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Zimra intensifies audits
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has intensified audits as part of efforts to plug revenue leakages on Zimbabwe's ports of entry amid indications the economy is losing billions annually through ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 3164 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Beitbridge border post on 1 December 2020
Government announced Tuesday that it intends to phase the re-opening of Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda, and Forbes border posts from 1 December.Zimbabwe which is us...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 7916 | by Staff reporter
Political parties go all out campaigning for by-elections
Zimbabwe's political parties - Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance and MDC-T - are going all out campaigning ahead of anticipated by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1160 | by Staff Reporter
Zimdollar remains solid against Trump's dollar
For the second week running, the Zimbabwe dollar was virtually unchanged against the US dollar at the weekly auction, shifting just one two hundreth of one percent to $81,3499 from last week's $81,345...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Oskido mourns his father Esaph Mdlongwa
South African based award winning artist Oskido has posted an obituary mourning his father Esaph Mdlongwa who passed away at Bulawayo's Mater Dei hospital on Thursday. ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 10:22hrs | 4472 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube glosses over crisis?
"WE are not shrinking," said Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, while giving an economic update at a press conference last Monday.The minister said that while countries such as the United States, ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:52hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education in crisis
That Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis is open to everyone to see. What is disheartening is the choreographed denial by the ZANU PF government. The ZANU PF government has been driving Zimbabwe towa...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:16hrs | 5822 | by Staff Reporter
Cellphones for prison inmates
INMATES in prisons have not been spared from the effects of Covid-19 pandemic as they have gone for six months without seeing their loved ones as visits have remained suspended due to lockdown restric...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clarifies $60 COVID-19 fee at ports of entry
Zimbabwe government spokesperson and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana has clarified on the issue of the payment of $60 for COVID-1...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:34hrs | 6401 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, govt clash over schools opening
The standoff between the government and teachers yesterday reached tipping point with all teachers' unions declaring total job action while government sought to placate the angry educators and at the ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 08:26hrs | 3990 | by Staff reporter
Pasture depletion adds misery to Matabeleland South
A serious shortage of pastures for live stock has brought more misery to villagers in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are already affected by the socioeconomic im pact of the Covid19 pandemic...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Soda Zhemu unhappy with pace of rural electrification
The 6% rural electrification fund (REF) levy is not adequate to fund the programme to power rural communities, leaving most parts of rural communities, Energy Minister Soda Zhemu has said.Comm...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Water rationing hours to be reduced
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is now working 24 hours a day on the Epping Forest Borehole Project in Nyamandlovu, a move meant to ease water problems in Bulawayo by end of next month....Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Marked decline in SA returnees
THE South African government's relaxation of Covid19 restrictions to Level 1 has seen a reduction in Zimbabwean nationals seeking to be repatriated home, Zimbabwe's chief envoy to South Africa, Ambass...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands courts to speed up trial of child gruesome murder
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has condemned the brutal killing of young children for ritual purposes in the wake of the death of a sevenyearold Murewa boy, whose mutilated body was found while being fe...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:13hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Salary top-up for civil servants
GOVERNMENT will this week pay civil servants an additional Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) allowance, while salary negotiations continue.Civil servants are expected to start receiving the add...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spells out Zimbabwe successes
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa last week underlined Zimbabwe's economic gains to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), giving the world an accurate depiction of the economic transformation being undertaken...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Govt recruits 6 000 teachers
Government has scrapped Second Term school fees, while 6 000 teachers are being recruited ahead of the phased reopening of schools starting tomorrow.This comes amid reports that a crash progra...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Vigilance needed as Zimbabwe prepares to easy the lockdown
As Zimbabwe begins to ease the lockdown measures instituted to control the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk of a resurgence of the pandemic. Most people mistakenly took the Lockdown as a sort of a h...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 357 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tsikamutandas wreak havoc in Bulilima San community
SELF-PROCLAIMED witch-hunters, commonly known as tsikamutandas, have flooded the San community in Makhulela Village, Bulilima where they claim to be "cleansing the area". Notorious for preying...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Schools to reopen in 3 phases
GOVERNMENT has announced a three-phased plan for the reopening of schools, with the last group ECD, grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and forms 1 and 2 resuming classes on November 9 after an almost six-month-long...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 3341 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK living with the aftermath of Covid-19
Many Zimbabweans in the UK who contracted COVID 19 have recovered. This brought joy and hope not only for the recovered but for the world at large. While the vast majority of those who contract Covid-...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1850 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Leonard Dembo's music will live on - Tendai Dembo
Born Tendai Dembo on 8 August 1987 in Harare Zimbabwe, Tendai is the second born in a family of three siblings of the late sungura musical icon Kwangwari Gwaendepi popularly known as Leonard Dembo or ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:30hrs | 1416 | by Leonard Koni
Civil servants forex payment extended
GOVERNMENT has pledged to extend the foreign currency non-taxable Covid-19 allowance for civil servants and pensioners to December as it maintains its position of providing a living wage for its emplo...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2673 | by Staff reporter
ICAC demands lifting of Ecowas embargo against Mali
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus and Other Pandemics (ICAC) has demanded the lifting of the ECOWAS embargo against Mali and the immediate release of its Vice President Pulcherie Edith G...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 270 | by Stephen Jakes
President Mnangagwa boasts about his achievements
Two years ago today, I was inaugurated as your President. I vowed to serve Zimbabwe and its people so that we could move towards a more prosperous future. Here's what we have achieved in this time....Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2785 | by President Emmerson Mnangagwa
Indian Premier League set to take place in UAE between September and November.
