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Hwange show resilience in relegation battle
Hwange 2 - 2 FC PlatinumRelegation-threatened Hwange displayed immense fighting spirit as they came from behind to secure a crucial 2-2 draw with former champions FC Platinum at the Colliery Stadi...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:50hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Is the Buy Zimbabwe campaign a flop?
The Buy Zimbabwe Campaign, launched over a decade ago, was designed to promote locally manufactured goods and services, reduce the trade deficit, and bolster economic growth. While the campaign's obje...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 11:48hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Reconciling nationality and the rainbow nation idea
IT seems dust never settles in Mzansi, the land of gold. Just a few weeks after an election that did not deliver an outright winner, the country is embroiled in what seems to be another identity...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:07hrs | 74 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mthuli Ncube's moment of truth
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's candidacy in Cowdray Park constituency in Bulawayo has revived debate on reports of systematic underdevelopment of the city and the whole Matebeleland region since 1980...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: It's time for clarity not ambiguity
THE phrase "strategic ambiguity" has been flung into the Zimbabwean vocabulary recently and has been received with mixed feelings.But let us try to put the phrase into context by unraveling it...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:01hrs | 8 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Do not give the devil a foothold
It is a known phenomenon that cracks and fissures in relations and interactions allow negative energies to disrupt positivity and well-being of those around us. Absence of amicability in all w...Published: 15 May 2023 at 15:21hrs | | by TT Murisa. Chinehasha
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Ian Beddowes
Sanctions on Zimbabwe are through ZIDERA and augmented by OFAC
ZIMBABWE remains under a punitive regime of economic sanctions that have negatively impacted the movement of funds and trading capabilities in the past two decades, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Gove...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bolsters structures ahead of polls
The setting up of an Elders Council coming on the back of the intense cell verification programme has put Zanu-PF in good stead to win the forthcoming elections, analysts have said.Secretary f...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will reject political mannequins
FOR over two decades, some Western administrations have sponsored proxy political entities in Zimbabwe with the primary goal of dislodging ZANU-PF from power. Over two decades of moral, financ...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:51hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'West wants to partition Russia like USSR'
The Russian president accuses the US and its allies of seeking to subjugate his countryRussia is under an attack by the West, which wants the country to be broken up into warring pieces, Presi...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 20:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits opposition pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday indirectly admitted that Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is giving him nightmares ahead of elections scheduled next year.Chamisa ann...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's rural drive rattles Zanu-PF
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC)'s rural mobilisation drive is reportedly giving Zanu-PF sleepless nights, with the ruling party's provincial co-ordinating committees (PCCs) now tasked to counter t...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to become regional vaccines manufacturing hub
ZIMBABWE could soon become a hub for manufacturing vaccines and injectable drugs for national and continental consumption as discussions open for a joint venture deal between NatPharm and a major Indo...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members ordered to stick to party business
Zanu-PF members have been challenged to adhere to the party constitution when conducting party business.Speaking at a workshop organised by Harare province meant to educate Harare provincial s...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
The latest risks & opportunities in the cryptocurrency market
The cryptocurrency markets never stand still. For some, that is their greatest feature, but for others, it's what stands in the way of mass adoption of alternative currencies. What are the latest risk...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:20hrs | 13 | by Staff Writer
Chamisa hits the rural trail
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has embarked on a nationwide rural mobilisation exercise in a bid to break Zanu-PF's stranglehold on that constituency ahead of n...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa councillors haunted by shoddy land deals
At least four Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors elected in last week's by-elections could have their joy short-lived following revelations that they face immediate suspension over alleg...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will bridge gap between Epworth, Harare'
Zanu-PF snatched two parliamentary seats, Epworth and Mutasa South, from the opposition in the by-elections held on Saturday last week and also got a foothold in urban local authorities. Our Senior Re...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wrestles seats from Chamisa
Zanu-PF snatched two parliamentary seats from the opposition in the by-elections held on Saturday, winning in Epworth and Mutasa South and also getting a foothold in urban local authorities.Ah...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
George Soros' rant, anti-Chinese movement in Zimbabwe
ON January 31, 2022, the founder of "Open Society Foundations", George Soros, who is a billionaire "political philanthropist", made a revealing statement about China that should shine a light on recen...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:47hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Some churches may soon get listed on Stock Exchanges
The practice and tradition of assembling for worship and fellowshipping in furtherance and spreading of the Gospel is an act every believer must do. Hebrews 10 verses 23-25 is very loud and clear on t...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 12:20hrs | 13 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Why is Apple failing to gain a foothold in Africa?
