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Chebundo, Timveous raptures Chamisa's MDC
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance secretary-general Charlton Hwende said former party official, Lilian Timveous decided to dump the Nelson Chamisa-led party and join Zanu-PF to keep in her possession a parliame...Published: 2 hrs ago | 297 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dumped for Mnangagwa
There are reports that two former MDC Alliance key members, Senator Lilian Timvious and Blessing Chebundo have crossed the floor to join the ruling Zanu-PF Party. They have just met with ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 3695 | by Staff Reporter
Police launch manhunt for 4 armed robbers
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for four armed robbers who broke into a house in Parklands and stole a number of goods and a vehicle which they later dumped in the neighbourhood.Pro...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Dead baby found in sewer drainage
RESIDENTS of Glendale in Mashonaland Central province were shell-shocked on Friday after they discovered a dead baby's body in a drainage sewer syst...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:12hrs | 1309 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Pfumvudza, bond notes: Mnangagwa's saviour
THE gigantic lake TugwiMukosi is spilling. This is a rare phenomenon for a water body so big to spill less than four years after commissioning.It holds a promise that is too big to hide or ign...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | 753 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe borrowed US$1,4bn to prop up economy
ZIMBABWE borrowed US$1,4 billion from the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) since 2017 to finance acquisition of strategic commodities, currency reforms and prop up the economy.Acco...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:55hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to dump 'useless' AstraZeneca via African Union
South Africa plans to share a million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses it received from the Serum Institute of India with other African countries via the African Union (AU), a senior health official...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:53hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Robbers raid business centre
FIVE armed robbers last week pounced on Lundi Business Centre in Mwenezi, Masvingo province, where they robbed two businesspeople at gunpoint and got away with close to US$20 000, R120 000 a Toyota D4...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:43hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Africa is not a dumping ground
During the just ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an A...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 08:41hrs | 16 | by Prosperity Mzila
Africa is not a dumping ground
During the just-ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an A...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1491 | by Prosperity Mzila
$150m needed to rehabilitate roads, bridges in Matabeleland North
THE District Development Fund (DDF) needs about $150 million to rehabilitate 150km of roads and bridges damaged by incessant rains in Matabeleland North. DDF has a total gravel road network of...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:40hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man earns a living by breeding flies
A BINDURA man is earning a living through breeding flies as animal feed at a time flies are associated with unhygienic practices and condemned for causing diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
Killer Zivhu accuses Temba Mliswa of being gay
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa on Tuesday denied sensational allegations by a woman claiming to be pregnant with his twins that he is a gay in relapse.Mliswa also rejected similar ch...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:58hrs | 4860 | by Staff reporter
Africa's free trade area opens for business
Trading under the continental free trade agreement started on 1st Jan. African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the continental free...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 08:37hrs | 937 | by Franck Kuwonu
Proudly made in Zimbabwe
The advent of globalization has demonstrated that each country has expertise in a certain trade and there are commodities that resonate with certain countries more than others. It is often argued that...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:25hrs | 2143 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mamombe, MDC colleagues arrested again
EMBATTLED MDC Alliance legislator Joanna Mamombe and two-party activists, who all made headlines last year following claims of abduction and torture by alleged CIO operatives, have been arrested again...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:04hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Ema exposes BCC
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has exposed Bulawayo City Council's continued failure to timeously repair burst sewer pipes and collect waste in residential areas, a development which may tr...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:59hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand refuse fee removed from their rates
side from the Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions where many of us had to adjust to working from home among many other things, 2020 was a burdensome year because of the Bulawayo City Council's fail...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 360 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Council battles to clear garbage backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has unveiled a revised refuse collection schedule for the city's eastern and industrial areas as the local authority battles to clear heaps of garbage which have been pilin...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:29hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo roads now untrafficable
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has budgeted almost ZW$300 million for the rehabilitation of local roads this year as the heavy rains have worsened the city's dilapidated road network. Most Bulawayo r...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Couple robbed, dumped in disused mine shaft
A Masvingo couple was robbed of a car, $500 000, bank card, and a cell phone by a gang of four suspected robbers that allegedly dumped them in a 20-metre disused mineshaft in the outskirts of the town...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:30hrs | 2430 | by Staff reporter
Tikoloshe with giant manhood spotted at Ngozi Mine
SETTLERS at Ngozi Mine squatter camp in Bulawayo are living in fear after a short hairy man-like creature with a giant manhood was spotted early Sunday morning roaming the illegal settlement before it...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 2384 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro, Gwanzura upgrades 'not a priority'
HARARE City Council-owned football stadiums Rufaro and Gwanzura are likely to stay in their rundown state as the local authorities have insisted they are currently not in a position to finance the ren...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Pastor Munyeza caught in adultery storm
OUTSPOKEN Harare cleric and businessman Shingi Munyeza has surrendered his post as Faith Ministries pastor after he was forced to publicly admit to adultery by his daughter.Munyeza admitted in...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7739 | by Staff reporter
BCC workers end five-day strike
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday resumed work after a five-day strike over poor salaries, a situation which crippled critical services such as refuse collection, primary health care and b...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
'No permanent friends but interests' Zim-China relation expedition
