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EcoCash court bid hits brickwall
The High Court has dismissed Econet Zimbabwe's mobile money platform, EcoCash's application which sought to interdict the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) from suspending its mobile money agents....Published: 8 hrs ago | 603 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Army rescues Binga villagers
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has provided the Social Welfare department with transport to carry drought relief grain to villages in Binga so that vulnerable beneficiaries are not charged transport...Published: 9 hrs ago | 689 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland Zambezi Water Trust lashes out at BCC
THE Matebeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT) has accused the Bulawayo City Council of mismanagement and lack of vision that has led to the city's water crisis. Bulawayo is facing a critical wat...Published: 9 hrs ago | 448 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shadow MP in mealie-meal distribution storm
RETAILERS in Mutasa South have accused their Zanu-PF shadow MP Misheck Mugadza of using his political muscle to access subsidised mealie-meal and using the commodity as a campaign tool in the constitu...Published: 26 May 2020 at 08:30hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
No pay-cut for Warriors coach Loga
ZIFA have revealed that they will not ask Warriors coach to take a pay cut due to the coronavirus pandemic since they are still in a comfortable financial position to meet his monthly salary as per co...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
oMalayitsha call on Government to provide special permits
CROSS border transporters popularly known as oMalayitsha have called on Government to assist them with special permits which will ensure smooth passage of their goods into the country to enable them t...Published: 25 May 2020 at 16:16hrs | 2908 | by Staff reporter
Fixed Exchange Rate: More harm than good
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe suspended the new managed floating exchange rate and introduced the fixed exchange rate of 1 US Dollar to 25 Zimbabwean Dollars on the 26th of March 2020. Two weeks earlie...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1737 | by Victor Bhoroma
Hospitals demand COVID-19 records
PATIENTS seeking admission to public and private hospitals are now required to produce coronavirus test results before being taken in under a new policy likely to force the majority poor to die at hom...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
The African COVID-19 conundrum: Risking death to avoid death
WHEN the coronavirus (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, for most countries, it was a problem far from their horizons. Little did they know that in no time, it would inf...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:00hrs | 216 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Africa Day celebrations while abroad makes you home sick
IT is that time again when Africa comes together to celebrate being African.It is not just jumping up and down in cultural costumes to great applause.It is deeper than cultural display....Published: 24 May 2020 at 20:21hrs | 280 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Your time is up' Shingi Munyeza tells Mnangagwa
Firebrand Pentecostal preacher and President Emmerson Mnangawa's a dvisor Dr Shingi Munyeza says Zimbabweans made a mistake when they took sides with the military during a ilitary coup in November 201...Published: 24 May 2020 at 14:24hrs | 11948 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Reckless police action almost cost girl's life
Dear Editor, On Monday 18 May 2020 I witnessed a horrific accident caused by ZRP's reckless action. The accident occurred along Zvishavane - Gweru road a few metres from Zvishavane hospital. T...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:19hrs | 1942 | by Munya Shumba
Tales of a Covid-19 ravaged Zimbabwean community in UK
"MANY loved ones will die!" screams a newspaper headline.As Covid-19 spreads, another headline ramps up emotions: "Daughters lose dad and big sister to coronavirus within days of each other â€...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 259 | by Charles Mtetwa
Zimbabwe's quarantined citizens stage demo
GROUP of returning Zimbabweans currently quarantined at Belvedere Teachers' College in Harare Saturday staged a demonstration against a government requirement for them to each pay a private medical fa...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2532 | by newzimbabwe
FIFA agree to bail out ZIFA
FIFA have agreed to bail out ZIFA by approving a package to cater for the association's crippling legacy debt which had now ballooned to $10 million and stifled various development programmes over the...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Government speaks on fuel hike claims
Government has said it will only announce fuel prices on the gazetted 5th of every month and the public should ignore false claims regarding price hikes that have been circulating since long queues re...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1408 | by Staff reporter
Why was Energy Mutodi fired?
Energy Mutodi has been hogging the lime light for all sorts of reasons. He has risen in Politics to be a deputy minister of Information. This was a ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 05:59hrs | 14895 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Food aid transport fee, a burden to the vulnerable
Rural communities in Matabeleland have expressed concerns over the transport costs incurred in receiving food handouts from Social WelfareAccording to reports obtained from Habakkuk Trust Communit...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:46hrs | 600 | by Stephen Jakes
Cimas announces cover for COVID-19 positive members
Cimas Medical Aid Society has announced that it will provide any of its members who test positive for COVID-19 with medical aid cover for subsequent treatment and clearance tests at the end of their t...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:45hrs | 650 | by Agencies
Mozambique's problems are ours too
A FEW months ago, I travelled to Mozambique. I was struck by the stark dichotomy on one hand between the unmistakeable sense of optimism which is palpable when you talk to the local intelligentsia and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1442 | by Brezh Malaba
'Money printing impact is worse than Covid-19'
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has warned government against printing money to fund the ZW$18 billion Covid-19 Economic Recovery and Stimulus Package saying to do so will have a more...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1359 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (II)
IT is important to analyse why Zimbabwe was successful in the first two decades of Independence, and became a failure in the second two decades. One fundamental reason is that the whole nation was uni...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 908 | by Fay Chung
Queen B in Zupco buses procurement scandal
LEAKED government documents this week confirmed that buses initially said to belong to Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) were imported by a private company Landela Investments (Landela), befor...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4601 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of COVID-19 test kits
ZIMBABWE is sitting on a potentially catastrophic Covid-19 time bomb as the government is fast running out of test kits and protective clothing, resulting in a huge backlog of thousands of untested la...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Cost of living increases to $7 171
THE cost of living in Zimbabwe skyrocketed by $324 to $7 171 by end of April last month due to an increase in fuel prices, limited supply of basic products as well as panic buying by consumers because...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1797 | by Staff reporter
The cost of Chinese aid to Africa
THE adage that one cannot bite the hand that feeds him/her cannot be truer and more applicable than on the issue pertaining to the relations between China and Africa. There is a truism that a benefact...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:06hrs | 366 | by Reinford Khumalo
Whither MDC after Supreme Court judgment?
