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Zimbabweans fume as fraud-accused Shava is appointed Foreign Minister
ZIMBABWEANS have been left fuming following President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock Monday appointment of Frederick Shava as the new Foreign Minister.Shava replaces the late Sibusiso Moyo who suc...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 4111 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya now a makorokoza in West Nicholson?
SCORES of small-scale gold miners in West Nicholson, just after Gwanda town, were pleasantly surprised to get a visit from a man they least expected to take an interest in their line of work - gold mi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 17:47hrs | 8810 | by Staff reporter
Who will replace SB Moyo?
ZIMBABWE is a landlocked nation which relies heavily on its sisters in the SADC region.To the East Zim has Mozambique. A troubled neighbour who happens to be dealing with a growing insurgency ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 17:26hrs | 3124 | by John Mbizvo
AfCFTA will launch Africa forward post Covid-19
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was established in 2018 with the aim to create a single market for goods and services, facilitated by movement of persons to deepen the economic integr...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:03hrs | 67 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week. Dr Moyo succumbed to Covid-19-re...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:19hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Malianga, Gwaradzimba
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday described the late founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Moton Dizzy Paul Malianga and Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 5 million votes achievable, claims Shakespeare Maya
Former National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) president, Dr Shakespeare Maya, who rejoined Zanu-PF in 2018 and was recently elected Chegutu District Coordinating Committee (DCC) secretary for sc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 294 | by Tawanda Majoni
The tale of a captured judiciary
THE year 2020 did not see any major judicial decisions, but was replete with prolonged postponement of trials.At one time, chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi threatened to sit on a Sunday for...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 772 | by Miriam Mangwaya
I'm not here to plunder Zimbabwe . . .
ZIMBABWE is seeking to establish fully-fledged diplomatic relations with Israel. Our (ND) senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza spoke to Zimbabwe's honorary consul in Israel Ronny Musan (RM) who spoke about...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 3340 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer sues student for $3m
A lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) has filed a $3 million defamation lawsuit against a female student who claimed that he failed her last year as punishment for spurning his love advances. ...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's unsung 'heroines' honoured
A BULAWAYO-BASED non-governmental organisation has honoured the city's unsung heroines credited with pioneering women's activism in the country, a departure from the past where leading persons are hon...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientist in Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough
A US-BASED Zimbabwe-born scientist Dr Tatenda Shopera has made history by being part of a team that developed the world's first Covid-19 vaccine. Dr Shopera is a senior scientist (bioprocess r...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate bemoans delays in graft cases
HARARE magistrate Bianca Makwande yesterday bemoaned continued postponement of corruption cases saying the delays were resulting in a gridlock of pending matters at the courts.She made the rem...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:18hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe PhD: Court sets aside full week for Nyagura trial
CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has set aside a full week for the trial of former University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vicechancellor Levi Nyagura, who is being accused of unprocedurally awarding former Fi...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:45hrs | 3425 | by Staff reporter
Can black arts (Kuromba) be sole source of wealth in Zimbabwe?
According to Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, diplomat and retired general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-2005, a dream does not become r...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:40hrs | 2534 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD)
MSU lecturers threaten to resign en masse
MEDIA lecturers at the Midlands State University have threatened to resign en masse in protest over curriculum changes they say were unilateral and without their input.NewsDay gathered that mo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 7932 | by Staff reporter
Churchgoers demand their money back from Prophet Magaya
A SCUFFLE broke out at the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries in Bellville this week when current church members tried to block former members from entering the church.The form...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:05hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Healing pain through addressing Gukurahundi massacres
NOW that the government of Zimbabwe is opening up to ad-dressing the Gukurahundi massacres with the aim of healing the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from the trauma and pain they suffe...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 297 | by Reinford Khumalo
Mnangagwa caps 2 528 Nust graduates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 2 528 graduates at the University of Science and Technology (nust) where he launched the US$2 000 Chancellor's prize to be given to outstanding science, technology...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:07hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
President E.D, you need Strategic Thinkers around you!
