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'Women politicians are weak,' says MDC Alliance candidate
MDC Alliance's ward 28 candidate for Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, Collet Ndlovu, has triggered a storm with women rights activists after urging residents to rally behind a male candidate, saying women po...Published: 3 hrs ago | 287 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda to bounce back?
ZANU PF Bulawayo province is deeply divided over firebrand former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda, pictured, who is being tipped to take over the province's chairmanship.The province was...Published: 16 hrs ago | 3120 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pledges support for Gukurahundi victims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday pledged to ensure the capacitation of the Home Affairs ministry with resources for the documentation exercise of Gukurahundi victims without identity particula...Published: 20 hrs ago | 652 | by Staff reporter
When seers failed to see the Ides of March
Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | 320 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa moves to checkmate his rivals
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed more politburo members to oversee the restructuring of Harare and Bulawayo provinces in what serves to indicate the high stakes involved in the whole exercis...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:36hrs | 10019 | by Staff reporter
The battle for MDC leadership continues
The trumpet for congress has been blown in the Zimbabwe’s largest opposition political party, Movement for Democratic Change - Alliance. Congress has been set to be held in May 2019.The announcement...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 15:38hrs | 3093 | by M Hupile
Hwende application dismissed
Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday dismissed MDC-Alliance legislator for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende's application for refusal of further remand saying the messages he sent on his Tw...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:48hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 5206 | by STaff reporter
Kirsty Coventry outraged
Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has expressed outrage over the barring of the Zimbabwe Warriors from the National Sports Stadium yesterday.The Warriors were denied t...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:23hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
Entrepreneurship is key for economic Development in Zimbabwe
We are all collectively linked to the survival misfortunes of this country. I must say, in one way or another we are all affected. We need to address economic challenges and solutions of this country....Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | 256 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 1894 | by Matabeleland Collective
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 | 164 | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
Zimbabwe, South Africa increase collaboration on migration
ZIMBABWE and South Africa have increased collaboration on the management of migration and repartition of children across their border through the Cross-border Coordination Committee for Unaccompanied ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
The voice of reason from an MDC veteran
Contesting a post in any political structure is legitimising the plebiscite processes.W inning a post in a Mass party is secondary but laying a democratic foundation. We need to leave a legacy for the...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1340 | by Henry Madiro
CIO boss coup death: Family wants justice
THE family of senior Central Intelligence Organisation operative Peter Munetsi, who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup that toppled former president Robert Mugabe, has written to...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 4132 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance congress: Of a leopard devouring its cubs
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 399 | by Tafara Shumba
Bishop Donga dies
THE founder of the Revival Crusade Missions International (RCM) Church Bishop Sibusiso Donga has died. He was 52. Born on November 30 in 1966, Bishop Donga passed away on Saturda...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns against looting of donations
Unco-ordinated collection and disbursement of donations towards relief efforts for Cyclone Idai victims in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces has created gaps and loopholes, which are being manipulated...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:05hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs warn that govt may have to exhume Cyclone Idia bodies
Traditional leaders in Manicaland have been left seething by the manner in which some victims of Cyclone Idai have been buried - which had seen the interment in some instances of more than one person ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:47hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Operation #Sesingaphi targeting MPs launched
The Election Resource Centre on Wednesday launched an operation targeted at holding Members of Parliament accountable over electoral promises.The Operation dubbed: #Sesingaphi, #Tavepapi #Howf...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1594 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fury over burial of cyclone victims
Traditional leaders in Manicaland have been left seething by the manner in which some victims of Cyclone Idai have been buried - which had seen the interment in some instances of more than one person ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2538 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association elects new executive
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has elected a new 19-member executive for a four-year term, with labour expert and human rights defender Ambrose Sibindi landing the chairmanship....Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 08:06hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
High Court lifts NGO suspension
HIGH Court judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo has nullified the suspension of Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (Cotrad), a local youth non-governmental organisation (NGO), saying...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:58hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Amakorokoza star speaks on Bulawayo gay and married men
Former Amakorokoza star Frank Malaba, known as Dr Phumza, says some married men in Bulawayo are gay and they come out only at night to look for other male partners because of the fear of what society ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 2126 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mohadi opens tobacco selling season
The 2019 tobacco marketing season has been officially opened by Vice President Kembo Mohadi who called for the industry to respect and reward the efforts being made by farmers to produce the lucrative...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:01hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
'Cyclone victims being buried in mass graves'
RESCUE efforts continued yesterday in the Cyclone Idai-ravaged Chimanimani and Chipinge districts amid reports that some people who died in the disaster could have been buried in mass graves, although...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:41hrs | 2682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation to decline to 10%
