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US cannot be our national dialogue referee
The continued United States (US) big brother mentality on Zimbabwean affairs cannot go unchallenged, as it undermines the country's sovereignty and independence. This time the Washington administratio...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2242 | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
We need complete thinkers, not compartmentalised ones
What does it mean to be a "complete thinker"? Complete thinking entails connecting apparently disparate or unconnected ideas.To further elaborate, it means being able to take on a variety of i...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 522 | by Conway Tutani
Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity
Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by political elites in Southern Africa of die-hard ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 147 | by Tendai Biti and Mills
Regional support thwarts regime change agenda
Zimbabwe has recently been on an onslaught from the West, who have been using local opposition parties and Non-Governmental Organisations in attempts to destabilise the country. The actions of the opp...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 10:46hrs | 1337 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Only Chamisa has the economic keys to revive the Zimbabwean economy?
When Nelson Chamisa opines alongside foreign interests that nothing has changed since November 2017, the idea is to defeat today's ZANU-PF by psychological association to the leadership of former pres...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1134 | by Reason Wafawarova
Puppets polluting Harare, Caracas
Before making his transition to our ancestors on November 15, 1998, the revolutionary Pan Africanist organiser Kwame Ture warned Africans everywhere with his rather unique blend of passion and caution...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:38hrs | 375 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Mnangagwa threw caution to the wind
President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored advice from a South Africa-based local businessman that a wage hike was the best way to deal with public sector union grievances, and that a failure to award an in...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 15:41hrs | 6351 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hoped to tap into the hugely popular Operation Restore Legacy
One false argument which is peddled by the opposition and foreign interests mostly is that nothing has changed in Zimbabwe since November 2017 when the popular Operation Restore Legacy happened. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2356 | by George Charamba
Italy torpedo EU's Venezuela regime change plans
Following a nonbinding vote in the EU Parliament to recognize Juan Guaido last week, foreign ministers from the various EU countries discussed officially recognizing the leader Venezuela's opposition-...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2708 | by zerohedge
Zimbabwe's foreign based player pool keeps increasing
AS Zimbabwe brace for the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations football qualifiers when they take on Mozambique next month, the technical department will have a broad base to pick from following indications...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks plunge deeper into forex crisis
A vendor counts money at a vegetable street market in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. Venezuela's imports from its six biggest trading partners including Brazil, the U.S., China, Arge...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:06hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
ANC throws weight behind Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
President Mnangagwa and his deputies - Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi - last night met an African National Congress (ANC) delegation from South Africa and apprised it on the situation here foll...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:27hrs | 5031 | by Staff reporter
The role of peace in the economy
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | 139 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
'Poor, bankrupt, miserable country'
This description by British minister Alan Duncan was spot on. He was speaking on his way to the UN to discuss Venezuela. But he could equally well have been talking about Zimbabwe.Venezuela wa...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:14hrs | 488 | by Zimvigil
'Zimbabwe inflation second only to Venezuela '
ZIMBABWE'S inflation rate has hit 290 percent – the second highest in the world after Venezuela (reportedly 80,000 percent at the end of 2018), United States economist and currency expert Steve Hank...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:57hrs | 1099 | by African News Agency
'Poor, bankrupt, miserable country' - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
This description by British minister Alan Duncan was spot on. He was speaking on his way to the UN to discuss Venezuela. But he could equally well have been talking about Zimbabwe. Venezu...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 07:18hrs | 780 | by ZimVigil
How TB Joshua prophesied about the Venezuela coup in 2016
International media has been agog with the news of the ‘coup attempt' and intense political volatility that has engulfed the South American nation of Venezuela in recent days. On Wednes...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4234 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Miles apart but so many similarities...
Zimbabwe and Venezuela might be thousands of miles apart but we share so much .Disgruntled citizens ,shortage of medicines,high cost of living,protests against the oppressing regimes.More than...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 919 | by AT Kadada
Zimbabwe, way forward will be great tribute to the great icon Oliver Mtukudzi?
Dialogue is a way to solve all the problems we are facing as a nation. The way forward is to do away with strongman spirit. Going forward, we must correct wrongs now. We need to value humanity. The go...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:23hrs | 295 | by Enos Denhere
The Role of Peace in the Economy - Mthwakazi Forum
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 20:52hrs | 1080 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Here's what motorists are paying for fuel around the world
Zimbabwe leads the world as the most expensive fuel not only on the African continent but globally too. Zimbabweans are forking $3.31 for petrol compared to drivers in China, who at second place on ou...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 10:31hrs | 3099 | by wheels24
Mnangagwa urged to hike public sector salaries
A Zimbabwean businessman has urged government to raise wages in a bid to prevent the meagre income of public sector workers becoming a source of anger for citizens.In a letter to President Emm...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 14:56hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' breaking point
A Vigil supporter who works for the needy in Zimbabwe says her job is becoming increasingly difficult. She sent us the following message from a desperate doctor. ‘I have tried my best n...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:10hrs | 901 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
No coups in 2018: Will 2019 be so stable?
THE past year may have felt politically tumultuous, between Saudi Arabia's brazen killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the resurgence of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Donald Trump...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:31hrs | 433 | by Clayton Besaw
Zimbabwe has adequate fuel stocks, claims Gumbo
ENERGY minister Joram Gumbo says Zimbabwe has adequate fuel stocks, despite the reemergence of queues, and blamed social media for causing panic among motorists.Fuel queues, which had disappea...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Turkey, Russia ditch US dollar
Turkey and Russia are faced with yet another manifestation of political American pressure through sanctions.During the latest Russian-Turkish talks, the question arose about stopping the use o...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 12:56hrs | 1505 | by Staff reporter
#IGForexChat 3: What does the next year hold for emerging market currencies?
