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Zimbabwe reveals plans to increase number of nursing graduates
The Zimbabwean government has announced an ambitious plan to more than double the number of nursing graduates by 2030 in response to the ongoing brain drain impacting health services.Since 201...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:07hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Is your Zimbabwe property safe from property hijackers
This is a follow up article of title deeds fraud which I wrote in January 2022 that went viral. There is now a new fraud trend called Property Hijacking happening in South Africa. Property hijacking i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 22:32hrs | 766 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
WATCH: King Lobengula museum restored in South Africa
The legacy of King Khumalo Lobengula, the final monarch of the Ndebele people in Zimbabwe, is slated for conservation in Makhanda, Eastern Cape. The Sarah Baartman District Municipality has al...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 11:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scammed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, job seekers lose fortunes
ARMED with a smartphone, a lone vigilante confronts an alleged scammer in Birmingham, United Kingdom clicks "record" on the device and demands that the woman pays back thousands of British pounds that...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
More boys dropping out of school in Matebeleland South
MORE boys in Matebeleland South are dropping out of school compared to girls at both primary and lower secondary school levels, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) report has revealed....Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Innscor goes after Zanu-PF activist
Innscor Africa has obtained a takedown order against Zanu-PF social media activist Benson Rutendo Matinyarare, who posted videos online accusing the company of "destroying the taste of Zimbabwean food...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe littered with zombie firms'
ZIMBABWE is littered with "dogs and zombie companies" that are stagnant and have moribund prospects, limited cash-flows and low market share, according to the strategic advisory firm Mark & Associ...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo life expectancy at 63 years'
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has revealed that the life expectancy for Bulawayo province stood at 62,6 years compared to the national life expectancy of 64,7 years.ZimStat...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Magnifying the gains from migration in Zimbabwe
THE recent World Development Report proposes a simple framework to analyse cross-border migration. It juxtaposes the motive for migration and the "match" between migrants' attributes and the destinati...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 19:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube divorced from reality
On November 30, 2023, in the bustling halls of the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube , a proud holder of a diplomatic ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 8 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
Gloomy weather engulfs Bulawayo
HOURS after Zimbabwe's presidential results were announced just before midnight on Saturday night, an uncharacteristically biting cold and windy weather tore through the country's second largest city,...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
The odds were stacked against Chamisa on August 23
Zimbabwe went to the polls last week, weighed down by a cost-of-living crisis and rural food shortages, but the ruling party's 40-year grip on the electoral process suggested it was unlikely to lose p...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senate and PR, the maxim gun firing at Bulawayo
The Senate, Youth and PR lists for the 2023 harmonised elections in Bulawayo Province, are the newest metaphorical maxim gun whose bullets are brutally firing at the tender heart of the City of Bulawa...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 17 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)
'Gold Mafia is bigger than Zanu PF' said Al Jazeera. The tail is wagging the dog - out of spite!
"Gold Mafia Episode 1: Laundry Service" will be aired on Al Jazeera TV tonight Thursday 23 March 2023, an advance version was already circulating on the social media. There are six take home point...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Desperate shortage of places at Zimbabwe medical schools reported
ONLY 1% of students seeking to be enrolled in Zimbabwe's medical schools get placed due to an acute shortage of training facilities, resulting in limited access to such training programmes.Get...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nurses barred from leaving Zimbabwe
With a salary worth the equivalent of less than $100 a month, Agnes Masarira can't afford to buy lunch at the hospital in Zimbabwe where she works as a nurse. She dreams of a nursing job in Canada, bu...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean shot dead in Lincoln
A day after Zimbabwean national Kupo Mleya (38) was shot and killed, police arrested a 23-year-old on Christmas Eve who they allege is responsible.Kupo was son to the late Brigadier General Fa...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimStat census sparks controversy
THE accurate number of Zimbabwean immigrants in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia has exposed gross inaccuracies in the 2022 Population and Housing Census which has painted the size of the country...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Census reveals migration surge under Mnangagwa rule than before
Zimbabwe's population census has revealed a surge in unemployed citizens leaving the country under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule than during the many years in which late former President Robert ...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands of Zimbabweans flee economic mess
ZIMBABWE recorded the highest outflow of citizens fleeing the country in 2021 compared to other previous years since 1980 as the deepening socio-economic crisis shows no signs of abating under Preside...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
200 000 Zimbabwean children born outside the country
ABOUT one million Zimbabweans are living in the diaspora while over 200 000 children are born outside the country with the highest being in South Africa, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimSt...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Nurses recruited from Zimbabwe are being caught in UK 'bonded labour' schemes
Zimbabwean care workers are being tricked into coming to the UK by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor.The scam, which plays on the acu...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Ray Mwareya
Illegal miners strain SA - Zimbabwe relations
