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Mnangagwa skips Davos, returns to get Zimbabwe calm, stable and working again
Zimbabwe's president he will return home and skip the World Economic Forum after a week of turmoil in which activists have said at least a dozen people have been killed in a government crackdown....Published: 3 hrs ago | 933 | by AFP
Zimbabwe on brink of diplomatic row with US, Germany
A fresh diplomatic row could erupt between Zimbabwe and western governments after Harare threatened to expel envoys from the United States and Germany for allegedly funding protests across the country...Published: 8 hrs ago | 6741 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security services to use brutal force
The government has warned it will not hesitate to use brutal force on people who are out to destroy the country's security infrastructure.Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Perma...Published: 8 hrs ago | 3665 | by Staff reporter
No South African bailout for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's plan to seek an emergency financial package from South Africa suffered a big blow after the region's economic powerhouse cited budgetary constraints as it prepares for its next general elec...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2821 | by Staff reporter
Kazakhstan firms keen on Zimbabwe investment
Over 50 Kazakhstan companies have expressed interest in partnering Zimbabwean counterparts in various business and economic development spheres.The companies' representatives met President Mna...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1191 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa dumps Davos trip and heads home
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that he is no longer going to Davos ,Switzerland where he was billed to attend the World Economic Forum but is heading back into the country to deal with the...Published: 8 hrs ago | 7366 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: MDC Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo goes into hiding
The National Chairperson of MDC Tabitha Khumalo has reportedly gone in hiding after she was tipped that armed members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces and CID Law and Order section were on their way to ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 7534 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa must just do the right thing
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's quest to have the economic sanctions imposed on the country by the West lifted is falling by the wayside every day because of his government's actions on the ground....Published: 13 hrs ago | 6677 | by Staff reporter
Security roadblocks all-over Zimbabwe
State security agents have maintained a heavy presence on the country's major roads following a three-day stay-away that took place early last week.This comes after some civil society organisa...Published: 13 hrs ago | 7239 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces uphill task to re-engage world
Zimbabwe's chances of re-engaging with some of the world's biggest economies are fast fading away after the latest wave of human rights abuses by government security organs which according to civil so...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2690 | by Staff reporter
Price hikes fail to end fuel crisis
There is no immediate relief for motorists and transport operators despite government's shocking fuel hikes as long and winding queues continue to stalk several garages which are struggling to stock t...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2435 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's horror 2019 unfolds
The palpable fear among many Zimbabweans that 2019 would become yet another "annus horribilis" — Latin for a horrible year — has become a harrowing reality, with the country's political and econom...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4314 | by Staff reporter
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1859 | by Staff rpeorter
Four simple Rules to solve the Zim financial crisis
Rule number 1 Remove the bond notesRule number 2 Let Zimbabweans import their own fuel without a...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2533 | by Colls Ndlovu
Anonymous kickstarts DDoS protest against Zimbabwe's government
For several days, starting on Monday 14 January 2019, Zimbabweans have been without Internet access. This is as a result of the Southern Afrikan country's government, under rumored instructions from G...Published: 15 hrs ago | 5627 | by frikan
Mnangagwa's spokesman scorns Chamisa's devil pastor-ship
THE deadly military and police crackdown against protestors over the past week which left at least 12 people dead was just a "foretaste of things to come", President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman has...Published: 15 hrs ago | 4155 | by newzimbabwe
Anonymous takes down Zimbabwe govt websites
GLOBAL hacktivist collective, Anonymous, hacked and took off-line several Zimbabwe government websites on Saturday.The ‘cyber freedom fighters' confirmed that they had joined the internation...Published: 15 hrs ago | 8780 | by newzimbabwe
Police armed with assault rifles set up road blocks to hunt protesters
The ZRP manned checkpoints on many main roads on Saturday, searching vehicles for protesters allegedly involved in recent anti-government demonstrations.A crackdown by security forces has been...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1416 | by AFP
Mutsvangwa leads dramatic plot to oust Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF rebels have initiated a process to recall President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the presidency, ZimLive can reveal.At least 35 Zanu-PF MPs met at the party's headquarters in Harare on Frid...Published: 15 hrs ago | 18630 | by ZimLive
'Mnangagwa crossed the line and change is nigh,' declares Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday attended the burial of Kelvin Tinashe Choto, a 22-year-old man shot by the military during fuel protests on January 14, before declaring: "Change is nigh!"...Published: 15 hrs ago | 6072 | by ZimLive
Chamisa in failed bid to reignite Mnangagwa talks
THE MDC Alliance and its partners in the civic society instigated last week's violent demonstrations so as to attract the attention and support of the international community in its failed bid "for ta...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed for drunken driving in UK
A Zimbabwean, originally from Old Pumula in Bulawayo, was caught with more than four times the legal alcohol limit with an ice-cold drink in his car in the UK while doing school run, and has been jail...Published: 15 hrs ago | 861 | by Staff reporter
More shutdown heroes emerge
WHILE most businesses in Bulawayo's western suburbs were destroyed by hooligans under the guise of protests, citizens will give credit to some business people who like a group of brave vendors and tou...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2206 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga offers medical, burial aid to victims of Zimbabwe crackdown
THE African Medallion Group (AMG), a precious metals company owned by business tycoon Frank Buyanga, yesterday offered to pay medical expenses and extended burial assistance to victims of Monday's vio...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1293 | by ZimLive
Machaya's trial date set
