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Zimbabwe lags behind South Africa in literacy rates?
Zimbabwe has secured the 4th spot in the ranking of African countries with the highest education levels in 2024, according to a report by Data Panda. The ranking is based on literacy rates and years o...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 09:18hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer in trouble for prospecting for gold
Bulawayo-based lawyer Dumisani Dube (36) and his accomplice Dakar Mohammad are in soup after they were arrested for allegedly prospecting for gold without a license.The duo appeared before Plu...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:05hrs | 1425 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Rugeje caught up in bar CIO hunt for rights activist
Days before a summit of regional leaders, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock troops armed with AK47s stormed a bar where a retired top general and Zanu-PF politburo member was drinking on Wednesday,...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 3473 | by Staff reportrer
As long as ZACC isn't catching the 'big fish' then its work is useless!
The ZACC (Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission) has, of late, been bragging over its supposed 'successes'.ZACC commissioner Ndakaripa Hungwe recently told a national anti-corruption indaba in H...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 15:02hrs | 671 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe politics derail anti-corruption fight'
At a national anti-corruption conference in Harare, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) board chairperson Isheanesu Chirisa highlighted several challenges hindering the fight against corruption...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:50hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
'Zacc, Parly must probe Beam funds abuse'
A social justice group has called for investigations by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and Parliament into alleged mismanagement and misuse of funds meant for the Basic Education Assistance M...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Brothers attempt to kill neighbour over beer
The love of beer has landed two brothers in jail after they nearly killed their neighbour in a beer dispute.The matter came to light at Bindura court on Friday where Mandaza brothers Jonga (39...Published: 13 Apr 2024 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe politics is a rat race and the antagonists' trump cards are deception and betrayal
Zimbabwe's political system is not a caucus race but a rat race! Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland explained what a caucus race is: "After swimming around in Alice's pool of tears...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
David Coltart urged not to resign in solidarity with Nelson Chamisa
Supporters of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Bulawayo residents this week continued to haggle on whether Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart should step down in support of former part...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners shun Zimbabwe learning institutions
LATEST data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) shows that foreigners no longer prefer to study in the country.A total of 469 752 visitors from abroad entered the country d...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corrupt teachers face deregistration
Corrupt teachers will be deregistered among a raft of reforms introduced to bring sanity to the education sector, an official from the Primary and Secondary Education ministry has said.Speakin...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC borrows poor language from Nerves Mumba
IN A WHAT COMES ACROSS AS A POOR CASE OF BORROWING poor language from Nerves Mumba's controversial Sadc Electoral Observation Mission on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election, Nelson Chamisa's C...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mthuli Ncube's budget has strong traits of capitalism
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has slammed the just passed 2024 National Budget describing it as largely anti-welfare.This follows the tabling of a ZW$58,2 trillion National Budg...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Record-breaking global migration - Unprecedented displacement spurs demand for people-focused solutions
On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced ...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 13:14hrs | 17 | by Lansana Gberie
Teachers criticise Mthuli Ncube
Teachers' unions criticized Finance Minister Mthulisi Ncube for not addressing the challenges facing the education sector and demanded that the 2024 budget should focus on resolving long-standing issu...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Senegal restricts internet access
The action is necessary to stop the spread of "hateful messages" on social media following an opposition figure's arrest, the Communications Ministry has saidThe government of Senegal has temp...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 19:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Maridadi seeks new markets for Zimbabwe products
As the manufacturing sector continues to increase production driven by favourable policies introduced by the Second Republic, Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal James Maridadi has decided to help the fi...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'White commercial interests dominating Zimbabwe,' says Biti
HARARE East legislator who is a Former Finance Minister and one of the leaders of Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe government's land ownership structure was st...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senegal President to open 2023 ZITF
Senegalese President Macky Sall is set to officially open this year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) which will run from 25 to 29 April 2023.This was revealed by President Emmerson M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
18 Binga schools record 0% passes
AT least 18 schools in Binga, Matabeleland North province, recorded a zero percent pass rate at Ordinary Level 2022 examinations, with teachers unions yesterday saying such results showed education in...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy gets land from Senegal for production of white maize
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Senegal has been availed with more land to spearhead the production of white maize in a diplomatic show of food security initiatives that the continent is putting in place....Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 07:50hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa food security claims raise dust
POLITICAL analysts have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of misleading the world at the Feed Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal, early this week where he said Zimbabwe was food secure.They sa...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa breaks leave to attend the Africa food and nutrition summit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is on his annual leave, Tuesday broke the vacation to attend the Africa food and nutrition summit in Senegal.African heads of states are gathering to strategi...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube splurges cash on teachers, farmers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday allocated the highest vote of ZW$631.3 billion to the education ministry in an attempt to appease restive teachers ahead of next year's general elections....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand 20% budget allocation
