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UK targets Zimbabwe's science, maths teachers
Zimbabwean teachers are in the front row following a call by the United Kingdom for "the very best" overseas teachers to apply for vacancies, sweetened by a £10,000 relocation fee.The UK is t...Published: 15 hrs ago | 384 | by Staff reporter
US revokes visas after Museveni signs tough anti-gay Bill into law
In a swift response, the United States has revoked the visas of Uganda's Speaker of Parliament Anita Among following the stricter anti-gay Bill becoming law in Uganda.On Monday the Speaker rev...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:37hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 812 | by Musa Kika
Why Zimbabwe elections must be held between August 20 and 26
Let me attempt to answer three topical issues in relation to Zimbabwe's upcoming general elections. When is the general election going to be held? Will the general election be postponed? When is the a...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:12hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Uganda lawmakers pass amended draft of anti-LGBTQI+ bill, retaining harsh penalties
Parliament in Uganda has passed a new amended draft of the anti-LGBTQI+ bill, maintaining the harsh punishments for same-sex acts.President Yoweri Museveni returned the bill to Parliament with...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Construction of 12 large dams accelerated in Zimbabwe
Construction of 12 large dams is being accelerated to put at least 350 000 hectares under irrigation by 2025 as the need to boost crop production grows.The rolling out of dam construction coun...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets paid by a bullion dealer every two weeks?
ONE of Africa's most notorious gold dealers Kamlesh Pattni, who was implicated in the Goldenberg scandal which almost bankrupted Kenya in the 1990s, says he pays President Emmerson Mnangagwa every two...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 2227 | by Ian Beddowes
Zimbabwean appointed managing director at Uganda's DFCU Bank
Development Finance Company of Uganda Bank Limited (DFCU) Bank has appointed Mr Charles M Mudiwa, a Zimbabwean national, as the new managing director, almost three months after Mr Mathias Katamba resi...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Only PhD holders should lecture at university
WHEN I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I celebrated because we had spent four hard years resear...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 659 | by Jairos Kangira
LIST: Top 50 African Trailblazers Awards nominees released
The inaugural Afri50 Trailblazer Awards will take place on May 1, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, coinciding with Workers Day. The event will recognize 50 African trailblazers who have made a sig...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:44hrs | 881 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | 236 | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Uganda ban gays
Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence....Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
PAP takes Zimbabwe sanctions fight to Washington
Pan African Parliament Committee on Cooperation and International Relations has resolved to engage Zimbabwean authorities to gather more information on the effects of illegal sanctions imposed by the ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:12hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime sees lithium as Zimbabwe's get-out-of-jail card
High demand for minerals in lithium, driven by ion batteries for electric vehicles and other green technologies, may be Zimbabwe's sanctions get-out-of-jail card — or a get-rich-quick card for Zanu-...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
Resource curse in Africa
The African continent is bestowed with so much natural wealth such as diamonds, coal, petroleum, natural gas, copper, and uranium to mention a few. Still, it has been the poorest continent in the worl...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:09hrs | 281 | by Jeremie Kalombo
Zimbabwe on the radar of the new US Africa strategy
The United States foreign relations committee held confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Rwanda and Niger ambassadorship nominees on Wednesday.The four countries a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 20:59hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in race to introduce digital currency
Zimbabwe is in the race to become one of the first African countries to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC).Nigeria became the first country in Africa to issue a CBDC, the eNaira,...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 10:25hrs | 2957 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa postpones Cabinet reshuffle
President Cyril Ramaphosa postponed announcing changes to his executive on Thursday due to ill health. News24 says it understands that he was meant to meet with ANC officials at midday on Thur...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 08:44hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may suffer an internet shutdown
ZIMBABWE may suffer an internet shutdown in the 2023 general election, just like Uganda and Zambia in 2021. In 2019, Freedom House rated Zimbabwe as a "not free" country with a 28% global freedom scor...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 1256 | by Phillip Anjorin
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | 753 | by Jamwanda
Mnangagwa's links with kleptocrats, dodgy business networks solidify
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's state visit to Equatorial Guinea this week, where he met the world's longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, underlines his penchant for ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:17hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 161 | by Jonathan Moyo
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Huge oil, gas deposits confirmed in Muzarabani
Large natural gas and oil reserves have now been confirmed in north-east Zimbabwe, although technical glitches meant Australian firm Invictus could not extract a fluid sample to fulfil regulatory requ...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:30hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Detained Arsenal fans freed in Uganda
Some eight Arsenal fans who were arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club's win against Manchester United in the English Premier League have been released.They were wea...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 15:06hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Arsenal fans arrested after celebrating Manchester United victory
Jinja-At least eight Arsenal fans have been arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club's win against Manchester United in the English Premier League.The fans were wearing...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 01:31hrs | 2092 | by Staff reporter
Israeli HIV 'cure' Gammora drug not approved in Zimbabwe
