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Red flag raised on US$85m traffic interchange project
MEMBERS of the public have raised a red flag over the government's announcement that the Mbudzi roundabout traffic interchange on the Masvingo highway in Harare will cost US$85 million, which could be...Published: 10 hrs ago | 735 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to lose out on loans
ZIMBABWE is set to miss out on a multi-million-dollar fund for countries sharing the Zambezi watercourse because of its external debt estimated at US$10,5 billion.The funds will be disbursed t...Published: 10 hrs ago | 157 | by Staff reporter
Govt will keep digging in on currency
IN the week under review the Zimbabwean dollar (Zimdollar) swept past the psychological 1:90 mark. The local unit has been losing ground against the United States dollar on a weekly basis, for 24 stra...Published: 10 hrs ago | 68 | by Respect Gwenzi
Mnangagwa's ignorance on economics: Mthuli Ncube his best Boss ever
Even Mnangagwa's law degree is questioned by many. If Mnangagwa had a slender idea how the economy works, they would never launder money to Chinese banks in billions of dollars. He would know that kis...Published: 11 hrs ago | 553 | by Nomazulu Thata
Violence in Masvingo makes Chamisa a hero
The recent events in the Masvingo province against MDC-Alliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa raised his bar graph very high. The MDC-A leader is in a meet the people whirlwind tour, meeting commu...Published: 12 hrs ago | 913 | by Phosiwe Ncube
'Harare contribution to GDP'
THE City of Harare has contributed about 38% to Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP), a new initiative by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has revealed.The initiative...Published: 24 hrs ago | 287 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF neglecting cadres, says Clive Malunga
JENAGURU Arts Centre founder and musician Clive Malunga has accused Zanu-PF of neglecting war veterans, adding that he was seeking an audience with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to air out areas of "gr...Published: 24 hrs ago | 599 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland stakeholders forge alliance ahead of 2023 polls
DIFFERENT stakeholders in Matebeleland, including civic society members, political parties, churches and the diaspora community have formed the Freedom Alliance, a social movement to lobby for improve...Published: 24 hrs ago | 759 | by Staff reporter
Econet answers church's prayers
Econet Life, a subsidiary of EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited (formerly Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe), has partnered the Zimbabwe Christian Ministers Association (ZCMA) to provide an assortment of insur...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 2576 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF alliance exposed
THE opposition MDC Alliance and civic society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused the police of working with Zanu-PF to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo pro...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2032 | by Staff reporter
'Govt to blame for health workers' exodus'
THE Zimbabwean Community in South Africa (ZCSA) has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for paying "slave wages", thus causing local health workers' migration to neighbouring countrie...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
The impact of US sanctions on Zimbabwe
WHEN the American government passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment (Zidera) Act 20 years ago, it argued that the Act was not intended to punish ordinary Zimbabweans but to targ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 444 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa took Sona for political grandstanding
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition has noted with huge concern the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to face the reality of the situation prevailing in Zimbabwe during his State of the Nation Address ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:59hrs | 320 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Zanu-PF leadership consigning people to abject poverty
THE rate at which government is destroying the nation boggles the mind.Zimbabwe's woes are complex and are compounded by the Zanu-PF government's misguided policies, nepotism and corruption. T...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:59hrs | 196 | by Forget Sanhu
Silobela community demands share of Jena Mine
VILLAGERS in Silobela are demanding that the redundant Jena Gold Mine claims be allocated to them as they are living in poverty while their area is endowed with gold deposits.The Jena Mine cla...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Top economist warns of Zimbabwe dollarisation
ZIMBABWE is expected to dollarise its economy because of the collapse of the local currency and the failure of its auction system to stabilise the exchange rate, renowned scholar and economist Gift Mu...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:00hrs | 3511 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1725 | by Staff reporter
'People of Zimbabwe have become sanctions collateral damage'
WHEN the American government passed the Zidera Act 20 years ago, they argued that the Act was not intended to punish the people of Zimbabwe but to target those individuals and organisations that, in t...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 182 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe isn't any different - even at school we had those who celebrated failure!
I am sure we all remember those school days - with all the craziness of youth.Surely, who can forget those ever-present mind boggling scenes of pupils who would helplessly weep in agony, after...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:29hrs | 3082 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1310 | by Dr Stop It
RBZ's forex auction system faces imminent collapse?
