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Discover Binga: A hidden gem with Kabila River Lodge and Enchanting Hot Springs
Nestled in the heart of Binga, in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North Province, lies a pristine destination waiting to be discovered: Kabila River Lodge. This true gem for nature enthusiasts, adventure seek...Published: 20 May 2024 at 18:59hrs | 35 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Mnangagwa dynastic ambitions laid bare
VIRAL images of President Emmerson Mnangagwa pictured alongside his twin sons Sean and Collins have raised eyebrows amid suspicions that this could be a strategy to psych the nation into accepting the...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 20:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'GNU is not a local herb: excluding Zanu PF would bring spectre of instability.' So hangs the sword of Damocles!
"GNU is not a local herb!" wrote Jamanda2 in Bulawayo24. "The West also made sure there was no third party or parties with which to enter into a governing alliance that would exclude Zanu-PF f...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Why SADC is happy with the Mumba Report
Franz Kafka's worldFranz Kafka's art rests and runs on the bizarre and overawing grotesquery. Yet it is that de-familiarised, out-of-size world which he so ably colours which becomes the vehic...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
US foreign policy and the Zimbabwe dollar!
In my life journey, my three years stay in Jamaica was probably the most traumatic and most revealing as to how the imperialists work.I am, therefore, surprised that Mthuli Ncube and his handl...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa's dark trail
CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Ian Beddowes
Mnangagwa regime sees lithium as Zimbabwe's get-out-of-jail card
High demand for minerals in lithium, driven by ion batteries for electric vehicles and other green technologies, may be Zimbabwe's sanctions get-out-of-jail card — or a get-rich-quick card for Zanu-...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Understanding the collapse of Zimbabwe
THE first two decades that followed the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 were characterised by a number of major developments. Government expanded social services such as health and education — the ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross
Resource curse in Africa
The African continent is bestowed with so much natural wealth such as diamonds, coal, petroleum, natural gas, copper, and uranium to mention a few. Still, it has been the poorest continent in the worl...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Jeremie Kalombo
Zimbabwe military shops for arms in Pakistan
A HIGH-POWERED delegation of military officers led by Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) Air Vice Marshall Biltim Chingono was in Pakistan this month to inspect modern aircraft and armaments during a d...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 18:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe securocrats asked to account for proceeds of DRC war
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has challenged securocrats to account for "proceeds" from Zimbabwe's participation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) war of the late 1990's....Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Botswana rejects Iant Khama's 'outrageous' claims of assassination plot
The Botswana government has dismissed as "outrageous" claims by former President Ian Khama that his family is under siege and that there is a plot to assassinate him.Khama, who left Botswana i...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mbeba commits to Bosso
HIGHLANDERS lanky defender Andrew Mbeba has further committed to Bulawayo football giants after he added another year to his contract.The development will see the player stay at Bosso until De...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Dodgy company behind shady passports deal
LITHUANIAN company Garsu Pasaulis which was controversially awarded a contract to produce e-passports by the Zimbabwean government under a murky deal is a dodgy entity previously implicated in bribery...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 10:55hrs | 71 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe changing its passport by 2023
Zimbabwe's passport prices will double from US$60 to US$120 after the government awarded a passport production contract to a corruption-linked Belgian firm.President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tues...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zidera and sanctions simplified
THE United States Congress passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) in 2001. The Act has been subsequently revised, with the most recent amendment being in 2019. It is a very s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 07:39hrs | 8 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe awards passport production contract to Belgian firm
A Belgian company linked to bribes-for-tenders in over half-a-dozen countries has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to produce biometric passports for Zimbabwe, ZimLive reported.Zim...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 12:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zezuru hardliners blocked Mnangagwa from becoming Defence minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's previous ambition of becoming the country's Defence minister was blocked by the ethnically driven politics of hawkish Zezuru stalwarts in the ruling Zanu-PF, a new book ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
On land, Mugabe walked path other African leaders would not
Forget what you may have read in Western press about the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Forget the propaganda and Western hate. Forgive the excesses of his rule – human rights abuse and ex...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by John Kamau
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
What are we really worth?
