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Mnangagwa condemns superiority complexes
AS the continent celebrates Africa Day today, President Mnangagwa has condemned injustices, superiority complexes, and xenophobic elements dogging the world.In a pre-recorded speech to mark Af...Published: 23 hrs ago | 149 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani to leave tech transfer legacy
THE ongoing construction of the massive Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Hwange District, Matabeleland North Province, is set to leave a technology transfer legacy with the possibility of new industries being c...Published: 23 hrs ago | 144 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't fall prey to Western fables, fabrications
DRUMS are beating, so high to a deafening crescendo as Zimbabwe hurtles towards the 2023 elections. Of course, the ground is already uneven because President Mnangagwa has been implementing pro-people...Published: 23 hrs ago | 102 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM visits Elvis Nyathi Family
On Saturday 21st May 2022, the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement ( 1893 MHRRM) visited Mrs Nyathi, the widow of Elvis Nyathi, to offer cond...Published: 24 May 2022 at 23:04hrs | 1015 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
'Mnangagwa should look for salvation at Davos'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa should use the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to re-engagement investors to help drag Zimbabwe out of a debilitating economic quagmire, analylists have said....Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:25hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Old Bulawayo restoration resumes
THATCHING of King Lobengula's palace at Old Bulawayo has started as the Government steps up efforts towards completing works on the restoration of the historical site.The rebuilding of Old Bul...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:21hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Fraud-accused Deputy Minister granted bail
AGRICULTURE deputy minister, Douglas Karoro has been granted ZW$50,000 bail and warned not to interfere with State witnesses.In giving his ruling, Harare Magistrate Stanford Mambanje said the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 19:37hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Davos
President Mnangagwa and his delegation arrived here this morning for this year's World Economic Forum, where he is expected to network with other world leaders in line with the country's engagement an...Published: 23 May 2022 at 12:46hrs | 1059 | by Staff reporter
77 goats die at LSU due to procurement malpractices
Seventy-seven (77) goats died at Lupane State University due to procurement malpractices in a clear abuse of state funds.The $52 000 000 for Innovation and Industrialisation from ZIMDEF has co...Published: 22 May 2022 at 13:37hrs | 2505 | by Stephen Jakes
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 2756 | by Dumisani Muleya
'Thieving' deputy minister spends weekend behind bars
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro will spend the weekend behind bars after he was denied bail yesterday in a case where he is facing charges of stealing presidential agricultural ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Catholic Bishop
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa joined the Munyanyi family and the Catholic family in the country in mourning the passing on of prominent Bishop Emeritus Martin Munyanyi.Bishop Munyanyi died last Sunday a...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:30hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
NGOs plot to unsettle Zimbabwe exposed
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which have become fretful over the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment, have hatched ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe candidate for top UN body ready for elections
Former chairperson of the Anti-Domestic Violence Council, Mrs Eunice Njovana, is ramping up her preparations for next month's elections for a seat on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
'Davos meeting a major breakthrough'
ZIMBABWE'S re-engagement drive will shift into top gear this week when President Mnangagwa joins hundreds of world leaders and heads of multinational corporations in Davos, Switzerland, for the World ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar, US dollar use to stay
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has encouraged Zimbabweans to use both the Zimbabwe dollar and United States dollar as the country transitions towards adoption of a ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:27hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:26hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Minister Karoro remanded in custody
Court Reporter Agriculture deputy Minister Douglas Karoro today appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on charges of fraudulently acquiring inputs, which were meant to benefit farmers in Mbire const...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:26hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Deputy minister arrested for inputs theft
Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Douglas Karoro was arrested last night on allegations of grabbing 700 bags of fertiliser, US$18 000 worth of maize seed a...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Karoro to spend weekend in remand
The Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Douglas Karoro will spend the weekend behind bars after his case was deferred to 23rd of May 2022.Karoro arri...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:19hrs | 765 | by Staff Reporter
Boardroom coup to topple Matabele leader backfires on Chamisa
When it comes to tribalism in Zimbabwe, CCC aka MDC and ZANU-PF lead. To put it in other words, ZANU-PF is the first anti- Matabele Shona project and first home for Shona supremacists in Zimbabwe and ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:12hrs | 602 | by Israel Dube
WATCH: Karoro arriving at Harare magistrates court
Deputy Minister for Agriculture Douglas Karoro who is Mbire MP (Zanu PF) has been dragged to Harare magistrates courts in cuffs today.He was implicated by alleged accomplices who have since ap...Published: 21 May 2022 at 15:59hrs | 443 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Basic goods disappear from shelves in Zimbabwe
SOME basic commodities such as cooking oil have virtually disappeared from shop shelves as the monthly food basket shot to $120 000.The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) yesterday said a fami...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
Masuka in court over US$94 000 loan
AGRICULTURE Minister Anxious Masuka has allegedly failed to pay back a US$94 000 loan advanced to him five years ago in the form of tobacco farming inputs.A Chinese tobacco contracting firm Ti...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to launch collateral registry
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the collateral registry, a record keeping system for the existence of security, would be launched by the third quarter of this year. The collateral regi...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on lending
