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Bosso brighten Brito's first game in charge
Highlanders 3 - 2 Black RhinosA possession-based style of play signalled the start to Portuguese coach Baltemar Brito's tenure as Highlanders' head coach by beating Black Rhinos in a Castle La...Published: 5 hrs ago | 289 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt incentives behind record gold deliveries, says Sakupwanya
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold buyer Better Brands Jewellery (BBJ), owned by local gold baron Pedzisayi "Scott" Sakupwanya, says the government's current bullion incentives will see record deliveries to the ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:05hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink: Living in fragile peace
YESTERDAY, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) launched the 2021 State of Peace Report. It is an annual product of the ZimRights' Right to Peace Campaign which seeks to empower communiti...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 387 | by Dzikamai Bere
Zacc loses bid to prosecute own cases
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has lost its bid to be given prosecuting powers over graft cases it investigates after government set up anti-corruption courts.Zacc had requeste...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Prepaid Zesa for all next year
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has procured 100 000 prepaid meters as it targets to complete the placement of all its customers under this system by June next y...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Former security guard helps build schools
THE painful experience of walking barefoot for 30km to and from school daily inspired Mr Kumbulani Tshambo of Victoria Falls to help build schools and reduce distance travelled by learners.Wit...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Khumbula reaches for aerospace dreams in the US
Born in a maize field in Zimbabwe, Samuel Khumbula never dreamed he would come to the United States. The son of the seventh wife of a polygamous patriarch, he grew up poor, sleeping on the ground in a...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:07hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa linked gold dealers mint money through govt incentives
GOVERNMENT'S Gold Incentives Scheme (GIS) has come under scrutiny amid indications it is largely benefitting politically connected persons, mainly President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close ally Pedzisayi "...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:18hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Under Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe going nowhere fast
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is either a liar or suffering from selective amnesia.Either way he should not be involved in anything to do with the financial affairs of Zimbabwe.He has ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 269 | by A Mbire
Top of the range vehicle smuggling in region rises
Some criminals in the region are targeting and stealing top-of-the-range vehicles before smuggling them into neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, where forged documents are manufactured before ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga marries long-time soldier lover
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has married his long-time lover Miniyothabo Baloyi, the presidency announced on Wednesday.The two lovebirds exchanged their vows during a private ceremony a...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:58hrs | 11732 | by Staff reporter
7-day ultimatum for businesses operating illegally
More than 70 percent of businesses in Harare are operating in defiance of regulations or by-laws and Government will descend on them if they fail to regularise their operations within seven days....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP fined for by-passing electricity
Chiredzi West Zanu-PF Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu was recently caught with hands in the cookie jar by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) for allegedly by-pa...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 15:26hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shedding crocodile tears
LAST week's threat by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to punish miners who have decimated swathes of mineral and agricultural fields demonstrated that he has suddenly awakened from his slumber and realis...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Cry, the beloved country Zimbabwe
THE average salary of a Zimbabwean teacher is now only able to buy just 20 loaves of bread. But the majority of the teachers' take home can no longer even buy half a dozen loaves given that many of th...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
The price of bread to humble Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation should should always play a track from Simon 'Chopper' Chimbetu's song Survival which is very informative and educative.This is a well choreographed track...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 11:56hrs | 1960 | by Leonard Koni
Zesa needs US$300m to address backlog
ZESA Holdings has a backlog of 305 000 domestic customers who need to have electricity connected to their homes, but requires a whooping US$300 million to connect all of them, a senior official has sa...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:59hrs | 888 | by Staff Reporter
Faulty Zesa meters headache for residents
SOME Bulawayo residents are living in houses without electricity due to defective prepaid electricity meters that Zesa installed at their homes.The power utility is failing to replace the faul...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Kusukuwere's once thriving orange estate now lies desolate
MAZOWE district war veterans' chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi, who grabbed former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF supremo, Saviour Kasukuwe's Concorpia farm in Mazowe, has run the once thriving estate down....Published: 31 May 2022 at 13:17hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
'Harare to pay US$22,000 a day for dumpsite'
ANTI-CORRUPTION watchdogs, civic groups and Harare residents yesterday described as scandalous and shameful the Pomona waste management deal awarded to Netherlands-based company Geogenix BV.Ge...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Old Bulawayo restoration resumes
THATCHING of King Lobengula's palace at Old Bulawayo has started as the Government steps up efforts towards completing works on the restoration of the historical site.The rebuilding of Old Bul...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:21hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Anti-smuggling blitz nets 200 luxury vehicles
So far 200 top-of-the-range vehicles, all probably stolen and smuggled into Zimbabwe, have been impounded under a joint operation between the Zimbabwe Republic Police and Interpol targeting vehicles s...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:19hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 3588 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rubbishes Biti's claim that it harboured Rwandan genocide fugitive
FOREIGN Affairs Deputy Minister, David Musabayana, has dismissed claims by Citizens Coalition for Change vice president, Tendai Biti that the government knowingly harboured Rwanda's most wanted genoci...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:35hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Blitz targets top-of-the-range cars
