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Robert Mugabe still with us three years down the line
For Zimbabwe to achieve stability, there was to be a return to constitutionality. Sanity had escaped the political landscape. The operation restore legacy was not to be complete without order and a co...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1138 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans caught in witchcraft practices in the UK
Zimbabweans in the UK have totally refused to abandon their beliefs in Witchcraft lucky charms and in superstitions. They have carried their beliefs in the United Kingdom and created a world of supers...Published: 5 hrs ago | 3279 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1545 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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: 5 hrs ago | 2918 | by Ntokozo Msipha
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 6 hrs ago | 415 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Chief Ndiweni's purported dethronement 'a legal nullity', claims lawyer
Chiefs from Matabeleland North on Saturday initiated a process to dethrone outspoken Ntabazinduna tribal chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni in an orchestrated move.A majority of the 41 chief...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2280 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reject further military coups, but demand genuine electoral reforms to freely choose own leaders
If there is anything that Zimbabweans should have regrettably learnt the hard way, over the past years, is never to support or celebrate ZANU PF internal factional fighting, especially when this culmi...Published: 9 hrs ago | 3109 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU won't laugh last still- MLF
The removing of chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni from the Nhlambabaloyi chieftaincy does not do ZANU any good than bad. The move exposes not only how much ZANU fidgets on Mthwakazi cultural matters ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1847 | by MLF
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: 9 hrs ago | 414 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
'It takes an active and informed people to keep a republic' - Zimbabweans were never given a chance
There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government...Published: 9 hrs ago | 329 | by Wilbert Mukori
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: 9 hrs ago | 777 | by Ayanda Manala
Civic groups blasts government for sidelining health declaration
ZIMBABWE'S Civic groups have blamed Government for failing to uphold international declarations on health through implementation at national level, a predicament which has landed country's health syst...Published: 10 hrs ago | 315 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: No doctors or nurses at Parirenyatwa Hospital
A video of an empty Parirenyatwa hospital without any members of staff has surfaced online. The video which was posted by award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono shows the patients ward...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2872 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe, global de-dollarisation case study - Prof Ncube
Zimbabwe is undergoing a de-dollarisation process that very few countries have successfully implemented and will need time to address the lingering effects of dollarisation, Finance and Economic Devel...Published: 12 hrs ago | 852 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF delegates accreditation starts
Accreditation of delegates expected to attend the 18th Zanu-PF Annual People's Conference to be held at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East Province will start this week, secretary for informati...Published: 12 hrs ago | 175 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube hails RBZ swift action on CBZ, Ecobank
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has praised the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for swiftly acting against two banks alleged to have allowed their depositors to make wi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts Dubai investors
Zimbabwe intends to lure cash-rich investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to exploit opportunities in mining, tourism and manufacturing when it engages them at the 5th Global Business Forum on ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 169 | by Staff reporter
Villages and cattle pens are empty
It was not the usual rainfall but heavy downpour punctuated with blinding lightening and earsplitting thunder. Of course far too little when compared to the deluge of Noah's time but nevertheless it r...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1897 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Eating mice is not poverty its our ways
When you see an African woman coming from the woods with a big bundle of firewood balanced on her head, young daughter in tow carrying a smaller bundle of twigs in same fashion, its not child labour. ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1681 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa succession plan revealed
HAVING almost lost his life for wanting to succeed Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has initiated the process of handing over the reins of power to a younger s...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:23hrs | 11765 | by Staff reporter
Splinter war veterans chickens out from confronting Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE Liberation Platform, a splinter group from the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), has chickened out from confronting shortcomings of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:23hrs | 1244 | 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
City Bus catches fire
Property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed in an inferno when a cross boarder bus, City Bus, caught fire near the Gweru-Somabula toll gate.The bus was travelling from Botswana to Harare...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1352 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies out to Dubai
