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The Politics of Cyber Security: A State of Anarchy?
"Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle.The realm of electronic communication, viz-a-viz cyberspace has taken a complex turn into a murky, treacherous, if sometimes not a total ridicul...Published: 2 hrs ago | 122 | by Bongani Mazwi Mkwananzi
The rise and fall of Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is now a public figure and celebrated name in Zimbabwean media. While Ruvheneko has scored high profile jobs with high profile responsibilities in the Zimbabwean media circles, ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 769 | by Alexio Muzuva
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 2 hrs ago | 820 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
Matiza censured over collapsed DIDG deal
IN the wake of the controversial termination of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal last year by cabinet, Attorney-General (AG) Prince Machaya reportedly wrote...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1620 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police in distress
THE officer commanding police in Harare yesterday appealed to Zimbabwe Republic Police commanders to provide transport and accommodation to junior officers who are facing eviction from their rented ac...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2305 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4024 | by Daniel Itai
Suspend NetOne CEO suffers setback
SUSPENDED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and his alleged accomplices yesterday suffered an initial setback after a Harare magistrate threw out their application for refusal of remand....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:53hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's administration fails to recover looted funds
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has failed to recover funds looted by chief executive officers (CEOs) of 13 State enterprises and parastatals (SEPs) who were taking home an aggregated US...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash suspends agent, bulk payer lines
DOMINANT mobile money service provider, EcoCash, says all of its agent and bulk payer lines have been suspended until further notice in compliance with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) directive. ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2248 | by Staff reporter
Plot to destabilise Zimbabwe economy exposed?
AS Government intensifies efforts to close channels that are fuelling the black market and other illicit financial activities, it has emerged that some foreign nations and individuals have been trying...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to engage rivals
RETURNING Zanu-PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening po...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3472 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe switches to substitute ARV drugs
THE government says it has a substitute for the second line drugs for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) which is currently in short supply.In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy m...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2255 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Zimra adapts to the new ICT-driven business model
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started adapting to the information communication technology (ICT) mode of doing business to prevent the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Hunger hits Zanu-PF stronghold
Hungry Buhera villagers are emptying their cattle pens as they are being forced to exchange their cattle for grain.This was said by several Zanu-PF councillors who spoke to The Mirror in inter...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:22hrs | 3952 | by Staff reporter
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2733 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Mobile money transactions not to blame for economic woes
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has called government's ban on trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and all mobile money transactions as "madness" with terrible consequences.The ba...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Minister JB Matiza on the spot over US$400m deal
A consortium that won a US$400 million tender to turn around perennially loss-making National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has threatened to sue the company after Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza o...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
RBZ confirms mobile money ban but keeps platforms open for small transactions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has suspended all money agents from mobile financial transactions but the general public can still continue to transact using the platforms.In a statement ye...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission recommendations met?
GOVERNMENT has fully complied with recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 post-election violence, a senior official has said.The Commission of Inquiry â...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money services banned
THE Government has suspended phone-based money transactions with immediate effect as investigations into allegations that they fuel black market transactions that have caused runaway inflation gather ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Police stations get POS machines
Almost all police stations now have functioning "swipe" machines for payment of admission of guilt fines, removing the need for cash payments and associated potential corruption. Unlike previo...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities intercept 21 smuggling commercial trucks
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have increased surveillance and anti-smuggling activities during the ongoing lockdown and 21 trucks and 22 other vehicles smuggling an assortment of goods worth m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:09hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Stampede as office burns at NRZ 24-storey building
A WOMAN was yesterday rushed to hospital after inhaling smoke while scores were evacuated from the 24-storey National Railways of Zimbabwe's Parkade Centre in Bulawayo's city centre following a fire i...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira fights charge
Former Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Minister Supa Mandiwanzira who is facing a charge of criminal abuse of office as a public officer, yesterday notified the court of his in...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:28hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
ZIMBOCASH activates payment platform with over 13,000 transactions in the first 2 days
ZIMBOCASH has enabled payments of its native token ZASH for Zimbabwean users. In the first two days following the launch, the platform has had 13 000 transactions and over 2 400 account activations on...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 3666 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira applies for TV licence
Former Information, Media and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Supa Mandiwanzira's AB Communications has applied for a free to air national commercial television licence.If awarded the li...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3544 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo Council guilty of Luveve water crisis'
