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Illegal compensation of stolen Zimbabwe assets to white farmers
Good day Mr EditorI would like to publish my opinion /article concerning the above issue in your paper Bulawayo24 with your permission.The compensation deal that was signed between Zan...Published: 7 hrs ago | 230 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
'We must unite to fight against detractors'
ZIMBABWEANS must remain united and resolute in the fight against renewed glaring, and unjustified attacks by the country's perennial detractors, both inside and outside our borders, said President Emm...Published: 8 hrs ago | 598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not dollarising, says RBZ
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Dr John Mangudya, insists there is no going back on the process of de-dollarising the economy despite the growing use of the US dollar in most transactions, mor...Published: 8 hrs ago | 887 | by Staff reporter
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 hrs ago | 233 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume denied jerseys, food
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) has raised concern over the ill-treatment of remanded journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, who were last week taken to ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 496 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR concerned about treatment of Chin'ono and Ngarivhume in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is concerned about the treatment of freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe political party, who are curr...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1229 | by Stephen Jakes
Beyonce won't vote in Zimbabwe
The Bishop laughed his lungs out last week when he saw the desperate efforts of some activists who were trying to foist their latest hashtag movement on US singer Beyonce.There was a lot of eu...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:43hrs | 377 | by Bishop Lazarus
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3518 | by newZWire
Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume sent to Chikurubi maximum prison
Imprisoned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Transform Zimbabwe Presidet Jacob Ngarivhume will be transferred to CDhikurubi Maximum prison, their lawyer Doug Coltart of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Right...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 3893 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthwakazi embarks on land audit exercise
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has embarked on a land and mine audit in Matabeleland and Midland provinces to unearth what it says is unfair distribution of the resources at the expense of deserving l...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 7009 | by Staff reporter
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 468 | by Tawanda Zinyama
'Poverty could bring back machete gangs'
DISRUPTION of employment and increasing levels of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced artisanal small-scale miners to resume their activities, raising fear of the resurfacing of the dread...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi wreak havoc in Mbembesi
MBEMBESI villagers are living in constant fear of violent illegal gold panners, popularly known as MaShurugwi, who have reportedly invaded the area and are digging around homesteads and gravesites in ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to sell NetOne to MTN?
MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei are plotting to sell NetOne to MTN South Africa in a bid to frustrate Strive Mas...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 12:42hrs | 13099 | by Mandla Ndlovu
I don't enjoy recalling MPs, says Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda (pictured) has said he does not enjoy recalling legislators, but was mandated to follow the Constitution to the letter.He made the remarks in Mut...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 2976 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa roped into Hopewell Chin'ono's court case
Nine top media organisations across the world have written to the as Chair of the African Union, and as the President of the Republic of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the crimi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4708 | by Mandla Ndlovu
African judges condemn Justice Malaba's directive
The Africa Judges and jurists Forum (AJIF) has today expressed a firm view that paragraph 2(iv) of the Hon Chief Justice Malaba's memorandum of 16 July 2020 in its original or amended form, directing ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 15:56hrs | 7543 | by Africa Judges and jurists Forum
Obert Mpofu goes into quarantine
Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Obert Mpofu has gone into quarantine after he recently returned from Tanzania, CITE revealed.Quarantine is for returnees from high-risk countries and such...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 15066 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7390 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Assault on property rights closes Zimbabwe for business
The government directive to suspend the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) operations on the 26th of June 2020 and the recent political threats to eject Old Mutual Zimbabwe, PPC and SeedCo International fr...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1357 | by Victor Bhoroma
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
Zimbabwe loses US$1 billion to smuggling annually
Smuggling, ineffective border controls and customs loopholes at Beitbridge Border Post might be costing Zimbabwe nearly a US$1 billion a year in unpaid customs duty, industry leaders and authorities c...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Time to redeem Zimbabwe from its political & economic strangulation
The levels of failure by this Zanu PF regime has no comparison. The people have lost faith in the ruling party and whatever the party touches it slips like an eel, hence the majority can no longer tru...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 07:53hrs | 784 | by Leonard Koni
Gold stamp mill invades school grounds
