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WALPE challenges ZRP's ban of electoral reforms march
HARARE Magistrate Noah Gwatidzo has preside over the hearing of an application filed by Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) seeking to overturn a ban of their march schedul...Published: 6 hrs ago | 745 | by Stephen Jakes
US Ambassador to Botswana defends sanctions against Zimbabwe
THE United States Ambassador to Botswana Craig Lewis Cloud has defended sanctions against Zimbabwe saying they were targeted at officials abusing human rights and the rule of law.In a meeting ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1701 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe trade deficit narrows 81% to US$474m
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit narrowed by 81% to US$474 million between February and December last year compared to the same period in 2018, mainly due to shortages of foreign currency for imports....Published: 7 hrs ago | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crisis remains a confidence issue
Zimbabweans in particular and the world in general clearly can't find confidence in the Zanu-PF governance system. The enduring crisis in Zimbabwe presents a conundrum to many people.To the ge...Published: 7 hrs ago | 119 | by Learnmore Zuze
Huge salaries for anti-graft officials
GOVERNMENT is taking extraordinary measures to ring-fence all officers employed by the special anti-corruption courts through paying them competitive salaries and allowances. The Government be...Published: 7 hrs ago | 267 | by Staff reporter
Reformed Muridzo faces temptation
Contemporary musician Andrew Ngwenya popularly known as Andy Muridzo was yesterday humiliated by Lenon Zaranyika after accusing him of dating his wife whom he saw seated with Muridzo at his matrimonia...Published: 8 hrs ago | 702 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa showed wisdom in transforming the party to become user friendly
At the start of the new dispensation comrade Emerson Mnangagwa promised that he would spend a lot of time listening. That's what he has done over the last three years, and that's what he has don...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4678 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fillup Masvingo High Court demo flops
The so-called 'Fill up Masvingo High Court' demonstrations organised by the MDC deputy national chairperson, Job Sikhala ahead of his court trial scheduled for today, took a nose dive as supporters fa...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:29hrs | 2700 | by Staff reporter
'Machete gangs created to tarnish Mnangagwa'
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines, Edmond Mkaratigwa (Shurugwi South MP, Zanu-PF), says it is the prerogative of the security services to curb the lawlessness that has beco...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:26hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taunts Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says the decision by the United Kingdom to overlook Zimbabwe among countries it invited to the UK-Africa summit was because the once prosperous country has been reduced to a ...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:24hrs | 2574 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs a reset
We are at a stage in our country where what seems to be a political problem, is not only hindering our ability to develop but decimating any hope of doing so in the foreseeable future. We are in a sta...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:19hrs | 232 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mthuli Ncube scorned
BUSINESS leaders have poured scorn on Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's recent claims the Zimbabwean economy was on a path to recovery.Ncube was speaking to international media on the sidelines ...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2762 | by Staff reporter
UN mission engages ZEC
A delegation from the United Nations (UN) Electoral Needs Assessment Mission is in the country to evaluate the capacity and needs of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).ZEC chief elections...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes for broke
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly targeting farms belonging to former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi, former Manicaland provincial minister Mandi Chimene and other top allies of the l...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 7648 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala speaks on treason trial
Job Sikhala, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national vice-chairperson who is also Member of Parliament for Zengeza West, is set to appear before the High Court in Masvingo next week to face ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Workers panic over Kasukuwere farm seizure
WORKERS at former Local Government minister and ex-Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's Concorpia Farm in Mazowe face a bleak future following government's move to seize the property, one o...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe needs urgent political dialogue'
EUROPEAN Union ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, has said only urgent political dialogue between the country's main political actors will rescue the country from the humanitarian crisis, which ha...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seizes land from Mugabe allies
Zimbabwe has started repossessing land grabbed by former president Robert Mugabe's allies during a controversial agricultural reform programme amid claims the exercise is politically motivated....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 110 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Big Guns jockeying for Sikhala's positions
The jostling for Job Sikhala's positions ahead of the blabbermouth's court case scheduled for this Monday in Masvingo, has reached fever pitch with a potential to further crack the deeply divided MDC ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 15:50hrs | 9558 | by Staff reporter
MDC position on the proposed constitutional amendments
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is deeply concerned with the various constitutional amendments that were recently proposed by the Zanu PF regime.Indeed, despite all the grave concerns...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 11:14hrs | 696 | by Kucaca Phulu
Church leader in soup for sleeping with a minor
Zvido zvashe apostolic church treasurer is in soup for contravening section 70 of the criminal codification and reform act (having sex with a minor) and he appeared before Guruve magistrate Artw...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 11:12hrs | 2095 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'MDC 2020 Agenda will not lift sanction' - more significantly, will not end rigged elections
There is a mountain of evidence proving that the root causes of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown are 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The reason why the nation has been stuck with t...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 09:44hrs | 819 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa's agenda 2020: All froth but no beer
When MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa last week announced that he intended to present a "State of the Nation Address" (SONA) dubbed Agenda 2020, some people swallowed that hook, line and sinker thinking he ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:06hrs | 1737 | by Elijah Chihota,
World Economic Forum, opportune platform to lure investment
Zimbabwe's participation at this year's 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland is a big opportunity for her to lure Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)....Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 13:33hrs | 482 | by Chido Chikuni
Zimbabwe left with 30 days' supply of grain
ZIMBABWE has less than 100 000 tonnes (t) of grain in its strategic grain reserve — enough to feed the nation for only one month, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance S...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga has shown the way, can Zimbabweans emulate her?
