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Mnangagwa must engage Paul Siwela to avoid spill of blood in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe President, Emmerson Mnangagwa must abandon his "head in the sand" approach to Matabeleland independence cause and engage MLO President, Cde Paul Siwela, to hatch a plan that would see pea...Published: 1 hr ago | 255 | by Israel Dube
Woman begs court to 'force' husband to indulge in sex with her
WHAT do you do when you're married and your partner doesn't want to indulge in sex anymore?Such is the dilemma being faced by a 50-year-old woman from Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North province...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4459 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks about Gukurahundi genocide
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country could only put closure to the emotive 1980s Gukurahundi genocide issue by allowing victims to openly and frankly debate it without fear of reprisals....Published: 13 hrs ago | 634 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's proposed Patriotic Bill: Whither Zimbabwe at 41?
ACCORDING to the permanent secretary in the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ministry Virginia Mabhiza, as quoted in The Sunday Mail on October 4 2020, her ministry drafted principles of a "Pa...Published: 13 hrs ago | 147 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Tanganda to relist on ZSE
ZIMBABWE'S largest producer and distributor of tea and other beverages, Tanganda Tea Company Limited, is expected to relist on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) after over a decade of absence. This wi...Published: 13 hrs ago | 127 | by Staff reporter
Notorious robber rearrested
One of Zimbabwe's most wanted armed robbery suspects believed to be part of Musa Taj Abdul's gang, Conwell Junior Kasambarare (26) has been rearrested on allegations of committing a spate of heists co...Published: 13 hrs ago | 373 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ calls for Ministry of labour's intervention over threatened strike
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and United federation for food and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe are meeting the minister of Public Service labour and Social Welfare Paul Mavima to...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 13:10hrs | 969 | by Paul Ndou
OK Grand challenge bounces back
LISTED retail giant OK Zimbabwe Limited will resume its Grand Challenge competition this year after foregoing it last year due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown restrictions.It will be the 32nd...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt resurrects youth militia
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the return of its infamous National Youth Service programme for its youth militia, also known as "Border Gezi graduates", with analysts saying the move was meant to inst...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2074 | by Staff reporter
75 year old man kills girlfriend
A 75-year-old man from the Whunga area in Beitbridge West went berserk and hacked his live in girlified (57) to death with a machete and an axe following an argument. Sitoboli Maluko killed Vi...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Pan-African Parliament pushes for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
THE Pan-African Parliament (PAP) will continue to lobby for the removal of sanctions against Zimbabwe by the United States and its western allies despite the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pande...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:21hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4559 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to contain its highly divisive DCCs
Zanu-PF has moved to contain its recently reinstated but highly divisive district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) by enrolling their members at its school of ideology, in a bid to foster party unity a...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean film on land reform receives multiple global awards
A movie based on Zimbabwe's land reform programme called Harmony Valley has left some audiences around the world in tears and picked several international film awards.Set in the year 2000, the...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:35hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:19hrs | 3964 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The problem was not Mugabe, but Zanu-PF
THE chaos and uncertainty that is rocking Zanu-PF after its chaotic district development coordinating committee elections held last December has left the party weak, fractured, divided and easy to be ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1174 | by Chief Chiduku
Couple jailed 15 years for rape
A Zvishavane couple, who connived to rape a nineyear-old girl, was yesterday jailed to an effective 15 years after being jointly convicted of rape.Benson Moyo (26) and wife Tafadzwa Moyo, whos...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 07:01hrs | 2074 | by Staff reporter
Monarchy: The cornerstone of African existence
PRINCE Phillip is no longer in our midst. Some dark cloud seems to envelope Britain. May his soul rest in peace. A couple of weeks back, Southern Africa seemed to stand still under a similar dark clou...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:55hrs | 306 | by Zii Masiye
Darikwa's Wigan boost survival hopes
WARRIORS Tendayi Darikwa's struggling league one side Wigan athletic were in inspired form yesterday after they clobbered 4 – 1 Doncaster Rovers away from home to boost their chances of survival as ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
RioZim gold output falls 27%
LOW ore grade at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed gold producer RioZim's flagship unit Cam&Motor Mine saw the firm's total output tumble by 27% during the year ended December 31, 2020, said the ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Eight meter-readers available for entire city
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) could have put themselves on a collision course with residents as it has emerged that they have been estimating water bills since the beginning of the year.In a...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:43hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere: flouting democratic values
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy must have been too emotional to appreciate my perspective. What is disturbing is that be i...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 16:10hrs | 1209 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa entrenches authoritarian rule
THE incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe this week has all but confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's unwillingness to reform as his regime continues to use lawf...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:36hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Queen Elizabeth II's husband dies
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 15:00hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple killed over witchcraft allegations
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly killed a Mhondoro couple after accusing them of witchcraft. The incident occurred last week in Mhondoro, under Chief Chivero. Fredd...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | 348 | by Staff repporter
The in-form players heading into the US Masters
