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Mnangagwa contemplates declaring State of Emergency?
Sources within Zimbabwe's security apparatus have revealed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is considering declaring a state of emergency in the coming days, as tensions escalate ahead of planned nat...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 08:48hrs | 3732 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes new steel ventures as Ziscosteel's demise remains unresolved
In a striking display of priorities, government and Zanu-PF officials are extolling new industrial projects while leaving unresolved the fate of Zimbabwe's once-proud steel manufacturer, Ziscosteel. O...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:52hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
Can money buy Mnangagwa a third term?
Zimbabwe's political arena has always been fraught with power struggles and factional battles, but the current succession war between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwen...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 11:37hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Hero status sought for Chigudu
The ZANU PF Manicaland Province has formally recommended to the Politburo that Tinaye Elisha Nzirasha Chigudu be declared a national hero in recognition of his significant contributions during and aft...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:34hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Mother, daughter sells new-born baby for US$180
A 16-year-old girl from Murehwa and her 47-year-old mother, Evelyn Zisengwe, have appeared in court alongside 34-year-old Dion Tore, accused of trafficking a newborn child in violation of Zimbabwe's T...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 17:05hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
There're now two Zimbabwes: One for a small elite and the other for millions of poor Zimbabweans
Over the past few years, Zimbabwe has reportedly experienced steady economic growth. According to government statistics, GDP growth rates have shown positive movement, suggesting that the coun...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 22:05hrs | 584 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Billions 'wiped off' Zimbabwe banks
Bankers in Zimbabwe have attributed a significant downturn in revenues to frequent changes in the country's functional currency, as first-half financial statements revealed a staggering loss of billio...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 12:28hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Zimra goes after smugglers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has ramped up its efforts to combat the ongoing smuggling of goods into the country, amid growing concerns over the prevalence of the illegal practice. Despite a...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:17hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Mayor breaks pastor's marriage
Kadoma mayor, Councillor Nigel Ruzario stands accused of ruining the marriage of a couple from the Mashonaland West town.Nancy Mhundwa's husband, Pastor Marvin Mhundwa took social media by sto...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 13:12hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
From Ramaphoria to Ramageddon
Many political observers have reacted with both "shock and awe" to the astounding performance of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Party in one of South Africa's most contested elections.Indeed, to borrow...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 4 | by Sipho Seepe
Police Recover Stolen Vehicle During Easter Holiday Operation in Kamativi
In Matabeleland North Province, police successfully recovered a stolen Honda Fit vehicle during an Easter holiday operation at a roadblock....Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Peter Matuka
Harare gives ultimatum to CBD property owners
THE City of Harare has warned owners of dilapidated buildings in the central business district (CBD) to refurbish their properties.The city also advised the proprietors to make written present...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warned over Starlink dithering
EXPERTS have cautioned the Zimbabwean government against impeding technological advancement as that will be akin to trying to stop the wind or hold something with greased hands.The warning com...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:58hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters clash with Sikhala's at funeral
Two years after her tragic death, Moreblessing Ali, a prominent opposition political activist, was finally laid to rest on Saturday amidst chaotic scenes as supporters of former Citizens Coalition for...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Starlink has not applied for operating licence in Zimbabwe
POSTAL and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said internet service provider Starlink has not applied for an operating licence, amid allegations that the government intends t...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell wants to be a billionaire
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist, Wicknell Chivayo, says he wants to be a BILLIONAIRE.He was speaking during Capitalk FM Champions League Breakfast Show hosted by Phathisani Sibanda and Tinashe ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF security aide in court for assaulting Mnangagwa; fined US$200
A man from Harare, claiming to be a security aide at the Zanu-PF headquarters, has appeared in court on assault charges after allegedly attacking Tourism Deputy Minister Tongai Mnangagwa and Wellingto...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man fined for assaulting Mnangagwa
A MAN from Harare who assaulted the Deputy Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Tongai Mnangagwa and his host at a party, Wellington Vengesai, following a misunderstanding over parking space ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assault case jumps court queue?
A Harare man, who is also a suspected drug dealer, was convicted yesterday for assaulting Deputy Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry Tongai Mnangagwa and his host at a party, Wellington Venge...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
IOM celebrates International Migration day
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Migration (IOM) is this week celebrating the International Migration Day recognising that this phenomenon has been happening from the day of human creation to date a...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:17hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Suspensions expose serious Zanu-PF wars
Zanu-PF has lifted the suspension of provincial and district officials in Midlands and Harare with party spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa saying the measures were in violation of a politburo prohib...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
30% of marriages collapse within five years
KEEPING marriages intact has seemingly become a mammoth task for newlyweds, if statistics provided by the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) are anything to go by.At least 30 percent of new ma...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Scandal rocks Chamisa's CCC?
