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IMF wants Zimbabwe to pay WB first to qualify for a special debt relief programme
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) delivered another blow to Zimbabwe's debt crisis yesterday, saying Harare will not qualify for a special debt relief programme until it pays off its debt to the W...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Herman Mashaba asks Ramaphosa to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwe
SOUTH African opposition Action South Africa party leader Herman Mashaba has urged the neighbouring country's government to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwean government and Zanu-PF officials and...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 5478 | by Staff reporter
Teachers unions' plot exposed
TEACHERS' unions and other civil society organisations have been roped in to push the Western-funded regime change agenda in the country with handsome perks being given to the unions' leadership....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Forus party launches manifesto
NEWLY-FORMED Freedom of Rights Under Sovereign (Forus) party on Saturday launched its manifesto in Harare, with its leader Manyara Irene Muyenziwa (44) claiming her outfit was ready to contest the ele...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays US$44m of foreign debt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration paid US$44,2 million to foreign creditors during the nine months to September, as part of its refreshed debt repayment plan, data showed at the weekend....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube bolsters construction sector
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube's 2022 national budget presented on Thursday gave impetus to the growth of Zimbabwe's construction sector, analysts at Inter Horizon Securities said yesterday.Ncu...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Why MDC is afraid of elections
RECENT reports that the MDC Alliance is mulling pulling out of next year's by-elections and the 2023 polls did not come as a surprise, but only served to confirm what this publication has stated in th...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 473 | by Golden Guvamatanga
Chamisa breathes fire
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has accused Zanu-PF of being behind the death of a party activist who was assaulted during his tour of Masvingo a month ago.Nyasha Mawere was buried in Gutu ...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:06hrs | 3929 | by Staff reporter
Govt issues $24 billion Covid-19 guarantees
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says government has issued debt guarantees amounting to $24,2 billion and US$15,2 million to help firms ride out Covid-19 induced operational problems.A governmen...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:04hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Looming polls turn heat on Mnangagwa
Impending by-elections are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they are already widening divisions in his Zanu-PF party and complicating his plans to extend his rule beyond 2023....Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis pushes Blanket Mine into fresh costs
GOLD focused resources giant, Caledonia Mining Corporation says it will increase capital injections at its Zimbabwe-based Blanket Mine by 78% in 2022 due to a worsening power crisis.The New Yo...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:01hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Stadium crisis haunts Zimbabwe football
THE last 20 minutes of the Chibuku Super Cup semi-final clash between Cranborne Bullets and Ngezi Platinum Stars was a painful reminder of the poor state of the country's football infrastructure....Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:48hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Hunt on for missing Zimbabwean trio
THREE Zimbabweans are feared dead after they went missing in the war-ravaged Cabo Delgado region of Mozambique with the Government making frantic efforts to account for them.An Islamic insurge...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:46hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets Western funding despite sanctions outcry
ZIMBABWE has so far received US$647.6 million in development assistance from Western countries in the period from January to September 2021 despite claims by the government that it is barred from rece...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:53hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Biti dismisses Mthuli's 2022 budget 'mediocrity'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday presented a $927,3 billion budget with an ambitious gross domestic product growth projection of 5,5% for 2022, but former Finance minister Tendai Biti dismissed...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1843 | by Staff Reporter
Councils can offer local solutions to climate change crisis
The 2022 budget consultations for Kwekwe City are now done and dusted. Conspicuously absent from the submissions from the residents were inputs towards programs on climate change.Residents see...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 21:53hrs | 138 | by Taruberekera Masara
Zimbabwean failure
LOOKING back over the past 40 years in Zimbabwe, I am surprised we are still here.In 1980, I was playing a small part in the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe in that I was selected as one ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 461 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa for Life President, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has unwittingly exposed the ruling Zanu-PF party's plans to use its parliamentary majority to railroad constitutional amendments and declare its leader Emmerson Mna...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
'Stop criminalising human rights defenders'
HUMAN rights defenders have been under siege in the Sadc region amid calls for governments to respect the law, democracy and rights.The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Looming polls heaps pressure on Mnangagwa
Impending by-elections are piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa as they are already widening divisions in his Zanu PF party and complicating his plans to extend his rule beyond 2023....Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:29hrs | 1128 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo water crisis forces pupils to cut short lessons
BULAWAYO's water crisis has worsened forcing some schools to dismiss learners early as part of contingency measures in light of a looming health disaster. There are also reports that public schools in...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 621 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe morphing towards dictatorship'
ZIMBABWE is witnessing heavy militarisation of businesses through the emergence of opaque security sector-run companies since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over power in 2017, with the country now...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA use refs, paralyse PSL
THE ousted ZIFA board flexed their muscle, in a disruptive way, by barring referees from handling the Castle Lager Premiership matches set for yesterday. The association have full control over...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
SRC dissolves Zifa, ready for backlash
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) have dissolved the ZIFA board and are ready for the storm which their decision could provoke, including the possible suspension of Zimbabwe, from internation...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:11hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Shake-up at African Sun
