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EFF urges Mnangagwa's govt to expedite issuance of IDs
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe says government must urgently capacitate the Registrar General's office for it to resume countrywide issuance of national identity cards which will enable firs...Published: 1 hr ago | 65 | by Staff reporter
Forus party launches manifesto
NEWLY-FORMED Freedom of Rights Under Sovereign (Forus) party on Saturday launched its manifesto in Harare, with its leader Manyara Irene Muyenziwa (44) claiming her outfit was ready to contest the ele...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Looming SA deportations a wake-up call to Zimbabwe
THE decision by South Africa this week to stop extending the Special Zimbabweans Exemption Permits (ZEP) that first came into force in 2017, was inevitable as President Cyril Ramaphosa's government ha...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants making it big in South Africa
WHEN he made the decision to leave the country and cross the border into South Africa several years ago, his family and his peers tried to dissuade him, telling him he was putting his life in danger u...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 2514 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to engage SA on the non-renewal of special permits
ZIMBABWE's top envoy to South Africa, ambassador David Hamadziripi says government accepts the decision by the South African government to discontinue the issuing of special permits to Zimbabweans, bu...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:31hrs | 1868 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa rejects copies of stolen artefacts
Africa should insist that archives and museum objects of its heroes should be originals, not digital copies, with Zimbabwe one of the countries with the facilities ready to receive and protect this he...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 09:34hrs | 4022 | by Staff Reporter
Pegged exchange rate unsustainable
Zimbabwe's export receipts for the first 9 months of 2021 jumped 38% to US$6.10 billion from US$4.43 billion realized in the same period in 2020. Notable improvements have been realized in internation...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:37hrs | 1642 | by Victor Bhoroma
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1896 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Duo arrested for fake plot sale to diasporan
A HARARE couple has been nabbed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission after they duped a diasporan of US$4 000 in a botched farm purchase deal.The couple, Patience and Nicholas Makwindi a...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to cut on hired wagons, locomotives
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is working on a framework to reduce wagons and locomotives hired from third parties as part of a broader scope to save the organisation millions of dollars in f...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Amakorokoza spread fear in Cowdray Park
GANGS of illegal gold miners popularly known as Amakorokoza or ogwejas are terrorising communities across Cowdray Park in Bulawayo with residents now calling on the police to increase patrols in unele...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economic fundamentals are strong'
THE economy is on a growth trajectory with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected to grow by 7,8 percent in 2021, attributed to a favourable rainfall season, higher international mineral commodity pri...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 73 | by Professor Mthuli Ncube
Zimbabwean model crowned Miss Africa South Australia
AUSTRALIA-BASED teen model Lian Tadiwanashe Takayidza (19) shrugged off stiff competition from 20 other contestants to be crowned Miss Africa South Australia at Paradise Influencers Church in Adelaide...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Uzalo's Mangcobo headlines a #Registertovote ZANC event in Jhb
South African actress Dawn Thandeka King, well-known as Mangcobo in the soapie Uzalo, recently delivered a guest speaker speech to Zimbabweans living in the diaspora urging them go back home and regis...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:57hrs | 2673 | by Thembelani Moyo
The party and Mnangagwa's lost COP26 opportunity
"Our country is falling apart….never mind, let's party!" ran a headline in one of the United Kingdom (UK)'s daily tabloids and one of its most read newspapers.The headline was, of course, ab...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
RBZ decries divided politics
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has bemoaned polarisation and the negative impact of social media for derailing the central bank's efforts to stabilise the exchange rate.Addressing senior army ...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2701 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Mkhombo school empowers students through sports
Mkombo Primary School at Lupanda in Lupane held their first programme which was meant to empower students via sport. The event was held yesterday 5/11/21 at Mkhombo Primary School and included Sipopom...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:13hrs | 362 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Alliance goes to bed with terrorist group
THE opposition MDC Alliance has been criticised for its association with a Sri Lankan separatist movement, Tamil Eelam, during the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland.The Transnational Governmen...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:09hrs | 530 | by Charity Maodza
Mnangagwa told in Scotland to let markets self regulate
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was last week told by delegates attending the Zimbabwe Investment Conference (ZIC) to stop interfering with how the market operated as this would give strength to the Zimb...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 18:12hrs | 1994 | by Staff reporter
The legality of the MDC-T
MUCH has been said about Nelson Chamisa still using the name MDC in rallying his supporters. Just on Monday there was a letter penned by one O Gutu. Gutu was saying Chamisa and Zimbabwe Electoral comm...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:36hrs | 805 | by Allan Mbire
Zimbabwe - UK relations thawing?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said relations between Zimbabwe and Britain were thawing as evidenced by his three meetings with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week.He said he used hi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hails Bulawayo for best vaccination record
VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday hailed Bulawayo Province for the best vaccination record nationwide with over 50 percent of the population having received the first dose while over 44...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:21hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Qoki brings smiles to hundreds of households in Matebeleland
THE past few weeks have seen Qoki Zindlovukazi trending following a revelation that the group of Zimbabwean women in the diaspora are millionaires after investing so much in immovable property....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe finally give up on Bonne
ZIMBABWEAN football authorities have given up on England-based forward Macauley Bonne after he turned down the latest call to represent the Warriors in a competitive match.He has only featured...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Cyberbullies are Cowards
Am I the only one receiving cyber attacks on social media? What can you do if you are a target of cyberattacks? In this paper, the author would define what cyberbullying is and what cyberbullies a...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 13:51hrs | 238 | by Etiwel Mutero
Zimbabwe forex inflows to hit record high
