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Festive Crackdown or Festive Crisis? How Mthuli Ncube's Policies Punish the Poor
The Zimbabwean government, under the stewardship of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube, has launched a door-to-door crackdown to confiscate smuggled goods. This initiative, introduced during the festive se...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:09hrs | 148 | by Kindred Sibanda
Zanu-PF says too hot for Maimane, Khama, Brenthurst Foundation
Zanu-PF has claimed that its unwavering stance against alleged imperialist efforts targeting liberation movements in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has made it a target for coordina...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 12:58hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget is anti-people, anti-business and anti-Zimbabwe
Citizens Coalition for Change Statement on 2025 budget statement The recent national budget proposal exposes the Zanu-PF government's obnoxious penchant to compulsorily expropriate people's mo...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:28hrs | 81 | by Willias Madzimure
CCC veteran slams Mthuli Ncube's 2025 budget as 'anti-people'
Veteran opposition official and Member of Parliament for the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Willias Madzimure, has strongly condemned the government's 2025 national budget, accusing it of extort...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:26hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
2025 Budget: A shallow, hollow, narcissistic and dishonest anti-people ritual
THE 2024 budget statement was presented in backdrop of a tough and challenging year for the working people of Zimbabwe. A year in which the citizen had been abused by extreme levels of inflation, emas...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 18:47hrs | 731 | by Tendai Biti
Mafume slammed for attending training at Zanu-PF Ideological school
Harare mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, has been criticised for attending a ZANU-PF indoctrination programme at the party's Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology.Mafume is among a group of mayors,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
ANC members set to picket in protest against possible ANC-DA deal
ANC supporters who voted for the party "in good faith" in the general election on 29 May are expected to picket in Johannesburg on Thursday morning, demanding its leaders reject going into a coalition...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 08:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Vaaz not a Replica of MDC VAA nor a Mwonzora Baby: Veteran Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ)
We've seen unscrupulous career politicians attempting to mislead the nation into believing the Veteran Activists for Democracy kowtow to Mwonzora. NADA, we all hate him and his entourage with a passio...Published: 23 May 2024 at 23:11hrs | 20 | by Mandava Blessing VAAZ Spokesperson
'Stop Gukurahundi hearings'
STAKEHOLDERS and interest groups in Matabeleland have called on the government to stop the Gukurahundi hearings accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running the project like a personal show....Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:44hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is the black sheep of liberation movements
So, Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF is currently hosting a conference of former liberation movements.Nonetheless, just how is the party viewed by their colleagues in the region?Are they trul...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt mass evictions raise dust
HUMAN rights lawyers have lobbied Members of Parliament (MPs) to push for the repeal of the Communal Lands Act amid the mass eviction of people accused of illegally occupying state land across Zimbabw...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mahere to quit as MP in support of Chamisa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP for Mount Pleasant Fadzayi Mahere has announced she was resigning from parliament in solidarity with Nelson Chamisa, who quit as leader of the main opposition Th...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passport seekers besiege Bulawayo, Gwanda offices
HUNDREDS of people are visiting the Bulawayo and Gwanda Civil Registry Offices to apply for passports saying they wish to leave the country after losing hope in Zimbabwe's political and economic situa...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Media that serves the ruling elite is against the people!
Lately, in Zimbabwe, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.We have heard this call repeated by the new informatio...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:56hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinese military donation to Zimbabwe raises eyebrows
A RECENT donation of Chinese military hardware to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has raised eyebrows as the Asian superpower pushes to further its interests in Zimbabwe.Mnangagwa re...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans should free themselves
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson and former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa (PM) was awarded the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Afr...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC youths threaten street protests
The Youth Task Force of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Bulawayo has threatened to take their grievances to the streets if urgent electoral reforms are not implemented.During a pres...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 15:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube defends 2024 budget
FINANCE, Economic Development and Investments Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube has cold-shouldered critics of his 2024 national budget saying targeted revenue would assist ordinary Zimbabweans....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube named Africa's best finance minister
Many Zimbabweans have reacted with astonishment after Mthuli Ncube was named "Best African Finance Minister of the Year" despite the country's economic turmoil.One user on X, formerly known as...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 19:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Entire budget is anti-people in the extreme' We know that, tell us why you hell-bent on perpetuating Zanu PF rule!
