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ZRP never sanctioned 31 July demo
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed a fake letter which has been posted on social media platforms indicating that Chief superintendent Smart Matongo the Officer Commanding Harare Suburban Distr...Published: 2 hrs ago | 465 | by Staff reporter
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given I'v...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1187 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Zimra closes Bulawayo, Chiredzi offices due to COVID-19
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has been forced to close its Bulawayo and Chiredzi offices after it emerged the 54-year-old Bulawayo man who died of COVID-19 on Sunday had visited the offices....Published: 13 hrs ago | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's father was a Rhodesian soldier?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's father is a Rhodesian African Rifles soldier who does not know the definition of a war veteran, according to Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans and Deputy Minis...Published: 22 hrs ago | 10614 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been taken to court by one Tendai Chitinhe who is involved in a fierce wrangle for the Chivero chieftainship with Cornleous Chengera.Chengero was recently appo...Published: 23 hrs ago | 10510 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 23 hrs ago | 8713 | by Staff reporter
Police speak on July 31 mass demonstrations
Zimbabwe Republic Police have dismissed as a fake a letter that is circulating on social media alleging that one Chief Superintendent Matongo has sanctioned a demonstration by a shadowy organisation c...Published: 24 hrs ago | 4904 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF Politburo meets
ZANU-PF is set to hold an ordinary session of the Politburo tomorrow at the party headquarters in Harare.In a statement today, Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity and party spokespe...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3525 | by Staff reporter
RBZ designates Zimswitch as a national payment switch
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect as it moves to operationalise Statutory Instrument 80 of 2020, which enables it to contro...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa updates the nation on Coronavirus
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a video on social media updating the nation on the measures that his government has taken in dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic. The President said h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3834 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police deny sanctioning July 31 anti-sanctions demo
Zimbabwean Police have disowned a letter circulating on social media accenting to an application to hold a demonstration by the Zimbabwe Anti-Sanction Allied Movement on 31 July. The lett...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1518 | by Moyo Roy
Gayz and Lesbians mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Capitalk FM
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe have thrown its weight behind the move by some section of Human Rights organization to mobilise Zimbabweans to snub Harare based Capitalk 100.4 FM for suspending its mana...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:11hrs | 1635 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Patricia Majalisa dies
South African media has reported that famed musician Patricia Majalisa has died. Known as The Queen of Disco, Majalisa was a darling of Zimbabwean disco music lovers....Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 13:21hrs | 9585 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Armed soldiers raid Hurungwe hospital...steal US$1 500
Detectives of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are said to have arrested commandos and paratroopers who raided Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and stole US$1 500.Media reports say that the ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 11:44hrs | 4705 | by Mandla Ndlovu
High Court ends Muthombeni's wee long detention over anti-Mnangagwa slur
HIGH Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Monday ended the week-long detention of Ephraim Muthombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRAD), who wa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 1968 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwe has been marking time and going nowhere' - 40 years and still at it, insane
Dear Leonard Koni, "Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere," you wrote in Bulawayo24."Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the m...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1120 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa, Zapu cross swords over seized properties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has angered opposition Zapu leaders after he met them shortly before the November 2017 coup and early last year where he pledged to return their seized properties before h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Khupe chased away from Chamisa mother's funeral
The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai (MDC-T), Thokozani Khupe has reportedly been embarrassed at the funeral of Mbuya Chamisa, the mother of MDC Alliance leader Nelso...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 19:15hrs | 11931 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in trouble
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and some officials in his ministry face contempt of Parliament charges after the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Finance accused them of treating the august H...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 14085 | by Staff reporter
'100 000 Zimbabweans could die from Coronavirus'
About 50 000 t0 100 000 Zimbabweans will die of Coronavirus in the next months, Mpilo Clinical Director Solwayo Ngwenya has foretold. In a Twitter post on Wednesday Ngwenya said, "Corona virus...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 3791 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zivhu recalled from Parly
CHIVI South MP, Killer Zivhu, has been recalled from the National Assembly following his expulsion from the ruling Zanu-PF party last month.The announcement of his recall was made by Speaker o...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 34 local COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Fifty-three people tested positive for COVID-19 this Tuesday bringing the total number of positive cases to 787.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the peopl...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1857 | by Staff Reporter
Nehanda's bones not yet risen - as she didn't die for White Rhodesia to be replaced by Black Rhodesia!
