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Solving youth unemployment problem in Zimbabwe by leveraging digital economy
Zimbabwe is renowned the world over as a top tourist destination in southern Africa and one of the African countries with a vast natural resource endowment. Tourism and agriculture have been the count...Published: 24 hrs ago | 126 | by Staff writer
Govt blames Covid-19 spike on border jumpers
The government has blamed the spike in Covid-19 cases in Bulawayo to illegal immigrants as fears of a second wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease in Zimbabwe grow.Health and Child C...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Security forces intercept 51 border jumpers
Beitbridge Border Post security personnel last night intercepted a South Africaregistered bus carrying 51 Zimbabweans who were being transported to the neighbouring country illegally. The grou...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans await US election with apathy, anticipation
THE upcoming vote could mark a major shift in American politics, but it's unclear how the outcome will affect the two nations' frosty relationship.Whether the issue is the coronavirus pandemic...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 2579 | by Staff reporter
'Beitbridge faces myriad of challenges'
HE Beitbridge Border Post faces a host of administrative problems centred around archaic infrastructure which has rendered the facility insecure and vulnerable to security breaches particularly this f...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:45hrs | 2156 | by Staff reporter
ANC MP slams De Lille over Beitbridge border fiasco
Calls for decisive action against Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille are growing louder as lawmakers adopted a damning report on her involvement in the Beitbridge border fiasco...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1806 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabweans edgy over planned anti-foreigner demo
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers based in South Africa yesterday expressed fears after South Africans circulated videos of a planned demonstration to force their government to kick out foreigners whom they ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
South Africa police in R1 million cigarettes haul
THE South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested three people for illegal possession of 707 620 cartons of cigarettes valued close to R1 million all of Zimbabwean origin.The arrest was mad...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | 475 | 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 | 4153 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA tightens screws on cross-border trading
SOUTH Africa's Border Management Authority Act 2 of 2020 enacted on July 21, 2020 could severely restrict Zimbabwe's cross-border traders as the neighbouring country prepares to open its borders start...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:05hrs | 4000 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Indian immigrants takes over Zimbabwe's borehole drilling industry
A group of illegal indian borehole drillers met in Harare today to strategise on how they can take over the entire country and share it among themselves.The illegal immigrants are drilling bor...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 20:32hrs | 12402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF trashes ANC in explosive meeting
FRESH details have emerged from last week's stormy meeting between Zanu-PF and South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements main...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 5079 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 671 | by Oscar Nkala
ANC- ZANU- PF bromance in Harare a no show
The entire week, Zimbabweans everywhere had adrenalin pumbing through their beings in great anticipation of the much-hyped ANC- Zanu PF meeting at the very headquarters of the latter in Harare....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 851 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mashaba calls for harsher action on Zimbabwe
South Africa should adopt harsh policies against the Zimbabwean government which includes freezing the assets of Zanu-PF leaders in South Africa, the leader of the newly launched Action SA party, Herm...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 6420 | by Staff reporter
Express lane for public transport
ZIMBABWE'S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) Cabinet received from the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Honourable OCZ Muchinguri Kashiri, chairperson of the Ad Hoc Inter-Min...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reviews lockdown curfew
THE government has relaxed business closing hours and announced that immigrants who have tested negative for #Covid-19 will no longer be detained upon arrival in the country.Information Public...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 20:56hrs | 19717 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name? From Gukurahundi to Murambatsvina, Mugabe to Mnangagwa
THERE'S something strangely fascinating about the Venda culture in relation to the names given to people. It all sounds so idiosyncratic that I recently found myself reflecting on it during a discussi...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:00hrs | 412 | by TSHILIDZI MARWALA
Zimbabwe's Economic Freedom Fighters plots Beitbridge border blockade
OPPOSITION party Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (ZEFF) has revealed plans to mobilise its followers to blockade the Beitbridge Border Post on August 31 to protest against human rights violations b...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1671 | by Staff reporter
South Africans after Peter Ndoro's job?
South Africans want their unemployed Journalism graduates must go replace Zimbabweans at the South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) because reading news is not a critical skill. A shadowy ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:20hrs | 12149 | by Staff reporter
South Africans want Ramaphosa to cancel special visas for Zimbabweans
A shadowy organization called #PutSouthAfricansFirst is organising a nationwide mass demonstration on the 29th of August to call for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants in South African and the...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:10hrs | 3521 | by Mandla Ndlovu
3 300 Zimbabweans in SA apply for food assistance
ZIMBABWEANS who missed the submission deadline on 19 July to apply for food assistance cannot get an extension, Zimbabwean consul general in Johannesburg Melody Chaurura told GroundUp last Wednesday....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweansMustFall trending in South Africa
OVER a month ago, a social media campaign under the hashtag #ZimbabweansMustFall trended as South Africans urged their government and companies to get rid of Zimbabwean citizens at workplaces and put ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:17hrs | 3959 | by Staff reporter
SA firm steps in to ease hunger among destitute Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans living in South Africa have benefitted from aid distributed by a Johannesburg headquartered company, T2N, and the Gauteng Food Security Committee since lockdown began in March....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:52hrs | 1560 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11780 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SA deports 273 more Zimbabweans
South Africa will, between today and tomorrow, deport a total of 273 Zimbabweans who have been arrested for breaking its immigration laws.The move is part of the neighbouring country's efforts...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:54hrs | 3000 | by Staff reporter
Zimra adapts to the new ICT-driven business model
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started adapting to the information communication technology (ICT) mode of doing business to prevent the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe special permit holders to get SA's R350 Covid-19 relief grant, says court
The Pretoria High Court's ruling compelling the government to give asylum-seekers the R350 Covid-19 relief grant, is expected to cost the Department of Social Development R700 million.The judg...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 20:09hrs | 3115 | by Staff reporter
Is the black American fight ours?