ZIMBABWE'S foreign currency earnings are poised to hit record high since 2010, spurred by mineral exports and diaspora remittances, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)said.As of October 2021, t...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:37hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to approach Twitter over Tsenengamu
THE State wants to engage Twitter as part of investigations against former Zanu-PF Youth League commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu, that he allegedly posted a tweet inciting people to participate in an uns...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1687 | by Staff reporter
Zapu never join Polad
ZAPU says it will soon engage its party's former liberation war allies with a view of mobilising financial resources and party regalia ahead of the 2023 elections.It is targeting countries suc...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:15hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Zapu ready to take over in 2023
NEWLY-ELECTED Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has promised to hit the ground running by forming a government-in-waiting as the opposition party plots to wrest power in 2023.Addressing journalis...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:28hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
'Engage political reforms and abandon sanctions rhetoric' UN rebuke Mnangagwa - no time for diplomatic niceties
Zanu PF invited the UN Special rapporteur to investigate the negative impact of sanctions on the ordinary people. The regime hoped the rapporteur would confirm its claim that sanctions were the root c...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:29hrs | 2266 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanla fighter's daughter now top medical officer in US
While a good number of gallant veterans of Zimbabwe's war of liberation brawled this week in Harare with the police, who charged them with seeking to incite public violence, a city in a distant land t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1096 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Zanu-PF membership reaches 3,6 million
Zanu-PF says it has to date recruited 3,6 million members who are all registered under the party structures, as it angles for five million votes in 2023.In the 2018 elections, the revolutionar...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:54hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA panic over permits
Zimbabweans in South Africa are in limbo over the fate of their exemption permits that are set to expire in December this year, as the South African government is mum on the way forward.Althou...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:36hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank Targets Diasporans To Build Houses Back Home
Harare, 27 October 2021 - Stanbic Bank is committed to playing its part in assisting Zimbabweans in the diaspora to build and own houses back home through its mortgage finance facility tailor-made for...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 14:33hrs | 2777 | by Staff Reporter
Unpacking ZIDERA, atrocities of sanctions
It is without doubt that sanctions are a crime against humanity, an unfair treatment of race against race, nation against nation, the strong against the presumably weak, all with the intention to crea...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | 181 | by Takasununguka Ziki
'We will never tire until we are free from sanctions'
This is an interview done by The Daily newspaper of Nigeria with Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Nigeria, Maxwell Ranga , who is also accredited to Cameroon, Niger, Benin and Equatorial Guinea, on the SADC A...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:37hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
'Cannot accord diaspora vote due to legislative challenge' - in plain language; we are a quintessential Banana Republic
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was a senior member of Robert Gabriel Mugabe's government for 37 years. It is not that Mnangagwa did not know what the Zanu PF government was doing was wrong and even outri...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:22hrs | 362 | by Nomusa Garikai
RBZ calls for Zimdollar pricing
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has implored public entities including local authorities to price their services in local currency. Speaking at the ongoing 2022 pre-bu...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Diasporians ready to assist MDC-Alliance president Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabweans in the diaspora have pledged to assist in the mobilisation of resources to buy an armoured vehicle for MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa following the attacks on his vehicle by Zanu PF...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 12:55hrs | 2795 | by Stephen Jakes
Legislative, logistical challenges stalling diaspora vote
The Zimbabwe's Consul General to Johannesburg, South Africa, Melody Chaurura has blamed the legislative and logistical challenges in the country as currently stalling the possibility of the Diaspora c...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 12:46hrs | 589 | by Stephen Jakes
Denying that there sanctions against Zimbabwe now a discredited position
All is primed for the observation of the Anti-Sanctions Solidarity Day which was declared by Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to take place every 25 October.The day this y...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 257 | by Lovemore Chikova
Chamisa told to 'stop imposing yourself on the people'
Zanu-PF party says opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa is receiving self-deserving pain after he imposed himself on the villagers who are rejecting him for inviting sanctions in Zimbabwe.The par...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 22:52hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
'Zesa engineers running Eskom'
ZESA Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata has bemoaned massive brain drain at the power utility, saying its engineers were literally now running South Africa's Electricity Supply Commission (Esk...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2170 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Dry Port operating at 65% capacity
THE Zimbabwe Dry Port facility at Walvis Bay in Namibia is operating at between 65% and 70% of capacity due to lack of support from the local business community, the company's acting area manager Just...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:39hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF policies driving poverty, not sanctions
WITH the arrival of United Nations special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, to look into the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, there is a danger that looking on the surface it can easily be argued that sancti...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:37hrs | 439 | by A Mbire
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 214 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mthuli Ncube sees potential for 'diaspora remittances' via Blockchain
ZIMBABWE'S central bank frowns at digital currency and previously ordered all banks to stop processing transactions involving digital currencies, such as BTC and other altcoins in 2017.They te...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:11hrs | 1234 | by Agencies
Meet Zimbabwe's female rand millionaires
WHAT initially started as a social networking group to keep Zimbabwean women in touch while in foreign lands, has since blossomed into a huge multi-million dollar investment.The women involved...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 36540 | by Staff reporter
Violence in Masvingo makes Chamisa a hero
The recent events in the Masvingo province against MDC-Alliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa raised his bar graph very high. The MDC-A leader is in a meet the people whirlwind tour, meeting commu...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 17:41hrs | 1234 | by Phosiwe Ncube
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