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'It is not from the benevolence of corrupt and vote-rigging politicians we expect our dinner' to paraphrase A Smith
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest (profit). We address ourselves not to their humanit...Published: 15 hrs ago | 308 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mohadi on the ropes
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is on the ropes as a growing sex scandal threatens to upend his political career.Mohadi, 71, missed a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the second major diary event he ha...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:22hrs | 4678 | by Staff reporter
Man fights for life after assault over goats
A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Kamativi in Hwange district is battling for life in hospital after a neighbour assaulted him with a metal bar in a fight over goats that strayed into a maize field.Mr Bo...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Magashule Houdini act, a Damascus moment to Zimbabwean politics
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule pulled a fast one this past week when he took a swipe at his party's national executive committee saying that only party branches can remove him from his position. ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:05hrs | 1282 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Mohadi office sex lover divorced by heartbroken husband
The marriage of a woman who was heard on a phone call with Vice President Kembo Mohadi agreeing to have sex with him in his office has collapsed.Harare man Martin Chabuka has called time on hi...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 21:30hrs | 2796 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners invade Bulawayo suburb
RESIDENTS of Queens Park East in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the emergence of omakorokoza panning for gold on the suburbs' outskirts, saying their presence is a threat to the peace and social...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza, bond notes: Mnangagwa's saviour
THE gigantic lake TugwiMukosi is spilling. This is a rare phenomenon for a water body so big to spill less than four years after commissioning.It holds a promise that is too big to hide or ign...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | 753 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Inflation will drop to 10% by December 2021' - not as long as Zimbabwe remains a Banana Republic
"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday forecast annual inflation to plummet to less than 10% this year, driven by a good agricultural season, fiscal and financial sector stability," reported Bu...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | 258 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF's 2023 plot exposed
HARARE residents and MDC formations yesterday claimed Zanu-PF was behind the chaos in most urban local authorities as part of a grand plan to set the electorate against the opposition ahead of the 202...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:20hrs | 2787 | by Staff reporter
60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Female panner dies in shaft
A female gold panner from Guyu in Matabeleland South Province died on the spot while her colleague escaped unharmed when a shaft they were working in at the bank of Mlalakgomo River collapsed, trappin...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mob bays for pyramid scheme founder's blood
MORE than 400 people besieged Mvuma Police Station baying for the blood of a 60-year-old woman who initiated a pyramid scheme that collapsed and prejudiced them of more than US$80 000. Police ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
'Inspect dams to avert disasters'
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs and Devolution Senator Monica Mavhunga has urged farmers in the province to ensure that their dams are inspected regularly by the Zimbabwe ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Somewhere, along the line, we lost the magicians
WHEN we mourn the dearth of quality players, standards and coaching methods, we are perennially accused of being too obsessed with the past. The ''Know-it-all" brigade of nostalgic, and disgruntled fo...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 97 | by Phillip Zulu
Watching in horror as the giants fell, one after another - The demise of public entities in Zimbabwe
When preparing this article, I was faced with the task of reviewing numerous press articles, news items and placing them alongside my own vast observations on what happened to the once thriving public...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:41hrs | 2734 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Beer binge ends tragically
A 22 year-old Mwenezi man paid a heavy price for violating lockdown rules and joining other villagers to drink mukumbi traditional brew after he was fatally stabbed with a home-made knife by his cousi...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 15:04hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Was November 2017 a false start for Zimbabwe?
THEN there was the incident in New York on 9/11, I drove into the garden of my daughter and her husband and they shouted at me to come and see what was happening.I walked into the house and sa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1096 | by Eddie Cross
'SA covid-19 variant is dominating 61%' - proof Zimbabwe has not been testing for it until now, why
"Cabinet wishes to inform that results of the genomic sequencing which was recently conducted indicate that the new SA covid-19 variant is dominating by 61%. The variant we were dealing with in 2020 h...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1189 | by Wilbert Mukori
Air Zimbabwe, the nation's pride
ON Monday, early in the morning, Government officials set camp at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport awaiting the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, a gift from China that c...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
1 killed after invading RioZim mine
A 36-YEAR-OLD artisanal miner from Chakari in Kadoma was last Friday shot and killed by a RioZim Limited mine security guard after illegal miners trespassed and gained access to one of the mine's clai...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:52hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
3 die in flooded mine shaft
Three bodies were retrieved from Pingo Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi today after a shaft in which an undisclosed number of artisanal miners were working was flooded.There were indications that at lea...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:51hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Road infrastructure decay needs policy change
The pace of Zimbabwe's road infrastructure decay has reached alarming levels which call for a policy change by the government. The country's major highways and urban roads have become a living hazard ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 14:34hrs | 736 | by Victor Bhoroma
Heavy rains damage Midlands roads
Heavy rains that have been pounding the country lately have extensively damaged roads across the Midlands Province. Bridges in some parts of the province have been swept away cutting off some communit...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:24hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
'We are united and peace loving people' said Mnangagwa - tyrant boot on our throat 'Shaisano!'
