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Land baron submits CV to chair DCC, Tsholotsho up in flames
Tsholotsho's local traditional leadership and villagers are seething with anger after Zanu PF recently accepted a CV from a land baron and local businessman Owen Sibanda who has expressed intere...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2666 | by Robbie Ncube
Chamisa falls in Marondera
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance candidate for Marondera mayoral elections, Bornface Tagwireyi, was yesterday defeated by MDCT candidate Simbarashe Nyahuye in a tight contest held at council chambers.N...Published: 15 hrs ago | 11225 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents hail Zacc probe
BULAWAYO residents have hailed the move by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate reports of alleged land scams involving city fathers, saying this would help bring sanity at th...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Hubby torches property in infidelity row
A GWANDA woman has been left stranded after her husband set their property on fire on Sunday morning following a dispute over alleged infidelity. The man, Amos Phiri (37) from Matshetsheni are...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Nelson Chamisa
A SECTION of the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC-Alliance had urged the party to abandon its contested name as an identity crisis rocks the opposition movement. The Mr Chamisa-led group continues to...Published: 15 hrs ago | 4112 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa should seriously consider forming another party'
A ZIMBABWEAN human rights lawyer says the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa is unlikely to seek a court order to stop the Thokozani Khupe MDC-T from using the Alliance to f...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 19:10hrs | 3884 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa meet clerics
THERE is renewed hope that the much-needed and much-talked about national dialogue could happen soon, after top clerics met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa sep...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 5129 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pledges to improve the working conditions of health workers
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who is also the country's Health Minister has pledged to improve the working conditions of public sector health workers.This comes as the Health Apex Counci...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec starts marking O' and A' level June exams
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) on Monday started marking the June 2020 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations.The process started after markers who tested negative to Covi...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:36hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Divisions brew in MDC-Alliance over party name
The rebranding of the MDC-Alliance in response to the MDC-T's decision to use the same name (MDC-Alliance) in future polls, including the forthcoming by-elections, has triggered an in-house spat featu...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 12:31hrs | 6102 | by John Sigauke
Chamisa to field recalled councillors
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance's Bulawayo provincial executive has resolved to field all the eight councillors who were recently recalled by the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe in the upcoming by-el...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:41hrs | 9486 | by Staff reporter
Biti to stop recall of Jacob Mafume?
MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti and his old party People's Democratic Party (PDP) have approached Parliament seeking to stop the planned recall of the recently elected Harare mayor Jacob Mafum...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 5526 | by Staff reporter
Govt salary talks collapse
GOVERNMENT salary talks broke down last week, with teachers saying they will boycott classes when schools reopen for examination classes next week as a result.The Apex Council, an umbrella bod...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 4717 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans mining at Matobo Hills
GOVERNMENT has succumbed to pressure and cancelled a gold prospecting licence issued to Mazinahue Syndicate at the Matobo Hills World Heritage site following protests by villagers and local pressure g...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
What is Khupe up to?
WEEKEND reports that the MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe had claimed the MDC Alliance title exposes confusion in that party. It speaks to desperation on the part of the MDC-T to seek legitimacy. But to w...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 3393 | by Staff reporter
Artistes want ‘name-and-shame' Covid-19 relief fund 'cheaters'
ARTISTES in Bulawayo have challenged the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) to name and shame those who tried to defraud the Covid-19 Arts relief fund. NACZ director Nicholas Moyo said a...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Biti's PDP recalls Harare mayor
BARELY a month after his election, Harare Mayor councillor Jacob Mafume has been recalled by his party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), a development that is likely to result in a fresh poll. ...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 6078 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF vice chair steps down
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial vice chair Ailess Baloyi has relinquished his post in the ruling party after his appointment as the new chief executive for Chiredzi Rural District Council, since senior ex...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attends virtual UN General Assembly
President Mnangagwa will today join other Heads of State and Government in the virtual opening meeting of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The opening proceedings, whic...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Former Governor convicted
Former Midlands Governor Jason Machaya has been convicted by the Gweru magistrate court of abuse of office and will be sentenced today (Tuesday), his lawy...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 05:10hrs | 1496 | by Staff Reporter
Church says 'it's time for Zimbabwe to come together'
WITH the country and its two major political parties - Zanu-PF and the MDC - continuing to contend with serious challenges, the church has renewed its calls for all Zimbabweans to come together in the...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:15hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo registry office reopens
THE Government has okayed the re-opening of the Registrar-General's Office which will see more than 6 199 children born during the Covid-19 lockdown access birth certificates in Bulawayo.Despi...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:28hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'it's game on'
UNDER-FIRE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unfazed by the relentless attacks from fellow opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and the ruling Zanu-PF party, declaring his pa...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 10792 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets Chamisa-led councils
