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Bulawayo Bomber's plans ruined
FORMER World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa heavyweight champion Elvis Moyo has set-up a makeshift gym in his backyard where he is training with his 16-year-old son Craig, in South Africa during the c...Published: 3 hrs ago | 109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 277 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
WATCH: Russian biodefense troops disinfect nursing home in coronavirus-hit Italy
Experts from Moscow's biodefense unit have been deployed at the epicenter of the deadly Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, tasked with disinfecting a nursing home where patients died amid the coronavir...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:22hrs | 1859 | by Staf reporter
Impact of COVID 19 on Zimbabwean Economy
The outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to the world economy and to Zimbabwe's fragile economy too. So far the virus has infected close to 470 000 people from 200 ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:08hrs | 818 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5387 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper. Once again, I should reiterate the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo's profound role to my political path and wh...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:32hrs | 327 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
US$5 for a mask in Zimbabwe
IN Italy, it is not illegal drug traffickers that the police are after anymore, but pushers of masks and sanitisers.Could Zimbabwe find itself in a similar situation?A survey by this p...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:29hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Perrence Shiri just resign, you are a sellout: period
Let me take this opportunity to advise you Perrence Shiri the Women's University educated graduate, that when it comes to law the devil is in the detail, its you who has gone rogue , anti revolutionar...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 17:00hrs | 6030 | by Peter Moyo
Zimbabwe National Army to counter modern threats
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) will continue to invest in training programmes for its personnel to enable them to effectively counter modern threats, a senior officer said yesterday. Officia...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu flows into the market
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries has expressed satisfaction on the performance of its two re-launched non-alcoholic and alcoholic prod...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:23hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military's cyber intrusion uncivilised
THE Zimbabwe National Army commander Edzai Chimonyo was quoted this week as saying the military would soon start snooping into private communications between citizens to guard against what he termed "...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 848 | by Faith Zaba
Zimbabwe needs to adopt a rights-based approach in regulation of internet
Zimbabwe has been in the process of aligning its laws with the 2013 constitution, resulting in the unbundling in 2019 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa) through the gaz...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 231 | by Misa Zimbabwe.
Stanley Square in state of disrepair
STANLEY Square, one of the institutions associated with the nascent stage of the country's liberation movement, in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb is in a serious state of disrepair in sharp contrast to it...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
'Workers fed up with govt looters'
WORKERS in Bulawayo have said they are fed up with unfulfilled promises by government officials who are living large, while they live in misery and watch their children's future being destroyed....Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:47hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Unbelievable reality
Secret money printing by the government, subsidized grocery shops set up in military barracks and a quarter of a million US dollars handed over in cash to Mnangagwa's daughter – just some of the sto...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1744 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa's favourite soccer teams
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa revealed he supports FC Platinum and English Premiership giants Chelsea. The President is the patron of FC Platinum, his hometown side, which made history when they became ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt mortgage land in return of busses
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government is planning to mortgage 10 000 hectares of prime horticultural land to the Belarusian government in return for buses to be used for low-cost public transport, it ...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:28hrs | 728 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa returns to White City Stadium
President Emmerson Mnangagwa returns to the White City Stadium in Bulawayo, April, to officiate in the Independence Day celebrations, almost two years after he survived a bomb blast that killed three ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:58hrs | 2771 | by Staff reporter
21st century mindset required to solve Zimbabwe challenges of the future
Our country seem be designing and implementing the economic strategy in a manner that Douglas Alexander described as "a fundamental error of what makes success in the 21st century".There are t...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 132 | by Brian Sedze
Russians to build US$1,5 billion fuel pipeline in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has roped in the Russian government to fund the construction of a second fuel pipeline worth US$1,5 billion, in a deal that will see three other ...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 07:04hrs | 13618 | by Paul Ndou
100 wagons boost for NRZ from Russia
The resuscitation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe received a major boost yesterday after Government guaranteed the payment of the initial US$1,5 million required to facilitate the delivery of 100...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
NRZ resuscitation on course
A delegation from the United Wagon Company of Russia today met Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as efforts to resuscitate the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) gathers pace.The Russian co...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:30hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Germany fight Bulawayo Bomber's big break
RENOWNED Bulawayo boxing trainer Philip "Striker" Ndlovu believes next month's bill for South Africa-based Zimbabwean pugilist Elvis Moyo in Germany is an opportunity for him to break into the elite i...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally wants Chinese nationals barred from entering Zimbabwe
MDC Parliamentary Chief Whip, Prosper Mutseyami has questioned why the government is still allowing visitors from China to enter Zimbabwe in light of the calamitous coronavirus outbreak, which has kil...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2271 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa blundered by jumping into AfCFTA deep end
THE urge to be a member of a group is strong for some people, even if they are not suitable or ready for the membership. Zimbabwe, despite its struggling economy, has committed itself to join the Afri...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3489 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
MDC's night of long knives in Masvingo
