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Czech tourist arrested over video on Zimbabwe power outages freed on bail
Lukas Slavia, a Czechoslovakian tourist, was granted US$500 bail by the High Court on Wednesday after spending 20 days in pretrial detention. Slavia was arrested in Masvingo on August 1 for al...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:25hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Czech Ambassador to Zimbabwe gives surety for arrested tourist
Czech Republic Deputy Ambassador Michael Novak has assured the High Court that Lucas Slavik, a Czech tourist currently in remand prison in Zimbabwe, will not flee if granted bail. ...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 21:10hrs | 1207 | by Sgtaff reporter
SADC meetings underway in Harare
Ahead of the 44th ordinary summit of heads of state scheduled for 17 and 18 August in Harare, Zimbabwe, Southern African Development Community (SADC) engagements proceeded without incident, despite gr...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:02hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Violent Zanu-PF youth chairman gets 2-year-jail sentence
The violent Zanu-PF, Masvingo provincial youth chairman Delight Mandebvu has been convicted of assault and slapped with a two-year jail sentence.Masvingo Magistrate, Franklin Mkwananzi suspend...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 15:55hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer abandons Zanu-PF youth leader in court
Zanu-PF Masvingo youth chairperson Delight Mandebvu's lawyer left him hanging in court after he disappeared when Magistrate Franklin Mkwananzi adjourned the matter for an hour on Monday morning....Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:28hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is in hands of callous ruling elite
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, methinks Zimbabwe is in the hands of a callous ruling elite. It is my conviction that the country is not governed according to rule of t...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | 8 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
Zimbabwean minister joins world's swimming immortals
The inaugural class of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1965 held a special place in the annals of aquatic sports history. It was a star-studded lineup featuring luminaries like Johnny Weiss...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 20:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe minister to be inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame
Finally, the long-awaited moment has arrived.Tonight, Zimbabwe's very own Kirsty Coventry will take her place among the legends of international swimming as she is officially inducted into the...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has nothing to apologise for even if he appoints his qualified relatives
President Mnangagwa does not appear to be having trouble finding experienced candidates around him and at the moment Zimbabwe has no rules which govern appointments to the Cabinet by the President....Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 17:54hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF's bhora musango proponent in hot soup
Zanu-PF has cracked the whip and summoned its disqualified and disgruntled aspiring candidate for Chipinge South - Mr Robert Nyemudzo - for a disciplinary hearing for allegedly orchestrating a bhora m...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr President, stop being blind to the obvious things
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, ancient wisdom has it that a guest sees in a minute what the host will have been blind to for a lifetime. Oftentimes, successive generations stu...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 9 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Turn social media into tools for peace not violence
Technology has always had a big influence on international politics with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s adoption of the radio and John F. Kennedy making the use of television to bridge the communication ga...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:33hrs | 9 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Disqualified Zanu-PF candidate jailed 2 years
Disqualified candidate in the recently held Zanu-PF primary election for the Chipinge South House of Assembly seat, Robert Nyemudzo, was on Wednesday jailed an effective 18 months by a Chipinge magist...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF is desperate to be readmitted into the Commonwealth before 2023 - its legitimacy depends on it
Zanu PF stall: Readmit Zimbabwe into Commonwealth before 2023 elections and lift the sanctions soon thereafter.The number one priority to Zanu PF is to retain its iron grip on political power ...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Pumula Arts Awards nominees unveiled
It is awards season and excitement among artistes is at a fever pitch as they wait with bated breath to see who will triumph. With nominees being unveiled for the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards, another aw...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Our fathers back then: strict disciplinarians, but loving
"WHAT time is it now, and where have you been?" "Go back to where you have been, I will not have any of my children knocking at my door after 6pm!" (Uvela ngaphi ebusuku kunje, angiqoqodelwa ngu...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:32hrs | | by Clifford Kalibo
Farmer exhumes arms of war
A HURUNGWE farmer has unearthed arms of war believed to have been hidden in his field during the 1970s liberation struggle, NewsDay has learnt.National police spokesperson Assistant Commission...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guard arrested for losing firearm while drinking
A 30-year-old security officer has been arrested after losing a service firearm and failed to report to the police, while a suspected house breaker has been arrested in Concession where a police unifo...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Heavy police presence at ZITF
POLICE in Bulawayo have increased their visibility to curb crimes that are usually associated with the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair due to an influx of visitors.Bulawayo police spokespers...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Criminals descend on Bulawayo's affluent suburbs
BULAWAYO's affluent suburbs have been hit by a spate of housebreakings as organised criminal syndicates target businesspeople after cutting copper cables resulting in power blackouts. The gang...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must be doing something right
FORMER United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once famously said: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."This seemingly strange statement refers to the fact that, in pol...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Faith Hope
Fourwinds armed robbers appear in court
Three of six suspected armed robbers who were involved in a shootout with the police Saturday morning in Bulawayo's Fourwinds suburb have appeared in court charged with armed robbery.The suspe...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Injiva robber killed, two injured in heist gone wrong
