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Mnangagwa's power base on shaky grounds
The ugly fights emerging within the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) are weakening President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power base since ex-combatants played a key role in his ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2708 | by Staff reporter
Govt shoots down 300% hike in uniform prices
Government has shot down proposals by textile firms to hike prices of school uniforms by a massive 300 percent.This comes after uniform prices went up by as much as 440 percent last month....Published: 6 hrs ago | 902 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa guns for Mwonzora, Mudzuri
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly triggered a fresh bid to elbow out senior party leaders suspected of plotting to challenge him for the party presidency at congress next year, NewsD...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:17hrs | 3246 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors declare assets
BULAWAYO councillors have given in to residents' pressure to declare their assets with two of them handing over their list of assets to the leadership of the Bulawayo Progressive Residents' Associatio...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:13hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
SA scraps 54-year-old bilateral trade agreement with Zimbabwean
Fears of significant job losses in the textiles and clothing sector have arisen after Archer Clothing in Bulawayo laid off 200 workers following South Africa's decision to scrap a 54-year-old bilatera...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
All hands on the deck
Any diligent and committed worker 'goes out of his way' to deliver or bring the best out of his/her performance, sometimes 'burning the candle through witching hours'. It is very unfortunate if one th...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:19hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Time to value add, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed an indaba on how Zimbabwe should develop value chains for the country's mining and agriculture sectors with a view to advancing the twin objectives of moderni...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's panicky govt meets teachers
Following threats by teachers to down tools on Friday to press for improved working conditions, government has now reached out to the country's educators in a bid to iron out differences.The D...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:01hrs | 5386 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland fights reach boiling point
POLITICAL dogfights within the Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial leadership have intensified ahead of the ruling party's national conference as other members, who are not loyal to the provincial leadershi...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to introduce e-provisional driver's exams
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) will introduce electronic Provisional Driver Licence tests at Vehicle Inspection Department Depots in an attempt to reduce interface with officials as we...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | 7962 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa misses out on UK Gukurahundi Indaba Talk
ZAPU's Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has missed out on sharing the stage with the vibrant and eloquent Mzila at a grand event scheduled for 3 November 2018 in Luton, UK (Post Code LU3 1BS). This follows de...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 10:08hrs | 1217 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
'Queen Bee' captured war vet planning to oust Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunchest backers - the war veterans - are now divided over State capture allegations that have sucked in oil tycoon, Kudakwashe Tagwirei.While the chairperson ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:01hrs | 8421 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele kingship takes another twist - umbiko esizweni sika Mthwakazi
Sanibona sizwe sikamthwakazi kwaBulawayo, nina benkanyamba emakhandakhanda uMzilikazi kaMashobane Khumalo nomdabuli wesizwe sonke. Sicela ukwazisa isizwe samahlabezulu ukuthi kunendlu endala endlini y...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:26hrs | 1929 | by Lucky Khumalo
Zanu-PF official raises stink at shooting enquiry
A MIDLANDS-BASED Zanu-PF provincial executive member, Farai Nugget Manyima, misled the commission of inquiry into the August 1 Harare shootings that killed seven people by claiming he was not a politi...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:55hrs | 3893 | by Staff reporter
Umithisa unina! . . . 'Sasisithi siyadlala'
KULEMULI yeDzivarasekwa eHarare esele ithwele imikhono emakhanda kulandela ukuba enye indoda imithise unina omncane besithi bayadlala.Inina leli kubikwa seliseduze ukuthi libelethe.Abemuli le ...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 18:20hrs | 3029 | by Umlobi woMthunywa
Best advice on how to deal with current Zimbabwe economic crisis
Patience pays for our situation. What has contributed much to our current situation is that Zimbabwe pressed the panic button after contested elections. We need to move on and deal with what is curren...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1562 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Book fair off to a false start
THE Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) got off to a false start on Wednesday when it opened its gates to the public with the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Paul Mavima, failing to t...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Angry residents force MPs to end budget consultative meeting
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development were yesterday forced to prematurely end a national budget consultative meeting in Gwanda after residents c...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube has a good plan
Political legitimacy, economic bailout and the draconian Public Order and Security Act (Posa) and Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa) laws are some of the topics Zimbabwe's new...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | 3394 | by Staff reporter
Top Zanu-PF organs meet
TOP Zanu-PF organs, the Politburo and the Central Committee, are meeting in Harare today to discuss critical issues affecting the party and the economy. Zanu-PF secretary for Administrat...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:27hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe looking for proposals
Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe said it wishes to engage the services of a professional service provider in road safety issues to conduct a National Indaba on Multi-Stakeholder review of National R...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:34hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance meeting ends in chaos
INTRA-PARTY violence reared its ugly head on Sunday during a crunch MDC Alliance district meeting in Shurugwi meant to suspend party cadres who stood as independent candidates during the July 30 polls...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs get luxury cars
Zanu-PF is buying luxury cars worth a staggering $5 million for former Cabinet ministers recently deployed to the ruling party's headquarters by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, it has been revealed....Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2216 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 4212 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Moyo, Chamisa should work with councils
