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Mudzuri says to challenge Khupe for MDC-T presidency
Former MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri will challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe for the presidency, he announced on Friday.The party has been rocked by leadership disputes which spille...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2866 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans flexi-hours
A SHOWDOWN is looming between health workers and the government after the Health ministry banned flexi-hours which will see nurses working everyday instead of selected days per week.In a lette...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2290 | by Staff reporter
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's by-election ban challenged
HARARE resident Enock Mukudu of ward 30 in Glen View, has approached the High Court challenging the recent suspension of by-elections by Health minister, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga on health ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1808 | by Staff reporter
BCC clinics migrate to e-patient treatment
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has announced plans to commence the use of electronic health records (EHR) for all patients visiting council-run clinics.According to council, this is in line with ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bars Civil servants from party posts
THE Zanu PF politburo has barred civil servants from contesting in the party's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, saying it was illegal for them to stand for political office.Th...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1880 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa, Khupe factions must seek ZCTU mediation
SO, the constitutional and rule of law champions Morgen Komichi, Douglas Mwonzora, MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and Tapiwa Mashakada want the world to believe that their understanding of constitutiona...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2509 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Mnangagwa says law against 'errant' NGOs in the pipeline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired warning shots against "errant" non-governmental organisations (NGO) and disclosed that government would soon craft a law to whip them into line.In ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 228 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest High Court 'armed robber'
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man from Makokoba suburb who is linked to the botched armed robbery at the Bulawayo High Court earlier this month. Evidence at hand has led police to believe...Published: 22 hrs ago | 805 | by Staff reporter
SeedCo International delists from ZSE, debuts on VFEX
LEADING seed producer and distributor, SeedCo International Limited, will delist from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) with effect from today and shift focus to the foreign currency denominated Victo...Published: 22 hrs ago | 295 | by Staff reporter
Man loses forex, gun to thieves
A 39-year-old Harare man lost over US$3 200 and a pistol to unknown thieves who broke into his car which he had parked at a shop in the Graniteside area of Harare. The theft comes at a time po...Published: 22 hrs ago | 798 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy to grow 4,2pc in 2021: IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week revealed Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year and grow 4,2 percent from a decline of 10,2 percent forecast for 2020. The world body's pred...Published: 23 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Matanga accused of shady car deals, bribery
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has been accused of being involved in a raft of corrupt activities including inflating prices of police vehicles, flouting tender processes; and bribing Spec...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1339 | by Staff reporter
Unite to achieve brighter future, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the country is on a new path towards prosperity calling for unity of purpose among Zimbabweans as a brighter future depends on every individual. President Mn...Published: 23 hrs ago | 280 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa spells parliament's legislative agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has outlined the third session of the Ninth Parliament's legislative agenda that is expected to consolidate the Government's political and economic reform agenda.Officially...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | 2412 | by Staff Reporter
Battle for control of MDC-T intensifies
Rival candidates have heightened their campaign activities ahead of MDC-T's extraordinary congress as the battle to control the party intensifies.Early this month, the Supreme Court gave MDC-T...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:27hrs | 7093 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa says anti-graft crusade will spare no one
GONE are the days when senior Zanu-PF members would engage in corruption hiding behind their statuses, President Mnangagwa said yesterday as he called for free and fair elections in the ongoing pa...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 1875 | by Staff Reporter
Harare City chefs dupe govt
Harare City Council (HCC) bosses could have fleeced the government of ZWL$12m after selling acres of State land in the capital as the illegal parcelling out of land in the capital reaches a new low....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2032 | by Staff Reporter
Political parties go all out campaigning for by-elections
Zimbabwe's political parties - Zanu-PF, MDC-Alliance and MDC-T - are going all out campaigning ahead of anticipated by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1039 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa gets nod to buy coal in forex
The government has rescinded its earlier decision to bar power utility Zesa from paying for its coal supplies in foreign currency, fearing the move could trigger crippling load shedding, Business Time...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1418 | by Staff Reporter
Fresh headache for Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's billion dollar mining sector wants to wholly retain foreign currency receipts to be able to pay royalties, taxes and other levies which the authorities want them paid fully in United States...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:16hrs | 10134 | by Staff Reporter
Hostilities persist in Chamisa party
HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West pri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 3588 | by Staff reporter
Abednico Bhebhe in soup over MDC court case
FISSURES continue to widen in the Thokozani Khupeled MDC as the party bigwigs want to haul organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe before a disciplinary hearing.This comes after Bhebhe claimed in...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:16hrs | 2314 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over inflation data
A PROFESSIONAL accountants' body has raised the red flag over factoring blended inflation data during the preparation of statements, saying firms pursuing this model risked distorting their organisati...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:52hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Farmer challenges Kasukuwere eviction order
A MAZOWE farmer, who lost his piece of land to former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere, has approached the court seeking to reverse the eviction order. In an application through his lawyers...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:48hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar remains solid against Trump's dollar
