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Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 6 hrs ago | 777 | by Staff reporter
When teaching becomes cheating
FIVE boys formed the heart of their soccer team. Tatenda, Edzai, Anesu, Chipo and Hondo were all gifted, enthusiastic players, with Tatenda starring in goal, Edzai being strong in defence, Anesu perfo...Published: 7 hrs ago | 153 | by Tim Middleton
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1945 | by Staff reporter
Josphat Ngulube convicted over January protests
PROMINENT Bulawayo activist and Bulawayo South Constituency losing candidate Josphat Ngulube was yesterday convicted of torching three cars, destroying a precast wall and breaking several windows at a...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1040 | by Staff reporter
What they said about 2020 budget
FORMER Finance minister and now MDC vice president Tendai Biti:"A budget of $63 billion is an illusion and unachievable, but also reflects extent of hyperinflation. The Pre-Budget Strategy Pap...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2261 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents plot siege on council offices
RESIDENTS from Gweru's Mkoba and Woodlands Park high-density suburbs have threatened to protest against the city council's failure to provide water to ratepayers and deal with its dumpsite, which is s...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
The Budget 2020 - Which way Zimbabwe
In the darkness of the Zimbabwean economy with ordinary people grinding beans using their back Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube casts a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. He said the count...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 23:50hrs | 1984 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC, politically disorganised
The recent claims by MDC that they have dropped the challenge of 'illegitimacy' of President Emmerson Mnangagwa that they have been capitalising on since he assumed office in 2018 clearly reveals how ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 14:41hrs | 1859 | by Peacemaker Zano
Judicial Service Commission stripped off powers to appoint Prosecutor-General
The Prosecutor-General should not be appointed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) as doing so constitutes an anomaly whose effect is to undermine his or her independence, a Cabinet minister has ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 1917 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zupco not paying route approval fees: BCC
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) is reportedly not paying route approval fees to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), prejudicing the local authority of about $16 000 in potential revenue ann...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Biti fumes as Sakunda Holdings boss dodges parly hearing
Command Agriculture benefactor, Sakunda Holdings, yesterday snubbed grilling by the Tendai Biti-chaired Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over allegations that the company received over US...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Gweru forex dealer acquitted
A 35-YEAR-OLD Gweru man was last week acquitted on charges of illegally dealing in foreign currency.Paradzanai Hamanu of Mkoba 11 appeared before magistrate Edwin Marecha facing a charge of il...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:18hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans uninspired by new money
MOST Zimbabweans feel the new currency which will start circulating today will not change anything as long as government has not implemented economic and political reforms to generate market confidenc...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:50hrs | 2159 | by Staff reporter
Mimosa shelves US$70m Zimbabwe refinery plant
Platinum Group of Metals (PGM) producer, Mimosa Mining Company, has shelved plans to build a US$70 million refinery plant at the Zvishavane premises for local beneficiation of the minerals after feasi...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
New era for enhanced Isuzu bakkie in Zimbabwe
Last year saw the rebirth of the Isuzu bakkie range or the pick up as what we like calling it here in Zimbabwe. Isuzu Motors South Africa (Isuzu) refreshed its bakkie range, giving it a new name along...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:53hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
HIV testing teams to visit homes
NATIONAL Aids Council (Nac) working with Zimbabwe Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (Zimphia) has launched a sensitisation survey in Bulawayo in order to collect data to assess how far the countr...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
STI cases spike in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has recorded a 9,81 percent increase in the number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) cases in the second quarter of the year with the National Aids Council (Nac) calling for increased ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:36hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
I'm not a rebel: Cde Chipoyera
In a riveting account never before made public, Parker Chipoyera (PC) opens up on events leading to the arrest of the ZIPA leadership and how he ended up in captivity with his fellow comrades. ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:28hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
All set for stable Zimdollar
As the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe releases $2 coins into circulation tomorrow ahead of the introduction of $2 and $5 Zim-dollar notes, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:22hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
'MPs should monitor govt in issuing of identity documents'
Legislators were yesterday urged to monitor the government in issuing birth certificates, identity documents and other particulars to prevent statelessness.The call was made yesterday by senat...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:10hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa envisions 7% economic growth
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, presently presiding over an imploding economy, is anticipating an ambitious average national economic growth rate of 7% per annum during his tenure."We shall acce...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Debunking myths surrounding the conduct of elections in Zimbabwe
THE founding tenets of Zimbabwe are based on respect for certain values and principles, which include, amongst others: the supremacy of the constitution, the rule of law, fundamental human rights and ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:14hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vs Mnangagwa: Full Constitutional Court judgment released
THE Constitutional Court (Concourt) yesterday released a detailed 137-page judgment, upholding President Mnangagwa's victory in last year's harmonised elections, saying the petition by MDC-Alliance le...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:02hrs | 3540 | by Staff reporter
How Masisi outsmarted the Khamas
Mokgweetsi Masisi's decisive victory in the recent Botswana elections over a coalition backed by his former boss, Ian Khama, is the culmination of an astonishing 10-year political career. Morp...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:55hrs | 1176 | by Barry Morton
Mnangagwa vows to block white looters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday said government was not going to allow white foreigners to continue looting the country's mineral resources.He was addressing delegates to a Zimbabwe Min...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges to end machete wars
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to descend heavily on perpetrators of machete violence, reiterating that deterrent sentences must be imposed on those found in possession of the weapons....Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Justice Luke Malaba to be added 5 more years in office
Chief Justice Luke Malaba will be added five more years in office after the Minister of Justice announced that it will be introducing an omnibus Constitutional Amendment Bill before Christmas. ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 15:09hrs | 2138 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zim govt deliberately impoverishing citizens to attract investment by creating cheap labour?
