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Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 312 | by Anonymous
Streak seeks ZC liquidation
FORMER national team coach Heath Streak has applied for an order for provisional liquidation of Zimbabwe Cricket after the Association failed to respond to his claims to pay him, and his sacked staff,...Published: 3 hrs ago | 202 | by Staff reporter
Zinasu slam MSU over fees squeeze
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has slammed the Midlands State University for charging daily penalties on outstanding student tuition fees.The university is charging a $2 daily p...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1582 | by Staff reporter
Remittance income drives Africa's economic growth - Report
A report launched by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has said that despite an economic slowdown, most African countries are having a positive economic outlook. ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Tharisa plan next move as Zimbabwe opens doors again
PLATINUM group metal (PGM) and chrome miner, Tharisa, is taking a low-risk approach to a high-risk country with the investments into Zimbabwe, it has announced this year.For almost 30 years, Z...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1720 | by miningmx.com
Zim migrants leader met VP Mohadi over documented nationals in SA
A leader of the Zimbabwe Migrants in South Africa Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has met the Vice President Kembo Mohadi discuss over the documented citizens in that country."l had occasion to mee...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 09:23hrs | 2527 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe urgently needs $4bn bailout package
Zimbabwe needs up to $4 billion to avert a looming currency crisis that could unleash economic havoc, with the new Cabinet urged to take tough decisions to increase confidence in the economy.P...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:08hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in limbo after giving SA home affairs asylum papers
In 2009, the South African government introduced the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) to legalise the many Zimbabweans already inside the country because of the political and socio-economic s...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | 3824 | by Staff reporter
Govt gets tough on reckless chrome miners
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has put chrome miners under close watch following concerns over mushrooming of highway operations that threaten roads and pose risks to humans and animals....Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Mother of 5 told to return to Zimbabwe after 28 years in SA
A 43-year-old Zimbabwe born woman who relocated to neighbouring South Africa in 1990 has had her documents confiscated by SA Home Affairs and told to return to Zimbabwe.According to Daily Sun,...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 07:12hrs | 11870 | by Staff Reporter
More woes for Zimbos in SA
Last Friday's constitutional court verdict in favor of president elect president Emmerson Mnangagwa has left a number of Zimbabweans living in South Africa in limbo.Many of the Zimbabweans in ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 21:04hrs | 7548 | by Daniel Itai
Commission of Inquiry unbalanced, biased
1. The Zimbabwe constitution recognises the right to life, this includes the right to freedom from torture, intimidation and violence. The constitution is also very clear about the deployment of the m...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 22:20hrs | 1305 | by MDC Communications
Zimbabweans and other foreigners flee deadly attacks in Soweto, South Africa
Immigrants have fled South Africa's main township, Soweto, following xenophobic attacks which killed three people on Wednesday, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from Johannesburg.Violence broke ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 11:53hrs | 3293 | by BBC
NGOs give incoming MP to-do list
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) operating in the Midlands province have tasked incoming Gweru Urban legislator Brian Dube to push for solutions on issues that were hampering their work, when the Ni...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
There is a peculiar way of governance Dear President!!!
When a virtuous mother is in the kitchen, everyone needs not to be told that something great is about to be served. The house becomes warm because of the heat generated in the kitchen. The tantalising...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:03hrs | 1026 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa lied over shootings: EU
Mnangagwa lied over shootings: EURELATIONS between President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration and the European Union (EU) hit a new low yesterday, with the influential bloc's point person...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 3171 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation reaches record high since 2012
PRESSURE on the parallel exchange rate market continues to pile due to shortage of foreign currency in the economy forcing Zimbabwe's year-on-year inflation rate to reach 4,29 percent last month....Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1390 | by Staff reporter
ED proud 'elections were peaceful' - but even he dropped 'free, fair and credible'
Tyrannical regimes are hard to change because they not only brainwash the populous but worse still they brainwash themselves - they start to believe their own lies and propaganda - making it next to i...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:16hrs | 615 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Divided nation, broken economy face Zimbabwe's new leader
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure as Zimbabwe's newly-elected president got off to a rocky start.President-elect Emmerson MnangagwaHe narrowly secured a five-year term in an election marre...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | 510 | by Bloomberg
World Bank backs Mnangagwa vision
Zimbabwe is poised to become an upper middle-income economy within a decade, according to the World Bank's vice-president for Africa.President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has outlined a vision to...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 720 | by Bloomberg
Chamisa or Mnangagwa: It's the economy stupid
TOMORROW, standing in the small voting booth, with pen in hand, looking down at the 23 names of presidential aspirants on the ballot paper, there's little doubt the voter will be making a crucial deci...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:25hrs | 225 | by Tartira Zwinoira
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt2
Continuing from here...Truth be said, this is a great opportunity for Mnangagwa. And truth be repeated, the...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:03hrs | 703 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Can Zimbabwean exiles finally return home?
I know many Zimbabweans in the diaspora. I am one of them.Many such exiled Zimbabweans have written public break-up letters with the country of their birth and "filed for divorce" because the ...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 09:57hrs | 1449 | by Teldah Mawarire
Zimbabweans top SA tourist arrivals
ZIMBABWE contributed up to two million tourists to South Africa in 2017, becoming the largest source of African visitors to the neighbouring country, a report has shown.Highlights from a recen...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be arrested after elections?