For the second week running, the Zimbabwe dollar was virtually unchanged against the US dollar at the weekly auction, shifting just one two hundreth of one percent to $81,3499 from last week's $81,345...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Dealers appeal for removal of VAT on rice
Players in the rice supply chain have appealed to Government to reconsider a 14,5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charge on the commodity. A Government VAT payment request in retrospect, for a p...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe promises urgent review into lockdown expiry learner's licences
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday promised an urgent review after the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) turned away scores of learner drivers whose provisional licences expired duri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Top cop took residential stand as bribe to drop probe
A senior police officer faced bribery allegations on Wednesday as he was released on Z$10,000 bail by a Harare magistrate.Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Mutipforo allegedly received a bri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:41hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers get 22% wage increase
MINING sector workers have been awarded a 22 percent wage increase, which will see the lowest paid employee for the period October to December 2020, earning a basic salary of ZWL$18 000.Previo...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 16:49hrs | 1673 | by Staff Reporter
Teen boy sentenced to 18 years for murder
A TEENAGE boy from Nyamandlovu who strangled his 13-year-old cousin to death and set the body alight using paraffin before burying it in a shallow grave has been sentenced to 18 years in jail....Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:30hrs | 2764 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records another Covid-19 death
ONE more Covid-19 related death was reported in Matabeleland South bringing to 233 the number of people who have succumbed to the pandemic in Zimbabwe.The Ministry of Health and Child Care sai...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2775 | by Staff Reporter
Man glasses wife with beer bottle for going to party
IN a fit of rage, a Makokoba man allegedly stabbed his wife with an empty broken beer bottle for "disrespecting" him by defying his orders not to attend a party in the same neighbourhood. It's...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3251 | by Staff Reporter
Zicorba ushers the majority of Zimbabweans into commercial rabbit production
The Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) was mooted in June 2020 by a group of like-minded persons during a WhatsApp discussion, setting a stage for what has become household name...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1218 | by Lloyd Mangoh
From desert to business hub_Dubai economic story
Dubai is the capital city of the Emirate of Dubai, which in itself is one of the seven emirates (states) that form the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The emirates are former British colonies which got in...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 14:01hrs | 2154 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mbare Musika shut down
The City of Harare Council has announced that it is shutting down the Mbare Musika Bus Terminus to conduct renovations.The Council further said the temporary ranks shall only accommodate buses...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | 8794 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sikhala's allegiance confuses Mwonzora
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said Job Sikhala's continued presence in Parliament is not a sign the party leadership feared him, but a matter of his unclear allegiance they are still to...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 11102 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance defy Chiwenga's election ban
THE ruling Zanu-PF and opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said they were going ahead with preparations for by-elections despite the recent poll ban imposed by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga....Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 4381 | by Staff reporter
Student teachers petition Parly over allowances
STUDENT teachers have petitioned Parliament to push the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government to raise their monthly allowances currently pegged at $150, which translates to less than US$2 using...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF battle lines drawn as ZACC closes in on Chiwenga ally
Factional battle lines are drawn in Zanu-PF over the fate of John Mangwiro, the deputy minister of health who is the subject of a corruption probe by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)....Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2892 | by Staff reporter
Power output plunges 39%
ZIMBABWE'S power output plunged 39% during the seven months to July, as Harare and Lusaka moved to forestall a near catastrophe by applying limits on water outflows from Lake Kariba to bolster the res...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Minister denies abuse of office charges
HEALTH and Child Care Deputy Minister Dr John Mangwiro has denied interfering in the bidding process for the supply of Covid-19 related materials by Young Health Care to the National Pharmaceutical Co...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:53hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Scores rush to VID depots
ASPIRING drivers yesterday thronged the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) depots across the country to either sit for provisional drivers licence tests or undergo road tests as depots countrywide re...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:41hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
ZAA SA Nominees announces as Dates are set for SA and Botswana dates
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced the nominee and voting dates for the ZAA SA and Botswana editions which are set to be held on 5 and 11 December 2020, respectively.ZAA SA will...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 18:33hrs | 746 | by Agencies
Tsholotsho magistrate in trouble over judgment
TSHOLOTSHO magistrate Rogers Mawarire is in trouble after a Chiredzi woman Violet Chauke, who was severely bitten on the nose by a soldier lodged a complaint against him with the Judicial Services Com...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 3004 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronounce...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 4594 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cops terrorise Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) arrested more than 105 bogus police officers in the first eight months of 2020 for terrorising unsuspecting members of the public around the country.In the s...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
VID resumes operations today
THE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) will start conducting road tests and issuing driver's licences from today after it closed in March due to Covid-19 induced lockdown.Cabinet okayed the r...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:18hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Pupils expose teacher's affair
A BULAWAYO-based married teacher who had an affair with his neighbour was exposed by his pupils who were discussing his cheating ways without noticing the presence of his wife. The pupils had ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
20 pupils suspended over 'group sex'
ABOUT 20 Form Four pupils at Loreto High School have been suspended for allegedly engaging in group sexual activities in July. One of them has reportedly gone on a hunger strike in protest against her...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 2450 | by Staff reporter
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