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Kirsty Coventry's ascendancy to IOC presidency brightens
Zimbabwe's Minister of Sport, Kirsty Coventry, is emerging as a strong contender for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following new election rules that may hinder the candid...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 07:59hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Sheep on a high: Flock feasts on cannabis after extreme weather
In a truly bizarre twist of fate, a flock of sheep in Greece found themselves feeling a bit too "ewe-phoric" after munching on a crop of weed!Wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding had left the po...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 854 | by Staff Reporter
Matinyarare in big trouble
Zanu-PF activist Rutendo Benson Matinyarare has been accused of perjury by his former lawyer after he told the Gauteng High Court in South Africa that he was unaware of a gag order issued against him ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 16:02hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Iran seizes US tanker with $50 million of oil onboard
An Iranian court has issued an order confiscating a crude oil cargo from the Advantage Sweet tanker a year after the country's navy forcibly stopped the ship. It is the latest example of "tit for tat"...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 14:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Innscor goes after Zanu-PF activist
Innscor Africa has obtained a takedown order against Zanu-PF social media activist Benson Rutendo Matinyarare, who posted videos online accusing the company of "destroying the taste of Zimbabwean food...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Record-breaking global migration - Unprecedented displacement spurs demand for people-focused solutions
On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced ...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 13:14hrs | 11 | by Lansana Gberie
Zimbabwe minister to be inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame
Finally, the long-awaited moment has arrived.Tonight, Zimbabwe's very own Kirsty Coventry will take her place among the legends of international swimming as she is officially inducted into the...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Challenging the Throne: Who can dethrone LeBron James from Basketball Olympus?
In basketball, LeBron James has reigned supreme for over a decade. His unparalleled skills, unmatched versatility, and unwavering determination have propelled him to the sport's summit, earning him th...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 19:07hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Russia's railway giant keen to expand footprint to Zimbabwe
TRANSMASHHOLDING, Russia's leading manufacturer of railway rolling stock and fifth biggest rail company in the world, is looking to expand its footprint in African countries including Zimbabwe in a wi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa must expand Lady R probe to include Nato
SOUTH Africa's sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of t...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 17:05hrs | 7 | by Abbey Makoe
Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-large on a property-buying spree
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, who is holed up in Dubai after being exposed as a player in gold smuggling and money laundering activities, has been on a property-buying spree...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Ian Beddowes
Students from JA Zimbabwe Win 2023 De La Vega Global Entrepreneurship Award
ACCRA, Ghana - The De La Vega Global Entrepreneurship Award recognizes outstanding young entrepreneurs within the JA (JA-Africa.org) network. The winning ...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by APO
Cancelling CCC congress will not only 'keep infiltrators stewing' but citizens and democracy itself too
"KEEP THEM GUESSING & TOSSING, STEWING & ROASTING! THROW THEM OFF-BALANCE … Remember they infiltrate, manipulate and capture using 4 things ..1.Structures 2. internal Processes 3. Law-fare 4...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:10hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
Russian banks switch to Chinese UnionPay after dicthing America's visa and mastercard
Several Russian banks on Sunday announced plans to start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator system.The step, which came shortly after Mastercard and Visa pledged to cease o...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
FC Wangu Mazodze to export soccer players to Europe
Masvingo, Zimbabwe - FC Wangu Mazodze, a ZIFA Eastern Region League , First Division Soccer Team has caused waves in Europe following the sharing of scint...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 21:48hrs | 12 | by Cluade Blaise
Is a coffin for the dead or for the mourners?
WE are all going to die. That is the sad fact and fate that awaits us all.But our journey to the other side differs. Some are turned into ashes in a crematorium. The majority are buried six fe...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 07:25hrs | 6 | by Trisa Ray Sibanda
Zimbabwean minister honoured in United States
FIVE years after retiring from swimming, Zimbabwe's swimming icon Kirsty Coventry is still being regarded as one of the greatest swimmers to compete at university level in the United States.Co...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
How horse racing has changed over the last 100 years
Horse racing has been around for a long time. People have used horses for competing even in ancient Greece, in an event called the chariot race. However, this discipline has evolved in many ways since...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 10:37hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's A1 known knowns: Zanu PF has already rigged 2023 and participating will give illegal regime legitimacy
"There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 23:00hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Canada vs Zimbabwe: Two divergent paths of Covid-19 vaccination
When mother-of-three Amanda Wood heard that hundreds of coronavirus shots were available for teens, only one thing prevented her from racing to the vaccination site at a Toronto high school - her 13-y...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 18:20hrs | | by AP
Zanu-PF's Haritatos dies
Zanu-PF Central Committee member and former Muzvezve Member of Parliament, Peter Haritatos has died. He was 77. Popularly known as "Baba George" in Kadoma for his conversance in Shona ...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Thank God, we're equal to the task!' boasted Chamisa - yet delivered not even one reform in 21 years
The Greeks of the Golden Age of Greece gave humanity the Olympic Games, built the Acropolis, laid the foundation of human civilisation and, most important of all, gave mankind democracy - government o...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:45hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Third EU-Zimbabwe Political Dialogue held in Harare
The meeting allowed for the continuation of discussions on topics that are of common interest and are priorities in EU-Zimbabwe relations: human rights, democratisation, rule of law and good governanc...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU refuses to fully engage with Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration that the bloc cannot fully engage with Harare unless it institutes far reaching political and economic reforms. T...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who Are the Sleeper Threats in Euro 2020 Betting?
