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Bulawayo loses property worth millions to violent protests
BUSINESSES in Bulawayo lost goods and property worth millions of dollars after violent protestors went on a looting spree and in some cases torched the buildings after looting. Supermarkets, s...Published: 7 hrs ago | 594 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweShutDown costs economy $300m
The economy could have lost business amounting to $300 million over the three-day forced shut-down that started on Monday and ended yesterday, industrialists have said. Confederation of Zimbab...Published: 7 hrs ago | 289 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers turn rogue and join protestors?
There are reports reaching us that some elements of the Zimbabwe National Army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police assigned to restore and order in high density suburbs of Harare and Bulawayo have gone r...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 19:39hrs | 6828 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Things to remember
The craziness in some of us is that we are failing to find a fault in zanu pf and we praise and hero-worship their leadership. We even fail to see the human rights violations they have committed over ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 10:04hrs | 545 | by Clement Moyo
Mnangagwa pledges to clear student arrears in Russia
GOVERNMENT will immediately start clearing arrears amounting to US$600 000 owed to Zimbabwean students pursuing higher education degrees in Russia under a bilateral training agreement, President Emmer...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:17hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
High Court sets up commercial division
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will this year set up a commercial division of the High Court to settle commercial disputes, Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza has said. Officially o...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:10hrs | 100 | by Staff rpeorter
Divorce cases up 42%
OVER 2 600 couples filed for divorce last year at the country's four permanent High Court stations, a 42 percent increase from those recorded in 2017. According to statistics obtained from the...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:07hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends US$25m on luxury jet
ANALYSTS yesterday ridiculed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's five-nation tour of Eurasia at a time the country was imploding due to severe economic difficulties, as well as his penchant for luxury as h...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1736 | by Staff Reporter
Huge snake at Mabvuku's mysterious spring
Residents in Mabvuku and Tafara continue to be saved from water crisis by a mysterious spring behind a rock which never dries out.The area cannot depend on council water as parts of Mabvuku an...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:47hrs | 6147 | by Staff reporter
Poison laced beer deaths
CHIEF Shana of Jambezi in Hwange has expelled a villager who the community accuses of killing four people by lacing their beer with crocodile bile and brains.Villagers in Mulonga accused Never...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:15hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Luke Malaba & Justice Chigumba to blame for the current state of affairs in Zimbabwe
In one of my pieces, I told president ED Mnangagwa that his days were numbered and that January 2019 was going to be the beginning of the end of his short dynasty. It is true that Justice Chigumba sto...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 10:56hrs | 1318 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's govt warns local civic society organisations
The government has strongly warned local civic society organisations that have colluded with some foreign regime change agents to cause chaos in the country.The government's warning comes afte...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:32hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru urged to join Chamisa
Former vice president Joice Mujuru's ex-ally Kudakwashe Bhasikiti has called on the National People's Party (NPP) president to dissolve her party and join the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC.Bhasikiti ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:29hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe facing foreign currency shortages, not fuel, says Mnangagwa
News Editor Gift Phiri sits down for a wide-ranging interview with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba about the stuttering economy and what government is doing to address the ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:28hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants pile pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
APEX council chairperson Cecilia Alexander says the civil servants' umbrella body will intensify pressure on government to hike salaries to a minimum of $1 733 for the lowest paid worker. She said as ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
Angry motorist force Station selling fuel in US$ only to close – flood of anger against hardship will be unstoppable
"Motorists forced a fuel service station to close in Waterfalls after unearthing corruption where fuel was being selectively sold in US dollars only," reported Bulawayo 24."The agitated motori...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | 1354 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Before the coup, Mnangagwa was already more powerful than Mugabe'
AHEAD of the presidential run-off in 2008, she surprised a rather powerful meeting by asking why ZANU-PF was beating up people in rural areas.The subsequent frosty moments were only broken by ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2874 | by Lawrence Kamwi
Mnangagwa on the edge
Mass protests proposed by the combined force of civil servants, labour unions and the opposition MDC Alliance have plunged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party into panic, amid fears the...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A presidency under siege, is there a way out?
