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Zanu-PF indaba set for Mutare Polytechnic
The upcoming Zanu-PF Annual National People's Conference will be held in Mutare, with key activities spread across Mutare Polytechnic, Mutare Sports Club, and the Pavilion Grounds. The conference is s...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:51hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Zimbabwe MP asks why UK lifted sanctions on Ncube and Sanyatwe
A prominent British legislator and long-time critic of Zimbabwe, Baroness Kate Hoey, has questioned the United Kingdom government over its recent decision to lift sanctions on four high-ranking Zimbab...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 18:21hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Government slams war veterans' 'hypocrisy' in criticism of Mnangagwa
The Government has condemned what it describes as "reactionary and unmerited polemic sentiment" from a small faction of war veterans, accusing them of undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa's integr...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:43hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls Town Clerk dismisses suspension as a campaign of 'appalling fabrications'
Victoria Falls City Council Town Clerk Ronnie Dube has dismissed his suspension over alleged corruption and abuse of office as a campaign of "appalling fabrications" orchestrated by long-standing riva...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 12:39hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
David Coltart calls for investigation following arrest of Bulawayo councillors
Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has called for a comprehensive investigation following the arrest of Deputy Mayor Edwin Ndlovu and Finance and Development Committee Chairperson Mpumelelo Moyo on corrupti...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 09:41hrs | 2527 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillors granted bail
Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors Chipo Mlotswa and Busani Dube have been granted bail in the sum of US$100 each after being arrested on fraud charges. The two councillors, who spent Thur...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:11hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza issues residential stand located in the middle of a road
A Chitungwiza municipality works manager, Emmanuel Mushata, has been arrested for illegally creating a residential stand on an earth road and issuing an offer letter to a councillor, in violation of p...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 19:43hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Zimbabwe is committed to impartial food distribution'
Despite the El Nino-induced drought, the Zimbabwean government has been working tirelessly to ensure food security for all citizens. Recently, the United Nations signed a $429 million drought ...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 12:23hrs | 3 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Zanu-PF reads riot act to its MPs over food
ZANU-PF has instructed its members of Parliament (MPs) to refrain from participating in food aid distribution programs following reports of widespread corruption within the party. This decision comes ...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 09:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF manipulates Govt structures to abuse public funds
The ruling party Zanu-PF is allegedly using government structures to manipulate councils to advance the ruling party's programmes.This was evidenced by the mystery surrounding a meeting that t...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa could be seeking a third term
IN 1990 to 1991 when Fredrick Chiluba was hot on a campaign for multi-party democracy that finally ushered him in as Zambian president to replace founding nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, he was so emphati...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:42hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us. I have been saying it and now it's so obvious. After seeing a tweet from Hopewell Chin'ono @daddyhope...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 11:21hrs | 22 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Charamba exposes Chamisa?
FROM as early as 2018, CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa sent various envoys who included journalists, businessmen and church leaders to open talks with President Mnangagwa but all his missions collapsed a...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt threatens to take over councils
The government has issued a warning to local authorities that fail to fulfill their mandates, threatening to reintroduce commissions to oversee their operations.Harare Provincial Affairs and D...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC will find it hard to lobbying on the disputed polls while its MPs are in parliament
Despite the flaws in Zimbabwe's recent elections, it may be challenging for the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to exert regional pressure on the ruling Zanu-PF, according to a seminar ...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2-man race in battle for Zimbabwe State House
AS things stand, it is abundantly clear and an inescapable fact that the battle for State House is squarely between Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 16 | by Lovemore Moyo
A dunderhead leader believes what he can't do is impossible for everyone else to accomplish!
