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Mnangagwa courts Chinese
Chinese firms should take full advantage of the upgrading of relations between Harare and Beijing to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to invest in Zimbabwe where their investments will be given p...Published: 10 hrs ago | 259 | by Staff reporter
EU lifted sanctions to join in looting of diamonds - not fooled by elephant dung smelling hyena
When the EU Foreign Ministers decided NOT to impose new and tougher sanctions on the Mnangagwa regime for failing to hold free, fair and credible elections last July and for using excessive violence ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2627 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Developers for Batoka Dam scheme short-listed
At a meeting held at the David Livingstone Hotel in Livingstone, the Council of Minister's approved the short-listing of a Consortium of General Electric of USA and Power Corporation of China, Salini ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 499 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under pressure to fire incompetent ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under pressure from senior Zanu-PF officials to reshuffle cabinet, which has failed to turn around the imploding economy, the Zimbabwe Independent understands.M...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2558 | by Staff reporter
Mnanagwa's mega projects stall
AFTER earning the uncanny title of "Mr Groundbreaking" for his vast portfolio of much-publicised investment "mega deals" which are taking rather too long to be implemented, President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 24 hrs ago | 723 | by Staff reporter
Journalism needs overhaul
Zimbabwean journalist Haru Mutasa recently drew fire from some local journalists and social media couch potatoes - many of whom masquerade as experts on each and every issue - when she pointed out the...Published: 24 hrs ago | 189 | by Conway Tutani
Robert Mugabe a hero and a true patriot
Cde Robert Mugabe tendered his resignation as the president of Zimbabwe on the 21 st September 2017. This came about after a bloodless army intervention. The man who became a hero and fought many stro...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 09:35hrs | 2130 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa, the Statesman versus Chamisa, the charlatan
"A Statesman thinks about future generations, while a politician thinks about winning the elections" so goes the popular saying. This adage rings true to the Zimbabwean scenario.When there was...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:29hrs | 4567 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa to replace POSA with Peace & Order Bill
CABINET yesterday approved the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill which seeks to repeal the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), Protection of Personal Information Bill and the Freedom of Informatio...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 22:36hrs | 1372 | by Staff reporter
China spends $2,5 billion on Zimbabwe
China has spent $2,5 billion on Zimbabwe, which is by far the highest amount of money it has ever advanced to any African country.Speaking at the 2019 Spring Festival Gala held in Harare on Su...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:47hrs | 1820 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa purges Chiwenga top allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has purged top military commanders suspected to be aligned to his ailing deputy Constantino Chiwenga in a move seen as consolidating his hold on power and scuttling anothe...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | 3186 | by Staff reporter
'China has confidence in Mnangagwa'
China is confident Zimbabwe will achieve its developmental goals under the leadership of President Mnangagwa, whose reforms will transform the economy and attract more investors, the Asian giant's act...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
National dialogue: Chamisa misdirecting himself
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met with the 2018 presidential election candidates at State House on 6 February to lay the ground work for national dialogue, which is aimed at forging unity in order to f...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 10:50hrs | 1272 | by Nobleman Runyanga
3 reasons why it's all going wrong for Mnangagwa
HOW did things turn so bad for Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa?He won the disputed July 30 2018 elections, but even before the results were officially announced, protesters were being ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1083 | by Stephen Chan
We can import knowledge, technology to boost the economy
AS our government continues with the belief that borrowing money is one of the means to kickstart the economy, perhaps they can be reminded that they can also import new knowledge and technology, whic...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 106 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa's govt unfazed by EU sanctions threat
Government yesterday said it was not worried by the threat from the European Union (EU) Parliament to tighten sanctions against the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration, insisting that they...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:05hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
The paradox of Chete Chete! Emerging understandings in 2019
Pursuant to last week's instalment, an erstwhile barrister in the making, Zwelithini Xaba gave a candid response on how Nelson Chamisa and his generational consensus are a façade. But the budding bar...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 487 | by Michael Mhlanga
Mnangagwa sued over NPRC lifespan
MDC Alliance proportional representation legislator Concillia Chinanzvavana, who is a survivor of torture in 2008, has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the Masvingo High Court, seeking to force h...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:15hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Bosso off to Eastern Highlands
BULAWAYO soccer giants Highlanders on Wednesday moved their training camp to the Eastern Highlands after spending seven days in Matopos and began another leg away from the hustle and bustle of the Cit...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
More foreigners at Dembare
DYNAMOS' appetite for foreigners is showing no signs of abating with the Harare giants coach Lloyd Chigowe (pictured) yesterday revealing that the club is expecting two more players from Ivory Coast t...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project comes to life, says Mthuli
A flurry of activity over the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project is expected in the next few weeks amid indications that the updating of feasibility studies would be concluded at the end of the first...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pesters South Africa for lines of credit
Zimbabwe's government continues to explore avenues of attracting lines of credit from neighbouring South Africa after the continent's most prosperous nation rebuffed an earlier request by Harare for a...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya in bitter fight over new Zimdollar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to intervene in a growing turf war between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and his boss Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on the path Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 15:51hrs | 19739 | by Staff reporter
Regional support thwarts regime change agenda
Zimbabwe has recently been on an onslaught from the West, who have been using local opposition parties and Non-Governmental Organisations in attempts to destabilise the country. The actions of the opp...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 10:46hrs | 1338 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Zimbabwe new dumping ground for second hand Chinese chrome smelters
Zimbabwe has become a target for Chinese companies that are looking at dumping second-hand chrome smelters following the promulgation of an environmental law prohibiting use of heavy environmentally u...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1066 | by Business Times
