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Mnangagwa sued
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been taken to court by one Tendai Chitinhe who is involved in a fierce wrangle for the Chivero chieftainship with Cornleous Chengera.Chengero was recently appo...Published: 5 mins ago | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 16 mins ago | 75 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 6 hrs ago | 642 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1116 | by The Big Interview
Musina businesses face collapse without Zimbabwean customers
The economic sustainability of cross-border feeder towns to neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe has taken a massive beating during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.In Musina, which is loc...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4741 | by City Press
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 723 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1514 | by Emmanuel Koro
Lindiwe Sibanda to be a jury member of the world's largest food prize
The jury of the Food Planet Prize, the world's largest prize in the food arena, has been announced by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.The ten international top professionals include lea...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Van Choga key to Zimbabwe's true liberation from Mnangagwa
There comes a time in a revolution when an unlikely figure is called to lead his/her people out of the cycle of oppression. Valentine Simbarashe Choga, aka Van Choga is one such hero. Unknowingly, the...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 8558 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4049 | by Staff reporter
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protégÃ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1997 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who is in control of Zimbabwe's crashing economy?
LAST month, in an unprecedented Press conference, military generals said they didn't plan to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Yet weeks later, security leaders sidelined his administration to forc...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2776 | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa spends $480m on Zupco, roller meal subsidies
THE government spent $480 million on the Zupco and roller meal subsidies in the first four months of 2020, but still managed to balance its budget over the period, Treasury data shows.Governme...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2309 | by staff reporter
Beitbridge roads in bad state
The poor state of major roads in Beitbridge East is adversely affecting the introduction of public transport resulting in communities relying on private motorists. This was said by Beitbridge ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:05hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
America pours $60.55 million to Zimbabwe for Lean Season Food Assistance
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will provide $60.55 million toward the World Food Programme’s (WFP) 2020/21 Lean Season Food Assistance program in Z...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 10:48hrs | 2693 | by Agencies
'There are no angels in Zimbabwe, President!'
Kapish Sir, forgive the Chinese, but such erratic, gladiatorial and unhinged exuberance, exuding brute visceral and coming from any one never too shy to publicly comport embedded bats in belfry charac...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:54hrs | 3754 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Mohadi blames colonisers for not teaching Zimbabweans how to run economy
Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, has blamed the country's former colonial ruler of not teaching native Zimbabweans to run the economy as the southern African nation battles a prolonged economic downturn....Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 20:32hrs | 4632 | by Staff reporter
Setback for Mthuli Ncube
THE Paris Club has spurned the Zimbabwean government's appeal for a bailout saying no financial assistance will be extended to Harare until satisfactory reforms implemented.Paris Club comprise...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:08hrs | 6916 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Clueless as Nation Crisis Looms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown; cases of corrupt officials and torture of citizens have become the talk of the day. The once breadbasket of Southern Africa has been reduced to begging for food a...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2027 | by Prince Njagu
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 6003 | by Staff reporter
Let's bring back the bread status of Zimbabwe
Tradition is prison with majority opinion, just because your ancestors did it doesn't mean its not incredibly flawed. Some great mind made that great observation, what brutal truth. Traditiona...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 2506 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimra workers on go-slow
CUSTOMS and excise officers at Beitbridge border post and other stations yesterday briefly downed tools and later opted to go slow to register disgruntlement over poor wages, although the tax agency d...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 15:40hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic Structural Transformation (part 6 of 10)
"The sacrosanct cornerstone and golden thread upon which any successful productive economy can be built is the legal protection of private property ownership."We all know that Zimbabwe's agric...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 10:25hrs | 1648 | by Vince Musewe
Man gets 30 years for Xmas rape
A 60-year-old Gweru man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping a woman in her early 30s as well as her daughter on Christmas Day last year. Appearing before Regional Magistrate Mr...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police in distress
THE officer commanding police in Harare yesterday appealed to Zimbabwe Republic Police commanders to provide transport and accommodation to junior officers who are facing eviction from their rented ac...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:59hrs | 3183 | by Staff reporter
Baboons targets Kariba patients
KARIBA - Some residents in the resort town of Kariba have raised red flag to Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management to tame troops of baboons attacking patients at the district hospital....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1406 | by Naume Muza
1 in 3 children in Zimbabwe malnourished
ONE in three children are chronically malnourished in Zimbabwe and the situation may worsen amid Covid-19 which has forced the country to channel most of its resources towards preventing the viral inf...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bread price reduced to $66
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe National Chairman Tafadwa Musarara has announced that the price of a standard loaf of bread will be reduced from ZWL79 to ZWL66. Musarara said the pos...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 13:47hrs | 5163 | by Mandla Ndlovu
100 retail operators arrested for not accepting Zimdollar, bond notes
Refusing to accept the Zimdollar and bond notes as payment for goods has landed 102 Zimbabwean business owners and retail employees in trouble, with 28 of these appearing in court as the government en...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:55hrs | 3956 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe food crisis worse than last year: UN agency
AFOOD security report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that Zimbabweans are worse-off than they were a year after the launch of the humanitarian ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 patients on hunger strike
FIFTEEN COVID-19 patients at St Francis of Assisi High School in Chivhu went on a hunger strike on Sunday to force the government to release them, arguing that conditions at the centre were deplorable...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 6083 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5836 | by Staff reporter
FUNDRAISER: Mpopoma woman's backside rotting
Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has launched an online fundraising initiative for one Mirriam Mungami who has developed a rotting wound at her backside. According to Sibanda, Mungami w...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 15:06hrs | 20196 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 12260 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
FAO doubts Zimbabwe's cereal import capacity
ZIMBABWE'S cereal import requirements for the 2020/21 year are estimated at about 1,1 million tonnes amid concern over the country's capacity to access offshore supplies at a time it is battling worse...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
Macheso distances self from Franco Slomo
Sungura kingpin Alick Macheso who parted ways with struggling Franco "Slomo" Dhaka has distanced him self from his rebel.Slomo is currently finding it difficult to put food on the table and wa...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:27hrs | 10875 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3477 | by newzimbabwe
Hunger hits Zanu-PF stronghold
Hungry Buhera villagers are emptying their cattle pens as they are being forced to exchange their cattle for grain.This was said by several Zanu-PF councillors who spoke to The Mirror in inter...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:22hrs | 3981 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3253 | by AFP
Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government!
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government after the Zanu PF government has successively failed to ruin the country for 40 years now."Zi...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1750 | by Stephen Jakes
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Police in corruption storm
SOME members of the police in Mvuma are in the eye of a storm following reports that they are demanding protection fees from illegal vendors, pirate taxis and foreign currency dealers operating in the...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 594 | 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 economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1463 | by Thandekile Moyo
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5706 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Is Zimbabwe the sick man of Southern Africa?
The Zimbabwean issue is a painful one. The country has all the ingredients of being a success story. Arable land, good climate, a wonderful pool of human resources across the continuum of production, ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 244 | by Sibangani Dube
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