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Third EU-Zimbabwe Political Dialogue held in Harare
The meeting allowed for the continuation of discussions on topics that are of common interest and are priorities in EU-Zimbabwe relations: human rights, democratisation, rule of law and good governanc...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Kika bids to bar Malaba from performing CJ duties
MUSA Kika, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum director, has filed an urgent application at High Court seeking to stop Luke Malaba from exercising functions of Chief Justice until the Supreme Court he...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1947 | by Staff reporter
Delta red-flags Zimbabwe policies
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed beverages manufacturer, Delta Corporation yesterday added its voice to growing concerns over policy inconsistency and currency volatility in the country, saying th...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:39hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga admits Zimbabwe health sector collapse
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday admitted that Zimbabwe's health sector was on its knees at a time when the country is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that a lot needed to be...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Ex-MDC minister, lawyers pile pressure on Mnangagwa
FORMER Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga, has ganged up with lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Valerie Ingham-Thorpe to challenge recent constitutional amendments which they s...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:43hrs | 3659 | by Staff reporter
OK suffers write-downs as crisis deepens
REVENUES at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed retail giant, OK Zimbabwe Limited came off slightly to $34,3 billion during the year ended March 31, 2021 as consumer spending came under pressure as a r...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Mlaba crisis: Mtetwa, Matinenga launch latest ConCourt bid to oust Malaba
Pushback is mounting against the controversial constitutional amendments that made the extension of Luke Malaba's tenure as Chief Justice "permissible", with top lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Eric Matin...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:18hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt calls for vigilance as oil firm makes headway
THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires State security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Mnangagwa made the ca...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Judiciary being corroded by political expediency
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, societal harmony is under threat as the Judiciary, which essentially should be independent from interference, is being corroded by political ...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 647 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Malaba crisis: Court throws out Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe's application
The High Court has refused to hear an urgent application by the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe (YLAZ) and war veteran Frederick Mutanda seeking an order that Chief Justice Luke Malaba remains d...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:45hrs | 3416 | by Staff reporter
Fire guts Kwekwe Hospital staff quarters
Kwekwe General Hospital doctors and staff members escaped unharmed after their quarters caught fire in the early hours of today.Nine families, including doctors, physiotherapist, nurses and an...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:44hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
VID runs out of licensing stationery
SCORES of prospective drivers in Marondera and other stations countrywide are stranded after the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) ran out stationery to produce the licences.The crisis has...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Election won't solve Zimbabwe conundrum
ELECTIONS alone will never resolve the governance crisis in Zimbabwe.With an opposition and ruling party whose stalwarts are power hungry, Zimbabwe will remain unstable, under a culture of fea...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:42hrs | 332 | by Precious Shumba
COVID-19: 1 million drop out of school
NEARLY a million students have dropped out of schools over the past year, mainly due to COVID19-induced poverty which has increased inequalities, an investigation by a non-governmental organisation ha...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:41hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
'Harare water crisis far from over'
HARARE'S perennial water crisis is far from over, with government yesterday admitting that the high cost of purifying water, leakages as well as illegal connections were stifling efforts to address th...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA revive migration indaba
Zimbabwe and South Africa on Friday revived the Cross-Border Migration Management Stakeholders Forum's quarterly meetings which had stopped due to Covid-19.The forum was established around 201...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:02hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Malaba steers clear of judicial ceremony
WHILE insisting on returning to work and reporting to the office daily, Chief Justice Luke Malaba, whom the High Court says must retire, is now a lame duck.Realising that he is on shaky ground...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:31hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Harare mayor's appeal an admission of failure
THE appeal by acting mayor Stewart Mutizwa has been received with mixed reactions by residents of Harare, who feel that it lacks sincerity and practical application.The City of Harare has to i...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:03hrs | 164 | by Harare Residents Trust
Patrick Chinamasa's troubling return
IN Zanu-PF, they are changing political commissars at the rate of a diaper.You may want to say this is a purely internal matter, but not exactly so, as it has direct and indirect implications ...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:02hrs | 624 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mangudya plays down forex crisis
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has down-played fears of an industrial bloodbath in the aftermath of government's move two weeks ago to effect far reaching reforms to stem the ab...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:00hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
'State firms' crisis can be averted'
ZIMBABWE'S rundown state enterprises can bounce back without being transferred to private hands, a new report indicated last week, discounting the long –held view that privatisation presented the be...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:00hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Govt to review pensioners' payouts upwards to US$60
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima yesterday revealed that pensioners' payouts would be reviewed upward to US$60 per month by December this year from the current US$25....Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:21hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Drama at contempt hearing
THERE was drama yesterday after one of the three judges designated to hear an application seeking the arrest of Chief Justice Luke Malaba recused himself after confirming that he had met with the head...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 10384 | by Staff reporter
Banks turn back on Zimbabwe tourism sector
Zimbabwe's battered tourism industry is facing an imminent viability crisis as local banks are walking away from funding the ailing sector, Business Times reported.The ravages of the Covid-19 ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:37hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
PPC blames cement shortages on panic buying
