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Free the airwaves
There are no limits to the depths this inept and rag tag regime is willing to sink.On the 3rd of May 2021 the globe shall be commemorating the World Press Freedom Day and thus the time to refl...Published: 4 hrs ago | 344 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's wife interfered with The Herald Editor's job
FORMER Herald Editor, Tichaona Zindoga has opened up on his tough experience when he was at the helm of the state controlled daily where he claims First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa constantly interfered w...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Matonga in new Zanu-PF war vets wing
FORMER Information deputy minister, Bright Matonga, who was 11 years old at independence 1980, has been appointed into the Mashonaland West chapter of the newly constituted Zanu-PF Veterans of the Lib...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Undenge freed from jail
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge, who was jailed for an effective 36 months for abuse of office in 2018, has been released in a Presidential clemency order. Undenge ...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere was ready to die
Former Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has spoken in detail about how his family and that of former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo survived an assault on his Harare home by ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 2732 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks about Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country could only put closure to the emotive 1980s Gukurahundi genocide issue by allowing victims to openly and frankly debate it without fear of reprisals....Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:50hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Digitalisation to usher 12 new TV stations in ZImbabwe
INFORMATION, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa says the transformation of the media landscape from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting will improve signal ...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:35hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe TV goes digital
ZIMBABWE will soon have free-to-air digital television services through 12 stations following the successful and historic switch-over yesterday, from the analogue signal to Digital Terrestrial Televis...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves from analogue broadcasting to digital
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa is expected to launch the Digital Terrestrial Television this morning in Magunje.Minister Mutsvangwa is acc...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 10:12hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
Government to avail land
ZIMBABWE agricultural land backlog stands at over 200 000 and the Government will soon be availing the land to potential beneficiaries once modalities on the land audit are complete, a Cabinet Ministe...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:25hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash, WhatsApp fraud totals US$100 million
Criminals have been hacking EcoCash and WhatsApp accounts, using stolen identities of persons trusted by others in a WhatsApp group, offer US dollars at good rates, but after receiving the local curre...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
PSL needs SuperSport as its broadcast partner
LOCAL football is set to return early next month in the form of a cup championship after almost 18 months on suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.While all but one of the 18 clubs are ready...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's Alum Mpofu dies
ZANU PF legislator for Mberengwa South, Alum Mpofu collapsed and died this Sunday evening in Masvingo.The lawmaker reportedly collapsed at his home in Masvingo and was rushed to a local privat...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 19:58hrs | 4085 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on deaths of fellow generals
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga says he feels hurt after losing his fellow former military generals, Perrance Shiri, Sibusiso Moyo and Paradzai Zimondi describing them as "great friends."A...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 7828 | by Staff reporter
MDC's poor appreciation of economy rears its ugly head
Last week an image of a Chicken Slice outlet, which was vandalised by someone who used some spray paint to create a graffiti message appealing for the release of some MDC Alliance activists remanded i...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:38hrs | 435 | by Nobleman Runyanga
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 324 | by John Masuku
Mnangagwa likely violated Constitution and must face the consequences
A major public controversy has erupted over the recent resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi over sexual impropriety scandals and President Mnangagwa not giving a public notice of the resignation...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 15:58hrs | 1977 | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
If Zim govt calls Dendairy's displacement of people from their ancestral land 'investment', so can we say Rhodes was an 'investo
To say I was shocked by the lame, disingenuous, and shamefully ridiculous attempts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitize the septic, cruel, and repulsive displacement of over 12,000 Chilonga villager...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:23hrs | 1074 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Energy Mutodi files police report
Former Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has filed a police report against an impostor accused of identity theft.This report follows a Facebook post purported to be from Energy Mutodi ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 10:03hrs | 4074 | by Claris Magwenzi
Dreaming of Zimbabwe: Stories from the diaspora
NEARLY 24 years ago, Lance Guma came face to face with a gun. A man had followed him out of the main post office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, before attempting to provoke him into an argument. L...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's damning scorecard from allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to breathe life into an outfit he has been touting as the panacea to Zimbabwe's intractable political and economic reforms in a telling assessment of his le...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF stuck in a cycle of old habits
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa was installed as President of Zimbabwe in November 2017 following a military coup and his predecessor Robert Mugabe's enforced resignation, he boldly announced to the...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:18hrs | 506 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Trials before vaccination, demands Rights lawyers
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wants government to conduct clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine and other Covid-19 drugs before administering the jabs on the population.Howev...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda roasts Mutsvangwa
NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda Wednesday took information minister Monica Mutsvangwa to task over the absence of both state and private media during sitting.Mudenda, during the questi...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 6185 | by Staff reporter
Zapu demands level playing field
OPPOSITION Zapu has called for talks led by a neutral person before the 2023 polls.Zapu believes that the talks will end Zanu-PF's monopoly of using state apparatus during election campaign pe...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mbudziyadhura's health deteriorates
POPULAR actor Blessing Chimhowa who plays Mbudziyadhura in the Gringo series broadcast on ZBCTV - was rushed to a local clinic in Gweru in the early hours of Wednesday after developing abdominal compl...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:57hrs | 4987 | by Staff reporter
ZBC hikes radio, TV licence fees
ZBC has hiked radio and television licence fees with motor vehicle radio licence fees rising to $450 from $300 per term. A radio licence for a household is now $75 per quarter in rural areas, ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chinamasa died and has been resurrected
Zanu PF heavyweight Patrick Chinamasa who was reported on social media to have died has trashed the reports revealing that he was very much alive.In an interview with ZBC's Reuben Barwe on the...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 20:32hrs | 3339 | by Staff reporter
Dr Shingi Munyeza showed the Character of a leader
Sometime at the end of the year 2020, my Senior Founding Apostle at Victory Fellowship Church in Bulawayo, gathered his Senior Assembly Pastors and reminded them that in 2019, he had prepared the lead...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:51hrs | 3599 | by Tomson Dube
SB Moyo's infamous Mugabe coup speech
Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved t...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3366 | by Major-General SB Moyo ZDF spokesperson
Ex-MP chides Mnangagwa
FORMER Masvingo Central MP Jeffreyson Chitando (MDC) yesterday castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, alleging that it was running out of people who deserve to be conferred with her...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:09hrs | 5018 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: An opposition effort built on a foundation of lies
Last week some of the issues making rounds on both the mainstream and social media included the arrest of MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, MDC-Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere and ac...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:45hrs | 284 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | 3493 | by Staff reporter
Confronting the scourge of persecution by prosecution
One of the most topical debates in national discourses in Zimbabwe over the last week has been around mechanisms to address and regulate the dissemination of false information and disinformation, in l...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30hrs | 140 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 602 | by Stembile Mpofu
Mnangagwa regime should stop weaponising law
THAT the arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono among others may complicate matters for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation's international re-engagement is not in doubt anymore.No...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:22hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
'GBV awareness campaigns during lockdown period crucial'
GOVERNMENT and its development partners have come up with various ways of reducing cases of Gender Based Violence-GBV during the lockdown period with at least 14 cases having been recorded in Chipinge...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:00hrs | 491 | by ZBC News
Exactly just how does Zimbabwe's ZANU PF expect South Africa to 'rein in' SABC's Mokoena - the Hopewell Chin'ono way?
As tensions between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF party, and South Africa's ANC intensify - after the telling threats uttered by the former's director of information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, as he, typical of t...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:10hrs | 1011 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF, ANC in 'abusive relationship'
Gwede Mantashe, the chairman of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has clapped back at Zanu-PF, exposing a growing rift between the two allies.Zanu-PF information director T...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
David Chapfika and the Jatropha years, a memoir
David Chapfika came along as a snappy dresser- shiny suits and foreign cologne were the hallmark.As a rookie reporter with New Ziana then, I had the opportunity to mix and mingle with the elit...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:25hrs | 2496 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
WATCH: Ease of doing export business to underpin ZimTrade’s mandate in NDS 1
Zimbabwe trade promotion body, ZimTrade Chief Executive Officer Mr Allan Majuru has laid out the organisation's strategy to grow the country's exports in line with National Development Strategy One....Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 18:53hrs | 251 | by Staff Reporter
Dealing with Zimbabwe's hard lockdown
Zimbabwe started its a 30 day level four lockdown on Tuesday a move that is expected to save lives but have dire consequences on the economy and livelihoods. In announcing the lockdown measure...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3672 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mohadi says, 'choose between enjoyment and death'
Acting President Mohadi says Zimbabweans must "choose between enjoyment and death". Addressing a Press conference, he said it is every citizen's responsibility to prevent Covid-19. He ...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 13:10hrs | 3096 | by Staff reporter
Businessman who hired Macheso for family New Year's eve gig under probe
An unnamed businessman is facing charges of contravening COVID-19 regulations after hiring Alick Macheso to perform at a family birthday celebration in Watsomba, Manicaland on New Year's eve.S...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:51hrs | 4154 | by Staff reporter
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 211 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
ZBC evicts former employees
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) evicted its former employees from company accommodation at flats in the Avenues area of Harare on Christmas Day.At least four families, including tw...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1584 | by Staff reporter
Dongozi laid to rest
THE late veteran journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) secretary general, Foster Dongozi, was laid to rest at his rural home in Sanyati yesterday, with mourners describing him as an inimi...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
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