Judging by on-line reaction, this column has only a handful of readers, but millions of critics! Which is what makes writing it worth every of my while. Week in, week out, you get fiery feedba...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:11hrs | 2521 | by Igomombe
Mnangagwa govt hunts for $2bn funding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is frantically negotiating a critical US$2 billion bailout package with a top Chinese bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and other ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 16:00hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law pocketing obscene salary
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore, and other top executives at Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) - a new airline whose murky ownership has sparked controversy amid conflict of int...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:45hrs | 15822 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans and Investors should full harness the potential of renewable energy abundance in the country
Renewable is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind, tides, water, and various forms of biomass. This energy c...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 13:26hrs | 232 | by Enos Denhere
Late entry: The People's Agenda manifesto
OVER the past few weeks, my colleague Paul Kaseke has been analysing what he identified as the top five manifestos and he simplified the jargon thrown in them as he unpacked them for everyone to easil...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:37hrs | 683 | by Thabani Mnyama
Bulawayo public schools go digital
PUBLIC schools in Bulawayo have pioneered digitalisation with about 80% of them having embraced the technology as part of the government's plan to digitalise all schools to improve the education syste...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:50hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | 379 | by Igomombe
Bulawayo schools lead in e-learning provision
BULAWAYO Province is leading in the country's e-learning programme with 80 percent of all Government schools connected to the Internet, a Cabinet Minister has said.Primary and Secondary Minist...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council frets over 24-hour clinics demand
Bulawayo City Council has been put under pressure to introduce 24-hour clinics at a time when financial challenges stalk the local authority to the extent of even failing to pay its workers on time....Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Daniel Shumba returns to Zimbabwe politics
Former Zanu-PF Central Committee member and legislator Dr Daniel Shumba, who has been in and out of the ruling party, returns to politics under a grouping of 22 candidates vying to take-over from Pres...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 12:59hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Students will never support Mnangagwa
Students are totally against ED and Zicosu's statement that more than three-quarters of the country's tertiary students are behind Mnangagwa. As far as we are concerned, this statement is an i...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 16:13hrs | 1455 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Boeing demands $2,7m for Mugabe Airways plane manuals
AMERICAN aircraft manufacturer Boeing is demanding $2,7 million from the government in order to supply manuals for four Boeing 777 jetliners which Harare is controversially acquiring from Malaysia on ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:28hrs | 3898 | by Staff rpeorter
'Ex-hubby is a stalker'
A PROSPECT woman has hauled her former husband to court seeking a protection order for physical and emotional abuse.Ruth Greisof also revealed that her former husband Clide Manyange was also s...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:38hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | 510 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
The top 5 party manifestos
LAST week's column looked at the Build Zimbabwe manifesto which I ranked third . This week we examine a fourth manifesto.Paul KasekeNumber 2: People's Rainbow CoalitionThe coal...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | 315 | by Staff rpeorter
US suspends funding for political NGOs ahead of polls
THE United States has suspended funding to several civil society organisations after investigations exposed non-compliance with set principles, and gross abuse of funds meant to oil regime change mano...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:48hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Biti offers 'bus loads' of cash
MDC Alliance principal Mr Tendai Biti has said "whites will come with lorries and buses full of money" to Zimbabwe if the opposition coalition wins the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections.At a ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:00hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Govt must ensure companies employ locals to avoid tension
Zimbabwe Communist party official Ngqabutho Mabhena has warned that government must ensure that companies employ local people to avoid tension and protests like the one that occurred on Thursday when ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:35hrs | 612 | by Stephen Jakes
Court quashes MDC Alliance candidate's nomination bid
HIGH Court judge Justice Owen Tagu has dismissed MDC Alliance aspiring councillor's bid to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to accept his nomination papers almost two weeks after the nomi...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
There are just too many shebeens in Cowdray Park
COWDRAY Park suburb residents have decried the sprouting of shebeens in their suburb, which they blame for the high crime rate in the area.Bulawayo Residents Association (Bura) Cowdray Park ch...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Ministers in trouble over Zanu-PF funds
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo and his Local Government counterpart July Moyo are in deep trouble over US$300 000 which was sunk in a botched deal in which controversial airline Zimbabwe Airways (ZimA...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 2443 | by Staff reporter
Professor Madhuku to write a new Constitution
Professor Lovemore Madhuku says he will lead a process to write a new, "people-driven" Constitution to replace the current one which was a product of negotiation between Zimbabwe's main political part...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:00hrs | 410 | by Staffr eporter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to introduce investor friendly policies
PARLIAMENT has urged government to support its "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra by introducing investor-friendly policies.The Mines and Energy Portfolio Committee said this in a report f...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:29hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Court grants Ndoro bail
Soccer star Tendai Ndoro has been accused of assaulting his wife Thando. It seems Ndoro's marriage is crumbling just six months after he and Thando said "I do" in a traditional wedding in December....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2236 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants to sell us a dummy again
The MDC Alliance election manifesto which was released last week can aptly be summed up as old wine in a new bottle.Reading the MDC-T election manifesto of 2008 and its predecessor 2013 JUICE ...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 281 | by Ngoni Masvaya
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