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'TTI operating at a loss in Bulawayo'
Tendy Three Investments (TTI), the company contracted to manage parking bays in Bulawayo, is reportedly operating at a significant loss and has proposed a drastic shift in its public-private partnersh...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:38hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo councillors ditching residents for their political parties'
Bulawayo residents have expressed growing frustration with city councillors, accusing them of prioritizing their political party agendas over the needs of the people who voted them into office during ...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Tawanda Maswanhise double moves Motherwell up to 4th in Scottish Premiership
Tawanda Maswanhise scored twice as Motherwell returned to winning ways with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Dundee United at Tannadice.Maswanhise scored in both halves, either side of a Sam Dal...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 09:00hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to ditch 'command' exchange rate
The government of Zimbabwe is facing increasing pressure to abandon its "command" exchange rate for the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, introduced in April, as businesses struggle to cope with currency ...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3966 | by Staff reporter
Teenager hospitalised after brutal bar attack
A 14-year-old boy from Filabusi is fighting for his life at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after allegedly being assaulted and left in a ditch by two men. The incident occurred last Friday at...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 16:19hrs | 1351 | by Staff reporter
Fired MK Party MPs kiss goodbye to jobs
The Western Cape High Court has ruled against 10 former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party members of Parliament who were challenging their dismissal.The members were fired to make way for the seven ...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:19hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Shops dump ZiG official rate for two-tier pricing system
Just like other Zimbabwean currencies introduced since the year 2000, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency is already showing signs of instability barely half a year after its introduction, with many shop...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9570 | by Staff reporter
Xiluva leader Bongani Baloyi to join Zuma's MKP
Xiluva leader and former Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi is set to join the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party this week, Sunday World reported.Baloyi is set to make the big announcement this week on We...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 14:26hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
After ditching the dollar, Zimbabwe now rushing for it at a steeper cost
NEARLY five months after changing its currency to arrest inflation, Zimbabwe is back in familiar territory as the new local unit has started losing ground.The problem seems to be based on how ...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:11hrs | 3922 | by Staff reporter
Man stumbles upon naked mom, aunt at his homestead
IN a bizarre incident, a Chigodora man allegedly bumped into his mother and aunt performing weird nocturnal rituals at his homestead while stark naked.The man further claimed that the duo infl...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 07:11hrs | 4196 | by Staff reporter
Jilted man kills lover's child
A JILTED Zengeza lover yesterday visited his girlfriend, strangled and slammed her two-year-old son against the wall leading to the infant's death.Simbarashe Ashton Machipisa, 32, decided to k...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:57hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Mkhwebane and Carl Niehaus refute claims they are ditching the EFF
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members Carl Niehaus and Busisiwe Mkhwebane have refuted claims that they were leaving the party after news emerged today that Floyd Shivambu has resigned from the part...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 13:47hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1842 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Love Island crowns Zimbabwe's Mimii winner in grand final
The winners of summer Love Island's 2024 grand final have been announced.During their eight weeks in the villa, this year's contestants have missed a Euros tournament, an Olympics opening cere...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:42hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should ditch the toxic US dollar
Zimbabwe's economy has been intertwined with the US dollar for over a decade, a relationship that began as a pragmatic response to hyperinflation and economic collapse in the late 2000s. The adoption ...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 09:46hrs | 55 | by Staff writer
Independent candidates ride on Chamisa's coattails
INDEPENDENT candidates for Mount Pleasant and Harare East constituencies in the capital are rallying voters to support former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa by voting them i...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biti dumps CCC
FORMER Finance minister and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) co-vice-president Tendai Biti, has dumped the main opposition political party saying he is taking a sabbatical away from politics as he ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Foreign currency dealers ditch trading spots
MOST illegal money changers popularly known as "Osiphatheleni" have abandoned their traditional trading spots in Bulawayo following the launch by the Government of the new gold-backed currency, the Zi...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new currency requires bold measures to succeed
JOHN Mushayavanhu, the new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, yesterday put his head on the block declaring that "not under my watch" will the apex stray from its core functions as he launched a...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
14 injured in Easter bus accident
FOURTEEN people were injured in a road traffic accident on Friday in what was the only major Easter holiday incident on the country's roads by last night, police have confirmed.The accident oc...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman, married lover clash over social media videos
A HARARE woman feels betrayed and abused after her videos were recorded without her consent and posted on social media by people she claims were working on behalf of her married lover.Sally Sa...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 18:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins 2 council by-elections
Zanu-PF has won Harare Ward 36 and Chinhoyi Ward 4 after defeating opposition candidates in Saturday by-elections.The Harare Municipality by-election was necessitated by the recall of former c...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fierce battle over Chamisa face ensues
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main challenger in the August 23 presidential elections Nelson Chamisa might have quit his Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party, but the confusion engulfing the cou...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 10:45hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chamisa a fleeing lily- livered wannabe dictator that should not be taken serious
His pictures, photoshopped to give them a heavenly appearance, displayed on the stages to promote his unknown political outfit, reminded us of Mobutu Seseseko, Zaire/DRC corrupt dictator who forced TV...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 20:08hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
