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Doctors refuse to be capped by Mnangagwa
The 2019 class of graduating medical students at the University of Zimbabwe are to boycott their graduation ceremony at which they were due to be capped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.This in...Published: 59 mins ago | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Zesa reports $4bn exchange losses since February
Power utility ZESA Holdings yesterday revealed that it had incurred exchange losses of up to $4 billion since February, when the central bank liberalised the exchange rate.The Reserve Bank of ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 186 | by Staff reporter
Where is full judgment on 2018 electoral case?
ON August 24, the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) handed down its abridged judgment in the electoral challenge case brought by the opposition candidate, Nelson Chamisa, against the ruling Zanu-PF's Em...Published: 2 hrs ago | 389 | by Swikani Ncube
Minister in plot to scuttle NRZ deal
TRANSPORT minister Biggie Matiza is reportedly manoeuvring to smuggle through the backdoor a Dubai-based firm into the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal, despite...Published: 2 hrs ago | 314 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is dead, but old men still run southern Africa
THE death of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (95) saw another of the first-generation leaders of newly independent southern African states leave the world stage.Southern Africa was the ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 292 | by Henning Melber
'Mbanje licensing cumbersome'
THE country could lose out on the multi-billion dollar global medical cannabis revolution due to cumbersome licensing conditions set by the Ministry of Health and Child Care, an official has said. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 140 | by Staff reporter
UN special rapporteur in Zimbabwe, to meet Mnangagwa
United Nations Special Rapporteur, Mr Clément Voule is today expected to meet President Mnangagwa after being invited by Government to make an independent assessment of the country's achievements and...Published: 3 hrs ago | 205 | by Staff reporter
Scholarships fraud suspects granted bail
An employee from the Presidential and National Scholarships Department, who is facing fraud allegations, appeared in court yesterday. Silent Mubariki, was not asked to plead by Harare magistra...Published: 3 hrs ago | 119 | by Staff reporter
Doctors march to parliament
Over 200 doctors joined by other health workers marched from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament on Thursday to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union.The march was all...Published: 19 hrs ago | 3098 | by Reuters
High Court allows doctors' march
High Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has granted an order allowing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) to peacefully march from Parirenyatwa Hospital to within a radius of 20 metres from th...Published: 19 hrs ago | 665 | by Staff reporter
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4181 | by Knowledge Hakata
NUST enrolment must be biased towards Matebeleland region students
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) should have a deliberate policy biased towards enrolling students from Matebeleland region as it suffered underdevelopment during the early yea...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2216 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax to stay despite High Court ruling
High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou yesterday scrapped Statutory Instrument (SI) 205 of 2018, which enabled Government to levy 2 percent tax on electronic money transactions above $10. The t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1339 | by Staff reporter
Nust underdevelopment rapped
THE underdevelopment of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is inexcusable and the tertiary institution cannot blame Government for lagging behind, legislators said yesterday. ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu defies party directive
Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu has come under fire for continuing to defy the Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive's directive stopping him from carrying out party and parliamentary business in ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers to join protesting doctors over abduction
MEMBERS of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have resolved to join doctors who are protesting the abduction of a fellow m...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 20:42hrs | 7414 | by newzimbabwe
'2% tax collection not affected'
The Finance and Economic Development Ministry has issued a statement stating that the High Court judgment suspending the two percent tax on electronic transactions will not affect the collection and l...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 19:42hrs | 3542 | by Staff reporter
MDC is a disgrace to Matebeleland
The tribal fracas at the Mthwakazi capital "Esigodlweni seNkosi" is a clear manifestation of a tribal war against the local people. The unrepentant Shona councillors yesterday snubbed a scheduled budg...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:35hrs | 3101 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mthuli Ncube a disappointed man
If the minister of finance was serious about his 2 percent transaction tax (si205), he was supposed to have approached the Parliament, to gazette a bill in respect of that.We can not hav...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 4079 | by Nothisa Dube
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1003 | by Daniel Itai
Riot police block doctors from marching to Parliament, standoff ensues
Doctors protesting the abduction of a union leader have been met by a line of police in Harare as fears grow about government repression.The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association says its pres...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2262 | by Associated Press
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 10622 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of mobile money platforms symptomatic of a failed currency regime
IT is a good thing that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (Zacc) has finally taken interest in the stinking corruption that has been going on through some mobile money platforms on which members...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 339 | by Editorial - Newsday
Mnangagwa's govt to present human rights report to UN, AU for review
ZIMBABWE has made significant strides in promoting and protecting the human rights of citizens since 2007 in line with international agreements and is due to present reports to world and continental b...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Mnangagwa will deliver the State of the Nation Address on October 1, the same day he will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally skips court, warrant of arrest issued
A Bulawayo magistrate Tuesday issued a warrant of arrest against MDC chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo after the lawmaker failed to attend a hearing before her court.The firebrand politician, toge...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2947 | by newzimbabwe
