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Ex-ZCTU boss Lovemore Matombo dies
FORMER Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Lovemore Matombo has died.Matombo died Monday afternoon at his Greendale home in Harare.Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe...Published: 6 hrs ago | 361 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe owes Botswana US$3m for vaccines
Zimbabwe owes Botswana close to US$3 million for vaccines it imported to control the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and other animal diseases. Acting director of the Division of Vete...Published: 6 hrs ago | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on high alert for coronavirus
Health authorities have swiftly moved to limit possible ways the deadly coronavirus originating from China can get into the country by increasing screening and monitoring of possible threats at all po...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1450 | by Staff Reporter
There is a cause for which you should fight
When lions fight they do so to establish authority so there is a cause in the lion's fight.Ants fight to death to protect their colony. They know that every member of the nest depends on the sacri...Published: 12 hrs ago | 837 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Hwindi soldiers embarrass Army
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has distanced itself from the activities of its wayward members who seek to supplement their salaries through means that are unprofessional and outside of the organisa...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2254 | by Staff reporter
1 621 gold panners arrested
POLICE in Mashonaland Central province have arrested 1 621 illegal miners in Mazowe and Shamva under the ongoing "Chikorokoza Ngachipere" blitz.Addressing Bindura residents under a crime aware...Published: 24 hrs ago | 195 | by Staff reporter
Gunmen kill 13 people in central Nigeria
Unknown gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack in central Nigeria, police said on Monday, in an area known for ethnic clashes.A local resident said the assailants opened fire late Sunday on...Published: 24 hrs ago | 105 | by AFP
'A life well lived' - Chamisa mourns Kobe Bryant
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday mourned the death of American basketball legend Kobe Bryant who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Bryant (41) died alongside his 13 year old da...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 16:28hrs | 969 | by Staff Reporter
Mucherahowa blasts Dembare
United Kingdom-based former Dynamos captain Memory Mucherahowa has made a scathing attack on the club for its current player-buying spree which he says is a consequence of the death of the club's juni...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi harvester strangles leopard, arrested
AN expedition to harvest the much sought after mopani worms (amacimbi) almost turned tragic for a security guard employed at Whitewater High School in Matobo District, Matabeleland South, as he found ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:13hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seizes land from Mugabe allies
Zimbabwe has started repossessing land grabbed by former president Robert Mugabe's allies during a controversial agricultural reform programme amid claims the exercise is politically motivated....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 110 | by newzimbabwe
Divorce exposes Chiwenga's flashy lifestyle
Chiwenga flashy lifestyle exposedTHE ongoing legal saga involving Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, has lifted the lid on the lifestyle of the ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:05hrs | 6165 | by Staff Reporter
CBZ Insurance reintroduces international travel insurance
CBZ Insurance has reintroduced its international travel insurance set to benefit policy holders on matters of personal safety, baggage damage and other unforeseen financial losses going away for trips...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 09:16hrs | 816 | by Staff Reporter
MDC Big Guns jockeying for Sikhala's positions
The jostling for Job Sikhala's positions ahead of the blabbermouth's court case scheduled for this Monday in Masvingo, has reached fever pitch with a potential to further crack the deeply divided MDC ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 15:50hrs | 9557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans organise crime summit in South Africa
The Zimbabwe Community in South Africa is organsing a crime summit in Berea, South Africa on the 6th of February 2020 after Zimbabwean nationals have been accused of killing one Detective Captai...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 13:18hrs | 6190 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Njube High School students' actions are true reincarnation and revival of 16 June 1976 Soweto revolutionary spirit!
