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'Cellphone thief' kidnapped in Bulawayo city centre
A woman and three men have been accused of kidnapping and assaulting a man they suspected of stealing a cellphone in Bulawayo, in a shocking incident that unfolded earlier this month.The four ...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:10hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo uninspired by Zanu-PF 'love-fest'
ZANU-PF leaders, functionaries, and activists are set to begin arriving in Bulawayo today for the party's 21st National People's Conference, which kicks off tomorrow at the ZITF grounds and runs until...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 08:02hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
'Ndema Ngwenya foretold present political, cultural, language crisis'
Describing Mthandazo Ndema Ngwenya simply as a novelist would be an understatement, as his intellectual work, political activism, and academic contributions foretold many of the political, cultural, a...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:10hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Ministry stalls BCC recruitments
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is seriously understaffed and efforts to recruit professionals to fill vacant posts have hit a brick wall as the Local Government ministry has ignored the local authority's...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 19:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ex ZPRA commanders appeals for assistance
FORMER Zpra commander John Maluzo Ndlovu is bitter over the neglect of veterans of the liberation struggle as he appealed to well-wishers to fund his medical bills for injuries sustained during the wa...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: How Chamisa begged VP Chiwenga to talk to Mnangagwa on his behalf
The leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, made an attempt to engage Vice President Constantino Chiwenga in a meeting with President Emmerson...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 16:36hrs | 2 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Insiza MP fumes over registry office project
A fact-finding mission, tasked with resolving issues hampering the construction of the Insiza District Registry offices in Filabusi, Matebeleland South, encountered a series of challenges. These hurdl...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Chapter 12 institutions not independent'
Public researchers have asserted that so-called independent institutions, including the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other constitutional Chapter 12 entities, lack genuine independence and ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 11:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Tough laws stall Zapu campaigns'
ZAPU'S Nkulumane constituency candidate Andrew Ndlovu claims his campaigns were being crippled by the country's tough laws against foreign funding of political parties.Ndlovu said the law was ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
51% voters willing to be bribed in Zimbabwe
A RECENT study by a local think-tank, Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ) shows that 51% of citizens are willing to be bribed to influence who they vote for.As the country...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
77% of Zimbabwean voters want change - survey
AT LEAST 77% of registered voters in Zimbabwe want change of government, according to a latest survey by a local research institute.A recent survey commissioned by the Public Policy and Resear...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Parties must adhere to Zec code of conduct'
POLITICAL leaders and civil society activists have been urged to play a leading role in fostering peace and denouncing violence ahead of next month's general elections.The call was made on Fri...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a crude tribalist'
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in the 2009-13 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, has sensationally claimed that the late former President Robert Mugabe was a sophisticated tribalist wh...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF chefs have title deeds for grabbed farms'
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has sensationally claimed that all top Zanu-PF chefs have acquired title deeds to the farms they grabbed from white former farmers at the height of the la...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
New sorghum hybrid with a 25% increase in yield released in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean farmers are poised for greater yield and income gains as a result of a recent agricultural innovation breakthrough - the release of a new hybrid of white sorghum (great millet) that also pr...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 08:23hrs | 5 | by ICRISAT Media
Mthuli Ncube 'snubs' Gukurahundi programmes
HUMAN rights activists in Bulawayo have expressed concern over the failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to fund Gukurahundi national healing programmes.This is despite the launching of a G...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Gorden Moyo
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri under fire over army company operations
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was on Wednesday cornered by independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa over the opaque investments and business dealings of army-owned company Rusununguko Nkululeko ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo praises Obert Mpofu...slams Coltart
Professor Jonathan Moyo has praised ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu for getting Zimbabwe approved in the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPSC). Moyo made the remarks in...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 13:31hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Chamisa in secretive GNU talks
SECRETIVE coalition talks are underway between Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) front man Nelson Chamisa with the aim of forming a seven-year gover...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
IMF approves SDR for Zimbabwe, Biti will not be happy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) equivalent to US$650 billion, the largest in the IMF's history, in an effort to boost global...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Give AG power to prosecute, enforce accountability,' says Moyo
