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CCC Gweru poll nominees in tight contest
A TIGHT contest is expected in the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate selection process in the Midlands capital following Wednesday's nomination of prominent people to represent the party i...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Councils mustn't attach residents' property'
LOCAL authorities are not allowed to arbitrarily attach property from residents or engage debt collectors to recover outstanding debts of rates and levies, but should pursue other options to recover t...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs wants govt to reduce exam fees
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) in the National Assembly yesterday pleaded with government to reduce the 2022 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examination fees announced last week, saying the...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uzumba villagers block Chinese miner
Villagers in ward 14 (Nhakiwa), Uzumba constituency are against the proposed granite mining project by a Chinese company Heijin and have since written to the Mines and Mining Development ministry thro...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora faces Khupe rebellion
The National Assembly passed the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 on Tuesday, giving President Emmerson Mnangagwa new sweeping powers to appoint judges without public scrutiny and ext...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZimAchievers Awards host inaugural ZAA Botswana gala
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has honoured Zimbabwean achievers who have been outstanding in the year at the inaugural ZAA Botswana Awards Dinner Gala held at Cresta Lodge in Gaborone on Friday....Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:36hrs | | by Tinashe Mukono
Zanu-PF supporting prosecutor resigns
A prosecutor who was once forced to recuse herself from prosecuting an MDC Alliance MP has quit her job after standing for election in Zanu-PF internal elections.Namatirai Chipere is contestin...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MP builds police station
MDC legislator for Chiwundura, Livingstone Chimina, has embarked on a project to build a police sub-station in Woodlands in order to minimise criminal activities.When Southern Eye visited the ...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru in 'lockdown' ahead of Mnangagwa visit
THE State has beefed up security in Gweru ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit, with anti-riot water cannons being rolled into the city centre to prevent any chances of civil disobedience....Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands in crunch indaba
THE MDC Midlands provincial executive is tomorrow set to hold a crucial indaba to heal simmering divisions that emerged in the run-up to the opposition party's national congress held in Gweru last mon...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs face fresh charges
MDC legislators Lloyd Mukapiko (Redcliff) and Settlement Chikwinya (Mbizo), who are facing charges of attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government, have been slapped with new charges....Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru probes secret sale of bus rank
Gweru City Council has put in place a forensic probe team to look into the secret sale of the Kudzanayi long-distance bus rank.Last year The Standard, working in conjunction with Information f...Published: 26 May 2019 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands sets up congress sub-committees
MDC Midlands has set up nine sub-committees to ensure the smooth running of the party's fifth congress in Gweru this week.The committees were set up at the provincial executive meeting held in...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in midnight election storm
MDC-ALLIANCE leader Mr Nelson Chamisa who is desperate to shrug off stiff competition from secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora in the forthcoming congress last Wednesday presided over provincial ele...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa backed, Mwonzora snubbed
MDC Midlands province has nominated party leader Nelson Chamisa for the post of president ahead of next month's elective congress, but denied secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora any post in the standin...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru Mayor vows to make Midlands a no go area for Zanu-PF
ASPIRING MDC provincial chairperson for Midlands and Gweru Mayor Josiah Makombe wants to close off President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home from Zanu-PF.Makombe told NewZimbabwe.com in an interview...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:02hrs | | by newzimbabwe
3 MDC bigwigs eye Midlands chairmanship
THREE MDC top officials have thrown their hats into the ring to contest for the party's provincial chairmanship that is up for grabs next month, when structures gather at the elective congress in Gwer...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP removed from remand
GWERU magistrate Mildred Matuvi yesterday removed from remand Chiwundura legislator Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) and two other Gweru City Council employees in a case in which they are being accu...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP Chimina acquitted
Chiwundura MP Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) was last Friday acquitted on charges of inciting violence.Gweru provincial magistrate Charity Maphosa ruled that the State had failed to provid...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not rest over Chiwundura'
Chiwundura legislator Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) has claimed that Zanu-PF activists had embarked on a smear campaign to "haunt" him after he defeated the ruling party candidate in last year's ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Statement to the Press
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa's Statement to the Press on the 6th of March 2019 - Morgan Richard Tsvangirai HouseDefining a new course for Zimbabwe.(New Direction, New Ideas)Ba...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:13hrs | 1 | by Adv. Nelson Chamisa
Mudenda makes ruling on MPs' arrests, Biti warns Zanu-PF MPs
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday ruled that the Parliamentary Privileges and Immunities Act must be amended in order to include clauses that MPs found on the wrong side of the ...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MP acquitted
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa last Friday acquitted MDC Alliance Chiwundura legislator, Livingstone Chimina, who was being accused of inciting violence in the run-up to last year's electio...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activist sues Gweru lawyer for US$2,7m
ZANU-PF activist and losing candidate in the ruling party primary elections for Gweru Urban, Tinomudaishe Chinyoka has filed a $2,7 million defamation lawsuit against Gweru-based lawyer Brian Dube....Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chibaya trial set for Wednesday
