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Buyers bring in $1 billion to buy golden leaf
International tobacco buyers have mobilized US$1 billion to buy the country's golden leaf crop this year, a move expected to boost foreign currency inflows in the country. The 2019 tobacco mar...Published: 18 hrs ago | 793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa resurrects Beitbridge District club
THE Beitbridge District Club, once a social assembly point for white commercial farmers prior to independence, and the entire Beitbridge community after independence, relived its past glory last week....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Corruption still rife in Zimbabwe: US report
CORRUPTION remains a major problem in Zimbabwe despite government pronouncements to fight the rot, a report by the United States has revealed.According to a 2018 Human Rights Report prepared b...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
US 'very enthusiastic' about Mnangagwa govt
AMERICA'S Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said on Friday that Washington was "very enthusiastic" about the new Harare government, but wanted to see more action on reform."We are very enthu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 4138 | by Staff reporter
US 2018 Human rights report on Zimbabwe biased
Last week the United States Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour released its 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. An examination of the report shows a fair vi...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:12hrs | 788 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2073 | by Baffour Ankomah
Trump sends US officials to investigate land expropriation in South Africa
A number of US officials visited South Africa at the request of President Donald Trump as part of an investigation into the country's land expropriation process.Trump raised eyebrows in 2018 a...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1298 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe land audits fail to resolve disputes
FARMERS have expressed reservations over the effectiveness of the government-initiated land audits in resolving land ownership disputes across the country.This emerged at the second launch of ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Chombo goes to Supreme Court
Former Finance and Economic Development Minister Ignatius Chombo has approached the Supreme Court seeking permanent stay of proceedings in the magistrates' court where he is facing several cases invol...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Pricing madness hits Victoria Falls
NZALA Milimo was born in Victoria Falls in 1974 and did her primary and secondary education at public schools in the resort town's ghetto townships.But unlike the thousands of well-heeled fore...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:09hrs | 3863 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in the hands of dedicated patriots
For one to be a member of ZANU PF in good times and bad times we need to understand some fundamental issues that everyone who is a ZANU PF cadre should know and follow. We should zero in from the basi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1042 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe: A land of squandered potential
I well remember sitting in the AFP bureau in Harare at dusk on November 21, 2017 and hearing the first whoop of delight in the street outside when Robert Mugabe was finally ousted, an extraordinary mo...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 778 | by Ben Shepherd
Mnangagwa's nephew in fierce tug-of-war for land with church group
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephew, Charles Mpofu is still involved in a fierce tussle for farmland with an apostolic sect group in Kwekwe's Mbembeswane area with the white robbed church members fi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1842 | by newzimbabwe
Loose lips can really sink ships
As Jesus liked his teachings in parables, the Bishop will continue to use intelligible riddles and anecdotes to help you understand the workings of the world, at least as how I understand them....Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:31hrs | 109 | by Bishop Lazi
PHOTOS: Maps Maponyane goes bungee jumping while on vacation in Zimbabwe
Maps Maponyane crossed another item off his bucket list when he went bungee jumping while on vacation in Zimbabwe. The presenter shared a video of himself taking the plunge asking fans if it i...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 19:56hrs | 1329 | by channel24
Mnangagwa reveals childhood dreams
Imagine, aboard a plane and before take-off you hear a voice saying, "This is Captain Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speaking. We are ready for take-off. Our flight is going take approximately three hour...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:08hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere vows to take his fight to Mnangagwa
Fugitive former Cabinet ministers Walter Mzembi and Saviour Kasukuwere, believed to be holed up in South Africa, are at the centre of an attempt to push for regime change in Zimbabwe to salvage their ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 04:57hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
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 | 701 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube should learn from Masiyiwa
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's United States jaunt last week was always expected to yield what it yielded - an empty basket. It's no rocket science.In an article published in this column last...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:08hrs | 4294 | by Brett Chulu
Zimbabweans counting the cost of removing Mugabe
IN AN ideal world, the fall of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was supposed to usher in a period of sustained economic growth and prosperity.Mugabe, 95, was toppled by his loyalists in ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | 5038 | by Brighton Khumalo
Mnangagwa's minister in another farm eviction storm
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba is in another farm eviction storm - this time involving 21 villagers who allege she is encroaching into their land to expand her Penhalonga far...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:34hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
Zim Government lacks consistency on Policy and economic projects
Succession politics is a major stumbling block to the success story and progressive ideas in Zimbabwe. It is not about Mnangagwa, Chamisa or Mugabe, but it is about the future of this country. Governm...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:38hrs | 487 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chamisa's supporter turns up dead after January 24 kidnapping
