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Mzembi to break Zimbabwe political stalemate?
Our political dynamics require a game changer to break the perennial stalemate between the two main protagonists of our failed politics, Zanu PF and MDC A . At the core of this gridlock is the vanity ...Published: 1 hr ago | 481 | by Tawanda Ruzanhi
RBZ sets new capital requirements for banks
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday announced new US dollar-benchmarked capital requirements for banks of up to US$30 million which it says will ensure the stability of local financial instit...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe left with 30 days' supply of grain
ZIMBABWE has less than 100 000 tonnes (t) of grain in its strategic grain reserve — enough to feed the nation for only one month, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance S...Published: 7 hrs ago | 624 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to introduce $50 notes
GOVERNMENT will soon introduce $50 notes to address the currency crisis in the short term as the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) continues to devalue, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said.In June 2019...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1658 | by Staff reporter
All that glitters is not gold
I AM not sure of the details but around the year 2000, a geological exploration team found alluvial diamonds at Marange in Zimbabwe. They cut trenches and did further exploration for a number of years...Published: 7 hrs ago | 653 | by Eddie Cross
Corruption in Zimbabwe's transport sector shocking
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government was alarmed with the level of corruption perpetrated by officials in State entities in the transport sector.Officially opening a...Published: 7 hrs ago | 846 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sets up commission to probe MDC councillors
GOVERNMENT has set up a commission of inquiry to investigate reports of alleged corruption and abuse of funds by MDC councillors in Marondera town.The investigations come after residents prepa...Published: 7 hrs ago | 363 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa repossesses Kasukuwere's farm
FORMER Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere's Mazowe Farm has been repossessed by government with the exiled politician accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa o...Published: 7 hrs ago | 541 | by Staff reporter
Councillors, management clash over 2020 budget
GWERU council management and councillors have clashed over the $1,8 billion 2020 budget — a 3 900% hike from 2019's $46 million — sent for approval to Local Government minister July Moyo without c...Published: 7 hrs ago | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt universities defer intakes
STATE universities have suspended February intakes as they are aligning their curricula to the Zimbabwe National Qualification Framework. Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and...Published: 7 hrs ago | 585 | by Staff reporter
Big wigs face arrest in land barons dragnet
At least 132 people in Harare, including political heavyweights, face arrest for allegedly selling State land, corruptly allocating themselves stands, fraud, abuse of cooperative funds and criminal ab...Published: 7 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Killer's case finalised
The Masvingo Zanu PF leadership wants the party's national disciplinary committee to finalise the case of suspended provincial secretary for environment and tourism Killer Zivhu. The provincia...Published: 7 hrs ago | 203 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira remains suspended from Zanu PF
The Zanu PF Mashonaland West Provincial Executive Council (PEC) has reaffirmed that former Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira remains suspended from all elected positions pending a determination by the...Published: 7 hrs ago | 130 | by Staff reporter
Passport output to top 8 000 a day
Government is working out strategies to clear the passport backlog and increase daily production from the current 2 500 to 8 000, Home Affairs and Cultural Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said. ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 354 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe public hospitals to go digital
Zimbabwe's public health institutions will have all patients' records available in digital form at any health facility after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered Estonia in a project whose pilot p...Published: 7 hrs ago | 108 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Chombo, Chiyangwa face arrest
At least 132 people, including political heavyweights, face arrest for allegedly selling State land, corruptly allocating themselves stands, fraud, abuse of cooperative funds and criminal abuse of off...Published: 7 hrs ago | 379 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa’s Agenda 2020 address to the nation
(Transcript of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s ‘Agenda 2020’ address as prepared for delivery at Stodart Hall in Mbare on January 21, 2020)Fellow Zim...Published: 18 hrs ago | 861 | by Nelson Chamisa
Mnangagwa takes away Kasukuwere's farm
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa government has repossessed a farm in Mashonaland Central belonging to former minister and one of the G40 kingpins, Savior Kasukuwere in what it called a downsi...Published: 18 hrs ago | 5007 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube claims drought situation is under control
THE MINISTER of Finance and Economic Development has assured the international community that the drought situation in the country is under control as the government is putting in place measures to av...Published: 18 hrs ago | 809 | by Staff reporter
Passport prices remain unchanged, says Kazembe Kazembe
THE MINISTER of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Kazembe Kazembe says the cost of getting a passport for local citizens remains unchanged. This comes amid rumours that the government had approved t...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2495 | by Staff Reporter
Gutu rubbishes links to mysterious High Court job
FORMER MDC-T vice president Obert Gutu has been linked to the mysterious post of High Court prosecutor, days after ditching the Thokozani Khupe led opposition party citing "personal and private reason...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:03hrs | 3083 | by Staff reporter
Tourism minister visits Tshabalala sanctuary for the first time
Tourism Minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu has expressed excitment after visiting Tshabalala sanctuary 10 km out of Bulawayo.In his official Facebook page Ndlovu said "Finally I got to visit...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:24hrs | 1152 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa Executive plots coup against Parliament
WHILE the citizens are glued to the ongoing circus in Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have decided to sneak in a sinister constitution...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:42hrs | 5457 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Rehabilitation of Harare-Beitbridge road to be complete by year end
THE rehabilitation of the Harare-Beitbridge highway has begun after the government allocated US $1bn to finance the project. This comes at a time when there have been incessant calls to expedite the r...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:30hrs | 3888 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fingers Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of being the godfather of machete wielding gangs that continue to terrorise villagers in parts of the country.He was addressi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:15hrs | 2083 | by newzimbabwe
David Parirenyatwa applies for discharge