Africa is one of the primary targets of tech companies, who view the continent as the world's largest emerging market. As internet accessibility spreads across the vast lands, a greater number of peop...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 12:50hrs | 46 | by Staff Writer
Sangomas are also looking for money
A trio of male adults left Zimbabwe for Mozambique in search of a Sangoma to give them a get-rich-quick voodoo panacea. A yesternight borne fire discussion had assured them in Nampula province...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 09:07hrs | | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
South Africa: Is the Rainbow fading away?
Geographically, South Africa is another country, apart and distinct from our Zimbabwe. Experientially, South Africa is all Southern African countries, Zimbabwe especially. A whirlpool of event...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VFEX in dramatic rebound
THE Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) has dramatically emerged to capture some of Zimbabwe's biggest firms, with multinationals making bold moves to step into the waterfall in the past week....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Padenga delists, heads for VFEX
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed crocodile breeder, Padenga Holdings is set to delist today before switching to the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX).The VFEX has struggled to attract c...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
CSOs rap Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under fire for violating COVID-19 preventive measures after he posed for a photo with a group of Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) graduates at the...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spare a thought for Gukurahundi genocide massacres
LAST week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was shown the Hanging Tree in Bulawayo, where many Ndebeles were hanged by the colonial regime in the 1890s.After visiting the tree where colonialists h...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
After ED was shown where colonialists hanged Ndebele warriors, was he also shown where Ndebele-speakers were massacred by Zim re
I do not know whether I can ever reiterate this point enough - history is a total accumulation of past events, which can never, and should never, be cherry-picked, or narrated selectively - such that,...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 13:30hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is a global museum, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday described Zimbabwe as the "museum capital" of the world as he called on local authorities to rename buildings and streets after the country's heroes and traditio...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hanging Tree evokes Mnangagwa death escape
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reflected on the brutality of the settler regime, which punished sons and daughters of the land seeking freedom with all forms of cruelty including hanging, a sentence he...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:08hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's heritage corridor opens
Local authorities need to consider renaming local buildings, roads and special monuments to reflect the country's independence and sovereignty to market brand Zimbabwe, President Mnangagwa said. ...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Las Vegas investor takes a gamble on a Zimbabwean gold mine
An investment firm run by Las Vegas investor, former casino operator and race car owner Michael Luzich is a step closer to taking over a small gold mine in Penhalonga, putting down a US$200 000 deposi...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa prepares to deploy soldiers in Mozambique?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is preparing to deploy soldiers to fight terrorism in neighbouring Mozambique with Zimbabwe Defence House officials being locked in meetings to analyse the risks of placin...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red lights flashing over Russian deals
RUSSIA is clearly keen to boost its presence in Africa. "Africa is one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy," declared Russian deputy foreign affairs minister Mikhail Bogdanov in a meeting of t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Has democracy deserted MDC?
FIGHTS in the opposition party, MDC-T, have exposed that all is rotten about the so-called intra-party democracy in the opposition party.The MDC-T was in March tasked to convene, within 90 day...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
The best trading apps in the EU
If you want to venture into the European financial market, then here's your chanc...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 15:38hrs | 3 | by Staff Writer
Great Zimbabwe: At the centre of Soweto!
As the wave of violence, threats of violence and looting against foreign nationals and their businesses subsided in Johannesburg, it finally arrived in Soweto!Just after sunset on Wednesday 14...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Walter Nyabadza
US-Africa summit boost for Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa yesterday flew to Mozambique for the 12th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit, which provides Zimbabwe a platform to engage with United States of America and African private s...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Digital economy key for economic growth
Digitisation of the economy can immensely contribute to the country's growth and realisation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vision for the country to attain an Upper Middle Income economy status by...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dilemma of political emotions vs the Unity Accord of 1987
The Unity Accord of 1987 remains one of the best thing ever to have happened in Zimbabwe. I recall the day as if it was yesterday and I happened to have been one of the multitudes of people present at...Published: 24 May 2019 at 09:55hrs | | by D. Kamamba.
Intra-party hostilities sink Chamisa's MDC at polls
THE defeat of the MDC Alliance in last weekend's Ward 28 council by-election in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, to Zanu-PF is symptomatic of the problems bedeviling the country's biggest opposition party, whi...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Chamisa and Mwonzora handed Zanu-PF Bulawayo by-election win
Nelson Chamisa blamed the party's shock defeat in a council by-election in Bulawayo on an "invisible hand" which he vowed to "cut off".The MDC lost the ward 28 by-election in the suburb of Cow...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa trumpets Indian support to Zimbabwe's economic reconstruction
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday applauded the immense contribution of India to Zimbabwe's economic reconstruction, diplomacy and international politics. Represented by Patrick Chinamasa...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 21:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military in civilian life: lessons from the fall of Mugabe
Since the fall of long-term ruler, Robert Mugabe in a coup in November 2017, Zimbabwe's military has become a daily part of the country's political life, in your face and very much in charge.B...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:06hrs | 1 | by The Source News Agency
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