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Chamisa impoverishing MDC members on the altar of political correctness
A "RATIONAL economic" Zanu-PF has been masterminding massive wealth transfers to their enlightened members since 2000. The ruling party members are winning on the economic front by creating wealth whi...Published: 2 hrs ago | 232 | by Brian Sedze
Chinamasa warns opposition
ZANU-PF says political parties that are shunning President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dialogue overtures and preferring violent confrontations will be dealt with by the law.This comes as MDC Allianc...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:17hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri's case (an analysis)
Prophet Bushiri was right to flee persecution from South Africa. From what I gathered, there is an impending danger to his life and that of his family(, wife and children). lf one is facing such probl...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:40hrs | 3921 | by Njabulo
Zimbabwe, Russia sign extraordinary treaty
THE government has gazetted an extradition treaty it signed with Russia last year to allow the two countries to bring back criminals to face justice in their respective jurisdictions.According...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Terrorist threat to region - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
President Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will help Mozambique in its struggle against Islamic terrorists in the north of the country. The Mozambiquan government has appealed for international assistance ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1889 | by ZimVigil
'Mugabe tactics replicated by Trump'
JOURNALISTS in the United States yesterday accused their President Donald Trump of emulating Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe in refusing to concede electoral defeat.The US went to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2473 | by Staff reporter
Nigerian billionaire to mine Platinum in Zimbabwe
Bravura Holdings Ltd., owned by Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters, has $1 billion available for the development of a platinum mine in Zimbabwe, its country manager said.The 3,000 hectare (7...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 700 | by Bloomberg
Type 2 diamonds to anchor Zimbabwe's US$12 billion industry
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would anchor its US$12 billion mining industry economy on a rare and more expensive type two diamond set to be mined in its Malipati Diamond Projects in Matabeleland South...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
African leaders now smell like goats!
The Lord really works in mysterious ways.It has come full circle for Evo Morales.The former president of the South American country of Bolivia will be returning home on Wednesday this ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
'The corrupt will be arrested. No one is above the law!' twittered ED - What law! Scrapped laws to legitimise corruption
"The achievements scored so far by President Emerson Mnangagwa's New Dispensation have raised a ray of hope that Vision 2030 is indeed possible, more so if unity of purpose prevails in the country," c...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1198 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa shops for military technology, hardware in Belarus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Belarus last year, which was highly publicised as a strategic state visit to seal deals worth US$350 million spanning across various productive sectors of the e...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
Zim sanctions a CIA regime change agenda project
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are a CIA regime change agenda project being spearheaded by the African-American USA Ambassador to Harare, Brian Nichols, with the assistance of his MDC-Alliance runn...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 1609 | by David Mwanza
Russia backs Zimbabwe
THE Russian Federation will continue standing by Zimbabwe and assist in overcoming the "pernicious" effects of the illegal economic sanctions that were imposed by the West. This follows the su...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Africa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted SADC, the African Union and the world at large for standing by Zimbabwe in calling for the unconditional removal of the Western imposed illegal economic sanctions...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:03hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions meant to weaken Zimbabwe
ILLEGAL economic sanctions unilaterally imposed on Zimbabwe by Western nations are motivated by a desire to slowly weaken the nation, leaving the country vulnerable to poverty, droughts and epidemics ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Kangaroo courts for a gangster regime - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zanu PF has never quite got the hang of the rule of law. It believes the law is what the party says it is: after all, the party is the ruler. This is not surprising. It is a widely-held view in many c...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 08:15hrs | 3291 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa's false claim exposed
ON October 7, The Herald reported that President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the World Health Organisation (WHO) had raked Zimbabwe "among countries that instituted better mitigatory measures against the ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2789 | by Staff reporter
Zipra combatants cry foul
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) veterans have accused the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government of leaving them out on planned new liberation fighters' benefits.This comes a...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:51hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe cops throw teargas into a bus
PASSENGERS, among them elderly women and children were Monday forced to scramble out of a fully loaded 75-seater bus at a Harare Showgrounds bus stop after a female police officer discharged a tearsmo...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | 3567 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi tests positive for Covid-19
SOUTH AFRICA-based Warriors forward Kuda Mahachi has become the first Zimbabwean footballer to test positive for the novel coronavirus. Mahachi had the tests on Thursday after receiving a late...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 564 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Putin sends special message to Mnangagwa
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to President Mnangagwa with the aim of entrenching existing excellent bilateral relations and establishing new economic interchange between the two ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2650 | by Staff reporter
'Sad day for democracy'
LAWYERS, political analysts and opposition party leaders yesterday described the swearing in of opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees as replacements for the recalled MDC A...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:56hrs | 3773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwelivesmatter, says Mnangagwa
THE lives of Zimbabweans matter more than the economy which is why the Second Republic put in place measures that have seen the country managing to ensure that Covid-19 infections do not spiral out of...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
Impala approached over stake in giant Zimbabwe platinum project