For a very long time, whenever I see the world-famous picture of the lifeless Hector Pieterson, being carried by a crying fellow female schoolmate - fleeing from a volley of fatal bullets being fired ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 11:36hrs | 1939 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Friend mistaken for robber gets beaten to death
A BULAWAYO man has been arrested for allegedly beating up his friend to death in a bushy area near the Plumtree Border Post in the middle of the night after suspecting that he was a robber. Th...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:05hrs | 2158 | by Staff reporter
Maid strangles employer’s son to death, court told
A 19-year-old Harare maid yesterday appeared in court on allegations of killing her employer's son by strangling. Memory Zvinzveku appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa on m...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:00hrs | 1351 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda's bones still displayed in a british museum
Those who are christians do understand the importance of repatriating bones of the loved ones. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He had ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 22:12hrs | 1598 | by Dr Maisimba Mavaza
Polad: A deceptive monster with wickedly curved horns!
While it is an undeniable fact that the current social, political and economic decay in Zimbabwe sorely yearns for dialogue to castrate it, the current but shabbily crafted so-called Political A...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 13:22hrs | 637 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Brothers dragged to court for threatening to kill sibling
TWO Chipinge brothers have been dragged to court by their sibling whom they threatened to kill with machetes in a feud over land and a homestead left by their late father.Jimmy and Justice Mav...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:30hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Zesn raps Zanu-PF, MDC for lack of succession policy
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), has blamed lack of proper succession planning in Zanu-PF and the MDC for causing instability in the country. Zesn cited the pro...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:30hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Why we should not expect electoral or political reforms from a Zanu PF government
Someone said Zanu Pf is like a hyena ,to survive one has to cling on its back come what may.Falling to the ground is inviting a vicious attack. This can be likened to former Zanu Pf members who left t...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 18:04hrs | 1286 | by AT Kadada
Man locked up for killing vendor before stealing her phone
A BULAWAYO man has appeared in court charged with murder after he ambushed a woman who was selling cigarettes and tomatoes before hitting her with a wooden stick leading to her death.Lucky Sib...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:07hrs | 1104 | by Stephen Jakes
Man kills friend over gambled money
A Lupane man allegedly struck to death his friend with an axe on the head after accusing him of stealing his gambled money.Officer Commanding Police in Lupane, Chief Superintendent Edgar Dhliw...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:49hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warriors grouped with Bafana Bafana in World Cup qualifier
TWENTY years after their battle ended in mayhem at the National Sports Stadium, claiming 13 lives of Zimbabwean football fans in a stampede, the Warriors and Bafana Bafana will again clash in a World ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Chipangano terror campaign emboldened me, says Mashwede
HARARE businessman Alex Mashamhanda says the political torture he endured at the hands of a Zanu-PF-linked militia, Chipangano, and some top Zanu-PF officials, during the formative stages of his busin...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:56hrs | 460 | by Staff rpeorter
Minister's son torches family farmhouse
Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro's son allegedly torched his parents' eight-roomed farmhouse at Odzi Farm on Friday following an argument over the sale of two oxen.On Saturday, Shingir...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:55hrs | 899 | by Staff rpeorter
Mthuli Ncube must stop lying on inflation
EXACTLY a year after Zimbabwe's first biggest fuel hike since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power from the late Robert Mugabe, the administration was at hand to celebrate the Jan...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:48hrs | 143 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's allies lose relatives to MaShurugwi
TOP MDC leaders Lynette Karenyi-Kore (vice-president) and Job Sikhala (vice-chairperson) this week lost their relatives to the violent machete clashes in mining areas in the country.In an intervie...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:48hrs | 386 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's political demise beckons
It is a view expressed by astute political observers, this scribe included, that unless the MDC-Alliance denounces violence and joins President E.D. Mnangagwa and other political parties in the Politi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 462 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
2 die in Luveve road crash
A DRIVER and a passenger died in an accident blamed on speeding which resulted in the vehicle hitting two pedestrians before ramming into a tree along Luveve road on Sunday evening. The incide...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:44hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Negligent kombi driver 'kills' tout
