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Bulawayo City Council to blame for water crisis
WATER at Bulawayo's remaining three supply dams can last the city for 11 months without council implementing the water shedding programme but lack of investment in a bulk water delivery system has con...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Work on Hwange power project at 60%
THE Government is working tirelessly to expedite the return of expatriates contracted under its power generation projects most of whom are still locked up in their countries due to the outbreak of Cov...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:51hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 325 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Policy implementation key in reindustrializing economy
The re-industrialization of the economy is a vital piece in the achievement of Zimbabwe's sustainable economic development goals and effective participation in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:15hrs | 435 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2093 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Tensions flare over Chinese miners in the Midlands
Mounds of black chrome shimmer along the highway that runs through this area, as mine workers labour near heavy machinery marked with Chinese writing.The workers toil about 5km from the road, ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:43hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Hwange expansion behind schedule
WORK on the Hwange Power Station expansion to add two units with combined output of 600 megawatts, has reached 48 percent completion, but has fallen behind the second quarter target of 57 percent due ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes over Ziscosteel revival drive
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has taken over the scouting for a strategic investor for Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel), it emerged this week.This follows government’...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
EMA closes 4 Mashonaland Central mines
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has closed four mining syndicates in Mashonaland Central which were operating without environmental impact assessment (EIAs) certificates and damaging the env...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4210 | by Terence. T. Simbi
'Security forces ready to deal with demos'
President Mnangagwa yesterday warned that security forces "will be vigilant and on high alert" to deal with any attempts to destabilise the constitutionally-elected Government or create a public healt...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1347 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4589 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born executive Ndlovu assumes global top post
Zimbabwe-born July Ndlovu has assumed the chairmanship of United Kingdom headquartered, World Coal Association ( WCA), a global industry association bringing together major international coal producer...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 2070 | by Staff reporter
Copper thieves blackout Plumtree
PLUMTREE has been hit by a power outage after thieves stole copper cables supplying the border town on Sunday night, compromising security at the border post.The outage has also reportedly aff...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 629 | by Bishop Lazarus
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
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1596 | by Robert Sigauke
Interim Zisco board chair leaves in a huff
ECONOMIST Gift Mugano has resigned as Ziscosteel interim chairperson after Industry minister Sekai Nzenza reportedly censored him for making remarks that were deemed in 'conflict' with his role as a b...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4878 | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabweans should stand up against parasitic sadistic ZANU-PF regime
It has never been doubtful, nor debatable, that the Zimbabwe regime is one made out of some of the most soulless, ruthless, and ungodly people on the face of the planet - who have no qualms at all in ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:30hrs | 461 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
China opens up chrome market for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean chrome miners will resume exports to China following revelations that the Asian economic giant has started opening up its chrome market which was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic and dep...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:35hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$100m worth property to vandalism
Vandalism and theft of public infrastructure has resulted in government departments and municipalities losing property and equipment worth more tha n US$100 million every year.The vandalism af...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:37hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Bindura man kills senior citizen over beer
The love of beer landed a Bindura man in prison after he allegedly killed a senior citizen.Nariti Chatobwa (49) of Beacon Hill farm, Bi...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:17hrs | 583 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man jailed 25 years for killed security guard
A BULAWAYO man who ganged up with two accomplices and choked a security guard to death at a flea market in the city centre in 2013, was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in jail. Ignatius Mehlul...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC threatens to disconnect Zisco
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZETDC), has threatened to switch off defunct steel giant, Zisco, over a ZW$6,2 million debt accrued over a period of three months.In a letter to ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:39hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Every Zimbabwean should be an economic driver
EDITOR,After the devastating effects of Covid-19 it is time for all people especially the youth to take a leading role as economic drivers.Zimbabwe is not in this economic turmoil beca...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 912 | by JKM
Govt resolves to find new suitor for Ziscosteel
CABINET on Tuesday gave an inter-ministerial committee, which was established last week to spearhead the resuscitation of the defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel), the greenlight to sc...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:14hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe can return to economic glory days
Former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada (TM) believes Zimbabwe can return to its glory days of the early 1980s when the economy was stable and end poverty. He discu...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Where is our freedom of worship?
