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Setback for Ramaphosa as another major retailer in South Africa closes its doors
Jumia Technologies, the Africa-focused e-commerce retailer that operates popular online retailer Zando, says it will be exiting the South African business by the end of the year to sharpen its focus o...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:31hrs | 9609 | by Staff reporter
Rampant deforestation blamed for climate change
The Africa Carbon Forum (formerly the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum, or AVCCMF) has blamed the rampant cutting down of trees and irresponsi...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:09hrs | 100 | by Stephen Jakes
William Ruto visits Germany: German press rebukes his claims about labour contracts.
It does not matter how one looks at this story; it is not only shameful to Kenya: it must shame all Africans equally. Recently, President Willian Ruto was on a state visit to Germany, and was proud to...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 22:06hrs | 795 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mr. President, you can't make the nation suffer simply because of your ego!
Pride comes before a fall! When I had the inspiration for this article, a certain scenario played out in my mind.I imagined an egoistical father - who was adamant that every 'respectab...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by @ Jamwanda2
Woman divorced for bleaching
QUESTIONS of beauty are uppermost in the minds of many women.The tragedy of this very powerful and wealthy industry, however, is that too many women become its victims.A woman from Hwa...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
COP26: Mnangagwa tried too hard
THE Glasgow COP26 meeting in Scotland, United Kingdom, painted a grim picture about the environment and imminent dangers of climate change. However, besides Africa and the third world carrying the can...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 7 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwean vehicle maker partners US-based company
A LOCAL vehicle manufacturer, Hende Moto, has secured a partnership with a United States-based Max Sound Corp, which will see the two providing high-definition audio technology on all the company's ve...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man earns a living by breeding flies
A BINDURA man is earning a living through breeding flies as animal feed at a time flies are associated with unhygienic practices and condemned for causing diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | | by Pardon Muzavazi
South Africa Reserve Bank to be nationalised
President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement on Thursday that government intends to continue with plans to nationalise the central bank cased "havoc" in dealing rooms, according to Bianca Botes, Corporate...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$7bn needed for cleaner energy in Zimbabwe
A CLIMATE change specialist has said Zimbabwe needs close to $7 billion to mitigate climate change effects by 2030.This was revealed last week in Parliament by director of water and climate ch...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scientists discover 'ozone hole' over South Africa
A team of Zimbabwean researchers has discovered an "ozone hole" over South Africa that is centred over the Free State Province during spring, which impacts on temperature and rainfall levels, accordin...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
It is the worst time to be in the shoes of ED
Zimbabwe is in a very precarious condition. Prices are dancing a dance of their own. Life is very hard and it is a nightmare being Zimbabwean. Everybody from the rich and the poor are crying. As expec...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 22:18hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
RBZ in statutory reserve requirements U-turn
Eight years after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe abolished Statutory Reserve Requirements for banks in a move aimed at releasing more funds for lending by the financial sector and lowering interest rate...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Online voting option for Zimbabwean in the Diaspora
Twenty-seven years ago, less than half of Estonia's population had a telephone. Today, the country could provide Zimbabwe with an ICT option for mulled Diaspora participation in elections back home: t...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Kombi wars rock Bulawayo
THOUSANDS of commuters in Bulawayo were left stranded yesterday morning when pirate taxi drivers ran amok and fought running battles with members of the Bulawayo United Transporters' Association (Bupt...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brown Dash baby mamas in cash fight
The Brown Dash Tribute Concert scheduled for the end of the month is embroiled in a bitter money fight.Two baby mamas of the late kwaito singer have complained that they have not received any ...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientists unravel El Nino origins
A new study by two Zimbabwean climate science experts could make it possible to predict El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ENSO several months before its occurrence.Climate experts say ENSO i...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe arrives in New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday to attend the High-Level United Nations Conference on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, commonly known as the Oceans Conference.The...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Air Zimbabwe free to ply Eurozone'
AIR Zimbabwe will continue flying to various European routes contrary to reports that the airline had been banned from the Eurozone due to safety concerns. It has emerged that it is only the airline's...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Record-breaking high temperatures predicted - Met Department
The Meteorological Services Department has today warned of near record-breaking high temperatures with some areas recording up to 43°C.The extreme hot conditions will persist up to Wednesday,...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 13:48hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
The liberating power of Brexit
The referendum of June 23, 2016 regarding Britain's remain at or exit from the European Union, through its subversive BREXIT result - the first major, painful defeat for the under German control Europ...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 11:22hrs | | by Isidoros Karderinis
I'm married to a hothead
Dear Mai Chisamba, my heart is bleeding as I write to you. I am happily married and we are blessed with four kids. My husband is 37 and I am 35 and we have been married for a decade. My youngest child...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:21hrs | | by Mai Chisamba
Police, VID officers must be educated on the dangers of smoking vehicles - MP
Chegutu MP and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Dexter Nduna has asked the parliament to consider educating the police and Vehicle Inspection Depart...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mavhaire mocks Mugabe
Former Zanu-PF politburo member and ex-Energy minister, Dzikamai Mavhaire, savagely tore into President Robert Mugabe on Saturday, referring to the increasingly frail nonagenarian as a "spirit"....Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Brexit means for Africa, Zimbabwe
"Fog in the channel - continent cut off." The Brookings Institution reminded us of this famous though apocryphal British headline in an analysis of Brexit this week. For Brookings, the headline epitom...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
When hunger is the king, poverty is the prince - We are the Elnino generation!
