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Shame on you SADC
The Southern Africa Development Community (S.A.D.C) has organised the 25th of October as a day to protest against the sanctions that was placed on Zimbabwe since the turn of the century. The ZANU-PF l...Published: 6 hrs ago | 644 | by Frazer Muzondo.
Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget headache
Parliament says structuring next year's budget presents a serious headache as the imploding economy continues to be saddled by runaway inflation and skyrocketing prices stemming from currency volatili...Published: 20 hrs ago | 2515 | by Staff reporter
Reconciliation is more than just the truth
Not long ago the Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda addressed the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) capacity building workshop held in Bulawayo. In his candid and poignant ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:47hrs | 47 | by Tamsanqa Mlilo
Cash shops take city by storm
A new economy of small retail shops that sell goods in cash only has taken Bulawayo by storm with prices of most basic commodities selling at almost half of what is charged by big supermarkets that ac...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:44hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
Uyinene's Tears!
The tears of hope for a life gone too soon, a life that still had a lot to offer. A circumstance that made us realize that as a nation we are on the cross road. "We either araise above this or...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:19hrs | 284 | by Eric Shikobela
Zimbabwean family killed in SA car crash
FOUR Zimbabwean family members were killed when their car, a Toyota Fortuner, was involved in a head-on collision with a Porsche Cayenne on the N11 highway near Modelkloof in South Africa's KwaZulu Na...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:47hrs | 9 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa must first tame vanity
FUNERALS in our culture are an opportunity to vent one's deep-seated opinions and emotions on topical issues, be they personal, family or national, while enjoying the same privileges and protection ak...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1407 | by Walter Mzembi
Chamisa and the demon of patriarchy
In the past few weeks – ironically as late as last Friday – Zimbabwe's restive but graphically acerbic social media has been abuzz with one subject – the seemingly endangered righ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 10:54hrs | 2900 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Tragedy as Zimbabweans are robbed of their culture and traditions
Zimbabweans in the UK are seriously shocked by the loss of culture In Zimbabwe. Most Zimbabweans had cultivated the thought of sending their kids to Zimbabwe for cultural lessons.&nb...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 05:48hrs | 390 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
The foot bridge (Murato) across Chiraire River in Chiweshe is a tragedy waiting to happen
School children some as young as seven years use the footbridge daily going to Chinehasha Schools on the other side. They dart and dash with amazing dexterity and agility that would shame a mo...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1450 | by Tondo Murisa
Chamisa dismisses Jonathan Moyo's appointment report
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has termed the reports he appointed Professor Jonathan Moyo as his advisor bizarre lies. Chamisa was responding to circulating stories that eh appointed Moyo to be hi...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 09:35hrs | 4760 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo denies Chamisa appointment
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied allegations that he was appointed to be MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's advisor recently.Posting on his micro blog twitter yesterday Moyo said, "President...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 08:16hrs | 11488 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's PSL back among Africa's finest
THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) championship race is getting more and more competitive by each passing season, but what is more significant is the strides that the Zimbabwean game has mad...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:31hrs | 175 | by Michael Kariati
Zimbabwe after Mugabe
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from former president Robert Mugabe (may his soul rest in eternal peace), there was widespread consensus that it was the right move.There was jubila...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:31hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Manuels and other Old Mutual directors headed towards a tragedy of their own making
When Old Mutual's board of directors decided to terminate Peter Moyo's contract, they didn't seem to have a plan for what would come nextLet's imagine for a moment a hypothetical scenario in w...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 18:00hrs | 1710 | by Tebogo Khaas
'I need time to get dead economy working again' - you killing it, just step down
"I'm aware of the pain being experienced by the poor and the marginalised," said Mnangagwa in his speech, to mark the official opening of parliament."Getting the economy working again from bei...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 08:02hrs | 1819 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe needs higher productivity and exports
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Dr Jesimen Chipika emphasised to chartered secretaries meeting in Victoria Falls last week that the government's Transitional Stabilisation Programme is a two-...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 15:01hrs | 251 | by Agencies
Mugabe's burial site invokes a debate of what makes a hero?
