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What's there to say about 'Gold Mafia' if Zimbabweans can't stand up for themselves?
As I was walking in the Kwekwe CBD, this past Friday, I came across a loyal reader of my articles, whom I know very well. He was so excited about the Al Jazeera documentary exposing corruption...Published: 19 hrs ago | 781 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Power outages hit PPC cement sales
REGIONAL cement maker PPC expects sales volumes at its Zimbabwean unit will drop by 14% in the full year compared to the same period last year due to recurrent power outages and grey imports.P...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora seeks ConCourt order to force ZEC redo delimitation exercise
The MDC-T led by Douglas Mwonzora has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to redo the delimitation exercise on the basis that it...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 19:15hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Youth blend in Zanu-PF candidates excites observers
The election season is upon us.It is an exciting time for the electorate and aspiring candidates for both parliamentary and local authority elections.While other political parties are ...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:41hrs | 207 | by Ranga Mataire
LISTEN: ZANU-PF MP in forex scam, implicates RBZ
Mazowe North lawmaker Campion Mugweni (ZANU PF) has disclosed that he was allegedly working with some officials at Treasury to engage in illegal foreign currency deals.In a leaked audio Mugwen...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 16:37hrs | 6897 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimdollar collapse raises concerns
THE Zimbabwe dollar's continued depreciation against the United States dollar has made the macroeconomic climate "volatile", amid an over 30% fall of the Zimbabwe dollar against the greenback th...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 09:16hrs | 3523 | by Staff reporter
Jordan Zemura left out of Bournemouth squad due to ongoing contract situation
Jordan Zemura was left out of Cherries' matchday squad to face Liverpool this afternoon due to his ongoing contract situation, the Daily Echo understands.Zemura has been one of Cherries' stand...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Mapeza abuzz over new signings
FC PLATINUN coach Norman Mapeza has described the capture of Jarrison Selemani and defender Misheck Ngwenya as the club's best signings so far and reckons that they have put together the best squad, a...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:20hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sued over sex toys ban
GOVERNMENT has been taken to court over the ban on the importation on sex toys.In a High Court application filed on Thursday, Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) ex...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Huge outcry over CCC led city vehicle clamping fine
While the outcry over Harare City Parking's fines continues to grow and a Government investigation has opened, a motorist is trying to get the High Court to rule that Harare City Council has no legal ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC forgets Sikhala
For the past 260 days at the Harare magistrates' court, whenever members of the public noticed the deployment of more than 60 anti-riot officers - clad in full combat gear and armed with truncheons an...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 15:36hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe councils not disclosing all revenue streams
GOVERNMENT has unearthed a lot of irregularities in the running of local authorities, amid revelations that councils are not disclosing all of their revenue streams while their operations fail to comp...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:30hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera and relations between Zimbabwe and Qatar
Last week CCC aligned opposition activist, Hopewell Chin'ono announced that the Qatar government-owned global television company, Al Jazeera would release a video on money laundering and resources loo...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 14:13hrs | 1581 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Pumula South suburb under Zoonoses threat
ALTHOUGH expansion of cities to create more residential areas for the ever-growing population has ushered in development in Bulawayo and surrounding areas, the same is fuelling human-wildlife conflict...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa poses major threat to Mnangagwa, but....
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has emerged as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's most formidable challenger for the presidency when the country goes to the polls in the next few...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 5020 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti in yet another delaying tactic
Tendai Biti's lawyers last week appeared before High Court Judge Rodgers Manyangadze, applying for an urgent court application for review of his dismissed application for referral to the Constitutiona...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:13hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala solidarity waning
For the past 260 days at the Harare magistrates' court, whenever members of the public noticed the deployment of more than 60 anti-riot officers - clad in full combat gear and armed with truncheons an...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa complicates Zimbabwe situation over US sanctions'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has done little to persuade the United States to remove damaging sanctions slapped on Zimbabwe 20 years ago, political scientists said yesterday, as Washi...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:24hrs | 2559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean paedophile flees UK before he could be jailed
QUESTIONS have been raised over the court's decision to grant bail to a paedophile found guilty of raping a young girl who "fled the country" before he could be jailed.Dubindlela Magonya, 23, ...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:12hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks Chamisa's structureless party after Nigeria elections
EXILED former information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has once again hit out at the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) over its lack of structures, describing the party as delinquent ...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 20:28hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for 16-year-old murder suspect
Bulawayo police are appealing for information that may lead to the arrest of a suspect who allegedly killed a 51-year-old man after they had a heated argument on February 5 in Iminyela suburb in Bulaw...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:12hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cyber city: Urban utopia or surveillance menace?
In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech "cyber city" a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country's nearby ca...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 16:27hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders' financials: Something is STINKING!
HIGHLANDERS Football Club's bonafide members will have to wait a bit longer to receive audited financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2022 after it emerged that the auditors are yet to ...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:02hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tragedy is being led by a coward!
