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Zimbabwe diasporans launch party
A NEW political party formed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, the Patriotic Zimbabweans (PZ), has proposed a financing strategy to revive the country's deteriorating road, rail, aviation and health and...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Why I dumbed Chamisa
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 07:07hrs | 5531 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC is doomed, says Chebundo
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country's opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 16:21hrs | 3659 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes a dig at Chamisa's MPs
ZANU-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi, has accused opposition MPs of sleeping on the job as they only raise issues to do with electoral reforms when elections are just around the corner or over....Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Zimbabweans in Diaspora party is born
EDITOR,In line with the Zimbabwe Constitution Section 67 (1)(b), 67 (2)(b)(c) and 67(3)(a)(b) that confers Zimbabwean citizens political and electoral rights related to political membership an...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2574 | by Samantha Power
Zimbabwe's economic outlook for 2021
Zimbabwe's economy ended the year 2020 on a fairly stable note due to the return of the multi-currency regime and decline in general inflation levels in the market. Headwinds caused by incessant power...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 21:02hrs | 1268 | by Victor Bhoroma
Gweru sewage system collapses
The Gweru city sewage system has collapsed and needs complete overhaul with raw effluent now polluting the environment and posing a serious health hazard to residents.Speaking at a recent full...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:33hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Man City would require a major turnaround to topple Liverpool
The last three seasons in the English Premier League have seen Manchester City and ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1475 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa's new republic, worse than Mugabe era
THE country looks like a civilian regime where everything is run by civilians in which democratic institutions exist in form, but not in substance, because the electoral, legislature, judicial, media ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1226 | by Leonard Koni
Operation restore legacy was a no brainer
This regime that looked democratic in appearance but grounded in authoritarian rule is a time bomb and waiting for the right time to explode.The country also looked like a civilian regime wher...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 17:10hrs | 898 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe's unmonitored airstrips to be closed
Unmonitored airstrips will be closed, while a new radar control system to monitor aircraft flying in the country's airspace will soon be installed amid concerns some aeroplanes have become conduits to...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
NRZ courting Turkey, Indonesia investors
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is courting investors from Turkey, Russia and Indonesia as it continues with efforts to restructure its operations. Despite demand for its services...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:29hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
We are not Afraid of Mnangagwa , It's only that we are law abiding citizens
The denial of freedom of the masses by Zanu pf led government has gone too far. What the Zanu pf led government is forgetting is that its party is a minority which survives and rule through force . Bu...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 14:04hrs | 3451 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa's youths hit back at Mohadi
MDC Alliance youths have hit back at Vice-President Kembo Mohadi's claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has improved the lives of ordinary people since taking over power from the late former Presi...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 5754 | by Staff reporter
Mixed views over Khupe's return to Parliament
Political analysts have expressed mixed views over former MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe's return to Parliament Wednesday, two years after her expulsion in April 2018.Khupe, now acting presid...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 260 | by Staff Reporter
Gono says GNU days were the best
ormer reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says the days of the government of national unity (GNU) were "one of the best economic episodes of our lives".Gono (GG), who retired in 20...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Work on Hwange power project at 60%
THE Government is working tirelessly to expedite the return of expatriates contracted under its power generation projects most of whom are still locked up in their countries due to the outbreak of Cov...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:51hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa sending envoy back to Zimbabwe - waste of time, hamstrung to do right thing
President Cyril Ramaphosa is planning to send back the special envoy to Zimbabwe in a determined effort to find a solution to Zimbabwe's worsen economic and political crisis. Last the time the envoy m...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 16:29hrs | 2208 | by Wilbert Mukori
Covid-19 triggers load shedding
LOAD shedding being experienced in the country is set to continue as experts who are meant to fix technical problems at some of the country's power generating stations are failing to travel due to res...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Minister Soda fixes Hwange power unit, boosts supply
ONE of the power generating units at Hwange Thermal Power Station was fixed yesterday to boost the country's unity capacity by more than 150MW, Energy and Power Development Minister, Soda Zhemu has sa...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:32hrs | 1963 | by Staff reporter
'Sanction are causing incapacitation and fuelling corruption' - do tell, what incapacitations diamonds looters are suffering
”There is a relationship between sanctions and corruption, whereupon due to incapacitation of Government or the private sector to provide competitive salaries in the region, workers end up engaging ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:28hrs | 1234 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Military role in politics cannot be wished away' argue Biti - always paid lip service to democratic changes
"Biti says military role in Zimbabwe politics cannot be wished away!" screamed the headlines in Bulawayo24."There must be dialogue that takes care of military concerns. In 2008 after the MDC w...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1141 | by Wilbert Mukori
'UK seeking how it can best support Zimbabweans' says Ambassador - for once, say what we NEED to hear
The MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa member the UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe on Wednesday. The later has said the meeting was "fruitful". "We continue to engage across the political spectrum to...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 18:56hrs | 3071 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chiwenga restructures health ministry
GOVERNMENT has started restructuring the country's healthcare system and has since assured health workers that efforts are underway to ensure that they return to work.Vice-President Constantin...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 17:57hrs | 8306 | by Staff reporter
Kidnapping of Ivorian Civil Society Coalition President, Edith Gbal condemned
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus and other Pandemics for African Development, CICC-DA, has condemned the kidnapping of the President of the Ivorian Civil Society Coalition, Pulchér...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 1131 | by Stephen Jakes
An MDC govt around 2025
WHILE the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating.On the other hand, the centreleft MDC's democratic project has been bas...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 3744 | by Robert Sigauke
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1490 | by Robert Sigauke
Can Ramaphosa force Mnangagwa to step down; that is all that real matter?
