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If land was the reason for the liberation struggle, why must Zimbabweans now buy it?
The land question in Zimbabwe is a contentious issue.The liberation struggle in Zimbabwe was fought with a clear objective: to reclaim land from colonial rulers and redistribute it equitably a...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:17hrs | 584 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt opposed to the demolition of people's homes
Government is opposed to the demolition of people's homes and will continue regularising informal settlements, with over 1,5 million homeowners set to receive title deeds under the Kwangu/Ngakwami Pre...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Masvingo illegal settlers
A MASVINGO magistrate has suspended the eviction of hundreds of illegal settlers pending the determination of their High Court appeal against government's decision to remove them from their homes....Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Did thousands die so that only a few enrich themselves from our minerals and land?
Having just woken up this Saturday morning, and turning on the television - I never expected to be greeted by such a heart-wrenching scene. There was a documentary narrating a harrowing ambush...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Time to offer title deeds for Rural Dwellers
According to the world bank ,"Secure property rights and efficient land registration institutions are a cornerstone of any modern economy". This gives confidence to the national individuals and busine...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:58hrs | 24 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 12 | by Derek Matyszak
Bring sanity to the three tier pricing system
"Vabereki" are crying in the village. Most had their payments for maize delivered to GMB paid through banks. The exchange rate for goods and services paid for using mobil money transfer and swipe is p...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 7 | by Tondo
Too early to use Zambia as an indicator of Zimbabwe's future
I wIll choose to be controversial a bit and analyse critical issues around the Zambian election, its outcome and implications to the region this time around. I will seek to zero in on the incoming Pre...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Sapien Sapien
Mnangagwa's govt assesses food insecurity
GOVERNMENT is in the process of consolidating statistics of able-bodied citizens who are still food insecure in rural areas following a successful farming season where the country recorded a bumper ha...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
40 000 Zimbabwean children face starvation, claims Unicef
MORE than 38 000 children in the country are facing acute starvation as guardians fail to access food due to the COVID19-induced economic hardships.This was revealed by the United Nations Chil...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's no go routes for Ngwena's motorcade.
I knew no politics by 1980 because I was still too young. I remember well in the early 1980s we used to read about Mugabe and Nkomo but this history made little sense to our young apolitical minds by ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
Let's banish the urban-rural chasm
Devolution now steadily but surely underway in our country, with provincial ministers of state also tasked with implementation of the new beginning, must sooner rather than later see rural areas where...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 4 | by Stephen Mpofu
Sylvester Nguni's wife dies
THE wife of former government minister Sylvester Nguni died from Covid-19-related complications yesterday.Nguni confirmed the death of his wife, but was quick to say that he be left alone as h...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Allocate resources at district level, says Maguwu
HUMAN rights defender Farai Maguwu has blasted the centralised government system in the country saying that it was becoming a breeding ground for corruption, which also hinders rural development....Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zacras tells govt to license more community radio stations
THE Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) has called on government to license more community radio stations to assist in the fight against COVID-19.Government in February a...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Lupane East By-election: A deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged and mountainous pathway to democracy in Zimbabwe
The recently held parliamentary and council by-elections in Lupane East, Ward 23 Nkayi South and Ward 22 Bubi constituencies respectively, on the 3rd of August 2019, and many others before, are a dece...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | 5 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zanu-PF sidelines villagers in food distribution
Zanu-PF leadership and traditional leaders are marginalising rural dwellers in dire need of food aid by distributing handouts along partisan lines, the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report has r...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The Chamisa effect and hope for a new Zimbabwe
NELSON Chamisa, the unopposed president of the opposition MDC, recently announced the members of his national executive committee. The appointments are not surprising - in many respects, they are a cu...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Obert Hodzi
Linda Masarira's message to workers
The struggle for emancipation by the Zimbabwean workers has its roots in the happening of the late 19th Century. After obtaining the Rudd concession the whites did not stop but rushed to obtain the ro...Published: 01 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 5 | by Linda Masarira
NRZ hikes inter-city fares
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) yesterday increased fares on its inter-city passenger trains by up to 150 percent on some routes with immediate effect. NRZ operates three daily and two...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Solar energy plant not yet a boon for locals
MANAMA, Gwanda South - Three years ago, in 2015, when the 200-panel mini-grid solar energy power plant was established in this remote and hot rural community, 140km south of Gwanda town and about 20km...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Madhuku' - arrested 18 times but still standing
As the country hurtles towards the general election next month, aspiring candidates from across the political divide have started canvassing for votes - promising the electorate development and someti...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T ineptitude resolves West's old dilemma over Zimbabwe
Former president Robert Mugabe was ready to take former MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai in this year's harmonised elections. Both men are out of the game now for the July 30 elections. Forecasts even b...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa got it wrong
Journalist Violet Gonda (VG) interviewed former Education minister David Coltart on the Hot Seat programme to understand President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet.Coltart warned the government wa...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:08hrs | 3 | by Violet Gonda
Why President Mugabe is the darling of Zimbabweans and the hero of Africa
President Robert Mugabe has been on the receiving end of all manner of criticism from the West and its local minions, the opposition. He has been cast in the most negative of terms because of his prin...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 19:33hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Leadership - The future of Zimbabwe!
