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LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1547 | by Staff reporter
July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2924 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 11 hrs ago | 5962 | by Bloomberg
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 19 hrs ago | 7511 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dares political union leaders
Government has dared union leaders, who are trying to whip up emotions of civil servants instead of negotiating for their welfare, to join politics and leave welfare negotiations to bona fide workers ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 524 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 19 hrs ago | 599 | by Staff reporter
ZRP never sanctioned 31 July demo
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed a fake letter which has been posted on social media platforms indicating that Chief superintendent Smart Matongo the Officer Commanding Harare Suburban Distr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:32hrs | 2188 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:30hrs | 9261 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader speaks on July 31 protest funding
MDC youth leader Obey Sithole has dismissed funding claims of the July 31 Zimbabwe Anti-Sanction Allied Movement protest.Sithole said anyone who is thinking that he and other leaders received ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 10050 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 4252 | by Staff reporter
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 884 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje 'mysteriously' bounces back at NetOne
GOVERNMENT has reinstated embattled NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje with immediate effect.The development was confirmed by a well-placed source, who asked for anonymity for fear of rep...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3476 | by Staff reporter
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1440 | by Staff reporter
PRAZ boss sent on leave
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (PRAZ) chief executive, Mr Nyasha Chizu, was on Tuesday sent on leave, the day after he told Parliament's committee on the Budget, Finance and Econom...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been taken to court by one Tendai Chitinhe who is involved in a fierce wrangle for the Chivero chieftainship with Cornleous Chengera.Chengero was recently appo...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 21:04hrs | 12425 | by Staff reporter
Police speak on July 31 mass demonstrations
Zimbabwe Republic Police have dismissed as a fake a letter that is circulating on social media alleging that one Chief Superintendent Matongo has sanctioned a demonstration by a shadowy organisation c...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:08hrs | 5041 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police deny sanctioning July 31 anti-sanctions demo
Zimbabwean Police have disowned a letter circulating on social media accenting to an application to hold a demonstration by the Zimbabwe Anti-Sanction Allied Movement on 31 July. The lett...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1614 | by Moyo Roy
'We don't want Covid-19 cases' says hospital - and it paid dearly for its foolishness
The Zimbabwe authorities have not been testing for covid-19 as aggressively as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended repeatedly, especially among the local community. And now it is emerg...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:45hrs | 2214 | by Wilbert Mukori
Armed soldiers raid Hurungwe hospital...steal US$1 500
Detectives of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are said to have arrested commandos and paratroopers who raided Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and stole US$1 500.Media reports say that the ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 11:44hrs | 5153 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20678 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells mourners that he is unstoppable
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 6897 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zapu cross swords over seized properties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has angered opposition Zapu leaders after he met them shortly before the November 2017 coup and early last year where he pledged to return their seized properties before h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2106 | by Staff reporter
7 soldiers rob hospital
SEVEN armed soldiers and five civilians were arrested in Chinhoyi after raiding Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and getting away with US$1 500 and other valuables.The armed robbery reported...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says change was near and Mnangagwa's end was nigh
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 18 UBH health workers test positive
EIGHTEEN health personnel working in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after allegedly attending to an infected patient, The Chronicle reported....Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1734 | by Staff Reporter
Kwekwe seeks legal advice on Tsvangirai Street
KWEKWE councillors, who early this year passed a resolution to name a street after the late MDC founding icon Morgan Tsvangirai, have started seeking legal advice before implementing the decision to a...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:01hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parly structure complete
Structural works on the imposing six-storey Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the scenic surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislative supremacy, are 10...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana hints at total shutdown of Harare and Bulawayo
Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has hinted at a total lockdown of Harare and Bulawayo following a spike in Covid-19 positive cases in the two cities.However, the timing ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:37hrs | 25521 | by Moyo Roy
Man (65) 'tired of living with his wife' hangs self
A Dete man, 65, reportedly hung himself leaving behind a note for his children telling them that he was tired of living with his 47-year-old wife. The Chronicle newspaper reports that Never Si...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 3245 | by Staff Reporter
Shona girl Nosizi Dube stuck without citizenship in Kenya
A Shona girl Nosizi Dube is failing to secure a place at the University of Nairobi because she does not a citizenship of any country on earth. David Ndii a leading Kenyan economist and public ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:50hrs | 8074 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Mnangagwa finally fires Minister Obadiah Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally expelled the Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Obadiah Moyo from cabinet. Moyo's latest firing comes barely a month after Zimbabweans were given a w...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:37hrs | 6180 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mphoko trial postponed
THE trial of former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been postponed to the 21st of this month.Mphoko, who is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office, appeared in court this Tuesday...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:56hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4130 | by Staff reporter
BCC struggles to pay workers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says its coffers are running dry and as such it is struggling to pay its workers and deliver services effectively. The council which says its revenue declined by 80...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 11:46hrs | 5935 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jostling for posts divides Khupe's party
INFIGHTING has erupted in the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe a few months after the faction found new life following a Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the former deputy prime minister as leader of ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5860 | by Staff reporter
MDC, the architects of Zimbabwe's misery
UNINFORMED Zimbabweans have continuously blamed Government for the current economic meltdown. For almost two decades, some sections of the society have continued to point fingers at the Government for...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 823 | by Khumbula Vodloza Sibanda
'Chamisa's MDC deliberately tried to soil security forces'
The MDC ALLIANCE took issue with the security forces for failing to intervene when the MDC-T took over Harvest House and instead deliberately tried to sully the image of the uniformed forces by making...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 73 new Covid-19 positive cases in one day
ZIMBABWE needs to strengthen and refocus on the measures the country adopted at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March if it is to avert a local transmission crisis, a senior government offic...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2249 | by Staff Reporter
Khupe, Chamisa rift widens
MDC-T leader interim leader Thokozani Khupe and embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have increasingly demonstrated their lack of capacity to heal their warring party's rifts, and to give dire...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 17:26hrs | 6790 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo faces extradition from Kenya?
Former minister Professor Jonathan Moyo may have to flee Kenya to avoid extradition to Zimbabwe on fraud and related charges involving the alleged diversion of US$244 575 from the Zimbabwe Manpower De...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 16:16hrs | 4309 | by Staff reporter
Komichi knows the rules he must apply them
A REPORT by one daily on May 17, 2020 stated that there were some hardliners on both sides of the MDC feud who were working hard to scuttle negotiations for the extraordinary congress suggested by the...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 2148 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Mnangagwa asks Kenya to urgently deport Jonathan Moyo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has requested assistance from the government of Kenya to assist in the extradition of Professor Jonathan Moyo. Moyo who went to exile in 2017 after th...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 8261 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5232 | by Staff reporter
Workers steal pistols from ZRP armoury
TWO employees at the Zimbabwe Republic Police National Armaments workshop have appeared in court on allegations of conniving with two fellow employees to steal five pistols.Nhawu Jongwe and We...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:15hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Chief Mvutu's potential successor
The High Court has nullified nomination of Mr Sanders Mlotshwa as a potential successor to the late Chief Mvutu and ordered a restart of the selection process saying gender cannot be used as grounds t...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt drafts policy for victims of Gukurahundi
GOVERNMENT is drafting a policy to facilitate Gukurahundi exhumations and has also relaxed registration requirements to acquire identity cards, birth and death certificates for affected families. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
'Nkomo joined Zanu-PF to stop Mugabe's killings'
THE late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo and his lieutenants only joined the Zanu-PF government to stop the Gukurahundi massacres that were being perpetrated by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.T...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:04hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
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