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Advocate Thabani Mpofu the Zimbabwe Clarence Seward Darrow
It was Friday on the 9th November 2018 as I was walking nearer to the statue of Father Zimbabwe the late vice president Cde Joshua Nkomo in Bulawayo CBD. A friend of mine an ex detective from police f...Published: 8 hrs ago | 713 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwe's economic recovery is possible but whilst the country remains a pariah state, it is IMPOSSIBLE!
"AfDB President, Akinwumi Adesina, told journalists in Johannesburg this week that while Zimbabwe is making progress, its economy and relations with lenders are still a way from being repaired," repor...Published: 15 hrs ago | 961 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimta, PTUZ in ugly fallout
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) and Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are engaged in a war of words emanating from whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their em...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1380 | by Staff reporter
'Bond notes have been a success'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya had a torrid time at the pre-budget seminar for legislators in Bulawayo last week when he was grilled over currency problems bedevilling the country....Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:26hrs | 1891 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies in nasty fight
The fight between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies Kudakwashe Tagwirei and Justice Mayor Wadyajena got nasty last week after the business mogul accused the youthful Zanu-PF legislator of being an...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:14hrs | 1934 | by Staff reporter
'Most accidents attributed to human error, speeding'
THE newly-refurbished Plumtree-Mutare Highway has become Zimbabwe's deadliest road, with Wednesday's Rusape bus disaster, which claimed 50 lives being one of the many fatalities along the road....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:09hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Zifa circus: New details emerge
FRESH details have emerged on how Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa allegedly used dirty tricks to try and ring fence his position from being contested in the December 1 board elections, with disqualifi...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:05hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Who's who in Zimbabwe’s cutthroat fuel sector
SIX major oil-importing entities, including the Indigenous Petroleum Association of Zimbabwe (Ipaz), Zuva Petroleum, Puma Energy, Total Zimbabwe, Petrotrade (Pvt) Ltd and Engen Petroleum Zimbawe, are...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:06hrs | 5839 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport backlog hits 166,500
Over 166,500 Zimbabweans are waiting for the issuance of their passports which are now overdue, the Registrar General revealed on Wednesday.The newly-appointed Registrar General Clement Masang...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:08hrs | 2129 | by zimlive.com
Mnangagwa's govt divides teachers
Teachers are divided over whether or not to engage in collective bargaining with their employer under the Apex Council - the umbrella body for all civil servants.Zimbabwe has five main unions ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 13:47hrs | 4884 | by Staff reporter
State terrorises Evan Mawarire
Social activist and #ThisFlag founder Evan Mawarire has claimed that the government has been sending state agents to his home. Mawarire was reacting the statement by the Minister of Home Affai...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 09:01hrs | 3689 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ex-Zimra chief Gershem Pasi arrested
POLICE last night arrested former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi over criminal abuse of office."I can confirm that Pasi has been arrested. He is likely to...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 6193 | by Staff reporter
Small-scale miners push gold output to top 30 tonnes in 10 months
ZIMBABWE'S gold production topped 30 tonnes for the 10 months to October, with 34 tonnes expected in the full year, anchored by small-scale miners.The previous high was 27,1 tonnes produced in...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance led Gweru council to splash $600,000 on executive perks
GWERU City Council management has put forward an expenditure of $660 000 to go towards the purchase of all-terrain 4×4 vehicles for top officials and a posh Mercedes Benz for mayor Josiah Makombe....Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Gaddafi's son engages lawyer to challenge detention
An adopted son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Abhallha Mone Moussa Moummare has engaged a local lawyer to challenge his continued detention at Harare Remand Prison where he has been held f...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa loses 3 vehicles over $136,000 legal debt
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has lost three vehicles that are set to go under the hammer after failing to settle $136 000 legal costs arising from a matter he lost to a private property develo...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps Air Zimbabwe for luxury Swiss jet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again ditched the struggling national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe and opted to fly to Guinea aboard a luxurious jet operated by Comlux - headquartered in Switzerla...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:05hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter
A dismissal that changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
The band played on. Feverishly. Madly. Deafening sounds and wet, clammy bodies gyrating against each other in lustful, prodigal passions. Zimbabwe was enthralled by a mad political spectacle. It was t...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:57hrs | 4530 | by Tichaona Zindoga
South Africa stops issuing general work visas?
