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Matiza grilled over vehicle plates shortages
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government ordered a clampdown on vehicles without number plates after witnessing a spike in accidents involving unregistered vehicles.Resp...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Finding Zimbabweans in secret mass graves
ONE of my earliest memories is of violence and death.It happened in Harare in 1984 when I was about seven years old.I was supposed to meet a friend to play at a dump site together....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1615 | by Keith Silika
Family spends 5 days with corpse
A Mwenezi family spent five days with a decomposing corpse of their daughter-in-law, who died last Friday in their home after her family demanded payment of lobola before burial.Tendai Gwehama...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | 2583 | by Staff reporter
Prominent Matopo gold miner dies
A PROMINENT Matopo gold miner, Gasha Dube, has died.Dube, who rose to fame in the mining sector after she at one time delivered 100kg of gold to Fidelity Printers and Refiners, succumbed to an...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 3021 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora equates Chamisa to Mugabe
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says the level of intolerance being displayed by Nelson Chamisa was not only shocking but totally repugnant of modern dictates of common decency in leadership....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 5489 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says, 'State House within reach'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his party is now more than ready to march to State House to wrest power after 21 years of "a rough and difficult" journey littered with betrayal and ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:42hrs | 9785 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'use courts not ZBC to prosecute #MDCTrio'
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has raised grave concern over how the state was handling the alleged abduction of three female activists from his party.The activists now stand accused of...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1642 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment on Gukurahundi exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese yesterday reserved judgment in a case where Gukurahundi survivors were seeking an interdict order to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to fast...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Malawi businessman kills pregnant Zimbabwean lover
THE Malawi High Court sitting in the neighbouring country's old capital city, Zomba, has sentenced to life imprisonment, businessman Misozi Chanthunya for murdering his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gas...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to restore Old Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula's original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi'...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:31hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora in tribalism, violence storm
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has been accused of fanning tribalism and violence by a senior party official and structures, as fights for control of the opposition outfit persist.In...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not ready to defend Gukurahundi exhumation bid
A Bulawayo High Court Judge was Thursday forced to postpone hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are seeking to stop victim exhumations linked to the 1980s hol...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1697 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Police round up and fine vendors who cheered on Chamisa
Police in Murehwa on Monday rounded up 15 vendors suspected of having cheered on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa when he passed through the area on Saturday.Chamisa's convoy was mobbed by s...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 5931 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Jenni Williams dragged to court
PRESSURE groups in Matabeleland have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Matabeleland Collective leader Jenni Williams to court over the emotive Gukurahundi killings of the 1980s.Pressure...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:36hrs | 4623 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe babies born after 30 March will not get birth certificates
State media has reported that Zimbabwean babies born after the 30th of March 2020 are not being issued with birth certificates due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Acting Registrar General Mr Hen...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 07:01hrs | 14804 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2128 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Covid-19 creates birth certificate backlog
No children born after March 30 this year have birth certificates, one of the biggest groups missing critical documents since the Registrar General's office decided only burial orders would be issued ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders dump Matabeleland Collective
BULAWAYO'S informal traders representative organisation has cut ties with the Matabeleland Collective (MC), a grouping of civic groups and the clergy that has been meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:50hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch issuance of documents in Gukurahundi affected areas
THE exercise to officially launch the issuance of civic documents in communities affected by post-independence disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces will be held at Maphisa Growth Point ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths turn burial into a rally, threaten Zanu-PF councillors
MDC Alliance youths exhibited their propensity for violence when they barred and threatened to beat up seven Zanu-PF councillors for Karoi Town Council, including the chairperson, Cllr Abel Matsika wh...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:42hrs | 4654 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa insincere on Gukurahundi
THE Matabeleland Forum (MF), a consortium of civic society organisations (CSOs), which recently snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's meeting with other regional civic groups, has dismissed governmen...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:33hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dialogue door wide open
THE door for dialogue among Zimbabweans under the leadership of President Mnangagwa remains wide open but political parties, churches and civic society organisations should not entertain any idea of f...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:06hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF applauds Mnangagwa for opening up on Gukurahundi
ZANU-PF has applauded communities in Matabeleland and some parts of the Midlands Provinces for cooperating with Government to bring to finality the emotive issue of Gukurahundi.This was said b...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:21hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
Mystery around MDC Councillor death deepens
