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SADC loses iconic conservationist as WhatsApp gives hunting communities 'permanent' voice in the media
The director of Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE Association, Mr Charles Jonga's death on 6 May 2023, signaled SADC's loss of an important wildlife conservation voice in the media.In an interview this week f...Published: 08 May 2023 at 15:51hrs | 763 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimdollar collapse raises concerns
THE Zimbabwe dollar's continued depreciation against the United States dollar has made the macroeconomic climate "volatile", amid an over 30% fall of the Zimbabwe dollar against the greenback th...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 09:16hrs | 3664 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-based NGOs in panic mode
A new law governing operations of non-governmental organisations is likely to be operational in Zimbabwe before year end.Predictably, there is uproar and panic in the NGO sector, including som...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:17hrs | 336 | by Ranga Mataire
Above-normal rainfall predicted for March
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid)'s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), has predicted above-normal rainfall for March, a change from th...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 211 | by Jamwanda
'Donors snub Nelson Chamisa's CCC'
Former MDC Masvingo urban lawmaker and member of Returness4ED Tongai Matutu has sensationally claimed that the opposition CCC led by Nelson Chamisa has suffer a major blow after losing all its major d...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 17:14hrs | 3332 | by Mandla Ndlovu
USAid warns of Zimbabwe funding threat
THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, which has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups for muzzling government critics and narrowing democratic space, has gone a s...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:53hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unlikely to benefit from US$55 billion Africa injection
ALTHOUGH the United States government promised US$55 billion investment into Africa over the next three years at the US-Africa summit that ended this week, Zimbabwe is unlikely to benefit much because...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:08hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rules out income tax relief
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) says raising the income tax threshold again after the previous one in August would have been too soon because widening this tax relief further is dependent on ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Robotics, software laboratory for Bulawayo pupils
PUPILS aged 11 and above can now start learning robotics and software engineering in Bulawayo following the launch of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) start-up laboratory in t...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Zec tightens grip on Zimbabwe voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will set "reasonable conditions" on availing the voter roll to protect it against possible tampering.In a statement titled: Enhancing Security o...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is home to over 22 000 refugees
ZIMBABWE is now home to about 22 568 asylum seekers escaping conflicts in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Mozambique.Figures released by the Unite...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Retail outlets ration basic commodities as Zimdollar weaken
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm says some wholesale and retail outlets are rationing scarce foodstuffs, as the Zimbabwe dollar continues to depreciate....Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:52hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | 355 | by Bishop
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | 192 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Call for mine workers to register and vote opposition into power - last resort
HARARE - As the momentum for the electoral cycle nears 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government General Elections, workers and their dependants have been urged to register to vote as Unio...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 19:42hrs | 806 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Headwinds piling up for Zimbabwe
The United States Agency for International Development (USAid)'s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has warned of below average harvests this year and a shortlived i...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1030 | by Staf reporter
Warmongers will never preach peace
Do you still remember what the Bishop has been prophesying from the beginning?He hopes you still do!We will definitely inherit a different world order when the coronavirus finally runs...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | 118 | by Bishop Lazi
Harare-Mutare Highway urgently needs widening
MUTARE Highway passes through the dormitory town of Ruwa. When the highway was designed, it was meant to also serve Ruwa, Mabvuku-Tafara, Msasa, Greendale, Hillside and Eastlea.Ruwa has since ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:53hrs | 278 | by Rejoice Ngwenya Ruwa resident
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Prices hikes, weak currency spur hunger in Zimbabwe
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has warned that Zimbabweans face hunger as prices of basic commodities keep skyrocketing and the local currency's slide continues....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Teachers unions' plot exposed
TEACHERS' unions and other civil society organisations have been roped in to push the Western-funded regime change agenda in the country with handsome perks being given to the unions' leadership....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Be wary of politicking NGOs'
President Mnangagwa has called on the rural folk to be on the look-out against some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that set base in communities with ulterior motives which have no benefit for t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bill set to scuttle MDC Alliance election plans
THE recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill has sent the Western-funded MDC-Alliance into panic mode and is set to scuttle the United States' plans to bankroll the opposition a...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 6 | by Bishop Lazi
US$2m for displaced Zimbabweans
The United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has availed about US$2m to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) towards livelihood support for vulnerable and disaster-pron...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean families struggling to buy food'
