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We are stuck in a (Zanu PF and MDC) 'man-made crisis' - they cannot be man-made solution too
"For months now, we have been asking our African brothers and sisters to look into the man-made governance crisis in Zimbabwe and help us restore the dignity of citizens," said MDC President, Nelson C...Published: 18 hrs ago | 531 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Kambarami appeal postponed
THE Supreme Court yesterday postponed a hearing in which deposed Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, is challenging the recent nullification of his election by the High Court. Bulawayo H...Published: 21 hrs ago | 566 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash leaves consumers stranded
EcoCash services remained intermittent or non-available yesterday, causing major business losses and much hardship since the platform handles 85 percent of Zimbabwe's transactions and 99 percent of mo...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1583 | by Staff reporter
Gloomy festive season for Zimbabweans
The National Consumer Rights Association (Nacora) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have predicted a gloomy festive season for ordinary citizens. They have also blamed the government fo...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:38hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to address Zimbabweans tomorrow at MDC offices
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will address Zimbabweans at the Morgan Tsvangirai House after the police banned his planned address at the Africa Unity Square. Addressing the media MDC Spokesperson ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 17:18hrs | 2474 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nightmare is madman wielding a stick - pity Zimbabweans have corrupt president wielding absolute power, for 39 years counting
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1187 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe ready to confront Mnangagwa, says MDC
MDC acting president Lynnete Karenyi-Kore has called on Zimbabweans to occupy all democratic spaces to demand accountability and an end to unchecked deaths at government hospitals as a result of the o...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Don't blame Mnangagwa for Mugabe's failures - George Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has said it is funny that some Zimbabweans want to blame his boss for all the country's economic problems when most of them have root in for...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 3042 | by Staff Reporter
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2792 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 628 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Civic groups blasts government for sidelining health declaration
ZIMBABWE'S Civic groups have blamed Government for failing to uphold international declarations on health through implementation at national level, a predicament which has landed country's health syst...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 08:56hrs | 355 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt squanders US$10.6 billion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government spent over US$10 billion in unbudgeted public finds, and now wants Parliament to okay the unexplained expenditure, raising the ire of opposition members of Pa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Fresh woes for 11th born Chief Ndiweni
THE Matabeleland North Provincial Chiefs Assembly has recommended that the process of appointing Ntabazinduna chief be redone after a brother to the incumbent, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni challenge...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the risk of plunging the economy into hyperinflation aft...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1109 | by Victor Bhoroma
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Police chief convicted
Commissioner-general of police Godwin Matanga and the Police Service Commission (PSC) chairperson have been slapped with a 60-day jail term each after they were convicted for contempt of court....Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 3782 | by Staff reporter
MDC demonstrates at Warriors match
AFTER being denied a chance to protest by police with the latest being at Thursday's 2020 budget presentation, MDC youths ambushed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime by demonstrating as the country...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 847 | by newzimbabwe
Kambarami replaced
BULAWAYO councillors seem to have thrown in the towel regarding the status of disposed deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami after they appointed a caretaker councillor to take care of business in Ward T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Prophet 'Bomber’ Ngwenya says he is not a witch
IN every decade rock and roll, things change with time and start to get very serious and every once in a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants in order to fully prosper.That is in simplic...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:23hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Govt allocates millions to irrigation schemes
TREASURY has allocated nearly $423 million towards the development of irrigation schemes countrywide. Presenting the 2020 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 11:24hrs | 802 | by Sta Reporter
Mnangagwa warns corrupt councillors
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday issued a stern warning against corrupt councillors and council officials who divert public funds for personal use, saying Government will not hesitate to punish those cau...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 08:08hrs | 809 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube disappointed
Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube says he was disappointed by the MDC Alliance Members of Parliament who snubbed his budget presentation on Thursday despite the fact...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 6152 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's budget a drop in the ocean
The 2020 budget is out but the future of the country still looks all gloom and not inspiring at all.The budget lacks clarity and is full of deception, lies and falsehoods. After austerity meas...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1589 | by Leonard Koni
2 years after Mugabe ouster in a coup: Zimbabwe in an abyss
"Following the address we made on November 13, 2017, which we believe our main broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our co...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents plot siege on council offices
RESIDENTS from Gweru's Mkoba and Woodlands Park high-density suburbs have threatened to protest against the city council's failure to provide water to ratepayers and deal with its dumpsite, which is s...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet reshuffle fails to impress
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet reshuffle last Friday, where he retained tired and incompetent ministers, including those tainted by corruption allegations, and assigned supposedly fresh minds t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South police ban knobkerries
POLICE in Gwanda, Bulilima and Mangwe districts of Matebeleland South have imposed a three-month ban on the carrying of knobkerries and catapults, among other "weapons", citing increased crime in the ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:17hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Zesa struggles to service ring-fenced clients