Recently I had breakfast with three friends and we were charged at the rate of ZW$115 to US$1 for our food, which was priced in US dollars.later I had coffee with another group of friends and ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Were MDC human rights violated in 2008?
MDC was created by the CFU (Commercial Farmers Union), capitalists and the west, so that they take power from Zanu-PF, reverse land reform and indigenization; pull the Zimbabwe National Army out of Co...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Mnangagwa ally in coup plot storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarusian business broker Alexander Zingman has said his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last month was triggered by "false security reports" that he h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally freed after DRC arrest
Belarus businessman Mr Alexander Zingman was released yesterday after police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cleared him of potential offences and flying directly to Harare said on arrival h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Understanding the Zimbabwe economy
I OFTEN say to visiting experts and diplomats that, if you say you understand Zimbabwe, you have not been here long enough.We are a tiny blip on the global radar but we punch well above our we...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Kabila's general flees to Zimbabwe
An army general under the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former President Joseph Kabila has fled to Zimbabwe, according to reports from the mineral-rich country.This comes as...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's' top ally arrested in DRC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally, Alexander Zingman, an alleged arms dealer whom the Zanu-PF leader appointed Zimbabwe's honorary consul to Belarus in 2019, was arrested in the Democratic Repub...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
Plumtree businessman shot dead by an injiva
A PROMINENT Plumtree-based Zanu-PF businessman was shot dead in cold blood by a Zimbabwean based in South Africa while resisting a robbery at his shop at Ntoli business centre in Bulilima East....Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans live in fear of terror attacks from Mozambique
A POLITICAL science student from the University of Zimbabwe, Jethro Ngara, sees doom and gloom as his country dares to wade into Mozambique's war on terror.Ngara, 25, said he is too young to d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa will surely bring him down
ONE night in November 2017, a chubby soldier donning a red beret and military fatigues appeared on ZBC-TV. It was immediately clear something was amiss. His demeanour immediately betrayed what mischie...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Chamisa's MDC calls for Sibusiso Moyo's arrest
The Nelson Chamisa led MDC challenged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo to "investigate and arrest" her husband Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Mo...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Bulawayo retail shops exposed
LEADING retail shops in Bulawayo have been exposed for profiteering after they were caught selling basic commodities beyond retail prices recommended by suppliers.The deplorable consumer manip...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Reflections on the life of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa: highs and lows
Chief spies are not famous for mingling easily with the public: they tend to be aloof; secretive and in glamorised Western films have notoriety for keeping everyone guessing about everything in the wo...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:36hrs | | by Dr Mandla Nyathi
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
Family snubs Daisy at Mtukudzi memorial
DIVISIONS continued to rock the family of the late national hero, Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, as several family members, including daughters Selmor and Sandra, snubbed the "sham" memorial held in Madzi...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi did not leave a will, 4 more children emerge
CONTROVERSY continues to stalk the family of the late national hero, Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, as the entire clan gathers today in Madziva to decide how the vast wealth the singer left behind will be...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gradually transforming himself into a rural President
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is more or less transforming himself into a rural president as he has lost sympathy with the urbanites by failing to walk the talk in delivering what he promised prior to ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:32hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
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 | 10 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Linda Masarira takes America head on
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira has accused the United States of America of being a globally bully and self appointed prefect. Masarira accuses USA of looting American diamonds in Demo...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 11:48hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SADC and AU have the blood of Zimbabweans on their hands
In life there are always those things that one always finds baffling - which never seem to make any sense - and, similarly, I also have two such things in my life.One of those seemingly inexpl...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
African Diaspora statement on the Zimbabwean situation and DRC
The ADF joins the long que and list of human rights organisations, and other organisations and institutions in condemning in the strongest and unapologetic sense the senseless murders and brutalisatio...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Chiwenga off to DRC
Vice President Retired General Dr Constantino Chiwenga has left for the Democratic Republic of Congo to attend the inauguration of President-elect of the DRC Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo....Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe local currency recipe for disaster
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube's recent pronouncements that Zimbabwe will revert to using its own currency, a decade after it abandoned the local dollar in favour of a basket of currencies is not feasi...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates Tshisekedi
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conveyed a congratulatory message to the winner of the presidential elections held in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).In a statement, the President ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 19:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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