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South Africa totally correct to 'relocate Taiwan' out of Pretoria
The brouhaha around the forced relocation of the Taipei Liaison Office from SA's capital Pretoria to Johannesburg - approximately 50 km southward - is completely misplaced.In 1997, SA cut dipl...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 09:13hrs | 1214 | by Abbey Makoe
Zimbabwean motorist ploughs into army recruits, kills one
A female army recruit tragically lost her life instantly, while 15 others sustained injuries when a motorist collided with them during their morning drills along Llewellyn Road in Bulawayo on Tuesday....Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mmusi Maimane against lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
South Africa is experiencing the negative consequences of the leadership failures within Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, which have resulted in migration chaos and an increased burden on the country...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Analysis: Tendai Biti is down - but not necessarily out
Some might think Tendai Biti is ending his parliamentary career much as he started it 23 years ago - by causing a ruckus in parliament with his lively debate that fundamentally changed how Zanu PF vie...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 14:29hrs | 4 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Cowdray Park's scandalous boundaries favour Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is likely to unfairly win the Cowdray Park parliamentary seat in Bulawayo province due to the opaque geographical nature of the constituency mapped by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) i...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 day destructive rains forecast for Zimbabwe
THE Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has warned that some parts of the country will experience violent thunderstorms and localised hail which may damage property between 29 December and 3 Janua...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Roads closed for Mbudzi Intercharge
MULTIPLE stretches of vital roads constituting a combined 4,5km will be shut down this Sunday, to allow for the construction of the US$88 million Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, officials said yesterday...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Batsirai moves further away from Zimbabwe
Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has moved further southward away from Zimbabwe, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has advised. The weather should be sunny and hot over most parts of the c...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lupane, Binga battles relived
TODAY as we continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo pseudo name Lloyd Zvanananewako or Mabhikwa, the former freedom fighter takes us through operations in the Zipra oper...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Who are Matabeles?
The Matabele were once feared, adored and hated and now they are discriminated against. Why are they hated so? They are hated by the west as the Jews whom Constantine described as "odious people", so ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 16:13hrs | | by T D Mkwananzi
Improved civil servants perks a priority
Government says it has registered success in its negotiations with civil servants over salaries and other employment terms and is planning continuous improvements on the welfare of public servants....Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airforce plane crashes
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe instructor and a female student pilot died when a training plane they were flying developed a technical fault and crashed at Dabuka in Somabula on the outskirts of Gweru yeste...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus and three cars pile up in Beitbridge
A 42-year-old Beitbridge man was killed, while three others were seriously injured in a road accident involving three light vehicles and a Zupco bus on Sunday evening. The incident occurred at...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's mojo appears heading southward
THE MDC-A under Nelson Chamisa is not helping matters by their tired responses to incessant attacks on their very existence and outright provocation. The thinly veiled disquiet within that party threa...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's grand mission to kill democracy
THE hullabaloo sparked by parliament bringing Thokozani Khupe and her MDC-T crew into the august House to represent people who rejected them in elections, has sounded the death knell to democracy in Z...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stability of prices brings relief
Prices of basic commodities are stabilising and marginally decreasing on selected items, arresting the volatility and speculative behaviour which characterised the market before the introduction of th...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Speedster mows down cop on duty
A speed junkie in Gweru, Kudakwashe Manyuchi (40), who was well-known in the city for driving around in top-of-the-range sports cars, was arrested after he fatally knocked down a police officer on dut...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to narrowly avoid recession
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe's economy will flat-line this year, narrowly skirting recession in the face of growing headwinds.Initial forecasts had suggested that the economy wo...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba left with 3 months' power supply
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi yesterday revealed that water levels in Lake Kariba were so low that current supplies will only be able to generate power for the next 14 weeks, paving way for deeper pow...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
A look into Zimbabwe's tanking economy
The country's largest gold producer is on the brink of collapse because of government's warped foreign currency retention policy; the cost of bread has gone up, more than three times in hardly a month...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Return of the Zimdollar?
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya is due to release the monetary policy and the policy position is highly anticipated against the sustained monetary related macro-economic defi...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:00hrs | | by Respect Gwenzi
ZSE ignores 'Mthuliphoria'
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) slipped into the red unperturbed by the excitement showing across markets on the appointment of new treasury chief, Mthuli Ncube, it has emerged.Slipping into...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Igomombe
Does Njelele hold the keys?
