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Russians to build US$1,5 billion fuel pipeline in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has roped in the Russian government to fund the construction of a second fuel pipeline worth US$1,5 billion, in a deal that will see three other ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 954 | by Paul Ndou
ZBC monopoly to be broken
The government on Thursday took the first step to break the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation's television monopoly by inviting applications for six new free-to-air commercial TV licences.The ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 479 | by Staff reporter
Be transparent on TV, radio licence issuances, BAZ told
MEDIA stakeholders have called for transparency in the issuing of television and community radio licences to ensure pluralism in the media and avert a monopoly by appendages of political parties....Published: 3 hrs ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa keeps dialogue invitation open
The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) - a grouping of politicians who contested the 2018 presidential elections - yesterday held its maiden Economic Summit which drew together captains of industry, la...Published: 4 hrs ago | 95 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing US$400m to oil pipeline cartels
ZIMBABWE is losing US$400 million annually in potential oil revenue due to Sakunda Holdings' untenable monopoly over the Beira-Harare fuel pipeline, it has emerged.Sources in government and th...Published: 20 hrs ago | 992 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1071 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
'Hardliners to take over from Mnangagwa'
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunch supporters, with access to intricate details within the Zanu-PF internal politics, Kudzai Mutisi has warned that hardliners will take over from the ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:47hrs | 5671 | by Staff Reporter
Does Trafigura have a monopoly on the fuel pipeline?
The agreement between Government through the National Oil Infrastructure Company and Trafigura does not permit the commodities firm to exceed 40% market share. This has resulted in capacity utilizatio...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:56hrs | 1953 | by FinX
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
ZANU PF facing another split?
The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU PF. The unfolding events have been triggered by a press conference by the now-suspended two&nb...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:01hrs | 11489 | by Blessing Vava
Zimbabweans ready for Kasukuwere to lead them
Inflation in Zimbabwe has gone past the 500% mark, while salaries remain stagnant. A number of households are currently living below the poverty datum line and the future seems bleak for the 90% of th...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 8557 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Mutsvangwa feud with Tagwirei exposed
The feud between Christopher Mutsvangwa, Eddie Cross with business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei is centred on the failure by the two to bring the businessman to support MOGS Oil & Gas Services' bid to tak...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 11:59hrs | 9613 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft rhetoric leading us nowhere
THE public admission by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi that corrupt cartels have captured key government institutions including the police and judiciary demonstrates that as long as the fight again...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:39hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
US$17.7 million loan blocked foreigners from Feruka pipeline
The US$17.7 million loaned to government by business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei in 2018 blocked foreigners from taking over controlling stake in the Feruka pipeline.This emerged at a time when Zanu ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1067 | by Paul Ndou
Post-Mugabe confusion unfathomable
The reality of it is inescapable; whether one is a child, youth or an adult, we all feel it. The intensity of the impact may differ from person to person depending on circumstances but generally Zimba...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1318 | by Learnmore Zuze
'Control of Zimbabwe's fuel industry was behind the 2017 coup which ousted Mugabe'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa has revealed that the latest Zanu-PF factional wars were triggered by the fight for control of the country's fuel industry, a fight...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 14:48hrs | 3497 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally exposes source of vicious Zanu-PF war
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa has revealed that the latest Zanu-PF factional wars were triggered by the fight for control of the country's fuel industry, a fight...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:10hrs | 2521 | by Staff reporter
Why does the oil industry attract much corruption?
I HAVE a long indirect association with the oil business. My father joined the Atlantic Oil Company in the early years of the last century and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a senior exec...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:00hrs | 654 | by Eddie Cross
Anxiety as Zera extends fuel licences
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has for the second time extended the duration of fuel licences by one month, saying it is consulting with its stakeholders on the new framework, sparkin...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:09hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths demand arrest of tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, is a name-dropping wealth accumulator who has amassed a fortune on the back of weak governance systems and buying the silence of politician...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:27hrs | 4850 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn up the heat on 'corrupt' Mnangagwa, Chiwenga ally
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has intensified its campaign for action to be brought against under fire business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei whom they accuse of using his fat pocket to stir up economic havoc...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 3195 | by newzimbabwe
War in Zanu-PF youth league over 'Cartel Corruption List'
War has erupted within the ranks of the Zanu-PF youth league hours after it fingered Sakunda Boss Kuda Tagwirei, Green energy owner Billy Rautenbach and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe boss Tafa...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:03hrs | 4286 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa attacks Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Chris Mutsvangwa ranted against Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in a chance encounter with the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, ZimLive reported.The shock de...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:37hrs | 12558 | by Staff reporter
Can the 'market' save Bulawayo water?
