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Sorry my elders, you nurtured the misery for yourself and your dependants
Being a true Methodist has allowed me to read the Old Testament, the New together with the gospels. Generational gaps become a matter that affect our nation today as we look at how power needed to be ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 25 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye
Ecobank Zimbabwe wins top bank award
PAN-AFRICAN financial institution Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited came tops at the prestigious Zimbabwe Independent Banks and Banking Survey that was held at a colourful ceremony in the in the capital yester...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:26hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the spate of activist abductions in Zimbabwe?
Since the beginning of the year, some 50 people, mainly government detractors, have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be behind these heinous crimes.T...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 20:51hrs | 244 | by Cyril Zenda
Mnangagwa's govt battles passport backlog
The Government has intensified efforts to reduce the passport backlog after Treasury came up with a payment plan to suppliers of consumables who are owed an undisclosed amount of money.In an i...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 15:26hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Zimpost hit by liquidity challenges
ZIMPOST says it has been operating below capacity from the beginning of the year to date due to working capital constraints and liquidity challenges characterising most business operations in the coun...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland tops in undocumented children: ZHRC
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said a number of children in Matebeleland and Masvingo provinces are struggling to secure birth certificates after their fathers abandoned them and skip...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:55hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Massive NRZ tender cancelled
Government has cancelled the US$400 million deal with Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group-Transnet consortium meant to revive the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) after the group failed to co...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jean, come back home to Zimbabwe and leave your Ghanaian husband, my response to activist Nomazulu Thata
Dear Nomazulu Thata, I recently read an article in Bulawayo News 24 where you were saying I am in an abusive ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1838 | by Jean Gasho
Zimbabwe not open for business - Report
THE World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Zimbabwe at 127 among 141 countries on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), an indication that the southern African nation remains uncompetitive compared t...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:25hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa must first tame vanity
FUNERALS in our culture are an opportunity to vent one's deep-seated opinions and emotions on topical issues, be they personal, family or national, while enjoying the same privileges and protection ak...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1378 | by Walter Mzembi
Questions arising from Treasury's strategy paper
THREE official documents published in recent weeks paint a different, but fundamentally depressing pictures of Zimbabwe's economy. All pose more questions than answers, leaving readers to ponder the m...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 755 | by Tony Hawkins
Chamisa's MDC Midlands mend cracks
MDC Midlands says it is busy mending cracks that emerged ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections within its structures in Shurugwi South district which saw the opposition party losing the parliamentary...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:47hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:18hrs | 548 | by Victor Bhoroma
Social media for development: A mirage for the marginalised
There is no doubt that the advent of social media has revolutionised the communication landscapes and networks. Not only have the worlds apart been brought closer than ever before, with the barriers a...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:41hrs | 82 | by Peter Makwanya
Rahman Gumbo checks Bosso resurgence
HIGHLANDERS' battle to climb up the log standing continues today as they face new boys, TelOne, at Barbourfields Stadium. Bosso's woeful season has seen them hover just above the relegation zo...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Price madness continues
Prices of goods and services in Zimbabwe are pegged at an average of 50 percent above those obtaining in South Africa despite relative convergence between the Rand and the local unit on the interbank ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:38hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Kombis the new Zupco
Government has opened the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) franchise to commuter omnibus operators in a move likely to increase convenience for urban commuters. Officials from Zupco a...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Activating GirlForce to dismantle insurmountable odds
She was only 14 years old, so young and full of life. She also had big dreams, just like any other young girl. And being at school was one sure way to achieve those dreams. But one day while she was i...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 383 | by Theresa F. Nyava
Chamisa's statement on World Mental Health Day
Today it is the World Mental Health Day, a very important occasion where we stop and reflect on how we would have spent the previous year looking after the most import part of the human body, the mind...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 13:45hrs | 289 | by Advocate Nelson Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa’s statement on World Mental Health Day
Today it is the World Mental Health Day, a very important occasion where we stop and reflect on how we would have spent the previous year looking after the most import part of the human body, the mind...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 10:40hrs | 705 | by Nelson Chamisa
Mugabe's family planning to build museum at his rural home
The family of the late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is planning to build a museum at his rural home in Zvimba where he lies buried, local media reported.Mr Mugabe's nephew, Leo Muga...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 10:32hrs | 15752 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drafting new coal tariffs
GOVERNMENT has paid tribute to Makomo Resources for keeping the nation's lights on by continuously supplying coal to the Zimbabwe Power Company at a time the country's economy and coal mining sector a...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Companies, parastatals default paying tax
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General Faith Mazani on Tuesday told Parliament that companies and parastatals were not paying taxes resulting in a huge tax debt.Mazani appeare...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Grace may have tampered with Mugabe's body ahead of his burial?
