Search / Cio
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1105 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt parcelling out ZPRA properties
FORMER ZPRA cadres who contributed their demobilisation payouts and managed to purchase various properties across the country are set to lose some of the properties after it emerged some of the assets...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1982 | by Staff reporter
Dembare ankle breaker apologises to Tandi
DYNAMOS' teenage winger Bill Antonio yesterday said he harboured no malicious intentions when he rammed into Andrew Tandi with a rather reckless tackle that left the Highlanders defender with a horrif...Published: 12 hrs ago | 290 | by Staff reporter
Southern African opposition parties need to form a shadow SADC to represent oppressed masses!
It has now become an open secret that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is nothing more than a leaders' club, which seeks to serve and protect the interests of those in power, at the e...Published: 16 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 1172 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
New fissures rock Zanu-PF youth league
THE just-ended Zanu-PF youth league conference created new fissures, resulting in the leadership resorting to threats to whip members into line.A camp opposed to Zanu-PF Mashonaland West youth...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt starts issuing title deeds
Government has started regularising informal urban settlements by issuing title deeds, with residents in Caledonia, Harare, being the first to benefit following the completion of aerial mapping of the...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:11hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
There is no my vote is my secret, 'Death leaves no track record, voters do!' boasted Mnangagwa
"SaBuku pamberi, (Zanu PF) district chairman shure navanhu, councillor aripovo. Kwava kunovota." (Village headman will be in front, (Zanu PF) district chairman behind with the people and the local cou...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1759 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 885 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Man thrashes wife to death
A man from Tsholotsho has been arrested after he thrashed his wife with a Mopani stick, kicked her and stomped her throat resulting in her dying after he busted her sleeping on her alleged lover's bed...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 690 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF, MDC-T connive to sell Harare golf courses
Zanu-PF and MDC-T councillors have set themselves on a warpath with their Citizens' Coalition for Change counterparts after conniving to block CCC councillors from sitting on committees while facilita...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:28hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora calls for POLAD reconstitution
THE Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) must be re-structured to include parliament and local councils' representatives, MDC Alliance leader Mwonzora said the current POLAD structure lacks people's mand...Published: 10 May 2022 at 15:45hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter
Teenager dies during Nyau dance ritual
A 16-YEAR-OLD Beatrice teenager died after he was allegedly buried alive in a shallow grave during a Nyau dance ritual in Beatrice.Tafadzwa Mudahondo's body was retrieved from the shallow grav...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:46hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Biti regurgitates application
CCC official Tendai Biti, who is facing charges of manhandling Russian investor Ms Tatiana Aleshina outside Harare Magistrates Court, is yet again seeking the recusal of Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai G...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:40hrs | 226 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Examination fees shocker
GOVERNMENT has raised examination fees by up to three times, and immediately attracted brickbats from weary parents.Many parents, still to come to terms with school fees hikes and already batt...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora trashes arrogant British MP over 'fake and malicious' utterances
MDC- Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed recent claims by British legislator, Lord Jonathan Oates that his party is a Zanu-PF project.He described the top British lawmaker's avermen...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:58hrs | 2794 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe airport security screener 'stole US$2 million'
It was the perfect crime. Almost.Roselyn Dunga, a 31-year-old woman working as a security screener at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport was close to the end of her shift sometime...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2397 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security forces placed on high alert over planned protests
ZIMBABWE's service chiefs have placed a well-oiled state machinery on high alert, ready to viciously thwart any protests following indications of an impending uprising.Multiple official and se...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 3442 | by Staff reporter
Andy Muridzo's coodinator speaks on suspension
Andy Muridzo's Jeetaz band coodinator Onismo Saini claims to be a friend to the band owner rather than in the management team.Saini who...Published: 06 May 2022 at 21:28hrs | 849 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man sleeps with mum and sisters for riches
THE relationship between mother and son can be an unbreakable bond and the love between the two is incomparable, but it has its limits.However, one man has crossed the line that separates a no...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
Man pretends to be census enumerator, busted with married woman
THEY say desperate times call for desperate measures.It couldn't be truer for a man from St Peter's area near Old Pumula suburb in Bulawayo who pretended to be a census enumerator after he was...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:31hrs | 1774 | by Staff reporter
Youth indaba divides Zanu-PF
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF youths from across the country who were attending an indaba in Harare are departing the capital with bitterness, accusing party bigwigs of stifling democracy and fanning tribalism...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:26hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
UFP statement on the Mutare fatal accident caused by police spikes
The United Freedom Party (UFP) notes with great concern the fatal accident where four people died and eight were seriously injured when police threw a spike on a moving commuter omnibus near Mutare on...Published: 06 May 2022 at 13:34hrs | 1199 | by UFP
Youth organisation partners with Unicef on Covid-19 programme
Youth Advocates Zimbabwe (YAZ) has stated implementing an outdoor design campaign on art mural to bring awareness through youth advocacy on Covid 19, substance abuse prevention and Sexual and Reproduc...Published: 06 May 2022 at 12:54hrs | 140 | by Stephen Jakes
Doctor testifies in Marry Mubaiwa assault case