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned against the use of Gammora as treatment for HIV.Gammora is a drug developed by Zion Medical, an Israeli-based biotech company whic...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:05hrs | 1960 | by Staff reporter
Biden's US$55 billion fails to entice African countries to ditch Russia
FRESH from the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, with a US$55 billion financial package over the next three years, African leaders from the region find themselves confronted with a reality check of a...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Africa's Funding Councils Meet for Impact
Participating councils of the Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) deliberated on progress, focus and initiatives to advance research and innovation since the SGCI was est...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 09:04hrs | 190 | by NRF
ZimSat-1 deployed into orbit
Zimbabwe is banking on its first satellite, ZimSat-1 to give impetus to plans to solve the country's power challenges, as it has capacity to, among other things, map regions where there is high sun in...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:09hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe documentary selected for Climate Story Lab ZA
The 2023 Climate Story Lab ZA is excited to announce that nine creative projects from five African countries have been selected to participate in the Lab. The 4-day residential lab brings together cli...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 12:36hrs | 342 | by Agencies
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 327 | by Vusi Nyamazana
'Time Africa solved its own problems'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged African countries to resolve their own problems, particularly tackling HIV/Aids and other diseases.Mangwiro made the remarks at th...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Africa on the Radar for NFL's International Hopes
The NFL is one of the biggest sports leagues in the world - and one of the most lucrative. In 2021, around 17 million Americans watched the league regularly, while around 110 million viewers tune in l...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 12:03hrs | 310 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe satellite launch 'defies all the odds'
Zimbabwe sent its first satellite into orbit on Monday, part of the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Project-5 (BIRDS-5) sponsored by Japan.The small satellite, which Zimbabwe hopes will help i...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's historic satellite launch today
Zimbabwe will today join the league of nations that have launched satellites into space when it sends its first satellite, ZimSat-1, into orbit after developing it through the BIRDS project.Th...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:24hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chinhoi dives into Lake Victoria after winning Uganda Open a 2nd time
Robson Chinhoi showed what the Uganda Open victory means to him, by excitedly diving into Lake Victoria after his final putt Saturday.Having totally annihilated the field, the Zimbabwean gave ...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 12:00hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
CCTV Surveillance Technology in Africa needs a national policy
African countries are installing closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) and surveillance technologies without regulation frameworks and national CCTV and surveillance national policies. The sp...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:28hrs | 476 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Sikhala on world radar
THE Inter-Parliament Union (IPU), a global organisation of National Assemblies, has received and accepted an application to investigate the prolonged jailing of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) int...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:20hrs | 3292 | by Staff reporter
Date set for Zimbabwe satellite launch
Zimbabwe's first satellite, ZimSat-1, will be launched into space on November 6 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, United States, the National Aeronautics and Space ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:07hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has over 5.5 billion barrels of oil resource
Oil and gas explorer Invictus Energy (IVZ) has bolstered the potential prospective resource of its Cabora Bassa project in Zimbabwe to over 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe).The comp...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 19:10hrs | 2228 | by Staff reporter
Former Zimbabwe judge to join Kenya election petition panel
RETIRED judge and Alpha Media Holdings Ombudsman, Justice Moses Chinhengo will be part of a high-level panel that will hear the 2022 Kenya presidential election petition.Justice Chinhengo and ...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Pan-African Parliament criticise Limpopo MEC Phophi
LEGISLATORS from the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) have joined other organisations in criticising Limpopo province Member of the Executive Council (MEC)...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 05:59hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs booted out of hotels
LEGISLATORS are furious over their welfare because they are constantly being turned away from hotels over unpaid bills whenever the House is sitting.The issue was raised in the National Assemb...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 5694 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in education cost shocker
A GLOBAL study has ranked Zimbabwe's education as one of the most expensive, which is leading to a rise in school dropouts.The report by World Remit 2022 Cost of School says the price of educa...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Monalisa Sibanda retains WIBA title
FINALLY, boxer Monalisa "Queen of the Jungle" Sibanda had her day in the ring.She had waited for what appeared to be like eternity to have a chance of defending her WIBA intercontinental light...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Platform One says Zimbabwe is second home as they lament bad treatment in SA
It was in 1992 at Pimville Square in Soweto when then teenagers Nani Tengo, Sonto Dladla and Neli Gwala, dressed in their Zulu maiden garb, danced while some passers-by looked on and others joined in ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 2422 | by Staff reporter
Isaac Mpofu shatters eight-year record
LONG distance runner Isaac Mpofu put up a good performance at the World Athletics Championships in the United States of America to finish in the top 10 of the men's marathon and in the process shatter...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Isaac Mpofu makes top ten at the World Athletics Championships
ZIMBABWE'S Isaac Mpofu yesterday put up an amazing performance at the ongoing World Athletics Championships when finishing on position 10 in the men's marathon and setting a new national record in Eug...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:19hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
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