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Mnangagwa's govt parcelling out ZPRA properties
FORMER ZPRA cadres who contributed their demobilisation payouts and managed to purchase various properties across the country are set to lose some of the properties after it emerged some of the assets...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1934 | by Staff reporter
Schools defy govt on fee
SCHOOLS are defying a government directive that they should not turn away pupils who have not paid school fees.When schools opened for the second term on May 4, the Primary and Secondary Educa...Published: 11 hrs ago | 367 | by Staff reporter
Hwange to twin with Namibia, SA towns
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) plans to twin with Namibian and South African local authorities to improve service delivery in the coal mining town.The arrangements will also boost wildlife tourism a...Published: 11 hrs ago | 205 | by Staff reporter
MP pays fees for striking farm workers' children
Mazowe North legislator Campion Mugweni (ZANU PF) has paid tuition fees for 600 farm workers' children at Forester Estate in Mvurwi.The...Published: 20 hrs ago | 999 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chiwenga in Indonesia for a week
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga arrived in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday for a week-long visit during which he will attend a UNICEF meeting for ministers of water, sanitation, and hygie...Published: 21 hrs ago | 816 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Minister Karoro
VILLAGERS in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central are breathing fire over Presidential inputs from which they were supposed to benefit but were allegedly swindled by their Member of Parliament Douglas ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 12:13hrs | 3214 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Basics run out of Zimbabwe shelves
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's recent economic pronouncements have reportedly triggered a shortage of most locally-manufactured basic commodities in most retail shops...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 5076 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu villagers relive night of terror
"THEY must rot in jail!" Selma Modi (38) of Kalembo Farm in Chegutu yelled as she narrated her harrowing ordeal of last Tuesday night at the hands of armed Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) personnel....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
ZESA hikes local currency rates
ELECTRICITY tariffs have reverted to the local currency equivalent of the US dollar charges of 2018 with the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company saying the adjustment is meant t...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Duty on basics lowered
Government has lowered duty for people with free funds to import basic groceries, as one of the measures to contain price rises of basic commodities triggered by manufacturers and importers that have ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deputy minister in GMB theft scandal
DEPUTY Agriculture minister Douglas Karoro is embroiled in a scandal involving the alleged theft of a huge consignment of fertiliser from Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot at Mushumbi in Mbire....Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar, US dollar use to stay
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has encouraged Zimbabweans to use both the Zimbabwe dollar and United States dollar as the country transitions towards adoption of a ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 2978 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Zesa on brink of collapse
ZIMBABWE risks sinking into a deeper power crisis amid reports that the country's power utility Zesa is on the brink of collapse due to an unsustainable tariff regime, NewsDay has learnt.The p...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:06hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe rainfall season ends'
The 2021 – 2022 rainfall season, largely marked by above-average rains in some regions and poor and erratic rainfall in others has ended, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says.Be...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:01hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
'Missing truck' driver charged with copper cables theft
A truck driver who was reported missing after an alleged ‘attempted hijack' has been dragged to court charged with stealing copper cables valued at US$750 000.The Biltrans Transport driver M...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Forex, fuel and airtime for chiefs
GOVERNMENT has announced a package for chiefs that will see them getting foreign currency allowances, medical aid, monthly fuel coupons and air time for ease of communication.Their cars will a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's idle cannabis licence holders put on notice
The US$27 million medical cannabis farm and processing plant at Mount Hampden set up by Swiss Biocieuticals Limited was commissioned yesterday by President Mnangagwa who urged others with permits for ...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister sucked in fertiliser scam
Lands deputy minister and Mbire Member of Parliament, Douglas Karoro, has been implicated in a presidential inputs scam after allegedly acquiring fertiliser from the government programme under the gui...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:16hrs | 1646 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's CCC slams Mnangagwa
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) on Wednesday vowed a robust challenge to controversial measures to shore up the fast-depreciating Zimbabwe dollar, announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa las...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom
Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortun...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Bishop Maponga's wheelchair picture causes a stir
A picture of Bishop Joshua Maponga in a wheelchair has confused Zimbabweans.The picture which was taken at an airport has been circulating on social media.In the picture Maponga's litt...Published: 10 May 2022 at 22:01hrs | 3194 | by Staff reporter
87-year-old man goes missing
Police in Matabeleland South province are appealing for information that may lead to the location of an 87-year-old man from Filabusi who went missing on March 2.Matabeleland South provincial ...Published: 10 May 2022 at 17:34hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Fake prophet's goblin plan backfires
A fake prophet from Hopely, Harare's plan to plant a monitor lizard in Glendale Mashonaland Central province purporting it to be a goblin hit the brick wall after residents denounced his motive....Published: 10 May 2022 at 16:53hrs | 1326 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Teenager dies during Nyau dance ritual
A 16-YEAR-OLD Beatrice teenager died after he was allegedly buried alive in a shallow grave during a Nyau dance ritual in Beatrice.Tafadzwa Mudahondo's body was retrieved from the shallow grav...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:46hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is on course to upstage Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he is on course to upstage President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu-PF in next year's elections as he dismis...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:17hrs | 3106 | by Staff reporter
The Mundoza tree has become an oracle
The two trees stand side by side as if nature's siblings, one a Casternabar and the other a 'Mutohwe'. One is domesticated and the other wild but they are both fruit trees. Their combined cano...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:35hrs | 1747 | by Mutanda Wachingama
Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo: are Matabeles co-owners of Zimbabwe?
