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POLAD takes on NSSA corruption
Participants in the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) spearheaded by President Mnangagwa will discuss the corruption ravaging the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), MDC-T vice president Obert ...Published: 7 mins ago | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs reducing Second Republic into one big circus
THE animosity between the two political adversaries, the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, who have perpetually been trading barbs in Parliament, has now degenerated into a farce and turned...Published: 9 mins ago | 6 | by NewsDay Comment
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2993 | by Ntokozo Msipha
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big step in the right direction towards ending period po...Published: 10 hrs ago | 416 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 10 hrs ago | 786 | by Ayanda Manala
Spaced out - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There was a lot of space in Parliament when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube delivered his budget. This was partly because the opposition was boycotting the occasion but mainly because of the surprise an...Published: 10 hrs ago | 208 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa's govt dares MDC legislators
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday warned MDC legislators saying they must know that Parliament can continue without them because Zanu-PF has a two-thirds majo...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1769 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt squanders US$10.6 billion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government spent over US$10 billion in unbudgeted public finds, and now wants Parliament to okay the unexplained expenditure, raising the ire of opposition members of Pa...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1243 | by Staff reporter
SA Express inaugural flight from Joburg to Bulawayo is today
Airline SA Express said on Wednesday it would commence flights to neighbouring Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo from November 18 (today) as it accelerates the restoration of its network.In a...Published: 13 hrs ago | 459 | by Staff reporter
'Public officials should declare assets'
A LOCAL governance expert, Vincent Chakunda, has called for legislative framework that ensures that public officials declare their assets to avoid looting and abuse of public resources.Speakin...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:22hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
MDC demonstrates at Warriors match
AFTER being denied a chance to protest by police with the latest being at Thursday's 2020 budget presentation, MDC youths ambushed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime by demonstrating as the country...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 807 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt unveils electoral reform package
A provision for the electronic transmission of Presidential election results that allows for the swift release of final result tallies is being considered by Government as part of a broad electoral re...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Free tillage for villagers
THE Government has come up with a tillage programme where tractors will be dispatched through the District Development Fund (DDF) to till at least one hectare per household to assist farmers whose dra...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:23hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube pens explosive book
VETERAN freedom fighter and former Cabinet Minister Retired Colonel Tshinga Judge Dube has penned his autobiography which is set to be launched at the National Art Gallery in Bulawayo on Friday....Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:22hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
POSA now history
Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA), which has been signed by President Mnangagwa into law, is expected to open up democratic space by entrenching the right to demonstrate and present petitions,...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2572 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons
THE government has warned that it would embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons and unscrupulous bank officials who are diverting money to the black market, the Daily News reports.Thi...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:16hrs | 2434 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs refuse to recognise Biti
ZANU-PF MPs who are members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee on Friday reportedly walked out on chairperson Tendai Biti "questioning his legitimacy".The Public Accounts Committee (PAC...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:15hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
Govt allocates millions to irrigation schemes
TREASURY has allocated nearly $423 million towards the development of irrigation schemes countrywide. Presenting the 2020 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 11:24hrs | 795 | by Sta Reporter
Biti asked to recuse himself
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee hearing into Command Agriculture and Sakunda was aborted this morning after Zanu-PF legislators asked Mr Tendai Biti to recuse himself from chairing the committe...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 5787 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube disappointed
Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube says he was disappointed by the MDC Alliance Members of Parliament who snubbed his budget presentation on Thursday despite the fact...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 6108 | by Staff reporter
14 Nov 2017 - a dark day that moved Zimbabwe to another level of suffering and oppression
I remember - as if it were just a few hours ago - waking up as usual at dawn on the morning of 15 November 2017, then routinely checking my WhatsApp, only to be greeted by a barrage of messages to the...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 13:48hrs | 1844 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC issues statement on boycotting Mthuli Ncube's budget
The Movement for Democratic Change has issued a statement clarifying their absence at the budget presentation held at parliament building on Thursday. The absence of MDC Parliamentarians irked...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 12:11hrs | 3692 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga coup generals declare war on Mnangagwa
VANCOUVER - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's military generals who were key in executing the November 2017 coup against President Robert Mugabe, have allegedly declared war on Presid...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:48hrs | 48630 | by Nancy Mabaya
'Poor funding compromises Zacc independence'
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is poorly funded to independently exercise its duties, leaving it exposed to manipulation and Parliament should make sure it has been allocated a sound b...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
MDC snubs Mnangagwa to bury cadres
THE opposition MDC yesterday continued with its protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy and snubbed the 2020 national budget presentation over his presence in Parliament.All...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Currency change sparks confusion
A SERIES of changes to the country's currency has triggered confusion for accountants, consumers of financial information and investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE).The Zimbabwean gove...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
What is the role of V11, V23 forms?
