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Zimbabwe makes first journalist arrests under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe's Press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages."The pair wer...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners loot Zimbabwe's emeralds
WELL-CONNECTED foreign syndicates are looting Zimbabwe's emeralds using local proxies and taking advantage of corrupt systems to plunder and smuggle various other types of little-known precious stones...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:50hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC will not continue 'whining' over electoral malpractices
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was now a lot wiser as an opposition and was busy plugging loopholes for possible vote rigging going into the 2023 elections.Ad...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe misses out on G7 stimulus package
ZIMBABWE missed out on a G7-backed multi-billion-dollar stimulus package designed to help countries of the global South weather economic shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.The reason for t...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Two-decade-old U.S. sanctions leave Zimbabweans suffering, triggering protests
Opposite the U.S. embassy northwest of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare sits an anti-sanctions camp marking 1,200 days of protest.On July 4, the organizer of the camp — Broad Alliance Agains...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:50hrs | 519 | by Tichaona Chifamba, Zhang Yuliang, Cao Kai
Zanu-PF warns renegades
Zanu-PF has warned fired former party members, Godfrey Tsenengamu and Jimu Kunaka, against abusing the revolutionary party's regalia and trademarks as appropriate action would be taken against them....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:23hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
War vets pledged to put Zanu-PF first and ensure that Mnangagwa wins by a landslide
VETERANS of the Liberations Struggle League (VLSL) in Mashonaland Central have pledged to put Zanu-PF first and ensure that President Mnangagwa, who has given them a special place in the ruling party,...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife appointed wildlife ambassador
WILDLIFE conservation requires team work as it calls for serious attention, commitment and dedication, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa said on Monday night while accepting her new role as the country...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:17hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Boy child vulnerable to sexual abuse too
POLICE in Bulawayo have put on spotlight sexual abuse perpetrated against the boy child after five boys were sexually assaulted within five months compared to zero cases that were recorded in the same...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
SA army tells Afrikaner rights organisation to back off border areas
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has told AfriForum that safeguarding and patrolling the country's borders is its responsibility and not for "any other non-State groupings or groups"....Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
IsiNdebele teaching in Buhera/ Buyela excites chief
THE Ndebele community in Buhera, Manicaland Province, has commended Government for reintroducing isiNdebele teaching at their local school, saying it is important for cultural preservation.The...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:57hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's rural charge shakes Zanu-PF?
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC)'s rural mobilisation strategy which, for a while, received backlash from Zanu-PF has reportedly left ruling party officials in Mashonaland province battling to...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 6006 | by Staff reporter
Interbank rate now sole legal rate, huge penalties for breaches
The interbank exchange rate has been set as the sole exchange rate to be used in commercial and other transactions and anyone selling goods and services, who uses any other rate faces a minimum civil ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:42hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Former territories of the British Empire snub Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S bid to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations appears to have flopped after the economic bloc snubbed the Southern African country.The Commonwealth Heads of Governmen...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
South Africa dismisses Afrikaner nationalists border patrol claims
South Africa's Home Affairs department has dismissed claims by lobby group South Africa's Home Affairs that it is patrolling the border between the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe at Musina in Limpo...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:47hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns Chamisa's CCC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) of stage-managing acts of political violence countrywide to stall Zimbabwe's readmission into the Commonweal...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 18:09hrs | 3444 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns merchants of violence
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sternly warned opposition parties with violent tendencies that the full wrath of the law will be applied on them without fear or favour as the Government does not brook a...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Violence has no place in Zimbabwe, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans must refuse to be used as instruments of violence and hate by the opposition who are only after self aggrandisement and political expediency.Addre...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 16:13hrs | 1121 | by Staff Reporter
Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe
Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the C...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 1214 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
South Africa diesel mixed with paraffin, says Mantashe
Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe warned of a growing trend of diesel-paraffin mixtures being sold as diesel at petrol stations.In a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, he sa...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 14:04hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Busisa Moyo exposes David Coltart
United Refineries CEO, ZITF Chairman and leading Zimbabwean businessman Busisa Moyo has rebutted allegations by CCC Treasurer General David Coltart that him and former MDC leader Eddie Cross are in Un...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 11:49hrs | 5126 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe sliding into full-blown crisis
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) chairperson Peter Mutasa was recently in South Africa for engagements with top officials from labour, political parties, civic society organisations and other solid...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 705 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Bulawayo Business Network statement on Zimbabwe-Malawi maize deal