The desire to remain true to a vision "Siya Phambili" ( We go Forward, the BCC's motto ) has in the past prompted some to attempt to tackle one of the city of Bulawayo's worst environmental challenges...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 13:42hrs | 2558 | by Kabelo Sithole
Mthwakazi Founder exposes Mqondisi Moyo
As you raise up through the political ranks, never forget where you come from, never undermine those you started with, never undermine the efforts of others, never assume you hold monopoly over ...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 11:51hrs | 2959 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Polad is a sleeping pill to ignore Zanu failures
After failing to fix the economy and to open space for political competitiveness, Zanu political Scientists invented a sleeping pill called Polad.Zanu Political Scientists have mastered the sc...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 13:10hrs | 1457 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa, Cronies cannot lecture Ndiweni Clans on traditions and cultural systems
Honestly, one can confirm it is hard to know where to begin on what is meant to be a simple matter that has seemingly been made unnecessarily sophisticated. The government of the day indeed survives b...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1348 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Smuggled drugs flood Zimbabwe market
High mark-ups imposed by importers, wholesalers and retailers of medicines have resulted in a flood of cheaper drugs being smuggled from neighbouring countries and sold on the streets by vendors. ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
No one has monopoly of civilization
What the West can do for Zimbabwe is pay reparations for colonialism and human rights violations visited upon blacks during that dark era. Germany is paying for its excesses and injustice duri...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 14:23hrs | 378 | by Thomas Tondo
New Zanu-PF party formed
A GROUP of local politicians have formed a new opposition party that they have christened Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front, or Zanu-PF Original in short, with signs of a deliberate atte...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 21:13hrs | 12739 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs commodities exchange markets
The recent revelations by the Zimbabwean government that the country loses over 30 tonnes of Gold (Worth around US$2 billion) to South Africa and other world markets, through smuggling every year are ...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 10:14hrs | 800 | by Victor Bhoroma
Messi wins Ballon d'Or for record 6th time
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player for a record sixth time.It is the 32-year-old Argentine's first Ballon d'Or since 2015 and comes after ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 11:23hrs | 1608 | by BBC
Council honours ZPRA veteran
THE late Zapu secretary for security Canaan Ncube has been honoured by the Bulawayo City Council and will be interred at the Lady Stanley Cemetery where the city's senior illustrious citizens are buri...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:12hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial Transfiguration of the Self: Part 2
Last week's introductory instalment attempted to locate Retired Col Tshinga's profile within the shifting currencies and contexts of our struggle for independence. His radical political tutela...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:56hrs | 174 | by Richard Mahomva
They say once fooled twice shy
The euphoria shown by Zimbabweans after arrival of the coup architect, Guvheya Chiwenga, is cause for concern .Social media, on line news has been awash with stories of how the army, brains be...Published: 23 Nov 2019 at 18:53hrs | 4128 | by A Kadada
Chamisa says Mnangagwa must open up airwaves
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa must allow opening of media space so that more players could enter a field dominated by State controlled publications.He was speakin...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:01hrs | 197 | by Staffreporter
Nothing hopeful about Chamisa's HONA
The much hyped, but shallow, so called ‘Hope of The Nation Address', (HONA) by opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had nothing new in it that Zimbabweans could actually hold on to, and believe t...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2474 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 754 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Fidelity gold monopoly challenged
FIDELITY Printers and Refineries' (FPR) monopoly in the buying and marketing of the country's single biggest foreign currency earner, gold, has come under spotlight with parliament recommending the li...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 14:21hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Anti-sanctions: In pursuit of the national interest
THE successful campaign against illegal Western sanctions on Zimbabwe last Friday expanded from a regional exercise by Sadc to an Africa wide exercise that was also joined by nations beyond the contin...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 86 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
'Dog of white monopoly capital' lose against Malema in court
The Equality Court has dismissed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan's hate speech case against EFF leader Julius Malema with costs.Gordhan hauled the EFF leader to the Equality court, ...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 08:49hrs | 2985 | by Staff reporter
Disentangling neo-colonial political thought
The burden of history.Today the pan-African nationalist movement is bestowed with the mandate of tackling the ever-changing complexities and complexions of colonialism.This comes again...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:51hrs | 91 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Auditor General warns against procurement fraud
THE Auditor General, Mrs Mildred Chiri, has called for increased transparency and accountability in public procurement processes, warning that any trace of corruption in that sector will greatly retar...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 554 | by Staff Reporter
The Anti-Sanctions Declaration: Disentangling Neo-Colonial Political thought
The burden of historyToday the pan-African nationalist movement is bestowed with the mandate of tackling the ever-changing complexities and complexions of colonialism. This comes again...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:43hrs | 115 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa joins ZBC
Former Zimpapers projects manager and Capitalk radio presenter Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa has joined the ZBC, sources told ZimLive.The 31-year-old is joining the monopoly TV broadcaster's news and...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:04hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
This regime must desist from corruption in agriculture
Recent announcements by the government, that it would disburse $2.8 billion for the Command Agriculture and issuing some $300 million in Treasury bills is a serious cause for concern, judging by the m...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 14:34hrs | 653 | by Rusty Markham
Why big business is a threat to Zimbabwe's revival
ZIMBABWE has entered a new frightening phase, a phase of unbridled capital that has become a State in itself in pursuit of profit and nothing else.This has been compounded by a weak government...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:08hrs | 652 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Energy crisis: Government must simply dollarize
The MDC notes with great concern the continuation of the escalating energy crisis in Zimbabwe that is being worsened by the cluelessness of Mr Emerson Mnangagwa government in solving the country's...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 17:15hrs | 2093 | by Jasmine Toffa
Chamisa's MDC to bring back US dollar
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has pledged it will bring back the multi- currency regime and withdraw the local currency until a time the productive sector was resuscitated if it comes into government....Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Energy Mutodi was right, Ndebeles are not Zimbabweans
We would like to thank Zimbabwe Deputy Minister of Information, Energy Mutodi, for reminding us what we already knew that we, Matabeles, are not Zimbabweans.While many of us have declared publ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 10:57hrs | 15967 | by Israel Dube
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