National AIDS Council faces funding crisis
National finance director of National AIDS Council (NAC), Albert Manenji, told journalists at the HIV/AIDS intervention media workshop in Macheke that the 2016 resource gap will increase by US$97...
View ArticleVendors desperate to stop demolition of stalls
The vendors successfully stopped the front end loader from destroying the stalls and tuck-shops of the late, former Hawkers and Vendors Association of Zimbabwe Chairperson, John ‘Tekere’ Samabvu. The...
View ArticleEffects of Indigenisation notice 9 of 2016
Set April 1 deadline … Minister Patrick Zhuwao In order to answer this question it is necessary first to consider various provisions of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act and the...
View ArticleMugabe bringing Zimbabwe into disrepute
President Mugabe It is so clear that Mugabe is not in a state to govern and let alone participate in the duties of a president. Whilst we hold no brief for Mugabe, we hold him totally responsible of...
View ArticleGreen cardboard biscuit box
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA There were ten members of the mbira band sitting along the narrow wooden bench: six men and four boys. The band leader, the oldest in the group, addressed the small audience on...
View ArticleAmid drought, fish disappear from Zimbabwe’s markets
Villagers collect their monthly food ration provided by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, in this file picture taken January 25, 2016.Image: © Philimon Bulawayo /...
View ArticleThe indigenisation circus continues
Vince Musewe Now that is the very problem we have with ZANU (PF) inconsistency and their inability to think before they speak. Each time a minister comes out and announces such a far reaching policy...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s pseudo democracy
The role of any President is to use all in his powers, his conscience and judgement and the resources availed to him by the tax payer to protect the interest of the people of his country and if...
View ArticleNo Healing, Reconciliation without Truth and Justice
Part of the crowd at the public meeting The meeting offered an opportunity for different stakeholders from various sectors to contribute to the debate on the topic “ Is Zimbabwe ready for an effective...
View ArticleJackals terrorise Dorset farmers
Angry villagers claim that the marauding jackals have killed more than 23 goats in the neighbourhood. Attacks by jackals, that are always lived and hunted in the area, seem to have intensified of late...
View ArticleMDC on Indigenisation
Saviour Kasukuwere The Party has not changed its position on the matter or its views on the nature and impact of the programme. It was therefore a shock, when the Minister responsible for the Act, Hon....
View ArticlePolitical slogans don’t till the land
“You are farmers and your strength is in Agriculture. Farmers should leave politics alone because slogans don’t till the land,” said Chamisa. “We had a problem that when we implemented the land reform...
View ArticleSA varsity honours Zimbabwe lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa
Beatrice Mtetwa She was one of the only five honorary doctorate degree recipients at Rhodes University, who included Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of Africa’s biggest charity Gift of the Givers. Her...
View ArticleZimbabwe Economic Meltdown Worrying Botswana
FILE: Botswana President Ian Khama (L) walks alongside Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (R) during a lunch break at the SADC summit in Maputo, June 15, 2013. From the recently introduced shoot-to-kill...
View ArticlePDP: Singapore omen, Bob’s $5m shame
Returned home Saturday from Japan … President Robert Mugabe Sign of mounting health problems, warned the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in a statement last week. Mugabe, now aged 92,...
View ArticleEx-Zambia leader roasts violent Mugabe
THE Zambia government has rushed to distance itself from former Acting President Guy Scott’s withering attack on President Robert Mugabe’s violent rule. Scott the former Zambia vice president who took...
View ArticleMugabe slams war vets, calls them weevils
War vets warned ahead of meeting … President Robert Mugabe Mugabe was addressing hundreds of party supporters including cabinet ministers who thronged the Harare international airport to welcome him...
View ArticleI can manage
All four gospel writers insist on the disbelief of those who had been close to Jesus when rumours went around that he had risen from the dead. Some had actually given up and gone home (Emmaus) or...
View ArticleChinese ambassador warns Zimbabwe
HARARE: Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Huang Ping has urged Harare to respect a bilateral investment protection pact and safeguard Chinese investors’ lawful rights. The ambassador made the appeal as...
View ArticleChinamasa, Zhuwao at war – again
Their reform agenda opposed by Zhuwao … John Mangudya and Patrick Chinamasa Despite belonging to the same political party and being members of the same Cabinet, the two ministers appear only able to...
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