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Zinwa disconnects water supply to Gwanda town
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has disconnected water supply to Gwanda Municipality over a $193 million debt, leaving residents from the mining town with no water.Zinwa has emba...Published: 47 mins ago | 54 | by Staff reporter
'Dreamer' strays into State House, demands to see Mnangagwa
A DARING Shamva man on Tuesday visited State House in Harare demanding to see President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The man becomes the third in two weeks to visit the highly-protected place.Is...Published: 7 hrs ago | 974 | by Staff reporter
Passengers appeal against police spikes
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has filed an appeal against a High Court judgment giving the police powers to use spikes when dealing with errant motorists on the country's roads....Published: 7 hrs ago | 577 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate raps police shoddy work
BEITBRIDGE regional magistrate Sithembiso Ndebele on Wednesday chided the police for their poor performance after the court failed to nail two men accused of a R40 000 robbery due to lack of evidence....Published: 7 hrs ago | 347 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Security Bill sails through
THE Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill on Wednesday sailed through the Senate without debate, but media lobby groups have immediately expressed wary over the potential abuse of the law by the gov...Published: 7 hrs ago | 219 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU: Get vaccinated or get out of work
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has threatened to sue the government for its "no-jab-no-work" policy which bars any unvaccinated civil service and parastatal worker from entering governme...Published: 7 hrs ago | 374 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Chaos in SA points to failure on democracy
The spate of violence that is engulfed South Africa shows that not all citizens have internalised constitutional democracy and the rule of law as the organising principle of the post-apartheid society...Published: 7 hrs ago | 124 | by Mashupye Maserumule
Carjacking syndicate busted
SEVEN suspected car jackers, including four employees of a local car sale, believed to be part of a syndicate that has been targeting and stealing vehicles parked at houses and business premises in an...Published: 7 hrs ago | 403 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda drags farming partner to court
VICTOR Matemadanda, Zimbabwe ambassador to Mozambique, has taken his farming partner, Rumbidzai Mujuru after she barred him from clandestinely selling their maize produce to the Grain Marketing Board ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 373 | by Staff reporter
Man invades Mnangagwa residency to tel him of a dream
A 27-year-old man from Shamva appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on allegations of trespassing at State House demanding to see the President saying he wanted to tell him a dream. Isaac T...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3936 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Economic Forecast H2 2021
Zimbabwe's economy is largely expected to register modest growth in 2021 buoyed by a bumper harvest in agriculture, partial dollarization and declining inflation, growth in export earnings and increas...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 13:30hrs | 349 | by Victor Bhoroma
Malaba suspends filing of new court cases
Zimbabwe's Chief Justice Luke Malaba has suspended the filing of new court cases until 19 August in view of the Covid-19 lockdown. He says this arrangement will be reviewed when the lockdown i...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 11:54hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
Hefty fines for violating COVID-19 regulations
THE Judicial Service Commission has approved the proposed new schedule of fines for COVID-19 regulation violations, which will see offenders paying a maximum of $5 000 for violating preventive protoco...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
Court opens lid to pastor's adulterous affairs
THE Mutare Civil Court yesterday blocked Royal Family International Ministries bishop Action Komani from gagging church members from going public with the clergyman's adulterous relationships....Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
Lengthy SA jail terms for recaptured Zimbabwean fugitives
A SOUTH AFRICAN court on Tuesday sentenced members of a gang of armed robbers, including two Zimbabweans, to 22-year jail sentences each.The notorious robbers had been implicated in several cr...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:17hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Top South African Advocate behind bars for 'incitement'
ADVOCATE Ike Thamsanqa Khumalo appeared in the Booysens Magistrates Court on Tuesday, 27 July - not as a defence lawyer, but as the accused. Khumalo was appearing on two charges of contraventi...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 3742 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'no jab no work' policy to be challenged by ZCTU
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says it is going to challenge the policy of ‘'no jab no work'' that is being implemented by the government.In a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19, t...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 08:55hrs | 1859 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK
Christopher Arundell, who grew up in the UK and once dreamt of playing professional football, is set to be deported to Zimbabwe, despite a cross-party appeal to the home secretary to stop his removal ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2985 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dumped by aide
A FORMER aide to MDC-Alliance president Nelson Chamisa, George Madzore, has joined hands with MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora and is now set to the break-away party in the coming Kwekwe Central constitu...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:54hrs | 5473 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked MDC Alliance members fire Mwonzora
MDC Alliance principals have removed the MDC-T from the grouping, accusing it of acting unilaterally without consulting them, a move that will likely throw off the rails the decision by the Douglas Mw...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:51hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa backs Ndewere appeal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly released the Justice Simbi Mubako tribunal report that led to the dismissal of embattled High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere, paving way for her to appea...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:50hrs | 3166 | by Staff reporter
Malaba swears in Judge President
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday presided over the swearing in of newly-appointed Judge President, Justice Mary Zimba-Dube, making his first public appearance since the May High Court judgment that...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:48hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Cattle rustlers hide cow in a pit
A 50-YEAR-OLD Ruwa man and his accomplice have been arrested for stealing a cow and hiding it in a pit.Tedious Chirume (38) of Epworth and Howard Murungweni (50) appeared in court on Friday ch...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:45hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
South African truck driver fined for smuggling
A SOUTH African truck driver was yesterday fined $80 000 for smuggling goods worth $2,3 million through the Beitbridge Border Post last week. Kenneth Phila Vilakazi (38) was convicted on...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:40hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Death row inmate Jindu loses appeal
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the death sentence by Bulawayo "killer" Rodney Tongai Jindu who is on death row for the callous murder of his two friends in 2017. Jindu (27) ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:39hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster cleared of rape after 2 years in jail
