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Online voting option for Zimbabwean in the Diaspora
Twenty-seven years ago, less than half of Estonia's population had a telephone. Today, the country could provide Zimbabwe with an ICT option for mulled Diaspora participation in elections back home: t...Published: 10 hrs ago | 199 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's new office explained
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's creation of a formal "Office of the Leader of the Opposition" is not a personal accommodation for any particular individual, but rather about long-term institution-build...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3688 | by staff reporter
Zimbabwe, UK talks security cooperation
Zimbabwe and Britain could soon restore security cooperation agreements that fell through after diplomatic ties nosedived nearly two decades ago, while the United Kingdom is open to supporting Harare'...Published: 10 hrs ago | 257 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on Chamisa's office
President Mnangagwa's creation of a formal "Office of the Leader of the Opposition" is not a personal accommodation for any particular individual, but rather about long-term institution-building in li...Published: 10 hrs ago | 778 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's per capita income rises 60%
President Mnangagwa's vision of making Zimbabwe an upper middle-income economy by 2030 is on track, if the upward trajectory in per capita income is anything to go by.On Sunday, the President ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 00:10hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
6 die in kombi crash
Six people were killed, while three others were seriously injured near Juru Growth Point when the driver of the commuter omnibus lost control of the vehicle following a tyre burst, resulting in it vee...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:38hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages US on sanctions
Zimbabwe is engaging the Trump administration over economic sanctions Washington imposed on the country nearly two decades ago, in addition to working on ways to minimise their impact on ordinary peop...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:52hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops run amok in Harare
Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend - firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs.In the...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:20hrs | 2209 | by Staff reporter
Police escalate fight against vendors
POLICE yesterday reinforced their security, with some police details getting onto the streets armed with AK-47 rifles, as the law enforcement agency upped its effort to evict defiant vendors from Hara...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:28hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes pitch for Zimbabwe at world stage
President Mnangagwa debuts at the UN next week, two months after his election in a poll that was declared free, fair and representative of the will of the people. He arrived in New York for the 73rd s...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Vendors run riot
RIOT broke out in Harare central business district yesterday when vendors clashed with police who were removing them from the streets.The running battles started at the corner of Simon Muzenda...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
ED means Business
By now, we all know President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra by heart: Zimbabwe is open for business! We have heard it countless times since the beginning of the new dispensation in November 2017. I alwa...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:56hrs | 3330 | by Mike Tawanda
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | 5631 | by Staff reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede booted out
LONG-SERVING Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede (74) has finally been retired while Information secretary George Charamba was elevated to the unfamiliar position of Deputy Chief Secretary Presidential C...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | 8392 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police disband Border Control Unit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has disbanded its Minerals and Border Control Unit (MBCU) and redeployed its members as part of a restructuring exercise to restore sanity in the police force.The ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:51hrs | 5076 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa retires Mudede in major shake-up
ONE of the country's longest-serving bureaucrats, Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede, was retired yesterday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa also got rid of several permanent secretaries and directors in...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ONLY 1 permanent secretary from Matebelenand
President Mnangagwa yesterday appointed new permanent secretaries for ministries, reassigned some and retired others as his Government takes the Second Republic into motion. Long time Information, Pub...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 6001 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance walkout on Mnangagwa backfired spectacularly,' says Charamba
IN a show of political immaturity, MDC Alliance legislators yesterday blew more than $200 000 in accommodation, fuel, meals and sitting allowances to play political games by walking out during the off...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 4750 | by Staff reporter
Man kills domestic worker's family
A Buhera man ran amok on Sunday and fatally shot his domestic worker's wife and two children aged four and one, over maize, rapoko and groundnuts that were stolen from his home. The incident o...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Man guns down 3 family members
Tragedy struck when three Mandigo family members were allegedly shot to death by one, Takadu Magwiro following a dispute over allegations of stolen maize, rapoko and groundnuts in Buhera.The g...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:13hrs | 4591 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police detain journalist for 3 hours
Freelance journalist Columbus Mavhunga was detained for close to three hours during a police crackdown on vendors in Harare on Sunday 16 September. Mavhunga was detained after he refused to de...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's mission impossible?
