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Guvamombe's bail conditions relaxed
A HARARE magistrate yesterday relaxed bail conditions for suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe who is accused of criminal abuse of office.Guvamombe who appeared before magistrate Lucy ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 187 | by Staff reporter
Hwende challenges lawfulness of his arrest
Kuwadzana East legislator Chalton Hwende (MDC Alliance) yesterday filed an application challenging his arrest and remand, arguing that the tweet that got him in trouble with the State was his democrat...Published: 2 hrs ago | 104 | by Staff reporter
This is not it Mr Mnangagwa!
LAST WEEK, at long last, seven long months after last year's August 1 killings that claimed at least six lives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa finally admitted he deployed the army on the fateful day....Published: 19 hrs ago | 2427 | by Editorial - Daily News
No one will die of hunger, Mnangagwa tells cyclone victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has today visited Chimanimani - the epicentre of the devastating Cyclone Idai - and has assured the affected communities that none will die of hunger as government was sei...Published: 19 hrs ago | 242 | by Staff reporter
'Cyclone victims being buried in mass graves'
RESCUE efforts continued yesterday in the Cyclone Idai-ravaged Chimanimani and Chipinge districts amid reports that some people who died in the disaster could have been buried in mass graves, although...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:41hrs | 2555 | by Staff reporter
#Cyclone Idai: Mnangagwa on the ground
President Mnangagwa will today tour areas that were affected by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani to assess the extent of the damage and get a realistic appreciation of the situation on the ground. ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:20hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire freedom bid flops again
#THIS Flag Movement leader Evan Mawarire on Tuesday failed in his bid for freedom after his application for refusal of further remand was thrown out.Mawarire is being charged with subversion, ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 20:13hrs | 2493 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe govt rejects criticism of slow cyclone response
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - widely condemned for its slow response to Cyclone Idai - said yesterday it had reacted swiftly to the disaster and was on ground to coordinate rescue effort...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:18hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military receives rare praise
The Zimbabwe military has received rare praise from a shadowy Investigative group Pachedu of its rescue mission in the Cyclone Ida hit Manicaland province.The current official death toll is at 98....Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:58hrs | 5304 | by Ndou Paul
Relief reaches Zimbabwe's cyclone survivors as death toll rises
Rescue efforts in eastern Zimbabwe picked up the pace on Tuesday in distressed areas from Cyclone Idai's trail of destruction with nearly 100 people dead and hundreds missing.Poor weather cond...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 1739 | by Al Jazeera
Mnangagwa to engage Trump over sanctions removal
ZIMBABWE will continue to engage American President Donald Trump's administration to ensure removal of illegal sanctions which Washington imposed on the nation, hurting the economy, President Mnangagw...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 07:05hrs | 3258 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Cyclone Idai hit areas
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead a high-powered delegation to Manicaland province to supervise rescue and relief efforts, as Government steps up efforts to assist people affected by Cyclone Idai th...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:31hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe to have his day at Magistrates' court
Suspended chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, will stand trial on April 9 at the Harare Magistrates' Court. Guvamombe yesterday appeared before ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:29hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Potraz boss wants charges quashed
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director-general Gift Machengete, who is facing charges of contravening the Procurement Act, has made an application for excepti...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:28hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Army rescues St Charles Lwanga students
Four form one students from St Charles Lwanga seminary secondary school in Chimanimani are currently admitted at Chipinge General Hospital, while some of the students have since been rescued and are b...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:17hrs | 10743 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe embassies must issue IDs, passports'
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe's 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General's...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:50hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
US 2018 Human rights report on Zimbabwe biased
Last week the United States Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour released its 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. An examination of the report shows a fair vi...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:12hrs | 787 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Perrance Shiri summons in all army engineers from across the country
The Acting Minister of Defence Retired Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri said they have called in all army engineers from across the country to help in the situation following a trail of destruction le...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:42hrs | 6150 | by Staff reporter
'Army killings stiffled UK efforts to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE British government has maintained that the August 1, 2018 post-election violence shootings and January 14-16, 2019 killings, which claimed over 20 lives after security forces fired into protestors...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2299 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa descends in Chimanimani as Cyclone Idai kills 82
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is expected to arrive in Manicaland on Monday to assist victims of Cyclone Idai which has claimed 82 lives."I'm in Chimanimani and Chipinge today to assess the extent...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:31hrs | 8115 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo recruits Kasukuwere
Exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo on Sunday extended an invitation to Saviour Kasukuwere to join him in the fight against ZANU PF in defence of Nelson Chamisa's claim that he was ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:10hrs | 11727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fresh turmoil looms in Zanu-PF, as war vets demand clean up at party HQ
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party is heading for stormy waters, after it emerged a group of war veterans led by one Philemon Mutongi are demanding a "clean-up" of the party headquarters in ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3657 | by newzimbabwe
Bosso falls to Wankie
Wankie 1 - 0 Highlanders HIGHLANDERS were duly punished for failing to turn their dominance into goals after they fell to Wankie FC in a pre-season friendly at the Colliery Stadium yesterday...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:43hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, former lieutenants shift blame: Who really was behind Gukurahundi genocide?
