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Civilian military leader needed to restore electoral democracy before 2023 presidential elections
Without doubt electoral democracy has failed to work in Zimbabwe, it might have worked in Zambia, South Africa and Botswana but in Zimbabwe electoral democracy has failed dismally, it is on record tha...Published: 2 hrs ago | 932 | by Knowledge Hakata
OneMoney debit card use rises
NetOne's mobile money platform, OneMoney, recorded a 32,7 percent increase in subscribers to 241 566 in the fourth quarter to December 31, 2018 from 181 990 in the previous quarter, latest data show. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 315 | by Staff reporter
Ernest Maphepha joins City
CHARISMATIC and experienced administrator Ernest "Maphepha" Sibanda has joined Zifa Southern Region Division One outfit Bulawayo City as a board member. The municipal side was relegated from t...Published: 5 hrs ago | 288 | by Staff reporter
NetOne outpaces competitors, active subscriber base balloons
STATE-OWNED mobile phone company NetOne recorded a massive growth in active mobile subscriptions in the fourth quarter of 2018, while its two rivals, Telecel and Econet, reported a marginal increase o...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1204 | by Ndou Paul
BCC faces questions over lavish spending
CASH-STRAPPED Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has set itself on a collision course with residents after it approved a plan to splash US$900 each per day on hotel accommodation for four council officials f...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1093 | by Staff reporter
Build to live not just stay
Disaster times are not for political grandstanding and populist manoeuvres. For a whole someone with ambitions to occupy the highest office in the land to say government did not do enough for cyclone ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 23:25hrs | 1826 | by Thomas Murisa
Chamisa attacks Mwonzora ally
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa railed at party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora's ally in Masvingo last weekend, blaming him for the opposition party's poor showing in the region during last year's harmo...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:34hrs | 5380 | by Staff reporter
'Zinara Finance Director deliberately dodged Parliament"
PARLIAMENTARY Public Accounts Committee chairperson Tendai Biti, was left seething with anger after an apparent snub from the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) Financial Director.Biti...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 327 | by newzimbabwe
Komichi to appeal against conviction
MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi says he will lodge an appeal with the High Court challenging his conviction and sentence.This comes after Komichi was fined $200 for disrupting electoral pr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:46hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
MDC will not campaign for sanction removal for now
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has admitted that Western economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were hurting ordinary people, but would only campaign for their removal once President Emmerson M...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:34hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in pole position as MDC Alliance congress beckons
The MDC Alliance will elect new leaders at congress in May - a process which will make or break the country's biggest opposition party. While the nomination process has not yet started, party leader N...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers terrorise Marondera residents
Daring armed robbers have besieged Marondera, with the gun-totting gang reportedly terrorising residents, money changers and businesspeople, a local businessperson has said.The gang is reporte...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to rebels, as fight for MDC leadership hits the home stretch
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has effectively dumped his party long-standing Masvingo provincial chairman James Gumbi and thrown his weight behind a faction of returning rebels led by lawyer To...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 5096 | by newzimbabwe
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 2255 | by Reason Wafawarova
MDC Congress: Proposals to achieve unity, progress
THERE is nothing amiss about the split of political parties, churches, football or other sporting teams, partnerships, corporates, or any voluntary organisation for that matter. While for the ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | 1137 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
Mthuli Ncube wages war against surging inflation
Zimbabwe's annual inflation has risen to a 10-year high since hyperinflation, but month-on-month prices are beginning to drop as monetary reforms aimed at combating inflation, addressing foreign curre...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:08hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing $100 million annually importing wheat
Industry and Commerce minister Mangaliso Ndlovu has said Zimbabwe is losing $100 million annually to wheat imports due to failure by farmers to produce enough stocks.Officiating at an exhibiti...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:57hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe is on the path to progress
Zimbabwe is on a journey of reform. Nobody ever said it wouldn't be a bumpy ride; but the most important thing is that the journey has begun, and we are heading in the right direction.The Tran...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:45hrs | 543 | by Mthuli Ncube
Tendai Biti MDC election eligibility still uncertain
MDC "prodigal sons and daughters" who include former secretary generals Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti will have to wait until the main opposition's May congress to know whether they are still eligibl...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 1817 | by newzimbabwe
State-of-the-art facilities for universities
Zimbabwe has set an ambitious path to upgrade its higher learning institutions to world class facilities that are fully equipped with shopping malls, cafeterias, hotels and modern student quarters....Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:34hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Unfit and untrustworthy Ncube! God have mercy on MDC
Good leaders are born and not created. A good leader has to be confident, principled, constructive, honest, transparent democratic and fair just to mention but a few attributes. All the above attribut...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:04hrs | 3243 | by Hlonipani Masuku
Hopewell Chin'ono's Save Our Hospitals initiative good idea but he is offside
I like Hopewell Chin'ono, he is an ambitious young man full of political energy. He is the mastermind of the idea behind the Save Our Hospitals initiative launched in the month of March 2019. He alrea...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1601 | by Don Chigumba
Zimbabwe cyclone death toll rises to 31
Seven more bodies have been recovered in Chimanimani, bringing the Tropical Cyclone Idai's death toll 31.Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Mike Madiro said rescue operations continue in search of ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 18:20hrs | 2624 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths regret Khupe split
THE MDC Youth Assembly this week said it regrets the departure of the party's former deputy president Thokozani Khupe and others early last year. Following the death of the party's founding father Mor...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:57hrs | 7572 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens up on past
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gave a rare personal insight into his early life, during which he was involved in subversive activities after seeing his dreams of becoming a pilot frustrated by...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:55hrs | 2062 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cyclone death toll rises to 28
Four more bodies have been recovered in Chimanimani, bringing the Tropical Cyclone Idai's death toll 28.Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Mike Madiro said rescue operations continue in search of t...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:59hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa confronts James Gumbo?
