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Typhoid scare hits Gweru
GWERU has been hit by fears of a fresh typhoid outbreak after two people in the densely-populated suburb of Mkoba died in the past three days showing symptoms of the disease, while dozens complained o...Published: 13 hrs ago | 371 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is open for business' mantra now rings hollow
ZIMBABWE's failure to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2019, with investment plummeting by more than 50%, demonstrates that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business" man...Published: 15 hrs ago | 333 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry commits to refurbish stadiums
YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry has on Thursday, spoken out on the dilapidated state of the local stadiums and made a commitment to refurbish them.She however categ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames sanctions for failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mangagwa yesterday attributed his administration's failure to contain the raging economic crisis to sanctions and lack of global financing.Officially opening the Sixth Afric...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:00hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Minister to issue statement on stadium ban
A ministerial statement on the ban of local stadiums by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) now has to be made by Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry. The instru...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
A lesbian Zimbabwean's struggle for UK asylum
Angel fled Zimbabwe in fear of her life after police found her in bed with another woman five years ago. It's taken most of the time since then for her to convince the Home Office that she is gay and ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 18:05hrs | 1991 | by BBC
Zacc ropes citizens in anti-graft fight
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Committee (Zacc) has called on members of the public to join the commission it the fight against corruption which has become a national crisis.Speaking on the side...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 13:24hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 13803 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets homes of sanctions instigators
ZANU-PF-ALIGNED pressure groups and youths are reportedly on a drive to picket at the homes of top MDC leaders, whom they accuse of inviting Western sanctions, which they allege are behind the untold ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:17hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames sanctions for failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mangagwa yesterday attributed his administration's failure to contain the raging economic crisis to sanctions and lack of global financing.Officially opening the Sixth Afric...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says committed to reforms
Zimbabwe is committed to implementing political, economic and legislative reforms as part of efforts to escalate sustainable socio-economic development initiatives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:52hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
'Anti-graft fight no longer a Zacc, ZRP thing'
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) spokesperson John Makamure yesterday said the anti-graft body and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were unable to deal with highly connected cartels at the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya tells MPs to blame Govt, not RBZ
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya says the central bank should not be blamed for the country's often unpopular monetary policies but blame should be directed towards policy makers ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 546 | by newzimbabwe
Sikhala can lead us to the promised land
One of the few things that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has got right for Zanu-PF, is to normalise a sad state of social, economic and political affairs and receive widespread local and international ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 21:58hrs | 2110 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe among worst food-insecure countries
ZIMBABWE is facing its worst food crisis in years, after being ranked the fourth worst food insecure country in the world.The head of delegation of the European Union, which is helping to feed...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla is not the rightful heir to the Ndiweni throne, but his brother Joram is
This matter is straight forward, the heir to the throne or to inherit the chieftainship must be the firstborn son.That has been like that from time immemorial. Even in all jurisdictions that s...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:19hrs | 509 | by Njabulo
NCA chastises rowdy MDC Alliance leadership
One of the parties that participated at a meeting in the capital to discuss the proposed Constitutional Amendment Bill, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), has censured MDC-Alliance leaders fo...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 16:27hrs | 2247 | by Staff reporter
Binga flood victims decry neglect
Without even narrating her ordeal, Ndubeko Muzamba's blood-flecked eyes told a story of sorrow and suffering.Aged 24 and with three young children aged below 13, Muzamba said at one point she ...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:38hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Baboons terrorise patients
BABOONS are terrorising patients at Binga District Hospital stealing their food, vandalising property and causing sleepless nights to expecting mothers as they scrounge for food.In August last...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Illegal mining taints city's water
It is a sunny afternoon, and Margaret Noko's heap of clothes is difficult to ignore. She needs to do the wash."I have to use the water I have stored in containers and refill them," says Noko, ...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:35hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube denies messing up the economy
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has rubbished claims he was behind Zimbabwe's mounting economic problems dramatised by continued prices increases, fuel and cash shortages.Ncube told NewZimbabwe....Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3556 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns Chamisa
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it is ready to thwart any unsanctioned dissent in the wake of threats by the country's opposition political party - the MDC - to unleash crippling protests in a bid to push P...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 5850 | by Staff reporter
Police to descend heavily on Chamisa
POLICE yesterday warned MDC leader Nelson Chamisa that they would descend heavily on him if he incited opposition party supporters to engage in street protests and cause chaos in the country.C...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1495 | by Staff reporter
Man crushes father's head with huge rock
AN 83-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo died yesterday morning after he was bludgeoned with huge boulders by his son who accused him of withcraft following an argument over tenants' rentals. Thabani ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:33hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Police warn Chamisa over demos
POLICE yesterday warned MDC leader Nelson Chamisa that they would descend heavily on him if he incited opposition party supporters to engage in street protests and cause chaos in the country.C...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 3366 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt garages feed the black market'
