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Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road a death trap
A recent near-fatal accident along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway has shed light on the growing dangers posed by abandoned burst tyres left on the road by haulage truck drivers. Mr. Thomas Chauke...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:18hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty
More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Passion Java's mother dies
Christine Java nee Rambanepasi, the mother of United States-based Zimbabwean preacher Passion Java and founder of Tabernacle of Grace Church, Apostle Batsirai Java, passed away at the age of 65. She w...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:47hrs | 2840 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster launches witch-hunt
Musengezi High School head George Rambanepasi and bursar Sharon Kapende are embroiled in controversy over alleged financial mismanagement, particularly concerning a US$12,000 repair scandal involving ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 10:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZANU PF MP falls on hard times
Former Guruve North Member of Parliament (MP) Girovah Dzepasi has fallen on hard times, this publication has learnt.Dzepasi who is a polygamist is allegedly failing to look after his three chi...Published: 26 May 2024 at 11:41hrs | 105 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Land war rages as bigwigs clash
A FIGHT for vast tracts of land pitting former Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa, a private developer and former minister Didymus Mutasa has spilled into the public domain with Mliswa accusing his partn...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZMC concerned by lapse in ethical and professional journalism by some registered media houses
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has noted with grave concern the lapse in ethical and professional journalism by some registered media houses in the coverage of the 2023 harmonized elections. ...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 19:42hrs | 9 | by Zimbabwe Media Commission
Storm brews at Msengezi High School
A STORM is brewing at Msengezi High School in Mashonaland West province where a section of parents is demanding the removal of the current School Development Committee (SDC) led by Leonard Matatu over...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'terror' squad arrested
Police in Gutu have arrested four members of a Zanu-PF gang notorious for terrorising people in the district. Two of the members were arrested for allegedly obstructing the course of justice after the...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highway 'mysterious' bus demystified
Today, Zimbabweans are being treated to yet another story of a "talking bus" that has been parked by the roadside along Harare-Nyamapanda Highway for over three years.Tales of "talking" buses ...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big surprises in Zanu-PF primaries
SOME ministers and veteran parliamentarians fell by the wayside in the Zanu-PF primary elections that were held over the weekend as the ruling party entrenches democracy and reenergises its base ahead...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official dies
Zanu PF Guruve Central Committee Member Rtd Brigadier General Epmarcus Kanhanga has died. His death has been announced this afternoon by Guruve North Member of Parliament Grover Dzepasi saying...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 14:46hrs | | by Staf Reporter
Mpilo, UBH to get medical equipment
MPILO Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) are set to receive medical equipment following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the country and Iran.The MoU pave...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills ex-wife's boyfriend
POLICE in Hwedza, Mashonaland East province, have arrested a 45-year-old man who fatally attacked his former wife's boyfriend after she refused to reconcile with him.Edward Mhishe of Rambanepa...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Manjuzu' craze hits Harare
IN one of his letters to Timothy, a fellow brother in the Christian faith, Apostle Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus) offers counsel to a brother.Writes Paul in 1 Timoth 6:10: "For the ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is Zimbabwe's greatest curse!
As I stand outside my home, with the darkness of a winter evening steadily engulfing our small town of Redcliff, and the stars now gradually appearing - as if in a synchronized fashion ordered by a Di...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 20:58hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
110 000 e-passports issued in less than six months
THE Registrar-General's (RG) Office has issued over 110 000 e-passports to date, less than six months after the initiative to manufacture modern travelling documents was launched in January.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bum slap, breast groping: Man (35) arrested at Zupco bus rank
A drunk man who allegedly slapped a woman's bums before groping her breasts appeared before Western Commonage court resident magistrate Shepherd Mnjanja facing indecent assault charges.He plea...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
2 die in head-on collision
A Gweru based traffic policeman was killed in road accident which also claimed the life of driver in a head-on collision near Kaguvi Training Centre on the 248km peg along the Gweru-Kwekwe road on Sat...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:20hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to ban plastic bags next year
USE of plastic carrier bags will be banned by December next year, with retail outlets urged to find environment-friendly alternatives, NewsDay has learnt.The ban is meant to protect the enviro...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected during the impending Zanu-PF district or ward elections across Mashonaland West province scheduled to kick off Tuesday.This follows a resolution Saturday by the provinci...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP assaults party youth as tempers flare ahead of elections
ZVIMBA East Member of Parliament, Tawanda Tungamirai punched and verbally assaulted a fellow Zanu-PF youth member Saturday just before the party's decisive meeting to pass a resolution to hold distric...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bizzare incidents engulf Mugabe's village as boy hangs self at father's funeral
BIZARRE incident are playing out in the late former President Robert Mugabe's rural Zvimba area after an 18-year-old high school pupil committed suicide by hanging near his newly buried father's grave...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violent clashes at Zanu-PF meeting
Zanu-PF officials came close to trading blows at a recent restructuring exercise in Banket after the youth leader charged at the district chairman, who is also a local councillor as factional fights i...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drama as ZANU PF MPs clash at PCC meeting
