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Statement on commemoration of Human Rights Day
As we come to the end of our 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, the Platform for Youth and Community Development (PYCD) joins the world in commemorating the International Human Rights ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 103 | by PYCD
South Africa's tycoon to set up renewable energy institute in Gwanda
Energy poverty is defined as the lack of adequate modern energy for the basic needs of cooking, warmth, lighting, and essential energy services for manufacturing, services, schools, health centres and...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1520 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zanu-PF indaba kicks off today
Deliberations at Zanu-PF's 18th National People's Conference which starts today will mainly centre on the state of the economy, national food security, the provision of social services and development...Published: 11 hrs ago | 241 | by Staff reporter
Rebuilding Zimbabwe starts with strong institutions
It is now apparent that Zimbabwe's socio-economic status needs rebuilding and radical reforms if the country is to develop. The economy is set to contract by at least 6.5% in 2019 according to data fr...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 10:35hrs | 556 | by Victor Bhoroma
Open letter to the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa
Dear Sir,It is now two years since November 2017 when you and your allies deposed your former leader, the late Robert Mugabe. In the aftermath of the coup you made a lot of promises to Zimbabw...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 15:19hrs | 5368 | by Tinotenda Chihope
Zimbabwe being turned into a grand circus arena
The main objective of the MDC party led by the late Dr Morgan Tsvangirai in 1999 at its formation was to dislodge Zanu Pf from power.The fact that Zanu Pf has been in power since 1980 is not r...Published: 07 Dec 2019 at 09:44hrs | 953 | by A Kadada
The worse ever political year in Zimbabwe
As we come to the wire of the year 2019, there is nothing to write home about as poverty, hunger and unemployment continue to sting the ordinary people in the country.Looking at the political ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:55hrs | 2362 | by Leonard Koni
The guilty are always afraid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is a scared man, seeing shadows everywhere he looks as succession battles loom in his ruling Zanu PF party, a faltering economy condemning many into abject poverty and a d...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
Zupco subsidy gobbles $51m monthly
The ZUPCO bus hire scheme is costing Treasury $51 million a month which is not sustainable, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government said on Tuesday.Government came up with th...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1878 | by Staff reporter
ZPP raps Minister Mthuli Ncube over his space satellite budget
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has rapped Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube for budgeting for space satilite at a time when majority citizens are wallowing in perpetual poverty due...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2728 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa wants business to help build economy
PRIVATE businesses are critical in growing Zimbabwe's economy and should exploit Government moves to improve infrastructure and make doing business easier by playing their part in the attainment of an...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:14hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders are "local midwives delivering home-grown solution" - appeasing Zanu PF is no solution, never was
Zimbabwe's economy is in total meltdown; unemployment has remained 90% plus, 3/4 of the population are living on US$40 per month and the country's estimated 1000% hyperinflation is dragging them even ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 09:12hrs | 368 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe church and political leaders blaspheming the name of God are condemning themselves and the nation!
If there is anything I find utterly repulsive, disgraceful, and unacceptable in this entire world, are people who bring the name of the Almighty Jehovah God - our hallowed Creator - into disrepute, an...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 08:30hrs | 960 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's current economic meltdown beyond description
I am writing this piece writhing in agony because I see helplessness in our society with a moribund leadership on a broad scale. The current economic meltdown is beyond description especially given th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:20hrs | 2647 | by JJD Dube
Zimbabwe's spirutual liberation is in Mozambique - AFM Pastor
Coppacabana popular preacher who is renowned pastor with Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Ignatius Neshava has called upon the government to take urgent action in resolving current hardships affecting na...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1733 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZCC still demanding Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - for 39 years insane set national agenda, enough is enough
Albert Einstein said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."It is very sad to note that Zimbabwe must have one of the largest number of insane ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 1820 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe army generals sweat over rampant indiscipline
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo last week convened an emergency staff meeting where he read the riot act over rampant indiscipline, theft of rations and crimin...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:56hrs | 4353 | by Staff reporter
What happens when the centre can no longer hold?
WHEN Somalia was a lawless gangland with no central government, many Africans often wondered how it must have felt to live in a failed state controlled by marauding warlords.How on earth did p...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1706 | by Brezh Malaba
Mthuli Ncube burns his house to smoke out a rat
The 2020 national budget statement announced by Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube a fortnight ago was telling in more ways than one. The professor had no qualms to nail his govern...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 1468 | by Cliff Chiduku
UN warns of turmoil in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is on the verge of a major man-made famine characterised by partisan food distribution, repeated droughts and years of economic and financial decay that have left nearly eight million people,...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa, $100m saved 2k doctors but condemning vote rigging would save nation and posterity - THINK!
