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Mnangagwa to launch Command Bakeries across the country
Government says it will facilitate the setting up of small scale bakeries across the country, offering affordable bread prices as consumers have been hit hard by the recent price increases. ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4591 | by Staff reporter
Angry Mnangagwa lashes 'unpatriotic and inhumane' forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accused some businesses of being "unpatriotic and inhumane" following the recent sharp hikes in the prices of basic consumer goods around the country.At ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1872 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi goes to court, seeks protection against ex-wife
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has gone to court seeking a protection order against his ex-wife Tambudzani Muleya, accusing her of harassment and making threats of physical harm.Mohadi, in court ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 715 | by Staff reporter
What do you need to become a welder?
Do you like creating, designing, and fixing stuff? If you are good with your hands, welding could be the career you are looking for. One of the best things about welding as a profession is that it doe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 21:05hrs | 7048 | by Staff Writer
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 2917 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In memory of Zimbabwe's Independence
On 18th April 1980, Zimbabweans celebrated their Independence both from Britain and from the Ian settler state. The celebration was rather muted because it was the little headmaster, Robert Mugabe, wh...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 11:46hrs | 893 | by Ngqabutho Mabhena
Parly committees probe Chiredzi child prostitution
THREE parliamentary thematic committees on Tuesday descended on Chiredzi on a fact-finding mission on child prostitution as well as sexual reproductive health and rights.The committees that ca...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blocks workers from celebrating Easter holidays
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed all workers dealing with Cyclone Idai related works which include construction, relief and rehabilitation must remain at work during the Easter holidays...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 21:49hrs | 19729 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC councillors using out-of-town workshops to syphon funds
Harare City Council has conducted more than 10 out-of-town workshops in blatant defiance of a ministerial directive proscribing the costly training programmes. Over the last two weeks, council...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
'The wage of sin is death' Linda Masarira says
The wage of sin is death and one reaps what he or she sows- these have been the adages that have made so many people in Zimbabwe and in Africa at large to invest much of their energy results i.e the h...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 10:53hrs | 2216 | by Linda Masarira
Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to take over in 2020 - he too will fail, guaranteed
Zanu-PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country's de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing mor...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:04hrs | 5857 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZCTU's incest with MDC Alliance not best for the worker
The proposals by the leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions to become formally aligned with a political party, in this case the MDC-Alliance, and to have a quota of seats on the national ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 06:55hrs | 187 | by Editorial - The Herald
Mnangagwa pushes Zimbabweans to revolt
The Zanu-PF government is pushing Zimbabweans towards an uprising following a fresh wave of price increases that have virtually turned workers into slaves.The price of bread, a staple diet tha...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 19:16hrs | 21294 | by Methusi Ncube
Price hikes thwart salary increase relief
Janet Ncube*, a nurse who like all civil servants received a 29% salary increment on Monday, got angry when she woke up to the news of an effective 94% price increase for bread only a day later....Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 3282 | by James Thompson
#Tajamuka wants Mnangagwa to give blanket amnesty to its members
Radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikile has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to issue a blanket amnesty on its members who are currently in self-imposed exile after fleeing threa...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 13:07hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get pay increase
It was a case of smiling all the way to the bank for civil servants yesterday as Government honoured its pledge to increase the workers' salaries by 29 percent beginning this month.The civil s...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | 4743 | by Staff reporter
50% of Gweru council managers unqualified
AT least 47% of top and middle managers at Gweru City Council are not qualified for their positions, a service level benchmarking (SLB) peer review committee report revealed last Friday."We no...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 1276 | by Staff reporter
Salary increment, Zimbabwe workers demanding a living wage for enhanced production
Zimbabwean workers have been hailed globally for being highly competent and hard working. In a sharp contrast back home they are scorned by their own government at times they are labeled as lazy and u...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:15hrs | 1895 | by ARTUZ
Perrance Shiri ejects A2 farmers from Tongaat houses
Lands minister Perrance Shiri has ejected new A2 sugarcane farmers who grabbed Tongaat Hulett houses and evicted company employees in the process, claiming they had five-year leases.In a lette...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Calls for salary, wage adjustments intensify
The Institute of People Management of Zimbabwe (IMPZ) has called for an upward review on the taxable wage threshold from RTGS$350 to cushion workers from the rising cost of living.In the 2019 ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resorts to Abacus bean Counting in the Digital age,
By offering bread crumbs to former commercial farmers, in a potentially ill fated bid to appease the international financial markets over the ZANU-PF sanctioned illegal farm invasions of 2000 to 2005....Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:34hrs | 881 | by Thabo Makuyana
Who should lead the MDC after Congress? A View from the grassroots voter
Although the MDC has been a beacon of hope for most Zimbabweans since its inception in 1999, the same cannot be confidently asserted this time around. Successive splits that have been rocking th...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:25hrs | 1679 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Boy loses leg because of church belief
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy from Bulawayo is precariously clinging to life, as his parents, who are staunch Jehovah's Witnesses are allegedly refusing that he undergoes a blood transfusion to save his life, ...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the knife edge
Legitimacy issues will continue to follow Mnangagwa. All forms of cheating were applied, hence our elections fell below international standards, thus the continuation of sanctions. ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:52hrs | 1192 | by Leonard Koni
Mthuli Ncube lampooned over new currency plans
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday came under fire from economists who accused him of rushing to announce plans to re-introduce the Zimbabwe dollar before addressing factors which led to its coll...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:17hrs | 2140 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance congress divides ZCTU
