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Madhuku confirmed Bikita East harmonised poll winner
THE Electoral Court has confirmed Johnson Madhuku (Zanu-PF) as the legitimate National Assembly Member for Bikita East following his resounding victory during last year's harmonised election. ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:18hrs | 5792 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first school of politics opened
ZIMBABWE'S first ever women's political leadership school was on Friday launched in Masvingo under the name, Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe).Walpe, according to...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:42hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje, Chadzamira in holy alliance
Zanu-PF national secretary for the commissariat, Engelbert Rugeje has kept at bay those harbouring ambitions to remove Masvingo provincial chairperson Ezra Chadzamira, saying the new Minister of State...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:28hrs | 1819 | by Staff reporter
MPs, Senators out of provincial councils
THE concept of devolution being pursued by the Government will ensure that all 10 provinces in the country become enjoined with their districts and communities becoming active lead actors in the creat...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:42hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Devolution: Laying ground for provincial economies
The 2019 Budget Statement allocates US$310 million for provincial and local tiers.This fulfils our promise to the electorate to uphold and implement Chapter 14 of our Constitution, which enjoi...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:15hrs | 152 | by E D Mnangagwa
Man kills two in-laws
A Bikita man went berserk and allegedly fatally struck his in-laws with bricks and logs last week after they restrained him from assaulting his wife over witchcraft allegations, police have said. ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:53hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Komichi kills two in-laws in witchcraft row
A BIKITA man allegedly fatally struck his mother-in-law and brother in-law after battering his wife over witchcraft allegations, police have said. Isau Komichi (44) of Tanyanyiwa Village under...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 2005 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu says no to Zanu-PF restructuring
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has poured cold water on party members who are jostling for positions saying the party will not carry out a restructuring process soon, adding that the...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:42hrs | 2969 | by Staff reporter
Defining and identifying the new leadership trajectory in MDC-T
The last days of President Morgan Tsvangirai will always be remembered as the episode when the truth was the biggest casualty as the succession debate moved from his office to his death bed. After a w...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2148 | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Kereke demands apology from Mliswa
Jailed former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has petitioned parliament to censure Norton legislator Temba Mliswa for allegedly maliciously slandering him by accusing him of impregnating his ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | 3640 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF holds victory celebrations
Bikita West legislator, Elias Musakwa hosted victory celebrations in his constituency to thank the people who voted for Zanu-PF in the 30 July harmonised elections.The celebrations were attend...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 19:30hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
Kereke impregnates wife from Prison?
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that jailed former ZANU PF MP Munyaradazi Kerekere has impregnated his younger while in prison.Said Mliswa, "In a conversatio...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:17hrs | 10570 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Students abuse morning after pills
The National AIDS Council (NAC) has raised a red flag over the increased use of morning-after family planning pills by female students at tertiary institutions in Masvingo.Speaking to journali...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:30hrs | 2976 | by Staff reporter
MDC at 19: A trail of destruction and failure
Naturally in life when a person turns 19 he or she is considered an adult as he or she can exercise their right to vote, marry and be employed without violating any laws such as child labour. This is ...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 15:39hrs | 1117 | by Elijah Chihota
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 13880 | by Compol HRA
Chamisa: A dictator in the making
"A dictator is someone who has absolute power or who at least behaves as if they do by bossing others around". This is exactly what the MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa is turning himself into sinc...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 13:50hrs | 3012 | by Elijah Chihota
Call for rural industrialisation
The business community here says the Government must embark on a massive rural industrialisation programme in line with the concept of devolution. Great Zimbabwe Chamber of Business (GZCB) pro...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:37hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Government reveals plan for Bikita ammonium plant
GOVERNMENT has unveiled plans to facilitate establishment of a multi-million dollar ammonium sulphate processing plant in Bikita, Masvingo province. The project would be useful in import subst...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:00hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile Gang: 'Last man standing'
This week we publish the first part of an account from Enock Sithole, the lone survivor and commander of the six-member Crocodile Gang that operated in Melsetter (Chimanimani) in the 1960s. The group ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:42hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Court drama as woman bashes small house over maintenance
There was drama at Masvingo Magistrate's Court when a married woman clobbered a small house that had come to claim maintenance from her husband.The drama happened at the exit gates to the cour...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:21hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
EU suspends $14m funding to Zimbabwe
The EU, one of Zimbabwe's biggest donors has suspended funding of a US$14 million conservancy project in Save Valley in Chiredzi because thousands of Zanu PF supporters illegally settled in the area a...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 11:45hrs | 3522 | by Staff Reporter
STIs spike in Masvingo
MASVINGO province is reeling under a serious Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) burden, with Chiredzi district topping the list, followed by Masvingo urban and rural as well as Bikita districts, l...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland East leads MDC Alliance poll challenges
Mashonaland East province provides the largest number of seats being challenged by the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance party, which is seeking to reverse Zanu PF's parliamentary majority in the just-e...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:12hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Bhora Musango: Mnangagwa to launch a massive witch-hunt
ZANU-PF is set to launch a massive witch-hunt to weed out party members blamed for sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a protest vote code-named "bhora musango", that saw him garnering lesser v...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:34hrs | 7723 | by Staff reporter
Experts unearth Zec results mess
