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UN envoy to meet Chamisa?
THE Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Commission (OHCHR) has invited submissions from various stakeholders for the United Nations special rapporteur Alena Douhan, who is on a 10-day vis...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4615 | by Staff reporter
Wheels come off Mwonzora train?
ROWDY MDC-T supporters yesterday violently disrupted a fellow party member who was addressing a Press conference in Harare to expose party leader Douglas Mwonzora's alleged misuse of party funds, assa...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3084 | by Staff reporter
RBZ shuts down forex platform to stem currency decline
ZIMBABWEAN authorities shut down a popular black-market currency-tracking platform, the latest action to try and stop an accelerating decline in its currency.The central bank ordered marketwat...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 3879 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits to party chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that his party was in shambles and threatened to descend heavily on party members locked in bloody power struggles.Addressing an extraordinary s...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF strategies now outdated
IT is unnecessary to keep on crying over sanctions while we ignore corruption in the public sector which is sucking the country's coffers dry.It is unfortunate that the Zanu-PF government is u...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 727 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa's MDC getting hot under the collar over UN rapporteur's visit
Since the news of the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Ms Alena Douhan's visit to Zimbabwe was broken, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) and other anti-Government elements like political activist Hopewe...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 721 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Isifo kasihlekwa
It is mind-boggling to see ZANU PF information secretary Tafadzwa Mugwadi making fun and laughing at the death of former Secretary of State in the United States of America retired general Colin Powell...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 18:36hrs | 822 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa told 'don't blame sanctions'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his regime must stop lamenting about sanctions and focus on eradicating corruption that has become rife in his government, Parliament heard yesterday.Zanu-PF h...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:40hrs | 3623 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions devastate rural communities
RURAL communities are among the worst areas affected by illegal sanctions as the embargo has led to limited opportunities for communities increasing poverty levels.Studies have shown that the ...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Severe shortage of schools hits Nkayi
NKAYI District in Matabeleland North province has a severe shortage of schools which is forcing pupils to walk long distances to the few available ones.The district has 14 wards with eight sec...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Biti corners magistrate, prosecutor
TENDAI Biti, the MDC Vice President has accused Harare Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti and Deputy Prosecutor Michael Reza of being biased after she forced him to stand in the dock without his lawyer....Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 20:51hrs | 1899 | by Staff reporter
Implement 2013 constitution
It is completely unnecessary to keep on crying of sanctions and ignoring the corruption which is bleeding the country dry.We continue unleashing the hungry, frail looking, poor rural folks to ...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 19:10hrs | 410 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF hides behind sanctions to evade accountability
ONE thing Rhodesians could be trusted for was doing that which their country — no matter how bizarre — wanted done. The Rhodesians would do it, no lip service, something that Zanu-PF finds hard, i...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 383 | by Concerned
UN envoy itinerary raises red flag
OBSERVERS yesterday questioned the itinerary of the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Alena Douhan, released by government, which excludes opposition parties and civic society.Douhan, who...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1380 | by Staff writer
UN envoy flies into Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance war
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, who arrives in the country today to assess the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, flies into a storm with the ruling Zanu-PF party and the oppositio...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 4650 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa takes campaign to Manicaland
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would now head to Manicaland province after his tour of Masvingo province last week turned violent and he was allegedly teargassed by th...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 3530 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba cops detain boy (10) over missing US$140 fines
THREE police officers have been accused of arresting and detaining a 10-year-old boy from Diana Farm, Chikerema village in Kutama over missing US$140 roadblock fines.The minor (name withheld) ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 213 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa claims to have exposed Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his tour of Masvingo that invited a backlash from Zanu-PF mobs exposed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as an unpopular leader.Chamisa's visits to many part...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:10hrs | 4176 | by Staff reporter
Miss Rural pageant in false start
THE annual Zanu-PF national conference has forced the Mr and Miss Rural pageant for Matabeleland South province to be postponed with organisers saying sponsors and partners were tied up preparing for ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:08hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Senior cops jailed over smuggling
TWO senior police officers in Beitbridge have been jailed for 25 months each for assisting smugglers in a bid to evade the law.Effectively Inspector Elias Mawomba (47) and Assistant Inspector ...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:03hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suspends top cop over bashed Zanu-PF officials
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has allegedly suspended acting Officer in Charge Bindura rural after she allegedly failed to control police officers who went on a rampage and assaulted ZANU PF officials ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 18:03hrs | 5855 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Meet Zimbabwe's female rand millionaires
WHAT initially started as a social networking group to keep Zimbabwean women in touch while in foreign lands, has since blossomed into a huge multi-million dollar investment.The women involved...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 35702 | by Staff reporter
Man dumped in court for failing to provide food and rent
A WOMAN from Bulawayo dumped her husband in court for failing to provide food and to pay rent for his family.Simadingo Mwaka from Old Magwegwe suburb, revealed that her husband, Advocate Muzav...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2620 | by Staff reporter
Jilted man torments ex-lover
