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Chamisa takes victory celebrations to Masvingo
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, will be in Masvingo this weekend to lead his party's victory celebrations for urban wards which they clinched during March 26 by-elections....Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 3607 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says his govt will constantly review civil service remuneration
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government will constantly review salaries and conditions of service for civil servants.Addressing the nation at the National Sports Stadium during the Zi...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, civil servants meet over salaries
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima has invited more than 40 public service unions to a meeting to discuss salaries and conditions of service today.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira, Mavhenyengwa battle re-ignites
The factional battle which threatened to tear Zanu-PF Masvingo province last year has been re-ignited as the two warring camps tussle for the provincial youth chairperson post that was left vacant fol...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:10hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans who are truly suffering have no time for Jonathan Moyo and elitist activism!
There have been those who have asked me for a comment on statements by Professor Jonathan Moyo, and his relentless attacks on the main opposition CCC party - disparaging its lack of a constitution and...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 22:55hrs | 1320 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe civil servants strike flops
CIVIL servants' planned two-day national strike failed to kickoff Wednesday, with union leaders coy on sharing numbers of those who had decided to stay at home in line with what they had promised....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:39hrs | 5961 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe's de-dollarization route flopped
The Zimbabwean government has announced measures to promote the wider use of the domestic currency (The Zimbabwean Dollar) in a last-ditch effort to save it from the re-dollarization onslaught. Part o...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 12:51hrs | 5 | by Victor Bhoroma
CCC dismisses new Zimbabwe economy measures; says Chamisa-led govt only solution
Minister Mthuli Ncube (on Monday) announced measures that are meant to curb hyperinflation and stabilize (prices) as well as address the remuneration crisis in the civil service. The Reserve Bank also...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1428 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Former territories of the British Empire snub Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S bid to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations appears to have flopped after the economic bloc snubbed the Southern African country.The Commonwealth Heads of Governmen...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono freedom bid flops again
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed for the umpteenth time journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's application for removal from remand in a case he is charged with obstruction to justice.Chin'ono i...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Gomba's bid to quash charges flops
A BID by former Harare mayor Herbert Gomba and his two co-accused to quash charges against them for corruptly altering an approved layout plan before allocating it to another user, has failed after th...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa is no James Bond, it will end in tears
Cyril Ramaphosa's silence in the aftermath of his #FarmGate saga is worrying for South Africa's democracy.It's not just that he is on mute but also the manner in which he continues to evade an...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:59hrs | 1573 | by Ray Solomons
ZANU PF cell meetings a big flop
The Zanu PF Cell Day which has been recently held last Saturday has been done a proverbial sucker punch.Zanu PF has now been reduced into rubble and debris. The opposition must snatch this opp...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:11hrs | 1719 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have sought the services of vocal critics to sanitise the November 2017 military coup and while he could have succeeded in luring some, several including the la...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:45hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni High Court appeal fails to take off
BULAWAYO High Court judges Justices Martin Makonese and Nokuthula Moyo declined to hear dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni's appeal against conviction and sentence in his absence....Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trade deficit hits US$34bn as industrialisation flops
ZIMBABWE has since 2002 accumulated a trade deficit of more than US$34 billion, a clear indication that the country's industrialisation-led import-substitution programmes have failed, new data show....Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:31hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe's de-dollarization route flopped
The Zimbabwean government has announced measures to promote the wider use of the domestic currency (The Zimbabwean Dollar) in a last-ditch effort to save it from the re-dollarization onslaught. Part o...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:08hrs | 4300 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF fissures widen
Zanu-PF has confirmed growing fissures within the party ahead of the December elective congress while warning those using money in their plot to challenge the party leader that they will be dealt with...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 2281 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP dies in car accident
ZANU PF Gokwe-Kabuyuni MP, Hon Leo...Published: 29 May 2022 at 00:34hrs | 4569 | by Staff reporter
There will never be progress in Zimbabwe as long as leaders averse to criticism!
There are some terms that those in leadership in Zimbabwe are so fond of throwing around, of which I have always found most disconcerting - such as, "we need constructive criticism", and "you should p...Published: 26 May 2022 at 20:47hrs | 390 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah sabotaged Andy Muridzo?
WHEN Andy Muridzo went under his mentor and supposedly his rival's wing, Jah Prayzah, the musician said he had a bigger picture that no one was seeing.Despite being warned by everyone about th...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
Is it just naivety or simply greed driving POLAD to believe sitting around table with corrupt power-greedy regime will yield res
A few years ago, a dear cousin of mine - who worked quite closely with the then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, especially in the health sector (having held top positions in both government, and the ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:23hrs | 1372 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinotimba apologises to Mnangagwa
UNDERFIRE loudmouth Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba has reportedly apologised to President Emmerson Mnangagwa over a leaked video in which he was heard attacking him for allegedly ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 13654 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba lives another day
A DEMONSTRATION meant to pressure the ruling Zanu-PF party to act on Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba flopped yesterday.The protest, which had been planned to take place at ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 5357 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes HIT demand for US$ fees
A-HIGH Court judge, Justice Happias Zhou has ruled that demands by the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) for students to pay 35% of their fees in United States dollars was unlawful.This was...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's shutdowns not the best protest strategy
WORSENING economic conditions, coupled with growing unemployment as most Zimbabweans struggle to eke out a living in the informal sector are among the major reasons why this week's shutdown flopped....Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:42hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Pachedu's shutdown suffers monumental flop?