Tendai Biti led team queries 'rogue' RBZ payments
Parliament yesterday slammed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for carrying out quasi fiscal activities outside its mandate and using taxpayers and pensioners' money to fund government activities....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Treasury instructed RBZ to pay US$660m to Sakunda
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday told parliament that it paid US$663,8 million worth of treasury bills (TBs) to Sakunda Holdings (Sakunda) owned by fuel mogul Kuda Tagwirei under instructi...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Low domestic tourism volumes worry Zimbabwe Parly
INCREASED marketing and educational campaigns are needed to boost domestic tourism in Zimbabwe, which remains lowest despite huge potential, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infr...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa revisits booing nightmare during Mugabe funeral
SOUTH AFRICAN President Cyril Ramaphosa has revisited his unfortunate Saturday experience in front of thousands of mourning Zimbabweans who booed him for continued xenophobic attacks on foreigners in ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:07hrs | 2201 | by newzimbabwe
MDC-Alliance members urged to 'repent' and join Zanu-PF
MDC-Alliance members have been advised to "repent" and join the ruling Zanu-PF which enjoys overwhelming support from the generality of Zimbabweans. The call was made by the ruling party Women...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:54hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
RBZ explains exchange rate depreciation
THE depreciation of the Zimbabwe dollar against the United States dollar and other currencies in recent weeks is as a result of the closure of the tobacco marketing season which is a major foreign cur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:53hrs | 2190 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba chiefs felt betrayed over Mugabe controversy
The late former President Robert Mugabe, who passed on 10 days ago, has courted controversy even in death with speculation over his burial, place of burial and his place in the history of Zimbabwe....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:50hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Lobby for 24-hr clinics taken to Parliament
PARLIAMENT has referred a petition by Bulawayo activist Khumbulani Maphosa requesting that council clinics operate 24 hours daily to the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care for deliberations,...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:49hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya summoned over Command Agric
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament's Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controvers...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:07hrs | 2655 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open 2nd Parly session
President Mnangagwa will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on October 1 and layout the legislative agenda. The opening of the Second Session marks the end of the First...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:38hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt expenditure problem
The Zimbabwe Government has a constitution which should control expenditure to avoid haphazard uses of funds, treasury instructions for accounting purposes and the auditor general for checks and balan...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:39hrs | 748 | by Clemen Moyo ka Mangena
Mnangagwa congratulates Chamisa's MDC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the Nelson Chamisa led MDC for attaining 20 years of its existence as a political party in Zimbabwe. MDC was formed in September 1999 with the la...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 12:05hrs | 16913 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe stuck with expired medical drugs, says committee
AT a time when the country is facing drug shortages, it has been revealed that the company mandated to store and distribute medical supplies of public health institution, NatPharm, is stocked with exp...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 297 | by Jason L Riley
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya in court over govt loans
HARARE North legislator Allan Norman Markham (MDC Alliance) has approached the High Court seeking an order to nullify a loan agreement entered between the Finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:04hrs | 3742 | by Staff reporter
Funeral after funeral as NSSA pensioners succumb to hunger and disease
For NSSA pensioners it does not only rain but it pours. Despite the 'comedy of scandals' highlighted and publicised about misplaced and misappropriated NSSA funds, those in positions of authorit...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:52hrs | 570 | by Gabarinocheka
Matemadanda dresses down Hungwe
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda last Saturday launched a scathing attack believed to have been directed at politburo member Josaya Hungwe whom he literally accused of trying to...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | 5544 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets VIP treatment at Mugabe funeral
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will finally get some VIP treatment at a State managed funeral of prominent Zimbabwean after some nightmarish experiences before.This is according to the list of VIPs...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 5670 | by newzimbabwe
Businesses fighting Mnangagwa, says Matemadanda
Zanu-PF has said it has had enough with businesses who are hiking prices on daily basis saying they are forcing their hand to adopt price control mechanisms which was not President Mnangagwa's desire....Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 9425 | by Staff reporter
Let's be fair to Mugabe deeply flawed as he was
The death of Robert Mugabe, the only Executive Prime Minister and only Executive President that Zimbabwe had known since independence in 1980 until 2017 - all of 37 years - has shown that he was not a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 1286 | by Conway Tutani
Mugabe is giving Mnangagwa a headache even in death
Even in death, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe remains an Achilles' heel for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy.Since 1977, Mnangagwa has been on Mugabe's side - first as ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:46hrs | 3256 | by Staff reporter
'Mliswa should have been arrested over US$400 000 bribe'
Controversial Kwekwe businessman Shepherd Tundiya, who is accused of obstructing the course of justice after allegedly trying to convince mogul James Ross Goddard to withdraw extortion charges against...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:04hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Chinese snub Zimbabweans in RGM Airport project
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport,, Oscar Gorerino, yesterday expressed concern that a Chinese company, Jiangsu, which is refurbishing and expanding the Robert Gabriel ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:03hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
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