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Why Zimbabwe should break free from the US dollar's grip
Government Up Close"Normalcy is that a country must have its own currency," President Mnangagwa is on record highlighting this fact.Some people have argued that one of the gravest fina...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:10hrs | 61 | by Nick Mangwana
Bosso, Dembare to jointly unveil Sakunda 2024 season kits
THE country's two most popular football teams Highlanders and Dynamos are today set to jointly unveil their 2024 season kits in Harare.They are set to be presented by principal sponsor Sakunda...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shambolic start for Harare minions
CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe was left to rue missed opportunities in his team's defeat to Chicken Inn, as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season got off to a disappointing start for all th...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare comes to town
IT doesn't get any better! All roads on Sunday lead to Barbourfields Stadium, a venue that will play host to the much-awaited Castle Lager Premier Soccer League potentially explosive encounter...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso invades Zvishavane
Outspoken Bosso head coach Baltermar Brito whose team has posted a series of slender wins against opponents, has come to the defence of his team saying the game of football is not all about posting ru...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bosso invade Mhondoro
HIGH RIDING Highlanders will on Sunday make the trip to Mhondoro for a top of the table clash against second placed Ngezi Platinum Stars that will be played at Baobab Stadium.With Bosso yet to...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
PSL backtracks on alcohol sale at matches
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has issued a warning against consumption of alcohol in stadia barely a month after resolving to allow its sale at matches this season.Last weekend's Harare derb...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man sets neighbour's hut on fire
A MAN from Dula Village in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North province thought the best way to revenge against a man who had beaten him up was to raid his homestead at night and lock his bedroom hut from ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'Lady of Steel' vows to humiliate Ziyambi in Zvimba West poll re-run
THE remaining candidate challenging Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in the upcoming Zanu-PF Zvimba West primary election re-run has vowed to hand him a humiliating defeat in the second round of votin...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Polad gobbles millions in taxpayers' money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad), hangs in the balance after gobbling millions of dollars in taxpayers' money as Zimbabwe hurtles towards make-or-break ge...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Report all violence to police, says Zanu-PF
Any victim of violence should immediately report to the police so that the assault is quickly investigated and culprits brought to book, Zanu-PF national spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has said....Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 14:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai threatens to quit MDC-T
MDC-T legislator Vincent Tsvangirai has made a turnabout saying he will not contest in upcoming 2023 elections if party leader Douglas Mwonzora remains at the helm of the opposition.Tsvangirai...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube splurges cash on teachers, farmers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday allocated the highest vote of ZW$631.3 billion to the education ministry in an attempt to appease restive teachers ahead of next year's general elections....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe face Bangladesh
Zimbabwe have presented themselves a "huge chance" to make the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup after their giant-killing act against Pakistan, but captain Craig Ervine wants his team to stay focussed...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chevrons target Pakistan upset
FROM one big test to another, the Zimbabwe national cricket team are today set to continue with their search of a big scalp at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup when they face former champions Pakistan at t...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso out to reclaim their home from Bulawayo City
IT'S a derby of two tales when Highlanders and Bulawayo City FC face-off on Sunday with the former aiming to bounce back to winning ways while the latter continues with their survival fight.Th...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 11 | by Dumisani Muleya
Zanu-PF Conference exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
The rivalry between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga came to the fore at the just ended Zanu-PF youth conference where the party avoided elections for the league's seco...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's councillors foil plot to side-foot Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora, still smarting from a humiliating defeat in the March 26 by-elections, suffered yet another blow to his political ambitions after his own party's councillors thwa...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ally lifts lid on Tagwirei's business exploits
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean anti-sanctions campaigner, Rutendo Matinyarare, has lifted the lid on how controversial Kudakwashe Tagwirei took risks to build his business empire from his retrenchment ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Herbert Gomba arrest; a ploy to embarrass Mnangagwa' Tino Chinyoka says
Former Petrotrade Board Chairperson Tinomudaishe Chinyoka has described the arrest of CCC member and former Harare Mayor Herbert Gomba as a ploy by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the National prosec...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 11:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hwange to feast on Quality Foods?