The trial of MDC-Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya, who is being charged for inciting violence, has been set for Wednesday. Chibaya, who is being represented by Mr Reginald C...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance MPs trial dates set
THE trial of MDC-Alliance National organising secretary, Amos Chibaya, who is being charged for inciting violence, has been set for Wednesday.Chibaya, who is being represented by Mr Reginald C...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
On the run MDC MPs, not on the run, says MDC
THE MDC yesterday said its MPs Charlton Hwende (Kuwadzana East), Joanah Mamombe (Harare West), and Godfrey Sithole (Chitungwiza North), who have been absent from Parliament, are not on the run and had...Published: 23 Feb 2019 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance, Mnangagwa lawyers trade barbs
ACCUSATIONS and counter claims of assault have been traded in a slanging match between two lawyers in a case in which opposition MDC Alliance MPs are being tried for allegedly inciting last month's vi...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lawyer assaults MDC MP's lawyer in court
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka was arrested on Monday after a human rights lawyer who is representing several individuals detained during last month's fuel protests accused hi...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by ZimLive
MDC youth leader's freedom bid deferred
RULING on the application for discharge by MDC Alliance youth leader and Highfield West legislator, Happymore Chidziva, accused of inciting violence ahead of last year's elections, was on Monday defer...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands plots demo over Chibaya, activists detention
MIDLANDS South MDC members have threatened to stage a protest over the continued incarceration of party organising secretary and Mkoba MP, Amos Chibaya, Chiwundura legislator, Livingstone Chimina and ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs granted bail
MDC Alliance legislators Settlement Chikwinya (Kwekwe) and Lloyd Mukapiko (Mbizo) were last Friday granted $300 bail each by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese.Justice Makonese ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP remanded in custody
MDC-ALLIANCE organising secretary Amos Chibaya appeared in court yesterday facing fresh charges of plotting to overthrow the Government.Chibaya, who is the MP for Mkoba, was re-arrested on Tue...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Riot police crash Gweru lawyers march
RIOT police yesterday blocked Gweru lawyers from marching in protest against the alleged absence of rule of law and lack of independence of the magistrates' courts.The legal practitioners unde...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for SADC intervention in Zimbabwe crisis - Fulltext
Text of speech by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa as prepared for delivery at a news conference in Harare on Tuesday, January 29:THE situation in the country...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Chibaya granted $500 bail
MDC Alliance national Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya who is facing inciting public violence charges was today granted $500 bail coupled with stringent conditions by Masvingo High Court Judge Justic...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's full statement on army killings
The situation in the country has reached crisis levels. The country is currently mired in a multi-layered political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis. Added to this is the latest onslaught by ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:04hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Zanu-PF extortion: MDC MP remanded in custody
CHIWUNDURA legislator Livingstone Chimina (MDC Alliance) has been further remanded in custody to February 11 in a case where he stands accused of allegedly assaulting Zanu-PF youths who invaded Gweru'...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth-wing exonerates Gomwe
The Zanu-PF youthwing has exonerated Godwin Gomwe, who has been named as one of the participants in last week's violent protests, and distanced the party's youth members from the violence.The ...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs meet over persecution
THE opposition MDC will today hold an urgent caucus meeting to discuss the arrests of several of their legislators over the weekend and persecution of several others who have now gone into hiding afte...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC hawks in the dock
But law enforcement agents have been working around the clock to account from criminals implicated in last week's violent demonstrations.Our Bulawayo Bureau reports that four MDC-Alliance legi...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 MDC MPs denied bail over inciting protests
TWO MDC Alliance legislators, Amos Chibaya of (Mkoba) and Livingstone Chimina (Chiundura) as well as 15 suspected MDC activists, who appeared in court yesterday on allegations of inciting violence and...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's Chibaya remanded in custody
MDC Alliance National Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya, who was arrested yesterday on allegations of inciting violence which resulted in goods worth more than $13 000 being looted from shops, has app...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police conduct questioned
Lawyers representing Chiundura MP Livingstone Chiminan yesterday tore into Gweru police over their conduct in dealing with a case in which the legislator is accused of assault.Chimina together...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Smelly legacy of patronage
Smelly Dube, a businesswoman from Midlands province who was once close to former president Robert Mugabe's family, has been throwing a stink over a controversial housing project that is now giving the...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:22hrs | | by BRENNA MATENDERE
MDC Alliance begins integration in Midlands
THE MDC Alliance Midlands structures have begun integrating members of different parties that formed the pact ahead of the July 30 polls into one party.MDC Alliance Midlands South spokesperson...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suspends Chiwundura MDC Alliance leadership
MDC Alliance has slapped six top leaders in the party's Chiwundura district structures with five-year suspensions over their alleged support for independent parliamentary and council candidates in the...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 10:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zanu-PF retains two-thirds majority
Zanu-PF has retained its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly following the announcement of the latest batch of results from 55 constituencies announced today. The party now has 144 se...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Granny (75) robs supermarket
A RUSAPE grandpa (75) recently teamed up with three other people to rob a local supermarket of groceries worth $1 500 at gun point. However, the long arm of the law finally caught up with the elderly ...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Lovemore Kadzura
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