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has called on Zimbabwe to change its statutes and ensure that the country's Auditor-General's Office is bestowed with prosecuting powers t...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Amend recall legislation, say lawyers
LEGAL experts have called for the amendment of section 129(1) (k) of the Constitution, saying recalls of legislators and councillors were an anathema to democracy.Under the section, legislator...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 Bulawayo lawyers shortlisted for NPRC
TWO BULAWAYO lawyers are among 30 candidates shortlisted for the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) interviews to be conducted on 16 April in Harare. In terms of Sections 237 ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu shortlisted for National Peace, Reconciliation Commission
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu, who early this month joined Zanu-PF, has been shortlisted for interviews as a commissioner in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC).Th...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 07:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Biti cries fraud over parliament recall
MDC Alliance co-vice-president Tendai Biti says his purported recall, together with several other MPs, at the behest of a "political nonentity" Benjamin Rukanda, who once belonged to his breakaway Peo...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Biti must not be expelled from Parliament'
Zanu-PF is determined to establish a one-party state similar to the Chinese model, former People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general Gorden Moyo said on Thursday.Moyo spoke a day after ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Stray hippo gunned down
Officials from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority have gunned down a stray hippo in Zvishavane rural after it claimed the life of one villager.Runde Rural District chief exec...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Create independent COVID-19 fund'
GOVERNMENT should create an independent COVID-19 fund to cater for the pandemic expenditures, former State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has said.Speaking during a virtual Z...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No political will to fight corruption'
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) yesterday said there was lack of genuine interest, commitment and political will in Zimbabwe to expeditiously prosecute corruption cases involving...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'RBZ keeps black market guessing over $50 note'
ZIMBABWE'S markets are struggling to work out the full impact of a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) move to inject a $50 note, which it sees as vital for stemming a dire liquidity crunch, according to r...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC infighting timeline 2014 - 2020
AS the drama of recalls of MPs and councillors continues to unravel within the strife-torn opposition MDC, we trace the roots of the crisis back to May 2014 when the party was deeply divided before an...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zesa bigwigs' case
THE lawyer representing former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba last week cornered the investigation officer Energy Mundandishe into making concessions which are likely to affect the State...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Ndebeles will never rule Zimbabwe'
Now that I have your attention may I say that Im very disappointed with some Ndebele fools who have been flooding my inbox with insults saying that I am a sponsored Zanu PF thug.I will underst...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:45hrs | 1 | by Rabson Mwenda
Motlanthe Commission flies into Gukurahundi storm
THE Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the ill-fated August 1 post-election demonstrations is certain to fly into a Gukurahundi storm this Friday as it takes its public hearings into the...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by NewZimbabwe.Com
'Zimbabwe should look beyond US'
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Dr Gorden Moyo says the Government should not read much into the sanctions imposed on it by the United States of America but seek various ways of revi...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saboteurs behind price increases
PRICE increases that were reported in the country last week were being fuelled by political and economic speculators who were aiming at scuttling the acceptance of President Mnangagwa's new Cabinet, a...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's coalition maps way forward
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) is reportedly meeting to map the forward or merge into one political party following its poor showing in the July 30 harmonised elections, but indications are that...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance performed well in the Zim Elections
A political commentator Dr Geneva Sibanda has said MDC Alliance performed very very well considering that they wer competing with a state oiled machinery using state funds and personnel to boost their...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru tells candidates to fund their campaigns
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) presidential candidate Joice Mujuru has ordered her council and parliamentary candidates to fund their own campaigns ahead of next weeks' elections.In correspo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists cause havoc in Gokwe
Villagers in Gokwe South are complaining over alleged intimidation, harassment and threats of violence by Zanu-PF activists and traditional leaders in the area ahead of next month's general elections....Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Poll surveys dubious, say Mujuru coalition
People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has dismissed the recent poll surveys which have literally thrown them out of the election race, in the process concluding it to be a two-horse race pitting the MDC Al...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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