THE imbroglio of Robert Mugabe's burial site invokes a debate of what makes a hero? Is it the land on which one is buried or it is the people who emulate the "late" who define and describe heroism? I ...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:42hrs | 2356 | by Michael Mhlanga
Trump impeachment inquiry launched
US Democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over claims that he sought political help from Ukraine.Announcing the move top Democrat Nancy Pelosi said the ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 2029 | by BBC
US diplomats pressure Harvard to rescind Mnangagwa's health award
A group of retired US diplomats and civil society leaders has penned a letter of protest to Harvard University, after Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's first lady, picked up an award for contributions to...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 21:32hrs | 3330 | by Staff reporter
Harare water crisis a disaster
Editor,There is no doubt that Chamisa's MDC is a total failure and a reflection of the bankruptcy of the opposition. Here was an opportunity to demonstrate capacity to lead, but the MDC has shown ...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 19:18hrs | 222 | by Langton Sibanda
Pastor commits suicide after walking in on cheating wife
A Harare cleric on Monday threw himself to death from the 4th floor of a city building in an apparent suicide case that sources claimed was linked to domestic issues.Gospel author and senior p...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:31hrs | 5100 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's life crystallises anti-hegemony fight
It is with sadness that this inordinate meeting is being convened at a time the continent and the rest of the world are mourning Robert Gabriel Mugabe's elevation to glory.His untimely departu...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:26hrs | 126 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:14hrs | 3340 | by Morgan Changamire
Robert Mugabe: Rule by the whip
Books he trusted. One was usually in his hand in those first, mostly happy, years as Zimbabwe's leader. He would be home at State House by 5:30pm, slamming doors so that his beloved wife Sally would k...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:04hrs | 2290 | by The Economist
Doctors strike calls for urgent attention
The death of Robert Mugabe has taken the nation's focus away from very pressing issues, among them the strike by doctors at public hospitals.Doctors went on strike almost two weeks ago after f...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:04hrs | 2343 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:35hrs | 203 | by The Economist
'Bread to cost $30 in December'
Zimbabweans must brace for a dark Christmas as the price of commodities co0ntinue to sky rocket yet the salaries remain the same. MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende took to Twitter to lamen...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2189 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Liberation movements will miss Mugabe
The death of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, whom President Emmerson Mnangagwa, described as "comrade, liberator, founder and leader", has coincided with the 10th meeting of secreta...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 05:55hrs | 82 | by Trevor Shiri
POEM: Ruthless ruin
There was A menace. A genocidist. A gukurahundist. A wrecker of life itself. He possessed oppression. Brutality. Immunity. Iniquity. A rea...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 09:30hrs | 662 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Bob: As divisive in death as he was in life
ROBERT Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, has died.Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some time. The country's current President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Mug...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:11hrs | 591 | by Roger Southall
How about a SADC or AU intervention force?
Every SADC country and others have citizens caught up in the ongoing xenophobic flare up in South Africa. Having said that, I think this is when and where an urgent extra ordinary SADC meeting is call...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 17:30hrs | 1874 | by Tondorindo
Teenager beheads father, dumps body in a pit
Police in Wedza, Mashonaland East, have arrested a 19-year-old man who beheaded his father, wrapped his head in a plastic bag before throwing his dismembered body into a pit.The body and head ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1841 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2072 | by Staff reporter
No quick solutions to electricity, fuel shortages: Coltart
In our previous edition we carried a Q&A with former Education minister David Coltart where he spoke about the culture of political violence in Zimbabwe and how it has also influenced the MDC....Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:50hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Jacob Mudenda: What was your role during Gukurahundi?
Hon Jacob Mudenda Sir, I would like to applaud you for your speech recently. In this speech Advocate Jacob Mudenda, you urge the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate f...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:31hrs | 1093 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Ignorance of failing to see sanction will go if have free elections, makes us a laughing stock' admit prodigal son
"At the heart of Zimbabwe's tragedy, is the existence of adults who lack the critical thinking to understand that SANCTIONS will go away if Mnangagwa simply followed the Zimbabwean constitution. Such ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:29hrs | 473 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Facilitate Gukurahundi apology, Mudenda urges NPRC
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to advocate a national apology for past conflicts, including Gukurahundi. He said...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1339 | by Staff Reporter
Toddler drowns
A SIX-YEAR-OLD Nyazura child drowned in Mucheke River after slipping from a rock while playing with her friend on Friday last week.Manicaland deputy police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Lu...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mudenda calls for Gukurahundi public apology
The speaker of National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has called for the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to vigorously push for a national apology for the past conflicts, especially the ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will the system change if Chiwenga collapsed and died today?
Good morning my dear friends, I have been reflecting like everyone else and I have realized that we are making the same terrible mistakes that we made with Robert Mugabe.I say so because we ta...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 22:56hrs | 11605 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Ramaphosa celebrates Marikana 'tragedy'
President Cyril Ramaphosa's Marikana massacre commemoration tweet has been met with a number of negative responses, with most replies saying it was ironic that Ramaphosa would send out such a tweet....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:05hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to pay respects to Morogoro explosion victims during Tanzania visit?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to visit the town of Morogoro in Tanzania to pledge solidarity and offer condolences following a fuel tanker explosion that claimed 70 lives.The presid...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:30hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Eddie Cross
'Utilize your right to demonstrate' argue Chief Ndiweni - how naïve, there is lot more at stake here
"Nhlambabaloyi Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has urged the people of Zimbabwe to utilize their constitutional right to demonstrate and petition on the 16th of August 2019. Ndiweni said Zimbabwe...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | 866 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe cigarette mafia boss shot in South Africa
Reports from South Africa indicate that cigarette mafia boss Simon Rudland survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday. Announcing the tragedy Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa said,...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | 4513 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Diasporans must help with re-engagement' ordered Mnangagwa - and lie you denied all 3 m of them a vote
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to Zimbabweans in the diaspora to support his re-engagement efforts undertaken following his military assisted power seizure almost two years ago," reported ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2327 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mupuyo Mountain seemingly appealing to the Most High for development funds
Some who is who of this nation we call home were 'initiated' into schooling at Chinehasha Primary School in Chiweshe, Mash central. Situated a stone's throw from the magnificent Ruya Dam and w...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:37hrs | 386 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Khaya Moyo mourns Plumtree accident victims
Bulilima-Mangwe Senator Simon Khaya Moyo has mourned three accident victims who died in a horrific truck accident along the Plumtree-Brunapeg Road last week. The accident occurred at the 62-ki...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
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