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Chamisa's MDC took money from 'murderers'?
THE motor-mouthed MDC secretary for elections, Jacob Mafume, has defended the party's decision to embrace people implicated in the murder of the party's activists in previous elections.Respond...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2607 | by Staff reporter
Residents accuse BCC of making empty threats
Bulawayo City Council has once again threatened to shut down venues around the city that are flouting lease agreements. The clubs include Highlanders Football Club, Queens Sports Club, H...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa prepared to say sorry over gukurahundi genocide?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland including dialogue towards finding closure in relation to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC newscaster acquitted
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) newscaster, Musorowegomo Mukosi, who was in court on allegations of allowing his pistol to be used during an assault on his workers at his mine claim in ...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:11hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks Gukurahundi closure
President Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland, including dialogue towards finding closure to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue. H...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:10hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tackles Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he takes seriously the grievances of the people of Matabeleland including dialogue towards finding closure in relation to the emotive and sensitive Gukurahundi issue...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:43hrs | 2496 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4209 | by George Mkhwanazi
6 TV licences issued to independent players
Government will have issued six television licences to independent players by August to improve diversity in information dissemination as the new administration liberalises the airwaves, Information, ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:03hrs | 412 | by Staff reportert
Zimbabwe to avail 19 campus radio licences
Government has gazetted a Frequency Allotment Plan and Regulations that enable the establishment of 19 on-campus radio stations to be operated by institutions of higher learning, Information, Publicit...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 127 | by Staff reportert
Zimbabwe remains on high alert for coronavirus
Zimbabwe remains on high alert, especially at ports of entry, for the deadly new coronavirus, amid reports that over 1 400 travellers have passed through the country's ports of entry that are screenin...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 96 | by Staff reportert
Mnangagwa's govt introduces roller meal coupons
Coupons will be issued within a week to targeted households to buy subsidised roller meal with the database of beneficiaries at an advanced stage, a Cabinet Minister has said. The coupon syste...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:48hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo leads in youth internet connectivity
Bulawayo leads in terms of the youth's access to the internet, with 79,2% of young people have access to the web, a new report released by the British council shows.The report, titled "Next Ge...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's security detail assaults ZBC cameraman
A ZIMBABWE Broadcasting Corporation cameraman based in Matabeleland South Province was assaulted by an MDC Alliance security detail in Gwanda moments after party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa had addressed...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's security guard slaps ZBC cameraman
A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation cameraman was slapped by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa's security guard.The public broadcaster announced the assault on its...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 22:08hrs | 3803 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe community radio sparks tribal debate
SHANGANI community members in Chikombedzi have accused non-Shangani speaking people of elbowing them out of and hijacking developmental programmes, allegedly with the blessing of government officials....Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:04hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Bosso at risk of losing clubhouse lease as foreigners eye it
HIGHLANDERS Football Club could pay the price for illegally sub-letting part of their clubhouse to house a braai centre with the land owners, Bulawayo City Council, considering terminating the lease....Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's apocalyptic end as Zimbabwe President
BERLIN - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly going to be viciously toppled from power in a catastrophic manner, that will include a combination of mass civil revolts and militia-like insurrect...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 22425 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chamisa not serious about political dialogue
Last week, MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa travelled to South Africa to press President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in what the opposition describes as "the Zimbabwe crisis." The so-called...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1454 | by Nobleman Runyanga
6 TV channels on the way
Zimbabwe is set to have at least six independent television channels with their licensing expected to be completed by August, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangw...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Maguire Godzongere relives life in the limelight
WHEN retired veteran broadcaster Maguire Godzongere was at primary school, his ambition was to become a teacher, a nurse, a policeman or a land development officer.But a very popular 1974 radi...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 18:45hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland to become the largest beneficiary of community radios?
MATEBELELAND region will be the biggest beneficiary of government's community radio station programme with five stations set to be established in Matebeleland South and Matabeleland North provinces....Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:07hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Regime continues to curtail freedom of expression
The government continues to inhibit the basic right to freedom of information after the Broadcasting Association of Zimbabwe this week imposed a punitive $1 million for television licences and&nbs...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 13:11hrs | 456 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Mnangagwa urges government to be in touch with communities
INFORMATION, Publicity & Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsavangwa said Cabinet on Tuesday held is first Cabinet meeting for the year 2020 in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa office...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Govt firm on community radio stations establishment
GOVERNMENT has said it has taken a firm decision to give marginalised communities a voice through the establishment of community radio stations this year, a development which is also in line with the ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa outlines 2020 plans
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said Government's focus this year will be on increasing productivity, growing the economy and employment creation, and directed leaders to spend more time with their comm...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Over 500 monitored for Coronavirus in Zimbabwe
AT least 506 novel Coronavirus cases are under surveillance in Zimbabwe while a special unit is being set up at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to serve as a national command centre for mitigation mea...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
10 community radio stations on the cards
Government is working on establishing 10 new community radio stations countrywide in the first quarter to empower marginalised communities through universal access to information. The pilot pr...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Malawi's constitutional court cancels presidential vote result
Malawi's Constitutional Court on Monday ordered new elections after annulling the results of a vote that re-elected President Peter Mutharika in May, citing widespread irregularities."We hold ...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:03hrs | 2421 | by AFP
Who called for sanctions on Zimbabwe?
