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Mnangagwa rejects church's proposal on elections
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rejected proposals by the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) to have a seven-year moratorium on elections saying secular systems are run on laws which are bound ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 26 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni threatens to expel traditional leaders
CHIEF Nyangazonke Ndiweni of Matobo District has threatened to expel traditional leaders under his jurisdiction, whom he is accusing of conniving with self-proclaimed witch-hunters, known as tsikamuta...Published: 18 hrs ago | 5263 | by Staff Reporter
Town Clerk faces more charges
SUSPENDED Gweru town clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza, will soon have more charges preferred against her, Gweru Mayor, Councillor Josiah Makombe has said.Ms Gwatipedza was suspended last week by ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2758 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Mayor rebels against MDC
BULAWAYO Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni has thrown into the drain attempts by his party MDC-Alliance to reinstate embattled former Deputy Mayor Mr Tinashe Kambarami, in a latest twist that shows fissu...Published: 19 hrs ago | 6234 | by Staff Reporter
The retrogressive nature of Zimbabwe's power politics: 2008-2018
This article seeks to highlight the bad side of power politics drawing examples from two major political parties namely the Zimbabwe African National Union for Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) and the Moveme...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1265 | by Tatenda freeman Murenjekwa
Bogus CIO serial fraudster remanded in custody
A SERIAL fraudster who allegedly masqueraded as a top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer and a close security aide to President Emmerson Mnangagwa before duping Ingwebu Breweries of 375 l...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
Biti gives Zimbabwe 6 months to collapse
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has given Zimbabwe six months to collapse owing to the run away inflation in the country that has seen prices of g...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 16:40hrs | 5190 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe accelerating towards precipice of doom - Asante sana
The pace at which Zimbabwe's socio-economic situation is deteriorating is quite terrifying and a long-lasting panacea is urgently needed. I am afraid that we might be heading towards the precipice of ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 15:04hrs | 372 | by Canisio Mudzimu
US$400m NRZ deal divides ministers
CABINET's shock decision this week to cancel the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal won by the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) and South African ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:27hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's PR offensive a futile exercise
GOVERNMENT'S decision to hire four international public relations firms in its bid to spruce up its battered image globally is pointless unless the Harare administration implements substantive politic...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:27hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe using antiquated software
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) is using sub-standard business and aviation software instead of recommended enterprise tools owing to the airline's failure to pay service providers, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:25hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Big shots to lose Bulawayo properties
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's wife Laurinda is among bigwigs that include former ministers, business people and sport personalities who stand to lose their properties if they do not pay B...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:02hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
A peek into Chamisa's urban nightmare
The opposition party, the MDC, cut its teeth in elections in 2000. Since then, it has been winning almost the same local authority and National Assembly seats, mainly in urban areas. Despite b...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 03:52hrs | 65 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Feminism has become Satanism designed to destroy African Families by the West
For any institution to work, there must be a leader to head that institution and this also applies to the institution called a home. In any institution, if the leader is weakened, the institution will...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:48hrs | 63 | by Rayton Dzimiri
Mthuli Ncube now taxes villagers
The Zimbabwean government has put into force a livestock levy. This levy will tax any livestock products of livestock, this includes milk, eggs and mazondo. The levying of the livestock will put to te...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:55hrs | 36 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mugabe's nephew dumps Harare water project
LATE Former President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo Mugabe is under fire over failure to complete the Oddis Plant project his company and some Israelites were long contracted to work on by the Harare Ci...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:02hrs | 37 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa govt use of threats betrays failure to deal with issues
THERE is always going to be a challenge if government continues using a command system to get its way, especially against reason. Setting the condition that it will only hold negotiations with strikin...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
6 Bills lapse as Parly dozes
At least six Bills that were before Parliament lapsed after the august House failed to debate and pass them during the First Session of the Ninth Parliament.The failure by legislators to pass ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areas
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areasNobleman RunyangaThe opposition party, the MDC cut its teeth into elections in 2000. Since then it has been winning almost the same lo...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 11:55hrs | 1010 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa must swallow his pride and allow Zimbabwe to work again
Fellow esteemed leaders, fellow Zimbabweans, ladies and gentlemen, friends and relatives, brothers and sisters. Zimbabwe is burning and the centre cannot hold.Our leadership must b...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3280 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa MDC orders Bulawayo mayor to reinstate Kambarami
THE opposition MDC has ordered Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni to re-instate his expelled deputy Tinashe Kambarami, despite a High Court ruling that the latter's election was a nullity.Kambarami ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
The cookie is crumbling
NEWS that listed Zimbabwean companies will, henceforth, start presenting their financial statements using the Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies Standard can only mean one thing: The c...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:27hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Coroner's Bill infringes on our independence, says doctors
DOCTORS yesterday said the proposed Coroner's Office Bill violates their independence of conducting post-mortems without duress.Speaking at the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice, Le...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Here are 4 easy ways to avoid online casino scams
The internet is a phenomenal tool that has made the world seem like a global village. It's easy to shop, socialize, and more so game online. With all the perks available, you can never be too careful....Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1480 | by Staff Writer
'Common sense must prevail, need GNU' argue Mzembi - 'less of him we'd have a better land'
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist and innovative thinker to ever walk the earth, explained that psychologically, our beliefs and axioms rest upon our experiences. There exists, however, n...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 05:59hrs | 489 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ruining party's end is nigh
Why is that the prizes of fuel and goods continuing to escalate in our country? An infestation of a regime change so they say but is it? This question continues to trouble not just the elders in our s...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 05:50hrs | 360 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Court reserves judgement in ZPC, Chivayo fight
The Supreme Court has reserved ruling in a contract battle between businessman Wicknell Chivayo and the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), after hearing arguments by lawyers representing both parties. ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:03hrs | 4492 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean crisis gone above politics
IT began with the ouster of the late former President Robert Mugabe, who many identified as a liberator-turned despot. At the height of his rule, and in the twilight of his reign, a common factor endu...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:48hrs | 556 | by Learnmore Zuze
Open letter to Emmerson Mnangagwa
14 October 2019Petition to The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare.Cc: Ministry of Health, Matebeleland North Province.Cc: CEO Tsholotsho HospitalCc: St Lukes Hospital....Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:55hrs | 1937 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Mzembi says unity in Zimbabwe will fix the economy
As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:36hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
'You are a sell-outs!' - discredited opposition undermine ED's legitimacy
Up to now, many Zimbabweans have not fully appreciated the negative role the country's opposition politicians have played in our struggle to end the Zanu PF dictatorship. It is pleasing to note that m...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1067 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC to revamp its security system?