THE MDC is at the crossroads, probably of a never-seen-before nature since its formation in 1999. On May 5 2020, Parliament recalled four of the MDC Alliance's MPs. This was a major step by ac...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:05hrs | 675 | by Moses Tofa
Dumb criminals: US$20 000 watch sold for 30 bond
TWO youths from Bulawayo allegedly stole a US$20 000 wristwatch from a house in Montrose suburb and sold it for $30 (about US50 cents on the streets). The watch was part of the $1,5 million loot the d...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
800 kombis impounded
HARARE City Council has impounded more than 800 commuter omnibuses in the past two weeks for flouting several by-laws since opening the Coventry Road holding bay. The commuter omnibuses are be...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
'EU and US light fires under Mnangagwa' over abduction - nothing to fear, umpteenth empty threat
"EU, UK, US light fires under Mnangagwa!" screamed the Bulawayo24 headlines!There is increasing pressure on the regime to explain the country's worsening human rights violations including the ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 00:24hrs | 1924 | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: Chaos rocks parliament as Advocate Uriri is barred from representing client
There was drama at the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture hearing into the US$27 million wheat facility after a heated exchange erupted between Committee Chairperson Justice Mayor Wadyaj...Published: 21 May 2020 at 12:25hrs | 3982 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's eased lockdown is a lockdown no-more?
52 Days into the lockdown, and the Ministry of Health and Child-Care reported that as at 20 May 2020, cumulatively a total of 18 244 rapid screening tests and 14 618 PCR diagnostic tests had been cond...Published: 21 May 2020 at 11:23hrs | 2727 | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
BCC rubbishes Paul Kruger's nonsensical water report
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) insists that consultants brought in by government to assess the city's water situation did not present an honest report. The city fathers still want the State to declar...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Government still to approve online school fees
NO private school has been granted permission to charge fees for online lessons as virtual learning does not translate to the start of the second term, an education official has said. Governme...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:13hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa you are now pissing us off
Sir you have become a Twitter President of which most of the people who are following you are in the diaspora the ones who did not vote for you.We now need you to call for a Massive Civil Diso...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:45hrs | 4495 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3882 | by Wilbert Mukori
Harare hit by crime wave amid COVID-19 lockdown, residents organise neighborhood watch committees
The current lockdown currently underway to fight coronavirus pandemic has seen a surge in crime as people are hard-struck to make a decent living in Harare. Residents took to social media time...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1580 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Everything you need to know about PPSR Australia
Buying a used car is challenging, but if you have all the right information in your hands, it won't be such a hassle. Many people invest in the wrong one and regret it later because they didn't spend ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:33hrs | 577 | by Staff writer
Opening of schools premature, Period!
Dear Editor,The recent announcement by the Head of State, President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding the reopening of schools to examination classes has left most forward thinking educationists sh...Published: 19 May 2020 at 10:05hrs | 2309 | by ZIMTA
530 returnees arrive from South Africa
Five hundred and thirty more Zimbabweans wanting to return home from South Africa arrived at Beitbridge on Saturday afternoon including the first 204 having their transport costs covered by Government...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 shifts attention from other health services
In a few days time, Langa Mthethwa will be due for a visit at Mpilo Central Hospital to get her Jadelle removed. The implant contraception has helped ensure she does not have unplanned pregnancies as ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo and the Calamity of Honesty
Very few people in the history of mankind and Zimbabwe will match Dr Joshua M.Nkomo's selflessness and tolerance, commitment to equality and love of Zimbabwe. He was a man whose eyes refused to se...Published: 18 May 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2553 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya
Ex-West Ham coach eyes Bosso
FORMER West Ham academy and Kenya's Gor Mahia gaffer Hassan Oktay says he is eyeing the Highlanders head coach post should Mark Harrison fail to return to lead the Bulawayo side. Highlanders s...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 1330 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec faces Parly grilling
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education will today sit to receive oral evidence from the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) on running public examinations d...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1546 | by Staff reporter
'Key to stopping covid-19 is ITTIT and civic collaborative effort' - keep corrupt government and it come to naught
"Writing on his popular Facebook blog following his appointment by the African Union as a Special Envoy to Coordinate the Africa Private Sector Initiative for the Procurement of Personal Protective Eq...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:24hrs | 474 | by Nomusa Garikai
Banning kombis a blow to the transport industry
Whilst government monopoly regulates costs within affordable levels, to control growth and development, this new government's move to control the transport industry is an ambush to other transport pla...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:14hrs | 1832 | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 economic stimuli is not alive to a SME driven economy
Zimbabweans cannot reasonably expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa government to handle the twin challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy without making mistakes. However In times of crisis,...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:07hrs | 233 | by Brian Sedze
Mutodi: Mnangagwa's other bad crony
IT'S never a clever idea to put a crow among the fowls and keep it there. That will give you a bad name and troubled nights.A crow in the fowl drains the food but doesn't deliver eggs to the p...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 2057 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why NRZ electric trains disappeared
WHEN the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) launched the electric train more than two decades ago, the long dreary journey between Harare and Dabuka, south of Gweru, became an enjoyable one.A...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sport's top earners
THE secrecy around sportspersons' salaries and earnings in Zimbabwe has been around for decades but as the world of sport has developed into big business, that veil is slowly being lifted and these is...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
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