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Improved power supply as Zesa completes unit maintenance
Improved electricity generation in the country has been achieved following the completion of maintenance works on one of the units at Hwange Power Station last week. The government remains committed t...Published: 2 hrs ago | 28 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF too Strong for SADC: Mzembi
ZANU PF has proved to be too strong for SADC, the former Minister of Tourism Dr Walter Mzembi has admitted. Speaking on his X handle last night, Dr Mzembi said the Liberation movements i...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 12:28hrs | 3582 | by Desmond Nleya
Bulawayo Business Network team meets Obert Mpofu
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MP up for reckless driving
BULAWAYO Central legislator, Mr. Surrender Kapoikulu, representing the Citizens for Coalition Change (CCC), is facing court charges for negligent driving that resulted in a head-on collision with anot...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:15hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer sucked into business executives' property dispute
A PROMINENT Harare lawyer, Mr Nikita Madya, is caught up in a storm of controversy over shares and property involving two local business executives Messrs Raymond Chigogwana and Senziwani Sikhosana....Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 06:10hrs | 440 | by Staff eporter
Zimbabwe is set to get Starlink before South Africa
AN apparent standoff over licensing rules in South Africa means the country's impoverished northern neighbour is set to get Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet first.It has emerged that Zi...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:41hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP ordered to pay US$21 000 for unfair labour practices
The National Employment Council for the Mining Industry has issued a directive to Trade River Investment Private Limited, trading as Progress Mine in Filabusi, to compensate two former employees with ...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:02hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Cable thieves plunge Paddonhurst suburb into darkness
OVER 300 houses in Paddonhurst suburb in Bulawayo have gone for two days without electricity with Zesa officials saying cables were stolen and the fault might be fixed by Wednesday.A power out...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:40hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Property owners given ultimatum
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) has issued an ultimatum to property owners to pay their bills or risk their properties being attached.HLB spokesperson Dumisani Nsingo said the local authority was owe...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:59hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Goat thief killer on the run
A suspected goat thief was allegedly bashed to death by a mob of 15 people in Plumtree.Fourteen of the suspected murderers were arrested while one of the suspect Thulani Ncube defaulted court ...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 13:17hrs | 678 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Disputed polls worsening voter apathy,' Stop using sticky band-aid to fix broken limb - vote rigging
"Disputed polls to worsen voter apathy" proclaimed Bulawayo 24 headline. "The frequency of disputed elections in Zimbabwe, the most recent being the August 23 polls, will discourage more regis...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 14:15hrs | 661 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Africa must learn fast!' Must take hard look in the mirror admit reality and not what wish to see
"Africa must learn Fast..You should not wait forever. Japan learned from the west during the Meiji restoration. China sent her engineers to the west after the death of Mao. Singapore learned f...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 20:05hrs | 207 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimdollar firms, exchange premium widens
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) said this week the gap between the official and parallel market exchange rates widened to 41% last month as a result of stability in the official forex m...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 08:51hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Tajamuka's Mkwananzi now a political refugee in an undisclosed country
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Promise Mkwananzi has skipped the border and is now a political refugee in an undisclosed country after police issued a US$1 000 cash reward for info...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:30hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa party spokesperson on the run, police issue US$1 000 cash reward
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson, Mr Promise Mkwananzi, and two others are on the run, and police have issued a US$1 000 cash reward for information that will lead to their location....Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 18:35hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
SADC risks extinction in allowing itself to be bullied by ZANU PF!
So, the Zimbabwe ruling party is up to its usual dirty tricks again!Bullying!In 2011, the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) were bullied by ZANU PF in...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 07:06hrs | 1334 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Vladimir Putin - the global game changer
Over the past week, a lot has occurred in the world around us. The Zimbabwean elections, the Brics summit in South Africa, the passing on of Yevgeny Prigozhin head of Russia's private mercenary compan...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:06hrs | 392 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Sadc urged to trash Mumba's biased report
ZIMBABWE is consolidating a national response to the Preliminary Report of the SADC Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) which is fraught with irregularities, hearsay and pure hyperbolic nonsense imputed...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:01hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Wanted Mkwananzi still to report to police
Police yesterday said they were still looking for former Tajamuka leader and newly appointed CCC spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi for defaulting court proceedings over a case of public violence he was f...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park and the myth of irrational voting
Galatians 3 verse 1: "You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified." The verse is a rebuke to the Galatians for having embraced d...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 09:58hrs | 499 | by Limukani Ncube
Hakainde Hichilema's reckless attempt to export puppetry
We note with great concern and embarrassment, the dishonorable and subjective activities of Mr Nevers Mumba, who was appointed as the Head of the SADC Electoral Observation Mission to Zimbabwe by Mr H...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:49hrs | 941 | by Fred M’membe
ZEC did it's best under very difficult and unprecedented conditions
LIKE GOD, ZEC MUST BE IN IT FOR EVERYONE: THIS TIME ZEC DID ITS BEST UNDER VERY DIFFICULT AND UNPRECEDENTED CONDITIONS FOLLOWING THE SITTING OF THE NOMINATION COURT ON 21 JUNE 2023It's one thi...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:44hrs | 345 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa party spokes dismisses police claims that he has a 2020 warrant of arrest
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Promise Mkhwananzi - who has been arrested many times for his political activism - has dismissed police claims that he has a 2020 warrant of arrest for...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 13:27hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police seek CCC spokesperson Mkwananzi's arrest for outstanding 2020 warrant
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police is seeking to detain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi for an outstanding arrest warrant against him issued back in 2020.Mkwananzi...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 11:40hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Drunk cop removed from guarding ballot papers at Matebeleland North school
A police officer was removed from guarding election materials at a school in Jambezi, Matebeleland North, after being found asleep and drunk on Sunday.For 30 minutes, senior police officers co...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 94 | by Stafff reporter
Mnangagwa cuts ribbon on 23 fire tenders
IN a remarkable achievement by the Government, President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 23 firefighting trucks out of a total of 133 acquired from Belarus. A momentous step forward was also taken wi...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is ZEC's deafening silence on ballot secrecy meant to enable election rigging?
