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Zanu-PF stuck in a cycle of old habits
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed as President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 following a military coup and his predecessor Robert Mugabe's enforced resignation, he boldly announced to the...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:18hrs | 499 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Blind, inflated egos is not what Zimbabwe needs right now
REVELATIONS by Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) this week that political dialogue to extricate the country from the current political and economic crises is hamstrung by selfishness a...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:51hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 424 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Russia's Sputnik V around 92% protection against Covid-19
Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine gives around 92% protection against Covid-19, late stage trial results published in The Lancet reveal.It has also been deemed to be safe - and offer comp...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:27hrs | 1341 | by BBC
Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | 131 | by Tapiwa Gomo
No respite for Zimbabwe under Biden
The United States of America, believed by many to be the sole superpower post-Cold War, has arguably the most staggering defence budget ever known to humanity. Post the cataclysmic attacks of ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2060 | by Sapien Sapien
UK advances US$5,4m food assistance
MORE than 100 000 food-insecure people in the urban areas will benefit from the United Kingdom's pledge of £4 million (US$5,4 million) to help vulnerable families.Recent data revealed that ne...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:55hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2573 | by Samantha Power
Mnangagwa's govt failed to consult over lockdown, says Veritas
LEGAL think-tank Veritas says the government did not give transport operators, vendors and representatives of commerce and industry time to prepare for new covid-19 measures amid worsening macroeconom...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns detractors
ZANU-PF has warned some critics to stop lecturing the country's leadership on implementing Covid-19 lockdown measures. Self-exiled G-40 members have on a number of occasions attacked the rulin...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:25hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
High inflation drives cost of living
USAID food security arm, FEWS NET, says the cost of living in rural and urban areas continues to increase mainly driven by high inflation. In FEWS NET's December 2020 report, the food security organis...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
A toast for 2021, but......
We bid 2020 goodbye, the year many would want to quickly forget contrary to views, at least if one wears Zimbabwe's political lenses. The past nine months have been notorious given the COVID-1...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime crippled by fear more than us, we're more powerful together
Zimbabweans have borne the brunt of unflattering worldwide ridicule over our perceived cowardice and fear in boldly standing up, and speaking out, for our God-given rights to a dignified and respectab...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1579 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Magistrate gets $5 000 bail in corruption case
MAGISTRATE Morgan Nemadire, who is alleged to have leniently fined a Venezuelan $700 for carrying 5kg cocaine worth US$469 000 in her luggage from Brazil into Harare, was yesterday freed on $5 000 bai...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:16hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suffers steep 30% job losses
BUILDING layer upon layer of tradition, pre-Christmas television and billboard advertisements and glittering decorations are now some kind of cultural event. Or so the advertising industry would have ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate arrested for fining Venezuelan dealer found with $500k cocaine
HARARE Magistrate Morgan Nemadire has been arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office after he convicted but fined a Venezuelan national $700 after the latter was found in possession of 5kg of...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:41hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Hopeless situation for Ziombabwe civil servants
THE strife within the civil service will remain commonplace, as wages continue to be significantly eroded by the country's high inflation.Critical social services such as health and education ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2063 | by Staff reporter
When the US media is captured!
When my mentor, Eddison Zvobgo, returned to his hotel room in London after the Lancaster House Conference, he was met with delirious laughter from his English friend. The cause of laughter was Zvobgo'...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 589 | by Ken Mufuka
Chamisa and Trumpism - Sanctions, Sex and Infiltration
That the MDC-Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is an ailing force is no longer a subject for debate.The party suffers mostly from self-inflicted wounds - ones that its opponents are grac...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:00hrs | 4490 | by Grace Kwinje
Cost of living spirals to $20 680
ZIMBABWE'S monthly cost of living rose by 4,4% to $18 750 in October, even as the Zimbabwe National Statistics agency (ZimStat) said the annual inflation rate dropped during the period.This fi...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
What 'crisis' in a low crime Zimbabwe?