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa, has with immediate effect dissolved the MDC Masvingo Provincial Executive as fissures in the party continue to worsen, Harare Post can r...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Bomber for prepares for maiden Germany fight
UKRAINE-born heavyweight pugilist Oleksandr Zakhozhyi has challenged South Africa-based Zimbabwe heavyweight boxer Elvis Moyo to a non-title fight to be held in Germany on March 28. The organi...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:33hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Trump proposes 21% cut in US foreign aid in budget proposal
President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in US foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Rus...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:26hrs | 141 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa must stop imitating Mugabe's style
Award winning author Petina Gappah, who is also a former advisor in the Office of the President and Cabinet, believes that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must step out of late president Robert Mugabe's ...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2440 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's apocalyptic end as Zimbabwe President
BERLIN - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly going to be viciously toppled from power in a catastrophic manner, that will include a combination of mass civil revolts and militia-like insurrect...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 22859 | by Itai Mushekwe
The regime is alien to transparency, accountability
THE ruling Zanu-PF party members have been giving Zimbabweans comic relief in the past few months, making the right noises about transparency and accountability in government and the economy, but ques...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 300 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa's 'step-child' dilemma
Last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa penned an opinion reflecting on his two-year rule since taking over from his long-time ally and mentor turned foe, the late former President Robert Mugabe in a ...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 4155 | by Everson Mushava
Mthuli Ncube uses Davos to push investment agenda
Zimbabwe continues to use opportunities of the annual gathering of business, political, academic and other leaders in the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland to sell the country as an investm...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
I fall in love with Eric Muzamhindo's article
I like what the so called Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes.Muzamhindo, in his article says, "Opposition must be careful otherwise 2023 will be a disaster Opposition has numbers, but you...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 12:06hrs | 509 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
War vets blast Mnangagwa's govt over sanctions
WAR veterans on Friday blasted government for failing to effectively bust sanctions as the Rhodesian government did during the 1970s when it was slapped with economic sanctions for human rights abuses...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:23hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Shunned by the West and China, Zimbabwe turns to U.A.E.
Sanctioned by the West and spurned by China, Zimbabwe has turned to the United Arab Emirates in its latest bid to find a savior that can arrest the collapse of its economy.Zimbabwe's governmen...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:23hrs | 851 | by Bloomberg
'RBZ losing parallel market fight'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s fight to curb distortions in the parallel market is losing momentum due to its failure to apprehend and deal decisively with the culprits amid fears of political i...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:16hrs | 4938 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt playing Russian roulette with lives
REVELATIONS government appears to have done precious little to secure enough grain to feed more than half of the country's population facing famine are not only disturbing, but quite shocking, to say ...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:51hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Sports casters wary of Zimbabwe's World Cup draw
Some of Zimbabwe's local sports casters are not confident enough that Zimbabwe will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Qatar.This follows CAF's Tuesday announcement whic...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 17:32hrs | 1762 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe warriors grouped with Bafana Bafana in World Cup qualifier
TWENTY years after their battle ended in mayhem at the National Sports Stadium, claiming 13 lives of Zimbabwean football fans in a stampede, the Warriors and Bafana Bafana will again clash in a World ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Changing labels of Empty Bottle - Zimbabwe
(This article was first published in Newsday in November 2014, titled There's Victory in Losing. This piece was centred on Pres R Mugabe and pointed on the point that...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 15:11hrs | 4501 | by Terence T Simbi
Russian-made fighter jets for Zimbabwe's military
ZIMBABWE is on the verge of replacing its antiquated military helicopters with Russian-made fighter jets, among other armaments, in a deal that has seen Harare mortgaging part of its vast mineral weal...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
China snubs Mnangagwa bailout request
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's desperate attempts to secure a financial rescue package from China were once again flatly rebuffed after Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi emphasised during his visit thi...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2803 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's strange dream on a cold night
Zimbabweans never cease to amaze me. They have a penchant to blow their own trumpet (kuzvifonera) at every opportunity, but nature has its own humbling ways. Examples abound of people swaggering and b...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:03hrs | 698 | by Cliff Chiduku
Russian PM and government resign after Putin speech
MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that his government was resigning to give President Vladimir Putin room to carry out the changes he wants to make to the constitution....Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 15:59hrs | 6287 | by Staff Reporter
Guns before food
With millions of Zimbabweans facing starvation, hospitals and schools collapsing in the rubble of the economy and civil servants rejecting a 98% pay rise as inadequate, President Mnangagwa is reported...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 20:32hrs | 4601 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mane bags African Player of the Year Award
The 28th edition of the 2019 CAF Awards which were held yesterday at the Albatros Citadel Sahl Hasheesh Resort, saw Senegalese and Liverpool forward, Sadio Mane walking away with the African Player of...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1750 | by Daniel Itai, Hurghada, Egypt
US kills top Iran general, the world reacts
The world has reacted with alarm yesterday after top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike in Iraq, with leaders appealing for restraint. US President Donald Trump's Republicans ...Published: 03 Jan 2020 at 23:25hrs | 5624 | by AP
Heard of Government Organised NGO (GONGO), in POLAD have Zanu PF organised opposition (Zoo)
After 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with the economy in ruins, millions of our people now living in abject poverty and, worst of all, the plungi...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1307 | by Nomusa Garikai
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