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'ED2030 lobbyists must be arrested'
Former Bulawayo Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senator Felix Magalela Sibanda has condemned efforts to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028, calling for those involved to be arr...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 09:05hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US re-engagement failure complete
ONE of the biggest ambitions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa haboured when he took over power following a military coup in 2017 was to re-engage the United States and end its embargo on Harare....Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not exempt state entities from scrutiny
GOVERNANCE watchdogs has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa discard his gazetted General Notice 164B of 2024 which exempts 21 key state entities from complying with the Public Procurement and ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 20:03hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
American is paying billions to Russia's nuclear agency while the two countries are in conflict over the war in Ukraine
It should be a startling fact that the U.S. is paying billions to Russia's nuclear agency while the two countries are in conflict over the war in Ukraine.Nuclear power companies rely on cheap ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 13:31hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU crafting own version of PVO Bill
THE European Union is working on a law that will force non-governmental groups, consultancies and academic institutions to disclose any non-EU funding - a piece of legislation that is almost similar t...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera documentary is likely to cause fallout between Mnangagwa and Chiwenga?
A MAN is like the company that he keeps. This old adage is coming to haunt President Emmerson Mnangagwa as his re-election campaign, six months before the polls, hit a huge pot-hole after Al Jazeera p...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe cuts ties with Western PR firms
ZIMBABWE has terminated the services of consultancy firms which were engaged more than three years ago to help thaw diplomatic relations with the United States as Harare changes tack to break over two...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to take UN's advice
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to disregard parliament's consent and take the United Nations (UN)'s advice not to sign the Private Voluntary Organizati...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive losing steam?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is serving the last few months of his five-year term, is facing the monumental failure of one of his major goals since he was brought to power by a military coup in 2...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 20:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Will Mnangagwa ever learn, reform?
IN terms of the constitution, Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections will be convened either in July or August. Already, it seems inevitable that the Gukurahundi genocide could turn out to be one of Matabe...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition calls for removal of embargo
Opposition political parties have called for the unconditional removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, saying the measures are holding back the country's development.On Tuesday, Zimbabwe wil...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr President, you hold on power through brutality
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, Zimbabwe has long been in socio-economic dire straits. Her citizenry are rendered economic wanderers. Even children of liberation veterans ar...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Drama around Ndebele king making a mockery of the throne
THE intriguing drama around the Ndebele kingship, with about four claimants to the throne is a recipe for disaster to the Kingdom's potential revival. At this rate, authorities are bound not to take t...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 4 | 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 | 6 | 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 | | 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 | 4 | by Staff Reporter
'Hiring lobbyists unhelpful for Zimbabwe's image rebuilding'
ZIMBABWE'S failure to attain and build a good image in the international community is worsened by hopeless tactics like the hiring of lobbyist organisations, critics have said.In 2019, Preside...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents finger ZETDC employees in cables theft
RESIDENTS of Queens Park East in Bulawayo have accused Zimbabwe Electricity, Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employees of colluding with thieves in the theft of electricity copper cables...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa supporters concede to likely defeat
The clean sweep in most ANC regional conferences by candidates aligned to the radical economic transformation (RET) group has sent shockwaves in President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR22 camp, with some lobbyi...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Goblin economy creating goblin wealth
Without change of government's way of leading the economy, its system of governance of closely-controlled economy, Zimbabwe continue to be a goblin economy that creates goblin-induced wealth.G...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 82 | by Brian Sedze
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
Mnangagwa keeps $90,000-a-month US lobbying contract after feud
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime has broken its contract with the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs and hired Actum International UK, which was set up last month by a band of Mercury alumni le...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 17:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions lobbyists' days are numbered
THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms Alena Douhan, will be in the country from tomorrow to October 28, ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taming inflation is an arduous task
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) pointed that year on year (annual) inflation rate marginally increased to 51.55% in September 2021 from 50.24% in August 2021 after 8 months of straig...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 09:13hrs | 6 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe lobbyists court German investors
The sterling work being done by the Second Republic has charmed Zimbabweans based in Germany where lobbyists are courting investors from Europe's biggest economy to come to the southern African nation...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politicians caught in some 'situations'
