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Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smugglers flee to Botswana
POLICE have recovered 665 litres of petrol from illegal fuel dealers near Plumtree Border Post which is suspected to have been smuggled from Botswana. Matabeleland South provincial police spok...Published: 9 hrs ago | 292 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa appoints Lynnette Karenyi as MDC President
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has appointed Lynnette Karenyi as the Acting President of the Movement For Democratic Change.Chamisa is away attending the Progressive Alliance Forum, a g...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 10:44hrs | 14554 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF sets theme for upcoming annual conference
The Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday announced the theme for the forthcoming 18th Zanu-PF Annual People's Conference set to be held at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East Province. The annual...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:34hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Mob tries to burn hearse at border
CHAOS broke out at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday when a mob of cross border drivers attempted to burn a Toyota Quantum carrying the body of a gang leader accused of unleashing a reign of terror aga...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:32hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa declares war on G40
ZANU PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired warning to his party members who are interacting with members of the G40 faction of the party which was defeated through a military coup in Novemb...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 04:21hrs | 2875 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NRZ orders 100 freight cars from Russia
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has awarded a contract to Russia's United Wagon Company (UWC) to supply 100 freight cars.Delivery of the 1,067mm gauge railcars is scheduled within 12 month...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 20:04hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Hospital shuts down mortuary
INCESSANT power cuts have forced Beitbridge District Hospital to shut down its mortuary leaving members of the public at the mercy of private players who are offering the services at exorbitant prices...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge hospital mortuary turns away dead bodies
The Beitbridge District Hospital mortuary has stopped accepting corpses due to long spells of power cuts and the rising temperatures in the border town. The hospital, in a notice, said their m...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 17:20hrs | 1712 | by Staff Reporter
Knives out for Grace Mugabe
ZANU PF Youth League Secretary for Administration Tendai Chirau has launched an attack on former First Lady Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe over reports that she hired thugs to invade a farm allegedly owned ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 15:43hrs | 5614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Child snatched by destitute woman found alive
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl who was snatched away from her home in Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb by a stranger has been reunited with her family after she was found in Tsholotsho. Nosipho Ndlovu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2424 | by Staff reporter
UK to snatch fired Zimbabwe doctors?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his government will fast track visa applications for foreign doctors and nurses - opening new opportunities for over 500 Zimbabwean doctors facing the sack fo...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:32hrs | 2921 | by Press Association
4 key Caps United players face ban for assaulting referee
Caps United's title chase could hit turbulent waters with four key players in danger of getting banned following allegations of assaulting referee Happy Mabhena in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:11hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs join the Zanu-PF gravy train
MDC Alliance MPs who went to Parliament on a pro-poor campaign ticket were this week part of hundreds of parliamentarians who blew $5 million at the resort town of Victoria Falls in the name of pre-bu...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:01hrs | 1101 | by Sibanengi Dube
'Armed robber' shot in Beitbridge
A SUSPECTED armed robber is battling for life at Beitbridge District Hospital after he was shot and seriously injured by cops while trying to attack them using a knife during a raid at a shebeen in th...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:56hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala will never ever leave Zimbabwe because of Mnangagwa regime
I have received a number of inquiries from countless members of the press, colleagues, sympathisers and friends about my attitude towards my indictment for trial from 27 January to 30 2020 at the Masv...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 15:32hrs | 3213 | by Job 'Wiwa' Sikhala
WATCH: Prophet Passion Java takes Enzo Ishall to hell
Zimbabwe Dancehall artist Enzo Ishall (real name Stephen Kudzanai Mamhere) has released a single titled Highest Score which features controversial Prophet Passion Java of Passion JKava Ministries. ...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 15:16hrs | 2986 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa vows to block white looters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday said government was not going to allow white foreigners to continue looting the country's mineral resources.He was addressing delegates to a Zimbabwe Min...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe meets Ian Smith in afterlife
Please Note: The credibility quotient for this article is this: If it deals with politics it's a fact; if it is dramatized it's fiction; if it is outrageously u...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 8503 | by Field Ruwe
Illegal Malawians languish in Zimbabwe prison
TWENTY-FIVE Malawian illegal immigrants are languishing at Chipinge Prison awaiting a Chewa interpreter after they were arrested on Thursday night when a bus which was smuggling them to South Africa w...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1371 | by Staff reporter
A view from ko Bulawayo with Discent Bajila
When modernization and digitization deepen marginalization On the day I finished my Advanced Level examinations at Luveve High School in Bulawayo mid November 2006, my loving sister had alread...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 2831 | by Discent Collins Bajila
Zimbabwe 'national interests' can't be defined by ZANU PF alone, but by national consensus
In recent days - especially, after the botched 25 October 2019 anti-sanctions march, in which very few people heeded government's calls for the nation to come out in full force to demonstrate against ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1068 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Last batch of Zupco buses heads for Bulawayo
The latest batch of 76 Zupco buses imported by Government from China left Beitbridge yesterday for Bulawayo pending commissioning by President Mnangagwa on a date to be announced. Last week Go...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:53hrs | 2127 | by Staff reporter
MP fights drug abuse
Beitbridge East legislator Albert Nguluvhe has embarked on a campaign to minimise cases of drug peddling in the border town.The Parliamentarian yesterday said he has engaged the police and oth...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:41hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
It's proper bank notes, not new currency
Many could have mistaken plans by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to introduce new notes and coins next week for the introduction of a completely new currency which is not the Zimbabwe dollar....Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Gold is purified by fire
Eish!!! It seems the past couple of weeks have been swelteringly hot, both figuratively and literally, for everyone.The maddeningly galloping prices have been making most people hot under the ...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 151 | by Bishop Lazi
Chiwenga, Gen Sibanda in secret pact to hand Zimbabwe power to each other?
