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Over 40 Zimbabweans stranded in Sierra Leone
More than 40 Zimbabweans are reportedly stranded in Sierra Leone after falling victim to a human trafficking syndicate that lured them with promises of lucrative jobs. The operation allegedly involves...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 15:00hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't accept raw deal on minerals
ZIMBABWE will not accept exploitative deals in the mining sector, but will only agree to investments that give it the "maximum benefit" from its non-renewable resources.This was said by Presid...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Telling my Access Finance story
FOLLOWING a recent public announcement by Access Finance Group, a local remittance and financial services company, that its chief executive Singathini Raymond Chigogwana is retiring and would be repla...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 15:07hrs | 39 | by Senziwani Sikhosana
Mnangagwa assures delivery on promises
CONSOLIDATION of gains made in the first term and advancement of the Zimbabwe dream to become an upper middle class economy will characterise the second term of President Mnangagwa who was sworn in ye...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chihoro, Murape back at Dembare
LONG-serving team manager Richard Chihoro and assistant coach Murape Murape are expected to bounce at Dynamos today following a flurry of diplomatic manoeuvres at the volatile Premier Soccer League gi...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled CCC candidates go rogue
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s house is on fire in Manicaland as aspiring candidates who were unfairly disqualified during the candidates' selection process are up in arms with t...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Lithium war erupts in Zimbabwe
THE scramble for lithium in Zimbabwe - which boasts Africa's largest and the world's fifth-biggest reserves of "white gold" - is escalating against the backdrop of soaring demand for the lucrative min...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Business of Arts seminar for SADC artists planned
Upcoming music and film label Zhomba Entertainment is set to host a Business of Arts seminar for artists which is meant to empower artists on the business side of the entertainment industry.Th...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 09:16hrs | 18 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mwonzora's MDC is too broke to hold an elective congress'
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora stands accused of delaying the party's elective congress. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Taurai Mangudhla interviewed MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Lloyd Dam...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Dembare sweat for draw
Dynamos 0 - 0 FC PlatinumDEFENDING champions FC Platinum turned up flat and giants Dynamos were equally uninspiring as the eagerly-awaited Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match between th...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
PSMAS top-up demands rile members
PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) members have raised concern over their service providers' failure to meet their needs while demanding top-ups on contributions.The service provider ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers' salary can only buy 20 loaves of bread'
AS bread prices continue to soar, public sector employees are now comparing and contrasting their low wages to how many loaves they can actually purchase.A loaf of bread in the country now cos...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Raw deal for old passport applicants
ZIMBABWEANS, who paid passport fees in United States dollars before the introduction of the e-passport in December last year, are being grossly short-changed with the Central Registry Office reimbursi...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Teachers defy government...vow to continue with extra lessons
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe has vowed to defy a government directive barribg them from conducting extra lessons. Through a Twitter post on Tuesday, PTUZ said, "Teachers will con...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Colleen Bawn segregation: Spacious and crammed villages
VICTORIAN style houses surrounded by beautiful greenery on cosmic pieces of land characterised Village 1, a gated community for the white minority living in Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South before the...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabweans to give opposition knock-out punch
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday rounded up the Zanu-PF campaign ahead of Saturday by-elections, calling on the electorate to bury the thieving Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) that has reduced towns ...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves in to repair damage in urban councils
IT is clear as day light that urban councils have been failing to fulfil their mandate for a long time.The majority of towns and cities in the country have deteriorated in terms of infrastruct...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Kick out corrupt opposition from urban councils,' says Mnangagwa
The New Dispensation took over the rehabilitation of roads in all urban councils after realising that the opposition that was in charge had abandoned the people, President Mnangagwa said at the weeken...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Title deeds for urban dwellers ready
THOUSANDS of urbanites will on Saturday be presented with title deeds as President Mnangagwa delivers on his promise to implement development that leaves no one and no place behind.The title d...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Face to face with brown envelop journalism
WHIle working on a story about how tobacco farmers are getting a raw deal from tobacco contracting companies, I did not anticipate that my investigation would dramatically bring me face to face with c...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gifts title deeds to urban dwellers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has gifted urban dwellers Christmas and New Year gifts in the form of title deeds that will benefit residents who built houses on undesignated land under the watch of the incompete...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to deport Zimbabweans, where would stateless Ndebeles go?