A source in the MDC has revealed that Nelson CHAMISA and other MDC leaders are furious with the MDC Security and Intelligence Department following a series of actions that reflect its incompetence.&nb...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:56hrs | 1182 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt economic blueprints and policies rubbish sanctions fallacy
As I write this article, the government of Zimbabwe is launching its so-called strategic roadmap for a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023, officiated by the president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa - ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:55hrs | 331 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Doctors, nurses' strike requires a sober approach
In our NewsDay Weekender edition on Saturday we carried a depressing story of how the country's major public hospitals have turned into dens of death as helpless patients succumb to their sicknesses i...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1923 | by Staff reporter
Council workers demand urgent salary review
THE Harare Municipal Workers Union (HMWU) has urged council to urgently review workers' salaries to levels above the poverty datum line of $2 600. HMWU executive chairperson Mr Cosmas Bungu sa...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife backs female ex-fighters upliftment
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has come out in full support of a request by female former freedom fighters' to go back to school and acquire knowledge to run successful income-generating projects acros...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Church woman caught selling cannabis
A JOHANE masowe apostolic Bindura woman was slapped with a $400 fine yesterday by a Bindura magistrate after she was convicted of selling 75 sachets of dagga.Laiza Mtyida (45) of the Johane ma...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:31hrs | 1155 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Open letter to Matemadanda: Mash Central is burning
We write to you as concerned party members from Mashonaland Central. We have tried to seek an audience with your office to no avail. ZANU PF Mashonaland Central is burning and the current provincial e...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1197 | by Utete
MDC tribal cracks widen
Zimbabwe's politics is a very interesting terrain. It is contested by revolutionaries, pseudo revolutionaries, neo-liberals, sell-outs to the outright treasonous. Students of politics know tha...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2992 | by Staff reporter
Dilemma over Grace Mugabe's farm grabs
What goes around comes around, so the cliché says. That summarises Grace Mugabe's situation even as she is mourning her husband, Robert, the former president who passed on last month.Credib...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:15hrs | 15558 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe to ratify business agreement with UK
Zimbabwe has begun the process of ratifying a bilateral trade agreement signed with Britain, as Harare moves to fully join other countries lined up by London, in its economic link plan under the Brexi...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Rahman Gumbo checks Bosso resurgence
HIGHLANDERS' battle to climb up the log standing continues today as they face new boys, TelOne, at Barbourfields Stadium. Bosso's woeful season has seen them hover just above the relegation zo...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Man 'insults' Mnangagwa, acquitted
BINDURA magistrate Langton Ndokera has acquitted a local resident, Saymore Mashorokoto, who was on trial for blaming President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the country's deteriorating political and economic...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:33hrs | 1273 | by Staff reporter
JSC offers to reinstate fired resident magistrate
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has offered to reinstate fired Esigodini resident magistrate, Mr Tawanda Muchemwa, barely a month after he had approached the Labour Court challenging his dismiss...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:27hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Teaching Ndebele, Shona, English at all schools will bring down barriers
LAWYER Tymon Tabana on Friday, October 11, filed a High Court petition asking the court to find the government in wilful default of the law and order the minister of primary and secondary education to...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 20:48hrs | 1192 | by Tymon Tabana
'Mnangagwa has dismally failed' man acquitted
A man charged with disorderly conduct for saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to revive Zimbabwe's economic fortunes was acquitted on Thursday, his lawyers said.Saymore Mashorokoto,...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2967 | by ZimLive
This regime must desist from corruption in agriculture
Recent announcements by the government, that it would disburse $2.8 billion for the Command Agriculture and issuing some $300 million in Treasury bills is a serious cause for concern, judging by the m...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 14:34hrs | 640 | by Rusty Markham
I admit I have failed the next generation
Someone asked why I have been quiet this time. I had to take time to reflect on a number of real life issues realistically without anyone's influence, without political, religious, spiritual or peer p...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 3013 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyechaiye
Mthuli Ncube taken to court over inflation figures
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) has been dragged to the High Court by National Social Security Authority (Nssa) employees who, in conjunction with members of the Zimbabwe Pension and Insuranc...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2532 | by Staff reporter
Impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, region
Sanctions have led to the drying up of traditional sources of external finance from the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), with the country receiving no support from the African Development ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:26hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
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