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RBZ speaks on Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya fight
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has called upon Zimbabweans to reject reports that there was an angry exchange of words between Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube and and RBZ Governor John Panonetsa...Published: 11 hrs ago | 7276 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mangudya walks out of meeting with Mthuli Ncube
THERE was high drama after Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya, in a fit of rage, tossed paper files at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and walked out of a meeting, angrily slamming th...Published: 12 hrs ago | 10930 | by Staff reporter
'Is Mnangagwa's govt pro-poor or Queen B?'
MDC legislators on Wednesday grilled Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi over the effects of government's austerity measures while bigwigs are living an extravagant life...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1055 | by Staff reporter
The Mnangagwa regime
The violent suppression of Zimbabweans protesting rising fuel costs and food shortages by security forces has prompted debates in the UK Parliament on the growing crisis in the African state. Here we ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 492 | by Louisa Brooke-Holland
Advocate Jacob Mudenda offside
The MDC finds the utterances by Advocate Mudenda on the capacity of MPs to be unfortunate, reckless and disrespectful. They are an indictment on his leadership and a sad attempt to undermine our Const...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2935 | by Kucaca Phulu
Govt mobilises resources to retrieve 23 drowned miners
Government yesterday said it was mobilising resources to help retrieve the bodies of at least 23 miners who reportedly drowned at Battlefields on Tuesday night when Silver Moon and Cricket mines in Mu...Published: 19 hrs ago | 908 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi downplays Nduna murder confessions
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday tried to downplay Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna's confession that he was a killer by telling the Senate that the word in Shona had several meanings.Zi...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2194 | by Staff reporter
More foreigners at Dembare
DYNAMOS' appetite for foreigners is showing no signs of abating with the Harare giants coach Lloyd Chigowe (pictured) yesterday revealing that the club is expecting two more players from Ivory Coast t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 576 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba disgusted by Mliswa, Nduna 'idiotic' behaviour
ZANU-PF MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba says he was ashamed of the riotous behaviour of fellow legislators Dexter Nduna and Temba Mliswa who came close to trading blows beginning of this week....Published: 19 hrs ago | 1738 | by newzimbabwe
EU calls for more Zimbabwe sanctions
The European Parliament recommended the tightening of sanctions on senior Zimbabwe officials and institutions on Thursday citing increased repression by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government....Published: 19 hrs ago | 622 | by ZimLive
Ncube, Mangudya policy tussle on monetary policy statement
POLICY efficacy doubts - both fiscal and monetary - in supporting a liberalised foreign currency market, effectively discarding the 1:1 US dollar-bond note/RTGS dollar peg, have arguably been the main...Published: 19 hrs ago | 463 | by Brett Chulu
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: 19 hrs ago | 109 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya in bitter fight over new Zimdollar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to intervene in a growing turf war between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and his boss Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on the path Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 15:51hrs | 18576 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa was accused of being an askari
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday had to do something that none of his predecessors, including the corruption accused Jacob Zuma, has ever been forced to do: defend his struggle credentials....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
Rescue underway at Zimbabwe mines where over 23 trapped
The Civil Protection Unit in Mashonaland West has stepped up efforts to drain water from two flooded mines where at least 23 people reportedly died on Tuesday evening.The miners died when inte...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 13:25hrs | 2282 | by Staff reporter
Unparliamentary language Nduna and Temba must be sanctioned
Parliaments and legislative bodies around the world impose certain rules and standards during any parliamentary business Tradition has evolved that there are words or phrases that are deemed inappropr...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 12:30hrs | 1570 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Towards a genuine national dialogue
In recent times, there has been much talk of a "national dialogue". Indeed, this is the precise term that President Mnangagwa used when he called the February 6 meeting with political parties that was...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1410 | by Justice Benjamin Paradza
Mnangagwa intervenes in currency rift
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to intervene in a growing turf war between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and his boss minister Mthuli Ncube on the path Zimbabwe wi...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 7113 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ordained by God- #EDWillNeverWalkAlone
Zanu PF youth league national commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule was ordained by God a long time ago and that those harbouring ambitions of taking over s...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Con-artist dupes minister, Zanu-PF MP
A SERIAL Harare conman allegedly masqueraded as former Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Mafios Cheda to dupe several prominent people, among them Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda and Bubi l...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1449 | by Staff reporter
'I am being abused by fellow MPs'
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education chairperson, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga yesterday complained that MPs from across the political divide were abusing her and threatened to surrender ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa ups ante on Nduna, calls for investigation
DRAMA continued in Parliament yesterday as Norton MP Temba Mliswa (independent) insisted on having Chegutu West legislator Dextor Nduna (Zanu PF) investigated for alleged self-confessed murder....Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:23hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda bemoans MPs' lack of economic literacy
SPEAKER of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has bemoaned lack of economic literacy among some of the Members of Parliament saying this was negating efforts to steer the country forward. Speak...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
38 feared dead in flooded mine shafts
38 artisanal miners are feared dead following flooding of shafts at two mines in Battlefields near Kadoma.34 of the miners went underground at Silver Moon Mine and another four at Cricket Mine...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:47hrs | 2792 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa on a bull rampage
NORTON legislator Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic chara...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:54hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa stirs fresh controversy
NORTON legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa, who has a long history of controversy from sport to business; politics to his love life, is back on a rampage. Whether it is mere attention seeking or a tragic char...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 2450 | by Staff reporter
'UK accelerates deportations of failed Zimbabwe asylum seekers'
The Home Office has been condemned for working with the Zimbabwean government to accelerate the deportation of asylum seekers despite high-profile human rights abuses in the country.Asylum law...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 20:28hrs | 1580 | by The Guardian
WhatsApp gives away Mliswa's shady deals
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa, who is in the eye of a storm for allegedly soliciting for a bribe from a local businessman, has claimed to belong to very powerful cartels after being cornered by fello...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 6815 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna admits to killing more than once
A Zanu-PF MP once accused firing his gun during an election campaign has boasted that he has killed before.Dexter Nduna, the MP for Chegutu West, made the shock claim while threatening Norton ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 15:04hrs | 3701 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF hit by fresh wave of purges
A fresh wave of votes of no confidence against senior officials in Zanu-PF has consumed the ruling party.The Daily News reported that a number of Zanu-PF officials now face an uncertain future...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:49hrs | 3740 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa's Advisory Council Legal?
