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'Zimbabwe must take advantage of Russia trade ties'
OUTGOING Zimbabwean ambassador to Russia, retired Brigadier-General Nicholas Mike Sango has bemoaned the slow uptake of trade opportunities between the two countries despite the potential of the Russi...Published: 1 hr ago | 35 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe currency speculators cornered?
THE retreat of the recent inflation spiral is expected to accelerate, and purchasing power increase in light of recent pay rises without matching price rises, as speculative market forces are being co...Published: 1 hr ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
'I tried to change Zanu-PF from within'
Veteran politician and war veteran Margaret Dongo said she tried to change Zanu-PF from within by being outspoken and critical of the ruling party's policies.Dongo (MD), who was eventually exp...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 2579 | by Staff reporter
San community demands chief
THE San community in Tsholotsho has appealed to government to speed up the process of installing a substantive chief, saying the delays are counterproductive and frustrating development.Govern...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police reject help from Chamisa's MP
OPPOSITION Chitungwiza South legislator Maxwell Mavhunga's efforts to establish a satellite police base in Unit L have hit a brick wall after the law enforcement agency thwarted the initiative....Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Fake promises anger Zimbabwe army, police
DESPITE efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create the impression that it is supportive and taking good care of the uniformed forces, morale remains low in the military barracks an...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:23hrs | 2852 | by Staff reporter
South Africa-based Zimbabweans blast Shava
ZIMBABWEAN immigrants residing in South Africa have blasted Foreign Affairs minister Fredrick Shava for not consulting them before meeting his counterpart Naledi Pandor.Shava met the South Afr...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3687 | by Staff reporter
83% of voters choose policies over freebies
AN estimated 83% of urban voters want candidates with clear policies than those that dangle gifts, but aspiring candidates offering freebies tend to enjoy support in rural areas, an Afrobarometer surv...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
RBZ strangles street money changers
They don't know what has suddenly hit them. It is no longer business as usual for most, if not all, illegal street money changers.They used to call the shots in the last few months, de...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Retailers must reduce prices, says CCZ
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has called on retailers to reduce prices of goods following a reduction in fuel prices.This follows a drop in petrol price from US$1,76 to US$1,60 per li...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hectic schedule
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning an...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths take over Bulawayo street, parcel out vending bays
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is losing its battle against Zanu-PF activists who are taking over some streets in the central business district and illegally parcelling vending bays among themselves....Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 13:33hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
Margaret Dongo lifts lid on liberation war sex abuses
WAR veteran Margaret Dongo says the story of sexual abuse of women ex-combatants by their commanders during the armed struggle in the military camps is yet to be told fully.Dongo lifted the li...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2119 | by Staff reporter
'West responsible for chaos in Africa'
Zimbabwe's long held position that Western countries should not dictate to African countries how they should run their affairs has been reaffirmed by South Africa's Minister of International Relations...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
South Africa hosts Zimbabwe's foreign minister
Zimbabwe's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Frederick Shava is leading his country's delegation in Pretoria, attending the mid-term review of the Bi-National Commission (BNC) at the...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:10hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visited Mutami at school?
A FORMER boyfriend of Susan Mutami and her school friends at Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands, have validated claims that a man believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa she now accuses of r...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:42hrs | 5420 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores Motlanthe advice, 4 years on
SOLDIERS who shot and killed innocent civilians on 1 August 2018 have not been prosecuted, four years on, with growing calls for justice falling on deaf ears.Despite appointing former So...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to announce congress dates
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has said he will announce the party's elective congress dates in the next few days as pressure mounts on him to hold the meeting.Mwonzora has been accused of dith...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Internal Zanu-PF violence unsettles youth leader
RECENT political violence that rocked the ruling Zanu-PF party elections to choose Masvingo provincial youth chairperson has unsettled the party's youth league boss John Paradza.The post was l...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
73 passengers escape death
SEVENTY-THREE passengers aboard a K and M bus cheated death yesterday morning after it overturned and landed on its side at the 238-kilometre peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway, police confirme...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe oil could be new source of conflict'
CENTRE for Natural Resource Governance executive director Farai Maguwu has warned that the possible oil findings in Muzarabani could lead to conflict.Recently, the Britain-based independent oi...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Fallen heroes' spirits speak out
SPIRITS of freedom fighters, who died during Zimbabwe's 1970s war of liberation, have reportedly expressed their displeasure at how those in Zanu-PF have forgotten their promises to the fallen heroes....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:24hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
We know our heroes
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to remember the country's luminaries who sacrificed limb and life to liberate Zimbabwe and deliver freedom that flourishes today....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
'Real' Zimbabwe heroes struggling to survive
