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'Ndebele kingship revival remains pipedream,' says Munhumutapa
The quest for the revival of the Ndebele Kingship is becoming increasingly complicated as self-styled King Munhumutapa, born Timothy Chiminya, has stated that divisions among claimants to the throne w...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 08:01hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Fifa to name new Zifa Committee
FIFA is set to replace the current leadership of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), led by Lincoln Mutasa, with a new Normalisation Committee due to dissatisfaction with the reform process. ...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe going nowhere with delusional leaders
I KEEP being reminded of my younger days when we used to love joking about a guy who had fallen head over heels with a certain girl.In the midst of their intimate rendezvous, the guy would bec...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo water crisis demands urgent attention
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has extended the 120-hour water rationing schedule in some parts of the city owing to reduced pumping capacity at the Ncema Dam plant where there are ongoing maintenanc...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 14:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shrugs off Chamisa
Zanu-PF, which got a fresh mandate in the August 23-24 elections, will not entertain "any talk of a rerun, a Government of National Unity, or the so-called Transitional Authority", as this "is a piped...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says calls for fresh election a pipedream
President Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans not to be swayed by individuals dwelling on the past, as the elections are now a closed chapter. He dismissed opposition CCC leader Mr. Nelson Chamisa's calls...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will always suffer with a govt perpetually crying over sanctions!
As Zimbabweans continue to suffer through unmitigated poverty, under the ZANU PF regime, for the past two decades - do they honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel?Surely, every time I...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Belarus deals help bust Zimbabwe sanctions
A STRING of bilateral agreements that were signed between Zimbabwe and Belarus this week and in 2019, have helped the country bust sanctions not only in the agriculture sector which is on the rebound,...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why a Formula One racetrack in Zimbabwe is a pipe dream
It was all a dream for Zimbabwe to have a Formula One racetrack.A dream sold by politicians who argued it could be a major tourist attraction, especially if it was built near the country's pri...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Nkayi dam to have hydropower station
GOVERNMENT is constructing 12 high impact dams countrywide including Ziminya Dam in Nkayi, Matabeleland North, which will have a hydropower station on site.Ziminya Dam was mooted 24 years ago ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 high-impact dams under construction
THE Government is constructing 12 high impact dams countrywide including Kunzvi Dam in Mashonaland East and Ziminya Dam in Nkayi, Matabeleland North, which will have a hydro power station on site....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Germany's biggest airline dates Victoria Falls
ONE of Zimbabwe's biggest leisure chains yesterday predicted a dramatic upswing in arrivals, as Germany's biggest airline prepared for its maiden adventure on the Windhoek-Victoria Falls route today....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loses key allies as Kasukuwere plots comeback
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lost the support of some of his key allies including Local Government minister July Moyo who have stood with him throughout his political rise but are now being sideli...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC led councils short-changing ratepayers
FOR a period stretching over 20 years, service delivery in cities, towns and even rural communities has collapsed, underpinned by unchecked plunder and theft by those voted into public office by the r...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Title deeds for urban dwellers ready
THOUSANDS of urbanites will on Saturday be presented with title deeds as President Mnangagwa delivers on his promise to implement development that leaves no one and no place behind.The title d...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA falls in love with Sikhosana
From the thickets of Nkayi, Matabeleland North, to the bright lights of Johannesburg, Folklore musician and internet sensation Clopas Sikhosana Buhlungu has proved to be a darling to his followers in ...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Devolution helplessly biting the dust at Nkayi registry offices
Despite the unambiguous provisions of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, 2013, devolution sadly remains a pipedream in the generality of the country. For purposes of particularity, t...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 07:52hrs | 9 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zimbabwe breaks law for US$50m Covid-19 vaccines loan
Zimbabwe has contracted yet another US$50 million loan from the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to finance its Covid-19 vaccination programme despite government claims it is using internal res...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to make Matabeleland Zambezi water project a reality
For the last three decades or so, Zimbabwe's largest cities have faced water challenges due to due to a combination of poor rains, droughtand mismanagement. The situation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's s...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Zimbabwe suffers steep 30% job losses
BUILDING layer upon layer of tradition, pre-Christmas television and billboard advertisements and glittering decorations are now some kind of cultural event. Or so the advertising industry would have ...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mtshana hero status: A veiled insult on Matabeleland
Although the all-conquering Chief Mtshana, was a bona fide and outstanding freedom fighter of all-time requiring recognition, the recent villainous conferment of hero status on him by the relevance-se...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Khupe demands action on Lupane methane gas
MDC-T acting president, Thokozani Khupe, has demanded speedy action on the extraction of methane gas in Lupane for the benefit of the country.The Lupane gas project which has the potential to ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let's save Nkayi from irresponsible timber extraction!
One can not silently bear the pain and sadness of the wanton harvesting of the teak and pine trees from Sivomo and Gwampa Forests, in Nkayi District, coupled with the degradation of the enamel-rich so...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:22hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
'No freedom after expression in Africa'
A PRELIMINARY report on the implementation of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG), has revealed gaps in implementing the African Union charter on human rights such as fr...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Inflation will be 10% by December' boasted Ncube - end corruption and pariah state curse
When the then Minister of Finance, Bernard Chidzero, introduced the 1990-1995 Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) he assured the people adjustment was routine and necessary in gearing the ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ANC had to boot out Zuma to win the elections – testimonial of Mandela's enduring legacy
"If ANC had failed to remove Jacob Zuma from office last year, the party would have lost the recent elections!" said Dumisani, a South African and ANC supporter. I was speechless! What a profo...Published: 27 May 2019 at 18:29hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Prolific VP Trio to see MDC score freely in 2023 and beyond!