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to unleash the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) to sniff out corrupt elements in all councils led by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance.But crit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2078 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist eviction for city expansion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and Masvingo district development co-ordinator (DCC) Ray Hove was on Saturday reportedly booed by over 300 resettled farmers who refused to be forcibly evicted from...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2544 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe crisis man-made'
OUTSPOKEN cleric and one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top advisers, Shingi Munyeza, yesterday said the country's crisis was man-made, and mainly centred on unresolved succession matrix.In...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2487 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia satisfied with progress at Batoka hydro plant
ZIMBABWE and Zambia have expressed satisfaction on the progress made in the construction of the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme (BGHES) since the project was awarded to a Chinese contractor....Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2173 | by Staff reporter
BCC proposes $2,85 billion supplementary budget
BULAWAYO City Council on Friday announced a proposed $2,85 billion supplementary budget to sustain its operations for the remainder of this year.The council also announced a $17,1 billion prop...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Khupe an embarrassment to women
IT is clear MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe does not have a political compass, neither does Douglas Mwonzora have gravitas and that extra touch, worse Morgen Komichi is just a natural disaster and a time...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2847 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF factions hold key to ending Zimbabwe problems
FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 3862 | by Staff reporter
Pressure keeps mounting on Chamisa
Pressure keeps mounting on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa as his former top lieutenant and now MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance name belongs to the MDC-T and the...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 5275 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thunders, Zanu-PF's attitude hardens
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that he would not seek outside intervention to hold dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups in the country. At the same time, a ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 4645 | by Staff reporter
Race For Khupe's Position Resumes
THE battle for the MDC presidency begins in earnest in a fortnight with the party receiving nominations of candidates aspiring to challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe, at an extra-ordinary congres...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:23hrs | 5418 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4845 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T clears air on recalled councillors
THE MDC-T has vowed to monitor operations of their candidates who were deployed to local authorities in the country, vowing to recall those who are involved in corrupt activities.This comes af...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2089 | by Staff reporter
BCC rejects Govt directive
THE Bulawayo City Council is headed on a collision course with Government after council rejected a directive to have senior Government officials attend full council and committee meetings.Last...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has wow factor, claims Mutsvangwa
ZANU-PF is the only party that can take Zimbabwe in the right direction and the revolutionary party will continue to welcome defectors who repent and commit to return to its structures - Information, ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 413 | by Bishop Lazarus
Khupe faction rebrands to MDC Alliance
THE MDC leadership wrangle Saturday took a turn for the ridiculous when the MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe declared it will now use the MDC Alliance.The announcement immediately drew pro...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1779 | by Staff reporter
Gono says Zimbabwe is in a crisis
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says there is no need to deny that the country is in a crisis as the problems were self-evident.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3031 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
City fathers under fire over water
SOME former Bulawayo councillors say the current council leadership cannnot escape blame for the grave water shortages in the city amid accusations the local authority is failing to manage the limited...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Khupe drops Chamisa party name bombshell
Former deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T yesterday said it is now known as the MDC Alliance in yet another dramatic twist in the battle for the control of Zimbabwe's main opposition party....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | 5999 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 228 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF tells ANC to 'rein in your talkative officials'
ZANU-PF has told South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) to restrain some of its officials from communicating inaccurate information on what the sister parties had agreed during their...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 3007 | by Staff reporter
Teachers declare incapacitation ahead of schools reopening
THE opening of schools for examination classes after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been dealt a blow after teachers declared incapacitation.Government announced Grade Seven, Ord...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2243 | by Staff reporter
BCC fails to relocate vendors
BULAWAYO city fathers are failing to re-allocate vending bays owing to lack of financial resources needed for marking the trading spaces to meet COVID-19 guidelines on social distancing.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Zacc quiz mayor, BCC bosses - Town Clerk refuses to comment
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quizzed Bulawayo City Council managers and the Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni as it probes alleged corruption in the sale of stands as well as in pro...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's murder accused councillor remanded to November
MDC-Alliance councillor for Bindura's Ward 1, Paradzai Mupingiza, who is facing murder charges, was yesterday further remanded to November 27. Mupingiza (35) was not asked to plead to the char...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand the ouster of MDC Councillor Mcdonald Chunga
Bulawayo residents are baying for the blood of Ward 14 Councilor Mcdonald Chunga who is being accused of deserting the ward and relocated to South Africa where he has been residing for the past eight ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 11:10hrs | 5313 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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