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Massive fuel theft rocks Zimbabwe Media Commission
Millions of Zimbabwe dollars have vanished from the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC), with an internal audit revealing the misappropriation of approximately 77,000 liters of fuel over a 20-month period...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 12:22hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
'Zec is untouchable'
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has stated that it cannot enforce the Freedom of Information Act on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), citing ZEC's status as an independent commission. This ...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:12hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy
A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Media Commission opens office in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Media Commission marked a significant milestone with the official inauguration of its Bulawayo office on Thursday, hosted at the distinguished Windsor Park Complex. Attended by journalist...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:47hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt tells journalists to reject political manipulation
GOVERNMENT has implored journalists to maintain their independence from politicians to enhance balance and fairness in election coverage.In a speech read on her behalf by Information, Publicit...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Journalism is not a crime'
ZIMBABWE Media Commission (ZMC) executive secretary Godwin Phiri has urged police not to criminalise journalism, but treat it as a noble profession.Phiri made the remarks during a ZMC election...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politicians warned against using inflammatory language
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi made the call during commemorations to mark World Press Freedom Day which the Media Institute of Southern Africa...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bosso fine harsh
HIGHLANDERS' followers feel the US$6 000 fine imposed on the club for the abandoned Castle Lager Premier Soccer league match against FC Platinum is harsh, but necessary to deter fans from hooliganism,...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro FM caught in Bosso elections storm
Bulawayo based radio station Skyz Metro FM has been caught in the Highlanders elections storm after its popular presenter Babongile Sikhonjwa allegedly declared during his Saturday morning show that h...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VMCZ intervenes in Skyz Metro FM, Cal Vin beef
ZIMBABWE rapper Cal Vin and Skyz Metro FM seem to have buried their differences after the intervention of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) who sat the two down this week, with both parti...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Dr Malinga's Bulawayo performance cancelled!
SOUTH Africa's entertainer Dr Malinga has cancelled his scheduled performance in Bulawayo at Skyz Metro FM's Umcimbi Wabantu this Saturday, due to the xenophobic attacks in his country.Umcimbi...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 16:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Dr Malinga cancels Skyz Metro FM gig over xenophobia
Bulawayo's Premier Radio station Skyz Metro FM has revealed that Dr Malinga whose real name is Goodwill Malinga is no longer headlining Umcimbi Wabantu annual gig which is scheduled for the 7th o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 12:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Another presenter leaves Skyz Metro FM
ANOTHER Skyz Metro FM radio personality, Master Eli, has left the Bulawayo station. Master Eli who presented Drive Time Sport (weekdays from 6PM to 7PM) and Weekend Breakfast (Sundays fr...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Amakhosi re-launch defunct theatre unit
PARENTS have been urged to support their children who are talented in the arts morally and financially so that they can realise their dreams. This was said during the launch of Amakhosi's Thea...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhonjwa's co-host also quits Skyz FM
BABONGILE Sikhonjwa's co-host on the Skyz Metro FM Vuka Vuka breakfast show, TKP, has also left the fast-growing radio station. The station's manager, Godwin Phiri, said TKP handed in her resi...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Babongile Sikhonjwa leaves Skyz Metro FM
Radio personality and Socialite Babongile Sikhonjwa is leaving Bulawayo's only commercial radio station Skyz Metro FM after close to three of being part of the initiative.Sikhonjwa was anchori...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:36hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Skies Metro FM reshuffles presenters
BULAWAYO'S sole private radio station, Skies Metro FM has shuffled its presenters in a new set up that took effect yesterday; a move aimed at bringing diversity to its programming.The radio's ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
2018 Skyz Metro FM Music Awards nominees announced
Bulawayo's premier radio station Sky Metro FM has announced the nominees for the Skyz Metro FM Music Awards 2018.The 2nd edition of SKYMAS will be held at a colourful ceremony on Friday 21 Dec...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 20:06hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zesa blacks out Soul Brothers show
THE much-anticipated Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo shutdown gig - Umcimbi Wabantu - largely anticipated to put the icing on a largely eventful arts jamboree, ended prematurely following a power cut...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soul Brothers billed for Intwasa as annual arts fiesta begins
SKYZ Metro FM's Umcimbi Wabantu, the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo official shutdown party on Saturday, will be headlined by South Africa's Soul Brothers alongside Jeys Marabini, Madlela Skhobokhob...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soul Brothers coming to Bulawayo
VETERAN South African Umbaqanga-Maskandi music group, Soul Brothers, are set to reignite the fire they lit in Bulawayo last December when they headline Umcimbi Wabantu, an annual bash meant to celebra...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro VS Khulumani FM whose gonna survive?
