Fuel prices went up over the weekend, triggering price hikes of basic commodities and further worsening an economic calamity whose roots lie in a legitimacy crisis arising out of the stolen election of July 2018. Mr Mnangagwa must disembark from his high horse of arrogance and engage for dialogue with the people’s President, Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Morale is at a low ebb in all private and public institutions especially schools and hospitals. Villagers, urban dwellers, the old, school children and the vulnerable can barely make ends meet in the current crisis where prices and transport fares are going up several times in a single week. Meanwhile, the ED regime continues to bury its head in the sand even as fuel prices increase every week, further straining the lives of ordi
The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe has been in turmoil in the past two years than at any stage in its history in the country. I am not Christian and I hope this disclaimer will help. It means I do not subscribe to either faction and have been questioning the Christology of their activities, without fear or favour. It means I am an outsider, reading from the terraces. Today, I climb down the terraces to wade into the murky waters. I am there deep in it in a manner that going back is as good as going forward. I have observed this narrative for long. It is fact not fiction that the current stand-off in AFM is not about anything, but wealth, wealth and wealth. It is gospreneurship, the art of making money from the word of God. It is a complex struggle t
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe’s empire is teetering on the brink of collapse following reports that she will be stripped off powers to the US$7 million Mazowe Orphanage project that she had usurped,” Zim Morning Post can reveal. This publication understands that the orphanage is under the government’s microscope, on basis that the project was a donation to the Zimbabwean government funded by a Chinese grant. Grace, however turned the project into a personal investment contrary to the clauses of the government to government agreement. According to the agreement, she was supposed to be the patron, not the owner of the orphanage. Zim Morning Post can authoritatively report that the project which now houses the Grace Mugabe state-of-the-art junior and secondary s
20 REASONS WHY MUGABE’S LEGACY IS UNCONTESTED. I have been listening to many misguided Zimbabweans trying to tarnish the legacy of Robert Mugabe, in an attempt to cover up for their own dereliction and failures at playing their role in building Zimbabwe with the tools Mugabe equipped us with. Much of this indoctrination is driven by white propaganda [particularly South African and British media] that seeks to convince Africans that their only means of advancement is directly dependent on surrendering their sovereignty, culture, wealth and resources to western paternalism. Clearly, the white world hated Mugabe for refusing to submit to this western paternalism and him successfully piercing the veil of white superiority to emancipate black minds. Which led them to demand
AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly banned his wife Mary from visiting and has shut out government security, zimbolivenews.com has learnt. Chiwenga is currently in China where he has been receiving treatment for an ailment believed to be linked to his esophagus that has since been replaced with a plastic one all the way to the stomach. High placed sources told Zimbolivenews.com that Chiwenga has since been admitted to a Chinese military hospital where only that country’s security is allowed. “If you hear government saying they have an idea of how he is, it would be a lie. When he left Zimbabwe after South Africa, the Vice President had security details from both the army and the police protection unit. “Chiwenga is in a military hos
Doctors treating Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have advised the retired army general to call time on his political career as his health problems continue. Chinese doctors watching Chiwenga the former Commander Defence Forces who masterminded the coup that toppled former President Robert Mugabe in 2017 and thrust President Emmerson Mnangagwa into the hot seat want him to focus mending. Sources within government said the VP who is now able to walk, take light food as well as talk even though still critics has been advised to take less strain. “The VP is coming back but the doctors have advised him to take a rest. The pressure that comes with his office might affect him badly. “As already reported he has a problem with his esophagus replaced the whole way to the
THE bitter fallout between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the late former president Robert Mugabe which has divided their families, Zanu PF and government, as well as the public — exacerbated this week in his death as it did in life, with far-reaching political consequences. A series of dramatic events — including Mnangagwa’s visit to Mugabe’s home yesterday and his failure to break the deadlock over where his mentor would be buried – characterised the theatrical end of an era. “There has been so much fighting and drama over the funeral and burial issues since Mugabe’s death a week ago,” a senior government official said. “I have been talking to government officials and the Mugabe family; there is an interesting interplay of dif
Trading in any currency, which is not the Zimbabwe dollar, now attracts a fixed $6 000 fine and failure to pay the fine will result in the person involved being jailed. The new rules, gazetted yesterday, empower the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to arrest and fine people and businesses that continue charging for their goods and services in any currency other than the Zimdollar. Under the new regulations, the central bank can charge an extra fine of $100 per day for delays in payment of the $6 000 initial fine but when one defaults for more than 90 days, the person will be jailed. This comes as Government amended the Exchange Control Act to include provisions of Exclusive Use of the Zimbabwe Dollar Regulations, associated civil penalty orders as well as the schedule for enforcem
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will introduce new Zimbabwe notes in November this year, a development which is expected to end the long queues at the banks, a member of the RBZ’s Monetary Policy Committee has said. Eddie Cross told State-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) that the RBZ will put the first notes of its reintroduced currency into circulation in November. Zimbabwe has been chronically short of paper cash, forcing most transactions onto electronic platforms such as mobile-money system Ecocash. “We have insufficient cash in the system to meet people’s needs for transactions,” Cross said. “The new notes should do away with the queues at the banks and people then should have adequate money for daily use.” Th
MDC Alliance legislators will not receive their sitting allowances for the past five months after they walked out of the National Assembly chamber when President Mnangagwa was about to present his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Harare yesterday. The MPs had also refused to stand when the President walked into the chamber as required by Parliament’s decorum. The ruling was made by Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda in his capacity as Head of Parliament after the presentation of the SONA which also coincided with the opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament. “The behaviour which has been demonstrated by the honourables who walked out when His Excellency the President started to speak shall not be allowed to come back during this sit
