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Fresh challenge to Mwonzora presidency
EMBATTLED MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora's presidency faces a new threat after the party's United States provincial leadership yesterday resolved to ch...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3929 | by Staff reporter
Malaba ouster plot thickens
HUMAN rights lawyers and civic groups are piling legal pressure for Chief Justice Luke Malaba to resign ahead of his 70th birthday on Friday, instead ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4587 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet blames fuel availability for congestion
CABINET yesterday agreed to set up an inter-ministerial team to deal with congestion on the country's roads that has become a menace especially in urb...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Harare Poly bars students with fees arrears from writing exams
DOZENS of Harare Polytechnic students due to sit for examinations were left stranded yesterday after being locked out of the premises over non-payment...Published: 12 hrs ago | 647 | by Staff reporter
Foreigner nabbed with $7m cocaine
POLICE in Harare yesterday said they arrested a foreign female on Monday 10, for attempting to smuggle cocaine with a street value of $7 million at th...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Nurses bemoan lack of appreciation
NURSES unions have hailed their members for playing a pivotal role in the country's health delivery system, especially during the outbreak of the COVI...Published: 12 hrs ago | 585 | by Staff reporter
Locusts invade Chilonga
VILLAGERS in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi have said that their small grain crops have been ravaged by locusts, leaving very little to fall back on....Published: 12 hrs ago | 621 | by Staff reporter
BCC rehabilitates link road to Inyankuni, Ncema dams
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) in partnership with the Bulawayo Angling Club are planning to rehabilitate the access road to Ncema and Inyankuni dams whi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 293 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho to resume stadium construction
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council has said it is working on resuming the construction of a soccer stadium which was abandoned in 2015.The idea...Published: 12 hrs ago | 652 | by Staff reporter
Cheetahs face tough route to Tokyo
A TOUGH test awaits Zimbabwe's national rugby sevens side in their bid to book a ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games after they were drawn in Pool A alo...Published: 12 hrs ago | 113 | by Staff reporter
3 drown as boat capsizes
A WOMAN and her two children drowned yesterday in Lake Kariba on the north eastern side of Binga after a wooden dinghy boat they were travelling in ca...Published: 12 hrs ago | 714 | by Staff reporter
Sugar industry workers demand wage review
SUGAR industry employees are demanding an urgent National Employment Council (NEC) meeting to come up with new salary scales.The Zimbabwe Suga...Published: 12 hrs ago | 393 | by Staff reporter
Bosso unveil new partner
HIGHLANDERS have entered into a business partnership with Sanctuary Insurance. Club spokesperson, Ronald Moyo, said the deal will see them become the ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 426 | by Staff reporter
Police launch probe into Mwonzora
POLICE have launched investigations into allegations that Douglas Mwonzora stole $6 million from MDC-T coffers in the run-up to the party's elective c...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:35hrs | 5705 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC targets 6 million voters
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance said it had gone a gear up in its rural mobilisation exercise targeting six million voters for the 2023 elections....Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:34hrs | 2429 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance speak on ANC chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday said it would not interfere in the internal fights of South Africa's ruling party and fellow liberation movement, African National C...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:33hrs | 3653 | by Staff reporter
Factional war erupts in MLF after leadership dissolution
A BITTER factional war has erupted in the Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) secessionist party after the dissolution of the executive pending an electi...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:32hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Zapu hails Zulu Royal Kingdom for naming new king
ZAPU has hailed the Zulu Royal Kingdom in South Africa on the occasion of the naming of a new king, Misuzulu Zulu, describing the incident as educativ...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:31hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Experts call for Kazungula-style strategy as Beitbridge expands
COMPANIES must utilise inland clearing facilities to reduce congestion as Beitbridge Border Post enters a US$70 million expansion programme this year ...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:30hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
EU warns Mnangagwa
THE European Union (EU) Ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration against creating laws that under...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:21hrs | 8144 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa move invites backlash
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to assent to a host of controversial constitutional amendments has seen him starting a war on many battle fron...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3298 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths gun for party bigwigs
Zanu-PF youths in Manicaland province are plotting to invade farms belonging to the ruling party's secretary for finance Patrick Chinamasa and former ...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa embroiled in ugly wrangle over school
THOUSANDS of pupils at Southlea Park, a community primary school in Harare South, face a bleak future after a controversial decision by a dodgy consor...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 4317 | by Staff reporter
Doves ownership wrangle escalates
THE High Court has blocked a Doves Holdings shareholder and a top executive from stripping assets of the leading life assurance firm as a bitter owner...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:17hrs | 2064 | by Staff reporter
Cop top rights violators
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) was behind 50% of all human rights violations targeting mainly the opposition MDC Alliance party lead by Nelson Cha...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:16hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Kazembe, Matanga evade jail
