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'Truckers fuel border jumping'
THE Matabeleland South provincial task force on Covid-19 has called for strict supervision of cross-border truck drivers transporting goods following reports that some of them were assisting some peop...Published: 20 hrs ago | 632 | by Staff reporter
Top 5 guiding tips for selecting a betting platform
The online betting industry is on a constant rise as more and more individuals shift from traditional to this flexible and convenient method of placing a wager. While this is a good thing, it also com...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 257 | by Staff Writer
Stanbic starts distributing Covid 19 PPEs
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has kick-started the distribution of US$200 000 worth of equipment to health institutions throughout the country for use by frontline workers in th...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:42hrs | 154 | by Own correspondent
'Zimbabwe parliament to dump British traditions'
AS Zimbabwe builds a new parliament set for opening next March, Speaker Jacob Mudenda says the national assembly will finally break from British parliamentary traditions for homegrown cultural norms a...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
High Court challenge for Zupco 'monopoly'
COMMUTER omnibus owners in Bulawayo, operating under the banner 'Tshova Mubaiwa Transport Co-operative Company' have approached the High Court challenging Government's decision to have their kombis op...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:32hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
223 returnees fly into Harare, quarantined in hotels
Three flights from the Philippines and Namibia brought 223 returning citizens and residents into Zimbabwe over the weekend, with all now in formal quarantine at two hotels serving as private quarantin...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:30hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Security beefed up at Covid-19 isolation centres
SECURITY at designated Covid-19 isolation centres, especially those situated in border towns, is set to be upgraded to prevent quarantined returnees from escaping.Last night, Information, Publ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1009 | by Staff Reporter
Death, secrecy and online assets
PEOPLE are advised and rightly so to ensure tight protection of their online data and other personal information held in electronic format. Protecting data helps against unauthorised access and crimin...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 518 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe, Belarus buses deal clarified
AN official representative of Belarusian manufacturing plants Mr Vadim Zhuk has set the record straight with regards to the cooperation of the Zimbabwe and Belarus for the production and assembly of p...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:20hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tormentor cop guns for ex-boss Chihuri
A former junior police officer, who once made headlines when he boldly arrested the now state President Emmerson Mnangagwa 2005, has turned his guns on former boss Augustine Chihuri he wants arrested ...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 23 people who escaped from Coronavirus centres
Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that it has arrested 23 of the 148 people who escaped from various quarantine centres across the country. In a statement issued on Friday ZRP said, "We a...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3332 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's son speaks on corruption allegations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins Mnangagwa, has furiously denied allegations that he is part of the company which pocketed almost US$1 million after supplying the government with gros...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3522 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs press for new cars
THE cash-strapped government is under pressure to release vehicles for MPs of the current Ninth Parliament and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has been tasked to discuss the matter with his Finance c...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:29hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Over 2 000 vehicles impounded for violating lockdown regulations
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded 120 vehicles after their owners violated Covid-19 lockdown regulations.Zimbabwe Republic Police Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Spokesperson, Inspector Abednico Nc...Published: 28 May 2020 at 17:05hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
An introduction to Radical Economic Structural Transformation (REST)
"We have been caught in a spider's web of lies about our history, our potential and our future as a country since 1980. The only way we can extricate ourselves from it is to first change our belief sy...Published: 28 May 2020 at 14:47hrs | 998 | by Vince Musewe
'Don't harbour returnees'
It's illegal for anyone to harbour returnees who have not gone through proper repatriation procedures and screening for Covid-19, a Cabinet Minister has said. Information, Publicity and Broadc...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:34hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases spike
The number of confirmed Covid-19 positive cases jumped to 132 by yesterday from the 56 that were recorded by Sunday, with all 76 new cases, bar one, being recorded from quarantine centres housing retu...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:33hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
118 returnees flee isolation
NEARLY 120 Zimbabweans returning to the country have escaped from isolation and quarantine centres across the country as government said they posed the greatest threat to efforts to curb the spread of...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
'Let's unite to end Zimbabwe crises'
SEVERAL organisations from labour, lawyers, academics and churches under the National Convergence Platform banner have resolved to unite citizens in a non-partisan manner to end the country's worsenin...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2427 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: IMF hammers country already on its knees
Mercifully, Zimbabwe's infection and death rates from Covid-19 are so far very low but the economy, already labouring under the effects of drought, has been hit by the lockdowns. Worse, the IMF has de...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 693 | by Baffour Ankomah I New African Magazine
Mnangagwa's govt cites 3rd force in abductions
Government yesterday told the diplomatic community that it was investigating the alleged abduction of three MDC Alliance officials, indicating the State's prime objective was to expose and prosecute t...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Manhunt for 'killer' woman
A BEITBRIDGE woman is on the run after allegedly hiring hitmen to kill and mutilate her husband for suspected ritual purposes. Police have launched a manhunt for Khathutshelo Moyo after the bo...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
'Abduction of MDC ladies was fake' General Sibusiso Moyo says
Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Moyo says the abduction of MDC female officials was a stage-managed theatrical display meant to tarnish the image of the government. Moyo issued a ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 19:07hrs | 7405 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Copper smuggling women caught in Beitbridge
Beitbridge - Two women from Karoi farming town we're arrested at Beitbridge border town on Thursday as they tried to smuggle copper using a donkey cart.According to Beitbridge police s...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:29hrs | 2214 | by Naume Muza
The international elites are at the gate!
AS the month of November draws near and the United States national elections in the first week of November become a reality, it behoved me to search with diligence why this is an explosive season. The...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 682 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 234 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Are the West suckers for cheap propaganda?