A suspected armed robber was killed with two others injured while trying to flee when a gang of six armed men believed to have travelled all the way from South Africa were involved in a dramatic early...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man found dead, relatives sought
AN unidentified man was found dead in Bulawayo's Pumula North suburb.Police have called on members of the public with missing male relatives to come forward and assist in identifying the body....Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corpse found in Pumula North
AN unidentified man was found dead in Bulawayo's Pumula North suburb.Police have called on members of the public with missing male relatives to come forward and assist in identifying the body....Published: 21 May 2021 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Conned to trade freedoms and rights for 'peace and prosperity' only to lose all to Banana Republic - haven't learnt lesson
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF do not like anything that threatens the regime's iron grip on power. The soaring numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths in Zimbabwe have been an eye opener for many Zimbabweans....Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Tendai Dumbutshena
US elections expose flaws in Western democracy
AMERICANS love to promote the myth that they have the corner on government by and for the people, but the latest brouhaha at the polls suggests otherwise.Despite the cheers ringing around the ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:39hrs | | by Steven Friedman
Trump hammers nail into coffin of US's fake democracy
WE all knew it was coming, and now it is here: an attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what US President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.Standing in the Eas...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:08hrs | | by Lowenstein
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Trial for Mthwakazi members set for tomorrow
The trial for five Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) members who were last week arrested for public violence outside the Bulawayo High Court is set to resume tomorrow.Partrone Xaba (43), Akim Nde...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man faces sister-in-law rape charge
A Bulawayo man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 17-year-old sister-in-law after luring her to a house in Mahatshula North.The 27-year-old man, who cannot be named to protect the iden...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman raped as lover flees
A GROUP of five men reportedly ambushed a Filabusi couple, threatened the man who fled from the scene before one of them raped the woman.Kennedy Wonder Ndlovu (23) of Marumba B Village in Fila...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake CIO trio placed off remand
THREE men from Kwekwe who allegedly masqueraded as officers from the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sent by President Mnangagwa to take over a mine in Shangani have been placed off remand. ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa activist released on bail
ANTI-Government activist and Bulawayo South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections, Josphat Ngulube, who was arrested for allegedly leading an illegal demonstrat...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa protest leader in court
Anti-Government activist and Bulawayo South Constituency losing independent candidate in last year's harmonised elections, Josphat Ngulube, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly leading an illegal...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
No judgment on Tinashe Kambarami's case
The highly anticipated judgment between 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement and Bulawayo Deputy Mayo4 Tinashe Kambarami was still not out at the time of writing on Thursday evening. Cite repor...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 17:04hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Suspected armed robbers, gold dealers in court
TWO suspected armed robbers have been arraigned before a Bulawayo court on charges of illegal possession of gold worth US$37 338.Robson Chatikobo (35) and Brezhnev Maposa (37) appeared before ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami granted bail
BULAWAYO's deputy's mayor Tinashe Kambarami and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora appeared in court yesterday on allegations of assaulting town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami and Chigora alleg...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kambarami in court for assaulting Town Clerk
THE drama around the still-borne suspension of Bulawayo Town Clerk, Christopher Dube is slowly turning into a soap-opera after Deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami and ward four Councillor Silas Chigora ap...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Footballer's wife loses ear in bar brawl
MOST humour comes from how disgraceful the situations and circumstances are!This was at play when an ex-footballer's wife lost half of her ear and sustained a deep gush on her forehead during ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 men attack miner and leave him for dead
FIVE men allegedly attacked a miner at Hope Fountain with knobkerries, bricks and axes leaving him for dead.Shadreck Ncube (32) and Zvataida Zhou (38) and three who are still at large intended...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trial for fake CIO trio set for July 26
THE trial of three men from Kwekwe who allegedly masqueraded as officers of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sent by President Mnangagwa to take over a mine in Shangani has been rescheduled...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power shortage attracts solar investment
Faced with a punishing load shedding schedule, sometimes lasting 15 hours, the Zimbabwean renewable energy market has opened limited prospects.The prolonged phase, ignited by a recent drought,...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO officer up for kidnap & robbery
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and four accomplices allegedly kidnapped two suspected illegal forex dealers and hired people to attack them before robbing one of the victims of hi...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF Youth UK - Statement on the Anti-Corruption Campaign
To all Zanu PF Youth League UK/Europe membersRef: Statement on the Anti-Corruption CampaignThe Zanu PF Youth League of the United Kingdom/Europe...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Farai Muvuti
Zimbabwe power shortage attracts solar investment
Harare - Faced with a punishing load shedding schedule, sometimes lasting 15 hours, the Zimbabwean renewable energy market has opened limited prospects.The prolonged phase, ignited by a recent...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Bulawayo drug lords in court
TWO Bulawayo men busted in a dramatic anti-drug operation in Bulawayo last week appeared in court on Monday, facing charges of violating the country's drug trafficking laws.Arkimon Sarishonga ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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