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'Mnangagwa fails to honour promises'
ZIMBABWE is currently going through political and economic crises that have caused untold suffering to citizens. At the same time, factionalism appears to be devouring both the ruling Zanu-PF and oppo...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 5722 | by Staff reporter
Zec ready to replace Chamisa's senators
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is ready for filling of proportional representation seats in the Senate and National Assembly, since there is no extra voting in this regard, the results of the...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:59hrs | 6587 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths fight over pigs
ZANU-PF youth league officials in Bulawayo are fighting over a piggery project, which was recently launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, with some provincial leaders accused of hijacking the initi...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 3217 | by Staff reporter
Jason Machaya put to his defence
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya was yesterday put to his defense on criminal abuse of office charges.Machaya appeared before provincial Magistrate, Ms Charity Maphosa...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:55hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mobile operators called to further national interests
The Zimbabwean government has been commended for its firm stance in fighting illegal dealings connected with the foreign currency black market to restore mobile money platforms to their original purpo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:05hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food aid comes with condoms'
Faced with a decreasing condom uptake in the country because of the tight Covid-19 lockdown, the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations Fund for Population Agency (UNFPA) have come up with a prog...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 3691 | 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
Zimbabwe suspends phone based mobile money transactions - Fulltext
The Statement of Suspension on Monetary Transaction on Phone-Based Mobile Money TransactionsThe government of Zimbabwe has with immediate effect suspended all mobile money services and trading...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 19:41hrs | 7709 | by Staff reporter
Woman who shared nudes with friend on WhatsApp arrested with three other women (Mpopoma woman)
Many people are not aware that they will be committing a crime, when they distribute their nude pictures or their videos or such pictures or videos of others.So, there is a need for the media ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 17:59hrs | 2300 | by Njabulo
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1292 | by Stephen Jakes
Jubilation as Strive Masiyiwa's ventilators arrive in the country
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilator suites that were donated by businessman and Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa are now in the country ready to be deployed.Through his Higher Life Foundati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 4419 | by Agencies
Bulawayo Zanu-PF youths complain over COVID-19 fund
ZANU-PF youth from Bulawayo have complained over the "turning of COVID-19 relief funds into loans" with stringent conditions to access the funding.The government recently set up a $17 million ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants to highlight new dispensation successes
ZANU-PF is set to launch the hashtag #edfirst ahead of the 2023 elections aimed at highlighting the successes of the new dispensation. Addressing a Zanu-PF Midlands provincial meeting in Gokwe...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to launch #EDFirst
ZANU-PF is set to launch the hashtag #edfirst ahead of the 2023 elections aimed at highlighting the successes of the new dispensation.Addressing a Zanu-PF Midlands provincial meeting in Gokwe ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:24hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
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 | 417 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic crisis reach a breaking point
FORMER finance minister and MDCAlliance vice-president Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe, gripped by the twin crises of an imploding economy and the Covid-19 pandemic that have seen the International Monetary...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 breakthrough drug dexamethasone is made in SA
The newly-discovered coronavirus breakthrough drug dexamethasone is produced and readily available in South Africa, giving hope amid a surge in both infections and deaths.The drug was already ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 14:03hrs | 3342 | by Busisani Ncube
9 000 Zimbabweans return home from 48 countries
OVER 9 000 Zimbabweans have returned home from 48 countries following the outbreak of Covid-19. The figure includes 241 who arrived at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport from the Unit...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:34hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators to Zimbabwe
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back.The billionaire ent...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Minister Matema's Call for Payment of School Fees for Second Term is an Act of Provocation
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President Takavafira Zhou has said schools have remained closed for second term because of covid 19, and prospects for opening schools on 28 July 2020 as envisag...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 1419 | by Stephen Jakes
Mathema blasted over second term fees rant
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday described the call by Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema on parents to pay second term school fees as "an act of provocat...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:34hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP showers praise on Zanu-PF minister
MDC Alliance legislator for Mutasa Central, Trevor Saruwaka has accused some government officials of being 'captured' after they tried to block him from accessing 15 tonnes of rice on behalf of vulner...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 15:10hrs | 6638 | by newzimbabwe
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1182 | by Siphosami Malunga
Zec urged to find ways to conduct polls during COVID-19
LOCAL election watchdogs have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to pilot innovative ways of running elections during COVID-19 pandemic saying an indefinite suspension of polls was a vi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches more public transport buses
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government to availing ZUPCO buses to all areas, amid revelations that suppliers from Belarus have been engaged to supply buses suitable for rural terrains. Presi...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 19:49hrs | 4898 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11193 | by Siphosami Malunga