On Thursday 25 November 2021, Matabeles woke up to bad news from the South African government that the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit program has been scrapped. Matabeles and Zimbabweans that are benefic...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:32hrs | 10 | by Israel Dube
Truant ministers cripple Parly
CABINET ministers have continued dodging the parliamentary question time in both the National Assembly and Senate, thereby doing a heavy blow to Parliament's key oversight function.The Q and A...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Loga's US$90k golden handshake
ZIFA'S ill-fated experiment with hapless Croatian coach, Zdravko Logarusic, has cost the association a cumulative bill of over US$223 000 in salaries and bonuses over the last 20 months. And, all they...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Security guards get raw deal
THE Private Security Guards Union (PSWU) has bemoaned low salaries and poor conditions, and has urged Government to set up a regulatory authority for the industry. PSWU president Mr Gilbert Zh...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco surpasses expectations, but farmers need better deal
ZIMBABWE has this year enjoyed one of its most productive tobacco seasons, but poor payment models for the farmers caused by the currency volatility left many farmers at the mercy of contract buyers....Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sewer bursts, flows torment Bulawayo residents
SUPPER is the one meal that is supposed to bring families together. It is that meal eaten when, in most cases, most families are now gathered together after a long day at work or school.It is ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
New farmers revel in land reform glory
ZIMBABWEAN farmers have shown a positive energy, desire and capability to restore the country to being the bread basket of the region as they revel in the success of the land reform programme which re...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Staff repoirter
Raw deal for Air Zimbabwe creditors
HUNDREDS of Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) creditors, including over 300 ex-workers will be paid various debts accrued by the airline before it plunged into administration in Zimbabwe dollars at a rate of US$1...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T supports Mnangagwa's economic transformation
THE MDC-T is ready to work with the Government towards the transformation of Zimbabwe's economy in line with President Mnangagwa's vision 2030 to turn Zimbabwe into an upper middle income economy....Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabweans give Mwonzora a chance?
After graduating with a Degree in Politics and Public Administration in (2016), I still find myself within the circles of thousands of unemployed graduates in our country. It's now five years while I ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 2 | by Knowledge Hakata
'MDC Alliance councils have failed the people,' claims Mnangagwa
The opposition must be voted from local authorities as they have run-down urban councils much to the suffering of the people, President Mnangagwa has said. Addressing the Politburo meeting yes...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa puts foot down on illegal settlements
GOVERNMENT is taking drastic measures to redress the illegal construction of houses on wetlands in most urban areas without requisite infrastructure and will offer alternative spaces for desperate hom...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sewerage crisis in Makokoba
RESIDENTS of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo are sitting on a health time-bomb as effluent continues to flow from burst pipes into their homes, leaving them prone to water-borne diseases such as cholera a...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council dolls stands to fallen hero's spouses
THE Beitbridge Municipality says it will offer families of fallen heroes of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle residential stands at half the normal price as an appreciation of their selfless sacrifices....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira's world crumbles further
The Zanu-PF Mashonaland West province yesterday recalled incarcerated former Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira from Parliament and central committee.Speaking at the provincial co-ordinating c...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The elderly have been thrown under the speeding bus
If my memory and anyone's serves me right, citizens above sixty years of age were to board Zupco buses that ply rural destinations free of charge. Is that notion true and if so is it happening? Before...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo
Muzamhindo Presents a 10 point Plan as Zim Implode !!!
We have a very unfortunate situation on the ground, and it requires urgent attention to curb the crisis. This is where Political leadership must show it's sincerity and diligence on Zim situation. We ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
MPs want independent consumer rights body
Parliamentarians in the National Assembly have called on Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu to establish the envisaged Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) as an independent body to effective...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean workers celebrate May Day with empty stomachs
It's all gloomy faces across the country as workers celebrate the workers day with empty stomachs. May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May. It is an ancient Northern Hemi...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:56hrs | | by Leonard Koni
In their time NSSA pensioners kept the economy going
The Hon. Minister of Labour and Social Welfare is said to have confirmed a periodic upward review of civil servants salaries to cushion them against rising prices of goods and services. Dr Sek...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo
In politics, there is no free lunch
YESTERDAY, we ran a story on how at least 3 000 families under Chief Misheck Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their illegal settlements in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Gweru acquires two refuse trucks
Gweru has paid about $594 000 for two refuse trucks and is awaiting their delivery, which will boost refuse collection, town clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza has said. The council has been failin...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa, Warriors headed for allowance stand-off
A CRIPPLING stand-off between the Warriors and Zifa looms large over allowances amid revelations the players are set to demand as much as US$3 000 a day for their seven-day camp for the crucial 2019 A...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe how long?
It goes without saying...Africa has economic, constitutional, political struggles that appear endlessly to come out of the depressed conditions her leadership is taking her through. African ci...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Manyevere M Andrew
Best economic models that Zimbabwe government can adopt
Apparently we have the following challenges in our mainstream economy - Production levels are very low ( imports exceeding exports therefore balance of payments affected-&nbs...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 22:17hrs | 18 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Tendai Biti lies about Harare fatal shooting
MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Mr Tendai Biti has been caught lying after alleging that the State was behind the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old man during a dispute over parking in Harare o...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sustainable key ideas of resuscitating Zim economy
There is a huge gap between demand and supply. Our economy mainly survive on borrowing and imports. We have imports more than exports and therefore our balance of payments are in red. Zimbabweans must...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
5 000 'duped' in stands deal
AT least 5 000 Bulawayo residents, mainly youths from the ruling Zanu-PF who registered to benefit from Umvutshwa housing project could have been duped of their monies after Government indicated it wa...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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