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Africa facing repercussions of the West
African countries are going through a climatic hard time due to the Western countries' high level of carbon emissions. This was revealed at the ongoing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:54hrs | 318 | by Daniel Itai, Madrid, Spain
Indian billionaire eyes Zimbabwe prime agric land
INDIAN billionaire and Pepsi International franchise holder Ravi Jaipuria, proprietor of Varun Beverages in Zimbabwe, wants to acquire vast swathes of prime land in Zimbabwe to diversify into producti...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:52hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled drugs flood Zimbabwe market
High mark-ups imposed by importers, wholesalers and retailers of medicines have resulted in a flood of cheaper drugs being smuggled from neighbouring countries and sold on the streets by vendors. ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Government officials try to extort South African businessman
South African based Engineer Matshela Koko has claimed that the 100MW solar power plant project which he was supposed to commence in August this year has been delayed because of people in government w...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:46hrs | 8820 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga files for divorce
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured) is on the brink of divorcing his wife, ex model Marry Chiwenga, after the pair had a nasty fallout when he was seriously ill and hospitalised in South Af...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:34hrs | 11078 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda under fire
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda today expressed ignorance and a lack of concern over the legislative challenges and needs of persons with disabilities.Jacob Mudenda was speaking as one of ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 18:04hrs | 2220 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans cry foul over data prices
CONSUMERS have raised concern over the high data prices in Zimbabwe saying most people including the working class can no longer afford to buy data bundles that can cover their research and communicat...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:06hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to take over Presidency after ZANU PF December conference
General Chiwenga is set to take over as Acting president of the country in December when President Emmerson Mnangagwa takes his annual leave. The Vice President who has been away on a medical ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 14:34hrs | 19766 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga, wife mystery deepens
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday held a homecoming party where his wife and senior Zanu-PF officials were conspicuous by their absence.Chiwenga, who returned to Zimbabwe on Novemb...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:18hrs | 19517 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC plans first auction outside Zimbabwe
State-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is planning gem auctions outside the country, including in Asian cities, to widen marketing options amid a market glut that's steadily made pol...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:13hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Oliver Mandipaka wins peace advocacy award in UAE
DIRECTOR in the Zanu-PF Women's League Department Oliver Mandipaka won an award for peace advocacy and social impact at the Pan African Humanitarian Summit and Awards ceremony in Abu Dhabi (United Ara...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 21:55hrs | 1047 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga return raises eyebrows
The government yesterday made conflicting statements about Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's return after his four-month-long stay in China where he was receiving treatment.Chiwenga quietl...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2405 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stressed by Chiwenga ailment
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he has had "sleepless nights" over Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's chronic ailment, which took the former military commander to South Africa, India and China se...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:45hrs | 288 | by Staff Reporter/Agencies
Indian power giant eyes Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S efforts to resolve a crippling power shortage have received a major boost after India's largest power services company, NPTC Limited, expressed interest in building a 100-megawatt&nbs...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:04hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga looking healthy
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga returned home on Saturday after spending four months in China receiving medical treatment for an unknown illness.Chiwenga, the 63-year-old former general wh...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 13:33hrs | 3087 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and wife to grace arts indaba
President Mnangagwa and the First Lady are expected to be guests of honour during the Ease of Doing Business (EOBD) in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) in Zimbabwe conference slated for Bula...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1013 | by Staff Reporter
Equipment boost for Mpilo Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital yesterday unveiled medical equipment, which include infant incubators, a mobile X-ray machine, radiant warmers, sourced from India by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The in...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:05hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 639 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2725 | by Ken Mufuka
Chiwenga coup generals declare war on Mnangagwa
VANCOUVER - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's military generals who were key in executing the November 2017 coup against President Robert Mugabe, have allegedly declared war on Presid...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:48hrs | 52022 | by Nancy Mabaya
Zanu-PF committing crime against humanity, says Chamisa
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has pleaded with the donor community to immediately intervene and stop Zanu-PF from capitalising on the humanitarian crisis and using donated food to garner votes....Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:41hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Sasai exhibits at Africa's top tech conference
Sasai, the new all-in-one App from Cassava Fintech International (CFI), is exhibiting at AfricaTech, the fintech and digital expo that runs concurrently with AfricaCom, the continent's largest telco a...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 13:37hrs | 713 | by Agencies
Business Executives can change the political fortunes
Now that the President of Zimbabwe has reshuffled the cabinet. There is a lot of hullabaloo who should have been included, but the truth of the matter is, he can only choose and work with the crop of ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 10:31hrs | 1288 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mugabe coup announcer admitted to SA hospital
Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo was on Tuesday admitted to a South African hospital for a "scheduled operation", days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government okayed a process of firing a third ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:09hrs | 8982 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe should revitalise traditional medicine
CLAIMS by Zimbabwean - and generally African - men and women to have found cures for complex diseases and medical conditions have often been dismissed as maverick, unscientific or outright fake....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 118 | by Vincent Gono
