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How to minimize stress at work
Work stress is inevitable, and there are some aspects of any job that can create tension. But long-term exposure to these stressors can lead to burnout and other undesired consequences for employees....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 16:15hrs | 69 | by Staff Reporter
Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | 13 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabweans not silent accomplices of Zanu-PF oppression
Zimbabweans have never been silent accomplices of their oppression with citizens expressing their grievances through cultural artefacts, a South Africa based academic has said.Speaking a...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa learnt nothing from lying about Trump in 2018,' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled Zimbabwean cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has called out Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa over his recent remarks which advocated for the United Nations supervised 2023 elec...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 08:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tech start-up wins US$250,000 Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa
ZIMBABWEAN tech start-up Vaxiglobal was recently named among the first winners of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa which attracted 330 applicants from 38 countries across the continent....Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 10 | by Jamwanda
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 48 | by Dumisani Muleya
We cannot take democracy for granted - ex-army general Chiwenga imperil us all
Trust in Zimbabwean politics is at a low ebb, eroded by foolish behaviour.The ugly scenes that were witnessed at Citizens Coalition for Change CCC rally in Kwekwe leaves a sour taste in the mo...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 08:58hrs | | by Taruberekera Masara
Chamisa's CCC says Mnangagwa in panic mode
THE opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says his party will soon convene an elective congress to choose a leadership amid reports of a tussle for positions as senior ...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Youth development should be anchored on job creation'
TAKUDZWANASHE Gore, a 29-year-old university graduate breaks down as he narrates how he has been eking out a living on the streets despite graduating four years back.Together with many other y...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free Zuma campaign calls for his release
THE #FreeJacobZuma campaign has come out in support of the imprisoned former head of state, saying that only a free Zuma can quell the unrest that plagued Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal over the past week....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 15 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mangwana's brain fade cannot go unchallenged
UTTERANCES by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana accusing doctors of deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and blaming their deaths on the coronavirus cannot go unchallenged.We are u...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see gloomy 2021
ZIMBABWEANS are not enthused about the New Year, 2021, and see no improvement in the social, economic and political problems that bedevilled the country throughout 2020.Most people entered January...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans await US election with apathy, anticipation
THE upcoming vote could mark a major shift in American politics, but it's unclear how the outcome will affect the two nations' frosty relationship.Whether the issue is the coronavirus pandemic...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majoni
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
Gukurahundi mass graves exhumation intent - is the Matebelalnd Collective accomplices?
History is littered with many heinous crimes committed by man against man all in the name of power, from the Turkish genocide against the Armenians, the Nazi Jewish holocaust, Pol pot madness, the Rwa...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Fikile wa Malikongwa
MDC calls for an Extraordinary Summit on Idai
There are three SADC countries which were hard hit by Cyclone Idai. Thousands of lives have been lost in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.Many people are still uncounted for, thousands are home...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 12:56hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Dialogue is critical but requires sincerity and progressive mindset
Political dialogue takes place in many forms, it is initiated and facilitated by a variety of actors. One cannot be an initiator and actor at the same time. Four main types of political dialogue have ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:56hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Corruption damaging Zimbabwe recovery
TRANSPARENCY International's 2017 corruption perception index ranked Zimbabwe number 157 out of 180 countries. Using a scale of 0 to 100 (where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean), Zimbabwe has...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | 8 | by Paddington Masamha
Mnangagwa worry over 'gratuitous negativity' around oil find
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has blasted the "gratuitous negativity" which followed his announcement that Australia's Invictus Energy had found oil and gas deposits in the northern Muzarabani area of ...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ED stepping up fight against graft' Mangwana praised - praise as contrived as fight itself
Nick Mangwana has worked hard as a Zanu-PF apologist and was recently rewarded with the appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Media, Publicity and Broadcasting Services. The post was h...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa fight against corruption is real
This week saw an unprecedented number of high-profile individuals appearing before our courts of law in connection with corruption, giving momentum to Government's fight against graft. Given t...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:34hrs | 8 | by Nick Mangwana
'I will get rid of ghost workers' Mnangagwa promised, again - who stopped you, it has been a year
I have never pegged myself as a cynic but in today's Zimbabwe it is impossible not to be cynical when the whole nation is poisoned with cynicism and intrigue!"Government is fully aware of the ...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 13:51hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
With Grace and Nelson on the Same Side: We must all get behind ED
This is a momentous juncture in our history. No less important than last November. No less important than even our liberation struggle. For what is a struggle for freedom if we are just to...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 16:53hrs | | by Faith Hope
Its now or never do or die for our future
Something is happening in Zimbabwe right now, there is a wind of change. Wind from every corner of Zimbabwe, which will breathe new life into politics. The politics of development and indeed it is the...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 19:16hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The NPF is no Joke: Mugabe is Manipulating Chamisa
Articles started to appear a few months ago that young Nelson Chamisa was beginning to act like Robert Mugabe. He was accused of being dictatorial within his party. He had no time for dissent or oppos...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Faith Hope
Chamisa, don't turn your back on us!
