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An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 hrs ago | 873 | by Robert Sigauke
ZANU PF is not Zimbabwe - so there's no anti-Zimbabwe campaign!
Over the past month or two - ever since the announcement by some opposition political parties, as well as human and labour rights activists, of a planned national demonstration on 31 July 2020 against...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2664 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 9389 | by Staff reporter
Charamba's photoshop claims are false
ON August 8, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba, via his Twitter account @Jamwanda2, claimed that a photograph showing a man in army uniform beating up a woman was fake and photo...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:22hrs | 3273 | by zimfact
White farmer compensation: A stunt that backfired
IF you have lived in the village, or had the chance to visit one, you will remember how an ass be-haves. Stubborn and carefree, but very poor of judgement. It spends the whole day hee-hawing, tossing ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:14hrs | 816 | by Tawanda Majoni
South African Rand on the ropes as emerging market risks increase
South Africa's rand traded nearly 1% weaker early on Friday, near its lowest in 10 weeks, amid souring emerging market sentiment led by Turkey's currency crisis and increased tension between China and...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:58hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean actress fulfilling Hollywood dream
Sibongile Mlambo, a Zimbabwean actress based in Hollywood, says she enjoys authentically portraying different characters, lives, and perspectives, especially those of fierce, strong, multi-faceted wom...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:55hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, ANC unite against renewed onslaught
African countries have once again become targets of a smear campaign to discredit former liberation war movements, with the continent erstwhile colonisers working with opposition parties to cause disc...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4752 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
George Charamba exposed by Trevor Ncube's newspaper
The Standard Newspaper has exposed Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba over his tweet accusing the Zimbabwean activists of doctoring images of a woman being beaten by a soldier. Charamba...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:06hrs | 5806 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7308 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2623 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details emerge in Noic pipeline saga
FRESH details have emerged that Treasury directed the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) to handpick only one firm to supply 720 million litres of fuel over 24 months, in a pro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4049 | by Terence. T. Simbi
'Mnangagwa values lives of all Zimbabweans'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa values the lives of all Zimbabweans and has put in place measures to ensure that all citizens come back home during the dark phase spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic and no country s...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
EIU predicts tough times ahead for Zimbabwe
LONDON-BASED Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted a gloomy economic outlook for Zimbabwe in the next four years owing to failure by government to manage the tumultuous political and economic...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party thrown by a city socialite and businessman last mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4138 | by Staff Reporter
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2770 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
EcoCash probe delays Cassava financials
CASSAVA Smartech Zimbabwe Limited (CSZL) has announced a delay in publishing its financial results for the year ended February 29, 2020 due to investigations into its subsidiary, EcoCash (Private) Lim...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:38hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi in Tanzania for Mkapa funeral
VICE President Kembo Mohadi left the country this morning to attend the funeral of former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa who died on Thursday at Dar es Salaam Hospital where he had been admitted f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
Is an installment loan online right for you?
An installment loan can be an excellent instrument in your personal finance arsenal, especially when used properly. Although the term "installment" may sound intimidating or unfamiliar, perhaps you ha...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:44hrs | 606 | by Staff writer
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1147 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF warns against plot to overthrow government
THE ZANU-PF Midlands Province Youth League has condemned the MDC-Alliance's plot to cause mass national chaos through planned violent nationwide demonstrations on July 31 as a wider plan to overthrow ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 2376 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa under threat from within Zanu-PF'
THE ruling Zanu-PF youth league has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under threat from within his own party and accuses some insiders of working with exiled officials to dis...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:54hrs | 14987 | by Staff reporter
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2669 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
'31 July mass protest organisers to be personally liable for any damage to property'
Members of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) have raised concern over the much hyped 31 July mass demonstrations registering fears of loss of property which will have adverse effe...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 11:55hrs | 3449 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1402 | by Brian T Kagoro
High Court suspends police seizure of Econet database
ECONET Wireless Private Limited yesterday got relief from the High Court, which suspended a "warrant of search and seizure" of their premises by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over alleged impropr...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:25hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Hopewell Chin'ono to spend 4th night in prison
