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Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1307 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Popular Madzibaba dies in car crash
Ex-minister Parirenyatwa trial date setThe trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office will resume on December 2 after the State yester...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Popular Madzibaba dies in car crash
The apostolic sect has been plunged into mourning following the death of a popular Johanne Masowe eChishanu leader, Madzibaba Edward Manyara. He was 67. Madzibaba Manyara was one of the sect's five-ma...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to expend 5% fuel levy on Chirundu Highway
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated 5% of the excise duty revenue collected on fuel towards the construction of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway as international...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:35hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Masowe eChishanu leader dies
Johanne Masowe eChishanu apostolic sect leader Edward Manyara has died.He was 67.The leader popularly known as Madzibaba Edward died upon admission at Avenues clinic yesterday after be...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:32hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
2 killed as thunderstorms continue
TWO people died yesterday after a commuter omnibus they had parked in Mbare was hit by a falling tree following a thunderstorm that hit Harare. This comes as the Meteorological Services Depart...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:49hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Kisinoti Mukwazhe dies
Opposition Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) party president Mr Kisinoti Mukwazhe died last night at Karanda Mission Hospital after a short illness.He was 49.Mr Mukwazhe died after bein...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:54hrs | 4543 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe still with us three years down the line
For Zimbabwe to achieve stability, there was to be a return to constitutionality. Sanity had escaped the political landscape. The operation restore legacy was not to be complete without order and a co...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:34hrs | 2576 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans caught in witchcraft practices in the UK
Zimbabweans in the UK have totally refused to abandon their beliefs in Witchcraft lucky charms and in superstitions. They have carried their beliefs in the United Kingdom and created a world of supers...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:32hrs | 8095 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2780 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 627 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Spaced out - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There was a lot of space in Parliament when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube delivered his budget. This was partly because the opposition was boycotting the occasion but mainly because of the surprise an...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:14hrs | 233 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
John Tallach wins POTRAZ letter competition
JOHN Tallach High School pupils have won the first and third prizes in the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) Matabeleland North provincial letter writing competit...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
Horror crash, 2 dead on the spot
TWO Safeguard Security employees died on the spot yesterday after the vehicle they were travelling in rammed into a tree while trying to avoid a head-on collision on a curve in Bulawayo's Suburbs subu...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:28hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Chombo trial hangs in the balance
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's corruption trial still hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court last Friday deferred ruling on whether he should get a permanent stay of prosecution on the g...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2644 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
As a worsening drought slashes the country's hydropower production, creating lengthy power cuts, Zimbabwe's industries are beginning to turn to solar panels and battery storage systems to keep busines...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathema laments lack of dams
Aprominent Matabeleland South traditional leader Chief Mathema has urged the government to ensure that people in the province benefit from the vast water bodies in their region.Chief Mathema w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
'The genocide that robbed me of my father'
The doctors' strike was just one of those stories that we have become accustomed to as Zimbabweans and it didn't mean much to me until my father was hospitalised and subsequently passed on at the Unit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:58hrs | 466 | by Sinqobile Tesa
Red flag over city roads
BULAWAYO councillors are agonising over the city's measly road maintenance budget for the remainder of the year saying that with the rainy season setting in, the city's already bad road network will b...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 3321 | by Edmund Kudzai
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Minister ordered to pay transgender activist $400k
THE High Court has ordered the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage and police bosses to pay Bulawayo transgender activist Ricky Eugene Nathanson $400 000 as compensation following her unlaw...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:02hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Travis Greene to rock out gospel concert
America's award-winning gospel musician and pastor Travis Greene is set to rock South Africa this month.The three-time Grammy Award nominee is set to headline the much-anticipated 2019 Spiritu...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 09:36hrs | 498 | by Peter Dube
2 years after Mugabe ouster in a coup: Zimbabwe in an abyss
"Following the address we made on November 13, 2017, which we believe our main broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our co...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Decentralise Command agric inputs distribution, govt told
COMMAND agriculture programme beneficiaries in Mashonaland Central province on Wednesday asked Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro to address challenges they were encountering in accessing inpu...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
8 Beitbridge bodies face pauper's burial
GOVERNMENT officials in Beitbridge, who are grappling with a mortuary crisis following the suspension of morgue services at the 160-bed Beitbridge District Hospital last week, are seeking authority to...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Local authorities stifling business growth: Industry
