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World Parliamentarians meet to discuss Zimbabwe's Jacob Mudenda case
Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) convened a zoom meeting to discuss a matter regarding the conduct of Speaker Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda.Journalist Simba Chikanza who has ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 4203 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa says 'Africa must pursue economic integration'
President Mnangagwa has challenged Africa to pursue the vision of the founding fathers and promote economic integration and sustainable development for the continent. In his address to the nat...Published: 14 hrs ago | 138 | by Staff reporter
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 864 | by Tawanda Majoni
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 223 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Are the West suckers for cheap propaganda?
ONE question that people who accuse the Government of Zimbabwe of complicity in the alleged abduction and torture of citizens have not attempted to answer is: For what benefit?What does the Go...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 230 | by Nick Mangwana
Celebrating an auspicious Day
TOMORROW is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent's calendar.On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Add...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 133 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (II)
IT is important to analyse why Zimbabwe was successful in the first two decades of Independence, and became a failure in the second two decades. One fundamental reason is that the whole nation was uni...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 899 | by Fay Chung
2 Zimbabwean banks removed from sanctions list
Agribank and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) have now been fully removed from the US sanctions list, the American Department of the Treasury has announced, allowing them to do i...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF denies distributing free food to Zimbabweans
ZANU PF has dismissed a letter circulating on social media that says the party will be engaging in nationwide distribution of food parcels to Zimbabweans that are suffering during the indefinite lockd...Published: 17 May 2020 at 13:34hrs | 2222 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Government accuses European Union of being behind MDC abductions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has accused the European Union Delegation to Zimbabwe and its Ambassador Timo Olkkonen of being behind what they call stage-managed abductions in Zimbabwe....Published: 15 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 3755 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Time to hold MDC leaders to account
IT was in 2000 when I had just begun my "A" level studies at Rupare High school in Bikita, Masvingo.We were going towards the 2000 parliamentary election. Zanu-PF had just lost a constitutiona...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2645 | by Moses Tofa
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (I)
A NEW Zimbabwe is struggling to be born. Up till now, Zimbabwe has still been living with the visions of the 1950s and 1960s, tempered by the visions of the liberation struggle of the mid-1960s and 19...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 390 | by Fay Chung
EU refuses to fund Mnangagwa's administration
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out prospects of providing budgetary support to the broke Zimbabwean government, citing "massive misuse" of public funds as exposed by various audits and the failure ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 2175 | by Staff reporter
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 875 | by Cliff Chiduku
Chamisa should take some life and death lessons from Sudan ...Zimbabweans should brace for sleepless and massive demostrations
A year ago, protests triggered by a deepening economic crisis broke out in the Sudanese town of Atbara and quickly swept across the country. Four months later, the persistent demonstrations would lead...Published: 13 May 2020 at 11:55hrs | 2550 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mnangagwa meets Chinese health experts
The team of 12 Chinese medical experts in Zimbabwe to share knowledge and experiences in the fight against Covid-19 yesterday met President Mnangagwa at State House, where Zimbabwe's commitment to dee...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:24hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
America to put Kuda Tagwirei on sanctions list?
Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says the American government is in the process of reviewing the Zimbabwe sanctions list by adding a network of criminals who are looting public funds. ...Published: 12 May 2020 at 15:24hrs | 3135 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe under EU financial crime spotlight
ZIMBABWE is among 12 countries put under the spotlight by the European Union because it has deficiencies under its Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures....Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Change is nigh, says Mnangagwa's adviser
SHINGI Munyeza, a member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisory council yesterday delivered a hard-hitting sermon on his social media platforms, warning that God was about to effect changes "to fr...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 4145 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's suicidal response to internal storms
Following the March 31, 2019, Supreme Court ruling which declared that the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa's ascension to the leadership of that party in 2018 was unprocedural, there has been turmoil in th...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2002 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC: Imperial project failing to grow from student activism
Developments in the country's opposition MDC Alliance outfit are symptomatic of a deep leadership malaise whose roots can be traced to the birth of the then MDC. The leadership wrangles are al...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 393 | by Ranga Mataire
Botswana, Zimbabwe relations are an embarrassment
AT least 1 300 Zimbabweans living in Botswana have been expelled from Botswana following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Last week Vice-President Kembo Mohadi went on a tour of Plumtree bord...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 31924 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mthuli Ncube thoroughly disgraced himself!
