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Zimbabwe not dollarising, says RBZ
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Dr John Mangudya, insists there is no going back on the process of de-dollarising the economy despite the growing use of the US dollar in most transactions, mor...Published: 2 mins ago | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters launch fundraising campaign in UK
Supporters of the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance based in the United Kingdom (UK) have launched a fundraising campaign to secure equipment for health facilities handling COVID-19 patients in Zimbabwe...Published: 5 hrs ago | 626 | by Staff reporter
30 Bulawayo MDC Alliance activists flee city
MDC Alliance has claimed that 30 of its members have fled from their homes in fear of falling victim to the alleged on-going crackdown of opposition activists in the city.In recent weeks sever...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3508 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims to be under siege
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa says the government is trying to provoke opposition and civic society leaders into engaging in violence by pushing them into a corner through a crackdown by law e...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | 6983 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for a baby dumper
Police in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for a baby dumper who dumped her 3 weeks old baby in a pit toilet.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 23:25hrs | 1412 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Motlanthe Commission wasted Zimbabwe taxpayers' money'
THE Motlanthe Commission into the August 2018 fatal shooting of seven civilians by the army was a waste of taxpayers' money as two years after it completed its work, the government is yet to implement...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo not yet off the hook
THE High Court has ordered the trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe boss, Wicknell Chivayo and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) former board chair Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje, to proceed before a Harare magistrate....Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: PLO Lumumba calls for a GNU in Zimbabwe
Pan African activist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has called upon the SADC and African Union to step in and intervene in the Zimbabwe human rights abuse crisis that has hogged limelight globa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 4369 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Peace begins with you
Each and every call for the phantom demos leaves Zimbabweans more poorer and our economy much closer to the 'black hole'. The only people that remain smiling from ear to ear are the ones calling for s...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:12hrs | 845 | by Tincuts
SADC praises Mnangagwa's leadership
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has received praises form the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ Troika Summit plus Force Intervention Brigade Troop Contributing Countries (FIB – TCCs)...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:52hrs | 6301 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 6977 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister tests positive for Covid-19
DEPUTY Minister for Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Tino Machakaire has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now in self-isolation. He also appealed to those that were in contact with him to immediat...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:51hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
Gumbura's rape jail sentence slashed
RMG Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura on Wednesday had his jail sentence on four counts of rape reduced, but his legal team claims it was not enough and is now seeking to appro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Hopewell Chin'ono denied bail by High Court
High court Judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has denied bail to journalist Hopewell Chin'ono who is facing serious charges of i8nciting public violence, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has revealed."...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 14:48hrs | 5739 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa tightens noose on opposition
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to suffocate opposition parties in the country by crafting tough laws that will regulate their operations.Mnangagwa's government is also drafting laws to...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 5052 | by Staff reporter
Could a hashtag help achieve in Zimbabwe what protests have failed to do?
Could a social media hashtag - tapping into the energy and anger of the global #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon - help achieve in Zimbabwe what years of street protests, strikes and political campaigns ha...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 645 | by Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News
Ex-Zinara boss cleared of corruption
FORMER Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) finance director, Mr Simon Taranhike, who was on bail pending appeal on his conviction and sentence after being jailed for effective 15 months on...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:58hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Juvenile on the run after killing mate
MATABELELAND North police have launched a manhunt for a juvenile who fatally assaulted a colleague with a knobkerrie after misunderstanding arose between them over a soccer match.Matabeleland ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:33hrs | 901 | by Stephen Jakes
'Malema struggling for significance,' says ZANU-PF Youth League
THE ZANU-PF Youth League says the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is struggling for significance in his native South Africa and he cannot authoritatively comment on Zimbabwe...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:34hrs | 2839 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume distances self from twitter account
TRANSFORM Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume, who is accused of masterminding the July 31 protest, has distanced himself from a Twitter account which is in his name that allegedly called on Zimbabwea...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:32hrs | 5632 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses Justice Bere appeal
SUSPENDED Supreme Court judge Justice Francis Bere's woes continue to mount after his recent application for review, challenging the Judicial Service Commission (JSC)'s decision to advise President Em...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:13hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8130 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 6357 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors send distress call
DOCTORS in private practice have appealed for government and corporate sector assistance in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) as they have been overwhelmed by patients turned away f...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 2798 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tests positive for Covid-19
ZANU PF Harare South Member of Parliament Tongai Mnangagwa has become the first prominent person in the country to announce testing positive for Covid-19.Mnangagwa, nephew to President Emmerso...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5029 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police recover dumped, mutilated foetus
