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'Doctors don't feed on court orders'
Striking doctors at public hospitals are likely to face a contempt of court charge for defying a Labour Court order issued last Friday compelling them to report for duty within 48 hours of the ruling ...Published: 1 hr ago | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, govt running scared, says Chamisa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused authorities of running scared and working to destabilise the MDC - after hundreds of police cordoned off the party's national headquarters in Harare....Published: 2 hrs ago | 555 | by Staff reporter
RBZ bigwigs face arrest
Three Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials face arrest after a committee of Parliament yesterday threatened to prefer contempt charges against them. This came after the RBZ deputy governor...Published: 2 hrs ago | 457 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police lock down Chamisa's HQ
POLICE yesterday shut down the MDC headquarters in Harare following the alleged discovery of 210 riot police and 41 municipal police helmets in a basement of a nearby building, but the opposition part...Published: 2 hrs ago | 246 | by Staff reporter
Questions arising from Treasury's strategy paper
THREE official documents published in recent weeks paint a different, but fundamentally depressing pictures of Zimbabwe's economy. All pose more questions than answers, leaving readers to ponder the m...Published: 2 hrs ago | 96 | by Tony Hawkins
Matebeleland civic groups threaten to disrupt nurses' training
A GROUPING of civic groups, under the banner Matebeleland Collective (MC), has threatened to disrupt nurse training lessons at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to force government to address ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 129 | by Staff reporter
Trade deficit narrows by 63%
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit narrowed by 63% to US$644 million between February and August this year compared to the same period last year, due to shortages of foreign currency for imports.Figures...Published: 2 hrs ago | 39 | by Staff reporter
Councils must consider housing provision as core business
SEVEN desperate homeseekers were recently arrested in Marondera after they invaded a farm belonging to the town's municipality. Led by their co-operative leaders, the residents immediately parcelled o...Published: 2 hrs ago | 25 | by Staff reporter
Warriors begin camp
WARRIORS home-based players selected for the final African Nations Championship (Chan) qualifier against Lesotho at the weekend were expected in camp last night to start preparations for the decisive ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 50 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean crisis gone above politics
IT began with the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe, who many identified as a liberator-turned despot. At the height of his rule, and in the twilight of his reign, a common factor endu...Published: 2 hrs ago | 85 | by Learnmore Zuze
RBZ deputy governor faces contempt of Parliament charges
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Khuphukile Mlambo and other senior staffers at the central bank face contempt of Parliament charges after they failed to attend a Public Accounts Committee (Pa...Published: 2 hrs ago | 33 | by Staff reporter
All bark, no bite: The case of Zacc
THE November 2017 coup brought new dreams and hopes among the citizens, many who believed the new regime would knock corruption off very high perch. However, after ad infinitum calls against the corru...Published: 2 hrs ago | 28 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zimbabwe adopts hyperinflation reporting
Zimbabwe's listed companies will start presenting their financial statements using the hyperinflationary economies standard (IAS) following approval by the Public Accountants Board (PAAB).Acco...Published: 2 hrs ago | 50 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's staff forced to abandon offices as anti-riot police besiege party HQ
TERRIFIED MDC staff was Monday forced to abandon its offices while others failed to report for work completely when dozens of anti-riot police besieged the main opposition's national headquarters in c...Published: 2 hrs ago | 77 | by newzimbabwe
Man practices karate kicks on wife
A WOMAN from Bulawayo has been granted a protection order against her husband who allegedly practices karate kicks on her and once stabbed her on the stomach before knocking out her front teeth. ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
Cheap kombis for Bulawayo
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is engaging Bulawayo public transport operators to rope in kombis under its comprehensive urban public transport system, a development that will result in...Published: 2 hrs ago | 116 | by Staff reporter
Sadc develops regional mobile money platform
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) region is working to introduce a mobile money transfer system for the bloc. Mobile money has evolved as a utility to provide financial services largel...Published: 2 hrs ago | 35 | by Staff rpeorter
PSL, NMB introduce tap and go card
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has partnered with NMB Bank to introduce an electronic ticketing system to ease transactions at turnstiles. The electronic ticketing system, which is in the for...Published: 2 hrs ago | 37 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's deputy governor faces contempt of Parly charges
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Khuphukile Mlambo and other senior staffers at the central bank face contempt of Parliament charges after they failed to attend a Public Accounts Committee (Pa...Published: 2 hrs ago | 39 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance councillor accused of abusing food aid
Goromonzi West Ward 4 Councillor Tapiwa Murima (MDC-Alliance) is under fire for allegedly misappropriating food meant to cushion the elderly, the disabled and the less privileged. This comes a...Published: 2 hrs ago | 25 | by Staff reporter
StanChart remains committed to maintaining presence in Zimbabwe
Standard Chartered remains committed to maintaining presence in Zimbabwe and its digitisation strategy - which has seen the country's oldest bank closing most of its branches - should not be interpret...Published: 2 hrs ago | | by Staff rpeorter
Ignorance, prejudice doom intersex children
HUMANS do not occur strictly as either just male or female. There are many variants to the boy-girl dichotomy.Ignorance and deep prejudice are denying such persons – intersex individuals, re...Published: 2 hrs ago | 49 | by Norma Tsopo
Open letter to Emmerson Mnangagwa
14 October 2019Petition to The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare.Cc: Ministry of Health, Matebeleland North Province.Cc: CEO Tsholotsho HospitalCc: St Lukes Hospital....Published: 16 hrs ago | 428 | by Mqondisi Moyo
ZHRO 9 October 2019 Planned Peaceful, Vigil Protest hindered by another protest
The ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) planned weekly peaceful vigil protest at 429, The Strand London, was held on Wednesday 9th October 2019. It was a sombre and worrying day for all.&n...Published: 16 hrs ago | 117 | by ZHRO Team
'Abducted' Zimbabwe doctor now receiving treatment from a safe house
A Zimbabwean doctor, Peter Magombeyi, who was abducted last month in the country's capital, dumped a few days later outside Harare and hospitalized in South Africa, is now receiving treatment from a s...Published: 16 hrs ago | 738 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspension lifted
