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Chamisa calls for broad-based confrontation against Mnangagwa
THE MDC Alliance has threatened to stage a fresh broad-based confrontation against the Zanu-PF-led government in the wake of deteriorating socio-economic conditions.In a communique signed by p...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 6830 | by newzimbabwe
Rushed Zim Dollar introduction cost the economy
The Zimbabwean government recently gazetted the Finance Bill (H.B.4 of 2020) which validates the fiscal changes that were tabled in the Mid-Term budget review in July 2020. The Bill amends the Gains T...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:17hrs | 1168 | by Victor Bhoroma
Dozens of laws should be repealed in Gambia
The Commonwealth has said dozens of discriminatory gender laws should be repealed or revised in The Gambia to guarantee equal rights for women and girls within the legal framework.A report - p...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 16:40hrs | 342 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa thunders, Zanu-PF's attitude hardens
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that he would not seek outside intervention to hold dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups in the country. At the same time, a ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 4688 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bond with ANC unshakable'
ZANU-PF and the African National Congress (ANC) will not succumb to machinations by the opposition MDC Alliance and G40 remnants to split them as the revolutionary movements are not rookies to such sh...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Parliament wants daily forex auctions
PARLIAMENT says the central bank must hold foreign currency auctions daily rather than weekly to ensure the stability of the Zimbabwe dollar.Over the last three weeks, the local unit has margi...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:55hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
'We cannot impose ourselves on Zimbabwe' says SA - yet no qualms imposing illegitimate Zanu PF
South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa's intervention in Zimbabwe can only happen at the request of the Government of Zimbabwe.There is real very little...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | 2352 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1494 | by Wilbert Mukori
'US to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE United States will maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe for as long as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues with its human rights abuses which pose a threat to regional stability, a senio...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses out on goodwill over its stark denialist attitude
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) that neighbouring South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has no mandate to intervene in Zimbabwe's mul...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1190 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Colonialists red flags Zimbabwe human rights situation
ZIMBABWE'S human rights situation has significantly deteriorated, the European Union (EU) has said as it called on authorities not to hide behind COVID-19 to restrict people's rights.A number ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Khupe barred from Polad
THE MDC has directed its interim president Thokozani Khupe to stop being part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) until she gets the mandate from the party's congress....Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 13640 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rights lawyers call for police restraint
LOCAL human rights groups have called out President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for trampling on citizens' rights under the guise of enforcing COVID-19 preventive measures.The calls were m...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Mthuli denies policy consistency reports
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday denied that there were policy inconsistencies in the country, claiming his austerity measures were simply "reforms" aimed at bringing back stability to the econ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:06hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Reforms will guarantee uniformed forces voting privacy
CIVIC society organisations have called for urgent reform of the country's laws to ensure that uniformed forces enjoy their right to vote in privacy and avoid situations where they are forced to cast ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
'SA has no role to play, it is controlled by white men,' says Chinamasa - fighting dirty, as usual
Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF cronies know the pressure on them to end the Zimbabwe crisis is mounting and will not go away until there is change. They know their iron grip on power is under serious threa...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 09:27hrs | 2654 | by Wilbert Mukori
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 262 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
'I totally agree, we sold out during 2008 GNU' confessed one more MDC leader - since and will sell out in 2023
"I totally agree that we missed an opportunity during GNU when we controlled the levers of power that we should maybe have exerted more pressure on Zanu-PF to have all these things reformed," said Pri...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1519 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's MDC hails ANC mediation efforts
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC Alliance said it was happy that most countries in the region have acknowledged the deepening crisis socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe.A dele...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
No to megaphone diplomacy Zimbabwe, US agree
Zimbabwe and the United States have agreed to cooperate and resolve their differences diplomatically as opposed to the public spats that had characterised their relations since the turn of the millenn...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC admits that it missed opportunity to reform govt
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance yesterday admitted that the country's opposition parties wasted a golden opportunity to push for wide-ranging political, economic and electoral reforms when they we...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2977 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA defence ministries share notes
6 new television stations by year-endTHE Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa, says the government will by end of this year issue out six televis...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:07hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
'It's another wasted ANC trip to Zimbabwe'
Ringisai Chikohomero, a Researcher, at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has labelled the ANC trip to Zimbabwe as a wasted one.A 10 ANC delegate which comprises of Ace Magashule, the party'...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 08:25hrs | 4798 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
ANC envoy leave after meeting Zanu PF only - rightly so, what is there new to say
The ANC envoy has flown back to SA after meeting the Zanu PF leaders. They did not meet any other party leaders although they had said otherwise."ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule has announ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2498 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mutsvangwa pledges transparency in broadcasting licensing
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday promised Parliament that issuance of the broadcasting licences would be transparent.This was after opposit...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 547 | by Stff reporter
Mutsvangwa speaks on TV licences
