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'Informal sector is 70% GPD but remitting paltry 1% in taxes' - get nothing from taxing imaginary wealth, common sense
"Shocking evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domest...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 21:38hrs | 723 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Paltry taxes cripple recovery
SHOCKING evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domesti...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:24hrs | 753 | by Eddie Cross
Paltry taxes cripple recovery
SHOCKING evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domesti...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:24hrs | 521 | by Eddie Cross
NCA condemns defections
THE National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) makes this statement in light of the alleged "defections" by senior and ordinary members of various factions of the MDC who have been in recent days making h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 855 | by Madock Chivasa NCA spokesperson
Natpharm reverses tender nullification
THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been forced to reverse a decision to disqualify a Chinese firm from a Covid-19 test kits tender after it had been denied on the basis of excluding tr...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love sparks debate in Parliament
IT'S two weeks after his demise and subsequent burial, but Zimdancehall chanter and liberation hero Soul Jah Love born Soul Muzavazi Musaka continues to make waves from the grave.Today, Member...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 3145 | by Staff reporter
How does Zimbabwe define its heroes?
I WANT to thank President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team for the conferment of provincial war hero status on Saul Musaka, Soul Jah Love. I would like to thank him again for the conferment of national...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 234 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Mamombe press conference snubbed
Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe's press conference which was aimed at calling for the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe, has been snubbed by many who called the legislator to order and lead the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | 2169 | by Political Writer
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 86 | by Bishop Lazarus
Watching in horror as the giants fell, one after another - The demise of public entities in Zimbabwe
When preparing this article, I was faced with the task of reviewing numerous press articles, news items and placing them alongside my own vast observations on what happened to the once thriving public...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:41hrs | 2756 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
UK exposes MDC Alliance violent streak
MDC-Alliance's violence and terror tendencies that have now found space on social media platforms have yet again hogged the limelight after a party activist with close links to the party leader Mr Nel...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora a puppet of Zanu-PF
As we draw near 2023 elections, there are going to be many surprises and the one surprise would be the walloping of Mr Douglas Mwonzora and signing off his political carreer.You can't be calle...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 09:18hrs | 4258 | by Leonard Koni
Bulawayo needs water, not political rhetoric
BULAWAYO's perennial water crisis has hogged the limelight for far too long, especially towards an election, and it's time politicians stop politicking over the issue, but deliver the precious liquid....Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Sweet smelling Zumbani has stolen the limelight
This wild fruit 'Mbhambhara', it's in seasons as we speak. Looking much like the famed olives, milky like Amarula but with a distant blend of sweet/sour taste. The tree with little shiney leav...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:07hrs | 2719 | by Tondo Murisa
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 3893 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1429 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has started stealing, politisizing Plan International and Welfare help on Mutare Floods Disaster victims
Partisian help of people who have been affected by Cyclone has started by Zanu pf members in Mutare, dream house disaster. Politics is now at play as Zanu members such as Moyo and Mrs Mp...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:54hrs | 1030 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Truck drivers blamed for Beitbridge traffic jam
ABOUT 8 800 people were cleared at the Beitbridge Border Post over the past week resulted in the untangling of a traffic jam which claimed about 15 lives amid solemn promises fromthe immigrati...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:22hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Tino Kadewere, Munetsi on target in French Ligue 1
WARRIORS' stars Tino Kadewere and Marshall Munetsi continue to lift the county's flag high in the French Ligue 1 after they both scored for Olympique Lyon and Stade de Reims Wednesday night to ensure ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 19:14hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry salutes new pool queen Mikayla
YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has saluted child sensation Mikayla Makwabarara and backed her to grow into a world-class swimmer.This comes as Makwabarara broke the...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Moana ‘ghost' haunts family
HIGH drama, confusion and controversy have become the hallmarks of the late socialite and fitness trainer Michelle "Moana" Amuli's burial with the feud surrounding her interment dividing opinion among...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:49hrs | 10805 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A should give Zimbabwe a break
ON October 25, Zimbabwe will be walking tall, arm in arm with its regional partners in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations that seek to...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2798 | by Staff reporter
It's time for Zimbabweans to bite the bullet
FOR the longest of times, Zimbabwe seems to continue hogging the limelight for its blustery manner in terms of handling human rights, and the coming in of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was expected to ...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 594 | by George Machanja
Zimbabwean songstress bemoans impact of COVID-19
One of the country's top female artists, Pauline Gundidza, has pointed out that artists are finding it hard to cope during the current COVID-19 pandemic.A lot of artists have had to forfeit th...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:30hrs | 329 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Is Zimbabwe ever going to be a nation?
