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Zimbabwe loses UN voting rights
ZIMBABWE has been barred from voting at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as it is in arrears in the payment of financial contributions totalling US$81 770.According to a letter from th...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1069 | by Kenneth Matimaire
Zimbabwe in key post-Brexit UK investment indaba
Zimbabwe's engagement and re-engagement drive continues to bear fruit after the United Kingdom invited local businesses to participate in next week's Africa Investment Conference along with companies ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
LP gas shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is facing an acute shortage of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas resulting in its price shooting up by 80 percent since mid-December. For the past week Bulawayo residents who use LP gas ha...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala, Chin'ono charged under non-existent falsehoods law'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing falsehoods and promoting public violence the same charges laid against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe calls for a 'sober reflection' by Washington
Zimbabwe is doubling down on taking apparent satisfaction in the U.S. Capitol insurrection Wednesday, with Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo criticizing the 'politically-motivated violence' and call...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 17:00hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
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 | 199 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 766 | by Miriam Mangwaya
I'm not here to plunder Zimbabwe . . .
ZIMBABWE is seeking to establish fully-fledged diplomatic relations with Israel. Our (ND) senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza spoke to Zimbabwe's honorary consul in Israel Ronny Musan (RM) who spoke about...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 3330 | by Staff reporter
Plot to remove Zacc chair anti-corruption body ruffles political feathers
POLITICAL pressure to remove the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) the independent constitutional body created to combat corruption and crime - Loyce Matanda-Moyo is mounti...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:35hrs | 2306 | by Staff reporter
'Africa must solve own security issues'
Africa should fund its own security operations with regional blocs dealing with growing threats of terrorism and cross-border crime, rather than rely on external forces funding and fuelling conflict o...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Turmoil in Zimbabwe's gold mining sector
Over the past year, a wave of violence has rocked Zimbabwe.Armed gangs, alternatively portrayed as consisting of or preying upon small-scale miners, have wreaked deadly havoc, especially in th...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 386 | by International Crisis Group
Zanu-PF chefs fingered in Chiweshe gold rush
A GOLD rush involving some powerful political figures in the country has erupted in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central province, prompting the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to deploy state securi...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:28hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
UK scales up cooperation with Zimbabwe ahead of Brexit
The United Kingdom (UK) wants to scale up trade and economic cooperation with Zimbabwe ahead of its official exit from the European Union (EU). This was said by UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melan...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Sadc plots Mozambique rescue mission
SADC yesterday undertook to work on a robust regional response to the growing threat of terrorism and insurgency in parts of Mozambique, which it will put in action once finalised. This came o...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, SB Moyo wrestle for Zim gold sector control
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his deputy Constantino Chiwenga and Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, locked in a vicious duel to wrest and consolidate state power, are manoeuvring to control the ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | 3020 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in crucial Sadc Troika meeting
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to join other Heads of State and Governments in Botswana today for a one-day SADC Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit that will focus on emerging terrorism threats in the...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:53hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court reverses army takeover of RioZim chrome mine
Listed mining company RioZim has won a Supreme Court battle with Zimbabwe's military after one of its mines was forcibly taken over through a ministerial decree.Defence minister Oppah Muchingu...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 482 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe, Russia sign extraordinary treaty
THE government has gazetted an extradition treaty it signed with Russia last year to allow the two countries to bring back criminals to face justice in their respective jurisdictions.According...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1480 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF seeks Biden indulgence on sanctions
THE Zanu-PF government has tasked Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo to approach the United States President-elect Joe Biden in a fresh bid to mend the frosty relations between Harare and Washingt...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt taking initiative to woo Joe Biden, Washington
THE ruling Zanu-PF has urged Foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo, to move with speed to engage with American president-elect Joe Biden - in a bid to mend Harare's strained relationship with Washington....Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:18hrs | 2851 | by Staff reporter
War vets see no change of bitter Zimbabwe-US relations
ZANU-PF secretary for war veterans, Douglas Mahiya expects no change of relations between US President elect Joe Biden's envisaged administration and the Zimbabwean government.His sentiments a...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Sanction Auxillia Mnangagwa and Freeze her foreign bank accounts
The first family must command respect, not demand it. This, they should do through leading by example. "Julius Caesar's wife must be above suspicion". The first lady should not be seen throwing her we...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:28hrs | 18538 | by Israel Dube
Harare seeks better relations with Washington
THE government is hopeful that United States of America (USA) president-elect, Joe Biden, pictured, will be open to mending the strained relationship between Harare and Washington.This comes a...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:51hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Has Mnangagwa dumped re-engagement efforts?
