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Armed robbery spree grips Bulawayo
A chilling wave of armed robberies has shaken Zimbabwe's second-largest city, with four shops - including three Sai Mart outlets and one Hamara store - hit in a string of co-ordinated attacks that hav...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 21:00hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pushes for law criminalising govt criticism
Ruling party ZANU-PF legislators are doubling down on calls to criminalise criticism of government shortcomings, reigniting concerns over shrinking democratic space and rising authoritarianism in Zimb...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:00hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ZESA launches drone aviation training
In a landmark development aimed at strengthening Zimbabwe's energy and digital infrastructure, ZESA Holdings has launched its certified Aviation Training Organisation (ATO) and graduated 235 students ...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 13:00hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe new education curriculum uproar
The Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called for an urgent review of the recently introduced heritage-based curriculum, describing it as unnecessarily demanding, complicated, and deta...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:22hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cracks whip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to take stern action against Zanu-PF members responsible for what he described as "random and illegal" suspensions of fellow party members, warning that such act...Published: 12 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development
Communities are the backbone of any country.I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Solutions and National Policy - organized by the Institu...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:45hrs | 154 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BornFreesforED condemn planned protests
The BornFreesforED movement has strongly criticized calls for protests in Zimbabwe, describing them as reckless and counter-revolutionary acts that serve no genuine purpose except to advance neo-colon...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 08:26hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy pauses regime change funding in Zimbabwe?
The United States Embassy in Zimbabwe has announced a comprehensive review of all funds released to the country through the State Department and USAID, in line with President Donald Trump's "America F...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 20:13hrs | 2596 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police roadblocks to stay
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is embracing technology to enhance law enforcement through the introduction of an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), which will revolutionize crime ...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:22hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Don't be silly, Tshabangu: Malema would never support Ramaphosa going beyond his term limit!
While at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm over the weekend, opposition CCC party self-appointed Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu made a startling assertion.In a flimsy attempt to...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 22:30hrs | 683 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tshabangu suffers setback as CCC MPs boycott Mnangagwa farm tour
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu suffered a significant setback yesterday after most of the party's lawmakers snubbed his call to tour President Emmerson...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:20hrs | 2776 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dares opposition MPs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged opposition legislators to actively scrutinize and challenge Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) to ensure they deliver for the benefit of all Zimbabweans....Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:13hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
A battery of corruption: ZESA's dubious energy storage deal
The quest for energy solutions in Zimbabwe has often been marred by corruption, incompetence, and misplaced priorities, and the latest developments at ZESA Holdings follow this all-too-familiar script...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 23:07hrs | 517 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZiG collapse linked to Mnangagwa SADC chairship?
During a recent Senate debate, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Senator Cecil Zvidzai urged Zimbabweans to confront uncomfortable truths about national issues impacting citizens' well-being. His re...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:14hrs | 2463 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) and officially open the Second Session of the 10th Parliament of Zimbabwe next Wednesday, October 2, 2024. The ann...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:08hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's new wife opens school robotics competition
Zimbabwe's first schools robotics competition opened in Harare, officiated by Colonel Miniyothabo Baloyi-Chiwenga, wife of Vice President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga. Speaking at Westridge High School, C...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:14hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can kiss salvation goodbye!
I love watching South Africans in action!One thing I admire about these people is that they do not brook any nonsense from their leaders.Granted, the country appears on a downward spir...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 22:33hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mohadi slams CCC for wasting State resources
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has slammed the fractured CCC for bleeding national resources through its leadership chaos, which has caused unnecessary by-elections that have become a strain to the nat...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 2,996 graduands at Nust
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 2 996 graduands at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), among them, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswer...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:27hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
CCC Elders acknowledge Tshabangu's grievances
Members of the Citizens Coalition of Change (CCC) Elders have acknowledged the existence of grievances within the opposition party that require resolution. However, they view Sengezo Tshabangu's initi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 22:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must introduce a diaspora ministry
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, it is my sworn submission that your recent resurrection of the War Veterans ministry is suggestive of aberrations. As I see it, the decision is...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
WATCH: Plumtree polytechnic construction starts
GOVERNMENT has started constructing Plumtree Polytechnic College in Plumtree, Matebeleland South province as it strives to improve access to higher education in line with President Mnangagwa's philoso...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engaged junior British officials
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa is meeting junior British government officials like Andrew Mitchell, minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, his Rwandan counterpart P...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt welcomes internet connectivity at varsities
GOVERNMENT has applauded efforts by the Ubuntu Net Alliance to partner the National Research and Education Networks (NRENS) to bring internet connectivity at universities.Speaking during the 1...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lecturers go on strike
