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For economy to take off, we must take air out of inflation
What is inflation and why must we get it under control? What has been going wrong, and how are we putting things right? As an Economics Professor, its important I first explain the basics. In ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 419 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
Mnangagwa and his love for expensive jets
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 5245 | by Benjamin Manzini
Mnangagwa targets rights lawyers, doctors
CIVIC society groups and opposition parties yesterday described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's threatened clampdown on last month's human rights defenders as shocking and a direct attack on democracy,...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
2,4m Zimbabweans food insecure as drought, rising costs bite
The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 228 | by IRIN
Mnangagwa gets tough on violence
Government is aware of a renewed bid by the MDC-Alliance and its allies to relaunch violent demonstrations, and will deal decisively with elements that are hell-bent on making the country ungovernable...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:04hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aware of Chamisa's renewed bid to relaunch violent protests
Government is aware of a renewed bid by the MDC-Alliance and its allies to relaunch violent demonstrations, and will deal decisively with elements that are hell-bent on making the country ungovernable...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters dupe 100 nurses
TWO suspected fraudsters who allegedly duped 100 unsuspecting aspiring nurses in Chipinge and pocketed $41 000 from the scam were on Monday arraigned in court facing fraud charges.The suspects...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's health condition deteriorates
Unwell Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly been flown out for treatment in India as health fears around the country's second in charge continue to mount.The VP, who o...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 16:17hrs | 38726 | by NewZimbabwe.com
Chiwenga under fire over India trip
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's regular visits to foreign hospitals have drawn renewed fire from hard-pressed Zimbabweans, who yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to pr...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa's only commuter train is cheap and reliable
CHUGGING through townships, maize fields and scrubland as the sun rises, Zimbabwe's only commuter train is cheap and reliable - two qualities that its passengers cherish in a downwards-spiralling econ...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:30hrs | 6012 | by AFP
Zimbabwean community that identifies with SA, Botswana
Arriving at Khalanyoni Business Centre in Plumtree, Mangwe district in Matabeleland South about 200 kilometres south of Bulawayo, one is greeted by a huge election billboard of a beaming President Emm...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2732 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF feeds Govt economic drive
The ruling party last December held its Annual People's Conference in Esigodini where a number of resolutions that centre on the economy were passed.But over and above the resolutions, we had ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:49hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Nurse in court for stealing drugs, wheelchair
A man from Bulawayo was arraigned for allegedly stealing a wheelchair and drugs.Ronald Sunduza, 33, of house number 312 Ntabazinduna flats Bulawayo, and is employed as a Registered General Nur...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 21:24hrs | 1876 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga health woes mount
UNWELL Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly been flown out for treatment in India as health fears around the country's second in charge continue to mount.The VP, who once reveale...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:14hrs | 30922 | by newzimbabwe
Govt unfreezes 1 762 health posts
GOVERNMENT says it has unfrozen 1 762 posts in the health sector, this comes in the wake of a massive shortage of health workers which inflamed the industrial action by doctors last year.Among...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 11:03hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
Teachers push for strike
ALL but one teachers' union have declared that their members would today join a national strike called for by Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PT...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2439 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga must be deported back to Zimbabwe
DISGRUNTLED Zimbabweans living in South Africa yesterday ratcheted up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa's government to deport Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was reportedly admitted to a...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 5511 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga health sojourn an embarrassment
REPORTS that hundreds of disgruntled Zimbabweans in South Africa yesterday demonstrated outside a hospital in that country, where Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is reportedly receiving medical at...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:47hrs | 4171 | by Editorial - Newsday
Nurses to work three days a week
THE Government on Friday granted permission for nurses and other health workers to adjust their working hours to 154 hours monthly which translates to three days a week. In a letter addressed ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:30hrs | 1253 | by staff reporter
Mnangagwa drowning 'slowly but surely'
The New Dispensation which has become the New Desperation, has totally failed in all its election mantras and promises that it had promised to the general public at large. Those in the political circl...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:31hrs | 6466 | by Knowledge Hakata
Tajamuka to protest at Chiwenga's hospital
Social Movement Tajamuka/Sesjikile in conjunction with the opposition MDC and #ThisFlag will stage a protest on Monday at the UCT Academic Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa where Vice President Cons...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 06:37hrs | 11728 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa calls for stiffer littering laws
President Mnangagwa has called for the tightening of by laws on littering in the country as a way of conserving the environment. Mnangagwa led the monthly National Environment Cleaning Day exe...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 20:21hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' salary demands should be reasonable
Although civil servants play a critical role in the provision of essential services by Government ministries and departments and are entitled to the right to fight for the improvement of their salarie...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 3790 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe frets over looted drugs
THE Government has warned people against buying and using prescribed drugs and other pharmaceutical items that were looted when pharmacies were broken into during the violent stay away recently, sayin...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:04hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must shoulder shutdown blame
There is a very real danger that Zimbabwe may be plunged into serious social and political unrest unless the leaders of this country stop acting innocent victims of non-existant political plots and in...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:36hrs | 292 | by Editorial - The Standard
Another Grace Mugabe in the making!
