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ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 8 hrs ago | 618 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe government deluded about doctors
This has been one of the most deluded period for the Zimbabwe government – even by its own inherently schizophrenic standards — firstly claiming that providing low salaries to workers was economic...Published: 18 hrs ago | 649 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boost for sex workers, the homeless
Chivi South legislator (Zanu-PF) Killer Zivhu has embarked on a project to empower 100 disadvantaged people in Harare as part of his efforts to unpack President Mnangagwa's Vision 2030 that seeks to t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trainee medical registrars boycott final exams
DOZENS of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) postgraduate medical registrars, Monday boycotted their end of course examinations claiming they missed out on crucial practical lessons due to the ongoing strike...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:45hrs | 2678 | by newzimbabwe
Mafikizolo promoter fails to pay local artistes
ORGANISERS of the flopped Mafikizolo Back in Town Concert held on Friday at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) in Harare are being accused of failing to pay local supporting acts their ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 20:30hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Tragedy of the cannibalistic Zimbabwe govt that devours and sucks dry its own teachers!
As a son of a teacher, I will never forget the utmost honour and pride attached to this profession in the 1980s - such that, even as a mere child, just being known as "Mr. Mbofana's son" made me walk ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 12:05hrs | 1395 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Currency reforms can work if Zimbabweans want them to
YESTERDAY (November 11, 2019) the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) started the process of injecting new notes into the financial system to improve the level of physical cash in circulation.This ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:55hrs | 774 | by Anthony Matutu
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1113 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Policy inconsistency dogs economy
ZIMBABWE is again back in the jaws of policy inconsistency and discord, which characterised the late president Robert Mugabe's administration, pushing away foreign direct investment as a result, analy...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:44hrs | 77 | by The Standard Editorial comment
An open letter to President Mnangagwa
Your Excellency,Since your ascendency to the realms of power in November 2017 I have been monitoring your progress with keen interest.Mr President, today I will not write about the inc...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:42hrs | 512 | by Moses Julias wekwa Chibaya
Zimsec exams scandal at exposed
FOUR senior teachers at a school in Chiredzi allegedly connived to write examinations for their partners.According to a whistleblower, the quartet (names withheld) would open the sealed envelo...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Gushungo bomber writes to High Court
Zimbabwe People's Front political party president Owen Kuchata, who is serving a nine-year jail term for attempting to petrol-bomb the former First Family's Alpha Omega Dairy Farm in Mazowe, has claim...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:04hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Government fires 134 more doctors
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Deluded govt wants to invite back Zim doctors in diaspora, yet can't even care for local practitioners
This has been one of the most deluded weeks for the Zimbabwe government - even by its own inherently schizophrenic standards - firstly claiming that providing low salaries to workers was economically ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 09:31hrs | 2691 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Open challenge to Zimbabwe govt for nationwide LIVE public debates on so-called sanctions and their real effects
As the vast majority of Zimbabweans continue to drown in this suffocating abyss of the worst economic meltdown in a decade, the government has upped its denial and defensive mode, as it seeks to dodge...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 13:47hrs | 624 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim govt deliberately impoverishing citizens to attract investment by creating cheap labour?
To say that I was petrified listening to the Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi speaking last night (5 November 2019) on the Voice of America's Studio 7, would be the understatement of the y...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 12:44hrs | 1649 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa exposed
I walked in the hospital ward in one of our main hospitals in Zimbabwe. The stench of death enveloped the corridors. There was no nurse insight no doctor insight either. I entered into one ward nobody...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 19:36hrs | 14229 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Suffering and oppressed Zimbabweans need to emulate doctors' fearless trailblazing protracted struggle for a better life
There is one very pressing - not to mention, extremely embarrassing - question which Zimbabweans who travel throughout the world are always confronted with every time we encounter foreign nationals: "...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 12:54hrs | 1410 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ted Fellow Carl Joshua Ncube stars in a documentary
One of the pressing questions both worldwide and in Zimbabwe is ‘How do we sustainably use our natural resources and protect our wild life from extinction?'Produced by MMX Productions and Re...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:47hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
A view from ko Bulawayo with Discent Bajila
When modernization and digitization deepen marginalization On the day I finished my Advanced Level examinations at Luveve High School in Bulawayo mid November 2006, my loving sister had alread...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 2814 | by Discent Collins Bajila
Zimbabwe 'national interests' can't be defined by ZANU PF alone, but by national consensus
In recent days - especially, after the botched 25 October 2019 anti-sanctions march, in which very few people heeded government's calls for the nation to come out in full force to demonstrate against ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1068 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New notes and coins cannot solve Zimbabwe's problems
The Zimbabwean situation has been worsened by a clueless central bank, finance minister minister who is myopic and a government that only serves the interests of a few.. This article will try to clari...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1868 | by Henry Madiro
Jonathan Moyo speaks on General SB Moyo's threat to America
Former Minister of Information Professor Jonathan Moyo says the statement that was issued by Minister of Foreign Affairs Retired Lt General Sibusiso Busi Moyo attacking the United States of America Am...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 4133 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sanctions do hurt the economy
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols, was unusually hyperactive last week.The diplomat attempted to counter the government's narrative on the detrimental effects of sanctions...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:49hrs | 214 | by Hopewell Mauwa
Uncle Sam cannot afford to ignore Sadc's voice
On Friday, October 25, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) made it clear to Washington and Brussels that the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe two decades ago must go without any fur...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 151 | by Ranga Mataire
Is Zim govt anger at Brian Nichols due to jitters as was sold a dummy by SADC over anti-sanctions solidarity?