Chiwenga in remarkable recovery, returning home soon
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who was airlifted to China from South Africa in July amid poisoning fears, is preparing to return home after making a remarkable recovery at a top hospital in Beij...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:18hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
How Masisi outsmarted the Khamas
Mokgweetsi Masisi's decisive victory in the recent Botswana elections over a coalition backed by his former boss, Ian Khama, is the culmination of an astonishing 10-year political career. Morp...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:55hrs | 1189 | by Barry Morton
Indian dealer kidnapped over forex
An Indian man accused swindling foreign currency dealers of US$765 000 is now claiming that he was kidnapped, forcibly bundled into a car boot and taken to an unknown place where he was assaulted....Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 17:56hrs | 1577 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Woman eaten by dogs alive fully recovers
Cherish Muchegwa the woman who was mauled by dogs in Bulawayo South has fully recovered from the wounds she endured on the fateful day. Muchegwa was lucky to be airlifted to India by Deputy Mi...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:35hrs | 4016 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zapu has no funds for congress
OPPOSITION Zapu has pushed its elective congress to August next year, where the party will elect its substantive leader following the death of Dumiso Dabengwa in May.Zapu had initially earmark...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:52hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Zapu sets congress dates
THE opposition Zapu party will next year hold an elective congress to find a leader who will fill the void left as a result of the death of liberation war hero Dumiso Dabengwa this year.Dabeng...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 128 | by newzimbabwe
Indian medical experts head to Manicaland
A group of Indian medical doctors is in the country to provide free medical services in Manicaland Province under the auspices of the International Rotary Club. The 20-member medical team is e...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:44hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Indian family hauled to court over travel scam
THREE elderly members of an Indian family have been arrested on charges of defrauding a British citizen of £67 400 in a travel scam.Musa Ahmed Yousaf (83), former director of Carefree Travel,...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:08hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Gen Sibanda in secret pact to hand Zimbabwe power to each other?
COLOGNE - Military czar Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, reportedly made a secret pact to hand Zimbabwe pow...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 31727 | by Itai Mushekwe
PHOTO: Chamisa meets the Indian Ambassador
MDC leader Nelson CChamisa on Thursday met with the Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Rungsung Masakui in Harare to discuss a number of issues affecting the country. The MDC leader's spokespers...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 16:30hrs | 4816 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zapu to picket over Dabengwa status
ZAPU has resolved to besiege Bulawayo council offices to push city fathers to name one of the city's streets after their late leader and national hero Dumiso Dabengwa.Zapu in June wrote to the...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:24hrs | 2388 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi launches Presidential input scheme
THE Government yesterday launched the 2019-2020 free Cottco Presidential Inputs and Tillage Scheme to benefit more than 400 000 households and two million rural people countrywide.Vice-Preside...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:54hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
We have a moral duty to denounce sanctions
Zimbabweans in all their different shades and from various social and political backgrounds on Friday 25 October, expressed their exasperation on the continued existence of illegal sanctions by the Eu...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:49hrs | 84 | by Ranga Mataire
New twist to missing diamonds saga
An internal probe conducted by the new management of Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) into allegations that 10 000 carats were stolen from the State-owned firm in 2016 has revealed that th...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:48hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Indian nationals to get visas upon arrival in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean government has scrapped off the complicated visa regime on Indian nationals as they can now be granted visas at any legal entry point in the country.The Information Communicatio...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:38hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
The future is tech, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa yesterday challenged the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) and other local universities to become centres of economic revival leveraging on technology. He said it was im...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 2667 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bused to vote for Frelimo in Mozambique?
Calls for calm and warnings against voter intimidation marked a closely watched election day in Mozambique on Tuesday that is crucial in consolidating a wary peace in the southern African nation of ne...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1240 | by AP
Striking doctors' ultimatum ends
Striking junior doctors have up to this morning to report for work after Labour Court ruled their industrial action illegal last Friday and ordered them to report for work within 48 hours. The...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Brothers in alms
There apparently being nothing pressing to do at home, comrade Mnangagwa splashed out $30,000 an hour on hiring a plane from Dubai to fly him and his delegation to a conference in France. He is report...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 18:09hrs | 2778 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Doctors' right to strike not absolute
THE right to strike distinguishes employment hum slavery. This is one of the reasons there was instantaneous revulsion when one very powerful country mendaciously claimed that Zimbabwe is using child ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1947 | by Nick Mangwana
Doctors should not be used to settle political scores
FOR the past 36 days, doctors in Zimbabwe have been on a crippling strike. This follows an impasse between the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) and Health Services Board (HSB).The ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 622 | by Chenai Mutasa
Chiwenga to finish off Mnangagwa's Presidential term?
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is increasingly set to finish off beleaguered President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential term, through a vicious military coup said to likely involve...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:18hrs | 25784 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabwe health crisis deepens
OPERATIONS at Parirenyatwa and Harare Central hospitals yesterday ground to a halt after nurses joined the strike by doctors, with most wards at Zimbabwe's two largest referral hospitals closed, incre...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:38hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa on corruption
Zimbabwean businessman and Econet Wireless founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has called for a genuine reform of policies and stronger accountability mechanisms if corruption has to be defeated in Africa....Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 5142 | by Staff reporter
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