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Mzembi to break Zimbabwe political stalemate?
Our political dynamics require a game changer to break the perennial stalemate between the two main protagonists of our failed politics, Zanu PF and MDC A . At the core of this gridlock is the vanity ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 3311 | by Tawanda Ruzanhi
Zimbabwe left with 30 days' supply of grain
ZIMBABWE has less than 100 000 tonnes (t) of grain in its strategic grain reserve — enough to feed the nation for only one month, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance S...Published: 15 hrs ago | 844 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt universities defer intakes
STATE universities have suspended February intakes as they are aligning their curricula to the Zimbabwe National Qualification Framework. Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and...Published: 15 hrs ago | 895 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors resume normal duty
Senior doctors who have been providing limited services and attending to emergency cases only since December have returned to work fulltime and upscaled their services to include numerous urgent other...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
MDC linked youths excluded from army recruitment
Young Zimbabweans who went to city schools will be prevented from joining the army, in an apparent move to bar MDC supporters from the military, ZimLive has learnt.The army invited application...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
CIOs pounce on PTUZ leader
State security operatives reportedly pounced on Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) leader, Takavafira Zhou's office on Thursday last week following reports of his involvement in the planne...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2885 | by Staf reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants rule out strike
Government has reiterated its commitment to improve the welfare of its workers ahead of another round of salary negotiations.The Government workers have also ruled out the possibility of a str...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:11hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 331 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Mnangagwa faces serious challenges
A bleak outlook characterised by growing expectations to end Zimbabwe's political impasse, a weakening currency, power and foreign currency shortages stare in the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:58hrs | 11914 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira trial in false start
Former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira's trial failed to start Thursday morning after the State failed to provide documents requested for by the defendant's defence team.Mupfumira, who is jo...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF wary of unions
ZANU-PF is wary of labour unions and is accusing them of attempting to use workers to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government under the guise of fighting for better working conditions.I...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
MDC, unions plan to defy state threats over demos
DARK clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe once again following the threat by the MDC and labour unions to hold rolling anti-government protests around the country despite the State's stern warning against...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Four reasons why Kasukuwere cannot be our saviour
Renowned African-Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is well known for his famous novel, A Man of the People, which mirrors Nigerian political culture through the eyes of a corrupt politician, Chief Nanga. ...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 14:07hrs | 2926 | by Innocent Mujeri
Police brutality riles ZPP
Police brutality has riled the human rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project which said citizens have fallen victims to the security agents who are supposed to protect them."Police brutality a...Published: 09 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1312 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean economy simplified
Issues concerning the economy are vital for any given country's revolutionary and evolutionary path since they are at the core of all movements. Most importantly an economic policy justifies the trans...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 1295 | by Terence Simbi
Zimbabwe government expands food assistance
Government and its development partners intend to expand urban and rural food distribution to include food-insecure households in more districts countrywide. This comes amid warnings of poor c...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:52hrs | 1135 | by Staff Reporter
Polad members demand luxury cars from Mnangagwa
MEMBERS of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that they want government to fund their 2020 operations which include money for all-terrain vehicles and sitting...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 12:24hrs | 6726 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa donates Chinese rice
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday donated 15 tonnes of rice to each rural constituency as Zanu-PF Co tinues its strategy of buying rural folk with fo...Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 17:26hrs | 2144 | by Staff Reporter
Through the narrow gate: infertility scars
This is a real life story narrated by an infertile woman Joy, who married a man he loved and had a blissful short stint in marriage before it somersaulted into hell. ...Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 12:16hrs | 2270 | by Heaven Munyuki
MDC to block Zanu-PF's constitutional ammendments
The MDC has said it will use all the available platforms to halt the random constitutional amendments proposed by Zanu-PF, which the opposition party says are moves by the ruling party to consolidate ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:47hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
UK Home Office application fees and NHS Surcharge obscene and inhuman
Home Office has always set up fees which are very high and obscene. Their fee levels are extremely high, unfair and unreasonable. The Home Office charging...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 21:29hrs | 1756 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's advisor slams govt over doctors impasse
BUSINESSMAN and cleric, Shingi Munyeza has called out government for failing to equip hospitals and underpaying doctors while at the same time expecting them to save lives.In a video posted on...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 05:10hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic crisis now a security threat
THE deepening economic crisis is weighing down on the ruling Zanu PF party, which has described the situation as a security threat which needs to be contained before it's too late.Zanu PF has ...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 05:07hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Hospital services return to normal
All doctors who signed resumption of duty forms have started work at their respective work stations, with their seniors also attending to emergency situations. Although The Herald could not im...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 04:51hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges to work up to 70
Cabinet has approved that the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice and judges of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts hold office until they reach the age of 70 and thereafter have their contracts ren...Published: 18 Dec 2019 at 08:49hrs | 3380 | by Staff Reporter
The dilemma of the Women's Movement and Marry Chiwenga case
One of the most outstanding character of working in the development sector is the ability to serve under a plethora of values that include, equality, equity, justice and freedom. Half he time it remai...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 12:52hrs | 9941 | by Sydney Chisi
