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Zimbabweans must condemn armed riot police - MDC
MDC spokesperson Fadzai Mahere has urged Zimbabweans to condemn armed riot police who allegedly besieged incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyer's office Beatrice Mtetwa."Every prog...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1257 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa takes over Ziscosteel revival drive
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has taken over the scouting for a strategic investor for Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel), it emerged this week.This follows government’...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's endemic corruption needs strong institutions
ONE thing that has hurt Zimbabwe is the politics of impunity – that one steals money and still gets away with it.Corruption is fundamentally a problem of governance. It thrives in economies ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:51hrs | 160 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF exposing itself
THE so-called experts on diplomatic etiquette and Zanu-PF officials have exposed Zanu-PF and government's hand in denying South African special envoys their desire to meet with opposition parties....Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 478 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Decolonisation of Zimbabweans
Dear fellow Zimbabweans we need to remove this yoke of bondage and free our minds, spirit and bodies from this Zanu-PF and its government and their colonised leaders' minds that still continue to suff...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1186 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Social media alone won't bring change in Zimbabwe
EXACTLY four years ago, in an opinion piece run by The Guardian, I argued that social media activists in Zimbabwe faced an uphill struggle finding momentum to steer themselves towards the path of demo...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 20:22hrs | 341 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
Zimbabwe hopes fade under Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE has failed to end the culture of human rights abuses witnessed under its former leader Robert Mugabe, while the optimism generated by the election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has faded, a...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans must reclaim country from maniacs'
ZIMBABWEANS must unite to reclaim the country from "maniacs" who have not psychologically transformed themselves from liberation war guerrillas into civilian politicians, former Speaker of Parliament ...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1681 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at crossroads - The new Zimbabwe we crave for
An attempt to build one nationalist liberation movement failed in the 1960s when most of the nationalists of Shona extraction split from Zapu to form a pro-Shona Zanu which was largely mobilised...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:41hrs | 1885 | by Hon Lovemore Moyo
BCC pleased with BF progress
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is pleased with the progress they have made in the renovations at Barbourfields Stadium in order for the venue to meet the Confederation of African Football (Caf) requi...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt suspends new road projects
GOVERNMENT says it will continue with major road projects across the country, but suspend new projects due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has paralysed a number of developmental projects.Trans...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:10hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fret over curfew breakers
Curfew breaking is widespread in Harare, with a growing number of cars seen driving around northern suburbs late at night, although shopping centres are abandoned in these suburbs, and with vending an...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:43hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commits to improving ZDF conditions of service
GOVERNMENT is determined to improve the salaries and conditions of service for defence forces as a recognition of the roles and sacrifices they make in their duties.Addressing the nation on th...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:56hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shuts graft door?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated his administration's unwavering fight against corruption saying the door to graft has been shut warning that those who want to pursue that route would face dir...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
ZDF a formidable, disciplined force for the people: Gen Sibanda
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda shares his views on the significance of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day, below are excerpts of the interview. Q: What is the si...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
'We must unite to fight against detractors'
ZIMBABWEANS must remain united and resolute in the fight against renewed glaring, and unjustified attacks by the country's perennial detractors, both inside and outside our borders, said President Emm...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Alec Mudimu set for Uefa Champs League dance
VERSATILE Warriors defender Alec Mudimu is set to join the elite league of Zimbabwean players who have played in the Uefa Champions League after his Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol were pitted against ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:52hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Futility of wanting to reverse liberation rule in Southern Africa
Realising the futility of aligning with ephemeral and rootless MDC Alliance, the former G40 fugitives domiciled outside the country attempted to refashion themselves as true representatives of Zanu-PF...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:48hrs | 166 | by Ranga Mataire
Swaziland political party condemns Mnangagwa
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has thrown its support behind the Zimbabwean workers who are trying hard to make ends meet during a time when the Zimbabwe Dollar is losing value every week....Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bloodbath looming in ZANU PF Mash Central as structures square off
Embattled ZANU PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairman Kazembe Raymond Kazembe has embarked on a systematic rigging campaign ahead of the ZANU PF District Coordinating Committee DCC elections for M...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 17:29hrs | 7414 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 699 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the sacked Obadiah Moyo's successor, it has emer...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 33550 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll over Beitbridge fence
An investigation which revealed a litany of incompetence and wrongdoing in the emergency construction of a fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe has recommended disciplinary action against 14 govern...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:25hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
