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No to looting of #CycloneIdai donations
Emerging unverified reports of corrupt people who are said to be 'helping' themselves with the donations towards relief efforts for Cyclone Idai victims in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces cannot go ...Published: 1 min ago | | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
Zimbabweans ranked happier than Rwandans, Batswana and Malawians
The World Happiness Report has been released and Zimbabwe ranks close to the bottom ten, lower than neighbours Mozambique and Zambia. However, Zimbabweans have been ranked happier than Rwandans, Batsw...Published: 1 hr ago | 742 | by Staff reporter
Civilian military leader needed to restore electoral democracy before 2023 presidential elections
Without doubt electoral democracy has failed to work in Zimbabwe, it might have worked in Zambia, South Africa and Botswana but in Zimbabwe electoral democracy has failed dismally, it is on record tha...Published: 2 hrs ago | 908 | by Knowledge Hakata
Woman walks 2 hours to donate to Cyclone Idai victims
People in Zimbabwe's capital Harare have been donating food, clothes and other household essentials to victims of Cyclone Idai at the Presbyterian church.One of the volunteers at the church, N...Published: 2 hrs ago | 842 | by BBC
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: 3 hrs ago | 620 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pastor demands an end to 'elitist dialogue' - confused, doesn't even know elections were rigged
Confusion reigns supreme in Zimbabwe. Confusion is when one says this, the other says that and the third says something else which is neither this nor that in a matter as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 752 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Serious secrets exposed by Cyclone Idai
Zimbabwe' "has" heard many stories of tragedy, heroism and community spirit which come from the floods of recent weeks and of course the cyclones in Manicaland and some parts of Mashonaland East and C...Published: 4 hrs ago | 4537 | by Dr. Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe Airways planes 'repossessed and resold' - source
Malaysian Airlines has repossessed four planes which had been sold to Zimbabwe Airways, the ill-fated Air Zimbabwe proxy, informed sources said.Former President Robert Mugabe personally negoti...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1267 | by ZimLive
Cops intercept smuggled energy drinks
Police detectives have intercepted a large consignment of smuggled goods including livestock products and 27 tonnes of a banned energy drink.Addressing journalists in Harare yesterday, chief v...Published: 5 hrs ago | 553 | by Staff reporter
Namibia minister slams Zimbabweans over marriages of convenience with his people
NAMIBIA'S Home Affairs minister has slammed Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals who are in the tendency of entering into marriages of convenience with his compatriots in order to qualify for Namib...Published: 5 hrs ago | 540 | by newzimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa Junior hires three helicopters for Idai
One of President Mnangagwa's children, Emmerson Junior, yesterday hired three helicopters to assist with the recovery efforts for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Manicaland Province where over...Published: 5 hrs ago | 449 | by Staff reporter
WorldRemit sorry over Cyclone Idai money transfer fee waiver refusal
International money transfer agency World Remit has donated $25,000 to the Red Cross' relief mission for Cyclone Idai - but not before a social media storm after it refused to waiver transfer fees on ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 253 | by ZimLive
Chamisa opens up on his visit to Manicaland
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has saluted Zimbabweans for the unity and sacrifice they exhibited in reacting to Cyclone Idai that left a trail of destruction in Manicaland Province.Chamisa was spe...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5912 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa plans to stop using army in demos
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed government's plan to buy riot hardware and water cannons for police officers in a bid to stop relying on the military in containing violent demonstrations....Published: 21 hrs ago | 6086 | 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 | 2574 | 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 | 2545 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa visit to #CycloneIdai hit areas a publicity stunt'
HOME Affairs deputy minister and top Zanu-PF official, Mike Madiro says the Monday visit by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to Cyclone hit areas in Manicaland was an unwelcome attempt by the firebrand oppos...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:35hrs | 4796 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe bans Zambian energy drink, warning it can cause heart problems
A Zambian energy drink has been banned in Zimbabwe after regulators found it contains a dangerous pharmaceutical component that can cause blindness or heart failure.The Medicines Control Autho...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:33hrs | 5462 | by ZimLive
Cyclone Idai unites Zimbabweans
Cyclone Idai which has so far claimed 98 lives in Manicaland has united Zimbabweans from all walks of life as they come together to find ways of assisting the affected families. Several people...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:25hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to change course to escape sanctions
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is using every platform to denounce targeted sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States and the European Union (EU), analysts contend he must do w...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:18hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt rejects criticism of slow cyclone response
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - widely condemned for its slow response to Cyclone Idai - said yesterday it had reacted swiftly to the disaster and was on ground to coordinate rescue effort...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:18hrs | 499 | 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 | 569 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah comes through for Chimanimani victims
Musician Jah Prayzah has mobilized blankets, foodstuffs and other goodies for the victims of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani.The Award-winning singer said he is overwhelmed by the support Zimbabwe...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 15:12hrs | 3396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ED and Chamisa must not use the cyclone as a tool for political mileage
Traumatic events, including natural disasters, are distressing. Strong reactions immediately after the event are very common. Fear, sadness, guilt and anger are all common emotions felt by children, t...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 14:03hrs | 2740 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tour Chimanimani with a clean intention
