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Air Zimbabwe to lease out two planes
Troubled flag carrier Air Zimbabwe is going to lease two Boeing passenger planes acquired from Malaysia pending re-introduction of direct flights to China and London, the administrator has said....Published: 30 mins ago | 32 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to be banned from Twitter?
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) has been shopped to Twitter over bigoted and racist comments made on the social media platform on February 17.The comments were made in a 39-part rant in w...Published: 1 hr ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police launch blitz on protesters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested 34 suspects on Thursday night as part of a crackdown on MDC youths who participated in a flash demonstration in Harare on Wednesday.According to the...Published: 3 hrs ago | 244 | 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: 14 hrs ago | 3982 | by Staff reporter
Russians to build US$1,5 billion fuel pipeline in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has roped in the Russian government to fund the construction of a second fuel pipeline worth US$1,5 billion, in a deal that will see three other ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 07:04hrs | 10433 | by Paul Ndou
Zim's EFF makes new appointment
THE Economic Freedom Fighters Zimbabwe (EFF Zimbabwe) has appointed Rudariro Dickson Mapuranga as its national spokesperson.This is revealed in a letter written by EFF Zimbabwe preside...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:40hrs | 3035 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa, Biti, Sikhala clash over MDC Masvingo executive dissolution
MDC vice president Tendai Biti and national deputy chairperson Job Sikhala last Sunday came to the rescue of the under fire MDC Masvingo provincial executive which party president Nelson Chamisa...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1821 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to adopt automated pre-paid parking system
The city council here has moved to adopt an automated pre-paid parking system as a measure to mitigate financial leakages and corruption allegations levelled against tolling marshals.Speaking ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
PSL set season schedule
THIS year's Castle Lager Premier Soccer League is expected to start at the end of March after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) yesterday announced the fixture date for the curtain raising Castle Challe...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents concerned over limited intervention in water problems
RESIDENTS have expressed worry over lack of solutions to Bulawayo's water crisis amid reports the city's supply dams have recorded only 1% water inflows since the onset of the rains.Council la...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Investors desert Zimbabwe stock market
FAILURE by foreign investors to repatriate funds has led to massive disinvestment on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) with investments plummeting to 25% in 2019 from 52% in 2016.This comes as...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commissioner quits
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has with immediate effect parted ways with Commissioner Mrs Netty Musanhu over a long-standing matter of conflict of interest. In a stat...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
BAZ calls for community radio and television licence applications
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has made a call for applications from Zimbabweans wishing to operate community radio, television and campus stations.Six free to air national comme...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda trial date set
THE trial of Njube-Lobengula Member of Parliament, Gift Banda, who is facing charges of forging signatures of a Bulawayo man resulting in him losing a residential stand worth US$60 000, has been set f...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:34hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prison mbanje project gets approval
Commercial mbanje production is expected to start on 10 hectares at Chiredzi Prison after the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) completed feasibility studies recently. The inno...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:29hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing US$400m to oil pipeline cartels
ZIMBABWE is losing US$400 million annually in potential oil revenue due to Sakunda Holdings' untenable monopoly over the Beira-Harare fuel pipeline, it has emerged.Sources in government and th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1753 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP criticises Polad
FORMER Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator, Irene Zindi has questioned the relevance of Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), which she accused of acting as an appendage of Parliament while gobbling huge Sta...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:29hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commissions nothing but a waste of taxpayers money
The meeting that took place between ZANU-PF president Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa , who is also the chief architect of the Matabeleland Gukurahundi Genocide and so called Matabeleland Civic Society (fo...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 192 | by Mr Mbonisi Gumbo
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 66 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Chamisa refuses to be associated with Tagwirei
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected as untrue, claims that fuel tycoon and Sakunda Holdings boss Kudakwashe Tagwirei bought him a car, adding th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 4505 | by Staff reporter
Fuel situation to improve
THE Government has assured members of the public that the fuel situation in the country will improve starting from today after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe allocated foreign currency to some indigenou...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:27hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Businessman in $4,2m money-laundering scam
The director of a construction company in Harare has been arrested on charges of money-laundering and fraud involving over $4,2 million.Tempter Tungwarara of Paulos Construction yesterday appe...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1369 | by Staff reporter
De Klerk, Mnangagwa in same WhatsApp group
FORMER apartheid South Africa leader Willem de Klerk torched a storm last week when he said apartheid was not a crime against humanity.De Klerk made the remarks in television interviews to mar...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1526 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
1% inflows in Bulawayo dams