In November, we witnessed something quite remarkable. We witnessed something many of us, indeed most of us, never believed we would ever witness. This was not merely a magnificent moment of freedom fo...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 17:11hrs | | by Knowledge Moyo
'Zimbabwe is stable and prosperous!' is ED's interminable gabble as reality emerge from web of lies
"A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," said Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's minister of propaganda.Goebbels has had many disciples who have subscri...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Politics of entitlement: A threat to electoral democracy
The election season is upon us and Zimbabwe will go to the polls on July 30. This election is both critical and unique in the sense that it is now urgent that the country moves forward after a long pe...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Terrence Muvoti
More corruption arrests for govt officials
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, has said more government officials face arrest as the crackdown on corruption in Government is continuing.He also shot down claims that the Gover...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside Mnangagwa's China sojourn
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived back home from a five-day state visit to China yesterday amid optimism that his campaign to woo investors is paying off.Mnangagwa met Chinese president Xi ...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a 'Mugabe look-alike'?
A top government official in Zimbabwe has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa against claims he is "a Mugabe look-alike", saying that the new president is driving changes aimed at redefining the cou...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa strategy for Zimbabwe's recovery
The multiple initiatives that President Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's administration has launched may be confusing to a citizenry already buffeted by years of debility and decline.It is thus im...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by George Charamba
Poor leadership MDC's Achilles heel
ANYONE who has read the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, last year's Nobel Prize winner for literature, will know that characters in his books cope with the bleakness of their situation through denial and se...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Itayi Garande
Mnangagwa's permanent friend
THERE may be good reason for the new president's praise for Zimbabwe's former leader.It is not usual for a person who has seized power through a military coup to heap praise upon his deposed p...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Derek Matyszak
Zanu-PF should be about politics and economics
This is the Address by Zanu-PF First Secretary and President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the 107th Ordinary Session of the Zanu-PF Central Committee December 14, 2017 yesterdayACTING Secretary,...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:43hrs | | by President Emmerson Mnangagwa
'Police need training to detect cyber crimes'
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) needs to train officers capable of detecting and neutralising cyber crimes, Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri has said. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Repub...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 22:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa has pushed Zimbabwe football into abyss
Zifa's decision to rescind the red card shown to Dynamos player, Christian Ntouba is probably one of football's most diabolic and shameful decisions and it is a hallmark of Philip Chiyangwa's presiden...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Shaky Mugabe being led to seat
Heartbreaking or proof of his party's cynicism?This clip of ageing president Robert Mugabe shows him being led to his seat - and there's no mistaking his 93 years.Mugabe is shown takin...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US building $200m new embassy, 'future is bright', says Ambassador - could not be any brighter
"We hope the future is bright and I will highlight why the United States government thinks it is. Our commitment remains to Zimbabwe," announced USA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Harry Thomas. ...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Makarau surrenders professional values & ethics by letting her judicial robe fall to her knees
Justice Rita Makarau, former ZANU PF appointee none constituency MP for parliamentary legal committee, professional lawyer, constitutional and supreme court judge, current secretary of the judiciary s...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
'Let's remain united,' says Mugabe whilst promoting G40 faction and resisting democratic reforms
President Mugabe continues to ignore the calls for democratic reforms and free and fair elections. He continues to concentrate on promoting his wife's political ambition in the name of Zanu PF party u...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 20:54hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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