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has lifted the suspension on Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) this afternoon. The announcement was made at the ongoing board meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates...Published: 17 hrs ago | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt economic blueprints and policies rubbish sanctions fallacy
As I write this article, the government of Zimbabwe is launching its so-called strategic roadmap for a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023, officiated by the president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa - ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 49 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 29 | by Victor Bhoroma
Grace Mugabe's problems mount by the day
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risks losing one of the properties that forms part of her family's sprawling residence in Harare's leafy suburb of Borrowdale - famously referred to as the Blue Roof - f...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 08:12hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe external debt hits US$8bn
Zimbabwe's external debt is an estimated US$8 billion, the Finance and Economic Development 2020 pre-budget strategy paper has revealed. The strategy paper revealed that the country's total pu...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 08:11hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses' strike requires a sober approach
In our NewsDay Weekender edition on Saturday we carried a depressing story of how the country's major public hospitals have turned into dens of death as helpless patients succumb to their sicknesses i...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:46hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Bosso cut off Wi-Fi connection
Highlanders 2 - 0 TelOneHighlanders scraped through to win over visiting TelOne following a late surge in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo yes...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions not responsible for our suffering in Zimbabwe
For the past 20 years, we the people of Zimbabwe have endured untold economic and political suffering — unprecedented ever since we attained independence from British colonial rule in 1980 — chara...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:43hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Civil servants demand US$ wages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been pushed against the wall by its restive workers who have tabled a new salary demand of at least US$475 or its equivalence of $7 267 at the prevailing ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Nust students urged to come up with diaper recycling methods
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to engage students from National University of Science and Technology (Nust) to come up with diaper recycling methods to address increasing levels of litter in the c...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors' ultimatum ends
Striking junior doctors have up to this morning to report for work after Labour Court ruled their industrial action illegal last Friday and ordered them to report for work within 48 hours. The...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:40hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe linked Munyaradzi lives up to his name, comforts Japan
INEVITABLY, when history was made in Yokohama yesterday, with Japan becoming the first Asian nation to reach the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, the drama on the pitch needed a Zimbabwean influence. ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Judge calls for married people database
In a development likely to inspire changes in the proposed Marriages Bill that seeks to have unregistered customary law unions itemised, a High Court judge has called for a countrywide database of mar...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife backs female ex-fighters upliftment
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has come out in full support of a request by female former freedom fighters' to go back to school and acquire knowledge to run successful income-generating projects acros...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Matemadanda: Mash Central is burning
We write to you as concerned party members from Mashonaland Central. We have tried to seek an audience with your office to no avail. ZANU PF Mashonaland Central is burning and the current provincial e...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Utete
Rural Namibians pin hopes for prosperous future on tourism lodges & hunting despite animal rights' anti-use threats
Namibian rural communities are impressively running lodge and hunting agreements to reduce poverty in seemingly lifeless but wildlife rich semi-desert landscapes, despite the western animal rights gro...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 9 | by Emmanuel Koro
Jean Gasho: Do you realize you are in an abusive marriage in Ghana? Come home!
Late yesterday evening I got WhatsApp from a friend who lives in Belgium. She had an article to share with me. This time around it was article from Jean Gasho extracted from her blog? I got another on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 00:23hrs | 29 | by Nomazulu Thata
Brothers in alms
There apparently being nothing pressing to do at home, comrade Mnangagwa splashed out $30,000 an hour on hiring a plane from Dubai to fly him and his delegation to a conference in France. He is report...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 19:09hrs | 928 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Internet Counseling: Is it a Good Alternative for Africa?
The Internet has and continues to revolutionize different sectors, mental health included. Today, internet counseling has become a popular option in the US,...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff writer
Tendai Biti tears into Mthuli Ncube
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti has fired salvo at the Finance and Economic Deevelopmnet Minister Mthuli Ncube accusing him of being a person who misleads the citizens. Biti was commenting on N...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 11:05hrs | 9875 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' right to strike not absolute
THE right to strike distinguishes employment hum slavery. This is one of the reasons there was instantaneous revulsion when one very powerful country mendaciously claimed that Zimbabwe is using child ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1811 | by Nick Mangwana
Wishing Madinda a speedy recovery
I WAS so happy to see Madinda Ndlovu back home after his sudden illness in Botswana. We pray and hope that Madinda recovers and we still need him to carry on and pass his knowledge of football to our ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1082 | by Lovemore Moyo
Dilemma over Grace Mugabe's farm grabs
What goes around comes around, so the cliché says. That summarises Grace Mugabe's situation even as she is mourning her husband, Robert, the former president who passed on last month.Credible...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:15hrs | 14096 | by Tawanda Majoni
Investor activity lowly on the ZSE
Investor sentiment remained muted during the week under review, amid continued worsening economic situation. The Finance, minister Mthuli Ncube of projects Zimbabwe's GDP growth a revised -6,5% in 201...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:14hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
RBZ's TBs auction hit by low uptake again
A paltry $72 million out of the $150 million Treasury Bills (TBs) auctioned last week was subscribed, an apparent indication the market has no appetite for the sovereign paper.This is the seco...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:14hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
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