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Media briefing exposes Mnangagwa deceit
Early this week on Monday at 9 am, Emmerson Mnangagwa hosted selected media editors at State house at a choreographed event specifically designed for him to publicly reiterate his lie that he is a con...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:49hrs | 897 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe Braces for HIV Resurgence as US Aid Evaporates
Rumbidzai, a sex worker from the bustling settlement of Epworth in Harare, has been taking antiretroviral drugs since 2017. For over two years, the mother of three has relied on mobile clinics that re...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:29hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt makes electronic money usage compulsory for businesses
The Zimbabwean Cabinet has approved the compulsory use of electronic money by all businesses in a bid to formalize the country's largely informal economy and enhance fiscal revenue collection. The mov...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:40hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank speaks on retailers
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has dismissed claims by registered retailers that the country's economic environment is to blame for their operational challenges, pointing instead to gross mismanag...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:30hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
'Bombshell' Geza to be expelled from Zanu-PF
The ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee met in Chinhoyi this Wednesday and unanimously agreed to expel war veteran Blessed Geza from the party.This was disclosed by ZANU...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 17:28hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
Promising findings from Gwanda mining claims
Canadian mining company Pambili Natural Resources Corporation has revealed promising findings from its London Wall group of gold mines and claims in the Gwanda district of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:37hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Bard Santner growing in leaps and bounds
Fast-growing asset management firm Bard Santner Investors (Private) Limited has been appointed as the new fund manager for three unit trusts: Tetrad Gold Fund, Gross Income Fund, and Net Income Fund, ...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 14:39hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
So war veterans get $7.50 whilst Zvigananda walk away with millions!
The insults against the people of Zimbabwe continue.The recent launch of the so-called Presidential War Veterans Fund by the Zimbabwean government exposes the deep contradictions, hypocrisy, a...Published: 04 Feb 2025 at 22:41hrs | 1605 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Govt funded SADC Summit with BEAM fees,' Minister
In a clear sign of extreme negligence, modern generational betrayal and gross breach of children's rights to education, details have emerged that the government diverted millions (US$) meant for Basic...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 11:38hrs | 8878 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Mhondoro
Redcliff residents betrayed by their local authority's unbridled greed and mismanagement
I recently received some most troubling news from a reliable informant within the Municipality of Redcliff.According to the information, the local authority has allegedly decided to award its ...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 16:04hrs | 344 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zipra war veterans condemn Zanu-PF's push for Mnangagwa term extension
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have strongly opposed a ruling Zanu-PF faction's proposal to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond the constitutional two-term...Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:29hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean hesitant to confront SA over Buffelsfontein mine tragedy
Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein. The incident, which ...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 07:04hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation rises sharply in January
Zimbabwe's inflation rate rose sharply in January in both U.S. dollar and local currency terms, spurred by food and housing prices.In dollar terms inflation accelerated to 14.6% year on year a...Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 21:53hrs | 1336 | by Staff reporter
What the hack is an 'upper middle-income society', Mr. Mnangagwa?
Let's be careful of trickery. When President Emmerson Mnangagwa began his first five-year term in 2018, he introduced an economic program called "Vision 2030." This vision promised Zim...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 18:02hrs | 720 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Zimbabwe strictly enforcing anti-smuggling campaign in 1 region?
Presidential Affairs and Devolution Permanent Secretary, Engineer Tafadzwa Muguti, has applauded Bulawayo Metropolitan Province for spearheading the most effective anti-smuggling campaign in the count...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 17:39hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
45 years of Zanu PF misrule have been 'season of darkness' and even darker years ahead if 2028 elections are postpone
Zimbabwe is one of the world's suppliers of cheap labour and our contribution is not always appreciated.I was talking to a Zimbabwean Doctor who has worked in SA. His pay and working condition...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 22:16hrs | 701 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's tax plan has informal traders tangled up
Mediline Sibanda opened her hairdressing business 13 years ago in Bulawayo's bustling central business district where she operates alongside other vendors and traders that are part of the country's th...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:28hrs | 2078 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's high economic growth rate actually shows a struggling economy
The government of Zimbabwe has consistently paraded the positive economic growth rate experienced over the past few years as a sign of a robust and thriving economy. To bolster its narrative, ...Published: 19 Jan 2025 at 12:23hrs | 435 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Postponing 2028 elections tantamount to usurping people's power over politicians for all time - that's dangerous & high treason!
