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Basic goods disappear from shelves in Zimbabwe
SOME basic commodities such as cooking oil have virtually disappeared from shop shelves as the monthly food basket shot to $120 000.The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) yesterday said a fami...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Chigubhu laid to rest
Anne Frank once said, "Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude ".In similar fashion and sentiment artists yesterday (Sunday) raised conc...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:02hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Retailers dump Zimdollar
RETAILERS in Harare have dumped the Zimbabwe dollar and are demanding payment in United States dollars for a number of basic goods such as cooking oil and dairy products.Some large wholesalers...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2247 | by Staff reporter
Govt raises grain producer prices
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced new producer prices for maize and traditional grains citing rising costs of production, a development that will inevitably push up the cost of mealie-meal and other basi...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:48hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Putin's war sends global food prices skyrocketing
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is contributing to rising food prices and threatening food supplies around the world. In Ukraine, Russia's forces have destroyed farms, bombed warehou...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 251 | by Leigh Hartman, ShareAmerica Correspondent
SA faces severe cooking oil crisis
Some experts are predicting that consumers can expect to pay up to R120 for two litres of cooking oil soon due to a severe shortage of oilseed products, according to the commercial director of Souther...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:24hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
University lecturer who led Esidakeni Farm invasion sued for US$340,000
A Zanu-PF-linked university lecturer who invaded a farm part-owned by a prominent human rights lawyer has been sued for loss of potential income to the tune of US$340,000.Dumisani Madzivanyati...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Gogo uses social media to market décor business
FROM weddings to birthday parties and anniversary celebrations, Gogo Maggie Chigwinya (61), an award-winning Beitbridge-based entrepreneur, strives to give her clients the best.She has a great...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:17hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers Taj Abdul, Lundu jailed
Notorious armed robbers, Musa Taj Abdul and Charles Lundu, were this week each jailed for eight years for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, which police suspected were being used in vario...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:17hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Headwinds piling up for Zimbabwe
The United States Agency for International Development (USAid)'s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has warned of below average harvests this year and a shortlived i...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1014 | by Staf reporter
30% of Midlands crop a write-off
NEARLY 30 percent of the maize crop Madeline Magwenzi across Midlands Province is now a write off with the total provincial yield already compromised due to the prolonged dry spell that has been exper...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Government that sees need to megaphone all its plans and interactions seldom delivers
Some of us have been there - where we reached rock bottom, due to our own faults, wrong decisions, and misjudgments in life.Our lives had become unmanageable and an embarrassment - such that, ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:30hrs | 114 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
RBZ warns Ukraine war could result in price increases
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has predicted that the ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine will have a knock-on effect on prices of goods and services ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
Malunga's lawyers intensify court attle over seized Esidakeni farm
ATTORNEYS representing human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners are intensifying their court battle against Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu over the illegal sei...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 19:29hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group holds Gukurahundi memorial, frowns at Mugabe Day
MATABELELAND pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Monday conducted a Gukurahundi memorial service at Bhalagwe mass graves in Kezi district at a time the State was commemorating Mugabe Day.Guku...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:20hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Esidakeni Farm owners demand compensation
Esidakeni Farm owners are demanding nearly US$340 000 in compensation for the destruction of their crops during the time Dumisani Madzivanyati 'illegally occupied' the farm.Esidakeni, also kno...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:05hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
'We will protest rigged elections!' promised Chamisa - but why keep participating, it's insane
Insanity comes in all manner of degrees and disguises but have two things in common; one, it is mind bogglingly repetitive. Or as the great physicist Albert Einstein aptly put it, "insanity is doing t...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:17hrs | 548 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Yellow ‘fever' fast turning into despair
Just a few weeks down the line, the euphoria is fast dying down.The yellow fever is fast turning into despair.Zimbabweans being the creative lot that they are have turned CCC into "Cha...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:40hrs | 1040 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Is Emmerson Mnangagwa a genuine reformist?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa recently resumed duty after his annual break from January to early February. One of the notable things he has done is to introduce performance contracts for minister...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:32hrs | 268 | by Brian Chitemba
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 669 | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | 2836 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Mangudya ranked worst performing central bank governor in Africa
The Central Banker Report Cards, published annually by Global Finance since 1994, grade the central bank governors of 101 key countries and territories, including the European Union, the Eastern Carib...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 05:13hrs | 5073 | by Staff reporter
‘Name Bosso offices after Gumede'
HIGHLANDERS' vice-chairman aspirant Babongile Sikhonjwa has suggested that the club's offices along Robert Mugabe Way be named Ndumiso Gumede House in honour of the late iconic club president....Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches rural scheme