Mystery surrounding MDC Alliance Karoi Urban Ward 4 Councillor, Lavender Chiwaya's death has deepened, amid indications that his body was discovered outside his alleged girlfriend's house.The ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:26hrs | 2928 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will never solve any substantive Gukurahundi matters - a cynical divide and rule
"The Government will also start issuing birth certificates to children of some of the people who were killed during the disturbances and have been failing to get the documents and death certificates o...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 2058 | by Wilbert Mukori
Wellington Toni to be laid to rest tomorrow
FORMER Sunday News sports editor, Wellington Toni, who died in Harare at the age of 44 will be laid to rest tomorrow at his rural home at Embakwe in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province....Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confirms Gukurahundi killings
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Saturday met a faction of civil society groups based in Matabeleland and pledged to expedite the issuance of death certificates on those killed by his government during th...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:49hrs | 1439 | by newzimbabwe
Civil society not the ones massacred during Gukurahundi - Zimbabwe regime insincerity an insult to genocide victims
What would be your reaction if I were to tell you that the British government was engaging various Zimbabwe civil society organizations - let us say, the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), or Zimbab...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 08:48hrs | 760 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tempers flare at Khupe party meeting
A FIST fight nearly broke out at the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T's standing committee meeting on Wednesday after two senior officials clashed over management of party affairs ahead of its extraordinary ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:46hrs | 6446 | by Staff reporter
War veterans warn 'sodomist' Catholic priests to stop playing with fire'
WAR VETERANS have stormed the raging tirade pitting government and Catholic priests with the militant pro-Zanu-PF group telling the clerics to stop "playing with fire".This comes after the men...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:30hrs | 863 | by newzimbabwe
Zimnat enters South African funeral insurance market
The Zimnat Group has extended its insurance arm into South Africa to enable Zimbabweans living there to take out insurance cover for funeral expenses, including the cost of bringing their bodies back ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 14:07hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Can you please leave Tendai Biti alone!!
We have a government that has no morals, no qualms when it comes to corruption. The president has no shame when it comes to looting national resources and treasury coffers. The money that was allocate...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 6622 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF declares 'Green Bomber' a liberation hero
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has made surprise conferment of liberation hero status on a perennial rabble-rouser within its ranks in Mashonaland West province.On Friday, Zanu-PF declared the late ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:03hrs | 3231 | by newzimbabwe
MDC official succumbs to injuries
MDC-T Gutu Central District Assembly Chairperson, Crispa Musoni died last week following an assault by MDC-Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa's aides.Musona (78), who succumbed to the 2018 inj...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 3943 | by Tafanana Kwedu
Dead bodies pile up at parlors
FUNERAL service providers and hospital mortuaries are struggling to clear bodies for burial owing to challenges in handling those that would have succumbed to Covid-19, coupled with a surge in deaths ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:04hrs | 4414 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean 'robber' murdered in Mozambique
A suspected Zimbabwean robber who allegedly pounced on a Mozambican homestead on a robbing spree was gruesomely murdered on Monday.The now-deceased Nyasha Chibwe's body was transported to Mvur...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 22:12hrs | 6922 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Reporting Khaliphani Phugheni to big brother Israel Dube: here is a Ndebele calling Mnangagwa 'His Excellency'
Khaliphani Phugheni is not stupid or an imbecile by any stretch of my imagination. In retrospect he is eloquently intelligent, articulative, brilliant argumentative skills. However those skills are no...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 14:23hrs | 1459 | by Nomazulu Thata
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 702 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe heroes' shrine sends clear message to the world - the country and people are not yet free!
Most people - both locally and globally - have always associated the National Heroes Acre in the Zimbabwe capital Harare, with largely being merely an impressive cemetery for those deemed outstanding ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:33hrs | 2082 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:16hrs | 832 | by Dr Amai
'Air Force of Zimbabwe survived sanctions through research, development'
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has managed to survive under illegal sanctions by reducing its import bill through research and development with local companies that are manufacturing essential equipm...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4210 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports.In addition...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 4283 | by Staff reporter
Repatriated body triggers COVID-19 scare in Chivhu
HEALTH workers in Chivhu have called on government to prioritise community education on COVID-19 after a family held a normal two-day funeral wake for a dead relative whose remains were repatriated fr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2028 | by Staff reporter
Midlands snubs Chamisa meeting
The Midlands provincial executive at the weekend reportedly snubbed Mr Nelson Chamisa, who wanted to meet it during his visit to Gweru for the burial of his uncle. Mr Chamisa was in Gweru at t...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2796 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 486 | by Stephen Jakes
Doctors scoff at Mnangagwa plea
STRIKING doctors have vowed to press on with their job boycott despite pleas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for them to return to work amid revelations that scores of people could be dying in their h...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 3481 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, an American Trojan horse
It's categorically correct to say the MDC-Alliance, which has assumed many appellations over the year is not a political party, but a representative of the United States and its Western allies....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 418 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
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