Looking at the current Economic and political woes in the country, everyone is expecting the fall of Comrade R. G. Mugabe, the current President of Zimbabwe. President Mugabe had ruled Zimbabwe for th...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Patrick Imbayarwo
Leadership - the future of Zimbabwe!
Looking at the current Economic and political woes in the country, everyone is expecting the fall of Comrade R. G. Mugabe, the current President of Zimbabwe. President Mugabe had ruled Zi...Published: 29 Jul 2017 at 16:59hrs | | by Patrick Imbayarwo
Mugabe in 2018 election dilemma
As President Robert Mugabe prepares for the make-or-break elections next year, in which the opposition could contest as a coalition, the Zanu-PF leader faces a dilemma as to whether he should complete...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The creation of Zimbabwe's Frankenstein
It is a fact that the white ex-Rhodesians made Robert Mugabe. They created an environment that enabled bright kids like him to have a chance of a decent education. He received a government scholarship...Published: 24 May 2017 at 11:23hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mazenge
'Grand coalition rejected'
Only three out of 10 provinces in the country support the grand coalition being proposed by opposition parties, pointing to a monumental loss to Zanu-PF in the 2018 harmonised elections, a respected r...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rural dwellers to get free TV signal receivers
GOVERNMENT will distribute set top boxes free of charge to people in rural areas and charge a very minimal fee for urban folks upon finalisation of the digitalisation programme, a Cabinet Minister...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: the rise of the informal trader and a new political economy
The protest by Zimbabweans against police road blocks and banned imports highlights a new political economy that is rising on the back of informalisation of the economy, writes Professor Ian Scoones o...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 17:42hrs | 23 | by Ian Scoones
Game of numbers ahead of 2018 plebiscite
THE much-hyped Zanu-PF million-man march and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T)'s "red-sea" protests in Harare and Bulawayo have long come and gone.And so has the Zimbabwe P...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 08:59hrs | | by Njabulo Ncube
When extreme danger leads to denial
Many a writer has told of the Zimbabwean situation. While some would lament the journey we have travelled from 'bread basket' at Independence to 'basket case' thirty seven odd years later and give us ...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 16:01hrs | 1 | by Sakhile Dewa
Nkayi women venture into umsuzwane tea project
GENERATING an income is a nightmare for many people living in rural communities in Zimbabwe.But while many rural dwellers sit and complain about Zimbabwe's high unemployment rate, worsened by ...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:39hrs | | by Bianca Mlilo
Ambuya Bona was right, Mugabe should have remained a teacher!
When we were growing up in the 1980s, we were told that soon after Robert Mugabe was sworn in as independent Zimbabwe's first Prime Minister in 1980, his mother, Ambuya Bona - when asked how she felt ...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 07:42hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa's priorities
Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continentOn 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development age...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor
'Zimbabweans scared of Mugabe'
An overwhelming majority of Zimbabweans are terrified of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF's leadership and if elections are to be held today, the party will emphatically romp to victory, a survey p...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe could be an outright desert in just 35 years
Harare - There's a buzz in Zimbabwe's lush forests, home to many animal species, but it's not bees, bugs or other wildlife. It's the sound of a high-speed saw, slicing through the heart of these ancie...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 19:47hrs | | by Jeffrey Moyo
Bond coins, signs Zim dollar might return
POLICY and economic analyst Butler Tambo has said the introduction of bond coins by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last Thursday was a sign that the Zimbabwe dollar might be brought back withi...Published: 22 Dec 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MP arrested for importing over 800 radios in 2010
Former Deputy Local Government minister and MDC-T MP for Gweru, Sessil Zvidzai, has been arrested and formally charged for unlawfully importing over 800 wind-up radio stations in 2010. Today the M...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 20:32hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
We need more agribusiness in Africa
Africa's economic performance over the last decade has been remarkable, having reached an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate Africa's GDP should increase app...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 21:11hrs | 2 | by Carlos Lopes
Gendering Agriculture - Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a repo...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Succession battle looms in Mugabe's Zanu-PF
A victory for Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe's presidential elections this week would raise the prospect of him ruling well into his 90s, enflaming a succession battle that already quietly rages.Y...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 05:57hrs | 4 | by AFP
MDC-T stunned by the 'Change and 'New' Politics in Zim - Survey Report 2012'
The Movement for Democratic Change has been stunned the Freedom House survey ...Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 15:18hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Chombo embarrassed
Minister of Local Government Rural and Urban Development Ignatius Chombo was on Wednesday embarrassed by the Head of the Zimbabwe Office of the United Kingdom's Department for International Deve...Published: 27 Jun 2012 at 17:10hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mobile phones are getting smarter in rural Africa
Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and receive ...Published: 03 Apr 2012 at 21:35hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor I Africa Renewal
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