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Kazembe meets Motsoaledi ahead of the re-opening of Beitbridge border post
Home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe met with his South African counterpart Aaron Motsoaledi in Beitbridge on Friday ahead of the re-opening of the border to normal traffic on December 1.The ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:15hrs | 1671 | by Staff reporter
Police dogs called in to control Black Friday shoppers
Bulawayo was a hive of activity on Friday morning as people thronged various retail shops with the hope to cash in on the Black Friday shopping craze.Long queues were witnessed at the city's m...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:04hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 809 | by Prosperity Mzila
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3791 | by Zanda Shumba
Trump, Chamisa use the same script on elections
"Stop counting the votes" screamed the outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump on realising that he was fast losing to the now US president-elect Joe Biden. He quickly jumped...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 12:45hrs | 2664 | by Prosperity Mzila
ZEC ready for polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is ready to hold by-elections that are Covid-19 compliant once the ban imposed on health grounds is lifted. Voter registration has reached top gear, wit...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
US$ small denominations shortages hits consumers
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has approached the central bank seeking solutions to a crippling shortage of smaller denomination notes, which has rocked the market in the past year.Con...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Beitbridge Border Post
THERE was chaos at the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday where returnee Zimbabweans experienced delayed entry amid fears of another COVID-19 outbreak.On the South African side, there were long ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 3542 | by Staff reporter
Kazungula Bridge: Zimbabwe set to lose billions
ZIMBABWE is set to lose billions of dollars in potential revenue to the new Kazungula River Bridge which is expected to be functional by year-end, offering a shorter alternative route to road transpor...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 19914 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA: Selling a 'fragile' stability
President Emmerson Mnangagwa sold optimism in his state of the nation address Thursday, saying a period of exchange rate stability shows that his policies are delivering. But not everyone is convinced...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 2123 | by Staff reporter
Women suffer brunt of Harare's water woes
Rita Tawona is a 34 year old mother who lives in Glenview, a Harare high density suburb, with her husband and four kids.Her day starts as early as 3AM as she wakes up to join a long winding qu...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:58hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Touts 'hassle' back at passport offices
TOUTS operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of pass...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:50hrs | 2759 | by Staff Reporter
Mpilo Hospital in dialysis kits crisis
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is reportedly facing an acute shortage of dialysis kits, resulting in long queues at its renal unit.Hospital acting clinical director Xolani Ndlovu confirmed...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:53hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital faces acute shortage of dialysis kits
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is reportedly facing an acute shortage of dialysis kits, resulting in long queues at its renalunit.Hospital acting clinical director Xolani Ndlovu confir...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:44hrs | 339 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara takes bold stance against corruption
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration has upped efforts to fight corruption and plug off revenue leakages as it seeks to align its operations with President Mnangagwa's Vision 2030 and Government'...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 478 | by Staff reorter
Cargo traffic jam persist at Beitbridge border
COMMERCIAL cargo continues to pile up at Beitbridge Border Post due to regulatory Covid-19 related clearance delays on the South African side.Transporters say the situation has not changed sin...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:18hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle plates chaos: CVR blames police
PARLIAMENT yesterday ordered the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) to formally in-form motorists that new number plates were not available and allow them to continue using temporary plates until governme...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Inter-city bus services resume
Inter-city public transport will now resume under strict health guidelines following the reopening of examination classes in schools and the resumption of domestic tourism, but operators of long-dista...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will be exporting power by 2023, says Zhemu Soda
Muzarabani North Member of Parliament, Honourable Zhemu Soda, was last month appointed Energy and Power Development Minister. Before his appointment, he was relatively unknown to many Zimbabweans desp...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance says ZUPCO monopoly a threat to public safety
Zimbabwe's public transport network should be opened up to private players, the MDC Alliance has demanded after condemning the ZUPCO service as "inefficient" and a threat to public safety.ZUPC...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:32hrs | 2178 | by Staff reporter
Denials of a crisis don't wash it away
ZIMBABWE is in crisis. Daily power cuts have returned, long fuel queues have refused to disappear while the country is facing what the United Nations has called its "worst ever hunger crisis". The pol...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Commuters swindled in tap-card scam
Problems in recharging Zupco tap-cards in Norton have seen vendors using their own cards, and some have a lot, charging desperate passengers $50, more than twice Zupco's $24, which now on many routes ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:00hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to lose $1 billion in potential revenue
