PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday officially launched the National Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy as he led the restart of the sector, whose contribution to the national economy has been heavily crippled by the outbreak of Covid-19. The President also officially reopened the Victoria Falls Rainforest, signalling the country’s readiness to welcome visitors into the prime resort destination. The tourism and hospitality industry is one of the key foreign currency earners in the country and employs thousands of people along the value chain. Despite the Covid-19 dent on arrivals, Zimbabwe expects to leverage on internal competencies around domestic tourism to unlock wider potential and enhance operators’ capacities on the interim. In this regard, the National Tourism Reco
FUGITIVE G40 members, who are hiding in South Africa, are behind the recent anti-Zimbabwe campaign responsible for inventing a non-existent crisis and have been engaging various regional players in a desperate effort to isolate the country. Unbeknown to many users of social media platforms, the cabal of fugitives has hatched a devious blitz on Twitter that gives the impression of a Zimbabwe in crisis. The members of the G40 cabal which had captured the former President during the First Republic recently met African National Congress’ (ANC) secretary-general Elias Sekgobelo “Ace” Magashule of South Africa where they apparently fed him with wrong impressions of the situation obtaining in the country. Messrs Saviour Kasukuwere, Walter Mzembi and Patrick Zhuwao, who
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly infectious Covid-19 or coming into contact with infected persons. In terms of World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on the control and management of the pandemic, which had as of yesterday claimed 97 lives from 4 395 infections around the country, any infected person should be placed in quarantine until they recover while anyone who has come into contact with an infected individual should be quarantined for at least 14 days until they test negative. The development comes just a week after the death of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance S
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa for labelling innocent citizens as terrorists after they expressed anger over his maladministration. Chamisa accused Mnangagwa of using a primitive way of governance. Speaking for the first time after visiting a number of victims of State-sponsored abductions, torture and arrests in the last week, Chamisa said it was not proper for activists to "stay in mountains" fleeing the regime in a free country. Chamisa, who has been on leave mourning the death of his mother who passed on last month, is expected back in office today at a time dozens of citizens are in hiding facing arrest for allegedly participating or calling for the July 31 protests . "It is not proper to have people in
obert Martin Gumbura will be out of prison in just five years after the High Court slashed his sentence by half following an appeal. The pastor was serving an effective 40-year jail term for rape and will now have to serve half of the years following a successful appeal against his sentence. His lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku says he might have five years remaining considering the remission of sentence. “In the magistrates’ court, he was given 50 years before 10 years were suspended conditionally. “He has been in jail since 2014 meaning that he has already served part of the remaining sentence, also taking into account what it is called remission of sentence. “You will find out that he is left with about five years,” said Madhuku. The appeal was hear
MTV star Lasizwe has been trolled by Zanu PF ghost accounts and was accused of being gay. He was targeted for supporting the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter movement. Lasizwe tweeted ‘I stand with Zimbabwe’ after the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter hashtag trended all over the world in support for Zimbabweans currently experiencing human rights abuses and abductions for speaking against corruption and bad governance. His post was followed by comments, “no gays please, we are Christians” “unfortunately we don’t stand with gays,” “we don’t stand with gays.” Soon after the attacks Lasizwe Tweeted, “The homophobia I am currently experiencing from my fellow african brothers and sisters is heart breaking! We still have a long w
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to suffocate opposition parties in the country by crafting tough laws that will regulate their operations. Mnangagwa's government is also drafting laws to criminalise campaigning against one's country after he accused the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance of inviting Western sanctions on the country. Speaking during a postCabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni said Vice-President Kembo Mohadi would soon present recommendations to Parliament which came from the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) which seek to regulate political parties. "Recommendations from the 2018 and 2019 annual reports of the National Peace and Reconciliation
ANDY Muridzo’s handlers have appealed for God’s grace as the Jeetaz Band leader has lost three close relatives in a short space of time. Not only has the crooner lost close relatives but other misfortunes have been trailing him in his entire life, which calls for prayer and divine intervention. Although the causes of death could not be ascertained at the time of going to print, Baba Keketso’s handlers said the crooner was devastated as he was failing to come to terms with mishaps. The latest to die was his grandfather which prompted the singer to share his grief on social media in a message captioned: “My grandfather is gone guys. I’ve lost enough in one month mwari ndinzwireiwo Nyasha”. GRIEF After sharing his grief, many peop
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under-fire administration has resolved to legislate a code of conduct for all political parties and to criminalise campaigning against “one’s own country.” The promulgation of this move by government comes at a time when a campaign trending on social media, #ZimbabweanLivesMatter is forcing advocacy networks, celebrities and politicians in Zimbabwe, South Africa and across the world to take the information on rights abuses in Zimbabwe and mount pressure on Mnangagwa’s government to act. Speaking at a post cabinet briefing on Wednesday, Minister Sithembiso Nyoni said Vice President Kembo Mohadi, as Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on National Peace and Reconciliation, presented recommendations from the 2018 And 2019 annual
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties and hostile countries plotting his downfall and frustrating government efforts to re-calibrate the economy. In a special televised address from State House in Harare in the wake of fierce local and foreign criticism of his administration following the brutal crackdown on organisers of last week's foiled anti-government protests, Mnangagwa threatened to "flush out bad apples" destabilising government efforts to resuscitate the economy and entrench democracy in the country. "We make no apologies for fixing our systems across political, social and economic spectrum ..." he said. "The dark forces, bot
