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Chiwenga faction attacks Mnangagwa allies?
Tensions within Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party are reaching a boiling point as Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's military-backed faction takes a hard stance against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 15:02hrs | 4755 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's bold plan to dismantle the 'Deep State'
In a sweeping statement, former President Donald Trump has outlined his comprehensive plan to dismantle what he refers to as the "Deep State," a term he uses to describe the entrenched bureaucratic ap...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:56hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
ACBF launches plan to support Zimbabwe bureaucrats
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has launched its inaugural leadership development programme in Zimbabwe, aimed at addressing governance challenges and building the capacity of pub...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:00hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ruined Zanu-PF business empire
THE predictable appointment of FBC Holdings chief executive John Mushayavanhu as the incoming Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor has completed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's critical post-electio...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 18:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Mnangagwa
Dear President Mnangagwa,I WRITE this letter to you with a heavy heart, as a disability rights activist, lawyer and a Zimbabwean citizen.December 3 is a day set aside by the United Nat...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:29hrs | 8 | by Abraham Mateta
It's time for a new Zimbabwe currency
ZIMBABWE'S official month-on-month inflation figure for May was reported at 75,4% (CPI), by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats).The annual inflationary pressures for...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 09:57hrs | 9 | by Kevin Tutani
Mnangagwa ally's diplomatic flaws exposed
A UNITED Kingdom-based commentator says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to London for the coronation of King Charles III exposed the weakness of the Foreign Affairs ministry in diplomatic planning...Published: 09 May 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs secretary in meddling storm
HOME Affairs permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji has been accused of meddling in a case where he made attempts to summon his counterpart, secretary for Local Government ministry Zvinechimwe Churu, on be...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Uneducated' politicians to be locked out of Zimbabwe councils
GOVERNMENT is finalising a new law to bar politicians without tertiary education qualifications from running for local authority seats in a development meant to restore competency and improve service ...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lavished with gifts worth millions by corrupt investors
EUBERT Angel, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-Large for Europe and the Americas, suggested to undercover Al Jazeera reporters who were posing as Chinese gangsters seeking to launder over ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers earn ZW$39 636 (US$33)
THE impoverishment of professionals by the government has reached heart-rending levels, but those who dare complain are often victimised, leaving public sector workers feeling helpless in the face of ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt withdraws Xmas goodies for bigwigs
BIGWIGS in government will this year not be pampered with Christmas goodies, such as end of year hampers as the Finance ministry seeks to curb excessive spending.In the past, civil service bur...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa MPs jostle for US$40,000 housing loan
PARLIAMENTARIANS are legally bound to service the recently extended US$40 000 residential stands loans at an interest rate of 5% for the next five years.Some MPs have offered vehicles as colla...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff rteporter
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe govt officials too corrupt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says there is rampant abuse of public funds by government bureaucrats by flouting procurement procedures, crippling service delivery.Addressing delegates at the pr...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles 'deadwood'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced new key appointments in his office and Cabinet, amid concern former top bureaucrats were bouncing back.Amongst those returning to serve in influentia...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blows top over govt bureaucrats
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Cabinet ministers and top civil servants to desist from frustrating potential investors by sleeping on duty.Speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony at Di...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wants to reverse outward-bound trips for healthcare
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has said Zimbabwe should be the preferred destination for healthcare services.He made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf at the ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ailing govt splurges millions on ministers
GOVERNMENT will soon splurge millions of United States (US) dollars to buy luxury homes for Cabinet ministers and their deputies at a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs 'blocking' parastatal reforms
CONCERTED efforts by Treasury to push for key parastatal reform and privatisation of the loss-making entities have been frustrated by some hawkish cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats, who have fo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'ignores' High Court ruling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has "ignored" a High Court ruling which lifted the suspension of Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, recognising councillor Stewart Mutizwa as the acting mayor.It emerged t...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change in Zimbabwe is a big word and act
THIS country requires to make hard decisions and act in a radical manner for any sensible economic transformation to be upon us. However, we are expecting change of our economic fortunes using the sam...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Brian Sedze
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Nkosana Moyo queries Mnangagwa's wasteful use of resources
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been advised to do away with the culture of splurging on top of the range vehicles for ministers and top bureaucrats and instead use the funds to develop the country....Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs, securocrats line children up for Youth league posts
FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service ch...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN wildlife protection agency 'violates' its own trade regulating rules
The United Nations international wild trade regulating agency, CITES, continues to go through a dark passage from which it will likely emerge as the destroyer, rather than the saviour, of the world's ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Emmanuel Koro
Chamisa's greatest betrayal of Zimbabweans
On the 20th February, leader of the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, Nelson Chamisa, pronounced that him and his party did not have any ideology or any goals or objectives....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga cancels road deal while Mnangagwa is on leave
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga allegedly pushed for the unilateral termination of a US$2 billion tender awarded to South African firm Khato Holdings for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Victoria...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa contracts gimmick dismissed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to tie his Cabinet ministers to performance contracts is an exercise in futility as long as the Treasury does not provide adequate funding for operations, commen...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC promises US$100bn economy
THE MDC Alliance has said if voted into power in 2023, it will transform Zimbabwe's ailing economy into a US$100 billion economy.This was said on Saturday by the party's secretary for policy d...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo ran a good race
AS THE country hurtles towards next year's by-elections and the 2023 harmonised national elections, President Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to shun violence and embrace unity and love as was e...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to violence, divisions
AS THE country hurtles towards next year's by-elections and the 2023 harmonised national elections, President Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to shun violence and embrace unity and love as was e...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conference lacked strategic imperatives for economic growth
THE Zanu-PF conference is of strategic importance due to its potential of providing simultaneous and sequential signal on the general direction or economic trajectory of the country. It is also not fa...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Zimbabwe's education system is outdated
Former Education minister Fay Chung says Zimbabwe's education system was designed to last for at least 20 years, but now has been in use for over 40 years, rendering it outdated.Chung (FC), wh...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind forex dealers?
NO matter how well-meaning and determined, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions are ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Nathan Gurira
Sanctions are real, but we're shooting ourselves in the foot
No matter how well-meaning and determined the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions that ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Nathan Gurira
'Let's protect the gains of our independence'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ZIMBABWE DEFENCE FORCES HIS EXCELLENCY, CDE. ED MNANGAGWA AT THE BURIAL OF NATIONAL HERO DR MARIYO MARIYAWANDA NZUWAH ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AT T...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
SADC leadership ignores wildlife conservation as COVID-19 cripples tourism
The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly refusing to go away and is causing great damage in Africa — to both humankind and the tourism industry. This, in turn, is drastically reducing the income needed to c...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Bad deals hold back Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S development trajectory remains under threat from nepotism and corruption, the Zimbabwe Coalition for Debt and Development (Zimcodd) said last week.Zimcodd said this concoction of go...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
On land, Mugabe walked path other African leaders would not
Forget what you may have read in Western press about the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Forget the propaganda and Western hate. Forgive the excesses of his rule – human rights abuse and ex...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by John Kamau
NGOs call govt to order
A COALITION of 10 youth civic society organisations (CSOs) has vowed that it will not take orders from Harare provincial development coordinator Tafadzwa Muguti and implored Local Government minister ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe yet to enact laws to curb mineral smuggling
WHILE deliberations continue over joining an international group formed to reduce corruption in mining countries, Zimbabwe continues to lose billions of dollars from the smuggling of extracted resourc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$18m tender scandal rocks Office of President
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has been implicated in a multi-million-dollar tender scandal after top bureaucrats tried to smuggle a losing bidder through the back door, the Zimbabwe In...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
When clowns sup at State House, it's trouble, serious trouble!
Pretoria mornings are now cold. It is a geographical axiom winter is for chills.Increasingly here, the weather is biting and unrelenting like a witch's tit as assumed.Early morning jog...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:40hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Ministry to splurge US$1m on cars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cash-strapped government is set to splurge at least US$1 million on 35 new off-road double cab Toyota vehicles for top bureaucrats in the Home Affairs ministry.I...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Eddie Cross
'Lands ministry haven for corruption cartels'
A GOVERNMENT investigation, whose preliminary findings have been submitted to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has exposed rampant corruption at the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resett...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Real change is what the people want
NOVEMBER 17, 2017 marked the end of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's reign, who had tormented the people of Zimbabwe since 1980.The Zimbabwe Defence Forces intervened and made Mugabe's...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Fanuel
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