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Bushiri's extradition: A humbling experience for Mzansi
The extradition request for Shepherd Bushiri by South African authorities to the Malawian government early last week seems to be a sobering reminder for the greater good of cooperation within the regi...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1806 | by Daphine Zulu
Ex-employee sues Zimplats for US$7m damages
MINING giant Zimplats has been slapped with a US$7 million lawsuit by a former employee Rasmos Pasipanodya who says his health was badly affected due to unsafe working conditions he was exposed to whi...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1291 | by Staff reporter
Defiant teachers receive threats
TEACHERS yesterday claimed that were being threatened a Zanu-PF-sponsored group led by Martin Mazivisa.Mazivisa fronts a shadowy parents union called Zimbabwe Parents Union (ZPU), which has be...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1985 | by Staff reporter
Tension remains high in Zanu-PF
POLITICAL temperatures remain high in Zanu-PF as party bigwigs jostle to lead the former liberation movement's provincial structures.The polls for the influential positions will take place soon af...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 15189 | by Staff reporter
Lozwi empire king, Mambo clarifies ascendance to the throne
LOZWI/Rozvi empire king, Mambo born Mike Moyo has clarified his ascendance to the throne, noting that his was not by ambition but was one that was led by the spiritual realm.King Mambo was ins...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:44hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
'Govt must compensate for lost pension earnings'
GOVERNMENT and insurance companies have an obligation to compensate pensioners who lost the true value of their pension savings in two consecutive periods of hyperinflation, 2008 to 2009 and 2019, law...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:20hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Mnangagwa is sole Zanu-PF candidate in 2023 elections
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga appears to have put to rest, once and for all, claims that he is jostling for power with President Emmerson Mnangagwa - after he recently publicly endorsed his boss...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:19hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa betrayed Matutu in his greatest hour of need'
Former MDC Alliance member, Tongai Matutu, who recently crossed the floor and joined the ruling Zanu-PF party in a red carpet event presided over by President Mnangagwa and his two deputies at the Sta...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 11:45hrs | 7080 | by Staff reporter
Karo's US$4 billion venture crumbles?
PLANS by Karo Resources (Karo) to set up a US$4,2 billion platinum mining venture and a processing plant in Darwendale after it was controversially allocated claims previously held by Zimplats are cru...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tables ambitious 100% broadband plan
ZIMBABWE has tabled an ambitious plan to have 100% high speed broadband coverage in all areas where people live, work, travel and learn.This plan is contained in a consultative paper, the Zimb...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:08hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Minister tests positive for Covid-19
Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka yesterday tested positive for Covid-19. Minister Mliswa-Chikoka, who was tested at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital using th...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:58hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
MDC -Alliance vice presidents' trial date set
THE trial of MDC-Alliance vice presidents Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi who are accused of violating Covid-19 regulations during the lockdown period after staging an illegal demonstrations at ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:23hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya appeals for bail at High Court
THE suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has approached the High Court appealing for bail after she was denied the same by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna.Rush...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:23hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Amazing astronomical discoveries that changed our vision of space
Today, we might be living in a period that could eventually be called the beginning of space exploration era. One space company after another is working to make ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:12hrs | 767 | by Staff writer
'No cheer under Mnangagwa administration 3 years on'
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation will this month mark three years in office, with analysts saying there was nothing to cheer about as the regime had failedto fulfil most of its promi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 5603 | by Staff reporter
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1175 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Govt pay offer divides civil servants
LABOUR unions representing civil servants were yesterday divided over the 40% pay offer by government following a prolonged salary dispute with their employer.Some said negotiations had failed...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:56hrs | 3793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe looks underground for golden economic revival
REELING from decades of economic mismanagement, Zimbabwe is banking on gold to shore up revenue and tackle the upshots of rampant hyperinflation, corruption and coronavirus restrictions.Global...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe govt likely to impose lockdown'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro said his hands were clean in the US$6 million COVID-19 procurement scam in which he is implicated. Mangwiro said to date the Zimbabwe Anti-C...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Musona says Warriors ready to rock and roll
WARRIORS captain, Knowledge Musona, says his troops are ready to turn the tables when they meet old foes Algeria at the National Sports Stadium this afternoon. Kick-off is 3pm.Fans will not be...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe to export electricity'
ZIMBABWE will be exporting electricity to countries in the region in the next five years as Government has set ambitious projects that will see a number of power generating projects firing.Off...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1900 | by Staff reporter
FFF supports suspension of by-elections in Zimbabwe
Local non-governmental organisation, Free and Fair Foundation (FFF), says the suspension of by-elections is a welcome development as a mitigatory measure to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 215 | by STaff reporter
Zimbabwean teenage sensation makes waves
A ZIMBABWEAN teenage sensation, Zanda Siziba, is tipped for greatness in the United Kingdom. His style of play has been compared to Liverpool and Senegalese star, Sadio Mane. At 17, Siziba has...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:24hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
'Real issue in Zim is a crisis of (Zanu PF) leadership' said Biti - admitting half the truth, as usual
"At the end of the day the real issue in Zim is a crisis of governance and leadership. "The nation carries the burden of illegitimacy, of corrupt incompetent clueless and incompetent leadershi...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 15:41hrs | 1266 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nichols should stop interfering in Zim affairs
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols' continued interference to the Zimbabwe's internal affairs has reached alarming levels with the ambassador now behaving like a prefect with the t...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 13:46hrs | 1888 | by Innocent Mujeri
Call on govt to expedite whistleblower law
ANTI-CORRupTION watchdog Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has said the government should expeditiously enact legislation that protects whistleblowers, who lift the lid on massive corruption c...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:40hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Should I Stay or Should I Go to Arbitration Proceedings?