LECTURERS at tertiary institutions are now expected to go for industrial attachment to enable them to troubleshoot what is obtaining in industry and produce quality graduates, with the University of Z...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pilot project for technical high schools takes off
GOVERNMENT has introduced modern technical high schools as a pilot project that will result in pupils being professionally trade-tested before completing secondary education in line with international...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Minister berates Zimbabwe's 'useless' professors
HIGHER Education Minister, Amon Murwira has laid into university professors for failing to write relevant books and literature in order to realign curricula to proffer solutions to national challenges...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa setting the tone as chief brand ambassador of Zimbabwe
Nations can communicate effectively by using brand ambassadors in order to position and reposition the country appropriately on the global market through cognitive, affective and symbolical routes of ...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Bulawayo for Nust graduation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo last night ahead of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) 28th graduation ceremony today.The President landed at the Joshua Mqabuko N...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The return of border gezi militia
The government's plans to rescuscitate the green bombers ahead of 2023 harmonised elections is another Zanu PF strategy of trying to intimidate the voters.This governing Zanu PF has been prove...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:25hrs | 11 | by Leonard Koni
Lifting lid on Gukurahundi exposes opposition's ideological bankruptcy
ICONIC Pan-African philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once opined that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 3 | by Vincent Gono
Universities make $2 billion profits
LOCAL universities have made profits worth over $2 billion in producing Covid-19 personal protective as part of providing home grown solutions to national problems.In the past, industry among ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
NUST starts making PCR test kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is set to start manufacturing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits next month following delivery of a US$86 000 reagents manufacturing machine....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
QR-coded Covid-19 vaccination verification system needed now
NOW that it is business as usual, following the announcement that bars and nightclubs will be open and allowing only vaccinated individuals to attend these premises, worldwide Covid-19 is here to stay...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:03hrs | 12 | by Jacob Mutisi
Insurrection! Sounds like copy and paste United State America's 6th of January 2021 - a global circus!!
This is how low ANC has sunk to equate the last weeks violent events in South Africa as an insurrection. Again to term hungry population as criminals is a sign of a government that has lost authority ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:02hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa claims credit for good rainy season
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sensationally claimed that he was the force behind the good rains enjoyed in the country this season, in that he allowed traditional chiefs to conduct rainmaking ritua...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reshuffle now a must to move Zimbabwe beyond Covid-19
Zimbabwe's government under the leadership of President ED Mnangagwa has faced enormous challenges in the short period it has been steering the national agenda. With the events of 2017 ushering in a n...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 22:13hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ACT-SA decries gaps in Zimbabwe's anti-graft laws
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has expressed concern over gaps that still exist in the enforcement of Zimbabwe's anti-corruption laws and policies. In a statement yester...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When the opposition runs rings around the opposition
Events in the opposition camp over the past few weeks have been amusing and amazing. Fierce contestation in the MDC followed the late Morgan Tsvangirai's unilateral and undemocratic declaration that t...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Sikhala bids to end Zimbabwe's myriad challenges
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges.Spe...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'It's time for talks with Mnangagwa'
FIREBRAND opposition grandee, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has joined other MDC bigwigs in calling for dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, to end the country's myriad challenges....Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa implored to talk
THE Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa to urgently find common ground and dialogue to ensure the count...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe opposition must revisit campaign strategies'
POLITICAL think-tank, Local Solutions Council (LSC), has urged the opposition to re-look its electioneering strategies in rural areas to avoid continuous thumping by the ruling Zanu-PF party.L...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MDC 16 August demonstration not cleared by police
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says it has not yet cleared the much hyped 16 August anti-Mnangagwa demonstration that have been called by the MDC. In a statement on Friday the police said,"The Z...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 10:42hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Army to declare martial law to crush Mnangagwa and MDC protests
The country's military is reportedly preparing to declare martial law in the event of planned opposition protests becoming violent insurrections and grinding the nation to a halt, Spotlight Zimbabwe, ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chamisa ready to take Mnangagwa head-on
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says his party is now ready to take President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government head-on and force a lasting solution to the current socio-economic crisis ripping through the na...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for pro-skills education
The era of an education system which creates job-seekers who are literate, but unskilled should be replaced by one that responds to the needs of industry and adapt to the always changing world, Presid...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court ruling vindicates the MDC
The High Court ruling that the Zimbabwe Newspapers and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation were biased in favour of Zanu-PF in their coverage of the 2018 election vindicates the MDC position that th...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:20hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu PF's denial propaganda
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has urged Mnangagwa to invite a neutral mediator to preside over the talks with the opposition in Zimbabwe. Why has the government media not reported this?...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:15hrs | 3 | by ZimVigil
Mugabe protector warns Mnangagwa
Thabo Mbeki, who sided with Robert Mugabe after the 2008 stole elections, has warned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa that confronting the country's political and economic challenges might not ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 19:05hrs | 2 | by SZimLive
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