maize meal 'cartel' boss evades MPs over US$27m RBZ payment
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara, accused of running a cartel by the Zanu-PF Youth League two weeks ago, on Tuesday ducked out of appearing before a parlia...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:40hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
Youths corner Zanu-PF MP
Beitbridge youths have raised concern over escalating unemployment and failure to access loans for entrepreneurial projects due to lack of collateral.Zimbabwe's unemployment rate is around 90%...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 09:37hrs | 2015 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is the godfather of Zimbabwe corruption'
MDC Vice President and legislator Tendai Biti has accused maverick business mogul and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Kuda Tagwirei of capturing and running the country's Finance Ministry....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 21:29hrs | 4803 | by Staff reporter
Grain Millers Association snubs Wadyajena
Gran Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara, fingered by the Zanu-PF youth league as part of the "corrupt cartel" on Tuesday snubbed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lan...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 18:47hrs | 1980 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa lashed over limited reforms
AN INFLUENTIAL American think-tank has laid into Harare over the economic hardships that Zimbabweans continue to experience — which it says have worsened under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 3050 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei is Zimbabwe's de-facto Finance Minister, says Biti
MDC Vice President and legislator Tendai Biti has accused maverick business mogul and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, Kuda Tagwirei of capturing and running the country's Finance Ministry....Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 3243 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's game of fools to deceive the downtrodden
THIS week, two leaders of the Zanu-PF youth league were seen in public ranting against corruption. These were sights reminiscent of youths high on "bronco", shouting at their own reflections in the lo...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 448 | by Muckraker
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