Former Health minister David Parirenyatwa has applied for discharge in a case in which he is accused of criminal abuse of office after allegedly directing NatPharm chairman George Washaya to appoint N...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Supermarket forces clients to buy grocery worth $150 if they need 10kg mealie meal
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube yesterday intervened to stop a local supermarket that was selling a 10kg of subsidised roller meal on condition that a customer first bought groceries...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Universities hike fees
LOCAL universities have announced their new fee structures which will see students paying between $5 000 and $9 000 per semester depending on their programmes. The National University of Science and T...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Why Kasukuwere, Mzembi are doomed to fail
Since November 2019, former ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has been attempting to effect a political comeback and went as far as threatening to contest the 2023 presidential e...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 460 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Roller meal shortages persist
Subsidised mealie-meal supplies have remained erratic across the country, with major supermarkets running out of the commodity, forcing most consumers to access it on the black market. The sho...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:22hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'reduces debt by theft' after Supreme Court ruling: lawyers
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of a controversial government decree from February 2019 which converted debts accumulated in United States dollars to the local RTGS currency – at a great l...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Duty on bus kits cut to 10%
Stakeholders in the transport industry have welcomed the Government's decision to cut to 10 percent import duty on semi-knocked down kits used in assembling buses, saying this will reduce the cost of ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:19hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Command agriculture farmers forced to sleep outside shop
Farmers under command agriculture around Mashonaland Central province are claiming to be running out time of the season while spending days and night idle at verandahs of Windmill, Mvurwi branch for o...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 20:07hrs | 2457 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
MDC linked youths excluded from army recruitment
Young Zimbabweans who went to city schools will be prevented from joining the army, in an apparent move to bar MDC supporters from the military, ZimLive has learnt.The army invited application...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
'Nkomo stalled Zambezi Water Project'
Former Water minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo allegedly stalled progress on the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project by refusing to work with the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT).This was rev...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 19:00hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Things giving Mthuli sleepless nights
Food, power and currency stability are the three things keeping Finance minister Mthuli Ncube awake at night.The southern African country is facing drought for the second consecutive year, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:59hrs | 2525 | by Staff reporter
Doctors leave Zimbabwe in droves amid govt hostility
FRUSTRATED Zimbabwean medical doctors are leaving the country in droves as government fails to break an impasse with the health professionals following a four-month strike action late last year over p...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1388 | by NewZimbabwe.com
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 295 | by Staff rpeorter
Minister's son torches family farmhouse
Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro's son allegedly torched his parents' eight-roomed farmhouse at Odzi Farm on Friday following an argument over the sale of two oxen.On Saturday, Shingir...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:55hrs | 883 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MDC under siege
THE opposition MDC has claimed that it is now a banned political party in Zimbabwe and accused Zanu-PF of making Zimbabwe a de facto one-party State.MDC secretary for international relations, ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:53hrs | 686 | by Staff rpeorter
Parents force open incomplete school
CONTROVERSY-riddled Glaudina Primary School in Harare yesterday opened its doors to students amid a misunderstanding between the parents and responsible authorities over inadequate infrastructure, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:52hrs | 202 | by Staff rpeorter
Air Zimbabwe plane in second coming
Government business briefly ground to a halt yesterday after several top officials and Cabinet ministers escorted Acting President Constantino Chiwenga to receive for the second time the Boeing 777-20...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:50hrs | 494 | by Staff rpeorter
Mthuli Ncube must stop lying on inflation
EXACTLY a year after Zimbabwe's first biggest fuel hike since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power from the late Robert Mugabe, the administration was at hand to celebrate the Jan...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:48hrs | 142 | by Staff rpeorter
State withdraws charges against Guvamombe
THE State yesterday withdrew corruption charges against suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe who was accused of criminal abuse of office after he offered former Cabinet ministers Saviour Kasuk...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:47hrs | 354 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe faces serious political instability'
ZIMBABWE is highly likely to face serious political instability due to failure by the government to address challenges being faced by its people, a respected South African-based think tank has said....Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Ginimbi to pay US$58k more duty
Genius Kadungure must pay an additional US$58 000 excise duty for one of his recently imported top-of-the-range vehicles, a Bentley Continental GT, that he had undervalued on its arrival. The ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:42hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, Chiwenga see eye to eye'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba yesterday dismissed reports of mistrust between the Zanu-PF leader and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, the Daily News reports.T...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:37hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa risks arrest for attempting to cause unrest
The MSC A President Mr Nelson Chamisa and his two senior members Lynette Karenyi Kore and Job Trouble Sikhala face arrests and serious reprimand for misinforming the masses. They have graduated in sen...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 14:23hrs | 5214 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Hwange Thermal Power Station back on grid after heavy rains
HEAVY rains which pounded Hwange at the weekend knocked out Hwange Thermal Power Station when the coal got wet but two 120 megawatt units were back up yesterday with a third expected to be on the grid...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 11:29hrs | 969 | by Staff Reporter
AirZim receives new Boeing 777 from Malaysia
AIR ZIMBABWE has received a new plane Boeing B777 in a development that is part of the government's ongoing plans to resuscitate the airline. Three more planes are set to arrive in the following weeks...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 16:53hrs | 5975 | by Staff Reporter
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