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MDC will not campaign for sanction removal for now
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC has admitted that Western economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe were hurting ordinary people, but would only campaign for their removal once President Emmerson M...Published: 3 hrs ago | 841 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to tour cyclone-ravaged areas
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly planning to visit the Cyclone Idai-ravaged Manicaland province this week for a first-hand assessment of the disaster and appreciate the needs of the ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 598 | by Staff reporter
Lack of IDs fuels child trafficking from Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has warned that lack of national identification documents was exposing children to cross-border trafficking."The lack of documentation is a risk for...Published: 7 hrs ago | 192 | by Staff reporter
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1013 | by Reason Wafawarova
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 2075 | by Hon Criss
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1683 | by Staff reporter
Deployment of Shona civil servants in Matabeleland condemned
The government of Zimbabwe is not doing the people of Matabeleland any favour by withdrawing Shona teachers it deployed in Bulawayo primary schools, this should not have happened in the first place. M...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:42hrs | 2668 | by Israel Dube
Make them fight a losing battle
The simple, clear message encoded in the Bi-National Commission signed between Zimbabwe and South Africa earlier this week and in the other between our country and Botswana earlier, ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:09hrs | 445 | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwe to blacklist, freeze terrorist funds
The law operationalising Government powers to blacklist and freeze funds and assets of individuals and entities linked to international terror, has been gazetted. Statutory Instrument 56 of 2019 was p...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:03hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's PR bid a futile exercise, say analysts
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to employ a public relations consultancy firm to lobby for the scrapping of United States sanctions is futile as the real solution lies in imp...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slides into new authoritarianism
The assessment of Zimbabwe's "Second Republic" under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been overshadowed by the violence of August 1 2018 and mid-January 2019. On both occasions, Zimbabwe's military in...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:10hrs | 370 | by Derek Matyszak
RBZ accused of buying stolen gold
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe responsible for the purchasing, refining and exporting of gold, is under fire for buying "stolen gold" from illegal a...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:00hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Government values human rights
Human rights are defined as freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled, and these often include the rights to life, liberty, equality, freedom of expression and many others.The...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 17:01hrs | 567 | by Peacemaker Zano
Biti opens up on Mnangagwa's 476 days in office
MDC Deputy National Chairperson Tendai Biti says Mnangagwa's 476 days since he took office after a bloody coup in November 2017 have been characterized by corruption, rape and killing.Said Bit...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 15:22hrs | 6288 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa exposed
In his 1997 report on the work of the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan stressed the importance of economic sanctions: the Security Council's tool to bring pressure without recourse to forc...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 10:42hrs | 11978 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC MPs hail Mugabe as 'humane', slams Mnangagwa
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was more "humane" than current Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa, an opposition MP has said.Contributing to debate on Mnangagwa's statement notifying P...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1179 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa gives reasons why he deployed the army against rioters
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has described citizens who demonstrated last August and January this year only to meet with live ammunition from the army as "criminals who had violated the rights of othe...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:36hrs | 2902 | by newzimbabwe
Wadyajena torments ex-minister Chinamasa's wife
PARLIAMENT'S Lands Committee chair Justice Wadyajena Tuesday gave former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa's wife and her Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) colleagues a good tongue-lashing ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 3877 | by newzimbabwe.com
Ex-top cop in court for criminal abuse of office
Former police Senior Assistant Commissioner Robert Tendero Masukusa was yesterday brought to court on summons to face charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly sent his personal vehicle t...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1975 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | 963 | by Human Rights Watch
Trevor Ncube's newspaper reported
Zimbabwe Election Commission Spokesperson Dr Qhubani Moyo has reported Trevor Ncube's The Standard newspaper to the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe over a story that appeared on Sunday alleging th...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1423 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Minister Chidawu's appointment challenged
The Movement for Democratic Change says the appointment of Oliver Chidawu as Minister of State responsible for Harare is unconstitutional as it goes against the spirit and letter of the constitution....Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 11:01hrs | 5023 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mugabe be tried for Gukurahundi massacres'
DEFENCE deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has said former President Robert Mugabe must be tried for the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres.In a video uploaded on SMTV on Saturday, Matemadanda also s...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1665 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe, Mnangagwa fight started in 1984' USA files reveal
The fallout between former President Robert Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa started during the height of Gukurahundi atrocities, an American declassified cable has revealed.The cable s...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | 14251 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo fingers Mnangagwa in Mugabe Airways saga
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has sought to correct the narrative carried in the Herald on Monday that Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore was solely responsible for the ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 08:52hrs | 6836 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra system fails
FREIGHT shipping and forwarding agents have reverted to manual clearing after the Customs and Excise Automated System for Customs Data (Asycuda) failed to convert recently introduced duty regimes, New...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:14hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Free duty car imports for civil servants
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube has given civil servants the greenlight to import vehicles without paying duty in a move aimed at placating distressed government workers.Statutory Instrument 52...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:11hrs | 4997 | by newzimbabwe.com
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 158 | by Reason Wafawarova
500 communal farmers evicted
MORE than 500 communal farmers from Chivhunze Farm under Chief Bvute in Mberengwa have been served with eviction notices. The farmers were settled at the farm in 2009 and paid US$20 to the loc...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:55hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is untouchable, says Matemadanda
DEPUTY Defense Minister Victor Matemadanda wants government to arrest anyone who claims the army was responsible for rape and abuses during the violent protests that rocked the country in January....Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1146 | by newzimbabwe
The scars of Zimbabwe military deployments
Soldiers are back at the barracks and things look normal. That is as normal as things can ever be in Zimbabwe. But that's an illusion. Beyond the veil of quiet are ruins — deep scars that will not g...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 13:40hrs | 3787 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa calls for Zimbabwe sanctions removal but.....
