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Africa Day not yet uhuru
Africa emerged from the dark cruel days of colonialism. The inspiration to find itself and shake the shackles of bondage came from the soup of Africa day. Africa day has brought about different vibes....Published: 11 hrs ago | 155 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cohabiting now legally protected
SECTION 40 of the proposed Marriage Bill recognises and protects the rights of unmarried people in cohabiting relationships, known in Shona as kubika mapoto and colloquially as small houses.Fo...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1425 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Make corruption suicidal
Time seems long overdue for the Second Republic to supplant with dizzifying actions rhetorical denunciation of maggots fattening themselves on what does not belong to them so that Zimbabweans are spar...Published: 17 hrs ago | 336 | by Stephen Mpofu
MDC disassociate itself from Chamisa
PRESS STATEMENT24 May 2019We welcome you to this brief press statement which follows the one held on Saturday 18 May 2019. In that press statement we alluded to our desire to convene a mee...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:32hrs | 6327 | by Hon Webber Chinyadza
What Dabengwa said about Chiwenga and Perence Shiri
The late struggle stalwart Dr Dumiso Dabengwa told United States of America's Ambassador James D. McGee in 2008 that Vice President Chiwenga was a corrupt person who would not allow any reforms in Zim...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:32hrs | 28465 | by Mandla Ndlovu
RBZ warns banks over forex abuse
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has warned it will take punitive action against banks flouting exchange control regulations after noting rampant abuse of nostro (domestic) foreign currency accounts...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1827 | by Staff reporter
Africa lost in Africa day
Africa emerged from the dark cruel days of colonialism. The inspiration to find itself and shake the shackles of bondage came from the soup of Africa day. Africa day has brought about different vibes....Published: 23 May 2019 at 21:47hrs | 1062 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Botswana's elephants: myths vs facts
Botswana president, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, recently hosted a summit in Kasane for five southern African heads of state to forge a common regional elephant conservation policy. Since Masisi took over it...Published: 23 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1438 | by Conservation Action Trust
Sangoma takes pangolin fight to High Court
A Binga inyanga serving nine years in prison for illegal possession of 400 grammes of pangolin scales has approached the High Court challenging his sentence. Damason Mutale (39) of Chininga vi...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:42hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3603 | by PUMA
Fake Canadian immigration scams targeting Zimbabweans
Beaver Immigration Consulting is warning Zimbabwean national to be aware of an online hoax that claims Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is "begging" African leaders, from Nigeria, Kenya and Zimb...Published: 19 May 2019 at 17:31hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
Fuel crisis has nothing to do with MDC unconstitutionalism
Some of the problems Zimbabwe is facing today are clearly due to faulty thinking resulting in people mixing issues —and not knowing what the idiom "fair game" means.For starters, if Presiden...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:32hrs | 3392 | by Conway Tutani
When the boom comes - A What-if Scenario Analysis
I would like to carry out a What-if Scenario Analysis (WISA) based on the prediction of a positive change in the outcome of the Zimbabwean economic performance. In Project Management we use WISA to pr...Published: 17 May 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1583 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
Nhlanhla Ndiweni's calls for more sanctions ill-informed
Chiefs are traditional leaders who are expected to spearhead development in their communities and not embracing poverty. As community leaders they are expected to be exemplary and strive for the bette...Published: 16 May 2019 at 11:22hrs | 1800 | by Gift Mashoko
How Mnangagwa's government is perpetuating fuel crisis
When the fuel crisis escalated last January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was forced to announce a 150% price increase.Amid the outrage and riots which followed, one important detail went larg...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1645 | by newZWire
7-day ultimatum for illegal advertisers
HARARE City Council has issued a seven-day ultimatum to all property owners with illegal billboards within their premises to visit its offices for possible regularisation or risk facing the law. ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:20hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Import substitution: best remedy to high import bill
Zimbabwe imported goods worth $6.85 Billion in 2018, a 38% increase from 2017. That import figure can go up by 30% if smuggled merchandise and under declared imports at the country's border posts are ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:15hrs | 429 | by Victor Bhoroma
State to pay Chivhayo's legal fees
The Supreme Court has permitted prosecutors who are fighting the acquittal of Wicknell Chivayo to file their papers and that they have to pay the businessman's legal fees.Justice Bharat Patel ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1382 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt clueless on economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration looks increasingly clueless on how to contain consequences of its disastrous economic policies introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube through the Tra...Published: 03 May 2019 at 20:47hrs | 2520 | by Staff reporter
Losing Presidential candidate preys on young women
HARARE-BASED church leader and losing presidential aspirant in the 2018 elections Emmanuel Moyana, who is founder of the Emmanuel Global Ministries International and Multi-People's Democratic Party (M...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2605 | by Staff reporter
Regulating the right to protest
One of the biggest duties and responsibilities of any government is the protection of its citizens and all those that fall within its jurisdiction. Ironically, that protection is from other citizens. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:33hrs | 176 | by Nick Mangwana
Renaming Chipo to Sipho: The POSA and MOPA mischief
Before the enactment of POSA1 in the year 2000, and prior to the demise of LOMA2 in 1993, the right to picketing was regulated by common law. During this period, the police wantonly resorted to the un...Published: 02 May 2019 at 14:55hrs | 1277 | by A.K Malunga
Disruptive Technologies - Of Drones, AI and the Environment
In this discourse I would like to propose the use of disruptive technologies such as drones equipped with AI (African Artificial Intelligence) to solve one of Zimbabwe's excruciating pain points. I do...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:16hrs | 456 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
South Africa moves to tighten job terms, expats fear expulsion
Foreign workers in South Africa with expertise deemed vital to the economy are worried that authorities will reduce the number of critical skills eligible for work permits, a move they say could force...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | 4068 | by Reuters
More China investments coming to Zimbabwe
I arrived in Harare last month and I have already had a deep impression of the beautiful scenery, pleasant climate and wonderful people of Zimbabwe.I am especially moved by the friendship that...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | 721 | by Ambassador Guo Shaochun
