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Minister pledges to link industry, colleges
INDUSTRY and Commerce Minister, Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndlovu has pledged to facilitate strong partnership between industry and higher learning institutions in developing innovative packages that will a...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Lawyer dumps Nyagura
ADVOCATE Lewis Uriri yesterday recused himself from representing the suspended University of Zimbabwe Vice- Chancellor, Levi Nyagura in a case he is accused of criminal abuse of office for allegedly p...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 4144 | by Staff reporter
Zamco gives grace period for bad loans
The Zimbabwe Asset Management Company (Zamco) will allow an eight-year moratorium on all restructured non-performing loans (NPLs) before the central bank's bad loans cleansing special purpose vehicle ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Government secures $940m lifeline for Harare water
Government has secured funding commitments worth $940 million from China to overhaul Harare's water and sewer system, which is in a state of disrepair and has been blamed for the current cholera outbr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1684 | by Staff Reporter
ZSE ignores 'Mthuliphoria'
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) slipped into the red unperturbed by the excitement showing across markets on the appointment of new treasury chief, Mthuli Ncube, it has emerged.Slipping into...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:48hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube gets shock reality check
NEWLY-appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube - who arrived in the country from Switzerland early this week amid a populist storm and blaze of publicity on how to fix Zimbabwe's critically broken econ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | 13007 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Nyagura ConCourt bid in limbo
HARARE magistrate Lazini Ncube yesterday dismissed a bid by suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice-chancellor Levi Nyagura to approach the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), challenging the legality...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lawyer guns for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer in the just-concluded presidential election challenge, Advocate Lewis Uriri, yesterday challenged the Zanu-PF leader's authority to appoint a special anti-corrupt...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 7083 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must act fast to salvage legacy
In his short, to the point, inauguration speech, President Emmerson Mnangagwa dwelt at length on his quest for free, fair, credible and non-violent elections. The non-violence was supposed to be a fea...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 1433 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
Trump under fire over South Africa land reform
SOUTH Africa's land reform policy was long overdue and attempts by United States President Mr Donald Trump to muddy the programme is clear testimony of his administration's defiance to black self-dete...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:43hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Why Judge Chigumba should resign ahead of ConCourt ruling
There is no doubt that Judge Chigumba has lost both legal, moral and witchcraft authority to lead ZEC and Zimbabwe elections in future. Judge Chigumba is the first ever elections chairperson on earth ...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:52hrs | 11918 | by Don Chigumba
Chamisa is not a factor in parliament, which is good
Since there are so many impious hands on Zimbabwe's internal affairs, so many hands challenging its sovereignty, I thought my opening paragraphs should address those meddlesome, self-righteous foreign...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:53hrs | 374 | by Igomombe
Grace Mugabe 'fake' degree gets UZ vice-chancellor suspended
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa has suspended University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor, Levi Nyagura for awarding former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) under controversia...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1027 | by Staff Reporter
Harare ranked world's 6th least liveable city
HARARE has been ranked the sixth least liveable city in the world out of 140 nation cities due to instability, inadequate infrastructure and a poor healthcare system, faring better only against cities...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Electoral petitions
I join the nation in passing condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives needlessly in the violent demonstrations that disgraced Harare on Wednesday afternoon.The ensuing sh...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:28hrs | 430 | by Miriam T Majome
Zimbabwe underestimating its GDP
Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) reached $17, 85 billion last year, which is an all-time high, according to industry and commerce experts TradingEconomics.comZimbabwe's GDP averaged $6,...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:10hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | 702 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
ARTUZ to boycott Mnangagwa's Education campaign rally
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education will today 18-07-2018 hold a campaign rally for President Emmerson Mnangagwa at Celebration Center in Harare. The rally is being held under the cover of...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:11hrs | 2047 | by ARTUZ
Mugabe's tactics persist in first election without him
Most Zimbabweans have only ever known one president: Robert Mugabe.But on July 30, a new man will represent the ruling party on the ballot for the first time in 38 years. Emmerson Mnangagwa, w...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:10hrs | 413 | by WashingtonPost.com
Perrenial malcontents trying to undermine Zec
There are two sides to Zimbabwe's elections. There is a side that wants to portray the country as peaceful and going through a democratic process in which the will of the people will prevail and be re...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | 349 | by Nick Mangwana
'Boycotting elections is suicidal,' argue Daily News - nonsense, risking all on capricious winning a rigged election is
"A boycott from this month's harmonised elections as mooted by the MDC Alliance can only have an impact if it has the buy-in of all opposition parties," argued Daily News. "The Alliance is bitter...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:19hrs | 363 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Tourism prices must come down'
TOURISM and Hospitality Industry Minister, Prisca Mupfumira, says the pricing of tourism products in Zimbabwe needs to be reviewed downwards to enhance competitiveness and increase volumes.Cut...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Councillors demand hefty allowances
COUNCILLORS from various local authorities have demanded similar allowances paid to mayors and deputy mayors, arguing there was no justification in paying them less as they performed almost similar du...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's answer doesn't lie in the box
And so it is with my Grade 2 granddaughter. Only yesterday, she sought my help with what seemed to me a very simple multi-choice Math problem. My wife and I have always admired the rare professional a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | 340 | by Zifiso Masiye
China dumps dollars
SOME Chinese banks today sold off large amounts of dollars to devalue the yuan, further rattling investors.The move by Chinese banks was likely at the behest of the Chinese government, analyst...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 15:36hrs | 3042 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches motor industry policy
Government has launched the Zimbabwe Motor Industry Development Policy (ZMIDP) that is expected to see the sector ramping up capacity from the current levels of under 10 percent to full capacity by 20...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under scrutiny
