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US$ shortage cripples Bulawayo road works
Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart highlighted significant challenges facing road maintenance in the city, citing a shortage of US dollars as a major hindrance. He explained to Southern Eye that co...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 09:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Government's ZWL$1 billion debt cripples Zimpapers operations
The country's largest multimedia group, Zimpapers Limited is owed in excess of ZWL$1 billion by government departments and ministries, parliament has been told, a situation that has crippled its opera...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 06:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
99% of schools accepted fees in ZiG
Over 99 percent of schools across Zimbabwe accepted tuition fees and levies in Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) when the new term began this month, highlighting widespread confidence in the country's new currency....Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC hints at election upset
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party this week declared fireworks in next month's landmark polls, warning it would upset President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF p...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
So, in Zimbabwe, exposing corruption is 'unpatriotic'!
I did not know whether to be shocked or not, when I read the news report!As it turns out, apparently there have been calls by some sycophantic ruling ZANU PF supporters - namely, ZBC presenter...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 11:53hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe power crisis cripples industry
Zimbabwe's struggling manufacturing industry and other sectors within the country's broader corporate world have been forced to cut heavily on production with some facing imminent collapse due to the ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff rteporter
'Underfunding cripples NPRC'
HEAL Zimbabwe has decried lack of political will and under-funding that has grounded the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) national healing and reconciliation programmes.In i...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Depleted Kariba water level cripples power generation
THE water level at Kariba Dam continues dropping, affecting electricity generation, with inflows expected to make a difference in the first quarter of the 2023 rainy season, the Zambezi River Authorit...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brain drain cripples Zimbabwe
UNFULFILLED electoral promises of creating an environment conducive to youth development by the Zanu-PF-led government in 2018 have fuelled a mass exodus of young people to faraway lands in search of ...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt pampering looters with tax breaks'
ZIMBABWE'S civic society organisations have raised fresh concerns over elevated plunder of the country's resources by multinationals, and are pushing to close loopholes.During a crucial confer...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Underfunding cripples ZHRC
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has claimed that an unstable local currency and rising inflation were crippling its operations.In a report presented to Parliament on Thursday, the ...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers' strike cripples education system on first day of new term
A pay strike by teachers disrupted learning on Monday as schools opened for the first term following Covid-19 delays.All the teachers' unions declared "incapacitation" in anger over salaries t...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalism cripples MDC rural penetration strategy
Sources within the MDC Alliance national and provincial structures have declared that the party's rural penetration strategy is facing serious challenges as a result of tribalism and the perceived mar...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 10:34hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Midwives shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is facing a critical shortage of midwives at council-run clinics which has seen maternity centres operate with just half of the needed staff, putting pregnant women and unborn babies at risk....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
SADC leadership ignores wildlife conservation as COVID-19 cripples tourism
The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly refusing to go away and is causing great damage in Africa — to both humankind and the tourism industry. This, in turn, is drastically reducing the income needed to c...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Looting cripples MDC-Alliance operations
Zimbabweans in the Diaspora and sponsors of the MDC Alliance have threatened to stop contributing funds to the party's financial coffers following reports of mass looting of donated funds by the party...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 14:15hrs | | by Innocent Mujeri
Mpilo Hospital operations crippled
More than 60 doctors and nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital are in isolation after testing positive to Covid-19, a development that has crippled health care service delivery at the hospital. The...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to ZANU-PF revealed
The conceptualization of factionalism in political parties takes a different view if we consider its importance in a democratic environment. Following an ugly encounter with the ugly face of factional...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Firms fingered in abusing forex auction fight back
COMPANIES which were this week accused by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) of abusing the funds obtained from the foreign currency auction market have strongly refuted the allegations and are seekin...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Criminalising Freedom of Expression in Zimbabwe by ZANU PF
The oppressive ZANU PF regime continues to silence Zimbabwean alternative voices through criminalising any act or anyone who is viewed as a threat to the status quo. The recent arrest of youth leaders...Published: 13 May 2021 at 22:11hrs | 10 | by Prince Njagu
Transport shortage cripples Zesa
NATIONAL power distributor, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), says it is failing to execute its mandate due to an acute shortage of vehicles, with the current fleet b...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power crisis cripples RG's office
THE Registrar-General's Office in Bindura has not been processing passports, birth certificates and identity cards after failing to purchase pre-paid electricity tokens for several months.Prov...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents wade into council nurses exodus
BULAWAYO residents have called on the city council to address the mass exodus of nurses from the local authority's clinics before it cripples the health delivery system.In a virtual discussion...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's bid to dissipate MDC might return to haunt it
LAST week's Zanu-PF politburo meeting was interesting in two ways - the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the party's vice president, and second secretary. I have never under...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF's eagerness to dissipate MDC might return to haunt them, as could be spur needed to finally urge Zimbabweans to stand up
