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'Are there quality leaders - no paying lip service to free elections?' Need discerning and lip-reading voters to find them
"In our midst, can we not find today leaders who do not pay lip services to freedom, justice and liberty to gain the people's trust?" asked one whatsApp group member.This is not a simple quest...Published: 2 hrs ago | 15 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa distances self from ex-judge's ConCourt challenge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to respond to allegations by former judge Justice Erica Ndewere accusing him of using unlawful recommendations of a tribunal to remove her from office....Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:39hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should be wary of Trojan horse constitutional amendments!
So, the Zimbabwe government is planning more constitutional changes.This is according to Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, in an interview with the state-cont...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:12hrs | 248 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | 1676 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula?
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is expected to hand herself over to the police in Pretoria on Friday as factionalism within the African National Congress reaches fever pitch.The Mail and Guardian publ...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:38hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exam fees deadline is extended
THE Government's extension of the deadline by which Ordinary and Advanced Level examination fees should be paid to the first week of May from March 23, has been welcomed by parents and guardians as a ...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:44hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Ferret members in R22k extortion storm
FIVE members of the Ferret team deployed at Beitbridge to fight cross-border crime have been caught up in a bribery and extortion storm.The team faces charges of demanding money from a B...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
'Parents can pay examination fees in Zimdollar'
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council has opened a one week window for parents and guardians to pay examination fees for the June 2024 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations in local currency at ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:09hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
ANC, Zanu-PF and other former liberation movements converge
AHEAD of the country's 44th Independence celebrations next month, Former Liberation Movements (FLM) will converge in Victoria Falls to exchange notes and guard against infiltration by former coloniser...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:08hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Betting firm convicted for failing to pay punter
A BETTING company Bezbets has been convicted by a Harare magistrate after it refused to pay a punter who had won a US$5 400 bet.The company represented by Robson Chinamasa was convicted after ...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked Zuva judgment knocks out Air Zimbabwe employees
After accepting retrenchment packages, 300 former Air Zimbabwe employees lost their appeal against their dismissal, as ruled by the labor court. The terminations stemmed from the 2015 Zuva Petroleum P...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:10hrs | 11658 | by Staff reporter
'US's new sanctions on Mnangagwa ineffective'
The new regime of sanctions against Zimbabwe's top government officials and their enablers is new wine in an old wineskin and will not achieve anything in bringing change to the country, analysts have...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:48hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe wins retrenchment case
THREE-HUNDRED former Air Zimbabwe workers have lost their appeal against retrenchment after the Labour Court ruled they waived their right to object to the procedural irregularities by accepting retre...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
US slams door on Mnangagwa
UNITED States Senate Foreign Relations member Jim Risch and analysts have said the sanctioning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa for corruption and human rights violations is a damning indictment of his...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Accident victim gets US$37 189 damages
A man crippled and now requiring hip replacement after a reckless motorist rammed his car in 2008, is to receive US$37 189 in compensation for medical expenses plus loss of employment and future care ...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:49hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga eulogise Zimbabwe-Russia relations
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has paid tribute to the Russian Federation for standing firm in support of Zimbabwe's sovereignty in the face of an ever-present threat from imperial powers....Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 09:11hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu inflicted damage
"WHEN I saw the recall letter circulating on social media I thought it was a hoax. I showed it to my colleagues and we laughed it off," says Evidence Zana, the recalled Bulawayo youth quota member of ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:53hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 570 | by Vivid Gwede
Zimbabwe, Botswana reaffirm no passports deal
ZIMBABWE and Botswana will forge ahead with eliminating passport requirements for citizens travelling between the two countries in line with regional and continental aspirations of facilitating the fr...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:30hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira being victimised for supporting Mnangagwa's succession bid
Former Public Service Minister Prisca Mupfumira has written to Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo claiming that her arrest over corruption allegations was triggered by her loyalty to President Emme...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
CCC voters feel betrayed
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters, who voted for their representative in August 2023 harmonised elections, say they feel abandoned following the abrupt resignation of their representative...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
ANC urged to call Zanu-PF to order
Zimbabweans based in neighbouring South Africa are lobbying the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party to review its relationship with Zanu-PF and take the country's leaders to task for mis-gove...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
CCC splits into three warring factions
THE Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has disintegrated into three distinct yet fluid factions following last week's resignation of Nelson Chamisa which took some legislators and party officials by...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:36hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
CCC shuts door on Chamisa era
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is trying to draw a line under the chaos that has ravaged the parry over the past 18 months, which has culminated in its leaders accepting the resignation of th...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 09:07hrs | 4165 | by Staff reporter
CCC circus continues following Chamisa exit
THE battle to control the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) continued yesterday with rival factions announcing separate plans on the way forward following the resignation of party leader Nelson Cham...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 07:00hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
'Don't resign in solidarity with Nelson Chamisa,' CCC MPs told
