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Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8910 | by newzimbabwe
Zimdollar continues to tumble
A forex dealer brandishes wads of $2 and $5 notes in Harare. The Zimdollar has continued losing value against stronger currencies like the rand and the United States dollar.THE Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4250 | by Staff reporter
MATTER OF FACT: Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner
IN our edition of June 19 2020, we published a story headlined, Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner, where Bulawayo businesswoman Siphiwe GatshaDube claimed that she was being force...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 373 | by Editor
Pessimism grips forex platform
Business wants more "transparency more than promises" on the foreign currency auction system for the platform to succeed as the parallel market continued unabated yesterday, a day after monetary autho...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:36hrs | 2179 | by Staff reporter
Forex exchange auction trading system off to a good start
The foreign exchange auction trading system has made a good start when it kicked-off in Harare today (June 23, 2020), without any great difficulty.On its first day, bids worth about US$11,4 mi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:33hrs | 3024 | by Nathan Gurira
PHOTO: Gideon Gono's weight loss picture breaks the internet
A photo of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono who seems to have lost weight has gone viral on the internet. In 2019 Gono told Nehanda Radio that his weight loss was a resu...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 17:21hrs | 14245 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Chinese manager shoots 2 black workers in Gweru
A Gweru Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin has been arrested for shooting two black workers at his Reeden mine over a wage dispute.Xuelin is said to have shot the workers, Wendy Chikwaira and K...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 21826 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matopo leadership blocks eviction of local miner by Mashonaland people
A mine wrangle pitting a Bulawayo businesswoman and Mines ministry officials has drawn the attention of Zanu-PF, traditional leaders, ex-combatants, villagers and the opposition from Matabeleland who ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:05hrs | 1244 | by Toby Sithole
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 289 | by Toby Sithole
MRP, Chief Nyangazonke, Chief Malaba defends Falcon Gold mine from Mashonaland looters
MRP President, Chief Nyangazonke and Chief Malaba join Hands in defending Falcon Gold mine.Today the 18th of June 2020 saw the MRP President Mqondisi Moyo, his members of the Security departme...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1482 | by Velile D Moyo
Zimbabwe forex auction system ill-advised: Analysts
GOVERNMENT'S re-introduction of the forex auction system as Zimbabwe effectively re-dollarises could have disastrous consequences because the country does not have adequate sources of foreign currency...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1317 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regime plunging people into poverty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a self-destruct mode and unfortunately his Zanu-PF supporters are cheering him on like they used to do to the late former President Robert Mugabe.It looks li...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 474 | by Tofa Dapi
Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga outlines operational challenges
Police manning roadblocks and securing quarantine centres need more protective equipment, transport and allowances for food, with quarantine centres needing more lights and fencing, Commissioner-Gener...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:35hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 148 | by Nyasha Chingono
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
WHO bewitched our once beautiful country? The only inspiring words from President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at his inauguration speech at the giant National Sports Stadium, when he said: "The voice of th...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 256 | by Leonard Koni
MDC A resorts to smear campaign to soil Mnangagwa's legacy
The social media was awash with news of corruption purported to be unearthed by Hopewell Chin'ono and his MDC A handlers. It was a big surprise that the target of the so called corruption was none oth...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 14:30hrs | 5098 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: ZANU PF threatens Hopewell Chin'ono
ZANU PF acting Spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has warned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono from using his social media accounts to tarnish the image of the first family. In a press briefing, Chinam...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 11:02hrs | 7593 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Zimbabwe can return to economic glory days
Former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada (TM) believes Zimbabwe can return to its glory days of the early 1980s when the economy was stable and end poverty. He discu...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Insights into Mangudya's era of fibs, fiddling
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya (pictured) says he has been praying for Zimbabweans to understand economics. Zimbabweans, in turn, have been making the same prayers - for him.T...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1311 | by newZWire
Sexually transmitted infections spike in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO recorded a total of 10 165 new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2019 with reports indicating that 12 percent of those cases tested HIV positive. STIs include HIV, chancroid, ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar crashes
LONG suffering Zimbabweans will have to dig deeper into their pockets to survive, after prices of basic goods went up sharply again at the weekend - on the back of the collapsing Zim dollar.At...Published: 24 May 2020 at 16:50hrs | 10771 | by Staff reporter
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 983 | by Tawanda Majoni
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1340 | by Leonard Koni
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 441 | by Leonard Koni
RBZ not printing more money, says Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has said the printing of new $10 and $20 denominations does not translate to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) printing more money, but it was merely swapping RTGS balan...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Banks to swap RTGS for new notes: RBZ
