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'MDC A will give dialogue a chance' - to what end if chance of free 2023 elections is zero
The people of Zimbabwe risked life and limb to elect Morgan Tsvangirai, Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa, David Coltart and the other MDC A leaders into power on the promise the party will deliver the demo...Published: 15 hrs ago | 488 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Sanctions alone not the cause of Zimbabwe economic woes'
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development executive director Janet Zhou has said while Western sanctions imposed on the country were negatively affecting the economy, it was trite to note that gross ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's sober advisor rubbishes resignation speculation
A member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council, Busisa Moyo has dismissed reports that he has resigned from the embattled PAC.There was speculation that the Chief Exe...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | 6634 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa's advisor resigns?
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Busisa Moyo has posted a Twitter message that has generated speculation that he is throwing in the towel and resigning from the e...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 14:42hrs | 17483 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa prepares for ruthless demos crackdown
AFTER subjecting more than a thousand regular police officers to paramilitary training, purchasing an assortment of weapons, including AK assault rifles and sniper rifles, government has moved to acqu...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:27hrs | 10991 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe inflation to shoot up to 280% by year-end'
INFLATION could end the year around 280% and may rise to stratospheric levels thereafter if a new currency is introduced without preceding macro-economic fundamentals, a local research firm has said....Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt re-ignites currency debate
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's remarks over the weekend that Zimbabwe would have a fully-fledged local currency before the end of the year, ending the multi-currency regime enacted in 2009, effectivel...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1926 | by Brett Chulu
Paynet switches off Zimbabwe banks
PAYNET, a subsidiary of Mauritian financial services provider Payserv Africa, has suspended all local financial institutions from its transacting platform after they refused to pay in foreign currency...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 5877 | by Staff reporter
Re-igniting debate on a sovereign currency
Whilst a single sovereign currency regime might be the way to go, own currency may not deliver desired results if we do not address what is currently weighing down our pseudo-currency (RTGS$) - the st...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 309 | by Persistence Gwanyanya
A damning indictment on Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration's failure to address the economic challenges bedevilling the country - despite lofty promises - could have been described as spectacular if it were not so...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:20hrs | 2542 | by Owen Gagare
'Zanu PF is burning Zimbabwe down to stop anyone else ruling' - we are insane to let them
Zimbabwe is in a serious economic and political mess. The country's economy is in total meltdown unemployment has soared to nauseating heights of 90% plus; ¾ of the population is living on US$30 or l...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 18:21hrs | 2982 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mock 'losers who accept some election results and reject others' - curse vote riggers who refuse to step down
Mnangagwa was cocksure his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" was going to revive the country's economic. Well it is now clear the flood of investors and lenders he expected to answer his call have neve...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1040 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe police buy 4 000 AKs, sniper rifles
POLICE have acquired an assortment of weapons - including 3 343 AK-47 assault rifles and about 600 sniper rifles - as they prepare to quell looming street protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter
'Striking, new Bill has 20 of 23 POSA clauses,' says Mwonzora - idiot, expected democratic changes
"Recently, the government of Zimbabwe, through the Minister of Home Affairs, introduced the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill to Parliament (MOPA). This Bill, that will replace the reviled Public Or...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 17:58hrs | 3086 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
War vets to establish museum
WAR veterans are set to establish a museum to preserve the liberation war history and to impart fundamental ethos among fellow Zimbabweans, the Deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans, Victor Mate...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 09:00hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Fix politics, not currency, says Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to abolish the multi-currency system in favour of a new local currency could spectacularly fail, resulting in more catastrophe for troubled Zimbabwe if fundamental...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6866 | by Staff reporter
MDC youths to confront Mnangagwa through protests
The newly elected opposition MDC Youth Assembly has vowed to mobilise Zimbabweans to confront the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government through demonstrations as the country's economic crisis continues to...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 18:16hrs | 2382 | by Staff reporter
Malema on plot to depose Botswana President
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema will use commemorations of the June 16 Soweto uprising of 1976 to lift the lid on a plot to unseat Botswana President Mokgweet...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 18:10hrs | 6495 | by Gibson Nyathi
A case for subsidies in the mining sector
Zimbabwe racked in US$3.2 billion from mineral exports in 2018, a figure which represents 76% of the country's official total export earnings. This year the government has set the target at US$4.2 bil...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 600 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe is not ready for a new currency
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters ("ZIM EFF") have noted with great concern, the recent commentary by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Minister of Finance regarding plans to introduce a NEW Zimba...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:25hrs | 8916 | by Innocent Ndibali
MDC ratchet up calls for mass protests - piggybacking TA, another MDC sell-out and Zanu-PF whitewash
"It's not criminal to demonstrate and voice your concerns; voice what we are saying are the main problems. It's a national crisis and as you can see, besides me as a politician speaking, there is a wa...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:22hrs | 1817 | by Nomusa Garikai
Insurance companies milking the public again
Dear Editor,There was a Commission of Inquiry set up to look at how insurance companies failed to compensate policyholders after the loss of value prior to 2009. The shareholders of these insu...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:53hrs | 3530 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dumiso Dabengwa
Dabengwa: Please tell us how your mother died? This was a question Dumiso had to answer in a Zanu court when he was incarcerated by Mugabe regime in the early independent of 80s. He was holed up in pr...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 17:42hrs | 5322 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Suffering of the populace is 'normal' under the economic transition,' says Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe is experiencing severe birth pangs of transforming into a fully-fledged capitalist economy from a centralized economy, former presidential adviser Christopher Mutsvangwa said.His rema...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 08:32hrs | 5295 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Mthuli in nasty exchange
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube and MDC vice president Tendai Biti - who held the Finance portfolio during the inclusive government between 2009-13 - have engaged in a war of wo...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 12979 | by Ndou Paul
Chamisa's ZCTU confronts RBZ in currency battle
WORKERS have threatened to take their war to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for unilaterally declaring a new currency, the RTGS dollar, effectively eroding the value of their salaries that were pe...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:24hrs | 4941 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget surplus hits $500m
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube's austerity measures are paying dividends with respect to Government finances, once in shambles due to successive budget deficits, with...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
Biti challenges Ramaphosa
MDC Deputy National Chair Tendai Biti says President Ramaphosa has a key role to play in resolving the crisis in Zimbabwe. And he warned: 'If Zimbabwe implodes South Africa will suffer'.Biti w...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:44hrs | 5303 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
'To keep questioning legitimacy is undemocratic' - insane not to, especially after 39 years of rigged elections
A true friend will give you sound advice even if that is not what you want to hear. Indeed, a true friend would rather risk souring the friendship by giving the sound advice then give misleading infor...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:41hrs | 1060 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC Reading protest and fundraiser
MDC Reading has just held its first demonstration since the end of the National Congress held in Zimbabwe, where the young and vibrant leader Nelson Chamisa was democratically elected as its President...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:40hrs | 1850 | by Thabo Makuyana
Mugabe's shadow lingers on...
