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Biti threatens Mnangagwa with 'floodgate of litigation'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday signed the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Zimbabwe into law amid strong objections from the opposition and civic society organisations with lawyers and the...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2513 | by Staff reporter
2nd Amendment now part of Constitution?
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of Zimbabwe came into force yesterday following the required assent by more than two thirds of the National Assembly, two thirds of the Senate and the consent ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
CRICKET: Zimbabwe suffer heavy defeat in first Test against Pakistan
ZIMBABWE suffered heavy defeat on day three of the first Test cricket encounter against Pakistan when they were beaten by an innings and 116 runs at Harare Sports Club yesterday.After being bo...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:40hrs | 198 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa moves to dissolve 'opposition-run' councils
President Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be living in the past after he blasted poorly-run local authorities during his Independence Day speech, saying they were causing misery to people by failing to pr...Published: 01 May 2021 at 20:29hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF controlled Senate approves constitutional clauses
The Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, which proposes a raft of amendments to the Constitution, went through its Second Reading and Committee stage in the Senate yesterday without any fu...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:15hrs | 286 | by Staff writer
Chivayo, Kazhanje bribe trial kicks off
THE trial of Wicknell Chivayo and his company Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited, along with former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje, on allegations that Intratrek paid Ka...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Simba, Bona's mansion: Monument to corruption
THE huge mansion that former president Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona and son-in-law Simba Mutsahuni have been struggling to complete since the longtime ruler was unceremoniously removed from power thr...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:22hrs | 2691 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa wants Luke Malaba to stay
ON 6 April 2021, the Zimbabwean senate passed Constitutional Amendment Bill (N0.1), which had been declared null and void by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on 31 March 2020, after it was unconsti...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 4602 | by Staff reporter
Ex Victoria High head tries luck in Zanu-PF
John Muzamani, the former Victoria High head who had a disgraceful departure from the school last year is now trying his luck in Zanu-PF.Muzamani is among 11 candidates who have submitted thei...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:41hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council director fired
HARARE City Council has fired its human capital and development director Cainos Chingombe following a resolution made over three years ago.Acting mayor Stewart Mtizwa could neither confirm nor...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
NetOne CEO's passport temporarily released
Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has temporarily released the passport of NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje to allow him to go for business trips.Muchenje, who was recen...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 18:40hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda Demotion Cosmetic, A face saving Stunt: MDC VAA
The demotion of ZANU PF stalwart and subsequent dismissal of Victor Matemadanda as the ZANU PF Political Commissar is a publicity stunt and face saving Stunt by ZANU PF for his Sunday exposé in...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 17:14hrs | 2734 | by Dr Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Chinese miner in fresh labour storm
CHINESE-OWNED Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain near Bulawayo has reportedly dismissed all its underground workers without notice, prompting the trade union which represents workers to threaten t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:50hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires 'incompetent' Matemadanda
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired Victor Matemadanda from the post of party political commissar and assigned him to a less glamorous role of heading a diplomatic mission.The outspoken Zan...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:36hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
How to wreck a political party
One of the issues that MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa raised during his Agenda 2021 address last week were claims that Government was gunning for a one party State in Zimbabwe using some oppositi...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 589 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Ndewere hearing deferred
LAWYERS representing suspended High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere in the inquiry of her suitability to hold the office of a judge want Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Permanent Secretary...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:12hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Ndewere challenges Mabhiza appointment as tribunal secretary
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere's hearing on misconduct charges commenced in Harare yesterday with her lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, challenging the appointment of Justice ministry permane...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Court orders reinstatement of NetOne boss Lazarus Muchenje
Lazarus Muchenje who was last year kicked out of NetOne has been reinstated as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by the High Court.His victory follows an application filed early this year after he...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 20:42hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit for public prosecutors
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has introduced lifestyle audits for prosecutors and support staff countrywide with a view to flushing out and prosecuting bad apples as the office intensifies ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa likely violated Constitution and must face the consequences
A major public controversy has erupted over the recent resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi over sexual impropriety scandals and President Mnangagwa not giving a public notice of the resignation...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 15:58hrs | 1982 | by Munyaradzi Gwisai
Zimbabwe needs the Patriotic Act
A debate on the possibility of a Patriotic Act to be enacted in our country's laws has been raging on ever since the Bill got tabled in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. A lot of diverse views have co...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:04hrs | 316 | by Prosperity Mzila
Obert Mpofu is seen as a front-runner for VP post, but.....
Zanu-PF stalwarts from Matabeleland region are angling to take up the Vice-Presidency left vacant after the disgraceful fall of Kembo Mohadi, who was entangled in an embarrassing sex scandal.P...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:05hrs | 5438 | by Staff reporter
Ex-army captain challenges dismissal
A FORMER captain in the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Solomon Ndlovu, is seeking reinstatement after he successfully appealed his six-year jail term for theft of a motor vehicle, at the High Court in ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
Do morals require a code of conduct for politicians?
