Illegal Panners Threaten $206m Bulawayo-Harare Road ‘Kwekwe -Munyati Bridge 30km’

Illegal Panners  Threaten $206m Bulawayo-Harare Road  ‘Kwekwe -Munyati  Bridge 30km’

A 30-kilometre stretch from Kwekwe to Munyati River Bridge along the Kwekwe–Harare highway is under threat from illegal panners and registered mines whose operations are now approaching the shoulders of the road. So bad is illegal gold panning that the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has engaged other arms of the government like the ministries of Mines and Mining Development and Home Affairs to assist in bringing sanity to the mining operations there. EMA officials said…

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Media Concentrates On Negatives Militated Against Zimbabwe’s Economic Well-Being

Media Concentrates  On Negatives Militated Against Zimbabwe’s Economic Well-Being

Government has urged the media to report responsibly on issues of national development instead of seeking to portray the country in a negative manner. Director of Urban Communications in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Service Retired Major Anywhere Mutambudzi, said too much concentration on negatives militated against the country’s economic well-being. If Zimbabwe failed as a nation, Major Mutambudzi said, the media would not be spared from the effects of poor economic performance….

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Mugabe Is A “Responsive And Accountable Leader”- Zanu PF MP Psychology Maziwisa

Mugabe Is A “Responsive And Accountable Leader”- Zanu PF MP Psychology Maziwisa

ZANU-PF’s newly appointed member of parliament, Psychology Maziwisa, has hailed President Robert Mugabe as a “responsive and accountable leader”, as the country awaits his state of the nation address (Sona) on Tuesday. Maziwisa, who is Zanu-PF’s deputy director of information, wrote on his Facebook page: “President Mugabe is coming to Parliament this afternoon not just to deliver his state of the nation address, but also (and more importantly) to demonstrate that he is a responsive…

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Zimbabwe Gvt To Erect 10 New ‘Tollgate Cash Cows’ Across Major Roads In Coming Weeks

Zimbabwe Gvt To Erect 10 New ‘Tollgate Cash Cows’ Across Major Roads  In Coming Weeks

Mugabe’s cash strapped Zanu PF regime will erect  10 new tollgates across the nations major highways in Zimbabwe in what is obviously a desperate attempt to raise funds from the  public. The ammendment and gazzeting of Statutory Instrument 39, Toll Roads (Road Network) Regulations (2009),this week will kickstart the construction of the much hated highway structures. The tollgates will be erected on the Harare-Beitbridge, Harare-Chirundu (Karoi), Harare-Bindura-Mt Darwin, Chivhu–Nyazura (Magamba), Mutare–Masvingo (Dewure) and Masvingo-Beitbridge (Mwenezi Growth Point) roads. The…

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Zimbabwe Job Cuts Are A ‘Recipe For Arab Spring’, Style Uprising Warns Labour Union

Zimbabwe Job Cuts  Are A ‘Recipe For Arab Spring’, Style  Uprising Warns Labour Union

ZIMBABWE’S beleaguered workers have appealed to President Robert Mugabe to invoke his powers to end more job losses as he prepares to amend the country’s harsh labour laws. Speaking during a street demonstration in Harare’s CBD Saturday, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders rubbished the proposed labour amendment law saying it sought to perpetuate the exploitation of workers. They insisted the law does nothing to free workers from capricious “capitalists” who are ensconced in…

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Mugabe – ‘Zimbabweans Aren’t Suffering & I Was “Devastated” By Mujuru’s Inexplicable Death’

Mugabe – ‘Zimbabweans Aren’t Suffering & I Was “Devastated” By Mujuru’s Inexplicable Death’

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe claimed Friday that no Zimbabwean was suffering as he revealed his row with liberation hero and former defence force chief, Solomon Mujuru, who was killed when an unexplained fire razed his farm house in 2011. Mugabe’s remarks during an address to the Zanu PF women’s league meeting in Harare raise new questions about Mujuru’s death and the veteran leader’s sincerity when mourning his passing. When burying the war hero at the Heroes…

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‘ZBC , Fires Almost Entire Mgnt Team, News Raders, Journalists & All Internal Security .’

‘ZBC , Fires Almost Entire Mgnt Team, News Raders, Journalists & All Internal Security .’

STATE broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on Saturday reportedly fired almost the entire management team, news readers, journalists and all internal security personnel. The engineering department was also reported to have been cleaned up in the job carnage. Other reports however said only between 50 and 100 workers had been fired and that letters of dismissal were still being dished out late last night. Some of the fired employees who requested anonymity told The Standard…

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‘Warning To Khama, The Zimbabwe Crisis Will Pull Down SADC Region’ – Eddie Cross

‘Warning To Khama, The Zimbabwe Crisis Will Pull Down SADC Region’ – Eddie Cross

I know everyone is fed up with the continuous state of crisis in Zimbabwe but that is no reason for not paying attention to its implications. In 1976 it was an intervention by the American Secretary of State that attempted to address the political, economic and social crisis in Zimbabwe, compounded at that time by a “low level guerilla war”. In 1980 it was the British, led by the Foreign Secretary, who attempted to address…

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Gvt To De-Register 30 000 Unregistered Vehicles, Leaving Only Properly Documented Cars

Gvt To De-Register 30 000 Unregistered  Vehicles, Leaving Only Properly Documented Cars

AT least 30 000 unregistered motor vehicles face imminent de-registration as Government moves to update the national vehicle population and ensure only properly documented cars use the roads. The Central Vehicle Registry’s records show that the country has 1,4 million vehicles, a figure that is cumulative from 1918 Government will soon publish a gazette outlawing at least 30 000 vehicles that have not been registered for the last two years and beyond. The move is…

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