VILLAGERS in PFungwe are up in arms with a gold mine that set up its milling plant at Dindi Mission School grounds.More than 300 villagers have since petitioned the relevant authorities, sayin...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold mines lure investor despite economic ruin
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold mines are being snapped up by Mauritius-based Sotic International Ltd as the price of bullion soars to the highest in more than eight years.Landela Mining Ventures Ltd,...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:42hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1981 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 276 | by Vince Musewe
FCA account holders fail to withdraw cash
INDIVIDUALS with nostro foreign currency accounts (FCAs) in Zimbabwe are failing to withdraw US dollars from banks, a development which undermines public confidence and trust in the financial system....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 6104 | by Staff reporter
Metallon sells gold assets to Tagwirei's Landela
MZI Khumalo's Metallon has completed the sale of Shamva Mine to Kuda Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures, while the sale of Mazowe Mine is expected shortly.The transaction represents a change o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC suspends nine managers
NINE senior Zimbabwe Electricity, Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) managers have been suspended pending investigations over allegations of spearheading illegal power connections. ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Key concerns on the Forex auction system
The Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is cautiously yielding to free market demands for the complete liberalization of the foreign exchange market and scrapping of various consumption subsidies that were...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 5041 | by Victor Bhoroma
Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8936 | by newzimbabwe
Madhuku blasts government on electoral reforms
National Constitution Assembly (ANC) leader Lovemore Madhuku has challenged the government on electoral reforms and recommendations of the Commission."I will speak as a politician and NC...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 23:06hrs | 2141 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
WATCH: 'At least Mugabe's kids were not thieves'
Godfrey Tsenengamu, the expelled former Zanu-PF national youth political commissar said that his pressure group, the Front for Economic Emancipation in Zimbabwe (FEEZ) is ready to take action against ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:45hrs | 4463 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 783 | by Bloomberg
MATTER OF FACT: Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner
IN our edition of June 19 2020, we published a story headlined, Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner, where Bulawayo businesswoman Siphiwe GatshaDube claimed that she was being force...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 542 | by Editor
Machete gangs resurface
ARMED robbery cases involving machete-wielding gangs have resurfaced in Matabeleland South province, invoking memories of terror-filled moments linked to the thugs that traumatised communities....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Wild partying as Tagwirei takes over gold mine
Workers are said to have gone into wild partying and drinking at Sabi Gold Mine in Zvishavane three weeks ago after Kudakwashe Tagwirei rated as one of the country's richest persons took over the mine...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:18hrs | 13149 | by Staff reporter
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1092 | by Charles Murindo
Mnangagwa speaks on mine shooting
The Chinese national who has been charged with shooting and injuring two people at a mine in Gweru over a salary dispute will receive a fair trial, without discrimination, in accordance with the count...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe slowly but surely re-dollarising'
GOVERNMENT last week announced a 50% increment and a Covid-19 allowance of US$75 for civil servants and US$30 for pensioners. This is despite government earlier banning the multi-currency regime and m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF paranoia a threat to us all
As Zimbabwe mourned and buried another gallant liberation struggle hero, stanley Gagisa Nleya at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Wednesday one could not help listening, with a very heavy and sor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 256 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe army, Chinese deal collapses
The military is terminating its platinum mining deal with a Chinese firm to pave the way for new investors after over a decade of unfruitful engagement.The development comes after Global Plati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 2608 | by Staff reporter
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
Genuine liberation heroes never fought for Zanu-PF's unpatriotic institutionalized oligarchical corruption
As Zimbabwe mourns and buries another gallant liberation struggle hero, Stanley Gagisa Nleya - at the National Heroes Acre in Harare today - one can not help listening, with a very heavy and sore hear...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:24hrs | 510 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa to launch tractor facility
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to launch the John Deere agricultural equipment supply facility that is part of Government's mechanisation development programme, said Information, Publicity a...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's move to pay civil servants USD allowances is 'crazy'
The Zimbabwean government's move to pay its workers US dollar-denominated allowances as the southern African country struggles to stabilise its local currency has been described as "crazy" by an econo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 18:19hrs | 1759 | by Staff reporter
Landela and CBZ get green-light to buy gold
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Zanu-PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei could soon become Zimbabwe's biggest gold buyer after getting a special permit from Fidelity Printers and Refiners....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
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