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IMF cautions Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE won't solve its economic challenges via the gold-backed ZiG currency that it launched in April and has since had to devalue, the International Monetary Fund said."There's a tendency t...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:30hrs | 4016 | by Staff reporter
Woman's Mutilated Body Recovered in Kwekwe Mine
Police in the Midlands have revealed that a mutilated body of a woman was recovered at a mine in Kwekwe, amid fears of a possible ritual-related murder.According to authorities, the body was s...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:33hrs | 145 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa top aide warns aid looters
ZANU-PF legislators this Wednesday fumed over unfair distribution of food aid in several constituencies countrywide as authorities admitted something went wrong during the processes.Zimbabwe s...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:23hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe are real, US Bank to close accounts
Mercury Bank, a fintech based in the United States offering banking services to more than 100,000 early-stage startups, has included Nigeria in a list of countries restricted from opening and operatin...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 09:57hrs | 23525 | by Staff reporter
Top American singers head to Zimbabwe for Vine Choir concert
American gospel artists Jekalyn Carr and VaShawn Mitchell are set to headline the Vine Choir's 10th anniversary concert at Harare International Conference Centre this Saturday. The event, titled The V...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Revolt in Ramaphosa's NEC, ANC postpones meeting
A meeting by the ANC'S top brass - its national executive committee (NEC) which was due to meet on Tuesday has been postponed to Thursday.According to a senior ANC leader, this comes amid a fa...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 14:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Woman hides drugs in bra
A Harare woman was remanded in custody on Friday after she was caught with sachets of methylenedioxymethamphetamine drugs in her brassier.Rutendo Rabvu appeared in court on Friday before magis...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diplomatic tiff between Botswana and Germany: the magnificent ELEPHANT
The president of Botswana was not angry per se. He should never be angry if he is aware of the global positioning of states: which country is at the top of the other: who is the big brother and what a...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 18:10hrs | 22 | by Nomazulu Thata
Harare Council bid to splash US$2m on 500 desktops exposed
Some Harare City Council officials have been caught in a procurement scam in which they are fighting for the purchase of 500 desktop computers at US$4 000 each, above the market price of about US$700....Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota's latest book takes aim at opposition
Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has released his latest book, 'The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimbabwe.'Alpha Media Holdings chairman, Trevor Ncube was the gues...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF confident of winning Gift Siziva's Pelandaba-Tshabalala seat
The ruling Zanu-PF party is confident of winning the Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency in the by-election slated for February 3 as it has proved to be gaining popularity in urban areas in previous pol...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked company gets raw lithium export permit
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has reportedly awarded a firm with suspected links to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Terrestrial Holdings, a licence to export one million to...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean soldiers' morale hits rock bottom
MORALE among members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is at its lowest due to lack of funding, which has pushed some members to engage in corrupt activities, a government official has revealed....Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Sengezo Tshabangu to endorse, clear CCC candidates for forthcoming by-elections
A man claiming to be the interim secretary general of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says he will be in charge of screening and endorsing prospective candidates for the forthcoming...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO raises alarm over illicit army gold mining
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has raised serious national security fears over an illicit gold mining operation run by an army-owned company, Rusununguk...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's victory will not benefit people in Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in the just-ended harmonised elections will not benefit people in Matebeleland region, civic society organisations (CSOs) have said.In separate interview...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube snub Chamisa?
CCC deputy presidents Mr Tendai Biti and Professor Welshman Ncube snubbed the party's election campaign launch amid reports that the party could be headed for yet another split.This comes as C...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fake gold dealer nabbed
A 30-YEAR-OLD Harare man is in soup after he allegedly sold 393 grams of Brass thereby defrauding gold dealers of their US$13K.Brandon Kachidza was dragged to Concession magistrates courts yes...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 14:20hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa promotes AFZ officers
THE Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, yesterday promoted two Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) Group Captains to the rank of Air Commodore.The two new Air Commo...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill imposes death on 'sell-outs'
Zanu-PF Wednesday invoked its parliamentary majority to muscle through, the controversial Criminal Law Amendment Bill - better known as the Patriotic Bill - which seeks to impose death, at the very ex...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine wants to kill Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin is on Ukraine's kill list, the deputy chief of the country's intelligence agency has revealed. Vadim Skibitsky added that his subordinates are also hunting down top Ru...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:27hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
'I'm working for investor-friendly environment" insist Mnangagwa. Watch again Al Jazeera Gold Mafia. I rest my case!
