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Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1006 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Mnangagwa triggers process to reverse land reform
GOVERNMENT has started a process of repossessing land to compensate indigenous and white former commercial farmers affected by the 2000 land reform programme, described by many as chaotic.The ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 17:54hrs | 3638 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF struggles to build Harare, Bulawayo structures
ZANU-PF'S restructuring in the troublesome provinces of Harare and Bulawayo is happening in fits and starts, with party political commissar Victor Matemadanda, pictured, expressing concern about the t...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
UK MPs moot Zimbabwe bailout
ZIMBABWE's commitment to mend diplomatic and political ties with the United Kingdom has attracted a growing constituency in the British legislature with some parliamentarians asking the Conservative g...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:54hrs | 440 | by Staff Reporter
Harare Mayor sets the record straight
Today the Mayor of Harare, Herbert Gomba has decided to decode his own narrative of the city's status quo.When you came at the summit of the metro where there ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:56hrs | 416 | by Daniel Itai
Land barons clash over stands
A DZIVARASEKWA housing co-operative faction leader, Simba Moyo, last week appeared in court charged with fraud after being accused of misrepresenting that he was chairperson of Nehanda Housing Co-oper...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 08:04hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU members call for action
RESTIVE members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have told the labour body's leadership to organise a mass stay-away to force the government to address the current economic crisis....Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 13:15hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach pays police for protection
EXPLOSIVE minutes of a meeting convened by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo to resolve a land ownership row between five housing co-operatives and Billy Rautenbac...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can only be unwell
I have searched deep and wide for reasons why President Mnangagwa is seemingly unperturbed by the accelerated plunge of this country.I found no plausible reason except that he can only be unwe...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2947 | by Matthew Takaona
Net closes in on roller meal 'barons'
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has identified some of the culprits that are hoarding and selling grain and mealie-meal on the black market, and arrests are expected soon.There ...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:47hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Baron Dube's murder trial fails to resume
THE trial of gold dealer, Baron Dube, who allegedly shot and killed a member of a rival mining gang in Esigodini following a dispute, yesterday failed to resume after the accused person was not proper...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:31hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vows to reclaim Goromonzi South
ZANU-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairman Biggie Joel Matiza has challenged the party's leadership in Goromonzi South to unite to reclaim the seat that was lost to the MDC-Alliance in the 2018 harm...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:55hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Security minister implicated in machetes violence
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday alleged in Parliament that State Security minister Owen Ncube was the co-ordinator of the machete gangs, popularly known as MaShurugwi.They said this as they grilled H...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs unite in protecting big shots behind machete gangs
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Zanu-PF MPs Monday seemed to be protecting their fellow allies during a heated parliamentary hearing on machete-wielding gangs.While giving oral evide...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1281 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF moves to solve circus
Top Zanu-PF leaders from Mashonaland East province on Saturday descended on Goromonzi South to solve disharmony among members, which had resulted in the party having shaky structures.The meeti...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
Shiri defends Zanu PF land barons
Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri has denied that Zanu PF officials are behind the chaotic and illegal settlements around the country, a strategy long u...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1010 | by Staff Reporter
Land Reform: Zimbabwe's biggest independence milestone
ON 18 April this year, Zimbabwe will be celebrating 40 years of self-rule from British colonial domination. It is the right time for the country to take stock of its achievements, developments and cha...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:34hrs | 265 | by Vincent Gono
Chamisa throws another curve ball at Masvingo mayor's faction
THE opposition MDC has again suspended Masvingo mayor, Collin Maboke, and the entire provincial executive due to continued bickering and maladministration.Maboke, who has been suspended for th...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 08:37hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Sextortion haunts women
WHILE Zimbabwe has taken great strides in advancing gender equality, women are becoming more vulnerable to sexual abuse in the absence of both political and economic muscle to restore the balance....Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei 'takes over' ZANU PF Politiburo
Oil baron Kuda Tagwirei has been reported to have taken over the financial affairs of ZANU PF Politiburo by being the chief buyer of cars and becoming the paymaster to the members of the highest ZANU ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14590 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Restore public trust in land allocation
Land remains an important economic and cultural asset for both rural and urban communities in Zimbabwe. Access to and control over land is, however, mediated by varying factors, including corr...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF headed for another split?
