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3 reasons why it's all going wrong for Mnangagwa
HOW did things turn so bad for Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa?He won the disputed July 30 2018 elections, but even before the results were officially announced, protesters were being ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1012 | by Stephen Chan
Mangwana describes Biti as a desperate man
The opposition MDC Alliance and its band of apologists seem not satisfied with the harm and damage they caused with their social media political innuendos which culminated in the failed so called shut...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 17:11hrs | 4528 | by Staff reporter
SADC and AU have the blood of Zimbabweans on their hands
In life there are always those things that one always finds baffling - which never seem to make any sense - and, similarly, I also have two such things in my life.One of those seemingly inexpl...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2680 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Inflation hits Zimbabwe retail sector
THE retail sector in Zimbabwe is seen declining this year due to high inflation and a widening rift between prices and incomes, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has said.CZR presi...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:55hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe violent protests 'false flag' operations by ZANU PF to suppress opposition?
One of the most efficient and effective strategies of dictatorships - that has been used since time immemorial - to suppress any form of opposition, has been the employment of 'false flag' operations,...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2561 | by Taurai J. Pachena
Zimra mum on Beitbridge warehouse inferno
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has declined to disclose the value of goods lost in three fire incidents in which its warehouses at Beitbridge Border Post were razed to the ground, saying the i...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:13hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
In Mnangagwa's universe, people are secondary to keeping grip on power
"THE welfare of the people is the highest law," goes a popular Latin maxim by Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero – who lived in the period 106BC to 43BC – that has been adopted by...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:10hrs | 322 | by Editorial - NewsDay
The growing addiction of mobile gaming in Africa
In contemporary society, interacting with mobile devices and engaging with the variety of activities that can be played on them - such as gambling, social networking and games - has become increasingl...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 552 | by Moyo Roy
Nigerian labour body protests at Zimbabwe Embassy in Abuja
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday picketed the Zimbabwean Embassy in Abuja, demanding the immediate and unconditional release of leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade unions arrested whi...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
Fire guts Bulawayo factory
PROPERTY worth more than $500 000 was on Tuesday evening destroyed in a fire that razed a business complex in the Belmont industrial area in Bulawayo.Bulawayo chief fire officer, Richard Peter...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 1293 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council disowns 'murambatsvina 2'
Harare mayor Herbert Gomba has directed that all on-going demolitions against vendors' infrastructure be stopped and urged hawkers to approach council for new trading sites.This comes in the w...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:27hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
State media rapped for downplaying atrocities
CIVIC society group Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has warned the State-controlled media to desist from fuelling and supporting crimes against humanity, by downplaying gross human rights violatio...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:54hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Firemen struggled to put out Beitbridge Border Post fire
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have started investigating the cause of a fire which razed down a State warehouse and property worth thousands of dollars at the port of entry yesterday. ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:43hrs | 1859 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in make-up craze
Zimbabweans have always been obsessed with looking good and they believe an outfit is not complete without a professionally made-up face.While fashion trends have always been borrowed from oth...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 15:03hrs | 1827 | by Cindy Munyavi
PHOTOS: Fire guts ZIMRA warehouse in Beitbridge
A ZIMRA warehouse caught fire this Tuesday morning destroying property whose value is yet to be ascertained though speculated to be running into millions.The building houses goods seized from ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 10:27hrs | 5396 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Policing the police
Every human system needs checks and balances. For developing societies, none is more apparent than the uniformed forces. The fundamental flaw of democracy is that uniformed forces, just like assassins...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 16:45hrs | 1643 | by Sonny Jermain
ZAPU Presidency Appalled by the violence and brutality
The Presidency of ZAPU unreservedly condemns the violence that has been going on in our country. It is an unacceptable abomination. We are dumfounded by the childish finger pointing and scapegoating. ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 967 | by Mkhululi Zulu, ZAPU Presidential Spokesperson
Zimbabwe troops assaulting people in Harare
Witnesses say Zimbabwean soldiers are still roaming the streets of the capital and assaulting people, even after the president denounced violence by security forces as "unacceptable."Soldiers ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 20:01hrs | 3609 | by AP
More evil to visit Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa
THE ousting of former President Robert Mugabe by political and military elites will result in more of the same abuse of Zimbabweans unless the Sadc joins forces with world powers to effect real change...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1773 | by Mondli Makhanya
Private media now working against the government of Zimbabwe
The recent shutdown which was called for by Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its partners has put the private media into overdrive of painting a gloomy picture of Zimbabwe locally, regiona...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 10:52hrs | 1662 | by Chrispen Chebundo
Zimbabwe on brink of diplomatic row with US, Germany
A fresh diplomatic row could erupt between Zimbabwe and western governments after Harare threatened to expel envoys from the United States and Germany for allegedly funding protests across the country...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:57hrs | 13632 | by Staff reporter
Man torches hut, injures four family members
A CHIMANIMANI man ran berserk and torched his parents' hut using an inflammable substance after being told to find his own place to stay after he had been eloped.Four family members Beauty Kat...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:08hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Gun-wielding soldiers assault Daily news staff
Gun-wielding members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) yesterday assaulted Daily News drivers who were distributing the country's leading independent paper in and around the capital city.The...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:09hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
My encounter with the rowdy protestors
I was on my way to work on Monday morning like many other Zimbabweans, oblivious of the stay-away which had been called on by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU).I was travelling from...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 14:54hrs | 1713 | by Betty Gatsi
Stay away: A manifestation of the MDC's violence DNA
The MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s so called protest stay away ostensibly meant to register disquiet over the ongoing economic challenges paradoxically turned out to b...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | 1417 | by Nobleman Runyanga
WATCH: Man in civilian clothing shoots directly at protestors
A video of a man carrying an AK47 shooting directly at protestors has emerged online. The video shows the man running after protestors and shooting directly at them and in the air. On Mo...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 07:05hrs | 5385 | by Mandla Ndlovu
200 #ShutdownZimbabwe protestors arrested
The government has announced that over 200 people who participated in yesterday's violent protests have been arrested as police are analyzing photos and videos to effect investigations and arrests....Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:02hrs | 990 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe protests turn violent, 'overwhelm police'
The usually quiet Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo was turned into a mixture of teargas, black smoke from burning tyres and chanting of struggle songs on Monday as residents joined in protests over the lat...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:59hrs | 4454 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spying on NGOs
PRESS STATEMENT BY GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWEOver the past few weeks, Government has closely monitored activities of a coalition of non-governmental organisations in the country, especially in and aro...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:33hrs | 1750 | by N. Mangwana
Mnangagwa's govt warns local civic society organisations
The government has strongly warned local civic society organisations that have colluded with some foreign regime change agents to cause chaos in the country.The government's warning comes afte...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:32hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a monumental failure
Robert Mugabe's protracted despotic rule brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. Such was the damage to a nation hitherto referred to as 'Jewel of Africa' that the general consensus was that things could ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 18:28hrs | 12494 | by Grace Kwinjeh
+300 families' homes razed to the ground
MORE than 300 families who had illegally settled at Willsgrove Farm in Umguza District were left homeless after they were evicted from the property and their homes were demolished this week. T...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:16hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Political drama engulfs 2018
The curtain came down on 2018 and as 2019 is finally into full swing, the Daily News spoke to a number of social and political analysts who gave us what they think were the political highlights of the...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:55hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is in office but not in power
Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency is characterised by passiveness, indecisiveness and escalating fuel shortages, looming strikes from civil servants, electricity black-outs and outbreaks of waterborne d...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 11:15hrs | 4801 | by Frazer Muzondo
CZI is right: Dollarisation is bad for Zimbabwe
It is not a secret that I am not a fan of the current government's economic policies and choices.I especially find it reprehensible that they continue to avoid solving the prevailing currency ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:13hrs | 489 | by Garikai Dzoma
Soldier killed on New Year's Day
HOMICIDE detectives have launched a manhunt for a Mutare man who fatally assaulted another patron, who was a soldier on New Year's Day following a night club brawl.Police confirmed the case wh...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Corruption worsens fuel shortages
Unscrupulous fuel attendants and dealers have compounded a critical fuel supply situation that was caused by limited foreign currency reserves in the first place, investigations show. Fuel dea...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:30hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Corruption worsens fuel shortages
Unscrupulous fuel attendants and dealers have compounded a critical fuel supply situation that was caused by limited foreign currency reserves in the first place, investigations show. Fuel dea...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 16:57hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Man torches family homestead
A 23-year-old old Lower Gweru man torched his family homestead in a fit of rage over an undisclosed issue on Christmas Day leaving the family homeless and all property destroyed.The man Mandum...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:19hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
War vets would have considered Tongogara too immature to lead Zimbabwe!
The recent concerted efforts by veterans of Zimbabwe's 1960s and 70s liberation struggle to raise the presidential age limit from the current 40 years to 52 years, raises very pertinent questions as t...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 08:56hrs | 5252 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe in panic mode, solution needed
LAST Saturday, I attended the Mbira Festival which was organised by my friend, Albert Chimedza, at Mukuvisi Woodlands in Harare.It was an awesome venue for a traditional music festival with a ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:11hrs | 621 | by Debbie Peters
No coups in 2018: Will 2019 be so stable?
THE past year may have felt politically tumultuous, between Saudi Arabia's brazen killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the resurgence of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Donald Trump...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:31hrs | 433 | by Clayton Besaw
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 3738 | by newZWire
Chamisa is THE problem
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is no longer a factor in solving Zimbabwe's problems and neither is he worthy talking to over governance. He is a waste of time. For President Mnangagwa to dialogue ...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:01hrs | 2041 | by Isdore Guvamombe
USA's latest demands on Zimbabwe a red herring
The submissions by one Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Dr. Todd Moss and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Matthew Harrington before the United States Senate Foreign ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:23hrs | 5534 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Mysterious fires raze down two family homesteads
VILLAGERS from Goodwood in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province are living in fear after a series of mysterious fires razed down three huts at a homestead in four days.The fires also destroyed...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:59hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Qualifying and quantifying political reform in Zimbabwe
Earlier this week a local daily reproduced an article from the American weekly magazine, Newsweek. The article was titled "White farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await Government compensation"...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | 92 | by Joram Nyathi
Multi-million dollar theft of tax payer's money exposed
Whistleblower Prisca Mutema has exposed an alleged multi-million dollar theft of taxpayers money involving government paymaster Brighton Chiuzungo and Ngoni Masoka who served as the permanent Secretar...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 10:29hrs | 8151 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A stalemate in transition
The ouster of Robert Mugabe in November 2017 by the military with civilian help introduced a spectacle of hope & rekindled the aspirations of the nation that had sunk into despondency over d...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1996 | by Nhlanhla Dube
Gukurahundi, which way now?
The days we were growing up, back then in Masvaure area kwaMarange, watching domestic animals fight was a popular hobby. Dominant bulls would fight for territory. Dog fighting was however most enterta...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 20:34hrs | 1972 | by Bornface waNgaikere Masikati
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