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'Monetary Policy Statement will bring sanity' says RBZ Governor - will not and never will as long as insane rule the roost
The primary objective of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) long awaited Monetary Policy Statement was to bring sanity to Zimbabwe's chaotic economic world, especially the madness in financial and c...Published: 12 hrs ago | 980 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa to address Gweru 'Thank You' rally
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa heads for Gweru this weekend, where he will address his first rally of the year. He is also expected to address his party's position on key national issues.A...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe turns 95, 9 things you didn't know about him
Robert Mugabe is turning 95 and his birthday has been declared a holiday in Zimbabwe. The holiday was mooted by the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to honor their then icon, whose birthday had since the 1...Published: 22 hrs ago | 16673 | by BBC
Mnangagwa launches technology centre
President Mnangagwa yesterday launched the India-Africa Incubation Centre in Harare which he described as a key conduit that will drive the modernisation and industrialisation of the economy. ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 144 | by Staff reporter
Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe's donated parcel detained by Zimra
The Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe Trust a permaculture organization in Bulawayo received a donation of fruit tree seeds from a donor from Pakistan. The donor agenda was to empower the organization an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 15:52hrs | 486 | by Enos Denhere
WATCH: Jonathan Moyo's farm collapses
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's Patterson Farm which was once hailed as having the best maize crops in Mashonaland Central is reportedly dilapidating due to the harsh economy ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | 9299 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt donates seized second hand clothes to Zanu-PF supporters
THE government has parceled out loads of goods seized by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) to villagers in Uzumba Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP), an area that has consistently given Zanu-PF the biggest vo...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1127 | by newzimbabwe
MDC chair denied access to detained party members
MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo has claimed that Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials on Saturday denied her and party members permission to visit colleagues detained ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Cops sue each other
A POLICE officer last week dragged her former husband to the Harare Civil Court applying $200 maintenance for three children.Winniefield Madyandove wanted $200 for the upkeep of their three ch...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 15:00hrs | 2462 | by Staff reporter
Christianity to be labelled mental illness
Founder of Imperial City Church Prophet Isaiah Brian Sovi has prophesied that soon the world will outlaw freedom of worship and Christians will be labelled mentally ill, hunted down and arrested. ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 3225 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa warns tycoon 'Queen B' Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come out guns blazing against businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, who is apparently his nephew, for allegedly withholding fuel meant for farmers involved in the governmen...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:24hrs | 12267 | by Staff reporter
2,4m Zimbabweans food insecure as drought, rising costs bite
The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 233 | by IRIN
Mungoshi burial set for tomorrow in Chivhu
Veteran award-winning author and actor Charles Mungoshi will be buried at his rural homestead in Chivhu tomorrow afternoon. Mungoshi died at the age of 71 at Parirenyatwa Hospital on Sat...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:52hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo barred from visiting MDC Alliance looters at Bulawayo prison
STAFF at Mlondolozi Women Prison in Bulawayo on Saturday barred MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and her delegation from visiting party members incarcerated at the penal facility.Khum...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 348 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's January inflation hits 10,75%
The month on month inflation rate in January 2019 was 10,75 percent gaining 1,72 percentage points on the December 2018 rate of 9,03 percent. This means that prices of goods and services as me...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
German Methods can work in Zimbabwe
After World War II, in 1945 Germany was divided into two with the United States, Great Britain, and France occupying the western portion of Germany and the Soviet Union occupying eastern Germany. Its ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 23:02hrs | 1791 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe urgently needs own currency
THE drive for Zimbabwe to have its own currency is understandably gain-ing traction, particularly given the aberrations of price increases, multi-tier pricing and foreign currency shortages on the loc...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 18:44hrs | 5099 | by Edmore Ndudzo
Joy, anger as trapped miners are rescued
A visibly shaken Thinkmore Madimutse was the first survivor to be retrieved from a flooded shaft at Silver Moon mine yesterday four days after disaster struck in the gold-rich Battlefields area....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare face collapse
TIME is up for community clubs to continue to run on the old template of members whose contributions are just a drop in the ocean.Many great names in sport have gone extinct because the so cal...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa invite a step in right direction'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa recently held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the country to lay the foundation for dialogue. Here, The Herald Senior Reporter Tendai Mugabe (TM) speaks to MDC leade...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:53hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aware of Chamisa's renewed bid to relaunch violent protests
Government is aware of a renewed bid by the MDC-Alliance and its allies to relaunch violent demonstrations, and will deal decisively with elements that are hell-bent on making the country ungovernable...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
City dwellers to get food relief
Government will this year spread its food aid programme to vulnerable households in urban areas, as it moves to cushion residents against the fallout from El Nino-induced dry weather conditions, parti...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:45hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Smart agriculture will boost economy
Smart agriculture has the potential to help farmers increase their yields through adoption of modern, technologically enabled farming methods, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.In a speech...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:42hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that fuel and wheat shortages already fixed
Government has made significant headway in dealing head-on with various challenges affecting the economy, and has since addressed fuel and wheat challenges, while satisfactory progress has been made i...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa invite a step in right direction'
President Mnangagwa on Wednesday last week held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the country to lay the foundation for dialogue. Here, Tendai Mugabe (TM) speaks to MDC leader Tho...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | 212 | by Tendai Mugabe
The Mnangagwa regime
