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Ian Khama calls on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices
Former Botswana President Seretse Ian Khama called on Zimbabweans to make personal sacrifices to free themselves from the repressive Zanu-PF-led gover...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5198 | by Staff reporter
SA envoys shows Chamisa the middle finger
SPECIAL envoys appointed by African Union chairperson, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to probe reports of gross human rights violations in Zi...Published: 17 hrs ago | 6898 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader fired over anti-Mnangagwa slur
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth province has fired its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) secretary for youth affairs Munashe Mtutsa for allegedly crit...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa ove...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 31900 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushi...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 7429 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer fears for Chin'ono's life
INCARCERATED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has said they fear he could be poisoned in jail as authorities put restrictions on ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 4306 | by Staff reporter
UNcle Tom queries South Africa 'sham' envoys
Prominent South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane believes President Cyril ramamphosa's special envoys appointed to find ways of solving politic...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2295 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll over Beitbridge fence
An investigation which revealed a litany of incompetence and wrongdoing in the emergency construction of a fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe has...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:25hrs | 2399 | by Staff reporter
Activist hounded over Mnangagwa song
Godfrey Kurauone, an MdC Alliance councillor in Masvingo, is languishing at Masvingo remand Prison awaiting trial and his alleged crime is singing a d...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:25hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government offic...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 9766 | by Staff reporter
Charamba's photoshop claims are false
ON August 8, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba, via his Twitter account @Jamwanda2, claimed that a photograph showing a man in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:22hrs | 3489 | by zimfact
Mnangagwa's rhetoric inflammatory
In a week that President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to "flush out" his political opponents, a young Bulawayo woman was allegedly abducted, sexually a...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:21hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 wrecks Mpilo Hospital
OVER 40 staffers at the opportunistic infection (OI) clinic at Mpilo Central Hospital have reportedly tested positive to COVID-19."COVID-19 ca...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city blames KSB pumps
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved plans to decommission KSB pumps at its waterworks after investigations showed that they posed a risk to the q...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
BCC yet to receive devolution funds
GOVERNMENT has not yet disbursed devolution funds to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for roads rehabilitation, the local authority has said.Co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Charge against Mphoko vague and embarrassing, says Magistrate
A HARARE magistrate has ruled that charges levelled against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko are vague and embarrassing.Mphoko is faci...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6085 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt has neglected ZPRA ex-combatants
ZPRA ex-combatants have called out the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration for allegedly lying that they were beneficiaries of an on-going for...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
Former AAG deputy president petitions JSC over court judgment
FORMER Affirmative Action Group (AAG) deputy president Samuel Ncube has petitioned the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to seek redress after losing ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara boss cleared of corruption
FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance director, Mr Simon Taranhike, who was on bail pending appeal on his conviction and sent...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:58hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic enhances FCA digital banking
Stanbic Bank has stepped up functionality of Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) on their digital banking platforms, in a move that will allow customers ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to inspect roadworks
Progress on the dualisation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway by local contractors comes under spotlight tomorrow as President Mnangagwa inspe...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Law on anti-Zimbabwe lobbying on cards
Political parties should be placed under a uniform code of conduct, hate speech should be banned and campaigning against Zimbabwe criminalised, the Ca...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices rise
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has increased the price of fuel by margins ranging between 30 percent and 33 percent with effect from ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3389 | by Staff reporter
26 Zanu-PF staffers test positive
Twenty-six Zanu-PF staffers have tested positive to Covid-19 and have since been notified and have gone into self-isolation.Zanu-PF tested 154...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:31hrs | 4586 | by Staff reporter
Pretoria rebuffs Malema's pleas
SOUTH Africa yesterday rejected calls for it to deal robustly with Zimbabwe, adding that relations between Pretoria and Harare were governed by intern...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3557 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa endorses #ZimbabweanLivesMatter protest
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa resurfaced Tuesday with an emphatic endorsement of #Zimbabwelivesmatter and a surprise prison visit to incarcerated...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 6239 | by newzimbabwe
High inflation sees Zimra exceed targets in Q2
Increased loss of value in the ZWL saw tax revenue in the second quarter exceed target by 42.75% to $20.11 billion. The tax collector had a target of ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Enough is enough, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw down the gauntlet and declared he had had "enough of the machinations" of opposition political parties an...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 8811 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF launches internal witch hunt
ZANU-PF has reportedly launched a massive witch hunt for party leaders who joined forces with civil society groups to stage the July 31 anti-corruptio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:18hrs | 7790 | by Staff reporter
I designed #ZanuPFMustGO masks, says Bulawayo activist
HUMAN rights activist and director of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation, Mthulisi Hanana, yesterday revealed that he was the brains behind the #ZanuPFMustGo ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:18hrs | 3417 | by Staff reporter
20 Maphisa Hospital nurses test positive to COVID-19
TWENTY nurses at Maphisa District Hospital in Matabeleland South province tested positive for coronavirus this week, sending the settlement, predomina...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1575 | by Staff reporter
Warriors stars join #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
NATIONAL football team stars have joined other local and international celebrities in condemning human rights abuses in the country under the #Zimbabw...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 4624 | by Staff reporter
Dangarembga decries state 'chokehold'
A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1455 | by Reuter
Sikhala threatens 5 day protest
THE organisers of the abortive July 31 protest say they will roll out five days of demonstrations next week against alleged wanton looting and corrupt...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:03hrs | 4855 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu clocks 19th day in quarantine, joins Twitter
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, who is in self-isolation, says he will use his new twitter handle to engage on the Covid-19 pandemic...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the c...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 4269 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance councillor denied bail
Urban MDC-A Ward 4 Clr Godfrey Kurauone, who is facing charges of criminal nuisance and barricading traffic along Mashava-Zvamahande road on Friday, h...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Mum migrates leaving three fatherless children alone with no food
FIFTEEN-year-old Josphat Chibaya (15) dreams of being a soldier and aims at protecting his country in times of trouble, his younger sister Emma (13) w...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2898 | by Staff Reporter
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4140 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe declares 12 new Covid-19 deaths previously missed
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll climbed to 53 on Thursday as the ministry of health announced 12 previously undeclared deaths which occurred between Ju...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains our partner, claims US
THE United States of America (USA) senate Foreign Relations Committee says Zimbabwe will remain its county's international partner despite Zanu-PF's h...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3707 | by Staff reporter
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3850 | by Staff reporter
Global financiers shut out Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT says it is failing to access international financial aid necessary in mitigating the social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic b...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says July 31 will proceed as planned
MDC deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who is currently in hiding, says that the anti-government demonstrations would go ahead despite the crack...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 16:53hrs | 3057 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Mwonzora cross swords
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe has crossed swords with party acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora after the latter last week reportedly spo...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:41hrs | 7108 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to beat up protesters?
ZANU PF yesterday urged its supporters to beat up protesters who will take to the street on July 31 and threatened to kick out United States ambassado...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:40hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in hiding after Mnangagwa unleashes CIOs on him
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has allegedly deployed several teams of intelligence officers to hunt down MDC Alliance deputy national chai...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:36hrs | 4312 | by Staff reporter
Teenager hangs self over haircut
A 15-YEAR-OLD boy in Chief Neshangwe's area in Chivhu hanged himself on Saturday morning after a misunderstanding with his father over a haircut....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:35hrs | 2105 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss Gata suspended for corruption
ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata has been suspended to pave way for investigations into his alleged corrupt activities.Gata was suspende...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Vapostori tells Chamisa to accept defeat, move on
APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) President Johannes Ndanga said it was high time opposition party leaders accepted the 2018 election's d...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3702 | by Staff reporter
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