A TOP economist has warned Zimbabwe's auction system introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is facing an imminent collapse after which dollarisation will prevail 100%.Addressing Parl...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora not always a place of success
GOING abroad has been long regarded as key to success. Thousands of Zimbabweans have destroyed their livelihoods in a bid to secure a ticket and fly away to the Diaspora.Many people sold house...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 402 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Reminiscing the thrills, pains of village life
The only shop in the village was perched precariously on a rock promontory, competing with itself in stature, grandeur, glamour, ambience and trinkets.It was a tapestry.Pricing was not...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 92 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Sikhosana-Village clown to stardom
He wakes up at 3AM every day and cycles 70KMs to see the progress at his new home. He makes numerous pit stops — it takes about five to six hours to-and-from his homestead in Gwamba Village in Nkayi...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar market correction
A MAJOR highlight of this week's auction is the magnitude of currency depreciation. The Zimbabwean dollar (Zimdollar) weakened by the highest weekly margin since the beginning of the year, a strong si...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:03hrs | 295 | by Respect Gwenzi
Africa stuck in generational curse
WHOEVER bewitched African leaders probably perished at Nagasaki in 1945, many years before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963. That person, alongside his tools of trade and hi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 117 | by Sapien Sapien
Chombo can now freely rejoin the feeding trough
THE nation celebrates with Ignatius Chombo, who can now freely join the national feeding trough in peace.It was announced this week that all charges against the man had been dropped, seeing as...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 545 | by Muckracker
'Mnangagwa speech hot air'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the country's economy was on rebound, with this year's projections indicating over 7,8% economic growth, but opposition MPs rubbished his claims, accus...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
27% Zimbabwean youth depressed, claims Unicef
AT least 27% of young people in Zimbabwe aged 15 to 24 are suffering from depression, some of it caused by COVID-19, a research conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has revealed....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Resounding send-off for Amen Mpofu
FAMILY, friends and former colleagues of the late former Bulawayo deputy Mayor, Alderman Amen Mpofu on Tuesday thronged the city council chambers to bid him farewell during an emotion-filled special c...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 has paralysed Zimbabwe'
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday said the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had paralysed the economy and increased the country's domestic and international debt burden....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
UK Prime Minister: Please remind Mnangagwa, Matabeles are not dogs or cockroaches
No matter how much President Mnangagwa tries to ignore Matabeleland grievances and griefs, they will always follow him everywhere he goes like his own shadow. As he prepares to visit UK, we implore Pr...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 09:38hrs | 3815 | by Israel Dube
Taming inflation is an arduous task
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) pointed that year on year (annual) inflation rate marginally increased to 51.55% in September 2021 from 50.24% in August 2021 after 8 months of straig...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 09:13hrs | 429 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe teachers blast 'uncaring' govt
TEACHERS' unions yesterday blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as an "uncaring employer" for its failure to pay them a living wage.In statements to commemorate World Teachers' Da...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind forex dealers?
NO matter how well-meaning and determined, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions are ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1365 | by Nathan Gurira
Sanctions are real, but we're shooting ourselves in the foot
No matter how well-meaning and determined the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions that ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 206 | by Nathan Gurira
Ministers face grilling at mining indaba
Ministries, MPs and miners face grilling on mineral resource governance in the country at the 10th edition of the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba (ZAMI), which begins today in Bulawayo.ZAMI...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reshuffles MDC top leadership
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's move to reshuffle the top leadership of his party is meant to kick- start preparations for another high stakes election in 2023 against President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 6611 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer Hara distances self from CCC name hijack plot
PROMINENT Bulawayo lawyer Tavengwa Hara has distanced himself from the shadowy Citizens for Convergence for Change (CCC) that listed him as its lawyer upon notifying the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Renaming roads fails to convince Zimbabweans
A BID to rename major roads in the country after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some fallen heroes seems to have failed to resonate with Zimbabweans as they are still using old names, while in some ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political uncertainty hampering energy sector revival, says AfDB
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has cited an unstable political environment and the risk of expropriation as some of the reasons unnerving potential investors from injecting capital in Zimbabwe's ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lays out 2023 game plan
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's move to reshuffle the top leadership of his party is meant to kick- start preparations for another high stakes election in 2023 against President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:18hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
MDC-A MPs bitter over measly pension and loss of luxury vehicle but indifferent delivered not even one change in 22 years
The people of Zimbabwe have risked life and limb to elect MDC leaders to implement the democratic changes to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. After 22 years,...Published: 02 Oct 2021 at 23:46hrs | 1013 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Inkotha sihlangu, uMqeqenshi uMthuli Ncube uthi uMnangagwa yiNkosi yakhe!
I have always thought bootlicking is done by people with little or without education at all. To see a professor who has served in highest international institutions such as London School of Economic a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 20:04hrs | 1336 | by Nomazulu Thata
Reserve Bank panics as exchange rates spiral
MONETARY authorities revised annual inflation targets upwards on Monday before lining up a sea of fresh policy proposals to government, as they scurried to stem a "worrisome" surge in parallel market ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | 2673 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges modernisation of rural communities
AHEAD of this year's agricultural season, President Mnangagwa has called upon farmers to start land preparations as he assured them of access to well-resourced provincial agriculture mechanisation hub...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:54hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Mechanisation hubs set up for farmers
AHEAD of this year's agricultural season, President Mnangagwa has called upon farmers to start land preparations as he assured them of access to well-resourced provincial agriculture mechanisation hub...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:52hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Paltry income for mine workers - NMWUZ rejects NEC wage adjustment
National Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe Acting President Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka has trashed and rejected NEC - National Employment Council's recent 24.5 percent minimum wage increase which he lab...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:58hrs | 565 | by Maxwell Teedzai
BCC projects $24,7bn budget for 2022
BULAWAYO City Council has proposed a $24,7 billion budget for 2022, which will hike tariffs by over 216%.This was revealed by BCC financial director Kempton Ndimande yesterday while presenting...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:20hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Does Chamisa have a plan? Gambakwe conversation with Phugheni
These two personalities are painfully uneven. Whereas Phugheni is eloquently brilliant, a very intelligent man, I should be excused if I said Gambakwe is challenged, borderline. It defeats my mind to ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 11:39hrs | 3046 | by Nomazulu Thata
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