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Zimbabwe govt fiddles while UZ burns
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has suspended six students accused of mobilising their peers to participate in a protest against the institution's administration, as the ong...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:55hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fake ID syndicate busted
Two men who operated a fake identity card manufacturing scheme from inside a government registry office in Bulawayo have been jailed following a sensational exposé and police crackdown.Brian ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 12:37hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Midlands empowerment seminar turns sour
A national youth empowerment seminar held in Gweru from June 12 to 14 has drawn outrage from participants, who allege they were subjected to abuse, neglect, and broken promises by organisers of the ev...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:00hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
US reviewing Zimbabwe's trade proposal to reduce tariffs
The United States government is currently reviewing a formal proposal from Zimbabwe aimed at establishing a more balanced and reciprocal trade relationship by reducing tariffs between the two countrie...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:58hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
The Sentry report on Mutapa Fund is shallow and weak
I had the MISFORTUNE of going through a report prepared and distributed by The Sentry, possibly written by an excitable Nick Donovan. Long story short, the report is shallow and weak. Here is ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 16:37hrs | 19 | by MMatigary
Zimbabwe's new dinosaur discovery: inside the unique find
VISITORS to Lake Kariba - the world's largest man-made lake, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe - come to enjoy the abundant wildlife, fine fishing or spectacular scenery.However, in...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Filabusi gold wars turn ugly
IN a harrowing ordeal that shook Filabusi District, Prosper Ncube, a young miner, recently became a victim of a vicious assault. Under the cloak of night, he was ambushed and mercilessly beaten by a g...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NewsHawks freezes exclusive Zimbabwe military story
The NewsHawks, which has further delayed publication this week due to circumstances beyond its control, will not publish follow-up stories on the issue of three Zimbabwean army generals forced out due...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 15:02hrs | 46 | by NewsHawks Editor
Chivayo frets over Zacc probe
SOCIALITE and businessman Wicknell Chivayo has mocked the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) for allegedly trying to investigate the source of his unexplained wealth.Chivayo has spent ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chirinda signed two contracts with Dembare and Ngezi?
WARRIORS striker Obriel Chirinda is in the eye of a storm after allegedly signing two contracts with Premiership rivals Dynamos and Ngezi Platinum Stars.The forward is currently training with ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
Ramaphosa still engaging Mnangagwa on Zimbabwe's sham polls
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa continues to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the political lockjam in Harare arising from a shambolic election, with the latest engagement having been ...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 09:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Give you vote to those who deserve it' argue ZCBC. Can't give what was never ever yours!
There were times when the church, especially the Catholic Church, used to be the voice of the oppressed and downtrodden and spoke the truth to power. Alas, those days are long gone and the nations is ...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 09:03hrs | 13 | by Wilbert Mukori
History of election mischief: From mlolongo system to vote buying
Once upon a time, each candidate at the General Election was assigned his own ballot box. It is the ballot papers inside your box that determined the poll outcome.The ballot box was only ident...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by John Kamau
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs dig in, defend US$40,000 loan
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators have defended their move to accept controversial US$40,000 loans from Parliament, days after party president Nelson Chami...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec guns for Team Pachedu for 'hacking into its website'
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) wants data analysts Team Pachedu arrested after they uncovered several irregularities in the voters roll and poked holes into the electoral body's information a...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police impunity laid bare
POLICE deputy commissioner Stephen Mutamba was added to the list of individuals reeling under the United States (US) sanctions in a move that bolstered the long-held view that the Zimbabwe Republic Po...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Macheso is bigger than Ngwazi but .....
THE raging comparison of Sungura legend Alick Macheso and the emerging sungura star Mark Ngwazi reminds me of the late 1990s when a colleague brought Macheso's debut album, Magariro, to a party....Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 17:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF closing opposition's political space, says ZPP
Zanu-PF party members topped human rights violations, with 165 cases in April and 193 in May in a development rights groups say indicates the ruling party's penchant for violence.The figures w...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils dig in as residents cry foul
NAOMI Chimbganda is still agonising over last month's council bill, which puts her debt at a staggering $1,8 million.The widow now has sleepless nights over how she will settle it, considering...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tech drifts that are changing the gaming business
In the previous ten years, the universe of betting has quickly advanced. This is expected essentially to the turn of events and development of the web. The ubiquity of web-based betting is obvious aro...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 34 | by Staff Writer
Russia-Ukraine war disrupts Zimbabwe supply
ZIMBABWE may be far-away from the Russian-Ukraine war, but it is set to suffer the consequences of the bloody conflict within the next few days, as the southern African country largely relies on Russi...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lawyer reported to Law Society of Zimbabwe for unprofessionalism
ATTORNEYS representing Zanu-PF member Sybeth Musengezi, who has taken the ruling party and five senior officials to court over contentions of installing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as new leader ille...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Will Chamisa fire generals like what Hakainde Hichilem did?
After Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema appointed new security forces commanders, including Lt.Gen Dennis Alibuzwi, Lt.Gen Godfrey Jere, Air Marshal Collins Barry and Oscar Nyoni, debate erupted on...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players vow to push out chairman, bring back Mhlophe
A CLIQUE of Highlanders players allegedly working with some influential people within the Bosso ranks have vowed to push out the club's executive committee chairman, Johnfat Sibanda, which they hope w...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
It's good introducing anti-corruption curricular at ECD, why don't we start by uprooting graft right from top echelons of power?
Have you ever come across an unrepentant serial rapist, and wife beater, who is in the strange habit of loudly proclaiming to be an ardent gender rights, and anti-sexual abuse, activist - whilst, also...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 20:18hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 13 | by Nomazulu Thata
Top security measures at online casinos
The notorious pandemic has brought both casinos and gamblers into uncharted waters: the former have to adjust to the now inevitable online gambling paradigm, whereas the latter have to learn how to fi...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 00:09hrs | 41 | by Staff Writer
A look into the incentives for exports and investment growth 'Exporting retention changes'
On the 10th of May 18, 2021, Hon Prof Mthuli Ncube published a statement on incentives for exports and investment growth, which changed the exporting companies’ retention threshold. Prima facie, the...Published: 18 May 2021 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by Tryson G Dube
Lawyers dig in to fight Mnangagwa
AS the government moved today to gazette controversial constitutional amendments to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa consolidate power as part of his 2023 re-election bid, agitated lawyers are diggin...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dzamara's wife seeks closure 6 years on
MISSING journalist cum-activist Itai Dzamara's wife, Sheffra yesterday made an impassioned plea for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and intensify investigations on her husband's disappearanc...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: A chip off the old block
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is following the footsteps of his mentor, the late former president Robert Mugabe in recycling deadwood in cabinet positions, as a key strategy to consolidate his powerbas...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:44hrs | | by Richard Muponde
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Mukudzei Mudzi and a 'distorted history’
We have learned with sorrow and sadness of the death of Cde Mukudzei Mudzi (94) the former Executive Secretary (General Secretary) of Dare reChimurenga of ZANU.Cde Mudzi's death followed that ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 16:17hrs | 15 | by Rugare Gumbo
Zapu sceptical about Mnangagwa's devolution approach
THE opposition Zapu party has taken a dig into the devolution concept being implemented by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, describing it as pointless because it gives too much power to ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers dig in over PPE
DEFIANT teachers have dug in demanding provision of personal protective equipment for fear of contracting COVID-19 before returning to the classrooms.The teachers also vowed not to invigilate ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to dock teachers' salaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's underfire government has ordered provincial education directors to name teachers who failed to report for duty since the reopening of schools in September, as it moves t...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Striking teachers dig in
TEACHERS have vowed to press on with their industrial action after talks with the government collapsed yesterday as they also complained bitterly over alleged favouritism towards the army and police....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post, the epicentre of graft
Beitbridge border post ranks first as the busiest inland port of entry in the rest of Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Second busiest inland post of entry after Egypt's Taba. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt concerned over COVID-19 violations
GOVERNMENT has raised concern over unnecessary movement of people in violation of COVID-19 protocols in urban areas and encouraged people to travel only when absolutely necessary.Information, ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking doctors dig in
Public hospital doctors have vowed to continue with their strike, which started on Tuesday this week, despite the government's move to ban all forms of industrial action.Cabinet on Tuesday ann...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intolerance is Zimbabwe's major undoing
FOR weeks on end the main opposition MDC party has been threatening to take to the streets and bushes of rural areas to protest the country's deteriorating economic situation while the ruling Zanu-PF ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Editorial Newsday
Joshua Nkomo's family describe Mnangagwa's govt as a 'dead donkey'
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo family fumes over 'delayed' Harare statue
THE family of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo has described government as a "dead donkey" accusing it of delaying the erection of a statue in the capital honouring the former liberation struggle ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Boarding school life - past, present
BEFORE deeply exploring themes in the play, I think it is quite safe to say that the playwright Chinodya covers various themes in the text. The theme of boarding school life is proffered to conscienti...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Charles Dube
National dialogue deadlock: Hope keeps eluding Zimbabwe
NATIONAL dialogue meant to unite Zimbabweans around a common vision has failed to gain traction as the leading political parties have taken deeply entrenched hardline positions, plunging the country d...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Criminals around Mnangagwa and Chamisa derailing Progressive politics
This documentary will enlighten those who may think decisions are done in standing committees or politburo, the debacle is wider and beyond your imagination. The good part about President Mnangagwa an...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:39hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a monumental failure
Robert Mugabe's protracted despotic rule brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. Such was the damage to a nation hitherto referred to as 'Jewel of Africa' that the general consensus was that things could ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Grace Kwinjeh
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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
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