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ZiG Currency: Catalyzing Zimbabwe's Middle-Income Pursuit - Empowering Economic Well-being
Zimbabwe has taken a crucial step in revitalizing the economy and instilling trust in the financial sector by introducing the groundbreaking Zimbabwean Gold-backed Dollar (ZiG) as the official replace...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 22:17hrs | | by Elvis Dzvene
Zimbabwe Communist Party elections observer report for 2023 elections
OBSERVATIONS ON THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONGeneralFirstly, as Communists, we do not confuse democracy with voting.The word ‘democracy' is derived from Greek and means ‘rule by the pe...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Central Committee of the Zimbabwe Communist Party
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
22 women raped per day in Zimbabwe
AT least 22 women are raped daily in Zimbabwe with an average of one rape taking place per 75 minutes translating to an average of 646 women being violated each month, according to the Zimbabwe Gender...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges youths to dream big
YOUTHS must dream big, create wealth and seize opportunities which are available in the economy in order to play a central role in building a better Zimbabwe, as this represents the true meaning of In...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Auto spares gobble US$160m in 2021
Zimbabwe spent US$60 million more on auto spares in 2021 than a year earlier, figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) show, as trade with the rest of the world increased due to ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No vaccination, no work for civil servants
All civil servants must now be vaccinated against Covid-19 before being allowed to report for duty after being given time to get their jabs, while churches are now permitted to move from 100 people at...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on public private partnerships
GOVERNMENT is providing an enabling environment for public private partnerships in infrastructural development which will result in the attainment of Government's vision 2030. This was said by...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai destroyed the ZCTU
Those who have meticulously followed developments on the country's labour landscape since the turn of the millennium will, no doubt, concur with me that Morgan Tsvangirai (may his departed soul rest i...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mnangagwa caps 1 567 Chinhoyi University of Technology graduates
President Mnangagwa yesterday capped 1 567 graduates at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT). In his address at the institution's 14th graduation ceremony, Vice Chancellor Professor David Simbi sai...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Is Stratum worth opposing in the Cesarewitch in favor of a big price outsider?
Moving into October and as autumn begins to take hold and temperatures take a dip, the sporting schedule hots up. It’s no different on the horse racing front and the month opens in fine style as ...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Agencies
Mnangagwa endorsement wake up call for Chamisa
For the past three weeks, the MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa derailed Zimbabwe's progress through a poorly-thought out court petition against President Mnangagwa's electoral victory on July 30, 20...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The impact of social media on the forthcoming 2018 election
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual and communities network....Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Approachable presidency, the panacea to national engagement
Since taking the reins of power end of November last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presence in office has been felt far and wide. Locally, he has made impact on the political terrain with his c...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 11:58hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Which voice is God's voice, Mnangagwa?
It cannot be the people's voice, and it certainly is not God's voice that, in pursuant of peace, accountability and hard work, you appoint and flaunt known perpetrators of fear, corruption, intimidati...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:21hrs | | by Mathabelazitha/The Anvil
How Rhodesia ended tribes
The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled "The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa". Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxo...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
South Africa hardly recovered from the race sentiment of apartheid
It is very easy to think it is the flash, not the flame; that burns big logs. The local media excitedly reported on the resignation of an aide of Mujuru's Nats, in the process missing the actual burni...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 11:54hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Leave vendors alone in your fight
One day my wife had a quarrel with our first born. While she was throwing insults on him, she uttered a statement that I took as an indirect attack on me. Women do that, at times to an extent of attac...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 14:03hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
God is ZANU-PF
The other week I had attempted a very angry piece on the state of thought in our beloved Zimbabwe. I shouted; I railed. After a while I reflected, and then recalled a proverb used by Amilcar Cabral in...Published: 10 Dec 2016 at 17:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Zimbabwe Agenda 2016: to talk one issue, one focus and resolution
No doubt the world is somehow dazzled by a multifarious of individuals and faces that seek to be spokesperson for Zimbabwe people an/or groups for both at home and in the Diaspora. Always such people ...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 23:59hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Tsvangi-xit moment?
Our media pundits are at it again, misleading us into thinking that local opposition organisations are about to find each other, hopefully to form what might be called a party to challenge Zanu-PF. Th...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Emptiness is MDC-T's bond-age!
So much has been said about the proposed introduction of bond notes by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. A fortnight ago, RBZ chief John Mangudya announced that the central bank would inject more bond cur...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu Mugabe distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations must be stopped
The hope that a sector of the population can rise over and above people voice and representation, irrespective of sacrifices and contributions, runs contrary to values of democratic norms and must be ...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 00:11hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mines minister off side on Hwangwe Colliery Company
The Minister of Mines and Mining Development Honorable Walter Chidhakwa directives to Hwangwe Colliery Company (HCC) management shows a dismaying contempt of good corporate governance .The minister ha...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 12:27hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Zimbabwe adds to the ranks of super-rich
FOR a country that has been bludgeoned by economic sanctions from North America and the European bloc for the past 15 years, it seems there is a disproportionate rise in the nouaveau riche (newly rich...Published: 24 May 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Darlington Musarurwa
Susan 'Mother Chinja' Tsvangirai's legacy lives on
Born: 24 April 1958 Tragically passed on: 6th March 2009 Tears may dry, but memories the wound of thinking and missing you will never heal. The...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 20:16hrs | | by Moruti Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Cultural imperialism used as a tactic for regime change
Talk of globalization and the global village, particularly from the west has been received by many, including the Frankfurt School paradigm, with criticism. They argue that globalizati...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 09:04hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
When we can't trust ourselves after Mugabe
"One of the commonest manifestations of underdevelopment is a tendency among the ruling elite to live in a world of make-believe and unrealistic expectations. This is the cargo cult mentality that ant...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 17:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
When Zuma rides roughshod Zimbabwe's sovereignty
Zanu-PF has just completed its review of the Copac constitutional draft. Already, this exercise has raised acute anxieties in the two MDC formations; something good political players must always do to...Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 12:14hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Give it to him, Tendai Biti has seen the light
This week I propose to build my case through information vignettes. But first, let me pay my bills. I am grateful to one of my readers from Masembura who wrote to The Herald from the United Kin...Published: 04 Mar 2012 at 05:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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