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Mwonzora's MDC chickens out of by-elections
THE opposition MDC Alliance, led by Douglas Mwonzora, has resolved not to contest any by-elections following humiliating defeats in recent by-elections, NewsDay has learnt.The party said it wo...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1857 | by Staff reporter
There will never be any national development without strictly holding the Zimbabwe government to account
From time immemorial, there has always been a debate on why countries in the West are as economically developed as they are.Of course, it is nearly impossible to arrive at a consensus - but, t...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:11hrs | 293 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
There's no bright future for Zimbabwe as long as we have leaders who lack honest introspection!
Whether it is in a counselling session, or rehabilitation program for some personal challenges, or a sincere desire to transform one's life for the better - there is always one key critical determinan...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:34hrs | 374 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Patriotic bill, a misplaced priority
There is economic collapse in the country and people are living from hand to mouth. The government should prioritise drafting economic laws and strong eco...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 19:24hrs | 241 | by Leonard Koni
The fog has cleared in Zimbabwe, writes Nelson Chamisa
AT the beginning of last year, I wrote an article in which I promised that "the fog will soon clear".The article was at a time when the movement was facing adverse circumstances. It was a mess...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1504 | by Nelson Chamisa
IMF notes show no appetite for reform
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its Article IV Consultation with Zimbabwe on 21 March 2022. The press release noted that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose b...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 16:50hrs | 631 | by Victor Bhoroma
Govt depts, ministries fail to account for $1,3bn
THE Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri has decried continued failure to account for public funds by ministries and government departments, which resulted in more than $1,3 billion expenditure not bein...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zimra systems in shambles
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) systems are in a shambles, with companies and individuals being made to pay for the tax collector's inefficiency while the authority is also suffering huge finan...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
IMF notes show no appetite for reform
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its Article IV Consultation with Zimbabwe on 21 March 2022. The press release noted that real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose b...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 12:34hrs | 1037 | by Victor Bhoroma
Lessons on how Russia is dealing with Western sanctions
It is just about a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So far there are no signs of abating even when both sides have continued to express willingness to engage in dialogue and end the war. While the ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:51hrs | 1155 | by Tapiwa Gomo
IMF sees positive economic recovery signs in Zimbabwe
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says there are positive signs of the economic recovery in Zimbabwe starting last year after two years of recession, adding that Government had done well in addres...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Zec flags up State media bias
OutGOING Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) spokesperson Joyce Kazembe has decried partisan coverage of the March 26 by-elections by the State media.Kazembe called on the public media to ensu...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
'MDC grossly erred on sanctions'
BLESSING Chebundo has seen more than his contemporaries in politics.After starting off as a trade unionist when Zimbabwe gained Independence, then being a founding member of the opposition Mov...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:03hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
CCC links Chiwenga threats to violence outbreak
THE Nelson Chamisa led Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC) has called on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to retract statements he made on February 26, where he threatened to crush the opposi...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:32hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Had Chamisa actually said to bring back whites he would have surely been guaranteed my vote!
I hate political correctness! I also loath not expressing what I truly feel and think - for fear of what people would think, or of a public backlash.In fact, the main reason the world ...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 15:27hrs | 2025 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How politics destroys home-grown solutions
FOLLOWING the success of politics in liberating African countries from colonial injustice, a mindset that has been planted in Africa is that politics has a monopoly on all solutions. Unfortunately, th...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:54hrs | 251 | by Charles Dhewa
RBZ tells banks to shape up or ship out
BANKING sector experts have thrown their weight behind the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s move to tighten screws on operators that fail to comply with new minimum capital requirements, which came in...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans unnecessary international travel by ministers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has ordered Cabinet ministers and senior civil servants to immediately stop unnecessary international travel and double their efforts towards serving the people.The Preside...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
SECZim appoints acting CEO
THE Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZim) has appointed Gerald Dzangare acting chief executive officer following the departure of Tafadzwa Chinamo at the end of January.Dzang...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Zacc keeps an eye on parastatals
ONLY 26 percent of Zimbabwe's parastatals are implementing the recommendations in Auditor-General's report, a development that is worrying the Zimbabwe Anti-corruption Commission (Zacc).Each y...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition has let down electorate
SEVERAL fringe opposition parties in the country have failed to field candidates in all the contested seats, a situation which analysts say has given the ruling Zanu-PF party an upper hand.The...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans sold a dummy by the coup
In 2017 some months after the coup, people were still gripped with some frenzy of excitement that Robert Mugabe the once powerful leader who ruled by iron fist has been dethroned.Many people v...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:30hrs | 619 | by Leonard Koni
Smith was right when he predicted that Blacks, not necessarily ZANU PF, would destroy Zimbabwe!
