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My views on the 31 July demo
Those who follow my articles know very well that am in serious and full support of the 31 July as it is an action that has nothing to do with ZANU, MDC, or ZUM. It is an action that is learnt to addre...Published: 2 hrs ago | 814 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 13 hrs ago | 783 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1598 | by Staff reporter
Govt blames Gukurahundi victims documentation delays on Covid-19
The documentation of victims of Gukurahundi has been affected by the current lockdown measures implemented to stop the spread of Covid-19, home Affairs and Cultural heritage minister Kazembe Kazembe h...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt drafts policy for victims of Gukurahundi
GOVERNMENT is drafting a policy to facilitate Gukurahundi exhumations and has also relaxed registration requirements to acquire identity cards, birth and death certificates for affected families. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt neglecting diplomats, Parly told
THE government is neglecting its foreign missions and owes ambassadors and employees a cumulative US$30 million in salaries, rentals and tuition fees.Presenting oral evidence before the Parlia...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:53hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 4026 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt seek $5 million for COVID-19 fight
GOVERNMENT is seeking to raise $500 million through Treasury Bills (TBs) to meet the COVID-19 pandemic expenditure, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has said.The apex bank has invited banks and bu...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:43hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to decide on school calendar
THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month.This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the gove...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
A new oppostion front stronger than MDC threatens ZANU PF
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that the government is aware of a new opposition front led by market manipulators which seeks to overthrow the government. In an intervie...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 22343 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt launches regularisation programme
Government has launched the national regularisation programme, which is expected to tighten the screws on land barons by bringing sanity to all informal settlements countrywide. Land barons ha...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 2487 | by Staff reporter
'The army budgeted US$100 million for a coup'
The bloody military coup that ended the late President Robert Mugabe's 37 years of iron rule had a budget of US$100 million, exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Posting on social medi...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 11:55hrs | 10738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'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
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants, govt meet over salaries
Government is set to meet with civil servants today over salaries and perks under the National Joint Negotiating Council. The NJNC has since written to the Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Ale...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5748 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4337 | by Staff reporter
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
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
Mnangagwa's govt must at least provide the basics
The dirty water phenomenon has final arrived in the great City of Kings and Queens. We all knew this as the trademark of Harare. The government and city fathers seem to be clueless about solving the w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 151 | by Lubani Nondo
NRZ: Mnangagwa's govt in catch-22 situation
GOVERNMENT has instructed the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board to fire the parastatal's management for poor performance and gross mismanagement of the parastatals' affairs, Southern Eye on Su...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Namibia exposes Mnangagwa govt's COVID-19 test kits donation lies
The government of Namibia has denied ever donating rapid COVID-19 test kits to the government of Zimbabwe. The statement by the country's embassy in Zimbabwe comes after a claim made by the Zimbabwe M...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Pensioners send SOS to Govt
THE National Railways Pensioners Association has appealed to the Government to extend the US$30 allowances to retired workers that were not in civil service, saying pensioners were struggling to make ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Govt suspends EcoCash, 3 other platforms
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended all monetary transactions on mobile money platforms "to deal with malpractices, criminality and economic sabotage perpetuated by the wolves in sheep sk...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:03hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt will not print money'
THE government will not print more money to alleviate the cash shortages in the country, Deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, has said.Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Chid...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Minister of Local Govt and Rural and Urban Development Hon. July Moyo
As concerned citizens, it is our belief that Local Government refers to the establishment of participatory and democratically elected structures that can identify with the needs of people at grassroot...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 1824 | by Concerned citizens of Bubi Rural District
'Mnangagwa's govt ignores striking nurses'
STRIKING nurses yesterday vowed to continue with their industrial action after government allegedly spurned their engagement efforts and ignored their call for decent salaries.Zimbabwe Nurses ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Shops ignore official exchange rate
RETAIL shops in Bulawayo yesterday continued trading using the parallel market exchange rate of US$1:$90, ignoring the new US$1:$57 rate announced by the central bank on Tuesday after the first day of...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
How RBZ, govt sabotaged plans to restore Zimdollar
