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Trabablas Interchange eases congestion
The newly completed Trabablas Traffic Interchange has breathed new life into one of Harare's busiest road junctions, drastically improving traffic flow and turning a former congestion hotspot into a s...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:39hrs | 2689 | by Staff reporter
Severe storm topples tree, causing extensive damages in Bulawayo
A fierce storm swept through Bulawayo on Thursday, leaving a trail of destruction as a decades-old tree crashed onto a family home in Kumalo suburb. Despite the extensive damage, no injuries or fatali...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:54hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa on an unstoppable mission'
TWO weeks before Zimbabwe holds its general elections on August 23, political parties are in full swing campaigning despite increasing cases of political violence dampening spirits.Last week, ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Karenyi trial deferred
THE trial of CCC vice presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi, on charges of violating Covid-19 regulations during the lockdown period after they allegedly staged an illegal demonstration at their...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Ana hits Zimbabwe
THE country's Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has set up 394 evacuation centres in Manicaland province to deal with the impact of Cyclone Ana, amid reports that parts of Mutasa and Chimanimani di...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha blockade Beitbridge border post
CHAOS rocked Beitbridge Border Post at the weekend after cross-border transporters blocked roads in protest over the continued closure of the Zimbabwean side.Zimbabwe closed its borders in 202...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Truckers face Beitbridge chaos
When it was controversially awarded a US$240 million contract to upgrade the Beitbridge border post in 2018, the Zimborders Consortium said it would provide "world class border facilities that optimis...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Police warn illegal transport operators
POLICE in Bulawayo have enough manpower to deal with rowdy illegal transporters who are blocking Zupco buses from transporting passengers to and from town and will not hesitate to arrest them....Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bhalagwe Gukurahundi plaque 'stolen'
A Gukurahundi memorial plaque erected, Sunday, at Bhalagwe in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, in memory of the victims of the 1980s massacres has reportedly been stolen.Ibhetshu Likazulu, a local...Published: 26 May 2021 at 19:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers clash with police in a volatile gold rush
POLICE fired live bullets and teargas canisters to disperse angry villagers in the Wondedzo area in Masvingo North amid protests and clashes over illegal mining and looting of gold by Zanu-PF and stat...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:59hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Kurauone slaps Govt with $2 million lawsuit for unlawful arrest
MDC-Alliance party youth leader Godfrey Kurauone has slapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and other accomplices with a $2.4 million lawsuit over his unlawful arrest, detention and malicio...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Alliance councillor acquitted after 42-day prison hell
Godfrey Kurauone, an MDC Alliance councillor from Masvingo who was held without bail for 42 days has been acquitted on a charge of obstructing the free movement of traffic and participating in an ille...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 1 - 0 Chamisa - handeyi tione
The MDC succumbed on Friday to pressure from what it labeled a fascist government, calling off a street protest as armed police set up roadblocks and barred access to its Harare offices.Friday...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:43hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe prices shock!
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to more retail shops charging in US dollars, with government joining in the bandwagon, amid shortages of basic commodities such as cooking oil and sugar.The devel...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai rescue mission makes progress
THE Cyclone Idai rescue mission has made significant progress in clearing some of the blocked roads to pave way for easy distribution of relief aid to affected families. In an interview at Sky...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Cyclone Idai hit areas
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead a high-powered delegation to Manicaland province to supervise rescue and relief efforts, as Government steps up efforts to assist people affected by Cyclone Idai th...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Freedom that never was'
We continue chronicling the political life of Agrippa Samuriwo. The former Whawha detainee who tells our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati – from his farm in Chitomborwizi, Mashonaland West Province ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mahiya 'the January looting mastermind' arrested
One of the alleged masterminds of violent protests that rocked the country last month, Rashid Mahiya who is the chairperson of Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe, yesterday handed himself over to police and...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor still holed up in SA in the wake of army crackdown
Masvingo Urban Ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone remains holed up in South Africa where he sought refuge in the wake of a national crackdown against perceived instigators of the national shutdown pr...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chibaya trial deferred again
GWERU provincial magistrate Charity Maphosa yesterday postponed to next Friday the trial of MDC organising secretary, Amos Chibaya who is facing charges of inciting violence, after the State failed to...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bold steps Mnangagwa should be taking instead of fiddling with the petrol price
When economically-challenged rulers try to run nations, especially fragile ones, they can easily make mistakes.In the past few weeks, demonstrators have taken to the streets of Khartoum and Om...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Robert Rotberg
'MDC Alliance sowing seeds of division through fabricating lies'
Zanu-PF supporters have been called on to ignore desperate attempts by the opposition MDC Alliance and social media political activists who are trying to sow seeds of division through fabricating lies...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 13:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor receives death threats from Zanu-PF activists
MDC Masvingo Urban Ward 4 councillor, Godfrey Kurauone has reportedly fled his home fearing for his life after apparently receiving death threats from Zanu-PF activists and security forces at the heig...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gory tales of beatings, torture, anguish and military brutality
At the foot of a mountain lies a plot reportedly owned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Kuwadzana Phase 3. The mountain has come to be called by the locals as "Gomo raMnangagwa" loosely translated t...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government urges public transporters to ignore rowdy mobs
