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Zimbabwean women make gains in property ownership
Women in Zimbabwe are making significant strides in securing access to economic resources such as land, property, and digital financial services, according to findings from the 2023–2024 Zimbabwe De...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:30hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Africa Day
As we celebrate the African renaissance, we must also be in a position to reflect on what the continent must do in order to improve the lives of African people.AFRICA must come up with one Afr...Published: 24 May 2025 at 22:55hrs | 156 | by Leonard Koni
Is Mnangagwa stalling real economic empowerment so that he can be thanked for handouts?
This morning, I watched a news report where the people of Goromonzi converged to receive one or two fire trucks which had been bought using so-called "Devolution Funds".My heart broke as sever...Published: 27 Dec 2024 at 17:40hrs | 871 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's second-largest city at risk of running dry by year-end
The taps in Zimbabwe's second-biggest city may run dry by the end of this year.Already, residents of Bulawayo have had to cope without piped water for at least five-and-a-half days a week and ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:55hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 7 sectors for import substitution
In a bid to reduce reliance on imports and boost local industry, Zimbabwe has identified seven key sectors for import substitution.The country's short-term manufacturing blueprint, the Zimbabw...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 12:51hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Why Jacob Zuma is now winning court cases
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024, the electoral court set aside the IEC's decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from running for a parliamentary seat. The IEC had disqualified Zuma due to his criminal r...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 15:26hrs | 10 | by Siyabonga Hadebe
If Ramaphosa was firm with Mnangagwa, he wouldn't need a border authority!
So, President Cyril Ramaphosa has decided to establish a BMA (Border Management Authority) specifically to curb illegal crossing into South Africa, mainly from Zimbabwe!I am sure that is all w...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 13:56hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Senate and PR, the maxim gun firing at Bulawayo
The Senate, Youth and PR lists for the 2023 harmonised elections in Bulawayo Province, are the newest metaphorical maxim gun whose bullets are brutally firing at the tender heart of the City of Bulawa...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:03hrs | 36 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube (Secretary General)
Uebert Angel not off the hook
Anti-corruption watchdogs have petitioned the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to sanction President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to secure another 5-year term, says US's Fitch Ratings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will likely secure another five-year term in elections expected in August, Fitch Solutions, a global advisory, predicted in a new report, but warned of a chaotic aftermath...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa fights lithium plunder
MBERENGWA residents have formed a foundation led by prominent local people to fight the plunder of recently discovered lithium deposits in the vast district as well other available minerals like gold,...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
War vets feel economic heat
Zanu-PF's war veterans league has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to improve their welfare because they are suffering due to socio-economic challenges.War veterans' children were turned...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders demand sex bribes in exchange for house stands
Traditional leaders in Matabeleland have been accused of demanding sexual bribes from women home seekers.The remarks were made by women during a recent communal engagement against ...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 14:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Britain must compensate Zimbabwe for colonial rule losses'
GUTU South MP Pupurai Togarepi (Zanu-PF) has suggested that Zimbabwe must demand compensation for losses incurred while the country was under British rule.Togarepi said this last Thursday whil...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How politics destroys home-grown solutions
FOLLOWING the success of politics in liberating African countries from colonial injustice, a mindset that has been planted in Africa is that politics has a monopoly on all solutions. Unfortunately, th...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Charles Dhewa
Address current challenges before adding more teachers
GOVERNMENT last week said it would recruit 10 000 more teachers to fill the skills gap in the education sector.But teachers' unions have argued that this figure is a drop in the ocean, given t...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
FFF supports suspension of by-elections in Zimbabwe
Local non-governmental organisation, Free and Fair Foundation (FFF), says the suspension of by-elections is a welcome development as a mitigatory measure to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | | by STaff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Pardon Muzavazi
'Ramaphosa can't end Zimbabwe crisis with stakeholders at cross purpose' - worst of all, lack vision
It has been a hard slog just to reach a consensus that Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic and political crisis. There is a mountain of evidence to prove the crisis but even that has not helped sinc...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Young sex workers get reprieve
At the age of 15, Tendai Dube* was heavily into drugs, dodging school and creating havoc among her peers along Ndema Road in Gweru's Ascot suburb where she stayed with her single mother. However, she ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland - Zimbabwe border to be redrawn with blood
It must be unequivocally stated that Matabeleland is our motherland. We we will never seek Mnangagwa or any other Shona supremacist's permission to restore her independence and sovereignty.On ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:17hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Britain to impose new sanctions on Zimbabwe after Brexit
Britain is ready to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe when it leaves the European Union.In readiness for its exit from the EU, which now appears to have been pushed back until October, Britain has ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 17:16hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Women political aspirants should change strategy
WOMEN who want to run for political office in 2023 should change strategy if they are to win more votes than men, a government official said yesterday.Midlands provincial development officer i...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to blacklist, freeze terrorist funds
The law operationalising Government powers to blacklist and freeze funds and assets of individuals and entities linked to international terror, has been gazetted. Statutory Instrument 56 of 2019 was p...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Key constraints to economic growth in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a naturally endowed country with unimaginable potential across various economic sectors from mining, tourism, agriculture and manufacturing among others. The country has a highly diversifi...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zapu backs Chief Maduna on Petitioning President Mnangagwa to address Gukurahundi issue
The Dumiso Dabengwa led Zimbabwe's oldest opposition party Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) has declared its support for the Matabeleland elderly chief Vezi Maduna Mafu for petitioni...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
ZAPU calls for the release of Gukurahundi commision report
Zimbabwe African People's Union, the primary target of the 1980s Gukurahundi Genocide stands in full support and defence of Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Filabusi and his call for addressing of the issue....Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 08:08hrs | | by ZAPU
Why marginalise women in politics?
