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The thing about politics is that while its study is scientific - which explains why political science is the original science found in such early iconic sources as Plato's Dialogues - its practice is ...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 11:02hrs | 416 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Mondlane accepts Nyusi's invitation to meet
Venâncio Mondlane announced today that he has accepted the meeting requested by the Mozambican President with the four presidential candidates for the October elections, to resolve the post-election ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 18:49hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a new leadership culture
Almost four months have passed since President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his intention to respect the constitutional two-term limit, refusing a third term, despite ZANU-PF passing a resolution to e...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 15:00hrs | 901 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe ready to work with Donald Trump
Zimbabwe is prepared to strengthen its relationship with the United States and work together towards a more peaceful and prosperous world, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced in a congratulatory me...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:01hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1265 | by Peter Fabricius
Mnangagwa ropes in Chiefs to pacify Matabeles over genocide
In Bulawayo, the government has launched the Gukurahundi Community Outreach Programme, aimed at addressing the divisive legacy of the 1980s Gukurahundi conflict, which resulted in the deaths of an est...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:38hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Inclusive political dialogue can save Zimbabwe
Zapu, led by President Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has called for inclusive political dialogue to address Zimbabwe's deepening social, economic, and political crises, asserting that the ruling Zanu-PF governm...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Filmmakers for Durban FilmMart Climate Focus
Durban, South Africa: In a major film industry collaborative effort Climate Story Lab South Africa, Doc Society - Climate Story Unit, STEPS, and the Global Impact Producers Alliance (GIPA) presents th...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 13:06hrs | 52 | by Agencies
World Bank warns of grim future
Climate change and global warming are no longer buzzwords. They have emerged as clear indicators of an impending crisis that threatens the very fabric of global societies, economies and food systems....Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Active Youth Zimbabwe set to build drug rehabilitation center
ACTIVE YOUTH ZIMBABWE is planning to build a drug rehabilitation center which will be located at Pumula South, Bulawayo.In an interview, Active Youth Zimbabwe Editorial Director, Romeo M...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:59hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Cholera is wreaking havoc in Harare's poor suburbs
TWO men struggle to push a rusty wheelchair over quarry stones into one of the tents at a clinic in Kuwadzana phase 4, one of Harare's densely populated suburbs.In the wheelchair is an elderly...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defence minister in China for security forum
THE Minister of Defence, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, is in China for the 10th Beijing Xiangshan Forum co-organised by the China Association of Military Sciences and the China Institute for International...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC should address its own internal contradictions
THE Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), an independent public policy think-tank, says Zimbabwe opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) should address its own internal contradictions that have ...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN tells Zimbabwe to make changes to attract FDI
The United Nations (UN) has urged Zimbabwe to implement necessary changes to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) as global foreign assistance diminishes, moving away from quiet diplomacy. This adv...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Botswana for US-Africa Business Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday evening to attend the high-level US-Africa Business Summit in which Zimbabwe will seek to assert its drive to lure investments to shore up domestic productio...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to attend high level US-Africa Business Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to leave the country this afternoon to join fellow African Heads of State at the high-level 15th US-Africa Business Summit that kicks off at the Royal Aria Convention C...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Men left out in health-conscious programmes'
VIVAT Health Solutions group managing director Thembelihle Mloyi-Ncube says there is need to involve men in health-conscious programmes on the back of a spike in mental health-related cases in the cou...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economic sanctions continue to place Zimbabwe further into unsustainable debt
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana says the government supports Zimbabwe's implementation of key reforms to resolve its debt problems and end 21 years of sanction.If successful, such moves can ...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ball is in Mnangagwa's court
LAST week, Zimbabwe continued with its structured debt clearance dialogues with foreign creditors owed over US$14 billion, as the country makes important steps to weave its way out of the debt hole....Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Re-engagement will depend on holding credible 2023 elections' AfDB warns. At long last, some home-truths
"The African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading ef...Published: 22 May 2023 at 21:59hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe debt clearance tied to farmers' compensation and credible polls
THE African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading eff...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | | by Zeenat Hansrod
Murewa South snubs fly-by-night politician
It is a warm afternoon in the serene picturesque rural Jekwa in Murewa South, Mashonaland East province.The peace is disturbed by the roaring sound of a helicopter landing at one of the homest...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commits to fair elections
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has committed to running the upcoming 2023 elections fairly amid signs that the country's creditors have specified the area as a prerequisite for debt resolution.A...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political violence casts spotlight on free, fair polls
WITH political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international benchmarks.Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa's Funding Councils Meet for Impact
