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Chamisa, Biti, Sikhala clash over MDC Masvingo executive dissolution
MDC vice president Tendai Biti and national deputy chairperson Job Sikhala last Sunday came to the rescue of the under fire MDC Masvingo provincial executive which party president Nelson Chamisa...Published: 3 hrs ago | 619 | by Staff reporter
MP criticises english name for new suburb
Chiredzi West Member of Parliament (MP) Farai Musikavanhu has criticised Chiredzi Town Council for giving a new suburb an English name, saying an indigenous language name could have been chosen....Published: 3 hrs ago | 409 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to adopt automated pre-paid parking system
The city council here has moved to adopt an automated pre-paid parking system as a measure to mitigate financial leakages and corruption allegations levelled against tolling marshals.Speaking ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 59 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of trying to whitewash Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of deceitfully co-opting civil society organisations (CSOs) under the Matabeleland Collective (MC) in a bid to whitewash the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities....Published: 4 hrs ago | 258 | by Staff reporter
Model's nasty Miss Global experience
TOP beauty model Tania Tatenda Aaron has opened up on her experience during her participation at the Miss Global pageant held in Mexico late last year but said she did not allow the unprofessional han...Published: 4 hrs ago | 107 | by Staff reporter
Zimra needs monetary, fiscal alignment
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) Commissioner-General Faith Mazani has called for monetary and fiscal policies alignment as the depreciating Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) has made it difficult to plan.&...Published: 4 hrs ago | 85 | by Staff reporter
Investors desert Zimbabwe stock market
FAILURE by foreign investors to repatriate funds has led to massive disinvestment on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) with investments plummeting to 25% in 2019 from 52% in 2016.This comes as...Published: 4 hrs ago | 103 | by Staff reporter
What is the future of the Australian gambling market?
Australia is one of the leading countries, especially if we look at the gambling industry. Almost 80% of the Australian population is involved in one gambling activity or another. It is no surprise th...Published: 10 hrs ago | 227 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ready for revolution
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa warned yesterday that the worsening economic situation in the country had created conditions conducive for a revolution, the Daily News reports.This comes as e...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri in sex storm
Former Harare East MP Terence Mukupe has sensationally accused Malawi-born preacher Shepherd Bushiri of having an adulterous affair with his musician wife, Rachel J.Mukupe accused Bushiri of b...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1931 | by Staff reporter
IMF meeting on Zimbabwe set for Monday
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold its crucial meeting on Zimbabwe in Washington DC on Monday next week, businessdigest has learnt.The Bretton Woods institution will discuss the economic ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 812 | by Staff reporter
Methodist Church wades into Zimbabwe's dialogue logjam
THE Methodist Church in Zimbabwe has called for broad-based dialogue to address the country's multi-faceted crisis characterised by a deepening economic and social crisis.The call comes in the...Published: 20 hrs ago | 662 | by Staff reporter
High school pupils in Valentine's gig sex storm
STUDENTS at the Reformed Church of Zimbabwe (RCZ)-run Pamushana High School in Bikita East were reportedly involved in a beer binge and sex escapades at the school premises after the institution hired...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1497 | by Staff reporter
Hungry chiefs' wives beg for mealie-meal
WIVES of traditional chiefs yesterday appealed to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for mealie-meal, as the shortage of the staple commodity spreads across the country.The First Lady was in Masvin...Published: 20 hrs ago | 402 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commissions nothing but a waste of taxpayers money
The meeting that took place between ZANU-PF president Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa , who is also the chief architect of the Matabeleland Gukurahundi Genocide and so called Matabeleland Civic Society (fo...Published: 20 hrs ago | 157 | by Mr Mbonisi Gumbo
MDC MPs ignored protocol, says Mudenda
Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has said members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines ignored protocol when they held an urgent meeting on January 15 this year to discuss ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 151 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions a cheap excuse for failure, industry tells govt
INDUSTRY in Bulawayo yesterday challenged government to stop crying about sanctions, but start creating a conducive operating environment, give them fuel and forex for raw materials as well as sort ou...Published: 20 hrs ago | 235 | by Staff reporter
Address transmission challenges before community radio Government told
Matabeleland North communities of Hwange and Binga have called on the government to address the poor radio and television transmission before it can ever talk of the establishment of community radio s...Published: 20 hrs ago | 72 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Mnangagwa to attend 2nd Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission next week
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will visit Botswana next week for the Second Session of the Botswana-Zimbabwe Bi-National Commission (BNC) Conference, which seeks to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two c...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
100 wagons boost for NRZ from Russia
The resuscitation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe received a major boost yesterday after Government guaranteed the payment of the initial US$1,5 million required to facilitate the delivery of 100...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 1763 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa threatens to unleash as he goes for 'radical' & disruptive approach
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday said his party is planning to plunge the country into an orgy of violence as it has abandoned its calls for dialogue. Mr Chamisa lost to P...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:27hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
'Zifa not treating Herentals with kid gloves'
ZIFA Appeals Committee chairperson and Harare-based lawyer Stead Kachere has denied growing suspicion that they are treating Herentals with kid gloves after their match- fixing appeal case was postpon...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:26hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa was not a ZPRA founder member'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not one of the founding members of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) as he recently claimed, former high ranking ZPRA and Zapu cadres have revealed.L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3669 | by Staff reporter
NRZ resuscitation on course
A delegation from the United Wagon Company of Russia today met Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as efforts to resuscitate the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) gathers pace.The Russian co...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:30hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Breaking: Zimbabwe records first Coronavirus case?