I vividly recall Mugabe's last two gigantic rallies in 2017 where politicians fell over each other to bootlick the despot. The former ZANU PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga openly told the gathering tha...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 674 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa heads to Lupane State University graduation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo yesterday ahead of the Lupane State University (LSU) graduation ceremony set for today, while tomorrow he will meet chiefs to discuss issues affecting Matabelel...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | 530 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya investigated over women abuse
WOMEN Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni last week revealed that her ministry through the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) investigated Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walther...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:28hrs | 5687 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa what is our problem?
We are the second largest platinum producer in the world, we have gold reserves around the country, we have chrome, we have alluvial diamonds, we have best human resources skills, we have land and nat...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 3932 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa initiates Kasukuwere extradition
South Africa has been asked to extradite former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere to Zimbabwe to answer to four counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. The first three counts a...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:05hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 659 | by Ken Mufuka
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1654 | by Keith Silika
Meet the CIO Boss who specialises in chemical weapons and nuclear energy
In January this year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a new Co-Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Organisation, Dr Gatsha Mazithulela. While the DDG has been silent since...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 11:47hrs | 15820 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why RBZ needs autonomy
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono recently appeared on Zimbabwean entrepreneur and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube's discussion series In Conversation with Trevor.Amo...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 377 | by Admire Dube
Prof Zvobgo dies
ACADEMIC, author and former associate professor of history at the University of Zimbabwe, Professor Chengetai Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo, has died. Prof Zvobgo died at St Giles Medical Rehabilitat...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1960 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name? From Gukurahundi to Murambatsvina, Mugabe to Mnangagwa
THERE'S something strangely fascinating about the Venda culture in relation to the names given to people. It all sounds so idiosyncratic that I recently found myself reflecting on it during a discussi...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:00hrs | 413 | by TSHILIDZI MARWALA
Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:16hrs | 837 | by Dr Amai
WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 4657 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2716 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Solwayo Ngwenya now a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology
Acting Mpilo Central Hospital CEO Dr Solwayo Ngwenya has been awarded a professorship for his research, teaching and leadership qualities.The University of Science and Technology (NUST) has aw...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2509 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Murwira
DOCTORS have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace acting Health minister Amon Murwira whom they accuse of being arrogant.Murwira was appointed to stand in for the then Health minis...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 7063 | by Staff reporter
Fighting at funerals unAfrican, stop it
MY Dear People,I would like to start by paying my deepest condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following the death of his mother recently.The loss of a mother is a major blow ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 424 | by Dr Stop It
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5211 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1168 | by Staff Reporter
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6943 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
When the clueless and corrupt pray
A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and repentance. The objective was to pray for the intervention of the Almighty in the global pandemic, the COVID-19. Mnangagwa h...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:25hrs | 264 | by Shepherd Mpofu
Bid to soil ex-lover's academic credentials flops
A JILTED man's attempt to soil his ex-lover with academic fraud allegations, recently hit a snag after the court found no credible evidence against the woman before throwing out his US$1 200 claim for...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
'Godwin Matanga has no O' Level certificate'
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga is not qualified for the job, his predecessor Augustine Chihuri claims in court documents.Now living in exile, Chihuri also accuses Matanga of "conti...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:01hrs | 2463 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa snatched Chihuri's pregnant wife?
FORMER police boss Augustine Chihuri has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of hounding him to settle scores after they clashed over a woman.Chihuri, who is on the verge of losing his sprawl...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 17401 | by Staff reporter
Lupane varsity rocked by nepotism, tribalism storm
Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor Pardon Kuipa is in an eye of a storm after it emerged that his daughter, who only has a Master's degree was appointed a lecturer ahead of PhD holders with...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Lupane State University VC's daughter in recruitment scandal
Lupane State University (LSU) has been sucked into a recruitment scandal after the institution's management allegedly fraudulently employed the Vice Chancellor's daughter as a full-time lecturer....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 4788 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe can return to economic glory days
Former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada (TM) believes Zimbabwe can return to its glory days of the early 1980s when the economy was stable and end poverty. He discu...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, people of good conscience will not remain silent
DEAR Mr President,It is my sincere hope that this letter finds you well. I am under no illusion that you are occupying a critical position, that of President of our nation.As such, you...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1091 | by Mutsa Murenje
Banana skins characterise Zanu-PF
Energy Mutodi came and went. Just like many others political mavericks before him, they all thought they were invincible, drunk as a lord by the maddening power of high political office....Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 4311 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
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