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube, Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, and the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have evaded imprisonment afte...Published: 08 May 2021 at 20:00hrs | 2233 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in Mbare clean-up after police arrest Ngarivhume for similar attempt
ONLY a few days after the police blocked and arrested Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume from clearing litter at the busy Mbare Musika area, Z...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:58hrs | 949 | by Staff reporter
South Africans crossing into Zimbabwe for Covid-19 vaccination
ZIMBABWE is seeing a boost in vaccine tourism as foreign nationals have started arriving in the country to get vaccinated against Covid-19, for a fee....Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:24hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born woman wins UK council election
A ZIMBABWEAN-born woman Nicolle Nkazimulo Moyo, now based in the United Kingdom, was Friday elected councillor for Peterborough's Hargate and Hempsted...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:22hrs | 2423 | by Staff reporter
'I never left Zanu-PF'
Masvingo businessman Pascal Mudzikisi who contested as an independent candidate against Minister Davis Marapira for the Masvingo North parliamentary s...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:17hrs | 3189 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery goes wrong
A robbery went wrong in the early hours of today after the driver of a kombi that had been stashed with stolen tyres lost control of the vehicle and f...Published: 08 May 2021 at 19:15hrs | 2496 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC approaches Constitutional Court over stolen seat
CHEATED MDC Alliance 2018 candidate for Chegutu West Gift Konjana will next week approach the Constitutional Court in his quest to get the parliamenta...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2640 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Malaba's tenure set to be extended next week
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is on course to remaining in office beyond 15 May (next Saturday) when his tenure ends by operation of law following the pas...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora is Mnangagwa's trusted tool?
FOR President Emmerson Mnangagwa's power consolidation and 2023 presidential election bid to succeed, he desperately needs MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzo...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Arthur Mutambara breathing fire over the Constitution amendment
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is breathing fire over the Constitution Amendment (No.2) Bill, saying it is meant to consolidate power a...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tramples on indigenous people's rights
THE lack of laws protecting indigenous people's rights in Zimbabwe is exposing rural communities to human rights abuses, it has been established, with...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo faces massive land shortage
BULAWAYO requires as much as 27 000 hectares of land within and outside its boundaries to meet the needs of residents and industry under a development...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Embattled Ndewere fights to save her job
SUSPENDED High Court judge Erica Ndewere has dismissed allegations of incompetence levelled against her, arguing that witnesses brought to her drama-f...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:51hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths grab Gweru markets
Zanu-PF youths in the Midlands capital have forcibly allocated themselves vending stalls at Mtapa market with city fathers failing to take action agai...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:51hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Loan guarantee beneficiary denies Zanu-PF crony links
LUXAFLOR Roses, the company which got a US$750 000 bank loan guarantee from government that has raised eyebrows, says it does not have any link with Z...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:51hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo warms up to Covid-19 vaccination
BULAWAYO residents have warmed up to the Covid-19 vaccination drive amid revelations by health officials that as many as 2 000 people are coming forwa...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:50hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Biti threatens Mnangagwa with 'floodgate of litigation'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday signed the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Zimbabwe into law amid strong objections from the opposition an...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2516 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill into law
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the controversial Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill into law, which gives effect to 27 changes to the Constit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:12hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rewards Chamisa's ex-ally with NPRC post?
FORMER MDC-T vice president Obert Gutu, who joined Zanu-PF last month, has been appointed as a commissioner in the National Peace and Reconciliation C...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:12hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops Mamombe, Chimbiri trial
THE High Court yesterday stayed the trial of MDC Alliance activists Joanah Mamombe (Harare West MP), Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova which a Harare...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1743 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere approaches Supreme Court
EMBATTLED suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has appealed to the Supreme Court against a High Court judgment passed last month, which up...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:10hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Car import ban costs Zimra $3 billion
ZIMBABWE lost more than $3 billion in potential revenue in April alone following its ban on imports of vehicles that are older than 10 years. The numb...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
Matsika, Gatsi accused of asset stripping Doves
A BOARD member of Doves Holdings, Farai Matsika, and the chief operating officer of the company, Edson Gatsi, have been accused of stripping the asset...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zesa board chair acquitted of bribery as Chivayo remanded
FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje, who was being accused of receiving a US$10 000 bribe from businessman Wicknell Chiva...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:08hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
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