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Zinara gets thumbs-up
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has received parliamentary approval after effectively addressing concerns raised in the latest report by Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga regarding its...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:23hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Lilstock Dam at Chinehasha, the new tourist destination in Chiweshe.
Development starts with good roads, especially the modern macadamised passageways. The investor intent on turning Lilstock Dam shores at Chinehasha in Chiweshe into a sort-after holiday resort has wel...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 22:21hrs | 35 | by Thomas Murisa
Bounty offered for Western tanks in Ukraine
A Russian battalion will pay $170,000 for a Leopard, Abrams, or Challenger captured in working conditionA Russian battalion offered a bounty on Friday for every operational Western-made tank s...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's shadowy group invades schools
A SHADOWY group backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to maintain a stranglehold on power has invaded schools to solicit the support of teachers ahead of next year's crunch elections.Oper...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 20:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is COVID-19 narrative driven by science or just pure psychology?
In life we have those who question whatever they are told, and those who believe what is either said by an authority figure, or accepted by the majority.In psychology, it is referred to as "co...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 18:08hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ICC give Zimbabwe thumbs-up in World Cup hosting
INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council representative, Sally Higgins, is confident the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, currently taking place in Harare, will be a huge success.Zimbabwe is host...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Facebook changes its name
Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand.The company said it would better "encompass" what it does, as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas li...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback' - a feeble excuse cum insult cum tool for oppression
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe are a setback to stability in our region. Botswana therefore calls on the international community to end sanctions against Zim...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
South African study reveals how people perceive emoticons
Most of the youngsters, including people both from the millennial and Gen Z generation prefer to use their smartphones, not only for staying active on different social media platforms but also for cha...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:31hrs | 16 | by Staff Writer
'Zimbabwe going in wrong direction'
THE majority of Zimbabweans are not happy with the direction the country is taking, a recent survey has revealed.According to findings by Afrobarometer, a pan-African, nonpartisan, non-profit ...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa awaits CAF verdict on NSS
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is waiting for CAF's verdict on whether the National Sports Stadium is fit to host next month's final Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Zambia. ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to appreciate Zimbabwe progress
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zifa boss speaks on Umbro kit
Zifa president Felton Kamambo has expressed his satisfaction with the new Warriors' kit recently unveiled by British sportswear firm Umbro ahead of the national team's participation at the 2019 Cosafa...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa pockets $100m in dividends
STRIVE Masiyiwa has pocketed close to US$100 million as dividend payouts from his investment in Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (EWZ) since 2009, businessdigest has established.According to Econet Wi...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland chiefs' thumbs-up for Gukurahundi debate
Traditional leaders have hailed President Mnangagwa's stance that Gukurahundi should be openly debated, with Chiefs Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira saying the move by the President will bri...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa shot himself in foot in rigging elections' - gene is out of the bottle
I would like to congratulate the Daily News in breaking the tradition of vague and ambivalent coverage of last year's elections and why the west is right in maintaining the sanctions against Mnangagwa...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Masiyiwa family philanthropic efforts get thumbs-up
YOUTH economic pressure group Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya) had urged local youths to emulate the philanthropic efforts of of global telecommunications group Econet Wireless founder and C...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mthuli Ncube must resign, demand teachers
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is calling on Zimbabweans, the employed and unemployed alike, to besiege Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's office on January 7, 2019 to demand h...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa grows business empire
ECONET Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa this week consolidated his position as one of Zimbabwe's richest investors after his fintech company, Cassava SmarTech (CSZL), became the most valuable counter ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive drugs, ambulances from India
Indian Vice-President Shri Venkaiah Naidu, who left the country yesterday, assured President Mnangagwa that his country will offer immediate assistance to Zimbabwe's health sector, in what has come as...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Industry frets over violence
INDUSTRIALISTS have expressed concern over the political violence that gripped the country on Wednesday, saying it was a step in the wrong direction at a time the country has embarked on a massive gro...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Observers raise red flag over elections
INTERNATIONAL observers watching over Zimbabwe's watershed elections have raised the red flag over the way Monday's elections were held, although those based in the region largely gave a thumbs-up to ...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa engage in show of force
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa wound up their campaigns by mounting massive rallies in Harare yesterday, ahead of tomorrow's watershed national elections, with both ...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa eclipses Mnangagwa?
