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Bosso avert blushes over unpaid bills
HIGHLANDERS last week averted a potentially embarrassing situation that would have resulted in their property being attached by Bulawayo City Council over an unpaid water bill amounting to about $40 0...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Remittance income drives Africa's economic growth - Report
A report launched by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has said that despite an economic slowdown, most African countries are having a positive economic outlook. ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC relives the spirit of 1999
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is for the first time celebrating its anniversary in the absence of its charismatic founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who died in February this year and effo...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:39hrs | 2679 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2872 | by Igomombe
Why Mnangagwa 'won', but lost the 2018 election
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa won the 2018 election on one hand, but lost it on the other. First, while the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and Mnangagwa celebrated their vindication by the Constitutional C...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:57hrs | 7415 | by Moses Tofa
'Zodwa welcome for Zimbabwe carnival'
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) boss Karikoga Kaseke said Zodwa Wabantu is welcome to join the 5th Harare International Carnival to be held from October 14 to 20. This follows the controversi...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 2752 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets new IMF representative
THE International Monetary Fund has a new resident representative in Zimbabwe, Patrick Amir Imam. Mr Imam, who prior to his posting to Zimbabwe was IMF representative for Madagascar, takes over from M...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
SA restaurant chain to expand footprint in Zimbabwe
SOUTH AFRICAN fast-food giant Barcelos will invest $1,5 million and open an additional four outlets in Zimbabwe over the next 12 months, according to an official.After opening a 100-seat resta...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to launch Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Legacy Foundation
ACTING President, Dr Constantino Chiwenga, will today lead proceedings during the launch of the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Legacy Foundation, a key tourism heritage project and a major highlight of this yea...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabwe be awarded $2 billion economic bailout? or John Mangudya should resign
On 04/09/2018, the media reported that Zimbabwe needs $2 billion bailout in order to deal with the economy's liquidity challenges. The Governor of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is alleged to have said so. ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 2721 | by Don Chigumba
Kapini still dreams of Warriors call-up
TAPUWA Kapini will go down in history as one of Zimbabwe's most eccentric and colourful goalkeepers of his generation, but the former Highlanders shot-stopper wants to be remembered for something more...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 13:30hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dawn of hope will break
HEADS, big and small must roll, and be seen by the masses in this country to tumble as both a warning and an example that any people driven by insatiable power hunger cannot, and should not be allowed...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 188 | by Stephen Mpofu
Unlocking Zimbabwe's tourism potential
There must be no doubt in anyone's mind that tourism continues to be one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic sectors in Africa and this must therefore necessarily include Zimbabwe. Tourism has the...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 14:35hrs | 364 | by Vince Musewe
GMB blast kills 4 workers
At least four workers were killed, while three others were seriously injured after a massive explosion, whose cause is still unknown, rocked the Grain Marketing Board's Lions Den depot in Mashonaland ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Defeating George Soros' agenda in Zimbabwe
It is no secret that after the convincing defeat of the MDC Alliance in Zimbabwe's recent inclusive elections, US-EU imperialism was forced to undergo a brief period of not only recuperation, a much n...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:45hrs | 493 | by Obi Egbuna Jr
MDC Alliance declares Tuesday as a day of fasting and praying ahead of electoral court case
The MDC Alliance has declared Tuesday this week as a day of prayer and fasting for supporters and peace loving citizens to pray as the country is hopefully waiting the court outcome on an election cha...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 13:06hrs | 2970 | by Stephen Jakes
GNU is not good for both Zanu-PF and MDC-Alliance
Chamisa has shown that he is a bad loser and so how can this bad loser become a useful partner? Albert Einstein would say: "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with i...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 378 | by Bishop
Knox, knocked out of Warriors
INFORM Golden Arrows striker Knox Mutizwa was the surprise exclusion in the 28- member squad called up by Sunday Chidzambwa to prepare for the forthcoming Total African Nations qualifier away to Congo...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1552 | by Staff reporter
Unity of purpose an urgent rescue for Mthwakazi
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said as Mthwakazi nation some times they have to pass through these difficult phases of life for some of us to learn that, their struggle is not an individual p...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1479 | by Stephen Jakes
Freak accident mars Heroes Day celebrations
HEROES Day commemorations in Beitbridge town were yesterday marred by a freak traffic accident that left four people, including the driver, seriously injured.The driver identified as Jildah Ml...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga poised to topple Mnangagwa, as another coup imminent in Zimbabwe
The 30 July 2018 harmonized elections were like no other ever held in the country for so many reasons, but the most outstanding was the huge difference between the two-thirds majority won by the rulin...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 19:48hrs | 29812 | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
If Mnangagwa is truly chosen by God, he should first confess his sins against Zimbabweans
Zimbabwean president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has sought to justify his military-coup assisted ascendency to power by repeatedly claiming that he was chosen by Jehovah God to lead this nation - thr...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 11:00hrs | 2120 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight explodes publicly
THE simmering political power struggle between President Emmerson Mnangagwa - currently ruling under military tutelage after coming in last November through a coup - and his co-deputy retired General ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 16:58hrs | 11469 | by Staff reporter
'Crocodile' faces tough challenges as president
He's known as "the Crocodile", named after a small band of guerillas battling white minority rule in the land once known as Rhodesia.Now the 75-year-old Emmerson Mnangagwa has another big chal...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:53hrs | 589 | by AP
Superstitious politics will never win
Tomorrow we cast three ballots amidst a confetti of hope, despair, paranoia, suspicion, fear, confidence, hesitation and denial for some. We will either review these elections or perform a post mortem...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:18hrs | 177 | by Micheal Mhlanga
