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60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance councils have failed the people,' claims Mnangagwa
The opposition must be voted from local authorities as they have run-down urban councils much to the suffering of the people, President Mnangagwa has said. Addressing the Politburo meeting yes...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 328 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 statistics could be highly misleading
ZIMBABWE'S Covid-19 statistics could be highly misleading due to the health ministry's derelict of duty which has seen some sub-standard test kits finding the way on the market.These defective...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:13hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet hiatus highlights Zimbabwe leadership crisis
AT a time when the surge in Covid-19-related deaths is dramatic, amid new rampant cases of the pandemic, the Zimbabwean government's primary policy-making body – cabinet – has not been meeting, Th...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Call for revival of Bulawayo industry
CIVIL society organisations have called on the government to formulate a policy aimed at reviving industries in Bulawayo.Zimbabwe's second largest city used to be an industrial hub before a co...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Government to repossess underutilised irrigation schemes
GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irri...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1286 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2574 | by Samantha Power
Zimbabwe govt enforces strict movement controls
Strict control of people's movements will be enforced as Zimbabwe returns to Level Four lockdown from today, with the Government seeing the 30-day tightening of the lockdown as the best way to rein in...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:01hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator under fire accused of 'gross incompetence'
AIR Zimbabwe administrator Reggie Saruchera has come under pressure to relinquish his role due to "gross maladministration, incompetence, mismanagement and wrongful and illegal deprivation" of salarie...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:16hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Workers decimate Mugabe's cattle herd
VILLAGERS have gone on a raiding rampage on a farm belonging to the late former president Robert Mugabe in Mazowe, hunting down and slaughtering over 1 400 cattle belonging to his family, in a which h...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:17hrs | 3627 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unveils US$8 billion industrialisation plan
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister, Sekai Nzenza, has unveiled a massive industrialisation plan which seeks to transform Zimbabwe's 94 manufacturing and commercial sub-sectors into a mouthwatering US$8 bi...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 16:58hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Re-imagining education in the Second Republic
OUR education should produce goods and services and it's not doing so. It should produce solutions to our challenges, but it's not. It should produce job creators, but its producing job seekers. So th...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:40hrs | 142 | by Nick Mangwana
Sheriff accused of dereliction of duty
THE Deputy Sheriff of Bulawayo Nathaniel Bhunu has been accused by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church Diocese of Matabeleland of abandoning the eviction of illegal settlers at Cyrene Farm ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:35hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 17676 | by Staff reporter
Alarm over city Covid-19 deaths
BULAWAYO could be headed for another lockdown as health experts and government fear a deadly second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak following a surge in confirmed cases and deaths in the city in recent ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:23hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Govt acts on corruption in land distribution
Government has reviewed the policy on allocation of vacant land and restructured the Provincial and District Lands committee to curb rampant corruption, legislators have heard.Lands, Agricultu...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe female magistrates sexually harassed at work, says former boss
CORRUPTION accused former chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has made startling claims Zimbabwean female magistrates were being sexually harassed at work.The one-time topmost magistrate said t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1540 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda, MPs roast Executive for undermining Parly
SPEAKER of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and opposition legislators yesterday took turns to grill Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi for allowing members of the Executive to take legislative business lightly...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1691 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's weak opposition falls prey to vultures
CELEBRATING Zimbabwe's main opposition party's 21st anniversary on September 26, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa tweeted: "MDCA 21st anniversary celebrations ... Thank you beloved and fellow citize...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:09hrs | 902 | by Gumisai Nyoni
SA opposition parties demand Ramaphosa fire Mapisa-Nqakula
President Cyril Ramaphosa's reprimand of Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for taking ANC officials on an air force jet to Zimbabwe isn't enough - she should be fired, two...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 18:01hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC admits abuse of govt resources in jet trip to Zimbabwe
The ANC has undertaken to reimburse the government for the costs incurred during its controversial use of an air force jet on a party-political mission to Zimbabwe last week after a public backlash....Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 277 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Mnangagwa's govt to restore Old Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula's original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi'...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:31hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
We following WHO guidelines in fighting covid-19" says Minister - but only to save chefs' lives
"Sadly, I too tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. This virus is real and we need to fight it by following the guidelines that our Government has given us which is in line with the WHO regulations,...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:35hrs | 1434 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Sidojiwe Hostels: A Covid-19 time bomb
Built for bachelors who worked in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area in the 1950s, the now-derelict and crowded Sidojiwe Hostels are a ticking time bomb for disease outbreaks in the city including the...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:32hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Kezi Clinic lies derelict 10 years on
