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Ex-NetOne boss faces probe
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating former NetOne CEO Reward Kangai over a myriad of alleged criminal abuse of office cases during his tenure at the state-owned mobile netw...Published: 9 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
Army brutality land Muchinguri in trouble
A Chinhoyi woman is suing two ministers and the police chief for $300 000 after she was brutalised by four soldiers at her home during the army crackdown that followed the violent January protests....Published: 2 mins ago | 1 | by Staff reporter
No quick solutions to electricity, fuel shortages: Coltart
In our previous edition we carried a Q&A with former Education minister David Coltart where he spoke about the culture of political violence in Zimbabwe and how it has also influenced the MDC....Published: 5 mins ago | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tension grows as government clamps down on dissent
Teargas and truncheons returned to Zimbabwe's cities in recent days, as protesters took to the streets to express their discontent at the deteriorating economy.Protests began on August 16 in H...Published: 8 mins ago | 16 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's book to expose ZEC
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has finished writing a book which details how the 2018 presidential election was systematically rigged by state institutions for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1719 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Duo in fake birth certificates scam
TWO people have been arrested in Bulawayo after they allegedly forged a hospital stamp to generate fake birth certificates.Cheneso Clara Mumbire (42) and Claudus Chigwere (41), last week appea...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1180 | by Staff reporter
PSC revamps civil service training
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has begun integrating all Government employee training institutions into an overarching academy, as the employer seeks to equip the workforce with modern skills....Published: 10 hrs ago | 662 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's latest bid to arrest price distortions
THE National Competitiveness Commission (NCC) is currently engaging manufacturers and producers countrywide to establish pricing formulae , a strategy meant to arrest the current distortions on cost o...Published: 10 hrs ago | 656 | by Staff reporter
US Tendai Biti to take over from Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls?
United States officials who last week feted opposition St Marys legislator Job Sikhala at his house in Chitungwiza are rooting for the party's vice president, Tendai Biti, to take charge of the party ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2803 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri, Mathema, army, police hit with fresh $3,5 million lawsuit
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) have been slapped with a $3, 5 million lawsuit as more civilians mount claims following episodes of a brutal crakdown by security fo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1002 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid on course
Zimbabwe's foreign policy in the Second Republic is anchored on ensuring the country regains its past glory by integrating into the community of nations after years of isolation typified by the First ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 150 | by Staff reporter
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 | 830 | by AFP
Afcon renegades blacklisted
THE new Warriors technical team will be told not to select big goalkeeper George Chigova and China-based Nyasha Mushekwi among other players for future Warriors assignments, B-Metro Sport has learnt. ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 3748 | by Staff reporter
Police crush teachers' demo
POLICE yesterday ruthlessly crushed a demonstration organised by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) at Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's offices and arrested the union's eight top...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:15hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda's Gukurahundi remarks ignite storm
A PROPOSAL by Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, for government to stay the ongoing exhumation of Gukurahundi victims until a legal framework has been put in place has torched a storm, w...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe fights for his party position
EMBATTLED Zanu-PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central province Kazembe Kazembe has warned ruling party members against remaining in the campaign mode and urged them to accept the current party leaders...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi remarks ignite storm
A PROPOSAL by Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, for government to stay the ongoing exhumation of Gukurahundi victims until a legal framework has been put in place has torched a storm, w...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1261 | by Staff Reporter
The Zanu-PF Youth League
The organisation or should I say one of the structures of Zanu-PF, their youth league is one hell of a problem in this country. A totally antidemocracy force that usually takes the law into thei...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2291 | by Clemen Moyo
'Baba Jukwa' sues police, defence ministers for wrongful umbrella arrest
Journalist Edmund Kudzayi of the "Baba Jukwa" fame is suing Home Affairs and Defence ministers for $500,000 as compensation for his unlawful arrest over possession of a camouflage umbrella.The...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:49hrs | 2864 | by ZimLive
American banker takes over CBZ Holdings Chairmanship
An American banker, Marc Holtzman has been appointed as CBZ Holdings new board chairman.Mr Holtzman has three decades of political and public service in the United States and is former chairma...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:40hrs | 3394 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya faces investigation over sexual abuse
The Zimbabwe Gender Commission has instituted investigations against Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Walter Magaya who has been facing several allegations of sexually abu...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:40hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF won people's mandate and will not share it with MDC' - illegitimate, rigged elections
Zanu-PF is treating the issue of the regime's lack of legitimacy and the MDC's call for a power sharing arrangement as if the two are one and the same thing."The people pronounced themselves a...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 628 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa warns Zacc against abuse of power
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should not use its recently acquired arresting powers to settle personal and political scores, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned.Mnangagwa in June...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3799 | by newzimbabwe
Biti sues First Mutual Holdings for $15m
MDC deputy president Tendai Biti has taken First Mutual Holdings Limited to court demanding that upon retirement, the pension fund should pay him the contractual $15 million sum assured after the insu...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:43hrs | 2755 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC under siege
NELSON Chamisa's MDC party has raised alarm over the "arbitrary" arrest of its activists and top leadership in the past few days, with the latest being national organising secretary Amos Chibaya who w...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 2327 | by Staff reporter
Gunmen open fire on MDC MP's house
MARONDERA Central MP Caston Matewu (MDC Alliance) and his family escaped unhurt when suspected State security agents opened fire on their house in Nyameni high-density suburb yesterday morning....Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Probe underway on Gonyeti 'kidnapping'
Government is concerned about allegations of Samantha "Gonyeti" Kureya's kidnapping and assault by unknown masked men which occurred on Wednesday night. Gonyeti is a comedian and an artiste at...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Chibaya arrested over anti-Mnangagwa demos
MDC-Alliance organising secretary and Mkoba legislator Amos Chibaya was yesterday arrested for failing to comply with a prohibition order issued by the police and upheld by the High Court against his ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands results from workers
Civil servants must be performance and results-oriented in the execution of their duties, President Mnangagwa has said. The President said this at the launch of the Public Service Commission S...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda's scandals unpacked?
