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Caretaker fatally assaulted in school robbery
A Caretaker at Glen View Number 9 Primary School in Harare died after he was attacked by three suspected robbers who raided the school looking for cash after getting wind that school authorities inten...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:11hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says man who sent out airport bomb warning on e-mail arrested
Zimbabwe's presidency on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old South African man alleged to be the sender of an email which caused travel chaos last Friday, including forcing President Emmerson...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:34hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MPs' Supreme Court appeal trashed
Recalled legislators and senators from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) must once again submit their appeal to the Supreme Court, marking the third attempt, as their recent application was dism...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 15:45hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs praises ZEC praise for holding 'free and fair' elections
Zanu-PF MPs Tuesday reduced parliament into a chorus of superfluous praise on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for conducting what they claim were free and fair elections, condemned as a fraud ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 18:33hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti a team of irreconcilable rivals
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) led by Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, launched its campaign for the 31 July 2013 harmonised elections in Marondera, a small tow...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 08:57hrs | 1698 | by Dr Phillan Zamchiya
Non-Aligned Movement is a big sham!
Is there anyone who is genuinely unbiased and neutral in their views or stances on particular issues?We can even move on to the political landscape.Who can claim to be totally impartia...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 19:35hrs | 623 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe genocide survivors demand justice as hearings commence
It is now close to four decades since the end of Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands, but survivors and their relatives are still to find closure as the government continues to dither o...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare over trapped Redwing miners
Tempers flared yesterday at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga where about 11 artisanal miners were trapped underground after a mine shaft collapsed, with relatives accusing government of fumbling the rescue ...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:41hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Umvutcha farm dispute referred to Constitutional Court
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka has been taken to the Constitutional Court over a raging farm dispute in Umvutcha on the outskirts of Bulawayo.Farmer Alistair Michael Fletcher (81) is challengin...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Herdsman assaults boss and wife over delayed December pay
THOSE who believe hell hath no fury like a woman scorned have probably never come across a herdsman who has not received his salary.An infuriated herdsman from Nkenyani Village in Bubi distric...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Gospel musician, Eric Moyo dies
Popular gospel singer, Eric Moyo has died. He reportedly succumbed to a brain bleed after collapsing on stage during a performance with Joyous Celebration in South Africa.At the age of 41, Eri...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 11:53hrs | 2809 | by Staff reporter
Zimta struggling to attract new blood
THE outgoing Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) president says the organisation is struggling to attract new members and is heavily relying on old members.In his remarks during the organisa...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 04:56hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Suffering Zimbabweans should free themselves
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiCZ) chairperson and former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa (PM) was awarded the International Trade Union Confederation Africa (ITUC-Afr...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Teachers vote in new Zimta executive
Veteran educationist Akuneni Maphosa has been elected the new president of the Zimbabwe Teachers Association at the ongoing Zimta 39th Annual Conference in Harare.Maphosa won the post after po...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
3 robbers killed in shoot-out
THREE robbery suspects, part of a gang that raided at least three schools in and around Bulawayo, have been shot dead in a shoot-out with police in Kadoma.The suspects were shot dead on Tuesda...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:33hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Suspensions expose serious Zanu-PF wars
Zanu-PF has lifted the suspension of provincial and district officials in Midlands and Harare with party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa saying the measures were in violation of a politburo prohib...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:42hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges flout JSC code of conduct
THREE Constitutional Court judges have come under the spotlight after they failed to comply with the Judicial Service Commission code of ethics which requires them to deliver a judgement reserved with...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 10:45hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
3 in court over US$100k extortion
THREE people have appeared in court on allegations of extorting US$100 000 from a suspected thief to stop them reporting her to the police.Elizabeth Nyamande (35), Evernice Nyamande (30) and E...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:05hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will reach promised land,' says Zanu-PF delegates
Zimbabwe is poised to realize its Vision 2030, guided by President Mnangagwa's well-defined roadmap for leading the nation to its envisioned future.Following a two-day gathering in Gweru, atte...Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 05:12hrs | 196 | by Staff reporte
Zimbabwean students in Singapore for robotics competitions
Five Zimbabwean students have traveled to Singapore to participate in this year's First Global Challenge, an international robotics competition.The five team members, Tanatswa Taremba, Tinashe...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 05:58hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
MP Elizabeth Masuku reported to ZACC over O Level exam scandal
Matabeleland North Member of Parliament, Elizabeth Masuku, is facing allegations of misconduct and corruption, as reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). According to a letter obta...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:36hrs | 1758 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabwe's new Members of Parliament sworn-in
Members of Parliament for the 10th Parliament took their oaths of office yesterday and committed themselves to work towards the fulfilment of Vision 2030 enunciated by President Mnangagwa to make Zimb...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attributes victory to unity
PRESIDENT elect Dr Emmerson Mnangagwa has attributed his overwhelming victory in Wednesday's election to the power of unity and progress and said together with the people he will continue building a b...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gains majority of proportional representation seats in Matebeleland
ZANU-PF has clinched a majority of party proportional representation seats in Bulawayo and Matebeleland South provinces while the main opposition party Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) secured mor...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ready for progressive opposition, claims Mutsvangwa
