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Joshua Nkomo: A dream deferred but still attainable
Joshua Nkomo, perhaps like many great men and women before him saw a dream for Zimbabwe, one that would have seen the country cross over from colonialism to the proverbial Jordan. Born in 1917 he dedi...Published: 19 hrs ago | 712 | by Lt Col JZ Dlamini
Zimbabwean white man raises US$100 000 for Bulawayo and Harare pensioners
Hotelier, farmer, writer, adoptive father of three, and amateur cyclist Eric de Jong is a man with stories to tell. And don't be fooled by his self-deprecation – he might not be a youth but is certa...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4802 | by Dutch Embassy
Mnangagwa's superstitious regime unmasked
Behavioural economists and psychologists tell us that we have inherent biases that influence our actions. These experts tell us that we humans have some default behaviours as a result of our lived or ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:21hrs | 11677 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Mnangagwa's administration fails to recover looted funds
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has failed to recover funds looted by chief executive officers (CEOs) of 13 State enterprises and parastatals (SEPs) who were taking home an aggregated US...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
R4 million cigarette smuggling racket busted
Smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, always a problem because of the tax differences, increased dramatically from the beginn...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5043 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poverty datum line more than doubles
THE poverty datum line has jumped by more than 100 percent from $3 398 in May to $8 484 in June, the country's statistical agency — the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) - revealed yeste...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1537 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
ZANU-PF president misfiring
What are we Zimbabweans waiting for, really! Should we wake up when the titanic hit the bottom of the sea. Our country will be in extreme poverty worse than today - it will be extremely painful. How m...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 4729 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4873 | by Staff reporter
Rename Victoria Falls, and Lake, after African luminaries
Fellow Africans and friends of Africa, liberation starts by "Decolonising The Mind," to borrow the title of a must-read book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o the Kenyan intellectual and author. Africans w...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 850 | by Milton Allimadi
Zimbabwe plans to scrap fuel subsidy
ZIMBABWE'S central bank may stop providing the foreign currency needed for fuel imports, handing over the responsibility to private companies, Bloomberg reports quoting unnamed sources.The mov...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 18:02hrs | 4128 | by Agencies
Latest on Minister Obadiah Moyo's status
Embattled Minister of Health and Child Care Obadiah Moyo remains a Cabinet Minister it has emerged. Earlier various publications and social media users circulated a letter that purpoted to expel Moyo ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:34hrs | 2066 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe won't pull out of CITES
ZIMBABWE will not pull out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in order to sell its stockpile of ivory tasks worth US$600 million, the Minister of Environment, Clima...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:07hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Same frog now in lipstick
IN more ways than one, courting love is similar to stalking prey.Although motivated by different designs, courting and stalking essentially entail stealthily winning an advantage in order ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 244 | by Bishop Lazi
ZAPU needs Shona president
Zapu is at crossroads as they seek to replace the late Dr Dumiso Dabengwa. Zapu has two big challenges on its hands. They need to rebrand big time if they are to survive until the next election and be...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:39hrs | 2239 | by Juliet Gumede
Fresh Details Emerge in the Kariba Municipality Water Pumps Saga
The Municipality of Kariba is on the ropes, battling potential reputational damage from the taint of accusations of unwholesome procurement deals that are allegedly at the core of poor service deliver...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:28hrs | 559 | by Laiton Kandawire
Zimbabwe instability blights Common monetary Area prospects
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe's economic crisis, characterised by currency volatility, 785% inflation, a gargantuan debt stock estimated at US$10 billion and dwindling exports, hin...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
The commodification and tribalisation of Bulawayo politics
The current imported and tribalistic nature of politics in Matabeleland generally and Bulawayo in particular, is cancerous and anti-development. This commodification and tribalisation of politics is a...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1858 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mnangagwa will remain a reject in the eyes of Zimbabweans
DEAR Mr President, Brace yourself Your Excellency, Sir. There aren't going to be any social niceties in this letter. This isn't going to be the sort of epistle that you would ordinarily expect...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1936 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Rise in voter apathy as public loses trust in ZEC, claims ERC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) reluctance to share the voter's roll with stakeholders has eroded the public's trust and their voting enthusiasm, an electoral watchdog has said.The E...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:32hrs | 174 | by newzimbabwe
The four canines lost race of the titans
The two boys could be high school students on this Covid-19 spawned 'holiday'. With four of 'man's best friends' for company, the duo passed through near my base as they scanned the tall savanna grass...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 15:20hrs | 420 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Mnangagwa makes emotional plea for forgiveness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday made an emotional plea for forgiveness when he officiated at the National Day of Prayer in Harare yesterday.In his surprisingly impassioned prayer at Sta...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 10340 | by Staff reporter
Coup plotters, saboteurs outed
The #BlackLivesMatter campaign has been buoyed and given a significant jolt, following the senseless murder of a black man, George Floyd in the United States. Floyd was murdered by a predominantly whi...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1658 | by Trevor Shiri
Faces behind Zimbabwe's first Netflix hit
The cast and crew of Zimbabwe's first feature-length film to be featured on Netflix -Cook-Off - were recent guests on Alpha Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube's (TVN) talk show In Conversation with ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:08hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Massive political implosion beckons
BACK in the day, there was nothing as maddeningly hectic and nerve-fraying as the monthly pilgrimage of shepherding cattle to the communal dip tank.It really tested your tolerance, patience, s...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:40hrs | 276 | by Bishop Lazarus
Obadiah Moyo probed over coronavirus deals
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is in the dog box after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) opened a docket to probe his qualifications and controversial coronavirus deals following a complain...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 17:14hrs | 3012 | by Staff reporter
Malinga calls for urgent food aid in Matabeleland North
A national food security watchdog has called for an urgent food aid intervention in the drought stricken Matabeleland North Province. Addressing journalist in Bulawayo on Friday, Eye on Food S...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 527 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zec urged to find ways to conduct polls during COVID-19
LOCAL election watchdogs have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to pilot innovative ways of running elections during COVID-19 pandemic saying an indefinite suspension of polls was a vi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF top official torches tribal storm
ZANU-PF Mberengwa North district executive member and prominent businessman, Tinashe Shumba has torched a tribal storm after he reportedly insulted members of the Lemba (VaRemba) community who refused...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Christianity and Africa
This article was supposed to coincide with Africa Day - the day we Africans celebrate our achievements and our being. Unfortunately, I was distracted by my work schedule and family commitments and fai...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 21:15hrs | 1048 | by Lovemore Sibanda Ph.D.
