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'Corruption fuels Zimbabwe hunger'
CORRUPTION and mismanagement of the agricultural sector are the major drivers of food shortages in Zimbabwe, where over 7,7 million people urgently require food, a top European Union (EU) diplomat has...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:08hrs | 160 | by Staff rpeorter
Should Zimbabweans suffer for ED's failures?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants people to eat grass like animals. Vegetables are grass and they were never meant for human consumption! Mnangagwa misunderstood the medical doctor! Protein obtained ...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1753 | by Tendai P Munyanduri, NPF president
Mthuli can only afford allowances
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday poured cold water on civil servants' demand for United States dollar-benchmarked salary adjustments, saying the broke Zanu-PF government will, instead, continue...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3700 | by Staff reporter
Britain snub Zimbabwe (UK - Africa Summit)
First and foremost, Zimbabwe economy is literally dead and dysfunctional. Zimbabwe is buffeted by lack of cohesion, lack of capacitation, inconsistencies and the bottom line is there is lack of politi...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 14:33hrs | 1956 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chiwenga/Marry divorce exposes Vice President capture
The legal battle between Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife Marry has opened a can of worms with the former army general revealing that he was given a Mercedes Benz vehicle by ...Published: 14 Jan 2020 at 08:27hrs | 13181 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa to go in 5 months, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his party was going to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power in the next five months of the new year if dialogue fails to yield positive re...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 12:37hrs | 11466 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa brought soldiers to cabinet to intimidate G40
President Emmerson Mnangagwa brought in members of the Joint Operations Command to Cabinet to intimidate members of the G40 into endorsing the Command Agriculture program when he was still Vice Presid...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 10:47hrs | 6428 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jury still out on Mnangagwa
IF Zimbabwe were a normal country, revelations that ruling party bigwigs and politically-connected land barons, housing co-operative leaders and property developers illegally sold $3 billion worth of ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:00hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces a gloomy 2020
IN the three weeks since the 2020 national budget both the economy and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's recovery strategy have drifted closer to the rocks. In their stubborn refusal to heed development...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:30hrs | 780 | by Anthony Hawkins
Transparency & Accountability is a key component in Governance & Leadership
One of the pre-requisite of good governance in leadership and development is transparency and accountability which boosts confidence and investor's interests. In short, since the departure of Robert M...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 16:38hrs | 999 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
No such thing as bad luck in economics Prof Ncube
ASSERTIONS coming from government corridors that the country's current socio-economic state of affairs has been caused by sheer bad luck are very unfortunate that they simply point to an administratio...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2135 | by Staff reporter
Indian billionaire eyes Zimbabwe prime agric land
INDIAN billionaire and Pepsi International franchise holder Ravi Jaipuria, proprietor of Varun Beverages in Zimbabwe, wants to acquire vast swathes of prime land in Zimbabwe to diversify into producti...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:52hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
ZPP raps Minister Mthuli Ncube over his space satellite budget
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has rapped Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube for budgeting for space satilite at a time when majority citizens are wallowing in perpetual poverty due...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2766 | by Stephen Jakes
Ordinary Zimbabweans say 'THE' Government rather than 'OUR'
Zimbabwe is buffeted by lack of cohesion, it is buffeted by incapacitation, and it is buffeted by intra-party politics, indecisiveness and inconsistencies.Political & Economic Indicators...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 12:47hrs | 2609 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Bring back the multi-currency regime, says Biti
FORMER Finance minister and Harare East legislator Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe needs to reintroduce the multi-currency regime, seek debt cancellation and liberalise the fuel industry, among other interv...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:54hrs | 2798 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube burns his house to smoke out a rat
The 2020 national budget statement announced by Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube a fortnight ago was telling in more ways than one. The professor had no qualms to nail his govern...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 1479 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1479 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF-MDC tiff set to spill into Parliament sitting this Tuesday
THE tiff between Zanu-PF and opposition MDC supporters could spill into parliament sitting during resumption this Tuesday with National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda yet to find a solution to the acr...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:50hrs | 853 | by newzimbabwe
'Democratic space shrinks under Mnangagwa rule'
ZIMBABWE's democratic space continues to shrink under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule despite government claims that several good laws have been crafted or aligned with the Constitution in line wi...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 07:00hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
MPs in near fist-fight over Command Agric
TEMPERS flared yesterday as legislators nearly fought each other when Chegutu MP Dextor Nduna (Zanu PF) and his Mberengwa North counterpart, Tafanana Zhou disrupted a Public Accounts Committee meeting...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1481 | by Staff reporter
Khupe ally dismisses Polad
Former Nkayi South legislator and Bulawayo businessman, Abednico Bhebhe has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running down the economy and challenged him to admit failure.Bhebhe, who is ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:36hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs disrupt meeting chaired by Biti again
ZANU-PF MPs Friday again disrupted a committee meeting chaired by MDC legislator Tendai Biti, insisting they did not recognise the politician's leadership of parliament's Public Accounts Portfolio Com...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2827 | by newzimbabwe
Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to give oral evidence regarding how the US$3 billion...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:12hrs | 987 | by Nyasha Chingono
Zanu-PF plots MDC carnage
ZANU-PF has reportedly set in motion plans to purge MDC chairpersons of parliamentary portfolio committees using its majority in the august House, setting the stage for another bruising fight between ...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 18:06hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa has failed to improve the economic prospects of Zimbabwe?
