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Give Chamisa a chance
Zimbabwe is currently suffering from aggravated kwashiorkor of leadership, both in the opposition and the ruling party.The political space without the charismatic Nelson Chamisa is seemingly l...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:50hrs | 1119 | by Leonard Koni
'No one will die of hunger' is a heartless statement!
What exactly does the Zimbabwe government mean by saying that no one will die of hunger in the country?We have heard this being assured by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa on numerous occ...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:58hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
7-day ultimatum for businesses
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has given a seven-day ultimatum to businesses hoarding goods and engaging in malpractices to sabotage the economy, to shape up or risk stiff sanctions from Government.He se...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
How an orphaned Zimbabwean rose to be a millionaire in Botswana
Banabasi Marambire grew up as an orphan in Zimbabwe with eight siblings. He endured long nights of hunger and was diagnosed with kwashiorkor disease when he was 14 due to poor nutrition.To sur...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF now past sell by date
Zanu-PF does not have any capacity to revive the country's economy, let alone improve the people's lives.Its leaders' energy is mostly spent on jailing political opponents, activists, critics,...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:12hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Leave Joshua Nkomo alone, Zapu tells Mthwakazi
THE opposition Zapu party has ordered the secessionist Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) to let the late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's spirit rest in peace and stop soiling his name....Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elections will cut Mwonzora to size
THE centre is no longer holding anymore. The cow no longer produces milk as it used to do.MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is suffering from leadership kwashiorkor and it is clear that he is a Za...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
Life though the eyes of a Gukurahundi survivor
This week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence the first point of call is the home of my uncle, apart from be...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 14:58hrs | | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
A Gukurahundi genocide survivor's story
Last week I was back in the village after a week away in the city and as usual to get the best of the news of what happened in my absence, the first point of call is the home of my uncle.Apart...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
Mnangagwa's wife launches school feeding scheme for Harare
ZIMBABWEANS should unite in fighting hunger in schools and ensure every learner acquires education regardless of social standing, the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, has said.Speaking at ...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Lupane East By-election: A deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged and mountainous pathway to democracy in Zimbabwe
The recently held parliamentary and council by-elections in Lupane East, Ward 23 Nkayi South and Ward 22 Bubi constituencies respectively, on the 3rd of August 2019, and many others before, are a dece...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Talking Nkayi Development: Walking on thorny and uneven ground with corruption!
The scourge of corruption currently bedeveling the country is a decomposing and dilapidating wound on development. It is a cause for concern for all progressive Nkayians, Matabelelanders and the gener...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 20:21hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Forex ban illegal, says Biti
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has said the banning of multi currency system by Government is illegal and should be reversed. The government on Monday banned trade in the multi curren...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube's currency move triggers chaos
GOVERNMENT's Monday move to dump its basket of foreign currencies, opting to use its own currency in local transactions, triggered chaos on the market yesterday, with some retailers closing shop for t...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti claims abandonment of the multi-currency system is illegal
FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has described the abandonment of the multi-currency system by government as a disaster while urging its reversal.The MDC MP for Harare East w...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by newzimbabwe
MDC Secretary General remanded to 12 July
MDC Secretary General and Kuwadzana East Member of Parliament Chalton Hwende has been remanded to the 12th of July. Hwende who is facing charges of trying to subvert a constitutional governmen...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 10:30hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hwende's bid for freedom flops
MDC Kuwadzana East MP, Charlton Hwende's request for freedom failed after Harare Magistrate Babra Mateko rejected his application against further remand stating that it was too early for him to protes...Published: 07 May 2019 at 20:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's multiple VPs, tribalism and elusive democracy
The generality of Zimbabwe's political parties are strangely filled with multiple posts for vice presidents. At face value this could allude to deep-seated democratic orientation. Conversely, the conc...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Hwende application dismissed
Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday dismissed MDC-Alliance legislator for Kuwadzana East Chalton Hwende's application for refusal of further remand saying the messages he sent on his Tw...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya taunts Mthuli Ncube
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday denied that the central bank was involved in any quasi-fiscal activities and called out Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and parliamentary ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwende remanded in custody to March 30