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa wants sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western powers to be removed but wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sort out "your mess" first.Zimbabwe under for...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 5981 | by newzimbabwe
BREAKING: Mnangagwa appoints Minister of State for Harare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Senator Oliver Chidawu as Minister of State for Provincial Affairs responsible for Harare Metropolitan Province.The Chief Secretary to the Office of ...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:51hrs | 9425 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Of useless degrees and of abandoning national mandates
The recent Hardtalk by Professor Amon Murwira, Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development on "Zimbabwe to scrap useless degrees" makes for serious thinking.J...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1346 | by Enock Jonathan
Mnangagwa's military shake-up: smoke and mirrors
THE retirement of four military generals and their immediate reassignment to Foreign Affairs has been widely interpreted as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moving to coup-proof his regime by getting rid ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 14:57hrs | 9393 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Opposition forces in Africa lacks strategic intelligence to wrestle power from the incumbents
Case study - Zimbabwe and Zambia situationGetting into State House is not about numbers of figures, but it is about strategic intelligence. Winning ele...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:11hrs | 365 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Top envoy Mothobi laid to rest in Bulawayo
Former top envoy Buzwani Donald Mothobi was laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday with mourners describing him as a dedicated pioneer civil servant.Mothobi, who was ambas...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:55hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Professionalising teaching is a noble move
THE government's decision to put in place the Teaching Profession Council (TPC) Bill which seeks to, among other things, have trained teachers register to practice and acquire an annually renewable te...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 05:53hrs | 289 | by Editorial - newsday
'We demand justice for the genocide'
Ibhetshu LikaZulu has expressed concern at the rate at which perceived perpetrators of Gukurahundi are dying without justice served to victims.Their concern comes after the death of Director G...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:47hrs | 1605 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
'Donald Trump is irresponsible and cruel' says Zim government
American President Donald Trump is running a cruel and irresponsible administration that wants to see poor people suffering, Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has alleged.Mutodi was...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:39hrs | 981 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government speaks on latest internet shutdown
The government has informed the nation that it is not responsible for the latest shutdown on internet services that was experienced on Monday throughout the country.Deputy government spokesper...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 16:53hrs | 12148 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Food crisis hits UZ
University of Zimbabwe residential students are crying foul over the food they are consuming.The students, who refused to be identified, were in unison that food quality had deteriorated....Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 13:43hrs | 3612 | by Staff reporter
How MDC MP Joana Mamombe was abducted
MDC MP for Harare West Joana Mamombe who was abducted by unknown assailants on Saturday appeared in court on Monday and was formally charged with treason.The young MDC MP is appeared before Ha...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:09hrs | 10693 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government and parents complicity is creating a class of useless graduates
Government and parents are delinquently complicity in allowing our young people to pursue tertiary level qualifications that offer no value to either the country or to the graduate. The pursuit of aca...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | 1081 | by Brian Sedze
Teacher doorsteps Minister Mavima over poor salary
A DISGRUNTLED Gokwe teacher was arrested at the weekend after he allegedly confronted Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima and told him off that he was contributing to his misery throu...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
International bidders for Zimbabwe dam projects
Government has floated an international tender for the construction of 19 major water infrastructure facilities, including dams and water purification structures to enhance agricultural production and...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:05hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF accused of plotting to destroy Chamisa
A top MDC official has sensationally claimed that party officials, especially those who will be voting in the upcoming congress are being paid large sums of money to vote out Nelson Chamisa from the p...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:31hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for unity
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has urged Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Province that has been rocked by divisions since the election period to close ranks and focus on rebuilding the party ahead of the 2023...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:44hrs | 2734 | by Staff reporter
National Reclamation Assembly confronts 'junta'!
There was pandamonium at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa offices as leadership of the National Reclamation Assembly stormed the building with their petition addressed to him and the interna...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1719 | by Advocate Walter Nyabadza
Mnangagwa shells out millions on cars
THE broke government is shelling out millions of dollars on vehicles for senior bureaucrats despite pledging to significantly cut expenditure under its much-publicised austerity plan, it has emerged....Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:44hrs | 4356 | by Staff reporter
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