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join fellow African governments and business leaders for the 6th Global Business Forum Africa 2019 (GBFAfrica 2019) scheduled to kick off this Mo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Zimra embarks on an imported vehicle verification exercise - check for your name
The Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has notified the owners of vehicles that were imported in unclear circumstances to visit ZIM RA Loss Control Offices at ZB Centre corner Firs...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 10:39hrs | 7297 | by Ndou Paul
ZRP cop hound Chipinge families off their land
ZRP top cop Godwin Chinyan'anya is embroiled in a bitter land wrangle with eight families of Mutoramhene Southdown estate in Chipinge central ward 8.Chinyan'anya hounded families off the farm ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:54hrs | 3159 | by Taruberekera Masara and Josiah Mucharowana
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encountered a group of people who are divorced from reali...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2824 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex-minister pens book on Gukurahundi, Mugabe ouster
GUKURAHUNDI could have been avoided if the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo had accepted the post of ceremonial president at independence, former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has said.In...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:02hrs | 2944 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister caught in messy scandal
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has been accused of failing to pay back US$8 000 she allegedly took from the corruption-ridden National Social Security Authority (NSSA) under the guise of ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 2854 | by Staff reporter
MDC brushes aside Tsholotsho losses
MDC Matabeleland North provincial chairperson Prince Dubeko Sibanda says the opposition party is not reading much into its poor performance in local government by-elections in Tsholotsho, saying it wa...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathema laments lack of dams
Aprominent Matabeleland South traditional leader Chief Mathema has urged the government to ensure that people in the province benefit from the vast water bodies in their region.Chief Mathema w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Passports printing shoots up to 2000 per day
GOVERNMENT has started capacitating the department of the registrar general responsible for printing of identity and travelling documents and citizens need to be a bit patient before things return to ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 4096 | by newzimbabwe
Government underfire over MZWP
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), a technical partner in the ambitious project to draw water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo, has accused government of frustrating its efforts to woo pri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zapu condemns police clampdown
Zapu has condemned an alleged police clampdown against villagers in Mangwe after the community staged a protest against the alleged unfair recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg Hospitals.T...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
'The genocide that robbed me of my father'
The doctors' strike was just one of those stories that we have become accustomed to as Zimbabweans and it didn't mean much to me until my father was hospitalised and subsequently passed on at the Unit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:58hrs | 445 | by Sinqobile Tesa
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 | 806 | by newzimbabwe
Zupco new buses unleashed
THE first batch of the 76 Zupco buses that were commissioned by President Mnangagwa to service Bulawayo and other southern parts of the country will start plying their routes this week after the compl...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 2528 | by Staff reporter
Xhosa community mourns King Sigcawu
THE Xhosa Community in Zimbabwe has joined the rest of the African community in mourning the passing-on of their King, His Majesty, King Zwelonke Sigcawu in South Africa.The King who was 51, d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to turn Victoria Falls into regional financial centre?
VICTORIA Falls should be turned into a regional financial centre for the Southern African Development Community as its tourism facilities mean it can attract the right clientele that can push the indu...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens cash barons
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
'We had informers within the Rhodesian security services'
WE continue our interview with Tapson Ncube pseudonym Makhula Thebe who in the past instalments has spoken about how dissenting voices were treated within the Zipra ranks. Viewed as a rebel, N...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:24hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Prophet 'Bomber’ Ngwenya says he is not a witch
IN every decade rock and roll, things change with time and start to get very serious and every once in a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants in order to fully prosper.That is in simplic...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:23hrs | 584 | 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
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba consults Peter, Benjani
THEY say experience is the best teacher.For Marvelous Nakamba, when it came to sourcing tips on life in the fast lane of the English Premier Soccer League, there was no better mentor than the ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 402 | 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
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 193 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa says economy to rebound in 2020
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Call for citizens to stone oSiphathelani made
ZANU PF activist and journalist Reason Wafawarova has called Zimbabweans to stone the illegal money changers and throw their money to the streets for people to pick. Said Wafawarova, "Mob just...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 23:39hrs | 5106 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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