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Zimbabwe opposition of staging-managing abductions and torture
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has accused the opposition of staging-managing the abduction and torture of activists to soil the image of the country amid reports at least 18 people have be...Published: 9 mins ago | 6 | by Staff reporter
Currency changes choke banks
ZIMBABWE'S banking sector is skating on thin ice due to a illiquidity crunch that has drastically reduced the financial institutions' capacity to lend following the reintroduction of a local currency,...Published: 15 mins ago | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans do not read assertion is nonsensical
Trevor Ncube's assertion that Zimbabweans do not read can only be nonsense given that we have more than 90% literacy rate, Africa's second-highest behind Mauritius! Zimbabweans know very well ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 316 | by Dennis Shoko
We cannot afford to have idle, unproductive land - Mnangagwa
Address by His Excellency, President Mnangagwa at the official opening of the inaugural Zimbabwe Agricultural Show at the Harare Showgrounds on Friday....Published: 10 hrs ago | 915 | by Emmerson D Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa to meet Shinzo Abe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), a major engagement set to unl...Published: 10 hrs ago | 184 | by Staff reporter
'Austerity ends in 2019,' says Muthuli Ncube
While Government has instituted a batch of key macro-economic reforms since late last year, which analysts say have set the economy for recovery and sustainable growth, the chief architect of the chan...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2396 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's re-engagement bearing fruits
The United Kingdom is a critical cog in Zimbabwe's efforts to re-integrate into the community of nations following years of isolation in the First Republic. As the former colonial power, the United Ki...Published: 11 hrs ago | 136 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid on course
Zimbabwe's foreign policy in the Second Republic is anchored on ensuring the country regains its past glory by integrating into the community of nations after years of isolation typified by the First ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 152 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is a multi-party democracy' said Gutu - nonsense, when did the metamorphose happen
Zimbabwe is in this political mess because the country has had the great misfortune of having more than its fair share of corrupt and incompetent leaders in both sides of the political divide. During ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2111 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's former advisor speaks out
Former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former Petinah Gappah has taken Newsday journalist to the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe over a story that he published about Gappah's resignation from Mnang...Published: 22 hrs ago | 7707 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa's aides not keen to depart from the past'
ONE of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aides, Petina Gappah, has quit her trade and investment advisory role and vowed not to renew her contract after being frustrated by the Zanu PF leader's close...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 18:02hrs | 4339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans ignorant - Trevor Ncube
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) boss Trevor Ncube says Zimbabweans don't read hence their failure to appreciate that Western sanctions are hurting the Southern...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 15:52hrs | 5721 | by Staff Reporter
What is holding back Zimbabwe - perverse Zanu-PF and MDC entente cordiale
There is no doubt that ever since the 2008 to 2013 GNU there was mutual understanding, a cordial agreement, a "entente cordiale" as the French would say, struck between Zanu-PF and MDC. MDC was suppos...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | 2191 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Chief Ndiweni could be poisoned in prison'
THE opposition Zapu party says it feared controversial Ntabazinduna chief and fierce government critic, Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni could be poisoned in jail.Ndiweni was jailed 18 months by Bulaw...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 5766 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa urges farmers to adopt new technology
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged players in the agricultural sector to adopt innovative solutions and latest technology to enhance agricultural productivity.Officially opening this...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 559 | by Editorial - chronicle
Mnangagwa calls for innovation in agriculture
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa says players in the agriculture sector should employ modern technologies to enhance productivity, boost food security and nutrition. Innovative solutions, he said, should h...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:00hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Woman (24) found with smuggled 2kg drugs
A WOMAN from Bulawayo and her boyfriend have been arrested for possessing 2kg of crystal methamphetamine, a dangerous drug in the same class as cocaine, worth more than $120 000 which was smuggled fro...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:48hrs | 310 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt assaults and arrests human rights lawyer
Dear Editor, The president of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa is drifting drastically from what he promised to do in his new dispensation. There's need for him to urgently address reforms and let ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 603 | by Esther Munyira
The Zanu-PF Youth League
The organisation or should I say one of the structures of Zanu-PF, their youth league is one hell of a problem in this country. A totally antidemocracy force that usually takes the law into thei...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2291 | by Clemen Moyo
'Baba Jukwa' sues police, defence ministers for wrongful umbrella arrest
Journalist Edmund Kudzayi of the "Baba Jukwa" fame is suing Home Affairs and Defence ministers for $500,000 as compensation for his unlawful arrest over possession of a camouflage umbrella.The...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:49hrs | 2864 | by ZimLive
'Mnangagwa not committed to reform' America says
The United States has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not committed to reforms following a spate of kidnappings and torture of government critics in what observers have described as state repress...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 16:40hrs | 4175 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa top advisor quits
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aides, Petin Gappah has quit her trade and investment advisory role and vowed not to renew her contract after being frustrated by the Zanu-PF leader's close l...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 9829 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF won people's mandate and will not share it with MDC' - illegitimate, rigged elections
Zanu-PF is treating the issue of the regime's lack of legitimacy and the MDC's call for a power sharing arrangement as if the two are one and the same thing."The people pronounced themselves a...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 628 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa warns Zacc against abuse of power
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should not use its recently acquired arresting powers to settle personal and political scores, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned.Mnangagwa in June...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3799 | by newzimbabwe
