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Zimbabwe Headed for Deeper Crisis

Zimbabwe Headed for Deeper Crisis

GOVERNMENT moved to curb social upheavals this week by reversing a policy announcement that sought to slash salaries and stop bonus payments to civil servants, at the risk of plunging the country deeper into economic turmoil. Facing its worst public protests in the past few months triggered by the country’s failing economic policies, government trashed […]

Ageing President Robert Mugabe Called to Cut Foreign Trips

Ageing President Robert Mugabe Called to Cut Foreign Trips

GLOBE-trotting Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has embarked on yet another overseas trip amid criticism his travels were straining state coffers. Critics say he is no longer making useful contributions at the summits, age and ill-health having slowed him down. Mugabe, who has endured massive street protests to vacate office he has occupied for 36 years, […]

President Robert Mugabe Already Rigging 2018 Elections, Says Mutasa

President Robert Mugabe Already Rigging 2018 Elections, Says Mutasa

OPPOSITION coalition spokesman Didymus Mutasa has claimed that President Robert Mugabe is already working to rig the 2018 elections and vowed that Saturday’s protest will go ahead despite a police ban against demonstrations in Harare. Mutasa, convenor of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA), told reporters in the capital Wednesday that the latest ban against […]

Remain united or you’re doomed, Mugabe tells Zambia

Remain united or you’re doomed, Mugabe tells Zambia

President Robert Mugabe has challenged Zambians to remain united and also avoid tribalism, insisting this was the only way the country could avoid being doomed. Agencies Mugabe was speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of Zambia’s President-elect Edgar Lungu at the Heroes Stadium in Lusaka yesterday. The veteran politician described Zimbabwe and Zambia as Siamese twins. […]

Zimbabwean nurse in funeral fraud scam

Zimbabwean nurse in funeral fraud scam

A Kwekwe General Hospital nurse, Renica Chakabvapasi, and her boyfriend, Godwin Mugwangi, have been arrested on allegations of defrauding Old Mutual Assurance Company of several thousands of dollars through a funeral policy scam. Appearing in court yesterday, the two were accused of operating a sophisticated ring in which they preyed on terminally-ill patients admitted at […]

776 Pregnant Zimbabwean Women Test Positive for Syphilis

776 Pregnant Zimbabwean Women Test Positive for Syphilis

MORE than 770 pregnant women tested positive for syphilis between January and June this year in the Midlands province, an official in the ministry of health has revealed. Provincial monitoring and evaluation officer in the ministry of health and child care, Tuso Tanda, said some 22,200 pregnant women were tested for syphilis with 776 testing […]

Zimbabwe Man Survives Leopard Attack, Thanks to His Dogs

Zimbabwe Man Survives Leopard Attack, Thanks to His Dogs

A Zimbabwean man says it’s a miracle his dogs weren’t killed when they bravely rushed in to save him from a leopard, a newspaper reported on Monday. Silent Dube, 19, was attacked from behind by a leopard in Hwange, western Zimbabwe on Friday, according to the state-controlled Chronicle newspaper. In an uncharacteristic attack, the leopard […]

U.S. – Rule of Law Critical for Zim Economic Revival

U.S. – Rule of Law Critical for Zim Economic Revival

The Rule of law and transparency are key in turning around Zimbabwe’s ailing economy, the United States (US) ambassador Harry Thomas has said. The comments come at a time Zimbabwe’s GDP growth and foreign direct investment have dropped to below two percent and $500 million respectively while unemployment levels have risen to over 90 percent. […]

Jah Prayzah Battles With ‘Copycat’ Andy Muridzo

Jah Prayzah Battles With ‘Copycat’ Andy Muridzo

Today marks a month since the release of Jah Prayzah’s “Mdhara Vachauya” and the album might have attracted immediate attention due to loads of anticipation that awaited its arrival, but the excitement will fade away with time because the product does not have the staying power that has sustained his previous releases. Most tracks on […]

Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe Faces Impeachment

Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe Faces Impeachment

THE Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda is in the line of fire for allegedly trying to shield President Robert Mugabe from a pending impeachment motion set to be moved by opposition MDC-T lawmaker James Maridadi. Maridadi represents the Mabvuku-Tafara constituency in Harare and wants to move a vote of no confidence in Mugabe for various […]

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