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Chamisa tells Zanu-PF to stop abusing chiefs
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party desists from using chiefs and village heads as commissars during ele...Published: 4 hrs ago | 489 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lashes at Mnangagwa
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is banning rallies by his party because it is sensing defeat in next year's elections.P...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:28hrs | 4810 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police reject help from Chamisa's MP
OPPOSITION Chitungwiza South legislator Maxwell Mavhunga's efforts to establish a satellite police base in Unit L have hit a brick wall after the law enforcement agency thwarted the initiative....Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's ministry loses ZW$32m in botched car deal
THE Ministry of Information was left counting its loses after being duped by controversial government vehicle supplier, Solution Motors, in a $47m deal, a Harare court heard recently.Solution ...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans must stop parroting foreign narratives
ZIMBABWEANS should believe in themselves despite the continued imposition of sanctions on the country and be inspired by the national interest to work harder to develop their own country rather than "...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:21hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Bosso road woes hit 32 winless matches
Herentals 1 - 1 HighlandersBULAWAYO giants Highlanders' struggles on the road continued yesterday when a late equaliser by Herentals striker forward John Zhuwao ended hopes that Bosso had of...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:20hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
5000 stands, more wards for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is set to get a 5 000 suburb constructed on its outskirts, with the location expected to be incorporated into the city once the delimitation exercise is completed.The Bulawayo City Co...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:19hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Western countries block Zimbabwe's readmission into Commonwealth?
Zimbabwe has accused western countries of blocking its bid to rejoin the Commonwealth bloc.The late former President Mugabe pulled the country out of the Commonwealth in 2003 after he was crit...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:28hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga operation pushed back?
Doctors have delayed a planned operation on Vice President Constantino Chiwenga following tests at a private hospital in Harare on Thursday, ZimLive can reveal.Chiwenga, 65, is due to go under...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 21:01hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dismisses surgery claims
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga Friday dismissed claims that he was yesterday admitted at the Trauma Centre Borrowdale private hospital for a surgery to correct some discomfort in his stomach....Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:33hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's chance to redeem legacy
ZIMBABWE and Kenya have striking political dynamics. Even the political history in post2000 era has same characteristics of violence, disputed electoral outcomes, power sharing agreements and voter ap...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:26hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
EU's outgoing messenger wants Zimbabwe to rethink on PVOs Bill
THE European Union (EU) yesterday urged Parliament to take the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill back to the people for further consultation because some of its provisions would re...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc, a toothless bulldog'
THE Citizens in Action Southern Africa (Ciasa) has accused the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) of failing to effectively deal with electoral crises in countries such as Zimbabwe.I...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Brito vows to end 31 match winless run
HIGHLANDERS coach Baltermar Brito has dismissed the 31-match winless streak that Bosso have endured outside Bulawayo as nothing more than a statistic and has vowed to bring it to an end when his team ...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga admitted at private Harare hospital
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was admitted to a hospital in Harare on Thursday for what sources described as a "long-planned procedure".The 65-year-old retired army general arrived at th...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:15hrs | 10648 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora claims he is brewing a shocker for Zimbabwe
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has said his party is brewing a shocker for the nation ahead of the crucial harmonised elections pencilled for next year.This is despite his party having fared...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 390 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa faces 'bhora musango' in Gokwe by-election, 2023 polls
Zanu-PF faces protest votes in the forthcoming Gokwe-Kabuyuni parliamentary by- elections slated for later this month and in the 2023 polls following a cocktail of political developments which have ex...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 11:46hrs | 8114 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabweans must copy Kenya on diaspora vote
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has applauded Kenya for allowing the diaspora vote and said Zimbabweans living outside the country should be allowed to vote in the 2023 polls...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2918 | by Staff reporter
Kombani Lodge goes up in smoke
PLUMTREE'S 52-bed Kombani Lodge was yesterday razed by an inferno that started as a veld fire near a Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depot before a whirlwind lifted burning debris, which landed ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Mphokos, Choppies legal wrangle rages on
THE legal battle pitting Choppies Enterprises Limited against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela over the 51 percent shareholding that they claim at the retail giant will ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economy enters growth phase'
President Mnangagwa said Zimbabwe's economy has transitioned from recovery to a growth phase, adding economic activity is projected to expand by a weighty 4,6 percent in 2022 despite the negative impa...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's broke govt rules out US dollar salaries
GOVERNMENT has cast doubt over the possibility of paying civil servants in US dollars as inflation continues to ravage salaries amid growing tensions and fears of unrest, The NewsHawks can report....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 2564 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores Motlanthe advice, 4 years on