WHEN former president Robert Mugabe was swept away through a popular coup, the world celebrated the departure of an "evil dictator". Many hoped for a fresh start but that dream remains elusive...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:13hrs | 9736 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | 2298 | by Hon Criss
Chamisa invited to anti-sanctions march
War veterans say sanctions are Zimbabwe's number one enemy and it is high time for Zimbabweans from all walks of life including the opposition MDC Alliance party to join hands in the planned march aga...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 14:55hrs | 5620 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in the hands of dedicated patriots
For one to be a member of ZANU PF in good times and bad times we need to understand some fundamental issues that everyone who is a ZANU PF cadre should know and follow. We should zero in from the basi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1041 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man clobbers wife, sister with hammer, spears them to death
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva has described an Inyathi man who struck his wife and sister with a hammer before finishing them off using a metal spear following a rumour of infideli...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Death sentence for double murderer
AN Inyathi man who struck his wife and sister with a hammer before fatally stabbing them with a spear, following a rumour of infidelity has been sentenced to death for the double murder.Amos N...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:11hrs | 1794 | by Staff reporter
ZBC partner fights eviction order
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been taken to court by Blackbury Enterprises after the national broadcaster allegedly clandestinely sought to evict the company despite an agreement to ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:10hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Boeing sucked into Zimbabwe Airways saga
The world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of aircraft and other equipment - Boeing - has been sucked into the Zimbabwe Airways saga where the son-in-law of former president Robert...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:02hrs | 1772 | by Staff reporter
Chombo trial deferred
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's trial on corruption charges was Friday pushed to May this year pending a Supreme Court's determination on his application for stay of prosecution on rights gr...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:01hrs | 215 | by newzimbabwe
Grace Mugabe and a fracturing Zanu-PF
continued from last weekMany of those mansion builders were comrades-in-arms from Zimbabwe's war of independence. They, their families, and their business cronies were not eager to give up pow...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1549 | by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield
Zimbabwe slides into new authoritarianism
The assessment of Zimbabwe's "Second Republic" under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been overshadowed by the violence of August 1 2018 and mid-January 2019. On both occasions, Zimbabwe's military in...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:10hrs | 375 | by Derek Matyszak
Mugabe implicated in land deals
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs minister, Jason Machaya, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office over questionable allocation of stands, has accused the State of arresting and charging hi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:03hrs | 4779 | by Staff reporter
Airforce pilot denied bail
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot, who allegedly murdered his lawyer girlfriend in Gweru last year has been denied bail by a Bulawayo High Court judge.Justice Martin Makonese yesterday threw out ...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
State goes after Kasukuwere's leisure home
The prosecution is seeking to forfeit former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's upmarket leisure home in Nyanga after he failed to appear in court for trial. He was issued with an arrest wa...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:51hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans counting the cost of removing Mugabe
IN AN ideal world, the fall of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe was supposed to usher in a period of sustained economic growth and prosperity.Mugabe, 95, was toppled by his loyalists in ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:39hrs | 5030 | by Brighton Khumalo
'ShutDownZimbabwe protest organisers liable to compensate victims'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that the Public Order Security Act (Posa) compels organisers of demonstrations to compensate for the loss of property and lives.His c...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:30hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa told to denounce sanctions
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa must openly denounce the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America if he cares about the welfare of the country's war veterans, Zimbab...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 2357 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa gives Mnangagwa little cheer
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa yesterday dashed hopes that Pretoria would immediately open its wallet and extend critically-needed financial assistance to cash-strapped Zimbabwe, the Daily ...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:28hrs | 2499 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top cop in court for criminal abuse of office
Former police Senior Assistant Commissioner Robert Tendero Masukusa was yesterday brought to court on summons to face charges of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly sent his personal vehicle t...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war veterans marching to the US Embassy
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is organising a nationwide march to the United States Embassy in Harare against illegal sanctions that were imposed on the nation by ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 23:36hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Injiva wins $5,000 lawsuit against Cain Mathema
THE High Court has ordered Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema and three police detectives to pay an injiva US$5 000 as compensation following his unlawful arrest and detent...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 22:27hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
SA whites party against any financial commitments to Zimbabwe
DA MP Sandy Kalyan says President Cyril Ramaphosa should not make any financial commitments to Zimbabwe because of what she calls the country's continued campaign of political repression as well as So...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:51hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Judith Makwanya
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolences to the Makwanya family following the death of ZBC Diplomatic Correspondent and veteran journalist Judith Makwanya last night after a shor...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 15:17hrs | 3173 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo's court relief, as ZPC boss exonerates him
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has endured a roller coaster ride and mixed fortunes in his six-month bid for freedom, as his $5,6 million fraud case has taken interesting - if not intrigui...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Cyril Ramaphosa lands in Harare
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has landed in Harare ahead of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission set for Tuesday.He was met at the airport by Mnangagwa who is ho...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 18:53hrs | 3804 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare should not expect bailout from Ramaphosa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives in the country today to co-chair the Bi-National Commission (BNC) with President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose administration is desperate for a cash injecti...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:02hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda needs help
DO all war veterans need to be Zanu-PF supporters? Surely, Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda needs help.The war veterans are highly regarded as the people who brought the land back to...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:01hrs | 3527 | by Disgruntled Chimbwido
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