IT'S a tedious cliché, but best captures what is happening in Zimbabwe now: the more things change, the more they remain the same. I couldn't immediately find any better expression which describes th...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | 3344 | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa's Second Republic still holed in old rogue ways
THE alleged abduction and torture of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader, Obert Masaraure, by suspected State security agents on Wednesday, is a glaring indictment on the government an...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 18:54hrs | 338 | by Editorial - Newsday
Zimbabwe doctors, nurses strike in 14 days
Doctors and nurses have issued a 14-day notice to go on strike, saying health workers have had enough of austerity measures.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last year introduced austerity measure...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 12:31hrs | 4328 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown a crude violation of rights
The scathing bail ruling by a High Court judge condemning the police over their shoddy investigations into the alleged plot to unseat President Emmerson Mnangagwa must lead the country's law enforceme...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:43hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown alarms Zimbabwean activists
Rights organisations are concerned about what they say is a crackdown against opposition activists by the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.They cite the recent arrest of seven activi...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:42hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare over proposed security law
Tempers flared in Kadoma yesterday during Parliament's public hearings on the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa) as residents differed sharply over the proposed law.Parliamentary portf...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:40hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni pushes for Dabengwa honour
OUTSPOKEN Matabeleland North traditional leader Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has said local traditional leaders are working on rewarding the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa's clan with a chieftainship....Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe treason trials raise fears of relapse to Mugabe years
Twenty people have been charged with treason since the beginning of the year, prompting critics to draw parallels between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule with that of his predecessor Robert Mugabe...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Biti discuss 'Zimbabwe legitimacy crisis' with UK - crisis, what crisis
The MDC Alliance continues its "diplomatic offensive" with Tendai Biti, MDC A VP, meeting the British Minister of State for Africa Affairs, Harriet Baldwin. What is clear to everyone expect MDC A lead...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:08hrs | 2139 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Ncube, like Moses, deserves a chance to lead' - to tax the poor whilst protect looters
"Well, this is not a pie in the sky. What is our attitude to Mthuli Ncube's Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)? A lot of us really want us to go back to the hiatus," is the latest diatribe fro...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1839 | by Nomusa Garikai
Second Republic still holed in old rogue ways
THE alleged abduction and torture of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader, Obert Masaraure, by suspected State security agents on Wednesday, is a glaring indictment on the government an...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 08:00hrs | 523 | by E`ditorial - Newsday
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lays out Zimbabwe currency roadmap
The country should expect the reintroduction of a local currency before the end of the year, President Mnangagwa has said. He said this while addressing Southlea Park residents in Harare after taking ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:49hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's health woes linked to Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination plots over Mnangagwa's successor
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's perennial health problems are reportedly linked to the ruling Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination and counter-assassination plots among it's ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 8309 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Abduction dents EU - Zimbabwe talks
SUSPECTED security agents allegedly abducted and tortured Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) leader Obert Masaraure for leading a teachers' strike, dealing a blow to President Emmers...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:57hrs | 1694 | by Staff reporter
MDC on diplomatic offensive to force Mnangagwa into talks with Chamisa ONLY
The opposition MDC party has embarked on a diplomatic charm offensive to force Zanu PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government into talks, which the party says should help move the country forwa...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:56hrs | 2352 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to dump rand, US dollar
Zimbabwean will do away with the multiple currency regime - which includes the rand, US Dollar and other units - currently accepted as legal tender alongside the RTGS$ consisting of bond notes and ele...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:50hrs | 2773 | by Staff reporter
'Ncube lacks realism, intelligence and honesty' charged Biti - true enough but what about you
"When asked about the economy and Mthuli Ncube, Mr Biti said among other things, "Mthuli is a Loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain and the economy has found him out. This is about ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 18:07hrs | 2357 | by Wilbert Mukori
Military crackdown: What have they achieved in Zimbabwe?
Where the military has been used against its own people, the results have been the opposite of the intended purposes. The authoritarian rulers behind use of force against their own people never seem t...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2061 | by AT Kadada
Zanu PF rigged 2018 elections and is, ipso facto, illegitimate - condemn EU backdoor legitimacy
Zimbabwe and the EU have started re-engagement talks which the Zimbabwe government hopes will culminate in the EU, IMF, WB and other international lenders bankrolling Zimbabwe's economic programme, fo...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:55hrs | 2249 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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