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Mnangagwa faces uphill task to re-engage world
Zimbabwe's chances of re-engaging with some of the world's biggest economies are fast fading away after the latest wave of human rights abuses by government security organs which according to civil so...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2554 | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1800 | by Staff rpeorter
Internet shutdown costs govt millions of dollars
THE government lost millions of dollars through delayed revenue inflows due to the slow processing of imports and exports after the switching off internet services countrywide.Government threw...Published: 11 hrs ago | 546 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 517 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe's internet clampdown: A tale of absurdities
When the current crop of leaders in government executed a clever coup that drove out Robert Mugabe in November 2017, most of us overestimated their ability to think. Those guys are just a dumb lump of...Published: 11 hrs ago | 221 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Is Mthwakazi Independence Achievable?'
Mthwakazi Research Institute, registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in South Africa, through a research that lasted for 3 months, from October 2018 to December 2018, answe...Published: 12 hrs ago | 252 | by Mthwakazi Research Institute
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 12 hrs ago | 271 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
MDC-Alliance's orgy of violence
Around 8am on Tuesday, Lewis Marimo (not his real name) dodges a pelt of stones as he navigates a makeshift barricade at the intersection of High Glen Road and First Street near Kuwadzana, Harare....Published: 12 hrs ago | 104 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Kazakhstan
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has landed in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan from Azerbaijan this Saturday evening.He was received by the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mr Zhenis Kassymbek...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 18:55hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail
Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting 68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:48hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Bid to loot Nkulumane Shopping Mall thwarted
BRAVE vendors operating from Nkulumane bus terminus have emerged as heroes after repelling violent protestors who wanted to loot shops at Nkulumane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo on Monday and Tuesday. ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:15hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Evan Mawarire remanded in custody to Jan 31
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application by This#Flag leader Evan Mawarire challenging his placement on remand. Mawarire was arrested this week following the violence that rocked...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Schools to resume lessons
All schools that had temporarily closed due to the recent violent demonstrations that rocked the country must resume lessons with immediate effect following assurances from Government of the safety of...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:12hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
More deadly protests lined-up in Zimbabwe
DEADLY street protests which brought Zimbabwe to a standstill this week have added impetus to calls by opposition parties and civil society organisations for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to agree to d...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:50hrs | 9086 | by Staff reporter
Mining sector to meet Chitando over forex allocation
MINE workers and the Chamber of Mines have agreed to approach the government and table a request for the sector to get at least 80% of their foreign currency earnings, businessdigest has learnt....Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:48hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Shops, schools still closed
It was meant to last only three days but the stay-away called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions entered its fourth day on Thursday.Most businesses, schools and a few government departme...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:54hrs | 1097 | by TimesLive.com
Zimbabwe military maintains heavy presence in hotspots
Armed military personnel and trucks maintained a heavy presence in residential suburbs as schools, most shops and banks remained closed despite the end of a three-day national stayaway.Soldier...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:13hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Riots aftermath: Who pays the reconstruction bill?
The country was calm yesterday, encouraging a number of companies to open for business after three days of opposition-led anarchy in Bulawayo, Harare, Gweru, Gokwe, Kadoma and a few other places. ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:45hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
9 facts, myths about Zimbabwe mayhem
On Monday and Tuesday, the opposition in Zimbabwe staged what they called a national "shutdown" which was supposed to be a popular mass protest against the Government over the rising cost of liv...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 620 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Bulawayo activist on Chiwenga's alleged hit list skips the border
A Bulawayo based political activist Thandekile Moyo has skipped the border being tipped that she is part of an alleged hit list of people that are targeted by the state for arrests, abduction and elim...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 09:29hrs | 13898 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Honest' Coventry to resign in protest of Zanu PF shootings - nonsense, recovering from greed induced insanity
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa could be in for a huge shock on his return if a rumour that Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Kirsty Coventry could be resigning from her position comes true," reported ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 19:21hrs | 4068 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe counts huge costs of stay-away
Zimbabwe lost millions of dollars after the country was brought to a virtual standstill by a highly successful mass stay-away engineered by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and social medi...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:08hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Govt meets transporters over fares
The government has met transport operators over fare charging systems that take into account measures to stabilise the economy and restoration of normal services to the travelling public.Submi...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:06hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
How Facebook and Whatsapp fuelled chaos and confusion in Zimbabwe
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook and Whatsapp. On the morning of January 14th 2019 a swelling mob of hundreds of angry residents flocked the towns filling the streets in the commercia...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 15:59hrs | 3351 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Army continues terror as Bulawayo is shutdown
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police support unit aided by members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces on Thursday entered Day 3 of beating up citizens at the aftermath of the violent protests that rock...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 10:45hrs | 10329 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZANU PF Youth leader with 4 guns arrested during protests