Zesa Holdings says it is shovelling 400 megawatts towards ring-fenced customers, mainly exporters, but cannot guarantee supply agreements due to depleted capacity to generate or import power. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:13hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
'ED is illegitimate' MDC cherry picked - dogmatic folly holding nation to ransom
There is nothing wrong with having an opinion on a given subject but when you doggedly hang on to the opinion regardless of the evidence to the contrary and even paddle the discredited opinion as trut...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:59hrs | 1150 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa divides Chamisa's councillors
PRESIDENT will today address predominantly MDC councillors in Bulawayo amid divisions in the opposition party over the Zimbabwean leader's legitimacy.T Emmerson MnangagwaIronically, MDC Member...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:41hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ mourns funds repatriation
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) says failure to repatriate funds to international airlines has piled on to challenges that are discouraging the firm from efficiently discharging duties in ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:31hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
G40 battling to stay relevant
….as they initiate #TysonWabantu media campaign Over the past few days, there has been an upsurge of social media messages presenting self-exiled former Cabinet Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 20:36hrs | 1787 | by Claver Nyuki
Fired council boss seeks High Court relief
FOMER Victoria Falls Municipality housing director Lot Siatimbula, who was recently fired for allegedly allocating a housing stand to his nephew without council approval, has approached the High Court...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to dissolve ZANU PF structures
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has urged ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa to dissolve all the structures of the party countrywide because they were composed of unelected people. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1982 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt, civil servants' pay dispute spills into Parliament
THE Senate's Thematic Committee on Peace and Security has invited civil servants, who are embroiled in a salary dispute with the government, to give oral evidence on their welfare.The Public S...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:34hrs | 4239 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs in another Mnangagwa head-on
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is Thursday headed for yet another potential confrontation with MDC MPs when he returns to parliament for Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube 2020 national budget presentation....Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2676 | by newzimbabwe
Zupco not paying route approval fees: BCC
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is reportedly not paying route approval fees to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), prejudicing the local authority of about $16 000 in potential revenue ann...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Gweru town clerk salary perks exposed
SUSPENDED Gweru town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza drew over $100 000 in gross salary and led a luxurious lifestyle paid for by ratepayers until her suspension by mayor Josiah Makombe last month, investi...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fatcats in tollgates scam
A FRESH storm has hit the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) after the parastatal proposed to award a million-dollar deal to its perennial contractor Univern, a deal seen as a corrupt way ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's appalling human rights record must be corrected
IT comes as a seriously embarrassing affront to the Zimbabwe nation State that we are condemning hundreds, if not thousands, of fellow brothers and sisters to Statelessness simply because one or both ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:18hrs | 189 | by Editorial - Newsday
Antipas takes a dig at PSL
WARRIORS' coach, Joey Antipas, has criticised the failure by the Premier Soccer League to observe the Fifa international break. Antipas, who also doubles as the national team coach, is expecte...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:10hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trainee medical registrars boycott final exams
DOZENS of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) postgraduate medical registrars, Monday boycotted their end of course examinations claiming they missed out on crucial practical lessons due to the ongoing strike...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:45hrs | 2755 | by newzimbabwe
Mafikizolo promoter fails to pay local artistes
ORGANISERS of the flopped Mafikizolo Back in Town Concert held on Friday at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) in Harare are being accused of failing to pay local supporting acts their ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 20:30hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Is there any difference between Zanu Pf and MDC Alliance ?
MDC became a formidable opposition party because there was no major political party to challenge Zanu Pf .Their grand entrance into the political arena was witnessed in their first participation in Pa...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 18:36hrs | 1053 | by AT Kadada
Beitbridge hospital mortuary turns away dead bodies
The Beitbridge District Hospital mortuary has stopped accepting corpses due to long spells of power cuts and the rising temperatures in the border town. The hospital, in a notice, said their m...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 17:20hrs | 1732 | by Staff Reporter
'Inflation is because TSP failed to factor in drought' - yeah right, sell-out whitewashing Zanu PF tomb
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this hell-on-earth mess! What makes our situation so, so frustrating about it is this is a man-made mess. For the last 39 years and counting the ruling party, Zanu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 2841 | by Wilbert Mukori
UK to snatch fired Zimbabwe doctors?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his government will fast track visa applications for foreign doctors and nurses - opening new opportunities for over 500 Zimbabwean doctors facing the sack fo...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:32hrs | 2932 | by Press Association
Zimbabwe teachers to work Mondays and Fridays only
Teachers will now work a two-day week after galloping inflation shrivelled their wages, a union said.The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), the biggest teachers' union in the country, said...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:31hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Widow challenges hero's will
THE widow of the late national hero Jevan Ben Maseko has approached the High Court seeking an order declaring as null and void a will left by her husband.Maseko, a former deputy minister and M...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:54hrs | 1705 | by Staff reporter
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