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Sentence corruption and poverty not makomborero
A very dark cloud hovers on the motherland sending a very sombre atmosphere to every progressive Zimbabwean who is crying for good governance.Instead of sentencing poverty, corruption, poor go...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 19:03hrs | 989 | by Leonard Koni
Nust student demands $1m for wrongful arrest
AN engineering student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has filed a $1 million lawsuit against police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for unlawful arrest and pr...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF strengthens factions ravaged structures
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is in the process of strengthening its structures from grassroots as it gears towards taking control of areas under the opposition ahead of the harmonised elections in two yea...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:27hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Is Nepotism a Good Thing, or Bad?
I read with amusement the article written by Luke Tambolinyoka titled "Emerson Mnangagwa : the primitive clansman and the villagisati...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1777 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mutsvangwa sons jumps Covid-19 vaccination queue
Two sons of Zimbabwe's information minister Monica Mutsvangwa appear to have jumped the Covid-19 vaccine queue as elites scramble for limited Sinopharm doses ahead of frontline workers, ZimLive can re...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2795 | by Staff reporter
Govt must revisit their anti-graft strategies
HE latest arrest of principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira, brings the effectiveness and seriousness of the who...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:00hrs | 169 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Time to revisit anti-corruption strategies
The latest in a string of arrests - that of Portia Manangazira, the principal director in the epidemiology and disease control department in the Health and Child Care ministry - once again brings the ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 62 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
Mwonzora, Khupe rift widens?
THE rift between underfire MDCT leader Douglas Mwonzora and Thokozani Khupe over the party presidency widened yesterday with the latter demanding a rerun of the internal polls.This was after M...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 5285 | by Staff reporter
Dr Masimba Mavaza is a tribalist: Inherent hatred for non-Shona people
I want to excuse myself right from the beginning of this article: It is not about protecting VP Mohadi and his scandals of his previous marriage with Senator Tambudzani Mohadi that left us cold about ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 18:02hrs | 2248 | by Nomazulu Thata
Watching in horror as the giants fell, one after another - The demise of public entities in Zimbabwe
When preparing this article, I was faced with the task of reviewing numerous press articles, news items and placing them alongside my own vast observations on what happened to the once thriving public...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:41hrs | 2753 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Zapu accuses Mnangagwa of nepotism in Ministers' appointments
ZAPU has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of practicing nepotism in the appointment of Cabinet ministers.Commenting on Monday's controversial appointment of Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the Un...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2899 | by Staff reporter
President's wide powers on mining fuel extractive resources corruption
THE excessive, wide and discretionary powers of the President of Zimbabwe and Minister of Mines over the country's vast mineral resources and their allocation is perpetuating rampant corruption in the...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:22hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 992 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 926 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2970 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The Consolidation of Democracy in Zimbabwe
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Zimbabwe celebrated National Unity Day a few days ago, commemorating the historic unification of former liberation war movements-PF Zapu and Zanu into what we...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 152 | by Robert Sigauke
Building a new Zimbabwe is possible
A new Zimbabwe is possible. It is up to every Zimbabwean, those who are based at home, and in the Diaspora, to find each other, and come together for one goal and one goal only, change the course of t...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 181 | by Anele Ndlovu
Who has destroyed Zimbabwe?
The country is troubled to the borne marrow. It is so disheartening that those who destroyed the country through nepotism, corruption, poor governance and thieving are telling the people that they sho...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1639 | by Leonard Koni
ZAPU celebrates 59th anniversary
ZAPU, Thursday, celebrated its 59th anniversary, with party members saying the ideals of the liberation struggle have not been achieved under the Zanu-PF leadership.The revolutionary party was...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 08:03hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
It's time to stop the rot in our country
Currently, as it stands, Zimbabwe is in a crisis. A cocktail of challenges face the country and its people.Zimbabwe was set on a wrong foundation. there are all kinds of human rights abuses wh...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | 132 | by Anele Ndlovu
Allocate resources at district level, says Maguwu
HUMAN rights defender Farai Maguwu has blasted the centralised government system in the country saying that it was becoming a breeding ground for corruption, which also hinders rural development....Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Trainee nurses recruitment 'controversy' resurfaces
Activists in Matabeleland have once again lambasted the trainee nurses recruitment system following revelations that only two out of the 45 successful applicants for the Mpilo Central Hospital School ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1921 | by Staff reporter
Sanction Auxillia Mnangagwa and Freeze her foreign bank accounts
The first family must command respect, not demand it. This, they should do through leading by example. "Julius Caesar's wife must be above suspicion". The first lady should not be seen throwing her we...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:28hrs | 18628 | by Israel Dube
Hopewell Chin'ono and Themba Mliswa team up to destroy those fighting corruption
The past few months Zimbabwe has seen a relented attack of those fighting corruption. Of interest was the attack of Thabani Vusa Mpofu the director of the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) by Hopwel...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 09:33hrs | 6265 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC is not only falling apart, it has actually fallen apart