The owners of a Russian-backed project to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine have held talks to sell a stake of at least 20% to Impala Platinum Holdings, according to people familiar with the matt...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes citizens, corporates
President Mnangagwa has expressed gratitude to Zimbabweans and those in the Diaspora for collaborating in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen the country being ranked among countri...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:49hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rules out de-dollarisation
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube says that Zimbabwe is beginning to engage multilateral creditors, with a view of clearing its US$1.8 billion arrears, which will see the country unlock fresh funding to a...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 7060 | by Staff reporter
Israel talks Zimbabwe up over diamonds
THE Israeli government is in talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to directly buy Zimbabwean diamonds as relations between the two countries continue to warm up after several years...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | 11971 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe keeps borders closed, but opens its airports to visitors
Zimbabwe re-opened its borders to air travellers on Thursday, but officials said borders would remain closed.Zimbabwe imposed a national lockdown at the end of March to curb the spread of the ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 09:09hrs | 3266 | by Staff reporter
World lithium deficit a boon for Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is among major lithium producers that may draw significant benefits from firm global prices and high demand for the precious mineral due to expected supply deficit projected to start in two y...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:13hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get bus assembly plant
Zimbabwe, through a joint venture cooperation with Belarus, will soon set up a vehicle assembly plant for the production of buses suitable for the local terrain, a move that dovetails into President M...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:12hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Russian plan to dig biggest Zimbabwe platinum mine advances
A project that aims to develop Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine has cleared a significant hurdle, with the African Export-Import Bank completing a due diligence study allowing it to proceed with a $50...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Diaspora districts galvanise party
Zanu-PF'S Diaspora districts have started enhancing collaboration as they work together to share strategies of strengthening the revolutionary party's footprint outside Zimbabwe.This comes as ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes sanctions fight to UN
Zimbabwe will next week use the opening of the 75th session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), that will be held virtually because of Covid-19, to reiterate its call for the unconditional remo...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 50% bread price increase with immediate effect
The Government has issued a cabinet directive instructing GMB to raise the wheat producer price. Wheat was currently at 14 125 ZWL per tonne pegged at 180USD per tonne, the commodity has gone up to 53...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 20:02hrs | 16363 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'As we move forward, let's transform our work ethics' argue Chiwenga - until end vote rigging culture, going nowhere
"As we move forward and face the future with courage, the expectation of government is that the work ethics and work culture within the Ministry of Health and Child Care undergo deep transformation," ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2081 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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 | 3532 | by Staff reporter
US media has become the true opposition
LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:59hrs | 865 | by Ken Mufuka
Ramaphosa: Quiet diplomacy 2.0
ZIMBABWE is in turmoil. It is facing the twin political and economic challenges again. Political tensions are high and activists are paying the price. Inflation, while now a bit stagnant, but it is ab...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1264 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
NRZ slapped with US$236m lawsuit
DIASPORA and Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) is demanding US$236 million from the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) as compensation after cabinet controversially terminated the consortium's ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Cyberspace new frontier for US regime change agenda
Just a few days ago, while receiving a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the Chinese government, President Mnangagwa pointed out that Zimbabwe was reeling under a sustained cyber-at...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:01hrs | 279 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mercato: These nuggets to follow up!
In a context dominated by the health crisis, the 2020-2021 summer transfer mercato has still much to say about it. While the opening and closing dates of the major championships diverge, only one real...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:04hrs | 105 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 531 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
'Anjin corruption and meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs are not China's foreign policy' - nonsense, they are the core pillars
China and Russia are the two countries that have played a major role in many African countries' fight for independence. It is a historic fact that most of these African countries have since found that...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:28hrs | 1966 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe needs to stop justifying repression
ON August 14, 2020,Southern Africa Development Community's organ on politics, defence and security co-operation's virtual meeting was an eyeopener, and had one major takeaway for the people of Zimbabw...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 21:35hrs | 185 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tall tales of an evil regime in Harare
Life is a tapestry that is woven out of various religious, political, cultural and normative beliefs and persuasions.As is often clichéd, variety is a major spice that leavens and livens life...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
US sees embarrassing UN defeat over Iran arms embargo proposal
The US has suffered a humiliating defeat at the United Nations as its proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran won support from only the Dominican Republic at the security council vote.The U...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 21:24hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe only country in SADC hallucinating about 'asymmetric warfare' and 'dark forces', and should stop justifying repression
Yesterday's (14 August 2020) Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation virtual meeting was an eye-opener, and had one major takeaway for the peop...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1879 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim youth most affected by outbreak of Covid-19
The Zimbabwean youth are the most affected by the outbreak of coronavirus considering the high unemployment rate and implementation of lockdowns which have crippled their self-employment projects at l...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 07:31hrs | 450 | by Stephen Jakes
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