Search / Millions
Zimbabwe cannot be marketed, ED
President Mnangagwa was in Victoria Falls On Thursday trying to lure tourists into Zimbabwe to solve the economic disaster he has put the country in with his corrupt administration. The irony in his a...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1552 | by Tawanda Muyeye
It is very much in SA's interest to ‘interfere' in Zimbabwe
For about 20 years South Africa has watched, rarely exerted pressure, and in some instances aided and abetted, the tragedy Zimbabwe has become.South Africa is now home to millions of Zimbabwea...Published: 14 hrs ago | 306 | by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Mnangagwa tells Zimbabweans not to listen to G40 fugitives
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to disregard the initiative by former members of ZANU PF who are calling upon the African National Congress to intervene between them and the p...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 20:34hrs | 3175 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4687 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7283 | by Staff reporter
Charamba freaks out over 'racist' US sanctions
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman George Charamba has accused the US government of racism after the superpower Tuesday slapped targeted sanctions on fuel mogul Kuda Tagwirei for allegedly propping up a corrupt Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3624 | by Nomusa Garikai
'US sanctions on Tagwirei wrong and devoid of logic'
The imposition of sanctions on Sakunda Holdings and its chief executive, Mr Kuda Tagwirei, by the United States yesterday is wrong and devoid of logic, but will not affect the ongoing re-engagement dr...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4083 | by US Treasury
Govt tightens screws on urban councils
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on all urban councils, demanding information on all residential stands acquired by councillors as it moves to unearth land scandals.In a letter dated July 27 an...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1410 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1675 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:17hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3544 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zesa workers rally behind Gata
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Holdings employees have taken sides with the parastatal's embattled executive chairperson, Sydney Gata, who is being investigated for corruption.Ga...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
WFP urgently seeks US$250m for Zimbabwe crisis
With COVID-19 aggravating an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for an additional US$250 million to support a rapidly expanding emer...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
White farmers to get US$3.5 b compensation - only objection, looters must pay not povo
Zimbabwe has signed an agreement with the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe and the Southern African Commercial Farmers Alliance which mandates Zimbabwe to pay white commercial farmers US$3.5 billi...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 371 | by Wilbert Mukori
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1460 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Vela piles pressure on BDO Zimbabwe
FORMER National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairperson Robin Vela has threatened to sue BDO International if it fails to distance itself from a 2019 audit report by BDO Zimbabwe on the pay-as-yo...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Embassies caught in stands storm
WESTERN embassies (names supplied) were favoured in the illegal parcelling of residential stands by the MDC Alliance-led council in Harare as the opposition party used its control of the capital city ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2163 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa under threat from within Zanu-PF'
THE ruling Zanu-PF youth league has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under threat from within his own party and accuses some insiders of working with exiled officials to dis...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:54hrs | 14984 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 forces Mohadi to close shop
VICe-PReSIDeNT Kembo Mohadi's Beitbridge bonded warehouse for imported vehicles was closed on Saturday for decontamination after a worker tested positive for COVID-19.Stakeholders yesterday ca...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3959 | by Staff reporter
Who will police the enforcers during the lockdown?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week announced new restrictions to manage the spread of the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the globe.He said the...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 19:03hrs | 2474 | by Staff reporter
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
Mnangagwa losing the plot
One of the things President Emmerson Mnangagwa craved when he took over power following a military coup that toppled Robert Mugabe three years ago was international recognition.Mnangagwa promi...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:01hrs | 5662 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 260 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gono says never took RBZ farm merchanisation freebies
FORMER RBZ governor Gideon Gono says he never personally benefitted from the controversial farm mechanisation programme despite presiding over the free distribution of millions worth of machinery sour...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1108 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's MDC yet to finalise audit
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is yet to finalise an audit into its finances several months after announcing it had commenced the exercise following reports that $2 million was embezzled from the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:22hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
The Patriotic Front white President Darryl Collet's message to Zimbabweans
My fellow Zimbabweans;This is the first time I address you as President of The Patriotic Front. And I do it with great honor and humility. TPF is a multiracial movement born out of a collectiv...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5341 | by Darryl Collet
Econet challenges police search, seizure warrant
ZIMBABWE'S largest mobile phone operator Econet Wireless yesterday sought a court order to suspend a police warrant seeking information on its transactions arguing that this would violate the privacy ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
Mkhululi Bhebhe launches online series
FORMER Joyous Celebration member Mkhululi Bhebhe has launched an online music series My Music Journey which he will use to motivate up-and-coming artistes and share with them the secrets to success in...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
How does technology change lives?
Living in the 21st century, technology impacts every area of our lives. From the electronic alarm clock or mobile phone that wakes us every morning, we are never far from pressing buttons - on microwa...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 16:15hrs | 177 | by Staff writer
'State did not demand repay US$ b RBZ loans, all above board' said Gono - essence of institutionalised corruption
After decades of denying that corruption was rampant is Zimbabwe, Mugabe shocked the nation in his 2016 birthday interview with ZBC TV when he admitted the country was "been swindled out of US$15 bill...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1493 | by Wilbert Mukori
RBZ looting talk aimed at whipping public emotions against Zanu-PF?
ZANU-PF has dismissed as baseless, claims that some of its senior officials looted millions of United States dollars in public funds through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s farm mechanisation sch...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
Munacho Mutezo fired as ZimPF VP
ZIMBABWE People First (ZimPF) Vice President Munacho Mutezo has been fired from the opposition party after failing to repay a US$300 000 loan he got from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) through the...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1546 | by newzimbabwe
Gono confronts Tsvangirai's ex-advisor
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono was Saturday forced to defend his controversial Farm Mechanisation Programme, insisting the dishing out of millions of public funds to senior Zanu...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6139 | by Staff reporter
Cut the talk, Mnangagwa, and walk
EVER noticed how fake Pentecostal pastors and prophets cheat people year round? They use a combination of nicely worded promises and voodoo "miracles".The pattern is always the same. When the ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 12011 | by Tawanda Majoni
Outrage after beneficiaries of RBZ millions are exposed
A leaked list of the beneficiaries of a controversial Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation scheme has sparked fresh demands for the politically-connected to pay back the money after their...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 5031 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Econet faces black market, externalising forex charges
THE country's biggest mobile money provider, Econet Wireless was allegedly involved in black market activities between January and June which saw the company crediting huge sums of money to "runners" ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 3413 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe gears for energy surplus?
Zimbabwe will have enough power to push forward its rapid industrialisation from 2023 and is poised to become an exporter of electricity as new coal and coal gas generation capacity being planned or c...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Ncube to arm riot police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed Treasury to urgently buy a fleet of brand new vehicles for the police, including all-terrain troop carriers, water cannons, buses and equipment used by riot...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 14839 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube avoids supplementary budget
GOVERNMENT has remained vague on how it plans to provide safety nets for vulnerable citizens despite the growing social needs in the economy as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday failed to table ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
New twist on ZUPCO bus deal
The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) is leasing buses from Landela Investments despite earlier indications that Landela has been importing buses on behalf of the government, Business Times re...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 12477 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's reality check
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube will today present the Mid Term Fiscal Statement.The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which is also known as Covid-19, disrupted business both in the public and...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 4948 | by Staff reporter
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1498 | by Eddie Cross
Load More Stories
