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Mnangagwa's diplomatic offensive off the rails
LAST week's damning testimonies in the United States senate on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe have thrown President Emmerson Mnangagwa's international re-engagement agenda off balance, as Wash...Published: 2 hrs ago | 711 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urged to focus on fixing economic challenges
THE ongoing Zanu-PF national conference must give the party a chance to realign its energies into coherence and come up with responsive strategies to arrest the obtaining economic challenges.T...Published: 3 hrs ago | 57 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Rand option dilemma as currency crisis worsens
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, who has publicly said joining South Africa's Multilateral Monetary Area could be a solution to Zimbabwe's currency crisis, is agonising over currency reforms, as it dawn...Published: 12 hrs ago | 7742 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel situation dire
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) says the fuel supply crisis has reached catastrophic levels as the 100-million-litre consignment procured last week at a cost of US$60 million has alrea...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4593 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara missing the point on dialogue
The MDC would like to set the record straight that the call for dialogue is not a clamor for a GNU, but a call to return this country to legitimacy, pursue a trajectory of growth, peace and economic r...Published: 13 hrs ago | 961 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa desperate for talks
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday appealed for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stabilise the faltering economy, but the Zanu-PF leader ruled out such a possibility, saying h...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1636 | by Staff reporter
Underestimated Way to Success
Aldreen T. Munyoro belongs to the generation of 'purpose driven' young people in Zimbabwe, who, despite awkward circumstances in life are full of optimism. The twenty-one year old National University ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 338 | by Brian Maregedze
Chamisa now wants dialogue with Mnangagwa
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance leader, has called for an immediate dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to find a lasting solution to the economic crisis that has hit the country. Cham...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 06:13hrs | 8228 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sits on $300 million worth of diamonds
State-owned ZCDC is sitting on $300 million worth of Marange diamonds, as the nation continues to bear the brunt of fuel and other essential commodity shortages at the back of an acute foreign currenc...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 06:08hrs | 1495 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa urged to dialogue
Faith Ministries pastor and businessman Shingi Munyeza has urged Zanu-PF and the MDC to dialogue in order to move the country forward.Munyeza said it is important for the two political parties...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 13:53hrs | 3515 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa not desperate for GNU'
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC came out guns blazing yesterday, saying it is not desperate to form a government of national unity (GNU) with Zanu-PF.This was after Vice President Kembo Mohadi pour...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | 5144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's quiet transformation
When ED came to power just over a year ago, many of us were expecting big things. And fast. The situation was just so bad under Bob and Grace's misrule, that when, in those heady days of Novem...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:48hrs | 7327 | by Joice Tsitsi
Can Zanu-PF spring an Esigodini surprise?
Zanu-PF meets in Esigodini in Matabeleland South Province this week for its annual people's conference amid a worsening economic crisis which has in recent weeks been highlighted by shortages of fuel,...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 15:30hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa consolidates power
Zanu-PF's annual people's conference opened in Esigodini yesterday amid indications that the event would be used to cement President Emmerson Mnangagwa's grip on power and keep ambitious cadres at bay...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 07:44hrs | 2980 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF indaba to crush Mnangagwa foes
Zanu-PF's annual people's conference opened in Esigodini yesterday amid indications that the event would be used to cement President Emmerson Mnangagwa's grip on power and keep ambitious cadres at bay...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 06:13hrs | 1944 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo promises bliss
ASPIRING Zifa president Felton Kamambo has pledged a more efficient, richer, transparent and successful administration if he wins the mandate to lead the national football mother body, with elections ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:42hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs awaken Esigodini
Government business will literally come to a halt as the who's who in Zanu-PF, including Cabinet ministers, abandon their stations this week to attend the party's annual peoples' conference in Esigodi...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spoils his Cabinet with top-of-the-range Land Rover Discovery vehicles
With the majority of the citizenry getting poorer by the day owing to the biting economic crisis, the cash-strapped government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has splurged over $2 million on top-of-th...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 10746 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors' strike bites
Seventy-four-year-old Elliot Moyo is a bitter man. He was hit by a car and suffered a broken leg, among other serious injuries, early last week.Since then, he has been making several fruitless...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:18hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
Soccer calendar change on course
MOVES to align Zimbabwe's domestic football season with the international calendar are well on course with the Premier Soccer League pushing for that to happen, with the position on the exact way forw...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:56hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for life president?