A few days ago, I came across a video capturing a ZANU PF aspiring MP (member of parliament) intimidating the rural electorate into voting for no one else except President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 20:20hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe guns for region's top position ahead of polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has made it clear the Zimbabwean election will not be discussed at SADC level if their plans of taking over the body's deputy chairperson po...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Teargas after Chamisa rally
Residents in nearby suburbs were forced to inhale chocking smoke as anti-riot police fired teargas canisters at Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters few moments after party leader Nelson Cha...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's rally disrupted
POLICE randomly fired tear smoke into people's houses as they dispersed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters who were attending party leader Nelson Chamisa's star rally at Mamutse Ground in ...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will only develop once we've citizens who're truly eager for prosperity!
It is not necessary the unashamedly corrupt, incompetent and uncaring government that we have in power.Neither is it the grand looting of our vast national resources by the ruling elite - who ...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 16:34hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police Constable spotted in CCC crowd chanting clapping for Chamisa, arrested
A NKAYI based ZRP Constable identified as H Masimbe has been arrested after he was seen attending Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa's Nesigwe rally and excitedly chanting pa...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Thieving' cops back in court
Stanley Musekiwa (46), Takaidza Mugwisi (36) and Masimba Stanely Gwasunda (43), all from CID Stores, were facing theft and malicious damage to property charges when they appeared before magistrate Mar...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Biti hit with costs for delaying US$1m defamation lawsuit
CCC politician Tendai Biti has been hit with costs incurred by Augur Investments and its owner Mr Kenneth Sharpe over the US$1 million civil lawsuit against him for allegedly defaming the land develop...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Detectives up for stage-managing break-in
THREE Harare-based detectives appeared in court yesterday charged with stage-managing a break-in at Harare Central Police Station stores office before stealing an undisclosed amount of money kept as e...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt ducking responsibility by urging new graduates to start companies!
I remember soon after graduating from journalism school in 1998, I was so eager to be my own boss, such that I implored my parents to help establish a newspaper for me. I had always been passi...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:14hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Zanu-PF must win at any cost!
Let me start with that intellectual prostitute, Professor Jonathan Moyo, who, from his hide-out somewhere in Kenya is breathing fire and brimstone on a poor white man, David Coltart.David wrot...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tried to kill opposition, says Mutambara
Former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara says President Emmerson Mnangagwa wanted to destroy the country's main opposition party by denying it funding and using other unorthodox means.Mut...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
600 illegal immigrants deported
NEARLY 600 illegal immigrants were arrested and deported to their countries between January and June this year, while 71 are being investigated for forging police clearances and educational qualificat...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:18hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Two children drown in mining pit, Chinese miner gives US$100 compensation
TWO children recently drowned at a disused mine pit at Mbalabala in Matabeleland South amid complaints by the family that the Chinese mining company Ming Chang mine owner only gave them US$100 compens...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 07:36hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Security roadblock fleeing cop wanted
An unlicensed Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer Felix Nyakurerwa (36) who fled from a roadblock along Harare-Mukumbura road while clad in police uniform driving a Toyota Wish with seven passenger...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:17hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concesion
Kasukuwere vows to bring 'closure' to emotive Gukurahundi issue
Former Zanu-PF political commissar and CIO driver under the late strongman Robert Mugabe's regime, and now independent presidential candidate, Saviour Kasukuwere intends to address the thorny Gukurahu...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
U.S. sanctions take center stage in Zimbabwe elections
When Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's long-time despot, lost power in a 2017 military coup, many Zimbabweans took to the streets, celebrating what they hoped would be the beginning of a new chapter.M...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Commute death sentence to prison terms'
A RECENT High Court ruling condemning Tapiwa Makore Senior and accomplice Tafadzwa Shamba to death for the brutal murder of then seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore Junior has once again revived debate on th...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Munyeza and wife ordered to repay US$100 000 with interest
Prominent Zimbabwean pastor, businessperson and political activist Shingi Munyeza and his wife Wilma have been ordered by the High Court to repay public relations strategist Marjorie Mutemererwa her U...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:38hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Hypocrites!!
Zimbabwe's political scenery has always been marred by accusations, manipulations, and power struggles among its various political parties. One such party, the ruling ZANU PF, has frequently resorted ...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:38hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
30 cheat death along Bulawayo, Victoria Falls Road
Thirty passengers traveling on a Kakono bus company cheated death by a whisker this afternoon after the bus developed a mechanical fault that resulted in the steering wheel locking up and the bus...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 16:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in unchartered waters
REPORTS that members of the Zimbabwe National Army in complete military uniform distributed ruling Zanu-PF party regalia on the sidelines of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rally in Centenary, Mashonal...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
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