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The burdened party politician
As the 2023 elections draw closer, jockeying and jostling for political party candidature will soon become the order of the day. The process itself is far from clean.It involves pleasing the e...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 198 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Sengilikhiwa, thankful Sikhosana sings in new song
LIFE has changed for the better for musician Sikhosana Buhlungu who now boasts of a rural home and livestock and is a celebrity in rural Nkayi.As a way of thanking those who contributed to his...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand action on stolen COVID-19 funds
THE Public Accounts Committee (Pac) has called on the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and police to investigate the abuse of US$89 million COVID-19 relief funds by government officials....Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Govt crippling service delivery
The brazen interference in the affairs of the Harare City Council by central government is a demonstration of Zanu PF's scorched earth policies that only do harm to long suffering citizens.A r...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:19hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni mourns Clive chigubu
The Mayor of Bulawayo Solomon Madlala Mguni has sent his condolence message mourning the death of the award winning comedian Clive Chigubu who succumbed to cancer. In a statement Mguni said, "...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 10:18hrs | 978 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Old Nic Mine donates US$10 000 to UBH
The Old Nic Mine recently donated US$10 000 to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) towards buying of technological advanced equipment for endoscopic surgeries.The donations came followin...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:56hrs | 89 | by Stephen Jakes
60 Harare councillors, officials at ZITF
HARARE councillors belonging to Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T are part of a 60-member elite team from Town House who are going to blow US$136 000 at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF).Thi...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:47hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni Hospital might soon shutdown
Ekusileni Hospital could soon shut down due to serious staff and food shortages, resulting in the institution admitting less than 25 patients at a time.Ekusileni Hospital chief executive Asbol...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 13:10hrs | 710 | by Staff Reporter
Chief Dakamela households in need of food aid
ABOUT 860 households under Chief Dakamela in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province are in acute need of food aid following the prolonged dry spell, which affected most crops in the region.Chief D...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to donate 2 ambulances to Binga community
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to donate two ambulances to the community in Binga after touring the area on Wednesday. Binga is one of the constituencies that recently voted for the...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 14:46hrs | 747 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Action, not rhetoric, Sir
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, if truth be told, Zimbabwe ought not have been in a persistent vegetative state. She was the jewel of Africa at independence in 1980. Yet, eve...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 379 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
ZANU PF DCC chairperson steals presidential donations
ZANU PF Shamva District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson is being accused of stealing donations and fuel meant for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 13:57hrs | 761 | by Staff Reporter
Auditor-General redflags Bulawayo, Gweru councils
THE Auditor-General has red-flagged the Bulawayo and Gweru city councils for a host of misconduct, among them evading paying taxes, failure to account for millions of donations and selling stands to m...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Former students association donates to Zwelabo Secondary School in Nkayi
Former students of Zwelabo Secondary School in Nkayi under their grouping named Zwelabo Former Students Association (ZFSA) have donated books, soccer kit and 10 500 Rands for the drilling of a borehol...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1406 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthuli Ncube grilled over vaccines
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) was yesterday grilled by Parliament over the country's preference of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines over a wide variety of approved jabs wh...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Govt to assist Xhosa community set up radio station
GOVERNMENT has offered to support the Mbembesi community in Matabeleland North in purchasing equipment for its community radio station as it is struggling to raise the required funds.Deputy Mi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:17hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 5248 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele books in demand
BULAWAYO Public Library manager Pamela Mutasa has revealed that isiNdebele books are in demand with parents and schools complaining over the shortage of books in indigenous languages.Mut...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP, councilor clash over donations
Zaka Central Member of Parliament Davison Svuure left villagers shocked after he blocked food aid donations sourced by ward 13 councilor Manfred Mada meant to benefit villagers, claiming that he was t...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:20hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP 'hijacks' Buhlungu Sikhosana's private event
Villagers in Matabeleland North province have accused Zanu-PF legislator for Nkayi South Stars Mathe of hijacking the official opening of maskandi musician Cleopas Buhlungu Sikhosana's homestead for p...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Residents target dirty clinics, schools for cleaning
Luveve residents in Bulawayo have come together in a cleanup campaign targeting all local dirty schools and clinics in wards 15 and 16.The started at Mafakela Primary School situated in ward 1...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 12:45hrs | 520 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans to pay a heavy price for Mnangagwa's proposed draconian law
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of seeking to sacrifice the lives of millions of people that survive on humanitarian aid by trying to ban non-governmental organisations through a c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:31hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 191 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe receives COVID-19 support from Japan
ZIMBABWE today received 10 ambulances and ancillary equipment from Japan and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to strengthen obstetric and neonatal care in COVID-19 hotspots across the countr...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enjoys massive crown at homecoming rally