MANY local authorities in Zimbabwe are using archaic laws and municipal by-laws that do not take into account the changing business environment and globalisation, a situation that has made it difficul...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF committing crime against humanity, says Chamisa
Opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has pleaded with the donor community to immediately intervene and stop Zanu-PF from capitalising on the humanitarian crisis and using donated food to garner votes....Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:41hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: AmaXhosa King Zwelonke Sigcawu dies
King of the AmaXhosa in South Africa Mpendulo Calvin Zwelonke Sigcawu has died. South African media reported that the King died during the early hours of Thursday after a short illness. ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 3181 | by Mandla Ndlovu
RBZ investigates banks over new currency
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that government through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is investigating allegations of abuse of newly released bank notes. ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 08:02hrs | 4947 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man drown while imitating members of the police sub-aqua unit
A 28-year-old man drowned in Mtshabezi Dam in Gweru as he imitated members of the police sub-aqua unit who were retrieving a body from the water source. Midlands Provincial spokesperson ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:35hrs | 1867 | by Staff reporter
Former Bosso chairman dies
FORMER Highlanders chairman, Malcolm King, died yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa. Highlanders president Ndumiso Gumede said King, who served as Bosso chairman in 1984, contributed a lot to the clu...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:35hrs | 2455 | by Staff reporter
Rangers force fish poacher, son to swim in Zambezi river
A ZAMBIAN man and his four-year-old son drowned in the Zambezi River after Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers allegedly ordered him to swim across the river with the lad...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:35hrs | 1711 | by Staff reporter
Government speaks on closure on mortuaries
Government has professed ignorance over the load shedding of electricity in Bietbridge hospital that has led to the hospital facility shutting its mortuary.On Wednesday afternoon Member of Par...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 14:37hrs | 3992 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 740 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Beitbridge Hospital shuts down mortuary
INCESSANT power cuts have forced Beitbridge District Hospital to shut down its mortuary leaving members of the public at the mercy of private players who are offering the services at exorbitant prices...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats given community service sentences
FIVE Form Six pupils at Gebhuza Secondary School in Hwange arrested for sharing a leaked Economics Paper 3 question paper have been each sentenced to 12 months in jail, but will all have to perform 35...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans angered by $300 bank withdrawal limits
Zimbabweans finally got access to new low-denomination currency on Tuesday that authorities hope will end chronic cash shortages, but banks maintained an existing weekly withdrawal limit of $300 (US$2...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:08hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
6 killed as truck, kombi collide
Six people are said to have died on the spot when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in collided with a haulage truck this morning along Beitbridge road in Mwenezi. The accident occurred ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 13:17hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Gweru town clerk salary perks exposed
SUSPENDED Gweru town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza drew over $100 000 in gross salary and led a luxurious lifestyle paid for by ratepayers until her suspension by mayor Josiah Makombe last month, investi...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies mass wildlife migration
Zimbabwe is planning an enforced mass migration of wildlife away from a park in the country's south, where thousands of animals are at risk of death due to drought-induced starvation.At least ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:20hrs | 253 | by Reuters
Beitbridge hospital mortuary turns away dead bodies
The Beitbridge District Hospital mortuary has stopped accepting corpses due to long spells of power cuts and the rising temperatures in the border town. The hospital, in a notice, said their m...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 17:20hrs | 1732 | by Staff Reporter
Plumtree herdboy sodomises 2 boys...gives them two rand
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have announced that two boys aged have been rescued from a 35 year old man was sodomising them in Madlambudzi. The boys are aged 5 and 7 years. The man was...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 16:06hrs | 1877 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mimosa shelves US$70m Zimbabwe refinery plant
Platinum Group of Metals (PGM) producer, Mimosa Mining Company, has shelved plans to build a US$70 million refinery plant at the Zvishavane premises for local beneficiation of the minerals after feasi...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices increase
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) yesterday announced fuel price increases of 11 cents and 10 cents for petrol and diesel, respectively. The price of petrol which was at $16,66 p...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo steps in the heart of Mnangagwa
The fugitive Jonathan Moyo made a bold step in Mnangagwa's heart with guns blazing accusing ED of nepotism and Tribalism. He took no prisoners in his twitter accusing ED of sidelining the Ndebeles fro...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 09:05hrs | 34659 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'I don't want to be married'
Socialite and sports marketer Luminista Dumbisa Jemwa might be a lot of men's idea of what a "perfect" woman looks like and, given a chance, the bold would certainly "shoot their shot", but unfortunat...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
New era for enhanced Isuzu bakkie in Zimbabwe
Last year saw the rebirth of the Isuzu bakkie range or the pick up as what we like calling it here in Zimbabwe. Isuzu Motors South Africa (Isuzu) refreshed its bakkie range, giving it a new name along...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:53hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
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