Vice-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry, is a nasty piece of work, who does not deserve much sympathy in her ongoing legal problems.When she first took over the running of the Miss Z...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:38hrs | 15849 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mthuli Ncube to introduce $50 notes
GOVERNMENT will soon introduce $50 notes to address the currency crisis in the short term as the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) continues to devalue, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said.In June 2019...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2763 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in Zimbabwe's transport sector shocking
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government was alarmed with the level of corruption perpetrated by officials in State entities in the transport sector.Officially opening a...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa repossesses Kasukuwere's farm
FORMER Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere's Mazowe Farm has been repossessed by government with the exiled politician accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa o...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to recruit new engineers, managers
ZESA is looking at recruiting new managers to spearhead the re-bundling of its five companies, a move that should see a sharp reduction in managerial staff once duplicated positions are eliminated. ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:15hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa’s Agenda 2020 address to the nation
(Transcript of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s ‘Agenda 2020’ address as prepared for delivery at Stodart Hall in Mbare on January 21, 2020)Fellow Zim...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:47hrs | 1323 | by Nelson Chamisa
Mnangagwa takes away Kasukuwere's farm
The President Emmerson Mnangagwa government has repossessed a farm in Mashonaland Central belonging to former minister and one of the G40 kingpins, Savior Kasukuwere in what it called a downsi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:39hrs | 6137 | by Staff Reporter
Why we should not expect electoral or political reforms from a Zanu PF government
Someone said Zanu Pf is like a hyena ,to survive one has to cling on its back come what may.Falling to the ground is inviting a vicious attack. This can be likened to former Zanu Pf members who left t...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 18:04hrs | 1286 | by AT Kadada
Chamisa's security guards severely manhandled a journalist?
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's security guards severely manhandled a journalist Robert Tapfumaneyi.A tweet by @Klawry3 exposed the images of the skirmishes.Said @Klawry3, "Chamisa'...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:02hrs | 2505 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hold the keys
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he holds the keys to President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding in normalising Zimbabwe's relations with the West and attracting much-needed foreign investment to th...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:01hrs | 3830 | by Staff reporter
Charamba gets it wrong - Mnangagwa's illegitimacy remains the people's key fight
In his seminal statement yesterday, the people's President Advocate Nelson Chamisa was unstintingly consistent, particularly regarding the party's position on the illegitimacy of Mr Mnangagwa, given t...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 11:40hrs | 3055 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's 'Nation's Agenda: 2020' - a fuzzy and confused plan, blundering from pillar to post
Nelson Chamisa's Harare 21st January 2020 address was dubbed "Nation's Agenda 2020" or "Nation's Plan of Action: 2020" As much as the nation is desperate for change it is as day this so called MDC's p...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2220 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa tells supporters not to be afraid of guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday warned his supporters to prepare for more demonstrations to force political and economic change in a country lurching from one crisis to another.Chamisa ad...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:37hrs | 975 | by AFP
Top cop 'receives steer' to make case 'disappear'
THE officer-in-charge of crime at Guyu Police Station has been arrested for allegedly receiving a steer to dismiss a case against a man who was facing charges of having sexual intercourse with a young...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, US to continue talks, says Mohadi
Zimbabwe will continue to re-engage the United States despite the challenges that have affected the resumption of normal relations between the two countries, Vice President Kembo Mohadi said yesterday...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 300 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MDC under siege
THE opposition MDC has claimed that it is now a banned political party in Zimbabwe and accused Zanu-PF of making Zimbabwe a de facto one-party State.MDC secretary for international relations, ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:53hrs | 744 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa to close window for negotiations very soon
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will tell the nation on Tuesday that his party has tried negotiation to solve Zimbabwe's political impasse, but that the window "is closing fast".Chamisa was stopped ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:38hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy to contract by 5.5% says UN
Zimbabwe's economy will register a negative growth of 5.5% and 2.5% in 2019 and 2020 respectively owing to foreign currency shortages, elevated public debt and uncontrolled inflation, a recent report ...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1601 | by FinX
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 345 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Polad economic summit on the cards
POLITICAL leaders under the banner, Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have set plans to engage various business and industry sector players to come up with economic reforms that will be key in revivin...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:40hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
We have a full-blown crisis
Phew!What a frenzied week it was as those brats, who are used to hogging TV remote controls or causing unending trouble during holidays, were finally banished to school, where they rightfully ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:33hrs | 248 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe Commonwealth bid nears
Zimbabwe is inching closer to readmission into the Commonwealth ahead of the grouping's biennial meeting slated for Kigali, Rwanda, in June.The Sunday Mail has gathered that Commonwealth Secre...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:29hrs | 211 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe governance system beyond fixing
Of late, I have been quite irritated by my smartphone's maddeningly frequent demands for me to upgrade its system at times, as little as only two days after my last upgrade. What I, however, found ver...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 179 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police raid Chamisa's headquarters
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday raided MDC-Alliance's headquarters in Harare after obtaining a search warrant to search for offensive weapons meant for criminal use. The party had...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:35hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
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