If the boy could ignore all traditional African decorum and go after a dead man's throne before he was even cold in the ground then lying must surely come as a second, if not first, language for Nelso...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 16:34hrs | 629 | by Charles Motsi
Zanu-PF, MDC hawks work to derail dialogue
AMID growing calls for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, it has emerged that hardliners within both Zanu-PF and the MDC are escalating their efforts t...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 20:35hrs | 3245 | by Staff reporter
Citizens' cooperation key to curbing Zimra internal corruption
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is conducting lifestyle audits for its staffers and dismissing and prosecuting those who cannot account for their wealth. Zimra commissioner-general, Faith Mazan...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:21hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tech entrepreneur's design is turning trees into educational Wi-fi hubs
You've seen the meme: "If only trees supplied wi-fi – we'd all be planting like crazy. Pity they only give us the oxygen we breathe."Well, Zimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti this week publ...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:06hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
'ZBC employees die of stress and depression'
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation employees have died of stress and depression related illnesses, media activist Busi Bhebhe has said. Posting an obituary of the late former Spot FM Bos...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 09:45hrs | 2588 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa returns from SA
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa said yesterday that South Africa and the rest of Sadc now fully appreciated the scale of Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis - necessitating urgent intervention....Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 19:39hrs | 4960 | by Staff reporter
Britain finally exits from the European Union
The United Kingdom has finally left the European Union after three and a half years of political turmoil.There were celebrations and protests across the country as the clock counted down to 11...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1491 | by BusinessInsider
Former broadcaster, presidential guards granted $500 bail each
THREE presidential guards and a former broadcaster, who allegedly went on the rampage, assaulting artisanal miners while armed with a pistol in Mt Darwin, were yesterday granted $500 bail each by a Mt...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe commends courageous Sadc
THE Government has hailed the courageous stance taken by Sadc in taking the United States head on in the call for the immediate removal of illegal sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe by Washington and ...Published: 01 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean entrepreneur invents open-sourced technology to improve access to education in Africa
Zimbabwean AI expert William Sachiti, CEO of UK-based start-up Academy of Robotics (www.AcademyofRobotics.co.uk) has today published an open-source technology known as 'Trees of Knowledge' to improve ...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 09:43hrs | 1278 | by APO
Chamisa flies to SA to confer with Mbeki, Ramaphosa
AMID rising political tensions and economic strife in the country, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is in South Africa to meet former president Thabo Mbeki - in a last ditch effort to foster dialogue ...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2914 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's guards arrested
POLICE have arrested three members of the elite Presidential Guard, as well as a former broadcaster, after they allegedly assaulted villagers and tried to forcefully take over a gold mine in Mt Darwin...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3187 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi's $40,000 lawsuit hearing set for Thursday
Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi will on Thursday be defending a $40 000 defamation lawsuit filed against him by former Minister of Defence Dr Sydney S...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:28hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Local actress in Aussie movie
A ZIMBABWEAN actress and niece to the late veteran author Charles Mungoshi, Patience Mungoshi-Machaka together with her son Takunda, have been roped into an Australian global television series titled ...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:18hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
ZBC sued for $6m for copyright
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been taken to the High Court by a businessman, who is claiming $6 027 000 from the national broadcaster for using his original audio-visual works....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
Polad: A deceptive monster with wickedly curved horns!
While it is an undeniable fact that the current social, political and economic decay in Zimbabwe sorely yearns for dialogue to castrate it, the current but shabbily crafted so-called Political A...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 13:22hrs | 649 | by Nhlanhla Moses
ZUJ condemns MDC Alliance for journalist harassment
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has condemned MDC Alliance security officials for harassing journalist Robert Tapfumaneyi at a party event in Harare on Tuesday. Tapfumaneyi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:27hrs | 930 | by Staff Reporter
ZBC property attached over US$370,000 debt
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) recently landed itself in trouble after refusing to settle a US$370 000 debt opting to pay off the same in local currency, a move that has prompted an inter...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Things giving Mthuli sleepless nights
Food, power and currency stability are the three things keeping Finance minister Mthuli Ncube awake at night.The southern African country is facing drought for the second consecutive year, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:59hrs | 2567 | by Staff reporter
Changing labels of Empty Bottle - Zimbabwe
(This article was first published in Newsday in November 2014, titled There's Victory in Losing. This piece was centred on Pres R Mugabe and pointed on the point that...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 15:11hrs | 4493 | by Terence T Simbi
Venda soapie to premiere on ZBCtv
Uhangelwa, a television soapie mostly in Venda language which is in the post-production stage is almost complete and expected to premiere on ZBCtv soon. As the word uhangelwa means forgiveness...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:19hrs | 2246 | by Staff reporter
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