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Zimbabwe among 12 most fragile countries, claims World Vision
INTERNATIONAL aid agency World Vision yesterday warned that over 19 million people, including 10 million children, were at risk of famine in 12 of the world's most fragile countries due to a deadly mi...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 19730 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 549 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Rogue Khupe is adding no value to our politics' - and corrupt Chamisa is? Incurable insanity
Most of us have heard of the great Physicist Albert Einstein's famous line: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." And, here is the nub of it, all of u...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 17:29hrs | 3045 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt fails to account for COVID-19 allowances
A ZANU-PF MP last week heckled Finance deputy minister Clemence Chiduwa, demanding that he explains to Parliament how much money the government had so far disbursed to assist vulnerable citizens facin...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:50hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
'We cannot impose ourselves on Zimbabwe' says SA - yet no qualms imposing illegitimate Zanu PF
South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa's intervention in Zimbabwe can only happen at the request of the Government of Zimbabwe.There is real very little...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | 2356 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Banana Republicans criminalise criticism
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has criminalised the statement "Zanu-PF Must Go", taking it to mean inciting public violence.The curious case of legislator for Binga, Prince Sibanda, who was this...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blasts Mnangagwa
MDC ALLIANCE leader Nelson Chamisa has slammed President Emmerson Mnangagwa over divisive leadership and labelling political opponents as terrorists who must be flashed out.This follows recent...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5781 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants you to 'Stand up, fight for your rights'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has challenged Zimbabweans to move out of their cocoons and protect their rights in the wake of what he termed increased State-sponsored human rights viol...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Vatican envoy summoned to explain Mnangagwa 'insult'
GOVERNMENT has moved to escalate its widely publicised row with Catholic priests through a planned meeting with the Vatican Representative to Zimbabwe ostensibly to seek explanation over ‘insults' d...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 863 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga tells farmers to 'utilise land or lose it'
FARMERS not using their farms fully risk having them repossessed or reduced to sizes they can use productively, so agricultural production can rise and play a pivotal role in the attainment of an uppe...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:48hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushing them into a corner through a crackdown by law e...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 7583 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries turns the corner
INGWEBU Breweries has returned to profitability following successive years of loss-making and is targeting to achieve revenue of US$24 million this year, the company's MD Dumisani Mhlanga has said....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:01hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
July 31 will definitely come
Well, July 31 is now five days away; it will come and go largely without incident, but it simply represents the largely mutating strategies of the country's sworn enemies.EONS ago, on one fine...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1975 | by Bishop
Corruption is Zanu PF's life blood, Chin'ono was arrested for threatening corruption
The arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono comes as no surprise to me because I know Zimbabwe is a Banana Republic. Chin'ono exposed corruption in the regime and so the regime had him marked!Zimbabwe is ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1067 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Protests are to overthrow constitutionally elected government' - rubbish, didn't even have verified voters' roll
"We have noted social media platforms to plan and organise violent protests and overthrow a constitutionally elected government," said Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa following the Zanu ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:48hrs | 647 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2269 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8946 | by newzimbabwe
'Join protest demanding legitimate state' Chamisa called – he gave away legitimacy, wandering Jew
In Christian legend the wandering Jew is a character doomed to live until the end of the world because he taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion. He is doomed to wander, looking for something he ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 23:26hrs | 6221 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Vultures of progress will never win!' declared Mnangagwa - 'You are that vulture!'
"We shall not allow a situation where our people live in chronic insecurity, lack and deprivation. It has become apparent that in our midst, there are wolves in sheep clothing, vultures. The end is co...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 19:07hrs | 3957 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Chinese are treating us as junk in our mother land' - a microcosm of omnipresent and omnipotent Zanu-PF
"Several Zimbabweans have been treated like junk in their own country. The Chinese have been left to do as they please in our mother land," wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza, in a recent article."While ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:35hrs | 1807 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Informal traders reject $2, $5 notes
INFORMAL traders are rejecting $2 and $5 bond notes as well as coins, money which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said is still legal tender. Police yesterday also warned those rejectin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
The need for a Social Contact
"The old is dying and the new cannot be born,in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." The above famous quote by Antonio Gramsci best captures how a citizenry finds...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:52hrs | 332 | by Evangelist Sendekai W. T
Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's style of leadership is worse than that of the late former president Robert Mugabe, adding his time is up.Speaking at the Ha...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:55hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Corruption not sanctions killing Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been grappling with corruption for years now, dating back from the Willovale Motor Scandal, GMB saga where the late former Minister Kumbirayi Kangai was involved.In 1994 War...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:02hrs | 880 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa to launch livestock scheme
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the Presidential Livestock Scheme at Cleveland Range in Harare to support livestock farmers. Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Info...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Banana skins characterise Zanu-PF