With Marvelous Nakamba's Aston Villa teammates Tyrone Mings and Jack Grealish announced as part of Gareth Southgate's England squad, things are taking shape for the Three Lions. Bookies have tipped En...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 22:16hrs | 1 | by Staff Writer
African universities' science A faculties a mockery
AFRICAN universities should discontinue their science faculties and concentrate their financial resources on the development of the arts, histories and music than misrepresent the sciences through pre...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Reinford Khumalo
Thank God for ingenious coronavirus vaccine - we must now deal with political challenge
It was just over a year ago, November 2019, that the world learned of the coronavirus outbreak in China. By March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak a world pandemic. ...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe slides deeper into debt distress
ZIMBABWE'S total external debt rocketed by US$106 million to US$8,2 billion at the end of September, throwing the economy into further debt distress, according to Finance minister Mthuli Ncube....Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer accused of threatening to kill colleague
Harare lawyer, Everson Round Samukange, who is facing a charge of threatening to kill a fellow lawyer, Mr Christos Alexander Venturas, has made an application for exception to all the charges. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told not to label workers terrorists
THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to stop labelling workers demanding fair wages as terrorists in order to justify a clampd...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
British govt insists on reforms for support
THE British government this week insisted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must bring to book perpetrators of human rights violations, as well as implement substantive political and economic reforms ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reviewing Zimbabwe's austerity reforms
Zimbabwe launched its austerity measures under the Transitional Stabilization Programme (TSP) in October 2018. The stabilization programme itself is running from October 2018 to December 2020. Austeri...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Deaths, abductions and terror in Mnangagwa's backyard
Antony Kadozo, a veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation war, is struggling to come to terms with the death of his son, who was allegedly killed by Zanu-PF youths.The 65-year-old Kwekwe resident said...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obliquity and politics of re-engagement
A man called John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. His work — widely acclaimed — is centred on relationships between economics, finance and business while his career has spanned academi...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:25hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa's leadership clearly 'disastrous', says Hain
IN May 2018, when the Zimbabwe Independent interviewed British peer Lord Peter Hain - a prominent critic of former president Robert Mugabe's regime - he was optimistic about the birth of a new era in ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN looks into Zimbabwe rights abuses
The United Nations (UN) will next month dispatch its special rapporteur on human rights, Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, to Harare - to assess the situation in the country, amid growing concerns over abduc...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police State
Within days of President Mnangagwa lecturing the West about how 'the rule of law is sacrosanct' in Zimbabwe, the police in Harare arrested representatives of rural teachers for trying peacefully to pr...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:37hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Rule of law is for us, claims Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's rule of law is sacrosanct and not tailored to please other countries or one particular group of people but all citizens, the President has said. President Mnangagwa said the law is ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt slams EU's 'intrusive attitude'
Government has hit back at Western countries' "intrusive and judgmental attitude" after they issued a statement that appeared to condone violent behaviour by the Zimbabwean opposition while condemning...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Europe sends a strong message to Mnangagwa
The Heads of the Mission of the delegation of the European Union, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the Heads of Mission of Australia, Canada and the U...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 18:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Austerity measures: Is Zimbabwe drinking poisoned chalice?
On September 7, 2018, Mthuli Ncube was appointed as Zimbabwe's Finance minister. Being a technocrat he is, his appointment brought a breath of fresh air. At least, Zanu-PF was breaking with its past o...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:18hrs | 1 | by Cliff Chiduku
'Mission: Zanu PF realise link between Z$, knowledge and production' - how, when only they know best
Last month the Mnangagwa government enacted the Statutory Instrument 142 (2019) in which the regime banish the use of the basketful of multi-foreign currencies as legal tender in Zimbabwe leaving the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 19:46hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's return to own currency is a brave move
When the government introduced bond notes it was very clear that the pretence currency was bad money that was going to wipe away good money. This came very true in a fast manner. Within a few months, ...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 19:38hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Youth will rescue Zimbabwe' - no, only strong minds will; age, war hero irrelevant and failed
It was the great Greek philosopher Socrates, 2 500 years ago, who said "STRONG MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS, AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS AND WEAK MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE."Socrates lived during the golden...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe, EU to officially launch formal political dialogue
Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) will officially launch formal political dialogue in Harare tomorrow as relations continue to improve between the two parties.The development was confirmed ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 21:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why should I go to church when it is full of hypocrites?
THIS week, by the grace of God, we will answer a question that I am sure we have all asked ourselves before at some point: Why should I go to church when it is full of hypocrites?A quick Googl...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | | by Ashley Thaba
30 heads of State console Mnangagwa
More than 30 Heads of State and Government from across the world have sent messages of sympathy to President Mnangagwa following the Cyclone Idai disaster, a development seen as a sign that Zimbabwe's...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans ranked happier than Rwandans, Batswana and Malawians
The World Happiness Report has been released and Zimbabwe ranks close to the bottom ten, lower than neighbours Mozambique and Zambia. However, Zimbabweans have been ranked happier than Rwandans, Batsw...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 11:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
The amazing history behind live casino games
During the last decade, revolutionary new casino technology has made all the difference in the online casino industry. Someone came up with the idea to feed the so-called "social hunger" that casino a...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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