IG presents 'IG Forex Chat 3' – a live di...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 15:53hrs | 758 | by Tech Reporter
1893 MHRRM Student Wing prepares for a Matebeleland Genocide Conference in RSA
We would like to thank the opportunity that we have been given by the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) to be part of this great Human Rights Restoration Movement and a gre...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 17:11hrs | 724 | by Jabulani Skhosana, 1893 MHRM RSA Student Wing Secretary
Treasury to pay $4m monthly to settle airlines debt
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has made an undertaking to pay $4 million monthly to foreign airlines who were currently owed $150 million, NewsDay reported.Foreign airlines f...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Change of currency not ideal to revive Zimbabwe economy
THE country's economic crisis has deepened since the recent fiscal and monetary measures announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya. The economy has plu...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | 2110 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe empty shelves scare
Austin Mushanguri shakes his head in dejection and walks away from the fridges in an affluent supermarket in the capital after reading a sign saying he can only buy one bottle of beer instead of the d...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:09hrs | 4566 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's state of emergency
I CAN recall times when a state of emergency was declared and almost always it was in response to violence or political events.But when conditions reach the point where the very livelihoods of...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:35hrs | 1808 | by Eddie Cross
War veteran Matemadanda off side
War veterans are the vanguard of the liberation struggle and must be tolerate of divergent views in a democratic country.Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Asso...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 10:34hrs | 2226 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa and Mugabe: A case of Siamese twins
Former Zimbabwe President, Mugabe, told the British Prime minister then Tony Blair, "Keep your England and l will keep my Zimbabwe ". A few months after assuming Presidency through the back door words...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:20hrs | 2369 | by AT Kadada
Democracy, elections bad for collective cause
SOMETHING is going wrong with democracy. Something has gone wrong with democracy. It was the most successful political idea of the 21st century, but increasingly democracy is running into trouble, not...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | 122 | by Reason Wafawarova
Only a Zimbabwean currently living in the Diaspora will dislodge ZANU PF
The amount of vile being spewed by the MDC Alliance coalition is sickening to the stomach. Nelson Chamisa is a big liar and will not be my President. His message of hope is contaminated with lies, inf...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 20:12hrs | 4431 | by Sam Wezhira
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2593 | by Erick Matotoba
No easy road, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says recalibrating an "entrenched political system to a new administration" takes time as the nation needs a shared vision and consensus on how to move forward.In ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:45hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa delivers US World Cup bid
ZIMBABWE yesterday stuck to its promise and delivered a vote to the United Bid fronted by the United States in its successful battle to win the rights to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup finals. The Unite...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:14hrs | 852 | by Sports Reporter
Air Zimbabwe carriers among top defaulting airlines
Angola, Sudan and Zimbabwe are among the top five countries with national carriers that are failing to repatriate revenue from ticket sales to other airlines, APA reported.According to the Int...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 14:29hrs | 1184 | by APA
Maduro expels US envoy
President Nicolas Maduro ordered the expulsion of the top US diplomat in Venezuela following a new round of sanctions imposed by Washington over his re-election.Maduro announced the move in a ...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Fixing Zimbabwe's 'fantasy economics'
From time to time a few countries carry out what is in effect economic suicide.Four things destroy wealth in society - conflict, ideology, corruption and bad economic policy. Examples in recen...Published: 23 May 2018 at 11:22hrs | 746 | by Martyn Davies and Hanns Spangenberg
Trump threatens aid cut to Zimbabwe
United States President Donald Trump wants to cut foreign assistance dollars to countries who don't vote with the US at the United Nations (UN) - and South Africa and Zimbabwe are among these countrie...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1820 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knows that Western countries are more interested in business than democracy
When new Zimbabwean president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ursuped power from then leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in a military coup, in November last year, he knew fully well that there would not be an...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1876 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
46 countries to observe Zimbabwe elections
Government has approved a list of 46 countries, 15 regional and continental bodies to observe general elections set for July this year as President Mnangagwa's administration makes good its pledge for...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:48hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
List of observers that Mnangagwa will invite
A list of observers that Govt will invite for 2018 elections. It includes 46 countries; the EU, US and Commonwealth. Also on the proposed list is US Senator Flake, one of the 'ZDERA' Senators ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 18:10hrs | 10657 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump is black and ugly man
As my father and I had sat high up in the stands at Rufaro Stadium, together with thousands of ecstatic compatriots, we waved small Zimbabwe flags, with vibrant enthusiasm, and enjoyed the wonderful e...Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1329 | by Tafi Mhaka
Die hard with a Zimbo
Fresh from saving America from Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara, communist North Vietnam and the Middle-East machinations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Soviet Union, ex-Green Beret ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 07:47hrs | 230 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe faces bankruptcy
ZIMBABWE has been named among seven countries destined to go broke by year end if it does not address its basket of economic and financial woes, a United Kingdom-based company has said.Love Mo...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:59hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has a Happiness deficit - report
Zimbabwe is nowhere near the happiest people on earth, according to 2018 World Happiness Report issued by a United Nations agency. Forget about the trade deficit, budget deficit, Zimbabwe has a happin...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 14:40hrs | 981 | by Ndou Paul
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