MDC Masvingo provincial chairperson James Gumbi confirmed MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's impending visit today, but declined to shed more light on the purpose of the visit."The president is going...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa won't split MDC
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed warnings that the party's May elective congress was divisive that it could lead to another split.Chamisa, who cancelled a rally scheduled for Bulawayo a...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 13:22hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere announces return to exile?
FUGITIVE ex-cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has virtually announced his return to exile through dismissive comments and threats targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he describes as a dict...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:14hrs | 7765 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa reveals childhood dreams
Imagine, aboard a plane and before take-off you hear a voice saying, "This is Captain Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speaking. We are ready for take-off. Our flight is going take approximately three hour...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:08hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to blacklist, freeze terrorist funds
The law operationalising Government powers to blacklist and freeze funds and assets of individuals and entities linked to international terror, has been gazetted. Statutory Instrument 56 of 2019 was p...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:03hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Hubby denied maintenance
A Harare man was denied a $200 maintenance claim he made from his wife saying she left him when he did not expect it.Jerkison Masambiti made the claim arguing that he wanted to be maintained....Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:30hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mwonzora and Chamisa land in court to support Komichi
MDC President on Friday arrived at the Rotten Row court to throw his weight behind MDC Vice President Morgan Komichi who is accused of violating the Electoral Act by declaring that the results o...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 15:07hrs | 6044 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hundreds of Zimbabwe’s youth write peace letters to Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean youth join in this campaign to plea to His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa to support the DPCW. The spirit of the campaign is based on the values written in the Declaration of Peace...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 11:00hrs | 2460 | by Yolanda Ndlovu
Chamisa wants a woman
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has set the cat among the pigeons in his party, after he recently suggested that one of the MDC's three posts of vice president should be reserved for a woman, the Dai...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:19hrs | 10635 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora not a Zanu-PF project, says Coltart
FOUNDING MDC member and human rights lawyer, David Coltart has dismissed claims by rival groups in the opposition, that former Nyanga North MP Douglas Mwonzora, is being funded by Zanu-PF to challenge...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:58hrs | 1891 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zimbabweans counting the cost of removing Mugabe
IN AN ideal world, the fall of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was supposed to usher in a period of sustained economic growth and prosperity.Mugabe, 95, was toppled by his loyalists in ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | 5030 | by Brighton Khumalo
Biti's book he co-authored with 2 former presidents seized by CIO
The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has seized a consignment of books co-authored by Movement for Democratic Change MP Tendai Biti.The book, 'Democracy Works', is set to be launched in...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:35hrs | 7348 | by ZimLive
Biti opens up on Mnangagwa's 476 days in office
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says Mnangagwa's 476 days since he took office after a bloody coup in November 2017 have been characterized by corruption, rape and killing.Said Bit...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 15:22hrs | 6319 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa exposed
In his 1997 report on the work of the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan stressed the importance of economic sanctions: the Security Council's tool to bring pressure without recourse to forc...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 10:42hrs | 12226 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa stuns MDC bigwigs
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has set the cat among the pigeons in his party, after he recently suggested that one of the MDC's three posts of vice president should be reserved for a woman. ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:56hrs | 17072 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa told to denounce sanctions
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa must openly denounce the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America if he cares about the welfare of the country's war veterans, Zimbab...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 2357 | by Staff reporter
If 'Trump is just a phone call away'
. . . what does this tell us about Chamisa? A few days ago while addressing his supporters on International Women's Day, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Cha...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 2691 | by Prosperity Mzila
Zim Government lacks consistency on Policy and economic projects
Succession politics is a major stumbling block to the success story and progressive ideas in Zimbabwe. It is not about Mnangagwa, Chamisa or Mugabe, but it is about the future of this country. Governm...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:38hrs | 487 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Has Zimbabwe become an Oliver Twist?
A couple of days ago, central bank governor John Mangudya aptly described Zimbabwe in Parliament as "a step child in a family of nations."What an apt description! This is exactly what Zimbabwe...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:24hrs | 654 | by Editorial - Daily News
Zimbabwe war veterans marching to the US Embassy
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is organising a nationwide march to the United States Embassy in Harare against illegal sanctions that were imposed on the nation by ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 23:36hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's mischief exposed
The recent summoning of the Reserve Bank Governor, Dr John Mangudya, to appear before the Parliamentary Public Account Portfolio Committee (PAC) has exposed Tendai Biti, the Committee Chairman of usin...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 22:29hrs | 7354 | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe's opposition party MDC hold a peaceful leadership contest?
Tapiwa Chagonda, University of Johannesburg...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 17:00hrs | 872 | by Tapiwa Chagonda, University of Johannesburg
Chamisa's allies lock horns
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's staunchest allies are set to lock horns in the battle to lead the party's youth assembly at the forthcoming elective congress in May after more than four threw their...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:17hrs | 2989 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya taunts Mthuli Ncube
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday denied that the central bank was involved in any quasi-fiscal activities and called out Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and parliamentary ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:05hrs | 3435 | by Staff reporter
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