WOMEN in Zimbabwe continue to suffer from historical marginalisation and structural inequalities that exist in the political, social and economic spheres. Historically, colonisers made sure that women...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Linda Masarira
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4 | by Israel Dube
MDC Alliance: Pitfalls of running without ‘mother's milk of politics'
"DADDY, I think Chamisa will be defeated by ZEC. He can't win this election," my seven-year-old daughter said to me last week. "What do you mean?" I asked her. "Isn't it that Chamisa and ZEC are going...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | 1 | by Bishop
Professor Madhuku to write a new Constitution
Professor Lovemore Madhuku says he will lead a process to write a new, "people-driven" Constitution to replace the current one which was a product of negotiation between Zimbabwe's main political part...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staffr eporter
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
This is the prologue from the book Matabele Rising by David Hilton Barber, Footprint Press, R240Zimbabwe is not one country; to pretend otherwise is a dangerous hallucination. The country has ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Geoge Mkhwanazi
Why Zimbabwe should be split into two states
'Matabeleland is bigger than Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, Togo, Guinea Bissau, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea and Djibouti, all found in Africa' - ...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | 17 | by George Mkhwanazi
$100 fines for litterbugs, says Muchinguri
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri has warned litter bugs, particularly those that drink a popular opaque beer referred to as "scud" and wantonly discard the empty containers tha...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The opposition promoting violence and terror
While multiparty politics has become a norm across the African continent, electoral contests have frequently been accompanied by violence. The violence is mostly caused by the opposition who wil...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kabila grateful for Mugabe's support
Democratic Republic of Congo leader President Joseph Kabila has expressed gratitude to President Mugabe and other African leaders for standing by his country to ward off moves by Western countries to ...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe laughs at his image in the mirror
Mugabe runs the country in his own image best described as a dictatorial, totalitarian, autocratic, tyrannous and authoritative. Those that have been inducted, indoctrinated and trapped in the Mugabe ...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 23:29hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
The un-ended quest for self determination the restotration of Mthwakazi Inkuzi Series: Discussion Paper 2
1. Introduction This paper is multi-fold with a specific motivation of triggering an intellectual debate, coupled with not only comments but positive se...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
Educational devolution provides better learning opportunities for every child
After the independence of Zimbabwe, the education reforms focused on the integration of the formerly racially separate education system. Zimbabwe adopted a system of free education at primary and seco...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
Benefits of poverty reduction strategies through economic growth
The government has recently indicated in its draft interim poverty reduction strategy paper (I-PRSP) that it is targeting an economic growth rate of 6.6% from 2016-2018. The strategy also targets infl...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 17:38hrs | | by Blessing Machiva
Tribalism, marginalisation and factionalism is history with a united opposition
A genuine and united pact of opposition parties that extends to all opposition political parties in Zimbabwe has the propensity for democratic reforms and good governance. The national common knowledg...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 19:27hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
African Women and Policy influence: 'let us keep on resisting, that is how we will advance!'
Imagine a world where girls and boys are treated equally across the divide despite tribe, class or race, we must all hope for the day when government will recognize that equality of our young peo...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 09:30hrs | | by M. Gumede
South African government modifies xenophobia
A question of who fueled the attacks on Foreign nationals which started towards the end of the year 2014 in Soweto and only got more serious and deadly in these past two weeks, robbing Africa of 7 spe...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 14:26hrs | 2 | by Brian Sheriff
The inevitable demise of opposition politics in Zimbabwe
The post 2013 election period has set the birth of a new era and new order in Zimbabwean politics; that of the genesis of the demise of the Western sponsored opposition politics in Zimbabwe.Th...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Prince Khumbulani Malinga
Why Gukurahundi atrocities in Matabeleland and Midland is genocide
This article can be read in conjunction with the following documents: 'Breaking the silence, Building true peace', a report by the Catholic Commission for justice and peace (1997); Dr M.P. Guduza ...Published: 14 Jan 2015 at 23:27hrs | 13 | by Themba Mthethwa
Zimbabweans in custody of jackals and Hyenas
The current name calling, witch hunting,self cheating,excessive bootlicking, substitutions,arrests and finger pointing in Zanu pf exhibit a great deal of decay and loss of direction on the part of the...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 13:23hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi
ZAPU Devolution of Power Explained part 3 of 4
ZAPU devolved legislative regions have an abundant wealth of natural resources This is the third instalment of the four part series explaining the ZAPU devolution of power model. ZAPU devo...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
Devolution of Power Concept Explained, instalment 1 of 4
The explanation of the concept of devolution of power proffered herein in this first instalment and the three subsequent ones is as espoused by the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZAPU). The devo...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
Why Zimbabwe has failed
The promise by ZANU (PF) to empower and develop is hardly a sincere effort and remains a mere promise whose ultimate fulfilment could lead to their demise.Reading the book "Why Nations Fai...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 09:36hrs | | by Vince Musewe
An Agenda for Tsvangirai's MDC-T
The MDC was formed by the labour movement working in solidarity with the student, constitutional, and church movement and civil society in Zimbabwe. It was a response to a system of oppression and sup...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 21:26hrs | | by Douglas Togaraseyi Mwonzora
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