ZANU-PF Youth League deputy secretary Lewis Matutu allegedly walked out of a Politburo meeting held at the party's headquarters in Harare on Wednesday afternoon.According to journalist Hopewel...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:25hrs | 5120 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF disintegrating'
ZANU-PF Youth leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being the foot soldiers in a new plot to oust Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by a faction linked to Defense Minister...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 12:16hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu, Godfrey Tsenengamu sued over press conference
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) Boss Tafadzwa Masarara has announced that he is instituting legal proceedings against ZANU PF Youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu over allega...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 09:55hrs | 3199 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chaos as ZANU PF youths divide party
ZANU PF Youth leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being the foot soldiers in a new plot to oust Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by a faction linked to Defense Minister...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 13:19hrs | 3735 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Harare water crisis man-made'
IRRESPONSIBLE behaviour and political pressure to settle people on wetlands have contributed immensely to the pollution of the major source of Harare water, Lake Chivero, thereby affecting the supply ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 19:11hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Fresh invasions in Mbare
HARARE's oldest and most populous suburb, Mbare, has been overrun by vendors, a situation that has seen council battling to take control of the area's haphazard market stalls.A survey by NewsD...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:56hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Cash barons feel the heat
THE government has unveiled new steps aimed at thwarting cash barons who are causing chaos in the economy by fuelling the foreign currency black market.The punitive measures include seizing th...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:27hrs | 4084 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF secret exposed
FORMER Zanu-PF Harare provincial commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe has opened the lid on how the ruling party used land to buy votes ahead of national elections.Mashayamombe is one of the key me...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Cash shortages persist
While premiums paid to access cash have dropped from the lofty levels of around 50 percent prior to the injection of additional cash in November last year, they remain high at 30 percent due to the ac...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:12hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Zacc wades into gold smuggling
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has been handed an explosive gold smuggling report that details well-knit gold smuggling by a coterie of gold buying barons, which is costing Zimbabwe bi...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:08hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF secret on vote buying exposed
FORMER Zanu PF Harare provincial commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe has opened the lid on how the ruling party used land to buy votes ahead of national elections.Mashayamombe is one of the key me...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 09:24hrs | 5138 | by Staff Reporter
Big wigs face arrest in land barons dragnet
At least 132 people in Harare, including political heavyweights, face arrest for allegedly selling State land, corruptly allocating themselves stands, fraud, abuse of cooperative funds and criminal ab...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Why not Saviour Kasukuwere?
As 2020 begins it drags with it a nagging pertinent question which 2019 posed to our national politics; one we must reflect upon with all the hopes and aspirations a new year inspires. Why not Saviour...Published: 07 Jan 2020 at 18:17hrs | 8993 | by Ntokozo Msipha
Mnangagwa fired corrupt Zacc
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that he fired the previous Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chaired by Job Wabira because the commissioners were corrupt.Mnangagwa said this on ...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:18hrs | 10567 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa tells Mnangagwa that he will not rejoin Zanu-PF
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) last week told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he would not rejoin Zanu-PF because it was "infested with corrupt" members.Mnangagwa had told the ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 15:49hrs | 2253 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga breathes fire!
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has threatened to weed out land barons saying they have allegedly invaded and hijacked cooperatives in Zimbabwe.Speaking at the International day of coopera...Published: 20 Dec 2019 at 13:32hrs | 29352 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Warn' is President Mnangagwa's Word of the Year.
To warn is to give notice, advice, or intimation to a person or group of people of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or something unfavorable. Since taking office, the President of Zimbabwe has i...Published: 17 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 2024 | by Sam Wezhira
Mnangagwa ally says, 'We've thieves among us'
Zanu-PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri yesterday admitted that the ruling party has been hijacked by high-profile criminals using the party name and their proximity to the centre of power for s...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 19:18hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs set to lose farms
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned his government was going to seize tracts of land from multiple farm owners and further trim the sizes of some farms to leave owners with a "reasonable" size of ...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:19hrs | 3300 | by newzimbabwe
Jury still out on Mnangagwa
IF Zimbabwe were a normal country, revelations that ruling party bigwigs and politically-connected land barons, housing co-operative leaders and property developers illegally sold $3 billion worth of ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:00hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
'More parties to join Zanu-PF'
MORE political parties in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) are set to join or re-join Zanu-PF following in the footsteps of Brian Mteki, the ruling party spokesperson said yesterday.Zanu-...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF land barons exposed, what next?
FOR years it has been a public secret that Zanu-PF bigwigs and government bureaucrats, together with all their associates across the Zimbabwean society have been behind the often chaotic urban housing...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 20:00hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa puts land barons on notice
Government will stand with people who were duped by land barons in urban areas and punish the culprits, President Mnangagwa has said. He said the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the s...Published: 12 Dec 2019 at 07:51hrs | 3078 | by Staff Reporter
'My hands are clean' says Kasukuwere
Former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere says he is not guilty of the US$ 3 Billion that has been reportedly lost to land barons due to illegal land deals involving state land. When...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 13:51hrs | 10816 | by Mandla Ndlovu
431 land barons face arrest over irregular sale of state land …Gvt says US$3 billion lost in the process
Government says 431 land barons face arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission over the irregular sale of land after a commission of inquiry on the sale of state land in and around urban areas...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 17:59hrs | 1859 | by Staff Reporter
12 land barons arrested
Twelve suspected land barons in Harare accused of duping desperate home seekers and illegally selling land have been arrested as police intensify its operation targeted at weeding out illegal sales....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:34hrs | 3403 | by Staff reporter
Introduction of new currency a piecemeal solution
DURING the 2020 national budget presentation in Parliament last month, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube held up a note of the new Zimbabwe dollar and proudly announced that it was tough and resilient....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1212 | by Staff reporter
Police pounce on land barons
POLICE in Harare have arrested eight land barons, including a former MDC councillor, as part of government efforts to bring sanity in the allocation of residential stands in the capital.Police...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:14hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Expired products on shop shelves, streets
EXPIRED products are finding their way into households as unscrupulous retailers are duping their clients, The Sunday Mail Society has established.Goods ranging from dairy products, beverages,...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:49hrs | 249 | by Staff rpeorter
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