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ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 9 hrs ago | 675 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'General Chiwenga's return from China a non-event'
The impending return of Vice President Retired General Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga from his medical pilgrimage in China is a non-event and will do little to shake the Harare administration...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 06:22hrs | 36942 | by Mandla Ndlovu
General Chiwenga coming back from China
Ailing Vice President Retired General Constantino Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga is coming back to Zimbabwe after more than three months on medical pilgrimage in South Africa and China. Sources i...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 15:17hrs | 38537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy in doldrums: IMF
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has painted a grim picture of the prevailing economic situation in Zimbabwe which is exacerbated by extreme weather conditions, weakening confidence and policy un...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe was a devout Catholic
THE late former president Robert Mugabe was a devoted parishioner who attended mass every Sunday at his Kutama parish in Zvimba, according to the resident priest.However, the fallen strongman ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:23hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's death breathes life into sleepy Zvimba
TWO young women, flanking a middle-aged man who appears to enjoy every moment of it, stagger in a beer gut along the short road which branches off the smooth highway connecting Harare and Murombedzi g...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 20:48hrs | 4636 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's death, an omission of justice
It is with profound grief and sadness to learn that RG. Mugabe, the first prime minister and indeed the first executive president of the independent Zimbabwe passed away in Singapore on Friday t...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | 272 | by Andrea Sibanda -MLF SG
Police need more to spruce up image
IN our Tuesday edition of NewsDay we carried two unrelated stories which, however, strikingly touched on one of the many sore issues that have created animosity between the police and the very public ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 20:39hrs | 274 | by Editorial - Newsday
TB Joshua shares sombre message on 5th anniversary of SCOAN building collapse
Exactly five years after the tragic collapse of a guesthouse at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Pastor T.B. Joshua has honoured the 'blessed memory' of those who died in the incident wit...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:34hrs | 2208 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Parliament condemns inhumane police cells
PARLIAMENT has said conditions in the police holding cells are inhumane, conceding the rights of arrested people were being breached.This was brought into light by the Senate Thematic Committe...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
May the soul of Robert Gabriel Mugabe rest in eternal peace
Message of condolence to the president and first secretary of Zanu-PF and president of Zimbabwe H. E. Cde. E. D. Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF p...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 415 | by Zanu-PF South Africa District
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 15:38hrs | 2498 | by Percy Zvomuya
Rest in peace, Robert Mugabe: Hero, villain, human
Robert Mugabe has died.May he rest in peace. He was one of the engineers who built the foundations of modern-day Zimbabwe. If you ever get the chance, please visit Zimbabwe. It is home...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:59hrs | 971 | by Elsie Eyakuze
Robert Mugabe: A leader loved and hated in equal measure by Zimbabweans
Longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has died. He was 95.Loved and hated in almost equal measure by Zimbabweans, the former teacher was best known for leading Zimbabwe to independence, ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 545 | by Compiled by Alet Janse van Rensburg
The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:36hrs | 782 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
August 16 exposes the MDC's insincerity
The much-hyped MDC's 16 August 2019 demonstration in Harare fell flat on its face despite the spirited attempts by some of its impressionable and excitable youths to defy the prohibition order issued ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 13:54hrs | 1186 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mthuli Ncube admits Zimbabwe
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says the country will not achieve GDP growth as he had projected when he presented his inaugural 2019 budget in November last year due to the deepening economic crisis....Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:03hrs | 1665 | by Staff reporter
The pig in Mthuli Ncube's bacon
I had occasion in my last visit to my discerning barber to try and explain the latest glowing World Bank reviews of the sterling performance of finance minister Mthuli Ncube and the minister's impecca...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:22hrs | 4711 | by Zifiso Masiye
Power blackouts force Zimbabwe firms to shut down
Zimbabwe's economy could grind to a halt if power outages gripping the nation persist as production plunges, exports decline, companies lay off staff and disposable incomes shrink, after it emerged th...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 4401 | by Staff reporter
Our illness is decades of bad governance, cure is free elections – must take it or die. Simple!
Zimbabwe's economic mess is a man-made problem, a product of 39 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. Some people would argue that mismanagement and corruption is a human frailty found ...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:09hrs | 703 | by Wilbert Mukori
To compare 1950 USA 'opulence amidst public squalor' to same in Zimbabwe is compare mouldy strawberries to yew berries
"The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amid...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 818 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chasi to revoke license of dormant IPPs
THE Government will consider revoking licences of Independent Power Producers failing to kick start their projects as it moves to reduce the power deficit grappling the country, a Cabinet Minister has...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:05hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charters expensive luxury jet to Rwanda
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week charter the Dubai based luxury jet to fly him to Rwanda for an official visit. The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has a...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 11:20hrs | 7690 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Recession, Zim Dollar return and Economic Outlook
As the country enters the last half of the year and warms up to the re-introduction of the Zimbabwean Dollar, it is now evident that the economy is swiftly sliding into a recession. In 2018, the econo...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 12:20hrs | 5266 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Mnangagwa's govt failing to honour Joshua Nkomo'
ZAPU believes government has not honoured its late leader and father Zimbabwe, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, by failing todeclare the day he passed away a national holiday.Nkomo, who was born on June ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
'TB Joshua's meeting in Nazareth is rebranding Africa's image abroad...'