TEACHERS want Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to allocate 20% of the 2023 national budget to the education sector, which they said is in shambles.In their 2023 pre-budget position paper to Parli...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF - govt conflation deepens
CONFLATION between Zanu-PF as a political party and the government spheres is deepening as shown by the increasing involvement in state activities by former vice-president Kembo Mohadi, The NewsHawks ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fuel firm board fired over governance failures
Energy and Power Development Minister Zhemu Soda has fired the Petrotrade board after a team of investigators confirmed failures in corporate governance, and in particular over the appointment of seni...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with daily blackouts
ZAMBIA'S integrated power utility ZESCO has declared that the country how has surplus capacity of about 1,000 megawatts (MW) at a time the country is also enjoying an economic rebound.Across t...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Harare ranks 4th expensive African city
HARARE has been ranked the fourth most expensive African city to live in out of 15 sampled cities, as authorities accuse businesses of conniving to push up the cost of living.This is according...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Harare top five on list of Africa's most expensive cities
ZIMBABWE'S capital Harare has been ranked fourth on the list of Africa's most expensive cities to live in.Top of the 15-city list was the Senegalese capital Dakar followed by Addis Ababa in Et...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants plot massive demonstration against poor wages
CIVIL servants under the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) are this Friday set to march against government's continued reluctance to pay them in US dollars.Worries ...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Petrotrade board suspension challenge hits a snag
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota has struck off the roll an urgent chamber application by former Petrotrade board chair Tinomudaishe Chinyoka, who was challenging his dismissal from state oil co...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'US$120m looted from parastatal'
SUSPENDED PetroTrade board chair Tinomudaishe Chinyoka yesterday alleged massive looting and mismanagement at the State-owned entity which he claimed had prejudiced the company of nearly US$120 millio...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suspended PetroTrade board plots showdown
ENERGY and Power Development minister Zhemu Soda yesterday set himself on a collision course with the PetroTrade board which he suspended for allegedly interfering with the company's daily operations ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister Soda Zhemu suspends entire Petrotrade Board
The Minister of Energy and Power Development, Hon Soda Zhemu has suspended the Petrotrade board chaired by Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka, deputized by Zanele Dube.The Minister said he was sus...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Go Warriors Go!
AFTER all the boardroom squabbles that threatened Zimbabwe's participation at this year's edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals that kicked off in Yaoundé yesterday, the Warriors will b...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
James Maridadi optimistic
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal Mr James Maridadi is optimistic that the embassy would be officially accredited in Mali, Guinea Conakry and the Gambia this year.Ambassador Maridadi represents...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors hunt for the Lions of Teranga
ZIMBABWE received some good news after all players and officials returned a clean bill of health in their last Covid-19 tests before the opening Group B encounter of the delayed 2021 AFCON finals agai...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 11 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwe receives 1 million vaccines
Zimbabwe yesterday took delivery of a consignment of one million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines donated by the People's Republic of China, in a show of continued excellent relations that exist between the ...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
China remains a strategic partner for Zimbabwe
MY mission from His Excellency President Mnangagwa upon deployment as Ambassador in 2019 was to deepen the levels of co-operation in all respects between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Zimba...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:10hrs | 7 | by Ambassador Martin Chedondo
Errant fuel dealers face arrest
Petroleum companies buying fuel in local currency and then selling it in United States dollars will face prosecution and other legal action, Energy and Power Development Minister Zhemu Soda has warned...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to blame for 6,8% pass rate drop
TEACHERS unions yesterday blamed government for the 6,8% drop in the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) 2020 O-Level pass rate.The unions attributed poor budgetary allocations to th...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP accused over farm wrangle
HEADLANDS-BASED farmer Dakarai Mapuranga has accused Zanu-PF youths of being used by local MP Christopher Chingosho to fight him over his Mhandara Farm.The Zanu-PF youths in Headlands have wri...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa's Liquid Telecom rebrands
The newly rebranded Liquid Intelligent Technologies (formerly Liquid Telecom) says its transformation is aimed at becoming a more interactive business, providing solutions for all economic sectors acr...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
#SaveOurEducationZw: 5 million voices for 5 million learners
Zimbabwe has a total learner population of almost 5 million, who are enrolled from Early Child Development, (ECD) to Advanced level, (A level). These learners are on the verge of completely losing out...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 15:10hrs | | by ARTUZ
Teachers slam govt reintroduction of 'youth militia'
TEACHERS have met with condemnation, a recent government decision to reintroduce the controversial National Youth Service training programme often dismissed by opponents as a Zanu-PF indoctrination ex...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa right on new political party
What a week it has been. We hear the taxi driver was fired but he came out saying he was not fired. Saka toziva zvipi nhai vanhu veMasvingo kkkk. Mapombi is proud to be from Masvingo. I love this plac...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:28hrs | | by Mapombi
Teachers hit back at Mathema
TEACHERS have challenged government to accept responsibility over the poor performance of Grade 7 pupils in the 2020 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council results released early this month, accusing Pr...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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