Chief Ndiweni finally applies for bail
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, who was last week sentenced to an effective 18 months in jail for malicious damage to property belonging to his subject, has filed an application for bail ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Indian gold merchant invests in Zimbabwe sector
AN Indian businessman and gold buyer has channelled an initial US$500 000 into the gold sector in Zimbabwe and plans to pour in millions of dollars in further investment in the mining industry. ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Sadc resolutions portend well for Africa's unity
In his seminal public lecture in South Africa, Prof Artwell Nhemachena succinctly attacks the jugular vein of coloniality by stating that: "African voices have spoken and cried but the world has not b...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 115 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Chinese State Advisory Council in Zimbabwe
THE Chinese State Advisory Council is in the country to support the Government with research and economic development strategy as relations between the two countries advance to higher levels. ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
EU ambassador criticises Mnangagwa for the third time in a week
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts aimed at wooing back powerful western countries seem to be heading for the rocks after the European Union (EU) condemned his government's heavy-han...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 18:28hrs | 5480 | by newzimbabwe
'New GNU will address legitimacy deficit' argues Biti - he is still breathtakingly incompetent
Some of us castigated Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, Welshmen Ncube, David Coltart and the rest of the MDC leaders as "breathtakingly corrupt and incompetent" as far back as 2010; whe...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:51hrs | 4061 | by Wilbert Mukori
Repression and dialogue in Zimbabwe: twin strategies that aren't working
Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy of coercion and dialogue has hit a series of hurdles. These include the continued opposition by the MDC and on-going scepticism of ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 864 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 624 | by Foreign Policy
Mnangagwa's government: The mask has slipped
In April last year, on these pages, I expressed concern at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government's obvious fascination with Rwanda and China.On the face of it, it seemed as if Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 888 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe civil service top heavy, bloated
GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that it was bloated, had a top-heavy structure, with some key departments manned by second-class professionals owing to poor salaries and conditions of service.Th...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Zec in quandary over delimitation exercise
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in quandary over the delimitation exercise as the Constitution stipulates that it must be conducted after the Census in 2022 leaving little time to prepare f...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Currency devaluation slashes Zimbabwe wages by 90%
Zimbabwe's rulers are finding that two decades of economic mismanagement and brutal repression have led them into a trap, from which there's little chance of escape.If they implement the polit...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 619 | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa launches PSC Strategic Plan
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa launched the 2019-20 Public Service Strategic Plan in Harare yesterday aimed at reforming the public service and improve productivity, accountability, remuneration and pension refo...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stands strong after MDC-Alliance conspiracy to cause chaos
ZIMBABWE stands strong following days of calculated conspiracy by the MDC Alliance and its western funders to not only destabilise the nation but throw it into chaos through violent demonstrations mea...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 168 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mnangagwa demands loyalty
President Mnangagwa yesterday implored civil servants to be loyal to Government and fulfil its policies that are derived from the ruling party, Zanu PF's manifesto following its victory in...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU-PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology, but those parties remain teaser bulls, nothing more. The party works in ve...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 210 | by Elijah Chihota
25 new buses for civil servants launched
President Mnangagwa yesterday launched 25 new buses for civil servants as part of measures to improve their conditions of service. The launch of the buses followed that of the Public Service C...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Zec calls on residents to register as voters
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has urged citizens to register to vote so that their constituencies are not affected by delimitation processes in 2022....Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 17:57hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Political freedoms are not respected in Zimbabwe
Dear EditorThe (SADC) congratulated Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his appointment as the chair of the Organ on Politics, Defense and Security and also called on the international co...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 14:11hrs | 2230 | by Bigboy Sibanda
SADC behind the new dispensation …as it adds its growing voice against illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe
Upon his ascendancy to the Presidency of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa quickly made known his ambition to project a different path to the one set by his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. Pr...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:42hrs | 594 | by Claver Nyuki
Mnangagwa: Reformist, corruption buster chimera
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's façade of a reformist and corruption buster is cracking, revealing the real man who wants power at all costs, celebrating with shady characters and has no scruples abou...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:02hrs | 1160 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa will never dance to Mnangagwa's tune
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not be part of the Political Actors Dialogue convened by President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the party describing the process as an out of tune choir. Mna...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 10:03hrs | 4166 | by Staff Reporter
US regime change in Zimbabwe getting brazenly silly
Some of us were not surprised because there was really nothing to be surprised about! When Job Sikhala announced his party would remove constitutionally elected President Mnangagwa before 2023, we kne...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 760 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mnangagwa's govt slams EU's 'intrusive attitude'
Government has hit back at Western countries' "intrusive and judgmental attitude" after they issued a statement that appeared to condone violent behaviour by the Zimbabwean opposition while condemning...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni fights conviction & sentence
JAILED chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni and his 23 subjects who were last week jointly convicted for destroying a villager's property in Ntabazinduna, have approached the High Court challenging t...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
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