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Zimbabwe linked Chris Maroleng fired by SABC
The SABC board has terminated the contract of employment of its Chief Operations Officer, Chris Maroleng, with immediate effect, Zim Techreview reported.This announcement followed "due conside...Published: 2 hrs ago | 628 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blesses Parliament's probe into ZINARA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved investigations by a parliamentary portfolio committee into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) after an audit unearthed mass...Published: 2 hrs ago | 359 | by Staff reporter
Land compensation and IMF re-engagement: A legacy of an Anti-poor government.
The full import of Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe is open for business mantra is now being painfully realized by the working class of Zimbabwe. Salaries of the workers have been eroded, the majority of our popu...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 20:10hrs | 2203 | by Obert Masaraure
A look into Zimbabwe's tanking economy
The country's largest gold producer is on the brink of collapse because of government's warped foreign currency retention policy; the cost of bread has gone up, more than three times in hardly a month...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:50hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Over 270k people receive cholera vaccine in Cyclone Idai ravaged districts
More than 270 000 people in Cyclone Idai ravaged districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge have so far been vaccinated against cholera under a government led initiative that is targeting to reach at least...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 18:01hrs | 457 | by Staff Reporter
Disgraced Australian journalist arrested in Zimbabwe
Television news producer Stephen Rice has been arrested while working in Zimbabwe - three years after he was jailed on assignment in Lebanon.The Australian journalist, Rice, flew into Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge on massive expansion drive
BEITBRIDGE Municipality, expected to reap a good chunk off spin-offs from the expansion of the Beitbridge Border Post, has already received ground-paving bricks worth thousands of dollars for use in t...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:27hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutors discredit evidence in Parirenyatwa trial
THE trial of former Health and child Care minister David Parirenyatwa continued yesterday with prosecutors attempting to discredit evidence given by the key witness.Parirenyatwa allegedly dire...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
State moves to impeach witness for siding with Parirenyatwa
The State yesterday moved to declare its witness, George Washaya, as hostile for siding with former Health minister David Parirenyatwa in his decision to relieve NatPharm managing director Flora Sifek...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's version of disaster capitalism, couched as resilience
A LOCAL Zimbabwean artist, Dereck Mpofu, recently released a song titled Mweya wechiZimba. Even though the title of the song may suggest it is religious, it is upon listening to it, that you discover ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 89 | by Takura Zhangazha
Zvinavashe's son boots out stepmom from plot
THE late liberation war hero and army commander General Vitalis Zvinavashe's son has been dragged to court for allegedly mistreating his father's 56-year-old widow.Richard Zivanashe, 50, is ac...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1919 | by Staff reporter
'I am not a CIO operative,' says Tundiya
SHEPHERD Tundiya, the man described as a con-artist by four legislators that appeared before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee last week facing allegations of soliciting for a $400 000 bribe from...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 2972 | by Staff reporter
40 rowdy youths arrested after drinking spree in CBD
POLICE have arrested 40 rowdy youths who went on the rampage in Bulawayo's CBD following a drinking binge over the weekend.Scores of under-age children flocked to various drinking spots in the...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
UK firm readies for Zimbabwe diamond mining
UNITED Kingdom-based Vast Resources Plc (Vast) says it has raised £300 000 (US$393 130) through a placement and subscription of shares as it prepares for the signing of a joint venture contract at Ch...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Mavhaire distances self from ZPC bribery storm
FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday distanced himself from the case in which the former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje is being accused of concealing hi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Churches fight on Mnangagwa's side
THE Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) leadership on Friday met with the United States representatives as part of its ongoing push to have western countries lift sanctions against President ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2394 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco income down 76%
TOBACCO sales have generated $19,4 million in the first 17 days of the marketing season this year compared to $81 million realised over the same period last year, statistics from the industry regulato...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe oil prospects increase
Newly defined data released last week by Invictus Energy, has provided management with increased confidence regarding a sizeable increase in the prospective resource estimate of the Muzarabani oil pro...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique threatens Zimbabwe over delayed wheat import payments
BEIRA port officials have threatened to stop Zimbabwe wheat cargo from using the terminal after inordinate delays in payment and collection of bonded consignments.Zimbabwe, through the Grain M...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Council commissions Luveve, Mpopoma swimming pools
THE Bulawayo City Council used Ward Retention Funds to refurbish the Mpopoma and Luveve Swimming Pools that were commissioned.Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni told a gathering at Mpopoma Swimmin...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 09:59hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
State case against Dr Parirenyatwa crumbles
The state's case against former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa is faltering.This follows one of the key state witnesses and former Natpharm board chairperson Dr Goerge Wa...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 16:52hrs | 1725 | by Staff reporter
MDC against IMF's support for Zimbabwe
The proposed IMF Staff Monitored Program is an entry point for full support of the regime and it ignores the factors arresting the Zimbabwean economy. Zimbabwe has had a stolen election; ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:56hrs | 1512 | by Jacob Mafume
China is NOT building a base in Zimbabwe!