“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now” - African ProverbIt’s only been six months since Zimbabwe held its ...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 04:25hrs | 12599 | by Lloyd Msipa
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a monumental failure
Robert Mugabe's protracted despotic rule brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. Such was the damage to a nation hitherto referred to as 'Jewel of Africa' that the general consensus was that things could ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 18:28hrs | 12215 | by Grace Kwinjeh
13 arrested in ZRP dragnet
Thirteen individuals, including a reverend at Zaoga Forward in Faith Mission, were arraigned before the courts yesterday for allegedly pelting a police car with stones.Blessing Mwale, Sakina M...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:31hrs | 3425 | by Staff reporter
FC Platinum, Orlando Pirates in goalless draw
FC Platinum and Orlando Pirates played out a nil all draw in an encounter at Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon.The platinum miners began their CAF Champions League group campaign with a sta...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:27hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Putin to meet
President Mnangagwa will meet the President of the Russian Federation Mr Vladmir Putin during his four-nation trip to Europe next week. The Zimbabwean leader is scheduled to visit Russia, Bela...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:09hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Life as an illegal immigrant in the UK
Staying in UK without a visa or a right to stay is like sitting on a razor blade. Life as an Illegal Immigrant Inside a 'Hostile Environment' is the worst thing ever. There are people wh...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 15:21hrs | 1933 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe tax law a serious shame
The news reaching us that the people of Zimbabwe in the Diaspora must pay tax to the Satanic Zimbabwe government is simply a shame and an indication beyond any doubt that the beautiful country indeed ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1229 | by David Magagula
Lessons from the Zimbabwe coup
PART ONEZimbabwean politics is characterised by the existence of schizophrenic public and private sector leadership. The structure of post-coup politics in Zimbabwe owes a great deal to this schiz...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | 2298 | by Brian T Kagoro
Essential services must be cushioned against fuel crisis
THE fuel crisis in the country is slowly deepening and spreading to other facets of society, with the City of Harare warning that it may not be able to collect waste in the city's neighbourhoods' as i...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 215 | by Editorial - newsday
3-gun thief committed to mental institution
A man who escaped from police custody before stealing three guns at Gwanda Urban Police Station has been committed to Mlondolozi Mental Prison after doctors confirmed that he was mentally unstable. ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:22hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Home-alone grandpa axed to death
A-77-YEAR-Old man has been found dead in a pool of blood after being axed on the head and between his eyes at his homestead in Gokwe, police have confirmed. His attacker is unknown and police are inve...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Man balks out of $3,000 lobola arrangement for minor
DEAL gone wrong!When the family discovered that he was sleeping with their child aged 15, they struck a deal not to report the matter to police as he agreed to marry the girl and was charged $...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira offers Mnangagwa a solution
MDC T notes with concern the lack of urgency by the government of Zimbabwe to address the debilitating economic crisis. It is not a secret that the current government has failed to stabilize the econo...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 08:14hrs | 3503 | by Linda Masarira
Blame Zanu PF for the Crisis
It is very easy to blame the MDC for the current economic and political situation we find ourselves in as a country. We want to blame them for participating in an unreformed electoral system but are w...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:32hrs | 755 | by Clement Moyo
Orlando Pirates come to Bulawayo
Soweto giants Orlando Pirates will arrive in Zimbabwe for their African Champions League Group B match at Barbourfields Stadium against FC Platinum on Saturday buoyed by a fine run of form.The...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 18:14hrs | 3231 | by Staff reporter
ED Mnangagwa will not hatch chickens from fried eggs
President Emmerson Munangagwa managed to openly rig the forgone polls, in a daylight robbery. All his political life after independence crocodile has waited patiently, worked meticulously carving his ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 11:22hrs | 1585 | by Zanda Shumba
Tsano, Akbay reunite at Ngezi
NGEZI Platinum have appointed veteran coaches Cosmas "Tsano" Zulu and Tendai Chikuni as assistants to Erol Akbay, a Dutchman.The Dutchman was appointed the team's coach last month, with a mand...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:54hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants threaten govt shutdown
APEX Council, the umbrella body which represents public sector workers, says it will press ahead with plans to launch a full-blown strike, as negotiations between government and workers unions have no...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' hearings clarified
Disciplinary hearings for junior doctors who participated in the month-long illegal industrial action will proceed as scheduled and be conducted in a fair and transparent manner, the Ministry of Healt...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
'ED Pfee' hitmaker's home torched
Suspected arsonists yesterday morning torched a kitchen hut belonging to Chief Shumba of the "ED Pfee" hit song at his rural home in Mapanzure Village, Zvishavane. Chief Shumba, whose real nam...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa clueless and in disarray' says Ibbo Mandaza
SAPES Trust Director Ibbo Mandaza says Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team in government are the most clueless stewards who are incapable of running the country."Comrades, the crisis in Zimbabwe r...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 06:50hrs | 5719 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fuel price goes down
Fuel prices have slightly gone down despite persistent shortages being experienced throughout the country.Diesel was previously $1,34 per litre and is now at $1,25 while petrol which was $1,38...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:56hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
Zinara inconsistencies rile councillors
Inconsistent disbursement of funds to the local authority here by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has divided the city fathers with many feeling the latter was causing unnecessary ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:53hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Man nabbed for defrauding Sables Chemicals
A 34-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man, who was on the Interpol red flag for allegedly defrauding Sable Chemicals of 300 tonnes of fertiliser worth $174 000 four years ago, was last week apprehended outside the U...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
GMB boss, wife up for '$25,000 fraud'
A GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) Gweru depot manager and his wife have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the parastatal of more than $25 000. Lazarus Vhengere and his wife Tanatsiwa Munyanyi...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Violence breaks out at fuel queue
Chaos broke out and degenerated into violent fist fights at a fuel queue in Harare after some motorists wanted to jump the queue and be served first.Zimbabwe has been experiencing acute fuel short...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 08:56hrs | 6163 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Back to school, back to period poverty!
In a country with 3 million girls and women who menstruate, with about a third of them being school going children either in primary or secondary school, there is a good chance that thousands of them ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 11:36hrs | 1204 | by Theresa Nyava
Civil servants plead poverty
TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This cam...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes unsustainable, fuel inflation, claims Fitch
Fitch Solutions, the macro-economic arm of global rating agency says Zimbabwe's currency regime is highly unsustainable and will continue to fuel inflationary pressures going forward.In 2009, ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:16hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Harare left with 18 months' water supply
Harare's main water supply dam, Lake Chivero, is now left with water to last only 18 months largely due to siltation, droughts and algae, which has also affected water quality. Harare city off...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:00hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Doctors divided over strike
Cracks have begun to emerge among striking junior doctors after some of them returned to work yesterday as part of an agreement they signed with the Government at the weekend. However, others ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
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