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The Hard Truth About The Fuel Price Increase
Sometimes the truth hurts. And in this case, it really hurts. The price increases were both necessary and proportional. The economy needs them. The country needs them. However there has be...Published: 4 hrs ago | 856 | by Faith Hope
Details of violent crackdown by Zimbabwe security forces emerge
Scores of civilians including a prominent activist were detained on Wednesday and others were beaten, lawyers and witnesses said, as evidence began to emerge of a brutal crackdown on dissent by securi...Published: 16 hrs ago | 6537 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe's woes deepen
Not having a currency of its own hasn't stopped Zimbabwe from sliding into a currency crisis.A scarcity of foreign exchange has led to long queues for fuel, bread and medicine and sent prices ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 12:56hrs | 1318 | by Bloomberg News
Kombi operators speak on fares
TRANSPORT operators yesterday slammed unscrupulous drivers and conductors for taking advantage of a review of fuel prices by the Government on Saturday to charge commuters extortionate fares.T...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:42hrs | 1328 | by Staff reporter
War veterans threaten businesses against price hikes
War veterans have threatened to "deal" with business people who are they alleged were making massive profits through "unjustifiable" increase of prices.This comes after President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers deployed in Bulawayo to contain protests?
There are unconfirmed reports that members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces were deployed in Bulawayo on Monday to assist anti-roit police contain the protest that brought business to a halt in the enti...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | 6195 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We are starving in the Garden of Eden - damning testimonial on leaders and us all
"38 years of criminal waste of human and material resources through gross mismanagement and rampant corruption by this Zanu-PF regime has destroyed the country's economy. For decades now, the country ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 21:36hrs | 231 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chivayo blow as Judge says he must answer fraud charges
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo must stand trial to answer to fraud allegations levelled against him over the Gwanda solar project, a High Court judge has ruled.Chivayo is facing tw...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:36hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
The Collin Nyabadza Children's Voice Charitable Trust in financial need
The Collin Nyabadza Children's Voice Charitable Trust (CNCVCT) is seeking financial assistance to finish a classroom block worth $25 000 at Sishawe Primary School in Bubi District, Zimbabwe. The organ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:12hrs | 100 | by Buhle Nkomo
Mnangagwa warns businesses against price increases
Fuel prices more than doubled at midnight on Sunday following a shock announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.A litre of petrol is now $3,31, up from $1,38 while diesel is now selling for...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1150 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Noyo exposes Madhuku, Madhuku exposes Jonathan Moyo
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who turns 62 yesterday, may have had a birthday he would want to quickly forget after Professor Lovemore Madhuku exposed him for stretching...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:44hrs | 7436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A presidency under siege, is there a way out?
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now” - African ProverbIt’s only been six months since Zimbabwe held its ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 04:25hrs | 12621 | by Lloyd Msipa
Low-lying Chilonga Bridge claims Chiredzi RDC employee's life
A CHIREDZI Rural District Council (RDC) employee was recently swept away at the low-lying Chilonga Bridge, as he tried to cross the flooded Runde River.Chiredzi RDC chief executive Isaac Matsi...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:25hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Man loses rural home to ex
A Harare man says he has lost access his rural home in Murewa to his ex-wife after he found out her "adulterous affair".David Chikaunga is at odds with his ex-wife, Memory Shunje, whom he alle...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:58hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
$400m NRZ deal in limbo
GOVERNMENT is reconsidering the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project to be jointly undertaken by the South African rail, port and pipeline company, Transnet and ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:54hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Cops in 16-man mine armed robbery
EIGHT armed robbers, among them two police officers allegedly raided a Chinese mining company in Zvishavane and went away with an Isuzu pick up, 48 grammes of gold, US$8 820, $6 800 bond notes and 2 1...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Putin moots military base in Zimbabwe…….as Mnangagwa begs for Moscow bailout package
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER/HARARE - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reportedly set his eyes on opening a Russian strategic military base in Zimbabwe, as Moscow ratchets up her new foreign policy in Afri...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:29hrs | 13128 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mnangagwa's defining moment
GOVERNMENT will today meet its restive employees in a crunch meeting for salary negotiations in a desperate bid to stop a full-blown strike that could cripple State operations.This comes as wo...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3516 | by Staff reporter
Swiss foreign minister in Zimbabwe
The Head of the Federal Department Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Councillor Ignazio Cassis has arrived in Zimbabwe on a private visit which will see him tour of the Newlyweds Community Clinic in High...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:12hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Man nabbed for defrauding Sables Chemicals
A 34-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man, who was on the Interpol red flag for allegedly defrauding Sable Chemicals of 300 tonnes of fertiliser worth $174 000 four years ago, was last week apprehended outside the U...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Government mulls setting up fund for students
GOVERNMENT is considering setting up a fund to be accessed by higher and tertiary students struggling to provide collateral demanded by financial institutions providing educational loans. Tert...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa stole Econet share, his lawyer responds
Prominent businessman and formerly Strive Masiyiwa's lawyer Tawanda Nyambirai has issued a lengthy and heated response to the allegations that the Zimbabwean dollar billionaire should not have ended u...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 23:11hrs | 9680 | by Staff reporter
Register change of car ownership, people urged
The Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Advocate Fortune Chasi has warned the public to register change of car ownership within the prescribed period of 14 days, saying the p...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:33hrs | 5258 | by Staff reporter
Looking for Sicinginkosi Maphosa please assist
Please help me people. I am looking for Sicinginkosi Maphosa she took my bag by mistake we were from Plumtree to Bulawayo Zimbabwe 4 January 2019.Our bags looked same. I found a baby clinic ca...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:50hrs | 1099 | by Reader
Prisoners jump off moving truck, flee
AN unknown number of inmates yesterday jumped off a moving prison transfer truck ferrying them between Harare and Whawha prisons.Circumstances surrounding the escape were still sketchy yesterd...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1190 | by Staff reporter
The death of Tongogara as told by Lookout Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa.
