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Chilonga villagers wary of govt 'reorganisation
The Zimbabwean government has reaffirmed its commitment to the controversial Chilonga lucerne project, clarifying that the evictions of over 1,000 families remain an integral part of its plans, now fr...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:04hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Mwenezi man attempts to rape step-mother
A sex starved 27-year-old Chiredzi man has appeared in court for attempting to rape his 46-year-old step-mother while they were fetching firewood in a bush.The young man literally begged for s...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 14:18hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana orders village heads to pledge votes to Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF National Secretary for Legal Affairs Paul Mangwana recently told village heads in Chingwizi to pledge the number of votes each will bring to Zanu-PF on the March 26 by-election.Mangwan...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Home Affairs ministry must address IDs bottlenecks
YOUTH Forum wishes to congratulate the 25 603 citizens who registered to vote from the start of the voter registration blitz to the present.As announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 6 | by Institute for Young Women Development
Chamisa claims to have exposed Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says his tour of Masvingo that invited a backlash from Zanu-PF mobs exposed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as an unpopular leader.Chamisa's visits to many part...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bullet proof car for Chamisa
MDC Alliance supporters have launched a fundraising campaign to buy a top-of-the-range bulletproof vehicle for the party leader Nelson Chamisa.The pledge follows this week's attack on Chamisa'...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF alliance exposed
THE opposition MDC Alliance and civic society organisations (CSOs) yesterday accused the police of working with Zanu-PF to block opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from meeting villagers in Masvingo pro...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Executive must respect other arms of the State
A FUNCTIONING democracy must have clearly laid down separation of roles within the three arms of State - the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.These three arms of the State exist in...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi evictions must be condemned
THE decision by the Zanu-PF government through Local Government minister July Moyo to evict over 12 000 villagers settled in Chilonga district, Chiredzi to pave way for a grass project meant to feed c...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Chalton Hwende
Chamisa's MDC blasts govt for evicting Chiredzi villagers
MDC Alliance has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for plans to evict thousands of villagers from their long-held land in Chiredzi.Local government minister July Moyo las...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi spills for the first time ever
ZIMBABWE'S largest inland dam, Tugwi-Mukosi in southern Masvingo, spilled for the first time on Saturday evening following incessant rains in its catchment.The water body, with a capacity of 1...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flood fears at Tugwi-Mukosi
Heavy rains that have been pounding Masvingo and the rest of the country have sparked fears of flooding downstream of Tugwi-Mukosi Dam which is billed to spill for the first time ever in the current r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher kills Zanu-PF official
A school teacher in Mwenezi East allegedly stabbed and killed a Zanu-PF official on Friday for being loud and disturbing his rest while discussing ballot papers in the just-ended Zanu-PF District Coor...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC splits
A serious brawl is going on within the local structures of the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, with two factions that both claim to be the legitimately-elected Mwenezi district executive emerging.At t...Published: 04 May 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1 | by STaff reporter
Mnangagwa summons Billy Rautenbach
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has summoned controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach to answer to charges that he is denying thousands of Chingwizi villagers access to potable water after fencing off ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach guards nearly kill Mwenezi man
A 40 year-old Mwenezi man who resides in Mudzungudzi village, Chingwizi under Chief Chitanga was recently left nursing a serious head scar after security guards with the Zimbabwe Bio Energy (ZBE) game...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam project to displace 300 families
CLOSE to 300 families are likely to be displaced by the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project, with plans to resettle them on alternative land at an advanced stage.Briefing Matabeleland North Provincial ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold
WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo prov...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chingwizi ghost still haunts Bhasikiti in Mwenezi East
THE ghost of 18 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims dumped in the inhabitable Chingwizi Ranch and unfairly treated by government lurks over former Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns Tongaat Hulett
President Mnangagwa last Friday warned Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe against resisting accommodation of more indigenous players in sugar cane farming as part of Government's empowerme...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slmans Chamisa for politicking
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has castigated MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for trying to make cheap political capital out of Tugwi-Mukosi flood victims at Chingwizi who have been ...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bhasikiti to represent MDC Alliance
The MDC- Alliance's bid to make inroads into the Zanu-PF stronghold of Mwenezi ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections is under threat after the alliance's candidate for Mwenezi East Mr Kudakash...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt shifts goalposts on Masvingo dualisation compensation
GOVERNMENT has started shifting goalposts on who will compensate thousands of villagers and businesspeople likely to be displaced during the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, with Transpor...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru savages 'selfish' Grace Mugabe
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru has hit out at First Lady Grace Mugabe (pictured), describing her as a selfish person, with no regard for suffering Zimbabweans.The First Lady made headlines...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chefs scramble for assets
Zanu-PF bigwigs are rubbing their hands in glee, ready to pounce on prime commercial land around Tokwe-Mukosi Dam in Masvingo in what could turn out to be yet another scandal benefiting the nouveau-ri...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Game changer or another Zanu-PF dummy?