"It was on June 29, just a month before the nation votes on July 30, that they came and desecrated our shrine. Whether that is pure coincidence, a planned act or just another act of vandalism, we are ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:46hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Teachers to storm Mnangagwa's office
TEACHERS from various parts of the country and representing different unions have threatened to storm President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offices tomorrow demanding urgent address on their work-related gri...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu over-exaggerating its role in the struggle
Zanu/ Zanla is overemphasising and over exaggerating their role in the liberation struggle yet they know they were the less trained and less effective of the armies.Zipra got independence and ...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Trevor Moekie Kaitse
Role of ICT in business creativity
TWO weeks ago I looked at the role of ICT in the music industry in general. It was noted that most musicians felt short-changed by the ICT boom as fewer people bought CDs compare to online downloads o...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 12:46hrs | 1 | by Robert Ndlovu
The creation of Zimbabwe's Frankenstein
It is a fact that the white ex-Rhodesians made Robert Mugabe. They created an environment that enabled bright kids like him to have a chance of a decent education. He received a government scholarship...Published: 24 May 2017 at 11:23hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Data providers in bruising rat race
AS mobile broadband service providers compete for the hearts and wallets of local consumers, a bruising rat race is gradually developing in the sector, raising hope prices might decline to reasonable ...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Africa Moyo
Fall armyworm outbreak a blow to prospects of recovery for southern Africa
New pest poses novel threat to region reeling from effects of consecutive droughts Harare - A fall armyworm out...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by FAO
Econet loses 400 000 subscribers
Over 400 000 subscribers deserted Econet Wireless Zimbabwe between July and September last year, latest Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) statistics have indicate...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trump's 'America first' pledge has echoes of Rhodesia's racist white nationalists
Donald Trump's bleak inauguration speech has attracted a...Published: 31 Jan 2017 at 10:40hrs | | by Brooks Marmon, PhD Student
'The Armed Struggle: Was it Worth It?' - Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
Public Dialogue, Department of History, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Wednesday, 23rd November 2016 Discussion Note by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa, ZAPU President _________________...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 11:53hrs | 14 | by Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
So how was America on November 9, and thereafter?
No surprises for me. Hopefully none for you too, gentle reader, if you didn't miss my September 24 and October 21 instalments. September 24 piece in part read: "However rough one finds him [Donald Tru...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The Ndebele State: Origins And Tribes
One hundred and forty-eight years ago yesterday, September 6, 1868, Mzilikazi kaMatshobana Khumalo, founder-king of the Ndebele State, died, leaving an unfortunate situation in which there was no clea...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:31hrs | 7 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Terrorism overshadows internal conflicts - As African countries scramble for solutions
Is terrorism becoming the dominant mode of conflict in Africa? This is a question many are asking following the recent surge in terror attacks across Africa. Since January about a dozen African countr...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Lansana Gberie
Renaming the streets and surbubs is honoring our heritage
There has been much media debate on the spelling of some Zimbabwean street and suburbs' names going on, with some people strongly criticising former colonial administrators for deliberately distorting...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Panic as Zimbabwe banks run out of cash
Despite the best efforts of Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya and his team to mitigate the situation, the debilitating cash shortages that hit local banks a few weeks ago are worsening, sending the ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 19:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel imports for own consumption to be banned in Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT is in the process of crafting a legal instrument that will ban petroleum companies from holding both wholesaling and retailing licences as a deliberate move to loosen the stranglehold that ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Africa Moyo
North Korea launches long-range rocket
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it called a satellite, but its neighbors and the United States denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of U.N. s...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 17:36hrs | | by Reuters
Explanation for the origins of the Aborigines in Australia
"The origins of the Australian Aborigines has never been a mystery to Africans." As far as Africans are concerned, the Australian Aborigines, Trobian Islanders and Melasesians are all part of ...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 12:57hrs | 2 | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Mugabe feels the heat
With Zanu-PF's deadly factional and succession wars reaching what insiders say is "a tipping point", and Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous economic decline that is blamed on the ruling party, all...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig admits that the country is 'in dire straits'
With Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous decline that is widely blamed on President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF - as manifested by rising poverty levels and a stone-broke State that cannot pay its wo...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two dead, 33 injured in kombi crash
Two passengers died on the spot and 33 others were injured when a kombi made a U-turn in front of another kombi near the Grain Marketing Board headquarters along Samora Machel Avenue in Harare on Satu...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 06:31hrs | | by Daniel Kachere
My Roots, my proud identity - Part three
Taken from a eBook: "Sweet mother" Lomamqhaka died and left the boys in the care of the community. The boys where about 16 and 17 years old. But the boys could not take it kindly the passing o...Published: 18 May 2015 at 12:58hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata,
Zimbabweans flock to South Africa despite xenophobic attacks
While hundreds flee deadly anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa, many Zimbabweans continue to travel to the so-called "rainbow nation."The Anadolu Agency visited Roadport, a regional transp...Published: 25 Apr 2015 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Anadolu Agency
Zimbabwean history that is nothing
THE War of the Axe had ended, serving the Xhosa nation a stunning defeat. And the British treachery had settled that war expectedly through characteristic British deceit.The year was 1847,...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 11:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Heavy fighting threatens Ukraine truce
Mariupol - Gunfire and heavy shelling rocked a key frontline city in eastern Ukraine overnight, raising fears Sunday that a tenuous truce between government and rebel forces had already collapsed....Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'You will take away the future of your children,' Zimbabwe warned
Harare - The World Bank's outgoing country economist for Zimbabwe, Nadia Piffaretti, said the country should avoid the securitisation of minerals to get loans.Piffaretti said if the coun...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 10:08hrs | | by Fin24
Zimbabwe sex workers go extra mile in Botswana
GABORONE - During the day, she will give your hair the most refined look, albeit in a makeshift saloon, but when night falls across Botswana's capital Gaborone, Debra Ncube (not her real name) exchan...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 11:06hrs | 60 | by Africa Review
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