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Zimsec exams proceed without reported leakages
The 2024 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Grade 7, Ordinary, and Advanced Level examinations have unfolded without any reports of paper leakages, marking a significant improvement compare...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:07hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zinara gets thumbs-up
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has received parliamentary approval after effectively addressing concerns raised in the latest report by Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga regarding its...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:23hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt gets thumbs up for DBOT for roadworks
Economists have asserted that adopting the Design, Build, Operate, and Transfer (DBOT) model for road infrastructure development in Zimbabwe is crucial to curbing corruption and ensuring quality workm...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:46hrs | 6152 | by Staff reporter
US thumbs up for Zimbabwe investment
U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, has stated that Washington is actively lobbying American firms to explore investment opportunities in Zimbabwe, a country she describes as having significa...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 14:52hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Economic Empowerment Bill gets thumbs up
Stakeholders in Bulawayo, including small to medium enterprises (SMEs), have welcomed the Economic Empowerment Bill, which aims to replace the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act with a new Ec...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:16hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are distraught by financial trauma
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as I see it, Zimbabweans are emotionally drained. They are overwhelmed by the severity of deprivation caused by the collapse of currenci...Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:52hrs | 13 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
UK based Zimbabwean man to marry niece
A UK based Zimbabwean, who reportedly fell in love with his niece after seeing pictures of her attending a funeral, reportedly now plans to marry her, with the girl's parents also giving the union the...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:21hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to keep Zimdollar
Zimbabwe plans to keep its local dollar, a currency that has lost value every single trading day of the year, even as fiscal and monetary authorities work on new plans to revamp the currency, accordin...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu, CCC differ on govt projects
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu says his party will support all government programmes, but colleagues in the party think otherwise.In an intervi...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields or Heart Stadium for Dynamos 'home' games?
BARRING last minute improvements on stadia condemned as unfit to host Premier Soccer League games, giants Dynamos have the option to taking trips to Bulawayo, again, to play "home" games at Barbourfie...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSL chairperson gives thumbs up to Rufaro Stadium
PREMIER Soccer League (PSL) chairman, Farai Jere, has given a green light to Rufaro Stadium which is set to open its doors for top-flight action when the season commences next month.With uncer...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lilstock Dam at Chinehasha, the new tourist destination in Chiweshe.
Development starts with good roads, especially the modern macadamised passageways. The investor intent on turning Lilstock Dam shores at Chinehasha in Chiweshe into a sort-after holiday resort has wel...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:21hrs | 10 | by Thomas Murisa
Zambian President Hichilema breaks SADC protocols
ZAMBIAN President Hakainde Hichilema breached Southern Africa Development Community protocols when he appointed Dr Nevers Mumba, a man with a criminal record, to head the bloc's Electoral Observer Mis...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA, Botswana, Namibia give Zimbabwe polls thumbs up?
SOUTH Africa, Botswana and Namibia have all said Zimbabwe's harmonised elections were free, fair and credible, dismissing as misguided a preliminary report that was produced by the SADC Electoral Obse...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goodluck Jonathan leads AU poll observer mission
FORMER Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will lead a joint observer mission of the Africa Union (AU) and Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) to observe the country's harmonised elec...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
E-passport Offices at Concession are a pleasure to visit
Visiting government offices for whatever reason is usually viewed and weighed with disdain by many for fear of delays and poor service delivery. After procrastinating for over two weeks, me an...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:36hrs | 30 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe braces for historic Mayweather visit
DURING a visit to Nigeria on May 9, 2022, American boxing icon Floyd "Money" Mayweather announced his grand plan to promote the sport in Africa.It was a historic trip, as the retired boxer rar...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industry applauds improved power situation
THE business community has started feeling the positive impact of improved power generation in the country, expressing hope that the situation will continue to stabilise, thereby guaranteeing enhanced...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zec to blame for electoral disputes
JUST about two months to the 2023 polls, the electoral environment has never been this murky ever since Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980.Never has the country experienced such a contes...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's US like law gets thumbs down from foreign funded NGOs
Zanu-PF's spirited attempts to introduce a law that will impose a death penalty on 'unpatriotic' Zimbabweans is an assault on human rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression analysts s...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF okays Mupfumira poll candidacy despite her claims of insanity
Axed Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira, who once evaded trial over US$95 million pension fund embezzlement citing insanity, has been certified fit to run for a seat in Zimbabwe's parliament by ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC gives thumbs up to candidate nominations, outlines next steps
The Citizens Coalition for Change's candidate selection process for August's general elections passed off smoothly on Wednesday, but was not without incident, the party said.Violent confrontat...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, its you making Zimbabwe 'subaltern' to world powers!