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a mutilated newborn baby that was dumped at a house in Barbourfields last week.Provincial spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Ba...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono and Ngarivhume to wait a few more days before learning their fate
Zimbabwean investigative journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition party leader, Jacob Ngarivhume, are set to remain behind bars after the High Court delayed delivering its judgment.The pai...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 21:39hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
July 31 exposed Mnangagwa
In order to legitimise anti-democratic politics, violence and human rights abuses to the world, Zanu-PF has gone back to its exhausted ideological settings.This follows a widespread call by ac...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 9861 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Massive mealie meal and bread shortage looming in Zimbabwe
A massive shortage of mealie meal and bread is looming in Zimbabwe after security agents manning roadblocks are reportedly blocking delivery vehicles to supply retailers with the commodities. ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1432 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Highlanders seek free use of BF
HIGHLANDERS could play their first two home league matches at Barbourfields Stadium for free when the season eventually starts if the Bulawayo City Council's finance and development sub-committee has ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss suspended over graft allegations
ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended from office and will be blocked from accessing his office at the power utility's headquarters, the Minister of Energy and Power Devel...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Abducted Mduduzi Mathuthu's nephew found badly tortured
Tawanda Muchehiwa the nephew of ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu who was abducted ZRP on Thursday has been found. Pictures of Muchehiwa who semms to be badly injured have circulated all over so...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 2498 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Global financiers shut out Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT says it is failing to access international financial aid necessary in mitigating the social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic because of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Government should stop crying wolf
THE more things change, the more they remain the same. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Demagogues throughout history have perpetuated the idea of an us vs them.It...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 144 | by Maverick Maphosa
Zimbabwe cattle, donkeys border jumps into Botswana, shot dead
OVER 180 cattle and 109 donkeys from Mashaba in Gwanda and Beula in Kezi were shot in Botswana in the past week after they strayed into the neighbouring country. In 2006, Botswana introduced a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Court halts $7.5m State funding for MDC formations
Neither MDC Alliance nor MDC-T can receive any of the $7.5 million political funding under the Political Parties Finance Act until a resolution on the ongoing legal battle over which formation is enti...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:29hrs | 3078 | by Staff reporter
WFP urgently seeks US$250m for Zimbabwe crisis
With COVID-19 aggravating an already severe hunger crisis in Zimbabwe, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for an additional US$250 million to support a rapidly expanding emer...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to release more prisoners
THE International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa (ICAC) Zimbabwean chapter has urged authorities to release more prisoners from overcrowded correctional facilities, which the organisation sa...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
NetOne board 'disconnects' Muchenje
RECENTLY reinstated NetOne Cellular (Pvt) Limited chief executive Lazarus Muchenje has not been allowed to go back to work by the company's board despite an interim High Court order to do so, NewsDay ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1822 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala ordered to stop illegal construction
THE Chitungwiza Town Council has ordered MDC vice-chairperson, Job Sikhala to stop constructing an illegal industrial structure he is carrying out without required authorisation.Sikhala who is...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 4259 | by newzimbabwe
MaShurugwi wreak havoc in Mbembesi
MBEMBESI villagers are living in constant fear of violent illegal gold panners, popularly known as MaShurugwi, who have reportedly invaded the area and are digging around homesteads and gravesites in ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife survives accident...car overturns
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa escaped a gory accident along Harare-Bindura road on Tuesday morning, online publication ZimLive has reported. The paper quoted Presidential Spokesperson George C...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 16:36hrs | 12549 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Churches take Mnangagwa to task
CHURCHES have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create an enabling environment that allows citizens to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate without hindrance....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3509 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono in bail appeal
Political activist Hopewell Chin'ono yesterday approached the High Court to appeal the refusal of a magistrates' court to grant him bail pending trial on charges of incitement to commit public violenc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:26hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vows to defend peace
AMID deafening sabre-rattling from the country's opposition parties, Western embassies and civil society organisations that want to subvert the will of the people on July 31, Zanu-PF yesterday vowed t...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:26hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hits Bulawayo western suburbs
AUTHORITIES are considering stiffer suburb lockdowns amid a recent spike of confirmed Covid-19 cases in some high-density areas of Bulawayo.With over 587 locally transmitted cases in Bulawayo,...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:51hrs | 5097 | by Staff reporter
Why crisis is important for any economy
This year will be etched in people's memory. Devastating effects of COVID-19 are felt around the globe. Just a handful of countries have not reported any cases so far. South Africa and Nigeria have al...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1239 | by Staff writer
Tsenengamu, Sikhala, Tajamuka leader on the run?
Police are hunting more than a dozen opposition politicians and activists, seeking to foil planned anti-government protests on July 31.Police on Monday said they were appealing for information...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:37hrs | 4306 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF labels Chamisa's MDC a 'terrorist organisation'
Zanu-PF on Monday urged its supporters to use "any means at your disposal" to disrupt anti-government protests planned for July 31, as a spokesman labelled the main opposition MDC Alliance party a ter...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:32hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
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