Yesterday, the 7th July 2020, I took time to watch the usual post-Cabinet media briefing, beamed live on state television - whereby, several government ministers update the nation on their deliberatio...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:51hrs | 738 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cain Mathema bans churches from using schools
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says schools remain closed for church or any other gatherings during the Covid-19 period.In a statement Education Minister Cain Mathema said sch...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:38hrs | 1810 | by Moyo Roy
Chinese man who shot 2 black workers released on $10 000 bail
A Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin who is accused of shooting two black employees in Gweru has been freed on a ZWL$10 000 bail by a High Court Judge in Masvingo.Justice Garainesu ordered Xuel...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1715 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Army fired Minister Obadiah Moyo'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the Zimbabwe military was behind the expulsion of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo.Moyo added that the Minister was fronting First Lady Auxilia Mn...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 11:37hrs | 14319 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Council departments request for control of rodents, cockroaches, mosquitoes
Bulawayo City Council departments have requested an increase in the control measures put in place to prevent the sprouting of cockroaches, rodents, and mosquitoes in the city.This is revealed ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 810 | by Stephen Jakes
31 July a defining moment for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere.Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the majority of the people feel in the air the winds of chan...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4137 | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1561 | by Emmanuel Koro
ZAPU condolence message to Chamisa family.
It is with great sorrow that we learnt of the untimely passing away of Mai Chamisa, mother to Mdca President Nelson Chamisa on 6 July 2020.On behalf of myself as President and indeed on behalf...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1361 | by Isaac Mabuka Zapu President
Shona girl Nosizi Dube stuck without citizenship in Kenya
A Shona girl Nosizi Dube is failing to secure a place at the University of Nairobi because she does not a citizenship of any country on earth. David Ndii a leading Kenyan economist and public ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:50hrs | 8052 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
Zimbabwe's clergy is on a fresh drive to bring political parties to the negotiating table aimed at coming up with lasting solutions to the country's worsening economic challenges, CITE reported....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2965 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa finally fires Minister Obadiah Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally expelled the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah Moyo from cabinet. Moyo's latest firing comes barely a month after Zimbabweans were given a w...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:37hrs | 6162 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lindiwe Sibanda to be a jury member of the world's largest food prize
The jury of the Food Planet Prize, the world's largest prize in the food arena, has been announced by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.The ten international top professionals include lea...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Mnagnagwa loyalists facing purges from Zanu-PF
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu-PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5172 | by Staff reporter
Matter of Fact
ON Saturday, July 4, we ran a story headlined NetOne board member arrested, charged and released in one day. In the story we stated: Rangarirai Mavhunga is accused of having presented before t...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 403 | by Editor
FUNDRAISER: Plumtree boy appeals for funds for a head operation
The family of a 6-year-old boy Mxolisi Moyo is appealing for assistance in transporting him from Mangwe to Bulawayo for a head operation. Mxolisi, who is doing ECD at Makorokoro Primary School...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:35hrs | 1090 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: ZIMRA senior manager dies of Coronavirus
A senior Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) manager in Bulawayo died on Sunday after being diagnosed with Coronavirus.The late manager has been identified as 54-year-old Thabani Sibanda. ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 09:44hrs | 17567 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Chamisa's mother dies
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost his mother who passed away on Monday. The MDC Alliance National Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has released a pre...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:38hrs | 12783 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa fails to honour promises'
ZIMBABWE is currently going through political and economic crises that have caused untold suffering to citizens. At the same time, factionalism appears to be devouring both the ruling Zanu-PF and oppo...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 5750 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bulawayo Mayor instructed to report to Thokozani Khupe daily
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has constituted a Presidential Task Force to look at the death of about 13 people in Luveve in the past months and has instructed Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mad...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 9001 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: MDC Alliance official arrested
MDC Alliance National youth organiser and ward 4 Masvingo urban councillor Godfrey Kurauone has been arrested today.Masvingo based award-winning human rights lawyer advocate Martin Mureri of M...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 16:45hrs | 7907 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Mayor reported to CID homicide and ZACC over Luveve deaths
A national pressure group Chapter 2 Movement has officially reported the Mayor of Bulawayo to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the CID Law and Order over the death of 13 people from Luveve ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 15:40hrs | 3088 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Chamisa for addressing a rally in Shona
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has received a social media backlash after addressing his inaugural e-rally using Shona language on Sunday. Social media users have accused the opposition leader of f...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:38hrs | 13879 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC goes paperless
BULAWAYO City Council has gone paperless and will be distributing statements via SMS, with ratepayers who have access to the internet viewing their accounts online.Town clerk Christopher Dube ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:09hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends $480m on Zupco, roller meal subsidies
THE government spent $480 million on the Zupco and roller meal subsidies in the first four months of 2020, but still managed to balance its budget over the period, Treasury data shows.Governme...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 2317 | by staff reporter
Reprieve for recalled Chamisa's recalled senator
THE recalling of an MDC-Alliance Matabeleland North senator Phyllis Ndlovu has been halted following an appeal to the Supreme Court. High Court Judge Justice Joseph Martin Mafusire recently ba...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Nurses and doctors arrested in Harare
Police in Harare have arrested 12 nurses and an unknown number of doctors at Sally Mugabe hospital.According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the arrested are charged with contr...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:01hrs | 7241 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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