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Factionalism not peculiar to Zanu-PF
FACTIONALISM is not a phenomenon peculiar to Zanu-PF. Political parties, the world over, are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance the...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 133 | by Lovemore Sibanda
Factionalism in Zanu-PF: G40 vs Lacoste
Factionalism is not a phenomenon peculiar to the ZANU PF. Political parties are plagued by "parties within a party" whose members band together to achieve particular goals and advance their agenda wit...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 4691 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
Erick Knight to launch radio station
VETERAN radio and TV presenter Erick "The General" Knight has disclosed that he is set to launch a radio station, Radio54 African Panorama Live, which will focus on Africa.Knight told News Day...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government struggles to cope with Covid-19
Although government failure has been normalized in Zimbabwe, from failure to curb the hyperinflation, failure to create employment, failure to deliver on campaign promises, the incompetence exhibited ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:35hrs | 615 | by Mberi Prince
Rise in voter apathy as public loses trust in ZEC, claims ERC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) reluctance to share the voter's roll with stakeholders has eroded the public's trust and their voting enthusiasm, an electoral watchdog has said.The E...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:32hrs | 174 | by newzimbabwe
Every Zimbabwean should be an economic driver
EDITOR,After the devastating effects of Covid-19 it is time for all people especially the youth to take a leading role as economic drivers.Zimbabwe is not in this economic turmoil beca...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 909 | by JKM
Time to demilitarise Zimbabwean politics for the good of Jews, Gentiles
FOUR decades of independence did not mature Zimbabweans to the probity of unity and prosperity in diversity.They did not embrace the winsome culture of political tolerance.Consequently...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 385 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Is Obert Mpofu's take on the presence of rule of Law in Zimbabwe on point?
I am a member of a What's App group under the title: "Towards Media Excellence" that was established to identify and celebrate the best in the profession. It is not in dispute that the SC judg...Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:03hrs | 895 | by Mutumwa Mawere
Virus proves Zimbabwe can cut imports
Universities that suddenly came to life following the outbreak of Covid-19, rolling out manufacturing lines for materials for the prevention of Covid-19, should be a good example of how Zimbabwe can s...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:44hrs | 475 | by Lovemore Chikova
MDC Alliance Proposals for life and livelihoods during and after lockdown
As the People's party, the MDC Alliance strongly applauds the Zimbabwean people for their discipline and determination to fight adversity with a spirit of never say die.Indeed, it seems as if ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 12:56hrs | 1235 | by Sesel Zvidzai
Zimbabwe shall rise again. . .
INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2019 I welcome you all ...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 810 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
A long wait to freedom
The road to political , economic and democratic space in Zimbabwe has never been so easy and rosy.When the opposition labour party MDC was formed in 1999 following a spate of poor economic per...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 558 | by Leonard Koni
Constitution Amendment (No.2) Bill is a flagrant attack on democracy
It is extremely sad and disheartening to note that even after the welcome departure of the then iron-fisted despot, Mr Robert Mugabe, from the political arena in Zimbabwe in November 2017 through the ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 418 | by Nhlanhla Moses
ZANU PF (Yaparara Mhani) Breaking more International Laws
By allegedly doing satan's bidding and Distributing Food along Party Lines, to poor impoverished people who are in total abject poverty, thanks to the ZANU PF's man made economic and humanitarian disa...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 15:08hrs | 1067 | by Thabo Makuyana
Chiwenga hails Catholic schools
The Catholic Church is building new secondary and primary schools in Chinhoyi, leading Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday to commend the church for supporting Government's policy of afforda...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to close window for negotiations very soon
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will tell the nation on Tuesday that his party has tried negotiation to solve Zimbabwe's political impasse, but that the window "is closing fast".Chamisa was stopped ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:38hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
$1bn road rehab gathers momentum
Government has paid 10 percent upfront for project costs to five contractors that have been chosen to rehabilitate the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge road, which is expected to gobble $1 billion.T...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:44hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean startup takes home best AgriTech Prize
The 19 winners in this year's Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAWARDS) were announced at a glittering event held in Johannesburg on Thursday, 28 November 2019. Now, they will go through to the Globa...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 21:56hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
'Democratic space shrinks under Mnangagwa rule'
ZIMBABWE's democratic space continues to shrink under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule despite government claims that several good laws have been crafted or aligned with the Constitution in line wi...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:00hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 762 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Interpol snubs ZRP over G4O
ZIMBABWE Republic Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga yesterday revealed that the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was not willing to assist Zimbabwe extradite certain sus...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:07hrs | 3427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rejects church's proposal on elections
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rejected proposals by the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) to have a seven-year moratorium on elections saying secular systems are run on laws which are bound ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:36hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs humiliate Mnangagwa during SONA
MDC MPs walked out of Parliament as President Emmerson Mnangagwa began his state of the nation address, a sign of the political tensions still gripping the country.The MDC says it does not rec...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 15:53hrs | 1824 | by AP
The truth behind Mugabe's burial in Zvimba
The former president and national hero cde Robert Mugabe has caused much tension in his death than in his life. He died in Singapore and three weeks down the line he is yet to be buried. It is rather ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15hrs | 18198 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The making of Mugabe's intolerance
