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Towards a Lasting Compromise: Bridging the State-Civil Society Chasm in Zimbabwe
Historically, State-civil society relations in Zimbabwe have been characterized by adversarial dynamics. The recent disputes over the PVO Amendment Bill are a manifestation of a toxic relationship bet...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:25hrs | 5 | by Innocent Mpoki
Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF youths chide Empowerment Bank
Zanu-PF youths have accused the country's first "youth-focused" financial institution, Empowerment Bank (EB), of sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ambitions to uplift young people.This...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's 36-year-old farming project crippled by water shortages
IT is now 36 years since the farming project was formed at the Luveve Gam Plantation and still there is no water infrastructure to irrigate the crop...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 14:03hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
When Magufuli spoke from the grave
There once lived a woman in Masvingo who was called Shuvai Ben Mahofa.Known for her unapologetic straight-talk and indefatigable industry, she had long morphed into an Iron Lady before activism on...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | | by Bishop L
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:06hrs | 10 | by Andrew Lampard
Conversations must go beyond the forex auction and focus on production
Driving through Zimbabwe's once vibrant industrial hubs in Belmont (Bulawayo), Paulington (Mutare), Southerton, Graniteside, Working, Msasa (all in Harare), and elsewhere, one gets the sense that the ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | 2 | by Andrew Lampard
ZAA SA Nominees announces as Dates are set for SA and Botswana dates
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced the nominee and voting dates for the ZAA SA and Botswana editions which are set to be held on 5 and 11 December 2020, respectively.ZAA SA will...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3 | by Agencies
If its about us let us know
ZETDC, kkkkkk, when it rains, forget the rain season, I mean just a momentary or transient rainfall, do you switch us off or its the rain that switches us off? As someone not privy to the matr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe crisis a warning to SA, says opposition leader
THE crisis in Zimbabwe should serve as a warning to SA that liberation movements still cannot be trusted to deliver, DA leader Mmusi Maimane suggested on Tuesday.Addressing the Cape Town Press...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | | by Business Day
Millions blown on needless imports
Zimbabweans are spending a fortune in foreign currency by importing non-essential consumer goods, while importation of critical capital and intermediate goods remains depressed.This, President...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Duty on vehicle imports gazetted
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has invoked the Customs and Excise Act and imposed duty in foreign currency on an array of goods that include vehicles and meat, in lin...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Neglected patients die
RICHARD Ndlovu watched helplessly as his little niece suffered for a week before eventually succumbing to mushroom poisoning at Mpilo Central Hospital last Wednesday.The child, Rutendo, was th...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Neglected patients die as doctors, nurses strike
RICHARD Ndlovu watched helplessly as his little niece suffered for a week before eventually succumbing to mushroom poisoning at Mpilo Central Hospital last Wednesday.The child, Rutendo, was th...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
4 die in 'murder & poisoning'
A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Emthunzini suburb in Bulawayo died in his sleep following a beer drinking spree after going to bed having said he had been involved in a fight while three family members died an...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
We have nothing to hide, claims Mnangagwa
THE Government's business-friendly policies have restored confidence in Zimbabwe's economy as seen in the surging number of investors flocking into the country, President Mnangagwa has said.Th...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putting God first pays for Pelandaba-Mpopoma
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's now famous catchphrase – the voice of the people is the voice of God – is what drives Pelandaba-Mpopoma legislator, Joseph Tshuma, so he said during an interview....Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kim Jong-un's New Year Address
Dear fellow countrymen and brave service personnel of the People's Army,Dear compatriots,Today, recollecting with great pleasure and pride and deep emotion the proud achievements we pe...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Kim Jong-un
PDP raps Zimsec over leaked examinations
People's Democratic Party Deputy National Spokesperson Nqobizitha Khumalo has rapped the Ziombabwe School Examinations Council over the continuous leak of examinations in the country.He said w...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dog meat is not part of nation's food culture
The recent arrest of a Bulawayo man on allegations of selling parts of dogs' carcasses he retrieved from some rubbish dumping sites was a very unusual occurrence.The dogs had been put down by ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:58hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar
A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, En...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mushrooms kills Chivhu girl (5), grandma critical
A pupil attending Riversdale Primary School in Featherstone has died and her grandma is battling for life at Parirenyatwa Hospital after eating poisonous mushroom picked from the bushes....Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Leave vendors alone in your fight
One day my wife had a quarrel with our first born. While she was throwing insults on him, she uttered a statement that I took as an indirect attack on me. Women do that, at times to an extent of attac...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 14:03hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Another Mugabe rival forms a political party
A NEW political party called Build Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) recently registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Nothing unusual about that; historically in Zimbabwe, before any...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond notes and kiya kiya economy: tragedy of ZANU PF's pupulist ideology.