While everyone in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet is expected to hit the ground running, it is Finance minister Mthuli Ncube who has the most difficult mission to accomplish.Mnangagwa r...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:34hrs | 2320 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to expose Mnangagwa-linked companies
This threat was made in March 2018 and nothing was exposed, one wonders whether Nelson Chamisa had anything to expose.OPPOSITION leader and MDC Alliance...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 4732 | by Staff reporter
Charamba sexual abuse probe set to start
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission has launched a probe into claims of sexual harassment levelled against police Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba's husband and two other Department of Immigr...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa arrives in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has arrived in Bulawayo where he is scheduled to officiate at the $2 billion Hopeville Project and commission a $2 million tomato processing plant in the City. He was ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:18hrs | 7286 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa inauguration in limbo
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa could be heading for a fresh clash with authorities after police issued a blanket ban on all public gatherings in Harare as part of efforts to combat a deadly choler...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 5366 | by Staff reporter
Media urged to desist from prioritising politics
THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Mr George Charamba, has urged the media to desist from prioritising politics and help the nation fight the ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:22hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo safe from Harare cholera
BULAWAYO has not recorded any cases of cholera or typhoid with officials calling on travelling residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at funerals, churches and other public g...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch $2,2bn projects in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today officially open the $2 billion Hopeville Housing Project near Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport and commission a $2 million tomato processing plant here. ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:10hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Bosso brought back to earth
Mutare City 1 - 0 HighlandersMutare City Rovers stunned Highlanders in a match played at Vengere Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.Veteran striker Evans Chikwaikwai scored the all-important g...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 19:25hrs | 1970 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's inauguration banned
Zimbabwe's police on Wednesday issued a ban on all public gatherings to control the spread of cholera, which has killed 21 people in the capital Harare, a day after the government declared an emergenc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:06hrs | 7487 | by Reuters
New Zimbabwe transport management system to improve efficiency
Zimbabwe has signed an integrated transport management system, which seeks to bring together five key elements of road policing, efficient use of national infrastructure and coordination of informatio...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:25hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
No difference between Grace Mugabe & Judas Iscariot
The only difference between Grace Mugabe and Judas Iscariot is on gender, otherwise, they are a brother and a sister from different mothers. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christianity because of some few pi...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 09:40hrs | 5039 | by Don Chigumba
'Well-wishers paid for hiring plane for Grace Mugabe'
THE plane that was used to fly former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe from Singapore to attend the funeral of her mother Ambuya Idah Marufu was paid for by well-wishers and not by Government, it has emerg...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spin doctor speaks on Grace Mugabe chartered plane
The plane that was used to fly former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe from Singapore to attend the funeral of her mother, Ambuya Idah Marufu, was paid for by well-wishers and not by Government, it has eme...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2085 | by Staff reporter
Cops beat suspect to death in Bindura
Three members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) based in Bindura reportedly assaulted a suspected cellphone thief to death without officially recording the theft case in their report book on Sunda...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:33hrs | 1942 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa bomb blast probe raises questions
Police are still to make inroads in their investigations into the White City Stadium bomb blast in June in spite of claims by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the suspects are now known.Polic...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:09hrs | 1921 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa bomb probe team clueless'
THE multi-agency security team investigating a deadly grenade attack which occurred soon after President Emmerson Mnangagwa left the stage following his address at a rally at White City Stadium in Bul...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 13:05hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
Madiro scoffs at NPF’s poll petition
Zanu-PF Mutare North House of Assembly representative Michael Madiro has described losing National Patriotic Front (NPF) candidate, Mr Agrippa Bopela Masiyakurima's High Court petition challenging his...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa relations improve
As the frosty relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his sulking predecessor Robert Mugabe get better, the government splashed hundreds of thousands of dollars last week hiring a charter p...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 15:50hrs | 5570 | by Staff reporter
Madinda Ndlovu to make a big announcement
After the 1-2 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars at home on Sunday, Highlanders technical manager Madinda Ndlovu has promised to make a big announcement in due course.This has heightened tension amo...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:43hrs | 2918 | by Staff reporter
Confidence in Zec at all-time low
POLITICAL players and the general public have lost confidence in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (Zec) capacity to deliver free, fair and credible elections even after the Constitutional Court (Co...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'out-stretch' his arms to Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has delayed announcing his Cabinet to give talks with youthful MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa a chance, highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday.Zi...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 17:09hrs | 10797 | by Staff reporter
Ngezi Platinum beat Highlanders
Ngezi Platinum Stars registered their first-ever victory against Highlanders at Barbourfields in a match played on Sunday afternoon.Micheal Charamba and Godknows Murwira were on target as Mada...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 19:30hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'Zimbabwe should not mourn over sanctions'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to buckle down to the sanctions imposed on the country by USA, saying the country will not develop if it continues to mourn over the embargo.President ...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 15:55hrs | 8308 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu threatens protests crackdown
HOME Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has threatened a crackdown on any street protests amid fears in government of a possible uprising by MDC Alliance supporters over an unfavourable Constitutional Court...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:46hrs | 2980 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa renews $2 billion Chinese bid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow leave for Beijing, China, to attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) summit after which he will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:41hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implored to 'refresh' cabinet
VICE-PRESIDENTS Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi yesterday took the oath of office at a time President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing a litmus test over the calibre of ministers who will constitute...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
Police probe Chawasarira accident
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has started investigating the accident in which 13 people died on the spot, while 23 others were injured on Thursday when a Chawasarira bus collided head-on with a commute...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
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