KEZI Clinic in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has been lying derelict for more than 10 years after local communities contributed material resources towards its rehabilitation.Ke...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Honeymoon over for 'new dispensation'
South Africa's insistence that Zimbabwe is facing a crisis that needs urgent intervention should send a clear signal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government that our neighbours are getting fed up...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3672 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 256 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Zanu-PF Politburo Member found in possession of #31July protest fliers
A SENIOR Zanu-PF official and Politburo member, Cleveria Chizema was Wednesday suspended from the party with immediate effect after she was found in possession of fliers and placards for the planned J...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 907 | by newzimbabwe
LIST: Notice to claim derelict land in Bulawayo
Notice is hereby given to the owners of the listed properties to come forward and make the necessary payments to Council within the next 30 days. Failure to do so will result in Council disposing the ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 21:56hrs | 8527 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic Structural Transformation-REST. (Part 8 of 10)
The youth all over the world have been acknowledged as an important human resource with the potential to contribute significantly to national development and therefore must be accorded such recognitio...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 12:07hrs | 772 | by Vince Musewe
BCC to repossess undeveloped stands
THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to repossess 179 stands in Cowdray Park, Entumbane and Pumula after the owners failed to develop them.Some of the property owners have gone for 22 years ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Govt terminates CSC deal
GOVERNMENT has cancelled the much touted US$130 million deal with a United Kingdom company, Boustead Beef (Boustead) for the recapitalisation of the Cold Storage Company (CSC), it has emerged....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
Parliament to name and shame MPs
THE SPEAKER of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda has said Parliament will name and shame MPs who have not been attending parliamentary committee sittings, with some having a shocking zero a...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Amagumaguma invade Plumtree school, turn it into criminal hideout
PLUMTREE border touts, popularly known as amagumaguma, have turned a school in Nxele along the border with Botswana into a base for criminal activities, a situation which has riled villagers.T...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Central Vehicle Registry a national embarrassment
IN any other jurisdiction, the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) director-general should by now have long been relieved of their duties. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development whose am...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1212 | by Learnmore Zuze
Zimbabwe buoyant of CAF stadia bans reversal
A BREAK in international football, enforced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, has emerged a blessing in disguise for Zimbabwe.The country's football mother body, the Zimbabwe Football As...Published: 15 May 2020 at 17:24hrs | 1250 | by Wellington Toni
Zanu-PF missing the target
MDC-AlliAnCe leader nelson Chamisa is simply a face representing an ongoing struggle against a multifaceted catastrophe that has been ravaging the livelihoods of the ordinary people of Zimbabwe for fa...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1316 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Mudenda erred in recalling MDC Alliance MPs
HAVING reflected on the facts on the ground, including statements attributed to Douglas Mwonzora soon after the Supreme Court judgment, I realised that there is no basis to recall MDC Alliance MPs....Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4183 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Parliament of Zimbabwe under fire for dereliction of duty
THE Parliament of Zimbabwe has come under fire for failing to play its oversight role on the use of public resources, amid indications that several decisions have been made by the government without i...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 22:34hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
It's reckless to entrust nation's destiny to thugs especially now with covid-19, heavy price to pay
There is one thing to be said about Zimbabweans, we are a naïve and gullible lot! Nowhere is this naivety more obvious that in the nation's collective belief that Zanu-PF's imposed lockdown would mak...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 20:37hrs | 1640 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mliswa accused of intimidating police
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa had a heated exchange with police officers deployed to enforce lockdown measures in his constituency over the Easter holiday whom he accused of dereliction of ...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:35hrs | 2655 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6598 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe schools sports facilities decay
BEFORE the attainment of independence in 1980 and for almost 12 years into Uhuru, all sports facilities in former Group A schools were in immaculate condition. A number of sports personalities were ch...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:48hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP invests in new clinic
Gutu West Member of Parliament (MP) John Paradza is working with members of the Chavarove community in Ward 29 to turn a disused farmhouse to into a clinic.The house, which had been standing d...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:27hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Investor dumps Ekusileni Hospital project
THE long-awaited re-opening of the Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo has suffered another setback as the Indian investor who had expressed interest in the project has withdrawn under unclear circum...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:11hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
No PSL games in Harare this season
NO Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match will be played in Harare this season unless the National Sports Stadium and Rufaro Stadium meet minimum requirements to host football matches. Pirai...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:56hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda comes down on absconding MPs
THE Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has called on political parties to take action against members who abscond parliamentary sessions while the National Assembly will dock their sitting a...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 05:29hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
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