Despite the misleading and destructive narrative that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, the country's crime rate has remained relatively low. Most countries in Africa and the entire world at large, are g...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:20hrs | 405 | by Pardon Muzawazi
'Mugabe tactics replicated by Trump'
JOURNALISTS in the United States yesterday accused their President Donald Trump of emulating Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe in refusing to concede electoral defeat.The US went to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2534 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trends in US elections for wrong reasons
THE confirmation of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America on the evening of November 7 put paid to the anxiety that gripped the world in what almost appeared to be a tumultuo...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:46hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Prof Steve Hanke's no hyperinflation in Zim comment angers Biti
MDC Alliance Vice President, Tendai Biti, leading that party's Economic Portfolio is this week set to meet representatives of the US Embassy in Harare to express that party's dismay over positive soci...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:07hrs | 2431 | by David Mwanza
Demystifying false narrative of a 'crisis' in Zimbabwe
For the past few months, Zimbabwe's internal and external detractors have been in overdrive, pushing a concocted narrative that there was a "crisis" in Zimbabwe. This false narrative is premis...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 215 | by Pardon Muzavavi
Mnangagwa's crack unit takes aim at top Magistrate
A crack unit in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has instructed the police to arrest a top magistrate on corruption allegations after passing a judgment which allegedly undermines the criminal ju...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:09hrs | 2708 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poverty datum line rises to $17 244
THE Total Consumption Poverty Line (TCPL) for an average family of five people grew by 10% to $17 244 in August 2020, latest data from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has shown....Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Mthuli denies policy consistency reports
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday denied that there were policy inconsistencies in the country, claiming his austerity measures were simply "reforms" aimed at bringing back stability to the econ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:06hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation eases to 761%
ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation rate for the month of August eased to 761,02% from 837,53% reported in July, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has said. "The year-on-year inf...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Masarira slams Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democats (LEAD), opposition party, has slammed the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for initiating the land compensation progr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 3994 | by Daniel Itai
Unicef launches US$70m aid appeal for Zimbabwe
THE United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has appealed for US$70,9 million to meet Zimbabwe's increased humanitarian needs as hunger and a collapsing economy take a huge toll on the long-suffering c...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:34hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Biti tells Zimbabweans to brace for bloodbath
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has warned that Zimbabwe's political and economic crises have now reached a critical point that could soon lead to a bloodbath.This comes after Presiden...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:43hrs | 6119 | by Staff reporter
Biti says civil strife in Zimbabwe is imminent
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has warned that Zimbabwe's political and economic crises have now reached a critical point that could soon lead to a bloodbath, the Daily News On Sunday reports...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 15:58hrs | 3937 | by Staff reporter
UN experts call for end of unilateral sanctions amid COVID-19 pandemic
A group of United Nations (UN) experts on Friday called for the lifting of all unilateral sanctions, so that people in countries under sanctions can protect themselves against COVID-19."Sancti...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:53hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Venezuela condemns US sanctions against Zimbabwe
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned on Thursday the US punitive actions against Zimbabwe.On Twitter, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy also expressed his solidarity with that n...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:44hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Absolute power, The precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton)In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrup...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 967 | by Peter Muzira
View from up here - Absolute power, the precursor to deceptive democracy in Africa; The case of Zimbabwe
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (John Dalberg-Acton) In Shakespeare's Macbeth play, the relationship between the amount of power Macbeth obtained and the corrupt a...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 451 | by Peter Muzira
Why hated Zimdollar is headed in one direction
On July 9, 2020, my young liberal team and I sampled a few of our country's top economic analysts on a Zoom conference on Zimbabwe's precarious currency conundrum.Likely though it seems, one c...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 18:53hrs | 3654 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
'Zimbabwe needs bailout or political breakthrough'
Zimbabwe cannot revive its economy without an international bailout, but any bailout is most likely to come with political and economic conditions attached to it. This comes as the economy is forecast...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe on the brink of becoming a dictatorship?
Barely a month after three MDC-Alliance cadres, legislator Joanna Mamombe, youth leaders Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova were arrested and mysteriously went missing under police custody; two more b...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:41hrs | 1279 | by Prince Njagu
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1787 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Economists wary of Zimbabwe
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti as well as two of the country's renowned economists Eddie Cross and Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada have raised concerns over the economic wellbeing of the country.The...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 11:59hrs | 1954 | by Daniel Itai
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1200 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11277 | by Siphosami Malunga
Solving political turmoil key to addressing Zimbabwe's economic crisis
ZIMBABWE is experiencing one of its worst economic crises since independence characterised by cash and foreign currency shortages, fuel scarcities, rampant prices hikes, hyperinflation and increased v...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:35hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's family absolved of corruption
ZANU-PF has warned journalists and other citizens against linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to companies implicated in massive COVID-19 graft.Addressing journalists in Harare yeste...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 2041 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF condemns killing of unarmed black man in US
ZANU-PF yesterday said the racial killing of a black unarmed man by US police despite pleas that he was chocking symbolises the nation's attitude towards the people of colour hence their equally chock...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
'Zimdollar is world's second junkiest currency'
RENOWNED American economist, Steve Hanke says Zimbabwe has the second "junkiest" currency in the world owing to its continued fall.According to Hanke, from end of December 2019 to May 14, the ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not recognised among emerging economies
ZIMBABWE has failed to make it to the list of the world's top 66 emerging economies - a list topped by neighbouring Botswana - due to high public and foreign debts and insufficient foreign reserves, a...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:12hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic
The world is at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned.David Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), said urgent ac...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 09:52hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
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