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Mnangagwa urges timely distribution of food aid amid drought
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for timely and efficient aid distribution to people facing food shortages resulting from an El Nino-induced drought."The timely delivery of f...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:53hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Oprah Winfrey' gets a car from Chivayo
Controversial businessman and self-proclaimed philanthropist Wicknell Chivayo has sparked fresh debate after presenting veteran talk show host Dr. Rebecca Chisamba with a brand-new 2024 Toyota Fortune...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 19:47hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sees 2025 growth rebound after this year's drought
Zimbabwe has projected economic growth to accelerate to 6 percent in 2025 from 2 percent this year, helped by improved agricultural output and power generation as the country recovers from a severe dr...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 16:32hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Mutumwa Mawere appeals 6 month contempt sentence
Zimbabwean-born South African businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed an appeal against his six-month prison sentence for contempt of court, stemming from a protracted legal dispute involving Southern As...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 08:28hrs | 3843 | by Staff reporter
BBC to axe iconic investigative show HardTalk
The BBC is reportedly set to cancel its long-running investigative journalism program HardTalk, bringing an end to nearly three decades of hard-hitting interviews that held global leaders, politicians...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:14hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Mutapa to acquire drug producer CAPS Holdings
Zimbabwe's sovereign wealth fund, the Mutapa Investment Fund, is set to acquire local healthcare and drug manufacturing giant CAPS Holdings, despite a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year overturnin...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:10hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa will regret expelling Jacob Zuma
After former president Jacob Zuma was summarily axed from the ANC his younger brother Khanya said the ANC would "regret it", vowing that it would thwart any growth for the once-powerful party....Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 18:06hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must introspect, map the way forward'
POLITICAL analysts and opinion leaders have expressed mixed views on Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to dump his two-year-old Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), with som...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt claims not to be spying on diasporas
GOVERNMENT has denied claims that it intends to spy on its citizens leaving the country after introducing a new system where nationals have to provide detailed information about their destinatio...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe kills over 150
These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.The virulent bacterial disease...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Disastrous collapse of the country's health sector laid bare
The death of Dr Mthabisi Nembaware, a Zimbabwean medical doctor, in Mutare after a car accident as a result of Mutare Provincial Hospital's lack of an Intensive Care Unit to attend to emergencie...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 12:12hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
US court rejects Zimbabwe's bid to evade US$440m payment
A FEDERAL judge in the United States (US) recently tossed a bid by the Zimbabwe government to escape payment of some US$440.3 million compensation awarded to a European family over Harare's controvers...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Next Zimbabwe President faces uphill task
ZIMBABWE is facing a host of pressing challenges that voters dearly want the next president to address. Persistently high inflation, elevated interest rates, and a slumping and volatile Zimbabwe dolla...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Munemo
Zimbabweans can elect recycled opportunistic politicians at own risk!
I am not much of a soccer fan, but there is something that I have always found strange, if not downright weird - without anyone able to provide a satisfactory explanation. Why is it that a coa...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK to invade Zimbabwe for teachers
Foreign teachers will be offered £10,000 to work in English schools amid chronic staffing shortages, according to a report.Ministers have begun an overseas recruitment drive following a rise ...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions mongers return to ZITF
THE UK and US are keen on working with Zimbabwe as they are exhibiting at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) for the first time in many years.Both countries hailed the Second Republi...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya to face Parly grilling
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya are expected to face grilling soon from Parliament over allegations that the Central Bank was being used as a co...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why did Al Jazeera even bother about Zimbabwe looting?
AS I was walking in Kwekwe's central business district last Friday, I came across an avid reader of my articles, whom I know very well.He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposi...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's there to say about 'Gold Mafia' if Zimbabweans can't stand up for themselves?
As I was walking in the Kwekwe CBD, this past Friday, I came across a loyal reader of my articles, whom I know very well. He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposing corruption...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 11:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Resource curse in Africa
The African continent is bestowed with so much natural wealth such as diamonds, coal, petroleum, natural gas, copper, and uranium to mention a few. Still, it has been the poorest continent in the worl...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Jeremie Kalombo
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalisation of Zimbabweans
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed "sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe".He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalization of innocent Zimbabweans by regime!
