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Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 13 mins ago | 23 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Matepatepa farming area needs good roads
Matepatepa farming area of Bindura is well known for tobacco and maize production, racking in the much needed forex and helping feed the nation. Places like Brutton, Lilstock and Chipa along t...Published: 45 mins ago | 18 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa. Chiweshe.
Fuel smuggling ring busted
Multiple fuel smuggling scams are being run in Zimbabwe with cheap fuel being smuggled from Mozambique, sometimes mislabelled to avoid customs duty, and sold or re-exported for hard currency while fue...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans still have a right to protest
Trade unions, political groupings and civil society organisations called on the public to take to the streets on July 31 to protest against economic mismanagement and public corruption.Some of...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 198 | by Veritas
Massive mealie meal and bread shortage looming in Zimbabwe
A massive shortage of mealie meal and bread is looming in Zimbabwe after security agents manning roadblocks are reportedly blocking delivery vehicles to supply retailers with the commodities. ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1432 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zesa boss suspended over graft allegations
ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended from office and will be blocked from accessing his office at the power utility's headquarters, the Minister of Energy and Power Devel...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3682 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10836 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Motorist rams into Mrs Mnangagwa's Toyota Land Cruiser
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was yesterday involved in an accident along the HarareBindura Highway after a motorist rammed into her Toyota Land Cruiser she was travelling in and it overturned....Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:18hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
Why crisis is important for any economy
This year will be etched in people's memory. Devastating effects of COVID-19 are felt around the globe. Just a handful of countries have not reported any cases so far. South Africa and Nigeria have al...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1239 | by Staff writer
BREAKING: Parliament shut down after 2 MPs test positive for COVID-19
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has announced that two Members of Parliament have tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus. Mudenda said the two MPs were part of a team that had...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 09:52hrs | 6960 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police empowered to impound vehicles
GOVERNMENT has gazetted a statutory instrument authorising law enforcement officers to impound vehicles being used to violate lockdown restrictions with owners or drivers of the vehicles liable to pro...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 19:26hrs | 6565 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Curfew regulations clarified
THE gazetted legal statutory instrument amending lockdown regulations by setting the 6PM to 6AM curfew, now requires church gatherings, jogging, walking and cycling to take place not earlier than 8AM ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5024 | by Staff Reporter
#ZimbabweansMustFall trending in South Africa
OVER a month ago, a social media campaign under the hashtag #ZimbabweansMustFall trended as South Africans urged their government and companies to get rid of Zimbabwean citizens at workplaces and put ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:17hrs | 3949 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Drama as Coronavirus victim is buried with smuggled bags belonging to driver's clients
There was drama at the burial of a Coronavirus victim after family members of the deceased buried the body with four bags containing goods that were smuggled and destined to the funeral service compan...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 20:40hrs | 8289 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cross border drivers (oMalayitsha) smuggle Coronavirus infected dead bodies to Zimbabwe
Cross border transporters (oMalayitsha) are reportedly smuggling bodies of Zimbabweans who died of Coronavirus in neighbouring South Africa into the country thereby spreading the deadly Coronavirus. ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 12:27hrs | 9120 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt clears air on ZSE, agent lines closure
GOVERNMENT has rubbished falsehoods published by CNBC, an American business news portal, alleging that security chiefs ordered the closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and agent lines for mobi...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 2918 | by Staff reporter
Paranoia drives Prophet Chiwenga's prophesies, says Mawarire
National Patriotic Front spokesperson, Jelousy Mawarire tore into the controversial founder of Jesus Revelation Ministries, Apostle Talent Chiwenga, accusing him of living a life filled with paranoia,...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2497 | by Zivanai Dhewa
Hamilton hails Zimbabwe F1
SIX-TIME Formula One (F1) world champion Lewis Hamilton has showered praises on Zimbabwean chemical engineer and trackside fluid engineer for the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team Stephanie Travers after ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:28hrs | 8655 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean shines in F1
ZIMBABWE-BORN chemical engineer and Mercedes-AMG Petronas trackside fluid engineer Stephanie Travers continues to lift the country's flag high on the global stage after joining Lewis Hamilton on the p...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
Fake driving licence syndicate bust in Bulawayo
The police have busted a syndicate specialising in creating fake drivers licences after arresting a 21-year-old Pumula East woman.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector, Abednico Nc...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 14:31hrs | 8628 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:31hrs | 9901 | by Stephen Jakes
