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The Mnangagwa regime
The violent suppression of Zimbabweans protesting rising fuel costs and food shortages by security forces has prompted debates in the UK Parliament on the growing crisis in the African state. Here we ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:35hrs | 833 | by Louisa Brooke-Holland
Zanu-PF a sanctuary for thieves
If one is a convicted felony and wants to start on a new page then Zanu PF is the right place to go. Dexter Nduna's moment of revelation that he killed many people is enough to have him question...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:15hrs | 933 | by AT Kadada
Zimbabwe not yet ready for national dialogue
This Tuesday I wrote an analytic piece on how our main political leaders Pres Chamisa and Pres Mnangagwa have all used their political posturing skills at the expense of the nation's economic, politic...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1741 | by Terence Simbi
US cannot be our national dialogue referee
The continued United States (US) big brother mentality on Zimbabwean affairs cannot go unchallenged, as it undermines the country's sovereignty and independence. This time the Washington administratio...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2153 | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
Zimbabwe looks to tackle telecom fraud with technology
Despite an ambitious economic reform agenda, Zimbabwe's economic freedom score dropped down 3.6 points to a mere 40.4 on the Heritage Foundation's latest Index of Economic Freedom, making its economy ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:38hrs | 489 | by Agencies
Bank sued over Zifa debt
Daisy Guest House is suing EcoBank for allowing Zifa to access funds in its account after the football-controlling body's money had been attached over their failure to pay for $161 762 in accommodatio...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Journalist's 'death' another hoax
Elizabeth Zimunda, the woman identified as a veteran journalist who was allegedly killed by security forces in Chitungwiza during last month's violent protests organised by MDC-Alliance and its associ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Time is right for alternative money
THE controversy surrounding the introduction of another local currency continues unabated. This time it was the former Finance minister, Tendai Biti, who ignited the current debate when he announced g...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 242 | by Zimwara
Zimbabwe economy plunges into VUCA environment
Business leaders are frustrated with the inability to anticipate and handle the country's fragile and toxic economy which continues to implode, a situation which has left them in distress.This...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:59hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
Education ministry vehicle sparks parents' outrage
PARENTS and School Development Committees (SDCs) in Chiredzi are up in arms with their district schools inspector, Petronella Nyangwe who they accuse of purchasing a $130 000 Toyota Land Cruiser, usin...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
'Suppliers demand cash up-front from NatPharm'
National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) has said foreign suppliers of drugs are now demanding cash up-front from Zimbabwe before releasing orders, further worsening the supplies of medicines in the...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya, Chivayo cornered
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya has been summoned by the police for allegedly evading $22 million tax, while Wicknell Chivayo appeared in court yesterday for al...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North govt offices to move to Lupane
The Matabeleland North government offices are finally expected to move to the provincial capital of Lupane by August this year.The offices are currently located at Mhlahlandlela Complex in Bul...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:48hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
10 point plan to save Zimbabwe
Founder of the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (COMALISO) Rejoice Ngwenya says Zimbabwe needs to adopt liberal economics for it to be extricated from its current problemsNgwen...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 12:35hrs | 4496 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage looms
GOVERNMENT says it is expecting a deficit in antiretroviral (ARV) drugs between now and 2020 due to an increase in uptake of the HIV and Aids treatment programme.The Health and Child Care mini...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Busisa Moyo bemoans the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses
UNITED Refineries' Chief Executive Officer Mr Busisa Moyo has bemoaned the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses during last month's opposition-led protests. Through his Twitter ac...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Egodini developer recruits 65 people
BULAWAYO's Egodini Mall developer, Terracotta Private Limited, has so far recruited 65 people to work on the initial stages of the multi-million dollar project. The Bulawayo City Council award...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:23hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe running out of passport paper
REGISTRAR-General Clemence Masango yesterday told Parliament that the demand for emergency passports was now so high that his department might soon run out of passport paper.Masango made the d...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 6082 | 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 | 671 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa eyes 3 major roads per province
Government is targeting to construct or rehabilitate three major trunk roads in each of the country's 10 provinces using public-private partnerships (PPPs) and its own resources, Transport and Infrast...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Major trunk roads set for rehab
Government is targeting to construct or rehabilitate three major trunk roads in each of the country's 10 provinces using public-private partnerships (PPPs) and its own resources. In an intervi...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 15:07hrs | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants AU to fund itself
THE 32nd Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly kicked off yesterday with President Mnangagwa challenging member states to equally share the burden of funding the continental body and wean it ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:02hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwas donate $60m to fight cholera
The family foundation of Econet founders Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa has committed an additional $60 million towards the cholera response in Zimbabwe.The commitment comes on the back of an init...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Moyo laments attack on city shops
United Refineries CEO Busisa Moyo has lamented the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses during the January 14 protests, citing the destruction of retail shops especially in high-density a...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Dismissal of Zacc commissioners commendable
