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Automatic voter registration for 18-year-olds in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is set to introduce an automatic voter registration system for citizens turning 18, aiming to boost voter participation and streamline election processes ahead of the 2028 elections. The gove...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:46hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why South Africans treat the 13 digit ID number like a qualification
South Africa's green ID book has been used as the country's main identity document for 44 years, during which time it has only received a handful of minor security upgrades. Blacks only started using ...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 14:20hrs | 1589 | by Staff reporter
Redundant Zimbabwe civil service posts to be abolished
The government is set to reorganize the civil service by rationalizing jobs and grades, reducing managerial posts, and eliminating redundant positions to enhance efficiency, according to Information, ...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 08:38hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Central Bank issues revised forex market guidelines
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), through its Exchange Control department, has issued updated guidelines and compliance parameters for the interbank foreign exchange market, emphasizing the limitati...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:46hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF undergoing renewal process'
As Zanu-PF continues its restructuring exercise, the party claims to be aware of the ongoing demographic changes and is actively working to recruit more members to enhance its organizational and mobil...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:01hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt websites are stuck in the stone age
Here is one odd fact you may not know; Zimbabwean government-linked websites under the domain gov.zw, all go to bed for the night. You cannot access them for about 10 hours from around 10PM to 8AM the...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Mike Murenzvi
David Coltart sees better days in 2024
Bulawayo mayor David Coltart says finding solutions to the city's multifaceted problems will not happen overnight as he laid out his council's priorities for 2024.Coltart, a former Education m...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 13:00hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses Zimbabwean Exemption Permit application
An urgent application brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) to protect the rights of Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders was dismissed by the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday because the ju...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - South Africa agree on one-stop border
President Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, convened at the Beitbridge Border Post to address logistical matters concerning the construction of a third bridge ove...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's pluses ahead of Aug 23 polls
By addressing concerns about a runoff scenario, Chamisa has showcased his leadership qualities and strategic foresight, reassuring voters of his commitment to decisive victory in the first round again...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 10 | by Sharon Hofisi
Outgoing Bulawayo mayor worked well with the Government
OUTGOING Bulawayo Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni has implored opposition led local authorities to stop being blinded by petty party politics and opposing for the sake of it, reminding them that they ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to capitalise on CCC multiple candidates?
Zanu-PF is expected to win in perceived opposition strongholds and consolidate its dominance after the CCC fielded two or three candidates in constituencies and wards in areas where it has traditional...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
No more job termination on 3 months notice
EMPLOYERS will no longer be able to terminate contracts of their permanent staff on three months notice after the National Assembly removed a clause in the Labour Act that conferred them powers to fir...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has no capacity for full dollarisation'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, has urged Zimbabweans to embrace the local currency saying the country has no capacity to sustain a fully dollarised economy.While th...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly mulls returning voter registration to RG's Office
The position taken during the inclusive Government to migrate voter registration from the Registrar-General to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has created a lot of red tape through duplication of du...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lowest voter registration in Bulawayo
MORE than 450 000 people have registered to vote during the final nationwide biometric voter registration exercise that ends today.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will now begin the pr...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
450 000 register to vote in final blitz
More than 450 000 people have registered to vote during the final nationwide biometric voter registration exercise that ends today.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) will now begin the pr...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Releasing electronic format of voter's role compromises security, court rules
The High Court has rejected a bid by opposition CCC Member of Parliament Allan Markham to compel Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to release the voters' roll in electronic format after agreeing wit...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly summons Zacc over unresolved graft cases
THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says it will summon the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to appear before Parliament to explain bottlenecks in dealing with graft which is annually expose...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government denies Mnangagwa handed final delimitation report
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) delimitation report was Friday mired in yet another controversy after government denied earlier media claims ZEC boss Priscilla Chigumba had submitted the final...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt circular irks teachers
GOVERNMENT has ordered schools to return funds they had received for the payment of school fees for teachers' children.In April this year government pledged to pay, through the schools, fees f...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says NO to Zimbabwe's Commonwealth return bid
"For Zimbabwe to rejoin the community of nations, it is very important for us to stop abusing citizens. You know that there are political prisoners who have been in pretrial detention for more than 14...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC claims hat voters roll is accessible to all and affordable
ANY registered voter can walk into the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) offices and inspect the voter's roll free of charge while for a soft copy of the national roll any individual or organisation...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec digs in on voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will not avail the voters roll through a portable electronic mode to protect it from possible tampering.The decision has, however, riled elector...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scandal-ridden company monitors Zimbabwe calls
THE company which installed a Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring System (TTMS) at the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe headquarters in Harare this week — Global Voic...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:42hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after July Moyo?
