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Beyond the New my foot!
In the past few months, I took some time to reflect on the role of political parties - specifically political parties in Zimbabwe. I came to a simple conclusion - while political parties serve s...Published: 9 hrs ago | 555 | by Sam Wezhira
We were misled - Doctors
DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last week...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3565 | by Staff reporter
Residents plot to petition Parly over baboon menace
RESIDENTS of Kariba have threatened to approach Parliament to register their complaints over the increasing baboon population in the area saying the apes were now a menace, especially in the residenti...Published: 15 hrs ago | 651 | by Staff reporter
Price stability key to economic recovery
"A more efficient management system of scarce foreign exchange is key to price stabilisation and business growth."According to the "Transitional Stabilisation Programme" (TSP), the aspirations...Published: 15 hrs ago | 393 | by Vince Musewe
Situation in Zimbabwe hospitals a damning indictment on government
A signature characteristic of former President Robert Mugabe (pictured)'s administration was silence in the face of crippling crises. Zimbabweans, at the height of Mugabe's rule, had become resigned t...Published: 15 hrs ago | 155 | by Learnmore Zuze
Woman sues Minister for botched operation
A WOMAN whose daughter had her right arm amputated at Gwanda Provincial Hospital following a botched medical procedure is suing the hospital and the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah Moyo f...Published: 15 hrs ago | 311 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai to subside
Sunny breaks are expected countrywide today as the intensity of Tropical Cyclone Idai continues to decrease and weaken while the centre is now heading in a north-easterly direction towards the Malawia...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1567 | by Staff reporter
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1452 | by Reason Wafawarova
82 dead as cyclone toll doubles in Zimbabwe, more feared dead
TROPICAL cyclone Idai continued to wreak havoc in eastern Zimbabwe, with authorities announcing more than 82 bodies had been recovered as of late Sunday.Chimanimani and Chipinge districts sout...Published: 15 hrs ago | 4004 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF shadow MP comes to the rescue of Harare Hospital
The Southerton Constituency Development Trust has stepped up efforts to assist Harare Central Hospital on its water and food challenges. The trust's chairman, Andrew Makahamadze, who is also s...Published: 15 hrs ago | 316 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targeting to process FDI approvals in hours
The establishment of the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) will capacitate the country to process foreign direct investment (FDI) approvals within a day, Finance and Economic Developme...Published: 15 hrs ago | 130 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube wages war against surging inflation
Zimbabwe's annual inflation has risen to a 10-year high since hyperinflation, but month-on-month prices are beginning to drop as monetary reforms aimed at combating inflation, addressing foreign curre...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:08hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in the hands of dedicated patriots
For one to be a member of ZANU PF in good times and bad times we need to understand some fundamental issues that everyone who is a ZANU PF cadre should know and follow. We should zero in from the basi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1019 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe struggles despite huge forex inflows
ZIMBABWE is doing fairly well in terms of foreign currency earnings compared to countries such as Rwanda and Ethiopia yet the country is struggling to meet its forex obligations, a situation which has...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2721 | by Staff reporter
145 school girls in daring protest
Even calls to be wary of the ravaging Cyclone Idai, whose effects have since been felt in Mashonaland East, could not deter the 145 girls at Zimbabwe's top school, Monte Cassino High, from executing t...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1870 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages hit Zimbabwe's payment systems
ZIMBABWE'S payments ecosystem faces collapse as players in the sector are failing to pay licensed and maintenance fees to foreign service providers, Standardbusines has established.In recent w...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:46hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe is on the path to progress
Zimbabwe is on a journey of reform. Nobody ever said it wouldn't be a bumpy ride; but the most important thing is that the journey has begun, and we are heading in the right direction.The Tran...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:45hrs | 497 | by Mthuli Ncube
Govt seeks to increase Science teachers
THE Government has spent $3 million on Science and Mathematics teacher training in a bid to improve the quality of students that are churned out to teach the critical subjects.Mathematics and ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stitches strategic deals in UAE
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for talks with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Sultan Al Nahyan aimed at striking strategic mutually beneficial relations.The President is acc...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:37hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Internet key to economic development
IN the article, "The great transformer: The impact of the Internet on economic growth and prosperity" (2011) James Manyika and Charles Roxburgh seek to explain the influence of Information Communicati...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:36hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
RBZ, CZI push for interest on forex accounts
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and industry are currently engaging banks to offer interest on foreign currency deposits in order to attract more inflows, particularly those with a long-term tenure...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:33hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Loose lips can really sink ships
As Jesus liked his teachings in parables, the Bishop will continue to use intelligible riddles and anecdotes to help you understand the workings of the world, at least as how I understand them....Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:31hrs | 104 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa bullish on TelOne future prospects
The professionalism of TelOne's management, including their determined push to turnaround the State-owned enterprise (SOE), will likely be a drawcard for reputable technical partners or suitors, Presi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:30hrs | 173 | by Staff rpeorter
Strive Masiyiwa, US charity fight tropical diseases in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's billionaire Strive Masiyiwa and the US's End Fund are tackling neglected diseases that blind, disable and disfigure millions of Zimbabwe's poorest people, but many are shunning treatment du...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 15:56hrs | 1047 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF packs hundreds of people in goods train for Mnangagwa rally
Hundreds of people made it to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 'Thank You' rally in at Rutenga last Saturday aboard an old goods train in which the party's Chiredzi leadership had packed them to boost a...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:55hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
MPs are useless: Zivhu§
Chivi South Member of Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has disparaged the legislature, calling it a place where ‘useless noise' is made with no chance of the debates contributing to nation-building....Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:12hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai kills 24 people in Chimanimani East