Zanu-PF is ready to work with all progressive opposition political parties who participated in the just ended harmonised elections for the benefit of the people, the party's spokesperson, Christopher ...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Neighbours fight over witchcraft
A HARARE woman has been granted a peace order against her elderly neighbour, who was accusing her of witchcraft.Elizabeth Mupawana from Glen Norah told Harare magistrate Sharon Mashavira that ...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 12:55hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Huge turnout for elections countrywide
Thousands of people thronged polling stations across the country to cast their votes for their preferred candidates for Presidential, National Assembly and local authority elections.A peaceful...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Battles to watch in today's Zimbabwe election
AFTER five very short years, we are back to the polls.It feels it was just yesterday when President Mnangagwa gave us that signature dance to the Kutonga Kwaro soundtrack. It feels it was just...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
6,6 million Zimbabweans eligible to cast ballots
ZIMBABWEANS go to the polls today with at least 6,6 million registered voters expected to decide the next leadership that will steer the country forward for five years.The Zimbabwe Electoral C...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:32hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Ex-convict bashes cheating wife goes back to prison
It never rains but pours for a Plumtree man who allegedly bashed his wife with an axe handle after accusing her of cheating on him when he was in prison three years ago.The matter came to ligh...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 19:58hrs | 38 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mudenda rallies Zanu-PF supporters
Zanu-PF Secretary for Legal Affairs Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday implored citizens to remain resolute in safeguarding the gains of the country's liberation struggle by voting for ruling party in t...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's dead end
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has dismissed without a hearing self-exiled presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's application for leave to appeal against a Supreme Court ruling that upheld his disqual...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:10hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere still hopeful
THE Constitutional Court has refused to hear the case in which exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere was seeking to have direct access to the top court.Kasukuwere is se...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:10hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt shutters Kasukuwere's hopes
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has sounded the death knell on Saviour Kasukuwere's diminishing hopes of contesting the 2023 presidential election after dismissing an application filed by the exil...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:28hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa honours wife with govt award
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered his wife Auxillia by awarding her philanthropic work with a Jairos Jiri Humanitarian Gold Award.The honouring of Auxillia's Angel of Hope Foundation c...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
CCC Mthwakazi: kick out Shona supremacist Chamisa and declare Matabeleland independent, ignore Welshman apology
Nothing pains us more than seeing fellow Matabeles being humiliated, dehumanised, abused and used as voting cattle in the Zimbabwe election booths by opportunistic Zimbabwe opposition parties that do ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 19:46hrs | 42 | by Israel Dube
Chief's attacker begs for leniency in court
A 37-year-old man who attacked Chief Murinye on June 28, 2023 at a funeral, has pleaded with Masvingo Magistrate Elizabeth Hanzie to have mercy on him.Sentencing was postponed because initiall...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 18:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nyanga family tormented by thigh vendor's avenging spirit killed 50 years ago by their polygamist father
A Nyanga family finds themselves living in constant fear as they believe a vengeful spirit is haunting them, claiming to be a s_ex worker who met a tragic end 50 years ago at the hands of their patria...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:28hrs | 19 | by Erick Matotoba
Sex worker's ngozi surfaces 50 years later
A Nyanga family is living in fear of a vengeful spirit that claims to be a sex worker who was murdered 50 years ago by the family's patriarch.The spirit, which speaks through various possessed...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's fate imminent
INDEPENDENT presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's case where he is seeking the nullification of the High Court ruling that removed him from the ballot will now proceed after the Supreme Court ru...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Richard Branson enjoys Zimbabwe's wildlife during two week visit
British billionaire Richard Branson – the founder of the Virgin Group – and his family spent considerable time touring Zimbabwe's prime wildlife resort areas during his visit to the country....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
UZA takes ZEC to High Court
United Zimbabwe Alliance 2023 August election Presidential candidate Elizabeth Valerio has taken Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to High Court over the refusal by ZEC to endorse her nomination pap...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 15:28hrs | 28 | by Desire Tshuma
Zimbabwe Chiefs to elect new leadership
The Zimbabwe Council of Chiefs (ZCC) will next month elect a new leadership at its congress, a senior official of the body announced yesterday.President of the Chiefs Council, Fortune Charumbi...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled CCC candidates go rogue
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s house is on fire in Manicaland as aspiring candidates who were unfairly disqualified during the candidates' selection process are up in arms with t...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
uGogo Wabancane Qha dies
Elizabeth Makhalisa popularly known as uGogo Wabancane Qha on ZBC's Radio 2 show has died.This was announced by popular media personality and former Radio 2 presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda on hi...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 15:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'thugs' assault MP Nduna at nomination court
CHEGUTU West Member of Parliament (MP), Dexter Nduna was Wednesday manhandled by members of his Zanu-PF party outside the nomination court sitting in Chinhoyi resulting in an injury.The legisl...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Chamisa fall out over US dollars?
OPPOSITION CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa threw his former vice president and ally Mr Tendai Biti under the proverbial bus and rigged the Harare East candidate selection process against him because he b...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zesa cable thieves in dock
TWO Harare men yesterday appeared before magistrate Munashe Chibanda on charges of vandalising and stealing Zesa cables in differed parts of the city.Willis Chifamba (30) and Peace Kupak...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
United Zimbabwe Alliance presidential candidate calls for lifting of sanctions
United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) leader Ms Elizabeth Valerio, who has declared that she will be running for the presidency, has said illegal sanctions imposed on the country by western countries are hur...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nomination fees divide Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has been torn apart after its Legal Committee issued a non-adverse report, effectively endorsing the exorbitant nomination fees set by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission for candidates wishi...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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