FORMER Makumbe Mission primary school headmaster Silas Chitate has been acquitted of raping an orphaned Grade 7 pupil at the school, after serving two years of a 15-year prison term. Chi...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Woman loses cars to boyfriend
AN Immigration officer lost two cars to her boyfriend after she left them in his custody when she returned to her work station at Chirundu Border Post. Margret Mashongwa (41) of Unit O Seke in...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC's fresh sanctions call flops
THE MDC-Alliance unsuccessfully tried to lobby the European Union (EU) to impose fresh sanctions on Zimbabwe after its parliamentarians had been recalled from Parliament following a Supreme Court ruli...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:35hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
White farmer enlists US federal court in enforcing US$277m arbitral award against Zimbabwe
Bernhard von Pezold and his family, who are dual Swiss and German nationals, have enlisted the help of a US federal court in Washington DC in enforcing a US$277 million arbitral award against Zimbabwe...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 20:32hrs | 3135 | by Staff reporter
Malaba bounces back
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba Tuesday made a surprise return to office Tuesday as he presided over the swearing in of newly appointed Judge President Mary Zimba-Dube after a two-month hibernation fo...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 18:02hrs | 3617 | by Staff reporter
Zimra busts fuel/ water scam
ZIMRA intercepts three transit fuel trucks in Chirundu that are accused of smuggling fuel into the country which was meant to be transported to Zambia potentially prejudicing the country of potential ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 18:01hrs | 1442 | by Staff reporter
State makes U-turn in Mnangagwa name-dropping con-artist
THE State yesterday made a U-turn and filed an application for the revocation of its consent after it allowed bail to a 33-year-old Harare con-artist who dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3585 | by Staff reporter
'Political interference undermining Zacc'
ANTI-CORRUPTION activists say political interference has undermined the effectiveness of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) in bringing corrupt high profile individuals to book.The...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 2575 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for receiving money to influence magistrate, prosecutor
A POLICE officer based in Ruwa has appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly received money meant to influence the magistrate to deny ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2472 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Tongaat, Rukatya to pay commercial farmer $US1,4m
HIGH Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora has ordered sugar producers Tongaat Hullet and businessman Isaac Rukatya, to pay US$1,4 million plus legal costs to a Chiredzi commercial farmer, Tony Renato...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2063 | by Staff reporter
DIDG seek NRZ deal revival
THE Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) has pleaded with the Government to consider resuscitating its US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation proposal. ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:12hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to tug and monitor all deportees with serious crimes
The Government must approve a legislation, which will provide for the tagging of murderers and sex offenders who are being returned to Zimbabwe from the U...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 00:37hrs | 1314 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Grace Mugabe's sister, Minister feud over farm escalates
THE feud between Mashonaland Central Provincial Minister Monica Mavhunga and the former First Lady, Grace Mugabe's sister, Rosemary Chidhakwa has escalated after the minister counter-sued the latter a...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss issued threats to Sipho Malunga before farm grab
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Gatsha Mazithulela tried with no success to force his way into the ownership structure of Kershelmar Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North, jointly owned...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:12hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Malunga farm ownership wrangle turns nasty
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) lecturer Dumisani Madzivanyati has claimed that he sustained head injuries after he was allegedly struck with an iron rods early this month by co-o...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:45hrs | 3188 | by Staff reporter
R10 million worth of unlicensed Zimbabwean tobacco recovered in SA
SURROGATES in the tobacco industry have come under fire for destroying the industry and illegally taking unlicensed tobacco worth R10 million to South Africa and other countries at the expense of the ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:42hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Police officer in soup over smuggling
A senior police officer, Inspector Elias Mawomba (47), has been arrested for conniving with one of his subordinates to divert two vehicles from offloading smuggled goods inside the Beitbridge Border P...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes key appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed Justice Mary Zimba-Dube as the new Judge President, while Mrs Fortune Chimbaru becomes the new Deputy Attorney-General. Justice Zimba-Dube, who has sat as a judge of ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | 2227 | by Staff reporter
Disquiet over deportations - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Even after discounting the more questionable assertions by campaigners, disquieting questions remain about the deportation of 14 Zimbabweans from the UK last Wednesday.The UK Home Secretary Pr...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:25hrs | 1096 | by ZimVigil
Mwonzora can't outmatch Chamisa
Trees of the same height are the ones that exchange monkeys.The political game is between Nelson Chamisa and Emmerson Mnangagwa.Mwonzora cannot match Nelson Chamisa in as far as politi...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 22:21hrs | 1714 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabweans rearrested after prison escape in South Africa
THREE of the four armed robbers who last Wednesday managed to disarm a police officer and escape while being transported to Mokopane Regional Court in Limpopo, South Africa were arrested Saturday....Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 18:03hrs | 2382 | by Staff reporter
101 Amazing Facts About the Life and works of Emperor Haile Selassie
On the occasion of the 129th birthday of the Emperor, I have selected one out of 101 extraordinary achievements he accomplished during his reign: from Ras Tafari- Emperor Haile Selassie. The May 5th V...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 836 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza originally written by Mulugeta Haile
Mkhululi Bhebhe: The saintly warm-hearted gospel crooner
Humility is a rare quality seen in the famous! But not when your name is Mkhululi Bhebhe.When I call him for the telephonic interview, I'm obvi...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 12:44hrs | 1551 | by Sihle Maduna
Mwonzora party's plot to delay polls revealed
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T party has started pushing Parliament to ensure that pending by-elections are suspended indefinitely, claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic has made the playing field uneve...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2505 | by Staff reporter
Govt 'pampers' Mapostori
The government has been accused of favouritism after spearheading the tarring of a road leading to the main shrine of the Johanne Marange apostolic sect in Manicaland.At least 10km of the road...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1327 | by Staff reporter
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