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Chamisa's attempts to internationalise Sikhala case flops
CCC interim spokesperson, Gift "Ostallos" Siziba and a retinue of other opposition members and other detractors were in the United States for the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that ran f...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Standard Bank Group appoints new Chief Executive for Africa Regions
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe's parent Company, Standard Bank Group, Africa's largest bank by assets, has appointed Yinka Sanni as its new Chief Executive for Africa Regions and a member of the Group Leadersh...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:09hrs | | by Agencies
'The world is watching Zimbabwe' ex-British Ambassador says
Ex-British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton says he is praying for the nation of Zimbabwe as the country heads towards a period of mass protests called by the opposition MDC beginning Friday Augus...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 15:40hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Technology has transformed financial trading for investors
Whether you are a retail or institutional investor planning to buy equities, property, currencies, commodities or futures in the coming months, technology will play a vital role in your attempts to al...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 14:34hrs | 10 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe Gems thrash Barbados
GOAL-SHOOTER Pauline Jani shot 51 of 53 to power the Zimbabwe Gems to another victory over a side ranked above them on the globe as their fairy-tale Vitality Netball World Cup continued here last nigh...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by STaff reporter
Govt use of violence on its own people is tragic
Continued from last weekWhile Mnangagwa's rhetoric on issues such as land reform, human rights, rule of law, improving the business climate and reducing corruption was all positive, there was ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:13hrs | | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
Mnangagwa's PR bid a futile exercise, say analysts
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to employ a public relations consultancy firm to lobby for the scrapping of United States sanctions is futile as the real solution lies in imp...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe and a fracturing Zanu-PF
continued from last weekMany of those mansion builders were comrades-in-arms from Zimbabwe's war of independence. They, their families, and their business cronies were not eager to give up pow...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:11hrs | | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
November 2017: Wharton is being dishonest
This month former American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Bruce Wharton and former American Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield published an article on the Zimbabwe's 2017 transition from the old ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe branding:- Lipstick on a pig
Former Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi used to be keen on what he called 'rebranding' Zimbabwe. He could see that the country's image abroad had been tainted by Mugabe's misrule and thought cosmetic pu...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 21:52hrs | | by ZimVigil
Mnangagwa splurges US$1,5m on anti-sanctions project
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cashstrapped government will spend over US$1,5 million over three years after hiring a lobbyist linked to the United States President Donald Trump in a bid to have sanct...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 12 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Former US envoy releases details on Chiwenga's coup
Former United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton has written a document that gives an insight into the November 2017 coup that toppled Robert Mugabe from power.Wharton also...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pays price for broken promises
Influential Americans have expressed disappointment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government for failing to live up to their promises that were made when the country's former leader, Rober...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trump punishes Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe coup
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has been pushing for re-engagement and better relations with the United States, seems to be faltering in his bid after the western country extended sanctions against ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive blow to Mnangagwa's Commonwealth return lobby
ZIMBABWE'S bid to rejoin the Commonwealth suffered a major blow this week after a British parliamentary caucus resolved to throw out the country's application for readmission into the club of largely ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube using 2% tax to reward Zanu-PF youths'
Many Zimbabweans - including former Cabinet ministers and the opposition - have reacted with shock to the controversial appointment of Acie Lumumba as head of the newly-created Finance ministry commun...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sends positive signals to Mnangagwa
Since November 2017, Zimbabwe's new administration has been promoting FDI and international re-engagement. Potential FDI now tops US$3billion while several deputations have been to Harare as part of t...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are too patient, 37 years was enough to lose patience with Mugabe - Ambassador Wharton
Former United State of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton has said Zimbabweans have been so patient to allow mis-governance to continue for 37 years at a time when the country spend over ...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
A Prophet is not without honour, except in his own country
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama was to confer on the Zimbabwean leader a Millennium Life Time Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from British colonial rule had the...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 18:31hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
US envoy meets Mugabe
THE United States' new ambassador to Zimbabwe, Harry Thomas (Jnr), yesterday had difficulties explaining why his country has maintained a discredited sanctions regime on Zimbabwe, mumbling inaudibly e...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:40hrs | | by Felex Share
Zimbabwe: Dealing with America
OUR long history - before, during and after colonisation, and since Independence - presents an image of America that is ambiguous, an America appears, disappears, appears and disappears from our radar...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 17:44hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
US appoints new ambassador to Zimbabwe
United States president Barack Obama has appointed Harry Thomas Jnr as Washington's new ambassador to Zimbabwe to succeed Bruce Wharton, who left the country in August. Ambassador Thomas, an A...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe will die in office,' says Grace
First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday joined war veterans in making a declaration that her husband, President Robert Mugabe, would be elected into office even in a wheelchair because he has unparallel...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
US doesn't support any political party or personalities in Zimbabwe
Bruce Wharton, the outgoing United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe, has said there is nothing wrong with regime change in Zimbabwe, saying it is necessary for political parties to renew themselves and c...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 17:24hrs | | by Staff Reporters
Departing Wharton not turning his back on Zimbabwe
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe is not turning his back on Zimbabwe as he assumes a senior post in the State Department Bureau of African Affairs with direct responsibility over United S...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 08:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU-PF: In the absence of the big idea
LET me work and play with an observation by a Marxist literary critic, Walter Benjamin, who noted: "All great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one". Elaborating this great observation, th...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 07:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Rare compliment for Mugabe from US envoy
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Bruce Wharton yesterday described President Mugabe as a lion of Africa who dedicated his life to fighting for the liberation of the continent.S...Published: 13 Nov 2015 at 05:08hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
Outgoing US envoy would continue ensuring the development of Zimbabwe
Bruce Wharton, the outgoing Unted States (US) Ambassador to Zimbabwe, said he would continue ensuring the development of Zimbabwe beyond the lapse of his term, CAJ News reported.Wharton's ...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 11:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Chinamasa admitted' sanctions are NOT the cause of Zim economic meltdown said US Ambassador!