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country's opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters.For ...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland hospitals management accused of abusing local drawn staff
HOSPITAL across Matabeleland region who have management from Mashonaland are reportedly to be rocked by serious tribalism and nepotism with the management being accused of abusing most local drawn mem...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1810 | by Stephen Jakes
NUST student off the hook
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student Panashe Vongai Sivandani has been removed from remand following her arrest for participating in the foiled July 31 anticorruption protests....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Engutsheni Hospital accused of employing labourers from outside Bulawayo
ENGUTSHENI hospital has come under a storm for allegedly employing people from outside Bulawayo to do general hand work at the institution while several locals are also unemployed.This emerged...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 13:05hrs | 6545 | by Stephen Jakes
Nepotism rocks Hospital
TEN general hands at Chivhu General Hospital were recently suspended from work barely a month after they joined the institution amid allegations of nepotism in their recruitment.Allegations ar...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1920 | by Staff reporter
Infighting rocks Zimbabwe Red Cross Society
TENSION is escalating within the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) as the organisation holds elections to choose its board of governors. ZRCS has been conducting elections to usher in a new bo...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 277 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Denials of a crisis don't wash it away
ZIMBABWE is in crisis. Daily power cuts have returned, long fuel queues have refused to disappear while the country is facing what the United Nations has called its "worst ever hunger crisis". The pol...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Creating in-roads for sustainable peace
The New Dispensation is engrossed with the ever growing malcontented youths, coupled with exasperated civil society owing to the perceived economic meltdown. This disgruntlement has manifested...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:50hrs | 145 | by Emmanuel Murema
Zanu-PF warns corrupt law officers
Zanu-PF party has warned that it is ready to have law enforcement agents conniving with opposition MDC Alliance-led councils in the rampant illegal allocation of residential and commercial stands in u...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa in alliance with Jonathan Moyo?
Zimbabwe is a very interesting nation. Anything in the air excites people. There has been hissing and buzzing and people talking with their mouths closed after an audio was leaked to the public by the...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 20:30hrs | 9222 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Open letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Senator Monica Mutsvangwa The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Commission ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 3712 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda - ADGN President
Zimbabwe at crossroads - The new Zimbabwe we crave for
An attempt to build one nationalist liberation movement failed in the 1960s when most of the nationalists of Shona extraction split from Zapu to form a pro-Shona Zanu which was largely mobilised...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:41hrs | 1942 | by Hon Lovemore Moyo
Lone protestor freed
A DARING National University of Science and Technology engineering student who was arrested for staging a solo protest against the arrest of journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono, has been granted $200 bail b...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 620 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town dispersed by police
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town were told to disperse by the police on Friday.When they refused, the police went to their cars to fetch their equipmen...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4031 | by Staff reporter
In defence of the July 31, 2020 protests
IN life there is only one constant; that is change. But for Zimbabweans of different generations from that of Father Zimbabwe, through to the born "frees" and the millenniums the common constant is th...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 523 | by Danmore Sithole
Churches take Mnangagwa to task
CHURCHES have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create an enabling environment that allows citizens to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate without hindrance....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3513 | by Staff reporter
Exposure of corruption by Dr Alex Magaisa justifies Mthwakazi restoration
Mthwakazi Republic Party MRP which happens to be my party of choice has once again been vindicated by Dr Alex T Magaisa's list of corrupt elites and the Political Exposed Persons "PEPs" as he calls th...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3379 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Chinotimba roasts Chipinge Town Secretary
Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba who suspects that Chipinge Town Engineer resigned in a huff last month to escape prosecution over scandals involving devolution funds went ballistic during a Parliam...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:27hrs | 3607 | by Staff reporter
Political power, leadership and language in Zimbabwe
Besides being a tool for communication, language has many other functions in all societies. However in countries where there are several or many languages, such languages are often ranked in order of ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 926 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 7279 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Van Choga key to Zimbabwe's true liberation from Mnangagwa
There comes a time in a revolution when an unlikely figure is called to lead his/her people out of the cycle of oppression. Valentine Simbarashe Choga, aka Van Choga is one such hero. Unknowingly, the...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 8915 | by Edzai Zvobwo
'No discrimination in farm downsizing'
Government has dismissed reports that the ongoing downsizing of farms is only targeting white farmers and has stressed that it affects everyone with a farm larger than the stipulated maximum size. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Give Us Confidence Cde President
Dear Cde President, I know chances of you reading this letter are next to zero but all the same I write to you on the basis of you being "a listening President". Cde President it is crystal cl...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 18:24hrs | 3377 | by Munya Shumba
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