MAXILLO and oral-facial surgeon Dr Wayne Manana yesterday told a Harare court that the woman who was allegedly assaulted by Marry Mubaiwa incurred a slight movement on her tooth because of the trauma ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:54hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Fake Zimra officer arrested
A Bulawayo man who impersonated a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official and allegedly demanded a bribe from a businessman who had not paid tax has been arrested. According to a source, t...Published: 05 May 2022 at 18:47hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
'I was run over by 2 cars in an accident' Byo artist Pronix opens up
Bulawayo based Afro Jazz sensation Pronix (real name Prosper Ndebele) was run over by two cars during an accident that almost left him crippled for life. The artist who was brought to prominen...Published: 05 May 2022 at 16:45hrs | 607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nurse aid certificate the new gold for Zimbabweans
FOR 35-year-old Lorraine Siziba, attaining a nurse aid's certificate is nudging her closer to achieving her goals.Siziba has never been formally employed since completing a Bachelor's degree f...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:13hrs | 4640 | by Staff reporter
'Need pact and reforms to avoid disputed elections.' Need to end CCC sell out and confusion galore
One says this, another says that and a third says something else that is neither this nor that. Indeed, in Zimbabwe politics the same individual will say one thing now and say the exact opposite in th...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:29hrs | 1086 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bosso summoned over abandoned match
HIGHLANDERS have been summoned to appear before a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee on Tuesday following scenes of violence and hooliganism that led to the abandonment of their away l...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blasts compromised minister
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo's interference in the governance of local authorities has infuriated Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa who has called the Zanu-PF politburo...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:04hrs | 3143 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans shouldn't marry political parties as if they were wives!
On a visit into the Kwekwe CBD (central business district) this morning to run some personal errands, I could not help being flabbergasted, as I always am, at the usual sight of disheveled and unkempt...Published: 03 May 2022 at 14:50hrs | 389 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa not talking to Zanu-PF
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has quashed reports that he is in talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the aim of forming a government of national unity....Published: 03 May 2022 at 06:51hrs | 2635 | by Staff reporter
State of a Zimbabwean worker lamentable
AS the world celebrated Workers Day yesterday, my heart bled with sorrow about the current conditions of the majority of workers in Zimbabwe.One of the reasons that led to the liberation strug...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:01hrs | 75 | by Linda T Masarira
Our country is being mortgaged
THE biggest story last week was that the world's largest private metal trader and second-largest oil dealer, Trafigura Group shall be paid US$225,6 million by nickel and gold-mining subsidiaries of St...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:01hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to address issues fuelling inflation
TRADE unions have urged Government to promote dialogue among social partners to address issues revolving around the welfare of workers and whip into line cartels which are fuelling inflation.T...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
100% uniforms price hike kills back-to-school hype
SOME retailers have raised prices of school uniforms and other school items claiming manufacturers hiked prices by up to 100 percent, dampening the back-to-school preparations by parents and guardians...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:56hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties attend Workers Day commemorations
Zimbabwean workers yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers' Day, with the Government calling for unity while expressing its commitment to improving the welfare of workers throu...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Shopping mall craze grips Zimbabwe
THERE is no doubt that locals are innovative.However, novel ideas and trends often progressively lead to a bandwagon, where everyone wants to get in on the action.Once someone starts a...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:08hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa surpasses Patrice Motsepe to become the richest black man in Southern Africa
Strive Masiyiwa is now the richest black man in Southern Africa, with a net worth surpassing $4.4 billion – dethroning Patrice Motsepe from the position, according to one count.Masiyiwa's ne...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:14hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 198 | by jamwanda
Temba Mliswa demands report on death of Banker Doug Munatsi
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has demanded the report of the investigation that probed the death of Banker Douglas Munatsi who died in November 2021 in a mysterious fire that gutted his apa...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 968 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe is a beautiful country ruined by greedy clueless people!
This morning when I was listening to the vice president Constantino Chiwenga officiating at a business conference at the ongoing Zimbabwe International Tr...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | 1973 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tech drifts that are changing the gaming business
In the previous ten years, the universe of betting has quickly advanced. This is expected essentially to the turn of events and development of the web. The ubiquity of web-based betting is obvious aro...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 164 | by Staff Writer
'No puppet opposition will rule Zimbabwe' Oppah Muchinguri says
Minister of Defense Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has warned that oppositoion parties that are backed by the Western powers will not take over power in Zimbabwe. Writing on Twitter, Kashiri said, "...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 10:46hrs | 6585 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa fails to rig the economy
A FAMILY of six now requires a total of ZW$68 178 to meet basic needs per month as inflation continues to surge, according to latest data from the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStat)....Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
'Cartels controlling Zimbabwe fuel sector'
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has alleged that the country's fuel sector is run by cartels that are manipulating fuel prices.In its weekly review on socio-economic d...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