Zimbabwe is a nation not short of tragedy if not irony. Since 2000 which 16 years from now going backwards and 20 years after independence the country has faced a number of acute challenges that have ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 14:35hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Clean Water and Sanitation - What about women and girls in war zones?
For more than three decades Africa has been in serious war challenges due to various political, social and economic reasons. Many people have died in the whole war and cheap military drama. Have we ev...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:34hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Mugabe jets off to New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for New York where he will join other Heads of State and government for the High Level Signature Ceremony of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.The P...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desperate times call for desperate actions
The call by opposition parties for repentance by the ZANU-PF ruling party, as a pre-condition for the nation to receive some rainfall at this trying time when there is a national calamity facing the a...Published: 12 Jan 2016 at 12:25hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Mugabe off to Paris
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for Paris, France, to attend the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP21, that seeks to achieve a leg...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 05:11hrs | | by Caesar Zvayi
Ozone layer is recovering - Zanu PF minister claims
Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has made sensational claims in Dubai that the ozone layer is fast recovering.She said this is due to the phasing out o...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Greece's Alexis Tsipras quits and calls early polls
Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election.Mr Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls ...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 19:23hrs | | by BBC
Chinamasa deserves Nobel Prize in economics
IN its post-colonial history since 1980, Zimbabwe has gotten one big thing right, inter alia: the multi-currency system.To cut a long a long story short, Zimbabwe currently has arguably, the l...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Bradley Pritchard - Zimbabwean born footballer who defy all expectations
Child prodigy. Academy star. Boy wonder. These days it seems the hard rule to 'make it' in football involves getting scouted early, planting yourself in an academy, benefitting from top coaches, fa...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 19:43hrs | | by Ben Croucher
Illegal migrant workers will have wages seized by police and face deportation
Foreign workers will have their wages seized by police and face deportation without appeal if they are in the UK illegally, David Cameron will announce today as part of a "radical" crackdown on immigr...Published: 24 May 2015 at 14:52hrs | | by Peter Dominiczak
The African Development Bank On 'Green Growth'
The African Development Bank's new policy acknowledges that to sustain economic growth in Africa, there is an urgent need to preserve and enhance the ecological capital that enriches such growth. ...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 08:22hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai
Multicurrency system: Zimbabwe continues to lead the world
For the first time ever in its de facto one party rule since 1980, one must agree that Zimbabwe has gotten one and only one thing right: ,i.e. the multicurrency system. This is one area where Zimbabwe...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 15:46hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
$100 maximum withdrawal from Metropolitan Bank
Metropolitan Bank customers said the bank has sent them text messages informing them that they could withdraw money from any Zimswitch point of sale to a maximum of $100 a day.Metropolitan Ban...Published: 01 Dec 2013 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar versus the multicurrency system
The ongoing debate within Zimbabwe's financial markets about the possible return of the now-defunct Zimdollar serves to further destabilise the country's still fragile economy in general, and the fina...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 16:07hrs | 1 | by Colls Ndlovu
This n that with Maluphosa: Wot the scarabs!
The scarabs are in town. I am not talking about those brittle dung -ball rollers whose job is to clean the surrounding of all that is animal waste no. I am talking about those two legged belligerent o...Published: 17 Sep 2013 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Airlines - IATA - Latest analysis of passenger traffic demand
Sydney - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for May showing that air travel continued to expand at a healthy rate. Growth was led by emerging...Published: 03 Jul 2013 at 07:50hrs | | by Linden Birns
Vulgar English word becomes an acceptable German word
Germany's standard dictionary has included a vulgar English term, used by Chancellor Angela Merkel among others, as an acceptable German word.Duden, the equivalent of the Oxford English Dictio...Published: 03 Jul 2013 at 04:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim's hyperinflation era profiled
THE Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa is working on documenting Zimbabwe’s country hyper-inflationary era to provide insights on how th...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 03:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyprus President's family transferred millions to London just before Euro bailout agreement
A company owned by in-laws of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades wired €21 million from Laiki Bank to London days before the Eurogroup's crisis-triggering levy proposal, claims a Cyp...Published: 01 Apr 2013 at 16:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cypriot depositors could lose up to 60% of their money
Bank of Cyprus depositors with more than 100,000 euros (£84,300; $128,200) could lose up to 60% of their savings as part of an EU-IMF bailout restructuring move, officials say.The cent...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 13:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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