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Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 5 hrs ago | 767 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA doesn't require proof of recent negative COVID-19 tests
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to correct misleading information that was contained in an internally generated notice that was issued to clearing agents on the 6th of August, 2020. ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 810 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city blames KSB pumps
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved plans to decommission KSB pumps at its waterworks after investigations showed that they posed a risk to the quality and water security of the city.This...Published: 14 hrs ago | 449 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF government's conduct is smuggling 'outrage porn' into the public sphere.
As the Covidgate scandal remain unresolved, can it be fair to attack journalists and the media for spreading "panic porn" as is being peddled by Emerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF?Are we in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 569 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Beitbridge border shut over 5 COVID-19 cases
BEITBRIDGE Border Post temporarily closed for decontamination yesterday after five employees of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) tested positive for COVID-19, amid unconfirmed reports that the c...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer's house up in smoke
MAFIOS Gomo, an illegal fuel dealer at St Alberts business centre in Mashonaland Central province accidentally burnt his home and daughter yesterday after he tripped and fell on a firewood heater whil...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Fresh fuel shortages hit Zimbabwe
FRESH fuel shortages have hit the country and in Bulawayo most service stations have been dry for the past week. A news crew took to the streets of Bulawayo and observed motorists queueing for refills...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer accidentally burns house
AN illegal fuel dealer from St Alberts Business Center in Mashonaland Central province accidentally burnt his child and lost property worth thousands of United States dollars yesterday.Mafios ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 20:55hrs | 4204 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Fuel service stations abandon selling fuel in local currency, only forex sold gas is available
MOST motorists who are earning money in local currency have a daily nightmare as they struggle to get fuel sold in local currency amid revelations most service stations with fuel now sell it in ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 11:41hrs | 1647 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
11 protesters challenge arrest
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and nine other political activists arrested in Harare over July 31 illegal demonstrations, are contesting their arr...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 592 | by Stephen Jakes
Dangarembga arrest triggers global storm
The arrest of award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year's Booker Prize, and several political activists on Friday has invited global condemnation and demands for thei...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Mahere and other political activists granted bail
ELEVEN political activists, including MDC-Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere, filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and others from different pressure groups, yesterday appeared in court facing a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Security forces on high alert
SECURITY forces are on high alert and will be out in full force with adequate manpower to thwart any illegal protests meant to destabilise the country. Police yesterday said people should go a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Police uncover demo plot
POLICE yesterday unearthed a plot by some vigilante groups linked to the country's opposition parties to commit acts of banditry that include burning service stations and barricading roads to trigger ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
'249 armed persons threaten to burn fuel stations on Friday'
Zimbabwe Republic Police Senior Staff Officer (Press, Public and International Relations) Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has revealed that a group of 249 persons are plotting to barricade al...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 14:28hrs | 7824 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus hits Harare City Council..offices shut down
I extend my warmest greetings to you all the residents and visitors to Harare and would like to take this opportunity to reinforce the message against the fight against Covid-19.Harare City Co...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:57hrs | 3425 | by Deputy Mayor Enock Mupamawonde
Judges attack CJ Malaba
HIGH Court judges have come out against Chief Justice Luke Malaba for directing them to present their judgments to the Judge President or himself before delivering them, saying his actions were meant ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5757 | by Staff reporter
Potraz, MNOs partner to connect under-served areas to the world
MARGINAlISED communities with limited or no mobile access are set to benefit from an agreement between telecoms regulator, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) and m...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2667 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Tilda Moyo leaving Star FM?
THE recent departure of Phathisani "Mashuga" Sibanda from Star FM to seek greener pastures may have left his cohost Kudzai Violet Gwara, aka KVG, "widowed" and their legions of radio followers the mor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 2679 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Curfew regulations clarified
THE gazetted legal statutory instrument amending lockdown regulations by setting the 6PM to 6AM curfew, now requires church gatherings, jogging, walking and cycling to take place not earlier than 8AM ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5012 | by Staff Reporter
6 TV channels to get licences
Six independent television channels will soon get licences as part of the movement by the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa to open up airwaves and implement media reforms, Senators heard yes...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew has little to do with coronavirus pandemic
THE government's critics accused authorities yesterday of allegedly hiding behind the soaring coronavirus infections in the country to trample on people's freedoms, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:16hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
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 | 176 | by Staff writer
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Covid-19 hits Zimbabwe prisons
Two positive Covid-19 cases have been recorded at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, adding to unofficial reports of a coronavirus death at the same place and a third case at the correctional services...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1254 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2488 | by Zivanai Dhewa
'Mnangagwa's govt using COVID-19 to lock down democracy'
GOVERNMENT has used COVID-19 to "lock down" democracy, a human rights lobby group, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has said.Speaking during a virtual meeting marking the launch of a COVID-19 r...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Specialist doctors threaten strike
A MASSIVE health crisis is looming in Zimbabwe after specialist doctors yesterday threatened to down tools if their demands were not met in the next two weeks.The doctors said they would join ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Forex fuel prices tumble
Fuel dealers allowed to charge in foreign currency are now competing on price, with most charging well below the legal maximums of US$1,28 a litre for petrol and US$1,09 for diesel. While fuel...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 7929 | by Staff reporter
Varsity student ventures into music
BULAWAYO-BASED up-and-coming gospel-rap artiste Sipho Ndlovu (21), popularly known as Hood Legend (Gunz) in music circles, has released a new track titled Revelation. He said his music had bee...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to resume work on July 28
All teachers should report for duty on July 28, the date set for the return of examination classes in the phased reopening of schools, and should make arrangements to be at their stations to either te...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 2093 | by Staff reporter
Idiocy that has a tragic price: Sikhala
MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said state security agents visited his home at high and he wonders what was their motive as they ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 3599 | by Stephen Jakes
LIST: 330 police officers called for special training before 31 July demo
The Zimbabwe Republic Police special training phase 2 stopped in March due to COVID-19 is hurriedly resumed next week.This is contained in an internal memo sent to police stations.The ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 18:37hrs | 5283 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3494 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns NGOs
President Mnangagwa has warned rogue non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, churches and some foreign embassies against destabilising prevailing peace, unity and harmony through dabbling...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
July 31 demo to go ahead with or without police approval
OPPOSITION Transform Zimbabwe leader and coordinator of the planned July 31 mass demonstrations, Jacob Ngarivhume has vowed the anti-government protest will proceed with or without police approval....Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1986 | by newzimbabwe
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 276 | by Vince Musewe
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
SA closes Beitbridge border after customs officer tests positive
South Africa has temporarily closed its component of Beitbridge Border Post after one of its customs officers tested positive for the novel coronavirus (covid-19).According to border off...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:51hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Jostling for posts divides Khupe's party
INFIGHTING has erupted in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe a few months after the faction found new life following a Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the former deputy prime minister as leader of ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5887 | by Staff reporter
Zimra workers on go-slow
CUSTOMS and excise officers at Beitbridge border post and other stations yesterday briefly downed tools and later opted to go slow to register disgruntlement over poor wages, although the tax agency d...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 15:40hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
ZEC in election U-turn, covid-19 'new norm' - without reforms, why risk even one life over a farce
"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the ...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1911 | by Nomusa Garikai
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6769 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
Zec makes U-turn over elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said it would withdraw its proposal to suspend electoral activities during the COVID-19 lockdown because the pandemic was likely to be long-term.Zec...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 5734 | by Staff reporter
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