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Zapu to contest in 2023 polls
OPPOSITION Zapu leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo says his party is contesting the 2023 elections to debunk the myth that the party had long ceased to exist following the signing of the Unity Accord in 1987....Published: 12 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere in apparent jibe at G40 colleagues, Jonathan Moyo hits back
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere says he will not grovel before party leaders, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking forgiveness and re-admission into the revolutionary...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:57hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi insists he is still a Zanu-PF member and promises 'surprises'
SELF-exiled former Cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi, says he legally and technically remains a member of Zanu-PF.The former G40 faction kingpin is among several former ruling party members, who...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 2249 | by Staff reporter
ZIMSEC battles to plug question paper leakages
Zimbabwe's school examinations system is under siege from cheats who are getting access to question papers prior to the date of writing, prompting authorities to rope in the police to fight the scourg...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rues time wasted on factional fights than voter registration
Zanu-PF Masvingo province is in panic mode over low voter registration in its rural strongholds and is now making frantic efforts to make up for lost ground as the 2023 harmonized elections beckon....Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally under massive pressure over Rufaro
ZIFA has taken a dig at Harare City Council for "dragging politics into sport" after Sakunda Holdings formally withdrew their proposal to modernise Rufaro Stadium, citing "toxicity" in the local autho...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:36hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Police stop illegal lithium mining
More than 5 000 artisanal miners and fortune seekers who had descended on Sandawana Mine in Mberengwa in search of lithium have been dispersed, amid running battles with police.There has been ...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court settles Adlecraft directorship dispute
The Supreme Court has settled the directorship dispute in mining firm Adlecraft Investments which has seen a number of court battles between its chairperson and Israeli businessman Gilad Shabtai and h...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 13:44hrs | 953 | by Staff Reporter
Sharpe blames council for incomplete Airport Road
Former Augur Investment managing director Michael Van Blerk whose company was contracted to build the Airport Road has denied illegally receiving vast tra...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 08:17hrs | 2057 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 812 | 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 | 1921 | by Staff reporter
Another ploy of rewriting history by the Zanu-PF regime
Greetings to all! FROM THEMTHWAKAZI LIBERATION FRONT PRESIDENTDR CHURCHILL MP...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 15:13hrs | 1287 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Matemadanda labels Owen Ncube a 'Grade 7 dropout'
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar, Victor Matemadanda has advised fired State Security Minister Owen 'Mudha' Ncube to sit for Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s Grade Seven examinations...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 08:27hrs | 7510 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays Pomona ‘investor' - even after US$320m contract cancelled
The government is paying millions of dollars to a company corruptly awarded a €304 million (about US$320 million) contract to turn Harare's waste into energy – even after the local authority cance...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 07:55hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa outsmarts Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is next week expected to emerge triumphant at the crucial Zanu-PF elective congress after a fierce power struggle - characterised by scheming, backstabbing, a grenade atta...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:31hrs | 18996 | by Staff reporter
Zhemu Soda in factional battles
ZANU PF Muzarabani District Coordinating Committee (DCC) Chairperson Zhemu Soda is being accused of trying to co-opt a party member who is not...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:19hrs | 1320 | by Paul Ndou
Tyler Perry's epic romantic drama comes at right time for Zimbabwe-born star
"A Jazzman's Blues" came at just the right time for Solea Pfeiffer.The 28-year-old, Zimbabwe-born, Seattle-raised actress was initially approached about Tyler Perry's epic romantic drama in Ma...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 805 | 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 | 894 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo a pale shadow of its former self
IN the years gone by, Bulawayo, with its charming architecture in the form of Victorian-style buildings, stood tall across the country as a better-organised and cleanest city in southern Africa. ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Mbare violence signals worse to come ahead of 2023 elections
VIOLENT clashes between marauding Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) and Zanu-PF youths at the weekend left a trail of destruction at vending sites near Mupedzanhamo Complex, one of the busiest area...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1687 | 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 | 565 | 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 | 1055 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala a pawn to force CCC into Polad'
LAWYER Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday claimed that legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole were being persecuted to force the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party to join the Political ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Zesa doubles power charges
NATIONAL power utility, Zesa Holdings almost doubled power tariffs on Monday as it battles to offset a drop in imports from South Africa and internal problems at its power plants.Tariffs for o...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF ropes in touts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has enlisted the services of touts, popularly known as mahwindi in its 2023 electoral campaign.Fears abound that the touts could be used as a youth militia against pol...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
BCC demands US$60 million for power station
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has insisted that they will only part with the title deeds of the Bulawayo Power Station if the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) concedes to pay US$60 million in royalties....Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:43hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Africans' 'victim mentality' now sickening and disgraceful!
