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MDC Youth President speaks on arrest and persecution
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019, I was acquitted of any crimes by a Gweru magistrate. I was being tried for frivolous charges of inciting public violence since July 2018.From the beginning I had ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 881 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chicken 'thief' electrocuted
A SUSPECTED chicken thief was electrocuted while stealing chickens from a fowl run at a house in Mkoba 5 suburb in Gweru. Clayton Machova (21) was electrocuted while trying to disconnect power...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:33hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
PSL clubs in huge dilemma
Top flight sides have been put into a fix after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) yesterday announced that tomorrow is the deadline for provisional player registration ahead of this year's soccer season...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 17:01hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF only listens to violent rebellion!
The recent violent protests that rocked most Zimbabwe cities between 14 and 16 January 2019, have offered enough proof that the only way the ZANU PF regime will ever seriously listen to the people's g...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1281 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Chamisa to address Gweru 'Thank You' rally
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa heads for Gweru this weekend, where he will address his first rally of the year. He is also expected to address his party's position on key national issues.A...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City to introduce anti-litter law
Gweru City Council will come up with city by-laws that will punish residents who litter streets and the environment in an effort to complement Government's national clean-up campaign programme. ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:06hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance, Mnangagwa lawyers trade barbs
ACCUSATIONS and counter claims of assault have been traded in a slanging match between two lawyers in a case in which opposition MDC Alliance MPs are being tried for allegedly inciting last month's vi...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lawyer sues accuserZimLive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka is suing Gweru lawyer Brian Dube for defamation.Chinyoka claims Dube falsely accused him of assaulting him inside a court building on Mo...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:01hrs | 378 | by ZimLive
BREAKING: MDC Youth leader acquitted
MDC Youth President Happymore Chidziva has been acquitted of charges of inciting public violence by a Gweru magistrate.Chidziva was being accused of inciting public violence during the pre-ele...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 15:10hrs | 6156 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's lawyer assaults MDC MP's lawyer in court
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer Tinomuda Chinyoka was arrested on Monday after a human rights lawyer who is representing several individuals detained during last month's fuel protests accused hi...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | 4915 | by ZimLive
Chamisa will not be challenged at the elective congress
MDC Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya has revealed that the party does not expect party leader Nelson Chamisa to be challenged at the coming elective congress, because the grassroots...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa trade barbs
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying he is the chief culprit in causing violence against innocent Zimbabweans. Mnangagwa blamed the opposition for t...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Jailed robbers face fresh charges
THREE armed robbers recently jailed to 35 years for robbing buses were last week back in court, charged with another two counts of robbery.Jobson Shonhe (39) of Gokwe, Samuel Moyo (29) of Chip...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa more brutal than Mugabe at his worst, says Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is "more rabid than Robert Mugabe at his worst."Chamisa spoke outside the Harare Magistrates Court where the MDC's Harare ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 18:19hrs | 4463 | by ZimLive
Prison officer up for public violence
A 29-YEAR-OLD prison guard based at Whawha Security Prison in Gweru appeared in court last week facing a public violence charge after he allegedly took part in last month's violent protests against fu...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to name Harare Minister this week
President Mnangagwa says he will appoint the Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan province this week. The Metropolitan province did not have a Minister of State since last year when Presi...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:55hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer remanded over shutdown protests
A Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer has been arrested for allegedly conniving with suspected hooligans who participated in the violent protests that rocked Gweru, leaving a tra...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:30hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare face collapse
TIME is up for community clubs to continue to run on the old template of members whose contributions are just a drop in the ocean.Many great names in sport have gone extinct because the so cal...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:55hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that fuel and wheat shortages already fixed
Government has made significant headway in dealing head-on with various challenges affecting the economy, and has since addressed fuel and wheat challenges, while satisfactory progress has been made i...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai: A lasting epoch in the national story
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, my boss for 10 years until he died last year on 14 February on the day the power of love is celebrated worldwide, was not a persona but a gargantuan political moment whose i...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 11:34hrs | 1070 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe new dumping ground for second hand Chinese chrome smelters
Zimbabwe has become a target for Chinese companies that are looking at dumping second-hand chrome smelters following the promulgation of an environmental law prohibiting use of heavy environmentally u...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1066 | by Business Times
MDC youth leader's freedom bid deferred
RULING on the application for discharge by MDC Alliance youth leader and Highfield West legislator, Happymore Chidziva, accused of inciting violence ahead of last year's elections, was on Monday defer...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Teen's body burnt after rape & robbery
A Shurugwi man allegedly broke into a tuck-shop where he raped and murdered a 16-year-old attendant, pulled her body out of the building, doused it with engine oil and setting it on fire. Afte...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:59hrs | 4894 | by Staff reporter
2c tax yields $50m in January
TREASURY collected a total of $50 million in January 2019 alone through the two percent electronic transfer tax from the transacting public, a senior Government official has said. Accountant-G...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:23hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Chibaya trial deferred again
GWERU provincial magistrate Charity Maphosa yesterday postponed to next Friday the trial of MDC organising secretary, Amos Chibaya who is facing charges of inciting violence, after the State failed to...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:38hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmer mistakes man for pig, shoots him
