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Mnangagwa rejigged security sector to consolidates power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday effected yet another major shake-up of the top brass of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) - retiring four top military bosses this time, in a move which politica...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leaders trapped in Rhodesia
Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; ‘Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super'. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban I...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1284 | by Cont Mhlanga - Village idiot
Farewell Dr. Charles Muzuva Mungoshi
As I did farewell our champion, hero, mind liberator and academic warrior, I must admit that we have been left with a seat too high to occupy and a bar not that easy to reach. We shall write but the s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 11:00hrs | 729 | by Tapiwa Kapurura
Zimbabwe urgently needs own currency
THE drive for Zimbabwe to have its own currency is understandably gain-ing traction, particularly given the aberrations of price increases, multi-tier pricing and foreign currency shortages on the loc...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 18:44hrs | 5040 | by Edmore Ndudzo
Bulawayo suspends sale of housing stands
BULAWAYO City Council has suspended the sale of housing stands, citing currency distortions in the country less than two months after residents rejected its bid to sell stands in hard currency....Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
Know your Authors in Family and Religious Studies: Wilson Zivave
The New Curriculum in Zimbabwe has seen students and teachers alike struggle to have access to teaching aids particularly reading material, thereby relying on internet sources. In a number of circumst...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | 128 | by Brian Maregedze
Mnangangwa's burden of reform
Many who wish the President of Zimbabwe well - and these are the majority that voted for him in elections a short seven months ago - want ED Mnangagwa to succeed and carry out reforms that usher in th...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:36hrs | 209 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Temba Mliswa brings Prof. Lumumba to Norton
Norton Member of parliament Temba Mliswa through his organization Youth Advocacy for Reform and Democracy (YARD) will be hosting the famed philosopher and Founder of PLO Lumumba Foundation Profe...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 11:51hrs | 4061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's ingenious intelligence services and a liability Head of State
That shocking erroneous diagnosis grossly lacking real intelligence! Deliberate or otherwise! The inability to see and act on that daily shimmering hot potato pot since the first of August 2018! ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:36hrs | 1241 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mliswa 'exposed', in '$400 000 bribe demand'
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal at Hwange Colliery, we can exclusively reveal. The a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
City pastor accused of wrecking marriage
A POPULAR city pastor who is also chairperson of the Civil Societies and Church Joint Forum Anglistone, Thembani Mthiyane Sibanda is flinging in controversy after a city man accused him of causing&nbs...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Madinda outlines vision
Highlanders technical manager Madinda Ndlovu believes the club needs to maintain its identity in their development and recruitment policy as they seek to reclaim past glory days.As the country...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 15:37hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Who is a hero in Zimbabwe?
On Thursday President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared the late music superstar, Oliver Mtukudzi, a national hero, making him the first artiste to receive such an honour.Mnangagwa told mourners tha...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:20hrs | 4167 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe NGOS' sinister Agenda
In pursuit of a more sinister, hidden agenda conscience-deficient foreign-funded non-governmental agents of imperialism working with social groups leave behind a trail of destruction of property worth...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:05hrs | 323 | by Stephen Mpofu
Insider trading going unpunished in Zimbabwe
Insider trading offences in Zimbabwe are going unpunished as the law does not provide enough measures for the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe to undertake thorough investigations into r...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:32hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Current political stalemate will force ED and Chamisa on the table
There are what we call, synonyms of dialogue, argument, argy-bargy, colloquy, confab or confabulations, give and take, palaver, parley, consultations and moving back and forth. Political dialogue refe...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 12:58hrs | 3410 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabwe shutdown, a noble cause but many things went wrong!
Demonstrations are planned and must be planned, how do you demonstrate without prior due diligence. What is the purpose of the demonstrations, what can go wrong and what the eventualities are? The shu...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 14:02hrs | 2357 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mutsvangwa leads dramatic plot to oust Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF rebels have initiated a process to recall President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the presidency, ZimLive can reveal.At least 35 Zanu-PF MPs met at the party's headquarters in Harare on Frid...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | 27026 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 805 | by Zifiso Masiye
Harare's booming automotive market
Downtown Harare is an economic hub.Here, money arguably changes hands more than in any other part of the city.It is typically the Wall Street of the capital.Household goods, sc...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 2482 | by Staff repoirter
Zimbabwe to brace up for tough times ahead as the economy continue to scream
No sign of economic revival has been noticed since this new republic took over. It is just a fallacy. It is now 13 months since President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa grabbed power from nonagen...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:05hrs | 1072 | by Leonard Koni
The primacy of regime survival: State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe crisis has been analysed from varying stand points among researchers. State fragility as analytical and conceptual framework is deployed by the duo of Mark Simpson and Tony Hawkins (2018)...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 702 | by Brian Maregedze
Social Media the new agora
Social media in the form of new technologies has become a new agora world-wide providing a platform for communication among different people regardless of space and time.Several applications s...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 189 | by Tawanda Matende and Lovemore Chidemo
'Sanctions won't stop re-engagement'
Zimbabwe will continue pursuing dialogue to normalise relations globally in line with President Mnangagwa's approach of "engagement and re-engagement", Government spokesperson Mr Nick Mangwana said ye...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 16:59hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa desperate for Mnangagwa talks
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described 2018 as very difficult following the death of the opposition party's founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a controversial election in July.Cha...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:24hrs | 7838 | by Staff reporter
