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MDC will not campaign for sanction removal for now
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has admitted that Western economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were hurting ordinary people, but would only campaign for their removal once President Emmerson M...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1011 | by Staff reporter
'Army killings stiffled UK efforts to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE British government has maintained that the August 1, 2018 post-election violence shootings and January 14-16, 2019 killings, which claimed over 20 lives after security forces fired into protestors...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone hits Masvingo
Tropical Cyclone Idai is also wreaking havoc in Masvingo Province, with at least 15 houses having already been destroyed in Zaka under Chief Nhema. Zaka District Administrator,Ndeya Nyeda...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 18:23hrs | 9715 | by Staff reporter
Of old folktales ...
A story has been told of how an old man came back to Zimbabwe rich from 'Mzansi' after years of sojourn in the streets of Johannesburg .He started a business in Zim but the business could not be susta...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:55hrs | 815 | by AT Kadada
Chamisa exposed
In his 1997 report on the work of the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan stressed the importance of economic sanctions: the Security Council's tool to bring pressure without recourse to forc...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 10:42hrs | 11990 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Judith Makwanya burial today
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Diplomatic Correspondent Judith Makwanya will be buried at Warren Hills Cemetery today at 11am. The veteran journalist died on Monday at West End Clinic i...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:52hrs | 5493 | 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 | 4274 | by Staff reporter
Social media killing our self-esteem
WHETHER we want to believe it or not, the media plays a big role in our lives. It includes magazines, adverts, and now social media as well. Even if you manage to avoid all of these things you are sti...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:01hrs | 143 | by Rutendo Chidawanyika
Chamisa calls for Zimbabwe sanctions removal but.....
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa wants sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western powers to be removed but wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sort out "your mess" first.Zimbabwe under for...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 5983 | by newzimbabwe
SA Church ordered to solemnise gay and lesbian marriages by court
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has found that the Dutch Reformed Church's policy against solemnising same-sex marriages, diminished the integrity of gay congregants.Judges Sulette Potteril...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
US voices new concerns over Zimbabwe rights abuses
The United States says it remains "seriously concerned" about human rights abuses by the Zimbabwe government, and will keep sanctions in place until President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government implement...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:08hrs | 1896 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 830 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Mnangagwa/US sanctions row continues
THE US embassy in Harare has reacted angrily to continued suggestions by government that President Donald Trump's sanctions of Zimbabwe are hurting ordinary citizens.Since the enactment of the...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 06:59hrs | 635 | by newzimbabwe.com
Strive Masiyiwa buys back controlling stake in Botswana's Mascom
MTN Group Ltd. announced the disposal of its share in a Botswana joint venture as Africa's biggest wireless carrier by revenue kicks off a drive to raise at least 15 billion rand ($1.1 billion) from a...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:55hrs | 4892 | by Staff reporter
UN to probe Zimbabwe rights abuses
THE United Nations Human Rights Council will dispatch special rapporteurs to Zimbabwe to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by State security agents, Parliament has heard.Appearing...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Trump punishes Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe coup
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has been pushing for re-engagement and better relations with the United States, seems to be faltering in his bid after the western country extended sanctions against ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | 5122 | by Staff reporter
Judas has plenty cousins
Regime change instigators have picked pawns from among our own who are now bidding for their masters. Indeed where government is lagging behind we must constructively and progressively point it out, a...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 15:57hrs | 566 | by Tondo Chinehsha
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF accused of plotting to destroy Chamisa
A top MDC official has sensationally claimed that party officials, especially those who will be voting in the upcoming congress are being paid large sums of money to vote out Nelson Chamisa from the p...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:31hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Hate and self determination
As the third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe slowly closes due to the number of unmet preconditions and ideal settings for the proposed dialogue, I am reminded of my past works written five y...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:08hrs | 1188 | by Terence Simbi
Zimbabwe will have a regulated, transparent foreign currency market
As we work to put Zimbabwe's economy back on its feet, recovery is the word. The Zimbabwean financial situation, its industry, its businesses, have all been in a state of stagnation for far too long. ...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1620 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
Mnangagwa takes sanctions fight to UN
GOVERNMENT has taken its campaign against illegal sanctions imposed on the country to the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Addre...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:13hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa, once a murderer, always a murderer
Once upon time, there was a man who was so evil, and he did very cruel, gruesome thing. He dug a very big pit in the field, and cast some spell on it, to trap his own wife. When his wife went to get s...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:30hrs | 3243 | by Zanda Shumba
Chamisa should take a lesson from Joshua Nkomo and Morgan Tsvangirai who had people at heart
It is quite unfortunate that instead of mapping the way forward and discussing solutions most people here whom I think are MDC are very good at criticizing facts. The truth is Chamisa's failure is cau...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 17:33hrs | 1320 | by Henry Madiro
How to avoid getting ripped off by a shady online casino
Online casinos have gained a lot of relevance- thanks to our jam-packed lifestyle and the ease that the online medium adds to the whole equation. However, many online casinos with ill motives have com...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 10:15hrs | 889 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's utterances have Mugabe's yesteryear echoes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent utterances that government would take unspecified action on lawyers providing free legal advice and doctors voluntarily attending to victims of last month's viole...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:11hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Zanu Pf divisions have contributed immensely to the collapse of our economy