A 32-YEAR OLD Bindura commuter omnibus driver was arrested last week for negligently driving and not reporting a fatal road accident on 31 December last year.Jeremiah Shangai of Chiveso villag...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 11:16hrs | 3460 | by Paul Ndou
Chiwenga sends condolence message to bereaved families following Mutare accident
ACTING President, Retired General Constantino Chiwenga has sent a message of condolence to bereaved families following the death of 16 people on Saturday in an accident along the Mutare - Harare road ...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 17:10hrs | 2514 | by Staff Reporter
Harare-Mutare highway accident: Two bodies not yet identified
Relatives of the people who died in a road accident that claimed 16 lives along the Harare-Mutare highway at the weekend have been collecting bodies of the deceased for burial while two of the victims...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 17:02hrs | 2116 | by Staff Reporter
A tribute to the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi
On 23 January 2019. I received a text message from my daughter Hazel Rumbidzai saying "Nematambudziko Tuku atisiya your favourite musician"."Tuku" Mtukudzi was a musician, businessman, philant...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 14:55hrs | 5805 | by Leonard Koni
Mutare bus accident death toll rises to 16
THE death toll from a horror bus crash that occurred along the Harare-Mutare Highway on Saturday evening has risen to 16, after two more people died on admission to Mutare Provincial Hospital....Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:24hrs | 2088 | by Staf reporter
Police gun down smuggling kingpin
Police said yesterday they had gunned down a notorious smuggler of second hand clothes into the country at the weekend, while also arresting six other people in Mutare. This comes as governmen...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2692 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe economy to contract by 5.5% says UN
Zimbabwe's economy will register a negative growth of 5.5% and 2.5% in 2019 and 2020 respectively owing to foreign currency shortages, elevated public debt and uncontrolled inflation, a recent report ...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1601 | by FinX
Smuggler shot dead, 6 arrested
ONE person was shot dead, while six others were arrested after police intercepted truckloads of smuggled bales of second-hand clothes in Vumba on Saturday night. The gang, which had a fleet of...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:16hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's party faces collapse
THOKOZANI Khupe's MDC-T faces collapse following the sudden resignation by party vice-president Obert Gutu, who called it quits as allegations of lack of direction, leadership and strategy dogs the pa...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:19hrs | 3154 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga divorce case exposes him
The divorce case of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has gone a long way to expose the depth of moral decay that has pervaded our national leaders.It is, however, the level of impunity and beli...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:16hrs | 1961 | by Staff reporter
Man falls to death from flat
A Bulawayo man recently fell to his death from first floor at the Bulawayo Centre complex.This was revealed by the police who cou...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1604 | by Stephen Jakes
Kasukuwere speaks out
The self-exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar Savior Kasukuwere has for the first time opened up to the media since the November 2017 military takeover when he, together with other Generation 40 ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:44hrs | 10913 | by Staff reporter
Drunk man run over by haulage truck
A drunk Masvingo man who was sleeping by the roadside died on the spot when he allegedly woke up and staggered onto an oncoming haulage truck near Renco Mine turn-off at Chisase Business Centre, polic...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:42hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Liberation: Did somebody say Fanon?
DURING the African struggles against settler colonialism the name of Frantz Fanon used to scare settler colonialists that understandably banned his books and pamphlets. In the present era the name and...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:41hrs | 345 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Chiwenga, wife act to end feud
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife Marry are close to striking an out-of-court settlement that will allow the former model access to her children, cars and matrimonial home, th...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:28hrs | 844 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe doctors give up, trickle back to work
A MAN lies on a stretcher, visibly in pain but at ease while three other people sit on wheelchairs, with over a dozen more sitting on benches — chatting and waiting.If one had been here just...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:26hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft, power in Zimbabwe politics
CHIPINGE is some small district in the south east of Zimbabwe, on the edge of the Mozambican border, well known not for its scenic environment, cooler temperatures or the tropical rainforests of Mt Se...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 287 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Notorious machete gang members arrested
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the arrest of eight notorious machete gang members known as Maketo brothers, who terrorised residents in several mining towns.The machete gangs popular...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:23hrs | 3419 | by Staff reporter
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