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday launched the Presidential Rural Development Scheme set to benefit more than 1,8 million households as the Second Republic accelerates efforts to alleviate poverty among t...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 09:31hrs | 1165 | by Staff Reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a prima facie failed state and incapable of self-governing - will we finally take the cure
"Blacks are incapable of self-governing!" was the standard justification for continued white colonial rule. Not many things said and done by the white supremacists got under my skin half as deep as th...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:35hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
$8 billion target for Intwasa programme
HEAVY rains that fell in Gokwe North District from Wednesday night till yesterday morning brought relief to villagers after days of high temperatures.And that relief turned into celebration wh...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two shot dead answering call of nature
Two men were shot dead while relieving themselves in separate incidents in Gweru and Kadoma, while a body of another man was found with gunshot wounds along the Limpopo River in Beitbridge....Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti was never abducted
The MDC Alliance on Tuesday said its vice president Tendai Biti was being tailed by known Zanu-PF thugs, as it denied social media speculation that he had been abducted at gunpoint.Spokesperso...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:24hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
Air Force commander sues top school after daughter excluded over US dollar fees
A top military commander whose daughter's offer letter for a Form 1 place at top Harare school, Dominican Convent, was withdrawn for refusing to pay fees in United States dollars has gone to court cha...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:24hrs | 32 | by Staff writer
Robert Mugabe's teacher declared liberation hero
THE late founding member of Zanu, and former diplomat, Kennedy Manyika has been declared a liberation Hero.Manyika died at his Chegutu home last Friday at the age of 99.He was brother ...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:24hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa's 'indecent photos', Judge tosses out case against couple
A Zimbabwean judge has thrown out a case against a couple who shared a photoshopped nude of the country's president on a WhatsApp group, their lawyer said on Wednesday.Sarudzayi Ambiri Jani, 3...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
A different kind of Flower power
Andy Flower holds countless records from his days as a talisman of the Zimbabwe cricket team, while the top of the world has also been reached as a coach with England. Such heights can only be scaled ...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 19:06hrs | 70 | by Staff writer
Man shot dead...thrown inside Limpopo river
The ZRP has reported that it is investigating circumstances surrounding a murder case which occurred in Beitbridge where a body of a male adult was found at the confluence of Limpopo River and Mzingwa...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 14:46hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo urban farmers to get agric inputs
A TOTAL of 20 000 urban farmers in Bulawayo metropolitan province are set to receive agricultural inputs for the 2021/2022 farming season under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme, popularl...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Phase Two Matebeleland North roads rehab intensified
GOVERNMENT allocated more than $700 million to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for rehabilitation of a 3 000km road network under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare issues a 48 hour ultimatum
HARARE City Council is set to remove illegal billboards on road verges and private property across the capital.In a statement, council yesterday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to those who erected...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 6 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mnangagwa opens up on private life
President Mnangagwa, who turned 79-years yesterday, called on Zimbabweans to be peaceful, united and most of all, be patriotic to develop the country. Speaking at his African-themed birthday d...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cricket team captain retires
FORMER Zimbabwe cricket team captain Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket after a successful career spanning 17-years.The 34-year old top order batsman reveal...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 20:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Qatar offers fresh market for Zimbabwe products
LOCAL exporters should take advantage of the direct flights between Zimbabwe and Qatar to tap into the US$25,8 billion Western Asian market. Early this month, Qatar Airways announced the introduction ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives US$1bn IMF windfall today, Biti will cry
Zimbabwe is set to get an injection of around US$1 billion, its allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today, with part of the money earmarked for healt...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Enough inputs for 2021 season
Seed and fertiliser firms have ramped up production to meet demand for inputs for the forthcoming summer cropping season in State-assisted programmes and the commercial sector, with farmers urged to b...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean young farmers lead the charge in agriculture
Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Audrey Simango
Zimbabwe's political prostitutes
The man who was behind Grace Mugabe's youth interface rallies where she was spewing vitriolic attacks against Mnangagwa has once again by hook or crook managed to get himself appointed to lead a fundr...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:56hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Illicit financial flaws daunt RBZ
THE central bank is facing a gigantic task in curbing illicit financial flows with exporters having devised complex ways of evading high retention thresholds as swap deals top the list of their illega...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Cricket hail Flower
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has congratulated andy Flower after he was inducted into the iCC Hall of Fame on Sunday, becoming the first Zimbabwean to get the prestigious recognition.after the intern...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cricket legend Andy Flower inducted in ICC Hall of Fame
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) has heaped praise on cricket legend Andy Flower describing him as "one of the world's greatest cricket players ever" after he became the country's first cricketer to be inducted ...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's maize harvest to hit 20-year high
Zimbabwe is expected to harvest 2,7 million tonnes of maize during the 2020/21 summer cropping season, the highest yield in 20 years, the Second Round Crop and Livestock Assessment report shows. ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff writer
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