A 46-YEAR-OLD Shurugwi man was last Thursday shot dead after he was reportedly mistaken for a warthog by a farm owner.Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko confirmed the death of Go...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:57hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Know your Authors in Family and Religious Studies: Wilson Zivave
The New Curriculum in Zimbabwe has seen students and teachers alike struggle to have access to teaching aids particularly reading material, thereby relying on internet sources. In a number of circumst...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | 131 | by Brian Maregedze
Bread price slashed to $1,80
Government and bakers have agreed to reduce the price of bread from $2,20 to $1,80 a loaf, while Cabinet has approved a multi-million dollar package for businesses affected by the recent violent demon...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:41hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Gweru pair up for stealing gun at police station
TWO Gweru men on Wednesday appeared in court facing charges of stealing a rifle and 20 rounds of ammunition worth $496 at a police base in Matobo, just outside the Midlands capital.Israel Cham...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Chibaya granted $1 000 bail
MASVINGO High Court judge Justice Joseph Mafusire on Wednesday granted MDC organising secretary, Amos Chibaya $1 000 bail in a case in which the opposition legislator is accused of attempting to overt...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda threatens to kill cops
A Gweru tsikamutanda who hogged the limelight after he stormed Gweru Magistrates' Court in a bid to kill two magistrates and an interpreter has threatened to kill police officers.The cops base...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:29hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Seke One High School Rules the Roost in History Advanced Levels 2018 Zimsec Exams
Seke One High school in Chitungwiza defied the odds in the November 2018 public examinations under the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec), under the tutelage of Shepherd Mundondo popularly k...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 06:46hrs | 2068 | by Brian Maregedze
Cops, accomplices mine robbery case postponed to next Friday
GWERU regional magistrate Pathekile Msipa last Friday postponed to next Friday the trial of two police officers based in Mberengwa, who allegedly ganged up with 14 accomplices and raided a Chinese min...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader seeks discharge
LAWYERS representing MDC Alliance youth leader and Highfield West MP Happymore Chidziva, accused of inciting violence ahead of last year's elections, on Monday applied for discharge at the close of th...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands plots demo over Chibaya, activists detention
MIDLANDS South MDC members have threatened to stage a protest over the continued incarceration of party organising secretary and Mkoba MP, Amos Chibaya, Chiwundura legislator, Livingstone Chimina and ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:21hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Military rape cases spill into Parly
THE issue of rape of women during the recent protests yesterday spilled into Parliament, with Kuwadzana legislator Miriam Mushayi (MDC Alliance) giving notice to introduce a motion to debate the abuse...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:18hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Parents withdraw kids from schools
TEACHERS reported for duty yesterday in Bulawayo, Midlands and parts of Matabeleland North but education authorities decried the decision by some parents to withdraw their children from schools. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1213 | by Staff reporter
Rifle theft at police base
A gang of six suspected armed robbers allegedly broke into a police base in Matobo area outside Gweru before stealing a gun and rounds of ammunition worth about $496. Israel Chamatungwa (25) a...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:04hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance MPs freed on bail
Mbizo legislator Settlement Chikwinya and his Redcliff counterpart, Lloyd Mukapiko, who are facing charges of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, have been granted bail by the High Court...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:58hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drowning 'slowly but surely'
The New Dispensation which has become the New Desperation, has totally failed in all its election mantras and promises that it had promised to the general public at large. Those in the political circl...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 21:31hrs | 6477 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mliswa 'exposed', in '$400 000 bribe demand'
MEMBERS of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy allegedly demanded $400 000 from a local businessman keen to mine coal at Hwange Colliery, we can exclusively reveal. The a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2675 | by Staff reporter
Mine robbery gang members denied bail
The trial of eight Zvishavane men, who allegedly raided a Chinese mining company in Zvishavane recently failed to kick off in Gweru on Friday as the State is waiting for documents from their court of ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:58hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnaps child to fool lover
A 30-year-old Gweru woman kidnapped her neighbour's four-year-old son and took him to her boyfriend's rural home in Zvishavane to sustain a lie she had told the man that they had a child together. ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:54hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 231 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Free lawyers for the less privileged
GOVERNMENT has set in motion plans to extend free legal representation to those who cannot afford such services as part of efforts to deepen access to justice for the citizenry. The Sunday Mai...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 17:34hrs | 1582 | by Staff reporter
Tapera eyes Luphahla's job
FORMER Young Warriors and Yadah FC coach Jairos Tapera has emerged as an early favourite for the vacant head coach post at Castle Lager Premier Soccer League debutants TelOne.The Gweru-based s...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:00hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Chicken Inn clash over player
CHICKEN INN insist that they did nothing wrong in their capture of former Dynamos winger Valentine "V11" Kadonzvo.DeMbare claim that Kadonzvo, who still had a year left on his contract, duped ...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:48hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance MP remanded in custody
MDC-ALLIANCE organising secretary Amos Chibaya appeared in court yesterday facing fresh charges of plotting to overthrow the Government.Chibaya, who is the MP for Mkoba, was re-arrested on Tue...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1617 | by Staff Reporter
Riot police crash Gweru lawyers march
RIOT police yesterday blocked Gweru lawyers from marching in protest against the alleged absence of rule of law and lack of independence of the magistrates' courts.The legal practitioners unde...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:54hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
The death of Zimbabwean economic giants
The market landscape of any country is shaped by a few companies that underpin socio-economic activities of that particular nation. These companies are mirrored on the competitive advantages that the ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:16hrs | 813 | by Victor Bhoroma
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