A Bulawayo woman regrets the day she fell in love with her ex-boyfriend because he now destroys her property in a bid to revenge for being dumped.Wellington Mpofu from Old Lobengula suburb is ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Wife brings lovers home, bashes hubby for objecting
A man from Cowdray Park suburb is reportedly living in fear of being poisoned and killed by his wife who assaults him when he asks her why she brings her lovers home.Masala Zikhali is a troubl...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Police bust sexual perverts syndicate
POLICE in Harare have busted a social media criminal syndicate which has been targeting and luring schoolboys for sodomy.Addressing journalists in the capital yesterday, national police spokes...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1843 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction revitalises economy, claims RBZ
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by some unscrupulous businesse...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has enough forex to sustain economy'
THE foreign currency auction introduced by Government last year has been critical in revitalising the economy despite deliberate inflation of black market exchange rates by unscrupulous businesses and...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Mnagagwa and Zanu-pf are defeatable
There is a despondency nationwide about the prospect of unseating a Zanu-PF government together with its leader ED Mnangagwa. It is sad that the ordinary man in the street now believes that Zanu-PF is...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:53hrs | 2053 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.From arrogance, insatiabl...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2885 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF alliance exposed
THE opposition MDC Alliance and civic society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused the police of working with Zanu-PF to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo pro...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2054 | by Staff reporter
'US, Zimbabwe fights not affecting citizens'
THE United States says it will continue to support the country with humanitarian aid in several key areas including the health sector despite political disagreements with the Harare regime of Presiden...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
'Arresting executives will destabilise market'
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) yesterday warned against the arrest of business leaders over alleged currency violations saying this will sour relations between government and business ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Brain drain too rampant in the health sector
IN 1963, the first medical school in then Rhodesia was established and was affiliated to the University of Birmingharm. This followed the establishment of University of Rhodesia in 1952, which was fun...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 235 | by Johannes Marisa
RBZ directs banks to detect currency abusers
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed banks to configure their automated transaction systems in order to implement robust mechanisms that detect the abuse of debit cards in facilitating ille...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces Zanu-PF onslaught
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's ill-fated visit to Masvingo province this week has heightened fears the watershed 2023 harmonised elections could be bloody as Zanu-PF goes for the broke to maint...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 20:37hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
No leader has enjoyed universal approval
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, if ever there was a period in your life that you needed to exercise diligence and foresight, it is now. It is at this moment that you need to...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1939 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Cop nabbed for diverting smuggled goods
JUDGMENT is expected to be delivered on Friday in a matter in which a senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), is accused of conniving with a subordinate to divert for personal benefit, tw...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
What's makes some people believe they're presidential material, when they clearly aren't?
Who can ever forget those dreamy days, when we used to be asked by our parents and teachers what we wanted to be when we grew up?I remember those days like they were yesterday, since they were...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 11:43hrs | 2314 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
RBZ, business reach consensus on exchange rates, pricing
A number of agreements were thrashed out yesterday between the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and leaders of the business sector to deal with what everyone agreed were unjustified jumps in black-market exch...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1727 | by Staff reporter
RBZ summons businesses over price madness
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday said his meeting with business this morning is not a witchhunt, but an effort by authorities to grasp the root cause of the prevailin...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Biti asks court to order his reinstatement in parliament
Harare East MP and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other lawmakers who were recalled from parliament have petitioned the High Court to enforce its judgement nullifying their expulsion...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 20:32hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soccer referees crying foul
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) is alleged being accused of gross incompetence, mismanagement and laundering of Fifa funds meant for the development of the local game by some aggrieved local ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 18:20hrs | 1412 | by Leonard Koni
Only credible, free and fair elections no banditry will lead to lifting of sanctions
Basotho bare "nama kapeletjwa ithuba lepetja", this sums all in northern sotho, Sepedi about the behaviour of the army installed government of Zimbabwe. Many supporters, appendages, bootlicker...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 17:26hrs | 509 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Zera dismisses Zimdollar fuel hoax
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (zera) has not designated any service station to sell fuel exclusively in Zimbabwe dollars, contrary to reports circulating on social media.In a statem...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo warns Victoria Falls mayor
LOCAL Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has ordered Victoria Falls Mayor, Councillor Somveli Dlamini to stop interfering in the day-to-day management of the city and concentrate on his co...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:34hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Youth vote crucial to MDC Alliance but certainly can't be taken for granted
THE opposition MDC Alliance's ambitious plan to capture the hearts of six million voters ahead of 2023 will only be successful if the party focuses on the youth vote while consolidating its city suppo...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
Lucia Matibenga blocks Biti's Parly return
THE leader of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) breakaway faction, Lucia Matibenga, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the return of MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti and his...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 3097 | by Staff reporter
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