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Killer cops' application for discharge dismissed
The Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an application for discharge by two police officers and two neighbourhood watch committee members who are facing charges related to the fatal shooting of a man in...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 08:25hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chevrons clinch ICC T20 qualifier with unbeaten record
Zimbabwe's cricket team, the Chevrons, secured a comprehensive 61-run victory over Kenya at Gymkhana Club Ground yesterday, completing an unbeaten campaign at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Sub-Re...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:39hrs | 480 | by Staff reporgter
Trial begins for Zimbabwe police shooting
The trial of four men accused of fatally shooting Paul Munakopa in Bulawayo's Hillside suburb four years ago has commenced at the Bulawayo High Court. Munakopa, 34, was shot during a high-speed chase ...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 15:04hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man brutally murdered in revenge killing
The ChronicleA 35- year-old man from Maboleni area in Lower Gweru died after he was allegedly fatally assaulted and stabbed by a gang of five men over previous grudges.The five suspect...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 12:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean escapes from SA prison
SOUTH AFRICAN police in the Waterberg district in Limpopo province have launched a manhunt for a 32-year-old Zimbabwean man who last Thursday escaped from holding cells at the Lephalale Police Station...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Chamisa fall out over US dollars?
OPPOSITION CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa threw his former vice president and ally Mr Tendai Biti under the proverbial bus and rigged the Harare East candidate selection process against him because he b...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean prison escapee re-arrested in SA after being hit by truck
A Zimbabwean man who escaped from a prison in the Eastern Cape in South Africa has been re-arrested after he was hit by a truck in Free State, police said.Bennet Kwarrie is one of seven prison...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabweans escape from SA prison
SEVEN Zimbabweans facing rhino poaching charges in South Africa escaped from the Grahamstown Correctional Facility in Eastern Cape yesterday.South Africa's Department of Correctional Services ...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance abduction skeletons tumble
A FORMER MDC official, Nqobizitha Khumalo, who is now with the People Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the opposition party has been faking abductions and causing terror in the country through ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tamborinyoka must resign
It was disturbing to read the press statement issued by the MDC Deputy Spokesperson published on the party's facebook page a day before Jacob Sikhala was arrested by the Zimbabwe Republic police on Tu...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:18hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mnangagwa splurges US$1m to re-engage US
GOVERNMENT has hired a second American consultancy firm, Avenue Strategies Global LLC, for US$1 080 000 to lobby the United States government to drop sanctions against the southern African nation, New...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC and the colonial ghost of whiteness
David Coltart, the self-confessed former British South African Police (BSAP) member, who authored a rehashed moribund autobiography, recently rebounded as treasurer of the MDC at the party's congress ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
Khupe is dancing Nobert Kunonga music
Not so long ago the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe had tasted abhorrent deep factional fights pitted embattled cleric Bishop Nobert Kunonga and the then incumbent Chad Gandiya cabal. Kunonga, a stan Muga...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
MDC national elective Congress 2019: Biti-Ncube rebirth or death
Less than a month to the MDC crunch congress slated for Gweru, a lot is happening within the mainstream opposition outfit as the jostle for positions heats up. Interim party President Advocate & p...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Benny Gudo
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Business forum 'The Shift' to launch in the UK in March
LONDON - Affirmative Action Group (AAG) president, Dr Chamu Chiwanza is scheduled to keynote at the launch of The Shift UK, a business enterprise scheme that brings together corporate leaders to discu...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Tidi Kwidini
Zimbabwe : Responsible citizenship and leadership
Gordon Hickley once said, "Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation" How a nation is viewed by other nations very much depends on the conduct of its own citizens. Much more if those citizen...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
Shut up Strive Masiyiwa! says Jonathan Moyo
Self exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has blasted Telecommunications Guru Strive Masiyiwa over his emotional letter defending himself on his stance on sanctions. Prof Moyo called Masiyiwa a thin skinned...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US burst Mnangagwa's bubble
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dealt a heavy blow after the United States asked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release comprehensive results of the just-ended presidential elections...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe faces arrest
Ousted former president Robert Mugabe risks going to jail for continuing to ignore directives by Parliament to give evidence on the disappearance of $15 billion diamond revenue, with the august body y...Published: 29 May 2018 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe snubs parliament again
Former Zimbabwean President has snubbed a parliamentary portfolio committee on mines and mining for the second time.Mugabe had been summoned to give oral evidence before the Temba Mliswa led c...Published: 28 May 2018 at 15:34hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Mnangagwa's six months in office
It is now exactly six months since President Mnangagwa's inauguration on November 24, 2017 as the country's second Executive President and analysts say he has indeed ticked the boxes in as far as esta...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Roy Bennet pilot had substance in blood
A helicopter pilot had a low concentration of fentanyl in his blood during a crash in New Mexico that killed him and four other people including Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett, according to ...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by AP
Lack of Zimbabwe reforms annoys US
The United States' offer to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe could be on the verge of collapsing after Washington expressed irritation at the slow progress by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to draw up the ref...Published: 04 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions senators speak on poll reforms