Energy Mutodi came and went. Just like many others political mavericks before him, they all thought they were invincible, drunk as a lord by the maddening power of high political office....Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 4206 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Africa and Africans are never short of ideas
The precautions against Covid-19 are getting more dramatic and bizarre. My toddler neighbour or neighbour's toddler daughter had an idea of Martian ingenuity and innovation of extraordinary dimension....Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 198 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
South Africans to start drinking alcohol only at Level 1
South Africa media have reported that the country's Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma has told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 14:35hrs | 2603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (II)
IT is important to analyse why Zimbabwe was successful in the first two decades of Independence, and became a failure in the second two decades. One fundamental reason is that the whole nation was uni...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 934 | by Fay Chung
UK has become Zimbabwe's tribal tower
The MDC sings from Zanu PF's hymn books without shame when it comes to tribalism. How do you replicate a party you are opposing in all aspects of its operations? MDC is comfortable with tribal allocat...Published: 13 May 2020 at 19:22hrs | 3142 | by Nomazulu Thata
'We are standing on the edge of the precipice' warned Mandaza - true, Zanu PF centric NTA will take us over the edge
"Today Zimbabwe stands on the edge of the precipice, and it is no time for prevaricating, but one for action. The political crisis must be addressed with urgency, and we can see no other way than the ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:45hrs | 3163 | by Wilbert Mukori
Farmvest seals moringa contract, eyes global markets
Farmvest Agricapital a local agricultural investment promotion and facilitation firm. announced that they have sealed a 5-year offtake agreement contract for the production and processing of Moringa i...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1222 | by Staff reporter
Banana's son says 'Zimbabwe now banana republic'
NATHAN Banana, son to Zimbabwe's first President Canaan Banana has accused the Zanu-PF led government of holding to ransom and robbing citizens of their independence for personal gain.Banana, ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1848 | by newzimbabwe
Street vendors count losses as hundreds of pushcarts lie idle
KNOWN as the kingpin of the pushcart or scania business in Bulawayo, Phinias Gomba is one of the businessmen that have been hit hard by the ongoing national lockdown. Gomba, like many business...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1244 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 confirmed cases reach 24, tests conducted 2 493, deaths recorded 3
Substandard sanitisers are readily available at Mbare Musika Market, as unscrupulous dealers capitalise on the unavailability and unaffordability of authentic ones. Industry and Commerce Minister Seka...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Bleak future beckons for businesses after lockdown
AS the 21-day lockdown continues with shops that sell non-essentials closed, there are concerns in the Gwanda business community that some of them might collapse while others might be left crippled. ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:16hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
How Mike Auret tried to stop Gukurahundi
THE sad death of prominent Zimbabwe political activist Mike Auret in Ireland this morning is a significant event in the history of human rights in the country and its predecessor Rhodesia.Aure...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:37hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
A place in Zimbabwe where load-shedding is 'taboo'
A handful of revellers, disregarding global and national recommendations to stay at home and reduce the possibility of contracting or spreading the deadly coronavirus, mingle in a pub at Hauna growth ...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:03hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
'Is Zanu PF prepared (competent) to deal with covid-19?' - rhetorical question, of course
After 40 years of this corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous Zanu PF dictatorship there is no debate – Zanu PF has been a nightmare during the best of times. Four decades of Zanu PF misru...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 10:00hrs | 273 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chaos as markets open
CHAOTIC scenes were witnessed at the market place in Bulawayo yesterday as it was teeming with people, mostly vendors who jostled to buy fresh produce. It took police and soldiers to maintain ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa, why is Frank Buyanga not arrested by ZR Police?
Dear Mr President,I hope I find you well Mr. President. I am putting on ice serious differences I have with you for the sake of the young life: the son to Ms Chantelle Muteswa and Mr. Frank Bu...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 12:34hrs | 5454 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Ban social media corona virus chit-chat' argue Zanu PF - fearful truth will open our eyes, at last
"His (Chamisa) cheerleaders prayed and wished that the country suffers from this coronavirus that has killed thousands globally and in his unfathomable melancholy Chamisa appropriates for himself powe...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 21:04hrs | 2981 | by Wilbert Mukori
Pregnant woman threatens to kill herself for snatched daughter
An eight-month pregnant woman and mother of seven gave a crowd the fright at the Tredgold Court pavement when she threatened to kill both herself and her unborn baby on the spot by jumping into the bu...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 07:30hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Canaan Banana an unsung hero, says Son
NATHAN Banana - the son of the late founding President of Zimbabwe, Canaan Sodindo Banana, has described his father as an unsung hero and lamented government's failure to honour him for the key ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Taking a look back at the hey days of Zimbabwean football
It was on a very beautiful Sunday afternoon and at exactly 1450hrs listening to the Chibuku Sunday Soccer on the then Radio 1 or Radio 2. The action was fantastic. The late Evans Mambara...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 11:44hrs | 2766 | by Leonard Koni
Maguire Godzongere relives life in the limelight
WHEN retired veteran broadcaster Maguire Godzongere was at primary school, his ambition was to become a teacher, a nurse, a policeman or a land development officer.But a very popular 1974 radi...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 18:45hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers stalling development'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he will take a leaf from guiding principles of Zimbabwe Assemblies of God (ZAOGA) pastors — as read out by church founder and president Ezekiel Guti — to give...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:28hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taunts Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says the decision by the United Kingdom to overlook Zimbabwe among countries it invited to the UK-Africa summit was because the once prosperous country has been reduced to a ...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:24hrs | 3366 | by newzimbabwe
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