That known Christmas Holiday is no more, (voet-cookies) 'mafetikuku' in the winnowing basket and a steel kettle full of 'industrial boiler hot tea' may have disappeared for good. This virus and ...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 250 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Lupane gas project remains a pipe dream
Asea of poverty pictures Lupane in Matabeleland North, a district sitting on an untapped lucrative coal bed methane gas resource, which has witnessed several ribbon-cutting ceremonies ostensibly to ki...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:25hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
'Workers in Zimbabwe are mourning'
"My prospects are useless, the leadership of the country should change because they have failed us as a country, in terms of employment it's their duty to create employment but they have failed. ...Published: 02 May 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1767 | by Daniel Itai
The lost industrial glory of the city of Bulawayo
AFRICAN nationalism demands that the history of British colonialism must be condemned at every opportunity and I must be counted among those who lose no opportunity to condemn this phenomenal episode ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 882 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
WATCH: Zimbabwean smugglers laugh at South Africa's border fence
A stream of people illegally transporting groceries and cigarettes between SA and Zimbabwe this week laughed off SA's hastily constructed R37m border fence as a "joke".The Sunday Times visited...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 17:05hrs | 5027 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Donald Trump
Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, has sent advance copies of his memoirs to news organisations all over the world. His greatest challenge was how to deal with US President Donald Tru...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 13:27hrs | 2234 | by Ken Mufuka
Crossing points during Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia bush war
WHAT do the following places share in common: DK (point along the Zambezi Valley), Kanyemba, Chirundu, Mlibizi, Kavira Forest, Chisuma? Some guerrillas may identify them as crossing points into Rhodes...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 663 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Calls grow to reopen parts of Zimbabwe's crisis-ridden economy
A tall, medium build security guard stands behind a large steel gate at Boka Tobacco Auction Floors on the outskirts of Harare, his face partially covered by a white surgical mask and his hands encase...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2027 | by Al Jazeera
MPs want transparency on 'mega deals'
OPPOSITION MPs have demanded transparency and tangible results on the mega deals that were reportedly clinched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he came into office.Mnangagwa claimed that ...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:27hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia, as there's clearly nothing for me in Zimbabwe
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989 - at the age of 16 years, whilst still doing Form Three at Kwekwe High School in Zimbabwe - this is probably ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 60904 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe@40: Still standing . . . going strong
APRIL 18 marks Zimbabwe's Independence Day.We commemorate this auspicious national occasion heroically fighting Covid-19, a global pandemic that has claimed and is still claiming thousands of ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 111 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Zim @ 40, A New Dispensation that never was minus Mugabe's booming voice
It's dreary Saturday and somewhat overcast midmorning in Pretoria as I watch live news feeds from the North across the mighty Limpopo River. Life away from home has turned many into creatures ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 309 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Celebrating 40 Years. Which way Zimbabwe?
At 40, Zimbabwe should be celebrating a milestone-forty years of independence from our former colonial masters.18 April 1980 was indeed a milestone for Zimbabwe. Yet, we stand today on 18 April 20...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3611 | by Benjamin Paradza
How Ramaphosa's soldiers killed Collin Khosa
In a legal letter of demand sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa, the family of Collin Khosa has explained in detail what happened when he died in Alexandra on Good Friday.Khosa was allegedly kil...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 14:25hrs | 2350 | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields Stadium maintenance intensified
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has intensified work at Barbourfields Stadium in an effort to make the facility Caf compliant to host international matches. Caf further condemned Barbourfields Sta...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:28hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube yet to release COVID-19 funds
GOVERNMENT's incapacity to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country was exposed in a case currently before the High Court where the Health ministry disclosed that Treasury has not yet ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:32hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Imports surged before lockdown
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it recorded a seven percent increase in imports coming into the country a week prior to the closing down of borders to non-essential traffic and the impleme...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:58hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6596 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's allies 'grab' Ziscosteel properties amid fears of total collapse
'Vultures' are not waiting for the death of the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel), but are instead flying low for the kill, eyeing its mega-million assets, among them the steelworks' real e...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 14098 | by Staff reporter
What is educational technology and how it helps in student learning
Ever since the emergence of educational technology, it has brought developments in teaching and learning methods. According to the study of ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:07hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
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