SOLDIERS who shot and killed innocent civilians on 1 August 2018 have not been prosecuted, four years on, with growing calls for justice falling on deaf ears.Despite appointing former So...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says partisan politics toxifying army
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday spoke out against the "partisan political toxification" of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and urged security forces to serve nati...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai deserves national hero status, says Mafume
HARARE Mayor, Jacob Mafume Monday called for the recognition of the late former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as a national hero for his unequivocal role in opening up democratic space in the count...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:16hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt bans Chamisa documentary
THE Zimbabwe government has banned "President," Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson's Oscar-shortlisted documentary about the African nation's corrupt 2018 presidential election, Variety can exclusively...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:15hrs | 1724 | by Staff reporter
Parly grills govt over US$9.6bn unauthorised expenditure
PARLIAMENT last week grilled ministry of Finance officials for failing to furnish the Auditor-General's office and the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) with adequate information justifyin...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa marches expose Zanu-PF fights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly using parallel structures after some Zanu-PF organs resisted the imposition of his allies ahead of the ruling party's congress, insiders say.Mnanga...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni slams 2022 census outcome
FORMER Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says the exclusion of the Zimbabwe Diaspora community in the 2022 census is akin to the disenfranchisement of people under the colonial Ian Smith reg...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimbabwe judges in the eye of a storm
A Harare businessman has written a letter of complaint to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi raising allegations of criminal abuse of office, conflict of interest and ob...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:05hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | 1150 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
CCC seeks SADC, AU help to restore poll reforms in Zimbabwe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is hopeful SADC and AU will finally exercise their influence on Zimbabwe to bring about much-needed electoral reforms that would usher in credible elections in its ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:19hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
BCC 'boycotting' national events
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube yesterday reported Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni to acting President Constantino Chiwenga for not attending national events in the city.Ncube l...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean accused of forging UZ degrees to work as a clinical psychologist
A Zimbabwe-born Drogheda man has been accused of using "forged" university degrees and professional qualifications to work as a clinical psychologist, helping vulnerable children and adults.Ni...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Ian Smith was an archangel compared to Mnangagwa
No one must come to Matabeleland bragging that they fought in a war that brought about Zimbabwe independence. The Zimbabwe independence struggle produced the tribal Shona supremacist government that i...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:47hrs | 2265 | by Israel Dube
Lest we forget our heroes
This is the month which we remember and celebrate the illustrious fallen sons and daughters of Zimbabwe who sacrificed their fresh blood to liberate the country.Traditionally August is a month...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:31hrs | 384 | by Leonard Koni
Inside three swing provinces that will decide entry to State House in 2023 polls
The 2023 general election may see the highest turnout in decades, though it comes at the same time as vast uncertainty about the independent auditability of the voters roll and electoral systems, ball...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:29hrs | 1718 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Chamisa's CCC will not continue 'whining' over electoral malpractices
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was now a lot wiser as an opposition and was busy plugging loopholes for possible vote rigging going into the 2023 elections.Ad...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to be the guest of honour at the wedding ex-army general's wedding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been invited to be the guest of honour at the wedding of Former Presidential Guard commander, retired Brigadier-General Anselem Sanyatwe tomorrow in Nyanga, NewsDay re...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Matshe Koko's firm to build massive solar plant in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has signed a power purchasing agreement with a South African independent power producer, Matshela Energy Limited, for a 100MW sol...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Godolude to perform in Plumtree
RHUMBA dancer-cum-musician Mandlenkosi "Godolude" Mpofu will stage a show in his hometown Plumtree on Friday night. The show will be held at Kondabayakhe Night Club where the dance muso will b...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 18:58hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses Mphoko's application in Choppies dispute
THE Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an application by former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela, who took Choppies Enterprises to court over 51% shareholding that they claim ow...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
August 1 shooting victim wins $3m compensation
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri and her Home Affairs counterpart, Kazembe Kazembe, have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensation to a victim of the August 1, 2018 shootings by the army....Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2842 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2652 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born American golfer wins Hero Open at St Andrews
Zimbabwe-born American golfer Sean Crocker held off a spirited challenge from Eddie Pepperell to claim his first DP World Tour title with a wire-to-wire victory in the Hero Open on Sunday.Croc...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2826 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South villagers perplexed over Zanu-PF victories
MATEBELELAND South province villagers are perplexed over how Zanu-PF continues to win elections in the province despite the area's glaring marginalisation.The area continues to be a Zanu-PF st...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:52hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
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