As the country grapples with the challenge of liquidity that has reached alarming levels despite the introduction of the bond notes which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Dr John Mangugya had sta...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 19:17hrs | | by Anglistone Sibanda
Addressing people's anger is the answer, not muzzling the media
As the Zimbabwean government seeks to further muzzle the media, including social media, in its fruitless efforts to stifle public dissent, it never ceases to baffle me as how those in power think this...Published: 04 May 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drought threatens to worsen agro - based economy of entire Southern region
ZIMBABWE's agro-based economy is bound to be negatively affected by the drought facing the region South of the Zambezi River, a region comprising South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Two women found dead
VILLAGERS stumbled on two dead women in separate incidents in Nyamandlovu last Tuesday. Sibangilizwe Ncube, 39, of Hildah's Kraal, under Chief Deli, left home last Saturday to an unknown destination a...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Zimbabwean government operates in a zone of its own
A political commentator Alex Magaisa has said the Zimbabwean government operates in a zone of its own considering the stance it takes in relation to the economy pretending as if everything was normal ...Published: 01 Feb 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
A snake that causes drought (Umgobho) exposed
Villagers in Lupane have claimed that some traditional healers have exposed and removed a big snake owned by a villager in the area which was reportedly causing rain failure....Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 10:48hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
PDZ in poverty reduction projects
The United Kingdom Based Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe (PDZ) leader Barbara Nyagomo is engaged into poverty reduction projects back home through self-help projects to transform people's lives....Published: 03 Sep 2015 at 07:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
UK based Philanthropist engage in self sustenance programmes in Zimbabwe
United Kingdom-based philanthropist, humanitarian and politician Barbara Nyagomo has been involved in poverty reduction projects where she has been training villagers equipping them with various s...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 13:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T glorifies oppression
At a recent public seminar organised by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), one man, an MDC-T supporter received a standing ovation for making a silly statement. There was ululation ...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
'Half-baked' graduates - quantity without quality counts for nothing!
Most of the thousands of students churned out of the country's tertiary institutions are half-baked and do not have the requisite industrial skills required of them, Higher and Tertiary Education depu...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 15:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Satanism victim's condition worsens
THE condition of a 17-year-old former Cowdray Park Secondary School student who was last week suspected to have been initiated into Satanism, has worsened.Her parents said their daughter's con...Published: 13 Jan 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man high on magic mushrooms rips off his manhood
A 41-year-old U.S. man ripped off his own manhood while high on magic mushrooms.The undressed man was found screaming in the street at around 1pm on Tuesday by police responding to a burglar ...Published: 27 Jun 2013 at 05:03hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Africa's mobile youths drive change, Cell phones reshape youth cultures
The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell phone√¢‚Ǩ‚Ã...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 13:16hrs | | by Jocelyne Sambira
Man cooks his own genitals, serves them to five paying diners
A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.Mao Sugiyama ha...Published: 25 May 2012 at 17:06hrs | | by AFP
Four family members die after eating poisonous mushrooms
FOUR members of the same family in Mabasa rural area, Zvishavane, died while two others are battling for their lives in hospital after eating poisonous mushroom over the weekend.Three sisters ...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 21:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
January disease: Are you safe?
Donning trendy apparel, Razor sent his large probing eyes sideways and once sure the coast was clear, he ventured into their family maize plot on the outskirts of Mabvuku and stashed pumpkin leaves in...Published: 07 Jan 2012 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Ghetto Blast Rosenthal Mutakati
Man wins eating contest then dies
He ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win 1st prize - a one-litre jar of sour cream.A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and...Published: 22 Sep 2011 at 05:29hrs | | by Reuters
Harare: food scene revives
Harare - Zimbabwean restaurant-goers used to pull out giant wads of near-worthless cash that could take longer to count than the time to eat the meal. If the order was even available.Now dine...Published: 10 Dec 2010 at 15:57hrs | | by Byo24 Mashonaland central
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