Chiwenga's coup strategy exposed
FEAR of treason charges and a possible counter-coup that then Justice minister Happyton Bonyongwe tried to set up around now Agriculture minister Retired Chief Air Marshal Perrance Shiri spurred delic...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5070 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos to unveil new-look squad
THE Dynamos executive will not put coach Lloyd Chigowe under immense pressure to deliver silverware in his first full season although they believe he can take the team back to the Champions' League. ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Bosso kick out 'age cheating' goalkeeper
HIGHLANDERS have severed ties with former Mutare City Rovers goalkeeper, Alfredy Chiname, after discovering that the player falsified his age less than a month after penning a two-year deal. B...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's knobkerrie located
The late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo's knobkerrie is safe with the family and will never be passed on to someone who is not a family member, his son Sibangilizwe Nkomo revealed on Wednesday.S...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 17:46hrs | 8776 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parliament to summon Mupfumira
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment and Tourism will summon the minister of Environment Prisca Mupfumira over the continued destruction of wetlands in Harare.Committee chairpe...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:18hrs | 2420 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts UAE market
Zimbabwe has dangled lucrative tourism opportunities to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Zimbabwean diasporans living in the Middle East amid hope of drawing investments into the tourism industry wh...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 08:55hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Bosso drops Madeya
HIGHLANDERS will be loaning out goalkeeper Nedrick Madeya after securing the services of former Bantu Rovers and Bulawayo City's Wellington Muuya and ex-Mutare City Rovers' Alfred Chiname.Made...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:36hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
5G transforming tech
5G, which stands for "fifth generation," is an upcoming standard for mobile telecommunications service that promises to be significantly faster than today's 4G technology. It will allow users to brows...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | 686 | by Enos Denhere
Criticism of Ncube's Oxford professorship part of an anti-Zimbabwe plot
Last week a British freelance writer covering teaching, learning and student issues, as well as higher education in Africa and the Middle East, Anna McKie let the world in on the increasingly rabid ob...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 11:55hrs | 3026 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks kicked off, but not without confusion
IF you do not organise the people into productive sectors, they will organise themselves into disruptive activities.The talks about the talks have finally kicked off, but not without confusion...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:53hrs | 2032 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Local assembly cars for ministers & MPs
Government is weighing the option of purchasing vehicles for ministers and parliamentarians from local vehicle assemblers to promote the domestic industry and reduce foreign currency expenditure in li...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Sadomba to captain Dynamos
DYNAMOS coach Lloyd Chigowe has given the captain's armband to veteran striker Edward Sadomba.Chigowe, who has pleaded with Dynamos fans to lower their expectations from his new look side this...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:54hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue hits dead end
AN ad hoc meeting of last year's presidential candidates, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa hastily convened on Wednesday in an effort to lay the groundwork for national dialogue, ended in futility a...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:55hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi commission can't probe military crimes against civilians'
AMID high political temperatures, violent protests and a military crackdown on civilians, the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is seized with the mammoth task of healing a wounded n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:52hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's unskilled ministers to be sent to China
THE Chinese embassy is organising seminars in Beijing for Zimbabwean cabinet ministers and bureaucrats to help them learn how to engage top investors and financial institutions in the world's second l...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2278 | by Staff reporter
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
No armoury was broken into, says Matemadanda
Deputy Defence minister, Victor Matemadanda, yesterday said no armoury was broken into during the recent violent protests, contradicting Zimbabwe Defence Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Douglas Ny...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:43hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Isolated Mnangagwa to punish renegade soldiers?
Whistleblower Prisca Mutema has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been isolated by his colleagues in the Politiburo due to his reformist stance. She claims that a strong group ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1716 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Britain must stop duplicity, treachery
HE outburst by British Minister for Africa, Harriet Baldwin, that the United Kingdom has all but lost confidence in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is unfortunate.Not that we supported t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 19:53hrs | 3050 | by Editorial - newsday
Opposition, West respect Zimbabweans' vote
On 30 July 2018, Zimbabweans went to the polls looking for their best foot forward. While the other 22 Presidential aspirants laid bare their intentions during electioneering, the incumbent and ultima...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:11hrs | 3824 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Perm Sec recalled over growing rift with minister
The minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Sekai Nzenza, has surrendered back her permanent secretary, Judith Kateera, after the two clashed over the running of the crucial government ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:06hrs | 7269 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Chamisa has right to snub dialogue meeting
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says it is MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's democratic right to boycott a dialogue meeting he had called for the country's political leadership at State House on Wednesday....Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:50hrs | 3396 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa wins court challenge
Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi yesterday had the last laugh after the Constitutional Court (Concourt) ruled that an application challenging his appointment to the esteemed offices was filed out of ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1585 | by Staff reporter
Muuya joins Highlanders
GOALKEEPER, Wellington Muuya, completed his move to Highlanders yesterday after successfully terminating his contract with Zifa Southern Region Division One League side, Bulawayo City. Muuya, ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:53hrs | 1443 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa panics...sends Perence Shiri to Kenya
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not at ease with the coming SADC and AU Head of States Summit that might discuss the recent developments in Zimbabwe after South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa disp...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 16:21hrs | 29129 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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