It is now more than two years since President ED Mnangagwa assumed power with an ostensible mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, RG Muga...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:03hrs | 589 | by Martin
Nothing hopeful about Chamisa's HONA
The much hyped, but shallow, so called ‘Hope of The Nation Address', (HONA) by opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had nothing new in it that Zimbabweans could actually hold on to, and believe t...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2471 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1438 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs reducing Second Republic into one big circus
THE animosity between the two political adversaries, the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, who have perpetually been trading barbs in Parliament, has now degenerated into a farce and turned...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:50hrs | 2848 | by NewsDay Comment
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2655 | by Staff reporter
Biti asked to recuse himself
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee hearing into Command Agriculture and Sakunda was aborted this morning after Zanu-PF legislators asked Mr Tendai Biti to recuse himself from chairing the committe...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 5831 | by Staff reporter
Decentralise Command agric inputs distribution, govt told
COMMAND agriculture programme beneficiaries in Mashonaland Central province on Wednesday asked Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro to address challenges they were encountering in accessing inpu...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says inputs scheme abusers will be punished
President Mnangagwa has warned farmers that abuse inputs being allocated by Government under the Command Agriculture programme and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme that they will be punished sev...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:30hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Biti fumes as Sakunda Holdings boss dodges parly hearing
Command Agriculture benefactor, Sakunda Holdings, yesterday snubbed grilling by the Tendai Biti-chaired Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over allegations that the company received over US...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces mealie-meal shortage
ZIMBABWE faces mealie-meal shortages after government cut maize supplies to local millers by 40% citing funding constraints.Millers get maize from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) although gove...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
RBZ seeks to raise $300m through TBs
GOVERNMENT is seeking to raise another $300 million through Treasury Bills (TBs) to finance its programmes, a month after issuing a sovereign paper with the same amount.In a statement yesterda...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:22hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Farmers face draught power challenge
AS the 2019/2020 cropping season gets underway, the Zimbabwe Farmers' Union (ZFU) says its members lack adequate draught power given the poor state of livestock following the severe drought experience...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:17hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
'Inflation is because TSP failed to factor in drought' - yeah right, sell-out whitewashing Zanu PF tomb
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this hell-on-earth mess! What makes our situation so, so frustrating about it is this is a man-made mess. For the last 39 years and counting the ruling party, Zanu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 2911 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's deputy chief secretary retires
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Justin Mupamhanga has retired, having served in Government for 36 years. He told The Herald: "While I've retired as a civil servant, I've...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1158 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Inflation out of control: Guvamatanga
Finance ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has revealed that the government is not considering removing the 2% tax on mobile transactions despite criticism that it is fuelling inflation....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:46hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awarded honorary PhD at NUST
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was yesterday awarded an honorary Doctorate degree in the Philosophy of Education (Honoris Causa) by the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) during the institution...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1393 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe scoring own goals'
ZIMBABWE is facing a myriad of challenges, including a huge debt overhang which is a stumbling block to new financing, hyperinflation that has eroded people's disposable incomes, and general economic ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Zhuwao takes Matemadanda head on
Former ZANU PF Youth leader Jason Zhuwao has warned National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda from making promises of mobilising 5 million voters for ZANU PF by 2023 elections. Matemadan...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:49hrs | 6102 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Livestock Farmers ready to work with CSC
THE Livestock Farmers' Union says it is ready to sell its animals to any bidder including CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe as long as the buyers offer the best prices on the market. Following Cabine...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:09hrs | 237 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe coup announcer distanced himself from US ambassador attack?
Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo told Western diplomats before and after making an intemperate rant against the United States ambassador last week that he was not the originator of the statement...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:34hrs | 18213 | by Staff reporter
Command Agric runners face audit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally and fuel mogul, Kuda Tagwireyi, is once again on the spotlight after Parliament recommended that a forensic audit should be done on the controversial Command Ag...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
'We're improving people's lives' insist Mthuli Ncube - a mirage, add hypocrite to sanctions list
The dishonest way Zanu PF has continued to hold the sanctions debate is an outrage!"The impact has been severe and anyone who thinks that sanctions are not harming the economy is surely not te...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 17:18hrs | 1994 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mnangagwa holds keys to removal of sanctions'
The United States envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols has said that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration holds the keys to the removal of sanctions if they implement the political...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:35hrs | 4939 | by Staff reporter
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