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SA unrest cuts off Zimbabwe supply chains
THE manufacturing sector is in disarray following violent clashes in South Africa in recent weeks, which have affected the supply of critical raw materials.The Confederation of Zimbabwe Indust...Published: 7 hrs ago | 373 | by Staff reporter
eThekwini mayor refuses to apologise for supporting Jacob Zuma
ETHEKWINI Municipality mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has stuck to his guns and defended his support for former president Jacob Zuma during the unrest last week.Kaunda was berated by the DA in a special...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in army boss appointment clash with Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are on a new collision course over the appointment of the next Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander, with retired Lieutenant-Gene...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 9351 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora inflows top US$1 billion
Zimbabwe's Diaspora remittances jumped 58 percent last year, to about US$1 billion, a development that helped the country to cover gaps left by trade disruptions caused by the Covid19 pandemic. ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Africa welcomes a new Dictator
"The country's law enforcement agencies will track down, identify and act against those who lit the flame, and those who spread it," said the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. By those words...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 13:38hrs | 8366 | by Sam Wezhira
Violent scenes unmasked the facade of South Africa's rainbow nation
With the country mopping up following violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the country finds itself divided not only by class but also among racial lines as tensions ran high in some communi...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 1834 | by Manyane Manyane, Karabo Ngoepe, Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Calls mount against 'Zulu' security cluster ministers over lapses
THE startling admission by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the government was caught napping during the violent protests and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was a sign that he was let down by his ...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:40hrs | 3104 | by Mayibongwe Maqhina, Tarryn-Leigh Solomons, Mervyn Naidoo
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | 778 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Fresh wave of protests loom in South Africa
SOUTH African authorities fear a new wave of uprisings as networks loyal to jailed former president Jacob Zuma seek to force his freedom.Investigators believe the unrest last week, which kille...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 2555 | by Staff reporter
SA protests to push Zimbabwe prices high
ZIMBABWE could see a spike in prices of imported goods as hundreds of containers with goods destined for the country were stuck along routes and at warehouses in South Africa following last week's pro...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industry feels impact of SA protests
Businesses and consumers have already begun feeling the contagion effect of the country's heavy dependency on South Africa after the unrest that plagued the rainbow nation last week over the incarcera...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 07:57hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
When South Africa sneezes Zimbabwe catches a cold
HISTORY tells us we owe it to Klemens von Metternich, the distinguished 19th-century Austrian statesman and diplomat, one of the most famous phrases about the global economy and its dynamics.I...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:25hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from SA social unrest
THE turmoil in South Africa following the recent jailing of former president Jacob Zuma and subsequent social unrest characterised by rioting and looting for many other reasons - including deprivation...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:24hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after social media as he cracks down on protests
South Africa, rocked by violent protests that have turned deadly, is now looking to social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter to crack down on looting and destruction of property and infrastr...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 12:20hrs | 1831 | by Tawanda Karombo
Mnangagwa sweats over SA protests
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged that the ongoing violent protests in neighbouring South Africa could trigger regional instability, and called for a peaceful resolution to the impasse....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 3457 | by Staff reporter
SA unrest further dampens transporters operations
CROSS-border transporters in Zimbabwe say the sector, which has been subdued due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been dealt another blow as a result of violence and looting in South Africa that is affec...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:04hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 2804 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa speaks on SA protests
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for the current violent protests in neighbouring South Africa to be resolved.Speaking at his Politburo meeting this morning Mnangagwa hoped t...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 13:43hrs | 2468 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC's Makomborero Haruzivishe released on bail
MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe was granted bail pending appeal on his 14-month prison sentence on Wednesday – but the 28-year-old will remain in prison following the revocation of his...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 12:33hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda lashes Zimbabwean idiots living in SA bragging about looting
Veteran radio personality Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has condemned some 'Zimbabwean idiots living in SA bragging about looting and showing off goods they looted.'A number of videos with people spea...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:50hrs | 4635 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will not intervene in SA political fights, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said Zimbabwe will not intervene in South Africa's violent protests which were triggered by the jailing of the country's former President Jacob Zuma.South Af...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:42hrs | 2556 | by Staff reporter
'SA protests to trigger food shortages in Zimbabwe'
CONSUMER watchdog, National Consumer Rights Association (Nacora) has warned that the ongoing riots in neighbouring South Africa following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma will likely sp...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:40hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
A wave of political change blowing over SADC region
The recent events characterizing developments happening in the Sadc region are pointers to a very big change in the political arena of region.The current wave of protests and looting in South ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 21:56hrs | 2598 | by Leonard Koni
Mbeki criticises ANC and Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership
Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership and the ANC's governance of the country.In an interview, Mbeki said with the government's deployment of t...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:50hrs | 6105 | by Staff reporter
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-pres...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:43hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Protesting omalayitsha block Beitbridge Border Post
CROSS-BORDER transporters commonly known as omalayitsha have in the last few days been intermittently blocking the Beitbridge Border Post as they demand for a onestop search point where all border aut...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | 3604 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa deploys army against Zulus
SANDF soldiers have been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to assist law enforcement agencies amid violent protests."The South African National Defence Force has commenced with pre-deploym...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 12:33hrs | 4714 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa targets Zulus, plays the apartheid tribal card
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has attributed some on the forces behind the recent violent protests to ethnic mobilisation.Although the son of a Venda apartheid policeman offered no e...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:47hrs | 7956 | by Staff reporter
Is the South African rainbow on the cusp of disarray?
