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Mwonzora taunts Chamisa
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora Saturday took time to harangue MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa, describing the politician as a hypocrite who pretended he did not like Zanu-PF when in fact, ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1319 | 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: 3 hrs ago | 562 | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T now official opposition in Zimbabwe'
THE MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe Saturday declared it was now the country's official opposition party and will henceforth be taking part in all regional and continental engagements on Zimbabwe's behal...Published: 3 hrs ago | 490 | by Staff reporter
Ian Khama ratchets pressure on Mnangagwa
FORMER Botswana president Ian Khama says the region must step in to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis as pressure mounts on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hold talks with his rivals.Khama, who was ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 360 | by Staff reporter
MP stalking saga in new twist
OK Zimbabwe was forced by the courts to release video footage of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe doing her shopping amid concerns the authorities violated the young legislator's privacy, it has emerged....Published: 3 hrs ago | 272 | 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: 4 hrs ago | 360 | 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: 4 hrs ago | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen steals blankets
THERE was drama at Guruve court on Friday when a senior citizen appeared before Guruve resident magistrate facing theft charges.Nixon Muzemi (60) of Holland farm pleaded not guilty to the char...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1818 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man (65) 'rapes' stepdaughter
A 65-YEAR-OLD Concession man was arraigned before Concession magistrate Nixon Mangoti yesterday for allegedly raping his minor stepdaughter.David Govha was not asked to plead to the rape...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1839 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man steals cow to pay medical bills
A 32-YEAR-OLD Muzarabani man told Guruve resident magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa that he stole his neighbour's cow in a bid to pay medical bills for his other child with mental illness.Patnus K...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1163 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Voting in Zimbabwe a waste of time
SPEAKER of the Nation-al Assembly, Jacob Mudenda wonders why there is so much voter apathy among voters in Africa with only 35% of populations voting. As a lawyer, he should be educated enough...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 492 | by A Mbire
Prophetess dupes congregant
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Bindura prophetess Spiwe Gwashure (40) of Grace in Abundance Ministries was sentenced to two months in jail yesterday by Bindura provincial magistrate Tinashe Ndokera for fraud....Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, 10 opposition activists to contest placement on remand
Eleven opposition political activists, including MDC Alliance spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere and playwright Tsitsi Dangarembga, have indicated that they will challenge their placement on remand when they...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 454 | 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 | 211 | by Staff reporter
No more singing in Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has enacted a new rule which bans legislators from singing in the chambers, the Daily News reports.Speaking in the Senate recently, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, pictu...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
War vets sue Mnangagwa
A WAR veterans group has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court seeking the nullification of the recently signed US$3,5 billion deal by government and commercial white farmers who lost their land...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 5536 | by Staff reporter
We're still Zanu-PF, says G40
EXILED members of the Zanu-PF's G40 faction have said they are still Zanu-PF members and are fighting tirelessly to force the ruling Zanu-PF party to return to constitutionalism, accusing President Em...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1932 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 22190 | by Staff reporter
'US to maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE United States will maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe for as long as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues with its human rights abuses which pose a threat to regional stability, a senio...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
Zhuwao loses land row to Sports minister Coventry
HIGH Court judge Philda Muzofa has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry by Robert Zhuwao, nephew to late former president Robert Mugabe.Zhuwao was accusing the min...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2886 | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Man wins $56k suit against Zimbabwe police
OME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay $56 640 as compensation to a Mazowe man whose car was burnt to a shell by law enforcement a...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Colonialists red flags Zimbabwe human rights situation
ZIMBABWE'S human rights situation has significantly deteriorated, the European Union (EU) has said as it called on authorities not to hide behind COVID-19 to restrict people's rights.A number ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Residents demand prosecution of council fraudsters
CHIVHU residents have called on Chikomba Rural District Council (RDC) authorities to press charges against four revenue clerks who were recently dismissed from the local authority on fraud charges....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:54hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
5 civil servants up for theft of donated clothes
THE trial of five government employees in the Chikomba district development co-ordinator (DDC)'s office, who allegedly stole donations for victims of a hailstorm which swept across Chivhu in november ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:53hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
NUST student off the hook
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student Panashe Vongai Sivandani has been removed from remand following her arrest for participating in the foiled July 31 anticorruption protests....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby's manhood
