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Chinamasa facing a rebellion from Zanu-PF members
FORMER finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is facing a rebellion from Zanu-PF members in his Makoni home district, Manicaland province ahead of the par...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1615 | by Staff reporter
Mutinhiri in bitter farm dispute
FORMER Marondera East legislator Tracy Mutinhiri is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with a white commercial farmer Rijk Yates over the ownership of...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Biti questions Zimbabwe external debt figure
FORMER Finance minister and Harare East legislator Tendai Biti has questioned the country's current external debt and says that the actual figure was ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 465 | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer survey points to Zimbabwe youth voter apathy
A NEW Afrobarometer survey shows that young Zimbabweans are less likely to register to vote in the general elections expected next year compared to ol...Published: 9 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Veterinary Services ropes in traditional leaders over dipping
THE Department of Veterinary Services has implored traditional leaders to assist in driving cattle dipping awareness campaigns in Hurungwe distric...Published: 9 hrs ago | 167 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi defends Judiciary Amendment Bill
JUSTICE, legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has defended the Judiciary Amendment Bill in Parliament which seeks to provide for v...Published: 9 hrs ago | 156 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls bond for diasporans
GOVERNMENT is set to introduce a diaspora bond for Zimbabweans overseas as it seeks to raise investment levels in the country.This was reveale...Published: 9 hrs ago | 349 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers flag prosecutors as the most corrupt
A SURVEY by a group representing lawyers has flagged prosecutors as the most corrupt officials in judicial proceedings.The survey, titled Just...Published: 9 hrs ago | 322 | by Staff reporter
Reza takes over Malunga prosecution as farm battle rages
Deputy Prosecutor General Michael Reza left his station in Harare on Friday to personally take charge of the prosecution of rights lawyer Siphosami Ma...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backers hound church leaders
A group of pastors, who claim to be spearheading President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election campaign, are accused of ambushing church leaders acr...Published: 22 hrs ago | 950 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly over judges 'capture'
A Constitutional Court judge has come out guns blazing against a litigant who accused the bench of being captured by President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 22 hrs ago | 1059 | by Staff reporter
Zinara and VID deal raises eyebrows
The country's roads administrator, Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) assigned the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) to collect transit ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 726 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa now a comedian?
SELF-STYLED preacher Talent Madungwe, better known as Prophet Madungwe and Norton MP Temba Mliswa will feature as "comedians" at the urban culture fie...Published: 22 hrs ago | 748 | by Staff reporter
Zacc fails to account for expenses
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), has failed to produce supporting documents to validate its expenditure in the previous year to auditor...Published: 22 hrs ago | 175 | by Staff reporter
Mahere vs Gappah legal fight: High Court quashes Gappah's leave to appeal bid
THE legal fight between lawyers Fadzai Mahere and Petina Gappah continues with the High Court recently dismissing an application for leave to appeal b...Published: 22 hrs ago | 338 | by Staff reporter
Malema tells South Africans to look in the mirror and 'you'll see a Zimbabwean'
Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema says South Africans need to open their hearts and welcome people from other African countries with ope...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among four winners of 2022 Mandela social impact awards
THE Mandela Rhodes Foundation (MRF) has announced four of its award winners for its social impact award the Äänit Prize.The four winners –...Published: 22 hrs ago | 110 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife invited by New York mayor
FIRST Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa on Thursday shone like a beacon as the only First Lady to be invited to the exclusive Met Gala Cocktail by the Mayor ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 466 | by Staff reporter
Child killed by mysterious being
A Bulawayo family claims that their six-year-old son died after being hit with a brick on the head by an invisible being, which the child claimed to b...Published: 22 hrs ago | 544 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe universities adjust fees structures
STATE universities in the country have raised their tuition fees in line with regional trends to cover operational costs.Lupane St...Published: 22 hrs ago | 444 | by Staff reporter
BCC demands US$60 million for power station
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has insisted that they will only part with the title deeds of the Bulawayo Power Station if the Zimbabwe Power Company...Published: 22 hrs ago | 202 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to unleash vendors, touts in 2023
Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial vice chairperson Edson Chiherenge yesterday (September 14) during the party's inter-district meeting said all vendors and ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 491 | by Staff reporter
'Operation no to accident victims theft'
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) blitz at Lundi Business Centre in Mwenezi led to the recovery of 7 000 litres of diesel and other goods includi...Published: 22 hrs ago | 172 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools operating without water
MORE than half of Bulawayo's schools are operating without water after council disconnected supplies due to non-payment of rates amid reports that the...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 10:38hrs | 306 | by Staff Reporter
England-born Zimbabwean starlet signs pro deal at Aston Villa