BULAWAYO water supply dams have recorded a one percent increase in capacity following rains received last week. In a statement, Bulawayo Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, said the minimal inflows were ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:34hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Maize scam sucks in GMB executives
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were yesterday accused of allocating subsidised maize to millers who are allegedly diverting it to the black market and countries like the Democratic Repu...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1084 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
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 | 4619 | by Cliff Chiduku
GMB executives implicated in grain scam
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were today fingered in a maize subsidy abuse scam through allocation of grain to undeserving people who would divert it onto the black market and neighbou...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe to name street after Tsvangirai
KWEKWE is mulling naming one of its streets after the late main opposition MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, after councillors moved a motion at a recent full council meeting.The develop...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
RBZ sets inflation targets
ZIMBABWE is projected to record single digit monthly inflation this quarter with annual inflation seen coming down to about 50 percent by the end of the year. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Go...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda defends docking Chamisa MPs allowances
MDC-Alliance legislators must be charged with contempt of court for their failure to respect President Mnangagwa during Parliamentary proceedings after the Constitutional Court ruled that he was duly ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Forex retention thresholds deterring production
The prevailing foreign currency retention thresholds to various sectors of the economy are acting ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 13:36hrs | 1161 | by Victor Bhoroma
Forex accounts are safe, secure, says Dr Mangudya
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has reassured holders of free funds that their funds are safe and secure in Zimbabwe as the bank has no appetite to temper with the legal status of the public's foreign cu...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:56hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt reduces farm sizes
Government has streamlined the sizes of all individual farms in the country's five ecological regions, in a move that will see more people having access to land after failing to benefit from the land ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 2162 | by Staff reporter
Transport crisis hits Zimbabwe prisons
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has been hard hit by a transport crisis, amid reports that the country's 46 prisons are being serviced by 11 security vehicles. Mechanical...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:04hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Kariba water challenges worsen
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has further reduced the allocation of water for power generation at Kariba hydro-power station for 2020, which will result in suppressed electricity supplies from the...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Where is the empathy from the regime
YESTERDAY, February 14, Zimbabweans in relationships celebrated Valentine's Day. It is a day that has been commercialised, but its origins may not have changed much over the centuries — celebrating ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:09hrs | 557 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Does Trafigura have a monopoly on the fuel pipeline?
The agreement between Government through the National Oil Infrastructure Company and Trafigura does not permit the commodities firm to exceed 40% market share. This has resulted in capacity utilizatio...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:56hrs | 1967 | by FinX
Govt to upgrade Beitbridge hospital
THE government is considering upgrading the status of Beitbridge District Hospital to a superior institution, Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo said on Friday.Such an upgrade is envi...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:46hrs | 151 | 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 | 271 | by Staff reporter
Priority shifts to investigations, asset recovery
The commission has so far this year received more than 60 reports of suspected corruption.The reports were received through walk-in clients, by telephone, through letters, email and use of soc...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:32hrs | 95 | by Comm John Makamure
Bulawayo abandons solar traffic light installations
THE Bulawayo City Council has expressed concern over the rampant vandalisation of solar traffic lights in the city forcing the municipality to abandon new installations.Addressing journalists ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:28hrs | 308 | by newzimbabwe
MDC MPs probed for walking out on Mnangagwa
PARLIAMENT has started investigations into a series of alleged misconduct acts by the main opposition MDC MPs who either refused to stand up for President Emmerson Mnangagwa when attending Parliament ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:19hrs | 136 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 4434 | by George Mkhwanazi
Mobile banking, FinTech services under threat as critical upgrade costs soar
Digital mobile banking in Zimbabwe has matured beyond the proof-of-concept stage into mainstream adoption where it is servicing millions, driving local transaction volumes and furthering financial inc...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1339 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7547 | by Staff reporter
Zacc won't be used to settle personal scores
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lethargic approach in the fight against corruption has raised the spectre of distrust towards his administration's will to fight graft. The appointment of Loice ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zanu-PF factional fights crippling economic recovery
THE factional fights which have erupted yet again in Zanu-PF following the suspension of youth league leaders betrays the ruling party's pre-occupation with power struggles at the expense of an implod...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Tsenengamu defiance irks Zanu-PF
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu, who have remained defiant in their anti-corruption campaign, face expulsion from the ruling party after it tasked its commissariat ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2563 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a tainted legacy
IT is admittedly too early to judge what sort of legacy President Emmerson Mnangagwa will leave when his reign ends.The early signs are, however, worrying and pointing to a disastrous legacy.H...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 515 | by Owen Gagare
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