With the first major of 2021 just a matter of days away, punters all across the world will be rigorously scouring the internet and the ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 18:58hrs | 302 | by Staff writer
More misery for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has suffered another blow after High Court judge Justice Philda Muzofa dismissed an application to stop Treasury from disbursing money under the Political Parties (F...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:53hrs | 3776 | by Staff reporter
Millers declare looming workers strike illegal
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has warned employees representatives of the milling industry that their threats to embark on a nationwide...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 804 | by Paul Ndou
MDC Alliance seeks 'political prisoners' recognition for jailed activists
The MDC Alliance on Wednesday called on international human rights organisations to recognise nine of its jailed activists as "political prisoners" while urging the United Nations to launch an urgent ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:22hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
NMBZ realises $705 million pre-tax profit
NMBZ Holdings realised a profit before taxation of ZWL 705 414 282 last year, in what the group's chairman, Mr Ben Chikwanha, described as a remarkable performance, despite the difficult operating env...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:36hrs | 611 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF targets councils, chiefs in 2023 drive
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is targeting chiefs, council bosses and their employees for indoctrination at the Hebert Chitepo School of Ideology to help drum up support ahead of the 2023 general elections...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
'Masuku death marked the demise of democracy'
CIVIC groups in Matabeleland have described the late Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Commander General Lookout Masuku as the epitome of democracy, hence his inexplicable death on April 5,...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2581 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | 5781 | by Staff reporter
Who were the targeted criminals surrounding Mugabe?
I HAVE been checking on those detained at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, but I failed to locate one criminal who is among those that were "surrounding" the late former President Robert Mugabe befo...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:35hrs | 1922 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's dream to end international isolation up in smoke
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's dream to end Zimbabwe's over two-decade-long international isolation suffered yet another blow after the United states gave a damning assessment of his government's huma...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:52hrs | 4810 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe hurtling towards stagflation'
LAST week the CEO Africa Roundtable (CEOART) gathered some of Zimbabwe's best economists and industrialists to digest economic developments during the first quarter of 2021. What came out of the summi...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:44hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has highest number of never married households heads
BULAWAYO has the highest number of heads of households who have never been married and the lowest percentage of couples living together.The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee ZimVAC (...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and de
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge the nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and deleting its own from history.There are two questions that hav...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:12hrs | 868 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Divorce blow or couples
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) yesterday announced a new fee structure for its members that will see couples intending to divorce paying as much as US$2 000 or its equivalent - $170 000 in local cu...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
Arrest of council bigwigs blurs city memory
ACTING Harare town clerk Mabhena Moyo has said the arrest of several council executives will affect its operations and quality of projects, as well as blur the city's good memories of the past....Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:23hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime's shameless incompetence
As per my usual daily routine, I pray to Jehovah God first, then converse with my wife and get my daily dose of the morning news (both local and international).I could not help being thunderst...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:15hrs | 223 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Forced patriotism as Zanu-PF moves to entrench police state
Zanu-PF is pushing the controversial Patriotic Bill to entrench a police state and quash any dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections, analysts have said.The government has been previousl...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally in coup plot storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Belarusian business broker Alexander Zingman has said his arrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last month was triggered by "false security reports" that he h...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:20hrs | 4009 | by Staff reporter
Could vaccinating an entire resort town revive Zimbabwe tourism?
With every passing minute, 500 million cubic metres of roaring water rush over the edge, falling into a gorge more than 100 metres below. The sound is thundering, the sight spectacular.Once ag...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:01hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Gutu was a gukurahundi prosecutor
Political analysts have said Obert Gutu who recently joined Zanu-PF and is in the running for a post in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) does not qualify for the job due to his ...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 17:51hrs | 4206 | by Staff reporter
'War veterans must show their unflinching war time vibrancy' - fighting whom and for what
When Robert Mugabe got into power in 1980, he was cocksure his scientific socialism would bring economic prosperity to the masses, "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as he never tired of saying. Instead of build on t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1148 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
LSZ deregisters 'double-dipping' lawyer
FOUNDER and managing partner of Manokore Attorneys DLA Piper Africa Zimbabwe, Lloyd Manokore, has been deregistered by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) for unethical conduct after representing two pa...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda must self-introspect
Dear Victor Matemadanda,I hope this letter finds you in good health and believe that you are enjoying every minute of your heartbeat.I know that you are a "real" war veteran and son of the...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 405 | by Ranga Mataire
Zanu PF's Alum Mpofu dies
ZANU PF legislator for Mberengwa South, Alum Mpofu collapsed and died this Sunday evening in Masvingo.The lawmaker reportedly collapsed at his home in Masvingo and was rushed to a local privat...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 19:58hrs | 4082 | by Staff reporter
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