Over the past few days, I was in the breath-taking mountain city of Mutare - attending a dear cousin's funeral.During this visit to this captivating and awe-inspiring place - besides the immer...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 18:11hrs | 827 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Intolerance behind polarisation in Zimbabwe
AS Zimbabwe heads for crucial harmonised later this year, there has been an unsurprising increase in calls for unity among the country's citizenry.This is in response to the highly toxic natur...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:31hrs | 182 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe military plots to position Chiwenga to replace Mnangagwa after the polls
A UNITED KINGDOM-based research firm has waded into Zimbabwe's highly volatile political arena predicting that while the ruling Zanu-PF will most likely retain power in the next general elections, the...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:15hrs | 3610 | by Staff reporter
We need tractors for profitable farming
The Belarus Zimbabwe Agricultural Mechanization Equipment Program has come at the right time. Kudos to His Excellency Comrade President ED Mnangagwa for a pro-people visionary leadership....Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 07:14hrs | 474 | by ThomasTondo Murisa
Plans to revive Kariba tourism set in motion
A POT-HOLED and narrow Kariba to Harare highway and absence of an international airport have been identified as areas that need rehabilitation and urgent construction to improve tourism in the resort ...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:59hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer reprimanded for lying in court
A lawyer with Mutumbwa Law Firm, Milliscent Moyo who was standing in for Tino Chinyoka who has been representing property developer George Katsimberis was today reprimanded for lying in court by a Har...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Businessman cleared of duping forex dealers US$765 000
INDIAN businessman Munir Kamruddin Kazi was yesterday cleared of charges of duping eight people of US$765 000 in botched foreign currency exchange deals during 2019, with the court discharging him at ...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Modern democracy now outdated and in urgent need of reformation!
I am sure every single one of us has some particular obsessions or quirks in life that we appear constantly focused on - possibly, taking precedence over other matters that may also be in our lives....Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 11:35hrs | 412 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
A leader who always gives reasons for his failures is himself an unmitigated failure!
Every one of us is a leader in one form or another! One may be a father or husband, mother or wife, or maybe a supervisor or manager at a company – to a corporate executive, or an entreprene...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 14:16hrs | 538 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe has no electronic trade agreements, treaties database'
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry has no electronic database of trade agreements and treaties signed by government, NewsDay has learnt.This was revealed by Foreign Affairs deputy minister Da...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:41hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Ferret team granted bail
MEMBERS of the combined security officers known as Ferret arrested this week on allegations of abuse of office at Beitbridge Border Post were yesterday granted $50 000 bail each and warned not t...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 21:27hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Where are these fruits of independence Zimbabweans are supposed to be enjoying?
The next time I hear a senior government official, or some sycophantic ruling ZANU-PF supporter tell us about 'enjoying the fruits of independence', in all likelihood, I will scream!I find not...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 19:28hrs | 285 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mliswa slams selective application of law
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa has slammed selective application of the law and lack of political will to fight corruption after Zanu-PF MP Mayor Wadyajena was removed from ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 2043 | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga takes over as Acting President
Vice President General (Rtd), Dr Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has assumed the office of the Acting President of the country following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s state visit to...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 17:55hrs | 1289 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why have Smith's prophetic words about Zimbabwe come to pass?
If ever there were any painful words spoken about an independent Zimbabwe - none, arguably, can surpass those supposedly uttered by Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith.He is alleged to h...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 08:48hrs | 5828 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Did the emergence of a strong opposition extinguish the revolutionary spirit in Zimbabweans?
To me, those where the good old days - when Zimbabweans were a people of valor, who did not brook any nonsense from their government and never wasted any time in courageously standing up for themselve...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:27hrs | 266 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo beer merchant sues police over US$110,000 worth of seized liquor
Bulawayo's Wood Liquor Warehouse Trading Company (PVT) Limited owners have threatened to take the Zimbabwe Republic Police to court if the law enforcement organisation fails to release an alcohol cons...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 09:03hrs | 2748 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ready for polls
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says the relentless arrest of its legislators and supporters will not scare or deter the party from participating in general elections to be held lat...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:37hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Missing couple found dead
A Missing Mvurwi couple was found dead in their bedroom hut with their bodies in an advanced state of decomposition.Obert Aliyori and Freda Kandamara were reported missing by their neighbour G...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:50hrs | 4604 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Job Sikhala for CCC President
If tribalist CCC members are serious about replacing the terrorist ZANU PF government, they must, as a matter of urgency, install firebrand, Job Sikhala or Tendai Biti as CCC President. But if...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 08:57hrs | 6109 | by Israel Dube
ZEC to address delimitation concerns
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has pledged to deal with concerns raised by Parliament and those it received from the President next week as it prepares the final delimitation report which it ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Teen (18) rapes biological sister (10)
An 18-year-old man from Harare whose name has not been revealed has been arrested under charges of rape and abuse against his younger sister (10), whose identity is also not revealed.ZRP's Har...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 17:12hrs | 1074 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Next, university graduates will be 'hailing' Mnangagwa for capping them!
It is now a well-established fact that the state-controlled broadcaster, ZBC - as well as the rest of the state media in Zimbabwe - is an embarrassment not only to the journalism profession, but also ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:15hrs | 972 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Warriors barred from CHAN
Zimbabwe's suspension from international football has come back to haunt the Warriors with locally-based players being forced to watch their counterparts from other countries taking part at the Africa...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 16:12hrs | 1032 | by Staff reporter
VirginVoters4ED causes a stir
SCHOOLS have become the latest hunting ground for votes for Zanu-PF after it emerged that ruling party fanatics are invading learning institutions to force learners and teachers to attend their campai...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:23hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga stops NSSA boss appointment
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga has moved in to stop the National Social Security Authority (Nssa's) rotational policy of filling the vacant post of general manager by blocking the recent appoin...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:22hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
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