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Zimbabwe's striking nurses cry foul over allowances
Health workers, that include nurses, who have been on strike for the past three weeks were not paid allowances given to all civil servants amid allegationsgovernment is trying to arm-twist them to...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Kariba tension-gripped as government departments dither tactlessly
Kariba is a tense town this week for both tourists and local stakeholders, with emotions boiling over in some instances. Government departments' inept handling of important issues is at the core of th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4360 | by Laiton Kandawire Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given thr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:14hrs | 14174 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans cry foul over COVID-19
Three months ago, Zororo Makamba, a multimedia journalist became the first casualty of COVID-19 in the southern African country.Before he passed on, members of his family complained about ill-...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 21:37hrs | 2405 | by Daniel Itai
The Politics of Cyber Security: A State of Anarchy?
"Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle.The realm of electronic communication, viz-a-viz cyberspace has taken a complex turn into a murky, treacherous, if sometimes not a total ridicul...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:09hrs | 901 | by Bongani Mazwi Mkwananzi
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1578 | by Robert Sigauke
So much lies and distortions in Zimbabwean history - the true story needs to finally be told
When renowned pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey famously said, "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots", he had a very valid point, as indeed,...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1829 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 257 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4872 | by Robert Sigauke
MDC Alliance blames govt for Bulawayo water crisis
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday blamed government for the deteriorating water situation in Bulawayo, saying the Zanu-PF administration refused to grant the local authority permission to construc...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
RBZ chief clarifies local currency
FARMERS, gold miners and other producers who have been crying foul over the 1:25 fixed interbank exchange rate have something to smile about as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) starts implementing t...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:07hrs | 4481 | by Staff reporter
Goobye interbank rate!…RBZ chief speaks on auction system
FARMERS, gold miners and other producers who have been crying foul over the 1:25 fixed interbank exchange rate have something to smile about as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) starts implementing t...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 4410 | by Staff Reporter
Kasukuwere says he cannot stage coup
EXILED former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said he is a firm believer in constitutionalism and cannot stage a coup as he was a victim of the same in November 2017, the Daily News r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents pursue independent water tests
BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city's water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere laughs off govt coup claims
FORMER Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has dismissed as "laughable" reports linking him to a purported military coup to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa from office.Kasukuwere, a former...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 15:12hrs | 5682 | by newzimbabwe
Let's pray against economic demons on National Day of Prayer
TOMORROW June 15, 2020 has been declared the Presidential Day of Prayer in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic whose infections have spiked. After Zimbabwe recorded its first case on March 20, 2...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:28hrs | 1084 | by Robin Mungate
Massive political implosion beckons
BACK in the day, there was nothing as maddeningly hectic and nerve-fraying as the monthly pilgrimage of shepherding cattle to the communal dip tank.It really tested your tolerance, patience, s...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:40hrs | 276 | by Bishop Lazarus
Military Touch Movement died after Andy Muridzo’s exit
The fact that Military Touch Movement (MTM) continued to survive two years after Andy Muridzo's abrupt departure - and not its recent dissolution - is apparently the most surprising thing in the going...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:26hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF top official torches tribal storm
ZANU-PF Mberengwa North district executive member and prominent businessman, Tinashe Shumba has torched a tribal storm after he reportedly insulted members of the Lemba (VaRemba) community who refused...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes ZEC head on
The opposition MDC has accused Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of using the COVID-19 regulations to suspend political rights of Zimbabweans. The accusations come after President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 15:00hrs | 4721 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Plot afoot to oust Mnangagwa'
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe flanked by service chiefs at a Press briefing in Harare last nightHOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe last night accused rivals in government, military ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 5859 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt threat to come hard on Kasukuwere, Sikhala
GOVERNMENT has issued a chilling threat against exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere and top MDC politician Job Sikhala for allegedly peddling "false" claims of an imminent coup in the country....Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:37hrs | 1693 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt denies 'imminent coup'
The Zimbabwe government on Wednesday denied rumours of an "imminent military coup" at a surprise news conference attended by military chiefs and state security ministers.Home Affairs Minister ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 19:38hrs | 5715 | by Staff reporter
Zec defends suspension of electoral activities
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday denied any wrongdoing in suspending all electoral activities over COVID-19 after an independent electoral watchdog red-flagged the move as potentially...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Those who love to make laws are the first to break them
May his dear soul rest in peace - African American, brother Floyd died a miserable and painful death at the hands, sorry, knees of 'Cop Chauvin', a white police officer. Not a decent way to leave moth...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 18:36hrs | 320 | by Tondo
Zifa remain resolute in bid to keep Gift Banda suspended
ZIFA remain resolute in their bid to keep Gift Banda suspended and have now filed their heads of argument in which they are contesting thedecision of their disciplinary committee to exonerate ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:40hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in dilemma over Mutodi