UNITED States $75 allowances and allowing retailers to trade in forex show a government shifting into reverse gear, possibly ditching two years' worth of policy steps to end dollarisation.The ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 6349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames 'vultures' in his govt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday conceded that all was not well in his administration, accusing some of his lieutenants of sabotaging him and calling them "wolves in sheep clothing".Face...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 3068 | by Staff reporter
Govt terminates CSC deal
GOVERNMENT has cancelled the much touted US$130 million deal with a United Kingdom company, Boustead Beef (Boustead) for the recapitalisation of the Cold Storage Company (CSC), it has emerged....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC-T pleads with govt to free 'abducted' MDC Alliance activists
MDC-T spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni has pleaded with the state to free MDC Alliance MP, Joanna Mamombe and two female party activists who are languishing in remand prison for 'falsely' claiming abdu...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 21:53hrs | 4305 | by newzimbabwe
Bredenkamp: A dark overlord taking Zimbabwe's darkest secrets to the grave
AN entry on the website of one of John Bredenkamp's companies tells us all we need to know about the controversial businessman: "In Africa, it is essential to work with change, not against it." Breden...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1640 | by Staff reporter
Banks, Govt agree on allowances' modalities
BANKS have agreed with the Government on the modalities of the opening Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) for civil servants at zero costs and also to charge minimal costs so that the US$75 is not demea...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt says 'UN experts jumped the gun'
Government has dismissed a joint statement by five United Nations (UN) human rights experts, which concluded that three MDC-Alliance youth leaders were abducted as "premature and unreasonable" since i...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to pay for subsidised mealie-meal
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe says that millers are struggling to stay afloat due to government’s failure to meet its subsidy obligations. GMAZ also said the lack of transparency...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
Govt ropes in volunteer nurse as strike rage
The Zimbabwean Government that is under pressure to pacify striking nurses and doctors countrywide has launched a Volunteer Nurse program.According to health ministry spokesperson Donald Mujir...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1457 | by Naume Muza
MDC Alliance blames govt for Bulawayo water crisis
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday blamed government for the deteriorating water situation in Bulawayo, saying the Zanu-PF administration refused to grant the local authority permission to construc...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:10hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Govt ropes in army doctors over Bulawayo diarrhoea outbreak
GOVERNMENT has set up a high-level technical committee to investigate the outbreak of diarrhoea in Bulawayo's Luveve suburb and seconded army doctors to assist the City Council in treating patients. T...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sets surveillance cameras in cities
Zimbabwe is planning to link its proposed National Data Centre with databases and information from the country's key economic players and state institutions as the country prepares for the creation of...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:48hrs | 5610 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Govt should balance prices and salaries: CCZ
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says government should balance between pricing of goods and salaries to prevent a situation where the loss of value on earnings would impoverish consumers. ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:30hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic collapse govt's own doing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's claims that the deepening economic crisis is the work of his political detractors and greedy businesspeople reflect the government's failure to take responsibility for i...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt fears uprising'
CONTRADICTIONS have rocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government with top officials giving conflicting explanations as to why heavily armed soldiers and police blockaded major cities between Monda...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 3865 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment cases in govt on increase: PSC
PUBLIC Service Commission (PSL) secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe yesterday told Parliament that 19 cases of sexual harassment in government ministries were recorded since last year and 10 of them emanat...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Govt clarifies US dollar Covid-19 allowance
THE interim US$75 Covid-19 relief allowance for civil servants, which was announced by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development as part of a raft of measures to cushion workers against wanton ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1328 | by Staff reporter
Govt must do more for civil servants
Nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare demonstrate against poor working conditions on WednesdayFinally the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has realised that to live hu...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 484 | by A Mbire
When govt steals your car and gives you back only one wheel - the charade of civil servants' 'salary increments'
Whenever I hear the Zimbabwe government announce a civil servants' salary increment, I can not help being thoroughly perplexed, if not downright bewildered, by the proud and self-congratulatory manner...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1587 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'BCC, govt must bow down heads in shame over Bulawayo water situation'
MDC Alliance member Descent Bajila has said the Bulawayo City Council and the government must bow down their heads in shame over failure to provide adequate water to the city after 40 years of indepen...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2205 | by Stephen Jakes
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