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Just enjoying our Katuruturu as it is now Zituruturu
I always say things from my perspective, got to think and appreciate the only local team that has made Kariba proud by bringing us premier soccer league. The promotion of ZPC FC coincided well with th...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1080 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye
List of Zimbabwean celebrities who became politicians
Sports and Showbiz fraternities has become a springboard for most celebrities who later became politicians either due to their own desires or by being asked by different audiences to participate in po...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2161 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Where is Mnangagwa taking us to?
I DROVE up the window of the tollgate and the man on duty asked me: "Eddie, where are we going?" He was not asking what my destination was, but where did I think the country was going.Last nig...Published: 16 hrs ago | 4560 | by Eddie Cross
It's time for South Africa to rethink the economy
ON May 8, South Africans go to the polls to choose their next governing party for the next five years. The election this year marks the country's sixth general election since the dawn of democracy in ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 180 | by Tapiwa Gomo
'Foreign aid will not bail out Zimbabwe'
UNITED States professor of economics Steve Hanke has said foreign aid will not bail out Zimbabwe from its current economic quagmire, adding the country's problems can be solved from within.Spe...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:30hrs | 3814 | by Staff reporter
Opposition will not observe ballot paper printing: Mangwana
Zanu-PF legal affairs secretary and party representative in the political party dialogue, Paul Mangwana (PM), has justified the presence of ex-military generals in the ruling party politburo. ...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | 3166 | by Staff reporter
Brooklyn bus inferno survivor wants compensation
A MBERENGWA woman who survived the Brooklyn bus inferno, which claimed over 30 lives over six months ago, is bitter after the bus operator dumped her following the tragedy which left her disabled....Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:56hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
A look into Zimbabwe's tanking economy
The country's largest gold producer is on the brink of collapse because of government's warped foreign currency retention policy; the cost of bread has gone up, more than three times in hardly a month...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
There is a light at the end of price hikes
The pain of being in Zimbabwe is to look at the prices every time you pass a gas station? You are not Zimbabwean if you are not paying more attention to the prices of everything you buy? This is not p...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | 1841 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa must act on economic decay
EDITOR,Recently, I went to a supermarket to do my groceries for the month, I was shocked to realise that a 2kg mixed portion chicken is now ranging between $15 to $18, a 2-litre concentrate ju...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:03hrs | 2158 | by Concerned Citizen
Credible team and sound advice ahead of Elective Congress
Those who have been consistent from 1999, are likely to be beneficiaries of this congress, and secondly off course the Chamisa factor. The Chamisa factor plays a pivotal role on the basis of selection...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 388 | by A big Easter by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Rebirth of the Zimdollar
Zimbabwean central bank authorities have a traceable record of overnight monetary policy changes. Memories of the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono era of monetary policy hip-...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1301 | by Paddington Masamha
Gukurahundi cannot be wished away: Williams
ON March 21 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa flew from Harare to Bulawayo on a jet chartered from the United Arab Emirates - an extravagant arrangement - for a meeting with Matabeleland-based civil ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
4 killed as truck plunges into river
FOUR people died on the spot while eight others were seriously injured after a truck they were travelling in plunged into a river in Nyanga yesterday night.The truck, a Nissan UD (AES 4280), w...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
6 die in separate bus accidents
AT least six people died in two separate bus accidents which occurred in Makuti and Rutenga between Wednesday and yesterday afternoon.The Makuti accident involved a Zanbia-bound Trip Trans bus...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 3325 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Temba Mliswa talks tough on NRZ managers
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has blasted Senior managers at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) who are alleged tobe trampling on and changing through the back door the terms and condi...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 16:05hrs | 1811 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2118 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Belarus' aeroplane with food for Zimbabweans arrives
An aeroplane from Belarus carrying food aid for Zimbabweans who suffered from Cyclone Ida has landed in the country, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus has announced."The Belarusi...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | 2877 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prosecutors discredit evidence in Parirenyatwa trial
THE trial of former Health and child Care minister David Parirenyatwa continued yesterday with prosecutors attempting to discredit evidence given by the key witness.Parirenyatwa allegedly dire...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP Hwende seeks removal from remand
Kuwadzana East legislator Chalton Hwende (MDC Alliance) on Tuesday put the State on notice as he seeks to apply for refusal of further remand if he is not furnished with a trial date on the next reman...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
State moves to impeach witness for siding with Parirenyatwa
The State yesterday moved to declare its witness, George Washaya, as hostile for siding with former Health minister David Parirenyatwa in his decision to relieve NatPharm managing director Flora Sifek...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Meat shortages loom
ZIMBABWE'S livestock industry is under strain and shortages of pork, chicken and beef are imminent after the price of feed shot up following the removal of grain subsidies by government, an industry o...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa transactions haunt new Zifa executive
AN attempt by the former Zifa board led by Philip Chiyangwa to shield assets owned by the football mother body from being sold to cover its debts has come to haunt the current leadership after the Hig...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Boarding schools hike fees
Most boarding schools in Matabeleland have increased fees to between RTGS$1 200 and RTGS$1 500 a term and many parents said they are contemplating withdrawing their children because they cannot afford...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Gumede appointed Bosso President
VETERAN football administrator, Ndumiso Gumede, has been appointed Highlanders president replacing Jimmy Ncube who has been elevated to club patron. The club's board chairman, Luke Mnkandla sa...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Man kidnaps his in-laws, jailed
