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Herman Mashaba asks Ramaphosa to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwe
SOUTH African opposition Action South Africa party leader Herman Mashaba has urged the neighbouring country's government to impose economic sanctions on Zimbabwean government and Zanu-PF officials and...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1815 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Act will leave ZANU PF supporters out of the definition
The recently tabled patriotic bill in the Zimbabwe parliament will expose that ZANU PF supporters, surrogates and appendages are not patriotic.You cannot have a whole party that claims to have...Published: 14 hrs ago | 529 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Do our leaders and scientists even understand how COVID-19 vaccines work?
I am not trying to sound cocky - but, this is the question that has bothered me ever since the development and introduction of vaccines meant to fight and curb the COVID-19 pandemic.This quest...Published: 15 hrs ago | 446 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Britain overstepping its bounds on Zimbabwe
It boggles the mind why the British government seems not to understand that Zimbabwe ceased to be a colony of the Crown over four decades ago.How else should one explain the British's continuo...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm yet to start airport job seven months after contract
The multi-million-dollar contract to fix Zimbabwe's Air Traffic Control Communication Systems (ATCCS) by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is yet to commence, seven months after the Chinese mul...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets Western funding despite sanctions outcry
ZIMBABWE has so far received US$647.6 million in development assistance from Western countries in the period from January to September 2021 despite claims by the government that it is barred from rece...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:53hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suffers yet another diplomatic blow
THE United States government has poured cold water on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that he held a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden last month to discuss ways of removing sanctions agai...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:38hrs | 4987 | by Staff Reporter
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 749 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe makes strides on anti-money laundering
ZIMBABWE has made substantial strides on its action plan on money laundering, which may lead to its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) "grey list". The FATF was esta...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 14:18hrs | 940 | by Staff Reporter
'No individual can be bigger than Zimbabwe,' says Kasukuwere
EXILED former Zanu PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday urged the country's political leaders to stop pursuing selfish interests and unite to heal a deeply divided and impoverished Zimba...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 10:34hrs | 3607 | by Staff Reporter
I have never come across anyone who blames sanctions for our suffering - outside political rhetoric
The debate over the real cause of the seemingly unending untold suffering and unimaginable poverty that ordinary Zimbabweans have painfully (but, most worryingly with the patience of the pope) endured...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 22:24hrs | 1168 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Khaya Moyo was politically correct'
MATEBELELAND-BASED political analysts have described the late Zanu-PF spokesperson and former minister Simon Khaya Moyo as a "politically correct" person who avoided aligning himself with factions in ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:14hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 1896 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe a destination of choice in investments, says Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWE is a destination of choice in terms of investments with the country going up the ladder in the list of destinations with sound ease of doing business policies that will propel it to become an...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:22hrs | 251 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Chamisa desperate for international community support to remove Zanu PF
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is on a diplomatic charm offensive to ensure that he wins the impending 2023 polls.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjTLBpyxX4Zimbabwe has frosty rel...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 18:34hrs | 2859 | by Chamunorwa Guzha
'Zimbabwe has no law against sanctions advocates'
A SENIOR official in the Justice ministry, Patience Dhokwani yesterday told Parliament that Zimbabwe had no law to penalise citizens for soliciting for imposition of sanctions on the country.D...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
SRC dissolves Zifa, ready for backlash
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) have dissolved the ZIFA board and are ready for the storm which their decision could provoke, including the possible suspension of Zimbabwe, from internation...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:11hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Lifting sanctions must not benefit 'those who steal' ED acolytes told to their faces - still, they did not hear
Zanu PF leaders and their acolytes know that sanctions are not the root cause of the country's economic meltdown and yet they continue to promote this false narrative purely for propaganda purposes. T...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 20:30hrs | 975 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
UK cleric says no mercy for Zimbabwean 'thieves'
EFFORTS by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to get the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to seek help for the removal of sanctions face headwinds after the cleric sa...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's upper-middle income economy plans in disarray
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his administration will be able to push to fulfil its long-term plan of transforming Zimbabwe into an upper-middle income economy in line with Vision 2030 if the illegal e...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's fake victimhood, internal ructions and sanctions
Over the years, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction has perfected the art of creating stunts to attract the West's attention in the vain and ill-placed hope of besmirching President Mnangagwa and to wrin...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 192 | by Nobleman Runyanga
The letter of deceit
Prodigious things always happen. Reading the letter which Emerson Mnangagwa wrote to Zimbabweans and published on the 9th of November 2017 after he had been dismissed from both government and party is...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:27hrs | 1219 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Bankers plan to establish a new financial behemoth
ON 3 September 2021, The NewsHawks exclusively published a story that government, bankers and investors, including local business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei, are working on a plan to create the bigges...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:45hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