LEADING consumer bodies have confirmed that residents are experiencing decreased food levels in households on the back of the rising cost of living.This comes following a recent damning report...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Blackouts intensify in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN companies and domestic consumers are feeling the pinch of high costs of back-up power supply after the national power utility, Zesa, announced a 12-hour load-shedding schedule.Zesa ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food security remains low,' says USAid
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) says household food stocks are beginning to run low as the surging cost...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono gave us MDC safe houses, claims Charamba
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has exposed how prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono worked for the ruling party ZANU PF and the government in selling out civic society members to the stat...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 12:41hrs | 34 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe begs US for talks on sanctions
THE Zimbabwean government has pleaded for a meeting with United States Senate officials, in a bid to push for sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and members of his administration to be lif...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika
Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so fro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | 30 | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwean young farmers lead the charge in agriculture
Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:42hrs | 50 | by Audrey Simango
Zimbabweans caught up in Afghanistan turmoil
ZIMBABWEANS in Afghanistan are anxious over their safety, while others, including Clever Sithole, an engineer heading a gemstones centre, have fled, fearing for their lives after the Taliban took over...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:10hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
US$3,3 million lifeline for Mbare
AT least 15 000 vulnerable people in Harare's populous Mbare suburb will benefit from a US$3,3 million package from humanitarian organisations.GOAL Zimbabwe, working with Childline and Musasa ...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:27hrs | 21 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
USAID withdraws funding to four CSOs... and demand leadership renewal to replace looters of funds
The United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reportedly blacklisted and withdrew funding to four Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) after investigations ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 19:14hrs | 13 | by Political Reporter
US dangles millions to CSOs
The United States' State Department, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has dangled US$105 million to Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe, which they sa...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Innocent Mujeri
US in fresh regime change onslaught on Zimbabwe
The United States is dangling US$5 million to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which they say is meant to entrench the rule of law, constitutionalism, and democracy.However, independent ...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP demands control over NGOs
CHIREDZI North Member of Parliament Roy Bhila (Zanu-PF) recently caused a stir after he demanded control over activities initiated by non-governmental organisations in the south-eastern Lowveld....Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malaba fallout: Ziyambi fingers EU, US
USTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday sensationally claimed that the European Union (EU) and the United States were pouring millions of dollars to destabilise the country by sponsoring non-governm...Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism and politics in Zimbabwe
Tribalism regularly comes into play in Zimbabwe. sometimes it is in terms of political rivalry and competition. at other times it is based on a friendly joking relationship between different tribes....Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:00hrs | 29 | by Fay Chung
'Financial distress to persist for Zimbabwe's urban poor'
USAID food security unit, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), says most urban families in Zimbabwe are expected to remain in financial doldrums due to skyrocketing cost of living....Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
80% pupils fail to access education
OVER 80 percent internally displaced persons' children in cyclone prone areas in eastern Zimbabwe have been struggling to access education, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) has said....Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 18:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo conducts virtual consultations on city master plan
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has embarked on a virtual consultation with residents on the city's master plan in line with the country's Regional, Town and Country Planning Act.The current c...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Fears of ARVs shortages allayed
The National Aids Council (NAC) says Zimbabwe has enough stocks of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to take the country through the year amid indications that most resources are being channelled towards the fig...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
US donates 20 ventilators to Zimbabwe
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), donated 20 brand-new, state-of-the-art ventilators to Solidarity Trust Zimbabwe to help Zimbabweans fight COVID-19....Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:23hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Towards meaningful diaspora engagement
Globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 people is a migrant. Though this measly figure appears to be statistically insignificant and to give credence to the critics of the so-called mobility bias in mig...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 56 | by Mutsa Murenje, Queensland, Australia
Zimbabwe's agriculture seen recovering despite challenges
ZIMBABWE should enjoy a decent harvest for all crops in the current season due to good rains that have been consistent in the past few weeks, farmers' organisations say.A good harvest for grai...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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