Zimbabwe's largest cement maker, PPC Zimbabwe says artificial shortages created by customers engaging in panic buying is adversely impacting on the country's construction industry, Business Times can ...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:35hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Mnangagwa shunts judges
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today expected to swear in six judges of the Supreme Court from the High Court bench who will be expected to preside over the government's appeal against a ruling by th...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:14hrs | 6280 | by Staff reporter
'Government is best which Governs Least,' Nelson Chamisa
The untimely and unplanned introduction of Statutory Instrument 127 (SI 127) 2021 by the ZANU PF regime shows how Zimbabwe is being run as a mafia state. A dictatorship state, ran by clueless an...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 15:00hrs | 1184 | by Prince Njagu
MDC violence a threat to national peace
TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was fo...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:01hrs | 260 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Hit and run economics haunting Mthuli Ncube
The prices of basic commodities have gone up and the cost of living is sky rocketing because of this ridiculous Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 recently introduced by Minister of Finance Dr Mth...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 07:58hrs | 831 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa joins the constitutional onslaught quietly
Zimbabwe has been in the limelight again when a constitutional matter was hijacked by the opposition politicians and made an apolitical matter. The most puzzling and missing card is the very loud sile...Published: 31 May 2021 at 08:42hrs | 3860 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa wants Malaba to voluntarily step down
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says under-fire Chief Justice Luke Malaba must voluntarily step down to preserve the integrity of Zimbabwe's judicial system.President Emmerson Mnangagwa con...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:15hrs | 3547 | by Staff reporter
Textbook shortages hit Bulilima schools
Benson Dube, a retired primary school teacher, remembers with nostalgia the "good old days" when the student-textbook ratio was 1:1."For me, that is what made teaching exciting," Dube said....Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:59hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Cost of living jumps to $32 540
THE average cost of living for a family of five increased to $28 853 this month, from $28 362 in April, as reports emerged that supermarkets had been computing prices based on parallel market rates....Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:47hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
16 Supreme, Constitutional Court judges file appeal
APPEALS filed at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court ruling nullifying the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office will be heard in due course, the Judiciary Services Commissi...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:36hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
'Malaba's case will definitely be heard'
APPEALS filed at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court ruling nullifying the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of office will be heard in due course, the Judiciary Services Commissi...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:32hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Poverty is not a political commodity
Zimbabwe is an unfortunate country, it stays in an election mode the day after a new government gets into office. Political parties are in a campaig...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | 152 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Zimbabwe needs 667 police patrol vehicles, not 667 Zupco buses
BULAWAYO has made headlines for the wrong reasons in recent weeks amid a notable rise in armed robbery cases and other forms of violent crimes. Armed robberies targeting private homes and businesses h...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:21hrs | 963 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Malaba crisis deepens
17 Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges have appealed a High Court ruling that ended Luke Malaba's time as a judge and Chief Justice of Zimbabwe. The appeal, at the Supreme Court, dis...Published: 28 May 2021 at 19:41hrs | 6434 | by Staff reporter
'Beitbridge project among top deals of the year'
The Global Trade Review, the global trade finance magazine, has named the US$296 million project to rebuild Beitbridge Border Post among its top 11 worldwide deals of the year.Global Trade Rev...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Supermarkets feel heat as consumers spend on fuel
ZIMBABWE'S retailers have said the government must take action against high fuel prices that have been blamed for pushing production costs up, making the environment "unpredictable and difficult" for ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1339 | by Staff reporter
US$137m loss sinks run-down Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), chalked over a US$137 million loss in four successive years which helped sink the airline deep into the abyss under the yoke of corporate malfeasance, inc...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Profiteering supermarkets peg prices at parallel market rates
SUPERMARKETS are profiteering by pegging prices of basic commodities at the black market rate and transacting United States dollar purchases using the government instituted foreign currency auction ra...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1485 | by Staff reporter
Another warrant of arrest for Mupfumira
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira was on Wednesday issued with another warrant of arrest after she failed to avail herself for trial in a matter in which she is jointly charged with ex-National...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:40hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF has caused a constitutional crisis' says Mutambara - who is giving junta legitimacy
"As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal," wrote Professor Arthur Mutambara. "The three arms of the state (Executive, Jud...Published: 27 May 2021 at 14:20hrs | 1255 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt admits policy failures
GOVERNMENT has conceded that it was found wanting in the implementation of previous economic blueprints and now pins its hopes on its ambitious National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) to cure the curre...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:24hrs | 2630 | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Zanu-PF hate mongers'
Zanu-PF youths have come under fire for threatening violence ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, with the civic society and opposition saying they should be arrested for inciting terror.Th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:23hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Legal challenge to amendment Acts
As we have explained before, both Constitutional Amendments (No 1 and 2) Acts are unconstitutional and illegal.These two Acts have now been legally challenged in the Constitutional Court by th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:20hrs | 635 | by Arthur Mutambara
Malaba faces contempt of court charge
FORMER Chief Justice Luke Malaba is facing a contempt of court charge after he allegedly defied a High Court order which blocked extension of his term of office by five years.Zimbabwe Human ri...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:16hrs | 884 | by Staff reporter
US demands end to rights violations
UNITED States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to walk the talk on reforms if the country is to attract themuch-needed investment to pu...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:14hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
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