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'Zimbabwe to keep getting IMF technical support'
GOVERNMENT has said it will continue working with international financial institutions (IFIs), including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after its aborted Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) with th...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:45hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
ANC: Things are not fine in Zimbabwe
Lindiwe Zulu, Chair of the ANC's Subcommittee on International Relations has conceded that things are not fine in Zimbabwe.Zulu was part of a 10 ANC member delegate that met with the ZANU-PF P...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:18hrs | 2075 | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa
We are our own liberators, says Chamisa
Zimbabwe's socio-economic and political crisis has received the attention of regional political players and civil society, with many calling for SADC and the African Union (aU) to intervene. envoys se...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
Cook Off, ZBC ink screening deal
LOCAL film lovers, who never got an opportunity to watch the multiple award-winning movie Cook Off will do so on August 11 and 14 when it premieres on ZBC-TV.The 2017 comedy, produced by Joe N...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
A monumentally fatal proposal for Bulawayo: Khami Dam water for drinking?
The Bulawayo community read with a shock in The Chronicle about the City's proposal to use decommissioned Khami Dam water to supplement the City's potable water supply. The City of Harare's current wa...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 6387 | by Prince Zwide Khumalo
'Zimbabwe parliament to dump British traditions'
AS Zimbabwe builds a new parliament set for opening next March, Speaker Jacob Mudenda says the national assembly will finally break from British parliamentary traditions for homegrown cultural norms a...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 2000 | by Staff reporter
The international elites are at the gate!
AS the month of November draws near and the United States national elections in the first week of November become a reality, it behoved me to search with diligence why this is an explosive season. The...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 721 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe must go into home-grown solutions overdrive
Zimbabwe must go into overdrive in using home-grown solutions, local manufacturing and links to universities and colleges to grow the economy and address challenges building on the innovative collabor...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:08hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga calls for homegrown solutions
The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns most countries are implementing across the globe should be used as a wake-up call for governments to focus on homegrown solutions to build their economies, Vice...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 20:48hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions hamper effective response to Covid-19
THE Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow on countries' economies across the globe as they implemented measures to combat the transmission and spread of the virus. For Zimbabwe, the virus h...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Minister Ncube slams millers
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube has condemned the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) for running the zonal mealie-meal distribution in the city without consulting locals. ...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:36hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Prayer or science in the face of COVID-19
"If churches are being shut down for the purpose of saving lives. Was there a need for them in the first place? Even church pastors are waiting for the coronavirus to clear so they can continue healin...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:27hrs | 977 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Feeding scheme extends to secondary schools
GOVERNMENT is set to extend the schools feeding scheme to secondary schools in line with the country's education policy to improve school attendance and completion rates. The feeding scheme is...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stands behind the pulpit
Whilst addressing congregates for the 2019/20 National Thanksgiving and Dedication Service at a local church earlier on today, Zimbabwe's President, Emmer...Published: 29 Dec 2019 at 20:58hrs | 5285 | by Byo24 Correspondent
Strengthening the code of conduct for political parties
Medical doctors have a council and a board that regulate the practice of their profession. Lawyers, dentists and judges also provide for the regulation of the manner in which they practise their chose...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:57hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
The Queen is coming to Netflix
Finally, Netflix is airing its first commissioned African Original and it is called Queen Sono. The giant streaming platform recently announced that the series will launch on February 28th 20...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 17:15hrs | 861 | by Staff Writer
MDC-T believes in dialogue
MDC-T will remain a key component and participant in the historic Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) launched by President Mnangagwa, as it believes dialogue is the most productive option in solving th...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:31hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to headline economic indaba
President Mnangagwa headlines an economic and financial indaba in Harare on Thursday, which is set to deliberate on solutions to the country's economic challenges, including foreign currency shortages...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Pushing for a green economy & clean energy
Africa is grappling with myriad environmental and climate challenges, from drought to loss of biodiversity, cyclones and plastics pollution. Africa Renewal's Zipporah Musau spoke with the United Natio...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 18:27hrs | 1614 | by Zipporah Musau
Mnangagwa is desperate to emulate Kagame, hires same PR - silk purse out sow's ear
There is one thing we can say with absolute certainty; President Mnangagwa and his fellow Joint Operation Command (JOC) junta members, comprising the top brass in the country's security services and a...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 16:08hrs | 780 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa tries the Kagame way
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to emulate his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame's economic development model, which blends authoritarian practices and homegrown solutions with international best...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2189 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar depreciates further
THE Zimbabwean dollar this week continued its downward spiral after a momentary lull last week after the central bank moved to freeze bank accounts of companies believed to be exerting downward pressu...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Rest in peace, Robert Mugabe: Hero, villain, human
Robert Mugabe has died.May he rest in peace. He was one of the engineers who built the foundations of modern-day Zimbabwe. If you ever get the chance, please visit Zimbabwe. It is home...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:59hrs | 998 | by Elsie Eyakuze
Zimbabwe struggles to keep its fledgling currency 'zollars' alive
MOST CURRENCIES have snappy names, like yen, won, kip or lek. Some have unfortunate ones: dong or colón. Few have names as cumbersome as Zimbabwe's Real-Time Gross-Settlement Dollars, also known as R...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1377 | by The Economist
