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MPs lament paltry ECD budget
MEMBERS of Parliament said paltry funding for Early Childhood Development in Zimbabwe was cause for concern and will push to ensure the sector is capacitated.Speaking during a meeting organise...Published: 22 hrs ago | 86 | by Staff reporter
US$2bn allocated at forex auctions
More than US$2 billion was allotted to almost 6 000 entities at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's weekly foreign currency auctions from when they opened near the end of June last year to the end of last ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 100 | by Staff reporter
Farai Jere acquitted
Harare regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa has discharged and acquitted Helcraw Electrical businessman Farai Jere, who was facing fraud charges involving the procurement of smart meters valued at US...Published: 22 hrs ago | 120 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 3125 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders in bruising fist fight
FACTIONAL violence in Zanu-PF has turned physical in the Midlands province, with senior officials exchanging blows in public last weekend in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's troubled citadel.Pre...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:22hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Panic-stricken Zanu-PF unleashes terror
POLITICAL violence that reared its ugly head again on Monday in Masvingo against main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa (pictured) and his entourage could be a precursor to what Zanu-PF is...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Fresh turmoil rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is undergoing a fresh turmoil threatening intra-party stability as jostling for provincial leadership reaches fever-pitch.The chaos has rocked all the provinces as warring factions in ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Violence in Masvingo makes Chamisa a hero
The recent events in the Masvingo province against MDC-Alliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa raised his bar graph very high. The MDC-A leader is in a meet the people whirlwind tour, meeting commu...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 17:41hrs | 1176 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Chamisa's MDC claims more attacks
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF supporters mounted a "roadblock" in Gutu, kidnapped and beat up some opposition supporters at their meeting with party leader Nelson Chamisa, who is on ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fundraises for national conference
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is rallying its members and stakeholders to provide financial resources and other items towards its forthcoming annual conference slated for this month in Mashonaland Central....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
'Harare contribution to GDP'
THE City of Harare has contributed about 38% to Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP), a new initiative by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has revealed.The initiative...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF neglecting cadres, says Clive Malunga
JENAGURU Arts Centre founder and musician Clive Malunga has accused Zanu-PF of neglecting war veterans, adding that he was seeking an audience with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to air out areas of "gr...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo demands improved funding for devolution
BULAWAYO residents have called on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to allocate more resources towards devolution to ensure its full implementation in line with the Constitution.The call was made ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife attends Third Eurasian Women's Forum in Russia
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is here to attend the Third Eurasian Women's Forum, on Wednesday had a heart-to-heart discussion with the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly o...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court settles Mwazha church dispute
ARCHBISHOP Paul Mamvura Mwazha remains at the helm of the African Apostolic Church (VaApostora veAfrica), which he founded, after the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed a High Court decision nullifying...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction revitalises economy, claims RBZ
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by some unscrupulous businesse...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has enough forex to sustain economy'
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by unscrupulous businesses and...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate savages Biti's lawyer
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti Wednesday blasted the lawyer representing MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti for trying to delay court proceedings by seeking a seventh consecutive postponemen...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Bullet proof car for Chamisa
MDC Alliance supporters have launched a fundraising campaign to buy a top-of-the-range bulletproof vehicle for the party leader Nelson Chamisa.The pledge follows this week's attack on Chamisa'...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 7236 | by Staff reporter
Shops shut down ahead of Chamisa's visit
POLICE Wednesday forced all shops at Janet Shopping Centre in Ward 17 Bikita, Masvingo to shut down while villagers were forced to go home blocking them from meeting MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 6088 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.From arrogance, insatiabl...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2841 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF alliance exposed
THE opposition MDC Alliance and civic society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused the police of working with Zanu-PF to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo pro...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
Biti assault case postponed to next week
THE State has challenged Tendai Biti's seventh application for postponement of trial in a case the MDC Alliance vice-president is accused of assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina at the Hara...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over internal chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday conceded that jostling for positions in the district elections has caused chaos in the party, and threatened to act on the "rogue" elements who it said were fanning divisions....Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to maintain water rationing
GWERU City Council (GCC) says it will maintain its rationing regime as part of efforts to conserve the water because of a low water table in its catchment areas.This was said by GCC spokespers...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
BCC climbs down on rates hike
BULAWAYO City Council has been forced to reduce the proposed increase in rates for the 2022 budget from 216% to 200%.This was revealed yesterday by mayor Solomon Mguni, who described the move ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Biti hits out at magistrate
Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Muchuchuti yesterday blasted the lawyer representing MDC-Alliance vice president Tendai Biti for trying to delay court proceedings by seeking a seventh consecutive postpon...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
IMF maintains positive outlook for Zimbabwe
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has maintained a positive growth trajectory outlook for Zimbabwe in 2021 of 5,1 percent largely supported by increased agricultural output, energy productio...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces Zanu-PF onslaught
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's ill-fated visit to Masvingo province this week has heightened fears the watershed 2023 harmonised elections could be bloody as Zanu-PF goes for the broke to maint...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 20:37hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa provoked us, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of provoking its supporters to attack him and his team by "trying to impose his views and trying to address disinterested Zanu-PF supp...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5971 | by Staff reporter
No leader has enjoyed universal approval
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, if ever there was a period in your life that you needed to exercise diligence and foresight, it is now. It is at this moment that you need to...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1934 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zanu-PF violence forces politburo to descend on Manicaland
Zanu-PF politburo members yesterday descended on Manicaland province to douse factional fights which have seen party members demonstrate against provincial chairperson Mike Madiro since Sunday....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject 216% rates increase
BULAWAYO residents have rejected a 216% proposed rate increase in the 2022 budget that would see residents in some wards paying as much as $12 000 in rates.The residents advised the loca...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
'Top cops transferred for bashing Zanu-PF supporters'
MASHONALAND Central police commanders have been transferred with immediate effect in what sources claim was retribution for actions over their alleged failure to control juniors who assaulted Zanu-PF ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Perks to stem doctors, nurses brain drain
A range of non-monetary incentives such as accommodation, transport and vehicle loans for health workers added to their package is seen as a way of retaining health staff and moderating the brain drai...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:08hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams Masvingo violence claims
AHEAD of President Mnangagwa's visit to the United Kingdom for the UN Climate Change conference of the parties (COP 26) in Glasgow and the expected arrival of the United Nations Special Rapporteur Dr ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:08hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Cops savagely beat Zanu-PF officials at polling station
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to step up and personally intervene in the deadly factional rowing pitting senior Zanu-PF officials after Home Affairs minister and current party provincia...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 5428 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'teargassed'
RIOT police yesterday teargassed MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at a private residence in Masvingo while suspected Zanu-PF youths attacked his convoy three times and injured several aides and his ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 8562 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland fights: 20 arrested
POLICE yesterday arrested 20 Zanu-PF supporters in Manicaland province following intraparty violence.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: "The Zimbabwe Republi...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
The impact of US sanctions on Zimbabwe
WHEN the American government passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment (Zidera) Act 20 years ago, it argued that the Act was not intended to punish ordinary Zimbabweans but to targ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 445 | by Eddie Cross
RBZ vows to tame forex black market
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday pledged to continue availing foreign currency through the foreign exchange auction system to ensure uninterrupted supply.Mangudy...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers sent for re-training after demanding salary hike
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant General David Sigauke has reportedly sent junior soldiers on forced re-training in Hwange as punishment for demanding a salary increase during an oste...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 3328 | by Staff reporter
5 injured after Zanu-PF mob attacks Chamisa vehicle
At least five MDC Alliance officials were treated for injuries on Monday after party leader Nelson Chamisa's convoy was attacked in Charumbira in Masvingo province, the party said.MDC Alliance...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
'Run-away blackmarket rates erode civil service salary gains'
GOVERNMENT is concerned by the increase in prices of goods and services which is eroding civil servants' salaries due to use of black-market forex rates by businesses.To date, the Government h...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna has case to answer
THE court has indicated that legislator, Dexter Nduna, has a case to answer in a matter he is alleged to have illegally prospected for gold at David Whitehead's waste dump site in Chegutu sometime in ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
RBZ, business reach consensus on exchange rates, pricing
A number of agreements were thrashed out yesterday between the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and leaders of the business sector to deal with what everyone agreed were unjustified jumps in black-market exch...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Why does the gambling industry boom in times of economic hardship?
There is no doubt that recent times have been tough economically for many countries around the globe. While some nations might have been facing hard times anyway, Covid-19 has really put a spanner in ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 14:01hrs | 595 | by Staff Writer
Mashonaland chiefs demand change of title to kings
CHIEFS are lobbying government to urgently change the nomenclature of traditional leaders' titles from chiefs to kings.Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Urayayi Mhondoro, is leading the lobby....Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:04hrs | 4203 | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks Zanu-PF Manicaland indaba
CHAOS rocked a Zanu-PF provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting yesterday after scores of demonstrators, who were calling for the ouster of Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro, were tea...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1443 | by Staff reporter
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