That the United States has changed dramatically in the last 20 years is no longer in dispute. What we know is that their world is upside down, what is, is not what should be, and what should be, is no...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Inside the cotton value chain
Cotton has been grown in Zimbabwe from as far back as 1940, even though production was enhanced after the establishment of the Cotton Marketing Board (CMB) in 1969. The white Gold is the second most i...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 8 | by Victor Bhoroma
2021 Mid Term Monetary & Budget analysis
The latest mid-term budget and monetary policy statements were presented in a low key mode with emphasis on avoiding policy shocks that can rock the economy. The Zimbabwean government revised upwards ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:30hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Import Substitution: A case for soya beans
For the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has produced an average of 56 000 metric tonnes (mt) of soya beans per year against national demand of 240 000 mt for food, animal feed and industrial consumption. In t...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 13 | by Victor Bhoroma
Chamisa MDC infighting explained
FRESH Storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance after senior leaders are reported to have recommended the expulsion of Gift Ostallos Siziba, the Secretary-General of the MDC Youth Assembly.One Twit...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to face reality
OPPOSITION MPs have demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party should face reality and stop persecuting civil rights activists and introducing draconian laws like the Patriotic B...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's push for Chamisa to join Polad a nullity
YOUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.In my self-opinionated response to a recent media report where Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chami...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Paddington Japajapa
Bigwigs use sanctions excuse to loot, says Mzembi
FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi yesterday criticised the continued placement of Zanu-PF officials on the sanctions' list saying it was giving some bigwigs in government leeway to engage ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe to stay
Former United States Department of State assistant secretary for African Affairs, Todd Moss has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the US administration will notlift sanctions and accused him ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rights violations draw Zimbabwe back
One of the first key concessions that President Emmerson Mnangagwa made when he took over from Robert Mugabe almost two years ago was that the previous administration, which he was part of, lacked dem...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | | by Editorial Comment
Mnangagwa chasing wrong priorities, says US Senate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is misdirecting his energy lobbying western governments and blaming Zimbabwe's economic crisis on United sanctions, said Senator Jim Risch, the chairman of the United Stat...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 16:45hrs | | by ZimLive
Trump focuses on Mnangagwa
President Donald Trump says his government continues to keep a beady eye on developments in Zimbabwe, as Washington is being lobbied to review its long-standing targeted sanctions on Harare. T...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:30hrs | 7 | by ZimLive
Donald Trump says 'looking into Zimbabwe right now'
United States President Donald Trump said his administration was "looking at Zimbabwe right now" in a brief response to a journalist who had asked him a detailed question on his Africa policy and sanc...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:27hrs | | by ZimLive
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
America snubs Mnangagwa
American government are reported to have snubbed efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lobbyists to bring Cabinet ministers to a US-Africa Summit currently underway in Maputo, Mozambique. ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 16:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa hires second United States public relations firm for $1 million
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, battling to end Zimbabwe's international isolation, has recruited a second public relations firm in the United States at a cost of US$1 million per year.Documents...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:57hrs | 51 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa pays US$1 to have sanctions lifted nicodemusly - proof does not want free elections, ever
"Mnangagwa blows US$90k Monthly on another US lobbyist," reported Zimeye. The Americans were very clear what they wanted the Zimbabwe government to do for them to lift the sanctions - hold free, fair ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
US demands arrest of Aug 1 and January killer soldiers
PRESIDENT Donald Trump's administration has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa punishes security forces who stand accused of killing civilians during last year's post-election demonstrations, ...Published: 07 May 2019 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Workers not intimidated by Mnangagwa govt threats
IN SPITE of the hair-raising threats issued by Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema on Monday, government has been told to brace for wildcat protests as the country's embattled workers demand solutions ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
What can new league learn from the Australian NRL?
February 2019 opened a new chapter in the history of Zimbabwean Rugby League, with four teams competing against one another for two spots in a planned six-team NRL league. Its purpose is obvious, in t...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 13:33hrs | 17 | by Staff Writer
Churches fight on Mnangagwa's side
THE Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) leadership on Friday met with the United States representatives as part of its ongoing push to have western countries lift sanctions against President ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
European Union says it won't give up on Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) says the post July 30, 2018 poll killings and this year's deadly fuel riots had harmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to win the powerful bloc's support, as well as his...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plans to stop using army in demos
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed government's plan to buy riot hardware and water cannons for police officers in a bid to stop relying on the military in containing violent demonstrations....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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