Corruption in Zimbabwe has to be stamped out. On January 31, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired the entire Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in a move that was hailed as progressive....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:28hrs | 540 | by Gloria Ndoro-Mkombachoto
Zvirekwi to get a prosthetic hand
CAPS United captain Hardlife Zvirekwi is set to get a prosthetic hand after emerging as one of the candidates to benefit from Nashua Zimbabwe's ambitious 3D prosthetic hand printing trial, which is un...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:19hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
TV rights income plummets for local clubs
DESPITE television rights being one of the biggest earners in football worldwide, Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clubs had to take a huge cut last year after their agreement with broadcaster, Supe...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:52hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe requires 4200MW to ensure electricity access
THE Zimbabwe Energy Council (ZEC) says that the country requires 4200 MW to ensure that both urban and rural areas are electrified.ZEC executive director Mr Panganayi Sithole said major power ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:51hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 360 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blocks reinstatement of fired NetOne CEO
CHIEF Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda has blocked NetOne from reinstating its suspended chief executive officer Lazarus Muchenje saying such a move is against the spirit of the ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:15hrs | 2584 | by Staff reporter
NatPharm boss nails David Parirenyatwa in nepotism trial
NATIONAL Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) human resources manager, Walter Nhau has piled more misery on David Parirenyatwa whose nepotism trial continued Friday with the parastatal boss telling a Har...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:12hrs | 840 | by newzimbabwe
Ousted Zanu-PF Youth League leaders accused of stealing party funds
The Zanu-PF Youth League passed a no-confidence vote in its leader Pupurai Togarepi, his deputy Lewis Matutu and three other executive members on Wednesday.The five were accused of stealing fr...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1228 | by ZimLive
Unrepentant Mnangagwa flies with expensive jet again
Mnangagwa has once again demonstrated his lack of care for the mounting economic woes in Zimbabwe.He once again flew in a hired Swiss Dreamliner which will cost the fiscus millions. When...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 12:04hrs | 13860 | by Bekithemba Mpofu
Zimbabwe mulls provincial airports
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said government is planning to construct provincial airports, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe tasked to oversee t...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1739 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1042 | by Staff reporter
$19,5 million for looted businesses
GOVERNMENT will avail $19,5 million from a special fund set up to assist businesses that were looted and destroyed during last month's violent protests, a Cabinet Minister has said. Finance an...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:05hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
$5 million availed for construction of Umzingwane Hospital
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has allocated $5 million towards the construction of a new district hospital for Umzingwane under the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP).The curren...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:42hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
The Dialogue
The so called dialogue facilitation meeting called by Mnangagwa this week is not going to help at all because people that attended that meeting cannot by any means possible influence a progressive pol...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:14hrs | 875 | by Clement Moyo
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 706 | by Dumisani Mpofu
Is Zimbabwe ready for online casinos?
Online gambling is a worldwide phenomenon. It's already hugely popular among many Western nations, including across Europe and - increasingly - in the US. The market is set to be worth around ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 18:23hrs | 486 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's worst British nightmare
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's quest to re-engage the international community suffered a severe blow this week after his key Western backer Britain expressed support for additional European sanctions ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:53hrs | 3445 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya expected to tackle fiscal rot
CENTRAL bank chief John Mangudya will have to make bold monetary policy decisions or risk the country sliding back into hyperinflation, analysts say.Mangudya, who is yet to present his much-an...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1743 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube meets IMF team
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday held "very open" conversations with a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in the country to discuss a r...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:37hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
PSL scam explodes
MORE damning and incriminating evidence emerged yesterday, exposing a cartel that has been corruptly siphoning funds from Premiership side ZPC Kariba, amid chilling revelations the cancer has spread t...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:35hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on course to clear debts
Zimbabwe is on course to clear obligations to international financial institutions (IFIs), with the Government already in talks with creditors over bridging finance to settle the debts, Finance and Ec...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Fresh cracks emerge in Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:05hrs | 6981 | by Staff reporter
'I am ready to lead ZANU PF Youths' says Energy Mutodi
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi has announced that he is ready to become Politiburo Secretary for Youth if President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints him t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 11:37hrs | 4153 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Afreximbank avails $255m letters of credit to Zimbabwe
The African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has availed US$255m letters of credit to Zimbabwe for fuel imports and the production of basic commodities in a bid to ensure adequate input supplies to th...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya church accounts garnished by Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has garnished Walter Magaya's Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries accounts for alleged tax arrears amounting to $22 million.According to a...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 3163 | by Staff reporter
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