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister, Judith Ncube, has accused some fuel stations of diverting the product to the black market thereby creating an artificial shortage of the commodity in the city. ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must stop inciting violence
After almost a year of rejecting broad-based dialogue preferring exclusive discussions with Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance has shockingly claimed its efforts for talks have failed and now seeks violent confron...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Chaos in Zimbabwe parliament as Chiwenga is 'blamed' for Coronavirus
Chaos broke out in Parliament on Wednesday when independent MP Temba Mliswa accused MDC Alliance MP Settlement Chikwinya of blaming Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for bringing the deadly corona v...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 18:32hrs | 9823 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe is redollarising, not de-dollarising'
On Tuesday, ZUVA Petroleum announced that eight of its service stations would be accepting foreign currency payments as number of fuel operators continue to withhold the liquid.ZUVA said four ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:29hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Alternatives for Matebeleland
After the signing of the Unity Accord, Zimbabwe had a semblance of National peace and calm. At face value one would think that the country was now poised towards true peace and national development. H...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:26hrs | 362 | by Mthulisi Gaja Masumbilka Hanana
Sikhala says enough is enough to Mnangagwa
FRESH from being acquitted on treason charges, firebrand MDC deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to prepare for major civil unrest, unless he halts Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:21hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
'Free elections are a process not event' - given will, 18/4/1980 event and not 40+ year process
Zimbabwe is facing a very serious social and economic crisis that is now causing untold human suffering and deaths and is threatening the country's stability and that of the whole southern African reg...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:42hrs | 481 | by Wilbert Mukori
Brace for Mnangagwa, Chamisa's Kenyan handshake
Infighting in Zanu-PF has been the talk of the town for the past couple of years and it took a turn in the last few weeks. All hell broke loose when two Zanu-PF young musketeers - Lewis Matutu and God...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 20:16hrs | 4652 | by Cliff Chiduku
FW De Clerk denialism, Zim can draw lessons
South Africa is a country on tenterhooks!Race relations are to be handled with meticulous care.And without a doubt, Julius Malema and his party, the EFF are an 800-pound gorilla in Sou...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:02hrs | 465 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Factions rock Chamisa's MDC camp
The 2023 elections seem so far away, but with the speed of light unravelling of the MDC, we might reach that interesting year with no opposition party to speak of. The house that the late Morgan Tsvan...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:16hrs | 2978 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains wreak havoc countrywide
HEAVY rains which have been pounding most parts of the country continue causing infrastructural damage while landslides in Vumba on Saturday blocked access to the iconic Leopard Rock Hotel, a favourit...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 3314 | by Staff reporter
Drought fuels gold wars
Villagers in Bubi district, one of the areas affected by gold wars, have blamed drought for fuelling artisanal miners' conflicts.This was revealed in the latest Habakkuk Trust report following its...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa defends corrupt MDC councillors
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says MDC councillors running several municipalities across the country are not to blame for poor service delivery as they do not have total control of the local author...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:52hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
The market has redollarised, says Biti
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti (TB), who during the inclusive government era, served as Finance minister speaks to NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga on the failing Zimbabwe dollar and other...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:45hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
New heart surgery centre set to open
AS ZIMBABWE battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is to set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries, the Daily News reports.This comes as the country'...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa risks removal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should reform sooner rather than later or face overthrow by angry citizens who have endured continued abuse under his regime, an international human rights defender has wa...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:10hrs | 8419 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:35hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Industry capacity utilisation to fall to 27%
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has projected that industry's capacity utilisation will fall to 27% this year if the government does not change its policy direction.According to...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
The MDC circle of despair continues
THE MDC has been going round and round in circles heading nowhere, in a case of chasing one's tail. To this end that party has not achieved anything meaningful. Its existence now depicts a circle of d...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:35hrs | 479 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
PTUZ in financial crisis while leaders are living flamboyant lives
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) is said to be in financial crisis at a time its own leaders are living flamboyant lives.The Harare Post has it on good ground that PTUZ is failing...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:33hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF facing another split?
The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU PF. The unfolding events have been triggered by a press conference by the now-suspended two&nb...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:01hrs | 11610 | by Blessing Vava
Zambian President deploys soldiers
Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has deployed Zambia's military to deal with the ritual killings that have rampantly increased in the neighboring country. Suspected ritual killers are rep...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 12:55hrs | 3731 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe government wasting money and resources on trivial issues
Editor Sir. I am deeply disgruntled by the Zimbabwe government for wasting money and resources on trivial issues. Zimbabwe is at the edge of collapse due to corruption and mismanagement ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1062 | by Esther Tafadzwa Munyira
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4496 | by George Mkhwanazi
Defending the Undefendable: The unending list of Zanu Pf apologists
When the Zanu PF Youth league members held a press conference to name and shame people linked to Zimbabwe's economic woes some applauded the move.These were youth leadership members who belong...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 14:02hrs | 2398 | by A Kadada
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