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Custodial sentences, demerit system for Zimbabwe reckless drivers
Drivers responsible for fatal accidents could soon face custodial sentences, while serial traffic violators may have their licenses suspended or revoked under new, more stringent measures being consid...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 09:57hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe adopts a penalty points system for traffic offences
Zimbabwe is adopting a penalty points system for traffic offences, which will automatically suspend or revoke a driver's license once a certain point limit is reached. This initiative aims to ...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 06:24hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
SA man found guilty of murdering 6 Zimbabwean sex workers
The judge who found Sifiso Mkhwanazi guilty of murdering six Johannesburg sex workers delivering a scathing account of the 21-year-old's actions."I rejected the version of the accused… as be...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 19:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
TTI fires 200 employees
TENDY Three Investments (TTI), Bulawayo's traffic management company, has sacked over 200 employees for clamping motorists indiscriminately and violating company policies. The company has faced compla...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:50hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe circus continues
ZIMBABWE'S last Parliament was reduced to one huge farce as the august House was turned into a circus by Douglas Mwonzora who single-handedly destroyed the country's once most vibrant opposition party...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: It's time for clarity not ambiguity
THE phrase "strategic ambiguity" has been flung into the Zimbabwean vocabulary recently and has been received with mixed feelings.But let us try to put the phrase into context by unraveling it...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 10:01hrs | 13 | by Nevanji Madanhire
Ramaphosa must expand Lady R probe to include Nato
SOUTH Africa's sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of t...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 17:05hrs | 13 | by Abbey Makoe
Ramaphosa 'cool' after misconduct report
President Cyril Ramaphosa is not going to make a "hasty" decision of resigning after the section 89 panel report finding that he has a case to answer to on Phala Phala. This is according...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs want Zimbabwe to quit Cites
LEGISLATORS are calling on the government to quit Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in order for the trading and eating of wildlife animals to go ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banishes death penalty
IT'S been 6 273 days since Zimbabwe hanged a condemned person. For the gruesome murder of Themba Nkiwane, the High Court sentenced Never Masina Mandlenkosi to death in 2002 and he was executed...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Regulate Zimbabwe political parties'
WHILE an estimated 57,2% of Zimbabweans revealed in a recent survey that they were opposed to the regulation of political parties, election watchdogs say legislation is necessary to bring sanity to th...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tender scandal: Zacc scared of Mangwiro
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is politically hamstrung to arrest deputy Health minister John Mangwiro (pictured) after he allegedly coerced state-owned medical supplies entity NatPhar...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers' body under siege
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ)'s existence as the country's sole regulatory body for legal professionals is under threat after Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe yesterday challenged the status quo at ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Gweru workers won't be retrenched'
GWERU City Council has assured its restive workers that they will not be retrenched when the local authority implements its staff rationalisation exercise.Mayor Josiah Makombe last week said t...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional amendments, the opposition's frustrations
Last week, President Mnangagwa signed into law two amendments to the Constitution, much to the chagrin and frustration of his detractors and anti-Government elements in the opposition and the civil so...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 12 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Reckless drivers to lose licences
RECKLESS drivers who routinely violate road regulations will have their driver's licences revoked under a new system set to be introduced by the Government soon.Authorities are preparing to ro...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 12:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ethnicity: Emmerson Mnangagwa's power weapon
THEORISTS specialising in social identity cite three main categories primordialism, constructivism and instrumentalism ethnic cleavages upon which human nature adopts distinctiveness. Without ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:41hrs | 1 | by Brian Chitema
COVID-19, ubuntu, and the demise of our oppressors
Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been battling against the COVID-19 pandemic which has proven, time without number, to be a biomedical public health emergency. Highly transmissible, COVID-19...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:26hrs | 3 | by Mutsa Murenje in Queensland, Australia
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 38 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 30 | by Livingstone Kazizi
The phone call that led to Robert Mugabe's resignation
SPEAKER of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has, for the first time, revealed how he managed to convince late former president Robert Mugabe to tender his resignation, allowing him to leave office wi...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZEC ready for polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is ready to hold by-elections that are Covid-19 compliant once the ban imposed on health grounds is lifted. Voter registration has reached top gear, wit...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
It's time for Zimbabweans to bite the bullet
FOR the longest of times, Zimbabwe seems to continue hogging the limelight for its blustery manner in terms of handling human rights, and the coming in of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was expected to ...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by George Machanja
Policy inconsistency hurting economy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) reintroduced the Zimbabwean Dollar and outlawed the use of multicurrencies on the local market on the 24th of June 2019, despite widespread concerns on burning the m...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
A political career built on jecha
To be or not to be, is the question Nelson? Well, they say, trying to talk sense to Nelson Chamisa is as good as winking at a blind person. It is a horrible waste of time. He sees nothing. Now it's a ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents want MDC to recall any corrupt councillors
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has said dissolving the MDC-led council and replacing it with a government-appointed Commission would be a negation of devolution values.T...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy needs free-market policies to grow
The introduction of the foreign exchange interbank market by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in February 2019 was a major milestone towards free market economics. Even though there are fears of gov...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Thuggery in Bulawayo council chambers must stop
THE story in Bulawayo in recent weeks has been the unending water shedding, as council works on its water infrastructure, but that story, which touches on people's lives and the socio-economic fabric ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do elections work in Zimbabwe?