ZIFA Southern Region Division One pacesetters Hwange will make the long trip to Bulawayo to take on seventh-placed Quality Foods in a potentially exciting fixture that will be played at White City Sta...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zanu-PF tensions over polls
Zanu-PF is headed for renewed factional turbulence ahead of a string of fresh internal elections starting next month, NewZimbabwe.com can report.The ruling party, still smarting from highly co...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:09hrs | 6 | 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 | 8 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mwonzora a jockey on a dead horse
THE call made by fading MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora for a strong national dialogue, including MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is another well-cra...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:23hrs | 6 | by Leonard Koni
Headwinds stalk Zimbabwe insurers
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has warned that Zimbabwe's insurance sector faces one of its toughest times, with geopolitical tensions and disruptions to business models under ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Details on Sikhala's demotion emerge
Former MDC Alliance vice-chairman, Job Sikhala was recently demoted for his involvement in the founding of a party that was destined to split the MDC Alliance vote, it has emerged.Opposition l...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 13:11hrs | 9 | by Thokozani Zhou
Mliswa wants law protecting public officials from social media attacks
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has called on both government and parliament to introduce a law that would protect public officials from unfair attacks via social media.He was speaking in parli...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors suffer setback
INJURIES and illness have hit the Warriors camp ahead of tomorrow's must-win game against Burkina Faso in the ongoing African Nations Championships (Chan) tournament, with five players set to be ruled...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will be President again in 2023,' says Ngarivhume
OPPOSITION politician Jacob Ngarivhume sees a bleak future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe, and has resigned to the fact that the ruling Zanu-PF will win again in the 2023 elections.Ngariv...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whoever poisoned the late Bulawayo Town Clerk Middleton Nyoni, poisoned the whole of Bulawayo
I cannot prove that the former Town Cleck Middleton Nyoni was poisoned. I rely mostly on news in the social media. His death was suspicious though: I could not comprehend how he would have succumbed t...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 22:55hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Beware of post-lockdown gravy train
COVID-19 and the resultant lockdowns around the world, no doubt, killed the life for just about everybody and everything.Trans-border ships docked. That meant loss of thousands of direct and d...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Understanding method to 'madness' in urban councils
Nowadays, hardly a day passes without news headlines relaying salacious details of corrupt goings on in predominantly opposition run urban councils. Often, these headlines are accompanied by t...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Banishing West election observers will not stop Zanu PF demise - must rig economic recovery too
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fellow coup plotters knew the world at large did not approve of the November 2017 military coup that toppled Mugabe. To earn himself some brownie points, Mnangagwa...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe govt pleads with sceptical investors over Victoria Falls bourse
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has assured investors that they will be legally empowered to repatriate their earnings on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFSE).This comes in the wake of an es...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa tariff hike hits 100% inside a week
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on Thursday increased domestic electricity tariffs by 50 percent, the second such raise in a week.The ZESA subsidiary - s...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's e-rally speech Fulltext
THIS month marks the 21st anniversary of our struggle, our journey and our formidable political formation called the MDC which morphed into the MDC Alliance following processes which saw founding stal...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:49hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protests split Chamisa's MDC
SHARP divisions have emerged in the opposition MDC over how to confront the ruling Zanu-PF over the deteriorating economy and achieve meaningful political reforms before the 2023 elections.Ins...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa's MDC request recount of Lupane East by-election results
THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) applying for the recount of Lupane East by-election results. This comes after Za...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC goes for broke
MDC has gone all out to grab the Lupane East constituency from Zanu-PF, dispatching party heavyweights and its president Nelson Chamisa to drum up support for candidate Dalumazi Khumalo.Chamis...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Stafff reporter
Prophet Magaya protégé hogs limelight
All Families International Church (AFIC) Ministries is hogging the limelight in Mashonaland West province with droves of followers flocking the Prophet Chamunorwa Nyamupinga-led place of worship each ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh headache for Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa faces a delicate balancing act of making critical appointments to serve in his top party decision-making body, the national standing committee, amid jostling and lobbying by ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni says Chief Justice Malaba is captured by Zanu-PF
NTABAZINDUNA Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni on Saturday pulled another shocker when he attended the opposition MDC party congress, where he attacked the ruling Zanu-PF for "letting down the country"....Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean 'Beast' charms Sharks
LAST time a prop from Zimbabwe arrived at Sharks' Kings Park Stadium in Durban, he would turn out to be a record-breaking international player for South Africa - one of the world game's greats....Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a Fisher of Men, of Mwonzora and Fissures of Men
The African National Congress went into the Mangaung congress in 2012 deeply wounded because of consistent corruption scandals by figures in the national leadership. Jacob Zuma's political stock had d...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:32hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa a Fisher of Men, of Mwonzora and Fissures of Men
The African National Congress went into the Mangaung congress in 2012 deeply wounded because of consistent corruption scandals by figures in the national leadership. Jacob Zuma's political stock had d...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:11hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
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