In times of bereavement, people of different political and social persuasions, even those who do not see eye to eye bury their hatchets and converge to comfort the bereaved.The devastating Cyc...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:29hrs | 2993 | by John Sigauke
Mnangagwa insist there was "no basis" free elections calls and rigging "satisfied people's needs" – how insulting
"We feel that we are almost two decades behind in terms of development as a result of economic sanctions that have been imposed on us," Emmerson Mnangagwa told The National in an interview in Abu Dhab...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:26hrs | 1815 | by Nomusa Garikai
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 | 590 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans buried two-two per grave in Manicaland
The victims of Cyclone Idai in Manicaland have united and made coffins for their departed relatives and buried them two-two per grave due to unavailability of burial spaces and the huge number of dead...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:58hrs | 9277 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe cannot outsource its development - it has to fix the fundamentals first
While South Africa believes sanctions should be scrapped in Zimbabwe, analysts indicate that the sanctions narrative has been an easy scapegoat in addressing the real issues affecting the country....Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 407 | by Sally Nyakanyanga
'Zimbabwe sanctions affecting Sadc'
A GROUP of South Africa-based civic society groups is in Bulawayo campaigning for the removal of Western imposed economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, saying they had missed their targets and are no...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 779 | 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 | 5387 | by Nduduzo Tshuma,
'Interbank market won't be manipulated'
Mechanisms have been put in place to ensure that the foreign currency interbank market will not be manipulated, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has said. This ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance dismantling patriarchy towards a people’s movement
Zimbabwe is in the throes of a deep economic and political crisis, further worsened by Cyclone Idai that has ravaged the eastern parts of the country leaving scores dead, hundreds injured and thousand...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 05:19hrs | 3478 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Government assures the nation on adequate grain in silos
The deputy minister of Labour and Social welfare Lovemore Matuke assured villagers of Urere in Rushinga Mashonaland Central province last week that there is adequate food in the country's silos to fee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:22hrs | 735 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Doctors give government two-week ultimatum on supplies - decisive action at last, after 38 years of dithering
"DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last wee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1986 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Linda Masarira speaks on deadly Cyclone Idai
The Spokesperson of the Thokozani Khuphe led MDC-T Linda Masarira says the government needs to establish a national disaster fund where all well-wishers can channel their donations to.Masarira...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 18:41hrs | 2582 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe embassies must issue IDs, passports'
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe's 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General's...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:50hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's family describe Mnangagwa's govt as a 'dead donkey'
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga's AMG offers assistance to cyclone victims
Businessman Frank Buyanga through his group of companies, has offered to render assistance to victims of a vicious cyclone Idai that has so far killed over 70 people in Manicaland with 100 more report...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:41hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
MDC will not campaign for sanction removal for now
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has admitted that Western economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were hurting ordinary people, but would only campaign for their removal once President Emmerson M...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:34hrs | 1346 | by Staff reporter
'Army killings stiffled UK efforts to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE British government has maintained that the August 1, 2018 post-election violence shootings and January 14-16, 2019 killings, which claimed over 20 lives after security forces fired into protestors...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2299 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF proposes to give away platinum to foreign Capitalists
In 1991, the Zimbabwean economy took its first major dive with the adoption of the IMF/World bank neo-liberal "Economic Structural Adjustment Programme" (ESAP). In Zimbabwe, this process was headed by...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | 1400 | by ZCP
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 | 2025 | by Baffour Ankomah
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 | 3699 | by Al Jazeera
Zimbabwe boarding school hit by deadly cyclone landslide, s pupils dead
Two boarding school pupils are among 31 people to have been killed in eastern Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai.They were asleep in their dormitory when rocks swept down a mountain and knocked over a w...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:02hrs | 2586 | by BBC
Situation in Zimbabwe hospitals a damning indictment on government
A signature characteristic of former President Robert Mugabe (pictured)'s administration was silence in the face of crippling crises. Zimbabweans, at the height of Mugabe's rule, had become resigned t...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 160 | by Learnmore Zuze
'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 | 470 | by newzimbabwe
Joshua Nkomo family fumes over 'delayed' Harare statue
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:34hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Reform now before it's too late
EDITOR,Someone once said that it is never too late to turn back and do the right thing. What Zanu-PF seems to be blind to is that in their exclusion of all and anything not perceived to be Zan...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:11hrs | 1340 | by TruthBTold
Selfish Zanu-PF govt behind our suffering
EDITOR,Zimbabwe is my motherland. My heart bleeds when I see Zimbabwe in such a terrible state. Our elders took over the reigns from colonial masters and we all celebrated because we thought w...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:11hrs | 977 | by E Denhere
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