GOVERNMENT has urged public transport operators to continue ferrying people to their work stations and ignore rowdy mobs trying to cause chaos. Yesterday opposition-linked rioters blocked roads, stone...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa digs in despite violent protests
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended this week's steep fuel price increase amid violent protests which rocked Harare and Bulawayo on Monday.Mnangagwa announced a 150% fuel price increase ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 23:01hrs | 13 | by newZWire
Zimbabwe army to issue a statement
Rogue elements blocked roads, curtailed movement of people, burnt property and looted shops as what was touted as a "shutdown" degenerated into chaos today.The Zimbabwe Republic Police on its ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys soldiers
A woman with a wounded leg during clashes between protestors and police, is transported in a wheelbarrow to hospitalHARARE: Soldiers deployed Monday to some areas of the capital where police w...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 21:23hrs | | by Associated Press
PHOTOS: Situation in Zvishavane, No movement allowed
There are unconfirmed reports of demonstrations that happened in Zvishavane this weekend. See pictures below:...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 11:25hrs | 5 | by Concerned Citizen
Tendai Biti's bid to evade justice flops
MDC-Alliance principal Mr Tendai Biti's bid to run away from justice fell through yesterday after the Zambian government denied him asylum, saying his grounds were not worth the relief he sought, and ...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on knife's edge after military 'take over'
HARARE - Zimbabwe was on a knife's edge on Thursday after the military seized power in what it dubbed a targeted operation against "criminals" in the entourage of President Robert Mugabe, who has rule...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 04:42hrs | | by Reuters
It's still not clear where Mugabe and Grace are
Zimbabwe's military said on 15 November, it had seized power in a targeted assault on "criminals" around President Robert Mugabe who were causing social and economic suffering. In an extraordi...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's finance minister arrested by soldiers
Zimbabwe's military said it had seized power in a targeted assault on "criminals" around President Robert Mugabe who were causing social and economic suffering, but gave assurances the 93-year-old lea...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Reuters
Thieves strip, rob couple at night
A Harare couple was stripped, left with no clothes and tied on a tree by three daring robbers at night.However, a baseball cap which the trio stole from the couple gave them away a few days la...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tajamuka fools police
Members of radical pressure group Tajamuka /Sesjikile caught police by surprise when they blocked roads and staged a demonstration against president Robert Mugabe near Stanley square in Bulawayo. ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition protestors loot shops
Opposition parties' thugs under the banner National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) unleashed an orgy of violence in Harare yesterday, looting shops, burning properties, stoning cars and attacking inno...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
67 MDC-T, ZimPF hooligans arrested
Opposition parties' thugs under the banner, National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) unleashed an orgy of violence in Harare yesterday, looting shops, burning properties, stoning cars and attacking...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:03hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
ANC supports Mugabe's govt
Regional countries have vindicated evidence gathered by Zimbabwe's security systems showing that there was a third force in the civil disturbances that rocked some parts of the country last week....Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
New law for Zim as authorities prosecute school children over shud down protests
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged six school children for allegedly committing public violence in a development, which marks a new low forthe troubled southern African country.The six sc...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Police stop burning down of Mphoko's Choppies
Police have revealed that they stopped rowdy youths in Bulawayo from burning down a Choppies supermarket during the clashes that ensued with protestors. Choppies was targeted because Vice ...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calm returns
POLICE thwarted unruly youths that were riding on the civil servants strike to instigate violence in the country saying some of them were stopped in Bulawayo where they wanted to torch a Choppies supe...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
MDC-T rapped for supporting violence
ANALYSTS yesterday rapped the MDC-T after the opposition party hastily convened a press conference urging its members to join hooligans who were blocking roads in Epworth and Ruwa.The beleague...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Gumbo and Chikwati
MDC-T in bid to escalate violence
ANALYSTS yesterday rapped the MDC-T after the opposition party hastily convened a Press conference urging its members to join hooligans who were blocking roads in Epworth and Ruwa.The beleague...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo and Elita Chikwati
Zimbabwe protests - 'This is the end game'
While social media updates flowed fast and furious on developing unrest in the Zimbabwe capital Harare on Monday, the ruling party's own paper The Patriot peacefully tweeted a link to its story on...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 20:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's police battle rioters in Harare - latest
Police in Harare on Monday fired tear gas and water cannons in an attempt to quell rioting by minibus drivers and others protesting what they describe as police harassment.The violence cam...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 13:31hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwean govt probes role of third force in Beitbridge protests
Government is investigating the extent to which external parties were involved in the violent protests that rocked Beitbridge town last Friday leaving property worth hundreds of thousands of dolla...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
21 Zimbabweans travelling to Johannesburg attacked and robbed in SA
At least 21 Zimbabweans travelling to Johannesburg, South Africa were attacked and robbed of their valuables by violent protesters some 40km out of Pretoria along the N1 Highway on Tuesday morning....Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Foreigners flee as looting starts in SA
FOREIGNERS were forced to close up shop in Botshabelo after unrest that lasted from Sunday night until Tuesday.The unrest was fuelled by apparent dissatisfaction over the people nominated as c...Published: 29 May 2016 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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