In life, one must always make a honest assessment of what one can and cannot do. And proceed accordingly. There is logic in doing otherwise especial when that means repeating the same foolish mistake ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:39hrs | 560 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF threatens to clamp down on big business
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down on big business fond of disrupting government policies by inflating prices of goods and manipulating the black market.Speaking at a policy meeting in Harar...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 3114 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests
JITTERY Zanu-PF officials are sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests, which they claim are meant to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power.Addressing a party meeting in Harare...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2411 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over constitution overhaul
The government's push to overhaul the constitution only seven years after it was adopted was met with fierce opposition during the countrywide public hearings organised by Parliament.President...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:42hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shedding crocodile tears
THOSE whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Ablating the lipstick off the crocodile would need quite an enumeration; the cacophony of deceit and deception, the apophasis in seeking divin...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:39hrs | 495 | by Evangelist Sendekai W T
FULL TEXT: 'I am sorry for working with ZANU PF' Minister Gandawa apologises
I have felt, for some time, compelled to issue a statement to settle longstanding accusations that I was a central cog in Zanu PF and participated in its violation of human rights.While I read...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 12:08hrs | 10431 | by Godfrey Gandawa
Zimbabwe's policymakers are flying blind
...COVID-19 exposes gaps in social infrastructureThe lack of accurate data, which is the lifeblood of any economy, is a disease of incompetent governance and makes informed economic developmen...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:42hrs | 745 | by Vince Musewe
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 888 | by Cliff Chiduku
Beautiful Bulawayo Trust's Darlington Nyika faces boot
BEAUTIFUL Bulawayo Trust (BBT ) founding trustee Darlington Nyika is facing the boot from an organisation he helped found on allegations of undermining the board and making unilateral decisions and pe...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 08:10hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pupils to receive lessons through radio
THE Government is finalising modalities that will see primary and secondary school learners receiving lessons through radio in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic that has disrupted the school calendar ...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:07hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus: Schools opening put on hold
PREPARATIONS for the second school term have begun but opening will now be delayed as authorities roll out changes to how the academic institutions will operate in view of the Covid-19 scourge....Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:45hrs | 2909 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean engineers rebuild Boeing 737 plane
AIR Zimbabwe's rebuilding exercise has paid dividends as local engineers successfully overhauled engines and re-assembled the airline's Boeing 737 plane which took to the skies Friday afternoon ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 16:31hrs | 2770 | by Staff reporter
Sewer system collapses
A health hazard is looming in most high density suburbs of Gweru City following the collapse of the sewer reticulation system. The development has seen raw sewage flowing down the streets of s...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:01hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to be in hard times after corona virus
The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China, has infected more than a million people and it's still counting. Its spread has left businesses around the world counting costs and rea...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 674 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Choppies restructures to lift suspension
Gaborone, 23 March 2020: Supermarket giant Choppies Enterprises Limited (CEL) is overhauling its corporate governance in preparation for the lifting of the suspension of trading in its shares on the B...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:33hrs | 2234 | by Staff reporter
Overhaul for Grade 7 exams
GRADE Seven pupils will from next year be examined in six final subjects as part of an education curriculum review being implemented by Government to mould a generation equipped with modern societal s...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:57hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
21st century mindset required to solve Zimbabwe challenges of the future
Our country seem be designing and implementing the economic strategy in a manner that Douglas Alexander described as "a fundamental error of what makes success in the 21st century".There are t...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 139 | by Brian Sedze
Chamisa sweats over tribalism in MDC
THE ugly factional and tribal wars that continue to consume the MDC are giving under pressure opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, "many a sleepless night."This comes as the country's s...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 19:33hrs | 1829 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes Gweru City Council rot
Gweru City Council is losing thousands of dollars through double-dipping by senior management as well as flouting of tender procedures. This is contained in the minutes of an audit commi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Parliament petitioned over nurses recruitment
A group of Matabeleland activists assisting aspiring nurse trainees from the region with the recruitment processes is petitioning Parliament to push for an overhaul of the enrolment exercise they cond...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:23hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
UK's double standards exposed
The British government has exposed its hypocrisy and insincerity following a proposal to enact new laws that seek to outlaw foreign spies, yet it has its own spies in almost every country. The...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:02hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
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