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Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4810 | by Staff reporter
Gokwe-Siabuwa Road rehabilitation begins
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has started work to rehabilitate Gokwe-Siabuwa Road. The rehabilitation work, which includes bush clearing and resealing, is expected ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 282 | by Staff reporter
Education system poised for major overhaul
As the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education our objective is to take Zimbabwean education to the 21st century and there has to be an educational transformation and full implementation of the co...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1168 | by Prof Paul Mavima
Mnangagwa approves cholera fund
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved a budget of nearly $64 million for immediate needs in the fight against dual outbreaks of cholera and typhoid in Harare and other parts of the country, chairperson of ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cholera tests negative
LABORATORY tests have ruled out cholera in 10 of the 12 people from Bulawayo who had been admitted to hospital on fears that they had contracted the disease. Bulawayo City Council director of ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Four independent power producers approach Zera for licences
Four Independent Power Producers (IPP) have approached the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority seeking independent licenses to venture into electricity generation. The energy regulatory autho...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa side-lines Ncube
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent cabinet and party appointments featured curious inclusions and exclusions.After taking over power late last year following a military backed intervention ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:35hrs | 15872 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs challenged to forego cars
ZANU-PF MPs have called on colleagues in Parliament to forgo their perks including top-of-the-range vehicles worth over $20m that government is set to buy them and channel the resources towards combat...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:31hrs | 3329 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally wants vendors cleared from streets
NEWLY appointed Midlands Minister of State, Larry Mavhima has implored all local authorities in the province to clear all illegal vegetable and fruit vendors in central business districts (CBDs)...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's aunt buried
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's aunt, Gogo Deliwe Mpofu - nee - Mnangagwa, who died on Friday, has been buried today at her homestead in Mapanzure Village.Gogo Mpofu died after a short illness ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:25hrs | 4027 | by Staff reporter
Four die, 9 injured in road accident
Four people died while nine others were seriously injured when a Toyota Granvia they were travelling in side-swiped with a Ford Ranger before colliding head-on with a Mazda B1800 along the Kwekwe-Gokw...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:13hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lines up victory celebrations
Zanu-PF Midlands province has lined up victory celebrations in all constituencies following the revolutionary party's triumph in the just-ended harmonised elections. The province pocketed 22 constitue...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Big town fellows' mentality cost MDC Alliance rural vote
Agreed the election was stolen, the people's will was subverted for the gains of a few, selfish individuals that claim to have monopoly over Zimbabwe.The motherland is battered and shuttered, ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1146 | by Roy Muroyi
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Pregnancy exposes orphans 5-year incest
AN incestuous relationship between two siblings from Ndadulo Village under Chief Mkoka in Gokwe, shocked the community after the illicit relationship resulted in pregnancy.Twenty-four-year-old...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:30hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Cops evicted
SIX police officers accommodated at Gokwe Police Camp were on Monday made to sleep outside after being evicted to pave way for the incoming district police officer.Gokwe officer in charge alle...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 15:08hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
Baker's Inn to sink $20million into bread production
CONFECTIONERY giant, Baker's Inn, will invest over $20 million towards putting up additional plants at its Bulawayo and Harare factories next year as it seeks to further ramp up production to meet the...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 11:00hrs | 1287 | by Staff Reporter
Fight over sex duty roster
A FIGHT over the home sex duty roster between two wives got nastier when one of them hired a sangoma who performed some rituals in her rival's bedroom.The sangoma signed off leaving a 'huge' c...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:32hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Cheat seeks refuge in granary
A GOKWE man became a prisoner of his own scheming after he was held hostage in a granary all night following being caught in bed with his neighbour's wife.Waimon Dzete of Siyanungu villa...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:31hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Bhora Musango: Mnangagwa to launch a massive witch-hunt
ZANU-PF is set to launch a massive witch-hunt to weed out party members blamed for sabotaging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a protest vote code-named "bhora musango", that saw him garnering lesser v...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:34hrs | 7650 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa submits more damning 'evidence'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has furnished the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) with more damning "evidence" of alleged electoral fraud by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), the Daily News...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 06:40hrs | 12173 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa submits more 'evidence'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has furnished the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) with more damning "evidence" of alleged electoral fraud by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), the Daily News...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 16211 | by Staff reporter
UBM shuts down after 50 years
United Builders Merchants (UBM) has shut down after operating in Zimbabwe for the past 50 years.According to employees who spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity, UBM management ann...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | 3833 | by Staff reporter
'Don't risk your lives for greedy politicians'
ZIMBABWEANS must not be used by politicians or risk their lives so that greedy individuals assume political power.In an interview on the sidelines of the ZCC Defe Dopota Holy Land 42nd commemo...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:45hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Accept poll results, Bishop Mutendi
The leader of the Zimbabwe Christian Church, Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has implored politicians to accept results of the recently held elections and put their differences aside and work together for the...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:51hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
