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Misappropriations of national funds
Although considered as one of the mineral hubs of southern Africa, the country finds itself in the deep end financially grappling to stay afloat. Zimbabwe's mineral resources include amongst other chr...Published: 2 hrs ago | 64 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
Mnangagwa to address nation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to address the nation as Zimbabweans commemorate Heroes' Day at home due to the threat of Covid-19. Over the years, commemorations were punctuated by spectacular ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 519 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the sacked Obadiah Moyo's successor, it has emer...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 28799 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 425 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Renewed push for reforms
NATIONAL Convergence Platform (NCP), a group of churches, civil society organisations, diaspora networks and businesses are pushing for political reforms to be implemented by President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to ignore rumblings
UNDER-FIRE President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hit back at his critics saying his government would ignore rumblings from "fugitives".In what appeared to be a response to local and regional ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 3748 | by Staff reporter
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4152 | by Nomazulu Thata
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:11hrs | 1141 | by Victor Bhoroma
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 635 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
FULL TEXT: Jonathan Moyo and Zhuwao's letter to ANC
We are requesting the ANC to positively and substantively intervene to help save the tradition, ethos and values of the liberation movement in Zimbabwe. We believe that the ANC faces a very high risk ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:39hrs | 6531 | by Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 317 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sex for sanitiser proposal backfires
FOR a Zvishavane man, Again Madzivire, it was supposedly not a bad move to secretly admire his female neighbour's "voluptuous" behind but there seems to be just one big flaw which he made and it all e...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:53hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4743 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe commemorates World Breastfeeding week
Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating the World Breastfeeding Week held during the first week of August each year.Officially launching the National World Breastfeedi...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 114 | by MoHCC Comms
Mnangagwa's wife sends special message to Zimbabwean women
Yesterday, Zimbabwe official launched its 2020 World Breastfeeding Week commemorations under the theme; Promoting breastfeeding for a Healthier Planet!As a mother, I am taking part in these co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 2677 | by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa
No pay for striking nurses
STRIKING health workers did not receive their July salaries after the Health Services Board (HSB) implemented the no-work-no-pay principle but talks are underway for them to be put back on the payroll...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3627 | by Nomusa Garikai
Kazembe Kazembe and police Boss Godwin Matanga sucked in human rights abuses
The #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign has put Zimbabwe's internal security enforcers under scrutiny. The government is accused of abusing and stifling citizens human rights and liberties. The wo...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:35hrs | 3719 | by Alex Muzuva
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1867 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe Govt has neglected ZPRA ex-combatants
ZPRA ex-combatants have called out the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration for allegedly lying that they were beneficiaries of an on-going former freedom fighters' welfare programme.In...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
New Health minister Chiwenga faces tall order
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally replaced the dismissed and corruption-tainted Health minister Obadiah Moyo with his deputy, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to the portfolio.Zimbab...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Inclusive dialogue can save Zimbabwe
THE Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has called for multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the country's worsening socio-political and economic crises.In a pastoral letter, EFZ said fai...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF government's conduct is smuggling 'outrage porn' into the public sphere.
As the Covidgate scandal remain unresolved, can it be fair to attack journalists and the media for spreading "panic porn" as is being peddled by Emerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF?Are we in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 578 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Silly protest threats must stop! Covid-19 is Real
Covid19 is real and we have real challenges that require all Zimbabweans regardless of political affiliations to put heads together on how we can survive this. Opposition supporters are crowded in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 449 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Mnangagwa donates coal to 5 Matabeleland hospitals
Five hospitals in the Matabeleland region yesterday recieved 2 000 tonnes of coal donated by President Mnangagwa for cooking and other hospital operations. Beneficiaries include Mpilo Central ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports.In addition...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 4267 | by Staff reporter
What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1410 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
PHOTOS: ZANU PF members call for Mnangagwa's ouster
A certain of ZANU PF members has demanded an extraordinary Congress to recall President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The call has been launched under a SAVE THE PARTY banner with the organizers saying ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 11:15hrs | 32619 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1675 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
George Charamba thanks Zimbabweans for boycotting 31 July mass protests
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has thanked the people of Zimbabwe for allegedly snubbing the 31 July mass protests. The planned mass protests were squashed by state agents who invad...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 14:40hrs | 4174 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors scoff at Mnangagwa plea
STRIKING doctors have vowed to press on with their job boycott despite pleas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for them to return to work amid revelations that scores of people could be dying in their h...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 3448 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 787 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Hospitals should not demand Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients
Hospitals should neither turn away patients nor demand a Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients, particularly in emergency cases, the Government has said.The exhortation comes after th...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:04hrs | 726 | by Staff Reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3682 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6794 | by Staff reporter
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3544 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Global financiers shut out Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT says it is failing to access international financial aid necessary in mitigating the social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic because of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Fresh farm seizures soiling Zimbabwe's image?
THE ongoing seizures of mainly white-owned productive farms severely dent Zimbabwe's international image and cast aspersions on the country's reputation as an investment destination, Commercial Farmer...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 877 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Protests: Army takes charge
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the police yesterday shut down the central business districts (CBDs) of major cities and towns, kicking out civilians and barricading all roads into city cent...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 4413 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown on activists intensifies ahead of July 31 protests
POLITICAL activists in Bulawayo have said the alleged abduction of opposition political party members and activists is an attempt to close the democratic space and clamp down on dissent.The ab...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Is an installment loan online right for you?
An installment loan can be an excellent instrument in your personal finance arsenal, especially when used properly. Although the term "installment" may sound intimidating or unfamiliar, perhaps you ha...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:44hrs | 606 | by Staff writer
Why crisis is important for any economy
This year will be etched in people's memory. Devastating effects of COVID-19 are felt around the globe. Just a handful of countries have not reported any cases so far. South Africa and Nigeria have al...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1239 | by Staff writer
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1147 | by Victor Bhoroma
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1414 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
Zim govt exposed, again, for its frivolous and unsubstantiated accusations of activists being Western-sponsored illegal regime c
What I love so much about the Zimbabwe regime's live televised press conferences, and parliamentary debates, is the way top government officials shamelessly stutter, struggle, and outrightly fail to a...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 260 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco auction faces collapse
TOBACCO sales at the auction floors are declining each year, with latest data showing they only constituted 5% of total delivered crop, raising concern over the future of the country's oldest marketin...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reduced to hunter-gatherers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is the harbinger and personification of a new dispensation which saves public funds as opposed to the late former President Robert Mugabe who squandered State reso...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 741 | by Tamburai Shato
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