I really get thoroughly disappointed with the direction in which our country has gone.In fact, disappointment is never the appropriate word - rather, anger and downright infuriation.Of...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 12:02hrs | 1690 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe crafting own graft perception index
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) says it is developing a local corruption perception index (CPI) after global rankings by anti-occupation watchdogs showed that graft was endemic in the c...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:54hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Warriors selection raises eyebrows?
WHEN we thought that the madness and direness of the captured football by the expelled ZIFA board led by Felton Kamambo was slowly opening up a new feeling of sanity, the selection of the AFCON squad ...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:43hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters hit Zimbabwe Exemption Permit visa seekers
DESPERATE attempts by some Zimbabweans in South Africa to clandestinely acquire special work permits are reportedly backfiring amid reports that many are being conned to believe they will be assisted ...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:39hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
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: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' fear of their oppressors makes them an attractive magnet for dictators!
I have often wondered whether Zimbabweans were the easiest people to oppress on this planet.I once even wrote any article, some years ago, postulating that Zimbabweans themselves were the main...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:45hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders worst start in five seasons
HIGHLANDERS' 2-0 defeat to Black Rhinos in their opening match of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League at the National Sports Stadium was their worst start in the championship in five seasons....Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
He who acknowledges his failings has started his journey to success
Have Zimbabweans ever wondered why they appear 'cursed' - in a country seemingly entrapped in a never-ending vicious cycle of economic malaise and poverty, whereby each minute is expended on how to ju...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Warriors out of World Cup qualifiers
Zimbabwe 0 – 1 GhanaWARRIORS' goalkeeper Talbert Shumba's shocking howler drove the final nail in Zimbabwe's quest for the 2022 World Cup, following the defeat to Ghana, at the Natio...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Show us criminals that surrounded Gushungo
My People,Ignatius Chombo, the man who was branded the biggest criminal around Gushungo, is now a free man.Chombo was seized by soldiers on the night of the infamous coup while sleepin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Dr Stop It
Mnangagwa's leadership deficiency exposed by Zanu-PF's vicious factional fights
GROWING infighting in Zanu-PF, especially among President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies in his political citadel, the Midlands, is testimony to weak leadership which has failed to stem the internal stri...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 has paralysed Zimbabwe'
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday said the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had paralysed the economy and increased the country's domestic and international debt burden....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Current digital banking trends in the US
Due to the pandemic, most industries across the globe have been forced to adapt and transform ways of doing business. Digitization has arguably been the most important tool for this, due to social dis...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 12:23hrs | 4 | by Staff Writer
Rwanda keen on Zimbabwean teachers
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said Zimbabwe and his country share a common history that gives impetus to current efforts to develop the two countries and consolidate existing relations.The...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
No progress on electoral reforms, says Zesn
ZIMBABWE has not covered much ground in terms of implementing electoral reforms to enable the smooth running of credible, free and fair elections due in two years' time.This was revealed in a ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A nationalist hero and authoritarian dictator
A group of Robert Gabriel Mugabe admirers, linked to Zanu-PF, has published a profile of Robert Mugabe. They are trying to provide a profile of the late president, combining both the positive and nega...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 4 | by Fay Chung
ZESA bosses exonerate Jere in US$3, 5 million meter tender
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company bosses who are state witnesses in the case in which Helcraw Electrical director Farai Jere implicated in a fraudulent US$3, 5 million smart m...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZSE-listed firms defy SecZim
ZIMBABWE'S listed companies have ignored implementing several measures put in place by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SecZim) about six years ago to enhance disclosure levels in f...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Banks wary of lending out US dollar loans
ZIMBABWE'S banks are sitting on US$1.7 billion and not willing to lend it to corporates due to the uncertainty around currency reforms which exposes them if they issue United States dollar-denominated...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Elections without reforms is repeating mistakes but expecting different results
IT pleasing to see that the media, mainly independent media, have begun to remind opposition parties and civil society organisations in the country that preparations for 2023 election need to start no...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:24hrs | 5 | by Tapiwa Gomo
MDC has a strong president but no party to talk about says British Professor
British professor of world politics Stephen Chan says it would be difficult for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance to emulate Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema's electoral landslide as it only...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 20:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rename Botswana
Not all citizens of the country are Batswana. The name of the country celebrates tribalism before independence. Bakalanga were not called Batswana. I am not a Motswana - Dr Habaudi Hubona The name is ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 21:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi Community Parliament: The model for peace in Matabeleland
The recently established, Nkayi Community Parliament, which fosters community involvement, participation and the development of Nkayi District, is a haven of ideas, peace, mutual respect and political...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:24hrs | 4 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Zimbabwe lacks political will to fight corruption'
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has decried lack of political will in the fight to stamp out graft, especially on COVID-19 funds abuse following recent revelations by the Audi...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Backyard drug peddling exposed
SOME unscrupulous health professionals in Harare are running backyard pharmacies in blatant contravention of regulations that prohibit unlicensed personnel from selling drugs to the public.Inq...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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