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Family of 6 now requires ZW$110,550 for monthly expenses in Zimbabwe
THE cost of living for a family of six has shot up to a whooping ZW$110 550 for monthly expenses, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) latest data for June 2022 has revealed.During th...Published: 23 hrs ago | 306 | by Staff reporter
Rising Zimbabwean starlet Sithole signs for Bolton Wanderers
ENGLAND-BORN Zimbabwean teenage forward Gerald Sithole has joined League One side Bolton Wanderers from fellow English third-tier side Gillingham FC.The 19-year-old versatile forward who can p...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 09:53hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Commonwealth readmisison 'not priority right now'
Re-joining the Commonwealth is not Zimbabwe's priority right now, a spokesman for President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.Zimbabwe had been expected to apply for readmission into the club of former ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 09:52hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
UK parliament questions recruitment of nurses from poor countries
THE British House of Lords has questioned the move by the country's National Health Services (NHS) to continue recruiting nurses from countries recording shortages in their own healthcare systems....Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:16hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden appoints new Zimbabwe ambassador
UNITED States (US) President Joe Biden has appointed Pamela M Tremont as the new ambassador to Zimbabwe.Brian A Nichols was the last US ambassador to Harare, having served in the country betwe...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Backlash over Chinese loans
ZIMBABWE'S debt-stricken administration last year struggled to access fresh loans to scale up ambitious plans to revamp key infrastructure projects after accumulating significant arrears on lifelines ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Dubai Zimbabwe's second-largest gold market
THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has consolidated its position as Zimbabwe's second-largest export destination as gold shipments to the region continue to grow, a new report by the country's statistical...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:24hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 1886 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti's clerk applies for another exception
In another bid to delay trial, a legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts of fraud yesterday made a new application for exception on amended charges.The State ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Violence erupts at Ali funeral
VIOLENT clashes between Zanu-PF supporters and opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members erupted yesterday at the funeral wake of murdered CCC activist, Moreblessing Ali (46).The ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have sought the services of vocal critics to sanitise the November 2017 military coup and while he could have succeeded in luring some, several including the la...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:45hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Pressure piles over diaspora vote
DETHRONED Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni recently said the 2023 elections outcome would be ruled illegitimate by the international community if the more than five million Zimbabweans in t...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni High Court appeal fails to take off
BULAWAYO High Court judges Justices Martin Makonese and Nokuthula Moyo declined to hear dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni's appeal against conviction and sentence in his absence....Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Stop suppressing citizens' freedoms
The arrest on Friday of 34 people who were attending a prayer meeting in Harare was another demonstration of the government's lack of respect for freedom of assembly, which is a right that is enshrine...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:21hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
'Magaisa spurned Zanu-PF co-option,' claims Hopewell Chin'ono
LATE constitutional law guru Alex Magaisa reportedly spurned Zanu-PF attempts to lure him to support the ruling party following the 2017 coup.Magaisa died from a cardiac arrest in the United K...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:13hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activist trial postponed
THE trial of Mthwakazi Republic Party National (MRP) activist Partone Xaba failed to continue on Thursday after the State failed to serve his defence with closing submissions.The matter has be...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:11hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi petitions over State brutality
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over State brutality on its members following incarceration of nine members for violence.Last week, Bulawayo magi...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:01hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe caregivers in the UK pay huge fees to agencies
Zimbabweans working as carers in some of United Kingdom's health care centres are being charged a shock 31% of their initial wages over a period as administration fees by unscrupulous agents back home...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 3056 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans saving country's dead economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.Since the day after he left, Mahamba (53) has been sending money ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
'Full dollarisation of Zimbabwe economy will never happen'
ZIMBABWEANS must cherish the partial dollarisation that is in place, and stop dreaming about full dollarisation, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, said yesterday.Speak...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born mayor Chikoto feted in UK
Newly-elected United Kingdom's Corby Town mayor, Zimbabwean-born Mr Tafadzwa Chikoto, wrote another piece of history yesterday when he was hoisted during the town's Corby Poll Fair marking the Queen's...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 383 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF targets 'regime change' UK lawmaker
THE ruling Zanu-PF has castigated a vocal United Kingdom lawmaker Jonathan Oates (Lord Oates), a British Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords, accusing him of being undemocrati...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 1947 | by Staff reporter
UK blocking South Africans at airports unless they pass Afrikaans test
Several South African passport holders who attempted to fly to and from the United Kingdom (UK) claim they had to pass a general knowledge quiz in Afrikaans before they could board their planes....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 08:57hrs | 11485 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF knives out for Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has attracted brickbats from colleagues in the ruling Zanu PF party after he called for the amendment of the Constitution to allow Zimbabweans in the dia...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2805 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses pile pressure on Mnangagwa