Zanu PF's ethos is that the party would rather destroy Zimbabwe, burn it down into ruins, than allow anyone else ruling the country! "Shaisano!" as one would say in Shona. 40 years of Zanu PF ...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:25hrs | 2206 | by Nomusa Garikai
One dies in Zimplats mine accident
An employee of one of Zimplats' contractors died yesterday from injuries he sustained when a high wall collapsed at the entrance of Ngwarati Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi. Zimplats head of corp...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sewerage horror for Nkulumane granny
GOGO Minah Sibanda (74), of 1552 Nkulumane suburb is living on a health time bomb as a sewerage manhole that is located right next to the door behind her house spills regularly and has not been attend...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:44hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's business empire, The death of a dynasty
BARELY five years after the demise of Zimbabwe's former ruler Robert Mugabe, the vast wealth he owned and accumulated throughout the 37 years of his reign is disappearing.A great dynasty appea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1283 | by Africa Report
Zanu-PF land baron Chivhanga in dramatic 'catch and release'
ZANU-PF Chitungwiza youth leader Taurai Chivhanga was last week involved in a dramatic ‘catch and release', when he was arrested and released with no charge under unclear circumstances on the next d...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 20:13hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
No outpour of love
TOMORROW looks set to pass just like any other day without the glitz, colour and outdoor romance synonymous with Saint Valentine's Day.February 14 is set aside anually to celebrate love, where...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:26hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
New model could revive Bulawayo industry
The article of January 5, by Silas Nkala made for remarkably interesting reading. The sentiments expressed are true of the sentimental opinion of most of us who have made this part of the country home...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:40hrs | 424 | by Muvirimi Francis Mangwendeza
Gold deliveries plunge 61%
Gold deliveries plunged by more than half to 0.99 tonnes in January from 2.54 tonnes recorded in the same month last year weighed down by heavy rains which slowed mining activity, Fidelity Printers an...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cartels that are not the real cartels
I just read the report by Daily Maverick, that is purporting to expose cartels in Zimbabwe. The problem with the report is it does not include the obvious and leading cartels in Zimbabwe, such as Old ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 4277 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
4 Chinese nationals severely injured fighting artisanal miners
Four Chinese nationals working under the controversial Zhong Jian mining company sustained severe injuries this week after they were attacked by artisanal gold miners over mining rights dispute....Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2966 | by Staff reporter
Are we heading for disaster? - An Open conversation
This article is an open conversation that touches the many issues that have brought our country to where it is today. It is not an article of opposition but a call to introspection. It is a call for u...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:19hrs | 1048 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
$500 000 compensation for ambulance mishap
THE High Court has ordered Netstar Ambulance Services (NAS) to compensate a Bulawayo man more than $400 000 after he fell off a stretcher and got injured while being taken out of the company's ambulan...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Caps United boss allays collapse fears
CAPS United vice president Nhamo Tutisani has allayed fears the Green Machine are on the verge of collapse amid a mass exodus of players. Instead, the Harare businessman, claims, the movement ...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Mwonzora's MDC-T?
CHAOS rocked the MDC-T national executive and national council meetings on Saturday with calls for the nullification of the party's December 2020 extraordinary congress presidential election results, ...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 19:56hrs | 4102 | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Call for revival of Bulawayo industry
CIVIL society organisations have called on the government to formulate a policy aimed at reviving industries in Bulawayo.Zimbabwe's second largest city used to be an industrial hub before a co...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
BCC employee dies during haircut
A BULAWAYO City Council employee collapsed and died on Tuesday while having a haircut at a barbershop in Nkulumane.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the inciden...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:49hrs | 3204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cities plagued by open defecation
WITH flies hovering all over the vicinity of the crowded slums of Epworth, an urban settlement approximately 25km east of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, laden plastic paper bags lie scattered on stree...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:48hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF is trapped and demanding negotiations at gun point' - how naive, it's povo that's trapped and dying like flies
There are some very confused people out there who are calling for political dialogue as the way forward but have no idea who should be demanding change much less what that change should be. All the ar...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:21hrs | 2827 | by Nomusa Garikai
Can South Africa come to Zimbabwe's rescue by ending 'quiet diplomacy'?
Zimbabwe's worsening economic and political crises seem to be never-ending and still getting worse. The misplaced expectations that the "new dispensation" would provide an escape route following the 2...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 433 | by Ian Scoones
The Mthwakazi question: Who does or doesn't qualify to be Mthwakazian?
My intention is not to write on either the historical origins or the actual geographical boundaries of Mthwakazi State, highlighted in yellow on the above image, but I am more concerned with initiatin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2483 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1738 | by Staff reporter
BCC: What went wrong?
"BULAWAYO'S success story is not something from outer space but a result of the constructive approach taken by councillors and the existence of a harmonious relationship between them and their elector...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1195 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Highway commissioned by Mnangagwa in 2020 collapses, 1 killed
One person died on the spot when the Skyline - Chimanimani highway gave into shaking caused by incessant rains just as a vehicle was passing.The road collapse happened just after Charter Bridg...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:32hrs | 7909 | by Staff reporter
President's wide powers on mining fuel extractive resources corruption
THE excessive, wide and discretionary powers of the President of Zimbabwe and Minister of Mines over the country's vast mineral resources and their allocation is perpetuating rampant corruption in the...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:22hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants 2% tax scrapped
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa Thursday called for the immediate scrapping of the government's contentious 2% tax to spur business growth before he went on to criticise the state for failing to...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
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