Zimbabwe business agree on price stabilisation process
BUSINESS organisations have agreed on a process to arrest the economic decline and stabilise prices of basic commodities.At the end of last week, the forex parallel market rates had jumped to ...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:59hrs | 2728 | by Staff reporter
A disaster in the midst of polarisation and Lessons learnt from Cyclone Idai
The days 15 and 16 March 2019 will ever be etched in the memory of many of us Zimbabweans Sadly, so as we will relive the horror caused by an unusual stranger called Cyclone Idai. Cyclones are...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 377 | by Johanne and Kowanai Mhlanga
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 182 | by Reason Wafawarova
Let us work for and defend Zimbabwe
We are in the second Republic, the christened new dispensation, and we are in the process of economically re-engaging the Western world, and I do not in anyway wish to undermine the decent efforts of ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 175 | by Reason Wafawarova
Willing recolonisation will forever be the hallmark of MDC-Alliance
The folly of Zimbabwe's destiny lies in a fetish plinth that Sadc and the African Union (AU) are insignificant to the African cause, while the European Union (EU) and International Criminal Court (ICC...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 1324 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Towards the Zimbabwe people want: A call to inclusive and open national dialogue
Cognizant of the current socio-economic and political challenges Zimbabwe is facing, the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO), an official umbrella body of NGOs operating in ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:15hrs | 331 | by NANGO
'Mnangagwa has no good story to tell in Davos'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is wasting time and taxpayer dollars doing to the World Economic Forum in Davos because he has no good story to tell, former presidential candidate Nkosana Moyo said on We...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 13:18hrs | 5196 | by ZimLive
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet stranglehold challenged as shareholder tussle breaks out
AFTER years of brutal hyperinflation, Zimbabwe became known as a place where cash was almost worthless. Now, investors are fighting over EcoCash, the country's homegrown PayPal-like service that has z...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:32hrs | 5246 | by Gabriele Steinhauser I The Wall Street Journal
Building Africa's scientific talent
Ten years ago, South African physicist Neil Turok made a bold prediction: the world's next Einstein will be from Africa. A decade later, it is worth considering whether the continent is any closer to ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:16hrs | 174 | by Daniel Mundeva
Don't be left holding an empty bag
WHAT has emerged from the hearings into the events of August 1 has shown that the setting-up of the commmission of inquiry was the right step in the circumstances.The hearings have amply demon...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:33hrs | 1815 | by Conway Tutani
The most treasonous act you can do for your country is to support Zanu PF
If you support Zanu, you will be helping future Zimbabwean children to become perpetual slaves of other Nations while armed thieves in Zanu exponentiate their wealth.Imagine a country where yo...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 17:19hrs | 4631 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa speaks to Zim engineers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said engineers must be in the forefront of advising Government on projects and reforms needed to fill infrastructure gaps to modernise and expand the country's rail, r...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's World Cup claim should concern every voter
How can we forget that moment when the clearly bemused BBC journalist asked our homegrown boy wonder if he was "Living in Alice in Wonderland". He was referring to Nelson Chamisa's ridiculous cl...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 10:34hrs | 3281 | by Charles, Harare
Is this the end of Joice Mujuru?
It was in March 2016 when Joice Mujuru emerged in public for the first time since her dismissal from Zanu-PF and government in December 2014 to announce that her party - the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF...Published: 23 May 2018 at 14:53hrs | 2578 | by Fungi Kwaramba
We should have said, No to Robert Mugabe!
People in Zanu-PF have been called cowards and all such names. Maybe we were. For surely talking to some comrades it is clear very few genuinely loved Robert Mugabe in his last years as President....Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1328 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa's coup govt God's plan, claims minister
Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs minister Advocate Martin Dinha (MD) claims he is a man of the spirit and that he knew long before it happened that Emmerson Mnangagwa would become president of Z...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:18hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | 2472 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa assures AU, Mugabe is well, safe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated his pledge to preserve the legacy of former President Robert Mugabe while assuring the 30th African Union Summit underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, th...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Stop moaning about sanctions, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabweans should stop complaining about the impact of Western sanctions on the country and instead focus on creatively leveraging on available human and natural resources to steer growth and develop...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 07:19hrs | 677 | by Staff Reporter
MDC supports Zimbabwe's re-engagement with the international community
The MDC is a social democratic political party that firmly believes in the full and total re- integration of Zimbabwe into the international comity of nations. Zimbabwe cannot afford to remain as a re...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 11:17hrs | 2563 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Zanu-PF targets virgins
Zanu-PF will officially launch its 2018 harmonised elections campaign after its National people's Conference in December this year, party National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has said....Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 07:29hrs | 3338 | by Staff Reporter
It takes more than sadistic delight in Tsvangirai's health issues
INGRAINED in human nature is the base instinct - that subconscious urge, behaviour, or intuition directed by primeval, animalistic, self-serving, and/or ignoble motivations.That's why we are s...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:42hrs | 341 | by Conway Tutani
Do we celebrate International Day of Democracy in Zimbabwe?
Friday 15th September 2017 is International Day of Democracy whereby we should be found promoting the need to strengthen democratic means world-wide including Zimbabwe. This would promote peace and st...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:28hrs | 76 | by Pythias Makonese
Zanu-PF Bulawayo goes it alone
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province has resolved to solve its internal problems without including the party's national leadership.The resolution was arrived at during Saturday's Provincial Co-ordinating...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 06:50hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
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