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Security ministries gets Lion’s Share From Zim’s US$Billion Budget

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

SECURITY ministries received some of the biggest allocations in the 2016 budget votes outside the Education ministries despite a marked shift in social spending, statistics show. According to the figures, Treasury allocated a quarter of the of the US$4 billion budget to the two Education ministries, followed by security ministries – Home Affairs and Defence – starving the health ministry of critical funding. “As I have previously indicated, the social sector ministries of Primary and…

Road Unveiled As Harare International Airport Road Instead Of Official, Joshua Nkomo Expressway

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

IT WAS meant to be a highway modernised in honour of the late Father Zimbabwe, but a mixup by Transport and Infrastructure Ministry officials saw an upgraded road being unveiled as the Harare International Airport Road, instead of its official name: Joshua Nkomo Expressway in the capital. President Robert Mugabe officially opened the road that leads to the Harare International Airport on Wednesday, but an embarrassing mistake by officials resulted in the commemorative plaque identifying…

Mnangagwa’s Ziscosteel ‘Lies’ Laid Bare With Essar Deal Collapse

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

PUMPED UP and feeling anointed to succeed after the Zanu PF congress, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa toured the collapsed Ziscosteel in December 2014 and declared that the company – closed since 2009 – would soon resume operations. Addressing a campaign rally in his then Chirumhanzu constituency, the Midlands political godfather declared: “Very soon, production will resume at New Zimsteel (Zisco’s new name) and this will go a long way in reviving the economy.” The suffering…

‘European Union (EU) More Concerned With Zim’s Deteriorating Economy Than Political Hurdles’-Germany’s Ambassador To Zim

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

GERMANY’S ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ullrich Klockner, has said the European Union (EU) is more concerned with the country’s deteriorating economy than the political hurdles stalling re-engagement with Harare. Ambassador Klockner told NewZimbabwe.com Thursday that the re-engagement drive remained a “bumpy” ride. “It is a long way forward; it is a bumpy road. We are not sure that it will be successful,” he said. The EU imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe in 2002 over allegations of election fraud by…

Ziscosteel Workers Contracts, Terminated And Zim Gvt Takes Over Firm’s US$700m Debt

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

GOVERNMENT will, with effect from December 1 this year, terminate all contracts for Ziscosteel workers on three months’ notice and absorb its wage liabilities in a bid to attract investors to resuscitate the company, Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa has said. The development confirms the collapse of the Redcliff steelmaker’s much-vaunted takeover by an Indian company despite vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa insisting in February this year that plans to restart the closed company were at an…

Man Who Tied A Donkey To A Tree And Raped It, Sentenced To 12 Months In Jail

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

“I resorted to bestiality to quench my sexual appetite because I don’t have a girlfriend,” said Munyaradzi Chidhani, 24, drawing guffaws from the gallery. Mwenezi resident Magistrate Honest Musiiwa convicted Chidhani of Magodhonge Village under Chief Chitanga, on his own plea of guilty to bestiality. He sentenced him to 12 months in jail for the offence and suspended four months for five years on condition of good behaviour. The magistrate commuted the remaining eight months…

Vascoda Mugabe’s Foreign Travel Budget, Exceeded By 240%

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE government overspent by 25 percent in the eight months to August, with the cost of foreign travel skyrocketing, while revenue collection missed targets due to poor economic performance, a report by a think tank has shown. A frequent flier, President Robert Mugabe is regularly criticised by the opposition for spending millions travelling abroad at a time the Harare administration is struggling with its finances in a poor economy. The veteran leader’s foreign travel schedule…

‘Mugabe Is An Opportunist, Who Used Land Reform When He Was Losing Power’-Julius Malema

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

CONTROVERSIAL South African politician Julius Malema says President Robert Mugabe is an “opportunist” who waited until he was losing power to implement land reform and South Africa under him would never follow the 91-year old’s method. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader was addressing students at the University of Oxford Wednesday. He said the EFF would continue the fight for the return of land to black Africans and the equitable sharing of South Africa’s mineral…

Whither Zimbabwe With Mugabe’s Self Imposed Lifetime Rule?

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The level of civilisation is generally depicted by how a government treats and cares for its weakest, sick, elderly , children, disabled, minorities, needy, prisoners and most vulnerable in society. Oppression, racism, marginalisation, inequalities, and injustices forced upon the people of the then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, by the white Ian Smith Rhodesian regime, were , justification for us to all unite and wage a protracted and painful liberation war of independance. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe and…

Two Police Officers And A Civillian Shot Dead By Poacher In Chipinge

Posted on November 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Two police officers and a civilian were shot and killed by a suspected poacher in Chipinge on Tuesday. The shooting incident occurred at plot number 34, Naffaerton in Chipinge on Tuesday the 24th of November 2015 at around 11.am. The two police officers killed are Sergeant Robert Shumba (39) and Sergeant Vengai Mazhara (35), while the civilian is Chaita Simango (22). The police officers were killed on duty while investigating a case where a suspected…

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