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'G40 infiltrates ZANU PF Youth League' says Mutodi
Several ZANU PF youth league members some of them with high positions have been infiltrated by the G40 says Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi. The deputy government spokesman who wa...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:53hrs | 3572 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga coup generals declare war on Mnangagwa
VANCOUVER - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's military generals who were key in executing the November 2017 coup against President Robert Mugabe, have allegedly declared war on Presid...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:48hrs | 50040 | by Nancy Mabaya
Chamisa, Mwonzora power struggle is a staged-managed sideshow
THE alleged tussle for power between opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and former secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is nothing but a staged-managed sideshow to destabilise the MDC, the party has said....Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:43hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
'G40 using maids to poison ministers' says Mutodi
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has warned ministers to be on high alert because a faction of ZANU PF called G40 was now recruiting house maids to poison them.Mutodi said the G40 ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 11:03hrs | 6895 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fired council boss seeks High Court relief
FOMER Victoria Falls Municipality housing director Lot Siatimbula, who was recently fired for allegedly allocating a housing stand to his nephew without council approval, has approached the High Court...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats given community service sentences
FIVE Form Six pupils at Gebhuza Secondary School in Hwange arrested for sharing a leaked Economics Paper 3 question paper have been each sentenced to 12 months in jail, but will all have to perform 35...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Violence rocks University of Zimbabwe
The ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Tendai Chirau has claimed that some MDC members caused violence during an SRC election that took place on Tuesday. Writing on social media Chirau ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 19:30hrs | 6230 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Card cloning gang hits PPC Zimbabwe
FOUR men ganged up and defrauded Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Zimbabwe of more than US$26 500 after cloning the company's ATM card and using it to conduct illegal Point of Sale (POS) transactions at...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:11hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Child snatched by destitute woman found alive
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl who was snatched away from her home in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb by a stranger has been reunited with her family after she was found in Tsholotsho. Nosipho Ndlovu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2441 | by Staff reporter
15 years jail for pupil rape teacher
A TEACHER at Premier High School in Bulawayo has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old pupil that he was coaching English extra lessons. Shadreck Kantsholo (47) from Pu...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Man poisons son after paternity row with wife
A RUSAPE teenage father did the unthinkable when he allegedly fed a poisonous tobacco pesticide into his son's mouth with a syringe and instantly killed him following a protracted paternity dispute wi...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 22:18hrs | 2936 | by Staff reporter
Herdboy jailed for stealing cow
A LIVESTOCK herder in Kezi, Matabeleland South, has been slapped with a mandatory nine-year jail term for stealing a villager's beast worth $4 000.Bukhosi Nyoni (20) pleaded not guilty to a st...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Charamba warns of imposter
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has warned of an imposter on Twitter who is using a similar handle to his.Charamba said: "Caveat Emptor: There is a clone on my Twit...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 18:02hrs | 6105 | by Staff Reporter
Police to allow Wednesday's civil servants protests in Harare
Police have given public sector workers permission to march for better pay on Wednesday in what is widely seen as a test of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's willingness to tolerate dissent.A not...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 08:03hrs | 4174 | by Reuters
ZESA increases load shedding hours
The Zimbabwe Power Company Spokesperson Fullard Gwasira has announced that the power utility has moved to Stage 2 of load shedding due to the tripping of generator units on Sunday.Said Gwasira...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 07:14hrs | 3156 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa minister tweets that US embassy 'satanic', striking doctors are 'killers'
The government admitted on Sunday that the information ministry's official Twitter account had put out a tweet describing striking doctors as "killers" and the United States embassy as "satanic"....Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:48hrs | 2597 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Teacher 'hangs' self in bedroom
A TEACHER at Coghlan Primary School in Bulawayo allegedly hanged herself in her bedroom. Ms Sibhekinkosi Moyo (35) from New Magwegwe suburb was found hanging from a roof truss by her father on...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:00hrs | 1797 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe de-dollarization & other countries experiences
Zimbabwe suspended its local currency on the 9th of April 2009 and adopted a basket of multiple currencies such as the South African Rand, British Pound, Botswana Pula, Japanese Yen, Euro and the Unit...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 13:41hrs | 5157 | by Victor Bhoroma
US$ ghost haunts Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE remains stuck in the shackles of "dollarisation" despite the government's move to end the multicurrency system after a decade.On June 24, through SI 142 of 2019 also known as Reserve ...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 19:58hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
Owen Ncube's sanctioning absurd, say analysts
POLITICAL analysts have described as absurd the decision by the United States to add State Security Minister Owen Ncube on to the sanctions list. Minister Ncube was added to the list on Friday...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Extreme temperatures till Thursday
Zimbabwe is expected to continue experiencing extreme temperatures, with a high probability of a heatwave, to last until Thursday. Initially, the high temperatures were expected to last until yesterda...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:21hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
The Country's biggest Fraud
"Who can ever forget that a whole Mugabe and his government were shaken by a lone and few Dzamara followers sitting in Africa unity gardens vowing not to eat until Mugabe finds time off his busy sched...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 2892 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Brave girl (11) jumps into stream, wrestles crocodile to save friend
IN a rare show of bravado, an 11-year-old girl from Hwange Town plunged into a stream and jumped on top of a crocodile before gouging its eyes to rescue a nine-year-old friend who had been gripped by ...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 05:47hrs | 11099 | by Staff Reporter
Top 5 cell phone location tracking Apps
You have probably heard that you can track a cell phone location remotely. On the other hand, do you know how to go about it? Crackers and developers have evolved in the tracking habits to create some...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 10:07hrs | 3929 | by Staff Writer
Prison officer remanded on housebreaking charge
A PRISON officer based at Khami Prison Complex has been arrested with two other accomplices for allegedly stealing household goods worth $14 000 after breaking into a house in Mbundane. Zimbab...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
'Armed' sangoma raids client's family
AN inyanga-cum-prophet from Bulawayo allegedly armed himself with a gun and ganged up with two friends to raid his client's home in Mzilikazi suburb in a revenge mission after "not being paid for serv...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
14 nabbed over Tenda bus owner smuggling case
DETECTIVES in Mutare have arrested 14 touts who were allegedly hired by prominent businessman, Ernest Mungwari, to block cops and Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officials from confiscating an assortment o...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3757 | by Staff reporter
Uyinene's Tears!