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube sees inflation - currently at 59% - declining to 10% by the end of the year.He is banking on slowing down money supply, liberalisation of the exchange rate and ot...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2881 | by Staff reporter
Mash Central MDC youth leader out on bail
Jailed MDC Mashonaland Central youth chairperson Tonderai Samhu, together with four accomplices, were finally granted $100 bail each to challenge their six-year jail sentence.High Court judge ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo pushes for a Policy Indaba
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo's initiativeI'm driving a national agenda which has no political affiliation, but to assist on enhancing development. We simply ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | 203 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chamisa attacks Mwonzora ally
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa railed at party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora's ally in Masvingo last weekend, blaming him for the opposition party's poor showing in the region during last year's harmo...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:34hrs | 5594 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe comes to terms with grim scale of damage
ZIMBABWEANS are slowly coming to full terms with the horrific scale of devastation that Cyclone Idai wreaked in the country — amid confirmation late yesterday that torrential rains and landfalls had...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:17hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths mobilise donations for cyclone victims
The Zanu-PF National Youth League executive has mobilised party members to donate towards assisting victims of Tropical Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani and Chipinge, Manicaland province.Zanu PF Yo...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 11:41hrs | 602 | 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 | 639 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri exposes Chamisa
THE weekend interview MDC deputy president Engineer Elias Mudzuri had with the private media has all but exposed the party's leader Mr Nelson Chamisa as an illegitimate, power hungry person whose poli...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:31hrs | 5615 | by Nduduzo Tshuma,
Chamisa in pole position as MDC Alliance congress beckons
The MDC Alliance will elect new leaders at congress in May - a process which will make or break the country's biggest opposition party. While the nomination process has not yet started, party leader N...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans struggle with storm floods
The death toll from cyclone Idai continues to rise as southern African countries struggle to deal with the devastating aftermath of the torrential downpours.The powerful storm has killed at le...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:08hrs | 3719 | by Al Jazeera
President Mnangagwa a Tonga from Zambia?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is of Tonga ethnic group and hails from Zambia Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged.Prof Moyo was responding to a Daily News article where Mnangagwa was narrating h...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 07:53hrs | 19764 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe NGO challenges suspension
A MASVINGO-BASED youth Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD), whose operations in the province were suspended last week by the district a...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands in power-sharing deal
MDC Midlands structures have struck a power-sharing deal which will them equally share provincial posts following the merging of Midlands north and south provinces ahead of the party's May congress....Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa turns to rebels, as fight for MDC leadership hits the home stretch
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has effectively dumped his party long-standing Masvingo provincial chairman James Gumbi and thrown his weight behind a faction of returning rebels led by lawyer To...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 5111 | by newzimbabwe
'More Zimbabweans in exile under Mnangagwa than there were during Mugabe's rule'
MORE Zimbabweans have been driven into exile by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration than under his predecessor former President Robert Mugabe, an opposition activist has said.Promise...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 475 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe targeting to process FDI approvals in hours
The establishment of the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) will capacitate the country to process foreign direct investment (FDI) approvals within a day, Finance and Economic Developme...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
MDC Congress: Proposals to achieve unity, progress
THERE is nothing amiss about the split of political parties, churches, football or other sporting teams, partnerships, corporates, or any voluntary organisation for that matter. While for the ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | 1144 | by Makaita Noel Mutasa
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 | 1046 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF sends SOS for cyclone victims
In a statement yesterday, Zanu-PF chief whip and the party's secretary for youth affairs, Pupurai Togarepi, called on Zimbabweans to join hands and help the stricken families."We have learnt w...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:50hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo's legacy under threat
A close-up chat with Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo may dwell generously on his music and culture as much as it can give a sense that he is strikingly rattled by the waning influence his brand of ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe is on the path to progress
Zimbabwe is on a journey of reform. Nobody ever said it wouldn't be a bumpy ride; but the most important thing is that the journey has begun, and we are heading in the right direction.The Tran...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:45hrs | 549 | by Mthuli Ncube
Government launches Bulawayo Cosmetology Hub
THE Government has officially opened a Cosmetology Hub in Bulawayo to create a necessary environment for youth participation in the mainstream economy for inclusive growth.The Hub, which was c...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:42hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Cracks have widened within MDC provincial structures
Cracks have widened within MDC provincial structures in Masvingo as two camps aligned to party leader Nelson Chamisa and secretary general Douglas Mwonzora tussle for party control ahead of the main o...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:34hrs | 258 | by newzimbabwe
Let the elders catch fish for themselves
A bank for women, a bank for youths, a bank for..........etc, when will there be a bank for pensioners? Maybe its because of the general notion that pensioners are destined to expire but, who ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 20:25hrs | 209 | by Tondo Murisa
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