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Biti tears into Mnangagwa Gvt over nurses' arrest
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has slammed the President Emmerson Mnangagwa government for the arrest of health workers demonstrating over poor w...Published: 4 hrs ago | 4286 | by Moyo Roy
BREAKING: Bulawayo Mayor instructed to report to Thokozani Khupe daily
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has constituted a Presidential Task Force to look at the death of about 13 people in Luveve in the past months and has instructed Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mad...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5981 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa says he is still in charge
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has assured his followers that he is still in charge of the main opposition political party in Zimbabwe, and dismissed what MDC-T leaders Thokozani Khupe,...Published: 21 hrs ago | 4084 | by Staff reporter
America pours $60.55 million to Zimbabwe for Lean Season Food Assistance
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will provide $60.55 million toward the World Food Programme’s (WFP) 2020/21 Lean Season Food Assistance program in Z...Published: 24 hrs ago | 2509 | by Agencies
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1946 | by Prince Njagu
Chamisa speaks on 'next steps' via online rally
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will today speak on the direction his party will take in the wake of a fierce battle for control of the country's opposition party. Chamisa...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 7695 | by Staff reporter
Jostling for posts divides Khupe's party
INFIGHTING has erupted in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe a few months after the faction found new life following a Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the former deputy prime minister as leader of ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5776 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume leading calls for the planned July 31 protests
Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume, who has been leading calls for the planned July 31 protests, said the action they were taking would not be partisan."We are doing this for the gener...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
No need to make Africa one country
There is obsession today among many Pan-Africanists of believing a one country Africa as the only viable way Africa can develop and eliminate all the problems it is facing. They believe that a one cou...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 804 | by Lubani Nondo
Zimbabwe records 73 new Covid-19 positive cases in one day
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and refocus on the measures the country adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March if it is to avert a local transmission crisis, a senior government offic...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2219 | by Staff Reporter
Recall of MDC-A Councillors
The MDC Alliance condemns the recall of 4 Harare City Councilors by Minister July Moyo of Zanu PF on the instruction of the MDC-T.This ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 11:33hrs | 2367 | by Sesel Zvidzai
FCA account holders fail to withdraw cash
INDIVIDUALS with nostro foreign currency accounts (FCAs) in Zimbabwe are failing to withdraw US dollars from banks, a development which undermines public confidence and trust in the financial system....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 6063 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 100 | by Agencies
ZimParks rangers drunk with sanitizers
KARIBA - The human and wildlife conflict in the resort town of Kariba is being fueled by Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management (ZimParks) rangers neglecting duty while drunk with sanitizers ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 941 | by Naume Muza
Chamisa's 5 MPs challenge Parly expulsion
FIVE MDC Alliance MPs who were recalled from Parliament by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe last week, have approached the High Court challenging their expulsion.The affected MPs are; Basilia Maja...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:36hrs | 5170 | by newzimbabwe
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa graft fight pie in the sky
European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen's remarks that the EU will not provide budgetary support to Zimbabwe as has happened to other countries to stabilise their economies in the wak...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political climate remains tense
WITH Zimbabwe's political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the militar...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans launch petitition to force Mnangagwa - Chamisa to dialogue
A certain section of Zimbabweans has launched an online petition calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to unite for the sake of the suffering population....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 15:07hrs | 11347 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2982 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe food crisis worse than last year: UN agency
AFOOD security report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that Zimbabweans are worse-off than they were a year after the launch of the humanitarian ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6070 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5830 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo court jails MDC activist for insulting Mnangagwa
A Masvingo magistrate has remanded Programmes manager for Masvingo Centre for Research and Community Development (Macrad), Ephraim Mtombeni to 13 July after being charged with charged with insul...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:37hrs | 3185 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa told to engage rivals
RETURNING Zanu-PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening po...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3476 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo tells Mnangagwa to engage rivals
Returning Zanu-PF member Rugare Gumbo says that President Emmerson Mnangagwa need to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening political and economic cr...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 10786 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF not political party but army appendage'
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has ceased to exist as a political party but was now an appendage of the military.He was sharing his thoughts on Twitter.Moyo,...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1264 | by newzimbabwe
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3476 | by newzimbabwe
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4218 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Hunger hits Zanu-PF stronghold
Hungry Buhera villagers are emptying their cattle pens as they are being forced to exchange their cattle for grain.This was said by several Zanu-PF councillors who spoke to The Mirror in inter...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:22hrs | 3974 | by Staff reporter
Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?
Zimbabwe is at crossroads, the economy is in decline, deprivation continues, with ordinary citizens yearning for reprieve from the challenges to do with daily survival.Grace KwinjeThis is ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:06hrs | 3034 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8923 | by Staff reporter
'Mobile money suspension will bury Zimbabwean economy'
THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:41hrs | 1945 | by Staff reporter
Taxis show Ramaphosa the middle finger
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) and the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) say government is not taking the industry seriously and that they have decided to take the "the bull by its horns...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:21hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3253 | by AFP
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1461 | by Thandekile Moyo
Mnangagwa's govt must at least provide the basics
The dirty water phenomenon has final arrived in the great City of Kings and Queens. We all knew this as the trademark of Harare. The government and city fathers seem to be clueless about solving the w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 151 | by Lubani Nondo
Bulawayo burial regulations to continue beyond lockdown
BURIAL regulations introduced by the Bulawayo City Council as part of the Covid-19 pandemic preventive measures are set to continue beyond the national lockdown.At the onset of the pandemic in...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 153 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Sticky-fingered conductors strike Zupco, again
PILFERING staffers have been the proverbial monkey on Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s case ever since it was brought back to life.Last year, the mass public transport operator jett...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:15hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu vows Mnangagwa confrontation
EXPELLED Zanu-PF youth league commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has made startling claims the country was better governed by late former President Robert Mugabe than it is now under Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 16:58hrs | 2463 | by newzimbabwe
If only RBZ could listen
Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), On the 30th of December 2019 I wrote to the governor of (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) RBZ, the Ministry of Finance and the government that the growth of a dominating mobil...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3022 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4902 | by Staff reporter
'Now is the time to liberate ourselves' - Why long wait? New Dotito puppy tale of the unexpected
Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent politicians, right across the political divide, take the Zimbabwean electorate for fools! It was only after Joice Mujuru was booted out; "baby dumped", as Gr...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 1973 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo Mayor blames residents for Luveve water death crisis
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Madlala blamed Luveve residents for the Gastrointestinal Disease that has claimed 12 lives leaving thousands seeking medical attention. Speaking on camera, Mguni said th...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 16:47hrs | 1955 | by Mandla Ndlovu
My parliament is in Mkoba: MDC Alliance MP Chibaya
MDC Alliance legislator for Mkoba Amos Chibaya has said his alleged recall from parliament does not change his responsibility to serve the people in his constituency indicating that his parliament is ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 4045 | by Stephen Jakes
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