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Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1939 | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T now official opposition in Zimbabwe'
THE MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe Saturday declared it was now the country's official opposition party and will henceforth be taking part in all regional and continental engagements on Zimbabwe's behal...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 2087 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in fresh freedom push
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala yesterday notified the State that he will apply for refusal of further remand if he is not given a trial date and that he is in any case going to reapply for bai...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
'King of Clay' Rafael Nadal the heavy favourite for the French Open
Let's face it, it will be a shock if Rafael Nadal is not the man lifting the French Open trophy on October 11th. The Spaniard has won the Paris Grand Slam a total of 12 times, and is the heavy favouri...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 14:45hrs | 364 | by Staff writer
Judge queries Job Sikhala arrest
THE High Court yesterday questioned the State if there was a legal obligation for incarcerated MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala to surrender himself to the police after they issued a press st...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:48hrs | 8488 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may be sitting on more oil and gas deposits
ZIMBABWE may be sitting on more oil and gas deposits than initially projected. The country has five other basins capable of hosting hydrocarbons such as oil and gas, in addition to the Zambezi V...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa invited to speak at New Economy global Forum
HARARE - Zimbabwe-born billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is set to participate in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum slated for November 16-19 this year. The Econet Group founder and executive chairman...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 2404 | by Agencies
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | 1247 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Malema shuts down Clicks' stores
SOUTH AFRICA - One of the country's leading pharmaceutical retail giant, Clicks, is currently embroiled in a racial storm following an online advertisement it aired last Friday.The ad describe...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:57hrs | 3117 | by Daniel Itai
South Africa has no capacity to make demands on Zimbabwean internal affairs.
The rumour monger has again started to spin into overdrive against Zimbabwe. There has been a talk of intervention by south Africa in Zimbabwe. This rumour is spread and calculated to make people beli...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 4396 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
US media has become the true opposition
LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:59hrs | 840 | by Ken Mufuka
Policy implementation key in reindustrializing economy
The re-industrialization of the economy is a vital piece in the achievement of Zimbabwe's sustainable economic development goals and effective participation in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:15hrs | 435 | by Victor Bhoroma
Sikhala claims he is being victimised over coup rumours
Through his lawyer Jeremiah Bamu, Sikhala said he even confronted Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in Parliament for allegedly spreading the coup rumours.Sikhala is fighting for his release on...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:37hrs | 3349 | by Staff reporter
Uproar as Mnangagwa promises to give back land to white farmers
Zimbabweans on social media have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of reversing the gains of Independence promising to give some white farmers land. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncu...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 10:31hrs | 11048 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coordinated attacks as weapons to destabilise Mnangagwa's gov't
The West is very proud of its relationship with Africa and has invested heavily in ensuring that its economic interests on the continent are not threatened, undermined or dislodged. The rise of China ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'it's just political banter'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who is accused of inciting public violence, yesterday said utterances he is alleged to have made are just, but political banter synonymous with politicians....Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:42hrs | 5971 | by Staff reporter
Above normal rainfall expected
SOUTHERN African countries, including Zimbabwe, are likely to receive above normal rainfall following the prediction of a La Nina season in the 2020/21 rainy season. In a La Nina climate patte...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 07:02hrs | 3062 | by Staff reporter
Monica Mutsvangwa attacked
MONICA MUTSVANGWA ATTACKED Social media has gone crazy attacking Monica Mutsvangwa for her response she made to the unprovoked letter by the Catholic Bishops. The two letters went vir...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 05:52hrs | 15551 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe ruling elite unfit to govern a democratic state - as not trained to serve and protect, but only to kill and destroy
Yesterday I experienced two things that clearly opened my eyes to why I have never seen eye-to-eye with those in power in Zimbabwe, and will forever be at loggerheads.The first was having to t...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 2543 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tall tales of an evil regime in Harare
Life is a tapestry that is woven out of various religious, political, cultural and normative beliefs and persuasions.As is often clichéd, variety is a major spice that leavens and livens life...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Decolonisation of Zimbabweans
Dear fellow Zimbabweans we need to remove this yoke of bondage and free our minds, spirit and bodies from this Zanu-PF and its government and their colonised leaders' minds that still continue to suff...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1226 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
The four best performing Zimbabwean football players in Europe
Soccer (popularly known as football) has emerged as one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played in many countries with other nations planning to participate amid its surging popularity. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 18:40hrs | 2817 | by Staff writer
Zanu-PF will not apologise for 'looting RBZ'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has dismissed allegations by Dr Alex Magaisa rubbishing State interventions to subsidise the new farmers through the Farm Mechanisation programme stating that his sentiments a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 21:21hrs | 7379 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1724 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mnangagwa calls for help to resuscitate ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy.This comes as Zi...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 6143 | by Staff reporter
Millers mull roller meal price hike
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has announced plans to increase the price of subsidised roller-meal to between US$2,50 and US$3 to cushion millers from infla...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2501 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister stranded in Australia
THE Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi, who has been stuck in Australia due to the Covid-19-induced international travel restriction, is eager to return home to resume his duties as a ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 789 | 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 | 1133 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 1482 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwean born actor invades Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES-BASED Zimbabwean actor Rick Cosnett has disclosed that his journey to become a Hollywood star did not come on a silver platter, but he travelled a difficultroad.Cosnett is popu...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 73 new Covid-19 positive cases in one day
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and refocus on the measures the country adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March if it is to avert a local transmission crisis, a senior government offic...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2256 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records 8th COVID-19 death
Zimbabwe has recorded its eight death from COVID-19.The 21 year old female Zimbabwean from the Harare Province with no history of travel and had no-morbidities tested positive on Saturday, and...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 20:20hrs | 4505 | by Ndou Paul
The Politics of Cyber Security: A State of Anarchy?
"Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle.The realm of electronic communication, viz-a-viz cyberspace has taken a complex turn into a murky, treacherous, if sometimes not a total ridicul...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:09hrs | 971 | by Bongani Mazwi Mkwananzi
Girl child receives prosthetic leg
Sharon Sakhala (20) from Muzarabani district received a donation of a prosthetic leg from Open Heart Disability Care Trust supported by Rotary Australia in Harare today.The girl child lost her...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:00hrs | 1065 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa's superstitious regime unmasked
Behavioural economists and psychologists tell us that we have inherent biases that influence our actions. These experts tell us that we humans have some default behaviours as a result of our lived or ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:21hrs | 15775 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Young people, your country needs you
Talking success to a cross section of young Zimbabwean teens from across the economic spectrum, one theme was common.They all want to leave the country when they finish school. They do not see...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 202 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Gambling in Middle East - 5 facts you didn't know
Even though the Quran forbids gambling in the Muslim world, the entire Middle East and North African region have become more flexible about casinos over the years. The industry is still highly regulat...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1045 | by Staff writer
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1775 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Faces behind Zimbabwe's first Netflix hit
The cast and crew of Zimbabwe's first feature-length film to be featured on Netflix -Cook-Off - were recent guests on Alpha Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube's (TVN) talk show In Conversation with ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:08hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born Irish rugby star turned wine expert
Dave Curtis took the road less travelled on his journey from Zimbabwe to an Ireland jersey in the early 1990s and the return trip has been just as interesting and rewarding.The sun is shining ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suffer India blow
INDIA'S tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, scheduled for June and August respectively, have been called off by the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) owing to the "current threat of COVID-19", board se...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Malema tells them in their language says 'Pasi nembavha'
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Sello Malema has applauded efforts by Zimbabweans on social media to expose and tackle corruption, saying there is nothing revolutionary about corruption ...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 6182 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt shooting itself in the foot
THE takeover of the headquarters of the opposition MDC-Alliance by the MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe with the aid of soldiers and police officers, as well as the dramatic arrest of the MDC-Alli...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1264 | by Kudzai Kuwaza
UK company buys lithium assets in Zimbabwe
UNITED Kingdom's Premier African Minerals Ltd has agreed to acquire a portfolio of assets in Zimbabwe from Australian-listed Lithium Consolidated Mineral Exploration (Li3).The AIM-listed company a...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
WorldRemit partners with Mukuru
WorldRemit, the global online money transfer service has announced a partnership with Mukuru, one of Africa's largest remittance providers to broaden options for cash pick up in Zimbabwe. The partners...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 20:14hrs | 3180 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean contract killer faces competition in Mozambique'
The Mozambican government is reported to have hired a Dubai based private military contractor to compete with the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) owned by Zimbabwe's Retired Colonel Lionel Dyck in fig...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 20:26hrs | 12629 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Arresting inflation in Zimbabwe
The response I received from last week's instalment on why the Zimbabwe dollar must be put on the gold standard was overwhelming.Many readers wanted to know when the Zimdollar was going to be ...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:50hrs | 876 | by Bart Star-James
Mr President, people of good conscience will not remain silent
DEAR Mr President,It is my sincere hope that this letter finds you well. I am under no illusion that you are occupying a critical position, that of President of our nation.As such, you...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1087 | by Mutsa Murenje
Do not amend but implement the constitution: ZLHR tells government
IN the seventh anniversary of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has expressed extreme saddness over government’s failure to fully stop the wilful violation and t...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe suffer blow
ZIMBABWE Cricket's hopes of salvaging their limited-overs home series against Afghanistan next month suffered a blow after the sport code was removed from the list of low-risk disciplines that can res...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
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