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Zambia to criminalise the use of US$ in local economy
Zambia's central bank published plans to criminalize the use of foreign currency in the local economy amid the biggest rally in the kwacha in four months.The southern African nation has faced ...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 08:46hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Africa's future lies in its own hands
President E.D. Mnangagwa's advice that Africans should utilize their own resources to sustain their livelihoods and avoid relying on foreign aid is a wise and timely move that all Africans should embr...Published: 27 May 2024 at 19:59hrs | 8 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Mnangagwa must stop flirting with extending rule
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn into office three times in six years, and in his inauguration speeches in November 2017, August 2018, and September 2023, he promised radical reforms aimed ...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:56hrs | 1 | by Nyasha Macbride Mpani
Pumula residents, Chinese miner clash over noise
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo's Pumula North suburb are up in arms against a Chinese quarry mining company for noise pollution as well as destroying road infrastructure in the suburb.Some commuter omn...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers shun Sizalendaba School
THE deplorable working conditions at Sizalendaba Secondary School in Khami district, Bulawayo province, have been blamed for chasing away teachers from the institution.Sizalendaba school was e...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Nkayi Road section opens
The Government has opened to the motoring public a completed section of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road near Turk Mine in Bubi District with the Government committing to avail more funds to complete the targe...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Push carts and washing of cars in city centre illegal, says BCC
The Bulawayo City Council has further clarified the issue of bringing sanity within the central business district stating that push carts are illegal and that long distance buses also have designated ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Widow fights eviction from stepsons
AN ELDERLY Harare woman was yesterday granted a protection order against her two stepsons who wanted to evict her from the family house after learning that she had been omitted in their deceased fathe...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pitfalls of Liberation Movements in Zimbabwe
This paper seeks to provide an introductory general overview of the pitfalls associated with liberation movements in Zimbabwe up to a certain historical point. However, the most accurate and u...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:30hrs | 6 | by Josh Mhambi
Police investigate corrupt Beitbridge detectives
Matebeleland police detectives have been accused of extorting money from travellers at Beitbridge Border Post.It also emerged that junior officers are bribing their superiors stationed at the ...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 08:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally suspended by Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has wielded the axe on "rebellious" senior executives in the Midlands province for allegedly de-campaigning the party's candidates ahead of the August 23 and 24 general elections as factional ...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 17:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, wife bring relief to Sibasa villagers
SINGWANGO 1 Primary School under Chief Sibasa, in Matabeleland South province used to walk long distances with two bottles of water, one for themselves and one for their teacher.This is now a ...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Hichilema snubs Mnangagwa inauguration
Angolan president João Lourenço and Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema, the two most powerful men in SADC currently, are both shunning the inauguration of Zimbabwe's president-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa foll...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peace isn't the only standard for free, fair and credible elections
No one in their right mind can begrudge the repeated calls for peace during this election season in Zimbabwe. In fact, the disturbingly high prevalence of violence, especially on the part of t...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:24hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'No to gambling with national destiny'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is fulfilling the liberation war assignment through economic development for the benefit of the entire populace and deserves a resounding affirmation in Wednesday's elections, Vice...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets Guta RaMwari support?
Guta RaMwari Religion has endorsed President Mnangagwa as its preferred candidate in the harmonised elections on August 23 this year.The church, with an estimated membership of over 200 000 in...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF busses thousand to Cowdry park rally
UNPRECEDENTED scenes were witnessed yesterday as thousands of people from all walks of life swarmed an open space near Mkhithika Primary School in Cowdray Park suburb, Bulawayo where President Mnangag...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga waxes lyrical about Mnangagwa
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga on Monday implored Binga villagers to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom he said was "God-anointed" to improve their miserable lives.Addressing vil...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections won't change anything
Quite frankly, had there been no need for voting, most (if not all) politicians would never have uttered such words as "the people" in their entire lives.SOME people have asked why I appeared ...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elections won't change anything as long as Zimbabweans don’t hold leaders accountable
Some people have asked why I appeared as though I was not particularly enthusiastic about the forthcoming harmonized elections in Zimbabwe.This deduction seems to have emanated from my apparen...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 16:12hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Old Gwanda Road project begins
PRELIMINARY works have started ahead of the construction of the US$150 million 120km Old Gwanda Road with engineers and surveyors on the ground conducting the feasibility study which is expected to be...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs sweat over poor rally attendances
Zanu-PF's woes in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard continue to mount, with party candidates in the forthcoming polls now resorting to commandeering traditional leaders to frogmarch their subjec...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble brewing in Mnangagwa backyard
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party is being ravaged by infighting, especially in his home province of Midlands following controversial primary elections that were marred by vote riggi...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe open for business, not abuse'
IN as much as Zimbabwe is open for business, the country is not open to abuse and will not condone mineral leakages, haphazard operations, and breaches of it's laws, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Take the game of football seriously
Zimbabwe celebrated its 43rd years of self rule and independence and this year's national celebrations were held for the first time in Mashonaland Central Province Mt Darwin.Forty three years ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 23:12hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Tsholotsho gets town board status
GOVERNMENT has granted Tsholotsho a town board status in line with the national vision of transforming the country into an upper middle-income economy by 2030.This was revealed by Local Govern...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabwe's judiciary to decisively deal with political violence
President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially opening the Epworth Magistrates Court, accompanied by Vice-Presient Constantino Chiwenga, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and ...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donkey-drawn carts ply Zimbabwe's abandoned remote routes?