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe'.He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 17:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa rips into Mnangagwa
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday laid bare the worsening human rights situation in the country before a Commonwealth team currently visiting to assess its suitabilit...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scapegoat for governance failure
AHEAD of the 2023 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - after largely failing to fulfill its 2018 election promises - has found a scapegoat to justify its dismal bad governance record by ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:04hrs | 12 | by Brenna Matendere
Zimbabwe tycoon set to get US$139 million refund from Bank of Zambia
THE HIGH Court of Zambia has ordered the country's central bank to pay back US$139, 191, 386 seized in 1998 to Zimbabwean business tycoon, Jayesh Shah, and his company Al Shams Building Materials Limi...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc warming to Chamisa dialogue,' claims CCC
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it is optimistic that the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the African Union (AU) will intervene to resolve the country's long-running soc...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kangai's bid for NetOne severance package rejected by court
SPIRITED efforts by former NetOne chief executive officer Reward Kangai (pictured) to get his severance package have been further delayed after the High Court dismissed his application in which he sou...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni sad to see Mnangagwa in Rwanda
FORMER Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has said he felt sad to see President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2022 saying the Zanu-PF leader had impoverished ...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
High Court throws out ex-NetOne boss application
HIGH Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire has dismissed an application by ex-NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai, where he was seeking to declare a provision in the Labour Act unconstitutional in his ...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must commit to peaceful transition in 2023
IT'S critical to understand what transpired in the aftermath of the 2008 and 2018 presidential elections.The opposition's focus on a peaceful power transition is even more critical as the coun...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:24hrs | | by Evans Mathanda
Reports of Zanu-PF defeat in 2023 polls are tad premature
SEVERAL Zimbabwe commentators have interpreted recent by-elections as raising the possibility that Zanu-PF's 42-year-long grip on power is loosening and, come the 2023 general elections, opposition le...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | 10 | by Derek Matyszak
What Rwanda did to bring real reconciliation after brutal genocide is exactly what Zimbabwe refuses to do
The international community today, commemorates the beginning of one of the darkest, most horrific, and barbaric incidents in world history - the Rwanda genocide of April 7 to July 15, 1994, in which ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 19:03hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dembare legends gang up against Marriot
FORMER Dynamos players have vowed to take on the current chairman of the board Bernard Marriot head-on as they meet in Harare today to deliberate on the structures that the club should take.Ap...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maimane tells big brother SA to be tough on Zimbabwe
SOUTH Africa should team up with regional groupings including Sadc to ensure Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections are not rigged and the observers do not endorse a flawed process as happened in the past,...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga cancels road deal while Mnangagwa is on leave
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga allegedly pushed for the unilateral termination of a US$2 billion tender awarded to South African firm Khato Holdings for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Victoria...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Taona T. Denhere
'Building Zimbabwe brick by brick' euphemism for negligible and oftentimes non-existent development!
Euphemisms have been with us for as long as language has existed - from the time humans began communicating with each other through speech.As the art of language advanced, the use of euphemism...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 10:29hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Govt to hire 'anyone' to invigilate exams
SCHOOL examinations, which are set to begin Monday, are in serious doubt after teachers refused to invigilate them for free.This comes as both teachers and their employer, the government have ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pampers army, police
ZIMBABWE plans to splurge millions of United States dollars to procure about 1 000 brand new vehicles for the security services sector next year, to bolster their operations in a move that is likely t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfeeee in UK hill Nehanda's head head home
The President of Zimbabweans His Excellence Cde Dr Emerson Dambudzo MNANGAGWA will be gracing the Queen's land in October 2021. There is great excitement amongst Zimbabweans who are hoping to catch a ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:46hrs | 7 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Power cuts could derail industrial targets
The power outages besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects during a difficult phase for Zimbabwe when the economy is reeling from the effects of COVID-19, economic analysts an...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Minister in trouble over gold mine
SPARKS flew in the Ministry of Mines this week, as the long-running dispute over Ran Gold Mines, a 122-year-old asset in Bindura, took a new twist, with an angry party to the deadlock accusing Mines m...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
VFEX moves to fund tobacco
ZIMBABWE'S bourses have moved to help the tobacco farming sector raise foreign currency for their operations, in a development seen as a solution to the industry's a long-running capital crisis....Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man hangs self after suspecting that his wife was cheating on him
A BEITBRIDGE man hanged himself after suspecting that his wife was cheating on him. The incident occurred on Monday in Tongwe, Beitbridge District at around 3Pm. Timothy Ndou (51) under chief ...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's urban sprawl exposes housing crisis
Ndaba Dube, a Bulawayo resident, says he built himself a home on a small piece of land after the authorities kept him on the housing waiting list for more than two decades.The land he chose is...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Ignatius Banda
BNC dumps Glencore, strikes fresh deal
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed nickel producer Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) saw its sales volumes return to four digit figures during the quarter ended June 30, 2021 as offshore shipments resumed ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma leaves jail to attend brother's funeral
South Africa's jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma was granted compassionate leave from prison on Thursday so he can attend his brother's funeral, the government said.Zuma, 79, was sentenced to 15 ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare boss faces fraud charges
DYNAMOS board of trustees' chairman, Bernard Marriot Lusengo, yesterday appeared in court on allegations of defrauding the country's biggest football club, and the private company under which it falls...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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