Columnist / Tinomuda chakanyuka
'Election already in Zanu-PF's bag'
PRESIDENT Mugabe's Youth Interface Rallies in the country's 10 provinces, which started in Mashonaland East with a bumper crowd two weeks ago, will serve to confirm Zanu-PF and its leader's victory in...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zanu-PF MP splashes $1 million on aeroplane
Boarding a plane remains a dream for many Zimbabweans but for a local politician and businessman, Kenneth Musanhi, owning one is the ultimate dream, one he has just realised. The Zanu-PF legislato...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
17 000 vacancies for ECD teachers
MORE than 17 000 Early Childhood Education (ECD) teachers are needed across the country to address teacher staff shortages in primary schools at a time when the Government has reiterated that it will ...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:22hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka/Walter Mswazie
Zimsec June exams lose popularity
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) June O-level and A-level examinations are increasingly becoming unpopular as the number of candidates registering for the session has continued t...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:16hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Govt freezes hiring, promotions
THE Government has with immediate effect frozen the recruitment of employees and promotions in the civil service, as part of its staff rationalisation exercise in line with recommendations of the Civi...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:58hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
July pay dates update
TOP officials from the Ministries of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare and Finance as well as from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will meet this week to come up with a position concerning the is...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:10hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube and Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Khupe angered by Tsvangirai appointments
MDC-T deputy president Ms Thokozani Khupe is reportedly fuming after party president Mr Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday effectively diluted her power and influence in the beleaguered party by appointing t...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:05hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube and Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Workers who stay away will face the consequences, says govt
CIVIL SERVANTS who embark on unlawful job action in future risk having their salaries cut for the days they will be absent from work as it is Government policy that "no work no pay". Public Se...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Teachers demand duty free cars and residential stands
TEACHERS have tabled a proposal to be allocated residential stands and be exempted from paying duty when they import cars among other non-monetary incentives, in lieu of their salaries, in light of Go...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 06:24hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Civil servants strike ends
THE Government fulfilled its promise to pay teachers their salaries yesterday.This has convinced civil servants to immediately call off their three-day national strike that was scheduled to en...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili / Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Mobile phone operators ordered to scrap the use of airtime scratch cards
MOBILE telephone operators are headed for a clash with the Government after they failed to heed a December directive which had set June as the deadline to scrap the use of airtime scratch cards as par...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 19:15hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Amnesty beneficiary duo back in prison
TWO unrepentant beneficiaries of last month's Presidential Amnesty, one of them a 16-year-old boy, are back in prison after they were separately convicted of unlawful entry and theft by a Zvishava...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 18:11hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
No male organ enlargement medicine, says Zinatha
THE Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (Zinatha) has described as bogus traditional healers who claim to offer male organ enlargement medicine as a survey has shown that of more than 50...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 18:06hrs | 8 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Urgent indaba on civil servants pay date shift
THE Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare has called for an urgent indaba tomorrow with officials from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Ministry of Finance, Civil Service Commission (CSC)...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:21hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Dumisani Nsingo
Parastatals boards reshuffle looms
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Dr Jorum Gumbo has announced plans to reshuffle all boards of parastatals that fall under his ministry. Dr Gumbo said the move was meant to ac...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:23hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zesa drags customers to court
POWER utility company Zesa has doubled the amount of money it is deducting towards settling outstanding debts when customers are buying pre-paid electricity, while it has engaged lawyers to force farm...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:18hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Luckson Munkombwe
Ministry to probe schools resisting National School Pledge
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education will investigate cases of schools that are reportedly resisting a directive to teach pupils to recite the National Schools Pledge, an official has said....Published: 15 May 2016 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
VID goes digital . . . Provisional licence tests to be written online
THE Government is in the process of digitalising the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID), a process which will see aspiring drivers writing provisional driver’s licences tests online and reducing in...Published: 08 May 2016 at 10:03hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Mayor's son in university sex storm
THE son of suspended Harare mayor Councillor Bernard Manyenyeni, Jason Manyenyeni II, has been implicated in an alleged sexual assault case that sparked fierce protests at Rhodes University in South A...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:40hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zanu-PF youth league sets $50k budget for march
The Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth league has begun mobilisation of youths and funds for the one million men march in solidarity with President Mugabe. Over 100 000 youths are expected to come from Bu...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:38hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
5 000+ join Zanu-PF at ZITF
MORE than 5 000 people registered for the Zanu-PF electronic party cards at the party's stand during the 57th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair that ended in Bulawayo yesterday. ...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:38hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Schools opening date unchanged
SCHOOLS will open on Tuesday for the second term as earlier advised contrary to some information that has been circulating on social media platforms that Government has postponed the opening to We...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Togolese President leaves
VISITING Togolese President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe has expressed interest in fostering co-operation between his country and Zimbabwe in the area of wildlife conservation. President Gnassin...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:36hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Ncube dies
LIBERATION war hero Stanley Ncube has died. He was 62. According to a statement from War Veterans in Bulawayo, Ncube died on Wednesday and will be buried tomorrow at the Bulawayo Provincial Heroes' Ac...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 17:07hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Cops target bank accounts. . . to garnish traffic offenders