This article was first published by the House of Commons Libra...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:35hrs | 954 | by House of Commons Library
Ziyambi downplays Nduna murder confessions
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday tried to downplay Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna's confession that he was a killer by telling the Senate that the word in Shona had several meanings.Zi...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:44hrs | 2905 | by Staff reporter
KFC spreads US$150m wings in Zimbabwe
South African giant Chicken Bird Holdings (CBH), the owners of fast-food Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise in the country, have committed to invest US$150 million in Zimbabwe's agricultural secto...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga suspectedly poisoned with deadly Polonium-210
Vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is suspected of suffering from the lethal polonium- 210 poisoning, and is reportedly admitted at an undisclosed Indian military hospital.High ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 06:53hrs | 47145 | by Staff Reporter
New UN Ambassador to Zim appointed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday received the incoming United Nations Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bishow Parajuli, Foreign at State House.Parajuli was presenting his credentials for t...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 10:53hrs | 2079 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe students starving in foreign lands
Zimbabwean students who are on the presidential scholarship scheme are finding it difficult to get by because government is struggling to fund their needs.Thousands of students are on the pres...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:17hrs | 1396 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pledges to tackle capital flight
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Monday pledged to support food and beverage manufacturer, Nestle Private Limited, as government desperately tries to contain capital flight.A large number of c...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1606 | by Staff reporter
Woman dies in Bulawayo CBD street
A WOMAN suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes collapsed and died outside a food outlet in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon, the second such sudden death in the city within a week. The in...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:54hrs | 5354 | by Staff reporter
Political dialogue with Chamisa is a farce
It was clear to all but Few and some on Zimbabwean left that any unlikely agreement with Chamisa would only lead to further the agenda of regime change. The unconstitutional removal of the constitutio...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 09:28hrs | 3821 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chief Chirumhanzu was pro-Zanu PF'
A GOVERNMENT minister last Saturday revealed that the late Chief Chirumhanzu, born Gerald Mudzengi, was a "staunch" Zanu PF supporter, an affirmation that traditional leaders were dabbling in partisan...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:44hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe Remand Prison bans cooked food
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has banned visitors from bringing cooked food to inmates at Kwekwe Remand Prison at a time the institution is failing to provide standard meals....Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:40hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that MDC-Alliance is 'putting sand in the food'
The MDC-Alliance sponsored so-called shutdown that left a trail of destruction of property and loss of life last month was part of the regime change agenda wrought against the country for the past 18 ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Zim students in Russia turn to prostitution for survival
Zimbabwe Students in Russia have written a damning Twitter thread exposing how the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has abandoned them in the Eastern European country.The students wh...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 06:59hrs | 3326 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe likely to return some land to white farmers?
The Zimbabwean government is likely to give back some land to white farmers, after a land audit is set to be completed in March.The audit, which is being carried out across the country, seeks ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:31hrs | 3885 | by Business Day
Mnangagwa's wife ropes in chiefs' wives for women initiative
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa will this week meet with wives of traditional leaders to map strategies to end child abuse, girl child marriages, gender-based violence, rape cases and prostitution in ru...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:07hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
No fees hike at UZ
THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has announced that their tuition and accommodation fees remain unchanged from the August-December 2018 semester. In a statement yesterday, the institution said ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:50hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Part 2: The Victim and savior card
With all due respect, one must understand that the purported return of the savior was a staged coup. We, as a nation, had one goal in mind during the November 2017 period, to get rid of Mugabe and the...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:29hrs | 129 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
ZimAchievers Awards South Africa announces 2019 Nominees, partners
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards South Africa (ZAA SA) have announced the nominees for the 5th Zororo Phumulani ZAA SA on their website and social media platforms during a live broadcast from South Africa....Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:20hrs | 251 | by Agencies
'Zimbabwe can raise 70% funding locally'
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe has potential to mobilise 70 percent of funding needed to finance key infrastructure projects on the domestic market, a s...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF feeds Govt economic drive
The ruling party last December held its Annual People's Conference in Esigodini where a number of resolutions that centre on the economy were passed.But over and above the resolutions, we had ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:49hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
What the fuel protests mean for Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans had been hoping for a fresh start when Robert Mugabe's 38-year rule came to an end in November 2017.But 14 months on, a brutal crackdown on fuel protests, which has left 17 people ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2203 | by IRIN
Government finalising land audit
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro told Parliament on Thursday that government plans to wrap up its nationwide land use audit next month and, thereafter, redistribute idle land to needy farmer...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is food secure'
GOVERNMENT still insists that Zimbabwe will be food secure this year, despite signs of drought already showing due to erratic rainfall patterns throughout the country.Labour and Social Welfare...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's illegal tax legislation
How often has the need for foreign investment (FDI) been stated? Nothing can put off a potential foreign investor more than to ascertain that the rule of law does not apply under Zimbabwe tax law. Fir...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 413 | by Lindsay H Cook
Mnangagwa's Govt should not hide Zimbabwe's food security status
CLAIMS by Labour and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza this week that the country had adequate food stocks to cater for vulnerable households cannot go unchallenged, given the current harsh weather...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | 186 | by Editorial - newsday
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