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SA's Ibrahim Traore makes damning allegations against Senzo Mchunu
The gloves are off. In an explosive press briefing on Sunday, KwaZulu-Natal's top cop, Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi proclaimed he was combat ready and willing t...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 14:25hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have come under intense pressure from Zimbabwe's civic society organisations (CSOs) to repeal the recently signed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) ...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:30hrs | 6927 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Units 7 and 8 set for scheduled maintenance
The Hwange Power Station's Units 7 and 8 will undergo scheduled maintenance during the upcoming festive season, a period when national power demand is traditionally lower due to the annual industry sh...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:17hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants flee Dudula raids in Soweto
A STREET trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall.For about 30 minutes,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:44hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners flee as Dudula raids Soweto spazas
A street trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall in Soweto, Johannesburg, Sout...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 15:30hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
STUPID MOVE: Zimbabwe speeds up decommissioning of power stations
Plans to decommission small thermal power stations in Harare, Munyati and Bulawayo are being expedited, with efforts now aimed at driving more investment towards renewable energy sources in line with ...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Adam Molai's Pacific Cigarette Company forced into voluntary corporate rescue
Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC), led by local business magnate Adam Molai, has voluntarily initiated corporate rescue proceedings due to a substantial $19 million tax liability. This move comes amid a...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 16:00hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Jobless Zimbabwe teachers told to 'start your own schools'
GOVERNMENT has told jobless teachers to open their own schools as it cannot employ all of them into the country's education system.This was said by Higher and Tertiary Education deputy ministe...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Govt considers closing down Kwekwe mines
Kwekwe city centre finds itself on the precipice as the Government contemplates closing down mines that have wreaked havoc on the town's infrastructure and environment. Midlands Provincial Aff...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
House crumbles in Kwekwe
A Kwekwe family escaped death by a whisker after their flat at Globe and Phoenix compound caved in due to illegal mining underneath the compound.Family spokesperson, Ms Kimberly Rusike, said t...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi youths threaten to close borders and airports to curb gold smuggling
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Youth League has threatened to close all borders and airports before the August elections in order to combat gold smuggling, which the party claims is carried out by...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dembare's yoyo season continues
Dynaoms 0 - 0 TriangleDYNAMOS' topsy turvy start to their league campaign continued yesterday after they were frustrated to a goalless draw by Triangle at the National Sports Stadium.Their...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dembare fans protest
DYNAMOS supporters are a hard lot to please.The same supporters, who extolled the team last week following the Derby win over CAPS United, were singing a different tune yesterday.A big...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cattle sales still banned at ZITF
GOVERNMENT has said there will be no cattle sales at the Bulawayo Agricultural Society's (BAS) pens located within the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) showgrounds.The move is part of ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cash flush panners prey on vulnerable girls
GOLD panners are reportedly preying on vulnerable young girls in Nkayi District in Matabeleland North by using their financial muscle to quench their sexual appetite on the adolescents thereby exposin...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
After allowing authoritarian Rwanda to join, Commonwealth faces tough dilemma over Zimbabwe
After allowing a wave of authoritarian regimes to become members in recent years, the Commonwealth and member states such as Canada are now pondering one of their toughest dilemmas: whether to approve...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 3 | by Geoffrey York
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International's director for east and southern Africa, warned of dire consequences if the bill becomes law.Amnesty International, which has been advocating for a regim...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vicious crackdown on opposition part of Zanu-PF election playbook
THE arrest of Citizens' Coalition for Change parliamentarians Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya (pictured in khaki shirt) alongside other party members, including the elderly and juveniles, for ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
They want Chibaya in jail says Mahere
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere reckons the State is itching to lock up party organising secretary Amos Chibaya following his Saturday arrest alongside 25 ot...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police crackdown on Chamisa's CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) organising secretary Amos Chibaya and Budiriro legislator Costa Machingauta were arrested in Harare yesterday alongside 23 other party members while attending an in...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa 'wants to inject fear'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of railroading proposed legislation to punish "unpatriotic citizens" in order to avoid scrutiny and accountability.Critics said the p...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pressures Parly on PVOs Bill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has piled pressure on Parliament to fast-track the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill but opposition leaders have urged a rethink....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must revisit its ruinous stance on NGOs
Zanu-PF has been in overdrive with its attacks of civil society organisations with party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa being the latest top ranking official to launch an unprovoked tirade....Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | | by Evans Mathanda
Why Zanu, Zanu-PF were successful in the 1970s, 80s and 90s
I was in a meeting recently when someone who is not a member of Zanu or Zanu-PF asked the question: Why was Zanu and Zanu-PF successful in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and not successful after 2001? ...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:48hrs | 2 | by Fay Chung
Mnangagwa regime has turned Zimbabweans into the laughing stock of the world!