Who is Jacob Francis Mudenda? Jacob Francis Mudenda nicknamed "The Headmaster" in parliament and "Scania" in Matebeleland North is the current Speaker of the National Assembly. Born in 1949, M...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 05:56hrs | 5153 | by Nicholas Ncube
EU ambassador criticises Mnangagwa for the third time in a week
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts aimed at wooing back powerful western countries seem to be heading for the rocks after the European Union (EU) condemned his government's heavy-han...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 18:28hrs | 5480 | by newzimbabwe
SADC must sanction Mnangagwa
SADC must sanction Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa for gross human rights abuses and for proscribing the rights and freedoms of assembly and speech that are permissible under the country's Constitution....Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:13hrs | 2680 | by MDC
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 624 | by Foreign Policy
Zimbabwe turns to nuclear enrichment, with help from Russia
TROUBLED by a recurring electricity crisis, Zimbabwe agreed terms with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment in a bid to begin generation, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo revealed this...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | 2520 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's government: The mask has slipped
In April last year, on these pages, I expressed concern at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government's obvious fascination with Rwanda and China.On the face of it, it seemed as if Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 888 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe civil service top heavy, bloated
GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that it was bloated, had a top-heavy structure, with some key departments manned by second-class professionals owing to poor salaries and conditions of service.Th...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Zec in quandary over delimitation exercise
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in quandary over the delimitation exercise as the Constitution stipulates that it must be conducted after the Census in 2022 leaving little time to prepare f...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches PSC Strategic Plan
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa launched the 2019-20 Public Service Strategic Plan in Harare yesterday aimed at reforming the public service and improve productivity, accountability, remuneration and pension refo...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Pirate taxi passengers beat up lone gunman
PASSENGERS in a pirate taxi from the Bulawayo city centre to Emganwini suburb yesterday savagely pummelled a lone gunman suspected to be behind a spate of armed robberies that have rocked the city in ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands loyalty
President Mnangagwa yesterday implored civil servants to be loyal to Government and fulfil its policies that are derived from the ruling party, Zanu PF's manifesto following its victory in...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU-PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology, but those parties remain teaser bulls, nothing more. The party works in ve...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 210 | by Elijah Chihota
25 new buses for civil servants launched
President Mnangagwa yesterday launched 25 new buses for civil servants as part of measures to improve their conditions of service. The launch of the buses followed that of the Public Service C...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Rule of law is for us, claims Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's rule of law is sacrosanct and not tailored to please other countries or one particular group of people but all citizens, the President has said. President Mnangagwa said the law is ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zec calls on residents to register as voters
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has urged citizens to register to vote so that their constituencies are not affected by delimitation processes in 2022....Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 17:57hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into Mphoko, Zacc fight
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who stands accused of abuse of public office, has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa into his case, saying the Zanu-PF leader in 2015 made a similar act whe...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:00hrs | 2922 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko, ZACC strike deal
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko could appear in court as early as Wednesday, his lawyer said, after talks with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC).Lawyer Zibusiso Ncube den...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 11:56hrs | 4915 | by ZimLive
'Phelekezela Mphoko guarded by CIOs'
Former Zimbabwean Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is still guarded by State security which makes it impossible for him to flee from justice, his lawyer Zibusiso Ncube has said. Ncube was res...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 10:37hrs | 4841 | by Staff Reporter
Like Mnangagwa, Mphoko knows he will not be treated fairly
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is not a fugitive as reported by some sections of media but is at home and cooperating with the detectives from the Anti-Corruption Commission his lawyer has s...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube sues The Mirror for $1,5m
Gweru businessperson Smelly Dube has taken a Masvingo-based publication, The Mirror, to the High Court demanding defamation damages in the sum of $1,5 million, accusing the paper of misrepresenting fa...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
Bill ignorance irks MPs
PARLIAMENTARIANS, who were conducting public consultations on the Freedom of Information Bill in Marondera yesterday and Bindura on Monday, were irked after residents clearly exhibited lack of knowled...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:53hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
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