Zimbabwe's main opposition parties are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless. Zimbabwe is a failed state, 43 years and counting of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule has left the country i...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:38hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa's CCC borrows poor language from Nerves Mumba
IN A WHAT COMES ACROSS AS A POOR CASE OF BORROWING poor language from Nerves Mumba's controversial Sadc Electoral Observation Mission on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election, Nelson Chamisa's C...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabweans unhappy at hike in passport fees
A raft of new taxes and increases announced as part of Zimbabwe's 2024 budget by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has been widely condemned.The increase in passport fees to $200 (£160), up from ...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube makes Zimbabwean passport most expensive in the region
A raft of new taxes and increases announced as part of Zimbabwe's 2024 budget by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has been widely condemned.The increase in passport fees to $200 (£160), up from ...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 11:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs urged to reject Mthuli Ncube's budget
ECONOMISTS have urged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to redo the 2024 budget as the one he presented this week only serves to condemn the rest of the population to abject poverty.Ncube presente...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:43hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2024 budget a 'mass misery'
OPPOSITION legislators yesterday accused Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, of condemning millions of citizens to a life of misery with an anti-people budget containing a basket of tax increases beginnin...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections won't change anything
Quite frankly, had there been no need for voting, most (if not all) politicians would never have uttered such words as "the people" in their entire lives.SOME people have asked why I appeared ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elections won't change anything as long as Zimbabweans don’t hold leaders accountable
Some people have asked why I appeared as though I was not particularly enthusiastic about the forthcoming harmonized elections in Zimbabwe.This deduction seems to have emanated from my apparen...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:12hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC faces 7-day parking fee protests
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) and its vehicle parking management company face a week-long protest over high parking charges beginning Monday.The vehicle parking management company, Tendy Three I...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo motorists threaten CBD parking boycott
BULAWAYO's business community and motorists say they will boycott parking in the central business district in protest over the new pricing system introduced by Tendy Three Investment (TTI) and the cit...Published: 26 May 2023 at 18:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF grassroots supporters should rid party of political elite who have destroyed Zimbabwe
Every time I teach my son about the history of this country, I can not help feel a deep sense of pride and respect for our nationalist movements, in their intrepid quest for the independence and freed...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 10:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's MPs offered US$40,000 loan facility by Mnangagwa's govt?
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has defended an alleged US$40 000 purse dangled at sitting members of parliament (MPs) as loans by government ahead of next year's elections.Mliswa, who is on re...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti dismisses Mthuli Ncube's budget as 'power retention project'
HARARE East Member of Parliament (MP), Tendai Biti has said Finance Prof. Minister Mthuli Ncube should have dollarized the economy as the opposition politician condemned the 2023 budget as "cruel and ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Critiquing and exposing flaws in government policies central to 'development journalism'
Lately, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls - more specifically from Zimbabwe government officials - for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.The latest...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 09:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hope for Zimbabwe lies not in the opposition but in the citizenry standing up for themselves!
As I am writing this article in the early morning, I am standing in front of the main lounge window - looking outside at school children and workers rushing to their various stations.In my tho...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 11:51hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who cares if the presidents knows bread price, when millions of Zimbabweans can’t afford even a loaf?
I am quite sure the reckless, but rather self-conceited, statement by information ministry permanent secretary, Nick Ndavaningi Mangwana - to the effect that Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnang...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 04:44hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lobby group in bid to block Zimbabwe's Davos delegation
A LOBBY group, Fight Inequality Alliance Zimbabwe (FIA) says Zimbabwe's attendance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting to be held in Davos, Switzerland will be a waste of taxpayers' money....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Southern African opposition parties need to form a shadow SADC to represent oppressed masses!
It has now become an open secret that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is nothing more than a leaders' club, which seeks to serve and protect the interests of those in power, at the e...Published: 16 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's 'paranoid' measures roundly condemned
VARIOUS stakeholders and experts roundly condemned economic stabilisation measures introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "stop economic hitmen" from sabotaging his under-fire administration....Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's hot air speeches
The leader of the newly formed Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC), Nelson Chamisa, continues to peddle lies and falsehoods at his rallies and people should take him seriously at their own peril. ...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Grace Chekai
Zanu-PF sanctions govt critics
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday moved to silence critics by threatening to impose local sanctions against its opponents and all persons it accuses of inviting Western sanctions against the party's ...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF scoffs at Chamisa Chete Chete
THE ruling party Zanu-PF has scoffed at former MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's newly formed party - the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), saying changing the name does not change the fact that they ...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa says polls a waste of resources
Zanu-PF acting national commissar Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said holding by-elections barely a year to the 2023 harmonised polls was a waste of time and resources.This came after President E...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When the police officer is actually a thug
CRISES bring out the best or worst in people.Well, for Britain, the current fuel shortages have brought out the bad and nasty side of a people that we are told are supposedly more civilised th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa's MDC celebrates Kwekwe deputy mayor post
FOLLOWING the recall of MDC Alliance Mayor Angeline Kasipo in Kwekwe and failing to land the mayoral post in an election Thursday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is blowing trumpets for lan...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'No Zambia repeat in Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday scoffed at suggestions that the winds of change sweeping across southern Africa, which led to the recent electoral defeat of Zambia's President Edgar Lungu by th...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legacy of a self-extolling leader is short-lived and soon forgotten
I remember the day my wife returned home from Kwekwe, a year or so ago, expressing profound confusion as to whether a new street name sign she had just seen in the central business district (CBD) was ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans thrown into fresh misery
ZIMBABWE ANS were yesterday thrown into fresh misery after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube stuck to his anti-people policies announced in the 2021 National Budget last November, saying he would not revi...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gearing to crush Chamisa's MDC?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend attack on the MDC Alliance, calling it a terrorist organisation has attracted backlash from the opposition and political analysts who say that it was a ploy by t...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is a terrorist organisation, claims Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday branded the MDC Alliance a terrorist organisation that was "pro-violence" and "anti people".Mnangagwa's remarks made at the launch of empowerment program...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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