Zimbabwe and Malawi are one , United by a common history and a shared future. From the time of the Federation we have been one and we will continue to be one. Several Malawians are now part of...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 09:37hrs | 3229 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Stunner's ex-wife makes stunning U-turn
Hip-Hop artist, Desmond Chideme's estranged wife Dyonne Tafirenyika, yesterday abandoned her police statement as she smuggled new evidence in their domestic violence case. In her initial polic...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Zinara moves to weed out corruption
A LEGACY of corruption and operational challenges at tollgates has tainted the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)'s corporate image.NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Taurai Mangudhla int...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
South Africa national shutdown on 10 June goes ahead
Reports have surfaced that a national shutdown is set for Friday 10 June following the hike in fuel prices set to increase taxi fares.A Whatsapp message forwarded many times claimed that the r...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:16hrs | 3654 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pay 100% of international hunting revenue to campfire communities
Christmas has certainly come early for Zimbabwe's hunting communities who are soon going to receive 100% payments from international hunting revenue. Under the Communal Areas Manage...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 10:37hrs | 2690 | by Emmanuel Koro
'The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Grain middlemen and speculators fight GMAZ
Powerful grain traders and speculators who buy grain from state owned enterprises and resell it to millers at an exorbitant price are up in arms with the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe for cutt...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 971 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Florence Ziyambi battles to be Prosecutor General
Seasoned and controversial lawyer and African Anti Corruption leader Florence Ziyambi has thrown her hat in the race to replace Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi.Florence Ziyambi in January 20...Published: 26 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 2778 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa slams western hypocrisy
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has slammed western hypocrisy where "false environmental and mining lobby groups" are paid to agitate local communities to fight non-western investment in their localities. The cou...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not doing enough, says US
The United States says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has done little to ensure relations between Harare and Washington are normalised as concerns grow that Zimbabwe might have yet another ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:26hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
What became of Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill?
THE Zimbabwe government has made several attempts to close down the civic space in Zimbabwe through existing and new legislation. This includes some amendments to the Criminal Law Codification and Ref...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 515 | by Nompilo Simanje and Otto Saki
Why Mugabe desperately supported Chamisa
IT has emerged that the late former President Robert Mugabe decided to support the then MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's 2018 presidential bid after President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly shut the...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2766 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group in bid to block Zimbabwe's Davos delegation
A LOBBY group, Fight Inequality Alliance Zimbabwe (FIA) says Zimbabwe's attendance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting to be held in Davos, Switzerland will be a waste of taxpayers' money....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Top medical firm in labour, tax evasion storm
ONE of Zimbabwe's oldest and major private medical services provider, Baines Imaging Group is embroiled in a nasty fight with serving and former employees, who are accusing the institution of external...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa ally sparks verbal war against rival empowerment lobby group
A WAR of words has erupted between officials aligned to two rival indigenous empowerment lobby groupings, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) and newly-launched Economic Empowerment Group (EEG)....Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
'The Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loans suspension review this week
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will this week review the suspension of bank lending that was recently announced, as it moves to investigate contractors on allegations they have been fuelling the p...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:11hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom
Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortun...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | 189 | by Fungi Kwaramba
EU against Zimbabwe's own Patriot Act
The European Union (EU) says it is concerned about laws that Zimbabwe is crafting that will further restrict freedom of expression.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is pushing for the ...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:16hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
Examination fees shocker
GOVERNMENT has raised examination fees by up to three times, and immediately attracted brickbats from weary parents.Many parents, still to come to terms with school fees hikes and already batt...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
Police guarantee public security
LAW enforcement agents will thwart any illegal protests called for today by proponents of illegal regime change under the banner Pachedu, an oppositional civil body.The faceless individuals ha...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:05hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to counter demos
THE Zanu-PF youth league has resolved to lobby the public service to only recruit party card-carrying members and graduates of the infamous Border Gezi programme as part of measures to counter demonst...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3229 | by Staff reporter
Doctors want share in medical facilities
Medical practitioners are lobbying the government to give doctors 51% shareholding at medical facilities in order to allow fair practice in the medical sector.This came to light after there wa...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:24hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Polad exhibiting at ZITF
All 17 Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) parties are equal members and claims that the grouping is a Zanu-PF project meant to silence opposition parties in the country are bent on perpetuating politic...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
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