Those who follow my articles are now all too familiar with how I regard with utter disdain those who make excuses for failing to fulfill their mandates.Quite frankly, I seriously doubt if ther...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 10:33hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom
RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Development does not mean being like Europe
One reader recently wrote asking whether what we are advocating for as development in Africa is a replica of the Western model of economic development. The reader argued that if that is what we envisa...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 4 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Pressure mounts on Zimbabwe's Home Affairs over Itai Dzamara
MEMBERS of Parliament on Tuesday renewed pressure on Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to give an official update in the august House on the findings of investigations into the disappearance of a ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives 2017 'ice cream' horror
President Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on his infamous Gwanda poisoning incident in 2017, saying the medical treatment that saved his life after being airlifted to South Africa inspired his mantra th...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 405 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Youth indifference and lack of involvement in determining nation's destiny most worrying
The just-ended Zimbabwe parliamentary and local government by-elections held on March 26, 2022, painted another grim picture of the growing youth indifference and lack of involvement in shaping the co...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa wants Zimbabweans to give opposition knock-out punch
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday rounded up the Zanu-PF campaign ahead of Saturday by-elections, calling on the electorate to bury the thieving Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) that has reduced towns ...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to ban foreigners from starting businesses in some sectors
Government will introduce new employment quotas on foreign workers, as well as ban foreigners from starting small businesses in some sectors.On Monday, Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nx...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 08:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 13 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Hit and run economics haunting Mthuli Ncube
The prices of basic commodities have gone up and the cost of living is sky rocketing because of this ridiculous Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 recently introduced by Minister of Finance Dr Mth...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa and the deconstruction of the anecdote of Matabeleland marginalisation
History is replete with many memories of pre and post-independence pains endured by our people. Against this backdrop, even with the Lancaster Conference right up to the Unity Accord of 1987 the natio...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:44hrs | 9 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Schools to remain closed until further notice, government says
The government has moved to squash unsubstantiated rumours confusing parents about opening dates of schools around Zimbabwe. The opening of schools will remain deferred until further notice, the gover...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:07hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Politicians must stop abusing traditional leaders
COMMUNITY members from Tsholotsho have singled out abuse of traditional leaders by politicians as a major concern that has the potential of plunging vulnerable groups into starvation. This came out du...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Heal Zimbabwe Trust
Non-monetary incentives the way to go
The face-off between government and its workers over salaries has protracted to a magnitude that it's now threatening the realisation of the national vision.The new political dispensation comm...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Petros Manyuchwa
Mnangagwa warns corrupt individuals for 'name-dropping' family
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has moved to warn corrupt elements now in the habit of throwing the First Family's name in order to get favours or instil fear among security forces when trying t...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attempts to end enduring Zanu-PF ructions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, is once again extending an olive branch to many of his disaffected erstwhile Zanu-PF comrades - including former vice president Joice Mujuru, as he seeks to unite t...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Zapu plots mock govt in exile
LATE national hero, Dumiso Dabengwa's party, Zapu says it is planning to set up shadow government structures in exile whose main purpose shall be to push for the formation of a national transitional a...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by newzimbabwe
ICSAZ launches public sector accounting qualification
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Zimbabwe has launched a public sector accounting qualification that is designed to strengthen the capacity of public sector accounting prof...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares 2 days of Cyclone Idai mourning
President Mnangagwa has declared Saturday and Sunday as national mourning days in memory of those who perished due to Cyclone Idai that left a trail of destruction in Chimanimani and Chipinge last wee...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC finalise district restructuring ahead of May congress
THE opposition MDC will tomorrow wrap up the restructuring of its branches, as well as reducing the party's administrative provinces from 12 to 10 in line with the country's local government structure...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Forex traders on the increase
Illegal money changers pose while exchanging a new Zimbabwe bond note (L) and U.S. dollar notes in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon BulawayoAN increasing numbe...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Grace Mugabe in the making!
So you are telling me that the whole acting president of the Republic of Zimbabwe failed to bring to an end the strike by the skilled labourers - I mean the junior doctors? But it took Auxilia a few h...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:08hrs | 4 | by Mapombi Adonha
Government promoting economic development
Since the beginning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential term this year, Government has been undertaking developmental programmes for economic turnaround.The path Government has take...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Derick Tsimba
Mudzuri murdered constitutionally by Chamisa
Engineer Elias Mudzuri vice president of the MDC Alliance faces political death threat for doing his work. Is MDC ALliance playing politics or playing with politics in disrupting parliament and sancti...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mayors selected in accordance to party procedures and processes
The MDC takes this opportunity to put on record the process which the MDC followed in electing mayors in various municipalities across the country.1. The party called for expression of interes...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:18hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Citizen engagement key to open, inclusive policymaking
THE adoption of a citizen-centric worldview in policymaking and service design is a manifestation of the fundamental commitment to citizens' participation in governance that characterises a democratic...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Terrence Muvoti
RBZ bosses suspension laudable, but ...
YESTERDAY'S suspension of four senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) directors fingered in fuelling the parallel market rates between the United States dollar and the bond notes, which has resulted in...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
'Chiwenga is not dying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that he once considered throwing in the towel, but changed his mind after he was persuaded by his new boss.Last year Ch...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe really open for business?
THE "Zimbabwe is open for business mantra " is certainly good for the ear and if implemented properly, it carries the potential to contribute immensely to economic development.However, there a...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Dumisani O Nkomo
MDC Alliance disability board on cards
THE MDC Alliance is setting up an organ in the party structures that will represent the interests and aspirations of people with disabilities (PWDs) as it pushes for inclusion of marginalised groups i...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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