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Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 4 hrs ago | 3535 | by Robert Sigauke
Only a miracle will rescue ED from #ZimbabweanLivesMatter revolution
With the current Zimbabwean Lives Matter Movement, it will only take a miracle for President Mnangagwa to see the 1st of October, the famous crocodile current actions resemble the last kicks of a dyin...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1422 | by Knowledge Hakata
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 12 hrs ago | 6504 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa is back
Opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, accompanied by his lawyer Thabani Mpofu, on Tuesday visited incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono at Harare Remand Prison."Clearly we must...Published: 15 hrs ago | 10312 | by Staff reporter
Prophets Magaya and Makandiwa urged to speak against human rights abuses
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya and his counterpart UFIC leader Emmanuel Makandiwa have been urged to add their weight in calling for the respect of human rights in Z...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 11:27hrs | 3141 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Land reform beneficiaries must compensate ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT'S US$3,5 billion compensation offer to former commercial farmers dispossessed of land during the land reform programme has raised a lot of anxiety within and outside the country's borders, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misleading Mnangagwa, says Mashakada
FORMER Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation through his continued de...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Church warns Mnangagwa
AMID the country's deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch an inclusive national dialo...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 19:25hrs | 10708 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1542 | by Leonard Koni
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1644 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1938 | by Staff reporter
Vandals worsen Bulawayo water woes
BULAWAYO'S water woes got worse on Friday after thieves vandalised Zesa powerlines at Inyankuni Dam Booster Station, cutting off supplies to the water pump.The city is currently on a six-day w...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after MDC councillors
President Mnangagwa's government has set the ball rolling to deal with corrupt councillors.In a letter addressed to all Town Clerks/Secretaries and Chief Executive Officers, the Secretary for ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 17:16hrs | 7502 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 776 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Shiri, Tuku connection revealed
THE late Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri (Retired) was a sucker for Tuku Music and had the departed superstar's entire music collection, which he "guarded jealously".According to family frien...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
WFP urgently seeks US$250m for Zimbabwe crisis
With COVID-19 aggravating an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for an additional US$250 million to support a rapidly expanding emer...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a break
This Zanu PF government is a farce, a sham and a masquerade. The problem with this government is like a person who is going to the carpenter to pull their aching tooth. Imagine the type of a tool the ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1418 | by Leonard Koni
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
The mighty Air-Marshall assassinated by the global army: quick and easy- yave nyama yekugocha!!!
He lies cold in his mortuary air-tight bag, tight not to continue to spread the lethal virus he succumbed to. We delight at the thought that even people who appear to be immortal are indeed mortal and...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5757 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa signs deal to pay white farmers US$3.5 billion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a historic agreement with the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe and the Southern African Commercial Farmers Alliance which mandates Zimabbwe to pay white com...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:40hrs | 1415 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa told not to use lockdown for political expediency
ZIMBABWE Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has urged the government to desist from using lockdown measures for political expediency.This comes at a time the government has put in...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:17hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Give us our daily bread: Giving thanks
Today I woke up thinking of a certain event that touched my heart a few years ago. This is a true story, and I believe the person concerned would find no qualms in me sharing the story. This is a stor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:30hrs | 458 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord, Johannesburg
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2160 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New fines proposals unsettle Bulawayo vendors
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other bylaws governing the operations of informal traders.The...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe plans to buy smaller aircraft
National airline Air Zimbabwe is working on acquiring smaller aircraft to service local routes as part of efforts to enhance connectivity within the country and boost domestic tourism. At an o...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1144 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF warns against plot to overthrow government
THE ZANU-PF Midlands Province Youth League has condemned the MDC-Alliance's plot to cause mass national chaos through planned violent nationwide demonstrations on July 31 as a wider plan to overthrow ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill gravely flawed, says Lawyers
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which is government's response to global technological upheavals, has been described as gravely flawed and an illustration of the Zanu-PF administration's ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Govt misled civil servants on US$75 allowances
GOVERNMENT'S treatment of its workers particularly barring them from accessing their US$75 allowances in hard currency merely demonstrates how it has perfected the art of frustrating not only its empl...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3770 | by Staff reporter
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1760 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5390 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
Tilda Moyo leaving Star FM?
THE recent departure of Phathisani "Mashuga" Sibanda from Star FM to seek greener pastures may have left his cohost Kudzai Violet Gwara, aka KVG, "widowed" and their legions of radio followers the mor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 260 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is a failed State, says ZCTU
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa yesterday described the country as a "failed State" given the high poverty levels, decaying infrastructure, the odious debt situation caused mo...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5038 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe tumbles on business rankings
ZIMBABWE, in the throes of its worst political and economic crisis in more than a decade, has the highest country risk in the whole of Southern Africa, a report has revealed.The country is con...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:21hrs | 3749 | by Staff reporter
Fired MDC MP vows undying Chamisa loyalty
EXPELLED MDC Alliance Bulawayo Senator, Helen Zivira says she would rather lose her luxury car than be forced to join the Thokozani Khupe led MDC.Zivira is among 21 MDC Alliance legislators wh...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5251 | by newzimbabwe
3 tips for making a good impression during video meetings
These days it seems like everything is being done over video chat. Whether it's job interviews, online dating, department meetings, or Zoom classes, our interactions with other people are becoming mor...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:41hrs | 1081 | by Staff writer
Demo timing might be wrong
THE July 31 planned demonstrations have stirred controversy in and outside the country as the date has coincided with the spike in COVID-19 cases. The obtaining situation in Zimbabwe clearly s...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 728 | by Pardon Maguta
Chief Mathupula denounces death penalty
SENATOR Chief Mandhlakazulu Mathupula Khumalo of Matabeleland North has denounced the death penalty saying it was not in keeping with the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) philosophy o...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:26hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe curfew fuels tension
TENSION has gripped Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid fears the Zanu-PF leader, who is failing to proffer solutions to deepening socioeconomic problems, ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
No US$75 joy for civil servants
CIVIL servants yesterday expressed anger after failing to access their US$75 allowances as promised by the government, accusing their employer of being insincere.Government last month promised...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:20hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nationalist Particularism: A pitfall to the resolution of regional question of Matabeleland
In recent times the political framing of the question of regional development of Matabeleland has increasingly sought to locate Matebeleland citizenship and nationhood within the broader narrative of ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4156 | by Ntando Dumani
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1721 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mnangagwa impose curfew to contain covid-19 - madness, need nurses and PPE not soldiers and guns
I have listened to President Mnangagwa's address to the nation three times and still failed to understand what understand the purpose. Yes, the number of corona virus cases have increased significantl...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1067 | by Nomusa Garikai
South Africa's economy has been crushed by COVID but could be on the mend
South Africa's economy is forecast to drop by a robust 7.2% in 2020 which would be the worst performance in nearly 90 years. The pandemic has spread throughout the region generate a devastating toll o...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 21:06hrs | 1712 | by Staff writer
Fadzayi Mahere's special letter to Mnangagwa
I am a politician but I am not writing this letter to you in that capacity. I am writing to you as a young woman, as a citizen and as part of a generation to whom a debt is due. When we were l...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 16:52hrs | 10744 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Rating of the African Development Bank, with Stable Outlook
Fitch Ratings, the global credit rating agency, has affirmed the African Development Bank's (AfDB) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'AAA', with stable outlook. According to the agency,...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:49hrs | 394 | by Stephen Jakes
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