IT appears that in Zimbabwe, despite the change of guard which ushered in the so-called new dispensation, nothing has changed on the ground, we are still steeped in Mugabeism.It seems the ruli...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:41hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves for Tanzania
President Mnangagwa has this afternoon left the country for Tanzania to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President John Magufuli following his re-election for a second five-year term last week. ...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:18hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
US red flags Zimbabwe over workers' rights abuse
THE United States yesterday threatened to slap Zimbabwe with more sanctions over government's crackdown on labour rights and tightening freedoms of association and assembly.The United States T...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 770 | by Staff writer
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4955 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe scoffs at Britain's attempts to link Rushwaya to Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwean government has reacted with consternation a recent debate in the British House of Lords describing the animated and long deliberation as a "shocking level of invasive interest" in the S...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4935 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces new sanctions from colonial master UK
THE United Kingdom has threatened to slap President Emmerson Mnangagwa with a new sanctions regime over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country and failure by the administration to dea...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 3811 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt notes threat of fresh UK sanctions
GOVERNMENT has said it has noted the unfortunate implied threat of more sanctions by the United Kingdom and its decision to engage a number of countries and organisations to further intensify pressure...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt slams Britain's colonial hangover
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has told the British that the New Dispensation's openness and re-engagement stance is not an open invitation for interference or intru...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:16hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
'Measures to insulate Zimdollar against erosion sustainable'
Measures put in place to insulate the local currency against erosion are sustainable beyond the lockdown, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has said, despite the reopeni...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga loses party grip, close allies sink
BELEAGUERED Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga made spirited but futile efforts to save his allies from the Zanu-PF political guillotine during Wednesday's tense politburo meeting in which a titanic ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:44hrs | 17947 | by Staff reporter
Land deal eases government re-engagement efforts
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government's decision to compensate white former commercial farmers has eased the country's international engagement and re-engagement efforts...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition snubs anti-sanctions gala
OPPOSITION parties have snubbed the invitation extended to them by government to attend the State organised anti-sanctions musical e-gala scheduled for Bulawayo this Saturday, describing the event as ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:54hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told by USA, Nichols that Zimbabwe can rise again
THE United States of America (USA) has reiterated its desire to see President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government succeed in improving the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans.Speaking to the...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:04hrs | 6225 | by Staff reporter
Putin sends special message to Mnangagwa
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to President Mnangagwa with the aim of entrenching existing excellent bilateral relations and establishing new economic interchange between the two ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2658 | by Staff reporter
Sadc ratchets up anti-sanctions drive
REGIONAL countries will make an emphatic stand against the continued imposition of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe on October 25 through various activities to commemorate the day of solidarity against ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's costly and desperate power preservation
Absolute political power and a persistent quest to preserve it at all cost can result in absolute political absurdity. Men and women who might have spent some time being intellectually trained in inst...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 08:17hrs | 585 | by Mkhululi Zulu - Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Zimbabwe to get bus assembly plant
Zimbabwe, through a joint venture cooperation with Belarus, will soon set up a vehicle assembly plant for the production of buses suitable for the local terrain, a move that dovetails into President M...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:12hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
US asks sanctioned Zimbabwe to help fight Mozambique militants
THE United States asked Zimbabwe to help put down an Islamist insurgency in neighbouring Mozambique that's destabilising a region rich in natural gas, people familiar with the matter said. The...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:34hrs | 4112 | by Staff reporter
Malawi leader jets in
MALAWIAN President Lazarus Chakwera is expected to arrive in the country today for a two-day State visit. President Chakwera, who won the Malawi election run-off in June this year, is making h...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
US keenly watching Mnangagwa
THE United States government says it is keenly watching how President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration was upholding constitutionalism, basic human rights and the rule of law.The statement ...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:15hrs | 4923 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Ramaphosa
President Mnangagwa, who is scheduled to address the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) today, has thanked South African counterpart President Cyril Ramaphosa for using the Ass...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 05:30hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Equatorial Guinea delegation meets Mnangagwa
Equatorial Guinea Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Simeon Oyono today paid a courtesy call on President Mnangagwa at State House to deliver a special message from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo....Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 22:24hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attends virtual UN General Assembly
President Mnangagwa will today join other Heads of State and Government in the virtual opening meeting of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The opening proceedings, whic...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mystery surrounds Mnangagwa meeting with sheik
MyStery surrounds the recent visit to Zimbabwe by a top United Arab emirates (UAE) official, Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi, who arrived in Harare last Sunday to reportedly discuss invest...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa needs more diplomatic muscle to crack Zimbabwe's defiant government
Amid a spiralling economic and political crisis, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the people of his country on August 4. His speech, though sudden - four days after his government's v...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 13:03hrs | 1958 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
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