The spirit is willing, but the intellect is weak! "Zimbabwe is open for business!" is the most enduring thing President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ever said since taking over from the late Robert ...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
CCC promises stands
CCC councillors and previous opposition parties that controlled urban councils have been grossly abusing stand allocations on council land, allowing themselves, other party officials and girlfriends o...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preside over Zimbabwe implosion
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed that the majority of his ministers were doing well - with three outstanding and two being a dismal failure - the reality on the ground is different: Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree gives residents water meter ultimatum
PLUMTREE Town Council has given pre-paid water users in the border town three weeks to revert to post-paid meters after some residents went for three years without paying for water.A number of...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa et al are hell bent on participating in flawed 2023 out of greed. What's in it for povo?
Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed elections in that Zanu PF's power to rig elections was exposed in its ugliest and graphic details. Ever since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the co...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 15:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zec commissioners' revolt intensifies?
THE revolt by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s seven commissioners who have refused to append their signatures on both the draft preliminary delimitation report submitted to Parliament and th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Why was Army granted licence to export lithium ore?' - Not because ZDI is on sanctions, there're no investors
"Embattled state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Musanhi leaks own chats with Susan Mutami
ZANU PF Politburo member Kenneth Musanhi allegedly leaked his own chats with controversial socialite Susan Mutami.Musanhi who is Zanu PF Mashonaland Central province most senior politburo memb...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:34hrs | | by Paul Ndou
Soul Brothers' visible footprints in Bulawayo
THEY adopted Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in particular, in the mid-80s as "expatriates" seeking refuge in the country, running away from the rigid apartheid rule by Pieter Willem Botha the then South African p...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Generals will not salute Chamisa' said Chombo. How carelessly he speaks treason, name them
"Chamisa himself knows he is too small to be saluted by these men of war. These generals are waiting for their turn on the presidency and this can only happen when Zanu PF is in power, so even if Zanu...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:02hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga's grand plan remains intact
AT Zanu PF's elective congress this October, delegates unanimously endorsed Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain the ruling party's leader for the next five years.This means the 80-year-old president ...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Our leaders are not just corrupt, they're godfathers of corruption. 'But who will guard the guards themselves!'
The announcement that government will be installing 5 KVA solar powered kits at the homes of over 100 top government official including service chiefs "to cushion them and their families from ZESA loa...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must seize the chance to unite nation, now!
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is apparent that Zimbabwe is bedevilled by deep-seated polarisation. Our body politic is fragmented through and through. Cons...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chamisa's lieutenants losing faith and not confident of 2023 win
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa's leadership skills, his approach to the opposition's protracted fight against Zanu-PF and prospects for an electoral win next year are b...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare braces for second Operation Murambatsvina
MUNICIPALITIES in Harare Province have been ordered to provide material and human resources amounting to tens of thousands in US dollars for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 45-day presidential cleanup ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC top officials fall for ZANU PF money
There are reports reaching this reporter indicating that some Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior members are stampeding for ZANU PF's stipends as the ruling party is leaving no stone unturned ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa coronation day
NONE gave the Chevrons a chance against Pakistan in a Super 12 stage at the T20 Cricket World Cup currently underway in Australia. It is a biblical David v Goliath story and the Chevrons passed the te...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:40hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mass transfers rock Zimbabwe police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has instituted an aggressive transfer of officers countrywide amid reports that the police top brass is furious about rising indiscipline, incompetence and allegatio...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa abandoned veteran administrator
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has been castigated for allegedly failing to offer any ‘meaningful' assistance to its founding Eastern Region Administrator, Thadeous Machawira who passed on...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr President, you hold on power through brutality
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, Zimbabwe has long been in socio-economic dire straits. Her citizenry are rendered economic wanderers. Even children of liberation veterans ar...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa fights for his job
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon know his real status as Zanu-PF's first secretary when the High Court finally sits September 21 to determine his legitimacy as head of the country's governing pa...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK has new PM, 8th since 1980, Truss too will be booted out if she fail - Zim on 2nd, both way, way past 'use-by date'
The British people have a new Prime Minister, the 8th one since 1980! Liz Truss 2022 - present ...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 10:11hrs | 9 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Muchinguri under fire over army company operations
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was on Wednesday cornered by independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa over the opaque investments and business dealings of army-owned company Rusununguko Nkululeko ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
3 top cops reassigned
THREE police commissioners have been transferred in a move that is meant to improve service delivery and performance.Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, who was at the Police General Headquarters, i...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Military running Zimbabwe affairs'
ZIMBABWE has been described as a military-run State whose future is being determined by the army.This was revealed on Monday during a Twitter space discussion hosted by Open Parly, which discu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will not give power to Chiwenga'
A KEY member of the clique that planned and executed President Robert Mugabe's ouster through a 2017 coup has said his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa will not cede power to deputy Constantino Chiwenga a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
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