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Chamisa off globe-trotting to be declared winner of 2018 - if one leader does, will eat my hat
"Hupenzi inyama yegakava!" (There is no one more stubborn than a village idiot!) so goes the Shona maxim. The MDC leaders are village idiots and they are very stubborn too."On the 31st of July...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:15hrs | 4955 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zacc probes Mupfumira prison conditions
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday descended on Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison to investigate allegations that incarcerated former Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Pr...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1601 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 974 | by Kennet Mufuka
Zimbabwe judges take former Lesotho Army Commander head on
Zimbabwean judges Charles Hungwe, Moses Chinhengo and Tafuma Mtshiya are part of a group of foreign judges lending their expertise to the Lesotho government in its quest to try double-murder accused f...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:10hrs | 2283 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Politburo appoints commission to probe Obert Mpofu
ZANU-PF has appointed a nine-member commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of corruption levelled against ordinary citizens, senior ZANU-PF members and Government officials. This fol...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 5998 | by Erasmus Pongo
Zanu-PF youths slam Zimbabwe spring protests
THE Zanu-PF Youth League in Matabeleland South yesterday slammed the planned MDC Alliance demonstration set for tomorrow, saying it is an unwanted political gimmick bent on causing anarchy in the coun...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt now printing 800 passports per day
Government has confirmed that the production of passports is improving and now stands at 800 passports per day from the previous 60, boosting chances of clearing a backlog that stands at 300 000....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:29hrs | 2378 | by Staff reporter
So Mnangagwa will finally Resign?
On August 16 some people of Harare high density suburbs will yet again brave the wind and toyi-toyi the streets to exert pressure on a constitutionally elected and military backed government to resign...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 18906 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Bulawayo City Council suspends water rationing
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has suspended the water-rationing programme introduced early this year, but urged residents to use water sparingly to avoid depleting the city's reservoirs.BCC ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Council to penalise water wasters
THE Bulawayo City Council has come up with water rationing limits and penalties for consumers using excess water as its reservoirs continue to be depleted. In a statement yesterday, the Town C...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Progressive Play - Perfect for 2019
Sometimes it feels that there are not enough hours in the day to complete all those different tasks we have set ourselves and this had led to most of us enjoying anything that is convenient and that m...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 22:14hrs | 467 | by Staff Writer
Power outages affect medical drugs storage
Many Zimbabweans who are on self-administered medical drugs requiring refrigerated storage are going through a torrid time as crippling power outages continue unabated.Drugs that require stora...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
The situation in Zimbabwe has moved to another level
"FELLOW Zimbabweans … the situation in our country has moved to another level. Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe and sound an...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1930 | by Cliff Chiduku
Chikurubi Prison wardens break inmate's leg over $1
Four junior officers at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison have been arraigned before the courts for assaulting and breaking an inmate's leg for picking a $1 coin in the office he was cleaning....Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1360 | by Staff reporter
Bosso wear underdogs tag against Rhinos
NEVER has a team gone into a home encounter as clear cut underdogs yet this is exactly the situation that Bulawayo giants Highlanders find themselves in as they collide with title darkhorses, Black Rh...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:52hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Fully utilizing ZIDA to promote economic growth
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) Bill was gazetted on the 5th of April 2019. The purpose of the bill is to establish a single focal point that facilitates entry and implementation...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 21:46hrs | 477 | by Victor Bhoroma
Beitbridge govt workers plead for accommodation
Civil servants in Beitbridge, who are facing accommodation challenges, have raised concern over favouritism in the allocation of 176 government houses in the border town.Some potential benefic...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:08hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Sustaining the Zimdollar
I AM naturally enchanted by the logic, sequence and clarity of a thought process. But l have grown to learn that, quite often, economic plans are elaborately ornamented.The number of economies...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:02hrs | 380 | by Persistence Gwanyanya
Tajamuka leader taken to Chikurubi maximum prison
Tajamuka leader Promise Mkwananzi has been remanded to the 23rd of August after being advised to apply for bail at the High Court. He was taken to Chikurubi maximum prison.He is being charged ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 11:50hrs | 4821 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa promises to return seized Zipra
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to return Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra)'s properties seized by government in the 80s. Mnangagwa made the landmark decision to return the...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe had no friends when the Chinese came to the party
FOLLOWING the collapse of relations with its former Western allies such as the United States and United Kingdom, Zimbabwe turned to China for succour.A notion, usually advanced by the West, th...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 375 | by Editorial - Newsday
76 soldiers in Mashoaland Central given houses
SEVENTY-six members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) received keys to their newly-constructed houses in Madziwa recently, which were built through the ZDF Benefit Fund.Speaking at the hand...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council-run schools propose fees hike
BULAWAYO City Council has proposed an upward review of school fees by $10 for its schools effective third term this year. According to the latest council minutes, Council is no longer financia...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
We trust Zimbabwe has a future
We are not exactly optimists in this country. We have seen too many disasters; man-made disasters I should hasten to addWe have seen a Tsunami like Cyclone Idai, and we expect "the next cyclon...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 427 | by Fr Oskar Wermter SJ
Zanu-PF's Muchuwe eyes Glen View South seat
Zanu-PF candidate for Glen View South by-election Offard Muchuwe is confident of winning the seat as he has lined up empowerment projects meant to capacitate the people in the constituency. Th...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Bosso return to winning ways