I know what racism, racial segregation and discrimination are - having spent the first seven years of my life under colonial rule in the then Rhodesia.Thereafter, facing the same at the dawn o...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1166 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 434 | by Staff reporter
Mysterious AK-47 assault rifles were smuggled for Zimbabwe Presidential Guard?
THE deepening mystery behind the recent botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines through Beitbridge border post - now playing out in the courts - has been unravelle...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi denies government meddling in Sikhala, Mubaiwa court cases
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has vehemently denied claims of either government or Zanu-PF meddling in court processes involving prominent opposition politician Job Sikhala and Marry Mubaiwa, ex-wi...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:28hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
Police raid on park pirates nets 16 buses
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday impounded 16 buses, 13 pirate taxis and five private vehicles for picking up passengers at undesignated areas.There has been rampant picking of passengers at undes...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wades into church battles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday walked into a church storm at the Johane Masowe Vadzidzi VaJeso apostolic church, amid disgruntlements the current leader, who took over from the late Aaron Mh...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:11hrs | 2580 | by Staff reporter
It's now or never for Zimbabwe
WE have called for a week of protests against the unjust political detention of legislators Job Sikhala (Zengeza West), Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North) and 15 others who are languishing at Chikuru...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 886 | by Jacob Ngarivhume
'I tried to change Zanu-PF from within'
Veteran politician and war veteran Margaret Dongo said she tried to change Zanu-PF from within by being outspoken and critical of the ruling party's policies.Dongo (MD), who was eventually exp...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3026 | by Staff reporter
Mark Ngwazi battles for life
Sungura giant Mark Ngwazi of Njanja Express is batting for life after having serious chest problems for the past week.Speaking to Bulawayo24.com the Nharo nezvine Nharo hitmaker said he is in ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 11:58hrs | 4196 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiwenga ex-wife battles life-threatening lymphoedema
Marry Mubaiwa's family has shelved a scheduled amputation process on her forearm with faint hopes of a miraculous recovery by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's troubled ex-wife.Mubaiwa bat...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:16hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt bans Chamisa documentary
THE Zimbabwe government has banned "President," Danish filmmaker Camilla Nielsson's Oscar-shortlisted documentary about the African nation's corrupt 2018 presidential election, Variety can exclusively...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:15hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Can ED tell Zimbabweans where to find this elusive 'independence' we are supposed to be enjoying and 'jealously guarding'!
I honestly feel like screaming and banging my head against the wall, each time I hear those in the country's ruling elitist privileged clique make noise about some 'independence' that we, the people o...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:57hrs | 1561 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents drink raw sewage
The Bulawayo city council raised a red flag warning residents that the city's borehole water is contaminated by sewage and also bacteriologically-co...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 20:08hrs | 2823 | by Shelton Muchena
The effects of bogus Zifa actions on Zimbabwe youth
As Zimbabwe remains suspended from international football, players in the country – from a very promising rookie who made his national team debut as a schoolboy to the established professionals plyi...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:24hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Chadzamira, Mavhenyengwa battle re-ignites
The factional battle which threatened to tear Zanu-PF Masvingo province last year has been re-ignited as the two warring camps tussle for the provincial youth chairperson post that was left vacant fol...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:10hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans who are truly suffering have no time for Jonathan Moyo and elitist activism!
There have been those who have asked me for a comment on statements by Professor Jonathan Moyo, and his relentless attacks on the main opposition CCC party - disparaging its lack of a constitution and...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 22:55hrs | 1328 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt urged to legalise vending
GOVERNMENT has been urged to craft legislation that legalises vending to end running battles between the police and the informal traders.Recent statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:32hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa battles party factionalism
HUMAN rights defenders in Zimbabwe are fretting over a political crisis as the 2023 general election looms, saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa will use every trick in the book, including violence, to...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:58hrs | 3391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures 300MW
ZESA Holdings has secured a 300 megawatt (MW) power import deal with regional suppliers as the energy crisis threatens to cripple industry and domestic consumers, confidential documents show.T...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:43hrs | 1918 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to securitise its ivory stockpile
THE Zimbabwe government is currently engaged in discussions on how the country can use its 130-tonne ivory stockpile as a tradable commodity or security asset, the Zimbabwe Independent reported....Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:41hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo struggles to clear housing backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) plans to service 650 medium density stands in Mahatshula and 453 high density stands in Luveve suburbs as it battles with a housing backlog of over 120 000.The hous...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:08hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Anger will not solve Zimbabwe's plight
ANGER doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything," wrote one African-American lawyer and politician, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.As Zimbabwe battles to navigate a tre...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Police assault, charge journalist
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday assaulted freelance Journalist Anyway Yotamu before arresting him while he was taking pictures as police ra...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 10:46hrs | 2850 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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