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Mozambican hustlers take over Harare streets
In the bustling heart of Harare, with towering skyscrapers and vendors hawking wares amid the honking symphony of traffic, a unique brand of entrepreneurship thrives.Young Mozambican men, thei...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Gweru proposes 73% vendor penalty fee hike
GWERU City Council has proposed a 73% hike in penalty fees for illegal vending in its next year's budget.Speaking at a budget consultative meeting, assistant finance director Owen Masimba urge...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Poverty drives women into prostitution
UNSURE of the direction he was taking, the driver of the fancy Chevrolet stopped beside two village women that were walking from the opposite direction, along the dusty road in Maranda, Mwenezi....Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Zanu-PF can learn from China
(In December 2016, ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, then the editor of The Southern Times newspaper based in Namibia, was dragged over the coals and subsequently fire...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mberi
Coronavirus worsens plight of city's informal traders
FOR six years, Reuben Dube earned his keep selling secondhand shirts, trousers and shoes in this city's central business district.Then came the coronavirus crisis, which shut down Zimbabwe - a...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mass demonstration for deportation of foreigners in South Africa set for 16 October
A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube doing everything by the book
Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube seems to be doing everything by the book as he pursues orthodox economic policy often prescribed by the global "Bretton Woods" lending institutions to try and ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 16:48hrs | | by Reuters
Falling In Love - Part 1
Her desire is deepest in the morning. She is too much woman for me, at sunrise. But I sip eagerly from her cup and inhale her essence. She is my thick cup of creamy coffee.We both wake up earl...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:40hrs | 3 | by JerÃ
Zimbabwe rebases economic data
The Zimbabwe Statistical Agency has rebased some of its economic statistics, in an unexpected move that finance minister Mthuli Ncube said on Friday had increased the nominal size of the struggling ec...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup brings Mbare back to life
Like many ordinary Zimbabweans right now, Joy Mviro is adamant that things have changed for the better."We can now talk openly," she tells me confidently, as we stand outside the Edith Opperma...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by The Guardian
Mugabe faces electoral rebuke over economy
Right about now, Eddie Musonza, a 30-year-old streetwise Harare hustler would normally be oblivious to the politics and would be busy concentrating on how to make his next dollar.Not this year...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance can awaken the Zimbabwean dream
It is not a Zimbabwean dream to see our leaders running to Europe every week for expensive "routine medical check-ups" while the ordinary African is left at the mercy of the collapsed health infrastru...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:27hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Mugabe's harvest of fear
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF is harvesting fear from the 2008 elections when over 200 people were killed, with many set to vote for the ruling party out of fear after being made acutely aware tha...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa tears into Jonathan Moyo, Kasukuwere, Zhuwao
WAR veterans yesterday accused a faction in Zanu-PF of peddling falsehoods against the ex-freedom fighters by linking them to various political outfits in the country.Addressing a Press co...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
PICTURES: Mbare vendors reselling fruits from dumpsite
Due to massive poverty vendors in Mbare Harare province have resorted to picking dumped fruits in dump areas, washing them before selling them in the Central Business District (CBD). A sur...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 13:08hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Land Rover Media Release: Range Rover Helps Unveil New Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo at Global Reveal and Naming Ceremony
Pretoria, 26 February 2016 - Land Rover today helped Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson unveil Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo at a special reveal and naming ceremony at their Mojave Air and ...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 13:32hrs | 10 | by Angecies
'For sale' signs on ZRP office doors
Walking through the corridors of the homicide section at Harare's main police station, it is the "for sale" signs on office doors that stand out more than the stench coming from the dimly-lit undergro...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 11:32hrs | | by Reuters
Grace Mugabe against illegal vending
FIRST Lady Amai Grace Mugabe does not support illegal vending and is fully behind measures adopted by Government to restore order in urban areas, Zanu-PF Women's League spokesperson Monica Mutsvangw...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Felex Share
Mugabe and the Crocodile
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe marked his birthday this year with an extravagant party, but how many more such celebrations can there be? In recent months there have been signs of major upheaval i...Published: 24 May 2015 at 14:26hrs | | by Stephen Sackur BBC
Mphoko out of touch with reality
FEARS that Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was out of touch with the plight of Zimbabweans, having spent so much time abroad as a diplomat, were confirmed last week during his charm-offensive in the...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Stewart Chabwinja
Zim mum kills self and disabled son in the UK
A DISTRAUGHT mother originally from Zimbabwe told her disabled son he was going to heaven before taking her own life and his on Southend seafront in the UK.Cathy Mhlaba, from Shoebury, drove h...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Growing inequality clouds Angola's expanding economy
Angola has one of the world's fastest growing economies. Its economy grew by 5.1% in 2013. As major public infrastructure investments in energy and transport kick in, its growth is projected to re...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 20:08hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Zimbabwe economy to grow 4.2% in 2014, says the World Bank
Zimbabwe's economy will grow by 4.2 percent this year, well short of the government's more upbeat projection as weaker global metal prices weigh on expansion, the World Bank said on Wednesday....Published: 15 Jan 2014 at 15:05hrs | | by Reuters
Crackdown on vendors, forex dealers
Harare City Council has launched a fresh crackdown targeting informal businesses being carried out on the city centre's pavements.The operation, code-named Regedzai, is targeting street vendo...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Disabled vendors appeal to Mugabe
PEOPLE living with disabilities have appealed to President Mugabe to help establish more market stalls in the city with low rentals to enable them to sell their wares without being...Published: 27 Sep 2013 at 03:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Desperate, last ditch plea
It is not looking good at all, made worse by a sense of all-round panic. The MDC-T campaign has all but collapsed, its cabal of organic intellectuals already abandoning post, deserting, hawking mid-fl...Published: 27 Jul 2013 at 12:20hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Stephen Hawking pulls out of Israel conference
Jerusalem - Celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a June conference hosted by Israel's President Shimon Peres, joining an academic boycott of the Jewish state, event organiser...Published: 08 May 2013 at 23:27hrs | 2 | by Tech
Brainy three-year-old girl becomes the youngest new member of Mensa
A brainy three-year-old has been unveiled as the youngest new member of Mensa - with a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking.Clever Alice Amos has been granted full membership of the brain box societ...Published: 09 Feb 2013 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe going down the drain... again?
There are some of us who have entered 2012 with a sense of trepidation. They believe this is the year when a decadent earth will collapse into itself. I predicted the same for Zanu PF, but Mother Ear...Published: 08 Mar 2012 at 08:31hrs | | by Lenox Mhlanga
Zimbabwe wins the tourist battle against Zambia
It is fast approaching dusk and activities on the historic Victoria Falls Bridge that straddles the Zambian-Zimbabwe border are fast dying down.The 106-year-old-steel bridge crosses the might...Published: 20 Apr 2011 at 18:57hrs | | by Allan Adhiambo
Microsoft dismantle spam network
Microsoft on Thursday announced the dismantling of a "notorious and complex" network of virus-infected computers used to send billions of e-mail messages daily hawking fake drugs....Published: 18 Mar 2011 at 06:33hrs | | by Byo24News
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