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'Call all progressives to petition for ED and Chamisa GNU' - what progress, be Zanu PF in all but name
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Said the Spanish/American philosopher and essayist George Santayana. After 40 years of blundering from pillar to post and with ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1701 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2074 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe's political climate remains tense
WITH Zimbabwe's political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the militar...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans launch petitition to force Mnangagwa - Chamisa to dialogue
A certain section of Zimbabweans has launched an online petition calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to unite for the sake of the suffering population....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 15:07hrs | 7939 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe food crisis worse than last year: UN agency
AFOOD security report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that Zimbabweans are worse-off than they were a year after the launch of the humanitarian ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Chanisa aligned EU ruled out providing budgetary support to Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out providing budgetary support to Zimbabwe to stabilise its economy citing lack of accountability and high-level corruption.EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Ol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 5197 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Matulana drops collabo album
BULAWAYO-BASED kanindo musician Obadiah Matulana, who is known as Dr Jah Kanindo, collaborated with a South Africa-based rhumba group from Matabeleland South, Mlambo Express, and released an album tit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5723 | by Staff reporter
Give Us Confidence Cde President
Dear Cde President, I know chances of you reading this letter are next to zero but all the same I write to you on the basis of you being "a listening President". Cde President it is crystal cl...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 18:24hrs | 3351 | by Munya Shumba
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 11995 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, CIOs threaten nurses
NURSES at St Alberts Mission Hospital, Mt Darwin, were reportedly threatened by Zanu-PF youths and State spy agents after notifying the district medical officer Kelvin Mupunga last week of their inten...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 3329 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
'Deployment of Zimbabwe army to Mozambique dangerous lies'
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has described as dangerous rumours and lies, reports government has deployed Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) soldiers to Mozambique to help that country quell an...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 923 | by newzimbabwe
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Introduction - Reform Agenda Part 1 of 3
1. What is the Reform Agenda?The Reform Agenda is a politically conscious organisation that seeks to inform and influence political and civic outcom...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 375 | by Robert Sigauke
The differences between Malawi events and Zimbabwe.
I have been closely following the events of Malawi for the recent and the people comparing the situation to Zimbabwe.In my view in this article l would beg to differ that the situation was the...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:36hrs | 2868 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
'Grace Mugabe heckler turning in his grave'
THE late former Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth leader Magura Charumbira, one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's staunchy supporters at the height of the ruling party's factional wars in 2017, must be turning i...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:49hrs | 4762 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans can't breath under Zanu-PF
WHEN I look at what is happening in my beloved country, my heart bleeds. I feel like tearing myself apart with anger. I feel like I don't belong to this nation and yet Zimbabwe is my only country whic...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 707 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Hunger hits Zanu-PF stronghold
Hungry Buhera villagers are emptying their cattle pens as they are being forced to exchange their cattle for grain.This was said by several Zanu-PF councillors who spoke to The Mirror in inter...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:22hrs | 3945 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa told to go back to the drawing board
BATTERED and bruised MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, should go back to the drawing board and come up with new strategies to fight for his political life in the wake of the political and legal loss...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:49hrs | 2115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 561 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8856 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3242 | by AFP
ED time is up - Sikhala
MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's time is up and he must resign before he is embarrassed by the disgruntled citizens due to his failure to ru...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1745 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa facing an imminent end to his reign'
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6198 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance itches for Mnangagwa showdown
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 775 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1430 | by Thandekile Moyo
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5391 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Open letter to RBZ governor Mangudya
Dear Governor,I hope I find you well and in good spirits in your office on Samora Machel Avenue, Harare.My last article, Arresting Inflation in Zimbabwe, a couple of weeks back drew brickb...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 5075 | by Bart Star-James
Mnangagwa's govt must at least provide the basics
The dirty water phenomenon has final arrived in the great City of Kings and Queens. We all knew this as the trademark of Harare. The government and city fathers seem to be clueless about solving the w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 149 | by Lubani Nondo
NRZ: Mnangagwa's govt in catch-22 situation
GOVERNMENT has instructed the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board to fire the parastatal's management for poor performance and gross mismanagement of the parastatals' affairs, Southern Eye on Su...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 'The worst still to come'
DR Solwayo Ngwenya, a veteran medical practitioner is a worried man. He believes there seems to be lack of seriousness in flattening the coronavirus curve by the ordinary citizens and officials to an ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for Mzingwane High
FORMER Mzingwane High School pupils have donated 148 chairs and desks to the school as part of efforts to enhance learning at the institution.The donation comes at a time the school is facing ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 248 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Benjani donates to Highlanders players
FORMER Manchester City forward, Benjani Mwaruwari yesterday donated foodstuffs to Highlanders players, Zulu Chiefs social soccer club and Old Magwegwe community to cushion them against the effects of ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Boarding schools open today
BOARDING schools will open today to receive pupils who will be writing June/ July examinations that start on Tuesday.As part of ensuring the smooth running of examinations, the Government has ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt will not print money'
THE government will not print more money to alleviate the cash shortages in the country, Deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, has said.Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Chid...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu vows Mnangagwa confrontation
EXPELLED Zanu-PF youth league commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has made startling claims the country was better governed by late former President Robert Mugabe than it is now under Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 16:58hrs | 2396 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa shot himself in the foot
Nelson Chamisa shot himself in the foot by behaving like a Zanu-PF thug and seizing power after Tsvangirai's death. We all know that Zanu-PF is nosing around looking for an opportunity to divide its p...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 7715 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4731 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt ignores striking nurses'
STRIKING nurses yesterday vowed to continue with their industrial action after government allegedly spurned their engagement efforts and ignored their call for decent salaries.Zimbabwe Nurses ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Musona joins Kas Eupen
Zimbabwe captain, Knowledge Musona, has agreed to extend his loan deal with Belgian First Division A outfit, KAS Eupen, until the end of next season. KAS Eupen confirmed an extension to Musona...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Rare praises for General Chiwenga over winning court case
Fathers Rights Movement Zimbabwe (FRMZ) has issued a statement congratulating Vice President Rt General Constantino Chiwenga for winning a Supreme Court appeal against a High Court order that ga...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 13:21hrs | 3198 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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