Indian Premier League 2020 to take place in UAEThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have worked in tandem with the tournament organisers and Ind...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:34hrs | 139 | by Staff writer
Govt concerned over COVID-19 violations
GOVERNMENT has raised concern over unnecessary movement of people in violation of COVID-19 protocols in urban areas and encouraged people to travel only when absolutely necessary.Information, ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt intransigence self-destructive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa administration's intransigence towards overtures by the African Union (AU) and various civic organisations to urgently address Zimbabwe's drawn out political and economic ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 632 | by Golden Maunganidze
Zanu-PF politburo tells off bishops
ZANU-PF's politburo yesterday dismissed as malicious claims by Catholic bishops in the country that the government was carrying out human rights abuses and instilling fear among the populace, the Dail...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec's apartheid examinations must fail!
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council, ZIMSEC once again announced an exclusionary examinations' calendar. Grade 7, Ordinary level and Advanced level examinations are to be conducted this November ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1043 | by Artuz
Kidnapping of Ivorian Civil Society Coalition President, Edith Gbal condemned
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus and other Pandemics for African Development, CICC-DA, has condemned the kidnapping of the President of the Ivorian Civil Society Coalition, Pulchér...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 1124 | by Stephen Jakes
FULL TEXT: Adventist Lawyers' damning statement on Mnangagwa
On the 13 of February 2020, we issued a statement condemning corruption in our society and calling on Government to the following values,I. That though justice must be deliberate yet it cannot...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 19:44hrs | 6185 | by Adventist Lawyers Association
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary, 8 family members test Covid-19 positive
FINANCE Ministry secretary George Guvamatanga and his entire family of nine members had to be quarantined after they tested positive for Covid-19.Although details of how they got infected rema...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 799 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
D-day for Hopewell Chin'ono
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is having his fresh bid for freedom heard at the Magistrate on Wednesday.He is appearing at Rottenrow Magistrates Court represented by senior journalist Beatrice M...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 10:24hrs | 5090 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC rolls out e-learning facilities at schools
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started rolling out e-learning facilities at its schools as learning institutions remain closed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.E-learning is seen as the o...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:08hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 has deepened inequalities, says Minister Nyoni
THE impact of COVID-19 has deepened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities particularly for women and girls, with more cases of gender-based violence (GBV) being reported, the Women's Affairs minis...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Cancel African public debts, ethics committees of African scientists must be formed
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa has demanded the cancellation of African public debts and establishment of the ethics committees of African scientists before an...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 142 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU PF and Wrong Priorities
United Nations is begging the world for US$250million to urgently feed starving Zimbabweans whilst the Zimbabwean government is looking for US$3.5billion to pay 4000 colonial white farmers. There has ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 2343 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
ZANU PF shows ANC the middle finger
ZANU PF takes exception to the utterances that have been attributed to Cde Ace Magashule, the Secretary-General of the ANC where he appears hoodwinked by those seeking to destabilize Zimbabwe through ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 19:50hrs | 10866 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
'Zimbabwe human rights abuse videos and pics are old and fake' Governmnet says
The Government of Zimbabwe has refuted allegations of human rights abuses which it says has been peddled by known political activists and misinformed individuals and global actors.In a stateme...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:00hrs | 2538 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1187 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Silly protest threats must stop! Covid-19 is Real
Covid19 is real and we have real challenges that require all Zimbabweans regardless of political affiliations to put heads together on how we can survive this. Opposition supporters are crowded in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 521 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 393 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Reprieve for dead Zimbabweans in South Africa
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA has been a granted a special waiver to facilitate the the repatriation of bodies of deceased Zimbabweans during Covid19 pandemic period, Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 11:20hrs | 4067 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 480 | by ED Mnangagwa
Bulawayo residents eager to see Ekusileni Medical Centre open
Bulawayo East MDC Alliance legislator Ilos Nyoni said residents of Bulawayo have been waiting anxiously for the opening of Ekusileni Medical centre as a Covid19 admission hospital since the onset of t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 170 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1564 | by Leonard Koni
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1688 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
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