A showdown is looming between the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its membership over the labour representative body's decision to join MDC-Alliance ahead of the embattled party's crunch ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa prescribes solution to Zimbabwe's problems
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa legitimacy and genuine dialogue is the solution to Zimbabwe's problems. Chamisa has refused to participate in President Mnangagwa's political dialogue of opposition President...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 10:41hrs | 11061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean white farmers lodge a R1.9bn compensation claim against South Africa
In what we hope is the final phase of a protracted legal struggle for justice in Zimbabwe, Willie Spies, the legal representative of AfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, lodged papers i...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2153 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$1 billion steel project kicks off
ONE of the world's largest stainless steel producers, Chinese company Tsingshan Holding Group, has begun work on setting up of the US$1 billion steel plant in the country that will eventually produce ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 09:15hrs | 6332 | by Staff reporter
Zimra workers allege victimisation
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) workers' committee have resigned en-masse, citing victimisation by management and the board.In a letter gleaned by NewsDay, a leader of the wo...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Redwing Mine workers engage in massive strike
Workers at Redwing Mine have been picketing at the mine premises since 1 April. The contract workers had their employment contracts terminated on 31 March. They had not been paid for 15 months. Collec...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 14:29hrs | 845 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zim EFF dismayed by Mnangagwa's decision to compensate White farmers
The Zim EFF is dismayed by the government of Zimbabwe's decision to compensate White farmers for the land that was lawfully and rightfully repossessed under the government's land redistribution progra...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2977 | by Zim EFF Media Relations
Zimbabwe to start training cadaver dogs
Government says it will soon start training local dogs to undertake specialised searches that include finding human bodies.This comes after the State was forced to seek help from South African...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
When loneliness is great company
Gogo Chihera and 'Sekuru' Dlodlo stay in deferent provinces of Zimbabwe yet they have one thing in common, both their spouses are late hence lead lonely lives. Their brood has come of age and have gon...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:30hrs | 1611 | by Thomas Murisa.
WATCH: Panic as prostitutes take used condom to sangoma
Panic has gripped a number of Harare men who frequent the Red light district seeking a nice time with commercial sex workers after Prophet C B Motondo of Grace Faith Ministries operating along K...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | 7193 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police probe several bigwigs over Cylone Idai aid looting
POLICE have arrested dozens of people and are probing a number of senior government officials, following the sickening looting and diversion of goods donated to victims of the deadly Cyclone Idai stor...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:40hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Board members are to blame for company failure
The Zimbabwean government is battling to contain the never ending problem of company shutdowns which is now prevalent in Zimbabwe. Some of the companies have either folded or are in intensive care the...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 11:40hrs | 926 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Elliot Moyo's death, Twitter reacts
Most social media users don't believe the reports, saying there could be yet another resurrection miracle on the way.Several Zimbabwean news publications reported on Monday that Brighton Ellio...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 09:42hrs | 44356 | by Staff reporter
Ministry official nabbed over Idai donations
A deputy director in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development on Saturday appeared before a Chipinge magistrate facing charges of stealing Cyclone Idai donati...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Prices of goods have risen by between 25 and 75%
RETAILERS have said consumer spending has declined considerably in recent months, as Zimbabwean consumers cannot afford to maintain spending with the high prices of goods and services. Prices ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 497 | by Staff repoirter
Four of the seven Zimbabweans burnt alive in South Africans laid to rest
More than 1000 mourners, including some South Africans attended the burial in Sanyati Zimbabwe of the four of the slain Zimbabweans. Each mourner had his-or her own profound reasons for being ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 19:22hrs | 15742 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa given a 7-day deadline
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned union of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in another sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 5224 | by Staff reporter
War Vets warn of unrest
Former freedom fighters are up in arms with government over the ongoing land downsizing programme as they warned of a national security risk if the matter is not handled with care. This comes ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 3452 | by Staff reporter
75-year-old retraces colonial days, cycled from Buhera to Gweru in search of work
BORN in 1944, Naison Dhakwa Muganyi still looks fit and his memory is as sharp, telling jokes captured mainly from his early days as a youth working at BATA Shoe Company in Gweru, then Gwelo. ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:20hrs | 1827 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Zimra targets tax dodgers
WHEN the taxman pays an impromptu visit, they all shut their doors; and when he calls-in everyone stampedes for the exits just to get a good reason to say "no one heard the call".Very few peop...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:18hrs | 2076 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers sceptical over government' land audit
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: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:17hrs | 877 | by Farmers' Voices
PSMAS under probe
MR Tabani Mpofu - a renowned lawyer who leads the crack unit - confirmed the probe. He said: "We have received complaints of corruption allegations against PSMAS. We have referred the matter t...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:35hrs | 1891 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU demands minimum wage of US$600
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the spiralling cost of living justifies an upward adjustment in the minimum wage to US$600 (RTGS$1 800) to cushion the embattled worker.To pus...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 12:42hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces revolt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused by a Zanu-PF-aligned un- ion of ignoring the plight of workers "to please his neo-capitalist friends", in an- other sign of fissures in the ruling party....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:05hrs | 10984 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
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