COLOGNE - Military czar Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, reportedly made a secret pact to hand Zimbabwe pow...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 07:46hrs | 30555 | by Itai Mushekwe
Businesses cry foul over power outages
Businesses operating in Marondera central business district (CBD) yesterday petitioned the Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZETDC) complaining that they have not been getting electricity dur...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:33hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Botswana arrests 4 000 Zimbabweans border jumpers
POLICE in Botswana have since January this year arrested more than 4 000 Zimbabweans for attempting to illegally cross into the neighbouring country. The border jumpers, 2 479 men, 1 521 women and chi...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:14hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
'My husband tried to kill me' says Linda Masarira
LEAD President Linda Masarira has sensationally claimed that her estranged husband Gilbert Kaingidza wanted to murder her before he skipped the border. Masarira was responding to spreading rep...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 1559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'We don't want to shoot your cattle' - Botswana
Botswana police say they do not enjoy gunning down Zimbabwean livestock that stray into their country urging villagers living along the two countries' borders to make extra efforts in controlling thei...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 18:15hrs | 3588 | by Staff Reporter
Minister puts measures in place to speed up Beitbridge road project completion
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development Minister Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza says the Government has come up with a raft of measures to speed up the completion of a 6km road project under the Beitbri...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to issue 100 000 passports by December
GOVERNMENT has announced an ambitious plan to churn out 100 000 passports by December this year following the delivery of passport paper and consumables. The development is expected to conside...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:39hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
SMEs get US$136 million boost
THE Ministry of Women Affairs Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development has revealed that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) received loans and grants amounting to US$136 million fr...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Hippos kill border jumper
A SUSPECTED border jumper was fatally attacked by two hippopotamuses while trying to illegally cross into South Africa through an undesignated entry point along the Limpopo River. The incident...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean sex slaves freed in SA
MORE than 30 Zimbabwean women suspected to be victims of human trafficking were rescued by South African police from brothels in eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in Mpumalanga province where their captor...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Renewed exodus of Zimbabweans amid economic woes
HUNCHED on seats at Rode Port cross border bus terminal in the Zimbabwean capital, 45-year-old Timothy Mundonda chats in excitement with his wife and three teen children as they wait to board a bus to...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 845 | by Jeffrey Moyo, Anadolu Agency
Zimbabwe govt gets edge in transfer pricing war
Zimbabwe has closed loopholes in its transfer pricing legislation, in a development that will curb illegal foreign currency outflows amid reports US$1,1 billion could have been siphoned out through su...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:34hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions are a blunt instrument
On Friday the SADC region as a whole mounted a coordinated protest against the European and American targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe. I am a veteran of the UN Mandatory Sanctions program mounted a...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 19:40hrs | 1896 | by Eddie Cross
The Country's biggest Fraud
"Who can ever forget that a whole Mugabe and his government were shaken by a lone and few Dzamara followers sitting in Africa unity gardens vowing not to eat until Mugabe finds time off his busy sched...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 11:33hrs | 2887 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
It should always be for God and country
"For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo."We are told these were the words triumphantly pronounced by a US special forces serviceman in a moment of ecstatic fealty after fatally pum...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:49hrs | 126 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa's anti-sanctions march flopped
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was yesterday left red-faced after only 7 000 people turned up for his much-hyped anti-sanctions march.Zimbabweans, battling skyrocketing prices, rising inflation ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 21:52hrs | 5420 | by Staff reporter
USA, EU unmoved by Zimbabwe's anti-sanction demo
The United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) are seemingly not going to remove the sanctions that they have put on Zimbabwe anytime soon as eagerly anticipated.USA and the EU...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 09:03hrs | 5108 | by Daniel Itai
The world waits with bated breath
Today, the rest of the progressive world waits with fingers crossed and bated breath for responses from the USA and her trotting European cubs to events across Southern Africa yesterday marking a Sadc...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | 247 | by Stephen Mpofu,
Provinces march against racist US sanctions
Zimbabweans from all walks of life yesterday took part in the historic anti- sanctions march in different parts of the country. While the main activities were in Harare, there were other marches that ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:29hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA sign 'sanctions' pact
Zimbabwe and South Africa yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and up the tempo in the fight to have sanctions imposed on Harare by the West lifted unconditionally. ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:25hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Decentralisation of Registry offices call gets loud
PARTICIPANTS at an inquiry on access to national documentation conducted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) in Bulawayo on Tuesday made impassioned pleas for the government to decentralise...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:50hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Anti sanctions demonstration
The Anti sanctions march has started in Harare....Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:34hrs | 2451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Zimpapers launches Dr Peter Magombeyi documentary
Zimpapers TV Network has launched a documentary titled The Curious Case of Magombeyi. The documentray seeks to unpack the alleged abduction of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association Acting Presiden...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 08:14hrs | 988 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe stands up against sanctions
ALL is set for today's anti-sanctions march, with Government availing 265 buses to ferry people from the country's 10 provinces to the main event to be held at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 895 | by Staff Reporter
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