The body of a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporter kidnapped days after fuel protests shut down the country in January has turned up at a mortuary in Chitungwiza, his devastated family...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:34hrs | 8128 | by ZimLive
'Mugabe wanted Mandela to die in prison'
Former President Robert Mugabe did not want South African struggle icon Nelson Mandela to be released from prison because he was going to steal his limelight.In a video that has gone viral on ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:07hrs | 17337 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | 970 | by Human Rights Watch
SA whites party against any financial commitments to Zimbabwe
DA MP Sandy Kalyan says President Cyril Ramaphosa should not make any financial commitments to Zimbabwe because of what she calls the country's continued campaign of political repression as well as So...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:51hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Article on Chief Ndiweni's 'recall' was disappointing - Felix Ndiweni not a chief
EDITOR,Response to article entitled, "Chiefs' leader disowns bid to recall Ndiweni", published on March 6, 2019. I refer to the above article which was published on March 6, 2019, (also availa...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:53hrs | 753 | by Joram Kaisa Thambo Ndiweni
Gono's jatropha project too small to ease fuel crisis, says Mangudya
FORMER RBZ Governor Gideon Gono's $3 million jatropha project's contribution to the country's fuel demands was too insignificant and cannot be considered as a viable solution to current fuel shortages...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 05:42hrs | 401 | by newzimbabwe
'Mugabe be tried for Gukurahundi massacres'
DEFENCE deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has said former President Robert Mugabe must be tried for the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.In a video uploaded on SMTV on Saturday, Matemadanda also s...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1490 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Choosing a mother of the bride dress
Yоur dаughtеr іѕ gеttіng mаrrіеd. Congratulations! Dо уоu wоrrу thаt уоu wіll nоt bе аblе tо fіnd a Mother оf thе Bride drеѕѕ tо wear fоr уоur wedding thаt іѕ flа...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 08:55hrs | 1762 | by Staff Reporter
'Ethanol blending saves Zimbabwe millions'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya on Thursday told Parliament that blending of ethanol with fuel has been saving the country millions of dollars.Mangudya had appeared before the ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 161 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mugabe to Mnangagwa: From frying pan into fire?
A time comes when overwhelmed Africans desperately desire to see a change in leadership and don't pay rapt attention to the details of the next leadership provided it is a new face. This despe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 3140 | by Omolola Lipede
Rhodesia super than Zimbabwe?
The urban Idiot is a very complex idiot. Just a few months back the urban idiot was celebrating the fall of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe, but today the urban idiot is all over ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:48hrs | 3353 | by Cont Mhlanga
How to spot a fake Robert Mugabe quote
You all remember Robert Mugabe right? I mean come on we literary did not go to work on his birthday like a few weeks ago. Guy used to be president you would see him country and globetrotting in ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3999 | by TechZim
Mugabeist G4Os and their aging geriatric could not even read the signs
In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption."In the Second Republic, we wil...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | 1754 | by Christopher Mutsvangwa
Sipho Pityana is a toxic, divisive and vindictive leader
Writing in his so-called personal capacity, Sipho Pityana, the president of Business Unity SA (Busa) and the chairperson of AngloGold Ashanti, tried and failed to derail last week's successful summit ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:23hrs | 811 | by Sandile Zungu, president of the Black Business Council
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Why did Ian Smith give in so easily and abruptly?
Let's look abroad before coming home. We all know Donald John Trump, the 45th and current President of the USA. If Trump were African, they would say Africans are daft to have elected him president. B...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:36hrs | 4942 | by Baffour Ankomah
Bakers debunk 100% local wheat bread
INDUSTRY experts have roundly discredited the proposal presented to Cabinet last week by a Gweru farmer who claimed that he could produce a standard loaf of bread using locally-produced wheat alone....Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:24hrs | 927 | 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 | 830 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Mnangagwa Vs The Ndebeles (Mthwakazi)
One of the most iconic figure of the 20th century and Mozambique's first black democratic president CDE Sambora Machel once said "Tribalism is like cancer to the society". In many African countries tr...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:59hrs | 2867 | by Nkosana Malinga
Zimbabwe white farmer ordered off farm, 3 others face eviction
CHIREDZI magistrate Geraldine Mutsoto last week found a Mwenezi white commercial farmer, Shane Warth, guilty of overstaying at a 50-hectare farm that had been acquired for resettlement by government a...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2548 | 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 | 5125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 3372 | by Baffour Ankomah
Zimbabwe be calm
In the 1960's a time when the world was ever divided with prospects of a third world war running supreme due to the nuclear arms race and technological advancements. The Catholic Church led then by bl...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | 456 | by Terence Simbi
1893 MHRRM: Releases its own Flag: Its colours, Symbols and Meanings
The Eagle: Represents our strength, courage, tenacity and our hawkish vision to advance the Restoration of Matebele Human Rights....Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1840 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Bio-fuel projects remain redundant
The long fuel queues being experienced across the country coupled with shortages of critical energy needs like electricity indicate mammoth challenges facing Zimbabwe, despite the abundance of alterna...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Trump extends sanctions against Zimbabwe
The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 4, 2019NOTICECONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO ZIMBABWEOn March 6, 2003,...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 19:04hrs | 16304 | by White House
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