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ZRP never sanctioned 31 July demo
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed a fake letter which has been posted on social media platforms indicating that Chief superintendent Smart Matongo the Officer Commanding Harare Suburban Distr...Published: 3 hrs ago | 670 | by Staff reporter
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given thr...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1778 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2342 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 5 hrs ago | 398 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 5 hrs ago | 169 | by Vince Musewe
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 5 hrs ago | 5506 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique becomes a hub of extremist islamic terrorists
The' “European” Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs says it fears that the nighbouring Mozambique is becoming a hub of extremist Islamist terrorism.According to reports, the EU Commi...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3089 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The owners of Zimswitch revealed
On Wednesday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect.According to the statement, all mobile money transmissio...Published: 11 hrs ago | 9738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 13 hrs ago | 3510 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 13 hrs ago | 3350 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2032 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP approaches court over mandatory fuel blending
HARARE North member of the National Assembly and businessman Allan Markham has approached the High Court for an order to set aside regulations for the mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol with unle...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 414 | by Jonathan Chando
Japan launches Chamisa's bullet train
A NEW bullet train has entered service in Japan that's the country's fastest, smoothest, most comfortable and safest yet it's able to "escape" to safety in the event of an earthquake.The N700S...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4349 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2253 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 13 hrs ago | 947 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 14 hrs ago | 3388 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for diaspora vote
INDEPENDENT electoral watchdog, the Electoral Resource Centre (ERC) has challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to use the postal voting system it administers to allow Zimbabweans in the di...Published: 14 hrs ago | 416 | by Staff reporter
PRAZ boss sent on leave
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (PRAZ) chief executive, Mr Nyasha Chizu, was on Tuesday sent on leave, the day after he told Parliament's committee on the Budget, Finance and Econom...Published: 14 hrs ago | 814 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 14 hrs ago | 224 | by Staff reporter
RBZ gets rare praises over ZIMSWITCH move
Political Analyst Michael Mdladla Ndiweni has defended the announcement by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to designate ZIMSWITCH as the national payment switch. In a post on Facebook, Ndiweni sa...Published: 22 hrs ago | 4883 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prophet Bushiri aide defends Malawi President
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's Spokesperson Ephraim Nyondo has come out in defence of newly elected Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera fater he attracted criticism over appointing related persons t...Published: 22 hrs ago | 3244 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Over 1,000 Zimbabwean students face return from US
Many of the more than 1000 Zimbabwean students at American universities may have to return home following a US Government decision that foreign students at universities that now teach online with no f...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:43hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
RBZ designates Zimswitch as a national payment switch
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect as it moves to operationalise Statutory Instrument 80 of 2020, which enables it to contro...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1930 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 811 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gayz and Lesbians mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Capitalk FM
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe have thrown its weight behind the move by some section of Human Rights organization to mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Harare based Capitalk 100.4 FM for suspending its mana...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:11hrs | 1649 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Zimbabwe politics dirty or it's political players who play dirty games?
Politics isn't dirty but it's Political Players with dirty political attitudes and approach in politics who makes Politics Dirty. It's only in Zimbabwe where Dirty Politicking is practised and or impl...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 935 | by Hon Richard M Simango
Musina businesses face collapse without Zimbabwean customers
The economic sustainability of cross-border feeder towns to neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe has taken a massive beating during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.In Musina, which is loc...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 5871 | by City Press
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20053 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to pay £3bn land grab compensation
WENTY years after a violent takeover of white-owned commercial farms by the Zanu-PF regime led by the late former President Robert Mugabe, the new administration led by his former deputy Emmerson Mnan...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
The Unfollow Mnangagwa charade and plots of violence
THE past weeks have witnessed efforts by known opposition elements and their sponsored phantom characters taking part in the "Unfollow ED" campaign on microblogging site Twitter to create a false impr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1848 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Toll, vehicle licence fees up
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration has increased toll fees with immediate effect. Light vehicles now pay $45 to go through a toll and $750 quarterly licence fees. The changes we...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows in the fight against corruption with the Tuesday sacking of a Cabinet minister testimony of his stance to uproot the cancerous vice, a senior Government of...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3332 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sowed seeds of violence
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party preach peace during the day, but when night comes, they practise something entirely different.The ruling party, all its members and the secur...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 2829 | by Worried
Khupe congress blocked
UNCERTAINTY looms over the MDC-T extraordinary congress which had been pencilled for July 31, amid reports that the police have refused to clear the event citing COVID-19 regulations which restrict ga...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:32hrs | 7798 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in trouble
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and some officials in his ministry face contempt of Parliament charges after the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Finance accused them of treating the august H...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 14101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1601 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume confident demo will attract multitudes
The organisers of the July 31 protests are confident that they will garner large crowds in the planned mass actions.Transform Zimbabwe leader, Jacob Ngarivhume who is main organiser of the pla...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu recalled from Parly
CHIVI South MP, Killer Zivhu, has been recalled from the National Assembly following his expulsion from the ruling Zanu-PF party last month.The announcement of his recall was made by Speaker o...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'insult' lands MDC youth assembly leader in soup
MDC Alliance national youth organiser, Godfrey Kurauone was arrested Tuesday and charged with undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa's authority.According to court papers, Kurauone, in the c...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader denied bail
MDC Youth Assembly National Organizising Secretary Godfrey Kurauone who is in custody for allegedly underming the authority of President has been denied bail in Masvingo Magistrate court today....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:54hrs | 1029 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chinese man who shot 2 black workers released on $10 000 bail
A Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin who is accused of shooting two black employees in Gweru has been freed on a ZWL$10 000 bail by a High Court Judge in Masvingo.Justice Garainesu ordered Xuel...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1715 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Army fired Minister Obadiah Moyo'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the Zimbabwe military was behind the expulsion of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo.Moyo added that the Minister was fronting First Lady Auxilia Mn...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 11:37hrs | 14339 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Occultic Mnangagwa regime kills and destroys to appease Mbuya Nehanda'
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Dr Shingi Munyeza says the government of President Mnangagwa is willing to destroy and kill in order to appease the dead. ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 6336 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1561 | by Emmanuel Koro
Shona girl Nosizi Dube stuck without citizenship in Kenya
A Shona girl Nosizi Dube is failing to secure a place at the University of Nairobi because she does not a citizenship of any country on earth. David Ndii a leading Kenyan economist and public ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:50hrs | 8053 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's associate Nguwaya out on $50,000 bail
DRAX International representative Delish Nguwaya, who recently landed in the dock over a US$60 million drugs procurement scandal, has been freed on $50 000 bail by High Court judge, Pisirayi Kwenda....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
Zimbabwe's clergy is on a fresh drive to bring political parties to the negotiating table aimed at coming up with lasting solutions to the country's worsening economic challenges, CITE reported....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2965 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sibanda to be a jury member of the world's largest food prize
The jury of the Food Planet Prize, the world's largest prize in the food arena, has been announced by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.The ten international top professionals include lea...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko trial postponed
THE trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been postponed to the 21st of this month.Mphoko, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office, appeared in court this Tuesday...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:56hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
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