Columnist / Stephen jakes
Politicians must stop imposing women's quota reps
Political parties have been challenged to stop imposing women's quota representatives and to allow women from all sections of society to choose those that they want to represent them.The call ...Published: 04 Jun 2024 at 08:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Return Home affairs ministry to Zapu officials: Ex Zipra cadre
THE SECOND Republic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to return the Home Affairs ministry to Zapu in honour of the unity accord that was signed by late former Vice President Jo...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 15:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Sanctions on Zanu PF govt leaders are useless'
Outspoken Ex Zipra cadre Max Mkandla has warned the United States of America that itrs imposition of targeted sanctions on the Zimbabwean leaders is useless as those leaders lose nothing and feel no p...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:07hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zipra war vets hails ED for appointing Mavhunga as their minister
ZIPRA war veterans have hailed President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing Monica Mavhunga as the Minister of War Weterans Welfare adding that as she is a war veteran herself she is bound to address a...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 13:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Woman up for stock theft
A woman appeared in court facing charges of theft of livestock and property.Hezel Ndebele (21) was not asked to plead to charges when s...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Kombi crew block road, assault Honda Fit driver
THREE commuter omnibus conductors from Old Magwegwe high-density suburbs in Bulawayo have appeared in court facing a charge of assaulting a Honda Fit driver.Method Mlilo (31), Ayibongwe Mlilo ...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 21:56hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Businessman offered land to build public toilets in Mzilikazi
Bulawayo City Council has officially handed over a piece of land to Terrence Hill, a businessman and owner of Sizalabo Butchery (Madamara) to construct a public toilets at Madamara area, i...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 21:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Shortage of refuse trucks chokes BCC
SHORTAGE of refuse removal trucks throttles the Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s garbage collection daily activities around the city.This ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 08:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
First Funeral Services fails to pay client ZWL$500 000 benefit
First Funeral Services Private Limited Company is currently embroiled in a heated wrangle with its client Wilson Dube who accuses it of failing to pay him...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 22:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
BHA ventures in anti-drug campaign
BULAWAYO Handball Association (BHA) has stepped up efforts to eliminate drug and substance abuse in the province through sports. The association hosted their first drugs and substance abu...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Residents work with Pumtree Hospital for improved service delivery
PLUMTREE Combined Residents and Development Association (PCRADA) chairperson Richard Khumalo has said they have been authorized by the district hospital to be the middlemen for residents wheneve...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Service providers challenged to be united
BULAWAYO service providers recently gathered at Penniquilla Gardens for their fourth cohort of a membership and networking event which saw the addressing of challenges encountered in the industry, and...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo landlords renting out verandas and toilets raises concerns
In Old Lobengula, Bulawayo, reports indicate that some property owners are resorting to renting out their verandas and toilets to desperate individuals seeking housing, raising concerns about the pote...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:23hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR demands social rights for ordinary citizens
ON World Day of Social Justice, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said they stand in solidarity with ordinary citizens who are enduring unprecedented injustices, that are being perpetrated ...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Woman bashes hubby for coming home late
A 27-year-old woman from Barbourfield high-density suburbs in Bulawayo has appeared in court facing a charge of physically abusing her husband.Patience Nkiwane pleaded guilty to the charge whe...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Two men arrested for attempted murder
TWO men from Pumula South, Bulawayo have been arrested for the attempted murder of their friend, Innocent Phuti.On the eighth of February this year, at 7pm Phuti (complainant) was drinking bee...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Active Youth Zimbabwe set to build drug rehabilitation center
ACTIVE YOUTH ZIMBABWE is planning to build a drug rehabilitation center which will be located at Pumula South, Bulawayo.In an interview, Active Youth Zimbabwe Editorial Director, Romeo M...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Estate agent in trouble over fraud
A 47-year-old woman who deals in housing stands selling from Emakhandeni in Bulawayo has appeared in court facing a charge of fraud.Sithini Moyo was not asked to plead when she appeared before...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:56hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mutsvangwa blasted for spilling bins about Mnangagwa after being fired
The fired minister of War Veterans Christopher Mutsvangwa has come under fire for claiming to be exposing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa who fired him was put at the helm by him (Mutsvangwa) and th...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:53hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mat North police arrest attempted murder suspect
POLICE in Matabeleland North have arrested a Hwange man for allegedly attempting to kill a local businessman using a wooden chair.Matab...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 07:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man in trouble for raping girl 13
A 22-year-old man from Masimini Village at Kenilworth, Lupane is in trouble after he allegedly grabbed a 13-year-old girl and dragged her into the bush where he raped her without protection.Ev...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 15:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
IOM launches first Global appeal for US$7.9billion
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched its first ever Global Annual Appeal for 2024, calling for USD 7.9 billion to support its operations and help create a system that realiz...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 15:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Residents calls for speed rehabilitation of Iminyela ablution facility
Bulawayo residents have called for the local authority to speed up the rehabilitation of Iminyela ablution system to accommodate the current populat...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 07:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Collapsed drainage system worries Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO ward one residents have expressed concerns over the collapse of the drainage system during this rain season and national outbreak of the Cholera ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 08:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mutsvangwa called to order over war vets association control
WAR VETERANS have called on Minister of War Veterans Affairs Christopher Mutsvangwa to ordered and challenged him to stop trying top control the Zimbabwe's National Liberation War Veterans...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 15:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nepotism dents post-election period
