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Warriors off to a losing start
Cameroon 1 - 0 ZimbabweZIMBABWE put on a commendable defensive effort but it was not enough as they succumbed to a morale sapping defeat in their first Group A fixture of the 2020 Afri...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter
Funds missing at Mzingwane High
MZINGWANE High School in Esigodini is in the eye of a storm after foreign currency incentives mobilised by parents for teachers late last year failed to reach the intended beneficiaries with parents t...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
War in Dar
DESPITE carrying a first leg handicap, Tanzanian side Simba SC are confident of eliminating Zimbabwe's representative FC Platinum from the Caf Champions League.The two teams square off in the ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:23hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
'2020 marks death of public health system'
In the midst of severe economic unrest, the Zimbabwean healthcare system has been disintegrating and coming apart at the seams over the years and 2020 took it a notch higher with the advent of COVID-1...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Sit-in protest grounds city council
Bulawayo City Council workers staged a sit-in on Thursday and Friday protesting poor salaries and delays in payment of November salaries and bonus, a development that saw some people failing to access...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:17hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Police turn into beggars for survival
PARLIAMENT has castigated government for reducing members of the police force to "beggars", claiming that the law enforcement agents were now subsidising government in discharging their duties as thei...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Zimbabwe abandons embassies
ZIMBABWE's foreign missions are struggling because they have been neglected, with workers staying in dilapidated houses while vehicles used by top officials are run-down.This was revealed in t...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 4588 | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers marching on empty tummies'
PARLIAMENT has exposed government for its failure to address the plight of soldiers by not providing essentials that include medical aid and allowances, as well as adequate food rations, resulting in ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Victoria Falls for city status conferment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Victoria Falls yesterday evening and will today officially confer the prestigious city status to the resort town, in another milestone achievement for Matabeleland North...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:44hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Police promote over 5 000 officers
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has promoted over 5 000 officers to various ranks, in one of the biggest changes in recent history.The latest changes were revealed in a radio communication dispat...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:14hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube out of touch with reality
SO much was expected from Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube's 2021 national budget, which was presented yesterday. Yet he delivered very little.Zimbabwe has been badly bat...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Loga wields axe
WARRIORS manager Zdravko Logarusic says he is deeply disappointed by the way his side missed golden chances before conceding three goals against Algeria in Algiers on Thursday last week and has promis...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe govt likely to impose lockdown'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro said his hands were clean in the US$6 million COVID-19 procurement scam in which he is implicated. Mangwiro said to date the Zimbabwe Anti-C...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1494 | by Staff reporter
Musona says Warriors ready to rock and roll
WARRIORS captain, Knowledge Musona, says his troops are ready to turn the tables when they meet old foes Algeria at the National Sports Stadium this afternoon. Kick-off is 3pm.Fans will not be...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
MSU lecturers threaten to resign en masse
MEDIA lecturers at the Midlands State University have threatened to resign en masse in protest over curriculum changes they say were unilateral and without their input.NewsDay gathered that mo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 7926 | by Staff reporter
African leaders now smell like goats!
The Lord really works in mysterious ways.It has come full circle for Evo Morales.The former president of the South American country of Bolivia will be returning home on Wednesday this ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Nurses seek audience with Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association (Zina) yesterday came out guns blazing and requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in its impasse with the government, saying the situation regarding their welf...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:26hrs | 1219 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges confirm judiciary capture
ZIMBABWE'S High Court and Supreme Court judges have confirmed the existence of the capture of the judiciary by politicians as they hit out at "manipulative" Chief Justice Luke Malaba in a stinging let...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:09hrs | 4298 | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers get 22% wage increase
MINING sector workers have been awarded a 22 percent wage increase, which will see the lowest paid employee for the period October to December 2020, earning a basic salary of ZWL$18 000.Previo...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 16:49hrs | 1982 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa told to cut military expenditure
CHIREDZI residents last week called on government to reduce military expenditure in the 2021 national budget and channel more resources towards social services.The residents were speaking duri...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 4493 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa slammed for not putting Zimbabwe first in their fights
AS THE vicious factional wars that are tearing apart Zimbabwe's main opposition plumb new lows with each passing day, political analysts say the MDC may have reached the end of the road in its current...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:20hrs | 3298 | by Staff reporter
Openness crucial for Zanu-PF bigwigs
IT APPEARS Zanu-PF officials have moved back into their default mode - burning the midnight oil, plotting and scheming on how to unseat the party's current leadership in a replay of the costly faction...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:13hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
ZimThrive donates to Parirenyatwa hospital to help fight Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
ZimThrive, in collaboration with Covid-19 Zimbabwe, has donated $5900 USD to Parirenyatwa hospital to support the welfare of frontline health workers.The rise in cases in Zimbabwe has led to a...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 316 | by ZimThrive
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1288 | by African Arguments
When the church starts to talk, listen!