A section of the ruling party is gingerly pushing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rule Zimbabwe for life to spite ambitious cadres within his party who are burning the midnight oil, plotting again...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:51hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Mega deals remain elusive for Zimbabwe
Locally, thousands have called him a hero for toppling the only leader Zimbabwe has known for almost four decades.Abroad, investors are, for the first time in decades, considering Zimbabwe as ...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:50hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Trump's govt piles more pressure on Mnangagwa
THE United States administration has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to deal with his government's economic mismanagement rather than blame the current economic mess on sanctions the global po...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:40hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will not drop Biti charges
Zimbabwe will not accept pressure to subvert the rule of law to pacify certain political interests and will uphold the Constitution in the conduct of its affairs, a senior Government official has said...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:35hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira disowns article...fingers pastor
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira has disowned an article that is making rounds on social media which is attacking civic society and MDC as being the problems that are behind the Zimbabwean crisis. Ma...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:58hrs | 2843 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa speaks on talks with Mnangagwa
MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa has denied that there are any talk that are taking place between him and the ZANU PF Leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.Chamisa was responding to screaming headlines that grip...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 08:55hrs | 14430 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What the Nation and world should know
When MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai was ailing and walking and breathing his last, he made it clear that he wouldn't die as someone who failed the party on its succession debate. The fake news paddled by his...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:04hrs | 3037 | by Sidney Chisi
MDC affiliate calls for Zimbabwe shutdown
Zimbabwe's main labour federation yesterday called for a strike this month to protest the worsening economic conditions in the country.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' (ZCTU) general council...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 14:30hrs | 1823 | by Staff reporter
US interferes with Zimbabwe judiciary, wants Biti charges dropped
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government should drop charges against former finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti to prove that the Harare administration is "serious about taking the cou...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | 3980 | by newzimbabwe
Global warming crisis & the possible death of life on earth
I do not subscribe to the view that global warming is a direct result of human activities/industries. I believe that global warming is a product of nature or natural processes, that the phenomenon cou...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 12:06hrs | 854 | by Don Chigumba
The worsening economic meltdown is forcing ED to do the unthinkable - step down
"Charova sei chando, kukwidza hamba mumuti!" (It will have to be bitterly cold to force the tortoise up a tree!) one would say in Shona.Well Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation is forcing ...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 09:01hrs | 7004 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa must engage Chamisa'
ECONOMIC experts yesterday called for a multi-stakeholder dialogue involving business, political parties, and citizens to resolve the country's worsening economic and political crises.Speaking...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:34hrs | 4944 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must release August 1 killings inquiry report'
RECENT disclosures by presidential spokesperson George Charamba that the report by the commission of inquiry into the August 1 shootings by the millitary is for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's eyes "on...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
China leads Zimbabwe cities revamp
THE future has arrived, and it looks nothing like what anyone expected. In the midst of a debilitating economic crisis, Zimbabwean urban centres are plagued by pollution, poverty and crumbling infrast...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
What are the realistic chances for political dialogue in Zimbabwe?
All political transitions (without exception) whether occasioned by revolution, externally driven or resulting from an election, are perfected through dialogue between the contending forces in society...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:56hrs | 409 | by Brian T Kagoro
MDC speaks on Mudzuri ouster
The Movement for Democratic Change has opened up on the letter that was circulating on social media on Thursday alleging that MDC standing committee has fired its Vice President Engineer Elias Mudzuri...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 19:49hrs | 7009 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa engaging Mnangagwa behind the scenes
There could finally be light at the end of the tunnel for long-suffering Zimbabweans, after it emerged yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa are indirectly e...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 16:00hrs | 4286 | by Staff reporter
MDC lacking strategic thinking
Utterances attributed to MDC Alliance Spokesperson, Jacob Mafume, that Zimbabwe had become a security threat to the SADC region and that the party would embark on a diplomatic offensive to mobilise su...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:29hrs | 1212 | by Bevan Musoko
Robert Sigauke remembers Robert Mugabe ouster: A year on
The streets of Harare reminisced the scenes of independence celebrations close to four decades ago. While the incidence of tribal, character and colour differentiation cannot be undone, it is the real...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:07hrs | 923 | by Robert Sigauke
Mudzuri suspended by MDC Standing committee
The MDC National Standing Committee has resolved to suspend its Vice President Engineer Elias Mudzuri, a circulating press release alleges."The Vice President Elias Mudzuri is susp...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 10:48hrs | 6743 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks kick off
There could finally be light at the end of the tunnel for long-suffering Zimbabweans, after it emerged yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa are indirectly e...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:32hrs | 40839 | by Staff reporter
Dollars vs Zollars
Government's insistence on a fixed 1:1 exchange rate has continued to create headaches for companies who have to report within prescribed accounting standards. This comes as the US dollar, ado...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:30hrs | 4261 | by Reuters
Govt, doctors talks deadlocked
THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe radiographers call for a nationwide strike
The crisis at Zimbabwe's public hospitals is worsening after radiographers at government hospitals on Wednesday joined the strike by junior and middle-level doctors by calling for a strike due to poor...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 19:59hrs | 1838 | by Ndou Paul
Zimbabwe's economic crisis a cause for concern
The National Standing Committee today met and discussed the state of the nation. The meeting which was chaired by President Nelson Chamisa noted that the current political crisis was at the centre of ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 18:37hrs | 2158 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Linda Masarira's letter to Mthuli Ncube
National Spokesperson of MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khuphe has written to the Minister of finance Mthuli Ncube questioning his lack of providing a clear roadmap amidst the mounting economic woes th...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 16:57hrs | 5869 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's hospitals crisis deepens
The crisis at the country's public hospitals is worsening, after nurses said yesterday that they would start reporting for duty for three days a week due to Zimbabwe's biting fuel shortages, as well a...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:19hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Pay the doctors and save lives
The government must quickly and effectively resolve the issue of Medical practitioners' welfare to avoid further crippling of the health delivery system and avoid loss of life.The ongoing medi...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 690 | by Dr. Henry Madzorera, MDC National Secretary for Health
Mnangagwa supporters foil opponents
With factionalism refusing to die in Zanu-PF, anxious power-brokers in the party are scheming to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm of both the former liberation movement and the government...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to discuss banning Chamisa from next two elections
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will be prevented from contesting the next two Presidential Elections if Zanu-PF-aligned war veterans have their way.In shock pronouncements on Tuesday, the Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:35hrs | 7260 | by ZimLive
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