A Chitungwiza man will spend the next two years in prison after he was convicted of kidnapping his in-laws following a dispute at a funeral. Benson Matamise (45) appeared before Chitungwiza ma...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:03hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
'No top positions for Zanu-PF returnees'
Expelled Zanu-PF members who are rejoining the revolutionary party are not going to be given positions, President Mnangagwa has said. Several Zanu-PF members, who were expelled for various rea...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject new budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will have to go back to the drawing board after stakeholders, including residents and vendors, rejected its plans to hike rates by a whopping 57 percent.This comes ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Council refurbishes Ascot stadium
GWERU City Council has started refurbishing Ascot Stadium to meet the requisite Premier Soccer League standards. The stadium was condemned by the Zifa First Instant Board (FIB) after an inspec...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:07hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Police deploy for holiday
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has deployed officers on all the country's major roads and residential areas to ensure that Independence Day and the Easter holidays are accident and crime-free. ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions first batch of new Zupco buses
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent off 28 buses out of the 800 that were ordered by government to Zupco, to start operating and once again make the parastatal the transporter of choice.Spea...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 21:28hrs | 6873 | by Staff reporter
'I am not a CIO operative,' says Tundiya
SHEPHERD Tundiya, the man described as a con-artist by four legislators that appeared before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee last week facing allegations of soliciting for a $400 000 bribe from...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 2971 | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa & Perence Shiri dilemma ahead of Gukurahundi confessions/exhumation
I used to be only convinced that Zimbabwe's economic deterioration was the only threat to President ED Mnangagwa's leadership. The proposed Gukurahundi National Healing & Reconciliation is a real ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 17542 | by Don Chigumba
POPULISM is ahead of COMPETENCY in the African Context
In Africa one is prepared to die for a politician, and people can go to the extent of kneeling down before political mastitis for favors and bootlicking. One may fail to construct a proper English sen...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 09:58hrs | 464 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Civil servants get pay increase
It was a case of smiling all the way to the bank for civil servants yesterday as Government honoured its pledge to increase the workers' salaries by 29 percent beginning this month.The civil s...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | 5105 | by Staff reporter
'IMF will re-engaging to provide social protection' - just don't bankroll Zanu PF again
"Well, first of all, I would like to reaffirm that we will be conducting a Staff Monitoring Programme with Zimbabwe. And it is particularly appropriate that we do that expeditiously, given the hardshi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:39hrs | 539 | by Nomusa Garikai
UK firm readies for Zimbabwe diamond mining
UNITED Kingdom-based Vast Resources Plc (Vast) says it has raised £300 000 (US$393 130) through a placement and subscription of shares as it prepares for the signing of a joint venture contract at Ch...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Goddard unmasks con-artist Tundiya
BULAWAYO businessman James Goddard, who had interests in coal mining in Hwange, last week narrated before Parliament how a con-artist and businessman Shepherd Tundiya tricked him into believing that h...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:58hrs | 2630 | by Staff reporter
Mavhaire distances self from ZPC bribery storm
FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday distanced himself from the case in which the former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje is being accused of concealing hi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
'IMF to speed up Zimbabwe engagements'
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it will speed up implementation of a Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) with Zimbabwe in order to protect vulnerable communities in the wake of Cyclone Idai whi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:52hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC unhappy with IMF assisting Zimbabwe
Cyclone Idai, which brought unprecedented destruction as incessant rain and gusty winds caused catastrophic damage, has prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to agree to deepen the Fund's eng...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 4017 | by Staff reporter
Off the comfort zone with the Gregarious Chamisa: A View from the rural-dweller
The juicy and chocolate side of the socialite MDC President, Nelson Chamisa, is mainly his off-the-comfort-zone personality. This makes him an extra-ordinary political leader in that facet in Zimbabwe...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:15hrs | 901 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Tobacco income down 76%
TOBACCO sales have generated $19,4 million in the first 17 days of the marketing season this year compared to $81 million realised over the same period last year, statistics from the industry regulato...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Calls for salary, wage adjustments intensify
The Institute of People Management of Zimbabwe (IMPZ) has called for an upward review on the taxable wage threshold from RTGS$350 to cushion workers from the rising cost of living.In the 2019 ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
MDC led council wants 100% rates hike
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday proposed to increase rates by more than 100 percent, which residents rejected saying they are already struggling to pay their bills. The residents als...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
A look at Zimbabwe's property market
Even though the Zimbabwean property market faces many challenges, it has always been characterised by a high demand and a corresponding low supply – ensuring that the market has always been very act...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Chris Maroleng faces dismissal as SABC COO after being found guilty
SABC chief operating officer Chris Maroleng has been found guilty on three charges following a disciplinary enquiry initiated late last year, City Press reports.Maroleng faced an enquiry into ...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:58hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's aide defends Gukurahundi genocide
The announcement by the government that it was rolling out a number of measures to help victims of Gukurahundi to get birth certificates and death certificates for their slain relatives has divided op...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:27hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
SA bound bus armed robber arrested
A BEITRIDGE man, who was part of a five-men armed robber gang that robbed 32 Brooklyn Bus passengers of cash and property valued at about R200 000, $16 300 and US$340 in February, has been arrested wh...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
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