It was most strange, if not entirely queer and incomprehensible, reading President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa latest diatribe against Western countries' insistence on observing our elections. ...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 11:08hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
US$1,44 million for ZEC to build polls capacity
THE United Nations yesterday expressed confidence in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's ability to successfully conduct the harmonised elections to be held later this year, with Japan giving US$1,44 ...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bounty offered for Western tanks in Ukraine
A Russian battalion will pay $170,000 for a Leopard, Abrams, or Challenger captured in working conditionA Russian battalion offered a bounty on Friday for every operational Western-made tank s...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School headmaster sparks debate over haircuts
SOCIAL media went into meltdown yesterday, reacting to a video posted by The Herald of a school head who used a pair of scissors to plough through the hair of all learners who did not have proper hair...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are serial plan B people!' Where is plan B if millions are in the dark and starving
"Zimbabwe did not become a failed state overnight. The collapse of the country happened over a period of decades, starting as early as the 1980s," wrote Malaika Mahlatsi in an article circulating in m...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 10:01hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Commonwealth: Let's not take chances
SPEAKING at the National Sports Stadium to mark Zimbabwe's 24th independence anniversary on April 18, 2004 and four months after the southern African nation withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations a...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec receives a rare thumbs up
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has received a rare thumbs up after producing voter education material on delimitation in vernacular languages and Braille to cater for the visually impaired....Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thumbs up to a renewed ZANU PF!
The historic November 2017 Central Committee meeting which saw a change of guard at the ruling party HQ brought a number of positive developments for the party. Party First Secretary and Presi...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 07:09hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Bulawayo City silence Dynamos
Bulawayo City 1-0 Dynamos A Melikhaya Ncube goal from the penalty spot with 11 minutes to play was the difference as Bulawayo City earned a massive three points in their battle to survive relegati...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's shadowy group invades schools
A SHADOWY group backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to maintain a stranglehold on power has invaded schools to solicit the support of teachers ahead of next year's crunch elections.Oper...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must promptly return Zipra properties
CALLS by Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda this week that government should return all properties that it grabbed from former Zipra combatants at the height of the Gukurahundi m...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Does 'telling the Zimbabwe story' also mean 'telling lies about our country'?
What exactly is this "Zimbabwe story", of which we are daily implored to tell by the ruling elitist clique?What did President Emmerson ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:29hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New Beitbridge fire station complete
GOVERNMENT in partnership with the Zimborders Consortium has completed constructing a new fire station in Beitbridge to address the perennial fire and emergency rescue services deficiencies in the bor...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Mbirano gets Bethany's nod
One of Zimbabwe's finest Gospel Divas of all time, Bethany Pasinawako Ngolomi has given a 'thumbs up' to the new Gospel Mbirano vibes. The songress featur...Published: 21 May 2022 at 20:09hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Official dollarisation unlikely, says OM
DIVERSIFIED financial services group Old Mutual Investment believes an official dollarisation of the local economy is "unlikely in the near term" despite current factors pointing towards that directio...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition blamed for tarnishing Morgan Tsvangirai's legacy
FOUR years after the death of democracy icon Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition is falling short of his fighting spirit and wantonly tarnishing his legacy, political analysts have said.Tsvangir...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is COVID-19 narrative driven by science or just pure psychology?
In life we have those who question whatever they are told, and those who believe what is either said by an authority figure, or accepted by the majority.In psychology, it is referred to as "co...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 18:08hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Offensive' King Lobengula and Nehanda mural erased
OVER the course of this weekend, Bulawayo woke up to a mural of King Lobengula and Mbuya Nehanda in the City Centre and after gaining traction on social media, the artwork has been erased by City Coun...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 16:56hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Dembare falls to Triangle
Triangle 1 - 0 DynamosDYNAMOS coach, Tonderai Ndiraya, felt the Glamour Boys did not have enough in their tank as they fell to defeat in this Castle Lager Premiership match at Gibbo yesterday....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ICC give Zimbabwe thumbs-up in World Cup hosting
INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council representative, Sally Higgins, is confident the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, currently taking place in Harare, will be a huge success.Zimbabwe is host...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Facebook changes its name
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand.The company said it would better "encompass" what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas li...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Will SADC national dialogue finally end King Mswati III absolute monarch - Zimbabweans watching like hawks
SADC has finally stepped in to try end the cycle of violence and political unrest in Eswatini. SA President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is also the current Chairperson of Chairperson of SADC's Organ on...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Legislators give SONA thumbs up
Parliamentarians from across the political divide yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for addressing issues affecting the country when he presented the State of the Nation Address and opened the F...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback' - a feeble excuse cum insult cum tool for oppression
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zim...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Harare, London entering another diplomatic level?
CORDIAL engagement and re-engagement between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe testify that the Second Republic is quietly working and making good progress in terms of re-engaging the world. Thi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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