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Zimbabwe troops and police deployed in force
Troops and police deployed in force in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo on Monday in a bid to deter a planned opposition march, three days after brutally dispersing a banned protest in the capital H...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2099 | by AFP
New fuel prices unveiled
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced new prices for fuel starting Monday 19 August 2019. In an announcement posted on Twitter on Sunday midnight, ZERA said diesel will be sol...Published: 17 hrs ago | 4045 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IMF warns Zimbabwe against pay boost as living standards crash
The International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Zimbabwe warned the government against boosting wages for state workers after the introduction of a new currency pushed up inflation and re...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1905 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe eyes US$2bn from G7 nations
Zimbabwe will borrow US$1,9 billion from the Group of 7 industrialised nations to clear debts to the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Nc...Published: 19 hrs ago | 300 | by Staff reporter
African push for lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions
A group of 16 African countries has called on the US and EU to "immediately lift" economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe.The policy was hurting the region, said Tanzania President John Maguful...Published: 19 hrs ago | 175 | by BBC
Chamisa says despot Mugabe is better than Mnangagwa
Police on Friday assaulted and rounded up over 90 MDC supporters who had gathered in Harare for a peaceful march against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This followed a prohibition o...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 13:09hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | 2875 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Chamisa off globe-trotting to be declared winner of 2018 - if one leader does, will eat my hat
"Hupenzi inyama yegakava!" (There is no one more stubborn than a village idiot!) so goes the Shona maxim. The MDC leaders are village idiots and they are very stubborn too."On the 31st of July...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:15hrs | 4910 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo mayor speaks on his two days of horror
Bulawayo City Council was recently rocked by unrest after a coterie of councillors led by deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami tried to oust town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami last month took adv...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:52hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 971 | by Kennet Mufuka
Chamisa's advise to Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa Friday urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to make right, the country's toxic politics insisting this was the best remedy to a rampaging economy.He was addressing the ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:50hrs | 496 | by newzimbabwe
Abductions, torture, dragnet arrests amid vicious crackdown against dissent
Blessing Kunotonga is one of scores of opposition supporters left nursing serious injuries after state security agents launched a crackdown against the MDC ahead of the banned August 16 protests....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Call for urgent road rehabilitation in Nkayi
NKAYI South Member of Parliament Stars Mathe has said road accidents like the recent one that claimed six lives in the area could be avoided if the road was rehabilitated.Six people died while...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes 400MW from Mozambique
GOVERNMENT will this week dispatch a high-powered team of experts to Mozambique to negotiate for more electricity imports from Hydro Cahora Bassa as authorities continue putting in place measures to i...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Call for urgent road rehabilitation in Nkayi
NKAYI South Member of Parliament Stars Mathe has said road accidents like the recent one that claimed six lives in the area could be avoided if the road was rehabilitated.Six people died while...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 319 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2358 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube has a plan, but is it gobbledegook?
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube has laid out a plan to end the nation's two-decade stand-off with international creditors and has dismissed rapidly accelerating inflation as "wage compression...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:08hrs | 4051 | by Bloomberg News
Wife snatching businessman at it again
A GWANDA businessman – who last year was thoroughly bashed by a group of angry young men accusing him of sleeping with their wives – is at it again after he allegedly snatched another man's wife a...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:02hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
United Nations statement on MDC demonstration
We understand that today's planned protests in Harare have just been called off by the organisers, following a High Court decision to uphold a Government ban. The crowds that had already gathered were...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 2387 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Bulawayo vows to hold protests on Monday
THE MDC Bulawayo province has vowed to forge ahead with its planned protests on Monday.The opposition party failed to overturn a police ban on its Harare protests at the High Court on Friday....Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1845 | by Staff reporter
'No need for security sector reforms in Zimbabwe'
DEFENCE deputy minister Victor Matemadanda (VM) says security sector reforms are not necessary because it is comprised of people who fought in the war of liberation.In a wide ranging interview...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:30hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is not a Salvation army' - Police ruthlessly crush MDC demo
ARMED police ruthlessly clamped down on protesters who gathered in Harare city centre for the Free Zimbabwe peace march organised by the MDC yesterday using teargas, water cannons and batons on suspec...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Motorists warned against buying black market fuel
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned motorists against buying fuel from the black market saying they risk arrest at a time residents have reported that thieves are sneaking into their homes and draining fue...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:23hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa 'We will remain in the streets'
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that a protest called off by the police on Friday was only a "teaser", as he vowed: "We will remain in the streets....Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:31hrs | 6978 | by Reuters
Harare protestors brave riot Police to demand 'CHANGE!' - still with no clue 'WHAT CHANGES!' it's futile
The nation heaved a huge sigh of relief when it was reported that the Zanu-PF regime had given the green light for the MDC demos to go ahead. This morning it was clear the Police were deployed determi...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:46hrs | 1320 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa 1 - 0 Chamisa - handeyi tione