American race relations have once again been the focus of the world's attention after violent riots in the aftermath of yet another killing of a black man by a white policeman. The majority of...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 480 | by Miriam Tose Majome
SA-based Zimbabweans seek assistance to renew passports
The Zimbabwe Community in South Africa is engaging stakeholders in Government to facilitate the renewal of documents for those living in the neighbouring country. In a statement yesterday, the...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:37hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Black lives matter and History Matters as well
The marginalization of the black race will not end simply because we have removed the Statue of Cecil John Rhodes. Only until we have a black first-world African country to lift up the black populatio...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 18:58hrs | 1483 | by Engineer Jacob kudzayi Mutisi
George Floyd murder: A gamechanger for Donald Trump
Last week, I would have surmised that Us President Donald trump has a very good chance of being reelected in November 2020.the murder of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, though not unusual, has t...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:49hrs | 951 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Troops deployed to guard Covid-19 centres after 148 returnees escape
SOLDIERS have been deployed to man Covid-19 quarantine centres around the country and also track down people who have escaped from the facilities, a senior government official confirmed.As of ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
14 quarantined Malawians repatriated after hunger strike
A group of Malawians who recently staged a three-day hunger strike to protest their prolonged detention at Masvingo Teachers' College quarantine centre were finally repatriated back to their country a...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:58hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Govt further decentralises COVID-19 testing
GOVERNMENT has decentralised COVID-19 testing with areas such as Tsholotsho and Lupane receiving gene-expert machines which will see the country conducting about 1 000 tests per day following concerns...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:05hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
118 returnees flee isolation
NEARLY 120 Zimbabweans returning to the country have escaped from isolation and quarantine centres across the country as government said they posed the greatest threat to efforts to curb the spread of...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1219 | by Staff reporter
The international elites are at the gate!
AS the month of November draws near and the United States national elections in the first week of November become a reality, it behoved me to search with diligence why this is an explosive season. The...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 721 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe confirmed Covid-19 cases spike to 56
THREE Malawians who were intercepted at the Beitbridge border post after illegally entering into Zimbabwe from South Africa, are part of two ‘Zimbabweans' who tested positive to Covid-19 Friday, bri...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana Boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19.According to Habakkuk Trust report villagers who are engaged...Published: 18 May 2020 at 15:45hrs | 940 | by Stephen Jakes
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19. Local villagers, who are engaged in menial jobs as maids and herd b...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 321 | by Habakkuk Trust
Zimbabwe returnees top 3 000
THE country received 527 citizens returning from South Africa yesterday through the Beitbridge Border Post bringing the number of returnees from various countries to 3 134 since the country and other ...Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
The fiasco of Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo
AMID a flurry of government efforts to find suitable accommodation for the treatment of the Covid-19 patients, it was announced that Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo's posh Hillside Suburb had been iden...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2560 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
SA based Zimbabweans send SOS
An estimated 3 460 Zimbabweans living in South Africa are in need of food assistance, while 2 191 are requesting repatriation back home.These figures were revealed by the Zimbabwean Embassy in...Published: 02 May 2020 at 16:45hrs | 1107 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners in SA defy lockdown regulations...scramble for food parcels
Foreign nationals staying in Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion turned out in numbers on Saturday to queue for food parcels defying the mandatory social distance regulation. Gory still and moving ima...Published: 02 May 2020 at 14:50hrs | 2225 | by Mandla Ndlovu
15 Ethiopians face deportation from Zimbabwe
FIFTEEN Ethiopian illegal immigrants who were recently arrested, while hiding at a homestead in Swisha, Gwanda have been released from prison pending deportation. Police raided their hide-out, at a ho...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 22:45hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Malema fights for foreigners in South Africa
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Sello Malema has called for the government of South Africa to consider the plight of foreigners who live in the Southern neighbouring country. Malema wh...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 13:44hrs | 6868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Home is best; one of the COVID-19 lessons
THE past few weeks have been tough and the next weeks or months promise to remain so, as the world grapples to contain the novel coronavirus. Without efficient and effective suppression and precaution...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 22:32hrs | 1233 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Lessons from Donald Trump
Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, has sent advance copies of his memoirs to news organisations all over the world. His greatest challenge was how to deal with US President Donald Tru...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 13:27hrs | 2245 | by Ken Mufuka
Beitbridge border fence row escalates in South Africa
South Africa's main opposition on Friday criticised that country's Public Works and Infrastructure minister for the massive expenditure amounting to R37 million for the construction of a 40km Beibridg...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:32hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa to deport foreigners en masse'
South Africa might soon implement a policy of mass deportation of illegal foreign immigrants, a senior Zimbabwean journalist Brezhnev Malaba has foretold. Writing on his Twitter account, Malab...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 12:20hrs | 43248 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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