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Sanctions on Zimbabwe: A form of economic invasion
In the context of domestic politics and international relations, national economic security refers to a country's capacity to implement its preferred policies to build the national economy in the mann...Published: 11 hrs ago | 154 | by Dr Norbert Hosho
'Manjuzu' craze hits Harare
IN one of his letters to Timothy, a fellow brother in the Christian faith, Apostle Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus) offers counsel to a brother.Writes Paul in 1 Timoth 6:10: "For the ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 4818 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe renal unit disappears
THE renal unit at Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH) named after the late former President Robert Mugabe's late first wife Sally collapsed and disappeared years ago, NewsDay has established.Th...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:58hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is on irreversible forward march
ZIMBABWE is experiencing increased inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in most provinces, at a time when the world is grappling with multiple economic challenges.This indicates...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:22hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
New details emerge on police shooting
EYEWITNESSES to a recent Chitungwiza shooting incident that left two residents seriously injured have accused police of misleading members of the public by claiming that the shooting incident happened...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ailing govt splurges millions on ministers
GOVERNMENT will soon splurge millions of United States (US) dollars to buy luxury homes for Cabinet ministers and their deputies at a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:45hrs | 2545 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2629 | by Staff reporter
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 4849 | by Staff reporter
Workers turn heat on Mthuli Ncube
WORKERS have turned on the heat on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, accusing him of presiding over the country's economic collapse and ignoring the Tripartite Negotiation Forum (TNF) to help improve wor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 1506 | by Staff reporter
nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 401 | by Sipho Seepe
Pravin Gordhan lies about Eskom wage settlement
South Africa's Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan said while protest disruptions at Eskom operations had plunged South Africa into stage 6 load shedding, his department and Eskom were hopef...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:42hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 5066 | by Sam Wezhira
Brothers kill father over US$15
TWO siblings were arrested last Friday in Marondera after they allegedly killed their father during a quarrel over US$15 stolen from a shop.The duo, Eric (28) and Brian Kagoro (25) of Nyagambe...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:25hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is definitely open for looting!
For someone who has been around for close to half a century, and four decades of these under the governance (or rather, misgovernance) of the ZANU PF regime, I never for once believed the yarn of “r...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2981 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'South Africa's petrol price could hit R40 a litre'
The ongoing war in Ukraine is costing South Africa billions in lost revenues and added costs, and trade officials are concerned that further widespread disruptions to the local economy are likely....Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 12:29hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says political violence will not be tolerated
The State will deal decisively with instigators and perpetrators of political violence and will move with speed to institute a strong legislative response to thwart incidences of violence ahead of nex...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:12hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Zacc loses bid to prosecute own cases
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has lost its bid to be given prosecuting powers over graft cases it investigates after government set up anti-corruption courts.Zacc had requeste...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Female killer gets away with community service
A 20-YEAR-OLD woman from Ntabazinduna outside Bulawayo who fatally stabbed a teenager with a kitchen knife accusing her of snatching her younger sister's husband has been sentenced to three years in j...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's central bank moves to control price of bread
Zimbabwe's central bank said Monday that the price of bread will go down after it held talks with an association of bakers.Governor John Mangudya said bakers had complained over lack of access...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:56hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Will 11 SADC leaders ask Rwanda CHOGM 2022 to follow them and lower election standard to readmit Zimbabwe
Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 next week, 20 to 25 June 2022. President Mnangagwa has, no doubt, been lobbying hard for Zimbabwe to be re-admitted to the C...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 1203 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mangudya finds the $15 billion booty
On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, often from s...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:07hrs | 10641 | by Sam Wezhira
The mother of all vampire states
On 18 June 2022, Zimbabwe woke up to the the Reserve Bank Governor, Mangudya's admission that, "Fifteen major companies have been creating huge extra profits by borrowing billions of dollars, of...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:01hrs | 510 | by Sam Wezhira
WATCH: Joe Biden falls while riding his bicycle
US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle near his beach home in the state of Delaware Saturday morning, but was unhurt.A video from a White House pool report showed th...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 20:36hrs | 2173 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South official dies
THE ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women's League.Mpofu, who passed on Friday wa...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig up school premises
Kwekwe Central MP Judith Tobaiwa (Citizens Coalition for Change) has called on authorities to take action against gold panners causing environmental degradation at a primary school in the gold m...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Tito Mboweni says, 'the big tree collapsed!'