Discrepancies in election figures contained in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s own documents and signed by acting chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, are expected to be put to test ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:52hrs | 3985 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leaders revel in Mnangagwa's victory
The Zanu-PF leadership here has hailed President Mnangagwa's electoral victory in the just-ended harmonised elections and paid tribute to Zimbabweans for reposing their trust in the ruling party leade...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:10hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
The writing was always on the wall
The just-ended election was always for Zanu-PF to lose, as - judging by strategic errors of commission and omission - the opposition MDC-Alliance made several fatal missteps, especially after the Nomi...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:44hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Top 10 Zimbabwe election battles
ZIMBABWEANS go for the most peaceful election in the country's history today - the harmonised elections to choose the leadership for the next five years.A record 23 candidates are on the Presi...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 16:48hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3257 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe decides
Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow morning, with polling stations opening at 7am and scheduled to close 12 hours later, at 7pm.For all accounts and purposes, this will be a record-breaking el...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:53hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Red flag raised ahead of polls
CIVIC society organisation, Heal Zimbabwe Trust, has raised the red flag ahead of polls set for Monday, saying intimidation, assault, forced participation at political gatherings and partisan distribu...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:31hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wary of rigging plans
THE MDC Alliance has raised alarm over plans to rig elections next week as the opposition coalition's intelligence officers claim that Zanu-PF is working tooth and nail to ensure it wins at least seve...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing will stop Zimbabwe polls'
Zanu-PF has reiterated that nothing will stop harmonised elections slated for next Monday urging Zimbabweans not to be misled by some local political parties that were developing cold feet as the harm...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Polygamous man kills eldest wife, vanishes
Police here are looking for a 36-year-old polygamous man who fatally assaulted his eldest wife with a log during a domestic dispute last week. Nhema Nyamayevhu of Nyamayevhu Village under Chie...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dumps Ngarivhume
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa was in the district on Sunday July 16, where he is said to have endorsed the candidature of Boniface Mudzingwa for the Bikita East parliamentary sea...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:19hrs | 6481 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje born again
The mere mention of the name Engelbert Rugeje used to send cold shivers down the spines of many opposition supporters in Bikita.Many people knew the now Rtd Lt Gen of the Zimbabwe National Arm...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:19hrs | 2974 | by Upenyu Chaota
Bikita East ours for the taking, says NCA
The People of Bikita East are wise, and they will not be hoodwinked into voting for political parties with little regard for development and constitutionalism, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) p...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 12:16hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Bribery allegations at Chiefs' Council poll
Chief Musarurwa allegedly tried to bribe other traditional leaders with blankets ahead of yesterday's elections for the posts of president and deputy president of the Chiefs Council.It is unde...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:26hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance rocked by double candidates
There has been a lot of confusion over the candidature of some MDC Alliance candidates is various constituencies. This arose from double candidates who were imposed in fellow Alliance partners' alloca...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 21:30hrs | 1963 | by Staff Reporter
Mashoko High School at it AGAIN!!
Dear EditorMashoko High School at it AGAIN!!It is saddening to come back to this platform with yet another extremely worrying development at Mashoko High School. On a chilly Sa...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | 3605 | by Chibaba che Bikita
Ngarivhume rides high in Bikita East
Jacob Ngarivhume is a man on a mission. Having led Transform Zimbabwe since its formation, he has grown from strength to strength politically. In 2017, Ngarivhume joined hands with other six o...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1734 | by Staff Reporter
Harurwa consumed as delicacy in Masvingo but Claude Maredza says, 'there is more that people should know'
Harurwa is an insect, consumed as a delicacy mostly in the Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. The insect is naturally light green in colour. It's usualy prepared by roasting and salting it. In Masvingo Ha...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 14:24hrs | 3798 | by Enos Denhere
Chamisa's rally blessed by rain
MDC-Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday promised to make Zimbabwe a $46 billion economy over the next five years if he wins the July 30 harmonised elections. Addressing...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:41hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa sticks by Grace Mugabe
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's alleged dalliances with the former First Family is understood to be making partners in the coalition uneasy and there are now real fears that he is planning to dit...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 10:12hrs | 4708 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe VP dream wrecks MDC Alliance-NPF talks
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe's ambition to become vice-president has torpedoed coalition talks between the MDC Alliance and the National Patriotic Front (NPF), resulting in the disbandment of a stee...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 2198 | by Staff reporter
Co-exist with supporters of rival parties
Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Engelbert Rugeje yesterday urged ruling party supporters to co-exist with followers of other political parties and ensure a peaceful election on July 30. A...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | 165 | by Staff rpeorter
ZEC sets up 'shady' polling stations
INDEPENDENT biometric voter registration (BVR) and data science experts analysing the voters' roll, yesterday claimed they had unearthed another suspected vote-rigging loophole, where the Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1170 | by Staff rpeorter
250 000 'ghost voters' on roll?
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reportedly released a register of voters with over 250 000 ghost voters on its final biometric voters' roll (BVR), NewsDay reported.The alleged scam...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Delusions of Zimbabwe intellectuals
JUST like the media, intellectualism is often overrated as both a source of truth and of accurate information - more so in the field of socio-political commentary.Blatantly partial academic po...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:52hrs | 303 | by Reason Wafawarova
Madhuku's candidates blocked by ZEC
PROFESSOR Lovemore Madhuku's NCA says it only managed to field 72 candidates to contest for the national assembly seats this July with the rest blocked from filing their papers during nomination last ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 08:50hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
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