Highlanders 1 - 0 ChapunguHighlanders ended their three-match winless run with a 1-0 victory over Chapungu on Wednesday, thanks to a first-half goal from Prince Dube.The match had a cagey ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 16:51hrs | 2224 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube moots dry ports
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said setting up dry ports in Zimbabwe would spur economic activity through connecting the landlocked southern African country with the rest of the world.Ncube...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:31hrs | 1896 | by Staff reporter
Bosso pray for Princely performance
HIGHLANDERS coach Mandla Mpofu is hoping that Prince Dube can take his form from the international level to club action when Bosso host Chapungu in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) tie at Ba...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares drought national disaster
President Mnangagwa has declared the 2018/2019 El-Nino-induced drought a State of National Disaster, paving way for the launch of the Revised Zimbabwe Humanitarian Appeal yesterday by Government and t...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:21hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Plumtree road accident kills 1, injures 12
A Plumtree teacher died while 12 people were injured when a car they were travelling in overturned along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Road on Sunday afternoon.The accident occurred at the 62 km peg n...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 3331 | by Staff Reporter
Highlanders take on Chapungu at BF
HAVING finally broken his goal-scoring drought in spectacular fashion on Sunday, albeit for the Warriors, attention will be on striker Prince Dube this afternoon when he leads Highlanders' front line ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 915 | by Staff Reporter
Diesel now more expensive than petrol
Diesel is now more expensive than petrol for the first time in a long time in Zimbabwe.The latest fuel adjustment made by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA), left the maximum pump...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 19:18hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Competition and Tariffs Commission exposes consumers
The Competition and Tariff Commission has banned the self regulation mechanisms which had been setup by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe and other retailers in a bid to cushion the consumers ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:30hrs | 1700 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Talking Nkayi Education: Slicing the education cake with high-flying Zwelabo Secondary School
Zwelabo Secondary School, founded in 1984 and located about fifty kilometres west of Nkayi Centre in Matabeleland North Province, is arguably the jewel and golden place to be, for many progressive stu...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:46hrs | 782 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Muzorewa party in dual candidates storm
UNITED African National Council (UANC) president Gwinyai Muzorewa (pictured) has rubbished claims that his party fielded two candidates for the forthcoming Glen View South constituency by-election, sa...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:53hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube closes illegal forex tap on mobile money
THE transfer of funds from mobile money transfer agents to recipients will now be subjected to taxation as Treasury moves to plug out rampant illegal foreign currency deals being conducted via the cas...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:44hrs | 3768 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube widens tax-free threshold
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has reviewed upwards the tax-free threshold by 100 percent from $350 to $700, with immediate effect, in an effort to increase workers' ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:32hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya should contend with being unpopular
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube on Thursday presented a $10,85 billion Supplementary Budget and the 2019 Mid-Term National Budget Review Statement. Themed; "Building a...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:19hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube: King of the Last Minute
On February 22, 2019, President Emmerson Mnangagwa issued the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Amendment of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Act and Issue of Real Time Gross Settlement Electronic Dol...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 3055 | by Mike Murenzvi
Epic start for Zimbabwe
It was an enticing football galore in the debut match of the seventh women's Confederation Of Southern African Football Association (COSAFA) tourney being held at the Isaac Walson stadium in Port Eliz...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 2290 | by Daniel Itai
Migration to solar costs Econet US$60m
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe says it requires more than US$60 million to upgrade its equipment and convert all its sites to solar power. The move to embrace solar energy comes on the back of cripp...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 07:46hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
$80 000 in back pay for suspended immigration officers
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema has been ordered to direct his ministry to pay more than $80 000 in back pay salaries and benefits for eight Victoria Falls immigration officer...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Malema hits back at Mnangagwa
The souring life of Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe is becoming unbearable as each day progresses. With food inflation hovering just beneath the 200 percent mark urgency is needed to alleviate the pandemonium...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 26094 | by Daniel Itai
Tsvangirai's son confident of victory
Vincent Tsvangirai, who won the right to represent the MDC in the Glen View South constituency by-elections, is confident of winning the by-elections on September 7 and replace his late sister, Vimbai...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2168 | by Staff reporter
9 vie for Glen View South seat
The opposition MDC faces a stern challenge to retain the Glen View South seat with nine candidates having successfully filed their nomination papers last Friday.Vincent, the son of the late MD...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa joins hands in Glen View by-election
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T party will not field a candidate in the upcoming Glen View South by-election as a sign of respect for the late opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai....Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 3910 | by newzimbabwe
Bulawayo Council warns residents over sewer water
Bulawayo City Council has warned residents that vegetables watered using sewer water pose a threat to the intellectual capacity of children as the water is contaminated with dangerous chemicals....Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:17hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy needs free-market policies to grow
The introduction of the foreign exchange interbank market by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in February 2019 was a major milestone towards free market economics. Even though there are fears of gov...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 17:59hrs | 532 | by Victor Bhoroma
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 468 | by Pathisa Nyathi
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