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Hansole to empower ICT youths
We all live in a community were we have plumbers, welders, tailors, carpenter, builders, etc. As part of our commitment to increase web presence we are offering FREE web development train a tr...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 286 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
'Zanu-PF govt has failed democratic test'
GOVERNMENT was yesterday blasted for inheriting and maintaining colonial civic suppression tactics 41 years after independence.This came out during a virtual meeting conducted by SIVIO Institu...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's telco regulator takes bold steps towards greater digital inclusion
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to pursue rapid digital transformation.Digitisation has the ability to transform economies and people's liv...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 19:32hrs | 315 | by Angela Collins
Excessive taxation driving fuel prices up
On the 5th of April, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced new pump price ceilings for fuel on the local market. The maximum pump price for Diesel is now ZW$111.77 per litre, up fr...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 09:09hrs | 1320 | by Victor Bhoroma
Italy offers cyber security training in Zimbabwe
THE pervasive use of ICTs in the world, including Zimbabwe, has presented enhanced opportunities for achieving economic development and wealth to people and institutions joining the cyberspace....Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:03hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Thousands denied citizenship in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's discriminatory citizenship laws have rendered thousands of people stateless and pushed them to the fringes of society, depriving them of access to education, healthcare, and housing, Amnest...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 4000 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Cape Town consulate besieged as protesters demand gay rights
AN official at the Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town, who would not give his name, refused to sign a memorandum calling for gay rights that was delivered by about 20 people.They had marched from...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa entrenches authoritarian rule
THE incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe this week has all but confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's unwillingness to reform as his regime continues to use lawf...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:36hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
EU still pursuing dialogue with Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) says it is currently engaging opposition parties and other stakeholders as it gears up for formal dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration.Zimbabwe a...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:30hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi to stage massive demo outside Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) is planning to stage a demonstration outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa over what it describes as "untold" injustices perpetrated by the Zanu-PF led ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 11:42hrs | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt hunts social media offenders
IN A move which shows the government's growing concern with the rising abuse of social media in the country, authorities will treat all such cases as a threat to national security.Giving a lec...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:19hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Sadc must intervene in Zimbabwe crisis
THE Centre for Democracy and Development hosted the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) in Maputo, Mozambique from March 23 to 26 during engagements with civic society organisations (CSOs) and church ...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:38hrs | 992 | by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
Praz blacklists 3 vehicle suppliers
SOLUTIONS Motors has been blacklisted by the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) as one of the three vehicle dealers that failed to deliver after winning tenders to supply vehicles to ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:47hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 1442 | by Thembani Dube
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 12037 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
EU condemns MDC activists' continued incarceration
THE European Union (EU) has urged the Zimbabwean government to desist from applying the law selectively following the continued incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe (Harare West)...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Zapu lobbies embassies to decentralise to Bulawayo
THE opposition Zapu has written to various foreign embassies in Harare asking them to decentralise their operations and open consular posts in Bulawayo, the second largest city in the country....Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Tremors shake Old Mutual SA after ZSE clampdown
JOHANNESBURG Securities Exchange (JSE) listed financial services powerhouse Old Mutual Limited (OML) says crucial negotiations were underway to strike a deal with Harare following the suspension of it...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
America angry that their blue-eyed boy has been recalled by his own party
The United States has made very hidden but vivid threats to Zimbabwe for allowing Biti to be recalled from Parliament by his own party. In a statement the United States a surprising statement by Ameri...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 08:56hrs | 2913 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
US warns Mnangagwa
THE United States government yesterday said it was closely monitoring President Emmerson Mnangagwa's abuse of state machinery to annihilate the main opposition MDC Alliance through illegal recall of i...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 9121 | by Staff reporter
Medical experts in dilemma over COVID-19 variants
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the current COVID-19 vaccination programme might not effectively deal with the new mutants of the coronavirus.They said most of the vaccines currently in u...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
US following Zimbabwe 'closely' after Biti's recall
THE United States says it is following events in Zimbabwe "closely", including the recall of MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti from Parliament last week.Biti and several MDC Alliance MPs...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean diaspora ready to invest back home
Zimbabweans working and living outside their country are willing to invest back home and boost the economy, as long as there is a good environment according to the International Organization for Migra...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Why does Zimbabwe have such a high road death toll?
