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Malema now an advocate of xenophobia
Malema has double standards. He is trying to please South Africans, at the expense of Zimbabweans. At first he abhorred Xenophobia, but now he is motivating other South Africans to hate foreigners. Th...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 08:54hrs | 2610 | by Njabulo
Bread price up 15%
THE price of flour has gone up by 6.5% from $112 000 to $119 000 per metric ton, a situation that also pushed the price of bread up by 15% from $175 to $210.Grain Millers Association of ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel consumption hits 1,2bn litres after bounce back
ZIMBABWE'S fuel consumption increased to almost 1,2 billion litres during the 11 months to November last year, compared to just over one billion litres in 2020, data from the energy regulator showed y...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 959 | by Enos Denhere
A true leader doesn't create separation, but brings people together!
I love Bluetooth! I fondly remember the first time using it - when we discovered that could actually send SMS texts to each other with my beloved wife Tinta (who was still my fiancée all thos...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:42hrs | 587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boy, I love democracy - pity I don't live in one!
Most times, I feel like a lonely miserable little child - who is sitting on his home's stoep, fondly admiring the neighbors' happy family, whose parents will be joyfully playing together with their ch...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 18:47hrs | 267 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's enforcer bites the dust again
FORMER State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube's political woes worsened at the weekend after he lost the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship, on which he had imposed himself, and was shunt...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3547 | by Staff reporter
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 654 | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
Chamisa's MDC blames Mnangagwa anti-poor policies for Zimbabweans migration to SA
THE MDC Alliance has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-poor policies for fuelling the Zimbabwe to South Africa migration crisis as desperate citizens continue crossing the border to that coun...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:05hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 321 | by Pathisa Nyathi
The last great war might have begun
The tongue can be a powerful weapon.It can build and destroy. It also can excite, spite and incite.And when a sharp tongue is mixed with potent ideas, it is easy to concoct a nuclear w...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 141 | by Bishop Lazi
Warriors booted out
Zimbabwe 1 - 2 MalawiIT had been long since the Warriors hogged so much spotlight as they did in the run-up to their Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group B encounter against Malawi here yesterday....Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Not blind to justice
"YOU will definitely lose cases because you will not be able to see the demeanour of witnesses."Mr Mehluli Ndlovu, a legal practitioner (44) from Njube suburb, in Bulawayo remembers how these ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants, Govt salary talks on today
REPRESENTATIVES of civil servants and Government are set to meet today for a fresh round of salary negotiations with the employees saying they are cautiously optimistic.The parties are expecte...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:25hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Hi Mzansi, have we seen justice?
Apartheid was "legal". Jim Crow laws in the United States were "legal". Colonialism was "legal". Even the Nazis were "legal". So, what does it mean to have the rule of law? And whose law is it anyway?...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:44hrs | 2890 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Rule of law vs historical imbalances
CRIMINALS broke into a homestead and stole everything, taking over the family means of livelihood. They pushed everyone to the periphery of the homestead and ordered them to remain there and obey thei...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 524 | by Tapiwa Gomo
2022 Legal Year opens today
The 2022 Legal Year opens today with Chief Justice Luke Malaba delivering the keynote address on achievements and challenges over the past 12 months and the judicial administrative agenda for this yea...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
90 000 Zimbabwean border jumpers arrested in SA, deported
OUR warnings to South Africa about Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis were ignored.So say Zimbabwe labour unions, civic society groups and human rights activists.And now this has...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 17:48hrs | 3105 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe one of biggest labour exporters to UK
UNITED Kingdom's National Health Services (NHS) has revealed that Zimbabwe is one of its biggest exporters of labour in the health sector, ranking it as the second country after Nigeria in terms of th...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 2887 | by Staff reporter
In Nkayi, pregnant women deliver in the dark
Lilian Mdlongwa, 19, a first-time mother from Manomano village, recalls how she almost lost her baby when she went into labour at Nkayi district hospital a month ago, when there was complete shutdown ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Tariff hikes reflect erosion of Zimdollar, raise inflation fears
TARIFF hikes on electricity and toll gates among others have piled more misery on consumers who are already battered by the tough economic environment and expose the vulnerability of the local currenc...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Furore over civil servants USD allowances
THE government has offered its employees and pensioners a Covid-19 risk allowance in United States dollars (USD) as it seeks to cushion them against the high cost of living but workers have scoffed at...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:38hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Forex Covid-19 allowances for civil servants, pensioners
Civil servants will receive their US$75 monthly Covid-19 risk allowances in US dollars from this month, as will Government pensioners with their US$30 allowances, as the Government uses the dual-curre...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Motsoaledi says over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina are Zimbabweans
SOUTH African Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has claimed that over 70% women seeking maternity services in Musina, in the neighbouring country, are Zimbabweans, a development that exposes the ...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1484 | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 exam markers clash with ZIMSEC
TEACHERS marking 2021 Grade Seven examinations have vowed to resist the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s decision to demand Covid-19 test certificates.ZIMSEC last week wrote a m...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA at war over border jumpers
ZIMBABWE and South Africa are at war over border jumpers, with the neighbouring country's Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi accusing local security forces of taking bribes to let undocumented imm...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 2711 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC has no capacity to mobilise 1,6m voters, says Hwende
