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nZondo Commission 'a useful distraction' from South Africa's pressing problems
Many South Africans have already drawn their conclusions regarding the judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, corruption and fraud in the Public Sector, including Organs of ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 19:50hrs | 394 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwean Exemption Permits holders' choice: Restart in a broken country or live undocumented in SA
THREE Zimbabweans who held Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), which the South African government has now scrapped, share their anxiety and anguish as they face deportation, uprooting their lives and...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:42hrs | 2117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to spell out anti-price hike measures
Government will announce more measures to address the rises in prices of basic goods and services President Mnangagwa told the Seventh National Congress of the Zanu-PF Women's League in Harare yesterd...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:35hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
New economic measures out today
More Government measures to address the price rises in basic goods and services since the beginning of the year are expected to be announced today, President Mnangagwa told the Seventh National Congre...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:32hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Donations to Ramaphosa' CR17 campaign linked to State capture?
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa for accepting donations from Bosasa and other undisclosed donors despite his denials that he did not know.In Part 5 Volume ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 07:58hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is Zimbabwe's greatest curse!
As I stand outside my home, with the darkness of a winter evening steadily engulfing our small town of Redcliff, and the stars now gradually appearing - as if in a synchronized fashion ordered by a Di...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 20:58hrs | 782 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South official dies
THE ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women's League.Mpofu, who passed on Friday wa...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
'Moreblessing Ali was not a CCC member' Jonathan Moyo suggests
The slain Moreblessing Ali was not a Nelson Chamisa led CCC member, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said. Moyo was commenting after CCC waged a spiritesd fight with ZANU PF claiming that Ali was t...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 12:15hrs | 5028 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF killed Moreblessing Ali
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, Tuesday announced that Zanu-PF is responsible for activist Moreblessing Ali's murder.Ali went missing on 24 May after she was allege...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:51hrs | 2775 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa condemns violence as his supporters burn house
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has hit out at the ruling Zanu-PF party after several attacks against his supporters at slain Moreblessing Ali's homestead on Monday.F...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's mythical 3,9m registered members
ZIMBABWE'S ruling party claims that its membership base is growing astronomically. A cursory glance at the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF)'s cell registers shows that its sco...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 330 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Phone call records expose State
PHONE call records from Econet Zimbabwe have exposed possible State involvement in the abduction of two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists in May 2020.A State witness, who is a secu...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Maj Gen (Rtd) Bhebhe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned the death of Retired (Rtd) Major General Sydney Bhebhe saying it is saddening that Zimbabwe is losing revolutionary cadres who joined the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela....Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa is no James Bond, it will end in tears
Cyril Ramaphosa's silence in the aftermath of his #FarmGate saga is worrying for South Africa's democracy.It's not just that he is on mute but also the manner in which he continues to evade an...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:59hrs | 1569 | by Ray Solomons
Chamisa's supporters torch Zanu-PF supporter's home
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters Tuesday afternoon burnt down a home belonging to a Zanu-PF district chairperson only identified as Murambatsvina, who is said to have been one of those b...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 17:23hrs | 4159 | by Staff reporter
'Beer brawl triggered CCC activist's disappearance'
The disappearance of a Chitungwiza woman three weeks ago, Moreblessing Ali, who was eventually found dead in the Nyatsime area last weekend, was triggered by a beerhall brawl between the deceased and ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Scandal-ridden company monitors Zimbabwe calls
THE company which installed a Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring System (TTMS) at the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe headquarters in Harare this week — Global Voic...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:42hrs | 1939 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's airline passengers to rise 80%
AIR passenger numbers into Zimbabwe's airports will rise above pre-pandemic levels this year, as traffic improves in the aftermath of hard lockdowns globally, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caa...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
90% Gukurahundi survivors suffer mental health, rights commission report says
Approximately 90% survivors of the early 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands state sponsored atrocities, commonly referred to as Gukurahundi, are suffering from mental health impairments caused by trauma,...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:33hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Isn't continued belief and celebration of ZANU PF regime promises akin to madness!
As I am penning this piece, our suburb of Redcliff has not had any electricity for approximately the past twelve hours – having been thrown into eerie darkness in the wee hours of the morning, repor...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 12:16hrs | 617 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Farewell my brother, Dr Alex Magaisa
Magaisa was a light that shined bright. All who were in the presence of this light were inspired to fight for the rule of law, liberties, freedoms and rights of citizens. We are sinking in a dee...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 00:16hrs | 1503 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Sikhala says the culprits are known, but untouchable
OUTSPOKEN politician and human rights lawyer Job Sikhala says a Zanu-PF leader for Nyatsime area in Chitungwiza, Simbarashe Chisango, who is allegedly linked to the disappearance of Moreblessing Ali i...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
Missing activist's children living in fear
TWENTY-FOUR year old Silence Ali is filled with fear, anxiety and hope as he peeps through the window when he hears a knock on the door."I thought it's our mother," Silence said, showing his d...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:13hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Massive looting exposed at CIO
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) financial records are in a shambles amid fears that senior officers in the state spy agency are presiding over massive looting and hounding out two senior emplo...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 20:00hrs | 4092 | by Staff reporter
Free Zupco transport for traditional leaders
TRADITIONAL leaders will no longer have to pay transport fares on all Zupco buses across the country, Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga told mourners at the homestead of the late Chief Nhlamba in...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:53hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's Gukurahundi denialism very unsettling
UTTERANCES by Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu (pictured) dismissing Gukurahundi as a "thing of the past" and telling victims to forget is tantamount to attempting to whitewash the gen...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:18hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean citizens warn economic saboteurs
ZIMBABWEAN citizens under the Progressive and Patriotic Citizens of Zimbabwe (PAPCOZ) have warned economic saboteurs who are fuelling unjustified price increases of basic commodities and high rates on...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC calls out police
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has dismissed the police version of events leading to the disappearance of party activist Moreblessing Ali on Tuesday last week.CCC claims that A...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Faulty Zesa meters headache for residents
SOME Bulawayo residents are living in houses without electricity due to defective prepaid electricity meters that Zesa installed at their homes.The power utility is failing to replace the faul...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans don't need to be reminded of painful history why does regime keep telling us about colonialism?
