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Mugabe's legacy now source of competing narratives, polemics
FOLLOWING the death of former president Robert Mugabe in Singapore, competing and contradicting narratives around his divisive legacy have emerged, reflective of the enigmatic and complex personality ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 121 | by Staff reporter
Chief attacks Zimbabwe army for abusing 'illegal immigrants'
Chief Sengwe has dismissed accusations that he is working with soldiers and police officers to exploit vulnerable illegal immigrants, and has blamed government for failing to stop what he called were ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 194 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa-Chamisa fired
ZINARA has fired its suspended chief executive officer Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa and finance director Mr Simon Taranhike for gross incompetence and abuse of office, our Harare Bureau can reveal....Published: 2 hrs ago | 194 | by Staff reporter
Prayer for Zimbabwe
People of Zimbabwe, the state of our nation is disturbing, discouraging, baffling and getting worse. The answer to our suffering is Jesus Christ. Our enemy is not President Mnangagwa or ZANU-PF, but t...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1012 | by Sheila Magudu
Stop corruption in its tracks
The mobile cash-out agent why are you 'robbing' the poor? Forget about robbing Peter to pay Paul you are stealing from the transacting public. The surrogate parent company offering the service...Published: 13 hrs ago | 692 | by Tondorindo
Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 426 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy is palatial Blue Roof for himself and condemn povo to mud hovel - Sodom and Gomorrah of greed
-A lot has been said about Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy; some declared him a Pan-Africanist liberation hero per excellence, the founding father of Zimbabwe, etc. A picture speaks a thousand words an...Published: 16 hrs ago | 668 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF official threatens to expose cash barons
Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has threatened to expose the name of two prominent individuals behind the spiraling exchange rate betwe...Published: 17 hrs ago | 4402 | by Staff Reporter
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1178 | by Leonard Koni
Zacc investigates Mbare school
George Stark High School in Mbare, Harare, is mired in controversy following the submission of a dossier to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), detailing allegations of corruption dating b...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Beyond Robert Mugabe: Looking into the future
Whichever way you look at it, the recent death of the former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, was an historic and momentous event. This opinion piece is by no means an obituary to the late Robert...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 796 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Chombo's health deteriorates, denied passport to seek medical attention in abroad
FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday said his health was deteriorating and needed urgent medical attention abroad, but a Harare magistrate again denied him his passport to enable him to t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 5693 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash suspends 4 000 agents
The country's largest payment platform, EcoCash, has suspended over 4 000 of its agents on allegations of participating in the now rampant trend of charging excessive premiums for customers intending ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1899 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC holds governance workshops
MDC-Alliance is conducting workshops with the party's councillors in all the provinces as a way of enabling them to improve service delivery amid widespread evidence of poor administration. Ur...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
MDC is a disgrace to Matebeleland
The tribal fracas at the Mthwakazi capital "Esigodlweni seNkosi" is a clear manifestation of a tribal war against the local people. The unrepentant Shona councillors yesterday snubbed a scheduled budg...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:35hrs | 3151 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Chombo denied his passport again
Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's bid for the temporary release for his passport has hit a brick wall once again after a Harare magistrate dismissed his application.Chombo made an appl...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1343 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube a failure, says Coltart
MDC Alliance treasure general and former education Minister has laid into Finance minister Mthuli Ncube describing him as an academic minister with no political constituency and pandering to the whims...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 10:45hrs | 3043 | by Staff Reporter
Abuse of mobile money platforms symptomatic of a failed currency regime
IT is a good thing that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (Zacc) has finally taken interest in the stinking corruption that has been going on through some mobile money platforms on which members...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 345 | by Editorial - Newsday
Messenger of Court suspended
THE Justice ministry has suspended Chivi Messenger of Court Albert Meke Chamwadoro, who is facing allegations of fraud after minister Ziyambi Ziyambi roped in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1433 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa scholarship bosses arrested
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday arrested three Government officials for allegedly abusing the Presidential Scholarship Programme. Deputy Director Scholarships in the O...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Arrested 'Zimbabwean' millionaire swaps jail for a swanky Maserati in SA
Flamboyant Mpumalanga businessman Sam "Mshengu" Chabalala has whisked away in a Maserati after being granted a R200,000 bail in the Witbank magistrate's court yesterday.Chabalala, who was arre...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 15:59hrs | 40565 | by Staff reporter
507 Nigerians leave South Africa
A total of 507 Nigerians have left the neighbouring South Africa due to xenophobic attacks that swept across the country in the past weeks. A private airline Air Peace Mercy volunteered to fly...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 14:42hrs | 2659 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa linked councillors snub Bulawayo budget meeting over Kambarami issue
BULAWAYO councillors yesterday snubbed the 2019 second supplementary budget meeting as well as the 2020 budget announcement which the finance department was scheduled to present to council. The counci...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:06hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: ZBC CEO granted bail
Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has granted bail to former ZBC Chief executive officer Patrick Mavhura and former director finance Benania Shumba who are jointly charged for fraud....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:31hrs | 1667 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZBC bosses bail ruling today
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday said she would today make her bail ruling on two Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation bosses, Patrick Mavhura and Benania Shumba, who stand accused ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on EcoCash agents
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has instituted a major probe into the operations of the country's EcoCash agents who are being accused of fleecing citizens of their money.Zacc s...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
18 more counts for ex-ZBC bosses
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Patrick Mavhura and ex-head finance, administration and human resources manager Benenia Shumba are likely to be charged with 18 more case...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 3323 | by Morgan Changamire
Is your business' cyber security up to code?
