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Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'SADC must rally to cushion Zimbabwe against sanctions' argued Lumumba - Zanu PF apologist masquerading as intellectual
"I was disappointed myself when sanctions are levied against Zimbabwe, it is the people who suffer. Those in position of political power never suffer when there are sanctions," argued Professor P L O ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe democratic transformation requires strong middle class
IT has become apparent that Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu PF, is perpetually endangering democratic processes by not only weakening, but also decimating the opposition movement ahead of 2023 general e...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Anotida Chikumbu/ David Chikwaza
Foreign capital will never build Zimbabwe
LOVE it or hate it, the success of the Command Agriculture programme should force local banks to revise the long-held view of tying loans to collateral.If they identify bona fide indigenous pe...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:36hrs | | by Terence Mukupe
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II
'Inflation will be 10% by December' boasted Ncube - end corruption and pariah state curse
When the then Minister of Finance, Bernard Chidzero, introduced the 1990-1995 Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) he assured the people adjustment was routine and necessary in gearing the ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Mugabe's 1980 Cabinet - ages
Here are some things to PONDER onRobert Mugabe (56 yrs) - Prime MinisterSimon Muzenda (58 yrs) - Deputy Prime MinisterJoshua Nkomo (63 yrs)- Home AffairsEnos Nkala (48 yrs) - Finance...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Leadership is not about titles but it is inborn'
Naturally, the Britons have a great affinity for honours. This is due to various reasons. Some were hereditarily bestowed with titles such as knighthood, Lordship and were compelled to add a suffix af...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF proposes to give away platinum to foreign Capitalists
In 1991, the Zimbabwean economy took its first major dive with the adoption of the IMF/World bank neo-liberal "Economic Structural Adjustment Programme" (ESAP). In Zimbabwe, this process was headed by...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by ZCP
Minister Ncube's 2% tax caused 16% economic decline - austerity for pain's sake, no gain
"Finance minister Professor Mthuli Ncube introduced the 2% per every dollar transaction tax in October last year as part of his "austerity for posterity" measures in a development which saw him receiv...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:45hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Recent stay-away will NOT deliver the Zimbabwe we want - 'no planning and due diligence'!
"Demonstrations are planned and must be planned, how do you demonstrate without prior due diligence!" argued Nomazulu Thata in her recent article in Bulawayo24.Many, many things went wrong in ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 21:59hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Austerity does not bring prosperity - ED, stop destroying our lives, please!
Ever since the current economic crisis bedeviling Zimbabwe started, sometime around October, the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime has been at pains trying to reassure the nation that they were on to...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe has potential to become economic giant
When I listened to the remarks to the Press by Finance and Economic Development Minister Dr Mthuli Ncube after he was sworn in last September, I shared the same sentiments and fully supported him, lik...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Noah Manyika
We have been patient for 38 years - sorry ED, Zimbabweans don't have anymore patience to give!
I am always seized with amazement everytime anyone in the ruling ZANU PF party, especially its leader Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, pleads with Zimbabweans to be patient, as the government fixes the ec...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe Communist Party solidarity speech to ARTUZ conference
Long live the spirit of Joshua Nkomo!Long live the spirit of Josiah Tongogara!Long live the spirit of Lookout Masuku!Long live the spirit of Benjamin Burombo!Comrades,l...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Mnangagwa speaks on national budget
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday expressed mixed reactions to the 2019 National Budget statement with a majority saying it represented a bold, painful but very necessary step to return the country to prosperity....Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo dismisses Mthuli tax reforms
Former Industry and Trade minister Nkosana Moyo has dismissed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's tax reforms, noting that they do not address the real stem of the economic crisis, which is government's o...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 14:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo offers free advice to Mnangagwa and Mthuli Ncube
Statement on Fiscal and Monetary StatementsThe population is trying to understand what happened on 1st. October. Should they be happy, unhappy or indifferent?As APA and in my own capac...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 11:58hrs | | by Nkosana Moyo
Mthuli Ncube just the same as Chidzero
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary genral Ngqabutho Mabhena has said Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Prof Mthuli Ncube, is no different from the late Minister of Finance Dr Bernard ChidzeroHe s...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by STep[hen Jakes
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Daniel Ngwira
Economic war cabinet
After the noise and deliberate anti-development scheme by the opposition President Mnangagwa has appointed a new well balanced and surprising Cabinet. The nation is very anxious for change and the anx...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
As long as there is corruption Minister Mthuli will not do anything - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said even though President M=Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed some of the good brains in the country, that will not change any thing as long as corruption an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grand National Unity?
