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'Mnangagwa is a dog' trial stalls
THE trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joel Gabbuza, facing charges of undermining and insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is being stalled by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi, who is yet to issue ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 351 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira chairs team to probe Mliswa
PARLIAMENT's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders has appointed Council of Chiefs president Fortune Charumbira to chair the Privileges Committee that was set up to investigate allegations against No...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3200 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa-led Parliament committee dissolved
Parliament's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders yesterday dissolved the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development and is set to unveil a Privileges Committee to investigate...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:06hrs | 3622 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo artiste blasts Mnangagwa
BULAWAYO artiste Njabulo "SizFire" Nyoni has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the song Cry of a Zimbabwean Child, blaming him for the current economic hardships and social unrest in the c...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Parliament meets over Temba Mliswa bribe
Parliament's Committee of Standing Rules and Orders is expected to meet today and constitute a Privileges Committee to investigate allegations against Norton legislator and three others that they dema...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:01hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Zifa Cup set for return
The Zimbabwe Football Association is set to bring back the biggest football competition, the Zifa Cup, after more than a decade of absence.The tournament was last contested for in 2005 as the ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:02hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
'Is Mnangagwa's govt pro-poor or Queen B?'
MDC legislators on Wednesday grilled Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi over the effects of government's austerity measures while bigwigs are living an extravagant life...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:42hrs | 1898 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba disgusted by Mliswa, Nduna 'idiotic' behaviour
ZANU-PF MP for Buhera South, Joseph Chinotimba says he was ashamed of the riotous behaviour of fellow legislators Dexter Nduna and Temba Mliswa who came close to trading blows beginning of this week....Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2054 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe MPs in near fistfight
TEMPERS flared in Parliament yesterday during the sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy when Norton MP Temba Mliswa accused former Transport Committee chairperson, Dexter Nduna, of il...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Parliament probes Mliswa over $400 000 bribe
A PARLIAMENTARY probe team will be set up to look into allegations that Mines Portfolio Committee chairperson, Temba Mliswa, and three other MPs demanded a $400 000 bribe while carrying out an inquiry...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:42hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa to hand himself over to the police
Notorn Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has, through his lawyers, written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police indicating that he is willing to turn himself to the police after hearing that a report of so...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 12:14hrs | 6500 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parents withdraw kids from schools
TEACHERS reported for duty yesterday in Bulawayo, Midlands and parts of Matabeleland North but education authorities decried the decision by some parents to withdraw their children from schools. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa 'exposed', in '$400 000 bribe demand'
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal at Hwange Colliery, we can exclusively reveal. The a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
Maintenance dodge bus owner poses as tout
A Bulawayo businessman who claimed to be a tout at a long distance bus terminus to avoid paying maintenance for his two-year-old daughter, was ordered to produce his bank statement by the Bulawayo mag...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:53hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Zimta officials 'forcing’ teachers to bunk classes
ZIMBABWE Teachers Union (Zimta) officials are allegedly forcing teachers in Binga and Tsholotsho to stop teaching and close the schools, a move alleged to be politically motivated.The official...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 22:50hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Cloud seeding commences countrywide
CLOUD seeding has commenced across the country, the Meteorological Services Department has said. Speaking in a telephone interview, a forecaster Mr Haanyadzisi Batisayi said seeding started in...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:21hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Karoi-Binga road tarring begins
Surfacing of the 300 kilometre long Karoi-Binga road has begun in earnest.Work on the project has begun in earnest from Chivakanenyama in Hurungwe west with the first 10 km stretch of the dirt...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:22hrs | 2979 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC pursues diamond find in Chihota
STATE-RUN diamond firm, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), says it will carry out exploration work for gems in Marondera district as part of its expansion scheme.With alluvial diamo...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks complies with court order, releases businessman fishing rigs
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) has complied with the Bulawayo High Court order compelling it to release two fishing boats impounded from Binga businessman Taurai Marava last year...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:44hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 367 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
'Mnangagwa bring back our husbands' Olinda Chapel fumes
I am extremely confused Mr President. Who is this post meant to benefit . You have blocked the internet for all Zimbabweans and therefore they can't see this? Is this "optics" for the international co...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 13:55hrs | 21448 | by Olinda Chapel-Nkomo
Home-alone grandpa axed to death
A-77-YEAR-Old man has been found dead in a pool of blood after being axed on the head and between his eyes at his homestead in Gokwe, police have confirmed. His attacker is unknown and police are inve...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Man dies due to 'excessive' alcohol intake
A BINGA man is suspected to have died due to excessive alcohol consumption at his workplace in Gokwe, following a drinking spree. Mr Toliat Nyoni (37) from Siyajuni village under Chief Sinampa...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Education vote to spur rural school development
The $1,132 billion allocated to the Primary and Secondary Education ministry will bankroll teacher training in local languages, and fund rural education and development, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:52hrs | 493 | by Caroline Chiimba
Ministerial delegation to meet civil servants
A HIGH-powered ministerial delegation will on Monday meet civil servants' representatives in Harare to discuss the prevailing challenges faced by Government workers. Acting Minister of Public ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:05hrs | 500 | by Staff rpeorter
Judge raps Zimparks
