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18 more die of Covid-19
Zimbabwe's health delivery system is being reformed and restructured, new Health and Child Care Minister Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said yesterday, promising a new era in healthcare. ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 619 | by Staff reporter
South Africa Trade Union turns heat on Mnangagwa
The biggest single trade union in South Africa National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led ZANU PF has betrayed the revolutionary ethos and adopted...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 08:42hrs | 8482 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mzilikazi gave the Shona a name to be proud of !!!
King Mzilikazi is highly credited to be one of the best ever rulers of Zimbabwe. He was able to plan a start and an end of a National programme producing a happily strong Nation with an identity. When...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 3172 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Drones, choppers to police Zimbabweans borders
THE Government is mobilising resources to procure drones, helicopters including all-terrain vehicles to improve the efficacy of patrols along the country's borders with neighbouring countries. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5127 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
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 | 33058 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna and the liberation struggle
ONE of the country's longest serving traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in August last year, but when one mentions the Heroes Day, which the country w...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF members openly defy Mnangagwa...call for his immediate ouster
ZANU PF members and activists are coming out in the open voicing their displeasure at the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The unfolding leadership drama bedeviling the ruling party...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 11:33hrs | 30569 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What becomes of unwanted babies?
IT is a common national habit to turn a blind eye or be very judgmental about problems that we are too uncomfortable to deal with such as unwanted teen pregnancies or the necessity of providing contra...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:37hrs | 324 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Why internationals visit Zimbabwe in peak tourist seasons
Zimbabwe reported 1.8 million international visits in 2018. This number was a 4 percent increase from 2017. Why are internationals interested in Zimbabwe, a country located in Southern Africa? The cou...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 313 | by Staff Writer
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 | 4263 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 4806 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fresh details emerge in Noic pipeline saga
FRESH details have emerged that Treasury directed the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) to handpick only one firm to supply 720 million litres of fuel over 24 months, in a pro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 10961 | by Robert Sigauke
NRZ finally cancels DIDG tender
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe has finally cancelled the US$400 million recapitalisation tender that had been awarded to the Diaspora Infrastructural Development Group (DIDG) in partnership with So...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2505 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Mnangagwa's govt tells off Malema
ZIMBABWE will not be lectured by misinformed and misguided regional parties such as the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on anything as the country is not a province of South Africa. ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 8825 | by Staff reporter
Sanii Makhalima is set to break his silence
VETERAN contemporary musician Lungisani 'Sanii' Makhalima is set to break his silence with the release of a new full album scheduled for September 4. Makhalima told NewsDay Life & Style ye...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Court halts $7.5m State funding for MDC formations
Neither MDC Alliance nor MDC-T can receive any of the $7.5 million political funding under the Political Parties Finance Act until a resolution on the ongoing legal battle over which formation is enti...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:29hrs | 3079 | by Staff reporter
SADC lawyers blast Mnangagwa
REGIONAL lawyers have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of creating an environment of fear among citizens through wanton violation of people's rights.The Southern African D...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:01hrs | 4206 | by Staff reporter
People emulate leaders behaviour, rotten leaders stir rot in all the nation: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has warned that people follow and emulate their leaders adding that rotten leaders bring the rot to the entire nation. The party said when in 1980 Mugabe mad...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 167 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe coup announcer speaks on activists' arrest
Those wishing Zimbabwe ill are twisting the recent arrest by police and subsequent remand of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume for their own ends, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual to stop trading its shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
Old Mutual is poised to stop trading its shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, the latest step in the government's efforts to bring order to its chaotic foreign-exchange market.The insurer ag...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 3668 | by Bloomberg
Informal traders defy Mnangagwa
INFORMAl traders, who are currently unable to ply their trade on the capital's pavements, have invaded open spaces around industrial areas, mainly in Graniteside, posing a COVID-19 health hazard as th...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3919 | by Staff reporter
Cook Off, ZBC ink screening deal