Award-winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono will be spending another night in cells after his bail hearing was adjourned on Thursday with the magistrate citing a Covid-19 curfew for endin...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 16:01hrs | 2886 | by Mandla Ndlovu
African Development Bank set to join landmark $20 billion Mozambique LNG financing
The African Development Bank has concluded its bid to co-finance the construction of Mozambique's integrated Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant by signing a senior loan of $400 million for the transfor...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:23hrs | 836 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1723 | by Pupurai Togarepi
'Mutsvangwa plotting November 2017 style coup over Econet'
STRIVE Masiyiwa's Econet mobile network says its existence was under threat from former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa.Mutsvangwa, according to court papers file...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 4234 | by newzimbabwe
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providin...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2844 | by Staff reporter
Human Rights Watch statement on Chin'ono and Ngarivhume arrests
The Zimbabwe police today arrested and detained Hopewell Chin'ono, an awarding-winning journalist, and Jacob Ngarivhume, leader of the political group Transform Zimbabwe. Both are accused of inciting ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 15:04hrs | 1652 | by Dewa Mavhinga
Rating of the African Development Bank, with Stable Outlook
Fitch Ratings, the global credit rating agency, has affirmed the African Development Bank's (AfDB) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'AAA', with stable outlook. According to the agency,...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 396 | by Stephen Jakes
'No freebies under Mnangagwa regime'
Mechanisation and irrigation projects initiated by Government are not for free and beneficiaries will be expected to pay back loans, with all loans being issued through banks using banking criteria of...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:57hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Looting exposé shakes Gideon Gono
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday appeared shaken to the core after names of government fat cats who benefited from the 2007/8 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-funded farm mechanisation scheme were exp...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 9309 | by Staff reporter
'July 31 protesters will be jailed'
AS THE economy continues to tank amid rampant public sector corruption, opposition parties have upped the ante by mobilising for July 31 anti-government protests.Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyam...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4207 | by Staff reporter
July 31 & the Political Economy Failures of Sorts
It was during the French Revolution of the 1780s when a scholar noted that, ‘things must be bad in society for men to throw everything in violence. Men cannot risk everything for nothing.' The prote...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 1557 | by Robert Sigauke
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7390 | by Dr Gideon Gono
RBZ looting talk aimed at whipping public emotions against Zanu-PF?
ZANU-PF has dismissed as baseless, claims that some of its senior officials looted millions of United States dollars in public funds through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s farm mechanisation sch...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
Munacho Mutezo fired as ZimPF VP
ZIMBABWE People First (ZimPF) Vice President Munacho Mutezo has been fired from the opposition party after failing to repay a US$300 000 loan he got from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) through the...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1546 | by newzimbabwe
Fresh onslaught against EcoCash
Police have issued a warrant against Econet Wireless to hand over a list of its EcoCash subscribers and transactions as part of an investigation into allegedmoney laundering.According to a...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
Econet faces black market, externalising forex charges
THE country's biggest mobile money provider, Econet Wireless was allegedly involved in black market activities between January and June which saw the company crediting huge sums of money to "runners" ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 3413 | by Staff Reporter
Key aspects sinking the Zimbabwean Dollar
The Zimbabwean economy is rapidly re-dollarizing, less than 12 months after the government banned the trading of multiple currencies through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 and introduced a local cur...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 3290 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Chiwenga's accident was a planned attack'
APOSTLE Talent Chiwenga, who recently survived a car accident near Norton Monday, has issued a statement assuring his followers that he is well and recovering.However, his church, Jesus Revela...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 5489 | by newzimbabwe
Police to seize Econet database?
POLICE have obtained a court warrant of search and seizure of financial records and subscription database of the country's leading mobile phone network, Econet Wireless, following accusations the comp...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1228 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt piles more misery on transacting public
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday piled more misery on the transacting public by introducing a 2% intermediated tax on foreign currency electronic transactions with effe...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2663 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax extended to forex transactions
Treasury has extended the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax, more commonly known as the 2 percent tax, to foreign currency transactions. Earlier this year, Government legalised the use of the U...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1273 | by Staff reporter
British think tank forecasts Zanu-PF victory in 2023
A British think tank has predicted that President Mnangagwa will romp to victory in the 2023 harmonised elections. In its latest report, the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) said Zanu-PF will ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
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