The selection of six free-to-air national commercial television licences will be transparent and aboveboard, as the best applicant will carry the day, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
All outstanding by-elections to be held by December 5
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on Wednesday lifted the suspension of elections in place since March when the country went into a coronavirus lockdown.All outstanding by-elections are ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:59hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa can't end Zimbabwe crisis with stakeholders at cross purpose' - worst of all, lack vision
It has been a hard slog just to reach a consensus that Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic and political crisis. There is a mountain of evidence to prove the crisis but even that has not helped sinc...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1494 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiwenga to ban medical trips abroad for 'everybody'
Vice president and health minister Constantino Chiwenga has announced the government will ban overseas medical flights for all Zimbabweans, saying the trips are bleeding the country of scarce foreign ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:58hrs | 9468 | by Staff reporter
Bitter first anniversary for Mugabe
DESPONDENT and waiting in a long queue for daily food handouts from a well-wisher, Milka Mandimutsa gets nostalgic about Zimbabwe's autocratic and longtime ex-leader Robert Mugabe, who died a year ago...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2683 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lacking visionary leaders
Allow me to unpack some of the few things which are derailing the country from progressing and if they are fixed, we can all enjoy the treasures in our country.The recent developments witnesse...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:34hrs | 950 | by Leonard Koni
'Ramaphosa must promote honest critique of Zanu PF's democratic deficits' - too compromised even for that
"What can South Africa do to assist in resolving Zimbabwe‘s problems?" Piers Pigou of International Crisis Group was asked. "The shift to a more public critique is an important stepping ston...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:30hrs | 683 | by Nomusa Garikai
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must play a more active Statesman like role
WITH Zimbabwe's political crisis deepening amid growing calls for an inclusive dialogue, senior consultant with the International Crisis Group Piers Pigou, told the Daily News on Sunday last week that...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:09hrs | 3522 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will have 5 000 MW capacity (2.5X present) by 2023' boasted Mnangagwa - buying time to rig 2023 elections
President Mnangagwa, his Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, and other Zanu PF leaders have promised economic recovery pegged at the country attaining middle income status by 2030, "Vision 20...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 407 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
If Jonathan Moyo's advice is premised on "cut yangu yakamira sei" in the future dispensation, then this country is in for a joke
Listening to the lecture Jonathan Moyo gave in last week one-hour video now circulating in the social media, it felt sick in the pit of the stomach. It is for this reason one must be careful what soci...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 20:22hrs | 6966 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zanu PF still fighting to stop SA meeting opposition' - risking all to stop dreaded regime change
"Despite the NEC's wish for the ANC delegation to meet a broad range of Zimbabwean stakeholders, it is understood that Pretoria feels it would be better for the ANC to meet only its ruling party count...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:36hrs | 3144 | by Nomusa Garikai
EU will not renew budget support to Zimbabwe
Ongoing mismanagement and corruption mean it is "out of the question" that the European Union will resume aid directly to the government of Zimbabwe anytime soon, according to the bloc's ambassador to...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:28hrs | 2125 | by Vince Chadwick I Devex
U-turn on white farmers: Mugabe turning in his grave
GOVERNMENT's dramatic turnaround to offer farms to former white farms is indicative of the Zanu-PF government's policy inconsistency, which has decimated the once flourishing agriculture sector, and i...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 7429 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Zimbabwe's dangerous drift puts Mnangagwa under spotlight
ZIMBABWE is quiet for now after President Emmerson Mnangagwa clamped heavily on dissent while figures who have led calls for protests have been locked up in jail, with investigative journalist Hopewel...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2268 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
'MDC cannot lecture us on land reform' said two-face Chinamasa - neither can you, we are not all stupid
"The MDC and its allies who resisted the land reform process, and begged sanctions for our people to be punished for taking back the land cannot lecture or school us about land reform," said Patrick C...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:32hrs | 609 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Everyone is taking potshot at Zimbabwe' tweeted Mnangagwa in exasperation, knows the game is up
"In sending back the first delegation led by gentleman Sydney Mufamadi with tails between legs, Mnangagwa simply racked up pressure on himself. Now the ANC sends in the hard man (Magashule)," said Pro...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 6816 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 8453 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa to give foreign white farmers their seized land
Foreign white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if restitution proves impractical, the government said o...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 18:37hrs | 3368 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa sending envoy back to Zimbabwe - waste of time, hamstrung to do right thing
President Cyril Ramaphosa is planning to send back the special envoy to Zimbabwe in a determined effort to find a solution to Zimbabwe's worsen economic and political crisis. Last the time the envoy m...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 16:29hrs | 2182 | by Wilbert Mukori
Politically, Mnangagwa has failed to bring all stakeholders together
IT IS critical that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF urgently lead efforts to address the country's decades-long political crisis if the government is to have any chance of mitigating the econ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:37hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to resolve crisis or nation sinks
The usual band of political analysts has said that President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF should lead efforts to address the country's decades long political crisis if the Government is to have any chance of...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | 2618 | by Staff reporter
Urgent need for MDC Chamisa to rebrand
The right to choose one's political leaders; the ones that were once chosen, shape the political destiny of a nation, is vested in every adult citizen and enshrined in the constitution. This supreme p...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 4326 | by Marakia Bomani
'US ambassador's claims on Zimbabwe baseless'
The Government yesterday called to order the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nichols for violating the Vienna Convention which governs diplomatic missions, as he is dabbling in local po...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
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