Tito Mboweni who stepped down as South Africa's finance minister as President Cyril Ramaphosa carried out a cabinet reshuffle in the fallout from the worst unrest in the country's democratic history h...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 10:40hrs | 6636 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's dairy estates collapses
GUSHUNGO Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1,4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about 120 workers jobless.The...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 36978 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission at crossroads
A REPORT produced by the Commonwealth after observing Zimbabwe's 2018 elections will potentially scupper the country's desperate bid to rejoin the group, four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Sex worker stabs workmate
A sex worker in Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly stabbing another sex worker with a broken beer bottle after they had a fallout over a client.The incident happened on Tuesday at around...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:54hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Mangwe villagers plead for dam rehab
MANGWE ward 12 villagers in Matabeleland South province have appealed to government to rehabilitate a local dam which burst its walls several years ago.When the reservoir burst, it created dee...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
BCC indexes bills in US dollars
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday pulled a shocker on residents when it announced that from this month tariffs will be charged in foreign currency against the official rate, something residents as...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to introduce US dollar bill payments
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has, with immediate effect, begun to charge bills in US dollars as a result of the local currency's volatility.According to a council statement released Tuesday...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
ANC members lays criminal complaint against Ramaphosa over Phalaphalagate
An internal campaign in the African National Congress (ANC) for the party to part ways with its president, Cyril Ramaphosa continues.Some members, including Carl Niehaus, have also laid a crim...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 08:55hrs | 2348 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime unmitigated failures, and yes, Smith was far much better!
I do not even understand what the whole debate is all about, because there are some matters that are undeniable and can not be contested!For starters, we never had to fetch our water for domes...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:09hrs | 1375 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean illegal miners wreak havoc in Botswana, SA
To the residents of Matsiloje in northern Botswana, no foreigner is unwelcome unless they commit a crime.This is due to their own lives being deeply linked with their fellow clan members in Zi...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:24hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt admits to acute teacher shortages
ZIMBABWE has a shortage of 25 000 teachers, but only 5 000 will be recruited this year, leaving a shortfall of 20 000 educators.In a statement, Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:12hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
The price of bread to humble Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation should should always play a track from Simon 'Chopper' Chimbetu's song Survival which is very informative and educative.This is a well choreographed track...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:56hrs | 1961 | by Leonard Koni
BCC acts on Cowdray Park flooding
FOLLOWING perennial flooding in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to demolish 17 properties and relocate the affected families to pave way for development of drainage infrastructu...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
1 748% hike in hospital fees
GOVERNMENT has hiked user fees at public hospitals by 1 748%, prompting analysts to warn of an upsurge in home deaths.New adult and children consultation fees have been pegged at US$12 and US$...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe's de-dollarization route flopped
The Zimbabwean government has announced measures to promote the wider use of the domestic currency (The Zimbabwean Dollar) in a last-ditch effort to save it from the re-dollarization onslaught. Part o...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:08hrs | 4192 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe's forex currency crisis worsens
An outlet in Harare's Graniteside industrial area has been turning away customers using local currency through point of sale (POS) platforms on the pretext that they are experiencing network failure....Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 2706 | by Staff reporter
Zapu chairperson Mbayiwa collapses, dies
WAR veteran and Zapu national chairperson, Mark Nzula Mbayiwa, has died.Mbayiwa collapsed and died at his Bulawayo home on Saturday, party secretary general Mthulisi Hanana said."It is...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:58hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents petition City Council to cancel the Pomona waste deal
Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Harare City Council (HCC) to terminate the dubious Pomona Waste to Energy Deal.The controversial deal between Georgenix company and ...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 11:40hrs | 2072 | by CHRA
Teachers, other civil servants face off
THE standoff between the civil service umbrella union and teachers representatives has escalated amid reports that government workers called off their planned demonstration last Friday fearing disrupt...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1584 | by Staff reporter
Man axes co-worker in a sim card dispute
A 25 year old man from Rainham, Harare appeared before the Harare Magistrates courts yesterday facing attempted murder charges.Tendai Tingani was remanded to June 17 by Harare Magistrate Yeukai Dz...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$3bn platinum deal all but collapses in a shambles
IT was noisily touted as a game changer for Zimbabwe's mining sector, and the economy; a centrepiece of government's ambitious yet unrealistic US$12 billion target for the industry by next year and ca...Published: 31 May 2022 at 07:38hrs | 3122 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted failing to bring sanity in parastatals that are crumbling due to gross mismanagement and corruption under his watch.In his weekly column published in ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 7360 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners dig under Kwekwe school
AUTHORITIES at Globe and Phoenix Primary School in Kwekwe have expressed concern that its classroom blocks face collapse as gold panners were digging under the school.Globe and Phoenix school ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 2023 re-election bid causes jitters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pulling all stops to win a second full term in next year's elections amid fears that some of his initiatives will leave the economy in ruin.Mnangagwa's governme...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:00hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to benefit from Malawi dual citizenship
MALAWI has introduced dual citizenship and this means that those who are born outside its borders to Malawian parents can now be granted citizenship.A number of Malawians moved to Zimbabwe esp...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:57hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
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