IT is almost impossible to dispassionately describe the panorama. But elementary geography informs that some inestimable years ago, igneous rock lava inruded into this part of the world, resulting in ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff writer
Villagers in fresh freedom bid
HIGH Court Judges Justice Charles Hungwe and Justice Edith Mushore will on Tuesday preside over an appeal against the conviction and sentence of four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chingwizi...Published: 22 May 2017 at 19:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
West rigged us out of UNWTO post, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am really disappointed that one of our best ministers, Cde Walter, was rigged out of the secretary generals' position of the United Nations ...Published: 19 May 2017 at 15:52hrs | | by CZ
Bhasikiti refuses to concede defeat
Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has declined to concede defeat to the Zanu-PF Mwenezi East MP-elect Omar Joosbi.Bhasikiti pulled out of the by-election race citing intimidation and vote buying.Th...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF differences are not divisions, says Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has said the ruling party was the undisputed dominant political party in the country, saying differences in opinion among members were healt...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt officials selling IDs
A HUMAN rights and peace watchdog has accused authorities at the Registrar General's Office of forcing poor villagers to pay in cash and kind to obtain identity documents ahead of a by-election in...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chingwizi victims fail to get food over IDs
Victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi floods who are in a transit camp at Chingwizi are saying that they are failing to get food aid from Government and NGOs' because they are required to produce national ident...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
No ID, no food aid for villagers
THE Tokwe-Mukorsi flood victims who were resettled in Chingwizi resettlement area in Mwenezi have been left stranded and failing to get aid as a majority of them do not have National IDs while the...Published: 04 Sep 2016 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 1 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Brute force stifles "Zimbabwe shutdown'
A BRUTAL government crackdown that netted leading figures in the growing chorus of discontent with President Robert Mugabe's government resulted in a muted response to calls for yesterday's planne...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru gets a rude awakening
Zimbabwe People First Leader Dr Joice Mujuru got a rude awakening at her maiden rally in Masvingo when she was forced to address an almost empty Mucheke Stadium as people in the country's oldest town ...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by George Maponga
Government goes quiet after Chingwizi threats
Tokwe Mukorsi flood victims have not seen or heard anything from Government since Minister of State for Masvingo addressed and gave them an ultimatum to leave the holding camp three weeks ago....Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chiredzi Cop fakes $21 000 robbery to evade debts
A Triangle police officer Admire Magodhlo was this week arrested after making a false report that he had lost $21 960 and a vehicle to a robbery at his house.Masvingo Mirror reported that ...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Water crisis strike Chingwizi villagers
The senator in the Chingwizi area where victims of the Tokwe Mukorsi dam evictions were settled, Justice Maluleke have told senate that the villagers are now facing serious water shortage as mos...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZimRights join the world to celebrate 16 Days of Activism
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has said it joins the world, especially women and educational rights defenders, in commemorating the 16 Days of Activism against Gender based Violence...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 11:33hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mangoma's acceptance speech
SALUTATIONS Madam Vice President and members of the Management Committee, Guardian Council Members, NEC Members, Provinces and District members ...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Elton Steers Mangoma RDZ President
ZLHR urge government to implement human rights obligations
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has urged the Zimbabwean government to implement in good faith their human rights obligations. The organisation made the remarks as the nation joined Afric...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 10:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
RDZ warns govt and its partners in crime
The State controlled Herald today has reported that RDZ leader Elton Steers Mangoma has incited villagers to revolt against Green Fuel company in Chisumbanje. While we categorically deny...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Pishai Muchauraya
Old Mutual CE declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Old Mutual Zimbabwe chief executive John Mushosho has been declared the 2014 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up was Hwange Colliery finance manager Gift Sibanda. ICSAZ secreta...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Chris Chinamhora
Japanese Government donates $1m to Tokwe Mukosi floods victims
The Japanese Government is expected to hand over $1 million in support of women and children displaced by the Tokwe Mukosi floods.The ceremony is set to Wednesday in Harare and Min...Published: 22 Sep 2015 at 11:40hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Red Cross officially hands over Chivi Water and Sanitation project
The Red Cross Society of Zimbabwe and its partners have officially handed over the Chivi Water and Sanitation project to the community.It was joy for the villagers who are pleased their qualit...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 16:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Home Affairs minister, Police Commissioner ordered to pay $550 for wrongful arrest
A Zimbabwean Magistrate on Friday 04 September, 2015 ordered Home Affairs Minister and Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri to pay $550 to Zulu Jinya, a Chingwizi villager, in delictual d...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 08:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Magistrate orders Chihuri to pay for wrongful arrest
A Zimbabwean Magistrate on Friday 04 September, 2015 ordered Home Affairs Minister and Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri to pay $550 to Zulu Jinya, a Chingwizi villager, in delictual damag...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 08:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe army a formidable force, says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has commended the defence forces for its role in being a formidable force that safeguards the country's...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE UPDATES: Defence Forces Day celebrations
12:30 Jah Prayzah on stage. After the president's address, the ground is cleared for acrobatic demonstrations. Meanwhile, popular musician Jah Prayzah is entertaining the crowd with a live performanc...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 16:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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