The tears of hope for a life gone too soon, a life that still had a lot to offer. A circumstance that made us realize that as a nation we are on the cross road. "We either araise above this or...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:19hrs | 314 | by Eric Shikobela
Ndebele nursing students deliberately failed?
We have been inundated with calls and messages from the public following the Mpilo tribal fiasco. A lot of people have expressed gratitude and many thanks to Team MRP for standing up for them. Accordi...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:49hrs | 191 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Chamisa known for abusing his wife & imposing Shona leaders in Matabeleland - MLO
Chamisa's abuse of women including his own wife and imposition of Shona leaders in Matabeleland particularly in Bulawayo Province borders on sexism, tribalism, incivility, human rights abuse and oppre...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1616 | by Israel Dube
Massive power cuts to be implemented
The national power company ZETDC has announced that it is going to escalate the electricity load-shedding to Stage 2 due to the massive power cuts that is happening in the neighbouring South Africa. ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 11:41hrs | 1770 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa to experience 14 hours load-shedding
South Africa's power utility company Eskom has announced that load-shedding stage 2 will be implemented on Wednesday.According to a Twitter statement the load-shedding will be implemented from...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:27hrs | 947 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa and the demon of patriarchy
In the past few weeks – ironically as late as last Friday – Zimbabwe's restive but graphically acerbic social media has been abuzz with one subject – the seemingly endangered righ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 10:54hrs | 3017 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Madhuku says he is not a sell-out
OPPOSITION National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku (LM), who is accused of dining with Zanu-PF for financial gains, last week told NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga t...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1826 | by Staff reporter
11 cops arrested in botched extortion bid
ELEVEN constables from different police stations, were last week arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in foreign currency and gold. ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:34hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Thief stuns court, disowns accomplices
A MAN who admitted to being part of a gang of thieves who allegedly broke into several houses in Bulawayo and stole household goods worth nearly $120 000, yesterday stunned a packed courtroom when he ...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:31hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
'CIOs takeover all Zimbabwe newspapers'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation have infiltrated into all the newsrooms of media houses in the country except that of the South Af...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:25hrs | 12614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Daily News lampoons Jonathan Moyo
The Daily News has lampooned the self-exiled former Cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo, for suggesting that its sister newspaper, The Financial Gazette, is owned by the country's notorious Central Intell...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:23hrs | 7996 | by Staff reporter
Another ZIMRA official arrested for fraud
POLICE have arrested one of two Zimra officials who were on the run after being fingered in a fraud case involving a syndicate that allegedly smuggled vehicles worth millions of dollars into the count...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:58hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Dembare hold Bulawayo Chiefs
Dynamos 1-1 Bulawayo Chiefs VETERAN striker Edward Sadomba marked his return to Dynamos with a goal as they shared the spoils with Bulawayo Chiefs in a Castle Lager Premiership football encounter ...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:19hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Roadworks scandal hits Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is reeling from yet another controversy after an internal audit unearthed a major scandal through which some road contractors engaged to rehabilitate 43 selected roads in the...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:01hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Who is stealing our cattle
Who is stealing our cattle, our draught power, pride and 'mobile' wealth fund? Sullen faced villagers are worried sick and not sure when and where the cattle rustlers will strike again. They come in t...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 09:16hrs | 42 | by Tondorindo
Arms cache found in Zambezi National Park
POLICE in Victoria Falls are investigating a case where wildlife rangers found two metal boxes with 1 500 rounds of ammunition cached in the Zambezi National Park. National police spokesperson...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:12hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
British couple robbed during holiday in Zimbabwe
A private lodge on the edge of Hwange National Park is offering RTGS$16 000 to any person with information about two suspected robbers that broke into one of its rooms and stole some goods and cash be...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 38 | by newzimbabwe
'People vote Zanu PF notwithstanding hardship and repression' - repressed, per se, don't have free vote
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader of the opposition party the National Constitution Assembly, should wash his mouth with bleach; the foul insults coming from him are intolerable. "Go to a by-...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:09hrs | 263 | by Nomusa Garikai
Pair arrested for 'shooting' gold panner
TWO men from Gwanda have been arrested for allegedly shooting an illegal gold panner in the leg after one of them found him prospecting on his plot in the company of five other men. Qhubekani ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:32hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC to bring back US dollar
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has pledged it will bring back the multi- currency regime and withdraw the local currency until a time the productive sector was resuscitated if it comes into government....Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 4071 | by Staff reporter
Residents lose faith in councillors
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has accused city councillors of misconduct, saying some of them are responsible for fanning factionalism, which has affected service delivery in t...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:40hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Police warn on carjackings
Police in Mutare have issued a strong warning to motorists following an increase in cases of carjackings.This comes in the wake of two incidents where motorists lost two vehicles in separate i...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:28hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Public urged to report unruly cops
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has called on members of the public to report any law enforcers involved in criminal activities and acts of misconduct as it moves to rid the rot within the force....Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:22hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
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