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'Zanu PF has embraced reforms, will repeal POSA' - rigged elections to repeal POSA, how nauseating
"For too long our country has been held back by the old ways of doing things. In our society, politics, economy and culture; everything was old. New ideas have been resisted; new developments, rejecte...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1544 | by Wilbert Mukori
Do not amend but implement the constitution: ZLHR tells government
IN the seventh anniversary of the Constitution of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has expressed extreme saddness over government’s failure to fully stop the wilful violation and t...Published: 12 hrs ago | 381 | by Stephen Jakes
Will the MDC Alliance recover from 'this sickness'?
THE MDC Alliance is probably on its deathbed, suffering from a ‘sickness' which threatens to take away its life, temporarily or permanently. The question is whether it will recover from "this sickne...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2040 | by Moses Tofa
Bulawayo records surge in diarrhoea cases
THERE are concerns over the quality of Bulawayo water as the city recorded an upsurge in diarrhoeal cases from 473 registered between July and September 2019 to 359 recorded in January 2020.In...Published: 14 hrs ago | 335 | by Staff reporter
Fixed Exchange Rate: More harm than good
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe suspended the new managed floating exchange rate and introduced the fixed exchange rate of 1 US Dollar to 25 Zimbabwean Dollars on the 26th of March 2020. Two weeks earlie...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1708 | by Victor Bhoroma
Wolves are at it again, destroying Zimbabwe's currency
Once again, officials at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, along with the honchos at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) find themselves on the back foot of powerful forces that are man...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:03hrs | 2796 | by Andrew Lampard
Strong leadership in times of crisis
CT GSB alumnus Mehluli Mpofu was recently appointed as the Managing Director of Central Africa Building Society (CABS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Old Mutual Zimbabwe. On the first day of his appoin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:01hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Every elder is your parent despite being a stranger
I am sure, and others too, without an iota of doubt that some 'Hwindi', is sorely missing his day out on duty. Rasta, dread, or some hairdo where the hair is sticking out like three inch nails. ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:57hrs | 143 | by Tondo
Reckless police action almost cost girl's life
Dear Editor, On Monday 18 May 2020 I witnessed a horrific accident caused by ZRP's reckless action. The accident occurred along Zvishavane - Gweru road a few metres from Zvishavane hospital. T...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:19hrs | 1902 | by Munya Shumba
Jesse Nyakudya: Teenage drumming sensation
All she saw four-year-old toddler pummel her pots as though they were a musical drum set. None of it made sense at that point. But as the boy grew, it became clear Jesse Nyakudya was a drummer-in-the-...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:13hrs | 709 | by Busisani Ncube
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 951 | by Tawanda Majoni
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 232 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
EcoCash saga: Arrest highway robbers, not Zinara officials
WHEN highway robbers become a menace, does it make sense for the authorities to solve the problem by arresting Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) officials?This has become a burni...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1770 | by Brezh Malaba
Towards the re-invention of Africa
The world is a huge afterthought. Most of what we know about the world and what happened in it is based on the history that was told later, in the hindsight of the historians.We can perceive t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 86 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
'Zimdollar under siege again'
The Zimbabwe dollar is once again reeling under unrelenting pressure from speculative activities by crafty individuals seeking personal gain, it has been learnt.The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (R...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Let's clean our dirty stables!
AS human beings, we need to accept that there are often both comprehensible and incomprehensible life forces around us.Where Bishop Lazi comes from, for example, you cannot venture deep into t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 74 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa accident a hoax, says Police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday dismissed reports on social media that First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was involved in an accident, injuring a seven-year-old girl.The police said it was Z...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2683 | by Staff reporter
Pressure to arrest MDC officials' tormentors
CIVIC organisations yesterday called on government to institute thorough investigations into allegations of sexual abuse and torture of MDC Alliance officials by State security agents.Harare W...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2081 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash limits ridiculously low in comparison to similar markets
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been on a war path against EcoCash, one of Africa's successful mobile money service. The battle has been tariffs, barring of EcoCash agents and some crazy pronou...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
RBZ charges Ecocash directors with money laundering
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has brought charges under the Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime Act against Ecocash, the company's chief executive officer Natalie...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1950 | by Staff reporter
RBZ tightens screws on mobile money
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced more measures yesterday affecting EcoCash agents as part of what is now seen as a policy to bring EcoCash agents into the formal banking system and ensure...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2285 | by Staff reporter
Why was Energy Mutodi fired?
