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Will Zimbabweans survive South Africa's anti-immigrant drive?
South Africa's strong and extensive ties with Zimbabwe are buckling under the strain of COVID-19 economic challenges and migration. The nearly 500 undocumented migrants arrested on a daily basis tryin...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1503 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 221 | by Leonard Koni
Exchange control regulations and export growth
The monetary policy committee for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued a circular with changes to export surrender requirements on the 7th of January 2021. The changes include immediately removin...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:30hrs | 104 | by Victor Bhoroma
'No permanent friends but interests' Zim-China relation expedition
Late 2020 China and Zimbabwe launched 5 year policies towards the realization of vision 2030, sustainable development goals. Zimbabwe being an ally to China, one can question if this was due to diplom...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:28hrs | 191 | by Theophelous Fifteen
Dialogue could have averted COVID-19 Beitbridge border chaos
The festive season was marked by dramatic scenes of tens of thousands of people amassing at border posts between South Africa and its neighbours where procedures had slowed down due to COVI D-19 restr...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | 697 | by Lies! Louw-Vaudran and Ringisai Chikohomero
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:12hrs | 450 | by Leonard Koni
Why movement to restore American democracy is needed
Wildlife-rich and climate change-vulnerable Sub-Saharan Africa has been following the political events unfolding in the United States with great interest. What happens in America still has worldwide c...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 371 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe braces for locusts threat
Resources have been mobilised to minimise the effects of any invasion of the African migratory locust from Botswana and Namibia where outbreaks have been reported. Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head o...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:46hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 806 | by Ben Freeth
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 560 | by Stembile Mpofu
MDC Alliance call for 'streetifying people's anger' - real change will come from implementing reforms
"It is Zanu-PF itself that has become a super-spreader of perfidy and unbridled falsehoods as exemplified by its statements alleging growth in the country's economy and the cheap allegation that victi...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:50hrs | 1616 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Met Dept warns of '7-day destructive rains'
THE Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has predicted heavy and destructive rains for a seven-day period across the country until Wednesday. The rains started on Thursday spreading across ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 2983 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1263 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Zimbabwe prisons a death trap, says EU
THE European Union has raised a red flag over the continued incarceration of journalists and opposition leaders in Zimbabwe, as well as the poor state of the country's prisons which it described as de...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
SA MPs call for one-stop border concept at Beitbridge
A call for full implementation of the one-stop-border post concept at Beitbridge is seen as a solution to the perennial congestion challenges that take place there, South Africa's Parliamentary Portfo...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activists' arrests 'ploy for sanctions renewal'?
Recent allegations of targeted arrests and human rights abuses in the country have been described as a ploy by opposition linked political activists to influence the outcome of a sanctions review proc...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:12hrs | 1535 | by Staff reporter
Malema urges Zimbabweans to find 'creative' ways to enter SA
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has criticised the closure, this week, of South Africa's borders including the Beitbridge Border Post saying the decision was self-hate.The...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 16:20hrs | 4690 | by Staff reporter
Judgment: Zimbabwean farmers Luke Tembani and 24 others v the President of the Republic of South Africa and others
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgment in a R2-billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, a...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:20hrs | 2086 | by Agencies
More floods predicted
THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) is on standby for evacuations in flood prone areas of the country after the Meteorological Service Department (MSD) warned that tropical cyclones and serious floods rem...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa made a mistake by closing the borders'
Wits University's Health and Social Security Sytems specialist, Professor, Alex van den Heever, has slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa for having closed all the land borders on Monday evening.A...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:00hrs | 4488 | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa
Mwonzora to be 'biggest opposition by 2023' - and perpetuate rigged elections, deplorable lack of imagination
The trouble with Zimbabweans is they have no clue what constitutes a competent leader and it is little wonder the nation has blundered from pillar to post, the blind leading the blind into the ditch. ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:17hrs | 1365 | by Nomusa Garikai
Another MDC leader arrested as fight for 'headlines' hots up - all deserted fight for reforms
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched by Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends in 1999 to answer the nation's cry for democratic changes as the only way to end the de facto one party, Zanu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:16hrs | 990 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mwonzora takes over from Khupe as leader of opposition
MDC-T's newly elected president, Mr Douglas Mwonzora, is set to assume the role of Leader of Opposition in Parliament and is expected to make changes to the structures controlled by the opposition in ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
SA MPs to visit Beitbridge, Mozambique borders
South Africa's Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs is this week scheduled to visit Beitbridge and Lebombo border posts to assess progress on the alleviation of challenges that led to del...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under fire over misplaced priorities
ANALYSTS yesterday accused the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration of misplaced priorities and dismally failing to prepare the country for the second wave of COVID-19 which has claimed 483...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:03hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Traffic flow normalising at Beitbridge border
Traffic flow is normalising at the Beitbridge Border Post following weeks of heavy congestion, even described by some as a humanitarian crisis.In the past month, tens of thousands of traveller...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 19:43hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe journalists dogged by poor wages, harassment