THE central bank yesterday lifted its temporary suspension of lending services by banks after the policy triggered sustained protests from industry, commerce and the public in general.In a sta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Parly probes tobacco company
PARLIAMENT has launched a full-scale investigation into Premium Leaf Zimbabwe operations and the quality of its tobacco exports.The company executives yesterday appeared before the Parliamenta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Indonesia for a week
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga arrived in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday for a week-long visit during which he will attend a UNICEF meeting for ministers of water, sanitation, and hygie...Published: 16 May 2022 at 20:51hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Minister Karoro
VILLAGERS in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central are breathing fire over Presidential inputs from which they were supposed to benefit but were allegedly swindled by their Member of Parliament Douglas ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 12:13hrs | 3746 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe deputy minister in GMB theft scandal
DEPUTY Agriculture minister Douglas Karoro is embroiled in a scandal involving the alleged theft of a huge consignment of fertiliser from Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot at Mushumbi in Mbire....Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar, US dollar use to stay
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has encouraged Zimbabweans to use both the Zimbabwe dollar and United States dollar as the country transitions towards adoption of a ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
'The Reserve Bank is not creating money'
The Sunday Mail Editor Victoria Ruzvidzo (VR) had a no-holds-barred interview with RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya (JM) on the latest developments in the economy, among them suspension of bank lending, ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's shutdowns not the best protest strategy
WORSENING economic conditions, coupled with growing unemployment as most Zimbabweans struggle to eke out a living in the informal sector are among the major reasons why this week's shutdown flopped....Published: 14 May 2022 at 19:42hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles trinkets to chiefs
LOCAL Government deputy minister Mariam Chombo has disclosed that government is planning to splash on traditional leaders to cushion them against economic turbulences.Chombo, who said she was ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:17hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe travellers caught up in Musina demos
SCORES of Zimbabwe-bound motorists, haulage truckers and passenger buses were stranded in South Africa on Thursday when residents of Musina went on strike protesting poor service delivery by their mun...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:16hrs | 2588 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 3010 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo Airport saga: Govt in U-turn
GOVERNMENT yesterday apologised for suddenly removing the shield emblem at Bulawayo's Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport.It also said it was re-designing the emblem and would soon erec...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:06hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe rainfall season ends'
The 2021 – 2022 rainfall season, largely marked by above-average rains in some regions and poor and erratic rainfall in others has ended, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says.Be...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:01hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Indian billionaire
Visiting Indian billionaire Mr Jitender Kumar Singla yesterday met President Mnangagwa to discuss investment opportunities in Zimbabwe.Mr Singla said the unique point is that he has the suppor...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:01hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Government apologies for the Removal JM Nkomo Airport signage
The government has apologised for the hasty removal of the Joshua M Nkomo international airport signage saying the previous signage was of low quality while the current was only temporary.In a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 14:45hrs | 4213 | by Desmond Nleya
Harare regrets the hasty removal of the shield signage at Joshua Nkomo airport
GOVERNMENT will prioritise stakeholder engagement in designing permanent signage for the country's airports as it embarks on the exercise to meet International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stand...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's idle cannabis licence holders put on notice
The US$27 million medical cannabis farm and processing plant at Mount Hampden set up by Swiss Biocieuticals Limited was commissioned yesterday by President Mnangagwa who urged others with permits for ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Russia deepen relations
Zimbabwe's bilateral relations with Russia are set to deepen with the country offering to start training local medical doctors as part of efforts to strengthen the healthcare sector.Speaking a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Dollar o'clock: Should Zimbabwe axe its faltering currency again?
IN early 2019, Zimbabwe's central bank announced plans to bring back the Zimbabwe dollar as legal tender after a decade of using the US dollar and seven other international currencies because raging h...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:11hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
More investors flock into Zimbabwe
United Arab Emirates billionaire investor Mr Shaji Ul Mulk, who is back in the country to ensure the implementation of projects agreed during his visit last month, has said the country offers vast unt...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:08hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces implosion
ZIMBABWE is facing an implosion due to myriad challenges and senators have warned that protests may be the order of the day going forward as long as there is no solution to the economic crisis prevail...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | 3406 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post project on course
The Zimborders Consortium which is working in partnership with the Government to transform the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday said the project is on course and it will be concluded within the set ti...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:44hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Govt should restore teachers' dignity
AFRICAN leaders have never valued education. It is never their culture to learn and explore.The current leadership in Zimbabwe is a very good example. Our leadership does not even value qualit...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 242 | by Village Teacher
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