Events are unfolding very fast in the rainbow nation, South Africa. And just like the previous week, the country is in suspense as the Free Zuma campaign gathers momentum in KwaZulu Natal province. It...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:41hrs | 565 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need
Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself. Western science and technolo...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 22:58hrs | 1291 | by Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe
Ramaphosa to ban Twitter, Social media?
The Embattled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa claims that the videos of protests in South Africa being circulated on social media are false.Ramaphosa wants South Africans to feed news ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 21:25hrs | 3612 | by Staff reporter
South African minister of Defence refuses to deployed army in KZN
Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says the army will not be deployed in KwaZulu-Natal because there is no war in the province.She says her department will only ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 13:11hrs | 2368 | by Staff reporter
SA unrest sweeps through Joburg CBD - live #FreeZuma #KZNShutdown
SAPS and Joburg metro police officers have been dispatched to parts of the Joburg CBD on Sunday as unrest swept through parts of the city.The Joburg metro police confirmed that parts of the M2...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 12:37hrs | 4813 | by Online
Zimbabwe can do more than just receiving covid-19 vaccines donations - Mhondoro-Ngezi SMP
In a recent telephone conversation with this reporter, the Shadow-Member of Parliament (SMP) for Mhondoro-Ngezi Constituency situate in Mashonaland West Province has commended the Government of Zimbab...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 09:09hrs | 615 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Ramaphosa put KZN protesters on notice, wants 'concomitant action'?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on communities in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to desist from undermining the rule of law and inflicting damage on the economy.Ramaphosa's call comes after sporadic...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 20:31hrs | 3386 | by Staff reporter
Free Jacob Zuma protests reach Gauteng
Videos shared on social media on Saturday morning show protesters in support of the 'KZN Shutdown' taking to the streets of the East Rand in Gauteng.A 'Free Zuma' address will be held at the K...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 11:21hrs | 4815 | by Staff reporter
Kwazulu Natal - KZN protests live coverage #KZNShutDown #FreeJacobZuma
The KwaZulu-Natal government pleaded for calm on Friday amid protests believed to be part of a violent "Free Jacob Zuma and shut down KZN" campaign in which millions of rand worth of infrastructure ha...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 21:48hrs | 4215 | by Online
South African media condemned for 'censorship' as KZN protesters burn trucks
Freedom of expression groups and opposition parties have condemned South African media's decision to stop reporting on protests that have erupted in KwaZulu Natal, claiming the move disregarded the ri...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 21:39hrs | 3107 | by Staff reporter
KwaZulu Natal is burning, businesses shut due to protest action
Multiple major roads across the KwaZulu-Natal province, particularly the N2 and N3 highways, have been shut down this morning due to protests, according to various traffic reports on social media....Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:32hrs | 6725 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says Mnangagwa, Mswati are twins
THE MDC Alliance yesterday described embattled Eswatini monarch King Mswati III and President Emmerson Mnangagwa as "twins" in terms of the deteriorating human rights situation as well as shrinkage of...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:17hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF prepares for by-elections, sets July 16 for candidate CVs
Zanu-PF has signalled that by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats are imminent after making a call for the CVs of prospective candidates.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissio...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 16:29hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to unleash the army if Zimbabweans misbehave
GOVERNMENT says it will unleash the army to ensure strict enforcement of COV-ID-19 regulations as infections continue to rise. Zimbabwe is in the grip of the third wave, driven by the Delta an...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 10:23hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Govt to unleash army for enforcement of strict COVID-19 regulations
GOVERNMENT says it will unleash the army to ensure strict enforcement of COVID-19 regulations as infections continue to rise.Zimbabwe is in the grip of the third wave, driven by the Delta and ...Published: 03 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1523 | by Staff Reporter
Matanga ordered to pay US$10 000 for police brutality
A HARARE magistrate has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to pay more than US$10 000 to a couple that was roughed up by law enforcement agent...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:29hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Matanga ordered to pay US$10K for police brutality
A HARARE magistrate has ordered Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to pay more than US$10 000 to a couple that was roughed up by law enforcement agent...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1085 | by Staff Reporter
Magistrate recuses himself from Sikhala trial set to commence July 14
Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube has recused himself from presiding over the incitement of public violence trial of MDC Alliance lawmaker Job Sikhala.Ncube stood down from the case following a m...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 15:10hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Commemorating the 45th Youth Day: Do something or say something that will end with results
We are commemorating this year's Day of the African Child in Covid-19 induced lockdown for the second year running. Times are hard,its not business as usual. There are plenty of reports ...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 10:10hrs | 320 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
'Zimbabwe govt stifling rights of children'
THE Zimbabwean government is stifling the rights of children by failing to provide a conducive environment for their well-being despite provisions in the Constitution to that effect, a leading human r...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:14hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Racism storm hits top Zimbabwe school
PARENTS of children at Hellenic Academy in Harare have raised racism allegations against the school authorities.They told NewsDay that as a result, one of the "racist" teachers had since been ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1907 | by Staff reporter
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