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MDC Bulawayo to stage demo
SENIOR MDC Alliance members in Bulawayo are planning to demonstrate over the removal under unclear circumstances of Larney Maho from her post.Maho was nominated by the party structures to be t...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law approaches CAS of Fifa ban
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) is reportedly filing an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against Fifa's decision to ban Zimbabwe from international competitions, paving ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Town officials arrested by ZACC
KAROI acting town secretary Tongai Namisala has been charged with criminal abuse of office alongside housing director Admire Jimu following their arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAC...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Guvamatanga faces contempt of Parliament
FINANCE ministry secretary George Guvamatanga could be charged with contempt of Parliament after he failed to appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defense and Home Affairs on several...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Zifa running out of time to convince Fifa to lift suspension
ZIFA has one week left to convince Fifa to lift the country's suspension and allow the Warriors to participate in the 2023 Afcon qualifiers.Caf gave Zimbabwe up to next Thursday to get the sus...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Businessman in fierce battle with armed robbers
A fast-thinking and quick acting businessman and his family managed to fight off and repel a determined attack by four robbers in Dema Phase 3, Seke, on Wednesday night.The businessman put his...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Vodacom defends appointment of Zimbabwean
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has defended the appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as managing director of its South African operations, saying the company appoints the best talent that reflects its...Published: 19 May 2022 at 19:34hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
Police name Colleen Bawn mine collapse victims
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has named the seven miners who lost their lives Saturday after hoisting ropes to a cage bringing them up the shaft snapped at Bucks Mine in Collen Bawn, Gwanda, Mata...Published: 19 May 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe blames police corruption on citizens
Home affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has a plan to deal with police corruption: Zimbabweans must stop paying bribes, he told the Senate on Thursday.Kazembe admitted corruption was rampant in ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
Biti takes Mnangagwa to task
HARARE east legislator, Tendai Biti, has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for knowingly harbouring Rwanda's most wanted genocide fugitive, Protais Mpiranya.It recently eme...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3208 | by Staff reporter
Full-blown Zimbabwe teachers strike looms
GOVERNMENT has courted the ire of teachers after it reportedly deducted huge amounts from salaries of educators who went on strike when schools reopened last year.NewsDay understands that some...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Zec completely lost on elections
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) never ceases to amaze.Its penchant to always blame someone or something for its own failures is incredible.Now Zec is suggesting that elections ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe elections a security threat'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has accused politicians of fanning anarchy by alleging that it was mismanaging elections.Zec also claimed that elections in the country were now a secur...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Another Rwandan fugitive confirmed dead
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) yesterday confirmed the death of Phénéas Munyarugarama, one of the remaining fugitives indicted by ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt recruits extra 10 000 teachers
More than half of the extra 10 000 teachers needed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have now been recruited over the last couple of months. The Public Service Commission has ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Zesa in import substitution drive
Zesa is working with Mozambique and Zambia to add an extra 250MW of imports which will help with the winter peaks, while it is now moving into manufacturing of electricity pylons and assembling solar ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lied to diplomats'
THE United Kingdom government is plotting tougher sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, arguing the measures put in place have failed to nudge Harare towards reform, hence t...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:48hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
Top medical firm in labour, tax evasion storm
ONE of Zimbabwe's oldest and major private medical services provider, Baines Imaging Group is embroiled in a nasty fight with serving and former employees, who are accusing the institution of external...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
ZRP releases names of accident victims
Police have released the names of five people who were killed in a road traffic accident last Thursday when a Toyota Wish they were travelling in rammed the back of a stationary Iveco Truck which had ...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:57hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
So tragic that Zimbabwe regime respects animals more than its own citizens!
