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Chamisa, Khupe square off again
EMBATTLED opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rekindled his fight against rival MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe saying she no longer had legal grounds to claim leadership of the main opposi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 10800 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi to withdraw delimitation amendment
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has in principle reportedly agreed to withdraw one of the 27 clauses government was pushing for as part of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, which i...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2346 | by Staff reporter
Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases
LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo's infections. This comes at a tim...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 delays jatropha energy project comeback
The outbreak of the corona virus, or Covid-19, has delayed the anticipated revival of the jatropha energy project in Zimbabwe.In 2017, the Zimbabwe government announced that it had rekindled t...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 117 | by Green Energy Zimbabwe
How white farmers clinched US$3,5 billion deal
GoVerNmeNt's decision to pay white former commercial farmers Us$3.5 billion compensation came after protracted negotiations starting from the late Robert Mugabe's time, it has been revealed.Pr...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3041 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Protests are a human right: UN experts
HE UN Human Rights Committee yesterday said protesters across the world had a right to protest even in the wake of COVID-19 as long as they adhere to requirements to protect themselves.In a st...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
People emulate leaders behaviour, rotten leaders stir rot in all the nation: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has warned that people follow and emulate their leaders adding that rotten leaders bring the rot to the entire nation. The party said when in 1980 Mugabe mad...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 161 | by Stephen Jakes
Potraz warns against bogus online COVID-19 doctors
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has warned of bogus health experts who post online information purporting it to be useful in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:17hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Sparkles But Economic Malaise Dulls The Shine
The Municipality of Kariba is on a charm offensive, softening and winning hearts, grinding impressive results and winning accolades. If this lasts, then the happy days will return to the resort town....Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:01hrs | 565 | by Laiton Kandawire: Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
Khupe camp's fights escalate as Mwonzora accepts nomination to lead MDC
THE discord that has hit the MDC's interim leadership - including last week's move to block the nomination of reinstated secretary general Douglas Mwonzora as the party's next president - is escalatin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 7625 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill gravely flawed, says Lawyers
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which is government's response to global technological upheavals, has been described as gravely flawed and an illustration of the Zanu-PF administration's ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's opposition is weak, muddled'
AS ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises continue to deepen, analysts have delivered a damning assessment of the country's opposition.Speaking during a virtual meeting that was organised by...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Don't shoot the critic
IN order to solve our problems we have to first identify them, but we human beings have an inherent flaw of not being able to give ourselves an accurate self-evaluation more often than not, so who els...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:21hrs | 336 | by Black Edward
James Makamba eyes huge comeback
NATHAN Shamuyarira, Webster Shamu, James Makamba and Supa Mandiwanzira are some of the names that easily come to mind as having made the successful transition from journalism into the murky world of b...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt defends sacking of hospital CEOs
The sacking of chief executive officers (CEOs) of five major Government hospitals was part of the restructuring of the health system by Government to make it more effective and efficient, a Cabinet Mi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:34hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
America should stop lecturing Zimbabwe
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is behaving like a demigod. He is indeed way out of order and lost because he has removed his diplomatic robes and stepped into the local political a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1614 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1395 | by Brian T Kagoro
Harare, Bulawayo face total Covid-19 lockdown
GOVERNMENT is set to impose a stricter, total Covid-19 lockdown in Harare and Bulawayo in view of a sharp increase in infections amid concerns by cabinet ministers that the public is flouting the rest...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2636 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew has little to do with coronavirus pandemic
THE government's critics accused authorities yesterday of allegedly hiding behind the soaring coronavirus infections in the country to trample on people's freedoms, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:16hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
Demo timing might be wrong
THE July 31 planned demonstrations have stirred controversy in and outside the country as the date has coincided with the spike in COVID-19 cases. The obtaining situation in Zimbabwe clearly s...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 728 | by Pardon Maguta
Zimbabwe curfew fuels tension
TENSION has gripped Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid fears the Zanu-PF leader, who is failing to proffer solutions to deepening socioeconomic problems, ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Govt shuts down varsities, colleges
GOVERNMENT has banned face-to-face lectures at all tertiary institutions and ordered students to vacate residences following a spike in COVID-19 cases, most of them local transmissions.As of y...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3027 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7382 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Fresh onslaught against EcoCash
Police have issued a warrant against Econet Wireless to hand over a list of its EcoCash subscribers and transactions as part of an investigation into allegedmoney laundering.According to a...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
Outrage after beneficiaries of RBZ millions are exposed
A leaked list of the beneficiaries of a controversial Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation scheme has sparked fresh demands for the politically-connected to pay back the money after their...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 5021 | by Staff reporter
We have Epsteins and Ghislaine in homes: capital punishment is befitting to paedophiles!!
