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Zimbabwe's 45-year fall
The country is emerging from the celebrations of the statehood of the Republic of Zimbabwe on 18 April 2025, just under five years to celebrate half a century of its existence.Are there any ta...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:21hrs | 395 | by Vivian V. Siziba
Chamisa dragged into Mamombe, Nyandoro fight
Bridget Nyandoro I have remained silent for too long. Your ongoing attacks on me both on social media and in private WhatsApp groups have not started today.But today, I am compelled to respond...Published: 14 Apr 2025 at 13:13hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Instead of focusing on crushing public dissent, a wise leader would have addressed their grievances
Zimbabweans have shaken the foundations of power! Over the past few weeks, the Zimbabwean government and the ruling ZANU-PF party have been gripped by panic. Their energies have been c...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 09:37hrs | 513 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa contemplates declaring State of Emergency?
Sources within Zimbabwe's security apparatus have revealed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is considering declaring a state of emergency in the coming days, as tensions escalate ahead of planned nat...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 08:48hrs | 3818 | by Staff reporter
Geza ropes in Chamisa
Outspoken war veteran Blessed "Bombshell" Geza has issued President Emmerson Mnangagwa with an ultimatum to step down or face mass street protests on March 31.Geza, who recently resurfaced in ...Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 09:27hrs | 3781 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF returns Zimbabwe to the stone age
That Zimbabwe's health sector is broken is a public secret, but the alarming decline under Zanu-PF's 45-year rule has reached new depths of crisis.A widely circulated photo showing a patient a...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 14:57hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Mahiya threatens war veterans opposing Mnangagwa's extended rule
Zanu PF Secretary for War Veterans, Douglas Mahiya, has issued stern warnings to war veterans opposing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extended stay in office, threatening to "stop them from speaking i...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 16:59hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can reinstate death penalty during a state of emergency
Zimbabwe's recent decision to abolish the death penalty has been hailed as a significant milestone for human rights. However, a provision in the new Death Penalty Abolition Act allowing for the reinst...Published: 05 Jan 2025 at 14:39hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
Water shortages hits Zimbabwe's cities
Residents across Zimbabwe are enduring severe water shortages, as the ongoing El Niño drought exacerbates an already strained water supply system. In cities like Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest c...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:20hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Factional fighting in ZANU PF: Is Mnangagwa's quest for power putting Zimbabwe at risk?
IN 2017, Simon Khaya Moyo, the then ZANU-PF spokesperson, described Emmerson Mnangagwa as "dishonest," "divisive," and "deceptive" when the ruling party dismissed him. Today, these descriptors...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 17:22hrs | 1095 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2652 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Mnangagwa's govt under pressure over water crisis
Residents of Bulawayo are urgently calling on the government to acknowledge its failure in addressing severe water shortages by declaring the city a water crisis area, allowing for swift interventions...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:22hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa criticizes Mnangagwa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's belated declaration of a drought state of emergency, asserting that it came too late after the government ignored early warnin...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabwe's leadership 'drought' is worse than meteorological drought
Zimbabwe's notable opposition figure, Nelson Chamisa, strongly criticized President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa for the delayed declaration of the El Nino-induced drought as a State of Disaster, which...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares drought a national disaster
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a state of emergency due to the ongoing drought gripping Zimbabwe, marking it as the third African nation to do so after Zambia and Malawi.Speaking f...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 18:15hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Declare drought a national disaster'
ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo has called on government to declare a state of emergency resulting from the El Nino-induced drought.The 2023/24 farming season has been condemned as a write-off,...Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 15:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
How did things get so bad in Haiti? Here's what to Know
Things in Haiti have gotten so bad that Ariel Henry, the unelected Prime Minister, resigned and called for the installation of a tra...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 18:58hrs | 39 | by Staff Reporter
Mixed reactions in Zimbabwe to new US sanctions
There are mixed feelings among Zimbabwe's political class after the U.S. removed sanctions against many Zimbabweans and companies on Monday but imposed new ones on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a f...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water crisis worsens
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as the city's water woes continue to mount with most suburbs going for weeks without running tap water, forcing residents to resort to unhygienic water source...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 03:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Food crisis escalates in Matebeleland region
A food crisis is worsening in the Matebeleland region owing to erratic rains with hunger already stalking villagers in drought-prone provinces, including the Bulawayo metropolitan province.Com...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA ramps up screening at its borders over outbreak of cholera
The National Department of Health said the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring countries has led to the government intensifying screening efforts at South Africa's borders.One of the countries...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera outbreak jolts UN
ZIMBABWE's cholera death toll and confirmed cases have jumped beyond the anticipated threshold, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned.In a statement dat...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa fired Roy Bhila
ZIMBABWE'S deputy Industry and Commerce minister Roy Bhila was fired last week over corrupt issues involving cement import licences - money-spinning permits - and the secret charging of "facilitation ...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 19:29hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Cholera is wreaking havoc in Harare's poor suburbs