I remember those yesteryears of international travel in my childhood, as if they were only a few days ago!How, when I was chosen to represent Zimbabwe and the southern African region at a scou...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa says he is under siege
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday railed against President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the wave of arrests targeting opposition and civic society leaders and vowed that his Citizens Coalition for ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NGOs claims to be targets of Zanu-PF
HUMAN rights defenders have lamented heightened criminalisation of human rights defenders in the country which they say was a strategy to silence dissent ahead of next year's polls.This came o...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
What became of Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill?
THE Zimbabwe government has made several attempts to close down the civic space in Zimbabwe through existing and new legislation. This includes some amendments to the Criminal Law Codification and Ref...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 17 | by Nompilo Simanje and Otto Saki
Ekusileni Hospital might soon shutdown
Ekusileni Hospital could soon shut down due to serious staff and food shortages, resulting in the institution admitting less than 25 patients at a time.Ekusileni Hospital chief executive Asbol...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo sends advice to Malema's EFF
Professor Jonathan Moyo has urged South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters to reconsider its stance on ousting Eswatini's dictator King Mswati III saying the revolution might be hijacked by Western el...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF goes after unpatriotic Zimbabweans
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party purportedly plans to fast-track a controversial law that would punish citizens deemed "unpatriotic".The National Assembly last week adopted ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu
SA banks threaten to close bank accounts of Zimbabweans Exemption Permit holders
SOME South African banks are threatening to freeze accounts of Special Zimbabweans Exemption Permit holders if they don't provide new documents in January 2022.One of the permit holders, who r...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 08:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
British American Tobacco (BAT) negotiated bribe for Mugabe, new evidence suggests
A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain's biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.Documents show British American Toba...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 10:26hrs | 15 | by BBC
Mthwakazi party re-brands
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has embarked on a re-branding exercise, which will see the opposition changing its flag and party regalia.The party's spokesperson, Velile Moyo confirmed the...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Lockdowns without social grants won't work'
THE extension of level 4 lockdown by President Emmerson Mnangagwa without providing fundamentals such as social safety nets would continue forcing citizens to breach the prescribed safety regulations ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines failing to match new COVID-19 variants'
WORLD Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world was at a dangerous point in its fight against COVID-19 as vaccines were failing to stem the tide against...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZRP cracks whip on lockdown violators, intercity buses impounded
Authorities yesterday intensified the enforcement of Covid-19 control measures with police impounding buses that were operating illegally, while the Judicial Service Commission announced the closure o...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Biti hits back at Mnangagwa aide
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti has rubbished claims by the government that lawyers in the party crafted laws used by western countries to impose sanctions on the country.President Emm...Published: 16 May 2021 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'3rd wave already in Zimbabwe'
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the third wave of COVID-19 had already hit the country as evidenced by the surge in new infections in the past few weeks, a situation which poses a huge challenge ...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyer's bid to close down digital banking platforms flops
A HARARE lawyer's attempt to have all mobile-based digital banking platforms of FBC Bank closed after an imposter used his name to fraudulently open an account with the bank for criminal activities, f...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr President open Ekusileni Hospital - People are Dying
In June 2018, ahead of the July 2018 general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the government had engaged the Indian Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI) to operate the health facil...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:14hrs | 3 | by Dr Edwin Moyo
Greyhound and Citiliner closing operations
Greyhound and Citiliner are closing operations. Services will run until 14 February 2021. Passengers with tickets booked for services after thi...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 14:24hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Obadiah Moyo's firm digs in
LABORATORY reportedly linked to former Health minister Obadiah Moyo, Klosad Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory, yesterday hit back at orders by the Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) to clos...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Human wildlife conflict stops agriculture where hunting brings hope
Co-existing with wildlife can be both a curse and a blessing. The human-wildlife conflict has brought the century-old culture of agricultural production to a sad and difficult end in Bots...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:21hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
'Zimbabwe a big prison'
ZIMBABWE is one huge Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, where people need to be freed from the yokes of dictatorship and gross human rights violations, opposition MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sik...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police increase border controls
Police have intensified patrols on illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River where smuggling has become rampant in the last few weeks. The common illegal crossing points used by criminal...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
What impact and advantages do foreigners have on the hosting country?
From time immemorial, people have been on the move, from one country to the other.The reasons for movement have always varied. Some movements have been short term, some medium and yet others have been...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:18hrs | 17 | by MOIR
Malawi court bans planned airport, border protests
A Malawi court ordered a ban on protest at the country's airports and border crossings on Friday, as authorities try to avert new post-election demonstrations aimed at shutting down key transport hubs...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 17:28hrs | | by AFP
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