ONE question that people who accuse the Government of Zimbabwe of complicity in the alleged abduction and torture of citizens have not attempted to answer is: For what benefit?What does the Go...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 244 | by Nick Mangwana
Let's clean our dirty stables!
AS human beings, we need to accept that there are often both comprehensible and incomprehensible life forces around us.Where Bishop Lazi comes from, for example, you cannot venture deep into t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 77 | by Bishop Lazarus
BREAKING: Robbers break in at Mutodi's house
Information coming from Harare indicate that four men broke into the Borrowdale residence of former Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi and stole valuables including 30 pairs of designe...Published: 22 May 2020 at 16:20hrs | 5727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
800 kombis impounded
HARARE City Council has impounded more than 800 commuter omnibuses in the past two weeks for flouting several by-laws since opening the Coventry Road holding bay. The commuter omnibuses are be...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
BCC rubbishes Paul Kruger's nonsensical water report
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) insists that consultants brought in by government to assess the city's water situation did not present an honest report. The city fathers still want the State to declar...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa's scathing letter to Mnangagwa
Sir, I address you, not because you personally abducted, tortured and sexually abused JOANA MAMOMBE, CECILIA CHIMBIRI and NETSAI MAROVA. Neither do I address you because I know or am in other way conn...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:59hrs | 7883 | by Beatrice Mtetwa
'Indefinite lockdown is a sinister ploy to deny vendors a livelihood' - triple jeopardy of living in a pariah state
Mnangagwa was confident his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" clarion call would open the flood gate of investors and lenders and kick-start the country's economy. The economy had stalled following dec...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:56hrs | 709 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Woman dies in Gweru quarantine centre
AN unidentified 31-year-old woman, who was part of hundreds of returning citizens placed under quarantine at Mkoba Teachers' College in Gweru, has died.Information Ministry secretary Nick Mang...Published: 18 May 2020 at 19:47hrs | 3408 | by Staff reporter
Financial literacy: Why it matters the most
Imagine not ever having to worry about money or that bills being due ever again. It is most people's dream but one that few people ever achieve. Financial literacy is understanding money and being abl...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:53hrs | 730 | by Nobuhle Zondo
Shifting Attitudes on Higher Education: A Radical Approach to Bridging the Critical Skills Gap
Young people are Africa's most valuable and the single most important key to unlocking sustainable economic growth. The United Nations' Strategic Development Goals (SDG 4) commits countries to ensure ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:05hrs | 572 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Covid-19 economic stimuli is not alive to a SME driven economy
Zimbabweans cannot reasonably expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa government to handle the twin challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy without making mistakes. However In times of crisis,...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:07hrs | 236 | by Brian Sedze
Mwonzora, Komichi seek VIP protection
MDC senior leaders Douglas Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi have also asked for police protection amid rising threats from rivals in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling which ordered for an extraordinary ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 12:16hrs | 5259 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi: Mnangagwa's other bad crony
IT'S never a clever idea to put a crow among the fowls and keep it there. That will give you a bad name and troubled nights.A crow in the fowl drains the food but doesn't deliver eggs to the p...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 2065 | by Tawanda Majoni
Hypocrisy and more power inspired hypocrisy
iN the centre of harare there is a world-famous building named Karigamombe which is Robert Mugabe's example of self-glorification at the expense of a man named Joshua Nkomo, who was considered by Muga...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 232 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Council yet to approve Egodini building plans
THE Bulawayo City Council is yet to approve detailed building plans of the Egodini Bus Terminus with councillors ordering management to engage the contractors, Terracotta Private Limited to ensure the...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:23hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Withdrawal limit increased
DEPOSITORS will be able to withdraw up to $1 000 weekly starting next Tuesday, the same day when new $10 and $20 notes will be introduced into circulation, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said yest...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
New $10, $20 notes next week
New $10 and $20 banknotes are being introduced with the red $10 note circulating from Tuesday next week and the blue $20 note from the first week of June, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announ...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:13hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumi hopes to reclaim constituency
MUTARE - Esau Mupfumi is the only Zanu PF politician to ever be voted into parliament for an entirely urban constituency in Mutare since 2000.And he is hoping to have a second bite of the cher...Published: 15 May 2020 at 15:33hrs | 1505 | by Ngoni Shumba
Zimbabwe lockdown likely to stay
THE Covid-19 lockdown is likely to be extended for a third time beyond May 17, but more restrictions may be further eased in areas that are not at high risk, official sources told the Zimbabwe Indepen...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6573 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa pushing for one-party state'
RENOWNED lawyer and MDC-Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart says the crisis which played out in the last few weeks in the backyard of the country's main opposition MDC has Zanu-PF fingerprints al...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
EU refuses to fund Mnangagwa's administration
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out prospects of providing budgetary support to the broke Zimbabwean government, citing "massive misuse" of public funds as exposed by various audits and the failure ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 2186 | by Staff reporter
High Court judge reverses RBZ currency conversion
The High Court has declared unconstitutional a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe exchange control directive converting sums in accounts originally designated in US dollars into accounts designated in Zimbabwe ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
The Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture in Zimbabwe: Have we learnt anything from the pandemic?
Whilst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak first hit the Wuhan province of China in November 2019, it soon spread to the rest of the world, and now it has affected over 4 million people, causing over ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 18:44hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
The Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture in Zimbabwe: Have we learnt anything from the pandemic?
Whilst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak first hit the Wuhan province of China in November 2019, it soon spread to the rest of the world, and now it has affected over 4 million people, causing over ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 11:14hrs | 327 | by Peter Gambara
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