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo is subject of a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigation over his role in the procurement of US$9,3 million water pumps without going to tender, a y...Published: 27 May 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police raid and seize decoders
Police have seized dozens of pieces of illegal television equipment in the latest series of raids on content piracy operations.The recent operation in Harare saw eight retail outlets being rai...Published: 24 May 2022 at 15:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Conduct a third mobile voter registration blitz' ZEC told
EkhayaVote2023 takes note of the BVR blitz Phase 2 statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and celebrates its volunteers who operated in Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South Provinc...Published: 06 May 2022 at 17:32hrs | 7 | by EkhayaVote2023
Zimbabweans arrested for owning OpenView decoders
Eleven people were arrested, and dozens of illegal decoders were seized during police raids over the past two weeks, as police broke a TV-decoder smuggling ring.The cross-border smuggling ring...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 19:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Muswere commissions 10 TelOne LTE in Chitungwiza
INFORMATION Communication and Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere today launched 10 TelOne Blaze LTE service Base Stations in Chitungwiza which are set to service at least 6000 clients.Th...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 4 journalists accredited to cover by-elections
MEDIA practitioners have raised concern over the low number of journalists so far accredited to cover the March 26 by-elections, as of Friday last week saying it was likely to deprive citizens of crit...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heads roll over 'leaked' national voters' roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has suspended an unspecified number of officials on allegations of leaking a copy of the national voters' roll and sharing the "tampered" document with an unnam...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
NGOs hit back at Zec
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba under fire over poll remarks
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as Omicron variant cases spike
THERE is panic in the country after several institutions including Parliament, courts, schools and non-governmental organisations were forced to close after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases.Zimba...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Treasury urged to release quarterly operational budgets
PARLIAMENT has called on the Finance ministry to release quarterly operational budgets to line ministries to enable them to operate efficiently.Finance and Budget Portfolio Committee chairpers...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimra pounces on tax evaders, recovers US$8m
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has said it has completed investigations of 142 cases of tax evasion and recovered over $750 000 and US$8 million since the beginning of the year.This wa...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The Mauritius example on economic development
Mauritius is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the most competitive economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and high income country with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$12,740 (Sub-Saharan Af...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Port Louis Riverfront, Mauritius
Mobile network operators to set up more tower sites
THE Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has said mobile network operators are engaging local authorities to acquire land in order to set up 13 telecommunication towe...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Card cloner faces arrest
James Malolo (56) from Emthunzini was arrested on Wednesday for shopping sprees using cloned bank cards.He was found with 78 active Zim...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 13:18hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
BCC under fire over $2m water levy
HUMAN rights lobby groups have put Bulawayo City Council under scrutiny over US$2 million raised from a water levy development initiative, which they suspect was misappropriated.The Matabelela...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's damning scorecard from allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to breathe life into an outfit he has been touting as the panacea to Zimbabwe's intractable political and economic reforms in a telling assessment of his le...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
One-stop border post could address Beitbridge chaos
Long delays recently resurfaced at Beitbridge Border Post, with travellers spending close to three days to access either South Africa or Zimbabwe. Among other factors, a bad work attitude amon...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe degree trial date set
Former University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura will stand trial on November 24 for alleged criminal abuse of office in which he is said to have illegally awarded former First Lady Mrs Grac...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt hints at blocking Chamisa's #ShutDownZimbabwe protest
People's right to hold a demonstration is not the only factor that should be considered when a gathering has a potential to turn violent because third parties ought to be equally protected by the law,...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's social protection lack co-ordination, under-financed
ZIMBABWE'S social protection interventions lack coordination and are generally under-financed as a result of the poor performance of the economy, a new report has shown.A report titled: Action...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC decommissions main supply dam
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has decommissioned one of its main supply dams, Upper Ncema, as the city's water situation continues to deteriorate. However, the 48-hour water shedding schedule will remai...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff repoirter
Econet, NetOne ink infrastructure-sharing deal
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and NetOne have inked an infrastructure-sharing deal in a move set to increase their coverage.The country's two largest mobile network operators signed the deal on Apr...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets 50 days water supply
BULAWAYO's water supply dams received just 5 778 565 cubic metres of water during the 2018/2019 rainy season, an amount that is enough to last an average of 50 days, putting fears that the city, alrea...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mulls disbanding gukurahundi commissions
Government is mulling disbanding two Constitutional commissions - the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) - and subsume their core functions un...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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