This morning I watched, in profound amazement, a news report on the Zimbabwe government's impassioned pleading with the EU (European Union) to support the country's cause at this year's CITES Conferen...Published: 17 May 2022 at 11:01hrs | 1554 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex-UK envoy roasted over Mnangagwa links
FORMER British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing has been roasted by the United Kingdom Parliament for giving London misleading reports that portrayed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "reformist...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 5027 | by Staff reporter
US$250 000 debt chokes Zanu-PF bigwig
FORMER State Security minister and Zanu-PF bigwig Sydney Sekeramayi has been dragged to court over a US$250 000 debt he owes a friend.Sekeramayi, who is also a Mashonaland East senator, was su...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi falls on hard times, fails to repay US$250,000 debt
ZANU PF politburo member, Sydney Sekeramayi has fallen on hard times and is failing to repay a US$250 000 debt to a friend.This has emerged after the friend, Exevia Maoneke, dragged him to cou...Published: 16 May 2022 at 20:52hrs | 1766 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Minister Karoro
VILLAGERS in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central are breathing fire over Presidential inputs from which they were supposed to benefit but were allegedly swindled by their Member of Parliament Douglas ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 12:13hrs | 3715 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa ally says 'Zec must pass credibility, transparency tests'
POLITICAL parties and election watchdogs have challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to dispel poll rigging accusations for it to gain public confidence and trust ahead of the 2023 general...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Flats to reduce Bulawayo housing backlog
GROWING up in a residential flat as opposed to a stand-alone housing unit has largely been confined to a few western suburbs in Bulawayo.Several rented apartments owned by the local authority ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mayhem at Barbourfields
Highlanders 1 - 0 Dynamos(Match abandoned after 92 minutes)THERE were disgraceful scenes in yesterday's Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match between Highlanders and Dynamos at Ba...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dynamos battle abandoned after Dembare fans uprooted the goalposts
The game between Highlanders and Dynamos was abandoned before the fulltime whistle after chaotic scenes forced two lengthy stoppages.The first interruption happened at the hour mark and lasted...Published: 15 May 2022 at 17:46hrs | 4068 | by Staff reporter
Churches speak against early child marriages
Churches in Mashonaland Central have castigated early child marriage which is rampant in the province.According to Zimbabwe Gender Comm...Published: 15 May 2022 at 15:36hrs | 458 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa challenger's case raises eyebrows
The court challenge over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy took an ominous turn following last week's arrest of the Zanu-PF activist, who instituted the high profile case.Sybeth Museng...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:15hrs | 3454 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Airport 'now a human trafficking hub'
"A lot of things happen here at the airport. It all depends on the money on offer," an immigration official at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport said.In October 2021, Roselyn Dun...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for trying to bribe cops at road block
A HARARE man was arrested after he tried to bribe a police officer at a checkpoint along the Harare-Beitbridge highway on Friday.The man, identified by police as Anyway Pepukai, was a conducto...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:13hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 887 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Ex-UK ambassador's Zanu-PF links exposed
THE United Kingdom lawmakers have exposed former British ambassador to Zimbabwe Catriona Laing over Zanu-PF links and misleading the government into believing President Emmerson Mnangagwa, then the la...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Police buckles under pressure; bans use of hand-held spikes
In a turn of events, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has with immediate effect banned the use of hand-held spikes by its members.In a statement, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga s...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo Airport saga: Govt in U-turn
GOVERNMENT yesterday apologised for suddenly removing the shield emblem at Bulawayo's Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport.It also said it was re-designing the emblem and would soon erec...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:06hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
'PG sitting on 265 graft cases'
ACTING Deputy Prosecutor-General (PG) Michael Reza came under-fire yesterday for failing to prosecute 265 high-profile cases submitted by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) since 2020....Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:05hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
ZRP instantly outlaws use of spikes
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has banned outlawed the use of hand held metal spikes by law enforcements agents follow...Published: 13 May 2022 at 16:57hrs | 512 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Corrupt council officials' lawyers fail to appear in court
LAWYERS representing three Mvurwi Town Council officials who allegedly stole 32 stands valued at more than ZWL$18 million which they sold to desperate stand seekers while issuing fake receipt failed t...Published: 12 May 2022 at 16:06hrs | 2136 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
'Drop in voter numbers disturbing'
THE number of registered voters as of April 30 has dropped by 10 448 compared to the 2018 figures, a trend analysts said was disturbing.According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zi...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand action on stolen COVID-19 funds
THE Public Accounts Committee (Pac) has called on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and police to investigate the abuse of US$89 million COVID-19 relief funds by government officials....Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers run amok in Chegutu
DOZENS of villagers near Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo Airbase in Chegutu were on Tuesday allegedly assaulted by soldiers reportedly searching for a machete gangster who had assaulted their collegue.A...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2426 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors push for more boreholes
BULAWAYO city councillors are considering using devolution funds to drill more boreholes to address the city's perennial water crisis.In 2019, the city suffered one of its worst water crises, ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Harare regrets the hasty removal of the shield signage at Joshua Nkomo airport
GOVERNMENT will prioritise stakeholder engagement in designing permanent signage for the country's airports as it embarks on the exercise to meet International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stand...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's idle cannabis licence holders put on notice
The US$27 million medical cannabis farm and processing plant at Mount Hampden set up by Swiss Biocieuticals Limited was commissioned yesterday by President Mnangagwa who urged others with permits for ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police chiefs tell junior officers to 'stop displaying your poverty'
Police chiefs have warned poorly-paid junior officers to avoid being photographed displaying their poverty.In a leaked internal memo dated May 7, police bosses said police officers snapped tak...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:09hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
DJ Fantan arrested
Music producer DJ Fantan was arrested on Tuesday after his wife told police he beat her and locked her up at their home.Fantan, real name Arnold Kamudyariwa, was detained at Waterfalls Police ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:27hrs | 1640 | by Staff reporter
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