Alternative Media (Alt-Media) is once again being manipulated by infowar practitioners into spreading fake news, with the popular outlet South Front republishing a false report about a Chinese base in...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:35hrs | 965 | by Andrew Korybko
Zimbabwean students reduced to beggars in Algeria
ZIMBABWEAN students studying on State scholarships in Algeria have, for the umpteenth time, made an impassioned plea to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to look into their welfare, which is now dire, as t...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:13hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in court
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board chairman Albert Mugabe has appeared in court on allegations of authorising and tendering false letters of undertaking to set off a mortgage ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:09hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Witness exonerates David Parirenyatwa
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa brought new ways of tendering medicine and there was a positive response from the board because procurement of medicine and distribution was be...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance congress divides ZCTU
A showdown is looming between the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and its membership over the labour representative body's decision to join MDC-Alliance ahead of the embattled party's crunch ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Corruption linked transport Ministry official's resignation turned down
Government has turned down the resignation of senior director in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development Ms Angeline Karonga, who is facing charges of corruption involving a tender a...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 15:46hrs | 3509 | by Staff reporter
2017 military coup ghosts spooking Mnangagwa govt
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 3202 | by Staff reporter
Massive retrenchments loom as Zimbabwe economy slows down
HUNDREDS of formal jobs are on the line in the economy as various businesses grapple with the realities of hyperinflation and exchange rate-induced losses. The market has witnessed massive price hikes...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 09:14hrs | 4219 | by Victor Bhoroma
Killed CIO boss' wife demands US$600 000
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:08hrs | 4727 | by Staff reporter
Death threats against top Zimbabwean journalist feature in Ace Magashule book 'Gangster State'
The Weekly's most significant media battle occurred much earlier, however. In 2011, Zimbabwean-born journalist- turned-media entrepreneur Basildon Peta launched the now-defunct Free State Times....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2042 | by Staff reporter
Zinara plugs financial leakages
Government has clipped the wings of the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and ordered it to stick to its core mandate of fixing road user fees and disbursing funds for road maintenance....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:52hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
IMF to monitor Zimbabwe economic targets, policies
International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and Zimbabwe have agreed on steps that will pave way for a Staff Monitored Programme (SMP).An SMP involves the IMF staff monitoring a country's economic...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Cement shortage chokes construction industry
ZIMBABWE'S construction industry contracted by 6,3% percentage points last year due to acute cement shortages and unsustainable prices of construction materials, a Treasury report has shown.Ac...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa accuses presiding magistrate of twisting facts
Former Health minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday unsuccessfully filed an application to have his matter referred to the High Court for a review.Parirenyatwa was also seeking an order to res...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF remains stronger, as the nation celebrates Independence Day
On 18 April every year, Zimbabweans join hands in celebrating the gains of independence that was brought by the country's freedom fighters.This year, Zimbabwe will be celebrating 39 years of s...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 20:50hrs | 486 | by Peacemaker Zano
Cops foil attempt to smuggle equipment
KATIYO tea estate contracted construction concern Mandebvu Construction's employees were convicted of attempting to smuggle an excavator, tractor, trailer and a bowser along Pungwe River from Mozambiq...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 16:13hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
Redwing Mine workers engage in massive strike
Workers at Redwing Mine have been picketing at the mine premises since 1 April. The contract workers had their employment contracts terminated on 31 March. They had not been paid for 15 months. Collec...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 14:29hrs | 856 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Chiwenga's soldiers killed two Israeli snipers
Commandos under the command of Vice President Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga are reported to have killed two Israeli bodyguards who were guarding the then Minister of Finance Ignatius Chombo's house dur...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 14:27hrs | 25834 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Goddard exonerates Mliswa, Ndebele, incriminates Zanu-PF MP
The parliamentary hearing into bribery allegations against four members of the National Assembly started yesterday with the complainant, Mr James Ross Goddard, exonerating Messrs Temba Mliswa and Anel...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 2538 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Parly raises red flag over Zinara graders repair costs
THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Portfolio Committee (PAC) last week grilled Univern over its supply of 80 graders with snow ploughs to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) in 2012 at a...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:39hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Chitando sucked into $111m Hwange scam
Hwange Colliery in 2016 lost a $111 million loan from government to fund its revival due to mismanagement, reckless trading and money laundering which has sucked in Mines minister Winston Chitando, an...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:33hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Zifa sticking to Umbro deal
ZIFA says it will meet Umbro this week to iron out outstanding contractual matters that led to the sportswear and football equipment supplier failing to deliver playing kit for the Warriors' last Afco...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:25hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala ordered to step aside in Mliswa Parly probe
Zengeza West legislator and lawyer Mr Job Sikhala was yesterday barred from representing two parliamentarians facing allegations of demanding a $400 000 bribe from a local businessman after the commit...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Parly begins probe into Mliswa Committee graft allegations
PARLIAMENT's Privileges Committee (PPC) will this Monday, begin investigations into corruption allegations levelled against some former members of the Mines and Mining Development then chaired by Inde...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:29hrs | 145 | by newzimbabwe
'Mafia' trying to block Zinara probe
Unnamed bigwigs in government are allegedly meddling with investigations by Parliament into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) after an audit unearthed massive corru...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1524 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai washes away Zimbabwe diamonds target
AS the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) sifts through the wreckage of the devastating Cyclone Idai, preliminary indications are that the firm will miss its first quarter production target ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa-Chamisa's contract will not be renewed
Six specially selected security crack teams are currently probing the misdemeanours by senior Zimbabwe National Roads Administrator (Zinara) executives, as authorities step-up the ante to cleanse the ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
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