Government has announced that the number of deaths due to Cyclone Idai is confirmed at 24 mainly from Chimanimani East.The Government through the Civil Protection Unit has informed citizens th...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 10:50hrs | 6456 | by Mandla Ndlovu
“Zanu PF has failed to provide health care, we must” – no, remove Zanu PF
The trouble with Zanu PF apologists like you Hopewell Chinono is that they are incapable of thinking logically. "Ultimately the responsibility for health care in Zimbabwe lies with the State, ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1983 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Deployment of Shona civil servants in Matabeleland condemned
The government of Zimbabwe is not doing the people of Matabeleland any favour by withdrawing Shona teachers it deployed in Bulawayo primary schools, this should not have happened in the first place. M...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:42hrs | 2697 | by Israel Dube
Cyclone Idai spreads into Zimbabwe
Tropical Cyclone Idai, which made landfall in Mozambique Thursday evening, has damaged property and crops in Manicaland Province, with more devastating effects feared when it intensifies and spreads t...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:07hrs | 2315 | by Staff reporter
Multi Choice dismisses shutdown rumours
MULTI Choice has dismissed a letter circulating on social media alleging that the satellite broadcaster will shut down all accounts outside South Africa, which are subscribed to in the neighbouring co...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:06hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
Boeing sucked into Zimbabwe Airways saga
The world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of aircraft and other equipment - Boeing - has been sucked into the Zimbabwe Airways saga where the son-in-law of former president Robert...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:02hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
All you need to know about Zimbabwe's new currency
Late in February, Zimbabwe introduced a new currency called the RTGS, or real-time gross settlement dollar, in the process abandoning its long held 1:1 parity between the US dollar and its local trans...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:30hrs | 3275 | by Atff reporter
When will Mnangagwa act on Zimbabwe's death trap hospitals?
She's being called the doctor who moved a nation. This week Azza Mashumba, the head of paediatrics at Harare's main-and-in-desperate-straits Parirenyatwa Hospital, made a tearful plea to the health mi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:14hrs | 1056 | by Oliver Matthews
Mangudya forecasts RTGS$ equilibrium with US dollar
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya forecasts an exchange rate equilibrium between the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollar and the United States dollar on the inter-bank trading...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:17hrs | 6535 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa extends US$3,2bn begging bowl
ZIMBABWE - with 7,5 million people or half the population in need of food aid - is appealing for US$3,2 billion emergency assistance to avert a humanitarian crisis characterised by hunger and a crumbl...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's PR bid a futile exercise, say analysts
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to employ a public relations consultancy firm to lobby for the scrapping of United States sanctions is futile as the real solution lies in imp...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diamonds to be classified as conflict gems?
THE 69th plenary meeting of the United Nations (UN) has resolved to include a discussion on whether Zimbabwean diamonds should be classified as conflict gems during the inter-governmental organisation...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
'80% of Bulawayo men who patronise bars and the red light districts are gay'
CALL it double dipping!Panic has gripped the Bulawayo community after shocking and controversial statistics revealed that 80 percent of Bulawayo men that patronise bars and the red light distr...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:39hrs | 4495 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army put on standby
Government has announced that through the Civil Protection Unit it has triggered its disaster management systems which involves armed forces, Airforce, ZRP sub acqua units, partners such International...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:31hrs | 9317 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Open letter to the Honourable Minister Professor Amon Murwira
Honorable Minister Professor Amon Murwira, I humble submit, now maybe the right time for your Ministry to sponsor a true Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) bill through Parliament, which when it...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 08:55hrs | 1387 | by Enock Jonathan
Parly won't prejudice MPs on vehicles
Parliament will not discriminate between Members of Parliament who hold positions in the August House and those who do not, in the allocation of resources meant for their car scheme. Respondin...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:24hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Govt suspends 'illegal' NGO
GOVERNMENT has suspended the operations of Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (Cotrad), an independent youth-oriented non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Masvingo.Acco...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
Forcing countries to pay debt in currency it denies them - that's the US!
ONE thing for sure is that Zimbabwe is not short of real original thinking to counter the West's capture of some Zimbabwean minds.Because of donor funding, too many politicians (naturally more...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | 641 | by Conway Tutani
Bosso players get paid 1 month salary instead of 2 months, stalemate continues
THE stalemate between Highlanders Football Club senior players and their employer is still unresolved after some of the players received only a month's salary, instead of the two months that they were...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:01hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Paynet Zimbabwe services go offline
BUSINESS has been affected after Paynet Zimbabwe services went offline, cutting off local banks following failure to pay external licence fees. Paynet is the electronic payments processing sys...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:56hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Non-performing parastatals warned
President Mnangagwa has warned parastatals that continue to under-perform despite Government support saying days of perennial poor performances and failure to complete projects they would have embarke...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:55hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Zesa tariffs hike story fake
GOVERNMENT has dismissed as false, reports circulating on social media suggesting that electricity tariffs for prepaid meters will go up by 150 percent with effect from today. In an interview ...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai hits Zimbabwe
THE eastern parts of the country should expect rainfall and windy conditions with effect from today as Cyclone Idai hits the country, the Meteorological Services Department, said yesterday. In a...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:52hrs | 2561 | by Staff reporter
State goes after Kasukuwere's leisure home
The prosecution is seeking to forfeit former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's upmarket leisure home in Nyanga after he failed to appear in court for trial. He was issued with an arrest wa...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:51hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
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