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Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1250 | by Stafff reporter
Man up for torching neighbours' huts
A CHIRUMANZU man last week appeared before the courts on allegations of torching huts and destroying property worth thousands of dollars belonging to his seven neighbours in a dispute over payment for...Published: 4 hrs ago | 159 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi victims top documentation hearing
PEOPLE from Matabeleland North have implored the Government to help facilitate the issuance of national documents to victims of Gukurahundi saying a majority of them remain undocumented. ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean national appointed to ICAEW Africa Members Advisory Board
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales - has today announced the appointment of Tinashe Rwodzi to its Africa Members Advisory Board. Rwodzi, who is the Zimbabwe and Malawi country...Published: 16 hrs ago | 748 | by Staff reporter
Freedom of Information Bill
The government on 5 July 2019 gazetted the Freedom of Information Bill [H.B. 6 of 2019]. This is the first of three official Bills meant to replace the much-criticised Access to Information an...Published: 16 hrs ago | 435 | by MISA Zimbabwe
How to prepare for military school admission tests
Applying to a military school or academy presupposes not only submitting your test results, but also passing a fitness exam. Take a look at the steps you need to take to get enrolled, as well as famil...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1394 | by Staff Writer
Chamisa calls for health minister's arrest
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for Health Minister Obadiah Moyo to be arrested for corruption after a leaked letter showed how Zanu-PF plans to use medical drugs as a campaign tool in the Lupane...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:33hrs | 5778 | by ZimLive
Nomazulu Thata Misinformed
Nomazulu Thata who regards herself as the custodian of all Mathebeleland issues has a tendency to twist facts to suit her agenda. It is very curious that she refers to Bulawayo as the City of Kings an...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 10:15hrs | 1746 | by Lizwe Dube
The loved opposition
I hope I can be brief enough to be witty but concise enough to be understood and effectual. I know the natural instinct for people when they see someone questioning the political party that they suppo...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:26hrs | 726 | by Jason Huntley
Mthuli Ncube was also surprised
It's almost a year since Finance minister Mthuli Ncube was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to help turn around an economy weighed down by decades of ruinous policies.In the 10 months...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:01hrs | 13574 | by Staff reporter
Iconic towers part of Bulawayo's identity
SOMETIME last month it emerged that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was planning to demolish the thermal power towers situated at Zesa main, near the Railway Station. News of the impeding demolition ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:41hrs | 758 | by Raisedon Baya
Zanu-PF wins Nyanga and Bikita by-elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF has wrestled the Nyanga South ward 26 seat from the MDC Alliance in a by-election which was held Saturday and retained Bikita Rural District Council ward 31 on the same day....Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 870 | by newzimbabwe
Chinamasa rallies behind Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance Minister, Patrick Anthony Chinamasa, (P.A.C) who is also the ZANU-PF secretary for finance has rallied behind the current Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, saying the country...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt target internet users
Government is set to put in place social media abuse laws amid revelations that there is an upsurge in internet abuse and the proliferation of illegal websites.This comes on the back of a rise...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:27hrs | 5102 | by Staff reporter
Inflation-linked pay-outs for pensioners
Pensioners are set to start receiving inflation-adjusted pay-outs, as the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) starts reviewing the compensation framework.The latest recorded year-on-year...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:24hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bid to rejoin Commonwealth gets boost
ZIMBABWE'S efforts to rejoin the Commonwealth are well on course following the cordial engagement between Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Moyo and the grouping's secretar...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:15hrs | 7377 | by Staff Reporter
'We sat for 5 years in GNU, ate and did nothing!' admitted Chamisa - from horse's mouth, finally believe it
MDC leaders sold-out during the GNU by failing to implement even one meaningful reform. If I have said that once, I have said it a million times and a million times again. To those millions of doubtin...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 05:57hrs | 5131 | by Wilbert Mukori
Bulawayo daughter storms America
Thembelihle Terry-Lynne Zulu is the founder of Girl Grandeur Zimbabwe which is a social club for women. She is one of the 42 fellows selected to represent Zimbabwe at this year's Mandela Washington Fe...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | 5097 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The calibre of councillors
THE Auditor-General's (AG) Local Authorities Report for 2018 makes for some serious, but disturbing reading.It reports the state of financial management of local authorities and shows the exte...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 441 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mnangagwa fails corruption fighting test - Report
At least 71% of Zimbabweans believe that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is not doing enough fighting corruption while police officers are viewed as the most corrupt public officials in the ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | 823 | by newzimbabwe
High school boys 'beef' turns Bulawayo CBD into warzone
IN A split second, a usually uneventful street corner adjacent to the Chronicle building is suddenly turned into a war zone by a handful of boys from Milton and Gifford high schools. The boys ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | 2872 | by Staff reporter
Selection process riles aspiring judge
SOUTH AFRICA-based Advocate Sheillah Kanyangarara has criticised the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for burdening aspiring High Court judges with a written examination before participating in publi...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Political Institutions need to master the Art of Intelligence
The world of intelligence is binary mysteries, wilderness of mirrors has other dimensions. The dimensions of strategic intelligence involve toxic information, public relations, and facts. Fictions whi...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:56hrs | 606 | by Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Dollarisation failed to create jobs in Zimbabwe'
While Zimbabwe registered remarkable economic growth during the multi-currency era, the period dismally failed to generate significant formal jobs, research findings 5released by the Reserve Bank of Z...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 18:57hrs | 778 | by Staf reporter
'Oh Ntuthuziyathunqa, my heritage, kindly refuse to die!'