The MDC succumbed on Friday to pressure from what it labeled a fascist government, calling off a street protest as armed police set up roadblocks and barred access to its Harare offices.Friday...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:43hrs | 5622 | by Reuters
Bulawayo march to proceed, says Biti
Justice Joseph Musakwa on Friday threw out the MDC's urgent chamber application seeking to lift a police ban on demonstrations intended for Harare on the same day.Police used truncheons to bre...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:39hrs | 3613 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa to pay respects to Morogoro explosion victims during Tanzania visit?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to visit the town of Morogoro in Tanzania to pledge solidarity and offer condolences following a fuel tanker explosion that claimed 70 lives.The presid...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:30hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presents new coup-proofing measures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa - under siege in the face of worsening economic hardships fuelling a groundswell of social discontent - is coup-proofing his regime by giving the security forces preferent...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1484 | by Eddie Cross
'Zimbabwe economic outlook remains bleak'
THE outlook for the Zimbabwean consumer remains challenging, over the short term (2019-2020), with the economic collapse brought by a currency crisis leading to hyperinflation and widespread shortages...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:23hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, yesterday made a last ditch call to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to call off today's demonstration that many fear could degenerate into total chaos instead calling for "peac...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on edge
With jittery police saying yesterday that they are anticipating violence in today's mass demonstrations by the MDC - setting the stage for potentially bloody clashes between security forces and protes...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:07hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to unleash army on businesses
As the military government becomes clueless on how to control the wayward economy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reverted to what he knows best, the military – as he has threatened the business c...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 362 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Zimbabwe in lockdown ahead of demo
TENSION and fear gripped Harare and other parts of the country yesterday amid a huge deployment of heavily armed soldiers and police ahead of a planned demonstration today by the opposition MDC to pro...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC vows to defy police ban on ShutDownZimbabwe protest
Zimbabwe's main opposition group has said it will hold anti-government protests in the capital Harare, in defiance of a police ban.The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has calle...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 711 | by BBC
'Utilize your right to demonstrate' argue Chief Ndiweni - how naïve, there is lot more at stake here
"Nhlambabaloyi Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has urged the people of Zimbabwe to utilize their constitutional right to demonstrate and petition on the 16th of August 2019. Ndiweni said Zimbabwe...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | 753 | by Nomusa Garikai
AUDIO: Chamisa sends a message to Zimbabweans
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has sent a message to the nation of Zimbabwe urging them to come out inn their numbers on Friday to send a message to the government that they are not happy with the current ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 17:08hrs | 6638 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC repeats calls for State of Emergency
The opposition MDC has reiterated its call for a state of emergency on the energy crisis affecting the country. In a statement issued by the MDC Secretary for Energy and Power Development Jasm...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:48hrs | 5231 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The economics of demonstrations
Demonstrations are a huge mark on a nation's economy. The average man is not aware of this. Maybe after reading this piece, the common man will be able to contextualize what a political demonstration ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:10hrs | 1442 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
It's politics at play, Zinara boss tells court
ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) finance director Simon Taranhike has claimed that the allegations that he criminally abused his office were a result of power struggles at the parastatal...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cash crisis spirals out of control
IT is an August morning in Harare. Winter winds are blowing cold. Samuel braves the cold, wakes up at 3am from his Kuwadzana home and treks to the central business district to look for cash at the ban...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 949 | by Staff greporter
Fact-checking Mthuli Ncube
"It's early days, we just introduced the new currency regime a little over a month ago, so it (the new currency) is trying to find its way, it is trying to find equilibrium; it will get there and clos...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Demos counter-productive
Democracy has become one of the most widely adopted political systems world over and Zimbabwe's Government is also a product of this dominating political system.It comes in different forms and...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:16hrs | 130 | by Wallace K. Musakanyi
Chamisa's MDC vows anti-Mnangagwa protests despite warnings
THE Movement for Democratic Change vowed Wednesday to go ahead with protests this week against the worsening economy, dismissing government threats to stop the demonstrations.The protests will...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:45hrs | 2981 | by AFP
Mnangagwa's govt now printing 800 passports per day
Government has confirmed that the production of passports is improving and now stands at 800 passports per day from the previous 60, boosting chances of clearing a backlog that stands at 300 000....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:29hrs | 2378 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | 2823 | by The Guardian
It's all systems go for the Chamisa's march on Friday
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads.On the 31st of July 2018, Zimbabweans overwhelmingly voted for President Nelson Chamisa. That election was stolen in broad daylight and since then, the crisis of le...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 15:39hrs | 2446 | by MDC
MDC readies for provincial demos
MDC Midlands and Bulawayo provinces are readying their structures for the party's nationwide protests against President Emmerson Mnangawa's alleged mismanagement of the economy and unwillingness to re...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | 3606 | by Staff reporter
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