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Zimbabwean appointed director of water and sanitation by Polokwane
The Polokwane Municipality has appointed Zimbabwean national Chihota K. as the new Executive Director of Water and Sanitation, a decision that has triggered both political debate and public concern ov...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 16:01hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Headmaster on the run after sodomy allegation
A deputy headmaster at Masase High School in Mberengwa has gone into hiding after being accused of sodomising more than 35 male students at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Zimbabwe (ELCZ)-run insti...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 14:08hrs | 1403 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spokesman says Commonwealth is a 'needless albatross'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba says he would rather Zimbabwe quits the Commonwealth forever, even as the ruling Zanu PF party has been lobbying some members of the club of fo...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 16:19hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
SAA struggling to get over US$50 million out of Zimbabwe
South African Airways (SAA) said it was still struggling to get over US$50 million out of Zimbabwe.Equating roughly to around R1 billion, Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SC...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 08:06hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ probes Air Force helicopter incident
CAAZ Launches Investigation into Air Force Helicopter Incident in MasvingoThe Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has initiated an investigation into an aviation incident involving an ...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 07:45hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa distances self from ex-judge's ConCourt challenge
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has refused to respond to allegations by former judge Justice Erica Ndewere accusing him of using unlawful recommendations of a tribunal to remove her from office....Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Potholes develop at Egodini terminus
THE recently-opened and hyped Egodini terminus' tarmac has seen potholes emerging, exposing poor workmanship by the contractor. Residents have since raised alarm on the deteriorating infr...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
15 feared dead at Zanu-PF MP's Mine
ABOUT 15 miners are feared dead in the Tsapauta mining area at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga, Manicaland province after a mine shaft collapsed yesterday morning.The Tsapauta mining area is a sect...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Will the next ZANU PF leader call Mnangagwa a 'dimwit'?
The ruling ZANU PF is always full of drama, which never ceases to amaze, if not bemuse.So, after current President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's monumental failure to resuscitate the country's...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 13:05hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Threatened CCC top official resigns
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) Mashonaland West provincial coordinator, Slyvester Zwambila has resigned citing a flawed candidate selection process and threats on his life.In a letter da...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa to defeat Mnangagwa with 53%' British survey group says
London-based research group SABI Strategy has under the instruction of the Brenthurst Foundation conducted a 2023 election survey whose results they say point to CCC leader nelson Chamisa winning with...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 4 | by Nkululeko Nyathi
Bulawayo residential flat goes up in smoke
FOUR families in Bulawayo were last night left stranded after a block of flats in the city centre caught fire.The fire, which erupted at Ringwood Flats located at corner Second Avenue and George S...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa called a 'criminal', 'gangster' as opposition demand release of Phala Phala report
Opposition political parties described President Cyril Ramaphosa as a "gangster", "thief", and a "criminal" as they demanded acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka release her report into the Phala P...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa linked CSOs red-flag Gokwe-Kabuyuni by-election
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is under fire for presiding over alleged gross irregularities in the weekend Gokwe-Kabuyuni parliamentary by-election.The opposition Citizens Coalition ...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Criminal charges against Raymond Zondo
Former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana has vowed to lay criminal charges against Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, accusing him of "deliberate" violation of the law, abuse of power, "...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 17:31hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
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Hopewell Chin'ono reports ZANU PF youths to police
Opposition aligned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has instructed her lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa to report threats to his property that are allegedly being made by ZANU PF Youth leader Taurai Kundishaya....Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 15:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'There is more behind the firing of Justice Mabhikwa by Mnangagwa'
Top Zimbabwe doctor Thabisa Sibanda has suggested that the removal of Justice Thompson Mabhikwa from office by President Emmerson Mnangagwa may have been driven by a more sinister agenda than a mere s...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 07:54hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
America releases damning report on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe
The United States of America has released a damning report on Human Rights abuses in Zimbabwe in its 2021 edition. The HumanRights Report is used by journalists, lawyers, academics, and ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 13:57hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Larry Mavhima crucified Mudha
FORMER State Security Minister Owen Mudha Ncube was fired from his lucrative job after he was crucified by newly installed Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairman Larry Mavhima during a stormy three-hour...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs denounce shameful election
THE extended delay in announcing results from Tuesday's provincial Zanu-PF elections has led to fears the outcome was deliberately manipulated in favour of candidates preferred by the party's leadersh...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Residents outraged as council auctions bus for ZW$20 000
MASVINGO residents are up in arms with the city council after the local authority sold a functioning bus for a paltry ZW$20 000 at an auction which was held without their knowledge.The 75-seat...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Schools hit by COVID-19 outbreak
A NUMBER of private boarding schools have closed down and sent students home after an alarming increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases at the learning institutions.According to situational report...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha blockade Beitbridge border post