Last week, we saw how Virginia Giuffre-Roberts got her last laugh. At last the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI for counts of perjury and recruiting under-aged girls for prostitutio...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 1026 | by Nomazulu Thata
Covid-19 epicentre shifts to Bulawayo
THE Covid-19 epicentre has shifted from Harare to Bulawayo with health experts warning that Matabeleland provinces are under heightened threat due to their proximity to South Africa, Africa's epicentr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Churches condemn demos
CHURCHES have spoken strongly against the planned July 31 demonstrations by desperate opposition parties in the country saying such actions ignore the threat posed by Covid-19 and disregard existing c...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Ncube to arm riot police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed Treasury to urgently buy a fleet of brand new vehicles for the police, including all-terrain troop carriers, water cannons, buses and equipment used by riot...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 14834 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged to stop politicking in COVID-19 fight
ZIMBABWE should stop politicking, self-aggrandisement and elitism patchwork in its response to the COVID-19 crisis, but engender sustainable solutions that would enable communities to outlive the coro...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:48hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Divorce ruling on 50/50 sharing of assets triggers mixed reactions
GENDER activists have expressed mixed feelings over a recent Supreme Court judgment that awarded a spouse 50% share of property after dissolution of marriage, even if they might not have made a direct...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms over US$ salaries
Civil servants have requested a post-Mid-Term Fiscal Policy review meeting with the ministries of Finance and Public Service Labour and Social Welfare and central bank chief John Mangudya as they push...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 6780 | by Staff reporter
Eyebrows raised as Mohadi opens US$1,8m bridge
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday stood in for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to officially open a bridge constructed at a cost of US$1,8 million in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central province, with expert...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2792 | by Staff reporter
4 hidden truths that reveal lockdown is a big mistake
It seems that despite the World Health Organization releases news that should be worldwide valid, each country's government takes decisions independently on how to manage the COVID19 situation....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 22:24hrs | 5180 | by Staff writer
SA firm steps in to ease hunger among destitute Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans living in South Africa have benefitted from aid distributed by a Johannesburg headquartered company, T2N, and the Gauteng Food Security Committee since lockdown began in March....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:52hrs | 1555 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Mnangagwa will not resign on the 31st or any other day
The July 31st protests in Zimbabwe will have lasting consequences. While most of them are difficult to anticipate, some of the economic impacts are already being felt and add up to long-term challenge...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 9206 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga rushed to China again
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was last week airlifted to China amid reports his troubling health had deteriorated, it has emerged. The former army commander flew out of the country on a ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:40hrs | 22343 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to regularise illegal settlements
Government has embarked on an exercise to regularise all illegal settlements in urban centres across the country and has engaged experts to expedite the process.Speaking at a Zanu-PF provincia...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
VACANCY: Sky Metro FM searches for a Finance and Administration Manager
FINANCE CONTROL & BUDGETING• Ensure financial integrity and accountability and maintain internal controls.• Generate timely monthly, quarterly, yearly financial reports in complian...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1021 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We are killing humanity with imported vaccine: Moussa Zeguen
The International Coalition Against Corona Virus for Africa (ICAC) Togo based ICAC President Toure Moussa Zeguen has warned that the actions taken by African governments in trying to mitigate th...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:21hrs | 2558 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans in the UK vulnerable to Covid-19, embassy warns
The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic.It is a revelation which under...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
ZiNA seeks army, police, judiciary protection during July 31 protests
The new pressure group called Zimbabwe National Anthem has petitioned the state institutions which include the army, the police and the judiciary to protect citizens from the power-hungry political le...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1221 | by Stephen Jakes
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1981 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3493 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 4451 | by Staff reporter
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