How Matebeleland could immediately prosper itself
Matebeleland is the most potentially wealthiest Nation in the entire Southern Hemisphere of this planet. What we need to do, to tap into that wealth, are a few simple, but educated steps.The f...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1087 | by Multiverse Dungani
Chiwenga becomes de facto Zimbabwe President
New York - Militaristic vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now the country's de facto head of state, amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has reportedly been stripped off ...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | 33139 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
Woman told to go to Zimbabwe to get her South African-born child's visas
Since 2008, Melody* has been living and working in South Africa. She is legally in the country with a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP), but her two children need legal status. The South African authori...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 19:06hrs | 9072 | by GroundUP
Mnangagwa takes turnaround agenda to ZITF
GOVERNMENT has taken its reform agenda to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), as part of efforts to lure investors and resuscitate the country's struggling economy.In a statement yes...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4370 | by Staff reporter
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 48080 | by Methusi Ncube
WATCH: Police instructed to kill Julius Malema
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has claimed that members of the South African Police Services were instructed to shoot him and his Economic Freedom Fighters for staging an unsanctioned r...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 12:40hrs | 15438 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Religious leaders must pray for bloodless separation of Matabeleland and Zimbabwe
China's revered revolutionary, Mao Zedong, was spot on when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Zimbabwe is the product of the barrel of the gun so is the 2nd Republic tha...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | 3822 | by MLO
Legal think-tank trashes Zimbabwe's Education Bill
LEGAL and parliamentary think-tank Veritas has criticised the Education Amendment Bill, describing it as a flawed document which has been carelessly drafted because it failed, among other provisions, ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe oil prospects increase
Newly defined data released last week by Invictus Energy, has provided management with increased confidence regarding a sizeable increase in the prospective resource estimate of the Muzarabani oil pro...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa blames 'Queen Bee' for high fuel prices
Trafigura, the global commodities trader, is facing accusations that it used a partner's connections to Zanu-PF to gain an unfair advantage in the supply of fuel to the southern African nation.The...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:12hrs | 5205 | by Joseph Cotterill and David Sheppard I Financial Times
Tsholotsho official on forced leave
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council executive officer-in-charge of Natural Resources, Mr Simelisizwe Sibanda has been sent on forced leave, following his arrest and subsequent appearance in court, where...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:00hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean students reduced to beggars in Algeria
ZIMBABWEAN students studying on State scholarships in Algeria have, for the umpteenth time, made an impassioned plea to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to look into their welfare, which is now dire, as t...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
ID, passport delays to persist as resource shortages bite
Registrar General Clemence Masango has said resources needed to print identity cards and passports were in short supply, leading to the issuance of paper identity documents and long delays in processi...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 3348 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel pipeline allegedly 'captured' by Trafigura
Trafigura, the global commodities trader, is facing accusations that it used a partner's connections to Zimbabwe's ruling party to gain an unfair advantage in the supply of fuel to the southern Africa...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1719 | by Joseph Cotterill and David Sheppard
Mnangagwa given a 7-day deadline
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned union of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in another sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5360 | by Staff reporter
3 nabbed over fake passports
THREE Iraq nationals were last week arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport for allegedly possessing fake passports. Derror Elim (29), Seerwan Khalid (29) and Deror Esav (4...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces revolt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned un- ion of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in an- other sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:05hrs | 11050 | by Staff reporter
ZimParks chief brings sanity in the Fishing industry in Lake Kariba
Following decades of several cries by the new fishing generation that had been trying in the fishing business enterprise especially of matemba regards allocation of permits, the current Director Gener...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:24hrs | 728 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio Correspondent
Dembare to unleash 'Neymar'
DYNAMOS could have their Cameroonian imports available for the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against Hwange set for Rufaro Stadium on Sunday.Herve Vincent Mbega and the highly-rated...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man wins R12 million SA lotto
A Zimbabwean man has bagged the R12m South African national lottery jackpot, Ithuba said on Wednesday.The man, who has been in South Africa for the past 10 years, decided to try his luck for t...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 16:54hrs | 10342 | by TimesLive
Umalayitsha wins battle to recover impounded car
THE High Court has ordered police to release a South African registered kombi belonging to an umalayitsha which was impounded last year after it was found carrying a carcass of an alleged stolen beast...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
9 Zimbabweans burnt alive, in Ramaphosa incited xenophobia - only one to approve ED vote rigging
"Everybody just arrives in our townships and rural areas and set up business without licences and permits. We are going to bring this to an end! And those who are operating illegally must now know," w...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:02hrs | 8257 | by Wilbert Mukori
Deliberate transmission of HIV: The pros & cons
THE most topical issue this past week was the announcement by Justice minister of government's plans to revoke section 79(1) of the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes the deliberate t...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 180 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Cyril Ramaphosa speaks on xenophobic attacks
South African president Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has opened up on the recent wave of xenophobic attacks that have happened mainly in KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga Provinces.In a speech on Frida...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 12:53hrs | 6007 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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