Zimbabwe Open University academic Didymus Dewa recently said issues of nepositism, clientalism, patronage and loyalism affected the major political parties that won the elections in the August 23 and ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cornered Mutare City Council acts on poor service delivery after resident's complaint
AUTHORITIES at Mutare City Council (MCC) have procured and taken delivery of some fire tenders to enhance the local authority's emergency response capabilities following a complaint filed against it b...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Top retailer slapped with us$30 000 lawsuit over abuse of customer
A TOP Zimbabwean retailer has been slapped with a US$ 30,000 lawsuit by a man, who is demanding payment of damages as compensation for causing his unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution over unfoun...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Some Mat North pupils walk more than 30km to schools: RUCET
Rural Community Empowerment Trust Coordinator for Matabeleland North Vumani Ndlovu has bemoaned that some of the pupils in the province and other areas still walk more than 30 km to school after 43 ye...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Pan Africanist organisations urged to form one institution to spearhead United States of Africa
Pan Africanists organisations formed in the continent have been challenged to come together to form one institution that will significantly push for a one united state of Africa in order to prevent in...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo police probes sudden death case
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating the sudden death of an unknown male adult which occurred on December 24 last year at 15:13pm at corner Parirenyatwa and 6th Avenue.Bulawayo acting police s...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 10:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZIMRA measures to restore value chain integrity utter insensitive, says former Senator
FORMER MDC senator for Matabeleland North Chief Ndlovu from Nkayi has described the measures recently announced by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) meant to protect value chains integrity, issued in...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Anticipatory Action in the Wake of El Nino in Zimbabwe
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a growing threat driven by climate variability (sequential changes between ElNino and La Nina phases).Citizens in Action Southern Africa noted in its...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 22:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gwanda mayor advises residents on council's door-to-door rates collections
Gwanda mayor Thulani Moyo has advised residents that council workers will start door-to-door collection of taxes as the local authority is still working on the upgrading of the payment systems....Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 12:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Many rural and urban communities have no access to clean water: Zimcodd
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has said there are many communities in rural and uirban areas that have no access to clean water due to the government's lack of political will to assist...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:20hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Gokwe, Bindura councils fail to document evidence of devolution funds use
ZIMBABWE Coalition on Debt and Development has revealed that Bindura and Gokwe councils in 2022 failed to give proof of how they used the devolution funds that were allocated to them.Zim...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:19hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
IOM celebrates International Migration day
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Migration (IOM) is this week celebrating the International Migration Day recognising that this phenomenon has been happening from the day of human creation to date a...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Lawyer hits prison officer with lawsuit over partisan conduct
A LAWYER has approached the High Court seeking an order for the dismissal of a prison officer, who is vigorously involved in partisan politics, in contravention of constitutional provisions that bar c...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:15hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu celebrates 62 years
Zapu is today celebrating 62 years after its formation with the party spokesperson Mso Ndlovu saying they celebrate this milestone, as they continue on their journey to achieve the full emancipation o...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 11:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZLHR stops displacement of villagers
MUTARE High Court Judge Justice Isaac Muzenda has ordered Chipinge Rural District Council (CRDC) to stop excavating, constructing roads and pegging residential stands within Maunganidze Communal Lands...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 21:49hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
CIASA Petitions Parliament of Zimbabwe over environment violations
A civic society organisation, the Citizens in Action Southern Africa has petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe to exercise its oversight function, discharge a representative role, and protect environm...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 21:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Mayor to hold Christmas visits to hospitals
BULAWAYO MAYOR Senator David Coltart will be holding Christmas Visits to the Hospitals and a Mayor's Christmas Cheer fund lunch with Sandra Jones on Monday, 18 December 2023The council in a no...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 21:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Residents sue govt over defective flyovers
HARARE residents are suing Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona, over some defective flyovers, which are posing a serious safety risk to inhabitants of the capital city....Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 20:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mthuli back track on wealth tax ...amid concerns govt is not applying mind on serious issues
MInister of Finance Mthuli Ncube has reportedly backtracked on the 1% Wealth Tax on property amid concerns by former MDC Matabeleland North senator Chief ...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Youth Vocational Training Centre turned into a church
A Youth training vocational training centre at Ngungumbane shops in Mberengwa, Midlands which was built by World Vision and given to the community has been turned into a church by some politicians who...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Stanbic named 2023 bank of the year by the banker
Harare, 12 December 2023 - Stanbic Bank has been selected 2023 Bank of the Year in Zimbabwe by world renown London-based magazine, The Banker, cementing its place as one of the country's leading finan...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Media development in Zimbabwe imperative
Media Institute for Southern Africa regional director Tabani Moyo has said media development in Zimbabwe requires a holistic approach, alive to the gains accrued thus far and complex enough to connect...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 09:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo man burns house to ashes
AN 87-year-old Bulawayo man is on the run after burning his niece's house in Nkulumane suburb recently.Joshua Dube, who has been residing at the same house for 15 years set the house on fire a...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 09:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
By-elections were not necessary: Freedom Alliance
Freedom Alliance spokesperson Nhlanhla Moses Ncube has described the just-ended by-elections in which Zanu PF scooped 7 seats out of the nine that were won by Citizens Coalition for change in the Augu...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 14:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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