Top Chinese firm targets key rail project
Thousands of jobs are in the offing for skilled and unskilled Zimbabweans from a mega infrastructure project that will see the construction of a 400km railway link between Shamva and Moatize in Mozamb...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:57hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's chance of legitimacy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a military-backed veteran hardliner who outmanoeuvred Robert Mugabe and who now promises a fresh start for Zimbabwe.Monday's election offers Mnangagwa - nicknam...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 18:09hrs | 988 | by AFP
Chamisa gets free Sadc 'advice'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's declaration that he will reject any electoral outcome that does not favour him has attracted the attention of a regional network of poll observers led by former Sa...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:40hrs | 4296 | by Staff reporter
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | 703 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Zimbabwe cash crisis solution
A Zimbabwean man shows off new bond notes outside a bank in Harare on November 28, 2016. Picture: Philimon Bulawayo/ReutersPursuant to the adoption of the multicurrency system in Zimbabwe unti...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:27hrs | 2598 | by Colls Ndlovu
July 30 election a fake, waste of time
When Moses was sent to approach Pharaoh to demand the freedom of the Israelites, Pharaoh was adamant. He would not let them go.Every evidence was there that Egypt was not their land and that t...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:20hrs | 1042 | by Zanda Shumba
'DRC envoy to Zimbabwe out of order'
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mawampanga Mwana-Nanga has come under attack from the opposition after he was quoted by the State media, arguing that the government of Zimba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:44hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2587 | by Erick Matotoba
Mnangagwa govt hunts for $2bn funding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is frantically negotiating a critical US$2 billion bailout package with a top Chinese bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and other ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 16:00hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa inks Cape to Cairo fibre network deal
Telecom Egypt has signed a memorandum of understanding with Liquid Telecom to enable the pan-African group to complete Africa's terrestrial fibre network stretching across the African continent, the c...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 862 | by Reuters
Open letter to Mnangagwa
Dear Mr PresidentThere is no doubt you will win the July 30 election. Even Thomas in the Bible would believe that if he were here today. Though my vote is supposed to be private, you may want to e...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:44hrs | 639 | by Staff writer
The voice of the people is NOT the voice of God
Over the past seven months, ever since the military coup that ousted former Zimbabwe dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe in November last year, the country has been inundated with several slogans and mantr...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1420 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa opens up on bomb scare
President Mnangagwa has for the first time opened up on circumstances surrounding his 1964 arrest after bombing the Rhodesian steam locomotive in Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), revealing how he was for...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | 5301 | by Staff reporter
ZCC launches 'I pray! I vote!' programme - to what purpose if done nothing to stop rigging
"The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), an association of Christians from mainline denominations, has urged political parties participating in the July 30 elections to uphold the fundamental values o...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 191 | by Nomusa Garikai
$850m repatriated back to Zimbabwe says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says a total of $850 million has been repatriated back in Zimbabwe through the measures put in place by the new political dispensation to fight corruption.With onl...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 17:16hrs | 1489 | by Staff reprter
Barcelos spends $250 000 on 100-seater Bulawayo restaurant
RENOWNED international restaurant, Barcelos, has invested close to $250 000 in setting up its first shop in Bulawayo.The 100-seater restaurant, which is best known for its periperi chicken, wi...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1336 | by Staff reporter
Bleak start for the Africans
It seems as if it never seizes to pour for the five African countries that are representing the continent at the 2018 FIFA world cup finals in Russia.Regardless of having top class players suc...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 19:36hrs | 830 | by Daniel Itai
How ZIPRA outgunned Rhodesians at Chirundu
In our last instalment, Soft Magarasadza, a former ZIPRA commander, spoke about how he joined the liberation struggle and went on to walk from Mozambique to Botswana for two months after the failure o...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 18:17hrs | 3293 | by Staff reporter
Was Mnangagwa really meant to be killed - or was it something else?
I am not an explosives expert, or a security fundi, but the explosion that rocked ZANU PF and Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mangwana's rally yesterday raises more questions than answers, as it ...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:09hrs | 7017 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ED is leading us away from Pharoah and towards the Promised Land
The new Zimbabwe that everyone talks about is surely upon us. We see signs of it all around.Even if we have yet to reach the Promised Land, it is clear that we have left the bondage of Egypt l...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 13:04hrs | 521 | by Joice Tsitsi
Khama Billiat move sparks debate
WARRIORS forward Khama Billiat yesterday provoked huge debate in the football fraternity after he completed a surprise move from South Africa champions Mamelodi Sundowns to rivals Kaizer Chiefs. ...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 07:25hrs | 5612 | by Staff Reporter
Who is who on the Zimbabwe campaign trail?
A TOTAL of 23 candidates successfully filed their nomination papers last week enabling them to run in the presidential elections to be held on July 30, although it is self-evident the real race will b...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 15:06hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Billiat turns down Zamalek
WARRIORS star Khama Billiat has turned down Zamalek's offer, with a move to Europe now more likely.The Egyptian giants reportedly tabled a $450 000 annual salary offer to lure the Warriors sta...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2421 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu's story told in World Cup advert
THE Warriors might have been barred from the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but the greatest Warrior of all-time has been roped into the global show as part of a package of the television broadcast b...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:46hrs | 2187 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a jewel and a giant: Facts about revival of Zimbabwe's economy
The Country, Nation and Our WorldMany have talked, written and caricatured Zimbabwe as a country of educated but inept leaders. A country once a jewel of Africa brought down by corruption, greed a...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 17:35hrs | 790 | by Vincent Gwarazimba
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