Participating councils of the Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) deliberated on progress, focus and initiatives to advance research and innovation since the SGCI was est...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 09:04hrs | 15 | by NRF
Mwonzora says ZEC problems lie with the secretariat
MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora has said problems with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s independence do not necessarily lie with commissioners themselves but the electoral management body's...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to officially open Mine Entra Conference
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to headline the country's leading Mining, Engineering and Transport exhibition (Mine Entra) to be held in Bulawayo in the next few weeks.Commonly known as Mine Entra...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa making efforts to tackle xenophobia
SOUTH Africa has adopted multi-pronged approaches to tackle the scourge of xenophobia through community dialogues and soccer matches between foreigners and locals, among other interventions, a governm...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will never surrender power, says Obert Mpofu
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has vowed that it will never surrender power to opposition parties, saying it will "rule for a very long time".This was disclosed yesterday by Zanu-PF secretary for ad...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Tsholotsho has highest HIV burden
GROWING up in a poverty-stricken family, and being discriminated against by her own father drove Thabiso Ndlovu straight into the hands of men.The 21-year-old from Maphane Village in Tsholotsh...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo battles religion-influenced vaccine hesitancy
BULAWAYO is battling to deal with Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy stemming from religious beliefs, a development which has kept the city from reaching herd immunity.The city's health department has...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures global association membership
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA) has secured international membership with the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) through its Zimbabwe National Convention Bureau.This was afte...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Africa benefit from China's Health Silk Road
LAST week, China announced that it will give Zimbabwe 10 million doses of Covid-19, as part of the 1 billion doses pledged by Beijing to African countries at last year's Forum on China-Africa Co-opera...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Albert Chavhunduka
COVID-19 triggers fatal disputes
COVID-19 is said to be one of the major causes of a surge in disputes within communities and has also contributed significantly to loss of lives.This was said yesterday by National Peace and R...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hasn't filed violence report
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has acknowledged political violence perpetrated by the ruling Zanu-PF party on the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, but said it would not lau...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade finds few takers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions charade, including rallies and marches devoid of concrete political reforms, is senseless escapism from what the government ought to do to convince the We...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Political polarisation on the rise'
POLITICAL polarisation is on the increase, threatening to destroy social cohesion in the country, as well as disrupt efforts towards peace and reconciliation.This came out during a recent virt...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa at a breaking point! - An open letter to the leaders!
South Africa is at a breaking point, nothing so far is going right. Good news and progress have become a stranger to our ears, and the hope of many is dwindling rapidly. All joy is lost, because nobod...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 15:29hrs | | by Eric Shikobela
Mnangagwa in Tanzania for Magufuli memorial service
President Mnangagwa flew to Tanzania yesterday to join other African and world leaders for today's memorial service for former Tanzanian President John Magufuli who died in office of a heart ailment o...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military must not subvert democratic institutions
Zimbabwe's military should not take a prominent role in any political dialogue that seeks to break the country's socio-economic impasse as lobbying for talks intensifies, a leading scholar has said....Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, European Union talks set to resume
THE ongoing formal political dialogue between Zimbabwe and the European Union, to normalise strained relations between the two, will continue despite the recent extension of sanctions on Harare by Bru...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:10hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's national dialogue 'window of opportunity' opens
WITH the momentum towards national dialogue continuing to gather speed, as Zimbabweans cry for an end to the country's decades-long political and economic challenges, analysts have urged the Church to...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why some drugs are tagged for Africa only
THE media has been awash with conspiracy theories on the vaccines that have been or are being rolled out to control Covid-19. In Africa a huge fraction of the population might hesitate, or eve...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Nevanji Madanhire
President Mnangagwa's 'Unity Day' speech, a sign of desperation and failure
Listening to President Mnangagwa's nation address yesterday, 22 December 2020, one could see nothing other than desperation and failure. In every platform...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 20:56hrs | | by MLF
Khupe attacks Chamisa?
MDC-T president Dr Thokozani Khupe yesterday made a veiled attack on Nelson Chamisa for causing instability in the country in his quest to assume power despite losing the 2018 elections.She sa...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe dismisses selling out claims, pledges Mnangagwa dialogue
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has issued a bold dismissal of claims she sold out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, telling her rivals she was prepared for dialogue with the country's number o...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magaya wants clerics to 'Be frank with Mnangagwa on talks'
OUTSPOKEN Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Church leader Ancelimo Magaya says clerics must be frank with President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they push for an all-inclusive dialogue to end the country's decades-lon...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
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