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Sadc, EU positions on Zimbabwe: Attempting an end of history
Last week, there were two very important statements issued on Zimbabwe by two very important inter-State political bodies. The first of these statements and closer to home was issued by the Southern A...Published: 23 hrs ago | 820 | by Takura Zhangazha
Both democracy and authoritarianism are on the rise in Africa
Is democracy in Africa in retreat? Or is it simply suffering "growing pains"? The last 12 months have seen a great deal of controversy and debate on these important questions.There have been s...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:08hrs | 241 | by Nic Cheeseman
Air Tanzania to relaunch Harare, Dar es Salaam flights
AIR Tanzania is set to relaunch flights into Harare from Dar es Salaam this Friday at a time other airlines are pulling out of the country, citing currency challenges."Get to explore the beaut...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:04hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa purges Chiwenga top allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has purged top military commanders suspected to be aligned to his ailing deputy Constantino Chiwenga in a move seen as consolidating his hold on power and scuttling anothe...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | 3179 | by Staff reporter
SADC diplomats meet in Zimbabwe
Southern African Development Community Ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe have met in the capital this Monday afternoon for their monthly consultative meeting.The sub-regional diplomats who me...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 15:06hrs | 4327 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his love for expensive jets
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 5264 | by Benjamin Manzini
Mnangagwa dumps Chiwenga's security
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the absence of Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga to dump the Presidential guard and appoint the Airforce of Zimbabwe officials as his security....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 09:17hrs | 13573 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Can Air Zimbabwe be run profitably?
Air Zimbabwe was placed under reconstruction on 4 October 2018 after operating for over 51 years in the skies. The airline has debts of over $350 million that are weighing down any restructuring exerc...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 22:54hrs | 425 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe looks to tackle telecom fraud with technology
Despite an ambitious economic reform agenda, Zimbabwe's economic freedom score dropped down 3.6 points to a mere 40.4 on the Heritage Foundation's latest Index of Economic Freedom, making its economy ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:38hrs | 579 | by Agencies
Can Air Zimbabwe be run profitably?
AIR Zimbabwe was placed under reconstruction on October 4 2018 after operating for over 51 years in the skies.The airline has debts exceeding US$350 million that are weighing down the restruct...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 246 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe can raise 70% funding locally'
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe has potential to mobilise 70 percent of funding needed to finance key infrastructure projects on the domestic market, a s...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's unskilled ministers to be sent to China
THE Chinese embassy is organising seminars in Beijing for Zimbabwean cabinet ministers and bureaucrats to help them learn how to engage top investors and financial institutions in the world's second l...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2264 | by Staff reporter
Maimane's money & monkey tricks
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
A letter to Mugabe that could have changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
An Eritrean diplomat friend sent the attached letter to me last night and I was blown away by how prophetic it was to Zimbabwe's situation, and how if Robert Mugabe had applied the advice given to him...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:22hrs | 11847 | by An introduction by Hopewell Chin'ono
Temba Mliswa brings Prof. Lumumba to Norton
Norton Member of parliament Temba Mliswa through his organization Youth Advocacy for Reform and Democracy (YARD) will be hosting the famed philosopher and Founder of PLO Lumumba Foundation Profe...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 11:51hrs | 4064 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Digging to the roots of Maimane's stunts
Last week the South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Mmusi Maimane handed a letter to the Zimbabwean embassy in that country requesting to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:56hrs | 752 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Ruvheneko goes global
Award-winning media personality Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa has resurfaced in broadcast, this time as a panellist for BBC's The She Word, which she says is a shot at going global after a wearisome stint on...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi grabs world headlines
THE death of Oliver Mtukudzi grabbed newspaper headlines around the world befittingly demonstrating the global influence of the Afrojazz icon's work and personality.Newspapers around the world...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:02hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Current political stalemate will force ED and Chamisa on the table
There are what we call, synonyms of dialogue, argument, argy-bargy, colloquy, confab or confabulations, give and take, palaver, parley, consultations and moving back and forth. Political dialogue refe...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 12:58hrs | 3418 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
More evil to visit Zimbabwe under Mnangagwa
THE ousting of former President Robert Mugabe by political and military elites will result in more of the same abuse of Zimbabweans unless the Sadc joins forces with world powers to effect real change...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1773 | by Mondli Makhanya
SA Hawks arrest car thief, smuggling suspect
THE Hawks have arrested a second suspect believed to be part of a racket stealing vehicles from South Africa and smuggling them to other countries via Zimbabwe. It is understood that most of the stole...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 371 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Mnangagwa lands top SADC post
President Emmerson will soon be assuming the position of the Chairperson of the SADC organ on Politics,Defence and Security Cooperation it has been revealed.In a SADC communiqué after Double ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 6600 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2616 | by Staff reporter
WATCH:Biti calls for an extra-ordinary SADC summit on Zimbabwe
MDC Deputy National Chairperson has called upon SADC to call upon an urgent extraordinary SADC summit to discuss the issue of Zimbabwe.Biti called upon the Presidents of South Africa, Namibia,...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 17:58hrs | 4038 | by Mandla Ndlovu
President ED It's a Devilish Move to go to Davos
If you divide $2,5 million with 80 Members of Parliament you will get $31,250. It means that, if ED is not going to Davos via other four countries to attend an economic forum between 22-25 January 201...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:30hrs | 3658 | by Don Chigumba
Money transfer service sings the blues
ZIMPOST'S money transfer service, Zipcash, is struggling to break even due to cash shortages and failure by the South African corridor to perform up to standard, acting managing director Sifundo Moyo ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Only a firm hand benevolent autocratic leader can save Zimbabwe