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2751 | by George Mkhwanazi
Zec defends suspension of electoral activities
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday denied any wrongdoing in suspending all electoral activities over COVID-19 after an independent electoral watchdog red-flagged the move as potentially...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Black lives matter and History Matters as well
The marginalization of the black race will not end simply because we have removed the Statue of Cecil John Rhodes. Only until we have a black first-world African country to lift up the black populatio...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 18:58hrs | 1451 | by Engineer Jacob kudzayi Mutisi
Welcome to Chambia
Save Zambia or PerishCome on now Zambians, are we that ignorant, stupid, foolish, gullible, brainless, naïve, primitive we can't see the consequences of the "wonderful Chinese gifts" in roads...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 21:39hrs | 3346 | by Field Ruwe EdD
'Zimbabwean contract killer faces competition in Mozambique'
The Mozambican government is reported to have hired a Dubai based private military contractor to compete with the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) owned by Zimbabwe's Retired Colonel Lionel Dyck in fig...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 20:26hrs | 12562 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa 'can't breathe'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu-PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived ci...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:45hrs | 5351 | by Staff reporter
Passion crime mystery deepens
BEITBRIDGE police last week posthumously fingerprinted a murder suspect as investigations into the killing of a local resident allegedly at the hands of his estranged wife intensified.Slain La...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Strengthening transparency, during Covid-19 response
JUST like all countries across the globe, Zimbabwe was caught off-guard by the coronavirus pandemic.The country has had to divert huge amounts of scarce public resources originally meant for o...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 71 | by Comm John Makamure
Letter to Mother Khupe from Devine Mafa in America
Hello Mother Khupe.I am Devine Mafa, the son of Honourable Felix Mafa. I am behind you in this issue of returning to constitutionalism of The MDC PARTY because I, myself, have been advoc...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 18:38hrs | 7114 | by Devine Divine Mafa
Who is responsible? Ministers evasive on procurement
THE Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) yesterday distanced itself from the murky Covid-19 medical equipment procurement scandal, which is now at the centre of a wide-ranging investiga...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1538 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers demand prosecution of abusive cops
LAWYERS representing a Beitbridge man alleging police brutality have bemoaned the inordinate delays in taking the officers to court.Jabulani Mzinyathi of Garikayi and Company acting on behalf ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:02hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Americans' brave struggle for justice, in the face of state brutality, should inspire oppressed people of Zimbabwe
It is so easy for a perpetually oppressed, subjugated, and choked people to give up their struggle for justice, freedom, and equality - in the face of ever-growing brutality and brazen abuse of their ...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 13:59hrs | 954 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Notorious Beitbridge robbers arrested
BEITBRIDGE police have arrested five of the six suspected armed robbers that early last week allegedly stripped an ex-soldier Dogeni Patsika of R53 000 in a violent pre-dawn robbery.Reacting s...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 10:08hrs | 2878 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF official loses 28t of maize to thieves
ZANU PF Central Committee member Maidei Maswi allegedly lost 28 tonnes of maize to three machete wielding suspects at her farm in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central Province.The trio Lovemore Lovemor...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 17:04hrs | 1267 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe cost of living up 22%
THE cost of living in Zimbabwe ballooned by $1 554 to $8 726 by end of last month due to the influence of the parallel market on exchange rates, limited supply of basic products and panic buying by co...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:27hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
MDC Allaince laments doggy govt behaviour in dealing with human rights violators
MDC Secretary for International Relations Gladys Hlatshwayo has lamented the doggy behaviour of the ruling Zanu PF government in dealing with the human rights violators making them to go scort free af...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1491 | by Stephen Jakes
Corruption not sanctions killing Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been grappling with corruption for years now, dating back from the Willovale Motor Scandal, GMB saga where the late former Minister Kumbirayi Kangai was involved.In 1994 War...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:02hrs | 861 | by Leonard Koni
Human rights commission paralysed
FOUR Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) commissioners have retired with immediate effect leaving the commission without a quorum to execute its mandate. Dr Ellen Sithole, Dr Joseph Kurebw...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:13hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
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