Arbitration is often viewed as a better suited forum than litigation to make use of when a dispute arises. However, not all parties are swayed by this appeal, as was the case in the recent decis...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 298 | by John Bell
Donald must phone Dambudzo
It never rains but pours for the little boy. Things haven't been going his way of late and I would never want to be in his shoes. Zvakaomera Chamisa hama dzangu and I feel sorry for him. Morgan Richar...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2449 | by Mapombi
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe ready to assist Mozambique
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has deplored the recent acts of terrorism in northern Mozambique, warning that Zimbabwe is ready to assist in stamping out the insurgency. A growing Islamist insurgency has...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bemoans health sector decay
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lamented the decay in the country's public hospitals which he described as death traps where people now die from curable ailments as the Zanu-PF gover...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
'2008 GNU stabilised economy' - true but that was not its primary purpose much less justify new GNU
"In 2009, the late former president Robert Mugabe was forced into forming a GNU with the MDC's late and much loved founding father, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the hotly disputed 2008 polls," reported Da...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 18:48hrs | 795 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa to complete 2 terms in office
THE ruling Zanu-PF has reiterated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will complete two terms in office - further bolting the door against ambitious party bigwigs said to be interested in his job....Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:11hrs | 2835 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stops succession tiff
Zanu-PF has reiterated that President Mnangagwa will complete two terms in office as the party bolted the door against ambitious bigwigs that are said to be interested in the job. Acting Zanu-...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 5062 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya gold case opens can of worms
THE dramatic arrest and subsequent prosecution of suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lifted the lid on the cutthroat gold trafficking underworld dominated by t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:56hrs | 11747 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya arrest: A case of rampant elite corruption?
THE ongoing trial of Henrietta Rushwaya over charges of attempting to smuggle gold bars weighing 6kg to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in a high-profile case that has sucked in President Emmerson Mn...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
'Price stability to spill into 2021'
ECONOMISTS and captains of industry yesterday predicted a continued stability of prices of goods and services into next year.During a state of the economy report by Africa Economic Development...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:27hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans back idea of another GNU
MANY Zimbabweans have welcomed the push by the MDC to hold talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, with a view to forming a new government of national unity in a bid to end the country's ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:25hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
MDC-A divisions have crippled its diplomatic offensive against Zanu-PF
Divisions on how to handle perceived deficiencies of democracy in the SADC region have crippled the MDC-Alliance's diplomatic charm offensive. For example, opposition parties in Tanzania had expected ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 15:55hrs | 1275 | by Rungano Dzikira
MDC leadership keen to hold talks with Mnangagwa
THE interim MDC leadership is keen to hold talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, with a view to forming a new government of national unity (GNU).Speaking separately to the Daily...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 18:22hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slapped with US$10 000 court fine
THE Supreme Court Monday struck-off the roll an appeal by the opposition MDC Alliance against a High Court ruling delivered a couple of months ago that the Nelson Chamisa-led party was not a legal per...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 5184 | by Staff writer
G40 linked NPF banks on green bombers
THE Eunice Sandi-Moyo led National Patriotic Front (NPF) has put plans to use graduates of the Border Gezi Youth Training Camps to front its campaigns for impending by-elections.This was revea...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe expects good relations with UK'
The National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum in Bulawayo is now a national tourism development site with one of its more enthusiastic visitors being President Mnangagwa who yesterday spent some hours tour...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:05hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Nzenza sets ambitious 2021 Zisco revival target
The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Sekai Nzenza, has set an ambitious target of turning the defunct steel giant, Zisco, around by the end of next year. The Zisco revival drive has twi...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa predicts agric boom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said there will be a rapid agricultural boom that will ensure food security for citizens and spur unprecedented economic growth in the country.This comes...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:41hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shops for military technology, hardware in Belarus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Belarus last year, which was highly publicised as a strategic state visit to seal deals worth US$350 million spanning across various productive sectors of the e...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
RRB controversially pays off NOIC's debt to Tagwirei's Sakunda
Shocking revelations have emerged that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is servicing a US$17,2 million debt owed by the national oil and infrastructure company (NOIC) to Sakunda holdings.NOI...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1421 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled judges go underground?
A mischievous letter purporting to be from the Judges of the High Court made rounds in the social media and a lot of online newspapers. The letter was a pretence of a complaint by the judges aga...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 1116 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZIMCODD calls for Zimbabwe debt cancellation
International financial institutions have to cancel Zimbabwe's crippling debt, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has said, as the burden proscribes the southern African country ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses defiant as situation deteriorates
NURSES have defiantly said they will continue working flexible hours as the situation in hospitals has deteriorated more than before.This comes after the government has threatened to fire nurs...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
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