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Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 9 hrs ago | 496 | by Victor Bhoroma
Duduzile Shinya new ICAZ President
Medical Investments Limited's chief financial officer, Duduzile Shinya has been elected the new president of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) for the term 2020/21.She w...Published: 9 hrs ago | 551 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3100 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 22 hrs ago | 442 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Zimbabweans reject political party regulation
MOST participants at a recent Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) hosted virtual public meeting to discuss the topic Political Parties Regulation – Considerations for Zimbabwe did not support p...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2477 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 11304 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for dead Zimbabweans in South Africa
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA has been a granted a special waiver to facilitate the the repatriation of bodies of deceased Zimbabweans during Covid19 pandemic period, Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 11:20hrs | 4055 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo residents eager to see Ekusileni Medical Centre open
Bulawayo East MDC Alliance legislator Ilos Nyoni said residents of Bulawayo have been waiting anxiously for the opening of Ekusileni Medical centre as a Covid19 admission hospital since the onset of t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 165 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa appoints top soldier as Ministry of Health Boss
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Air Commodore Jasper Chimedza as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Child Care. He takes over from Agnes Mahomva who was moved to head...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 18:06hrs | 10724 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Analysis of Dual Pricing Policy (SI 185 of 2020)
The Zimbabwean government gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 185 of 2020 on the 24th of July 2020. The latest regulation compels sellers of various goods and services to display, quote and offer price...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2878 | by Victor Bhoroma
MSU suspends final year exams
State University (MSU) has, due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in the country, suspended final year examinations that were set to start today. On July 24, Government gave a directive to all te...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Silandulo leaves Nust
National University of Science and Technology (Nust) director of communications and marketing Mr Felix Moyo has retired after serving the institution for 23 years. Mr Moyo bade farewell to Nus...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2421 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 464 | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 592 | by Stephen Jakes
We are tired of being abused: Sikhala
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said people are tired of being abused by the Zanu PF government which instead of taking time to listen to the people's concerns it oils its repressive...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:15hrs | 3398 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe in top 10 best wildlife conservation destinations
ZIMBABWE is one of the 10 countries in the world with the best wildlife conservation methods, according to a research by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in partnership with Pan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election system free and fair and adopted by the world.
Despite the negative publicity Zimbabwe receives from only the west its electoral system has actually been adopted by so many countries and this model is now used worldwide. The concept of election ob...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 21:23hrs | 3228 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2757 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MSU postpone examinations due to protests
MIDLANDS State University (MSU) was forced to postpone examinations for final year students yesterday as panic gripped the Zanu-PF government ahead of the planned anti-government demonstrations schedu...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisor Sam Malaba dies
Former Agribank Chief Executive , Somkhosi Mahamba Temba Malaba has died. He had been suffering from kidney illness for the past 12 years.Malaba was also a members of the PAC (Presidential Adv...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 13:20hrs | 10891 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Take Zanu-PF's threats seriously'
AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to rise ahead of Friday's planned protests, analysts have warned the organisers of the demonstrations to take Zanu-PF's warnings about the mass actions se...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 1716 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders to be installed by chiefs
TRADITIONAL leaders will now be installed and disciplined by other chiefs, a shift from the obtaining position where Government installs and disciplines them.The development is in line with pr...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:08hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
'My new partner is worse than the one I had before'
IN 2013, we had good neighbours, a couple who suddenly started having problems in their marriage and would seek our help to solve their issues. They were not really big problems as such, but misunders...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:32hrs | 4672 | by Joseph Maniragena
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1145 | by Victor Bhoroma
American Army General to address Zimbabweans on leadership
Retired Lieutenant General in the United States of America Army Jeff Buchanan will be joining Minister of Youths, Sports, Arts and Reacreation Kirsty Coventry at a vitual Symposium aimed at discussing...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 3876 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1763 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Zimbabwe teachers now the least paid civil servants
Teachers are worried about the difference between their salaries and those of other civil servants such as the armed forces after noticing that they have become the least paid among the government wor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:20hrs | 6462 | by Stephen Jakes
