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Zimbabwean man sought over SA double murder
Two people appeared this week in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court in connection with the murder of Ocean Basket seafood restaurant owner Lizette Deacon and her mother Hettie, the NPA said on Tuesday....Published: 22 hrs ago | 1359 | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2239 | by Staff reporter
Police storm hospital, arrest MP
POLICE yesterday stormed a private medical facility in Harare where MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe was admitted for mental disorder, arrested her using a disputed warrant of arrest issued on Tuesday a...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reshuffles top cops
Police officers recently arrested on allegations of abuse of office and bribery over their handling of the investigation into the illegal sale of stands in Kuwadzana in a US$1 million scam have been r...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2845 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo to be deported back to Zimbabwe? - 'How CIO works'
The Zimbabwean and international space has been congested by Jonathan Moyo posting photos of certain individuals accusing them for being members in the president's office who are persecuting and tortu...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 16431 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police increase border controls
Police have intensified patrols on illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River where smuggling has become rampant in the last few weeks. The common illegal crossing points used by criminal...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Stability of prices brings relief
Prices of basic commodities are stabilising and marginally decreasing on selected items, arresting the volatility and speculative behaviour which characterised the market before the introduction of th...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
No to megaphone diplomacy Zimbabwe, US agree
Zimbabwe and the United States have agreed to cooperate and resolve their differences diplomatically as opposed to the public spats that had characterised their relations since the turn of the millenn...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe striking terribly hard in death
LAST week marked the first anniversary of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, independent Zimbabwe's first president. Arguably one of the world's most shrewd and controversial politicians, the "larger...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala need urgent medical attention
LAWYERS representing firebrand MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson Job "Wiwa" Sikhala say the heavily-built and larger-than-life Zengeza West legislator's health is deteriorating at Chikurubi Max...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister Matemadanda visits the Injured Soldiers in Hospital
The deputy minister of defence who is the ZANU PF Political Commisair cde Victor Matemadanda last night visited two members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are admitted at West End Hospital in Harar...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 20:17hrs | 1717 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The West's hypocrisy exposed as pregnant journalist gets arrested for incitement in Australia
The world was shocked as an Australian woman was arrested in her pyjamas and very pregnant on camera in front of her two minor children and her partner. Australian police in Ballarat Victoria arrested...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 19:52hrs | 1247 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sikhala approaches High Court
MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala has taken his freedom bid to the High Court for bail appeal after he was denied freedom by the lower court on Thursday.Sikhala, who is accused of inci...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:10hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
Service delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare
SERVICE delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare with residents going for days without water, while garbage goes for months uncollected. At the centre of the rot is the MDC ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1868 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2135 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Chamisa speaks about 'My way to State House'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has called for tolerance and acceptance among Zimbabweans, adding he would not allow any citizen to die for holding political beliefs that are different from thos...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:43hrs | 3723 | by newzimbabwe
'Sikhala was arrested hiding in a ceiling'
A HARARE magistrate heard Thursday that MDC vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested last Friday by police officers while he was hiding in a ceiling at a house in Tynwald suburb.However, the ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 7845 | by Staff reporter
PSL boss continue his freedom bid
Premier Soccer League (PSL) boss Farai Jere continued with his freedom bid yesterday where he accused complainants in his case of trying to elbow him out of business.The Caps United boss is ac...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate orders for the immidiate sanitisation of Chikurubi Maximum Prison Cells
Magistrate Ncube has ordered for the immediate sanitisation of Prison cells at Maximum Chikurubi today.Ncube responded to MDC Alliance National Deputy Chairperson Job Sikhala's order that the ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:41hrs | 1360 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Zimbabwe regime should stop victimizing innocent activists for ZANU PF's own 'illegal regime change' tendencies
A few hours ago, I was just going through articles that I had written over the past years - having embarked on this very long, torrid, and perilous journey in 1989, in Form Three, when I started contr...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 20:14hrs | 826 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
War veterans warn 'sodomist' Catholic priests to stop playing with fire'
WAR VETERANS have stormed the raging tirade pitting government and Catholic priests with the militant pro-Zanu-PF group telling the clerics to stop "playing with fire".This comes after the men...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 863 | by newzimbabwe
Overzealous cops assault top lawyer
TWO overzealous members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were yesterday slapped with a ZWL $2000 fine or 3 months imprisonment each by Gokwe magistrate Hilary Ndlovu for assaulting a Kwekwe based...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 00:08hrs | 5102 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: New twist to Drax US$60 million saga
Zimbabwe was never prejudiced in the US$60 million Drax deal, Secretary for Finance George Guvamantanga has said. In an interview with ZBC, Guvamatanga said Zimbabwe only paid US$2 million for...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 14:27hrs | 4758 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mtetwa abdicated her role as officer of the courts
Below is the full judgement of matter where the State was seeking the disqualification of Ms Mtetwa from handling the Chinóno case on the basis that she had abdicated her role as an officer of the Co...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:22hrs | 2812 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe men can be jailed for failing to assist police in arresting suspects
Zimbabwe's Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act [Chapter 9:07] makes it a crime for Zimbabwean men aged 16-65 if they refuse to work with law enforcement agents in arresting a suspected criminal. ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4535 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Hopewell a scribe or activist?