Visiting United States senators yesterday expressed concern that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration had not made any serious election reforms five months after coming into power.Dem...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets US sanctions senators
ZIMBABWE is committed to re-engaging the United States to establish a sustainable and mutually beneficial future relationship, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Addressing journalists afte...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The West suspicious of Mnangagwa
In recent years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa seem to have discovered that Britain and the West are good.For example, when newly-appointed as vice-president in 2013, Mnangagwa was not ashamed ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Tinhu
Champions at home and abroad gone too soon
When Roy Bennett was named the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, the general folk in Manicaland cried foul saying the centre had stolen from the periphery, they wanted him appointed the Governor of Mani...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 11:17hrs | 2 | by Jacob Mafume
Roy Bennett 'suffered a lot in his attempt to build a new Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe's main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change party's deputy president Nelson Chamisa has described Roy Bennett’s unexpected death in a helicopter crash in the US as "a big loss to ...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 10:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC mourns the passing of the struggle veteran Roy Bennett
The MDC is greatly saddened by the untimely passing of democratic struggle veteran Roy Bennet and his wife Heather in a tragic helicopter crash in North America today.MDC National Spokesperson...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Roy Bennett dies
There are reports that former MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett and his wife Heather were killed in a chopper accident in Canada.According to Senator David Coltart, Bennett died in a helicop...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 18:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai's daughter in tender scandal
The Harare City Council allegedly awarded a water treatment contract to MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter and her husband without going to tender, it has emerged.Mrs Vimbai Tsvangir...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Naive docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Naïve and docile - Morgan Tsvangirai should resign
It's sad that I have come to this conclusion. It was in 1999 when the MDC party was formed, Zimbabwe a country we all love had suddenly derailed and was heading towards nowhere, I was young then a...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
Tsvangirai destroying MDC-T, party members say
The situation that has of late characterised what used to be a vibrant workers' party, an MDC where constructive criticism and progressive discourse was nurtured rather than suppressed, where deci...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 15:24hrs | | by Concerned MDC-T members
Caf snubs Zimbabwean referees
NO matches at the 2016 African Nations Championship (Chan) will be refereed by a Zimbabwean official after a list of match officials released by continental football governing body Caf deemed them not...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Govt ordered to pay Interfresh $27 million compensation for 7 farms
Government should pay $27 million to Interfresh Limited as compensation for the firm's seven farms that were compulsorily acquired under the land reform programme, the Administrative Court has ruled....Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:05hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Authenticating electronic based records based evidence in Zimbabwean labour disputes
Today computers provide us with powerful tools for information handling, retrieval and distribution. Computers have contributed to the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations through the use...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 09:59hrs | 4 | by Etiwel Mutero
Welshman Ncube responds to Tsvangirai - Full statement
Press Release23 July 2014Response to Morgan TsvangiraiZimbabwe lies on its belly groaning under the weight of a clueless and cruel Zanu PF gover...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 09:55hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
'Donors have dumped us,' says Tsvangirai
BELEAGUERED MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has, for the first time, publicly admitted that his Western handlers had dumped him, and repeated calls for the party's supporters to "support their own ...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka and Vusumuzi Dube
The MDC-T on the verge of implosion and explosion
The recent events in the political arena in Zimbabwe have left many disappointed, dejected and without hope. Many had pinned their hopes on the MDCT and Mr Tsvangirai on removing Mr Robert Mugabe ...Published: 03 May 2014 at 12:23hrs | | by Thulani Nkala
Biti Sues Daily News
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti is suing the Daily News for a whopping US$2 million dollars on defamation charges after the independent daily wrote that the former Energy Minister was working ...Published: 28 Apr 2014 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T split fast approaching
Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party has hit the precipice, The Zimbabwe Mail reported on Saturday.Sources to the newspaper on Friday said hawks in the party, hitherto fronted...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tsunga did not meet Biti, Bennet in SA
Last week there were reports that Tendai Biti, Secretary General of the MDC-T, flew to Johannesburg on Friday in the c...Published: 09 Mar 2014 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai has nothing to hide says Mwonzora
The Movement for Democratic Change led by former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said their leader has nothing hide.In a statement wrote by the party's National Spokesperson Doul...Published: 08 Feb 2014 at 21:17hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Simba Makoni to rescue the MDC-T
ROY Bennet was the first to publicly dissent, Ben Freeth followed, then Ian Kay, Elias Mudzuri, Eddie Cross and now Elton Mangoma. The chorus grows.His remarkably candid and well-choreographed...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Amai Jukwa
Tsvangirai wins battle
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been shrugging off calls by his top lieutenants to step down, is receiving overwhelming support from the rank-and-file of the MDC during his ongoing meet...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T Joburg endorses Dr Tsvangirai
The Johannesburg district of Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC has rallied behind its party leader, rejecting a push for the 61-year-old ex-premier's ouster.Dlayila Omuhle, the newly-elected MDC Johann...Published: 20 Nov 2013 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T coffers dry as power struggle rages on
The MDC-T's acrimonious power struggle, which has seen party leader Morgan Tsvangirai battling a revolt engineered by senior party officials seeking leadership renewal after the party's dismal Ju...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 03:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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