It is of utimost importance for Matabeles to comprehend the true meaning of deceptive catchy phrases coined by the dubious Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe and ZANUPF since the days of the Zim...Published: 08 May 2022 at 12:33hrs | 1455 | by Israel Dube
'Poverty is a choice'
SHE has set herself a target of being one of the biggest fish farmers in Matabeleland and Midlands region.Ms Patricia Tabengwa (67), a pensioner from Killarney suburb in Bulawayo believes that...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into land dispute
The ongoing land dispute in Budiriro between land developer Fifty Angels Company and one Hebert Senda, popularly known as Madzibaba Enock, has reached a boiling point with Senda now accused of droppin...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:28hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
CCC to impose leaders
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is embarking on new processes to elect its national leaders, thereby possibly ditching the traditional congresses.This follows recent reports that the p...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:27hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally says, 'Britain can go hang'
BRITAIN should stop interfering in Zimbabwe's internal affairs as the country is not an extension of the United Kingdom, Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has sa...Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
9 arrested for stealing 66 cattle
POLICE in Beatrice, Mashonaland East province, have arrested nine suspected cattle rustlers over possession of 66 stolen beasts.The cattle were stolen from different farms in, and around the B...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:18hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Britain should mind its own business'
MEDDLESOME Britain should focus on problems at home and stop poking its nose into the affairs of Zimbabwe through contrived stories and false oppositional narratives, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 03 May 2022 at 15:37hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Police; ZANU PF youths beat up CCC members in Chitungwiza
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police and alleged ZANU PF members reportedly attacked and injured CCC candidate for Chitungwiza Ward 7 Lovemore Maiko during the party's door to door election campaig...Published: 02 May 2022 at 18:47hrs | 3032 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Our country is being mortgaged
THE biggest story last week was that the world's largest private metal trader and second-largest oil dealer, Trafigura Group shall be paid US$225,6 million by nickel and gold-mining subsidiaries of St...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:01hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to address issues fuelling inflation
TRADE unions have urged Government to promote dialogue among social partners to address issues revolving around the welfare of workers and whip into line cartels which are fuelling inflation.T...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:59hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties attend Workers Day commemorations
Zimbabwean workers yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers' Day, with the Government calling for unity while expressing its commitment to improving the welfare of workers throu...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:53hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe flies British fighter jets again despite sanctions
Zimbabwe's Air Force has mysteriously found parts for its grounded Hawk fighter jets - 21 years after Britain imposed a crippling arms embargo.Four BAE Hawk jets took part in a fly-past during...Published: 01 May 2022 at 19:36hrs | 5295 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala mobilises youths to defend Chin'ono goat project
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, claimed Saturday to have mobilised scores of people to sleep at journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono's Murehwa home....Published: 01 May 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers Mwonzora & co
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government splashed cash on leaders of opposition political parties, including MDC-T Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora, to facilitate their attendance of Independence Day...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:23hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
A Zimbabwe-born academic extraordinary thirst for knowledge
With an impressive profile of world recognised academic qualifications obtained at home and abroad, United States-based Zimbabwean academic and technician, Busani Nkosiyabo Siphambili says acquiring e...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:22hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Pre-Elections Pact on Reforms is a pseudo pre-marital power sharing agreement- no reforms will be implemented
If I was in a position to do so, I would make reading George Orwell's book, Animal Farm compulsory reading for all Zimbabwe for two reasons:1) The book is an allegorised allu...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:46hrs | 2189 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa should heed UN counsel on sanctions
IN one of the NewsDay issues this week, we carried a story in which the United Nations (UN) added its voice to the long-standing thorny and hot debate on the country's contentious subject of sanctions...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:21hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa demands report on death of Banker Doug Munatsi
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has demanded the report of the investigation that probed the death of Banker Douglas Munatsi who died in November 2021 in a mysterious fire that gutted his apa...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:26hrs | 968 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mashonaland East Pork producers open retail and wholesale meat distribution centre
The Mashonaland East Pork Producers Business Syndicate (MEPPBS), a group of farmers from four districts namely Goromonzi, Marondera, Seke, and Murehwa reg...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 06:38hrs | 788 | by Stephen Jakes
3 Zimbabweans to spend life in SA prison
THREE Zimbabweans have been sentenced to life in jail for killing a commercial farmer in South Africa's Limpopo province.Advocate Nketheni Munyai called for stiffer penalties on those who murd...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
Matobo councillor, villagers clash over land
VILLAGERS in Ward 24, Matobo North in Matabeleland South are at loggerheads with their councillor for allocating land to a white man.The villagers told Southern Eye that they believe that thei...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:01hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
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