Road safety in Zimbabwe is such a major issue that it has attracted the attention of the United Nations. According to Zimbabwe's own nu...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 19:46hrs | 1250 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwean government should end persecutions of women political activists
Dear Editor,It is saddening to witness brutal acts of human rights abuses by the Zimbabwean ZANU PF government to women when the world is quiet about it . Opposition Member of Parliament Joana...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 13:26hrs | 524 | by Michael Tinarwo
Zimbabwe needs the Patriotic Act
A debate on the possibility of a Patriotic Act to be enacted in our country's laws has been raging on ever since the Bill got tabled in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. A lot of diverse views have co...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:04hrs | 313 | by Prosperity Mzila
Dzamara's wife seeks closure 6 years on
MISSING journalist cum-activist Itai Dzamara's wife, Sheffra yesterday made an impassioned plea for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and intensify investigations on her husband's disappearanc...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1404 | by Staff reporter
Govt under fire over evictions
Rights groups have denounced government plans to evict thousands of villagers from their communal land and convert it to industrial animal feed farming.More than 13 000 Shangani people, an ind...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:14hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC blasts govt for evicting Chiredzi villagers
MDC Alliance has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for plans to evict thousands of villagers from their long-held land in Chiredzi.Local government minister July Moyo las...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
'Those refusing to be vaccinated are a threat to national security,' says Mugwadi
TAFADZWA Mugwadi, the director of information for the governing Zanu-PF, has said COVID-19 vaccination is a matter of national security and those refusing to be vaccinated pose a national security thr...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:42hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in quandary due to a leadership that has no idea what leadership entails
If ever there is one sure thing to expect from Zimbabwe's leadership, it is that they will never accept any responsibility for anything that goes wrong in the country, nor will they apologize and allo...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:28hrs | 602 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe gets €4.1 million to upgrade Chirundu Border Post
COMESA and Zimbabwe have signed an agreement that sub-delegates the implementation of Coordinated Border Management activities, Trade and Transport Facilitation programme at the Chirundu border post....Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:13hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among 7 African governments using Israeli cyber-espionage tools
As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important in organising opposition movements. In response, several governments have at tim...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 20:17hrs | 2868 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fresh headache
Cash-strapped government is struggling to raise US$1.75bn to compensate former commercial white farmers who lost their farms under the land reform programme amid revelations a bid to raise funding fro...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:20hrs | 6733 | by Staff reporter
Cigarette cartels in Zimbabwe are a tax threat in SA
A recently released report on powerful cartels in Zimbabwe has exposed how cigarette companies are illegally infiltrating the South African market, while dodging the local taxman at the same time....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
Why the colonial UK sanctioned Zimbabwe security chiefs
UNITED Kingdom ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson says the British government is not happy with President Emmerson Mnangagwa government's pace of reforms.Robinson (MR) told Alpha Media Ho...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:13hrs | 556 | by Ken Mufuka
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 447 | by Ken Mufuka
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Rights defenders engage UN, AU over student activist's detention
CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have pleaded with the United Nations (UN) to rein in President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop human rights abuses and end the prolonged detention of student activist Ala...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa using COVID-19 to fight political opponents, says Moyo
Opposition Alliance for people's Agenda (APA) party leader Nkosana Moyo has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of using the COViD-19 lockdown period to clamp down on his political opponents....Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes U-turn on UK free vaccine offer?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday further extended the lockdown by another two weeks with government saying it was not clear on the efficacy of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine received from China ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | 9630 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa further extends lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday further extended the lockdown by another two weeks with government saying it was not clear on the efficacy of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine received from China ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
David Brown to resurrect Zimbabwe gold mines
DAVID Brown's association with Zimbabwe's mining sector dates back to his six years as CEO of Impala Platinum (Implats) which ended in 2012.During that time, he met with the late former Presid...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 07:57hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination must be compulsory
THE ministry of Health and Child Care says Zimbabwe will start receiving Covid-19 vaccines from the Ides of February.China and Russia - you guessed right - and maybe India also, will give us t...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:33hrs | 825 | by Tawanda Majoni
Govt revamps road network under NDS-1
Government has set the National Development Strategy-One ((NDS-1) in motion by rehabilitating the country's roads and aligning them to regional standards.The Zimbabwean government this Tuesday...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 16:14hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 985 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe's cartels that are not the real cartels
I just read the report by Daily Maverick, that is purporting to expose cartels in Zimbabwe. The problem with the report is it does not include the obvious and leading cartels in Zimbabwe, such as Old ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 5738 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe purchases 600 000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from China
Zimbabwe has purchased 600 000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from China’s Sinopharm, in addition to 200 000 China has donated, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has revealed. China last week l...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines expected Monday
Government has dismissed as false and mischievous claims that it does not know which Covid-19 vaccine it should import, saying Zimbabwe will receive its first batch of 800 000 jabs from China on Monda...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
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