AS expected, Zimbabwe is again in the limelight, attracting condemnation from the region and abroad. And again, Zanu-PF remains arrogant that there is no crisis in Zimbabwe. This is despite that the c...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:13hrs | 515 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Gono calls for Kagame mediation in Zimbabwe crisis
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has proposed Rwandan President Paul Kagame to broker an African Union (AU)-driven national dialogue that would culminate in the formation of ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:03hrs | 7060 | by Staff reporter
Is Sadc too conflicted to handle the Zimbabwe crisis?
ZIMBABwE is back in the limelight for the same wrong reasons. Corruption, abuse of power and human rights violations form the core of the allegations. The Harare authorities have insisted "there is no...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:25hrs | 579 | by Tapiwa Gomo
WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 4666 | by Mandla Ndlovu
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's controversial baker reported to ZACC for stealing Bulawayo maize
Controversial Midlands miller Douglas Kwande has again invited limelight after Bulawayo whistleblowers wrote a letter to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission complaining that he has been fraudulently b...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 15:37hrs | 9971 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Another top CIO Boss dies
Information coming from Harare indicate that dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation Assistant Director of Operations Rushmore Mukwamba has died. The cause of hi9s said death remains murky w...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:49hrs | 18911 | by Mandla Ndlovu
White Compensation; How about ZAPU Properties?
The European colonialists dispossessed our forefather of their land through a bloody and barbaric grab which left them poverty stricken and marginalised. It beggars belief that the formerly dispossess...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 16:14hrs | 1207 | by Iphithule Maphosa
BREAKING: Former RBZ Director Norman Mataruka dies of Coronavirus
Former Director of Banking Supervision at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Norman Mataruka has died, sources in Harare have confirmed. According to impeccable sources, Mataruka is said to have suc...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 09:35hrs | 14445 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1449 | by Brian T Kagoro
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2815 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
New War vets organisation throws ZANU PF Mash Central into turmoil
ZANU PF Provincial Chairperson Kazembe Kazembe has attracted the wrath of War Veterans after being accused of smuggling Richard Chirongwe into the War Veterans chairmanship for Mashonaland Central Pro...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:24hrs | 3886 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1345 | by Leonard Koni
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 449 | by Leonard Koni
Zuma's dead wife haunts Pastor Frank Chikane
South Afrrica's Reverend Frank Chikane has courted is back in the public limelight after President Jacob Zuma family accused him of tempering with a suicide note that was left by the late Zuma's wife ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 17:23hrs | 12356 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC legislators plot to desert Chamisa …as the recalling of the four MPs triggers fear
Fear has gripped the MDC Nelson Chamisa faction following the recalling of four legislators from Parliament this Tuesday, with some legislators now contemplating ditching Chamisa to save their politic...Published: 07 May 2020 at 20:44hrs | 3201 | by Innocent Mujeri
Chamisa's crumbling empire: Time for self-introspection
The world has been plunged into one of the most trying times in recent history, with the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 in China. Leaders worldwide have put their political differences aside to...Published: 07 May 2020 at 20:40hrs | 2904 | by Ben Mberikwazvo
The dilemma of the white community in Zimbabwe
WITH the advent of the Second Republic, the Zimbabwean white community has once again reached crossroads as it did in 1965 (UDI), in 1980 (Black independence), 2000 (farm invasions) and 2018 going for...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1600 | by Andrew K Tsiga
Is Obediah Moyo the black sheep of Zimbabwe amidst Covid-19?
Presidents have never been know- it-all executives posessing godly powers to rely upon in running governments.Instead, they have advisors- men and women whose prowess, expertise, foresight and...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 20:42hrs | 2571 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Bev exposes Khama Billiat?
RAUNCHY dancer Beverly Sibanda, aka Bev, recently exposed her sexual relationship with Warriors and Kaizer Chiefs star Khama Billiat in an argument with one critic while online.The critic in q...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 15:14hrs | 3311 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo betrayed Zipra, writes Obert Mpofu
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's participation in the 1979 Lancaster House talks was frowned upon by the military element in his-PF-Zapu, Zipra, which felt the negotiations were a "self-c...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 4743 | by Staff reporter
What does the supreme court ruling against MDC tell us
The opposition MDC with all its divisions and branches has been put on the limelight again. The task before the MDC is a very easy one. It is for the MDC to show that they are capable and able to prac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3812 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi a victim of abuse of power?
Business tycoon Frank Buyanga Sadiqi is no stranger to controversy and media limelight. Frank is popular for not backing out of fights. Frank Buyanga as an underdog took on dreaded former CIO Minister...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 14:44hrs | 2680 | by John Mbizvo
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