How heroes became victims of politicians
LAST week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) whose Chimurenga name was Conary Mabuto narrated how the Rhodesian forces massacred over 100 refugees at Chikumbi Camp in Zambia and how one could be ZIPRA...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:49hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally settle trucks impasse
THE long-running legal wrangle between Sakunda Logistics (Pvt) Ltd managing director, Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei and his former business partner Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Gokwe-Nembudziya MP, Zanu-PF...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 08:02hrs | 2808 | by Staff reporter
ZCC pilgrims jam Beitbridge
THE Beitbridge border post almost came to a standstill as an estimated 7 000 members of Zion Christian Church arrived en-route for a pilgrimage to Defe, in Gokwe.A winding queue of South Afric...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:58hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Experts unearth Zec results mess
Discrepancies in election figures contained in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)'s own documents and signed by acting chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, are expected to be put to test ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:52hrs | 3969 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga resurfaces
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday implored Zimbabweans to shun divisions and uphold unity of purpose if the country is to achieve socio-economic development. The Vice President, wh...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:35hrs | 4394 | by Staff reporter
MPs-elect told to 'hit ground running'
Zanu-PF has urged its elected members for the National Assembly to hit the ground running and complement President Mnangagwa's effort in transforming the economy and uplifting the lives of the people ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Hit the ground running, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF has urged its elected members for the National Assembly to hit the ground running and complement President Mnangagwa's efforts in transforming the economy as well as uplifting the l...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:39hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfee with 51% of the vote
Zanu-PF presidential candidate in the just-ended 2018 harmonised elections, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, was early this morning declared the duly elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He garn...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs elect members for Senate seats
CHIEFS from all parts of the country yesterday elected 16 of their members who will take seats in the Senate alongside 80 other Senators.At least two chiefs were elected from each province and...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zanu-PF retains two-thirds majority
Zanu-PF has retained its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly following the announcement of the latest batch of results from 55 constituencies announced today. The party now has 144 se...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 16:21hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF extends lead
The ruling Zanu-PF has extended the lead in early returns. Zimbabweans went to the polls on July 30 in historic elections which take place nine months after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Below ar...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF poised for landslide
Zanu-PF has taken a commanding early lead in National Assembly results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) last night, with the ruling party poised for a comfortable majority in Parli...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:54hrs | 608 | by Staff reprter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3222 | by Staff Reporter
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggle in 1976. He narrated how he went for military tr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe decides
Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow morning, with polling stations opening at 7am and scheduled to close 12 hours later, at 7pm.For all accounts and purposes, this will be a record-breaking el...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:53hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
9 teeth out over someone's wife
AT times love is sweet, however, at times it's sour!The above statement rings true for a man from Gokwe who caught his wife being caressed by a community member and hit him with clenched fists...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Campaign in a civilised manner, says Zimbabwe 'coup' announcer
Zimbabweans should never use the July 30 harmonised elections to undermine the country's economic interests, as parties should campaign in a civilised manner, Zanu-PF Politburo member Sibusiso Busi Mo...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally caught offside
A ZANU-PF politburo member who became a symbol of resistance against former president Robert Mugabe's regime stirred a hornet's nest over the weekend by insinuating that former liberation war fighters...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will remain one country, says Moyo
ZIMBABWE started the process of devolution by giving local authorities their own jurisdiction and has approved delegated devolution to provinces through the provincial councils, a Cabinet Minister has...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Teacher runs amok, tries to kill wife, children
A TEACHER ran amok, attempted to kill his wife and two children, before attacking other teachers during a misunderstanding over transfer issues at a school in Binga.The teacher allegedly crash...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:53hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Machete-wielding makorokozas injure 8 people
EIGHT people were injured and four of them were hospitalised after they were attacked by machete-wielding artisanal miners in Esigodini during a three-day gold war that saw two alleged gold barons bei...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1108 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe ally's trial moved back to Gokwe
FORMER Midlands Provincial Affairs minister, Jason Kokerai Machaya who stands accused of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly demanded 1 000 residential stands from Gokwe Town Council and later...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:57hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in quandary over reforms as SADC snubs him
MDC-Alliance is now in a quandary on how to proceed with its so-called electoral reform demands after its push for a SADC Extra Ordinary Summit over the electoral situation in Zimbabwe failed to get t...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 07:36hrs | 10524 | by Staff reporter
'We've nothing to hide,' claims Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF-led Government has opened up this year's July 30 harmonised elections to international observers because it has nothing to hide or fear and is committed to a free, fair and credible poll, ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:21hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
'Valerio Sibanda facilitated Mnangagwa's escape'
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday disclosed that the military facilitated President Emmerson Mnangagwa's escape to Mozambique following his expulsion from both the party and government by ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 14:53hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
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