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Woes mount for Prophet Magaya
Women's groups have called on the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the Zimbabwe Gender Commission and Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission to launch an inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse against Prop...Published: 18 hrs ago | 4792 | by Staff Reporter
July Moyo steps in to resolve BCC, ZPC rift
GOVERNMENT has stepped in to resolve the dispute between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and power utility Zesa Holdings over the ownership of the coal-fired Bulawayo Power Station.The BCC has...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1709 | by Staff reporter
Women give Gweru council 14-day ultimatum
WOMEN Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Midlands Chapter has given Gweru City Council 14 days to explain the source of funding for former town clerk, Daniel Matawu's exit package as well as resolve the cit...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Duty waiver on solar equipment
Government has approved a duty waiver on solar equipment and allowed mining firms to procure energy directly from the Southern African Power Pool. Further, selected hotels in resort areas will soon st...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
'A coup against Mnangagwa is about to explode'
The November 2017 military coup which forced tyrant Robert Mugabe from power is still haunting Zimbabwe almost 18 months down the line. The remnants of the coup and its footprints will not disappear s...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 16:59hrs | 18054 | by Blessing Ivan Vava
Hwange roast Chicken Inn
Hwange 2-1 Chicken Inn A fired up Hwange FC helped themselves to a sumptuous Chicken Inn meal after coming from behind to silence the visiting Gamecocks in a Castle Lager Premier League matc...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rallies behind Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance Minister, Patrick Anthony Chinamasa, (P.A.C) who is also the ZANU-PF secretary for finance has rallied behind the current Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, saying the country...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, Jacob Mudenda emerge as Mnangagwa's new targets for purging
AFTER weeding out his new rivals - who brought him to power - in the security sector, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now shifted the purges to Zanu-PF, targeting the ruling party's heavyweights seen...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 12668 | by Staff reporter
RioZim, Zesa to ink power deal
RIOZIM says its US$1,5 billion investment into building a 2 800 megawatts thermal power station in Sengwa, Gokwe North, remains firmly on course with the company now moving to the next phase of prelim...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:41hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Police intercept 3 truckloads of charcoal, 6 arrested
POLICE in Mutawatawa, Mashonaland East, on Wednesday intercepted three trucks loaded with charcoal before arresting six men in connection with the case.Nesbert Tatenda, Wellington Kunaka, Jaco...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan faces collapse
A coalition of civil society groups from Matabeleland that struck a deal with President Emmerson Mnangagwa that paved the way for a government intervention on the Gukurahundi killings is disintegratin...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis an indictment on govt
Zimbabwe is paying the price for lack of foresight and leadership with rolling power cuts that have intensified over the past few days.A number of businesses are now being forced to operate on...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:25hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
CSC in massive solar project
COLD Storage Company (CSC)-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has entered into a strategic partnership with Econet's subsidiary, Distributed Power Africa (DPA), which will see all of the country's meat processor ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:08hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
BCC, ZPC impasse escalates
THE Bulawayo City Council has vowed not to grant a development licence to Zimbabwe Power Company for the refurbishment of the Bulawayo Power Station as the impasse between the two continues to escalat...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:04hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dollar strengthens in parallel market
For Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the re-introduction of the country's currency after a decade of US dollar dominance marks a return to normalcy.To many others, however, it heralded u...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:32hrs | 6874 | by The East African
'People look up to MDC for leadership' - how is that still possible given Chamisa et al pathetic track record
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess for many reasons and one of those reasons is the nation is cursed in having many citizens with an IQ not much above that of an idiot. There is a mountai...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2411 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe confirms Eskom payment
Government yesterday confirmed paying US$10 million to South African power utility, Eskom, to service the debt to the power utility - and the money was set to be in the receiver's bank by end of day y...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
General Electric eyes Zimbabwe methane gas
ZIMBABWE plans to conduct a full exploration of its gas deposits in a bid to establish the quantum of the key resource before engaging potential investors. Top United States firm, General Elec...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
'We ran economy well, figures speak for themselves' - economy is not half of it, mess speaks volume
"If you look at the Zimbabwean crisis in the last 20 years, the Central Bank has been at the epicentre of the distortions. Some of you might not know that during the GNU we didn't have the central ban...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1705 | by Nomusa Garikai
ZEC wins all 73 poll petitions
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has won all 73 petitions concluded in court following the July 2018 harmonised elections, while the remaining seven cases are still pending. The electio...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return: Financial engineering not the answer
If the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was a ship it would be the Titanic, sailing with the patronage of a well-heeled elite with privileged access to the life boats towards a deadly iceberg.Th...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:04hrs | 330 | by Sipho Malunga
'2018 elections were illegal' MDC A admit, finally - cannot confer legitimacy on selves, step down
"Legitimacy is an issue - last year's elections were illegal, and not free and fair. All reasonable observers concede that," admitted David Coltart, MDC Alliance Treasurer General. It has taken almost...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 13:00hrs | 4097 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimdollar given 5-day ultimatum
THE National Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) has given government up to Tuesday next week to withdraw Statutory Instrument 142/2019, which banned the use of multi-currency and reintroduced the Zimb...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:41hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Socio-economic Implications of banning the US Dollar
On 24 June 2019, the government abolished the 10-year-old multi-currency regime in the country making the Zimbabwe dollar the sole legal tender. The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 15:18hrs | 1956 | by ZIMCODD
Matebeleland Collective faces split
MATEBELELAND Collective (MC), a grouping of the clergy and civic society groups in the region, has been rocked by divisions amid counter accusations that some members were State security agents determ...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:28hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