CBZ swoops on FML shares as new financial group emerges
CBZ Holdings, currently trading under cautionary, has secured a 31.22% stake in First Mutual Holdings Limited (FML), paving the way for the creation of a US$2.5 billion financial behemoth to rival Old...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Zidera and sanctions simplified
THE United States Congress passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) in 2001. The Act has been subsequently revised, with the most recent amendment being in 2019. It is a very s...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 07:39hrs | 1286 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chinamasa says polls a waste of resources
Zanu-PF acting national commissar Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said holding by-elections barely a year to the 2023 harmonised polls was a waste of time and resources.This came after President E...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 5398 | by Staff reporter
$8 billion target for Intwasa programme
HEAVY rains that fell in Gokwe North District from Wednesday night till yesterday morning brought relief to villagers after days of high temperatures.And that relief turned into celebration wh...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt, Chamisa's MDC in fresh abduction war
GOVERNMENT and the MDC Alliance are embroiled in a fresh abduction war as Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday accused the opposition of making fake claims that its party vice-president Ten...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Police, MDC dismiss Biti abduction claims
Both the police and the MDC-Alliance have dismissed social media reports that MDC-A vice president Mr Tendai Biti was abducted at his Harare home on Monday.Social media stories had indicated M...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised to become major steel producer
ZIMBABWE will soon become one of the biggest steel producing countries in the world after the establishment of the new world class iron and steel plant at Manhize in Mashonaland West province next yea...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:18hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Dembare ref suspended
ZIFA have cracked the whip on controversial referee, Munyaradzi Majoni, by suspending the blundering match official for two months after a shocking show, which made a mockery of the country's refereei...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
5 pieces of evidence that show why Mnangagwa's trip to the UK was a complete disaster
Over a week after the beginning of the COP26 Climate change summit, all Zimbabweans will have come to the conclusion that Mnangagwa's trip to Scotland did not achieve what he wanted it to do. In fact,...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 19:40hrs | 1536 | by Dudzai Mukondorongwe
US 'snubs' Zimbabwe for democracy summit
ZIMBABWE is one of the countries that has not been invited to the United States democracy summit next month, with observers saying the snub confirmed the frosty relations between the two countries des...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough as Zimbabwe pastors meet Anglican leader over sanctions
A delegation of Zimbabwean clerics organized as the Zimbabwe churches' sanctions relief initiative (ZICSRI) on Monday held a meeting with Anglican's global leader met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jus...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 19:54hrs | 1984 | by Mandla Ndlovu
COP26 was a flop for Mnangagwa and everyone saw it
It's been almost a week now since the dictator of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa flew into the UK for the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow. Looking back ...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 07:23hrs | 3393 | by Deborah Harry
COP26 delegation exposes Mnangagwa rhetoric, says Felix Ndiweni
OUTSPOKEN former Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's United Kingdom trip for the COP26 summit last week as extravagant after he reportedly to...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 1221 | by Staff reporter
The party and Mnangagwa's lost COP26 opportunity
"Our country is falling apart….never mind, let's party!" ran a headline in one of the United Kingdom (UK)'s daily tabloids and one of its most read newspapers.The headline was, of course, ab...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions impact civil registration process
Illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, have crippled the civil registration process and created a backlog of over 400 000 passports, Home Affairs and Cultural Herit...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:22hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 1842 | by Staff reporter
If empty chairs are an audience then re-engagement is at its lowest
With pomp and ceremony, the hired private jet left Harare (former Salisbury) to Glasgow Scotland in the United Kingdom. The jet was flying the largest contingent to the Cop26 conference, the Earth sum...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:27hrs | 424 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 2701 | by Zakhele Maphosa
EFF protests to US over Zimbabwe sanctions
THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe has written to the United States (US) Embassy in Harare protesting over how sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe have resulted in the suffering of ordinary citize...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:14hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa briefs party supporters on UK trip
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa passed through Bulawayo on Friday morning enroute to Lupane State University where he officiated at the institution's graduation ceremony.The President who was welcomed by ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:10hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK in diplomatic breakthrough?
DIPLOMATIC relations between the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe have been escalated to the highest political level, breaking a two-decade long impasse in a major breakthrough for Harare's re-engagement d...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Glasgow trip a missed opportunity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Glasgow, Scotland, was a missed opportunity for Zimbabwe to meaningfully engage world leaders on climate matters, but instead he reduced the all-important summi...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cocktail encounters and futility of summit diplomacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his publicists climbed Mount Everest celebrating inevitable chats with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and happenstance exchanges at a cocktail with Un...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:56hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Leaked chats expose Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's plot to disrupt MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's ongoing rural outreach programme has been exposed after chats from a ruling party's WhatsApp group went viral, with members accusing each...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:41hrs | 5148 | by Staff reporter
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