Yesterday's ruling ZANU PF party Politburo (supreme body) meeting was interesting in two ways - firstly, the apparent strange continuation of the shamed Kembo Mohadi as the organization's vice preside...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Lockdown cripples councils'
BULAWAYO city councillors have bemoaned the crippling of service delivery by the COVID-19-induced lockdown restrictions, forcing it to go on auto-pilot.The lockdown has also affected the holdi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cripples freight industry
THE Shipping and Freight Forwarding Agents of Zimbabwe (SFFAZ) has implored the government to facilitate smooth flow of goods across borders amid confusion over lockdown rules.The industry is ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Parly gets the very short end of stick
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube needed to be at his frugal-best when he was crafting the 2021 National Budget.Funding requests to Treasury for the 2021 financi...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We need more Zimdollar than US$'
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) chief executive officer, Mr Busisa Moyo says the Bulawayo headquartered agro-processing company needs more of the local dollar to localise production of key raw materia...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa walks the talk on anti-corruption
ON February 20, 2004, Zimbabwe appended its signature to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) as it joined the global community in efforts to combat the economy's corroding cancer....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff Reprter
Khupe, Chamisa scuffle cripples local authorities
THE turf war between MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa has left operations in the country's major cities and towns paralysed after she recalled a record 84 council...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe political squabbling cripples business'
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has called for political dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, saying the standoff between the two main...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa on brink of collapse
ZIMBABWE'S state-owned power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) is on the brink of collapse due to a plethora of problems.It is beset by multiple crippling factors, including rampant power theft, no...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shun MDC demos, workers told
THE Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU) has urged workers not to participate in demonstrations being organised by the MDC Alliance saying this cripples the country's economy. The opposi...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power outage cripples Econet services
Econet services were down for long hours yesterday following a power cut that affected its network operations centre (NOC) in Harare, it has been revealed.Customers complained of intermittent ...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebirth of the Zimdollar
Zimbabwean central bank authorities have a traceable record of overnight monetary policy changes. Memories of the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono era of monetary policy hip-...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Paddington Masamha
Elliot Moyo's death, Twitter reacts
Most social media users don't believe the reports, saying there could be yet another resurrection miracle on the way.Several Zimbabwean news publications reported on Monday that Brighton Ellio...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 09:42hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda cracks the whip on MDC structures
MDC Provincial Chairperson Honourable Gift Banda has cracked the whip on MDC members who are pursuing factional politics as the party convenes Branch and Ward congresses. Banda, who...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 14:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Pastor Alph Lukau targets Zimbabweans?
An SABC show Cutting Edge on Tuesday night alleged that Pastor Alph Lukau's Alleluia International Ministries was hiring Zimbabweans to pretend to be sick or crippled so that they can stage heal...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Antiquated equipment cripples Zimbabwe's agric sector
Zimbawe's agricultural sector needs massive retooling to increase production as it is still relying on antiquated equipment.Farming experts said as long as the situation remains like this, the...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The cost of botched transition
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was ousted through a cautious military coup in November 2017, most Zimbabweans across the political divide and from all walks erupted with jubilation and relief....Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:47hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Bulawayo fertility centre helps 17 couples in first year
A MEDICAL doctor has established a centre in Bulawayo to artificially assist people who have challenges in conceiving, to have children. The facility, located along Josiah Tongogara Street and...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agriculture backbone of Zimbabwe's economy, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says agriculture is the backbone of the economy and the command agriculture model is meant to ensure food security.The President said this while addressing a highl...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Doctors' strike cripples hospitals
Zimbabwe's main state hospitals turned away many patients and only attended to emergency cases on Wednesday as a strike by doctors escalated.The strike, which seeks to pressure the government ...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 15:22hrs | | by AFP
Zifa official slaps Zimpapers with $200 000 defamation suit
Organisation of Rural Association for Progress (Orap) chief finance officer and Zifa board member Bryton Malandule has sued Zimpapers, demanding $200 000 damages for defamation after its regional pape...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
President, VP, must 'Live and Leave' together
Mbeki-Zuma, Zuma-Motlanthe, Zuma-Ramaphosa, Mugabe-Mujuru, Mugabe-Mnangagwa, Chiluba-Mwanawasa. History is littered with episodes of back-biting, catfights and political Russian-roulettes between the ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Robert Sigauke - Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Poor remuneration on referees cripples the Zimbabwe Women's soccer league
The Zimbabwe women's national football league is a sleeping giant which needs to be reawakened. The league supplies players to our beloved national team players The Mighty Warriors.The league ...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 09:41hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Lack of POS machines cripples rural businesses
RURAL communities are unable to use plastic money due to poor telecommunications network connectivity.Given the continuing cash shortages in the economy, transacting is a nightmare for consume...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
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