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday drew a bumper crowd in his final rally, eclipsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose campaign engagement across town attracted a paltry cr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC read EU observers riot act: 'You are not monitors!' - observe but say nothing and touch nothing
ZEC has read the riot act to the International Election observers reminding them in no uncertain terms that they are OBSERVERS and not monitors. "The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chairperson ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
War vets give thumbs-up to Tongai Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF losing candidates in Harare South National Assembly constituency and war veterans have pledged to work together with winning candidate, Tongai Mnangagwa, to ensure election victory for the rev...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Will Zanu PF rig the elections? May be yes/no/what if/but! replied 'indecisive' Biti
Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Chris Dell, characterised the late MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in a leaked cable to Washington as "a flawed and indecisive character." Time has proven the ambassad...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 19:11hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF opens primaries race
THE Zanu-PF politburo yesterday opened the race for primary elections, with the party's national commissar Engelbert Rugeje expected to immediately initiate the candidate selection process in all prov...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa in secret talks
A deal has been put on the table to end the bickering between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, as the ruling Zanu-PF party races against time to end internal discord be...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso candidates out
HIGHLANDERS' electoral committee will this afternoon announce names of successful candidates that will contest in the club's executive elections on February 4.Eight candidates are vying for th...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo charges politically motivated
FORMER higher education minister Jonathan Moyo has dismissed criminal charges being levelled against him by government, arguing that the accusations are part of a politically-motivated plot by an ille...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' naivety and gullibility our greatest weakness
I was amazed listening to last evening's Voice of America (VOA) Studio 7 news, whereby People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti was venting his disappointment with the cabinet appointed by Z...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 07:04hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's executive decisions prove the continuation of Mugabe regime
If further proof of our long held view that newly-appointed Zimbabwean President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was merely a continuation of his predecessor Robert Gabriel Mugabe, then his latest executi...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Norton Mayor Thumbs-Up AusAid
Norton Zimbabwe - Her Worship the sitting Mayor of Norton Town, Clr Precious Mufahore, has commended the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid) for bringing to an end over two decade...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 21:35hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Has Mugabe finally opened his eyes?
President Robert Mugabe's admission that government has been carrying the burden of most parastatals that were under-performing must have been surprising for many.Mugabe disclosed during an in...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
It is erroneous to assume 2013 elections were free and fair - they were not
"(MDC-T VP Thokozani) Khupe has been clear that she believes there is no need for a coalition in Matabeleland, but rather in the Mashonaland provinces, where MDC-T has performed badly in the past, alt...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 16:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
No 'hard evidence' to prove 2013 elections were rigged, say Mavhinga - denier's mind-set
Those who choose to deny the past and often forced to relive the same mistake."In the years and decades after World War II, the German society - while overwhelming rejecting Nazi ideology afte...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's violence needs a violent response
Recent reports of a spike in violent acts by the Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF junta against the opposition in Zimbabwe, as we move closer towards the 2018 elections, requires only one response - counter-vi...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 09:33hrs | | by Kelvin Kudenga
'MDC-T will go it alone'
THE opposition MDC-T has said it is ready to go it alone in next year's harmonised elections if its intended coalition partners develop cold feet, in the latest episode of opposition parties giving co...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is lying 2018 elections will be 'free and fair'
Now that VP Mnangagwa has said next year's elections will be free and fair and free of violence; will this be enough to reassure the Zimbabwe Social Democrats and make them contest the elections?...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai at it again with BVR
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai last week made a surprise declaration that the biometric voter registration (BVR) process would not be manipulated.This is quite bold considering that Tsvangira...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 08:30hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Tsvangirai given the thumbs-up to BVR
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has given the thumbs-up to Chinese company, Laxton Group Limited, which recently won a tender to supply biometric voter registration (BVR) kits for next year's general e...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Moyo 'is not stupid', says Nomazulu - in contesting flawed 2018 he is both stupid and greedy
My dear sister, Nomazulu, Nkosana Moyo or anyone else for that matter contesting next year's elections with no reforms in place and expect to beat Zanu PF has nothing to do with the challenger doing h...Published: 13 May 2017 at 16:25hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
UN deals Tsvangirai et al heavy blow
THE United Nations has dealt a heavy blow to opposition calls for government to desist from taking over the procurement of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits after the world body stated the m...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe faces united opposition in 2018, says Tsvangirai
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has declared President Robert Mugabe will definitely face a united opposition in the 2018 general elections.With calls for an opposition coalitio...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Untouchable bullies' abusing CDF funds
IN Zimbabwe's august House some (dis) honourable members flex their necks or move around with an articulated swagger to show off to an assembly of other respected MPs the stuff of which they are made....Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Stephen Mpofu
'Mugabe's word is final'
President Mugabe's warning to Zanu-PF members against factional fighting linked to successionism is final and there should be no further debate around "petty" differences, a senior Politburo official ...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Kuda Bwiti and Lincoln Towindo
MDC-T calls for 'no sacred cow' investigation into the looting of Marange diamonds - sweet music to hear
"There should also be a thorough due diligence exercise to determine what exactly happened to the alluvial diamonds from Marange and Chiadzwa," wrote MDC-T spokesman Obert Gutu. "If heads have to roll...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 20:53hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Kasukuwere nullifies Zanu-PF Mash East suspensions
Zanu-PF National Political Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere has nullified last week's suspension and expulsion of some party members in Mashonaland East Province.The Mashonaland East provincial i...Published: 22 Apr 2015 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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