Ahead of the implementation of new immigration laws and the release of a severely shortened critical skills list, South Africa's Home Affairs Department appears to be pre-emptively clamping down on im...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 21:11hrs | 6512 | by Staff reporter
Masisi openly attacks Ian Khama in an unprecedented clash
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has used his first state-of-the-nation address to openly attack his predecessor Ian Khama in an unprecedented clash in a country that prides itself on stability....Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 17:12hrs | 5443 | by AFP
'Rapist' drops phone at crime scene
A 34-year-old gold panner from Shurugwi left his cellphone after allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl who lives at the same house with him. Appearing before Gweru Regional Magistrate Mrs Phathe...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa 'bans' Kamambo, Banda
ANY hopes that the pair of Felton Kamambo and Gift Banda had of appealing and overturning their disqualification from the ZIFA election were dashed yesterday, with the association ruling that their lo...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:22hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Gandawa on the run
Former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa was today issued with an arrest warrant after he failed to turn up for his corruption trial rel...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 16:53hrs | 8376 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister haunted by 24-year-old divorce
FORMER Minister of State in ex-Vice-President Joice Mujuru's Office, Sylvester Robert Nguni, has been taken to court by his former wife, Christine Silindeni Nguni, who is seeking an order to bring to ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:28hrs | 2048 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's wealth exposed
Robert Mugabe has always been a well-kept secret with no one knowing exactly how much the Mugabes are worth. The only snippets has been the $1.35m diamond ring bought for Grace's wedding anniver...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 14:46hrs | 44706 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's $4,2bn platinum deal in limbo
DODGY investment firm Karo Resources, which was controversially allocated vast platinum claims previously held by Zimplats ostensibly to set up a US$4,2 billion plant - a figure which it later disowne...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 12:58hrs | 2353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telecoms guru on verge of making history
Zimbabwean top telecommunications expert, Cosmas Zavazava, will make history today if he is elected as director for the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) at the Geneva-based International Tel...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe endorses Zavazava candidature for top ITU job
Information Communication Technology and Courier Services Minister Kazembe Kazembe, who is attending the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai, yesterday endorsed the candidature of Zimbabwean tele...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:25hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC worker fined for illegal power connections
A Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) worker has been fined $600 for illegally connecting electricity to 11 households in Chitungwiza while pretending to be on official ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:24hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Dead donkeys land man in court
A Guruve village head is up in arms with his friend whom he gave two donkeys last year and were returned dead to his place of residents the same year.Village head Ezekiel Kamota (78) of Kamota...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 20:01hrs | 1781 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe judge gets top Sadc post
FORMER Bulawayo High Court senior judge Justice Francis Bere has been elected president of the Sadc Administrative Tribunal (SadcAT) during the court's elections held in Gaborone, Botswana on Monday. ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:24hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele kingship takes another twist - umbiko esizweni sika Mthwakazi
Sanibona sizwe sikamthwakazi kwaBulawayo, nina benkanyamba emakhandakhanda uMzilikazi kaMashobane Khumalo nomdabuli wesizwe sonke. Sicela ukwazisa isizwe samahlabezulu ukuthi kunendlu endala endlini y...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:26hrs | 1918 | by Lucky Khumalo
Prophet exposes incest
A 20–YEAR-OLD Bindura man, who was exposed by an apostolic prophet in a prophecy that he was bedding his 15–year–old cousin sister, was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison by Bindura mag...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:52hrs | 2189 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Sakunda boss AKA 'Queen B'
An explosive social media broadcast by a Zanu-PF insider last week sparked debate about an alleged cartel controlling fuel distribution in the country amid allegations of abuse of foreign currency....Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:18hrs | 1807 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo Zimbabwe's poster boy of sleaze
As ZANU-PF's long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in government sin...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | 614 | by newZWire
Politician cheats on hubby with two colleagues
SEX, politics and scandal - she can take it all in!A married Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (ZIPP)'s national executive member is allegedly embroiled in a sex scandal with two men within ...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:24hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak hires Chamisa's lawyer
FORMER Zimbabwe cricket coach Heath Streak has turned to top local lawyer Thabani Mpofu in a US$1 million defamation lawsuit against Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani over racism and c...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | 3986 | by Staff reporter
'Chiyangwa a coward, resorting to dirty tricks'
FORMER Zifa board member Felton Kamambo has described Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa as a "coward" who is trying to block his challenge for the federation's top post ahead of the elections on Decembe...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe interviewer blocked out by State broadcaster
STATE broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has finally let go of senior executive Tazzen Mandizvidza, whom it accuses of improperly benefiting from allowances running into a million dol...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
Zhuwao sentenced to 6 months in prison
A 20-YEAR-OLD Bindura man who was exposed by an apostolic prophet in a prophecy that he was bedding his 15-year-old cousin sister was sentenced yesterday at Bindura magistrates' courts.Elisha ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 18:29hrs | 5448 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo vendors lash out at council's archaic by-laws, wants city to be like Harare
Bulawayo vendors and informal traders here have taken aim at Bulawayo city fathers for simply trying to put cosmetic amendments to the existing archaic by-laws.The Bulawayo Vendors and Traders...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 14:11hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
RBZ has exonerated me - Mawarire
National Patriotic Front spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has said the step taken by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to suspend top management over allegations of parallel market trade has exonerated him f...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 09:56hrs | 7073 | by Stephen Jakes
Muchinguri defends military land grab
Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri has defended the move by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to declare Elphida Farm in Domboshava a cantonment area, saying it was in the interest and safety of the ci...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2247 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa banned possible challengers
AS the ZIFA election season reaches its business end with focus shifting to the polls to choose a new board, moves to disrupt football governance have returned to haunt some of the protagonists of the...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
High taxes lead to more poverty, underdevelopment
WITH the introduction and effective operation of the 2% tax on cash transfers, the poor households in Zimbabwe will remain in abject poverty.This tax will hit poor households the hardest, as t...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:30hrs | 336 | by David Mhlanga
Zimbabwean 'Ninja' honoured in Italy
The First Zimbabwean born World Kobudo Champion & First Zimbabwean Internationally Certified Bujinkan Ninja Wilfred Mashaya was honored in Italy last night. He was honored with Master of the Year ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1820 | by Agencies
Tendai Biti always has something to say
The Daily News on Sunday's Pauline Hurungudo sits down for a wide-ranging interview with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy national chairperson for the MDC, about the state o...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:19hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP dumped in restaurant
BULILIMA West legislator, Dingumuzi Phuti, says he was once dumped in a restaurant by his girlfriend.Better known as DJ Phuti in showbiz circles, the 38-year-old made history after being elect...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:19hrs | 5484 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blanket firms face extinction
ZIMBABWE'S sole blanket manufacturer, Waverley, is facing an uncertain future due to illegal Chinese imports, the government has said.Waverly, which stands at the heart of the ruins of scores ...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:16hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Justice Malaba wants to silence Khupe?
The feud between MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC T president Thokozani Khupe resumed yesterday, after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) heard the matter in which the ex-Bulawayo Metropolitan Prov...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 14:38hrs | 5869 | by Staff reporter
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