Zanu-PF will never accept blame, this is one area they have mastered.It will always be the sanctions are hurting the economy , the truth being said those sanctions are targeted sanctions on Zanu-PF in...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:11hrs | 315 | by AT Kadada
Monetary policy, a huge leap towards safety
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, yesterday took a huge positive leap towards healing the ailing economy when he devalued the bond note during his Monetary Policy Statement (...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:02hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
The current monetary policy review will worsen current fiscal imbalances
Background and Review It was trajectory, forex premiums is hurting Zimbabweans and hostile to business environment. FCA accounts have yielded positive r...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 17:25hrs | 4087 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's advisors clash with Charamba
Members of the Presidential Advisory Council are said to have clashed with Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba when they met at their inaugural meeting on Friday. Charamba is reported to have wa...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | 7549 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa vows to crush Chamisa protests, hails army crackdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted Saturday that he deployed the army to carry out a brutal crackdown against opposition and civil society activists, which allegedly left 17 people dead and saw sev...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 939 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's govt unfazed by EU sanctions threat
Government yesterday said it was not worried by the threat from the European Union (EU) Parliament to tighten sanctions against the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration, insisting that they...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:05hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa issues chilling warning, ready to deploy the soldiers again
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that he deployed the army to carry out a brutal crackdown against opposition and civil society activists, which allegedly left 17 people dead and saw several ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4277 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has power to end Zimbabwe isolation
PRONOUNCEMENTS by the European parliament on the grave human rights situation in Zimbabwe provided a concise checklist of everything that has gone wrong in the past six months and President Emmerson M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 984 | by Editorial - The Standard
Joy, anger as trapped miners are rescued
A visibly shaken Thinkmore Madimutse was the first survivor to be retrieved from a flooded shaft at Silver Moon mine yesterday four days after disaster struck in the gold-rich Battlefields area....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to bring everyone to Harare for a Mother of All Demonstrations
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said that President Mnangagwa has no choice but to dialogue with the opposition, adding that his party is planning crippling demonstrations to force the President to the ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to bring everyone to Harare for a Mother of All Demonstrations
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said that President Mnangagwa has no choice but to dialogue with the opposition, adding that his party is planning crippling demonstrations to force the President to the ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 10:07hrs | 12662 | by Staff reportet
We need complete thinkers, not compartmentalised ones
What does it mean to be a "complete thinker"? Complete thinking entails connecting apparently disparate or unconnected ideas.To further elaborate, it means being able to take on a variety of i...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 546 | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa rejects 'meaningless' dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would not be bulldozed into "a meaningless dialogue" with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, vowing that any talks with the Zanu-PF leader to resolve ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Matter of fact
ON Tuesday we reported, in an article entitled, "...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:37hrs | 184 | by Editor
Woman loses hubby to family friend
THE old adage, "men can hurt my body, but women can scar my soul," is one of those undeniable truths all women experience but most easily deny.And in a typical "the man is mine fight" a Bulawa...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Business complicit in Zimbabwe's economic woes
CHIEF executive officers from across the African continent have been meeting in the resort town of Victoria Falls for the last three days in a bid to find lasting solutions to the economic crisis faci...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Fresh land Invasions in Matabeleland
There is a new land invasion in Matabeleland, this time by the government of Mnangagwa and Zanu PF. This program is spearheaded by the district Lands office in Filabusi. On the 8th of February 2019, M...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1352 | by MRP
Mnangagwa tells Chamisa to stop playing games and come for dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called upon MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa to dump grandstanding strategies and join the rest of Zimbabwe in a national dialogue.President said this in a statement ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 20:33hrs | 11868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa was accused of being an askari
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday had to do something that none of his predecessors, including the corruption accused Jacob Zuma, has ever been forced to do: defend his struggle credentials....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1896 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls US, EU to unconditionally lift sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) to unconditionally lift travel and trade sanctions imposed on the country, saying his administration was d...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa's Advisory Council Legal?
Editor,Please, allow me to ask lawyers if it is legal for the president to appoint a second cabinet without wide consultations. It is obligatory for cabinet ministers to seek sound advice conc...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:46hrs | 650 | by Concerned Citizen
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa's only commuter train is cheap and reliable
CHUGGING through townships, maize fields and scrubland as the sun rises, Zimbabwe's only commuter train is cheap and reliable - two qualities that its passengers cherish in a downwards-spiralling econ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:30hrs | 6110 | by AFP
Tsvangirai's wife almost considered suicide just like her mother in-law
The wife of the late opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said Valentine's Day is a poignant time for her, struggling to deal with the pain and grief of losing her husband.Still a tall,...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:05hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo film Another Wedding? to premiere on Zambezi Magic
A ROMANTIC drama Another Wedding? which features a mix of veteran and up-and-coming actors from Bulawayo including Sarah Mpofu, Precious Makhulumo and Memory Kumbota, is set to premiere on Zambezi Mag...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:49hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Losing MP granted bail
BULAWAYO South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections Josphat "Mzaca" Ngulube, has been granted bail, in a case where he and 11 others were accused of fanning an...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:56hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
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