Tongues were sent into overdrive in the recent past weeks amid revelations of a multitude of trysts of Zimbabwe's the third in command, Vice President Kembo Mohadi with numerous married. What started ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 21:40hrs | 732 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Zanu-PF's 2023 plot exposed
HARARE residents and MDC formations yesterday claimed Zanu-PF was behind the chaos in most urban local authorities as part of a grand plan to set the electorate against the opposition ahead of the 202...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:20hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Fred Shava's criminal past clouds future
NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Frederick Shava, who has an unsavoury dark and criminal past, has his work cut out for him.Shava replaced retired Lieute...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:53hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
NPA moves to block Machaya appeal
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has filed a notice of opposition at the High Court challenging jailed former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Jason Machaya's application for leave to appe...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:40hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fires NatPharm board, officials
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has dissolved the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) board, while ministry principal director Gibson Mhlanga is in trouble over a Covid-...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 4640 | by Staff reporter
NetOne hunts for CEO
STATE-RUN mobile telecoms firm, NetOne Cellular, this week began the search for a new chief executive officer to replace Lazarus Muchenje, whose exit was endorsed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in De...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Human rights activists demand release of UZ student who called for Mnangagwa ouster
THE hardest part about being a parent is watching your children go through difficult and rough experiences and not being able to do anything for them.Such is the feeling of Jephias Moyo, whose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:08hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Govt probes CSC investor
A PROBE into the operations of a firm that clinched the deal to revive the Cold Storage Company (CSC) two years ago kicked off in December, with Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minist...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:01hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NetOne boss heads to Labour Court
The battle by NetOne to part ways with former CEO Lazarus Muchenje and Mr Muchenje's determination to stay on has been referred to the Labour Court. Justice Esther Muremba said the High ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:24hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono granted $20,000 bail
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been granted ZW$20 000 bail by High Court judge Justice David Foroma after spending three weeks in prison. Justice Tawanda Chitapi read the operative part of t...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 11:18hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Can your Employer Force You to Have a COVID-19 Test?
There are times the situation calls for measures which are tough but protecting the public and making work places safe. The world has embraced a world order which would have been pervasive in normal c...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 15:54hrs | 1106 | by enford Madekufamba and Dr. Masimba Mavaza
Zacc probes dismissal of four Harare water engineers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating how four senior managers in Harare City Council's Water Department were dismissed ahead of the forensic audit on council ordered by Pres...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:22hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
ANC tired of Zanu-PF antics
THE relationship between the ruling Zanu-PF party and its sister liberation movement African Nation-al Congress (ANC) of South Africa is on a cliffhanger after the latter revealed yesterday that it ha...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:54hrs | 3391 | by Staff reporter
Reinstated Air Zimbabwe workers sent on forced unpaid leave
REINSTATED Air Zimbabwe workers have now been sent on forced unpaid leave and are demanding that the airline, technically insolvent and under administration, immediately withdraws these orders, which ...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Former NetOne CEO challenges dismissal
FORMER NetOne chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje who was recently reinstated and then immediately dismissed on three months notice has filed an application at the High Court challenging termina...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
NetOne boss Muchenje fired via section 11(2) notice
EMBATTLED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje has been fired from the parastatal.NetOne acting board chairperson Susan Mutangadura made the announcement in a notice published in the first ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe reinstates 300 fired workers
AIR ZIMBABWE has reinstated over 300 workers it fired five years ago after the Supreme Court ruled early this month that the mass dismissals via three months' termination notices were slipshod and uph...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Militant teachers group claims negotiating partner bribed by Mnangagwa govt
PROGRESSIVE Teachers union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou has accused leaders of the Apex Council of accepting government bribes to weaken their resolve to continue pressing for improved...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
NetOne fires Muchenje again
NETONE has reinstated and for the second time fired its former chief executive officer, Lazarus Muchenje on alleged criminal abuse of duty charges.Muchenje who was dismissed from Netone on Jul...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 18:32hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Workplace injustices
Most injustices that occur at the workplace go unreported and are swept under the carpet for many reasons. Employees often feel powerless against the employer and are afraid of intimidation and victim...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 10:13hrs | 659 | by Mthokozisi Nyathi
Coal Mining giant dismisses 400 employees
December 12, of 2020 saw the unfair dismissal of 400 workers at Zimbabwe's giant coal mining company Makomo Resources, situate in Hwange, Zimbabwe. This was revealed by the Secretary-General of Nation...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | 688 | by Own correspondent
Why is govt silent about the COVID-19 vaccine?
For a country in the throes of a coronavirus crisis, it is surprising how little Zimbabwe has not talked about procuring the COVID-19 vaccine which has dominated conversations as the world seeks a way...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:13hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Fired Gweru Town Clerk fights back
FIRED Gweru Town Clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza has taken Gweru City Council (GCC) and Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo to court challenging her dismissal. Ms Gwatipedza was...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:08hrs | 375 | by Elliot Ziwira
What ZANU PF would do as an Opposition - PART 1
It was at the funeral gathering of the late MDC Alliance MP, Anna Muyambo (MHSRIP) where Job Sikhala noted that the MDC Alliance, despite its so called huge following and popularity, will still be elu...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:40hrs | 1342 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Soldiers severely tortured 2 men while praying on mountain
TWO Harare men were recently severely tortured by soldiers while praying on a "prayer mountain".According to Takudzwanashe Mudenga, he and a friend Perfect Khumalo on 13 December went to a mou...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Khupe wields axe on Chamisa's 3 mayors
MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe has recalled the mayors of Chinhoyi, Chegutu and Bindura and several councillors for refusing to cross over to her party after they continued to align themselves to the...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1195 | by Staff reporter
Khupe expels mayor, 7 councillors
The MDC-T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe has expelled MDC-A Chinhoyi Mayor, Councillor Dyke Makumbi (Ward 12), four Chinhoyi and three Chegutu councillors as the feud within the opposition party continues ...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2496 | by Staff reporter
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