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9734 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 843 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protégÃ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2059 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
319 border jumpers arrested
Police have since May arrested 319 people countrywide for border jumping and smuggling. Police have equally nabbed 87 827 people countrywide since March 30 for violating lockdown measures aime...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4276 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 895 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Sticky-fingered conductors strike Zupco, again
PILFERING staffers have been the proverbial monkey on Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s case ever since it was brought back to life.Last year, the mass public transport operator jett...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:15hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1549 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Zupco crews on go-slow
DRIVERS of Mutare-based conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise have gone on a go-slow to force government to review their daily commission, leaving thousands of commuters stranded....Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
'Kombi' operators turn vehicles to mobile stores
Known as kombis in Zimbabwe, commuter omnibuses are no more, but in residential areas they have resurfaced, with conductors this time not shouting out for passengers, but for customers to rush for buy...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1099 | by Jeffrey Moyo, Anadolu News
Robbery syndicate hit Bulawayo
Parking in Bulawayo's city centre has turned into a nightmare for motorists who risk having their cars broken into or being robbed at gunpoint. A robbery syndicate is targeting unattended cars parked ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Driving School Owners urges government to re-open VID depots
The Vice President of Zimbabwe Driving School Owners Association ( ZDSOA) Edwin Ndlovu has called for the government of Zimbabwe to direct VID depots across the country to commence testing aspir...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:43hrs | 1615 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Banks urged embrace 99-year leases
GOVERNMENT is ready to work with the banking sector to fine-tune the 99-year land leases to enhance productivity in the agriculture sector, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Ramaphosa deploys soldiers to deal with Taxi drivers
President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's government has deployed members of the South Africa National Defense Force to remove striking taxi drivers from the streets. ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 6799 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare man with Covid-19 escapes from centre
A Harare man last week escaped from a quarantine centre at Harare Polytechnic after testing positive to Covid-19 and police have launched a manhunt to prevent the spread of the virus. Police are also ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sleep in water queues
Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Lodges, guest houses cash in on Covid-19 quarantine escapees
SOME lodges and guest houses have been cashing in on Covid-19 quarantine escapees who are desperately trying to evade the long arm of the law, The Sunday Mail Society can reveal.The growing pr...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 919 | by Staff Reporter
Learner drivers get lockdown reprieve
Learner drivers, holders of defensive driving certificates and bus drivers were granted a reprieve yesterday if their licences or certificates expired during the lockdown or they were required to unde...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
MDC and politics of denial psychology and deflection
WE are a pretty impressionable people. We all like to say that we are independent, free individuals who make up our own minds, but the reality is that we are heavily influenced by the company we keep....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1705 | by Jonathan Chando
Families sleep in water lines as drought grips Bulawayo
TWICE a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga outlines operational challenges
Police manning roadblocks and securing quarantine centres need more protective equipment, transport and allowances for food, with quarantine centres needing more lights and fencing, Commissioner-Gener...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:35hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's troops shut down Bulawayo city centre
Businesses including banks were forced to close shop after police and soldiers drove people of out Bulawayo's central business district in an early morning operation on Tuesday.Police checkpoi...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:11hrs | 5411 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU calls for mass action
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has called for a mass stayaway throughout in country in protest over the flash roadblocks that are mounted by the details of the Zimbabwe Republic Police and ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 13:15hrs | 4317 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Millers red-flag truckers' conduct
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has expressed concern over alleged violation of Covid-19 regulations by truck drivers as they bring grain into the country from South Africa. A...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Engagement is not surrender
Some compatriots are confusing the New Dispensation's re-engagement and engagement thrust as some kind of surrender. This line of thinking is couched within a linear liberal rapprochement approach tha...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 324 | by Ranga Mataire
Heavy traffic poses threat to toll bridge
ZIMBABWE's biggest transport cash cow structure, the New Limpopo Toll Bridge, is under threat due to the static weight of haulage trucks stuck at the border because of lockdowns in the region....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
'VID won't open anytime soon'
The public should not expect the immediate reopening of the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) because it would be difficult to maintain social distancing rules at the premises, government has said...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
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