Zanu PF has always wanted to impose a de jure one-party state in independent Zimbabwe, the party's prize for spear heading the liberation war. Mnangagwa is hell bent on getting his wish. Or is he!...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 20:14hrs | 509 | by Wilbert Mukori
ARTUZ boycott schools opening..plan mass protests, extra lessons
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has called upon its membership to further boycott schools opening, announce (plans for) mass protests and embark on extra lessons to force governme...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 08:14hrs | 1037 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
A battery of corruption: ZESA's dubious energy storage deal
The quest for energy solutions in Zimbabwe has often been marred by corruption, incompetence, and misplaced priorities, and the latest developments at ZESA Holdings follow this all-too-familiar script...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 23:07hrs | 511 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New dispensation: A scam
Zimbabwe was once a country for all, until it was hijacked by a small group of people who used title documents to dominate the majority's politics, econom...Published: 08 Jan 2025 at 11:21hrs | 1658 | by Leonard Koni
Electricity availability in Zimbabwe is now worse than Rhodesia in the 1940s
The irony of Zimbabwe having worse electricity availability today than Rhodesia in the 1940s is a stark and painful reminder of how far we have regressed as a nation. For Zimbabweans who have ...Published: 06 Jan 2025 at 12:10hrs | 1113 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
So, it's now 'cool' to be a beggar in Zimbabwe!
This morning, I came across a social media post that left me both astonished and deeply disheartened. It featured a schoolteacher from rural Zimbabwe, publicly begging the controversial busine...Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:29hrs | 1096 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Twine Phiri warns dummy ZIFA presidential candidates, launches own manifesto
Zimbabwe Football Association presidential hopeful, Twine Phiri has warned all dummy candidates allegedly targeting to spoil the race in reviving the country's football fraternity during the forthcomi...Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:26hrs | 1084 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's tourism sector leads GDP growth in 2024
With 2024 drawing to a close, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Barbara Rwodzi has hailed the year as a monumental success for Zimbabwe's tourism sector. Speaking in Victoria Falls, where she ...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:43hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabweans must be free to speak about Rhodesia
In the past day, Zimbabwe's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Nick Mangwana, and ZANU-PF Chief Whip Pupurai Togarepi have called for legislation to criminalize what they termed the "...Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 13:06hrs | 628 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Mnangagwa stalling real economic empowerment so that he can be thanked for handouts?