ENGLAND-BORN Zimbabwean defender Thierry Katsukunya has signed his first professional contract with English Premier League side Aston Villa.Ka...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:17hrs | 4360 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets Iranian counterpart
IRAN President Ebrahim Raisi has emphasised the need to activate the joint economic commission for cooperation between Tehran and Harare.Presi...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:16hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe joins exclusive club with gas project
AFRICA Oil Week, a prestigious global platform for stimulating deals and transactions across the continent held annually, will this year host Zimbabwe...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:16hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
African leaders call for end to Zimbabwe sanction
African leaders are using the ongoing United Nations General Assembly to push for an end to a two-decade-long Western embargo against Zimbabwe, arguin...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | 781 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers' union vows full blown strike on Monday
TEACHERS are pressing ahead with industrial action slated for Monday, despite receiving a cost of living adjustment increment by government.Go...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politicians giving police nightmares
POLICE yesterday accused politicians from across the divide of stoking violence, thus making it extremely difficult for the law enforcement agents to ...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:15hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Potraz tells content creators to be ethical
LOCAL online content creators have been urged to desist from publishing fake news amid calls for them to undergo training on ethical standards....Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe a repressed State'
ZIMBABWE has been ranked as the most "repressed" State globally amid concerns over a shrinking democratic space in the country following a sustained a...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver jailed for stealing fuel
A HARARE truck driver has been jailed four years for stealing 43 652 litres of fuel worth US$40 814, and replacing it with water to hide the theft....Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe treasury fails to fund teacher recruitment
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday said Treasury had failed to raise funds required to recruit more teachers amid claims by unions that t...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Chiri faces Parly grilling
LEGISLATORS have demanded that Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri be summoned to Parliament to explain why allocated funds in some ministries and gove...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masin...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa condemns xenophobia
President Mnangagwa is using his visit to New York to engage investors and other Heads of State and Government as he champions the twin policies of en...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa
Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Kenya's William Ruto says sanctions impoverish ordinary Zimbabweans
Newly installed Kenyan president William Ruto has joined seemingly unyielding calls by his African peers to have western imposed sanctions against Zim...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:37hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Cartels bay for Mthuli Ncube's blood
PREDATORY cartels of "tenderpreneurs" preying on Zimbabwe's lax procurement systems, prejudicing government of millions of United States dollars, are ...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 7147 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police impunity laid bare
POLICE deputy commissioner Stephen Mutamba was added to the list of individuals reeling under the United States (US) sanctions in a move that bolstere...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank raids banks, firms
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Exchange Control Division has raided and penalised top banks and firms for violating exchange control regulations with ...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:25hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
Zimra fails to receipt ZW$1,6bn
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) failed to receipt deposits from clients worth close to ZW$2 billion (about US$3 million) last year, according t...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:24hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
SA blackouts bleed Zimbabwe industry
ZIMBABWEAN industries, already battered by a long running economic crisis, have been thrown off balance by rolling blackouts in South Africa, which es...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:24hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
SA mob burns three Zimbabwean men in Limpopo
Three Zimbabwean men were on Saturday burnt to death by a mob in Mashamba area under the Makhado policing area in South Africa's Limpopo Province....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:23hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Shock as male cat births triplets
IN a rather stranger than fiction story, villagers in the Mpoki area in Gokwe were left in shock and disgust after a male cat recently gave birth to t...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:23hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Pastor steals girlfriend's money
A pastor from Bulawayo was arrested for allegedly stealing US$1 450, R21 300 and P27 000 from his girlfriend whom he had visited for a sleepover....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:23hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Man robbed while relieving self
A 42-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo lost property worth US$1 240 when he was robbed by a gang while relieving himself.The machete gang pounced on ...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:22hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Man bewitched as a mysterious insect eats his foot
When a mysterious ailment attacked his left foot and left a big gaping hole in it Emson Mkhwananzi from Zamatove village in Mberengwa, Midlands provin...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:22hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman dies at South African hospital; neglected due to her nationality
The death of a Zimbabwean woman in a Krugersdorp hospital has left a deep scar among Zimbabweans who are desperate to receive health services in South...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | 6179 | by Staff reporter
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