Josiah Magama Tongogara : The interview that cost his life:This excerpt was taken from a Rhodesian Combat Pilot who played a pivotal role in the Cease Fire Agreement and the formation of the N...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 13877 | by Social media
Zimra top brass in smuggling racket
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) 10 top managers have been named in an alleged $3 million cooking oil and chicken smuggling racket, which was reportedly swept under the carpet.Documents ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:54hrs | 698 | by Staff repoirter
Dan Tshanda dies
Music fans are in mourning on Saturday after news broke that musician and producer Dan Tshanda passed away in Johannesburg after suffering heart failure at age 54.He was reportedly certified d...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 19:42hrs | 10556 | by Staf reporter
'Intern' doctors threaten to snub disciplinary hearings
THE over 500 suspended junior doctors at public hospitals have vowed to snub disciplinary hearings scheduled for today at their various work stations around the country and continue with their industr...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police lay fresh charges on 7 Chinese nationals
POLICE have opened fresh charges of money laundering and theft of a motor vehicle against seven Chinese nationals who are being accused of possessing more than 20kg of rhino horn pieces with a combine...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:18hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo cornered on fraud
THE criminal trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo will now proceed after the High Court in Harare overruled his bid to block prosecution on corruption charges involving ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Man killed over married woman
TWO Rusape brothers who trapped and brutally killed a man suspected of having an extra-marital affair with one of the duo's wife have been arrested and charged with murder.Uedwick (27) and Vic...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
'Doctors are negotiating in bad faith' says Chiwenga - have you ever done anything otherwise
"Following a series of meetings involving striking Health Workers and their employer, the Health Services Board, Government is gravely concerned that the situation in our country continues to deterior...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1305 | by Nomusa Garikai
Food outlet proposal attracts sponsors
A public marriage proposal has borne fruit for a Bulawayo-based couple, after companies and the public pledged to sponsor their whole wedding.What is left is for the bride and groom to set a d...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:07hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Man struck and killed by lightning on Christmas
A 20-year-old Silobela man was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning on Christmas while boozing with friends. Mlungisi Mori of Msilahobe Village under Chief Malisa died on the spot. Silobel...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:47hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
SA arrests Mozambique’s ex-finance minister for extradition to US
A former finance minister of Mozambique, who approved secret loans that plunged the country into a crisis, has been arrested in South Africa awaiting extradition to the United States, police said Mond...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 663 | by AFP
Zimbabwe drone operators to apply for operating licences
Drone operators are now required to register their aircrafts with Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz), the Daily News can report.The drones fall under the multi-rotor regulations that ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army chopper in forced landing
An Alouette III helicopter carrying Secretary for Defence and War Veterans Mr Martin Rushwaya force-landed in Gutu on Saturday after developing a mechanical fault. No one was injured in the in...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:42hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Second body found in Hillside Dams
MYSTERY surrounds the drowning of a couple at Hillside Dams in Bulawayo, with their bodies being found a day apart. Yesterday, it emerged that a woman who was reported in The Chronicle on Satu...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:13hrs | 888 | by Staf reporter
2 die in another New Year's eve bus accident
Five people died on Monday when a commuter omnibus they were traveling in burst a tyre near Great Zimbabwe University along the Masvingo-Mbalabala Road. Police have confirmed the accident. ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:07hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judiciary independence questioned
When MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti was arrested on August 10 as he fled into neighbouring Zambia for announcing false presidential results, he was brought to the Harare Magistrates' Cour...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:38hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' breaking point
A Vigil supporter who works for the needy in Zimbabwe says her job is becoming increasingly difficult. She sent us the following message from a desperate doctor. ‘I have tried my best n...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:10hrs | 898 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa purging Mugabe loyal CIO operatives
President Emmerson Mnanagagwa's government is purging senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives suspected of having links with former president Robert Mugabe as the Zanu-PF leader cont...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:26hrs | 5565 | by Staff reporter
2 detectives arraigned in mine robbery case
Two police detectives from Minerals Unit have appeared before Zvishavane resident magistrate Shepherd Munjanja in connection with a case of robbery which occurred at Carmlak Mine earlier this month....Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 17:39hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctor struck off in UK for lying
A children'S doctor who lied to the Child Support Agency to avoid paying maintenance has been struck off in the United Kingdom. Dr Collen Nkomo, from Greater Manchester, was ruled unfit to pra...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:43hrs | 546 | by BBC
Tongogara family speaks out
The family of Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (Zanla) Commander General Josiah Magama Tongogara has said details disclosed by Defence and War Veterans Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Acting Co...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 22:28hrs | 5107 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo rubbishes Muchinguri claims on Tongo death book
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education Minister, Jonathan Moyo has rubbished claims by Defence Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri that former President Robert Mugabe confiscated a book she had pe...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 22:11hrs | 5217 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa ally sucked into $33m shady deal
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza is entangled in a multi-million dollar Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) scandal after he reportedly authorised a €28 ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:53hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
An inquiry into commission of inquiry's findings
THE much-anticipated report of the commission of inquiry into the August 1, 2018 post-election violence was finally released, and its contents make for some interesting reading and discussion....Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:46hrs | 442 | by Paul Kaseke
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