THIS article seeks to explore the efficacy of elections as a tool of democratic governance in Zimbabwe since 1980.It is by no means exhaustive, but in a brief and cursory manner looks at the m...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nkomo
Zimbabwe's perpetual struggle with forex black market
AS Zimbabwe continues battling a boisterous foreign currency black market, there are strong signs that a parallel goods markets will soon emerge.Notwithstanding the distinguishable history of ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by P Masamha
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
The curse and case of Linda Masarira
When I hear the word "sellout" I think of the infamous Morrison Nyathi, a former liberation war fighter who became an informant of the Rhodesian Army and led them, deep into Mozambique to slaughter th...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:05hrs | | by Michael Mhlanga
Chamisa confronts James Gumbo?
MDC Masvingo provincial chairperson James Gumbi confirmed MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's impending visit today, but declined to shed more light on the purpose of the visit."The president is going...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gugu Ncube to march without clothes on
South Africa based Zimbabwean Gugu Ncube has announced that she is going to stage a one-woman protest without any clothes at Union building in South Africa on Wednesday at 10 AM.The controvers...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 12:04hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa rally to be blocked
Trouble is brewing in paradise as MDC Alliance provincial chairperson James Gumbi is alleged to have sensationally claimed that he would bar party president Nelson Chamisa from holding a 'Thank You Ra...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira offers Mnangagwa a solution
MDC T notes with concern the lack of urgency by the government of Zimbabwe to address the debilitating economic crisis. It is not a secret that the current government has failed to stabilize the econo...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Linda Masarira
Let's make Zimbabwe great again
There is a general expectation of rapid economic growth in Zimbabwe, driven by massive infrastructural growth, given the new political dispensation.However, there is an adversary at work, the ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Tororiro Isaac Chaza
MDC Alliance disability board on cards
THE MDC Alliance is setting up an organ in the party structures that will represent the interests and aspirations of people with disabilities (PWDs) as it pushes for inclusion of marginalised groups i...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
To introduce or not to introduce domestic currency in the short run, that is the question!
By "To be or not to be" is the manner the literary genius William Shakespeare chose to employ as an opening of a soliloquy for Prince Hamlet in the play Hamlet. "To re-introduce or not to re-introduce...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:08hrs | 11 | by Prosper Munyedza
A political trial of the nation
Today's Constitutional Court hearing of Nelson Chamisa's challenge of the July 30 election will be an elaborate, expensive and ultimately ceremonious spectacle that many of us have never seen before o...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa did not breach law, Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba, has denied allegations that his boss breached the Electoral Act through his Facebook exhortation to the electorate not to vote for MDC Alli...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Reversing Zimbabwe's wretched conditions?
I took a long break from writing, focusing mostly on microblogging on Twitter. I have also reduced my presence on Facebook. Inasmuch as I would like to write frequently, I have come to terms with the ...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje
Zec's old habits dying hard
Last Friday, the European Union head of delegation in Zimbabwe, Philippe Van Damme, took to Twitter to participate in the broad conversation on the freeness and fairness of the coming elections. His t...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Local government elections must be held separately
It's election year again and the usual suspects are out there promising everything to everyone, everywhere they go.Pertinently below the rubble, of harmonised elections lies a very important p...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Dumisani O Nkomo
More independent candidates to contest in Zimbabwe's 2018 election
Zimbabwe is such a political savy country and barely a month passes without hearing of a new political party being launched.Another new political party Multi People's Democratic Party of Zimba...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Youth vote used to be insignificant in Zim polls
Today though, we know about 60 percent of those who registered to vote in this year's election largely fall under the youth category — never mind the constitutional definition of the term, 'youth' e...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:31hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
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