The escalating attacks on the United States of America ambassador Brian Nichols by the Zimbabwe government - most recent of which was notably a thinly veiled threat, possibly of expulsion from the cou...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 08:53hrs | 3803 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Sanctions are anti-peace in Zimbabwe
The issue of sanctions and how they have impacted the social and economic welfare of the generality of Zimbabweans is of great relevance to the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission. Fi...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 137 | by Geoffrey T. Chada
Zimbabwe sanctions conundrum
The USA first enacted ZIDERA in 2001 as a response to gross human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, violent grab of white owned farms, violent crackdown on opposition and dissent, costly deployme...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:52hrs | 982 | by Terrence Wuragu
Govt moans it doesn't have money, but expects impoverished citizens to have money for ever-increasing tariffs!
I am not much of an economist, but the manner in which the Zimbabwe government is seemingly unapologetically overburdening its already suffering citizens with ever-increasing tariffs leaves me with a ...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2655 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Birth registration for Under 6 free
Birth registration for children below six years will remain free of charge, as Government is committed to ensuring that all citizens across the country have access to identification documents, Registr...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuse and bullying of own citizens pushing them right into the arms of the USA
As tensions between the beleaguered Zimbabwe government and the United States of America (USA) ambassador Brian Nichols continue to intensify - especially, in the wake of the latter's recent flat deni...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 12:58hrs | 1962 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When a dead Zimbabwe president attracts more people than a current president - it's time for serious introspection
The past two months in Zimbabwe have been characterised by very notable events - some of which stood out more than others - but, what I found outstanding was the general public's reaction to the death...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 11:36hrs | 6663 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SADC protest against UN cites unfair trade restrictions
Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe are going to submit protest documents that will allow them to legally trade in their elephants, rhino and giraffes. The three countries are declaring themselves independ...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2209 | by Emmanuel Koro
Masvingo Book Fair rescheduled to 6 & 7 November 2019
The ZIMBABWE International Book Fair Association (ZIBFA) has rescheduled this year's edition of the Masvingo Book Fair event to Wednesday 6 November and Thursday 7 November 2019.The book extra...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 19:02hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross beginning to smell the coffee, but....
IN the Holy Book, there is story of the prodigal son who demanded his share of his father's estate, which the father gave him. Shortly after being given his inheritance, the son runs off and s...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 17:36hrs | 5891 | by Amos Mazambani
Herald appoints acting editor
The Zimpapers Group has appointed former Herald Editor William Chikoto as the interim editor with immediate effect following the departure of Tichaona Zindoga. Zindoga has been acting editor s...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:20hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Pupils without IDs must write public exams: Education official
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education last week proposed that children without proper documentation should be allowed to sit for public examinations.The proposal was made by Bulawayo...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:45hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi menace poses danger to Zimbabwe
OUTSPOKEN Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa once called for decisive action against marauding criminals going by the moniker MaShurugwi who are unleashing untold violence in mining communit...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1724 | by By Toby Sithole
The Country's biggest Fraud
"Who can ever forget that a whole Mugabe and his government were shaken by a lone and few Dzamara followers sitting in Africa unity gardens vowing not to eat until Mugabe finds time off his busy sched...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 2885 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Bosso CEO in $200 allowance furore with subordinates
HIGHLANDERS chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube recently had a heated exchange of words with his two female subordinates in full glare of Bosso faithfuls and football neutrals at Barbourfields Stadi...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:39hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Convicted school pupil to write exams in jail
Zvishavane magistrate Achy Wochiunga refused to grant bail pending appeal for a Mandava High School upper six pupil who was on Tuesday slapped with a three-year jail term together with three accomplic...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba in Man City test
ZIMBABWE international Marvelous Nakamba will face his sternest test since his breakthrough move to the Premier League when Aston Villa travel to the Etihad Stadium to play against English champions M...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1093 | by Staff reporter
The world waits with bated breath
Today, the rest of the progressive world waits with fingers crossed and bated breath for responses from the USA and her trotting European cubs to events across Southern Africa yesterday marking a Sadc...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | 243 | by Stephen Mpofu,
Prison gave Ndiweni time to write a book
OUTSPOKEN Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, has revealed that he used his incarceration period in August to write a book on the country's appalling prison conditio...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:52hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Lecturers strike triggers students demonstration
STUDENTS at Lupane State University (LSU) on Wednesday staged a demonstration blocking the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway protesting against lack of food, electricity and water at a time when lecture...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:32hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Useful guide to create great blog posts
Today, many people prefer to write blog posts. Some of them simply want to express what their heart desires. Other folks write them to provide effective tips, which help to overcome certain problems o...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 14:48hrs | 162 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe schools roped into anti-sanctions drive
A PRIMARY and Secondary Education ministry official has ordered all secondary schools in Mberengwa to put together essays that chronicle how sanctions are hurting the country.The essays are du...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 11:05hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
SeSotho association pens books to promote language
THE SeSotho Language and Culture Association is penning Sotho text books for Form One pupils in a bid to promote teaching of the subject in schools. In an interview during a four-day workshop ...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:03hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Restrictions keep coming, Why?
The self-appointed overseer of the world that is the USA think she can own and rule over everything. The US and their side-kick the EU think they can do whatever they want to any country especially in...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1331 | by Gift Mashoko
Pravin Gordhan is a serious liability in 'New Dawn'
It can no longer be avoided Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has become a serious liability to President Cyril Ramaphosa's "New Dawn", says the writer. File picture: ReutersThis week ...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 16:04hrs | 2216 | by Sifiso Mahlangu
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