A suspected case of the deadly Coronavirus has reportedly been recorded in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare.Initial reports indicate tha...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 15:16hrs | 7865 | by Ndou Paul
8 masked robbers pounce on Mukuru shop
EIGHT masked men, armed with iron and crow bars, reportedly broke into a Mukuru shop in Harare's central business district yesterday and escaped with a safe containing US$7 225 and ZW$20 000 after sca...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:37hrs | 3297 | by Staff reporter
Passport fees hiked to $150
Government has with immediate effect reviewed application fees for an ordinary passport from $53 to $150 and that of an emergency passport from $253 to $600. The move is aimed at clearing the ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
New measures to clear passport backlog
CABINET yesterday approved strategies to clear the passport backlog which will see the fees going up and those with free funds being allowed to pay in foreign currency. A Statutory Instrument ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Row over Bulawayo street renaming after Ndebele kings only
DESCENDANTS of the newly revived Mambo Dynasty have clashed with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the local authority's recent decision to rename some of the city's streets and suburbs in honour o...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 2507 | by newzimbabwe
CIO controlled journalism run stark mad
I hardly respond to social media reports, but found it prudent to respond to acidic reports peddled by the so called 'Harare Post' insinuating that Ptuz has not paid its workers since November 2019, w...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:14hrs | 1771 | by Takavafira Zhou
Mnangagwa, families sparring over Gukurahundi genocide
THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s - mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands - are at loggerheads over the official reference to the ki...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:18hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tones down on protest
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa seems to have officially announced to his supporters the much awaited signal that he promised in 2018 as he tweeted today that prayer...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:18hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe to name street after Tsvangirai
KWEKWE is mulling naming one of its streets after the late main opposition MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, after councillors moved a motion at a recent full council meeting.The develop...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pressured on talks with Chamisa by EU
THE European Union (EU) has indicated that it does not recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's pet project, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) as adequate to resolve the problems in Zimbabwe and s...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3592 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa feeling the heat
OPPOSITION MDC president Nelson Chamisa yesterday conceded that he was under "immense pressure" from restless party supporters who want to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his handling of th...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:54hrs | 3369 | by Staff reporter
Residents call for ban of donkeys in city
GWERU residents have implored the local authority to come up with a by-law effectively banning the rearing of donkeys in the city following an upsurge in their numbers as they are used as draught powe...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
RBZ sets inflation targets
ZIMBABWE is projected to record single digit monthly inflation this quarter with annual inflation seen coming down to about 50 percent by the end of the year. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Go...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa approaches Sadc, AU on Mbeki, talks
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the count...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 20:09hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe remains on EU sanctions
LATE former President Robert Mugabe has been removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list but his widow, Grace remains "restrictive measures".Mugabe died September 6 last year, aged 95....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1242 | by newzimbabwe
EU not taking Polad seriously
The European Union (EU) has called for "inclusive national dialogue", a clear indicator that it is not taking the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) seriously and believe dialogue between Mnangagwa and...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:59hrs | 2561 | by Staff reporter
EU sanctions blow for Mnangagwa
The European Union (EU) has renewed its arms embargo on Zimbabwe and sanctions on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) for one year and lifted restrictions on four individuals following the Council o...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:58hrs | 2458 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU plots crippling living wage protests
THE country's largest labour body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has threatened to roll out mass protests and make life difficult for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government until it...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:49hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa exposes Innscor Africa Limited
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Innscor Africa Limited's Mike Fowler of running a cartel that has captured the state and is practicing racism in the country. Mliswa who wr...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 09:12hrs | 4443 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF women want party projects to benefit non-members
THE Zanu-PF Women's League has said party-initiated projects should spread to benefit other members of the community regardless of their political affiliation. Speaking at a Women's League lea...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ex-youth leaders accepts censure, retraining
Zanu-PF has commended the acceptance of censure and rehabilitation by former Youth League leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu. Matutu was the deputy secretary for youth affairs while T...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa risks removal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should reform sooner rather than later or face overthrow by angry citizens who have endured continued abuse under his regime, an international human rights defender has wa...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 18:10hrs | 8352 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:35hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps allies
President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly gave under-fire Zanu-PF youth league leaders the green light to launch a crusade against three businessmen accused of sabotaging the economy, but backtracked aft...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 13406 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to apologise for Gukurahundi genocide
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Friday asked to apologise for the Gukurahundi atrocities when he met a group of Matabeleland-based civil society organisations and political parties in Bulawayo....Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
National interest or Partisan dynamics in Economic Policy Design
This instalment marks the end of this series on political transitions and economic policy architecture in Zimbabwe. To refresh your memory reader, you would recall that policy-making is a seri...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 74 | by Richard Mahomva
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