TWO men struggle to push a rusty wheelchair over quarry stones into one of the tents at a clinic in Kuwadzana phase 4, one of Harare's densely populated suburbs.In the wheelchair is an elderly...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:35hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zim man sues govt, local authority over cholera outbreak
A ZIMBABWEAN man has sued the government and a local authority over their failure to contain the outbreak of the deadly cholera disease, which has claimed the lives of more than 150 people in the trou...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 17:41hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation fu...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Harare councillors blow US$24,000 in Nyanga despite cholera surge
At a time when cholera is ravaging the capital city, Harare City Council officials have chosen to attend a workshop in Nyanga where they are said to be blowing an astonishing US$24 000 in hefty allowa...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 15:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe restricts gatherings, food vending as cholera cases spike
Zimbabwe's government has started restricting public gatherings and food vending, while monitoring burials in all areas affected by cholera, after cases of the disease spiked this week.New cho...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare declares state of emergency as cholera cases rise
Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, has officially declared a state of emergency in response to a cholera outbreak that has claimed numerous lives, with confirmed cases on the rise. Since the initia...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:37hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water crisis deepens
GWERU residents associations have called on government to intervene and address the dire water crisis in the city.Most parts of the Midlands capital have gone for two weeks without tap water....Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Small progress on Beitbridge, Bulawayo -Victoria Falls road
SMALL progress has been recorded in the rehabilitation of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo- Victoria Falls Road with the contractor expected to complete about 20km of newly surfaced road within the next two we...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
25km Beitbridge-Bulawayo Road rehabilitation excites motorists
THE ongoing rehabilitation of badly damaged sections of the Bulawayo- Beitbridge Road has ignited excitement among motorists who had to endure the difficulties of navigating one of the country's busie...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers deface Mnangagwa posters
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismantled the Cleveland Shooting Range in Harare amid allegations that some soldiers stationed there were defacing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign posters in M...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 08:13hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP promises sanity in Mt Pleasant
Aspiring Member of the House of Assembly for Mt Pleasant Constituency, Beadle Musatye Gwasira has promised to bring meaningful development and sanity to the area.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com ahe...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:46hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU PF MP promises sanity in Mt Pleasant
Aspiring Member of the House of Assembly for Mt Pleasant Constituency, Mr. Beadle Musatye Gwasira has promised to bring meaningful development and sanity ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:02hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road rehab complete in 1 year
THE rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway is progressing well and the contractor, Bitumen World Private Limited, has assured stakeholders that maintenance works would likely be complet...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes the risk by sidelining army in polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a huge political risk by sidelining the military - which has kept Zanu-PF in power directly since 2000 - from his dicey intelligency-driven presidential election...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Popular delusions or realpolitik?
THE nomination court has sat and registered aspiring candidates for the upcoming polls. The process was marred with drama generally, but it was the presumptive presidential candidates that provided th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 19:43hrs | 4 | by Ntando Dumani
French revolution brewing
France has been rocked by a wave of protests after a 17-year-old youth was shot by police near Paris on Tuesday, sparking a ban on demonstrations in some cities, travel warnings and reigniting a debat...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 17:40hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Call to speed up rehabilitation of Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road
Matebeleland North Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Richard Moyo has expressed concern over the slow pace in the rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway and implored authoritie...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cholera worsens in Zimbabwe
As cholera worsens in Zimbabwe, Harare's poor high density suburb Mbare's New Lines area has been declared by government a national state of emergency, paving way for authorities urgently disburse fun...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mbare houses declared a state of emergency
Mbare's New Line area has been declared a state of emergency by the Government which has subsequently ordered that devolution funds be redirected to refurbish housing, sewer systems and enhance garbag...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Small progress registered on Beitbridge - Victoria Falls road rehab
SOME progress has been made on the rehabilitation of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) as the Second Republic continues to deliver o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highway pothole patching begins
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway starting with badly damaged sections that will be resurfaced. Bitumen World, which is already on site,...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malema says Zimbabweans have let down Ngarivhume
SOUTH Africa's main opposition leader Julius Malema, has urged Zimbabweans to stand up against the harassment of pro-democracy activists following the jailing of opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Moyo
Victoria Falls damaged roads affect tourism
A MAJORITY of roads within Victoria Falls are now littered with potholes following heavy rains that fell in the country recently.In the past, potholes were not common in the city compared to o...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:02hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 98 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa outsmarts Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is next week expected to emerge triumphant at the crucial Zanu-PF elective congress after a fierce power struggle - characterised by scheming, backstabbing, a grenade atta...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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