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Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 408 | by Jonathan Chando
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2154 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 738 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1561 | by Emmanuel Koro
Khupe faces MDC-T national council
MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe will this Wednesday hold her first meeting with the party's national council as they prepare to hold a watershed extraordinary congress (EOC) at the end of the m...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:10hrs | 5575 | by Staff reporter
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2788 | by Bloomberg
Africa lacks strategy to combat Covid-19
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa (ICAC) has lamented lack of Africa based initiatives to fight Covid-19 saying the continent only depends on the World Health Organisation (WH...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:49hrs | 218 | by Stephen Jakes
I am not afraid of your threat Oppah Muchinguri - Job Sikhala
MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has told Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri that he is not afraid of her threats after she claimed that he Sikhala and Apostle Talent Chiwenga among...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 4158 | by Stephen Jakes
Fresh cracks rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
A STORM is brewing in Zanu-PF over the ruling party's newly-launched war veterans' wing - pitting many former freedom fighters against their national spokesperson Douglas Mahiya.This comes as ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:16hrs | 4430 | by Staff reporter
Metallon sells gold assets to Tagwirei's Landela
MZI Khumalo's Metallon has completed the sale of Shamva Mine to Kuda Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures, while the sale of Mazowe Mine is expected shortly.The transaction represents a change o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1809 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders get streetwise on lockdown travel restrictions
ZIMBABWE Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) is opening "people's shops" in Beitbridge to enable its members to buy goods imported from South Africa in view of travel restrictions imposed due to ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Deadline set for 2021 Commonwealth education awards
The Commonwealth has set a deadline for entries into the 2021 Commonwealth education awards for good practice for 31 August 2020.The bloc said the awards are open to exceptional education inst...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:06hrs | 253 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF Youth League warns detractors
THE Zanu-PF Youth League yesterday castigated coordinated campaigns by detractors to cause chaos in the country while also seeking to soil the image of the First Family. In a Press conference ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
June exams begin tomorrow
Candidates registered for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) June 2020 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations will write as scheduled, beginning tomorrow, despite calls by some unions...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:49hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3477 | by newzimbabwe
ZCTU dares Khupe over congress invite
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed it will not entertain reinstated MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who reportedly plans to hire the labour group to observe a party elective poll in S...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2996 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3253 | by AFP
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 778 | by Bloomberg
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 166 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 153 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Tsenengamu vows Mnangagwa confrontation
EXPELLED Zanu-PF youth league commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has made startling claims the country was better governed by late former President Robert Mugabe than it is now under Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 16:58hrs | 2568 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 14452 | by Itai Mushekwe
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1541 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Khupe, Mwonzora aides clash
POWER struggles have ripped the MDC-T faction apart ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for September, with interim leader Thokozani Khupe's aides allegedly assaulted by party secretarygeneral ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 8546 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe cornered over MDC 'abductees' case
HUMAN rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegat...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2302 | by Staff reporter
Biti and Job Sikhala to be struck off the roll?
Zimbabwean politics has always been full of mystery. Politicians are normally identified by their getting into public office. There are a lot of politicians fine politicians who had never ran for an o...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05hrs | 15531 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
New dates for MDC-T congress
The MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe has postponed its elective extraordinary congress to the first week of September. The dates are within the time frame that was prescribed by the Supreme Cou...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T pleads with govt to free 'abducted' MDC Alliance activists
MDC-T spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has pleaded with the state to free MDC Alliance MP, Joanna Mamombe and two female party activists who are languishing in remand prison for 'falsely' claiming abdu...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 21:53hrs | 4305 | by newzimbabwe
Cassava Fintech launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against Coronavirus
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the te...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:56hrs | 130 | by Agencies
ZAPU President Isaac Mabuka speaks
Q1: Thank you Mr. Mabuka for your time. Please introduce yourself to the people. Who is Mabuka?A: I am Isaac Mabuka. I was born in 1953 on 26 April in Gwanda South. I did my primary education ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 3173 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bravo Tours loses court case
THE High Court has dismissed an application by Bravo Tours Bus Company seeking an order directing a Zambian accident victim suing the company and its driver for US$35 000 to pay $15 000 security costs...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3238 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank in virtual Africa investors conference
In line with current world trends, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe's parent company, Standard Bank Group has adopted a digital approach to enable African corporate clients and leading policymakers to connect vi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:28hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
US worries over abuse of women in Zimbabwe and not blacks in America
THE United States has expressed concern over the State-sponsored violence and political persecution of women in Zimbabwe and called for investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.This follo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records Foreign Direct Investment growth
Zimbabwe recorded an average 8 percent ($452 million) growth in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows over the past 6 years, with 2018 recording the highest inflow at $745 million ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa staggering against the ropes?
IS THE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa staggering against the ropes?Chamisa has proved himself time and time again to be on top of the situation yet this time he's on the back foot....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2640 | by Black Edward
Chamisa's MP demands answers on army deployment
AN opposition MP has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa or Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri must explain to Parliament the deployment of the military across the country.The issue was ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't pull out of CITES
ZIMBABWE will not pull out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in order to sell its stockpile of ivory tasks worth US$600 million, the Minister of Environment, Clima...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:07hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Khupe threatens to axe more MPs
MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe yesterday threatened to wield the axe on more MPs and councillors who have continued to defy her leadership by flirting with the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance....Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 3637 | by Staff reporter
Komichi spied against Chamisa
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday unwittingly exposed that he was a spy who worked to destabilise and undermine MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.Addressin...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 7865 | by Staff reporter
Weak ZCTU plots rolling protests
WORKERS' umbrella body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday compounded President Emmerson Mnangagwa's woes by threatening countrywide protests against his government's failure to en...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1564 | by Staff reporter
Komichi ready to be buried at Harvest House
MDC-T politician Morgen Komichi says his attachment with Harvest House was so deep that he was ready to be buried at the MDC headquarters upon his death one day.The battle to control the iconi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1289 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe elected to UN's Economic and Social Council
ZIMBABWE has been elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) cluster which has 17 other member states drawn from several continents. ECOSOC is the coordinating body for funds a...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President your own people will soon surrender you to the public!!!
To me the loot, reflects racing against time. There is something fishy around this kind of looting. It looks like there is a deadline, or there are fixed targets which must be met, and the whole drama...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 12:23hrs | 8516 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
With or without the people, political parties must go on
THOUGH it is already a common occurrence that the people only matter to politicians during elections, that truth has not been rightly validated as has happened over the past two months.When go...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 453 | by Teni Chitanana
Zanu-PF's paranoia is growing again, and this is a threat to us all
IT was a finger-pointing week. at Zanu-PF headquarters on Wednesday, President ` emmerson Mnangagwa had an explanation for the economic crisis; it was the detractors."On the economic front, we...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 537 | by newzwire
Zimbabweans in US, China to return home
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans, stranded in China, the United States, South Africa and other countries after Covid-19 induced lockdowns have registered with Government to be repatriated as quickly as possib...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
ZUJ condemns MDC Alliance
THE Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has condemned as "unacceptable", the barring by MDC-Alliance hooligans of The Herald journalists from covering the troubled opposition party's media conference ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Prices go haywire
IN A development which signals the effective and official re-dollarisation of the local economy, under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, yesterday awarded restive government workers and pe...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 7437 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe dodges questions on 'coup plot'
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday appeared in Parliament but dodged questions to do with the alleged coup plot fears, saying "these are sensitive State security matters."This was...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 4088 | by Staff reporter
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