AN emerging union of nurses with a sound base of membership in Midlands and Matabeleland provinces has issued the government a two-week ultimatum to resolve grievances of the health workers or face a ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:27hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Sisa Senkosi finally clinches ZimAchievers Award
UNITED KINGDOM-based musician Sisa Senkosi is on cloud nine as she finally clinched her debut award at the Zim Achievers Awards (UK) 2022 edition.This was the maskandi artiste's second nominat...Published: 31 May 2022 at 12:15hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
ZimAchievers mark 11th anniversary in style
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards hosted a sold-out, glitzy 11th edition of the ZAA UK Awards Dinner Gala, with awards handed out in various categories on Saturday night at the Holiday Inn City in Birmingham....Published: 30 May 2022 at 15:36hrs | 383 | by Tinashe Mukono
Chiwenga-Indonesia arms deal jolts UK
THE United Kingdom has expressed concern over reports that Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was shopping for ammunition in Indonesia, amid growing fears of a plan to perpetuate human rig...Published: 28 May 2022 at 19:25hrs | 6075 | by Staff Reporter
UK based Zimbabwean divorces wife of 33 years over conjugal rights
A United Kingdom based Zimbabwean, Kostanteno Ngandu, has divorced his wife of 33years for denying him conjugal rights.Ngandu filed for divorce at the Harare High court saying his relationship...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:43hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
There's absolutely nothing Pan-African and Anti-Imperialist about oppressing one's citizens and looting nation's resources
In all my 48 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 26 May 2022 at 21:13hrs | 503 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Civil servants plot massive demonstration against poor wages
CIVIL servants under the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) are this Friday set to march against government's continued reluctance to pay them in US dollars.Worries ...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 2522 | by Staff reporter
Ex-judge dies
FORMER High Court judge Justice Michael Gillespie has died. Gillespie succumbed to cancer on April 28 and will be buried on May 31 at Southdowns Natural Burial Ground in the United Kingdom.Gil...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean UK mayor pledges to scout for investment
Zimbabwean high achiever Mr Tafadzwa Chikoto, who was recently elected Mayor of Corby, a steel town in the United Kingdom (UK) on Tuesday met President Mnangagwa at State House and promised to use his...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:56hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Biti clerk's trial applies for exception
A legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts' of fraud yesterday made an application for exception.Constantine Chaza in his application argued that the charges o...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lied to diplomats'
THE United Kingdom government is plotting tougher sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, arguing the measures put in place have failed to nudge Harare towards reform, hence t...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:48hrs | 3365 | by Staff reporter
Ex-UK envoy roasted over Mnangagwa links
FORMER British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has been roasted by the United Kingdom Parliament for giving London misleading reports that portrayed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "reformist...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 5256 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda calls out Zimbabwe on genocide
RWANDAN authorities have expressed dismay on how the Zimbabwean government is portraying the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.In an official statement released by Foreign Affairs minister Frederic...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, how far diaspora vote?
NOW that Zimbabwe is fast approaching the 2023 elections, it is time we ask tough questions about the diaspora vote.Modalities to allow Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote should be at an adva...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | 357 | by Chief Chiduku
Zimbabwe Constitution must be amended
ZIMBABWE has been oscillating like a yoyo for three decades now without coming up with tangible solutions to strengthen the governance system. Our position is clear that we need a complete system over...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 440 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Ex-UK ambassador's Zanu-PF links exposed
THE United Kingdom lawmakers have exposed former British ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing over Zanu-PF links and misleading the government into believing President Emmerson Mnangagwa, then the la...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's ban on bank lending null and void'
LEGAL experts have dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ban on bank lending as a legal nullity.The ban, meant to stabilise the local currency, was part of a raft of measures announced on S...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:12hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga consoles Siyachitema family
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has consoled the Siyachitema family following the death of Anglican Bishop Jonathan Siyachitema on Friday last week.Bishop Siyachitema (90) has since been a...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:09hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Nurse aid certificate the new gold for Zimbabweans
FOR 35-year-old Lorraine Siziba, attaining a nurse aid's certificate is nudging her closer to achieving her goals.Siziba has never been formally employed since completing a Bachelor's degree f...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:13hrs | 4752 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally says, 'Britain can go hang'
BRITAIN should stop interfering in Zimbabwe's internal affairs as the country is not an extension of the United Kingdom, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has sa...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Trafigura seeks control of Zimbabwe metals over debts
TRAFIGURA Group and Zimbabwe's government have discussed a deal that would give the commodities trader control over output from some of the nation's biggest mines as repayment for debts, documents see...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:15hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
ZITF public day brings Bulawayo to a stand still
BULAWAYO virtually came to a standstill yesterday as thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre to witness the official opening of the 62nd editio...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:13hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Hawks back in the skies
After being grounded for years due to lack of access to spare parts caused by illegal economic sanctions, Air Force of Zimbabwe's Hawk jets yesterday had a flypast at the Zimbabwe International Trade ...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:09hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
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