So you are telling me that the whole acting president of the Republic of Zimbabwe failed to bring to an end the strike by the skilled labourers - I mean the junior doctors? But it took Auxilia a few h...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:08hrs | 23119 | by Mapombi Adonha
Mnangagwa's anti-graft body in turmoil
Back in the days, we had a teacher we nicknamed "Rubbish". That was a bit unflattering and unfair, of course, but he earned that moniker because, at the drop of the hat, he would always exclaim, "Good...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:27hrs | 524 | by Tawanda Majoni
ED the change that exist not!
We have wondered for so long how the events of November 2017 will unfold on the liberation of Zimbabwe's economic front. Is this change still on its way or we are waiting in vain? Are we really open f...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 21:38hrs | 448 | by Takesure Tazvishaya
Civil servants warn Mnangagwa
CIVIL servants yesterday warned government that a full-blown national strike was imminent if their employer fails to review its decision to offer them a paltry $41 pay rise.Civil servants who ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:20hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Time to confront bloodsuckers wherever and whenever
THAT things could be on the verge of boiling over is not an overstatement, but for the "big boys" these are the best of times as they are making a killing.But it should be pointed out from the...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 377 | by Conway Tutani
From Great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe Ruins with Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
With great good hope Zimbabweans of all polical affiliation, race, colour and creed poured-out onto the streets, led by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, to tell Mugabe of The Enough of the journey from Th...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1915 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Honesty will pull Mnangagwa's govt out of mess
All along, the whole country had thought that the problems bedevilling the health services sector would remain confined to that sector alone.Everyone had hoped - against hope though - that the...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 13:00hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Neither Zanu-PF nor Mnangagwa are to blame
Neither the ruling party nor President Emmerson Mnangagwa are to blame for the country's economic woes that are giving rise to labour unrests, Zanu-PF's information tsar said yesterday."This i...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:07hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa will start rolling out the demonstrations next week
A showdown is looming between the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after the youth wing of the country's biggest opposition political party resolved to conduct massive pro...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:00hrs | 1880 | by Staff reporter
Many Zimbabweans in the UK abandon their professions to become nurses
Nurses do enjoy a diverse and rewarding career that really makes a difference. Nurses act as leaders, carers and clinicians, taking responsibility for the care they provide to patients. They are life ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:51hrs | 7588 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition stands in solidarity with civil servants
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) stands in solidarity with civil servants who have embarked on job action following government's continued failure to improve their welfare and working conditions....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:08hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highlights for 2018
January ED visits sick TsvangiraiApart from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the home of the late Morgan Tsvangirai, another highlight for January 2018 was the arrest of se...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe heads for shutdown
Government could be headed for a complete shutdown if it does not urgently address the concerns of its employees who are downing tools to press for better pay and improved working conditions, analysts...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | 5875 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths recruit teachers and nurses
ZANU PF Youth League has commenced the process of identifying graduates who are not working to replace the teachers and nurses who are on industrial action.Writing on Facebook Secretary for Yo...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 07:43hrs | 6123 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCTU raises red flag over Mnangagwa's wife
Government has been accused of wantonly breaking labour laws by resorting to the use of political offices and unelected people to lead talks with its workers.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:23hrs | 3801 | by Staff reporter
Doctors end strike?
Striking public sector doctors have agreed to return to work with immediate effect after an agreement with Government on a plethora of grievances that had witnessed the health practitioners' stay away...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:02hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must admit failure'
As Zimbabwe's economy continues to deteriorate, the opposition MDC has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to admit failure and open way for negotiations towards the setting up of a national transit...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:18hrs | 4082 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets spies on striking doctors
Government is using unorthodox tactics including political intimidation to force striking doctors to abort their industrial action, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has claimed....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4014 | by Staff reporter
Govt should resolve dire situation
SCHOOLS are next week set to open for the first term of this year amid uncertainty over whether teachers will report for duty, as government has failed to respond to their demands for better salaries ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:11hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike
Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old....Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:33hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bond notes under siege
The bond note is increasingly suffering rejection from the corporate sector after Delta Corporation Limited went public on Wednesday saying it will be selling its products in hard currency.Del...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:31hrs | 6849 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to brace up for tough times ahead as the economy continue to scream
No sign of economic revival has been noticed since this new republic took over. It is just a fallacy. It is now 13 months since President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa grabbed power from nonagen...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | 1072 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1174 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance and teachers plotting mega shutdown
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday cranked up the pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, confirming it would go ahead with its planned national strike this mo...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:18hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Chiza says Chamisa will become President of Zimbabwe
Founder of Faith In God Eagle Life Assembly Prophet Blessing Chiza has issued a controversial prophesy that for Zimbabwe to be prosperous God is going to install Nelson Chamisa as President of the cou...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 16:43hrs | 33946 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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