There was drama at Kazembe Kazembe's Mashonaland Central Provincial Coodinating Committee (PCC) chaired meeting today after Rushinga Member of Parliament Tendai Nyabani exposed Shamva North Osca...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Lloyd Rabaya in Bindura
Vehicle theft case exposes smuggling racket at Plumtree border
A case of theft of a vehicle at Plumtree Border Post could have exposed a vehicle smuggling racket after the car was recovered in Harare at the residence of a man once accused of importing cars under ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 8 ZNA colonels
President Mnangagwa has promoted eight colonels to the rank of substantive brigadier general as they retire. Their retirements are between July 2020 and April 2021.The eight Generals are David...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zec clears way for fraud-accused Shava swearing-in
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday gazetted the nomination of Dr Frederick Shava and Dorothy Mabika to replace the late Dr Sibusiso Moyo and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba respectively as Senator...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition still alive in Zimbabwe
The man made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe.The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in the Southern Af...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi
No machinations can ever kill opposition politics in Zimbabwe
The man-made frictions within the opposition circles are too far from killing the opposition in Zimbabwe. The ructions have been badly misinterpreted to mean demise of the opposition in this country....Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:44hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi
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 | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Senator dies
UNITED States-based Zimbabwean charismatic preacher and socialite Passion Java's mother, Christine Java nee Rambanepasi, died in the early hours of yesterday, one of her sons, Tabernacle of Grace Chur...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec in 'O' Level exam scandal
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) was yesterday accused of presiding over "sham" examinations for several ‘O' level subjects with schools around the country receiving incomplete mate...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
340 000 passports to be produced within 3 weeks
GOVERNMENT has increased passport production from 60 to 1 000 per day following the delivery of essential passport consumables including passport paper, gold foil, passport covers, glue and security t...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 19:28hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Passport production improves
GOVERNMENT has increased passport production from 60 to 1 000 per day following the delivery of essential passport consumables including passport paper, gold foil, passport covers, glue and security t...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's aides acquitted on border jumping charges
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti's three aides, who were accused of border jumping following the July 30, 2018 disputed polls, have been acquitted by Karoi magistrate Sam Chitumwa.Biti's lawyer ...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bafana Bafana crashes out of the COSAFA Cup
Bafana Bafana have crashed out of the COSAFA Cup, losing to Botswana on penalties at the Princess Magogo Stadium in Durban on Sunday.The game started well for South Africa as Stuart Baxter's m...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mhlauri opens up on coaching career, poultry business
GROWING up and playing football in the grubby streets of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo, all Charles Mhlauri wanted to do was to be a footballer of note.It didn't therefore come as a ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political party leaders preach peace, unity
POLITICAL parties taking part in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) that was launched yesterday said the platform afforded Zimbabweans an opportunity to discuss issues affecting the country. The pa...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's lawyer, aides plead not guilty in 'border jumping' trial
A LAWYER and some aides for senior MDC official and human rights lawyer Tendai Biti have pleaded not guilty to charges of violating the country's immigration laws when their trial commenced before Kar...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa prepaid electricity system down
ZESA Holdings says it is experiencing technical challenges on its prepaid system countrywide.Scores of people throughout the country experienced difficulties in buying electricity tokens throu...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tragic end to church outing
A CHITUNGWIZA-BASED Glory Ministries church outing ended prematurely after three youths drowned in a dam, while swimming at a campsite just outside Marondera.The police sub aqua unit yesterday...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Unity Accord was more about Zanu-PF than Zimbabwe,' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has said "The Unity Accord was more about ZanuPF than Zimbabwe & more about the leader than the country."Moyo on Saturday tweeted "The Uni...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 17:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Kasukuwere, Mombeshora named in land scam
HUNDREDS of people risk losing residential properties in the newly-established medium and high-density suburbs of Kia Ora in Banket after it emerged that former Local Government minister Saviour Kasuk...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monitoring Implementation of Economic Participation Agreements
The genesis of the Economic Participation Agreements (EPA) can be traced back to the historic economic and trade relation between European countries and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states....Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 07:30hrs | 8 | by NANGO
Court defers Biti's application ruling to today
MDC Alliance co-principal Tendai Biti will only get to know his fate today when a Harare magistrate rules on his application challenging his trial by a local court following his recent deportation fro...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti claims extra-judicial arrest, deportation
MDC Alliance co-principal Tendai Biti yesterday narrated his harrowing experience at the hands of State security agents who allegedly applied extra-judicial means to arrest him at Chirundu Border Post...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF extends lead
The ruling Zanu-PF has extended the lead in early returns. Zimbabweans went to the polls on July 30 in historic elections which take place nine months after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Below ar...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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