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has been rocked by a scandal with members across the country alleging that the selection process for the party's candidates in next month's polls was rigged in ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa confers Muzenda's son with liberation hero status
President Mnangagwa has conferred liberation hero status on the late Minerals and Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe general manager Tongai Muzenda who passed away in a car crash on Wednesday night....Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 16 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
Zanu-PF Politburo meets over primary election results
Zanu-PF will hold an Ordinary Session of the Politburo in Harare today to take stock of the just ended primary elections held last weekend.Confirming the development last night, party spokespe...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries preliminary results out
RESULTS for the Zanu-PF primary elections are still trickling in, with a mixed bag of young Turks and the old guard sailing through.The results are however, still subject to confirmation by th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Power outages vex Potraz
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says the country's prolonged power cuts are causing network problems in many areas.Zimbabwe has been experiencing po...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 40 senior military officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, has promoted 40 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) senior officers.Twenty Lieutenant Colonels were promoted to full Colonels w...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Woman jailed for trying to bribe Judge
FORMER Chitungwiza Chamber Secretary Priscilla Vengesai was yesterday jailed for an effective 15 months after she was found guilty of attempting to bribe a High Court judge handling a civil case in wh...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe announces another fuel price increase
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has increased fuel prices by at least 2,3% as economists raised fears of price hikes.According to ZERA's latest update, ZERA said traders can se...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police probe bishop over Chamisa death threats
POLICE have finally opened investigations into death threats issued by a Zanu-PF official to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa.This was after human rights lawyer Beatri...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa siblings denied bail
TWO siblings who were arrested for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and unlawful possession of firearms three weeks ago denied the charges yesterday, saying they were framed.The duo, Tawanda...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews denied bail in firearms case
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has denied bail to two siblings, believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephews who were allegedly involved in a foiled robbery attempt....Published: 17 May 2022 at 20:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 4 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
'Killer' soldier granted bail
A SERVING Air Force of Zimbabwe member Christopher Tafadzwa Charuma, who is facing armed robbery, murder and attempted murder charges has been granted $30 000 bail by the Supreme Court.Charuma...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I was paid US$75 000 by Americans to assault Chief Serima' Former MDC-T Minister says
Former MDC-T Deputy Minister of Youth Tongai Matutu has alleged that he was paid US$75 000 to assault one Chief Serima in 2010 by the United States of America Embassy in a bid to project Zimbabwe as a...Published: 05 May 2022 at 15:48hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Two stabbed over scotch cart toll fee
Police are hunting for three unknown men who mounted an illegal toll gate on a strip road near Sidhakeni Business Centre in Zhombe before they started collecting toll fees from motorists and those wit...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 15:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prison officers get training on human rights
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officials based in Ntabazinduna yesterday received training from the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to capacitate them on protecting the right...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Rhodes' estate
Groups of people are scrambling for the multi-million-dollar estate left behind by a descendant of former colonialist Cecil John Rhodes amid reports that the Registrar of Companies has so far nullifie...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$40k heist: Two solders appear in court
TWO soldiers, who gunned down a man in a US$40 000 heist in Hatfield, Harare, appeared in court yesterday facing murder and armed robbery charges,Lameck Kabara and Christopher Charuma, both 39...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Aaron Motsoaledi adds more confusion to the Zimbabwe permits issue
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has dismissed claims by some sections of the media in that country that the decision not to extend the special permits for Zimbabweans had bee...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for selling government's agricultural inputs
A Rushinga man was on Friday arrested for selling the government's agricultural inputs facilities at Mabvundudzi.Siyai Kakuruwo(43) is alleged to have sold fertilizer from the government's cotton ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 09:03hrs | 9 | by Alice Mangwanda
'Zimbabwe sanctions not targeted at individuals'
Illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the West must go as they are targeted at collapsing key pillars of the national economy but Zimbabwe will use its resources to fend them off and foster grow...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa remembers Muzenda
On the 18th anniversary of the death of Vice President Simon Vengesai Muzenda yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the best that the country can do to honour him is to always remember the sacrifices th...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean 'thug' shot dead in Midrand, South Africa
A section of Zimbabweans in South Africa is celebrating following the daylight murder of 25-year-old Ronnie Macmillan who was shot dead in Midrand on Monday afternoon. Ronnie, a lover of finer...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal miner dies in a mine shaft
A 45-year old Bindura man was trapped to death in a 15 metre deep mine shaft while illegally prospecting for gold on Saturday.Mashonaland Central Police Spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe ...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 09:56hrs | 5 | by Lloyd Rabaya
Katsande unfazed by Chiefs exit talk
BATTLE hardened Zimbabwean midfielder Willard Katsande has shrugged off speculation about his future with South African Premiership side Kaizer Chiefs and insists he is fully focused on helping the st...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dangles compensation to Chilonga villagers
GOVERNMENT yesterday in a volte-face agreed to compensate Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district set to be evicted to make way for an irrigation scheme.This was revealed in Statutory Instrume...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Padare advocates for female vice-president
Female participation in politics has remained a contentious issue with various women organisations and pressure groups pushing for adherence to the Zimbabwean constitution that stipulates equal repres...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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