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has rapped the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) for impounding licensed rigs allegedly caught fishing in prohibited areas....Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:25hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Chief Charumbira dares Zanu-PF rivals
President of the Chief's Council, Fortune Charumbira, risks landing himself in deep trouble for violating the law because of his open support for the ruling Zanu-PF party.Ahead of the July 30,...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:39hrs | 4021 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross reaches out to hungry Binga villagers
The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS), with support from the Danish Red Cross, British Red Cross and Finnish Red Cross, is rolling out a $530 000 cash transfer programme to assist disadvantaged villag...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:25hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance MPs extort govt, get luxury cars
MEMBERS of Parliament yesterday arm-twisted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube into raising their budgetary allocation by 44% and demanded the latest 4×4 luxury Toyota Land Cruisers, among other perks, de...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally's trial in false start
THE trial of Binga South legislator Gabbuza Joel Gabuza (MDC Alliance), who is facing charges of undermining the authority of or insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he allegedly accused the Z...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:31hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government steps up road projects
Government has stepped up major road rehabilitation programmes across the country as it closes in on this year's target to spruce up over 50 000 kilometres of road.This year, Treasury released...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 1824 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe fuel situation dire
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) says the fuel supply crisis has reached catastrophic levels as the 100-million-litre consignment procured last week at a cost of US$60 million has alrea...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 20:00hrs | 6686 | by Staff reporter
War Veterans now Hated like Armed Robbers in Zimbabwe
Imagine living in a country run by Armed Robbers. The President, the Ministers, the Police, the Judiciary all being armed and ready to pull a trigger to defend their positions of power at any cost? Th...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 09:31hrs | 1825 | by Multiverse Dungani
'Zimbabwe telecoms investment costs drop 35%'
ZIMBABWE's infrastructure sharing model has yielded up to 35 percent drop in the cost of investment in the information and telecommunications sector, which will largely benefit ordinary consumers and ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:38hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 722 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa's 'new dispensation' in Zimbabwe stuck in the old ways
Veteran Zimbabwe opposition legislator Joel Gabbuza thought he was stating the obvious when he told mourners that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party was struggling to revive the econo...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 20:30hrs | 2128 | by Kitsepile Nyathi I The East African
Let's take sports seriously
Women cricket and under seventeen girls soccer tournaments have reached dizzy heights worldwide. Recently an under 17 World Cup soccer bonanza was underway in Uruguay where South Korea, Cameroon, Ghan...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 20:05hrs | 390 | by Thomas Murisa.
Thieving cop and rapist traditional healer escape from jail
A COP who allegedly broke into colleagues' houses and stole assortment of goods and a self-proclaimed inyanga who was recently jailed for rape, have escaped from Hwange Prison. Maxwell Musarir...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 07:44hrs | 835 | by Staff Reporter
Supreme Court confirms death sentence for wife beheader
THE Supreme Court yesterday confirmed the death sentence on a Binga man who axed his wife 11 times and chopped off her head before hiding it in a cardboard box following a domestic dispute. Wo...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:33hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Man who beheaded wife with axe gets death sentence
THE Supreme Court yesterday confirmed the death sentence on a Binga man who axed his wife 11 times and chopped off her head before hiding it in a cardboard box following a domestic dispute.Won...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 10:50hrs | 1335 | by Staff Reporter
King Mzilikazi and the Mambo people created a nation
The nation needs to congratulate the movers for the creation of the Mambo Dynasty Trust and indeed the creation of the BaKalanga Movement, if I have quoted the names of the organisations correctly. It...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 13:20hrs | 2040 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Presidential Inputs sold in Zambia
UNSCRUPULOUS individuals in Binga District, Matabeleland North Province are allegedly crossing the Zambezi River to sell in Zambia farming inputs they received under the Presidential Inputs Scheme....Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:28hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
More than $5 billion required for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
THE Government requires more than $5 billion to rehabilitate the country's entire road network with more than $250 million having been availed to the department of roads as work on re-establishing tra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa hands over radio receivers
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has called on Zimbabweans to use information as a tool to foster unity and development than abuse it to denigrate each other...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:34hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Charm money turns into problem snake
A BINGA man who was troubled by a snake with supernatural powers that he got from an inyanga heaved a sigh of relief when it was killed by a local prophet.Zaman Mwembe (35) and his wife Cation...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:26hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland people excluded in developmental projects
Matebeleland chiefs have written a petition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa bemoaning their alleged economic marginalisation which they said should be corrected under the new dispensation.In t...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 13:50hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
MP charged with insulting Mnangagwa, release on $200 bail
BINGA South legislator Gabbuza Joel Gabuza (MDC Alliance) has appeared before a Hwange magistrate charged with undermining the authority of, or insulting, President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he alleged...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Detectives arrested with 4 tonnes of fertiliser
TWO police officers stationed at Binga Criminal Investigations Department were recently arrested at Cross Dete in Matabeleland North after they were found in possession of nearly four tonnes of fertil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Chiefs' letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa - Fulltext
From the Office of.... CHIEF VEZI MADUNA MAFU OF AVOCA FILABUSI COMMUNAL LANDS 9 October 2018 The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe His Excellency President E.D. Mnangagwa ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 20:46hrs | 5211 | by Chief Maduna, Chief Jahana and Chief Sibasa
Chamisa's MP arrested for calling Mnangagwa a dog
POLICE have arrested MDC Alliance national executive member Joel Gabhuza who is also Member of Parliament for Binga South.The legislator was arrested for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2772 | by Staff reporter
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