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Mliswa demands Parly committee chair reshuffling
Norton MP Temba Mliswa yesterday called for rotation of parliamentary portfolio committee chairpersons in a move targeted at removal of Gokwe Nembudziya MP justice Mayor Wadyajena who leads the Agricu...Published: 2 hrs ago | 396 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa corruption report to be tabled in Parliament soon
Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday said the judgment of the Privileges Committee set up to investigate allegations of corruption against Norton legislator Temba Mliswa a...Published: 3 hrs ago | 201 | by Staff reporter
Khupe scores against Chamisa again
THE Supreme Court has upheld position by MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who argued she had the right to challenge former party rival, Nelson Chamisa's appeal.Chamisa suffered a blow in May this ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:55hrs | 12300 | by newzimbabwe
Women wake up with no panties at funeral
IN a bizarre incident that has left villagers in Mkuze Village under Chief Mkoka in Gokwe South shell-shocked, women at a funeral wake miraculously woke up without their panties last week.The ...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 3079 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa, Khupe fight in new twist
THE battle for control of the MDC yesterday took a new twist at the Supreme Court with former deputy president of the party, Thokozani Khupe challenging party leader, Nelson Chamisa (pictured) in his ...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:30hrs | 4624 | by Staff reporter
Murdered headman's family demands 70 beasts for ritual
RELATIVES of a Mberengwa headman who was murdered by his neighbour for facilitating a botched donkey trading deal are demanding 70 heads of cattle to conduct a cleansing ritual for the deceased's spir...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:56hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
3 die in Kwekwe - Gokwe road accident
Three people died on the spot while six others were injured, some of them seriously, in road accidents involving two haulage trucks and a Ford Ranger truck that occurred at the same spot along Kwekwe-...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:46hrs | 8 | by Staff rpeorter
'Mnangagwa give a young leader to lead'
I am a ZanuPF member through and through. Fought in the liberation of this country and lost my leg during a firefight with Rhodesian forces. I have something to share with my fellow veterans of the st...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 17:00hrs | 5782 | by Cde Mao
NGO mobilises food aid for starving Tsholotsho
HEAL Zimbabwe Trust (HZT) is mobilising food aid for the starving Tsholotsho North villagers.In its latest report, HZT said, in the wake of the current drought, a community-based social accoun...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:51hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Kuda Tagwirei travels with Mnangagwa to France
Embattled oil guru Kuda Tagwirei accompanied President Emmerson Mnanggwa to Lyon France recently to attend a Global Fund event. Online publication Zimlive reported on Thursday that, "Pre...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 09:39hrs | 6619 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ex-Zanu-PF bigwig wants case dropped
Former minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Jason Machaya, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office, has petitioned the High Court seeking review of a decision by a Gweru magistr...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Komichi appeal to Supreme Court
MDC-Alliance leaders Nelson Chamisa and Morgan Komichi have approached the High Court seeking to include an affidavit of the late Morgan Tsvangirai in their record of appeal on their legitimacy at the...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:42hrs | 4735 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs to move beyond uncertainty
"Climate change in Zimbabwe. You can hear it on the banks of Lake Kariba up north and feel it in the fields of Beitbridge in the south. You'll see it in the classrooms of rural Gokwe, where the succes...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 297 | by Pearl Matibe
Chamisa seeks Morgan Tsvangirai's help
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, is seeking to be allowed to include the affidavit of his late predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai in his Supreme Court appeal against a High Court order nullifying his ascendenc...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 11:13hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court to rule on Chamisa's Presidency
The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe is set to meet on October 17 in Harare to make a determination on the appeal case against Justice Edith Mushore's High Court judgment regarding the MDC leadership issue M...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 09:14hrs | 7239 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More accident victims named
Police have released more names of victims of the Kwekwe accident involving Govasberg and Mandeep buses on Sunday morning. Twelve people perished in the horror crash. In a statement ye...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:49hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in suicidal blunder
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's lawyers seem to have made a fatal omission in the case in which he is challenging a High Court ruling that ruled him illegitimate early this year.Chamisa took charg...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 13:57hrs | 10409 | by newzimbabwe
Bus crash death toll rises to 12
The death toll in the Kwekwe bus accident involving a Gokwe-bound cross-border bus, Mandeep, which collided head-on with a Govasberg bus near Kwekwe River on Sunday morning, has risen to 12 after two ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:37hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe crash victims named
The death toll in the Kwekwe bus accident involving a Gokwe-bound cross-border bus, Mandeep, which collided head-on with a Govasberg bus near Kwekwe River on Sunday morning, has risen to 12 after two ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
MDC seeks to wrestle back Midlands seats
OPPOSITION MDC's structures in the Midlands province have resolved to start preparations for the harmonised elections constitutionally set for 2023 with the view of wresting rural seats from the rulin...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:37hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa to report Wadyajena to CIOs
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says he is going to report Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena to the dreaded members of the Central Intelligence Organisation for sa...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 08:36hrs | 5859 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lack of IDs infringes on rights: ZHRC
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said 29,5% of the 814 cases of people investigated in the Midlands province in September submitted that they were denied the right to education due to l...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Kuda Tagwirei told to come back to Zimbabwe'
Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena has alleged that embattled oil guru Kudakwashe Tagwirei was summoned to come back to the country and face his accusations of money launder...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 05:46hrs | 7146 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo denies Kuda Tagwirei links
Professor Jonathan Moyo has denied allegations by Gokwe Nembudziya member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena that he worked with embattled oil boss Kuda Tagwirei to politically taunt President Emme...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 5811 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Kuda Tagwirei worked with Jonathan Moyo' ZANU PF MP alleges