To say that I was petrified listening to the Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi speaking last night (5 November 2019) on the Voice of America's Studio 7, would be the understatement of the y...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 12:44hrs | 1658 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt dismisses reports Minister retracted condemning US ambassador's actions
THE Government has dismissed reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Dr Sibusiso Moyo has retracted or renounced his statement last week condemning the actions of US Ambas...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:32hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Govt on SB Moyo statement... Dismisses reports Minister retracted condemning US ambassador's actions
THE Government has dismissed reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Dr Sibusiso Moyo has retracted or renounced his statement last week condemning the actions of US Ambas...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:06hrs | 374 | by Staff Reporter
Children born to 'alien' parents fail to get birth certificates
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has noted that a significant number of children born to alien parents are undocumented, thereby hindering their enjoyment of fundamental rights such as educ...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
The case for a Logan Act in Zimbabwe
During the run up to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Anti-Sanctions Day held on 25 October 2019, Zimbabwe witnessed frenzied activity especially on the social media with the American...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 14:03hrs | 1398 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mthuli Ncube pleads poverty
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said the fiscus has no capacity to meet the demands by ministries after eight government departments bid for $112 billion in the 2020 national budget.Ncube ye...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:22hrs | 3639 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'national interests' can't be defined by ZANU PF alone, but by national consensus
In recent days - especially, after the botched 25 October 2019 anti-sanctions march, in which very few people heeded government's calls for the nation to come out in full force to demonstrate against ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1068 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Restoration of Zimbabwe
Dear AllAs previously affirmed, there is no retreat, no defeat and no surrender for us because God is with us. But if we do not do or say that which God would have instructed us to do and say ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 08:18hrs | 868 | by Tarisai
Mthuli tax funds roads rehabilitation, construction
GOVERNMENT spent ZWL$465 million rehabilitating road infrastructure in the first 10 months of this year using funds collected through the once contentious Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT). Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Russia's 'troll factory' is alive and well in Africa
(CNN) - In the runup to the 2020 election, the graduates of Russia's infamous "troll factory" are honing their fake-news skills. This time, they are doing it openly, using Africa as a proving ground -...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 17:02hrs | 1439 | by Mary Ilyushina, CNN
Cattle rustlers wreak havoc
Ranganai Sivangani from Chirumanzu in the Midlands Province is now convinced that police are working with cattle rustling syndicates wreaking havoc in the area.On October 10, one of Sivangani'...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: The tenacity of pan-African moral political-standing
Last week on Thursday after addressing the Second Zanu-PF National Youth League Assembly meeting at the Party's Headquarters in Harare, His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa left for Gaborone, B...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 124 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe reform package timeline revealed
A raft of constitutional and legislative reforms to deepen civil liberties, individual rights, extend the women's quota system and entrench political and electoral reforms, are expected to be gazetted...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa holds keys to removal of sanctions'
The United States envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols has said that only President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration holds the keys to the removal of sanctions if they implement the political...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 13:35hrs | 4892 | by Staff reporter
Govt to upgrade 98 000km road network
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said government was implementing a road development programme which sought to upgrade a 98 133km road network.Ncube said, as part of Zimbabwe's thrust t...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1538 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama snubs Masisi inauguration
Botswana President Mnangagwa yesterday joined thousands of Batswana and fellow SADC leaders at the inauguration of Botswana's fifth democratic leader President Mokgweetsi Masisi at a lively ceremony h...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
The growth of competition laws and enforcement in Africa
African competition law on the continent is the subject of notable growth. An increasing number of jurisdictions have adopted laws and regulations, established authorities, secured membership to regio...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:53hrs | 294 | by Lerisha Naidu,
Zimbabwe sanctions conundrum
The USA first enacted ZIDERA in 2001 as a response to gross human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, violent grab of white owned farms, violent crackdown on opposition and dissent, costly deployme...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:52hrs | 997 | by Terrence Wuragu
New notes above board, monetary policy education key
The announcement of the imminent introduction of new bank notes and coins by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Tuesday prompted divided opinion among the transacting public.The development...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 14:21hrs | 2038 | by Ashley Kondo
Pupil denied examination sitting over fees arrears
AN O-LEVEL pupil at Arundel School in Harare was recently denied access to sit for her Cambridge examination after school authorities claimed she had fees arrears amounting to $44 000 although she had...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Birth registration for Under 6 free
Birth registration for children below six years will remain free of charge, as Government is committed to ensuring that all citizens across the country have access to identification documents, Registr...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Harare to declare America as an enemy of Zimbabwe
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa led Harare Administration is plotting to enact a law that will specify countries that enacted sanctions on Zimbabwe as enemies of State and to criminalise any Zimbabwe...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 15:56hrs | 5444 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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