CHAOS rocked Beitbridge Border Post at the weekend after cross-border transporters blocked roads in protest over the continued closure of the Zimbabwean side.Zimbabwe closed its borders in 202...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Gunshots at Zanu-PF meeting
Gunshots were fired as violence erupted on Saturday at a Zanu-PF district meeting in Kwekwe, with supporters of rival factions exchanging blows.Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 25 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Heavy rains, gusty winds destroy Manama Hospital
Expecting mothers at Manama Hospital in Matabeleland South survived by a whisker after the maternity ward they were in had its roof blown away by strong winds on Sunday Afternoon.Heavy rains a...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 19:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Pressure groups demand justice on death of pregnant minor
PRESSURE is mounting on law enforcers to bring to book leaders of a church where a 14-year-old girl died during childbirth last week in Bocha, Marange in Manicaland, sparking public outrage.Th...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
81 people escape from covid-19 isolation centre
A total of 81 people, among them 29 who were Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit centre last week under unclear circumstances.The group included 71...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa denies withholding Ndewere dismissal report
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has denied allegations that he withheld a full report containing the reasons why he dismissed former High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere.Ndewere last week filed an urgen...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to export Covid-19 protective equipment
ZIMBABWE is ready to export Covid-19 protective equipment after two local institutions received funding from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to manufacture these for the benefit of t...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gold smuggling case: Police rope in Interpol
Police have widened investigations into the smuggling of 23 gold pieces worth US$783 000 by a Zimbabwean who was arrested in South Africa, and are waiting for a detailed report from Interpol officials...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city differs with EMA on wetlands definition
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) is compiling a report on developments in Bulawayo that were constructed on wetlands, with indications that authorities will be ordered to demolish them....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF playing losing game in Harare'
TENSION is rising over the land issue in Harare, Chitungwiza and other major cities across the country with Zanu-PF accusing the opposition MDC Alliance of running down urban areas as well as being th...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mahere says police cells are 'unbearable'
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, who was Tuesday remanded in custody to Friday on charges of publishing falsehoods, complained in court of the deplorable state of cells at the Harare Central ...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC delegation to Zimbabwe, violated Covid-19 rules
THE Democratic Alliance (DA) says it now wants President Cyril Ramaphosa not just to request a report from Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula but to act against her and oth...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Foreign Policy
FULL TEXT: Damning Auditor General's report
Auditor General Mildred has released a report that reveals the amount of corruption happening in different government parastatals.Highlights of the reports include Zimbabwe Tourism Authority's...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 21:15hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa swoops on cartels and monopolies over pricing
GOVERNMENT has begun enforcing a combination of strategies to break monopolies and foster competition among companies in key sectors providing basic commodities, which have come under siege from price...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
IMF comes to Mnangagwa's rescue: Full-text
The IMF argues that the Staff-Monitored Program is designed to support Zimbabwe's reform agenda. The SMP will be monitored on a quarterly basis. It is intended to assist the Zimbabwean governm...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 00:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporer
Chiwenga, Zimbabwe army to boot out Mnangagwa through 'operation restore economy'
COLOGNE/HARARE– Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, and a hardline military faction backing his political doctrine and ambitions, are reportedly on the verge of booting Presi...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Industry warms up to Zesa tariff increase
MANUFACTURERS say an upward electricity tariff review to allow Zesa Holdings to fund generation projects, in the face of rolling power shortages of up to 10 hours a day in some parts of the country, h...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province's restructuring in full swing
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province's restructuring programme is in full swing after President Mnangagwa dissolved provincial structures in March and a new executive is expected to be in place by the end of thi...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Disgraced Australian journalist arrested in Zimbabwe
Television news producer Stephen Rice has been arrested while working in Zimbabwe - three years after he was jailed on assignment in Lebanon.The Australian journalist, Rice, flew into Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa plots MDC purge
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to wield the axe on party members he says are sabotaging the opposition party ahead of a watershed congress next month.Smarting from a stinging defeat ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti threatens to recommend Zinara management dismissal
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti Tuesday, threatened to recommend the dismissal of the entire Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) management over unclear tendering procedures and paymen...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's supporters assault Mwonzora's sympathisers
POWER struggles in the MDC turned violent at the weekend after party leader Nelson Chamisa's supporters allegedly physically assaulted secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora's sympathisers, ahead of the o...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers sharpen knives over better pay
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has announced that it is escalating its fight for its members after the employer has failed to meet the demands that were requested."Th...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 09:25hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Full report of Chiwenga's coup released
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has released an 18 paged document that detail how the military plotted the November military intervention that ended Robert Mugabe's 37 years of...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 12:58hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL REPORT: Document on army killings released
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has released a full document of at least 1803 violations of human rights by the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and suspected ZANU-...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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