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Protect the rural poor from unscrupulous businesses
The pricing system by some traders seem well calculated and calibrated to circumvent SI 185 that compels using forex auction rate. To avoid being on a collision course with the law, shop owner...Published: 43 mins ago | 64 | by Thomas Tondo
Venezuela condemns US sanctions against Zimbabwe
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned on Thursday the US punitive actions against Zimbabwe.On Twitter, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy also expressed his solidarity with that n...Published: 1 hr ago | 141 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2849 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
South Africa plays an unofficial Big Brother to Zimbabwe
The government of South Africa and the ruling ANC have raised concern over the latest developments in Zimbabwe - perhaps so much earlier than many would have anticipated.South Africa plays an ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1442 | by finx
SADC praises Mnangagwa's leadership
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has received praises form the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ Troika Summit plus Force Intervention Brigade Troop Contributing Countries (FIB – TCCs)...Published: 9 hrs ago | 5147 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4736 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return premature, says Gono
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the reintroduction of the Zimbabwean dollar, which has been rapidly losing value since its re-introduction in June last year, was pr...Published: 10 hrs ago | 5256 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1901 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican govt begs Zimbabwe for military rescue
THE Mozambican government, battling an Islamist insurgency which has cost more than 1 000 lives, has abandoned the idea of seeking military intervention from the Southern African Development Community...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Region turns heat on Mnangagwa
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his concern over the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe that has seen a spike in State-sponsored abductions, arrests and torture of opposition activ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4176 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's tone-deaf speech: A tutorial on 'how not to lead'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday morning had yet another chance to show leadership in a national address. But, as he has done countless times, he squandered it in a tone-deaf statement that onl...Published: 10 hrs ago | 535 | by newZWire
Zanu-PF squeals over Tagwirei sanctions
GOVERNMENT yesterday reacted angrily to the decision by the United States government to slap businessman and President Emmerson Mnangagwa ally's Kudakwashe Tagwirei with sanctions, claiming the move w...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1005 | by Staff reporter
G40 fugitives in anti-Zimbabwe crusade
FUGITIVE G40 members, who are hiding in South Africa, are behind the recent anti-Zimbabwe campaign responsible for inventing a non-existent crisis and have been engaging various regional players in a ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
Darkest force in Zimbabwe
The strength that awakens the oppressed is stronger and unstoppable. The oppressed people of Zimbabwe are waking up. Amid all this the prince of demons dare to say we are the dark force when we call u...Published: 13 hrs ago | 3992 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3557 | by Terence. T. Simbi
There is no crisis in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is yet again the target of a relentless attack from its detractors who want to create a non-existent crisis in the country when there is none as the nation is only observing stringent measure...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:33hrs | 5381 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's controversial baker reported to ZACC for stealing Bulawayo maize
Controversial Midlands miller Douglas Kwande has again invited limelight after Bulawayo whistleblowers wrote a letter to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission complaining that he has been fraudulently b...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 15:37hrs | 8268 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dead Zanu-PF funder removed from US sanctions list
THE US government has removed from its targeted sanctions list, late Zimbabwe businessman and Zanu-PF benefactor, John Bredenkamp and 20 of his companies.Bredenkamp died 20 June this year aged...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:13hrs | 4107 | by newzimbabwe
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1834 | by newzimbabwe
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 638 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Ongoing 'keyboard war' against Mnangagwa's Govt doomed to fail
The ongoing attack on Zimbabwe by racist elements and their local puppets is betrayed by its timing. The attacks which were supposed to climax in the failed July 31 protests, have now been turned into...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:05hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic enhances FCA digital banking
Stanbic Bank has stepped up functionality of Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) on their digital banking platforms, in a move that will allow customers to take full advantage of the interbank rates bein...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to inspect roadworks
Progress on the dualisation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway by local contractors comes under spotlight tomorrow as President Mnangagwa inspects work. Government has prioritised road ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1137 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4049 | by US Treasury
Reprieve for dead Zimbabweans in South Africa
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA has been a granted a special waiver to facilitate the the repatriation of bodies of deceased Zimbabweans during Covid19 pandemic period, Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 11:20hrs | 4050 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa chairs SADC Troika on Wednesday....SADC Army invited
President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa will participate in a virtual SADC Organ Troika Summit, scheduled for 5 August 2020.The Organ Troika Summit will deliberate on issues o...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 10:33hrs | 5743 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1846 | by Israel Dube
High inflation sees Zimra exceed targets in Q2
Increased loss of value in the ZWL saw tax revenue in the second quarter exceed target by 42.75% to $20.11 billion. The tax collector had a target of $14.09 billion after collections amounted to $13.8...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frus...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8507 | by Staff reporter
Curfew betrays govt anger towards citizens
HIS Excellency, the imposition of the sunset to sunrise curfew prompts me to write to you, yet again. Notwithstanding the spike inconfirmedCOVID-19cases, the country has long been languishing at a rec...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 995 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 433 | by ED Mnangagwa
Commuters stranded as Zupco fleet is grounded
SCORES of commuters in Bulawayo were left stranded yesterday as fuel shortages grounded most of the Zupco fleet. The city has been facing acute fuel shortages which the Ministry of Energy and Power De...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
#31July protests coincided with Sadc's 40th summit
The 40th SADC Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government is expected to be held virtually owing to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Both the summit and preceding meetings will be h...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa values lives of all Zimbabweans'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa values the lives of all Zimbabweans and has put in place measures to ensure that all citizens come back home during the dark phase spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic and no country s...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
We'll triumph, says Mnangagwa
Despite several hurdles on the country's economic revival path in the form of natural disasters, successive droughts, divisive opposition politics and foreign economic aggression, the country will ult...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:04hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:25hrs | 1315 | by Israel Dube
WATCH: Zimbabwe's new Minister of Health General Chiwenga talking about doctors
The newly appointed Minister of Health and Child Care General Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has set social media with Zimbabweans reposting a video of him mocking doctors...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 8763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dangarembga decries state 'chokehold'
A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they end...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1449 | by Reuter
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 6298 | by Staff reporter
Land reform beneficiaries must compensate ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT'S US$3,5 billion compensation offer to former commercial farmers dispossessed of land during the land reform programme has raised a lot of anxiety within and outside the country's borders, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
EIU predicts tough times ahead for Zimbabwe
LONDON-BASED Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted a gloomy economic outlook for Zimbabwe in the next four years owing to failure by government to manage the tumultuous political and economic...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1330 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misleading Mnangagwa, says Mashakada
FORMER Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation through his continued de...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Bread flour price to go up 34%
THE price of flour is this week likely to go up by over 30% following the skyrocketing foreign currency auction-rate which is now chasing the parallel market. The government, through the centr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 847 | by newzimbabwe
Fresh fuel shortages hit Zimbabwe
FRESH fuel shortages have hit the country and in Bulawayo most service stations have been dry for the past week. A news crew took to the streets of Bulawayo and observed motorists queueing for refills...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Analysis of Dual Pricing Policy (SI 185 of 2020)
The Zimbabwean government gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 185 of 2020 on the 24th of July 2020. The latest regulation compels sellers of various goods and services to display, quote and offer price...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2873 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1555 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
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