It is very much in SA's interest to ‘interfere' in Zimbabwe
For about 20 years South Africa has watched, rarely exerted pressure, and in some instances aided and abetted, the tragedy Zimbabwe has become.South Africa is now home to millions of Zimbabwea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:20hrs | 423 | by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
Zimbabwean actress fulfilling Hollywood dream
Sibongile Mlambo, a Zimbabwean actress based in Hollywood, says she enjoys authentically portraying different characters, lives, and perspectives, especially those of fierce, strong, multi-faceted wom...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:55hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
MDC led Bulawayo Council in fire-fighting mode
THE Bulawayo City Council has adopted a draft communications policy as it seeks to improve its image after attracting the anger of ratepayers over alleged corruption involving city fathers and local g...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:50hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Tony Blair courts Mnangagwa
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is prepared to meet President Mnangagwa to lend support to Harare's political and economic reform programme.Relations between Zimbabwe and its former c...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3599 | by newZWire
Those He wants to destroy, God first makes them mad
Some of our people what has gotten into them, playing hide and seek with self then crying 'wolf'? Galivanting the world over groveling for the tightening of the noose on the neck of the motherland the...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 1020 | by Tondo
'Mnangagwa feared, admired in equal measure'
BULAWAYO-based author Marshal Chiza has written a book that exclusively looks at the country's first citizen, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The 86-page book, aptly titled Dear Emmerson, is set ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:38hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3855 | by Staff reporter
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 487 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Mnangagwa's tone-deaf speech: A tutorial on 'how not to lead'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday morning had yet another chance to show leadership in a national address. But, as he has done countless times, he squandered it in a tone-deaf statement that onl...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:55hrs | 701 | by newZWire
Temba Mliswa backs General Chiwenga
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says the appointment of General Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of health is commendable as it will bring order to the Ministry. Mliswa, who is re...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 8919 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Govt has neglected ZPRA ex-combatants
ZPRA ex-combatants have called out the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration for allegedly lying that they were beneficiaries of an on-going former freedom fighters' welfare programme.In...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to inspect roadworks
Progress on the dualisation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway by local contractors comes under spotlight tomorrow as President Mnangagwa inspects work. Government has prioritised road ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Law on anti-Zimbabwe lobbying on cards
Political parties should be placed under a uniform code of conduct, hate speech should be banned and campaigning against Zimbabwe criminalised, the Cabinet Committee on National Peace and Reconciliati...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Juvenile on the run after killing mate
MATABELELAND North police have launched a manhunt for a juvenile who fatally assaulted a colleague with a knobkerrie after misunderstanding arose between them over a soccer match.Matabeleland ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 907 | by Stephen Jakes
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1184 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Warriors stars join #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
NATIONAL football team stars have joined other local and international celebrities in condemning human rights abuses in the country under the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter social media movement.The m...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 4649 | by Staff reporter
Malema demands cutting of ties between Pretoria and Harare
OUTSPOKEN South African opposition leader, Julius Malema has demanded the closure of the Zimbabwean embassy and cutting of ties between Pretoria and Harare until President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governm...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 5431 | by Staff reporter
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 463 | by ED Mnangagwa
We'll triumph, says Mnangagwa
Despite several hurdles on the country's economic revival path in the form of natural disasters, successive droughts, divisive opposition politics and foreign economic aggression, the country will ult...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:04hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police recover dumped, mutilated foetus
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a mutilated newborn baby that was dumped at a house in Barbourfields last week.Provincial spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Ba...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants salary gap a security threat'
PROGRESSIVE Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou yesterday warned that the huge salary gap between the security sector and other arms of the public service was a serious securi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:03hrs | 6233 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Showdown between Malema and Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa
1. The Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Republic of South Africa read with consternation and utter disbelief the "EFF Statement on the Announcement by the President of Zimbabwe on Compensati...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 17:51hrs | 10953 | by Mandla Ndlovu
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9876 | by Phillan Zamchiya
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 | 791 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Decaying infrastructure drags Zimbabwe to Stone Age
ZIMBABWE is lagging behind other regional countries in infrastructural development and would require huge investment to build robust infrastructure and catch up with continental leaders, a new report ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:17hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Luveve residents hit back at BCC
RESIDENTs in Luveve, Bulawayo have castigated the city council for claiming that the typhoid and dysentery that recently hit the suburb has now being contained, with fewer cases being recorded in the ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:10hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
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