President Emmerson Mnangagwa enjoyed his home-coming rally in Kwekwe on Saturday, given the massive crowd in attendance at Mbizo Stadium.Most of the crowd, however, had to be bussed in from ac...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 4418 | by Staff reporter
Chief Nyangazonke reads riot act against corrupt village heads under his jurisdiction
CHIEF NYANGAZONKE Ndiweni of Kezi in Matabeleland South has read the riot act against corrupt village heads whom he accuses of parcelling out land without his consent leading to the mushrooming ...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 4 aides perish in car crash
FOUR members of staff in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) died in a road traffic accident yesterday morning when their truck overturned at a black spot near Regina Coeli Mission in Nyanga...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:19hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF betrays Mahoka denying hero status, says Mliswa
OUTSPOKEN former Mashonaland West Zanu-PF chairman, Temba Mliswa says the late Hurungwe East legislator, Sarah Mahoka, deserved interment at the Mashonaland West Provincial Heroes Acre for her sterlin...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1935 | by Staff reporter
Carl Joshua Ncube re-introducing busking in the city
AFTER collaborating with Carne Casa, celebrity chef and comedian Carl Joshua Ncube has already embarked on a drive to make the restaurant more appealing through various means of pushing the local tour...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 2032 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Musarara chips in to cyclone victims
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Chairman Tafadzwa Musarara has donated a tonne of Maize meal to flood-affected families in Mbire.The businessman and Mazowe District Coordinating Commitee...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 17:59hrs | 295 | by Shelton Muchena in Mvurwi
Zacc gets tough on AG reports non-compliance
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has said it will start implementing recommendations made by the Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri in her reports that expose massive corruption in gover...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:45hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Chinese quarry mine unsettles Bulawayo residents amid bribery claims
SITHANDEKILE Dube* is jolted by yet another heavy blast that just shook her house in Bulawayo's Pumula North high-density suburb.The blasts have become a common occurrence in the bustling neig...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Killer Zivhu not contesting as an independent
FORMER Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu yesterday said he would not be contesting the March 26 by-elections as an independent candidate.Zivhu was expelled from Zanu-PF in June 2020 after he...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:28hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF women donate to Mpilo Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital is in dire need of sanitary pads and diapers with reports that two abandoned children are taken to the public institution weekly.Officials said more than half of the hos...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens forced vaccinations
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened forced Covid-19 vaccinations, saying the country now had enough doses for everyone.Mnangagwa said this while addressing his party politburo in...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:04hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied Zanu-PF to wrest vacant Parliamentary and Local Authority seats from opposition parties in by-elections slated for March and subsequently harmonised elections in 2023, ...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:53hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Africa benefit from China's Health Silk Road
LAST week, China announced that it will give Zimbabwe 10 million doses of Covid-19, as part of the 1 billion doses pledged by Beijing to African countries at last year's Forum on China-Africa Co-opera...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 143 | by Albert Chavhunduka
Not blind to justice
"YOU will definitely lose cases because you will not be able to see the demeanour of witnesses."Mr Mehluli Ndlovu, a legal practitioner (44) from Njube suburb, in Bulawayo remembers how these ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Zondo's stunt backfires as his credibility is questioned
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's press briefing to ‘address' tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's opinion piece has backfired and opened him to questions regarding his credibility.Various s...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:38hrs | 3853 | by Staff reporter
Police not acting on cabinet lockdown regulations
Dear Editor, Government efforts to curb the spike in Covid 19 cases is being frustrated by the Zimbabwe Republic police ZRP who are allowing shops and nightclubs to open until 5am the followin...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 16:26hrs | 749 | by Gugugu Magorira
'Djokovic deserves respect'
ZIMBABWEAN tennis player Benjamin Lock has waged into the Navac Djokovic and Australian authorities' saga expressing no kind words for the latter.Djokovic could not provide evidence of double ...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:34hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers start farming venture
THE First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa has extended her philanthropic work and empowerment initiatives to sex workers in Gweru where she donated farming inputs so that they could embark on farming pro...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa receives his Covid-19 booster shot
Setting an example to highlight both the importance and safety of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, President Mnangagwa and several Cabinet ministers received their booster Covid-19 vaccine shots re...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:50hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of PPE hits Ekuphumuleni
AN acute shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) and adult diapers has hit Ekuphumuleni Old People's Home in Bulawayo amid reports that inmates are being neglected by their families.Ek...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:41hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
CIOs in wild goose chase for Chamisa
MEMBERS from different state security arms spent the whole of Tuesday searching high-and-low for opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa after a false alarm indicating he was in Chinhoyi for a ...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:45hrs | 1927 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives 1 million vaccines
Zimbabwe yesterday took delivery of a consignment of one million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines donated by the People's Republic of China, in a show of continued excellent relations that exist between the ...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:12hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
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