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Zanu-PF youth reads riot act
Zanu-PF youth leader Tino Machakaire yesterday read the riot act on party youths who use President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name to engage in criminal activities and warned that they would face the might ...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 619 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF councillor 'steals' fertiliser
A Zanu-PF councillor in Buhera South, Manicaland province, is in the eye of a storm after villagers accused him of stealing fertiliser meant for distribution to villagers under the Presidential Inputs...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to reverse July Moyo directives
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has vowed to reverse some government measures, which he said were destroying and suffocating local authorities.Chamisa, who is vying...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:46hrs | 2196 | by Johannes Marisa
Baron Leong expects UK to hold free elections but it's 'too much and unfair' to ask same of Zimbabwe - how patronising
There are four tenets to rule of law: 1) The law must be simple, concise, relevant, and easily enforceable2) No one is above the law, especially those in positions of power and authori...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:25hrs | 859 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's upcoming general elections test for Commonwealth readmission
The upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe should be a highlight of the country's willingness to re-join the Commonwealth but so far, nothing is pointing in that direction, according to Sonny Leong, a...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:23hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths urged to shun corrupt activities
THE Zanu-PF Youth League national executive members have been challenged to exhibit a high level of discipline through shunning corrupt activities that may tarnish the image of the party.Speak...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, police clash in Goromonzi
RUNNING battles erupted in Goromonzi yesterday between police and an estimated over 1 000 Zanu-PF youths who had invaded a farm before pegging and allocating themselves pieces of land.Several ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Couple kills employer, steals his property
Police in Bulawayo have arrested a couple who allegedly axed their employer, Dr Geneva Sibanda (62) to death before stealing his property in Inyathi.Sources close to investigations told Bulawa...Published: 02 Jan 2023 at 09:31hrs | 2771 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's rule has been disastrous
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is now the norm for the festive season to be without merriment.Yet, be that as it may, convention and courtesy noneth...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 21:00hrs | 2281 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Harare mayor admits bungling
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has admitted his council messed up after issuing just 163 stands out of a total 5,000 initially targeted for allocation to home seekers in 2022 by the local authority....Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:34hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillor attacked by Zanu-PF land barons, car badly vandalised
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor for Mabelreign, Denford Ngadziore, on Friday escaped a life threatening confrontation with some Zanu-PF land barons who he had tried to bar from invading...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:17hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government backtracks on title deeds
GOVERNMENT has made an about-turn on its election promise to issue title deeds to settlers living in informal settlements with the Housing minister saying the document cannot be dished out on a silver...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:40hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Council police officers to be given arresting powers
GOVERNMENT is crafting an enabling legislative framework for establishment of municipal courts across the country, giving council police officers arresting powers.The impending laws would spec...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Govt guns for land barons
GOVERNMENT has finally decided to act on land barons and illegal settlements by crafting a cocktail of strategies that include reviewing legislation and setting up courts to specifically deal with the...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo pressures Victoria Falls City Council to give prime land to gold baron
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo, who is entangled in Victoria Falls land scandals — with his ally mayor Somveli Dlamini currently out of jail on bail after he was arrested for a fraudulent land ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's housing backlog shoots to 2 million
ZIMBABWE'S housing backlog in urban areas has shot up to two million from around 1,5 million reported in February, NewsDay has learnt.Revealing the figure on Monday in Harare, National Housing...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Another 'moment of madness' brewing in ZImbabwe
THE timing of a 45-day blitz to flush out illegal settlers announced by Harare Metropolitan Province on Thursday demonstrates the deep administrative lapses that continue to haunt Zimbabwe.The...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 2345 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF property baron boasts over illegal occupation of council beer hall
Former Zanu-PF councillor for Chitungwiza Town Council's Ward 7 and property baron Charamba Mlambo has taken to social media to boast about how he will keep clinging to council beer hall without any v...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:38hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 10 activists freed
TEN Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Mbare informal traders have been granted free bail in a case they are facing fraud charges.They were arrested on November 2 for illegally allocating ven...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1617 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council demolishes houses in Tafara
HARARE City Council (HCC) yesterday demolished several "illegal" houses in New Tafara.Acting town clerk Phakamile Mabhena Moyo said the affected families had illegally settled themselves on a ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:29hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Land grabs haunt Zanu-PF
LAND grabs in urban areas by barons linked to Zanu-PF appear to have backfired, with the ruling party saying the on-going delimitation exercise could lead to an increase in constituencies in cities an...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Britain to engage Ramaphosa over Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
BRITAIN will engage South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa to lead efforts to make African leaders put pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure that Zimbabwe's 2023 general elections are f...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF splashes on cars for top chefs
Zanu-PF has splashed millions of dollars on cars, party regalia and improving the welfare for its chefs ahead of next year's polls.This is despite that the majority of citizens in the country ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:55hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
UK monitoring the ongoing detention of Job Sikhala
The British government says it is concerned over the continued incarceration of lawmakers of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change and political violence ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 general electi...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 17:46hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
UK warns Mnangagwa