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says banks will have to swap RTGS balances for new higher denomination notes, as part of the bank's strategy to keep a firm grip on money supply growth. The ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:50hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 882 | by Cliff Chiduku
If Ian Smith rises from the dead & contest Mnangagwa, he would win with majority
Ian Smith is the devil in demand right now in Zimbabwe. If he were to wake up from the dead and contest Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa or any other Shona leader in a free and fair election, he woul...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:31hrs | 9448 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe is not a family company
PEOPLE with little minds do not know the difference between a constitutional democracy and a monarchy. In a constitutional democracy, leadership is by election. It is not bequeathed like in a monarchy...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 22:32hrs | 4374 | by O Gutu
Gono angrily denies claims Mugabe told him that Mnangagwa was a ticking time bomb
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, has angrily denied claims that the late President Robert Mugabe had confided in him to warn then Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander Co...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 17:15hrs | 3160 | by Lance Guma
Fiscal indiscipline still rampant in govt
ZIMBABWE'S 2019 Consolidated Financial Statement (CFS), in which government expenditure skyrocketed to ZW$22,53 billion against a target of ZW$17,64 billion, shows that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:45hrs | 101 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of Zanu-PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may not like, it is not because I belong to the oth...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 424 | by Moses Chamboko
The illegality of the illegal Chamisa
The words of Hopwel Chingono in 2018 are true today as they were then. Hopwell wrote with all his brains in one place, when he was guarded by reason and common sense unfortunately Chingono now has pac...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 11:57hrs | 3341 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of ZANU PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may n...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 845 | by Moses Chamboko
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1045 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Gono pleads for arrested thieves
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono was at the Murambinda Magistrates' Courts on Thursday where he pleaded for the release of four of his workers who face prison terms for stealing pr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:28hrs | 10110 | by Staff reporter
Can writing cause shoulder pain?
If you ever needed to write a lot be it a school or college paper, or maybe a blog or some other form of writing, you might experience some shoulder or neck pain. For some people, it comes unexpected ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 11:46hrs | 980 | by Staff Writer
Bulawayo clamps down on forex dealers
Police in Bulawayo have launched a blitz against illegal foreign currency dealers operating in the environs of the Tredgold Magistrate's Court.Police said 150 dealers, known locally as 'osipha...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 18:02hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
Why I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died!
I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died, leaving me discombobulated and severely pained. Indelible, agonizing, stabbing, chronic pain! Pain that eats into my liver, intestines and buttocks. The ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59hrs | 7115 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Rumour of another Zimbabwe coup swirl
Zimbabwe may be gearing up for its second army-driven removal of a sitting president in the past two-and-a-half years.The economic meltdown in the country constitutes the biggest threat to Zan...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 20407 | by Staff reporter
'Tell Mnangagwa the truth about economy'
PARLIAMENTARIANS have called on economic stakeholders to be honest when meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the deteriorating state of the economy blamed on the unusual growth in the money suppl...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Women warned against abusing emergency contraceptives
Women have been warned against abusing emergency contraceptives, amid revelations that almost three thousand units of the pill were consumed in four months in Matebeleland South province during the fi...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 15:44hrs | 2346 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's doctor quizzed
Members of Parliament have questioned ZBC chairperson Josiah Tayi's credentials, saying he does not have qualifications to lead a media entity.Tayi is a Gweru-based medical doctor, and is repo...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Ex-farmer summoned for selling trust property
A CHIREDZI former farmer, Tony Renato Sarpo, has been summoned to court for allegedly selling trust property.He was served with the summons while waiting to appear before magistrate Geraldine ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:36hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Workers resist retrenchment
Lowveld sugarcane-growing giant Tongaat Hulett Limited Zimbabwe workers are resisting the company's plans to lay off about 500 employees, arguing that it should retrench senior employees, who earn a l...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:11hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 16142 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on his alleged gay affair with Alum Mpofu
Professor Jonathan Moyo has for the first time opened up on the long standing allegations that he is a homosexual oriented person who was caught in a gay storm with one ZBC employee Alum Mpofu. ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:31hrs | 7699 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zacc won't be used to settle personal scores
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lethargic approach in the fight against corruption has raised the spectre of distrust towards his administration's will to fight graft. The appointment of Loice ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
'Build more labs, embrace innovation'
THERE is a glaring shortage of basic science laboratories in Beitbridge schools and it is very critical for the youth to embrace innovation to push the country's national economic development initiati...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
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