WATCH: Mnangagwa's advisor blasts government
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Advisory Council Dr Shingi Munyeza has come out guns blazing against the failure by government to fix the challenges affecting the health sector. In a ...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 11:35hrs | 8873 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Your (UK PM) focus is Brexit, mine is reforms' said Mnangagwa - 1 month, Brexit done; reforms, never ever
Mnangagwa's continued democratic reformer pretensions are an insult to all Zimbabweans and will not fool UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson! "Your re-election to this high office (Prime Minister)...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1594 | by Wilbert Mukori
Energy challenges sinking Zimbabwe's economy
The 2019 survey report by the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) on the impact of energy challenges on business paints a grim picture of the state of production in the economy. Unrelenting p...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 07:08hrs | 765 | by Victor Bhoroma
Pressure mounts on NSSA board
LABOUR minister Paul Mavhima has descended heavily on the Cuthbert Chidoori-led National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board and ordered it to restore order at the scandal-ridden pension scheme....Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:14hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Consumer Protection Bill
UNSCRUPULOUS businesspeople that engage in multi-tier pricing, charge unfair prices or display unpriced goods will now face prosecution after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Consumer Protectio...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 08:05hrs | 2561 | by Staff Reporter
'Your (UK PM) focus is Brexit, mine is reforms' said Mnangagwa - 1 month, Brexit done; reforms, never ever
Mnangagwa's continued democratic reformer pretensions are an insult to all Zimbabweans and will not fool UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson! "Your re-election to this high office (Prime Minister)...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 20:55hrs | 1456 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa vows Zimbabwe will 'never, never' dollarise again
President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed on Friday not to revert to using the United States dollar after the Zimbabwe plunged against the greenback since its introduction this year, fuelling inflation and e...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 18:15hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates UK's Boris Johnson
President Mnangagwa has congratulated Mr Boris Johnson for his election victory that has seen him retain the leadership of the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Johnson yesterday returned t...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:01hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for dissidents in Zanu-PF to be 'flushed out'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday urged his party members to be wary of rivals of the ruling party seeking to divide the party which has been dogged by factionalism."I am aware that our d...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 17:57hrs | 2912 | by AFP
Proposed Zimbabwe finance law threatens jobs
BACK in July 2015, a Supreme Court ruling involving Zuva Petroleum and two former managers, caused at an estimated 30 000 workers to lose their jobs on three months' notice, most without benefits....Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces a gloomy 2020
IN the three weeks since the 2020 national budget both the economy and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's recovery strategy have drifted closer to the rocks. In their stubborn refusal to heed development...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 07:30hrs | 783 | by Anthony Hawkins
British pound soars against US dollar as exit poll predicts Conservative majority
The pound has soared against the dollar and the euro as an exit poll predicted a Conservative majority.Sterling hit an 18-month high against the dollar and was in touching distance of pre-Brex...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 23:06hrs | 2750 | by AP
BREAKING: Doctors finally return to work
The majority of junior doctors had by this afternoon signed resumption of duty forms while consultant doctors also resolving to go back to work following a meeting they had with Government representat...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 18:26hrs | 2957 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF fat cats squeezing the poor: Clerics
ZIMBABWE'S political leaders have become too selfish by enriching themselves while burdening the country's suffering masses through suffocating taxes and beatings for protesting the oppression, the Ca...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 07:19hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
135 Gukurahundi, political victims repatriated
ONE hundred and thirty-five victims of Gukurahundi atrocities and political violence were repatriated from a refugee camp in Botswana, where they had sought shelter from persecution by the late former...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
'Mupfumira not mentally fit for trial'
FORMER Cabinet Minister Prisca Mupfumira's trial yesterday failed to kick off after her legal representative told the court that she was not mentally fit to stand trial and that a psychiatrist had rec...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:44hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors troop back to work
Eighty junior doctors were back at work by yesterday, while another 282 are expected to have joined them by the beginning of next month. Part of the incentives to get junior doctors back to wo...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:41hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
UK set to introduce new immigration system - here's what you need to know
UK prime minister Boris Johnson plans to introduce a new visa system which will drastically lower the immigration rate to the country.Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Johnson said that ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 17:39hrs | 5022 | by Staff Writer
Harare Hospital not closed
Harare Central Hospital is not closed and is still providing services to patients needing emergency care just like all the other four central hospitals.This is contrary to social media rumours...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 17:18hrs | 2068 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF legislator tours Beitbridge road project
Zanu PF Beitbridge East legislator Albert Nguluvhe has toured the 20km stretch road project from Bubi River towards Beitbridge town."I toured the site where Government is upgrading a 20k...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 15:03hrs | 887 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF activists force villages to attend meeting in Uzumba
The ruling Zanu PF activists in Uzumba are alleged to have forced villagers to gather at the Mutawatawa business centre recently for a party meeting without their will.Zimbabwe Peace Project r...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1027 | by Stephen Jakes
Rise in food deprivation of citizens by Zanu PF irks human rights watchdog
Majority of Zimbabwean companies are reportedly operating at 30% capacity due to biting economy which has resulted to several others folding.The Zimbabwe Congress of trade Unions (ZCTU) reveal...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 09:07hrs | 353 | by Stephen Jakes
MPs urged to grill Mthuli Ncube over excess spending
PARLIAMENTARIANS have been urged to grill the Executive over excess spending that has resulted in Finance minister Mthuli Ncube crafting a Financial Adjustment Bill seeking condonation for government ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1703 | by Staff reporter
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