From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over two decades, with buse...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Bulawayo's Renkini a white elephant as intercity buses shun it
Renkini Bus Terminus was, for years, the nerve centre for Bulawayo's transport system with people intending to travel to other cities and towns trooping to the station to board buses.Many othe...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths urged to shun corrupt activities
THE Zanu-PF Youth League national executive members have been challenged to exhibit a high level of discipline through shunning corrupt activities that may tarnish the image of the party.Speak...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Egodini to open in mid-February this year
Bulawayo City Council has said the Basch Street Bus Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, will be opened in mid-February this year for some informal traders and transporters as construction work progr...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa tells Zanu-PF Youth League to be disciplined
Zanu-PF Youth League national executive members have been challenged to exhibit high levels of discipline through shunning corrupt activities that might tarnish the image of the party. Speakin...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo running out of burial space
IF you are in Bulawayo do you know where and how you want to be buried?Be warned that there is a looming problem in the country's second largest city over what to do with dead bodies, as it is...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC blasts Mnangagwa's 'lame duck' SONA address
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday reiterated the need for political players to shun violence as the country prepares for the 2023 general election.Mnangagwa said this during his State of ...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC hit by resignations
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has been losing highly skilled workers trained in investigating cases of corruption, especially cyber crimes, making it harder to track down and deal with sophi...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let us decongest Bulawayo CBD Now!
Bulawayo's ever-growing informal sector needs to be decongested to high density and some middle – low density areas. It is a fact that stakeholders need to check and explore something drastic or dis...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 12:44hrs | 2 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
ZUPCO withdraws subsidised fuel from private operators
BUS fares for peri-urban routes are set to increase following the decision by the state run Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) to order privately-owned buses registered under its franchise to p...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Violence robbed CCC'
The main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has blamed its weekend by-elections defeat to violence and other coercive tactics employed by the ruling Zanu-PF party.The violence prio...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jolts Zimbabwe ministers into compromise agreement
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently forced to compel 13 ministers who sit in the Tripartite Negotiating (TNF) Forum to urgently attend meetings to discuss solutions to worsening economic hardshi...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russian chopper, ambulance for Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT has taken delivery of a specialised medical helicopter and an ambulance from Russia as Zimbabwe leans to Moscow when most countries are shunning the Eurasian country over its invasion of Uk...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Are African leaders incredibly daft or deliberately pretending unaware why Zimbabweans are truly suffering?
The past week has been eventful as far as calls for 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe should be removed', by various, mostly southern African leaders.Firstly, it was the South African President C...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe gold coins to be afforded by all
THE Government is planning to introduce smaller gold coins denominations amid revelations that at least Z$8 billion worth of the coins have been bought by locals since they were launched by the Reserv...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Craft 2023 elections peace pledge'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to ensure that a peace pledge is implemented before the watershed 2023 polls i...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe MPs, ministers shunning local languages'
BUSINESSWOMAN and talk-show host Rebecca Chisamba has accused parliamentarians of not doing enough to promote the country's indigenous languages.Chisamba made the statement during an interview...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Zanu-PF to stop abusing chiefs
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party desists from using chiefs and village heads as commissars during ele...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar makes paper gains
The economy has largely stabilised, especially from late last month, as a result of aggressive measures by Government to rein in market indiscipline, and market watchers are confident the latest inter...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean dollar gaining value
Parallel market exchange rate responds to RBZ measuresTREASURY has been hailed for tightening screws on money supply growth in the market, in a move credited for stabilising the foreign curren...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 17:57hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe inflation spikes to 257%
ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation jumped to 256,9% this month, up from 191% in June, evoking memories of the 2008 hyper-inflationary era nightmares as prices of basic goods continue to skyrocket....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane, Matobo main road 'forgotten'
Villagers in UMZINGWANE and Matobo, Matabeleland South have bitterly complained over the poor state of the main road linking the two areas.Matobo ward 15 councillor Dickson Moyo said the Old G...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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