ZESA plunges Lobengula into darkness for 2 months
Residents of Lobengula West are up in arms against ZESA for plunging them in darkness in the past two months. A resident who spoke to this publication said in Lobengula West, corner Luveve roa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 14:03hrs | 3632 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Byo residents up in arms with Zesa
BULAWAYO residents are preparing for a bruising fight with ZESA Holdings over its plans to demolish the city's two iconic cooling towers at the council-owned thermal power station.Bulawayo's n...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1016 | by Staff Reporter
ED now faces tough political choices
AS Zimbabwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequen...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:23hrs | 7390 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa faces riots, palace coup and impeachment
AS Zimbababwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:58hrs | 9755 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance rocked by fresh divisions
FRESH divisions have emerged in the MDC Alliance in Bulawayo with reports that some officials raided offices belonging to Professor Welshman Ncube's old MDC demanding keys and an inventory of property...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:16hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's farm at risk
STATE security agents are manoeuvring to illegally seize a Mazowe farm belonging to former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo who is in self-imposed exile since the coup that toppled...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 4819 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube must 'unscramble the egg and go back to the basics'
I THOUGHT we had seen everything that this country of ours could throw at us, but the situation right now looks like nothing we have seen before.Prices have quadrupled and continue to rise ine...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1146 | by Eddie Cross
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chamisa-Mnangagwa GNU
Exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has called for negotiations between ZANU PF and MDC which must lead to a Government of National Unity.Professor Moyo who engaged in a fre...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 13:02hrs | 17843 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$1,4m debt haunts Msipa's son
THE late former Midlands governor Cephas Msipa's son, Cephas Mandlenkosi Msipa, has been hauled before the High Court by a local coal mining company, NR Barber (Pvt) Ltd, over a US$1,4 million debt ac...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Parliament to summon Chasi over power outages
Parliament will soon order Energy and Power Development Minister, Fortune Chasi to update the nation on the worsening power situation and what is being done to address it. The move comes as la...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
'Reforms are empty words, lipstick on Zanu PF crocodile' - and MDC meerkat
I once watched a documentary on a family of meerkats. In their daily foraging they group came across an ostrich egg. The whole group was certainly very excited with the find, there was a lot of good f...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:34hrs | 2460 | by Wilbert Mukori
Eddie Cross turns against Mnangagwa
I thought we had seen everything that this country of ours could throw at us, but the situation right now looks like nothing we have seen before. Prices have quadrupled and continue to rise inexorably...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 11:39hrs | 23456 | by Eddie Cross
'Sanctions alone not the cause of Zimbabwe economic woes'
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development executive director Janet Zhou has said while Western sanctions imposed on the country were negatively affecting the economy, it was trite to note that gross ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:55hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Civil society activists on Zimbabwe military watch list
THE Zimbabwe National Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit has placed on its watchlist several civil society activists it claims are conniving with United States to unseat President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti: Infant trapped in adult body?
Those familiar with former Finance minister Tendai Biti’s track record were not exactly surprised by his latest outburst against current Treasury boss Mthuli Ncube.It seems insults come as s...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6964 | by Conway Tutani
A case for subsidies in the mining sector
Zimbabwe racked in US$3.2 billion from mineral exports in 2018, a figure which represents 76% of the country's official total export earnings. This year the government has set the target at US$4.2 bil...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 719 | by Victor Bhoroma
Dumiso Dabengwa
Dabengwa: Please tell us how your mother died? This was a question Dumiso had to answer in a Zanu court when he was incarcerated by Mugabe regime in the early independent of 80s. He was holed up in pr...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:42hrs | 5422 | by Nomazulu Thata
Strategic planning, management needed in our electrical energy sector
Just after the Second World War, political leaders in what was Southern Rhodesia started to think about how they would meet the needs of the country for electrical energy.After that, the debat...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 174 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe treason trials raise fears of relapse to Mugabe years
Twenty people have been charged with treason since the beginning of the year, prompting critics to draw parallels between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule with that of his predecessor Robert Mugabe...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda prophet jailed
A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet from Gwanda has been jailed 18 years for raping a 16-year-old juvenile under the pretext of healing her.The prophet aged 38, from Spitzkop North suburb told the juven...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:13hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's home could be sold off over debt
Morgan Tsvangirai's estate faces a US$205,000 claim from a political consultant for work he says he carried out for the late Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader in the run-up to the 2013 natio...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 08:08hrs | 5754 | by ZimLive
'Ncube lacks realism, intelligence and honesty' charged Biti - true enough but what about you
"When asked about the economy and Mthuli Ncube, Mr Biti said among other things, "Mthuli is a Loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain and the economy has found him out. This is about ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 18:07hrs | 2403 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe military government abandons senior citizens
When l was growing I just loved to be near my maternal mother she taught us a lot of things about life, she would also tell us traditional folk tales around a fire, everybody loved her she would wrap ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1517 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Hwange Power Station under threat
THE skewed pricing structure and the acute foreign currency shortages in the market have crippled the operations of coal miners, lowered production and could lead to a shut down of operations, busines...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - EU dialogue charms opposition parties
OPPOSITION parties and analysts have commended the launch of formal dialogue between Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) saying if successful, the talks could contribute towards the country's economi...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
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