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has reported that ZANU PF Youth leader Godwin Gomwe and his accomplices were arrested in Harare after being found in possession of four pistols during...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 09:59hrs | 15116 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa maintains freeze on WhatsApp
ZIMBABWE'S paranoid government Wednesday restored the internet but kept social media sites blocked as tensions remained high in a country that has seen violent protests past three days.This wa...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 07:42hrs | 2060 | by newzimbabwe.com
Hundreds arrested in violent crackdown
HUNDREDS of demonstrators were arrested yesterday as the violent crackdown on protesters by State security agents continued, while unrest continued in most parts of the country for the third day of a ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 07:35hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo loses property worth millions to violent protests
BUSINESSES in Bulawayo lost goods and property worth millions of dollars after violent protestors went on a looting spree and in some cases torched the buildings after looting. Supermarkets, s...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:12hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweShutDown costs economy $300m
The economy could have lost business amounting to $300 million over the three-day forced shut-down that started on Monday and ended yesterday, industrialists have said. Confederation of Zimbab...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:11hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Calm returns to Midlands
Calm returned to most parts of the Midlands province yesterday following opposition MDC-Alliance sponsored violent protests and looting of shops, especially in high density suburbs on Tuesday. ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:07hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Details of violent crackdown by Zimbabwe security forces emerge
Scores of civilians including a prominent activist were detained on Wednesday and others were beaten, lawyers and witnesses said, as evidence began to emerge of a brutal crackdown on dissent by securi...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 21:45hrs | 7282 | by Reuters
PHOTOS: #ZimbabweShutDown day 3 - Beitbridge update
Gomba cafe closed yesterday Engene Garage yersterday...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 12:51hrs | 12237 | by Beitbridge Resident
Britain warns its citizens in Zimbabwe
Since 14 January 2019 there has been widespread disruption, including violent protests, in many areas of the capital Harare and the cities of Bulawayo, Kadoma, Mutare, and Marondera. Many shops and ot...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 10:54hrs | 6572 | by UK gov
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe protests 'fizzling out'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday showed little concern about the deadly unrest back home as he continued his widely criticised state visit to Russia and met counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | 3741 | by newzimbabwe
Soldiers continue to patrol streets
SOLDIERS patrolled city streets in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, as clashes between protesters and security forces resulted in the deaths of at least five people, including a police officer.Dozens of p...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:31hrs | 1880 | by aljazeera.com
Calls for diaspora protests at Zimbabwe embassies
Pro-democracy groups called on Zimbabweans in the diaspora to stage protests at the country's embassies after the Harare regime shut down the internet as it launched a crackdown against civilians....Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 867 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zimbabwe businesses losing millions as shutdown continues
Businesses in Zimbabwe are losing millions of dollars per day as a shutdown protest - called for by the country's biggest labour union body - continues over a sudden 150% hike in fuel prices. ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 21:10hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2425 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visits Belarus a country sinking in debt
President Mnangagwa's much publicized trip tom five nations maybe a futile exercise after it has emerged that one of the countries he is visiting Belarus is sinking in bilateral debt it has with Russi...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Magistrate court accounts clerks stay away
SEVERAL suspects who were granted bail at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday were left stranded after failing to post bail as accounts clerks failed to report for work following a national stayaw...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to clear student arrears in Russia
GOVERNMENT will immediately start clearing arrears amounting to US$600 000 owed to Zimbabwean students pursuing higher education degrees in Russia under a bilateral training agreement, President Emmer...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:17hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
MDC violence leaves trail of destruction
VIOLENCE instigated by MDC-Alliance and its associates in the non-governmental sector left a trail of destruction in Harare, Bulawayo and other cities yesterday. They also used social media to threate...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:07hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Industry in $600m pension arrears, Parliament told
THE Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) yesterday disclosed to Parliament that industry owed more than $600 million in pension arrears against a retirement fund value of $5 billion."The i...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:28hrs | 60 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe protests turn violent, 'overwhelm police'
The usually quiet Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo was turned into a mixture of teargas, black smoke from burning tyres and chanting of struggle songs on Monday as residents joined in protests over the lat...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:59hrs | 4395 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys soldiers
A woman with a wounded leg during clashes between protestors and police, is transported in a wheelbarrow to hospitalHARARE: Soldiers deployed Monday to some areas of the capital where police w...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 21:23hrs | 1978 | by Associated Press
Bulawayo grinds to a halt
Anti-riot police here had to be called to disperse hundreds of disgruntled protesters who heeded calls for a national shutdown protest against deepening economic crisis in the country.The prot...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:22hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
MDC joins #ShutdownZimbabwe protest
The MDC organizing secretary Amos Chibaya has called upon the structures of his party to join the three day mass protest organized by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions."Noting the arroganc...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 12:26hrs | 3020 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Public urged to transport cash safely
With robberies on the increase and cash a major target, a local security company has called on members of the public to avoid keeping large amounts of cash at home or the office and certainly to avoid...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 09:29hrs | 844 | by Agencies
Soldiers deployed in Bulawayo to contain protests?
There are unconfirmed reports that members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces were deployed in Bulawayo on Monday to assist anti-roit police contain the protest that brought business to a halt in the enti...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | 6293 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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