LOCAL film lovers, who never got an opportunity to watch the multiple award-winning movie Cook Off will do so on August 11 and 14 when it premieres on ZBC-TV.The 2017 comedy, produced by Joe N...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5394 | by Tawanda Majoni
Police boss sucked into bloody mine wrangle
Police in Mvuma have been accused of illegally grabbing a lucrative gold mine at the centre of a dispute between two miners with some officers allegedly shooting to death an employee during the violen...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
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 | 262 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: Bulawayo son Boy Nino features South Africa's Emtee in new track
Bulawayo hip-hop artist Boy Nino (real name Nigel Bhebhe) has released a single called No Problems which features South Africa's multi-award-winning hip-hop star Emtee.The song which has...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 09:48hrs | 419 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa
Wamkele Mene was recently appointed Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. Because of COVID-19, free trade for countries that have ratified the agreement did not beg...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 331 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Nasty row erupts over farms
ZANU-PF officials in Mashonaland West province are up in arms with the Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa, accusing her of single-handedly presiding over the exercise to downsize commercial farms...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3202 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nationalist Particularism: A pitfall to the resolution of regional question of Matabeleland
In recent times the political framing of the question of regional development of Matabeleland has increasingly sought to locate Matebeleland citizenship and nationhood within the broader narrative of ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4180 | by Ntando Dumani
PHOTOS: Sandra Ndebele's pictures break the internet
Pictures of celebrated songstress Sandra Ndebele have gone viral on the internet. The images which seem to have been taken at a photoshoot have been circulating on social media since Tuesday. ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 21:50hrs | 16265 | by Mandla Ndlovu
African Development Bank set to join landmark $20 billion Mozambique LNG financing
The African Development Bank has concluded its bid to co-finance the construction of Mozambique's integrated Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant by signing a senior loan of $400 million for the transfor...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:23hrs | 836 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mutsvangwa plotting November 2017 style coup over Econet'
STRIVE Masiyiwa's Econet mobile network says its existence was under threat from former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa.Mutsvangwa, according to court papers file...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 4234 | by newzimbabwe
Absolute power, The precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton)In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrup...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 924 | by Peter Muzira
Zanu-PF to blame for corruption
SOME people are lucky. They invaded farms and seized all equipment, cattle, crops (tobacco, citrus fruits, maize and macadamia nuts) because they are Zanu-PF members.The ran everything down an...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 577 | by Chenje Zangu
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3030 | by Staff reporter
View from up here - Absolute power, the precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton) In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrupt a...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 446 | by Peter Muzira
ZANU PF Mash Central calls for urgent Provincial election
The past weekend began a chapter in the history of Mashonaland Central province. Various districts began their own campaign dubbed the #TanonokerwaNeElection. The people of Mashonaland Central...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 4821 | by Tichaona Utete
How does technology change lives?
Living in the 21st century, technology impacts every area of our lives. From the electronic alarm clock or mobile phone that wakes us every morning, we are never far from pressing buttons - on microwa...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 16:15hrs | 184 | by Staff writer
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7392 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Paranoia drives Prophet Chiwenga's prophesies, says Mawarire
National Patriotic Front spokesperson, Jelousy Mawarire tore into the controversial founder of Jesus Revelation Ministries, Apostle Talent Chiwenga, accusing him of living a life filled with paranoia,...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2511 | by Zivanai Dhewa
'ZANU PF is not a revolutionary organisation'
ZANU PF is not a revolutionary party, but an organization of thugs and looters, Zimbabwe Communist Party General Secretary Ngqabutho Mabhena has said. Writing on Facebook Mabhena said, "A revo...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 15:24hrs | 3532 | by Mandla Ndlovu
University lecturers and the 'missing' Covid-19 cushioning allowances
Dear Editor, Please allow me to take advantage of your widely read online publication to express my concerns over the seemingly non-payment of the President Mnangagwa awarded 50% of gross sala...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1621 | by Affected University Staff
Zanu-PF MP in CDF abuse storm
COMMUNITY leaders in Shurugwi South have accused local MP Edmond Mukaratigwa (Zanu-PF) of abusing the 2019 Constituency Development Fund (CDF).Reports are that the local constituency developme...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 1833 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli economic review damp squib'
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC Alliance party yesterday described the 2020 midterm budget and economic review statement presented by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube as a damp squib for failing to addres...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
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