With less than two months to go to Zimbabwe's crucial general election, opposition parties and rights organisations are warning that the ruling party is not doing enough to implement the reforms neces...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 11:51hrs | 4084 | by irishtimes
MDC partners cpoied from the best constotituion in the world
THE MDC Alliance has been exposed for lack of originality after it copied word for word, full stop for full stop, a section of the South African Constitution in its election manifesto released last we...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 08:45hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
2018 elections: Re-igniting the enduring national values
Antagonising a certain truth does not invalidate its popularity nor does it decapitate its prominence.In a polarised polity, it is fashionable for political analysts to take a side and after all i...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:28hrs | 94 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Zimbabwe elections litmus test for govt: US diplomat
ACTING United States deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern Africa and Public Diplomacy/Public Affairs, Matthew Harrington yesterday said next month's elections in Zimbabwe present a litmus test on w...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trips self on FDI
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF have contradicted each other on the country's investment figures, with the former saying Zimbabwe has attracted a hefty $16 billion mentioned in the...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 08:27hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Gweru loses 57% treated water
GWERU City Council is losing at least 57% of its treated water through burst pipes and leakages, with most of its equipment having outlived its lifespan, a service level benchmarking peer review repor...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T governed Gweru books last audited in 2014
GWERU City Council's accounts were last audited four years ago, a situation that compromises on good corporate governance, chairperson of the Service Level Benchmarking (SLB) peer review committee, Ge...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:33hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Emulate BCC waterworks, councils told
The Urban Councils Authority of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) has commended Bulawayo City Council (BCC) waterworks saying other local authorities will emulate it to improve the provision of potable water.UC...Published: 30 May 2018 at 19:46hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
'I am satisfied, elections are free and fair,' says MP Mliswa - just a loss cannon shooting from the hip!
Power is like a sharp knife, in the hands of skilled a surgeon, it will save lives but in the wrong hands, it will cause a lot of suffering and take away many, many innocent lives. Mr Temba Mliswa, th...Published: 26 May 2018 at 22:24hrs | 1740 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC-T Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
From London to Marange with love Introduction It was a tumultuous week in week in which I interacted with Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom and came...Published: 15 May 2018 at 15:14hrs | 1834 | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa wows Oxford Union
President Adv Nelson Chamisa has said that the biggest challenge facing Africa is the challenge of leadership but the MDC is giving Zimbabweans a fighting chance in the upcoming elections to avoid the...Published: 08 May 2018 at 19:05hrs | 1590 | by MDC-T
Khupe slams door on Chamisa
FORMER deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe, who now leads a splinter group of the MDC-T after the acrimonious split that followed a leadership wrangle in the aftermath of founding opposition leader,...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 4034 | by Staff reporter
Investors to score big in Zimbabwe
Investors to Zimbabwe should expect better and more efficient services on investment processing times to even less than 24 hours as the government plans to merge all the departments under one roof....Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 18:30hrs | 2900 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe is open for business!' cried out Mnangagwa in Davos, SA, …now ZITF - still no investors, why
For the last 38 years Zimbabwe's economy has been in decline and yet year on year without failure our political leaders have said steadfastly refused to even acknowledge the decline and talked of econ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 23:27hrs | 1670 | by Wilbert Mukori
Of Robin Vela, NSSA and media spats
Robin Vela, the former board chairman of the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) who was fired on March 29, 2018, has been on the offensive, firing various salvos at perceived enemies who, in hi...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
'National interest first,' says Moyo
POLITICAL contestation should never trump the national interest, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant-General Dr Sibusiso Moyo (Rtd) said as he rallied Zimbabweans to embrace ci...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
'Elections are free if in compliance with constitution,' says Minister - so was 2013, why did we need coup!
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (To big mouth, there is no such thing as flooded river he cannot wade cross!) So, goes the Shona adage. Ever since the November 2017 coup President Mnangagwa and h...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 08:47hrs | 340 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zimbabwe will rise again' - Mnangagwa's independence speech in full
Address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, His Excellency Comrade E.D. Mnangagwa, on Zimbabwe's 38th Independence Celebrations, 18th Ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1448 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Streak, Mangongo refuse to resign
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is headed for a massive showdown with both the national team coach Heath Streak and Under-19 coach Steve Mangongo who are insisting they will not step down.The local game...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 11:25hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
How MDC-T engineered economic sanctions affect poor people
Zimbabwe has suffered under severe sanctions for a very long time. I t has become a song to an extent that people think it's a tired song. The reality of the matter is that people are suffering and in...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1739 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe urged to comply with Sadc guidelines on elections
Zimbabwe should adhere to democratic principles outlined in the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) guidelines in the conduct of elections as that will be a key credibility test for observers...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:26hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Sadc leaders to hear Zimbabwe 'coup' gripe
A pre-election observer team from the SADC will table before the bloc's regional leaders grievances around Zimbabwe's transition from former president Robert Mugabe's regime to Emmerson Mnangagwa's mi...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 06:22hrs | 8576 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must show commitment
Since seizing power on the back of a military coup from Robert Mugabe in November, President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has been promising that the planned elections this year would be credible, f...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:17hrs | 173 | by Dewa Mavhinga
Grace Mugabe's case collapsing
The State's case against University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura, accused of corruptly irregularly awarding a PhD degree to wife of ousted president Robert Mugabe, is crumbling....Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 13:33hrs | 9377 | by Staff reporter
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