No man intentionally disgraces himself. But brother Mthuli Ncube should have known the possible risk, and the possibility of being thoroughly disgraced if such confidential communication was broadcast...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 4493 | by Ken Mufuka
'Khupe to withdraw from Polad'
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has to withdraw her membership to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) as she has not been given the mandate by the party, national chairperson...Published: 08 May 2020 at 17:49hrs | 8778 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa holds online meeting with Ramaphosa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, on Friday, held a follow-up Virtual Summit of Select SADC countries, chaired by South Africa's President Ramaphosa. According to Presidential Spokesperson George ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 11:28hrs | 6349 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US tightens screws on World Bank's US$7m Zimbabwe COVID-19 grant
THE United States government has said the US$7 million grant extended to Zimbabwe by the World Bank (WB) will come with stringent accountability measures to ensure that it is not abused by President E...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:39hrs | 4391 | by Staff reporter
European Union blacklists Zimbabwe over money laundering
The European Union Commission has announced that it has blacklisted Zimbabwe and other countries for failing to have stronger anti-money laundering systems. Other companies listed are Ghana an...Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1128 | by Mandla Ndlovu
America talks tough on Zimbabwe
The United States Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) says the money donated to Zimbabwe by the World Bank should follow strict rules of accountability to a...Published: 07 May 2020 at 09:28hrs | 11535 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is his own detractor
THE deposal of former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 was welcomed with song and dance. Citizenry thronged streets of Harare in joy, posing for selfies with soldiers and shaking hands with th...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1689 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Digital library implementation and roll out - Case for Zimbabwe
There are basically 2 routes to do this. Do it your self or hire a pro. Which ever way you opt for a few things remain the same;(1.) If you choose to implement your own library, the first step...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 165 | by Robert Ndlovu
Ramaphosa appoints Strive Masiyiwa
AFRICAN Union chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Zimbabwean billionaire Mr Strive Masiyiwa to coordinate a private sector-led continental effort to procure critical per...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 9143 | by Staff reporter
There is no other way than a National Transitional Authority in Zimbabwe
SINCE 2016 the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) has argued consistently for a process leading to the establishment of a National Transitional Authority (NTA). We have done this for no ulterior mo...Published: 03 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 5321 | by Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
How strong democratic values help defeat a pandemic
If ever the world needed a reminder of the critical importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is it. The coronavirus knows nothing of national boundaries, ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:56hrs | 199 | by Brian A. Nichols, United states ambassador
No relenting on anti-sanctions lobby, says Mugabe coup announcer
The country will continue engaging the West until all sanctions are lifted, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has said.Pressure on the United States of America ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:08hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
The emperor parades naked
DIPLOMACY, some say, is the idea of telling someone to go to hell and they look forward to it. Zimbabwe has been used to the idea of being a country that is a pariah State and more specificall...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 996 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe COVID-19 lockdown goes into Stage 2
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has extended the Covid-19-induced lockdown by a further 14 days and announced an $18 billion Economic Rescue and Stimulus Package to scale up production in all sectors of the econo...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begs for support as Zimbabwe collapses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has approached international financiers begging for a lifeline to avoid a possible economic collapse and political upheaval, a respected security publication ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:26hrs | 7163 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 ravaged US pledges more support for Zimbabwe's COVID-19 fight
THE United States government has pledged to continue assisting Zimbabwe in its COVID-19 fight thorough cash and technical support, but implored Harare to play its part by enforcing World Health Organi...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hails workers
Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) has joined workers in Zimbabwe and beyond in celebrating the International Workers' Day, today. The revolutionary party said the day i...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Give workers living wages, says Mnangagwa
Workers should be given a living wage, while employers should think of other sustainable ways of supporting employees that are not easily eroded, and those in the informal sector must be included in e...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints at extending lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hinted strongly that he would extend the lockdown beyond this Sunday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, saying his priority was to save lives. ...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 5659 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions hamper effective response to Covid-19
THE Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow on countries' economies across the globe as they implemented measures to combat the transmission and spread of the virus. For Zimbabwe, the virus h...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet proposes rent deferrals
CABINET has proposed that President Mnangagwa should consider promulgating Presidential Regulations to give relief to tenants and landlords during the lockdown period. The lockdown period began on Mar...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:44hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to help Iran fight Coronavirus
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged to support the Islamic Republic of Iran in its fight against the deadly Coronavirus that has killed 5 000 people in the middle east c...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 06:27hrs | 835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19: We all need to take seriously
As I stood by the grocery queue which was winding endlessly, I realised that people were not maintaining the 1.5 metre distance that has been advised. People seemed to prefer to talk loudly and ...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 09:37hrs | 253 | by Prosperity Mzila
'I won't talk about sanctions' says Masiyiwa - why not, need no-hold-barred to get out of this mess
"While I don't want to get into the issues around how and why there are sanctions, everyone knows that I personally had to flee my country, Zimbabwe, because of persecution 20 years ago," said Strive ...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1677 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Strive Masiyiwa leads campaign for Zimbabwe
Businessman Mr Strive Masiyiwa has appealed to the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral institutions for humanitarian support for Zimbabwe in the wake of the e...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:58hrs | 3461 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a worse dictator
SOMETIME back during the late former President Robert Mugabe's era, I wrote an open letter to him demanding a dignified exit for him, because he had failed to make Zimbabwe, a country which many peopl...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 22:37hrs | 1020 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Isolation blues
After a long wet winter in the UK we are having a golden spring. So it's doubly vexatious that we are still in coronavirus lockdown after five weeks - with no end in sight.Unlike Zimbabwe, tel...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 20:15hrs | 575 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Don't Africans get tired of being poor?
And so it begins - Africa's gladiator fight with the most virulent of viruses to affect mankind in recent memory.And for the umpteenth time we are being reminded that this would be another Dav...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:03hrs | 159 | by Bishop Lazarus
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