WHO'S gonna survive!The introduction of Khulumani FM in Bulawayo to rival Skyz Metro has been welcomed by the locality as it will cater for more local content.Owned by the Zimbabwe Bro...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drunk on air Sikhonjwa suspended'
Skyz Metro FM has suspended Babongile Sikhonjwa for allegedly coming to work drunk.According to a close source, Sikhonjwa who was drinking with friends the whole night last Tuesday as they cel...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro begins live broadcasts
SKYZ Metro FM which has been airing pre-recorded programmes since September has started broadcasting some of its programmes live. The Bulawayo-based radio station available on FM 100.3 is ...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga retires as wife takes over
REVERED arts guru Cont Mhlanga has called time on his illustrious 36-year career in the arts industry. Regarded as the pioneer of arts in Zimbabwe, Mhlanga, who founded the cultural centr...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 10:03hrs | 17 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Skyz Metro FM in tribal storm
BULAWAYO'S Skyz Metro FM shortlist of 50 prospective workers has caused a social media frenzy with tribal selection claims surfacing.The radio station released the list at the weekend after in...Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Didymus Mutasa drinking own poison
IN 2010, in a birthday message to President Robert Mugabe, former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa described him as "a special gift God gave to Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole", and ...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Elias Mambo
'Mugabe's fall symbolic of economic collapse'
ZIMBABWEANS appear agreed that more than anything else President Robert Mugabe's dramatic fall at the Harare International Airport last week shows it is high time Africa's oldest leader calls it quits...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:50hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Dr Moyo's points are irrelevant and border on mischief
Dr Qhubani Moyo, a policy and political analyst from Bulawayo East constituency in one of his many articles in the public media last Sunday attempts to dismiss the efforts of civil society organisatio...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Godwin Phiri
'Mujuru arrest inevitable'
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru's arrest increasingly seems inevitable, but political analysts warn it will be nothing more than a face saver for President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, who op...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jonathan Moyo carries the necessary brain that any dictator would want to employ'
THE WRITING seemed to be on the wall for Information minister Jonathan Moyo when in August President Robert Mugabe called him the devil incarnate, but three months down the line he has emerged as an u...Published: 25 Dec 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru to continue enjoying VP perks
FORMER Vice-President Joice Mujuru, despite being sacked from government on Monday evening, will continue living off taxpayers as the Constitution says she will draw a pension equivalent to her m...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe insecure'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is expected to pick his deputies at the Zanu-PF congress, a likely indication of who he prefers to succeed him, but analysts have cast doubt on whether the veteran ruler would...Published: 02 Dec 2014 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets used as 'runner dogs' in Zanu-PF politics
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has routinely used veterans of the country's 1970s liberation war to keep himself in power, particularly after the emergence of a vibrant opposition in the form of the MDC in 1...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 10:23hrs | | by Phillip Chidavaenzi
Factional fights throw Byo City Council into disarray
THERE are fears that factional fights within the opposition MDC-T might dent service delivery as councillors concentrate on outwitting each other at the expense of the development of the city....Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 05:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe loses control of Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe may have virtually lost control of Zanu PF which has been on his helm for more than three decades. The chaos and infighting which is currently the order of the day in the p...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in Mujuru dilemma
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe faces a dilemma on how to deal with Vice-President Joice Mujuru, as on one hand his deputy might be quite popular and on the other, the statements by his wife Grace, that she b...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi's VP aspiration dented by court judgements
HOME AFFAIRS minister Kembo Mohadi's aspirations to become the country's vice-president have been dented by recent High Court judgments which questioned his moral standing for property grabbing spanni...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in fix over Grace Mugabe
ZANU-PF's politburo, set to meet again on Wednesday after last week's aborted meeting may fail to deal with the deepening chasms within the party as the war of words between First Lady Grace Mugabe an...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 10:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru ouster no answer to Zanu-PF factionalism'
A possible elevation of First Lady Grace Mugabe or Oppah Muchinguri as the new vice-President at the forthcoming Zanu PF congress will not decimate a faction linked to VP Joice Mujuru, nor resolve the...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Phillip Chidavaenzi
Grace Mugabe factor rocks Mujuru faction
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe's entrance into Zanu-PF politics as the party's Women's League boss has shaken Vice-President Joice Mujuru's camp, which seemed to have taken a lead in the race to succeed Pres...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's tollgate fee figures do not add up
TRANSPORT minister Obert Mpofu's defence of the tollgate fees hike has shocked many Zimbabweans after he claimed $40 million cannot develop more than 20km of tarred road.Mpofu's explanation f...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's threats damaging
ALTHOUGH President Robert Mugabe has cemented his reputation for empty rhetoric following his speeches about weeding out corruption and getting rid of so-called "weevils" within his ruling Zanu-PF pa...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo not alone
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru, Energy Dzikamai Mavhaire and now Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo, all have something in common.They have all suffered from Pre...Published: 15 Jun 2014 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF determined to regain control of Bulawayo
ZANU-PF is seemingly determined to regain control of Bulawayo, as illustrated by its participation in civil society meetings which it had previously shunned.Yesterday Za...Published: 16 Apr 2014 at 20:12hrs | 1 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Cabinet ministers sued over devolution
FORMER minister and member of the National Assembly for Lobengula in Bulawayo, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, has dragged Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo, Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and the...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Owen Gagare
Mugabe's AU elections a significant diplomatic victory
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's election last week as first deputy chair of the African Union (AU) may well be a significant diplomatic victory for his Zanu-PF government after many years of isolation due t...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:34hrs | | by Herbert Moyo
Robert Mugabe - The last man standing
IF former Zanu-PF stalwart Enos Nkala had been alive today and witnessed last week's passing of South Africa's founding president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, his worst fears would have be...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 02:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF succession battles, delegates mouths zipped
AN eerie air of anxiety enveloped the venue of Zanu-PF's annual conference in Chinhoyi last Friday and Saturday as party delegates were brazenly banned and had their mouths zipped from discussing any...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 02:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in bid to honour Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo
BULAWAYO - President Robert Mugabe is one shrewd and contriving politician who has stuck to his guns no matter how people at home and abroad view his position.Whatever decision he takes, histo...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 09:02hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
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