CCC ditches Chamisa's face
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has finally done away with the fact of its former leader Nelson Chamisa as the party's symbol. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, CCC spokesperson Nq...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reunification sought by Tsvangirai 5 months before he died now in tatters
The implosion of CCC in Nelson Chamisa's hands is telling not only because it puts paid to Morgan Tsvangirai's widely publicised [see attached videos] last-ditch efforts - just five months before his ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
'CCC chaos to fuel voter apathy'
AN electoral watchdog, the Zimbabwe Election Advocacy Trust (ZEAT), has said the chaos and splits within the main opposition party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is a recipe for voter apath...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa Praise and Worship' political circus
If a picture tells a thousand words, then these pictures of Nelson Chamisa displayed by Gift Ostallos Siziva and Amos Chibaya today at McDonald Community Hall in Mzilikazi township in Bulawayo tell th...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:24hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa gets backing from veteran activists
THE Veteran Activists Association Zimbabwe (VAAZ), an affiliate of the now fractured Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has declared its support and allegiance to former opposition leader Nelson Cha...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's dream of fresh Zimbabwe polls evaporates
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) appears to have closed the door on calls for fresh elections in Zimbabwe after the regional bloc's secretariat endorsed a project being spearheaded by...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC voters feel betrayed
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters, who voted for their representative in August 2023 harmonised elections, say they feel abandoned following the abrupt resignation of their representative...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ostallos and Chibaya told to go and tell Chamisa that Manicaland says 'NO'
Gift Ostallos Siziva and Amos Chibaya had a torrid time this afternoon in Manicaland when they were told off by a charged crowd; in their ill-fated push for Nelson Chamisa's latest solo campaign to fo...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 19:36hrs | 11 | by Jonathan MOyo
CCC factions face-off
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) factions are headed for a clash when they face-off at today's National Citizens Assembly.CCC has been thrown into turmoil after its leader Nelson Chamisa di...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign investors ditch Zimbabwe capital markets
FOREIGN investors continue to lower their interest on the local capital markets, with investor participation on annual value traded averaging 3%, due to policy inconsistency and inflation, leading res...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'We are behind Chamisa'
Several Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Friday pledged their allegiance to Nelson Chamisa, a day after the politician ditched the party arguing that it had been hijacked the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ends weeks of speculation
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday finally abandoned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) saying the party had been hijacked by Zanu-PF. Chamisa formed the CCC in 2022 after...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa opens up on CCC future
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Nelson Chamisa is putting on a brave face despite a sustained onslaught against the party by opponents seeking to snatch the organisation from him. Chamisa ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vendors relieve themselves in the open in Bulawayo CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the increasing practice of open defecation by vendors in the central business district (CBD) particularly in the streets and sanitary lanes....Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Why is vote counting in South Africa done in secrecy?' asks Zuma
In a first public challenge of its kind by a major public figure in the country, the integrity of South Africa's electoral system has been put into sharp question by former President Jacob Zuma in tod...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Music that doesn't speak for the oppressed is not really music!
Of late, we have witnessed divided opinions on our music legend Winky D (Wallace Chirumiko).This is on account of his recent songs, which have mainly touched on the social injustices faced by ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:12hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zupco, operators break impasse
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) and bus operators have broken an impasse which was threatening to affect mainly urban public transport after Zupco ditched some franchised vehicles over n...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 08:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
59 households in Harare affected by flash floods
Fifty-nine households in Harare's Budiriro 5B Extension and the paddocks area of Kuwadzana have been affected by flash flooding along the Marimba River caused by the ongoing rains, with the river drai...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 06:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Potholes re-emerge in wake of recent rains
HEAVY rains being recorded across the country have caused more extensive damage to some major roads in Bulawayo, which are now riddled with potholes making driving a nightmare in the city. Apa...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Top 10 political Mamparas and Screw-ups in 2023
The political landscape in Zimbabwe has witnessed its fair share of controversies and questionable decisions over the years. In 2023, several political figures made headlines for their actions and dec...Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 10:58hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa must smoke out wolves in sheep skin
BY their very nature, coalitions have never been an easy customer be-cause they are predicated upon regionalism and in this context regional-ism means tribalism, full stop. The recent so-calle...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:41hrs | 16 | by Martin Stobart
Chamisa sneaks into SA
CHAMISA SNEAKS INTO SA TO SEEK FUNDING AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT FROM THE EU AMBASSADORS FOR HIS EMERGENCY CONGRESS NELSON CHAMISA has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and see...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 14:12hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Embattled Nelson Chamisa sneaks into South Africa
Nelson Chamisa has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and seek urgent diplomatic, financial and logistic support from EU ambassadors accredited to that country to help him stem the s...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 13:42hrs | 9 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chicken Inn, Mukuru robbers arrested
In Bulawayo, the police have apprehended two suspected armed robbers believed to be responsible for a series of crimes, including robbing a Mukuru outlet, two Simbisa retail outlets, and multiple resi...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Men ditch families as poverty bites
A growing number of men are reportedly deserting their families due to escalating poverty levels. This information came to light during a media excursion in Lupane and Binga districts of Matebeleland ...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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