So, the Zimbabwe ruling establishment believes that the people of this country - especially, those who suffered the brunt of the regime's unimaginable cru...Published: 31 May 2022 at 19:48hrs | 819 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man killed over beer
A 34-YEAR-OLD Gweru man was fatally stabbed last Saturday following a misunderstanding over beer.Confirming the incident yesterday Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Ma...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora - Water and Oil Don't mix
Advocate Nelson Chamisa and Douglas Mwonzora like water and oil do not mix. Not surprising then that the sly attempts to foist Mwonzora on the masses, are failing.As we head to 2023 elections,...Published: 27 May 2022 at 07:42hrs | 5386 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 3589 | by Staff reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 2819 | by Dumisani Muleya
If ED genuinely 'listening president' he should engage ordinary citizens in open debate, discussions, and dialogue!
Could there be anything more painful than watching other countries prospering, and their people happy - with their leaders freely engaging the citizenry in open dialogue, debate and discussion relatin...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:15hrs | 132 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
There is no my vote is my secret, 'Death leaves no track record, voters do!' boasted Mnangagwa
"SaBuku pamberi, (Zanu PF) district chairman shure navanhu, councillor aripovo. Kwava kunovota." (Village headman will be in front, (Zanu PF) district chairman behind with the people and the local cou...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1798 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
There will never be any national development without strictly holding the Zimbabwe government to account
From time immemorial, there has always been a debate on why countries in the West are as economically developed as they are.Of course, it is nearly impossible to arrive at a consensus - but, t...Published: 14 May 2022 at 11:11hrs | 294 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa cleared in controversial land deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been cleared in a case he was sued to explain a land deal with millionaire and land developer businessman, Ken Sharpe, by a Harare MP and two others.Allan Norm...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in airport scandal application thrown out
THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by legislator Allan Markham against Aurgur Investments and President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the transfer of deed of settlement by the City of Harare....Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC slams Mnangagwa
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Wednesday vowed a robust challenge to controversial measures to shore up the fast-depreciating Zimbabwe dollar, announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa las...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
'I was run over by 2 cars in an accident' Byo artist Pronix opens up
Bulawayo based Afro Jazz sensation Pronix (real name Prosper Ndebele) was run over by two cars during an accident that almost left him crippled for life. The artist who was brought to prominen...Published: 05 May 2022 at 16:45hrs | 668 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zec abandons polling station at Zanu-PF torture base
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will no longer be using a polling station in Kwekwe situated in an area where there is a traditional Zanu-PF torture base manned by the party's violent terror s...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:30hrs | 1970 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans shouldn't marry political parties as if they were wives!
On a visit into the Kwekwe CBD (central business district) this morning to run some personal errands, I could not help being flabbergasted, as I always am, at the usual sight of disheveled and unkempt...Published: 03 May 2022 at 14:50hrs | 392 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Shock as human body without head found in Norton
In an incident that left residents of Norton shell-shocked, Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that they are investigating circumstances surrounding a suspected murder case in which the body of an...Published: 02 May 2022 at 11:23hrs | 1720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mudzi man kills colleague in a grudge incident
POLICE in Mudzi arrested a Mudzi man who allegedly struck his colleague with a log thereby killing him on the spot.The matter came to light at Mutoko magistrates court where Prosper Chig...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 22:10hrs | 727 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Robbers strip 60 bus passengers naked
Two suspected robbers who ransacked CAG Travelling Tours Bus on its way to Chirundu from Harare and stripped 60 passengers naked were arrested in Harare yesterday.Morazhi Chapola (30) and Edso...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 17:59hrs | 3647 | by Staff reporter
60% of Zimbabwe has never known electricity
NEARLY three quarters of the country remains stuck in the dark ages after only 20% and 40% of the country's rural and urban areas have respectively been electrified since the country came into existen...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:23hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Chigubu's death plunges showbiz into mourning
A DARK cloud hung over the local showbiz scene yesterday following the death of award-winning comedian Clive Chigubu.Chigubu succumbed to cancer in Bulawayo, aged 31.Chigubu is survive...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:00hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's members jostle for Gweru Urban seat
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) senior party members in the Midlands capital have begun campaigning, albeit underground, for the Gweru Urban parliamentary seat ahead of the watershed 2023 g...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:36hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
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