THE trial of former Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs, Jason Machaya, has been set for 25 February after the court ruled that there was a prima facie case against him.Machaya i...Published: 15 hrs ago | 217 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa accuses Mnangagwa of violence
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abrogating on his duties and resorting to violence in the face of demands by people that he fulfils his constitutional mandate....Published: 15 hrs ago | 844 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister distances self from fuel crisis
Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said his ministry was doing its part bringing plenty of fuel into the country but government, through the Finance ministry, was failing to b...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka leadership goes underground
Organisers of last week's three-day stayaway have gone into hiding together with some opposition MPs as the crackdown by state agents continues.Promise Mkwananzi of the social movement, #Tajam...Published: 15 hrs ago | 922 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tourism sector counts losses in the wake of protests
ZIMBABWE'S tourism industry stakeholders say the three-day shutdown that brought business to a standstill severely affected the sector, especially in terms of booking cancellations.The shutdow...Published: 15 hrs ago | 253 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry not quitting anytime soon
Sport, Arts and Culture minister Kirsty Coventry says she will not throw in the towel.Coventry's comments come on the back of pressure being exerted on her to leave President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 15 hrs ago | 430 | by Staff reporter
Internet shutdown costs govt millions of dollars
THE government lost millions of dollars through delayed revenue inflows due to the slow processing of imports and exports after the switching off internet services countrywide.Government threw...Published: 15 hrs ago | 573 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T demands $2 million from Treasury
The Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel Treasury to pay it over $1,8 million which the party was claiming under the Political Parties (Finance) Act....Published: 15 hrs ago | 1964 | by Staff reporter
Gory tales of beatings, torture, anguish and military brutality
At the foot of a mountain lies a plot reportedly owned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Kuwadzana Phase 3. The mountain has come to be called by the locals as "Gomo raMnangagwa" loosely translated t...Published: 15 hrs ago | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 560 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe protesters overrun police station
Eighteen protesters who allegedly invaded and caused damage to a police in station in Marondera on Thursday appeared before magistrate Ignatius Mugova facing charges of public violence.Some of...Published: 15 hrs ago | 818 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt evicts villagers to pave way for game park
The 1 000 Masvingo families who have been living at Mzaro Farm near Sikato resettlement area since 2000, are being evicted to pave way for the establishment of a game park, The Standard has establishe...Published: 15 hrs ago | 301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's internet clampdown: A tale of absurdities
When the current crop of leaders in government executed a clever coup that drove out Robert Mugabe in November 2017, most of us overestimated their ability to think. Those guys are just a dumb lump of...Published: 15 hrs ago | 254 | by Tawanda Majoni
Let the walls come down
The recent shutdown in Zimbabwe stirred a lot of reflective moments as I took time to engage some critical thinking and problem-solving mechanisms in a bid to find solutions that could address our bro...Published: 15 hrs ago | 213 | by Cynthia C Hakutangwi
'Looting spells death for Zimbabwe retailers'
BUSINESSES that were broken into, looted and sometimes burnt down during the recent nationwide protests might not be able to rebuild, restock and reopen, business leaders have said.Last week Z...Published: 15 hrs ago | 423 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must shoulder shutdown blame
There is a very real danger that Zimbabwe may be plunged into serious social and political unrest unless the leaders of this country stop acting innocent victims of non-existant political plots and in...Published: 16 hrs ago | 215 | by Editorial - The Standard
Zifa defends Gift Banda suspension
Zifa president Felton Kamambo has defended the association's decision to suspend vice-president Gift Banda, stressing that his executive would continue to respect its constitution and follow due proce...Published: 16 hrs ago | 242 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, police in fix over killings
Police and the army last night sought to clear themselves and throw blame on alleged impersonators following reports that at least 12 people were killed by soldiers and the police during last week's n...Published: 16 hrs ago | 629 | by Staff reporter
Winky D goes into hiding
Multi-award winning dancehall musician Winky D is said gone into hiding after a suspected group of Zanu-PF activists visited his home, possibly to harass him, during last week's stayaway which left a ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 873 | by Staff reporter
Sharp divisions within Zanu-PF and government
There have been unverified claims of sharp divisions within Zanu-PF and government with sources saying the divisions would play out more openly in the near-future.Yesterday, Zanu-PF Harare pro...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's costly lie
The biggest lie last week was that the violence in urban areas were protests over fuel prices in particular and living costs in general, when in fact the protests were enforced by a small bullying min...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2927 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on the Zimbabwe judicial system after wanton arrests
During the past week, there has been a hive of activity at police stations and courts around the country, following events surrounding the three-day stay-away.This current state of affairs is ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 293 | by Staff reporter
MDC Chamisa has nothing to do with last week's massive protests
The MDC says it has nothing to do with last week's massive protests which brought the country to a standstill for at least three days. Thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets across the country i...Published: 16 hrs ago | 424 | by Staff reporter
ZimTrade aims to increase exports by 10%
TRADE and export promotion body ZimTrade has projected to increase exports of value-added goods and services by 10 percent this year through lining-up various promotional programmes aimed at encouragi...Published: 16 hrs ago | 41 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economy to grow by 4,2%,' says AfDB
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) projects Zimbabwe's economy to grow by 4,2% this year before rising to 4,4% in 2020 underpinned by growth in the mining and agricultural sectors along with fiscal c...Published: 16 hrs ago | 165 | by Staff reporter
New activities for Matopos National Park
A TOUR operator in Bulawayo is planning to introduce new tour packages to excite visitors to Matobo National Park as the industry is fast adopting innovative and diverse ideas that will revive interes...Published: 16 hrs ago | 335 | by Staff reporter
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