Police want to introduce new technology that captures biometric data of all driver's licence holders under an initiative that will see offending motorists' bank accounts being garnished when they fail...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 13:37hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Gold mining claims for Zvishavane community
SABI Gold Mine in Zvishavane which is set to resume operations in August, has pledged to allocate gold mining claims to villagers, particularly youths in the area, as part of efforts to empower the co...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 10:02hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Liberation war hero Ncube dies
LIBERATION war hero Stanley Ncube has died. He was 62. According to a statement from War Veterans in Bulawayo, Ncube died on Wednesday and will be buried tomorrow at the Bulawayo Provincial He...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 09:04hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Murder cases double
MURDER cases in the country have doubled over the past six years with police saying most of the cases involved domestic violence and beer drinking among other social issues. According to data ...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
One woman raped every 75 minutes in Zimbabwe
AT LEAST 21 women are raped daily in Zimbabwe, translating to one woman being sexually abused every 75 minutes, latest statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Office (ZimStat) have revealed. ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 12:18hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Cities dam levels remain critical
WATER levels for dams that supply cities and towns in the southern parts of the country remain critical and may not last until the next rainy season despite the rains received in most parts of the cou...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Govt stops salaries for 3 000 workers
THE Government will from this month stop depositing salaries into bank accounts of more than 3 000 "ghost" workers, following a Civil Service Commission audit whose results were made public last week....Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Petra High School fires 12 teachers
PETRA High School in Bulawayo has terminated employment contracts for 12 Government-registered teachers, replacing them with "volunteers", Sunday News reported.The 12 teachers had their contra...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
'60% of local cancer cases HIV related'
ZIMBABWE continues to record a rapid increase in the number of new cancer cases and cancer related deaths, with about 60 percent of the cases HIV related, data from the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe ...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Obert Mpofu supports what was said by Grace Mugabe
Zanu-PF National Secretary for Finance and Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Dr Obert Mpofu said the Matabeleland region was not part of any factional fights as no one had any ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:57hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Lungile Tshuma
Meet the nerd from Nketa
CALL him a nerd, a geek, whizkid or any of the many stereotypical names overly intellectual people are often pejoratively called.The 19-year-old Ronald Shereni seems not to care. Instead he ha...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:31hrs | 9 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
UN pledges $15 billin to Zimbabwe
The United Nations plans to mobilise roughly US$15 billion to help Zimbabwe implement Sustainable Development Goals over the next 15 years.Government has stated its commitment to SDGs, priorit...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 07:41hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Lungile Tshuma
Zimsec withholds November 2015 A-level results
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has withheld some results for November 2015 Advanced Level examinations for several schools amid suspicion that candidates might have cheated, Sunday ...Published: 31 Jan 2016 at 19:43hrs | | by tinomuda chakanyuka
Teachers salary cut war looms
THE Government will cut salaries of teachers who will fail to produce good results especially for public examination classes, among a cocktail of measures aimed at improving the quality of education i...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 06:04hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube/Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Council launches blitz on 'ambush advertising'
THE Bulawayo City Council has launched a blitz to clamp and fine all motorists who are doing "ambush advertising" in the city by parking their cars in the city with the inscription "For Sale". ...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 09:04hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zimbabwe dams left with 7-month water supply
WATER levels for dams supplying water to cities and towns in the southern parts of the country are now below 50 percent of capacity triggering fears that authorities might be forced to introduce a tig...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 08:56hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zimra launches a blitz on tax evading companies
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has launched a blitz on tax evading companies, imposing stiff penalties on registered business operators not remitting taxes to the authority. Zimra offi...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:44hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
SA King apologises for xenophobic attacks
A SOUTH African king who is visiting Zimbabwe has apologised for the xenophobic attacks that took place in his country earlier this year, describing the attacks on foreigners as a regrettable episode ...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 10:41hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth chair survives ouster
ZANU-PF Bulawayo provincial youth chairperson Khumbulani Mpofu has survived to see another day in office following intervention by the party's national youth wing executive to stop tiffs within the pr...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Justice Cheda protests to Law Society
FORMER Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maphios Cheda, the founder of the now defunct law firm Cheda and Partners, has complained against the continued mention of the firm's name in connection with a...Published: 14 Jun 2015 at 11:30hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Why Bulawayo must vote Zanu-PF
FOR the past decade-and-a-half Bulawayo's electorate has, regrettably, ceded its support to the MDC-T. The opposition party has over the same period claimed the city and the metropolitan province at l...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 16:38hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Govt rolls out plan for Bulawayo, claims Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT has lined up a number of mega deals with friendly countries in Africa and Asia that will see the immediate resuscitation of industries in Bulawayo and accelerated economic recovery in the c...Published: 07 Jun 2015 at 16:32hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
14 Zim doctoral students graduate from the University of Fort Hare
AT LEAST 14 Zimbabwean doctoral students graduated from the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa during a historic graduation ceremony at the institution last week....Published: 24 May 2015 at 10:13hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
MDC-T chairperson, Dorcas Sibanda, heckled at MDC-T rally
MDC-T's Bulawayo provincial acting chairperson Ms Dorcas Sibanda yesterday faced the reality of her unpopularity in the province when youths aligned to Bulawayo deputy mayor Clr Gift Banda heckled her...Published: 24 May 2015 at 09:58hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
80 tonnes boulder crushes honey gatherer to death
"BETWEEN a rock and a hard surface" is a common maxim, a convenient expression often used to express dire situations or dilemmas people may find themselves in.The saying is as common as muck, ...Published: 17 May 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Mncedisi Buhali
Zimbabwean man's manhood skinned like a banana in xenophobic attack
A ZIMBABWEAN national is battling for life at a hospital in central Durban, South Africa, after his manhood was skinned like a banana by unknown assailants using a sharp object in what is believed to ...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 09:27hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
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