THE Catholic church, under the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference banner, has spoken, and this is now the time for Zanu-PF to listen.Zanu-PF has been branding everyone who points at the reg...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:03hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spoils soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to continue improving security forces' working conditions in "recognition of the role and sacrifices" they have made "in the conduct of their duties".I...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 15682 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5331 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Zesa boss suspended over graft allegations
ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended from office and will be blocked from accessing his office at the power utility's headquarters, the Minister of Energy and Power Devel...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 51 MPs drag Khupe to court
FIFTY-ONE die-hard MDC Alliance legislators have approached the High Court en masse seeking an interdict to stop their recall from Parliament by the rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe, saying they woul...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 6840 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slavery
'Slave wages' was the reason the Zimbabwe Nurses' Association (ZINA) gave for health workers going on strike in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.Slave conditions describes what was behind...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1404 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zimbabwe police in distress
THE officer commanding police in Harare yesterday appealed to Zimbabwe Republic Police commanders to provide transport and accommodation to junior officers who are facing eviction from their rented ac...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:59hrs | 3253 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 4076 | by newzimbabwe
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 12369 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2047 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3498 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa told to go back to the drawing board
BATTERED and bruised MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, should go back to the drawing board and come up with new strategies to fight for his political life in the wake of the political and legal loss...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:49hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa moves to new offices?
The Nelson Chamisa led MDC faction, which receiving another morale-sapping blow after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic national headquarters in Harare, is reported to have mo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 12119 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to RBZ governor Mangudya
Dear Governor,I hope I find you well and in good spirits in your office on Samora Machel Avenue, Harare.My last article, Arresting Inflation in Zimbabwe, a couple of weeks back drew brickb...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 5215 | by Bart Star-James
Chamisa's faction receives another morale-sapping blow
IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa's MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic natio...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 9272 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo leadership must shape up or ship out
I was born at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo during the last decade of the infamous Ian Smith Rhodesian regime. In those days black people were banished to the townships. I am not a fan of the Smi...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:40hrs | 399 | by Kevin S Malunga
Victoria Falls set to re-open
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) last week allowed tourist operators back into the rainforest to view the mighty Victoria Falls which has been at its highest flow in ove...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2664 | by Staff reporter
Are we educated to confuse citizens?
ZIMBABWE is the epitome of African education, though with nothing to show for it. One of my masters lecturers, an Ethiopian by origin but now German citizen, once told us that until you simplify issue...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 352 | by Fungai Nhaitai
Separate boys from men in MDC-Alliance
MDC Alliance must not ring fence those who want to join the ZANU PF jamboree fronted by Thokozani Khupe , Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri. They must do so freely and there is no nee...Published: 16 May 2020 at 13:04hrs | 1216 | by Leonard Koni
Separate boys from men in MDC Alliance
THE MDC Alliance must not ring-fence those who want to join the Zanu PF jamboree fronted by Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri. They must do so freely and ther...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 3482 | by Leonard Koni
Should men and boys be included in menstruation discourses?
While menstruation is a natural biological process and a symbol of pride for humanity, it is often regarded as dirty and surrounded by stigmas and taboos that only exist to violate the rights and free...Published: 09 May 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1503 | by Clemence Machadu
Bulawayo council nurses threaten strike over unpaid salaries
BULAWAYO's fight against COVID-19 faces a major test amid reports of low morale among council health workers threatening to down tools over outstanding March salaries and non-payment of risk allowance...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:31hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
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