It is imperative and inescapable for any objective coach to field the best team for the match regardless of affection or disaffection thereof, for individual players at his or her disposal. In that re...Published: 06 May 2019 at 19:29hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is sincere about change' - so why did he rig the elections
"What kind of leaders would the armed struggle throw up?" Was the rhetorical question Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, and the other leaders asked thems...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
'Mthuli Ncube will keep tripping over himself'
As long as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube doesn't play the politics of his appointing authority as well as of the ruling Zanu-PF party he will keep on tripping over himself, analysts contend.Th...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged electoral victory is worse than a Pyrrhic - dog got hare's ticks and worse
You can tell the dog has a flea or tick problem by the frequency the poor creature scratches itself and the greater the vigour the greater the infestation! Rigging the recent elections was the easy bi...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ED 'will woo investors' in maiden UNGA speech - no takers, given Mugabe mark-2 reputation
The Zanu PF apologists, spin-doctors and propagandists are out like the cicada flooding the world with nose. Their mission is to flood all available space with colourful portrait of Mnangagwa as a com...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo South candidates storm out of residents meeting
THERE was drama at Barham Green Hall in Bulawayo South constituency when residents took parliamentary candidates to task over their frivolous promises, resulting in some of them storming out of the me...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu spokesperson meet Zim International Electoral Observer mission
Zapu Spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has said he has met with the Zimbabwean International Electoral Observation Mission's King Norman Rudi and Sonia Mickevicius to talk on the current prevailing elect...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Fierce fight over electoral law amendments
ELECTORAL amendments still remain a pipedream after Justice minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi on Tuesday negated almost all proposed amendments to the Electoral Amendment Bill by MDC-T chief whip, Innocent Go...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Opposition party splits delay people's victory'
Strong opposition politics in Zimbabwe begun in 1999 when dissent escalated against the Zanu-PF government then led by former President Robert Mugabe. This culminated in the formation of a formidable ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has enough water for 3 years
BULAWAYO's major water reservoirs have enough water to last three years despite insignificant inflows recorded so far and high evaporation rates, council has reported.A council report of the f...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai to go for broke in 2018 elections
As the ruling party has bagged a victory in the by-election in Mwenezi, the main opposition party MDC-T Spokesperson Obert Gutu took to social media to give his assessment of why and how that vi...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 15:39hrs | | by openparly
Democratic transformation will follow a cerebral shift from subjective to objective thinking
Patrick Guramatunhu you are spot on; (Trevor Ncube tweet "torched a storm" Byo24) - Trevor Ncube was stating a fact, Tsvangirai is corrupt and incompetent. - Ncube's conclus...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
PM Churchill would have demanded blundering Tsvangirai resigned
"A new Zimbabwe is possible in President Robert Mugabe's lifetime," concluded Whitlaw Mugwinji in his latest article "Bond Notes Demo Flop: The old is Dying, Can the New Be Born?" No doubt that he tho...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:49hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Grace Mugabe unpopular in Zanu-PF
Some Zimbabweans in Manicaland province say despite First Lady Grace Mugabe's well-attended rallies around the country, she does not command enough support to take over the reigns from her husband, if...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 20:42hrs | | by Loirdham Moyo
ZLHR urge government to implement human rights obligations
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has urged the Zimbabwean government to implement in good faith their human rights obligations. The organisation made the remarks as the nation joined Afric...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 10:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe to block civil service retrenchments
Economists and experts have warned that plans to retrench civil service will remain a pipedream as long as president Robert Mugabe is in power. They content that earlier attempts even to ...Published: 03 Aug 2015 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos batters Mugabe's govt
Zanu-PF's infighting is increasingly spilling into government; hampering the operations of government as Cabinet ministers are now issuing conflicting and contradictory statements. Analyst...Published: 03 Aug 2015 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu express disgust over Zanu-PF tricks to try and grab seats
ZAPU has expressed displeasure and disgust over attempts by Zanu-PF regime to desperately grab seats in Bulawayo during tomorrow's by-election."It is a matter of public knowledge t...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 16:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
To Putin - 'It's not the West you should protect Mugabe from'
"Putin vows to protect Mugabe from the West" was the headline on an international newspaper website recently after President Mugabe's recent visit to Russia. I could not help but laugh at why a countr...Published: 15 May 2015 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
Harare world class status a pipedream
IT's 7am on a Tuesday morning and already there is traffic congestion on almost all the narrow roads leading into Harare's central business district.For almost half an hour at the corner of Sa...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:48hrs | | by Hazel Ndebele
Mugabe's economic promises hollow
ALMOST 18 months after Zanu-PF won general elections tainted by rigging allegations, a steep economic decline characterised by, among others, the debilitating liquidity crunch, declining capacity util...Published: 09 Jan 2015 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Kudzai Kuwaza
Police break up WOZA protest
Zimbabwean police on Thursday broke up an anti-government protest staged by members of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) demanding an end to the looting of the country's resources and corrupt...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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