Eddie Cross's opinion piece of December 29, 2018 titled "How long oh Lord, how Long?", in which he lambasts lousy government, corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies, concludes tha...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:58hrs | 3008 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
JZ Moyo dared Joshua Nkomo
The article gives an insight into the life of Moyo and also projects him as a fearless individual who did not hesitate to challenge his leader, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo when he felt things wer...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:28hrs | 4300 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Reviving the 'New Zimbabwe' dream in 2019
As Zimbabweans enter 2019 from a forgettable festive season, probably the worst in the past decade, uncertainty abounds about Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.Zimbabweans are deeply concerned a...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:07hrs | 194 | by Vivid Gwede
Luxury boutique hotel opens in Victoria Falls
A brand new luxury boutique hotel will open its doors to the discerning international traveller in the resort town of Victoria Falls next year.Mbano Manor Hotel will bring a unique bespoke exp...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:35hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
FC Platinum face Orlando Pirates stars in Champions League
CHAMPIONS FC Platinum will face fellow Zimbabwean players, Marshal Munetsi and Kuda Mahachi, after they were drawn in the same group with Orlando Pirates of South Africa.The Zimbabwe champions...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:50hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans not highly taxed - Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says Zimbabweans are not highly taxed as claimed by some sections of society. Most of these taxes compare favourably with the rest of Sub-Saharan countri...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 08:57hrs | 3081 | by Staff Reporter
Tribute to Josiah Magama Tongogara 39 years on
A day after celebrating Christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 19:29hrs | 4446 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa acts on ghost workers
Government plans to roll out the biometric registration of workers in the civil service within the first three months of next year, in an exercise that is largely expected to help streamline the publi...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:00hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe inquiry report in brief
Executive SummaryZimbabwe held its national elections on the 30th of July 2018. The electoral process was generally peaceful until the 1st of August 2018, when many demonstrators took to the s...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:50hrs | 269 | by Motlanthe
Motlanthe Commission calls for talks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main political rival, Nelson Chamisa, are being pushed into negotiations by the Commission of Inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1, 2018, wh...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
Findings of Commission of Inquiry into 1 August 2018 Post-Election Violence
RELEASE STATEMENT FOR THE REPORT ON THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE 1ST OF AUGUST 2018 POST ELECTION VIOLENCEOn the 14th of September 2018, I established a Commission of Inquiry into the 1s...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1304 | by ONline
Fortune Charumbira in delirium about Gukurahundi
Provocative and desperate attempts to hoodwink the world on Gukurahundi by Zanu-PF surrogates such as Fortune Charumbira will never weaken or derail the struggle for justice by the genuine victims of ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 1706 | by Mkhululi Zulu
The Rhodes Trust announces Historic Class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars
The Rhodes Trust today announces a record-breaking class of 101 new Rhodes Scholars. This cohort, who will arrive at Rhodes House, Oxford, in October 2019, features young people from all fields of stu...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1179 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF tells Mnangagwa to fix the economy
Zanu-PF bigwigs who gathered in Esigodini for their party's annual conference last week pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to act quickly and decisively to stem the country's worsening economic...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:58hrs | 5380 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels heat over economy
With Zimbabwe's economy continuing to tank - and long-suffering citizens now desperate for some respite - President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told thousands of Zanu-PF delegates gathered in Esigodi...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:04hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
Shock as ZTV broadcaster says albinism is witchcraft
The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has ZTV and one of its religious programs broadcaster known as P. Nyaude for broadcaster misleading information that albinism is a pr...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 13:08hrs | 3094 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutsvangwa stands down
The vice president of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa, left the leadership of the Forum last week after an eventful two years at the helm of the inter-parliamentary body that b...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 4116 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Spot Mnangagwa, Machel and Putin
Third from left is the current Russian President Vladimir Putin, next to him is THE FIRST AFRICAN MOZAMBIQUE PRESIDENT the late HE Samora Machel, with the CURRENT PRESIDENT OF Z...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:50hrs | 22806 | by Social media
Mnangagwa's big paycheck revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two Vice-Presidents earn an average monthly salary of $17 500 each.According to the Blue Book, the government document which details its expenditure and de...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | 8241 | by newZWire
Jakaya Kikwete called Mugabe a 'village thief'
Former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete called Robert Mugabe a village thief who stole elections when they met in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt in 2008.This was revealed by Professor Arthur Mu...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 09:19hrs | 10506 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo blasts Mnangagwa over 1 August killings report
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the revelations by Presidential Spokesman George Charamba that the August 1 killings report is meant for...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 08:44hrs | 4602 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Motlanthe; Charamba clash on 1 August killings report
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has issued a contradictory statement to that of August 1 killings Commission chairperson Kgalema Motlanthe regarding the publicity of the commission report....Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 08:06hrs | 5191 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Motlanthe commission yet to finalise report
THE Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 Post-Election Violence is compiling its final report containing its findings, which will be handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa within the stip...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
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