"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2 | by Igomombe
Mukupe enjoys good relationship with Chinamasa
Under-fire deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe has claimed he enjoys a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.This comes amid reports of fierce run-ins between the two a...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Challenges that have faced dialogue around Gukurahundi genocide
"The creation, arming and dispatching of Gukurahundi to this part of the country was not my role. It was the role of the security committee chaired by Mugabe whose members were Emmarson Munangwagwa, S...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Mpofu
When I met Mugabe behind a wall of fear
On each occasion that I happened to come across him a sense of fear consumed me. One day, in 1989, he visited our school. He looked so presidential and awfully detached behind his bodyguards. Then I s...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's timeline
Emmerson Mnangagwa was born on September 15, 1942. He did his early primary education in Zvishavane in the Midlands Province, before his family relocated to Zambia in 1955, where he attended Mumbwa Bo...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lets give Chombo a chance - MP
A Harare Zanu PF legislator Terence Mukupe has advised the citizens to stop panicking over the appointment of Ignatius Chombo as the new minister of Finance saying he must be given a chance as the pre...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Is the 'catch' slipping through Mnangagwa's jaws?
"Mugabe unveils heir," screamed one local newspaper on its front page the morning after President Robert Mugabe named the then Justice minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa as one of his two deputies in Decemb...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Mugabe or Mnangagwa go: Are Zimbabweans fixing their eyes on wrong goal posts?
Genesis 21:19 "And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink."History has shown that when dictators die order is ...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 21:22hrs | 2 | by Andrew Manyevere
Like the mighty Warriors: what's Zimbabwe's game plan?
It is the 117th minute of an African Cup of Nations final at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The match is tied 3-3. The Warriors are battling hard and creating chance after chance - wa...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 11:32hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Nkosana Moyo must take the gloves off
Last week, former Industry and International Trade minister, Nkosana Moyo, announced that he will be running for the presidency in next year's harmonised elections.He is arguably among the fin...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Britain did (and didn't) on Gukurahundi
CONTRARY to allegations that Western governments "did nothing" when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's army went on the rampage in the early 1980s, they may have helped prevent total slaughter. But ...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Stuart Doran Historian & Author
Is Patrick Chinamasa Ready for Ministerial Harakiri?
This year has been pretty hectic for my learned friend and former Cabinet colleague Zimbabwe Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Patrick is a consummate politician, who in spite of the negative pu...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Welshman Ncub
UN security counsel resolution on Zimbabwe necessary
" The gunfire around us, makes its difficult to hear. But the human voice is different, - among the sounds. It can be heard over voices that bury everything else! Eve...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 17:09hrs | | by Ken Sibanda
Chinamasa,Kombo Moyana clash over bond notes
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa continues to take brick-bats from Zimbabweans across the political divide with respected former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Kombo Moyana the latest high-profil...Published: 14 May 2016 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'People of Zimbabwe celebrated Independence day with heads bowed'
"If yesterday I fought as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself," bemeamed eloquently the charismatic Prime Minister M...Published: 05 May 2016 at 17:14hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira, a Political Scientist
Sad story of sell-outs in Zanu
BORN in Damba (now Mhangura) in 1940, John Makwasha whose Chimurenga name was Bayayi Mabhunu joined politics during the early 1960s during the days of the National Democratic Party after listening to ...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:23hrs | | by Chronicles from the Second Chimurenga
State of the Nation Statement by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
ZAPU Conference, Bulawayo Amphitheater, 17 December 2015 Invited guestsLeaders from our structuresParty membersLadies and Gentlemen...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 07:32hrs | 4 | by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
MDC-T expel Senator Hlalo, a Chamisa supporter, build up for yet another earthquake change!
MDC-T spokesperson Obert Gutu on Friday confirmed the party's national council resolved to expel MDC-T Senator Mattson Hlalo. The Senator is believed to be a Nelson Chamisa supporter. MDC-T has never ...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 17:42hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsholotsho wins relegation dogfight for now
Tsholotsho 1 - 0 WhaWha.TSHOLOTSHO FC emerged victorious from a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League dogfight at Luveve yesterday.Defender Thandolwenkosi Ncube's goal won the tie for the hom...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 07:43hrs | | by Ngqwele Dube
Joshua Nkomo was never a sellout and will never be - Job Sikhala
MDC-T senior member Job Wiwa Sikhala has added his voice in condemning the claims by vice president Emmrson Mnangagwa who said former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith confided in him that Joshua Nko...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bongani Mafu escorted from the dressing room by anti-riot police
Whawha 1-0 HighlandersUNDERFIRE Highlanders' coach Bongani Mafu had to be escorted from the dressing room by anti-riot police as Bosso fans bayed for his blood after the Bulawayo giants were h...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 08:24hrs | | by Lovemore Zigara
Zimbabwe summons Mwana Africa over indigenisation
Government will summon Mwana Africa’s management to Zimbabwe, amid concerns that the country’s indigenisation legislation has been violated during changes at the mining company.Changes in ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kalaa Mpinga booted out of Mwana Africa
Pan-African, multi-commodity mining company Mwana Africa PLC Wednesday announced the departure of Kalaa Mpinga as Chief Executive Officer of the Company with immediate effect.Yat Hoi Ning, fo...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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