AS the country celebrates Heroes Day Monday, former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) instructor, Grace Ethel Noko remains one of the unsung liberation struggle heroines despite having play...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
2 500 hit-and-run accidents recorded in Zimbabwe
The numbers of motorists who hit pedestrians or other vehicles on the roads and speed off without rendering assistance is now on the increase with the police recording about 2 500 hit-and-run accident...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Passport office contractor in row over payments
A dispute has erupted between Kingdom Five Zimbabwe; a company contracted by government to do renovations for the Harare e-passport centre, and its workers as well as subcontracted companies over unpa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | 3452 | by Staff reporter
Harare cancels Pomona waste deal
The Harare City Council has resolved to cancel the Pomona waste management deal that was imposed on the local authority by the Local Government ministry.Council had resolved to suspend the 30-...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo faces 72 hours of water shedding
BULAWAYO residents could soon be faced with a 72-hour water shedding regime as the water situation in the city continues to deteriorate, with vandalism of both electricity instalments and pipes on ser...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:25hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drills boreholes for Binga Chiefs
THE Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme in Matabeleland North Province is progressing well with three having been drilled at three chiefs' areas, an official has said.President Mnangagwa in ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives out free poultry for 3 million households
AT least three million households will benefit from the revamped Presidential Rural Poultry Scheme that will see beneficiaries receiving 10 indigenous poultry chicks each as part of a targeted empower...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:15hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
'Biti was reckless'
A LOCAL vehicle-selling firm Paza Buster has written to lawyer and politician Tendai Biti seeking to have him retract claims he made against them in an online interview failure of which they will sue ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 18:10hrs | 3683 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala rots in remand, CCC ignores
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala's and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole's application challenging placement on remand has been dismissed by Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje....Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 9287 | by Staff reporter
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Maputo for key regional meeting
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today join Sadc regional leaders for a high-level meeting that will culminate in the signing of a declaration providing for the protection of indigenous forests from rapid exp...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Govt official 'blocks' school construction
A SENIOR official in the Foreign Affairs ministry has been accused of blocking the construction of a secondary school in Goromonzi district, Mashonaland East province.This has resulted in lear...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1839 | by Staff reporter
Another bread price hike looms
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for another bread price hike after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of wheat by 30%, industry officials said yesterday.NewsDay understands that GMB ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Lager beer production seen up 11%
DELTA Beverages says its lager beer portfolio is performing ahead of prior year, with a target to produce more than two million hectolitres this year, up 11% compared to prior year.Last year, ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2842 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2650 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC will not be pushed by critics
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has said it will not be goaded by critics calling on the party led by Nelson Chamisa to reveal its electoral strategies, party structures and policie...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation on downward spiral?
The introduction of gold coins and a review of payment methods for suppliers of goods and services, particularly those undertaking major national infrastructure projects, is expected to see a decline ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Dembare moves to second
Dynamos 2 - 0 Bulawayo CityDYNAMOS maintained pressure on log leaders FC Platinum with a comfortable win over Bulawayo Chiefs at the National Sports Stadium in Harare yesterday, even though ...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks run out of gold coins
DEMAND for the new Zimbabwean gold coins has been overwhelming and banks have been inundated by their corporate and individual customers seeking a legal and sensible way of preserving value.Th...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 7173 | by Staff reporter
Stress-related suicide cases triple in Bulawayo
THE number of people attempting suicide has almost tripled in Bulawayo since last year with concerns that residents are failing to cope with stress, which drives them to the edge leading to suicide....Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on the brink, analysts say
POLITICAL analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa will likely retain his post in Zanu-PF at the party's October congress but his political life is on the brink ahead of the 2023 polls due to the com...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:55hrs | 9446 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Stephen Sackur gets a small taste of Julius Malema's wit
BBC's news and current affairs journalist and presenter Stephen Sackur got a small taste of Julius Malema's firebrand wit, when Sackur tried to get an answer about how the EFF plans to defeat the ANC ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 10:14hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
491 Zimbabwean teachers up for Rwandan jobs
MORE than 491 Zimbabwean educators have been registered to undergo job interviews next week for possible recruitment by the Rwandan government under a worker-exchange agreement struck between Harare a...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:11hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa did not rape me, says ex-Zanu-PF minister
FORMER Environment and Tourism deputy minister Annastancia Ndlovu, who is now a full-time employee at Zanu-PF headquarters in the party's directorate, has strongly denied reports that she was se...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:15hrs | 6165 | by Staff reporter
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