A 23-YEaR-OLD Goromonzi man is battling for life at Marondera Provincial Hospital after his wife allegedly poured hot cooking oil on his manhood following a domestic dispute.Moreblessing Mutes...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1801 | by Staff reporter
Top cop takes boss to court
A TOP cop who was recently acquitted on charges of allegedly stealing guns, more than 180 live bullets and an assortment of related weaponry from the police armoury has taken his boss, Police Commissi...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Nkulumane trio nabbed for 121 smuggled television sets
THREE men from Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo were yesterday arrested after being found in possession of 121 television sets which were smuggled from Botswana. The three Oscar and Pardon Chinana...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance marshals' remand refusal bid flops
Eleven suspected MDC-Alliance marshals who allegedly assaulted a police officer at a food court in Harare last year had their application for refusal of further remand dismissed yesterday. Eva...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in fresh freedom push
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala yesterday notified the State that he will apply for refusal of further remand if he is not given a trial date and that he is in any case going to reapply for bai...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe arrest warrant cancelled
A court on Wednesday cancelled an arrest warrant issued against Harare West MP Joana Mamombe after she was forcibly discharged from a hospital by police and taken to court.The warrant was issu...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 19:16hrs | 2493 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife sued over US$6,000 water debt
WOES continue to mount for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry, after she was hit with a US$6 000 lawsuit for failing to pay for water supplied to her. Hesno Holdings, ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 2605 | by Staff reporter
Khupe barred from Polad
THE MDC has directed its interim president Thokozani Khupe to stop being part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) until she gets the mandate from the party's congress....Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 12579 | by Staff reporter
MDC divisions plumb new lows
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2271 | by Staff reporter
'King of Clay' Rafael Nadal the heavy favourite for the French Open
Let's face it, it will be a shock if Rafael Nadal is not the man lifting the French Open trophy on October 11th. The Spaniard has won the Paris Grand Slam a total of 12 times, and is the heavy favouri...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 14:45hrs | 332 | by Staff writer
'Police Boss Godwin Matanga selling fraudulent stands' Mliswa says
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Commissioner General of the Police Godwin Matanga of working with Minister of Local government July Moyo to sell fraudulently acquired stands...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 4412 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must renew cordiality
In 2009, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai appointed the then MDC National Organizing Secretary, Nelson Chamisa to be in charge of Ministry of Information and Communicatio...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:27hrs | 3667 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Mamombe should undergo mental exam'
THE State yesterday indicated that it wants MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, to be examined by two Government doctors to ascertain her mental condition after her doctor indicated that she was suffe...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son duped
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Tanaka, was allegedly duped of US$1 000 by a Harare man who promised to deliver suits for his wedding on August 25 last year.Samson Mavhunga (31), ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2491 | by Staff reporter
Police storm hospital, arrest MP
POLICE yesterday stormed a private medical facility in Harare where MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe was admitted for mental disorder, arrested her using a disputed warrant of arrest issued on Tuesday a...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's recalls a drain to the fiscus
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) last week disclosed that it required about US$18,5 million to be able to run by-elections, a process that should be done by December 5.Most of the by-el...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Khupe youths blast 'vindictive' recalls on Alliance MPs
YOUTHS aligned to Thokozani Khupe's old MDC-T party have warned their leaders within the newly reconstituted MDC-T to stop "vindictive" recalls on MPs and councillors elected on the MDC Alliance ticke...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:06hrs | 4035 | by Staff reporter
Malema calls for blocking of Beitbridge border post
SOUTH African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has challenged Zimbabwean youths to take the lead in confronting their government and not wait for outsiders to take the i...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 05:56hrs | 6305 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe 'faking' illness
The State has received video evidence from the investigating officer, which suggests that MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, is not suffering from anxiety disorder as she was captured on CCTV shoppin...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:12hrs | 3383 | by Staff reporter
Khupe out thinking Chamisa?
NOTWITHSTANDING the internal damage that the MDC's infighting is causing, the party's senseless wars are escalating - amid growing fears that the once formidable movement could soon implode altogether...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:11hrs | 8862 | by Staff reporter
ANC bullish on Zimbabwe crisis
SOUTH Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said yesterday that it was hopeful that it could help end Zimbabwe's decades-long political and economic crises. In addition, the ANC heap...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:07hrs | 2336 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Uganda: What Nelson Chamisa can learn from Bobi Wine
Yesterday two despots shared the same birthday - that is one Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe and the other being Yoweri Kaguta Museveni from Uganda. Despite old age, these two brothers in de...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:38hrs | 2637 | by Leonardo Makuya
When a Nguni Kingship chases his own agenda to undo other Ndebele Kings
We have been saying it for a long time that the Nguni Kings are chasing their own agenda but will want to ride at the backs of the Ndebele populations so that they get recognition by Zanu Government. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 1822 | by Nomazulu Thata
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