EFFORTS by political and civil society activists to bring Zimbabwe to a standstill Monday flopped dismally after the majority of people went on their normal daily routines.Harare was a beehive...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:49hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | 189 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 1367 | by Derek Matyszak
Political tomfoolery hinders country's democracy, progress
WHEN political clowns among us such as Douglas Mwonzora, Thokozani Khupe and the like decide to turn themselves into serial political flip floppers by dancing like jumping jacks from one party to anot...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Policy flip flops impede platinum deals
INVESTMENT into Zimbabwe's platinum sector has been held back by unpredictable policies, a leading resource campaigner said this week.Claude Kabemba, executive director at Southern African Res...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri bid to delay trial flops
CCC activists, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, yesterday lost their bid to have Chief Magistrate, Mrs Faith Mushure, recuse herself from presiding over their case.The latest ploy has been ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Towards a market driven foreign exchange market
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the central bank made a press statement on the 1st of April to address the depreciation of the local currency and manage the rate of inflation in the economy. Th...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:46hrs | 851 | by Victor Bhoroma
Biti's bid to block assault trial flops
EFFORTS by Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to block avoid trial in a case he is being accused of assaulting a Russian investor Tatiana Aleshina hit a brick wall Thursday ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:08hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Caps United's Nadolo bid flops
CAPS United's bid for forward King Nadolo has collapsed amid reports that the Harare football giants, who had vowed to splash cash to bring him on board before the close of the transfer window next we...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:51hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa rekindle political romance
Seemingly forgetting her near-death experience at the hands of Nelson Chamisa's violent supporters at the funeral of Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2018, Thokozani Khupe has endorsed the Citizen's Coal...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC chokes on abduction lies?
POLITICAL analysts have described the self-abduction tricks by the former Harare mayor, Hebert Gomba, of the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) last weekend as an overused and outdated scheme meant to...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Public hearing on Health Services Bill flops
A PUBLIC hearing on the Health Services Amendment Bill flopped in Chinhoyi after only four residents attended the meeting.Of the four attendees, only two of them made contributions before the ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Sex on wheels: Cheated hubby loses marbles
Residents in Maphisa were on Tuesday last week treated to free and unrehearsed reality street theatre when a jilted man busted his wife in the act in her car with her boyfriend at 3am outside a superm...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora aborts Chinhoyi rally over poor turnout
MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora was Wednesday forced to cancel his rally in Chinhoyi after it turned out to be a monumental flop with just a handful of people turned in attendance.The Chinhoyi ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 5227 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala's freedom bid flops
HARARE magistrate Stanford Mambanje yesterday dismissed an application by Citizens Coalition for Change interim vice-chairperson Job Sikhala to be removed from remand in a matter where he is accused o...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Blitz gets few Bulawayo voters
BULAWAYO recorded 6 000 new voters during the just ended first phase of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mobile biometric voter registration blitz which ended on Monday.The mobile voter...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes out at Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters braved tear smoke, water cannon and buton attacks by police determineed to stop the opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa from addressing a campaign ral...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:38hrs | 2219 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC cracks
CRACKS are emerging in the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) amid allegations of imposition of candidates in Bulawayo and Masvingo provinces which are threatening to rip apart the recently rebrande...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:43hrs | 7250 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls Rwanda-style co-operatives model
GOVERNMENT is considering adopting a Rwanda-style co-operatives model as it seeks to reactivate community-driven development projects, NewsDay Business can reveal.Co-operatives gained prominen...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora flops again in Bulawayo
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora continues to attract trifling figures after an estimated 300 people turned up for his Bulawayo rally Saturday.The rally was held at Phelendaba Hall in Bulawayo...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 09:03hrs | 4445 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora forked out ZW$2m for flopped rally
LESS than 500 people attended MDC-T faction leader Douglas Mwonzora's 26 March by-elections campaign launch at Zororo Grounds in Highfield, Harare, last Saturday, but this was by no means due to a lac...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:37hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Warriors seek AFCON consolation
IT'S a tournament the players would want to forget in a hurry, given they flattered only to deceive in light of the massive financial support they have received from the Government through the Sports ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T plot to replace Gweru mayor flops?
THE MDC-T-led Gweru City Council was last Friday forced to abort a meeting to elect a new mayor to replace recalled Josiah Makombe after the former mayor filed an urgent application at the Bulawayo Hi...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:39hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
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