KUWADZANA East Member of Parliament Chalton Hwende (MDC Alliance), who is facing charges of trying to subvert a constitutional government by inciting people to protest, was yesterday remanded in custo...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from the Zimbabwe coup
PART ONEZimbabwean politics is characterised by the existence of schizophrenic public and private sector leadership. The structure of post-coup politics in Zimbabwe owes a great deal to this schiz...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Brian T Kagoro
Zimbabwe fuel crisis a result of leadership kwashiokor, says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has described the current fuel crisis in the country as a result of leadership kwashiorkor.Chamisa was yesterday mobbed by motorists after he queued for four hours at...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe could draw valuable lessons from Singapore in the former's quest for economic growth
SINGAPORE and Rwanda are exciting countries that may easily serve as case studies for other countries seeking a rapid reduction in their poverty levels. For the purposes of this article I will allow t...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 19:17hrs | | by Prosper Munyedza
'RBZ must stop forex allocations'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe needs to concentrate on its role as regulator and not interfere in the allocation of foreign currency under a priority list framework as this gives impressions of a distor...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance calls for unity
Zimbabwe's main opposition political parties called for unity in the main MDC Alliance consummated to fight the mid-year presidential and parliamentary elections against President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalism rocks opposition parties
TRIBAL politics has rocked opposition parties' attempt to form a coalition for the 2018 elections with MDC-T national executive member Mr Eddie Cross blaming what he said was an expectation by "Ndebel...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Landlords in a fix as rentals drop
Landlords in Harare are in a fix as the prevailing cash shortages has triggered a reduction in both residential and commercial property rentals. A survey of estate agents and landlords by...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 11:47hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Saidi a journalistic giant among midgets
Yesterday a legend of newspaper journalism in Zambia and Zimbabwe was laid to rest in the city of Kitwe, in the Republic of Zambia, where he died two days into the New Year last week while visiting....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
There will be NO reform before 2018, admits Biti - will this finally open voters' eyes
Tendai Biti admits the opposition parties are not going to get any meaningful reforms implemented before the next elections. The interesting question is the admission enough to open Zimbabwe's naive a...Published: 28 Jun 2016 at 06:08hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Economic crisis will liquidate Zanu-PF'
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who now leads opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) says Zanu-PF has failed to justify its continued hold on power and the current economic crisis will liquid...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 19:20hrs | 3 | by Guthrie Munyuki
'High taxes in Zimbabwe hinder economic growth'
GOVERNMENT should reduce taxes and licensing fees as part of the process of internal devaluation in order to improve the ease of doing business and to enhance competitiveness of local industry in the ...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 04:25hrs | | by Business Reporter
Hunt for Successor: God has spoken
"God works in mysterious ways," is a trite so often uttered at the pulpit, and it is the one that precedes my article. I know there are many who will recoil with repulsion at my audacity to evoke God'...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Starvation lurks in Matabeleland south, lives in danger
GWANDA - SCORES OF children have succumbed to malnutrition in Gwanda South, Matabeleland South province as food stocks start running out from last year's harvests.This has seen most childr...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Kwashiorkor rife in Matabeleland South'
MATABELELAND South is the province that is hardest hit by kwashiorkor due to the region's high starvation rate with health officials saying most families survive on one meal per day.The development pu...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
Post GNU performance in Zimbabwe
(A speech delivered at the public meeting organised by the Mass Public Opinion Institute, Ambassador Hotel, Harare 27.03.14)Since the stolen July 31, 2...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 06:40hrs | | by Douglas Mwonzora
MDC-T needs total reconciliation, says Mwonzora
President Morgan Tsvangirai is very serious about uniting the Party so that we focus on the big job ahead. There must be total reconciliation in the Party for us to...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 21:57hrs | | by Douglas Mwonzora
Zimbabwe at Ground Zero?
"I am an African.I was born of the peoples of the continent of Africa.The pain of the violent conflict that the peoples of Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, Burund...Published: 13 Nov 2013 at 02:05hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Many Zimbabweans struggle to survive in Johannesburg
TOO weak to sit, or even hold up his head, Prince Sibanda is slowly starving to death. The baby is almost two but his tiny body resembles that of an infant of five months.He is severely malno...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 12:01hrs | | by Saturday Star
Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet
Wananchi, the new Cabinet was finally announced on Tuesday 10 September 2013, and many Zimbabweans are still grasping with shock and disbelief.The whole essence of an executive is to be ...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 19:56hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Govt proposes auditing RBZ debt
GOVERNMENT will soon establish a special purpose vehicle to audit all Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe activities that resulted in the accrual of huge debts prior to the introduction of the multi-currency s...Published: 27 Feb 2012 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
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