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
UZ investigates fake documents ring
If you have "qualified" employees that are proving to be incompetent, you have every reason to cross-check the authenticity of their qualifications.It is possible for a person who has never se...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
6 die in horror crash
Six people including two Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) fourth year students died on the spot when the vehicle they were travelling in rammed into a haulage near Banket along the Harare-Chiru...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 20:02hrs | 4363 | by Staff reporter
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6374 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa roped into Hopewell Chin'ono's court case
Nine top media organisations across the world have written to the as Chair of the African Union, and as the President of the Republic of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the crimi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4707 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Western Commonage suspends proceedings: 12 prosecutors in isolation
Magistrates' courts at Western Commonage Court in Bulawayo have suspended all trials after 12 public prosecutors, among them seven police officers attached to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA),...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's gvt is shooting itself in the foot'
THE government is scoring an own goal by being seen to be cracking down unjustly on the organisers of the planned July 31 mass protests and other critics, political analysts and rights groups told the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:31hrs | 3275 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew has little to do with coronavirus pandemic
THE government's critics accused authorities yesterday of allegedly hiding behind the soaring coronavirus infections in the country to trample on people's freedoms, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:16hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa picks fight with tycoon
Zimbabwe's president has picked a fight with the country's most successful businessman. The economy may be the loser.Under pressure from a plunging currency and 737% inflation, President Emmer...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:57hrs | 9269 | by Bloomberg
Universities forced to postpone exams
UNIVERSITIES are postponing their end of semester examinations as a precaution against the spike in local Covid-19 cases with most allowing students already on campus to finish writing.Univers...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:35hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe curfew fuels tension
TENSION has gripped Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid fears the Zanu-PF leader, who is failing to proffer solutions to deepening socioeconomic problems, ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providin...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2844 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean actress signs with leading celebrity fashion brand
The fashion industry has been rapidly evolving other the past few years with big and small brands alike actively seeking to enter new markets. ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:48hrs | 1746 | by Tari MK
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7384 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Key aspects sinking the Zimbabwean Dollar
The Zimbabwean economy is rapidly re-dollarizing, less than 12 months after the government banned the trading of multiple currencies through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 and introduced a local cur...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 3290 | by Victor Bhoroma
Assault on property rights closes Zimbabwe for business
The government directive to suspend the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) operations on the 26th of June 2020 and the recent political threats to eject Old Mutual Zimbabwe, PPC and SeedCo International fr...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1357 | by Victor Bhoroma
From herdboy to professor
WHEN Solwayo Ngwenya was herding goats, cows and donkeys in rural Lupane in the 1970s, never did he imagine that one day he would be a celebrated obstetrician. But on Monday he was appointed a full ti...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
University lecturers and the 'missing' Covid-19 cushioning allowances
Dear Editor, Please allow me to take advantage of your widely read online publication to express my concerns over the seemingly non-payment of the President Mnangagwa awarded 50% of gross sala...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1617 | by Affected University Staff
Talent Chiwenga kills a couple driving to sister's funeral
A very sad day ended badly for the Madzimgira family in Harare. A couple was killed in a car crash while driving to a funeral of their sister who had passed on suddenly in Harare Zimbabwe. ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 20:39hrs | 14298 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Varsity lecturer pounces on students: No sex, no trips
A SENIOR lecturer at Lupane State University (LSU) has been accused of allegedly demanding sex from students in return for university-facilitated trips that pay up to US$30 a day in allowances....Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 8429 | by Staff reporter
Divorce ruling on 50/50 sharing of assets triggers mixed reactions
GENDER activists have expressed mixed feelings over a recent Supreme Court judgment that awarded a spouse 50% share of property after dissolution of marriage, even if they might not have made a direct...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Decolonizing the mind in Zimbabwe
Decolonizing the mind should be the mission of postcolonial school curriculum in Africa. I have come to this conclusion given the nature and character of some opinion pieces written for this publicati...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 550 | by Lovemore Sibanda
Eyebrows raised as Mohadi opens US$1,8m bridge
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday stood in for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to officially open a bridge constructed at a cost of US$1,8 million in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central province, with expert...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 2793 | by Staff reporter
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