The new minister of Local Government, July Moyo, should put aside his party jacket if he is to successfully oversee the smooth running of councils across the country.He must desist from clashi...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:36hrs | 2410 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sits on 13m tonnes gold reserves
ZIMBABWE is sitting on an estimated 13 million tonnes of unexploited gold reserves and only 580 tonnes have been exploited since 1980, an official has said. Speaking during last week's Mine En...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:24hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa comes to Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to officially open the third Local Government Investment Conference (Logic) 2018 that will be held at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo thi...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:46hrs | 1706 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacists urged to sell EC to adolescent girls
THE Health ministry has come hard on pharmacists that deny adolescent girls access to Emergency Contraception (EC), known as the morning-after pill, as teenage pregnancies were on the rise.Pha...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conference set for Esigodini
The Zanu-PF National People's Conference will be held in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province in December, the party's secretary for information Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Khaya Moyo made th...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Push for citizens' participation in governance issues
CHURCHES have joined hands with civic society organisations (CSOs) to roll up an educational programme aimed at mobilising citizens to increase their participation in governance issues and stop leavin...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:46hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to hold inter-district indabas
Zanu-PF will this Saturday conduct provincial inter-district conferences countrywide as stipulated in the party's constitution. The conferences will be addressed by designated Politburo member...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Industrialists troop to Bulawayo
THE 2018 Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) annual congress and international investment forum kicks off in Bulawayo today with high-level engagements set for the three-day indaba. The...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Stunted exploration to stifle Zimbabwe gold output growth
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (Fidelity), the country's sole gold buyer, says gold output could hit 50 tonnes in two years on the back of a central bank support to the small-scale mining sector, but ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak, book fair postponed
THE annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) initially scheduled for September 26 to 29 at its ceremonial venue, Harare Gardens, has been deferred to a later date due to a cholera outbreak which...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 3077 | by Igomombe
Mnangagwa's Politburo meets
The Zanu-PF Politburo is meeting today where it is expected to discuss a number of issues following the party's resounding win in the July 30 harmonised elections. Although the agenda of the m...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 163 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Zanu PF leadership moves in to quell divisions over council chair
THE Zanu PF leadership in Mashonaland East province has moved in to quell divisions over the selection of the new Marondera Rural District council (MRDC) chairperson.MRDC is made up of Maronde...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Khama to grace CZI congress
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Botswana President Ian Khama will be among the high profile speakers at this year's Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) congress and International Invest...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube to re-join Chamisa's MDC
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is reuniting with its former secretaries-general - Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti.Ncube and Biti, who ditched the main MDC, then under Morgan Tsvangirai's leadership...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 16:39hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens lazy Cdes
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga says it will no longer be business as usual for the Cdes who will be joining the new government as it moves with speed to implement the programmes that were being s...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 16:26hrs | 6072 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in witch-hunt indaba
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-T will today hold an explosive national council meeting amid reports that the indaba could be used as a witch-hunt against party officials accused of fanning indiscipline, d...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:03hrs | 3215 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Decolonising Political Philosophy in Africa
It is the argument of the present piece that in the history of the world Africans have and still can produce, independent of Europe and America, political and economic ideas that can save the world. F...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:34hrs | 325 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Apostolic churches endorse Mnangagwa
Council of Apostolic Churches (CACZ) in Zimbabwe has endorsed the just-ended harmonised elections as free, fair and credible and have since sent their congratulatory message to President Emmerso...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:42hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
De-Westernisation towards Decolonisation
Most of what are called African problems today are problems that Europe and America have caused or at least promoted in the continent.Most African problems, including civil wars and genocides,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:40hrs | 70 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
CSOs, parties wary over ban on demos, political meetings
CIVIC society organisations and opposition political parties have expressed concern over the Zimbabwe Republic Police's decision to bar political parties from holding rallies and demonstrations in the...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:35hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Credible elections will see GDP grow 6,5% by year-end
SOUTH African firm Emergent Research says a clear winner and a clean election will see the gross domestic product (GDP) grow to 6,5% by year end.Emergent Research is an investment research and...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:39hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Police block MRP candidates indaba
BULAWAYO police yesterday blocked Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP)'s parliamentary candidates indaba, claiming they had discovered that the secessionist party had diverted from its initial agenda....Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:36hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
MRP opens Mthwakazi parliamentary indaba
SECESSIONIST Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) will today open its parliamentary indaba aimed at marketing the cause and struggle of the Mthwakazi people to the international community and to find releva...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:48hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
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