The American government imposed targeted sanctions against Mugabe and a select few in his inner circle for the regime's bad human rights record and failure to hold free elections. I applaud the succes...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 16:26hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe losing grip on Zanu-PF
Repeated desperate efforts by President Robert Mugabe to put a stop to the post congress Zanu-PF's brutal factional and succession wars including his issuance of suspect gag orders, have not stopp...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe must learn to follow the law,' says US
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe must learn to follow the law on electoral issues although polls are never perfect, outgoing United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton has said.In a farewell di...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe sanctions lifting conditional,' says US envoy
Outgoing United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Bruce Wharton has insisted the removal of sanctions will depend on certain conditions.Wharton was speaking after bidding farewell to Vice Presi...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
US ambassador-designate to Zimbabwe talks tough
US ambassador-designate to Zimbabwe Harry Thomas Jr, who will replace Ambassador Bruce Wharton, says he will insist on the respect for human rights and upholding of the rule of law by the Harare gover...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
New CDC Zimbabwe head advocate for increased efforts towards elimination of HIV
New Country Director at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Zimbabwe, Dr. Beth Tippett Barr, says she will continue to advocate for more U.S. support to make the virtual e...Published: 26 Sep 2015 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Eddie Cross uses history to paste human droppings on all of us Zimbabweans
I HAVE always told my fellow Zimbabweans this: history matters. You don't know history, you can't use it to defend or further your interest. You become its butt, a clown by history, not necessarily of...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 13:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
U.S. Embassy Harare opens construction phase of new offices
The United States of America Embassy in Harare on Thursday opened a construction phase of new offices a development marking the start of work to build the new complex for the diplomatic mission in Zim...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 08:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
US committed to normalizing relations with Harare
The United States government yesterday said it remained committed to normalizing relations with Zimbabwe, hence the construction of a new multi-million dollar embassy compound in Harare. S...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
US, Zimbabwe seek to mend relations
Outgoing US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Bruce Wharton has confirmed that his country is on a drive to forge new diplomatic ties with nations once deemed as hostile.Mr Wharton, who paid a co...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 15:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe orders vendors to leave the streets
President Robert Mugabe has warned vendors refusing to vacate the streets to stop taking orders from the US and UK ambassadors, Bruce Wharton and Catriona Laing.Speaking at the Global Small a...Published: 29 Jul 2015 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
US not looking back in assisting Zim in development programmes
The United States of America (USA) has vowed to continue its support for Zimbabwe in its development programmes despite the alleged sour relations as portrayed by the Zimbabwe government in relati...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 07:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
14 Zimbabweans travel to 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit
United States ambassador Bruce Wharton says the fourteen Zimbabweans attending the sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 25-26, 2015 represent the human capi...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Nelson Chamisa's dreadful mistake, 6000 workers fired
CAN someone tell me, just who is threatened by the First Lady hitting 50 years of age? Or by her celebrating that age? Or by the fact of taking advantage of that occurrence to fund-raise for charity? ...Published: 25 Jul 2015 at 10:25hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
USAid programme to Zimbabwe apolitical, says envoy
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton says his country's aid to Zimbabwe is apolitical amid accusations that its funding the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe led by Stan Zvorwadza t...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dzamara worth more than the others who have disappeared or killed
CHIKUKUVATAVATA. It used to be a game we played in our youthful, colonial days. Mother asks you and your siblings to catch a cock or hen for dinner, most probably because sekuru in the sense of your m...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:24hrs | 26 | by Nathaniel Manheru
US hopeful Zimbabwe relations will improve
The United States yesterday said it continues to believe its relations with Zimbabwe have a bright future despite some differences between the two countries. Speaking at the 239th US Indep...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baboon with the smell of a white man
YOU cannot help but admire American choreography. At the start of this month they had a hearing on Zimbabwe, itself an opportunity for demonstrating how much they stand in loco parentis to all of us t...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 20:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
US dismiss an 'Arab spring' like revolt in Zimbabwe
Panelists discussing the state of Zimbabwe's democracy and economic development at an event hosted by the Washington Based think tank, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), expressed cautious optimi...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 16:39hrs | | by Chris Gande
List of Zimbabwe students who received US scholarships
Twenty seventy Zimbabwean students who went through the United States Embassy sponsored United States Achievers Program (USAP) received full scholarships to study at various American universities and...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 10:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Moyo says Zanu-PF failing to use majority?
Gorden Moyo, an MDC member, seems to be a mental patient that suffers from acute amnesia as he appears to be a black-out on the unprecedented effects of western imposed illegal sanctions on the well-b...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 13:52hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
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