IsiZulu and Zimbabwean Ndebele controversy
The use of isiZulu in Matabeleland as a language of both evangelization and education dates back to the earliest works of missionaries under the London Missionary Society in the 1850s. The approach ha...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1992 | by George Mkhwanazi
Zimbabwe moving towards dollarisation, says Economists
Economists have warned government over the continued usage of bond notes as a medium of exchange saying the surrogate currency is at risk of facing rejection from the market.Government is adam...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:31hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman sues SA investor
A ZIMBABWEAN national, Ryan Chinyangare, is suing South African firm, Nkosikhona Holdings, for failing to pay him $3 million in consultancy work in securing the controversial 'CTX Project' with govern...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:49hrs | 1605 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's date of birth causes trouble
Sometime in 1978 Chamisa was born. That time his date of birth was not significant and nobody ever thought that there will be a minute put aside to coin discussions bordering on his age or indeed the ...Published: 26 Dec 2018 at 07:56hrs | 35793 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe moving towards dollarisation - Economists
Economists have warned government over the continued usage of bond notes as a medium of exchange saying the surrogate currency is at risk of facing rejection from the market.Government is adam...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 15:35hrs | 15305 | by Daily News
2018: The year in which anger took centre stage
At some point, almost every adult Zimbabwean could easily be defined as being angry in the year 2018.And all for different reasons. A majority of us were apoplectic about the state of the nati...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:35hrs | 250 | by Takura Zhangazha
'Bulawayo industry needs remodelling'
BULAWAYO needs to transform its industrial focus through adoption of an agile approach and investing more on new business lines consistent with global demands, the Project Management of Zimbabwe (PMZ)...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:21hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Fortune Charumbira in delirium about Gukurahundi
Provocative and desperate attempts to hoodwink the world on Gukurahundi by Zanu-PF surrogates such as Fortune Charumbira will never weaken or derail the struggle for justice by the genuine victims of ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 1705 | by Mkhululi Zulu
'Zanu-PF has no agenda for a GNU'
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday officially opened the the ruling party's 17th National People's Conference at Umzingwane High School...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:35hrs | 190 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
SA borders brace for festive season rush
THE South African Government has increased manpower at its border posts, including the Beitbridge Border Post it shares with Zimbabwe, in anticipation of increased traffic during the festive season....Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is open for abuse and foreign interference
THE fact that Zimbabwe is open for business does not mean that the country is open for abuse and foreign interference and this should be understood loud and clear by the MDC and its handlers who now s...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:19hrs | 1926 | by Pupurai Togarepi
'Luxury-gate exposes Mnangagwa's government'
The opposition MDC has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for reckless spending and lack of prioritisation through purchasing of luxury cars for Ministers.In a statement release...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 17:55hrs | 12415 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Zimbabwe ebuilding or establishing a new economy?
THE struggle to figure a way forward continues. The fire-fighting approach is the order of the day. Despite the various economic policy directions by the government, there is lack of clarity on where ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | 825 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa spoils his Cabinet with top-of-the-range Land Rover Discovery vehicles
With the majority of the citizenry getting poorer by the day owing to the biting economic crisis, the cash-strapped government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has splurged over $2 million on top-of-th...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:32hrs | 10958 | by Staff reporter
'In politics, treachery is inevitable'
The book 'Junctions' in one way is a celebration of the coup that toppled long-ruling Robert Mugabe, ushering in President Emmerson Mnangagwa - for a long time the former president's right hand man. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:08hrs | 289 | by Staf reporter
Transformation: Imparting depth to the economy
Last week closed on a very good note.First, Government announced the much-awaited Diamond Policy.This new policy protects the National Interest, while meeting the expectations of the K...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:48hrs | 248 | by President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
What the Nation and world should know
When MDC-T Morgan Tsvangirai was ailing and walking and breathing his last, he made it clear that he wouldn't die as someone who failed the party on its succession debate. The fake news paddled by his...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:04hrs | 3066 | by Sidney Chisi
Zimbabwe to screen second-hand vehicles
GOVERNMENT is working on a policy to screen all second-hand vehicles to make sure they meet minimum standards before they can be imported into the country, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. O...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:49hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe I want
What is the truth? What does it set you free from? The Webster's Dictionary definition below says what the word truth means: "truth: being in accord with fact or reality." Thus, the truth sets you fre...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1317 | by Enos Denhere
Which way Prof. Ncube?
Somebody observed rather poignantly ,that every cobbler , house wife ,vendor and taxi driver in Zimbabwe is a spontaneous master of economic phenomena , aerodynamics ,football formations and medicine!...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | 641 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe : Responsible citizenship and leadership
Gordon Hickley once said, "Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation" How a nation is viewed by other nations very much depends on the conduct of its own citizens. Much more if those citizen...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:16hrs | 254 | by Lloyd Msipa
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2749 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Barking at the wrong tree
It all came down to me in the strangest place of all the places one can imagine. There I was, sitting in my Chinese class where I came to the realization that that My President - E.D Mnangagwa is bark...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1657 | by Nicholas Nhau
One year after Mugabe: A revolution still not televised
On November 15, 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe. This came as armed soldiers took c...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 661 | by Takura Zhangazha
Bulawayo City Council wants to charge in forex
THE Bulawayo City Council has formulated a policy designed to raise foreign currency through giving a 50 percent discount to individuals who pay bills in United States dollars after service providers ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
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