"ECONET Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa and his wife, Tsitsi, through their Higher Life Foundation, have set up a $100 million fund which will see up to 2 000 junior and senior doctors employed by go...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 579 | by Nomusa Garikai
'There are no sanctions on Zimbabwe'
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) has Zanu PF is lying that sanctions are the major cause of economic crisis in the country. Zpra Veterans Association spokesperson Buster Magwizi said pe...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:12hrs | 388 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe on brink of man-made starvation, UN rights expert warns
Despite the constitutional protection of the right to food and a sophisticated set of human-rights based national laws and policies, man-made starvation is slowly making its way in Zimbabwe, said the ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1448 | by Ms Hilal Elver
Root cause of economic meltdown is rigged elections - must deal with curse or die
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! This is a common sense observation noted in every human society and goes back to the very beginning of human civilisation. Indeed, the me...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 1410 | by Wilbert Mukori
Why Zimbabwe's fired junior doctors remain key
In politics, the youths are said to be the vanguard of political parties while in medicine I would put it that the junior doctors are the hummingbirds that bring life to central hospitals.The ...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1003 | by Dr Johannes Marisa
Zimbabwe's poverty datum line shoots to $3 159
The country's poverty datum line for an average of five persons stood at $3, 159.52 in October, an increase of 44.2% from September's $2 191.62. The increase is in tandem with the sharp rise in the mo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and Zimbabwe's false hope
Zimbabwe had a crazy weekend, a really wild one. Retired General Costantino Chiwenga, the chief architect of the November 2017 coup that toppled the now late long-time ruler, Robert Mugabe, stealthily...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 901 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Trees For Zimbabwe AN in bid to promote rural afforestation
A LOCAL organisation, Trees For Zimbabwe AN is set to capacitate rural villages with various types of tree seedlings for planting in a bid to promote afforestation in Zimbabwe.Trees For Zimbab...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 14:56hrs | 431 | by Staff Reporter
2020 Budget Hits and Misses
Zimbabwe's 2020 National Budget was presented amid high expectations from the market on the urgent need to turnaround the fortunes of the waning economy, restore incomes, and improve productivity and ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1270 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents bitter over selective renaming of roads
BULAWAYO residents and opposition political parties have criticised government's move to rename several roads in the city, leaving out some of the city's luminaries.Government on Thursday anno...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2155 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe does not need new names
A week after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube stirred controversy over his budget allocation for a space project, the government was at it again with an announcement that left many questioning the author...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:39hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
The glue that keeps Zanu-PF intact
THE need for political parties to build themselves into formidable units where oneness, loyalty, discipline and an unambiguous unidirectional course is followed has remained a huge pie in the sky with...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:16hrs | 1113 | by Vincent Gono
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 91 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Tshinga Dube: The Anti-colonial transfiguration of the self
On Friday, 22 November, 2019, a decorated cadre of Zimbabwe's long-drawn-out armed liberation struggle and long-serving former Cabinet Minister, Othiniel Siduduzo "Tshinga" Dube launched his biography...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:13hrs | 122 | by Richard Mahomva
When Political Power turns to Misbehaviour: Part 1
In the life of representative democracy, political authority and the holding of public office is in the behalf of most, if not all, members of society - the collective good. Motivation in leadership i...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1180 | by Gift Tawanda, M
Why Mnangagwa has failed to improve the economic prospects of Zimbabwe?
It is now more than two years since President ED Mnangagwa assumed power with an ostensible mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, RG Muga...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 21:03hrs | 575 | by Martin
Latest on Presidential guard who fired bullets at Mnangagwa residence
The Presidential guard who was arrested for firing bullets at State House on Wednesday was tortured and sent to a medical doctor on Thursday morning, Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Moyo...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 12:15hrs | 28892 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt should stop regarding suffering citizens as 'enemies of the state', but address our legitimate grievances seriousl
This morning I was pondering over the forthcoming 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (running from 25 November to 10 December), when I was immediately reminded of a distributing story a...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 12:16hrs | 1582 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:15hrs | 5250 | by Ntokozo Msipha
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: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4952 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:19hrs | 668 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
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: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:14hrs | 237 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'HIV wears a woman's face'
In 2001 at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the former and late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said "HIV has the face of a woman", and for decades even up to date it still has that face!&n...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1216 | by Nyasha Phanisa Sithole
South Africa's DA handed back to whites
Newly elected interim leader John Steenhuisen has promised to turn the party's recent election set back into the biggest comeback in political history. Steenhuisen said this during his first m...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 19:06hrs | 4869 | by Staff reporter
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: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:45hrs | 1726 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mthuli's budget a drop in the ocean
The 2020 budget is out but the future of the country still looks all gloom and not inspiring at all.The budget lacks clarity and is full of deception, lies and falsehoods. After austerity meas...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1596 | by Leonard Koni
2 years after Mugabe ouster in a coup: Zimbabwe in an abyss
"Following the address we made on November 13, 2017, which we believe our main broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our co...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa awards young farmers
President Mnangagwa has issued certificates and handed over prizes to excelling young farmers and agricultural experts contributing significantly towards the attainment of food and nutrition security ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 13:16hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tries to eradicate poverty by killing the poor
Mr E.D.Mnangagwa campaigned saying that the average person's wealth and net worth would increase in Zimbabwe by such and such a date. The whole country assumed that he meant that there would be jobs c...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2781 | by Vusa Sigola
65% of Zimbabweans live in poverty
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) says poverty was now endemic in Zimbabwe, with 65% of adults earning US$100 or less per month.Addressing delegates attending an ILO workshop to co-c...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
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