AFRICAN Sun Limited (ASL) managing director Edwin Shangwa will leave Zimbabwe's largest hospitality chain at the end of this year following a surprise shake-up announced yesterday, which will also see...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:42hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff water crisis need to be thoroughly investigated and lasting solution found
Whenever I hear borehole drilling machines roaring and groaning away in my neighbourhood of Redcliff, I always think to myself, "Here goes the sound of failure".Certainly, not failure on the p...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 20:38hrs | 357 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to import 400MW to bridge power deficit
STATE power utility, Zesa Holdings, intends to import up to 400 megawatts from Mozambique and Zambia as part of measures to end a debilitating power crisis, a senior executive said.This comes ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe from its deep socio-economic crisis and put the country on a recovery path.Chamisa said...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Proposed law 'exposes Mnangagwa panic'
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance has condemned the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday calling the draft legislation unconstitutional, draconian and und...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity to roll out mobile gold buying units
GOLD buying subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) is set to roll out mobile gold buying units next year, as part of efforts to curb leakages and smuggl...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
You can't pull in croc with fish hook
IN the village, the outcome of a fishing trip to the river often meant the difference between a sumptuous meal and another dish to be tolerated just to keep the body and soul together.As pleas...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 139 | by Bishop Lazarus
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reels as ageing sewer system breaks down
IF anyone had told Sithuthukile Moyo that as an adult, she would be heading into the bushes when nature calls, she would have laughed it off as a bad joke.But nowadays, that is not an uncommon...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa says polls a waste of resources
Zanu-PF acting national commissar Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said holding by-elections barely a year to the 2023 harmonised polls was a waste of time and resources.This came after President E...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 5398 | by Staff reporter
ZNCC backs call for power tariff hike
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) yesterday said government should grant troubled power producer, Zesa Holdings, authority to hike power tariffs and give impetus to its recapitalisation...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:21hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Do we deserve these endless power cuts?
INCESSANT power cuts in Zimbabwe are an indictment on government for failing to stem the tide. Energy and Power Development minister Zhemu Soda and, indeed, Zesa Holdings executive chairman Sydney Gat...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's banks overwhelmed
ZIMBABWE'S banking system has been overwhelmed by rocketing demand for United States dollars on the foreign currency auction system, the central bank said on Tuesday, as it moved to adjust bidding lea...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt running scared: CSOs
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday said government's move to introduce the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill was motivated by the desire to clamp down on human rights def...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
'High temperatures won't stop 4th wave'
HEALTH experts have warned of a deadlier fourth wave of COVID-19 in the forthcoming festive months of December and January, saying the high temperatures being experienced in the country were unlikely ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
IMF freezes funds for Afghanistan over political uncertainty
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put on hold funds to Afghanistan amid the rising uncertainty in the country.These developments came after IMF recently announced a $650 billion Specia...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 14:12hrs | 622 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 1842 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa resorts to Mugabe tactics
A panicky president Emmerson Mnangagwa has resorted to bussing supporters to impromptu rallies as a way of creating a picture of political popularity and to intimidate internal rivals within Zanu-PF t...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:55hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
Counterfeit whiskies floods Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's official distributor of Jameson Irish Whiskey is being forced to introduce extra security features on packaging of its products due to proliferation of "Counterfeit whiskies" in the country...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:55hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Electricity imports cost Zimbabwe US$200 million
ZIMBABWE will spend about US$200 million for power imports this year to bridge a gap stemming out of depleted internal production, a government official has said.Gloria Magombo, the permanent ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Over 300 pension funds idle
ABOUT 324 pension funds registered in Zimbabwe have hit hard times, a senior official with the Insurance and Pensions Commission of Zimbabwe (Ipec) said, as the regulator announced plans to shut down ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
It's a cruel world for black people
So the world decided to gather in Glasgow, Scotland, last week to try and save the planet from what we are told could be an imminent apocalypse caused by rising global temperatures.Well, Bisho...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 125 | by Bishop Lazarus
Urban commuters lament transport crisis
IT was just another day at the bus station. Passengers were waiting in queue at a terminus adjacent Harare Police Station charge office, enduring hours before the next bus came by.The swelteri...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:57hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
'Harsh cyber laws a human rights violation'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) have accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of pushing for enactment of harsh cyber laws to hide its human rights violations and consolidate power.Crisis in Zimbab...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:37hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
NGOs warn Mnangagwa's govt
THE rights of social media users in Zimbabwe are set to be violated if the government goes ahead with its plans to snoop on what citizens send and receive, particularly on the WhatsApp platform....Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:22hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
MDC-C finalising Chamisa assault report
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende yesterday disclosed that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party had resolved to lodge an official complaint with the National Peace and Reconciliation Co...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
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