Since the outbreak of the waterborne disease in Luveve Old and New that has so far claimed 12 lives, while over a thousand have been hospitalized, Bulawayo City Council management have been busy with ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1167 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
3 ex-ZBC managers face trial
The trial of three former ZBC top managers will start on July 3 on charges connected with the transfer of a company car to one of them, senior regional magistrate Mr Trynos Utahwashe ruled yesterday. ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Will IPL 2020 be canceled?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought to a standstill many sporting events globally. The India premier league (IPL) has not been spared. Cricket fans in India can only hope that the league will take pl...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 11:54hrs | 585 | by Staff writer
Red Cross to start Covid-19 tests
Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) clinics will soon start polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests after receiving funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation to fight the spread of Covid-19. ZRCS has ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Debt cripples Harare
Harare City Council operations have been crippled by debtors that owe it more than $1. 4 billion with residents being the major debtors followed by business and Government, respectively. Accor...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Undenge in fresh bid for freedom
JAILED former Energy minister Samuel Undenge has approached the High Court seeking release on bail.This was after the courts recently upheld an earlier two and half years he was given followin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 795 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Alliance abductees' bail hearing today
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists accused of lying to the police about being abducted, will know their fate today when the High Court is expected to determine their b...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says 'UN experts jumped the gun'
Government has dismissed a joint statement by five United Nations (UN) human rights experts, which concluded that three MDC-Alliance youth leaders were abducted as "premature and unreasonable" since i...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans respond to Chakanetsa's photo
On 11 June 2020 we carried a story with an alleged picture of the late popular policeman Chakanetsa which was posted on social media by musician Lwazi Skuza. In the story, we quoted a thesis f...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:04hrs | 6588 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt sets surveillance cameras in cities
Zimbabwe is planning to link its proposed National Data Centre with databases and information from the country's key economic players and state institutions as the country prepares for the creation of...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 5596 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Zimbabwe loses US$100m worth property to vandalism
Vandalism and theft of public infrastructure has resulted in government departments and municipalities losing property and equipment worth more tha n US$100 million every year.The vandalism af...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:37hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Renewable energy carries potential to propel Zimbabwe
Harnessing Zimbabwe's abundant renewable energy resources is key to helping the country support its development strategies and leapfrog towards low-carbon socio-economic progress.Energy is inc...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:36hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso junior speaks on his military training
WE continue our interview with Clarence Tshuma aka Shungu Moyo, one of the several Highlanders junior players who left the country in 1976 to join the armed struggle in Zambia.Today, Tshuma co...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Guerilla training was no picnic
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Friday conferred the national status on former Zipra deputy chief of operations Stanley Nleya pseudonym Elish Gagisa who died in Bulawayo last Tuesday.During the armed s...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-China to meet on debt relief
ZIMBABWE and China will soon begin talks to implement a directive by President Xi Jinping for Beijing to cancel financial obligations owed to African countries.It is anticipated that the debt ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor speaks on Luveve's Gastrointestinal Disease
Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni says Luveve clinic has experienced 726 cases of the Gastrointestinal Disease, that is currently bedeviling Bulawayo, have been seen at Luveve Cli...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 14:14hrs | 2899 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mysterious disease strikes Luveve, open letter from former water treatment chemist
Dear Sir/Madam I write in absolute distress over the video, (below) and communications I have been receiving over social media regarding the above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88oC...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:49hrs | 1725 | by Manda
Harare repossess sports clubs
THE Harare City Council has resolved to terminate all leases with their sports clubs, council principal communications officer Innocent Ruwende has said.In an interview with the Daily News, Ru...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
We await Health minister Obadiah Moyo's charge sheet
THE Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo over undisclosed charges.Moyo, popularly known as Deejay Biscuit in social circles, has b...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
'Cash-rich' gold buyer invades Zimbabwe?
Confusion is reigning supreme in the gold sector over the existence of a licenced gold buyer who is reportedly paying more than the official price set by the country's repository authority, Fidelity P...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:30hrs | 11478 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's US dollar allowance to stimulate economic activity'
GOVERNMENT'S move to pay civil servants a United States dollar allowance may stimulate economic activity in the shortterm, but will expedite re-dollarisation, economic analysts have said.Gover...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
Govt clarifies US dollar Covid-19 allowance
THE interim US$75 Covid-19 relief allowance for civil servants, which was announced by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development as part of a raft of measures to cushion workers against wanton ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic Structural Transformation REST (part 4 of 10)
The Modernisation and Industrialisation of Provincial Economies (MIPE) is key in creating inclusive growth, creating local employment opportunities, eradicating poverty and ensuring that provincial ec...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 16:43hrs | 296 | by Vince Musewe
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