Zimbabwe Diaspora – a case of fatigue and loss of interest
In the process, the ZANU PF dictatorship also benefitted through these inflows particularly during Gideon Gono’s time when our relatives were forced to exchange hard currency for useless money not...
View Articlewhat’s on in Harare
Here’s wishing all readers of Clipboard a very merry Christmas, filled with joy and blessings and here’s hoping you are inspired by the true meaning of Christmas for all people! Here is this week’s...
View ArticleGoodbye and good riddance to 2015
Shrinking economy Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa had optimistically forecast an economic growth rate of 3,1%. But the World Bank, like a scowling school teacher wielding a red biro, drew a bold...
View ArticleIs this the end of the Road for Mr. Mugabe
The implications were huge, if they did so and forced the banks to take them in as legitimate currency, they would bankrupt the banks overnight, cash withdrawals would do the rest. It is unlikely that...
View ArticleStatement on Indigenisation
Zhuwawo See full report Indigenisation Framework The post Statement on Indigenisation appeared first on The Zimbabwean.
View ArticleFormer Miss Zimbabwe scooped the Miss Intercontinental Africa title
Tendai Bongani Hunda Tendai garnered so much support from Zimbabweans all over the world and friends of Zimbabwe and got her 4733 votes which was so much appreciated, the solidarity was simply...
View ArticleGovt to pay December salaries in Jan 2016
CIVIL servants who were supposed to be paid on the 28th of December will now get their salaries next year, the cash-strapped government has announced. Members of the civil service only received their...
View ArticleZhuwao: investor rules unchanged, ignore Chinamasa
No changes to deadlines … Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao Zhuwao cut short his Christmas holiday and met the press to rebuke Patrick Chinamasa for announcing changes to empowerment laws, accusing...
View ArticleZimta warns of teachers wages riot
January promise … Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa For the first time in years, Zimbabwe’s civil servants are spending their Christmas without receiving their monthly pays, let alone their annual...
View ArticleNcube: “Xmas Yes, Joy? Certainly Not!
Welshman Ncube It would have been chaotic, but nonetheless, you would have hassled your way at Mbare Musika, Kudzanayi or Renkini bus terminus and bundled your family into a crowded bus to Zaka,...
View ArticleIn swaddling clothes
Yet it is precisely to break these fetters that he came; “to proclaim liberty to captives and to let the oppressed go free.” He has entered our world and become one of us in order to break what binds...
View Article13 Zimbabweans Die in Road Accidents
But the number of road accidents recorded went up from 106 to 127. Police were still compiling accidents reports for Friday by the time we went on air. Road accidents in Zimbabwe have been blamed on...
View ArticleWe are all Migrants
Their efforts to find a new home from an overcrowded and desperately poor Europe, as refugees, led many out onto the Prairies where they were given small farms (160 acres) on which to build homes and...
View ArticleDoctors demand December salaries and bonus payment
Our good doctors have tried to hold forth treating millions of patients throughout the festive season with the hope that the meagre salaries we get from the employer will be disbursed timeously. The...
View ArticleMugabe’s happy Christmas
The Herald quoted him as saying: ‘Zimbabwe has made tremendous strides in living the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ (see:...
View ArticleMozambican money-launderers arrested at border
According to the South African police, the total seized was 4.9 million US dollars, 2.2 million euros and 20,000 South African rands. At current exchange rates, this is equivalent to more than 7.3...
View ArticleGumbe wins Mabvuku closed chess tourney
In round one he faced Jeremiah Jekera who misplayed after he lost his queen and became difficult to defend the game.On table two Roy Mwadzura surprised Van Madanhi, while Ephraim Kawadza won his first...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s elephants are dying, But its rhinos are doing better
A black rhino under guard in Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe. Photograph by Chris Johns/National Geographic Creative. This year, fewer than ten have been killed for their horns, sold illegally in...
View ArticleFury as Bob holidays while wages unpaid
Partying while his people suffer … President Robert Mugabe Mugabe, close family members and aides left the country on Wednesday for a ritual month long annual vacation in the Far East. Behind him, he...
View ArticleMzembi: Foolish for Zim to reject Rand
Mzembi: Foolish for Zim to reject Rand The South African rand has had a miserable 2015, sliding more than 25 percent against the US greenback. A major commodities exporter, South Africa has been hit by...
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