Poor wages, a devalued currency, and intimidation are haunting journalists in the southern African country of Zimbabwe.With over a decade of experience as a freelance journalist under his belt...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 18:24hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has no strategy beyond lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has no comprehensive Covid-19 plan beyond the strict 30-day lockdown triggered by a recent spike in cases, spelling trouble in the health sector for his broke...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:38hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
South Africa urges Zimbabweans to self-quarantine
SOUTH Africa's Department of Health in Limpopo Province has urged cross-border travellers who used the Beitbridge Port of Entry to access the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe in the last four days to...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Stock Exchange faces major hurdles
THE Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) faces major hurdles going into the New Year with broad macro-economic challenges that are engulfing the economy affecting the bourse.A subsidiary of th...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
One-stop border post could address Beitbridge chaos
Long delays recently resurfaced at Beitbridge Border Post, with travellers spending close to three days to access either South Africa or Zimbabwe. Among other factors, a bad work attitude amon...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:27hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns detractors
ZANU-PF has warned some critics to stop lecturing the country's leadership on implementing Covid-19 lockdown measures. Self-exiled G-40 members have on a number of occasions attacked the rulin...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:25hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Deepening economic and political crisis pushing Zimbabweans out of the country
The year has started at a very sad note with Zimbabwe going for strict lockdown restrictions deliberately ignoring and not putting into consideration the 80% informally employed people.T...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 20:25hrs | 1257 | by Leonard Koni
Sophie Mokoena accused of creating fake and negative stories to tarnish the image of Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF has dismissed claims in sections of the South African media that Zimbabwean authorities are responsible for the congestion at Beitbridge Border Post, saying some media personnel appear to be d...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance remains a cry baby
Whenever die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was hell manifesting, except that this time it is a braai not hell. It is common cause that the victims of Tho...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1680 | by Robert Sigauke
'Humanitarian crisis' at SA's border posts
Long queues and desperate attempts to enter South Africa have placed a huge strain on the country's border posts with neighbouring countries.And, while acknowledging that a "humanitarian crisi...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 15:59hrs | 2577 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's leave, a pitstop to nowhere
Now that we have seen the edited versions of people's lives across social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during Christmas and New Year festivities, its back to the basics, the da...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 10:21hrs | 1795 | by Josiah Mucharowana
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 200 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu PF demand MDC apology for asking for sanctions - privilege, is one adversary of imagination
"We have an opposition that asked for sanctions, an opposition which has been cohabiting with countries that seek to undermine our development trajectory," said Patrick Chinamasa, Zanu PF acting spoke...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 09:30hrs | 1143 | by Nomusa Garikai
US admits Zimbabwe regime change plot
THE United States has unwittingly admitted its hidden hand in regime change efforts in Zimbabwe after its Congress expressed frustrations on continued financial support to political activities, saying...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court decision leaves MDC-T in disarray
THE MDC held a bruising conference to choose a new leader in December and it has resulted in a legal battle. The MDC's Thokozani Khupe ran to be the party's leader against Douglas Mwonzora. She lost t...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:27hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Songstress, Congress, Compress not Oppress
Whenever the die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was gehena manifesting, except that this it is a braai not gehena. It is common cause that the victims of Khupe's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:19hrs | 652 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa appeals for divine help against new COVID-19 strain
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed for divine intervention to protect the country against a new COVID-19 strain that has been confirmed in some countries, including neighbouring South Afr...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1415 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa humbles at thanksgiving prayer
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday joined a national thanksgiving prayer and implored churches to embrace Government's economic development agenda, saying synergies between them and the State must flourish...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:17hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa - 20 years of posturing, it is reforms Mnangagwa fears
"MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation n...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 00:07hrs | 1250 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Unchecked Xenophobia in SA to cause Civil Unrest Domino Effect in the Region
"As a young opposition party leader in Zimbabwe, I'm deeply concerned about the security of Zimbabwean lives and property in South Africa as fresh xenophobic attacks take centre stage during this toug...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1645 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will win 2023 because opposition lacks unity' - nonsense, unity will never ever supplant competence
"Opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume sees a bleak future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe, and has resigned to the fact that the ruling Zanu-PF will win again in the 2023 elections," reported Zi...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 08:57hrs | 970 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe unveils US$8 billion industrialisation plan
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister, Sekai Nzenza, has unveiled a massive industrialisation plan which seeks to transform Zimbabwe's 94 manufacturing and commercial sub-sectors into a mouthwatering US$8 bi...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 16:58hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
23 Injured as Zimbabwe bound bus overturns in SA
Twenty-three people believed to be Zimbabwean nationals were injured when an Impala Tours bus they were travelling in overturned a few kilometres after passing Makhado town on Monday evening. ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam water levels improve
Water levels are rising early in Lake Kariba as runoff from nearby areas starts flowing in and the first signs are seen of greater inflows from the upper catchment, allowing zesa to increase significa...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
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