BRITISH parliamentarians have warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against his continued clampdown on dissent, and disregard for human rights, saying the world was watching.Mnangagwa's human ri...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:04hrs | 15145 | by Staff rporter
Mr President, how far with the hyped mega deals?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, there is still no evidence of the mega deals you hyped about during your inauguration. Corruption is still rampant. And, there is dead silenc...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 322 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zanu-PF land baron in court for violence
Zanu-PF land baron Munyaradzi Nyamukondiwa was yesterday granted $20 000 bail by a Harare magistrate after he was arrested at the weekend for inciting public violence in Mabvuku.The violence r...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Fresh turmoil hits Mupedzanhamo
EFFORTS to bring sanity at Harare's Mupedzanhamo flea market were dented yesterday after police were involved in running battles with illegal vendors returning to the area.Police had to throw ...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police smoke out Mbare violence leaders
POLICE yesterday went door-to-door arresting Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF suspects who have since Friday been causing mayhem at Mupedzanhamo flea market in Mbare, Harare — b...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member dies as mob burns Mupedzanhamo
A Zanu-PF member died following violent clashes that were triggered by alleged opposition CCC space barons at the popular Mupedzanhamo Market in Harare which was also partly burnt by the rioting mob....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Mupedzanhamo set ablaze
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF youths on Friday night and Saturday went on a rampage, torching vending tables and secondhand clothes at Mupedzanhamo flea market in what is believed to be a revenge mission against ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF plans to weaponise gold in dirty 2023 elections campaign
Zanu-PF officials in Manicaland have devised a plan to rope in smallscale gold miners and their workers in a dirty 2018 elections campaign that will see the party supporting them in the plunder of the...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Colonial mistress raises doubt over credibility of 2023 elections
British Peer Baroness, Kate Hoey has expressed doubt over the credibility, freeness and fairness of Zimbabwe's upcoming 2023 general elections in the wake of a clampdown on dissent.This comes ...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
No to politisation of operating spaces
THE Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is disturbed by the reports of politicisation of operating spaces on a piece of land adjacent to the traffic lights at Malvern and...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 151 | by Viset
Ziyambi taken to task over promised title deeds
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was yesterday grilled by legislators over delays in the issuance of title deeds to thousands of informal settlers in areas around Harare and other parts of the country...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
52 000 illegal homes in Harare
HARARE province has 52 000 illegal homes of which 25 000 are in Chitungwiza, Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs and Devolution secretary Tafadzwa Muguti said yesterday.Speaking at a consul...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked land baron up for fraud
Zanu-PF affiliated bogus land baron, Tafadzwa Kambarami, was over the weekend arrested on charges of fraud after he sold land belonging to party youths to an unsuspecting client.Kambarami (33)...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Mbudzi roundabout closes for construction
As motorists adjust to the closure of Mbudzi roundabout while the huge and complex Mbudzi Interchange is built over the next 18 months, the diversion of traffic into roads in Hopely and Waterfalls was...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Harare outlaws illegal vending
HARARE Provincial Affairs and Devolution secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has outlawed illegal vending in parking bays and other undesignated places, as Housing minister Daniel Garwe pledges to take on land ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:10hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Council ropes in army to swoop on defiant Zanu-PF aligned street vendors
THE Bulawayo City Council has approached the Joint Operation Command (JOC), a coalition of State security agencies headed by the army, following futile efforts to remove Zanu-PF activists who have ill...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 2497 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Zanu-PF youths in violent clashes
VIOLENCE flared up between Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Harare yesterday morning as they fiercely fought for control of flea market spaces in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo area....Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Land barons arrested for extorting cash in Mnangagwa's name
Police say they have arrested some land barons and other criminals who have been abusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name as a licence to extort cash and other expensive property from unsuspecting ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:27hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name used to commit crimes
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned some criminal elements who are abusing President Mnangagwa and the First Family's names to commit fraud, extort and theft that they will be arrested and prosecu...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:11hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa what's stopping you from arresting criminals?
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, never has the yearning for freedom manifested itself with intensity. Although citizenry has been gradually concerned by the progressive fall ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:49hrs | 1890 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zanu-PF fomenting lawlessness in urban areas
Vendors are back again on the streets as seen by the Grassroots tents at copacabana bus terminal with vendors yesterday Pic Shepherd TozvirevaZanu-PF affiliated vendors in Bulawayo have claime...Published: 23 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
City of Harare demolishes illegally built houses
THE Harare City Council (HCC) yesterday demolished at least 10 houses in the high-density suburb of Budiriro 4, leaving families stranded without shelter.In an interview with NewsDay, the chai...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza acting mayor claims he is being sabotaged
ACTING Chitungwiza mayor, Kelvin Mutimbanyoka says council employees, including management, were sabotaging an on-going operation against illegal structures."I have realised that a lot of coun...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces 'bhora musango' in Gokwe by-election, 2023 polls
Zanu-PF faces protest votes in the forthcoming Gokwe-Kabuyuni parliamentary by- elections slated for later this month and in the 2023 polls following a cocktail of political developments which have ex...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 11:46hrs | 8684 | by Staff reporter
85% of gold coins sold in Zimdollars
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has revealed that 1 500 gold coins were sold by its agents during the first week of their release onto the market, signalling a strong demand for the yellow metal cu...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 1630 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt backtracks on title deeds
GOVERNMENT has backtracked on its earlier promise to dish out title deeds to thousands of informal settlers in areas around Harare and other parts of the country, and is now saying correct procedures ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:49hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
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