ZETDC threatens to disconnect Zisco
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZETDC), has threatened to switch off defunct steel giant, Zisco, over a ZW$6,2 million debt accrued over a period of three months.In a letter to ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:39hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda calls for Zifa audit
YESTERDAY marked exactly 507 days since the Zifa executive committee suspended its vice-president Gift Banda over a litany of charges, chiefly allegedly usurping their powers by unilaterally making se...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Break-in at Dembare offices
DARING thieves broke into Dynamos offices at the National Sports Stadium last week and stole laptops and important documents, including some agreements between the Harare giants and their sponsors....Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South Province starts PCR testing
MATEBELELAND South Province has started polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for Covid-19 in Beitbridge, Plumtree and Gwanda using GeneXpert machines as part of Government's efforts to decentralise t...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube not involved in murky govt payments
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday absolved himself from the murky procurement of Zupco buses and supply of COVID-19 protective equipment by companies whose owners are linked to President Emmerso...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:29hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
NGO donates to widows of war veterans
A Bulawayo non governmental organisation, Smile for Africa, donated mealie meal to widows of war veterans as part of its initiative to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on vulnerable membe...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 09:52hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's kwaito star Kadder sings for Brenda Fassie
Bulawayo kwaito star Kadder has released a song dedicated to the late African music icon Brenda Fassie of blessed memory who went to glory in May 2004. Speaking to this publication on Tuesday ...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:50hrs | 2735 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF using lockdown period to consolidate power
With the rest of the world concentrating on their own domestic issues arising out of the pandemic, Zimbabwean government seem to be banking on this lack of attention to consolidate their power by clos...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:47hrs | 915 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2785 | by Jeremy Brickhill
Mnangagwa donates to elderly
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has donated rice to 100 elderly people in Insuza in Umguza district, Matabeleland North. The Provincial Affairs Minister Richard Moyo distributed the rice sourced by Mnanga...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora cranking up the heat on Chamisa
BUOYED by Friday's High Court ruling which effectively killed the debate whether the MDC Alliance is a political party or not, the interim leadership of the country's main opposition party is cranking...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:58hrs | 7141 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA to receive US$200 000 from CAF
ZIFA are expected to receive a US$200 000 financial injection from CAF, which represents their annual grant from the continent's football controlling body. CAF announced yesterday they will sp...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:10hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Russia donates to Zimbabwe's war veterans
RUSSIA has reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe in various fields. This comes as the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Harare handed over of 1 500 tonne...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1902 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns civil servants
Mnangagwa warns civil servantsPRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned civil servants against sabotaging government programmes, including the scandal-ridden Command Agriculture and presidenti...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:49hrs | 18810 | by Staff reporter
Vulnerable Zimbabwean families get measly $180 cushion
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday questioned the rationale behind government giving out a measly $180 COVID-19 assistance to the vulnerable people when the prices of basic foodstuffs and other important commodi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Togarepi challenges legislators
Zanu-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has challenged Members of Parliament to act as vital cogs of information dissemination against the spread Covid-19 in their respective constituencies. Legis...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda disappointed by the living standards of health workers in Gokwe central
The deputy minister of Defense who is the member of Parliament for Gokwe Central comrade Victor Matemadanda distributed essential commodities to people in his constituency. Speaking on the occ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 11:59hrs | 1110 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Govt further decentralises COVID-19 testing
GOVERNMENT has decentralised COVID-19 testing with areas such as Tsholotsho and Lupane receiving gene-expert machines which will see the country conducting about 1 000 tests per day following concerns...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:05hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Suspension of maize meal, flour duty unsettles local millers
THE Small and Medium Millers Association of Zimbabwe (SMMAZ) says the suspension of customs duty on imported wheat flour and maize meal would cripple production and viability of the local milling indu...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
CSC upgrade project put on hold
THE COLD Storage Company (CSC)-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has suspended rehabilitation works, putting on hold a programme that was expected to see the country's meat processor and marketer resuming operat...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:36hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch livestock scheme
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the Presidential Livestock Scheme at Cleveland Range in Harare to support livestock farmers. Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Info...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
COVID19 makes work of civil society organizations very difficult in rural areas
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association director Michael Mdladla Ndiweni has said COVID-19 has made work of civil society organizations very difficult in rural areas."Rural communities are st...Published: 27 May 2020 at 08:47hrs | 342 | by Stephen Jakes
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