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The Zimbabwean political allegory: A dystopian complex
Read it to me Benjamin, Muriel the goat bleats pleadingly; "…, and all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."This quote from George Orwell's Animal Farm novel is pe...Published: 2 hrs ago | 351 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to immortalise Mtshana Khumalo, Queen Lozikeyi Dlodlo, Mgandani Dlodlo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the Government is engaged in a programme of erecting statues of eminent liberation icons from the First and Second Chimurenga/Umvukela to immortalise their supreme s...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Cancel African public debts, ethics committees of African scientists must be formed
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa has demanded the cancellation of African public debts and establishment of the ethics committees of African scientists before an...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 134 | by Stephen Jakes
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:22hrs | 154 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
New campaign targets 'looters diaspora children'
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean secessionist Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has launched the #PunishZimLootersChildrenabroad to prod countries hostingZimbabwean top officials'...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:01hrs | 2663 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters launch fundraising campaign in UK
Supporters of the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance based in the United Kingdom (UK) have launched a fundraising campaign to secure equipment for health facilities handling COVID-19 patients in Zimbabwe...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:56hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Why the blockages on people's rights?
The deployment of the army to clamp down on protests threatens to create a subject political culture where timid citizens watch the state conversion into a complete authoritarian regime.Since ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:18hrs | 155 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Bosso's new kit
HIGHLANDERS have given their supporters a glimpse of the club's new kit as well as replica shirts, which should be available for the fans to purchase soon.Bosso have in the past few weeks used...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Renewed push for reforms
NATIONAL Convergence Platform (NCP), a group of churches, civil society organisations, diaspora networks and businesses are pushing for political reforms to be implemented by President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Misred
Radio personality Samantha Musa, popularly known as MisRed, has come undefire after telling a radio presenter during an interview that the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe are exaggerated. ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 8715 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Redefining Democracy, a Zimbabwean Rhetoric
Was it not Prof. PLO Lumumba who argued that, time limits are good things. No matter how good a dancer you are, you must leave the stage?Looking back, the realization is overwhelming just how ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 332 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4234 | by Nomazulu Thata
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
NRZ finally cancels DIDG tender
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe has finally cancelled the US$400 million recapitalisation tender that had been awarded to the Diaspora Infrastructural Development Group (DIDG) in partnership with So...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2504 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 790 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
ZSE reopens amid $240m loss
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) will resume trading tomorrow after a month-long government shutdown that saw the bourse losing at least $240 million in potential revenue.On June 29, the gove...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda's remains are still in a London Museum as she is insulted by Ryton Dzimiri
I have written this article to respond to a number of Zimbabweans who are holier than thou and have declared Mbuya Nehanda Nyakasina a demon. Ryton Dzimiri a self-proclaimed holy man commented i...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1365 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans companies want to trade in Rand
CAPTAINS of industry in Bulawayo have pleaded with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, to promote the wide use of the South African rand to complement the multi-f...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa
Wamkele Mene was recently appointed Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. Because of COVID-19, free trade for countries that have ratified the agreement did not beg...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 329 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zanu-PF UK member condemns planned demos
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF UK Youth League member, Kudzai Makuku has taken a swipe at the planned July 31 demonstration saying the move is bent on creating anarchy in the co...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Mwanza launches mentorship program
Businessman and lifestyle coach Conrad Mwanza has launched a mentorship initiative called the Club25 Under 25 Mentorship Program for aspiring business people and young professionals below the age of 2...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 23:26hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabweans set to receive more food aid
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers in neighbouring South Africa are set to receive more food assistance from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to ease their COVID-19-induced hunger and other ...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:55hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7392 | by Dr Gideon Gono
ZANU-PF Zimbabweans in diaspora condemn the planned July 31 protest
FELLOW ZIMBABWEANS! MAY THE LORD OUR GOD GIVE US PEACE AND LOVE! We, ZANU PF members living in the Diaspora condemn the planned protests by some opposition parties and civic organiza...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1238 | by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
The state of human rights in the Covid-19 era
HuMAn rights are at the centre of responses to the Covid-19 pandemic both at government and community levels.They not only facilitate protection of the right to health but also other areas of ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 18:56hrs | 1101 | by ZimRights
We have Epsteins and Ghislaine in homes: capital punishment is befitting to paedophiles!!
Last week, we saw how Virginia Giuffre-Roberts got her last laugh. At last the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI for counts of perjury and recruiting under-aged girls for prostitutio...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1030 | by Nomazulu Thata
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1499 | by Eddie Cross
Youths hail government support on housing
Youths in Goromonzi District have hailed government's support in ensuring that citizens get residential stands through regularisation of illegal settlements in the area.Recently, National Hous...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 06:17hrs | 589 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Magwegwe residents go for 9 months without water
Residents of Old Magwegwe have gone for nine months without tap water, a local community media house Community Podium has reported. In a video posted on their Youtube account, an organization ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:25hrs | 1224 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:00hrs | 3227 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK vulnerable to Covid-19, embassy warns
The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic.It is a revelation which under...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 432 | by Staff Reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 984 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fresh push for diaspora vote
INDEPENDENT electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to use the postal voting system it administers to allow Zimbabweans in the di...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has been marking time and going nowhere' - 40 years and still at it, insane
Dear Leonard Koni, "Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere," you wrote in Bulawayo24."Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the m...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1215 | by Wilbert Mukori
31 July a defining moment for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere.Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the majority of the people feel in the air the winds of chan...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4184 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans siblings die of COVID-19 in SA a day apart
Two Zimbabwean sisters based in South Africa reportedly succumbed to Covid-19 a day apart resulting in their three children and two brothers being quarantined.The late siblings, Ms Senzeni Mel...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 07:48hrs | 6083 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 7907 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe can finance own development'
ZIMBABWE has enough resources to finance its own development if the right mindsets, as well as institutional and legal frameworks, are put in place, a joint report by organisations that promote socio-...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2875 | by Staff reporter
Matiza censured over collapsed DIDG deal
IN the wake of the controversial termination of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal last year by cabinet, Attorney-General (AG) Prince Machaya reportedly wrote...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2666 | by Staff reporter
Matiza, NRZ board clash
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Biggie Matiza has declared war on the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board and top management over failure to fully implement his directive on ca...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 22:26hrs | 2770 | by Staff reporter
Passport backlog reduced 20%
THE Registrar-General's Office has managed to reduce the passport backlog by 20 percent, taking advantage of a lull in new applications due to Covid-19 restrictions that have limited travel to the off...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1838 | by Staff reporter
CBZ Bank launches Money Transfer Centre
CBZ Bank has launched a money transfer centre to facilitate ease of collection of funds from the diaspora and in line with its vision of being the preferred provider of financial solutions in Zimbabwe...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 4898 | by Staff reporter
Matiza should not lie about wagons deal
IN response to 'COVID-19 delays wagons delivery from Russia', MBUDAYA says: Government has been lying since independence. The issue of National Railways of Zimbabwe recapitalisation has been o...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Minister orders restructuring exercise at NRZ
HEADS are set to roll at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) after Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Joel Biggie Matiza, directed the parastatal's board to restructure management...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
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 | 8996 | by Staff reporter
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