Embattled oil boss Kuda Tagwirei worked with exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo to politically frustrate the political fortunes of President Emmerson Mnangagwa Gokwe Nembudziya Member of Parliament ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 16:41hrs | 10738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Midlands frets over partisan food distribution
MDC Midlands province has raised the red flag over alleged politicisation of food aid in parts of Gokwe district where villagers are facing drought-induced hunger.Government, in conjunction wi...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters jailed for killing Mnangagwa supporter
THREE MDC Alliance hooligans who killed a Zanu-PF supporter who was celebrating the revolutionary party's victory in the 2008 Presidential elections have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in jail ...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally blasts State media
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies and Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has salted the state media for blacking out the names of Sakunda boss Kuda Tagwireyi whose co...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 16:35hrs | 6320 | by Ndou Paul
Armed robbers denied bail
A BID for freedom by two suspected armed robbers hit a brick wall at the Harare Magistrates Courts last week after their bail application was postponed to October 4.Mugove Chimuti (26) of Gokw...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Magombeyi 'abduction' script clumsy
...stinks of Uncle Sam's scent and his regime change runner boys A fortnight ago, no one knew who Dr Peter Mago...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 10:18hrs | 3609 | by Shongedzai Mugwagwa
Chamisa's MDC takes police head-on
THE MDC has confronted the police demanding an explanation on why Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has allegedly issued an illegal ban on the party's internal meetings across the country....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 14:34hrs | 4593 | by Staff reporter
EMA and the Municipality of Kariba complicit in Kariba's escalating human-wildlife conflict
As Kariba mourns for the umpteenth time the death of a victim of Human-Wildlife Conflict, voices have been raised against inaction by wildlife authorities which borders on criminal negligence. Matound...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:29hrs | 170 | by Laiton Kandawire a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio correspondent in Kariba
Man rapes 14-year- old workmate
A 26-year-old man from Gokwe has been arraigned before the Gweru magistrates court after he allegedly raped his 14-year-old workmate.Gweru provincial magistrate Phatekile Msipa heard that on J...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland East modern school complete
MASHONALAND East province is expected to officially open its first modern school that was built in Chikomba district along Harare-Chivhu Highway.Makumimavi Primary School is the province's fir...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:44hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water supplies to normalise soon
FOUR Indian-manufactured water pumps valued at over R6 million arrived in Gweru yesterday via South Africa in a development that is set to end the city's perennial water crisis.The pumps will ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages Japan on major roadworks
GOVERNMENT has applied to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for multi-million dollar funding for four major road projects including the construction of missing links on Harare Drive, P...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer co-operation important for disease control
A FARMER training session in Manicaland held recently revealed to me that our communities are almost the same with regards their approach to animal health matters.One area visited has endemic ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
'Zimbabwe's pro-sanctions MPs are terrorists'
ZANU-PF and opposition MPs yesterday made a contest of raising points of privileges to counter each other in the House regarding the poor state of the economy, with the ruling party chief whip Pupurai...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1919 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives green-light for school fee hikes
GOVERNMENT has said schools must be reasonable in pegging fees, taking into cognisance that parents and guardians are facing economic difficulties. In an interview yesterday, Primary and Secon...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 2114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt censures EU ambassadors
THE Government duly takes exception and offence in instances where accredited diplomatic personnel dabble in "opposition politics in Zimbabwe", Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibu...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman sleeps with own mother to boost wealth
A businessman from Chiyanga Village under Chief Chireya stunned villagers after confessing that he sleeps with his own mother to boost their family business.The man, Tadiwa Rushungo (37), shoc...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:26hrs | 3401 | by Staff reporter
Gweru shelves prepaid water meter project
GWERU City Council says it has shelved plans introduce prepaid water meters this year as the local authority is facing serious financial challenges.Town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza said prepaid...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters jailed over dangerous weapons
POSSESSING offensive weapons has proved costly for a Harare trio that was slapped with a two-month jail term. Evidence Ncube (28) of Gokwe, Masimba Jemwa (41) and James Pfundira (27) were recently arr...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas leave in a huff as villagers bay for their blood
HUNTERS popularly known as tsikamutandas left in a huff with egg on their faces after their trickery to swindle community members in Gokwe were exposed by the alert villagers who later bayed for their...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:05hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
Man parades neighbour's hat, use condom
A MAN from Gokwe paraded a used condom and hat of a man whom he suspected of having slept with his wife while he was away.A source close to the goings on at Mandeya Village under Chief Njelele...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Zion Church projects
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the Zion Christian Church led by Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi for undertaking projects designed to uplift the lives of communities in line with his vision 2030 agend...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Good times are near'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to remain vigilant and steadfast under the prevailing socio-economic challenges saying the end of the bad patch is near. Addressing thousands of...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa at ZCC shrine
President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited the ZCC Defe Shrine in Gokwe where the church had a meeting to commemorate the death of its founding father Bishop Samuel Mutendi. He was accom...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:33hrs | 6732 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa preaches unity, peace
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called upon Zimbabweans to remain united and fight for peace for the development of the country.President Mnangagwa was addressing Zion Christian Church congre...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:24hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Childish pranks dominate Parly in Speaker's absence
LEGISLATORS have this week been wasting a lot of debate time on childhood pranks and useless interjections during Parliament sittings.This has been the norm whenever Speaker of the National As...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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