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is conducting a joint operation with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) targeting top-of-the-range vehicles believed to have been stolen in ne...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Is it just naivety or simply greed driving POLAD to believe sitting around table with corrupt power-greedy regime will yield res
A few years ago, a dear cousin of mine - who worked quite closely with the then president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, especially in the health sector (having held top positions in both government, and the ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:23hrs | 1350 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
305 000 new connections backlog burden Zesa
ZESA Holdings has a backlog of 305 000 new connections and over 2 000 transformers, officials at the power utility have said.If these new energy consumers get connected to the national grid, t...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:39hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group in bid to block Zimbabwe's Davos delegation
A LOBBY group, Fight Inequality Alliance Zimbabwe (FIA) says Zimbabwe's attendance of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting to be held in Davos, Switzerland will be a waste of taxpayers' money....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 749 | 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 | 106 | by Staff reporter
'Missing truck' driver charged with copper cables theft
A truck driver who was reported missing after an alleged ‘attempted hijack' has been dragged to court charged with stealing copper cables valued at US$750 000.The Biltrans Transport driver M...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe freezes registration of new NGOs
THE government has frozen the registration of private voluntary organisations (PVOs) and trusts, stoking fears that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has begun a clampdown on non-gover...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T connive to sell Harare golf courses
Zanu-PF and MDC-T councillors have set themselves on a warpath with their Citizens' Coalition for Change counterparts after conniving to block CCC councillors from sitting on committees while facilita...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:28hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: 'Prophet' Jay Israel reported to Hawks over Fraud and Human Trafficking
Controversial Bulawayo bred; South African based Prophet Jay Israel (real name Jacob Dube) has been reported to the Director General of Home Affairs, the Hawks and the South African Revenue Services o...Published: 04 May 2022 at 13:32hrs | 2807 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Most times, only 'solution' to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems is simply a completely new leadership!
Yesterday (May 3, 2022), when I was attentively listening to the deputy information minister, Kindness Paradza, addressing a World Press Freedom Day gathering in Bulawayo, there was a statement he mad...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 526 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allays fears of power shortage
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has allayed fears of a power shortage in the country as the Second Republic is ramping up power generation efforts, which would ultimately increase national energy output.G...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:55hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Maid caught on CCTV abusing a minor
A Bulawayo woman who was employed as a maid has been arrested for sexually abusing her employer's three-year-old son.The incident came to the fore when the toddler told his father that he was ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:11hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to throw away the Zimdollar
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to throw away the Zimbabwe dollar as a matter of urgency."Stop the auction syst...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:25hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Econet extends 5G coverage to Bulawayo
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, the country's largest mobile network operator, yesterday extended its national 5G network to the southern region, by launching the service in Bulawayo.The new network...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:20hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 201 | by jamwanda
Econet extends its 5G coverage, launches super-fast technology in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO - Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, the country's largest mobile network operator, yesterday extended its national 5G network to the southern region, by launching the service in Bulawayo.The ...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 16:07hrs | 826 | by Agencies
'Cartels controlling Zimbabwe fuel sector'
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has alleged that the country's fuel sector is run by cartels that are manipulating fuel prices.In its weekly review on socio-economic d...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Politicians are fuelling hate crimes
ONLY hate and barbarism could have produced the sort of spectacle the world witnessed a few weeks ago when a baying mob of South Africans moved from house to house in Johannesburg's Diepsloot slum to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 200 | by Addy Kudita
Teen electrocuted while stealing Zesa cables
A MARONDERA teenager (15) was electrocuted on April 17 while attempting to steal Zesa copper cables from a 200kV transformer.A police memorandum dated April 17 seen by NewsDay stated that the ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Network challenges haunt Mat South villagers
FOR Mr Rapelang Nare of Buvuma area, Gwanda District in Matabeleland South Province, to make a phone call, he has to walk for about two kilometres to get to the business centre where there is network ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces e-courts
ZIMBABWE will be introducing electronic courts, also known as e-courts, starting May 1.The announcement was made through Statutory Instrument (SI) 78, 79 and 80 of 2022 published in the Govern...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:19hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Zacc toothless
CORRUPTION remains the single most successful institution in the country employing several thousands of people, particularly those in high offices and their hangers-on.Media houses are doing a...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:42hrs | 220 | by Muzokomba villager
Mnangagwa's former schoolmates in their late 80s share memories
TO outsiders, perhaps Mapanzure in Zvishavane in the Midlands province is just a name of a random cluster of villages located along the mineral-rich Great Dyke. Chrome, diamonds, platinum and ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 09:56hrs | 2504 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bemoan shrinking democratic space, human rights abuses
ORDINARY Zimbabweans and observers have bemoaned the shrinking democratic space, human rights abuses and economic meltdown as the country celebrates 42 years of independence today.This year's ...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:30hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Muradzikwa-Jemwa court battle intensifies
THE explosive court battle between prominent corporate executive Grace Muradzikwa and flamboyant businesswoman Luminitsa Kimberly Jemwa has been postponed to 5 May after a court hearing on Wednesday a...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
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