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Mnangagwa showed wisdom in transforming the party to become user friendly
At the start of the new dispensation comrade Emerson Mnangagwa promised that he would spend a lot of time listening. That's what he has done over the last three years, and that's what he has don...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1786 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Job Sikhala dumps lawyer
Top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa will lead MDC National Vice Chairperson Job Sikhala's defence team in his treason trial set for 3 February at the High Court here.His previous lawyer was Alec Mucha...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1694 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe doctors fellowship oversubscribed
The Higher Life Foundation fellowship for doctors, which was re-opened last week, is reportedly oversubscribed, with more than 900 doctors having applied barely a day after the fellowship was announce...Published: 11 hrs ago | 235 | by Staff reporter
Security guard shoots gold panners
A SECURITY guard has been arrested for allegedly shooting and wounding two gold panners over suspicion that they were trespassing.Nkosilathi Ndlovu, employed at Avalon Farm in Esigodini, was n...Published: 11 hrs ago | 216 | by Staff reporter
Gunmen kill 13 people in central Nigeria
Unknown gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack in central Nigeria, police said on Monday, in an area known for ethnic clashes.A local resident said the assailants opened fire late Sunday on...Published: 11 hrs ago | 56 | by AFP
MDC paying lip service to corruption investigations
Opposition MDC-Alliance must be religious followers of Mario Cuomo's famous dictum: "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." A press conference held on Friday at the party's headquarters...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1221 | by Lawson Mabhena
Barber in court for aggravated indecent assault
A 24-YEAR-OLD barber from Gwabalanda appeared in court last week facing charges of indecently assaulting his employer's 16-year-old daughter.Emmanuel Sibanda was not asked to plead to aggravat...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1848 | by Staff reporter
'Chief' Ndiweni unites MDC
THE MDC Matabeleland North and Bulawayo provincial structures have "temporarily" buried their differences to support the under-fire Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni with a solidarity rally planned for n...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 2883 | by Staff reporter
Workers panic over Kasukuwere farm seizure
WORKERS at former Local Government minister and ex-Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's Concorpia Farm in Mazowe face a bleak future following government's move to seize the property, one o...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
'Police cover up cop shooting of man'
Beitbridge rural police have been accused of covering up for a colleague who stands accused of shooting a minibus staff member in an alleged violent demand for a bribe.Ushe Tasara was shot on ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:25hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors announce end to strike
Striking junior doctors will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday....Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
A dragonfly cannot spit fire and brimstone
Dogs can be deceptively vicious or gentle.This is why it is often not uncommon for dogs that bark the most to be less known for their bite, while conversely, those that are seemingly benign, w...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 90 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zinara in staff clear out
A substantive chief executive officer for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will start work on April 1 as the face of a new executive that took over from the previous scandal-plagued ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:09hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
10 armed robbers go berserk
A MINE worker was shot dead while several others were injured when about 10 robbers armed with a gun and machetes went on the rampage attacking people in Maphisa, Matobo District on Thursday night. ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:05hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
'Mapeza is the Pitso Mosimane of Zimbabwean football'
Chippa United owner, Siviwe Chippa Mpengesi, says Norman Mapeza is the Pitso Mosimane of Zimbabwean football and has placed a R20 million (about US$1.384m) release clause on the former Warriors skippe...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:03hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismissal com...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismi...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1263 | by Staff Reporter
Kazembe Kazembe breathes fire over corruption at passport offices
HOME affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has promised to deal with corruption in the Registrar-General's department.Speaking after touring the Midlands provincial registry and immigration offices...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 19:58hrs | 2232 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe verifies nationalities of SA cop 'murderers'
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is verifying the nationalities of four suspects allegedly involved in the killing of a police officer in Johannesburg's Diepsloot area. Detective Captain...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 07:59hrs | 10282 | by Staff Reporter
Mine worker shot dead by armed robbers
A MINE worker was shot dead while several others were injured when about 10 robbers armed with a gun and machetes went on the rampage attacking people in Maphisa, Matobo District on Thursday night. ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1175 | by Staff Reporter
Njube High School students' actions are true reincarnation and revival of 16 June 1976 Soweto revolutionary spirit!