SINCE the arrest of journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono last month, Zimbabwe has witnessed an overflow of copious amounts of social media vitriol being freely splashed around against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 16:10hrs | 3431 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Mugabe coup announcer sensures AU
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's jittery administration - battling a multi-source tide over the deteriorating human rights situation in the country - Saturday strongly criticised the African Union Commi...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:50hrs | 7746 | by Staff reporter
Security guards vanish with US$306 000
A driver and an armed guard delivering cash to Mukuru money transfer agency in Gokwe area allegedly snatched US$306 000 in cash on Wednesday and are now on the run, police report. National pol...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Social media alone won't bring change in Zimbabwe
EXACTLY four years ago, in an opinion piece run by The Guardian, I argued that social media activists in Zimbabwe faced an uphill struggle finding momentum to steer themselves towards the path of demo...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 20:22hrs | 347 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
SA lawyers sing for their supper against Mnangagwa
A SOUTH AFRICAN group of lawyers yesterday added its voice to the growing chorus of alarm on human rights abuses by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, chastising the Zanu-PF leader for ris...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2995 | by Staff reporter
Biti's aides sue police for $2 million
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti's lawyer Nqobizitha Mahole Mlilo and aides Clever Rambanepasi and Tawanda Blessing are each claiming $1 million from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and p...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa should travel to Zimbabwe
African Union chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa should travel to Zimbabwe and seek a solution to the ongoing human rights abuses and political paralysis, South Africa's main opposit...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:13hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa has failed Zimbabweans' South African opposition party says
The decision by the Zimbabwean government to deny President Cyril Ramphosa's envoys an opportunity to meet with opposition leaders was not only disrespectful to the office of the African Union Chairpe...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 16:52hrs | 3745 | by Democratic Alliance
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5266 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 264 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa's MDC spoils for bare knuckle fight
A TOP MDC Alliance executive yesterday ruled out the possibility of entering into another South Africa-mediated government of national unity (GNU) and threatened to scale up mass protests to force out...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:03hrs | 4933 | by Staff reporter
New campaign targets 'looters diaspora children'
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean secessionist Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance leader Hloniphani Ncube has launched the #PunishZimLootersChildrenabroad to prod countries hostingZimbabwean top officials'...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:01hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 702 | by Staff Reporter
Online #ZimbabweLivesMatter campaign jolts Mnangagwa govt
STUNG by the impact of an online campaign by Zimbabweans to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations in the country, top government officials are fighting back with claims that gory image...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:23hrs | 10033 | by Staff reporter
South Africa plays an unofficial Big Brother to Zimbabwe
The government of South Africa and the ruling ANC have raised concern over the latest developments in Zimbabwe - perhaps so much earlier than many would have anticipated.South Africa plays an ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:41hrs | 3591 | by finx
'Poverty could bring back machete gangs'
DISRUPTION of employment and increasing levels of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced artisanal small-scale miners to resume their activities, raising fear of the resurfacing of the dread...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
A call for more blood shed?
The netizens of Zimbabwe caused an uproar on twitter as they united against ZANU PF. This led the president of Zimbabwe to call for a media conference in a panicked response to address the nation. As ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 1098 | by Anesu Munyama
Prophets Magaya and Makandiwa urged to speak against human rights abuses
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya and his counterpart UFIC leader Emmanuel Makandiwa have been urged to add their weight in calling for the respect of human rights in Z...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 11:27hrs | 3336 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe celebrities call Mnangagwa to order
Zimbabwean celebrities and socialites have joined their social media counterparts to call for the President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop abusing human rights. Celebrities include broadcaster Mik...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 14:34hrs | 6896 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: MDC Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere arrested
MDC Alliance Secretary for Communications Advocate Fadzai Mahere has been arrested in Harare for participating in the much-hyped #31July protests.Mahere was arrested live on Camera when she wa...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:01hrs | 7678 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 253 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Armed police officers storm ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu's house
Armed members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police stormed the house of Mduduzi Mathuthu the Editor of online publication ZimLive. Mathuthu posted on Twitter that: Police at my house....Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:17hrs | 2778 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chin'ono bail hearing deferred to today
THE bail hearing for journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who is accused of inciting the public to revolt against the Zanu-PF government, was deferred to today after the State failed to bring a transcript of...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC urges Zimbabweans to take to the streets
THE opposition MDC Alliance has urged Zimbabweans to unite against the Zanu-PF regime, saying there was need for a broad alliance to demonstrate against the erosion of basic freedoms and confront Stat...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 8836 | by Staff reporter
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