HOW an autocratic strain of pan-Africanism of the early 1960s sheds light on the late former President Robert Mugabe's seemingly contradictory roles as freedom fighting anti-colonial nationalist, foll...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 14:03hrs | 202 | by Brooks Marmon
Afrophobia and the Zimbophobes among us
Africa and the whole world are perturbed by the gory sights of acts of Afrophobia which are perpetrated against African foreign nationals in South Africa by some citizens of that country. And rightly ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:53hrs | 2518 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Bleak future for communal farmers
Communal and subsistence farmers in most parts of rural Zimbabwe are facing a bleak farming season due in two months as the military government has resorted to distributing seed and other inputs such ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:44hrs | 1743 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Zimbabwe demonstrations - like sanctions - are not targeted
IT is hoped that several developments in the past week or so will finally open people's eyes to see that party politics is the only game in town; that politics is not the only thing worth concerning o...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | 807 | by Conway Tutani
Biti takes on Mnangagwa
The vice-president of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, Tendai Biti is now fed up with Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa such that he wants him gone as soon as possible....Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 09:04hrs | 5991 | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa's govt slams EU's 'intrusive attitude'
Government has hit back at Western countries' "intrusive and judgmental attitude" after they issued a statement that appeared to condone violent behaviour by the Zimbabwean opposition while condemning...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
European Union shocks Mnangagwa's government
The government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa says it is shocked by the statement issued on Tuesday by the European Union Mission in Zimbabwe regarding the August 16 beating of protestors by the poli...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:26hrs | 14163 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa challenges Zimbabwe's military
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has implored soldiers to uphold, defend and respect the core values that helped their forebears to prosecute the liberation struggle together with, and not against the people...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:22hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Chamisa's Defence Forces Day message
The Defence forces day, is a day set aside to honour the men and women who have dedicated themselves to defend our nation. The defence forces form the backbone of any nation and ours is no exc...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 20:11hrs | 2717 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The outcome of the August 16 MDC mass protest foretold
The month of August in Zimbabwe is recognized as the month of heroes. We celebrate those who fought for our freedom and the institutions which facilitated the liberation process. 2019 hero...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 15:14hrs | 8085 | by Fidelis Fengu
MDC MP builds police station
MDC legislator for Chiwundura, Livingstone Chimina, has embarked on a project to build a police sub-station in Woodlands in order to minimise criminal activities.When Southern Eye visited the ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3203 | by Staff reporter
Mathebeleland - The Ndexit Era
The truth remains the truth no matter what your wishes may be. Amandebele people cannot live together with Shonas even if Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo would have wanted it that way, it is just water and oil, ...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | 3505 | by Clemen Moyo
Empower the girl child through education
Child prostitution and drug abuse, the rising social ills in towns and cities, border posts and growth points included. Juveniles are going 'commando' at night with all caution thrown to the wind. ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 21:04hrs | 408 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe has an artisan shortage, here is how to fix it
ACCORDING to Zimstat, Zimbabwe had 93 714 university students as at August 2017, but only 25 952 polytechnic students. Harare, Zimbabwe's capital city, has six universities, but only one polytechnic....Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1206 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Hungry lions hoovering around to devour Nyaminyami RDC response
I am Mwiimpu Hanjeleha of Monze, Zambia. I read the above story in your news online. I have been serving in the NGOs sector in that district. The persons being attacked in that piece I know them total...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1668 | by Mwiimpu Hanjeleha
Chamisa condemn Zanu-PF MPs
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has condemned Zanu-PF MPs who failed to observe a moment of silence for war hero Dumiso Dabengwa in Parliament on Tuesday.Chamisa referred to the incident on Twitter ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:22hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe transitional authority long overdue: MDC
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni torched a storm when he graced and addressed the MDC congress in Gweru on Saturday. The chief criticised the Zanu-PF government and Judiciary for failing the nation whic...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:40hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames Mnangagwa for fuel hikes
Government failure and inaction has become an increasingly common aspect of our political system, whether it is due to political polarisation or through poor planning, which characterised the slow imp...Published: 22 May 2019 at 07:41hrs | 8163 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Division: Last thing ZCTU needs at the moment
INDICATIONS from the country's labour fraternity that all is not well within the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) with affiliate organisations mulling to exit in the wake of the departure of o...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1084 | by Editorial - Newsday
Bambanani Association stands with Chief Ndiweni
There is little doubt that the recent garbled, inane vitriol against Chief Ndiweni, emanated from the office of the Zimbabwean President. Rarely does one find such a match between messenger and messag...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:23hrs | 681 | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Zimta pulls out of Chamisa's ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has pulled out of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) citing partisan politics within the biggest labour umbrella body.With a total membershi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4144 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws in the towel Mwonzora given a life line
Zimbabwe has but to lament the politicization of our justice system. If a decision does not please one political party it is quickly labelled a political decision. It is sad that even renowned lawyers...Published: 08 May 2019 at 18:00hrs | 20047 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 4486 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NRZ artisans threaten strike
ARTISANS at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) are threatening to down tools over non-payment of salaries. In a statement, the Railways Artisans Union (Rau) said its members have not been paid th...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 342 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 157 | by Nobleman Runyanga
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