Editor,Please, allow me to ask lawyers if it is legal for the president to appoint a second cabinet without wide consultations. It is obligatory for cabinet ministers to seek sound advice conc...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:46hrs | 646 | by Concerned Citizen
Zimbabwe MPs in near fistfight
TEMPERS flared in Parliament yesterday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Transport Committee chairperson, Dexter Nduna, of il...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2203 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Nduna trade insults
It was ugly business in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development this Monday as proceedings came to a halt with members trading insults in full glare of the media and witn...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:51hrs | 2533 | by Staff reporter
Local assembly cars for ministers & MPs
Government is weighing the option of purchasing vehicles for ministers and parliamentarians from local vehicle assemblers to promote the domestic industry and reduce foreign currency expenditure in li...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:51hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Chiwenga court battle in new twist
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has appealed against a High Court judgement that paved the way for Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to sue him for alleged defamation....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:18hrs | 9622 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2554 | by Taurai J. Pachena
I haven't arrived yet, says Seagirl
After bagging three awards in a space of three months, Bulawayo-based musician Novuyo Seagirl (27) still insists she hasn't reached her zenith.Seagirl last week won the Best House Music Song o...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:26hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
MPs want action on Matabeleland schools
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima has said four schools in Matabeleland North registered 0% pass rate in the 2018 Grade Seven examinations, a situation which is worrying Parliament....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri, Magaya and the gospel of prosperity
IT was perhaps the most striking picture that came from the spectacle that accompanied Shepherd Bushiri's appearance at the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court last week.It was the pictur...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's skulduggery will not blight Mnangagwa's reform agenda
The usual opposition cynics are employing all manner of tactics to blight the impact of reforms being implemented by President Mnangagwa.However, as is the case with any skulduggery antics, th...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:46hrs | 232 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Zanu-PF plots to embarrass Chamisa at congress
The clampdown on the ring leaders of the national shutdown that left a trail of destruction and over 12 civilians dead at the hands of security forces across the country is a Zanu-PF ploy to target MD...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:11hrs | 6370 | by Staff reporter
How to combat electoral fraud
This article proposes and outlines a possible solution to the problem of electoral manipulation in Zimbabwe. First, it explains the problem. Second, as a solution, it proffers a unique form of caretak...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1341 | by Zachariah Mushawatu
Ministers embarrass Mudenda
TRUANCY by Cabinet ministers during Parliament's question-and-answer sessions every Wednesday has continued despite pleas by the Speaker Jacob Mudenda that the Executive should take business of the Ho...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 5233 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is food secure'
GOVERNMENT still insists that Zimbabwe will be food secure this year, despite signs of drought already showing due to erratic rainfall patterns throughout the country.Labour and Social Welfare...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Madam Boss apologises for 'indecent' jumpsuit
Comedienne Madam Boss has apologised as the 'indecent' figure-sculpting bodysuit she wore to the Star FM Music Awards offended some of her followers. The entertainer walked the red carpet for ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 21:02hrs | 17998 | by Staff reporter
Stay away and Looting in Zimbabwe: A narrative created to push for a national dialogue
Zimbabwe does not get tired to engage into processes that will help the corrupt and governance failures survive another day. As I write this article I have no doubt in my mind that what is happening n...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:10hrs | 705 | by Dumisani Mpofu
President ED Mnangagwa is not sincere about the dialogue
A serious dialogue starts in privacy and secrecy, citizens are in most cases alerted about the dialogue when it reaches an advanced state. Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga did the same, Kenyans were sh...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:01hrs | 767 | by Don Chigumba
Two MDC MPs arrested over #ShutdownZimbabwe
MDC Member of Parliament for Mbizvo, Settlement Chikwinya and Redcliff MP Lloyd Mukapiko were arrested on Friday arrested on fresh charges of inciting public violence when they went to report to...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:24hrs | 2293 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mangudya in monetary policy fix
DISCORD between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube over policy issues around currency reforms has delayed the presentation of the monetary policy s...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:48hrs | 3972 | by Staff reporter
Parliament probes Mliswa over $400 000 bribe
A PARLIAMENTARY probe team will be set up to look into allegations that Mines Portfolio Committee chairperson, Temba Mliswa, and three other MPs demanded a $400 000 bribe while carrying out an inquiry...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
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