DIPLOMATIC relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa may soon reach a new low amid concerns in Pretoria that illegal gold miners from Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe are engaged in violent criminal...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Ghost House of Sussex': £40m mansion and mausoleum unfinished since 1985; tycoon owner van Hoogstraten emigrated to Zimbabwe
Sitting in a muddy field, unloved and deteriorating by the day sits a forgotten but hugely impressive mansion that is one of the UK's greatest unfinished architectural projects. Bigger than Buckingham...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans won't flee South Africa to return home
"WHEN you see a rat running into a fire, then you know that what it is running away from is hotter than the fire." - African proverb. Zimbabweans, who are in their millions in South Africa - som...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man found dead at London home
A 32-year-old Zimbabwean man was last Tuesday found dead at his Richmond home in a case of suspected suicide.Calvin Tapuwanashe Nyevera Munhuweyi had hardly settled in the United Kingdom, havi...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 18:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Zimbabwe regime shouldn't mortgage its workers but pay them what they're worth
A few days ago, I was interviewed by Iran's Press TV on the adverse impact of the massive brain drain affecting Zimbabwe, especially its health care professionals who had been flocking to countries as...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:56hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How Nick Mangwana tweet invoked my memories of old
As a good percentage of Harare's social media community exploded in anger following the reintroduction last Tuesday, by Local Government minister July Moyo, of the former Rhodesia Railways coaches, no...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:01hrs | 10 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Honey Bird Kop Farm seizure takes new twist
THE ownership wrangle of Honey Bird Kop Farm has taken a new twist as the white "owner" has finally spoken out after decades of silence, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.Honey Bird Kop Farm h...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Shona community in Kenya to get citizenship
The ethnic Shona community in Kenya, descendants from people who emigrated in the 1930s, and then in the 1960s as missionaries, will soon finally get certificates of citizenship following the decision...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK deportees will not be mistreated by Zimbabwe government
The arrival in Harare of a batch of 14 Zimbabweans deported from Britain is in many ways a welcome sign that the British government has developed a far more realistic attitude to Zimbabwe and reckons ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Writing my suicide note: Dambudzo Mnangagwa is inside us!
It is suicidal to critique the Mthwakazi parties in as much as to condemn infiltration by the Mnangagwa CIOs in Matabeleland. What I read in New Zimbabwe.com causes concern to those who are carefully ...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 08:51hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Britain desperately needs Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe
THE most outlandish aspect of Britain's past and recent actions is that despite its posturing on Zimbabwe, the former colonial power desperately needs Harare for its economic revival efforts, especial...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | | by Golden Guvamatanga
Rhodesian Model worked and it will work even better NOW
Zimbabwe needs to look at the model that worked and make it even better under sanctions. From the 1940 when the Rhodesian economy was booming the country had only one university and the focus of the t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 20:32hrs | 2 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabwean families survive on diaspora remittances'
THE majority of poverty-stricken Zimbabwean families are now heavily dependent on diaspora remittances for their upkeep as the economy continues on a nosedive, with the value of the local currency fai...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Currency devaluation slashes Zimbabwe wages by 90%
Zimbabwe's rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap, from which there's little chance of escape.If they implement the polit...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe reaches 'tipping point'
ZIMBABWE'S Finance minister Mthuli Ncube responded to the country's worsening economic crisis last week by blacking out inflation statistics for the next six months, boosting the price of the little p...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:47hrs | | by Antony Sguazzin, Prinesha Naidoo and Ray Ndlovu
Considerations on Zimbabwe's future
ZIMBABWE'S future is rarely discussed in holistic terms in everyday conversations. This is because the future is always in the immediate.This may appear contradictory or even complex, but it i...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Back to 2008 as Zimdollar returns
FOR President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, the re-introduction of the national currency a decade after its demise is a return to "normalcy".For most of the country's citizens, it's a bitte...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
It will be easier for Zimbabweans to emigrate to the UK
The UK's Home Office has published more details about its future skills-based immigration s...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 22:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe
What do Slobodan Milosevic, Robert Mugabe, and Nicolás Maduro have in common? Other than being leaders who kept the Communist Manifesto at their bedside, all three ushered in devastating hyperinflati...Published: 14 May 2019 at 10:14hrs | 9 | by Prof. Steve Hanke
Zimbabwean man advising governments and oil companies
Growing up in central Africa in the '50s and '60s gave Duncan Clarke an early appreciation of his surroundings and the wider environment – but very little indication of the significance the oil ind...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 06:03hrs | 10 | by geoexpro
Govt use of violence on its own people is tragic
Continued from last weekWhile Mnangagwa's rhetoric on issues such as land reform, human rights, rule of law, improving the business climate and reducing corruption was all positive, there was ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:13hrs | | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
'Inter-bank trades US$12m weekly'
The inter-bank foreign exchange market is averaging trades of US$12 million weekly, three weeks after its introduction, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Dr John Mangudya told Parliamentarians y...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Zimbabwean doctors killed over a thousand people in one month of December?
My father once told me that a man who does not sleep at home will never buy a bed for his home. This might just be true when applied to politicians on the continent seeking medical help anywhere but h...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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