The National Standing Committee of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has directed its party representatives in parliament and councils to continue carrying out their responsibilities, rejecting ...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:51hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU demands inclusion in Gukurahundi resolution process
ZAPU and its former military wing, ZIPRA, have declared that as the primary victims of the Gukurahundi genocide, they should be involved in finding a solution arguing that current efforts to resolve G...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 16:34hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns critics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned his opponents that their attempts to disrupt his efforts to address Gukurahundi and attack the chiefs he has appointed, through disinformation and political man...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 09:39hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa must introspect, map the way forward'
POLITICAL analysts and opinion leaders have expressed mixed views on Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's decision to dump his two-year-old Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), with som...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:25hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Econet complainant takes fight to new ICT minister
HARARE-BASED information communication technology innovator and entrepreneur Ignatius Munengwa has escalated his fight with mobile network operator Econet to the minister of Information Communication ...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:23hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa surrenders hard-won political and democratic space
"THIS is to officially, and under my hand, inform you fellow citizens of Zimbabwe and the world, that, with immediate effect, I no longer have anything to do with CCC."With these words, Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:22hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Man regrets having extra-marital affair
A HARARE woman was chased away from her matrimonial home by her husband's family for failing to conceive for 14 years.This emerged at the Harare Magistrates where Aleck Patsika had been dragged to cou...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
'Zinara letting us down'
BULAWAYO needs a minimum of US$15 million per annum to maintain its road network which deteriorates each rainfall season when heavy rains pound the ageing roads, mayor David Coltart has said.O...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:33hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe debt clearance talks on despite US disengagement
THE United States, through its embassy in Harare, has decided to disengage from participation in Zimbabwe's debt resolution and clearance programme and the round of negotiations resuming next month....Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
BCC sparks controversy with debit cards notice
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) was last Friday forced to withdraw a notice stating that only bank debit cards bearing the name of the owner of the property will be accepted for rates payment which wa...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:25hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
High Court to hand down judgement on CCC MPs' challenge against ballot removal
The High Court has reserved its judgement in a matter Citizens Coalition for Change self-imposed secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is seeking to block recalled MPs from contesting under the party du...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:09hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu goes to court to bar Chibaya, Siziva
Nearly two dozen former CCC MPs and councillors who were controversially recalled could now be barred from the February 3 by-elections after self-styled party secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu filed...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to support Mozambique ports project
Speaking during a wide-ranging press briefing at the ruling Zanu-PF party headquarters in Harare yesterday, national spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa said a number of ports are under dev...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:36hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu seeks to bar 23 candidates
CCC interim secretary-general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu has struck again after filing a High Court application seeking to bar 23 candidates from using the party name in the by-elections slated for February...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu files High Court application to bar recalled CCC members from 03 February by-elections
Sengezo Tshabangu has urgently submitted an application to the High Court, seeking an injunction to prevent 23 candidates affiliated with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) from participating in ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 19:17hrs | 2014 | by Staff reporter
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 686 | by George Mkhwanazi
Zimdollar exchange rate bolts
MARKET watchers have predicted a gloomy 2024 outlook amid a galloping exchange rate, steep taxation and an ever tanking economy, NewsDay reported.As usual, this is heavily impacting on ordinar...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:36hrs | 4993 | by Staff reporter
War vets in trouble for invading farm
A group of war veterans from Mashonaland West are facing prosecution after invading a farm owned by the son of Zimbabwe's former ambassador to the United Nations Tirivafi Kangai.The former lib...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:42hrs | 1208 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime perpetuating the normalization of oppression!
I think it was around 1978 or 79 - at the age of five or six years old - when I posed a very pointed question to my parents. We frequently drove past the outskirts of the low density suburb of...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 22:56hrs | 467 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zambian minister quits over US$200,000 payment
ZAMBIA'S Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Stanley Kakubo who is reported to have received US$200 000 from an investor in a video shared over the past days tendered his resignatio...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:22hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Pope Francis over same sex marriages
Catholic congregants in Zimbabwe have expressed disquiet at the Vatican's move to allow the church's priests to bless same-sex couples, saying this is abominable in the majority of African countries a...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Schools inflate prices of uniforms
THE Government has called on parents to ignore unauthorised school fees for next term which begins in January, warning that school heads found flouting regulations will face disciplinary action....Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:08hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Dave Houghton resigns as Zimbabwe cricket coach
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) board has accepted Dave Houghton's resignation from his position as head coach of the Zimbabwe senior men's team with immediate effect.He will, however, reportedly remain...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 18:19hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
School heads face disciplinary action over fee hikes
Government has threatened to punish school heads if they increase tuition fees for the upcoming term without the approval of the Primary and Secondary Education ministry.Several public and pri...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:17hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
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