THE opposition MDC Alliance has called for "genuine" opposition political activism in 2022 and civil society support to mobilise 1,6 million voters for the forthcoming 2023 plebiscite.MDC Alli...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 6563 | by Staff reporter
Nssa pensioners get 20% increment in January
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima has authorised the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) to increase benefits pay-outs by up to 21 percent to meet its targ...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Makomborero Haruzivishe out of notorious Chikurubi: Halleluiah
My mother, Mrs Sihwa sat in Chikurubi accused of the same accusations that sent what could be her grandson Makomborero to prison: same length of time. When she was released on grounds of ill-health, s...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:14hrs | 1401 | by Nomazulu Thata
Currency reforms urgently needed
REPORTS that several schools are contemplating raising fees by around 300% are shocking given the economic crunch Zimbabwe finds itself in, but is also evidence of the hard decisions the government ha...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:27hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP's workers up in arms
OVER 600 workers at Progress gold mine in Filabusi, Matabeleland South province are up in arms with their employer, Insiza North Zanu-PF legislator Farai Taruvinga, over outstanding salaries.L...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:24hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Democracy, development and our village neighbour
A FORTNIGHT ago, I wrote about how and why African countries need to review the current practice of democracy. I argued that the current format is not fit for poor societies because it is prone to man...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:22hrs | 433 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Miserable X-mas for impoverished workers
THE year 2021 was a sad one for workers because of a plethora of challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and now they will round it off with a bleak Christmas.Workers' unions say the gover...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:30hrs | 389 | by Staffreporter
'Dont re-ignite gukurahundi', Mnangagwa threatens Matabeles with second genocide
"As we give space to our traditional leaders to lead processes of reconciliation and repair, we should guard against those negative elements which aim to re-ignite frozen differences to throw us back ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:48hrs | 2902 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe, Rwanda sign deal to import teachers
Rwanda and Zimbabwe signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for Kigali to recruit teachers from the southern African country.The MOU signed by Zimbabwe's Public Service, Labour...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:45hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Underfunding irks Nyoni
SITHEMBISO Nyoni, the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) minister, is one of Zimbabwe's longest serving Cabinet ministers. But she has the hardest assignment in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
US$100bn stolen from US pandemic relief
Nearly US$100 billion at minimum has been stolen from Covid-19 relief programmes set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the US Secret Service said on Tuesday....Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:22hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Acid test for Zimbabwe's health restructuring
THE desire is to have a national healthcare system that ensures equitable access to services of sufficient quality to all, thereby, leaving no one behind," said Vice-President and Health minister Cons...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:42hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants push for forex salaries
CIVIL servants are lobbying Government to pay their salaries in foreign currency saying forex bonuses they received have given them confidence that it is possible to get their earnings in hard currenc...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
EFF to join Polad
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe is set to join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) following the party leadership's endorsement of the move.Polad comprises of some opposition partie...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Matobo villagers construct own dam
VILLAGERS of Nathisa area in ward 16, Matobo district, have completed the construction of a dam, named Zenzeleni.Matobo Rural District Council (RDC) chief executive Elvis Sibanda described the...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:15hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Resettled farmers thriving in Zimbabwe
Gondai Bangidza seems to have struck gold as a resettled farmer in Zimbabwe's eastern Manicaland province.He brags about hiring full-time employees and seasonal workers at his farm.Ban...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miners' trucks damaging our roads: Mayor
GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has blamed Chinese-owned mining vehicles for damaging city roads.Makombe said the Midlands capital was witnessing a proliferation of Chinese companies venturing into...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:41hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF plots to block MDC Alliance voter registration campaign'
THE opposition MDC Alliance has accused Zanu-PF of plotting to block its voter registration campaign in Bulawayo ahead of the 2022 by-elections.MDC Alliance yesterday recently launched a voter...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Teachers push for umbrella body
TEACHERS unions have accused government of deliberately delaying the formal registration of their umbrella body, Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Union (Fozeu) as part of a plot to keep them divided....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:53hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Kagonye accused of duping housing cooperatives
FORMER Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye yesterday denied allegations of duping two housing cooperatives of US$38 500 in the sale of residential stands at Solomio F...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:47hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
2022 Post Budget Analysis
The Zimbabwean government presented a ZW$927.3 billion budget (18% of GDP) for the 2022 fiscal year. The government expects to collect revenues totaling ZW$850.7 billion (17% of GDP), thus resulting i...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 09:11hrs | 658 | by Victor Bhoroma
President sends Solidarity Message to Teachers' Unions
HARARE: NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe President Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka and his Executive, National Council and General Workers have sent a solidarity message to ARTUZ - Amalgamate...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1960 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Zimbabwe regime knows fully well its 'regime change' narrative is a whole load of bull!
If there has been any term uttered (or, more preferably, regurgitated) by the Zimbabwe regime, more than any other (especially over the past twenty years), it has undoubtedly been, 'regime change' - p...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:16hrs | 611 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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