For a very long time, whenever I see the world-famous picture of the lifeless Hector Pieterson, being carried by a crying fellow female schoolmate - fleeing from a volley of fatal bullets being fired ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 11:36hrs | 1934 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kazembe warns corrupt home affairs officials
A SCAM has been unearthed at the Midlands registry department amid revelations that there is a pile of uncollected passports issued as far back as 2005 with some of the officers being accused of askin...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Zesn raps Zanu-PF, MDC for lack of succession policy
INDEPENDENT election watchdog, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), has blamed lack of proper succession planning in Zanu-PF and the MDC for causing instability in the country. Zesn cited the pro...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:30hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa repossesses Kasukuwere's farm
FORMER Local Government minister and Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere's Mazowe Farm has been repossessed by government with the exiled politician accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa o...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Top cop in rhino poaching storm
A BULAWAYO senior police officer and two accomplices, one of them a Zambian, have appeared in court for allegedly poaching rhinos at Bubye Valley Conservancy at Mazunga area in Beitbridge. Nhl...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Stray donkeys, scotch-carts a menace in Victoria Falls
THE increase in the number of stray donkeys and scotch-carts in Victoria Falls town has irked residents who have taken the local authority to task to deal with the domestic animals and their owners as...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells supporters not to be afraid of guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday warned his supporters to prepare for more demonstrations to force political and economic change in a country lurching from one crisis to another.Chamisa ad...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:37hrs | 975 | by AFP
Woman murders husband with petrol fire
A BULAWAYO woman has appeared in court facing a murder charge after she allegedly doused her husband with petrol before setting him on fire in a dispute over an extra marital affair. Sindiso N...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warriors grouped with Bafana Bafana in World Cup qualifier
TWENTY years after their battle ended in mayhem at the National Sports Stadium, claiming 13 lives of Zimbabwean football fans in a stampede, the Warriors and Bafana Bafana will again clash in a World ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:32hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Angel pays fees for entire school - for whole year
Parents and pupils at a Mashonaland East school were left stunned last week after they were told that a Good Samaritan had paid their schools fees – for the whole year.Tafireyi Phiri, the he...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:58hrs | 1381 | by Staff reporter
Minister's son torches family farmhouse
Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro's son allegedly torched his parents' eight-roomed farmhouse at Odzi Farm on Friday following an argument over the sale of two oxen.On Saturday, Shingir...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:55hrs | 899 | by Staff rpeorter
Police release names of Mutare accident victims
Police yesterday released 12 names of the 17 people who perished in a bus accident that occurred near Odzi along the Harare-Mutare Highway on Saturday evening.National police spokesperson Assi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 12:16hrs | 2116 | by Staff Reporter
Man in trouble for raping girl (11)
A man from Umguza appeared in court for allegedly raping a 11 year old at Umguza river.Saul Ncube (46) appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Lizwe Jamela.He was remanded in custody...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 07:53hrs | 2511 | by Stephen Jakes
A tribute to the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi
On 23 January 2019. I received a text message from my daughter Hazel Rumbidzai saying "Nematambudziko Tuku atisiya your favourite musician"."Tuku" Mtukudzi was a musician, businessman, philant...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 14:55hrs | 5803 | by Leonard Koni
Chiyangwa in Cosafa storm
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa is in the eye of a storm after it emerged that he and his executive members at the regional football governing body allegedly pocketed over R1,5 million in allowances...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:22hrs | 3031 | by Staf reporter
Police gun down smuggling kingpin
Police said yesterday they had gunned down a notorious smuggler of second hand clothes into the country at the weekend, while also arresting six other people in Mutare. This comes as governmen...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2692 | by Staf reporter
60 years jail for armed robber cop
A POLICE officer who was part of a five-member gang of armed robbers wailed in court after each of them was handed a 60-year jail term for armed robbery. The cop, Thulani Nkala (38) appeared t...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:19hrs | 2232 | by Staff reporter
Smuggler shot dead, 6 arrested
ONE person was shot dead, while six others were arrested after police intercepted truckloads of smuggled bales of second-hand clothes in Vumba on Saturday night. The gang, which had a fleet of...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:16hrs | 1444 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes drug thefts at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now monitoring public hospitals and clinics to curb thefts and ensure drugs are not diverted to the black market. This follows checks that wer...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:14hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is archbishop of maShurugwi'
THE MDC has fired at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing the Zanu-PF leader as the archbishop of the notorious machete wielding gangs commonly referred to as Mashurugwi.This comes after p...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2393 | by Staff reporter
Matanga, Kazembe sued for $783,000
Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been slapped with a $783 100 lawsuit by a Chitungwiza man who was shot and injured by Zimbabwe Republic Polic...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:17hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires 96 cashiers
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has terminated contracts for nearly 100 cashiers, a move which the authorities say was meant to plug leakages at tollgates.Zinara acting chi...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:14hrs | 2353 | by Staff reporter
Cal_Vin hits back at Skyz Metro FM
RAPER Cal_Vin, who is under fire from a Bulawayo radio station after he released a controversial single titled Im So Bulawayo, which takes a dig at the radio station and one of its DJs, has come out g...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:12hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Notorious machete gang members arrested
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the arrest of eight notorious machete gang members known as Maketo brothers, who terrorised residents in several mining towns.The machete gangs popular...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:23hrs | 3372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces serious challenges
A bleak outlook characterised by growing expectations to end Zimbabwe's political impasse, a weakening currency, power and foreign currency shortages stare in the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:58hrs | 11994 | by Staff reporter
The name Mashurugwi irks the Shurugwi residents
The land of many heroes Shurugwi. The welcoming area and it does not deserve to be labelled as the mother land of these cold blooded criminals.Comrade Matemadanda the National Political Commis...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1221 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Anthrax ravages parts of Zimbabwe
At least 177 cattle have died from Anthrax while 87 people were treated for the disease in various clinics and hospitals after eating meat from cattle that died from the infection during this season. ...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:40hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo loses Mazowe farm
FORMER Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Moyo is breathing fire after Lands Minister, Perrance Shiri grabbed his Mazowe farm in Mashonaland Central under unclear circumstances.In High Court papers, M...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2371 | by newzimbabwe
Mthuli Ncube misses 10% year end inflation target
ZIMBABWE'S implied annualised inflation rate closed 2019 at 521%, defying authorities' target to reduce it to at least 10-15%.According to Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) month-on-mo...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:15hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Double sale of vehicle backfires for Bulawayo businesswoman
DOUBLE SELLING of a vehicle by a Bulawayo businesswoman backfired recently when the court ordered the reverse of the second sale.The businesswoman, Vimbai Manemo, had been taken to the High Co...Published: 16 Jan 2020 at 12:02hrs | 5347 | by Stephen Jakes
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