It is with utter dismay, sadness and inexplicable shock, to native Bulawayans and Matabelelanders in general, to hear through the grapevine, of the proposed monstrous intentions of the culturally inse...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1189 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Govt must set up independent commission on Gukurahundi
This is the second installment of a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the occasion of his meeting with them at the Stat...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:22hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer paints rosy picture of Zimbabwe media
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government is keen on improving the media sector, claiming journalists' working environment has improved under the administration of President...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
Unexplained wealth orders here to stay
THE proposed introduction of a free-standing procedure which compels an individual to explain the source of his wealth is a radical development in English law. For instance, the human rights and polit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 355 | by Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu
Bulawayo water woes to last another 2 weeks
BULAWAYO water woes will persist for at least two more weeks as council battles to complete rehabilitation works. Most parts of the city have gone for 10 days without running tap water. The Bu...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors plot against Bulawayo Town Clerk
MDC Alliance councillors have called for a special council meeting tomorrow as part of their plot to suspend Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube who has resisted their meddlesome conduct and overstep...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:23hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
10 ICT students to leave for China
TEN Zimbabwean information communication technologies (ICT) students will this week leave for China under an incubation programme of global technology giant Huawei Technologies called Seeds for the Fu...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Crucifying 'Wiwa' for a mere political rhetoric: A countenance of the Devil
While we mutually admonish instigators of anarchy, despondency, divisiveness and secessionism we loudly criticize an all-out war on the deputy chairperson of MDC-Alliance over an address at a politica...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:41hrs | 1318 | by Benny Gudo
Cranborne Boys High School students in demo
CRANBORNE Boys High School staged a demonstration earlier today against the school head Mr Dennis Masenga who is being accused of mismanagement and misappropriation of funds at the school.Mr M...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:30hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Misa trashes 'regressive' Freedom of Information Bill
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)-Zimbabwe has criticised the gazetted Freedom of Information Bill, which will soon be brought before Parliament for failing to incorporate views from civil...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
The limits of mass protest in a dictatorship
HONG KONG is not Beijing. And July 1, 2019, is not June 4, 1989. First of all, in 1989, the violence in China came almost entirely from the side of the government; the weeks of demonstrations in Beiji...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 358 | by Ian Buruma
'Killer' pilot's trial finally kicks off
THE trial of an Airforce of Zimbabwe pilot who allegedly brutally murdered his Gweru-based girlfriend last year finally kicked off at the Bulawayo High Court yesterday. The trial of Tashinga M...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala faces a death penalty for treason
Former president Mugabe once said of Madhuku "that once he is broke he provokes the law enforcement so that when he is arrested his sponsors will vilify Zimbabwe and consequently pour money to his poc...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 11:36hrs | 6979 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe economic crisis a silhouette of the political crisis
The enduring crisis in Zimbabwe presents a conundrum to a lot of people.To the generality of Zimbabweans,whose only desire is the pursuit of a dignified existence, the debilitating liquidity c...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | 353 | by Learnmore Zuze
Mnangagwa, DRC's Tshisekedi in Afcon banter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa took time to discuss football matters on the sidelines of the 12th extraordinary AU summit on free trade areas and was involved in a banter with DR Congo President Félix Tshiseked...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2824 | by Staff reporter
Witness cornered in Mangoma case
THE second witness in the trial of former Energy Minister Elton Mangoma was yesterday taken to task by the accused's lawyers on why he was in court after previously claiming to be a stranger to the ca...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:15hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Spy on iPhone Messages with iPhone Spy
The ability to be able to spy on a phone can be highly beneficial. As a parent, you always worry about who your children are in communication with on their phones. As an employer, you need to monitor ...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 23:05hrs | 1276 | by Staff Writer
Chiri bemoans poor funding
Auditor General Mildred Chiri is back in the spotlight after producing yet another report detailing abuse of funds and inefficiencies in government departments and parastatals.Some of the reve...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:29hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Govt's proposed information law is draconian
The government on July 5 2019 gazetted the Freedom of Information Bill [HB 6 of 2019]. This is the first of three official Bills meant to replace the much-criticised Access to Information and Protecti...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:27hrs | 190 | by Golden Maunganidze
Zacc boss vows to tighten screws
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo has vowed to step up the fight against corruption.Matanda-Moyo (LMM), who was recently appointed to head the anti-graf...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:25hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Secondary stock exchange for Bulawayo
PLANS of opening a secondary stock market exchange which will likely to be located in Bulawayo are at an advanced stage, an official said. In an interview with Sunday News Business on the side...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:14hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Chasi to revoke license of dormant IPPs
THE Government will consider revoking licences of Independent Power Producers failing to kick start their projects as it moves to reduce the power deficit grappling the country, a Cabinet Minister has...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:05hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
How Sports Betting Affects You Psychologically
Sports betting accumulated with humanity for ages, and yes, it is the nature of humankind to gamble. In every civilization emerged from the crust of the earth, sports betting has adhered with it. Many...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 13:35hrs | 2130 | by Staff Writer
Perverse opulence amid squalor likely to sink Zimbabwe
The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amids...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
ICT to cascade to rural areas: Kazembe
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday said the digital transformation and increased use of ICTs being experienced in urban areas must also cascade to rural...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation
No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 672 | by Conway Tutani
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