Many companies are relying on technology to support their operations. After all, there are various solutions to improve business communications, financial transactions, internal collaborations, and pr...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 19:24hrs | 301 | by Staff Writer
'Zanu PF has no reason to destabilise Zimbabwe' - has, insatiable greed for power and loot
Zimbabwe is a failed state. The last two weeks following the late Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe's death have provided the international community with some gruesome details of the coun...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 17:42hrs | 1511 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ZACC investigates EcoCash agents for selling cash
The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission says it is investigating EcoCash agents using their unfair advantage to sell cash at prohibitive rates. Zimbabwe has over the years faced an acute short...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 10:36hrs | 6493 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 5562 | by Staff reporter
Political hand behind Malema charges
The case of common assault against EFF leader Julius Malema and party national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is "ready for trial" and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamil...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
ZINARA Employees stealing from government and motorists
Dear Minister of TransportOn Friday at around 1700 hours I witnessed one ZINARA tollgate till operator stealing from both the government and motorist. The operator in question was at the Guine...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:40hrs | 2764 | by Munya Shumba
City women face sex abuse in Zupco buses
When Zimbabwe's government started running a bus system earlier this year with fares on average one-third lower than those of private bus companies, Thandekile Gama was excited.The 33-year-old...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | 7819 | by Thompson Reuters Foundation
Did Mugabe propose to marry Barack Obama?
Following the death of Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6 at age 95, various media have carried articles on some of his most famous quotes.Among the quotes is a claim that he once proposed...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 297 | by Jason L Riley
Xenophobia in Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF and Mugabe
Ever since it was founded, Zanu-PF has persistently propagated a criminal mindset that the people of Matebeleland are foreigners to this country. Its blind membership including Minister Mutodi is ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2464 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Mugabe's death must unite Zimbabweans, says Kasukuwere
SELF-EXILED former minister Saviour Kasukuwere believes ex-president Robert Mugabe's death must unite Zimbabweans to fix the economy, adding that blaming the departed strongman will not bring solution...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:02hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's last drive in Harare
IT is 5:30pm in the city centre of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and the sun is setting to mark the end of yet another day in a country that is experiencing economic and political turmoil.Two ho...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:59hrs | 1019 | by Tapiwa Zivira
'Shame, elite using foreign hospitals after destroying local one' said Mahere - fuming she not MP
"It's embarrassing and selfish for political elites to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then imp...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:58hrs | 591 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe to build mausoleum to honour dictator Mugabe - even in death his selfish greed is insatiable
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwean government is building a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre as a way of paying homage and honour to the country's late founding father Robert Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:49hrs | 915 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kalanga association rubbishes recently installed Mambo King
The Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association (KLCDA), a representative association of the Kalanga Nation in Zimbabwe and affiliated to the Society for the Promotion of iKalanga Language ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | 2042 | by Kalanga Association KLCDA
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have never been as confused as they are today: Mugabe: Hero or villain?
ZIMBABWEANS have never been as confused as they are today, following the death of Robert Mugabe, who was labelled a dictator. They are of two minds: is Mugabe a hero or a villain or is he both? They n...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 233 | by Zanda Shumba
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 196 | by The Economist
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1586 | by Gumisai Nyoni
ZACC starts cleansing councils of corrupt officials
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has set sights on cleansing local authorities of corrupt officials, with Chitungwiza, Harare and Victoria Falls topping the investigations list, an offic...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Let's reduce road deaths: Do unto others...
This is an open letter to all stakeholders concerned with the rising road deaths on our roads. Recently I had an opportunity to drive in another African city, Francistown, Botswana to be specific. I w...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:47hrs | 141 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
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