Energy Mutodi has been hogging the lime light for all sorts of reasons. He has risen in Politics to be a deputy minister of Information. This was a ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 05:59hrs | 14503 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZCP Central Committee condemns ZANU PF sponsored abuse against women
Three recent incidents involving the beating of 6 women by police and army unmask not only the patriarchal nature of the Zimbabwean society but also, the reluctance of government to take disciplinary ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1469 | by ZCP
Sikhosana was unhappy with the new dispensation
Revelations emerging following the death of Zanu PF Acting Bulawayo Chairman Absolom Sikhosana who was declared a national hero and buried in Harare is that he was confused and unhappy with the ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:39hrs | 2903 | by Stephen Jakes
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1331 | by Leonard Koni
GMAZ boss Musarara spills the beans on Wadyajena
RAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday made sensational claims that Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena was using Parliament to settle personal scores...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2924 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi's firing was long overdue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to fire his long-blundering Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi on Wednesday did not come as a surprise because that decision was long overdue given the m...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 429 | by Leonard Koni
Mobile money agents' 'illicit' deals exposed
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) through its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has established that most mobile money agent accounts were being abused and used as a conduit for illegal transactions ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwean banks removed from sanctions list
Agribank and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) have now been fully removed from the US sanctions list, the American Department of the Treasury has announced, allowing them to do i...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Abductions, social media and the new dispensation
On May 13th three MDC-Alliance members, Cecilia Chimbiri, Netsai Marowa and legislator for Harare West constituency Joanna Mamombe were allegedly abducted after staging a flash demonstration in Harare...Published: 22 May 2020 at 00:27hrs | 856 | by Godard Thabani Bvungidzire
Mnangagwa warns Chamisa
GOVERNMENT yesterday accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa of putting people's lives in danger by embarking on unsanctioned demonstrations but was mum on the alleged abduction and assa...Published: 21 May 2020 at 08:06hrs | 7749 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clarifies the suspension of EcoCash Agent accounts
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is being inundated by Ecocash (Private) Limited (Ecocash) clients whose agent accounts have been suspended pursuant to our directive issued on the 4th of May 2020...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 2337 | by Financial Intelligence Unit
PAC was meant to advice Mnangagwa, he should now listen
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a Presidential Advisory Council in January last year, it was taken as a sign that Zimbabwe was indeed in a new dispensation and that it was open for busines...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 3516 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe can sustain forex requirements'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country has adequate capacity to meet its monthly foreign currency requirements. According to central bank figures, Zimbabwe requires US$100 million a month...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:10hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Quarantine in Zimbabwe: Experiences of a returning resident
National Association of Non Governmental Organsations (NANGO) has reported that the situation of returning residents and other travellers who are in mandatory quarantine has been a topical issue in Zi...Published: 20 May 2020 at 09:16hrs | 2303 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimpost considers solar-powered vehicles
STUNG by perennial fuel and electricity shortages affecting its operations, Zimpost a quasi-government institution is planning to invest in solar power and electric-powered vehicles to combat the chal...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa's scathing letter to Mnangagwa
Sir, I address you, not because you personally abducted, tortured and sexually abused JOANA MAMOMBE, CECILIA CHIMBIRI and NETSAI MAROVA. Neither do I address you because I know or am in other way conn...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:59hrs | 7558 | by Beatrice Mtetwa
'Absalom Sikhosana died a bitter man'
The late ZANU PF Politiburo member Absalom Sikhosana died a disappointment man due to the developments that took place in the ruling ZANU PF party since the bloody coup that ended 37 years of Presiden...Published: 19 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 3979 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa using coronavirus as cover for arbitrary rule
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa "opened an avenue to arbitrary rule" when he extended the coronavirus lockdown for an indefinite per...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisers condemn MDC leaders' abduction
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisers under the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) have condemned the abduction of opposition MDC Alliance officials, saying the actions of his regime were taking th...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1924 | by Staff reporter
Police sued over Bulawayo man's lockdown death
Bulawayo resident Levison Ncube, 25, died from "subarachnoid haemorrhage and head trauma" a few days after police allegedly beat him for allegedly violating Zimbabwe' s Covid-19 lockdown rules in Apri...Published: 18 May 2020 at 20:11hrs | 2498 | by Staff reporter
Dr Joshua Nkomo and the Calamity of Honesty
Very few people in the history of mankind and Zimbabwe will match Dr Joshua M.Nkomo's selflessness and tolerance, commitment to equality and love of Zimbabwe. He was a man whose eyes refused to se...Published: 18 May 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2552 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya
Financial literacy: Why it matters the most
Imagine not ever having to worry about money or that bills being due ever again. It is most people's dream but one that few people ever achieve. Financial literacy is understanding money and being abl...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:53hrs | 714 | by Nobuhle Zondo
'Key to stopping covid-19 is ITTIT and civic collaborative effort' - keep corrupt government and it come to naught
"Writing on his popular Facebook blog following his appointment by the African Union as a Special Envoy to Coordinate the Africa Private Sector Initiative for the Procurement of Personal Protective Eq...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:24hrs | 474 | by Nomusa Garikai
For country or love? Mangwana, Mthuli Ncube must put money where mouth is
Let's be honest, at law there is nothing wrong in individuals acquiring dual citizenships.Even the Zimbabwean constitution has not said anything untoward about multiple or dual citizenships ex...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:22hrs | 3241 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Covid-19 economic stimuli is not alive to a SME driven economy
Zimbabweans cannot reasonably expect President Emmerson Mnangagwa government to handle the twin challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy without making mistakes. However In times of crisis,...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:07hrs | 233 | by Brian Sedze
Mutodi: Mnangagwa's other bad crony
IT'S never a clever idea to put a crow among the fowls and keep it there. That will give you a bad name and troubled nights.A crow in the fowl drains the food but doesn't deliver eggs to the p...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 2056 | by Tawanda Majoni
Opposition leader vows to defend Chiredzi villagers
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe president Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali has criticised plans by the government to displace thousands of villagers from Chiredzi to pave way for a lucerne pr...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
War vet feasts on Tyson's oranges
MAZOWE district war veterans chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi is harvesting where he did not sow as he defies a High Court order barring him from interfering with operations at a sprawling farm belonging t...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1461 | by Staff reporter
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