In the last week, Israeli media has been awash with news of the controversial visit of Nigerian cleric T.B. Joshua to Nazareth.Initial news of the visit ignited a furore among apprehensive rel...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2508 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Austerity should not be just for the poor
Elsewhere on these pages, we carry a story about the impending shortage of bread and the expected price increases, barring immediate government intervention to address the wheat supply crisis facing t...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:43hrs | 932 | by Editorial - The Standard
Knowledge Musona considering his next move
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona is considering his next move after a frustrating time at Belgian league side Anderlecht, a club he joined a year ago.The 28-year-old says he plans to move to ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:16hrs | 5975 | by Staff reporter
Former deputy minister in $766 000 debt row
Former Mines and Mining Development Deputy Minister Fred Moyo is said to have attempted to conceal an attached property into a family trust to prevent a financial institution from selling the property...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism
One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 213 | by Takura Zhangazha
$42 million lost to cyber-crime
More than $40 million has been lost to cyber-crime in the first four months of the year, an official report has shown.According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) statistics, 4 001 counts o...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
We continue to be anglicised bastards
There is a hauntingly true African proverb that claims that unless the lion learns how to write, every story will always glorify the hunter.here is a hauntingly true African proverb that claim...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:36hrs | | by Bishpop Lazarus
Mnangagwa's 'Open for business' mantra collapses
THE surprise move by major gold producer Metallon Corporation to sue the government over its failure to pay for gold deliveries commensurately has brought into sharp focus the country's continued fore...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1954 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3888 | by PUMA
Parents struggle with school fees as economy bites
PARENTS yesterday said they were struggling to send their children back to school for the second term as they were failing to cope with rising fees and cost of living against stagnant salaries....Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1973 | by Staff reporter
Dear Lord, for lack of wisdom, courage and/or serenity, grant me the sanity to stop repeating same foolish mistakes
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."The prayer by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (189...Published: 02 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
South Africa moves to tighten job terms, expats fear expulsion
Foreign workers in South Africa with expertise deemed vital to the economy are worried that authorities will reduce the number of critical skills eligible for work permits, a move they say could force...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | 4204 | by Reuters
Independence Day accidents claim 6
Road traffic accidents during this year's Independence Day holiday increased from 69 recorded in 2018 to 96 which, however, claimed six lives, half that from last year, according to statistics release...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:48hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
14 die at apostolic sect shrine
FOURTEEN members of the Mugodhi Apostolic Sect died, while several others were injured after a lorry loaded with bags of maize veered off the road and ploughed into worshippers at a roadside shrine in...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Four of the seven Zimbabweans burnt alive in South Africans laid to rest
More than 1000 mourners, including some South Africans attended the burial in Sanyati Zimbabwe of the four of the slain Zimbabweans. Each mourner had his-or her own profound reasons for being ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 19:22hrs | 15984 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A tribute to Bishop Sibusiso Donga: An open letter from the border to all pastors
I HAVE been thinking of you dear pastors these past weeks, particularly following the death of Bishop Sibusiso Donga (pictured). The Christian church and Zimbabwe as a whole woke up rece...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:33hrs | 297 | by Hlakanipha Mbongolwane
7 Zimbabweans burnt alive in South Africa
A Zimbabwean family fled to Cape town to escape the hunger and poverty All 7 of them including four children just died in a house fire.The loss of one child is devastating. The loss of seven? ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 11:10hrs | 33042 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Five soccer stadiums you simply have to experience
Soccer is the world's most popular sport and it encapsulates towns, cities and cultures like no other. As tribal as it gets in the world of sport, it's a global phenomenon and attracts fans in...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 16:45hrs | 2276 | by Staff reporter
The storm that knew no boundaries
TROPICAL Cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the storm made landfall i...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 239 | by Jennifer Fitchett
Pastor demands an end to 'elitist dialogue' - confused, doesn't even know elections were rigged
Confusion reigns supreme in Zimbabwe. Confusion is when one says this, the other says that and the third says something else which is neither this nor that in a matter as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe comes to terms with grim scale of damage
ZIMBABWEANS are slowly coming to full terms with the horrific scale of devastation that Cyclone Idai wreaked in the country — amid confirmation late yesterday that torrential rains and landfalls had...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:17hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
55 companies shut down
OVER 50 companies have been liquidated since President Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in November 2017, throwing thousands of people out of employment.Documents obtained by Standardbusiness ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:11hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 4499 | by Staff reporter
Cross, Ncube's reforms will never deliver economic prosperity not as long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah state
"People of Zimbabwe deserve a new day" wrote Eddie Cross in Bulawayo24. Mr Cross was writing about Zimbabwe's economic chaos, the country has already claimed the position of being the poorest ...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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