ZANU-PF Mashonaland East structures are reportedly in dilemma on whether to expel the embattled former Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi from the party following his fallout with party leaders...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 7503 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records surge in diarrhoea cases
THERE are concerns over the quality of Bulawayo water as the city recorded an upsurge in diarrhoeal cases from 473 registered between July and September 2019 to 359 recorded in January 2020.In...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Many Mutodis in Mnangagwa's government
The Zimbabwean government is still grappling with many incompetent and inexperienced government officials due to appointments made through nepotism and regionalism.It is unfortunate that we st...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:51hrs | 6278 | by Leonard Koni
Wolves are at it again, destroying Zimbabwe's currency
Once again, officials at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, along with the honchos at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) find themselves on the back foot of powerful forces that are man...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:03hrs | 2854 | by Andrew Lampard
Every elder is your parent despite being a stranger
I am sure, and others too, without an iota of doubt that some 'Hwindi', is sorely missing his day out on duty. Rasta, dread, or some hairdo where the hair is sticking out like three inch nails. ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:57hrs | 157 | by Tondo
RMS workers complain over wages backlog
SOME workers at Road Motor Services (RMS) a subsidiary of National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) have cried foul that they have not been paid their salaries since March this year when the lockdown was im...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:22hrs | 1171 | by Stephen Jakes
2 Zimbabwean banks removed from sanctions list
Agribank and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) have now been fully removed from the US sanctions list, the American Department of the Treasury has announced, allowing them to do i...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Polytechnic lecturer found dead
A KWEKWE Polytechnic Mechanical Engineering Lecturer was found dead in his apartment in Msasa Park in Kwekwe on Monday.Fellow tenants discovered Paul Charadza's body after he had been missing ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 17:24hrs | 2176 | by Staff reporter
Businessman loses cars in inferno
Kwekwe property mogul, Peter Gore, was left counting losses after he lost three cars with an estimated value of US$100 000 to fire at his house on Monday. Gore lost a Chrysler, Toyota Avensis ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Komichi, a ruling party project
DEAR Morgen Komichi,You were quoted in a local newspaper saying: "What we know is that we are not a member of Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) and Thokozani Khupe has not been mandated to rep...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 3222 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Mutodi: Mnangagwa's other bad crony
IT'S never a clever idea to put a crow among the fowls and keep it there. That will give you a bad name and troubled nights.A crow in the fowl drains the food but doesn't deliver eggs to the p...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 2077 | by Tawanda Majoni
War vet feasts on Tyson's oranges
MAZOWE district war veterans chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi is harvesting where he did not sow as he defies a High Court order barring him from interfering with operations at a sprawling farm belonging t...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is failing the MDC-Alliance dismally! I should be forgiven if I say he is an implant
You do not need to be a lawyer to recognize the chronic errors MDC-Alliance made after Richard Morgen Tsvangirai's death. It is equally surprising that a political party blessed with several lawyers, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 8616 | by Nomazulu Thata
Will Tendai Biti and job Sikhala join Zanu-PF as MDC MPs are recalled?
The old saying that "if you stay in the glass house do not throw stones." It goes on to say if stones are to be thrown back you must not cry the loudest. MDC in all its shapes has been masquerading as...Published: 08 May 2020 at 19:40hrs | 6872 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa is his own detractor
THE deposal of former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 was welcomed with song and dance. Citizenry thronged streets of Harare in joy, posing for selfies with soldiers and shaking hands with th...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1695 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Dozens arrested over mask violations in Zimbabwe
Police arrested 115 people for not wearing masks while thousands stood for hours in bus queues on a chaotic day Monday, as Zimbabwe began easing lockdown restrictions which had shut down most of the c...Published: 05 May 2020 at 16:14hrs | 2523 | by Staff reporter
Minor drowns in a well
A Chiweshe minor drowned at Mugwanira village in Chiweshe on Wednesday while fetching water in a deep well.Mildred Vhaina's body was discovered by her 12-year elder sister who alerted their fa...Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:40hrs | 719 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Released MDC activist cries foul
MDC Alliance activist Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube claims his incarceration exposed him to the biased nature of the justice delivery service system in the country, arguing the process was frustrating for a...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
'Abused' man hangs self
A 73-year-old visually impaired man from Mabale in Hwange allegedly committed suicide by hanging at his homestead in the presence of a three-year-old grandchild after allegedly being abused by family ...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
A few hints to keep pests at bay
Ants pestering you in the house, apparently calcium is a no no to ants. Using the common chalk draw a line breaching their route and they will turn back. Cucumber skins or rinds can also give them mat...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 19:46hrs | 475 | by Tondo Thomas Murisa
UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe falls foul of emoji etiquette
Words - some old, others new - and emojis (pictographs) may carry different meanings online, with meanings changing over time, the United Kingdom's ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson learnt the h...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:30hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vs Ramaphosa sees man charged for insulting president
An MDC Alliance politician has been charged for insulting and undermining Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to fight Covid-19 by comparing him to his SA counterpart, President Cyril Ra...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 18:00hrs | 2819 | by Staff reporter
Virus that halted Zimbabwe from dreaming
IT is a common sight for torrential rains to show up uninvited to Samba dance ceremonies in Rio de Janeiro. The authorities in Brazil used to publicise meteorological information to allow for spiritua...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:48hrs | 323 | by Christopher Mugaga
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