IT is the constitutional mandate of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to ensure that, at every election or referendum, whatever voting method is used, is simple, accurate, verifiable, secure and...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:17hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Pupils to get free sanitary wear
PRIMARY and secondary school girls are set to receive free sanitary wear starting January 2020 with Government setting aside $200 million towards such provision. Presenting his 2020 National B...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:15hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam project allocated $400m in Budget
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North province, one of the strategic development projects under the water and sanitation cluster, has been allocated $400 million in the 2020 National Budget, th...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:15hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Tax-free bonuses for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has reviewed the tax-free bonus threshold from $ 1 000 to $ 5 000 with effect from this month with civil servants also expected to get their full annual bonuses pegged on gross income. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Mine dispute sucks in MP
A 65-year-old woman from Silobela, just outside Kwekwe, is accusing local legislator Mthokozisi Manoki Mpofu of forcibly taking over her mine. Ms Martha Moyo said she now feared for her life after Mpo...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:13hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
The Budget 2020 - Which way Zimbabwe
In the darkness of the Zimbabwean economy with ordinary people grinding beans using their back Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube casts a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. He said the count...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 23:50hrs | 2025 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'ED is illegitimate' MDC cherry picked - dogmatic folly holding nation to ransom
There is nothing wrong with having an opinion on a given subject but when you doggedly hang on to the opinion regardless of the evidence to the contrary and even paddle the discredited opinion as trut...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:59hrs | 1139 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's MPs to be punished after 2020 budget presentation boycott
INDEPENDENT MP Temba Mliswa on Thursday demanded Parliament takes disciplinary action after all MDC legislators boycotted Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 Budget presentation in their continued di...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:47hrs | 2679 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa, Mwonzora power struggle is a staged-managed sideshow
THE alleged tussle for power between opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and former secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is nothing but a staged-managed sideshow to destabilise the MDC, the party has said....Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:43hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa divides Chamisa's councillors
PRESIDENT will today address predominantly MDC councillors in Bulawayo amid divisions in the opposition party over the Zimbabwean leader's legitimacy.T Emmerson MnangagwaIronically, MDC Member...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:41hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: 2020 National Budget
Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli ncube announced the 2020 Budget statement on Thursday in Parliament Read the full statement belowMinister of Finance and Economic Developmen...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 15:17hrs | 5765 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mudenda reverses decision to bar Chamisa's MPs from Parly debate
Speaker of the House of Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday reversed the ruling he made last month barring MDC Alliance legislators from posing questions to Cabinet ministers due to their refusa...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:33hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
MDC to humiliate Mnangagwa today...again
The MDC Members of Parliament are highly expected to implemented their Congress resolution not to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he arrives in parliament for the budget presentation by Fi...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:02hrs | 5455 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government speaks on closure on mortuaries
Government has professed ignorance over the load shedding of electricity in Bietbridge hospital that has led to the hospital facility shutting its mortuary.On Wednesday afternoon Member of Par...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 14:37hrs | 3983 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Business Executives can change the political fortunes
Now that the President of Zimbabwe has reshuffled the cabinet. There is a lot of hullabaloo who should have been included, but the truth of the matter is, he can only choose and work with the crop of ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 10:31hrs | 1119 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chamisa drops Mnangagwa legitimacy challenge
NELSON Chamisa's opposition MDC has dropped a key demand questioning the legitimacy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for possible talks between the chief political rivals to resolve Zim...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:52hrs | 10136 | by Staff reporter
Parly summons minister over doctors' strike
Parliament has demanded a ministerial statement from Health minister Obadiah Moyo explained the state of the country's health delivery system after government fired over 280 doctors recently. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
Umahlekisa comics roast politicians
COMEDY club Umahlekisa, in conjunction with Youth for Innovation Trust (YIT), will on Friday host local councillors in an event dubbed Creative Accountability-Leadership Roast at Nkulumane Hall, Bulaw...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
ANC denounces sanctions on Zimbabwe again
ZIMBABWE should be allowed to solve its problems without the interference of external forces and illegal sanctions imposed on it by Western countries must be lifted, South Africa's ruling African Nati...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:33hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Judicial Service Commission stripped off powers to appoint Prosecutor-General
The Prosecutor-General should not be appointed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) as doing so constitutes an anomaly whose effect is to undermine his or her independence, a Cabinet minister has ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament ratifies UK agreement
The National Assembly yesterday ratified the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Eastern and Southern Africa states and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland aimed at p...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to dissolve ZANU PF structures
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has urged ZANU PF President Emmerson Mnangagwa to dissolve all the structures of the party countrywide because they were composed of unelected people. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1975 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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