Late 2020 China and Zimbabwe launched 5 year policies towards the realization of vision 2030, sustainable development goals. Zimbabwe being an ally to China, one can question if this was due to diplom...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:28hrs | 216 | by Theophelous Fifteen
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | 3485 | by Staff reporter
This is best time for Mnangagwa, Mwonzora and Chamisa to sit down together
THE time is now opportune for three of the country's major political players - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and his MDC rival Nelson Chamisa - to sit down together ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:37hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
EMA urged to get tough on BCC
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) in Bulawayo has been petitioned by a human rights organisation, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) to release its charges against the Bulawayo City ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
17-year-old drowns self after being dumped by girlfriend
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Springs Farm in Umguza on the outskirts of Bulawayo decided to cut his life short by jumping into a dam and drowning himself after his flame dumped him for an illegal gold miner...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Landela buying spree raises stink
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his triumphal entry into the citadel of power in 2017 by declaring that he would open the country up for business, thus promising a departure from the ruinous polic...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 884 | by Cliff Chiduku
Harare cemetery turned into dumpsite
WARREN Hills Cemetery has been turned into an illegal dumpsite by Warren Park D residents as the MDC-run council fails to provide basic service delivery in the area. A visit to the cemetery ye...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Bhasikiti says he never resigned from Zanu-PF
After announcing that he was dumping MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa arguing that his party no longer exists, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has been accused of trying to trace his footsteps back to the ruli...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 19:41hrs | 5515 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has 'nowhere to take his problems to' claims Matemadanda
THE ruling Zanu-PF says Nelson Chamisa and the MDC Alliance "made their bed and must now lie in it" - after they allegedly "repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship" extended to them by President Emm...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 15:55hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
Swept away car sighted, 6 feared dead
Six people, including the driver, are feared dead after a Toyota Hilux double cab vehicle was swept off a flooded bridge on Gweru River along the Gweru-Matobo Road yesterday morning. The autho...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 3488 | by Staff reporter
'Buy Zimbabwe' will never succeed as long as local companies produce sub-standard goods and services
Zimbabweans are generally a proudly patriotic people - who, never hesitate to show unquestionable devotion and love for their dear country - but, that dedication should never be equated to foolishness...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 15:06hrs | 361 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo residents clash over positions
THE Bulawayo United Residents Association (BURA) has been rocked by serious conflict after its leader, Winos Dube, allegedly dumped the existing ward 21 leadership structure and replaced it with his l...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs to dump colonial regalia
CHIEFS are set to abandon their colonial regalia as it does not reflect Zimbabwe's traditional heritage and cultural values but cements colonial dominancy. The red and purple gown and round sh...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo slum dwellers survive on sewer water
OVER 2 000 squatters at Bulawayo's three slums have resorted to fetching domestic water from sewage ponds and open pits oblivious of the health implications, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.A sur...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:36hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Dumb advisors, deaf Executive
"JANUARY 2021 has been cancelled," is a joke that went viral in Zimbabwe last weekend.It is a joke premised on Zimbabwe's return to COVID-19 lockdown measures. These are the strictest conditio...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:29hrs | 553 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa to offer Trump a word of advice?
Chamisa sits in his office feeling highly encouraged by the events in America. Should he offer Trump a message of solidarity? Amidst all the hypocrisy and pretence of democracy and being a democratic ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 09:44hrs | 2962 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gweru fined $1m for pollution
GWERU City Council has been fined over $1 million by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) for discharging raw effluent into nearby streams, a senior council official revealed last week.Pr...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Garbage piles grow in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as council continues to struggle to collect refuse from both residential areas and the city centre. The failure by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to coll...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Deputy mayor admits roads maintenance failure
BULAWAYO Deputy Mayor Councillor Mlandu Ncube has admitted that the local authority has failed to attend to its dilapidated roads and sewer infrastructure. The city's roads are an eyesore and ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:05hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
ZimPF demands share of govt funds from MDC-T
OPPOSITION political outfit, ZimPF has written to newly elected MDC-T president, Douglas Mwonzora demanding a portion of the $7.5 million paid out by government under the Political Parties Finance Act...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Rambanepasi-Java was a principled politician
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday described the late Buhera South senator, Christine Java nee Rambanepasi, who died in the early hours of Sunday, as a principled politician who never succum...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:29hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora ally says he did not join MDC for praise and worship
GWERU Central MP Brian Dube, who was last week appointed MDC-T secretary for legal affairs by newly elected MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora, says he is his own man who is not in opposition politics a...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
Another funeral for Chamisa as his secretary for security and defence dies
The MDC Alliance Secretary for Security and Defence former Police Assistant Commissioner Emmanuel Chimwanda has died. Chimwanda reportedly succumbed to an undisclosed illness in Harare last ni...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:44hrs | 3115 | by Staff reporter
Impala car hire owner dies
IMPALA Car Hire owner, Thompson Dondo died Saturday morning after a short illness, the state media has confirmed.Dondo has recently been in the eye of the storm after one of his rental vehicle...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1590 | by Staff reporter
Harare Provincial Heroes Acre still in a sorry state - after 40 years of self-rule
They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating. After all the pro-liberation war rhetoric from President Mnangagwa and media hype around the Mbuya Nehanda statue, the current state of the Harare P...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:43hrs | 999 | by Chatakarwira Chiripi Mandaza
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