ZIMBABWE'S cash-strapped government is set to forgo over $1 billion in revenues from the intermediated money transfer tax (IMTT) as a result of policy inconsistencies, analysts have said.The g...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
ED's human rights record as the president of Zimbabwe under scrutiny
Zimbabweans dotted throughout the world woke up on the morning of 14 th January 2019 not feeling particularly patriotic. Tired of long queues, runaway prices very grumpy not patriotic anymore. Very fe...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:12hrs | 4845 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Amanda Mavhaza
Water crisis puts residents' health at risk in Bulawayo
"YOU'LL get water when it's available," Bulawayo City Council officials loosely told residents recently after struggling to stick to the six-day water shedding schedule put in place to manage the dwin...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:59hrs | 1831 | by Staff Reporter
Misfortunes, fortunes of Fortune Chasi
Zimbabwe has not had power outages for most of the period under the coronavirus lockdown.Even when President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration eased the restrictions on industry and commerce...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 12:57hrs | 13868 | by Tawanda Karombo
Dear SADC, if you genuinely love your ZANU PF comrades, please advise them that evil never ends well!
If there is one single conspicuous thing that seriously worries me about SADC (Southern Africa Development Community), more than anything else - it is the apparently fake, insincere, and totally stage...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 1806 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 727 | by Staff reporter
BCC to lease out public toilets
THE cash-strapped Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling leasing out its public toilets after failing to service them owing to economic hardships.Health services director Edwin Sibanda told a ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
13 more Covid-19 deaths in Zimbabwe
A record 13 new deaths from Covid-19 were reported yesterday, but all were patients who died over the weekend or on Monday in the community or on admission to casualty at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:45hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Fresh fuel shortages hit Zimbabwe
FRESH fuel shortages have hit the country and in Bulawayo most service stations have been dry for the past week. A news crew took to the streets of Bulawayo and observed motorists queueing for refills...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
System glitch leaves scores of Zesa clients stranded
SCORES of consumers were left stranded in Bulawayo yesterday, failing to buy prepaid power tokens as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) online system had some techn...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9949 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2170 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Informal traders defy Mnangagwa
INFORMAl traders, who are currently unable to ply their trade on the capital's pavements, have invaded open spaces around industrial areas, mainly in Graniteside, posing a COVID-19 health hazard as th...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3933 | 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 | 1785 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
'Forget Colonialism, Gukurahundi lets build a new Zimbabwe'
A newly formed political party, The Patriotic Front, says Zimbabweans must break from the past, forget wrongdoings and instead focus on the country's future.The party formed by expatriates mos...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:10hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Bowsers expose vendors to deadly COVID-19
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) members have expressed concern on the overcrowding of residents in bowser queues, which is greatly exposing them to the deadly COVID-19. Bulaway...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1449 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
South Africa Zimbabwe border still closed until further notice
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has said it will use the pre-clearance facility to expedite the movement of commercial cargo between Zimbabwe and South Africa when the two countries' border reo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors happy over city's cleanliness
Bulawayo City Councillors have expressed happiness over the city centre's cleanliness following the removal of informal traders in the city centre during the Covid-19 lockdown.This is revealed...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:05hrs | 805 | by Stephen Jakes
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6929 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
CBZ Bank launches Money Transfer Centre
CBZ Bank has launched a money transfer centre to facilitate ease of collection of funds from the diaspora and in line with its vision of being the preferred provider of financial solutions in Zimbabwe...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5052 | by Staff reporter
'Mobile money suspension will bury Zimbabwean economy'
THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:41hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1529 | by Thandekile Moyo
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5729 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
RBZ confirms mobile money ban but keeps platforms open for small transactions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has suspended all money agents from mobile financial transactions but the general public can still continue to transact using the platforms.In a statement ye...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt will not print money'
THE government will not print more money to alleviate the cash shortages in the country, Deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, has said.Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Chid...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices spark public outrage
AS Zimbabwe's fuel crisis intensifies, we took time to track the number of times the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) formally announced an increase in the price of fuel over the past 12 mo...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
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