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:33hrs | 8108 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa - A complete waste of Zimbabwe's time
Listening to Mnangagwa's recent speech in parliament reminded me of the unusually tolerant nature of Zimbabweans. The speech was a follow up to the extremely embarrassing and uninspiring speech at an ...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 12:53hrs | 3508 | by Gus Manatsa
Telecoms, a key driver for development in Zimbabwe
In view of a lack of liquidity and a falling currency in Zimbabwe, the telecoms sector is one of these that could drain significant revenues, if properly regulated. This requires the State to deploy a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 11:40hrs | 381 | by Angela Collings
Grace Mugabe took part in bizarre rituals
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 14487 | by Staff reporter
Nurses recruitment sparks uproar as only shonas get positions at Mpilo
DISGRUNTLED Bulawayo residents have criticised the selection process of 24 student nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital after 20 were selected from outside Matabeleland. The 24 reportedly started th...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube told to scrap 2% tax
CAPTAINS of industry and commerce yesterday asked Treasury to scrap or lower the controversial 2% intermediated money transfer tax (IMTT) imposed last year by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, saying it ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 13:45hrs | 4330 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand urgent meeting
THE Apex Council has requested an urgent National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting tomorrow, to map a way forward on salaries that correspond with the continuously escalating cost of living. ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Grace battles to keep Mugabe empire
Former first lady Grace Mugabe (pictured right) fears that the government will go after her husband's sprawling empire that consists of commercial farms and a mansion in Harare, it has been revealed....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:39hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Mystery of Mugabe's 'multiple' caskets unravelled
Although former President Robert Mugabe was buried last week, the story of his caskets has remained subject of much debate, adding to the "controversy" surrounding his burial.Many ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:05hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Wake up! The rains are nigh
Politicians do not come as colourful as ex-Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko.But for Bishop Lazi, his colourfulness came from his colourlessness.The chap was just politically insipid a...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:02hrs | 56 | by Bishop Lazi
Inside Robert Mugabe's casket mystery
Former President Robert Mugabe was last Saturday buried in a centimetre-thick copper and steel, square-cornered casket with a five-mm thick inside glass compartment and airtight gasket, presumably mea...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 3678 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe accuses Leo of bribery
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo, and some close relatives snubbed the former president's burial in Zvimba last Saturday after being accused by ex-first lady Grace Mugabe of taking bribes ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 2439 | by Staff reporter
China - Zimbabwe's 40-year relations
ON May 15 1981, former president Robert Mugabe - then Zimbabwe's prime minister - held a meeting with legendary Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, China, which could have changed Zimbabwe's cour...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A champagne Pan-Africanist
Since the death of Robert Mugabe on September 6, both the local and international media has been saturated with competing, complementary and contradictory obituaries, opinion pieces and narratives abo...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 9 | by Blessings Denhere
Zimbabwe now a truly cashless society
THE monetary system the world over, including in Zimbabwe, over has undergone a sea of change in the past century. From barter trade, a world without money, there have been many other means of exchang...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:52hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
'Economic environment in Zimbabwe difficult to operate in'
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icsaz) held its annual conference in Victoria Falls last week under the theme "Chartered Secretaries Influencing Economic Success...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:48hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now a country of glaring contradictions
ZIMBABWE, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has now become a country of sickening contradictions.Last week, a visiting United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Clement Nyalessosi Voule issu...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:45hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe fuel situation improves'
THE country has registered a positive improvement in fuel supplies and measures are being taken to restore normal services, the chairperson of the National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's interbank market needs refinement
Local Industries claim they are yet to realise the benefits of the recently introduced interbank foreign currency market, as they continue to struggle accessing hard currency. The interbank ma...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
$500m TBs auction raises stink
The Zimbabwe government has for the past two months sought to raise $490 million via public Treasury Bills (TBs) auction to finance its activities with analysts warning the cash-strapped Treasury not ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 12:38hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF to decide General Chiwenga's fate today?
ZANU PF Politiburo is expected to discuss what should happen to the ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who has been holed up at a medical institution in China for the past months. A Ce...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:37hrs | 20006 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA a destination of choice for ailing Zimbabweans
THE move by the leader of a union representing Zimbabwean medical doctors to seek specialist treatment outside the country is the latest testament of the collapse of Zimbabwe's once-vibrant health sec...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 280 | by CAJ News
Cassava launches Vaya tractor services
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed entity Cassava Smartech has once again, in its series of platforms, launched the Vaya tractor services to add to its Eco-farmer portfolio. The service was offici...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:19hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe becomes first African country to reach family planning target
ZIMBABWE has become the first country in Africa to achieve the 2020 family planning target by ensuring that at least 68 percent of women have access to contraception. This came out last Thursd...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:38hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Parliament honours Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Parliament in observing a minute of silence in honour of late former President and national hero Robert Mugabe. The minute of silence was observed before the ...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former president Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks after his passing on September 6 in Singapore. The Generation 40 group of self-exiled former ZANU-...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 402 | by Nobleman Runyanga
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