This morning, I watched a news report where the people of Goromonzi converged to receive one or two fire trucks which had been bought using so-called "Devolution Funds".My heart broke as sever...Published: 27 Dec 2024 at 17:40hrs | 870 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Zimbabweans keep watching their money go up in smoke
It was 10 p.m. when a frantic pounding on Modester Nyangoni's door dragged her out of a deep sleep.That hot October day, she had been on her feet manning her stall at the largest market in Zim...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:24hrs | 3079 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabwe's detractors are actually in the corridors of power
In his speech marking "National Unity Day," President Emmerson Mnangagwa reiterated an oft-repeated claim that Zimbabwe was under attack from supposed detractors. He declared, "The numerous at...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:54hrs | 293 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimra to garnish Chinese firm with US$2m sting over taxes
Chinese-owned mining company, AfroChine Smelting, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to stop the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) from garnishing its bank account to recover US$2 million in unpaid...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 11:08hrs | 4645 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Trevor Ncube's media empire faces collapse
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), one of Zimbabwe's largest independent media houses owned by media mogul Trevor Ncube, is teetering on the brink of collapse, insiders revealed. The company has failed to up...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 12:00hrs | 2738 | by George Tshuma
City Parking bribes journalists to evade scrutiny
City Parking has extended free parking services to state media (Herald, Sunday Mail, H-Metro and Zimbabwe Television Network) and a journalist from an online p...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1198 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Mthuli Ncube's 2025 Budget to increase cost of doing business
Leading retailer OK Zimbabwe has expressed concern that the 2025 National Budget, as outlined by Finance Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube, will increase business costs, further exacerbating an already chall...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:12hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens errant Ministers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to cabinet ministers and senior officials, vowing "dire consequences" for those who fail to attend meetings or neglect their duties in 2025. The...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:58hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Only a failed state would want a president to rule forever
I was left speechless while listening to the excitable ZANU-PF chairman for Mashonaland East province, Daniel Garwe, who recently addressed a gathering of party supporters in Murehwa. With unr...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 09:10hrs | 453 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe man jailed 10 years in US$2.7 million ZB Bank heist set free
Tendai Zuze, who was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his alleged involvement in the 2021 US$2.7 million ZB Bank highway cash heist, has been acquitted by the High Court on appeal aft...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 08:21hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda
Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda. They undermine and underestimate the MKP at their own peril. With ANC on an irreversible decline, MKP has become a key player in ...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1304 | by Prof. Sipho Seepe
Harnessing the Zimbabwe diaspora for economic, social development
ZIMBABWE'S diaspora, estimated to exceed five million people, constitutes about 30% of the country's population.This global community represents a powerful resource with the potential to trans...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 21:08hrs | 367 | by Constantine Chikosi
MPs back Mthuli Ncube's sports betting tax proposal
Parliamentarians have approved Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's proposal to introduce a 10% tax on gross winnings from sports betting, marking a significant step in the growing Zimbabwean sports bettin...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:46hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's GDP takes US$12bn knock
Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) has sharply fallen to US$35 billion in November, a staggering 25% decline from US$47 billion in April. The sharp contraction highlights the dire economic challe...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:35hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Secret perks for council bigwigs
Top officials at Harare City Council have been accused of covering up excessive salaries and benefits amid allegations of gross financial irregularities and poor service delivery. The accusations were...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 06:44hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Gilbert Muponda withdraws ZIFA bid, endorses Magwizi
Aspiring Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidential candidate Gilbert Muponda has announced his withdrawal from the race, endorsing Nqobile Magwizi for the top post.In a statement relea...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 17:19hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa denounces targeted summons
Former Citizen for Coalition Change leader Nelson Chamisa has voiced strong reservations about the legitimacy of a Harare City Commission inquiry chaired by (Rtd) Justice Maphosa Cheda. Chamisa was su...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 13:47hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
NatFoods bemoans limited ZWG acceptability
Zimbabwe's listed food manufacturer, National Foods (NatFoods), has expressed concern over the limited acceptability of the Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG) as a medium for sourcing raw materials, highlighting the...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:09hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
South Africa running out of money at an alarming rate
Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt has warned that South Africa is heading for a financial crisis due to its growing debt burden.Speaking to State of the Nation's Mark Sham, Roodt sai...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 15:15hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa is weak and afraid
When Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula treated a South African Air Force plane as a private jet and gave several ANC honchos a lift to Zimbabwe in 2020, the nation was rightfully enraged....Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 11:23hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
'Mutapa Fund will become Zimbabwe's economic bedrock'
Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion Minister, Mthuli Ncube, has expressed strong confidence in the future of the Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF), highlighting its potential as a key d...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:03hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Lake Gwayi-Tshangani construction set to resume
The long-awaited construction of the Lake Gwayi-Tshangani Dam in Matabeleland North is set to resume, thanks to a ZWG1 billion allocation in the 2025 national budget aimed at completing the remaining ...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:35hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's economy shrinks 0.3%
The South African economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.3% from the second to the third quarter this year.Economists polled by Reuters expected growth of 0.5%.In the third quarter, the ...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 15:39hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
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