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'Abduction of MDC ladies was fake' General Sibusiso Moyo says
Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Moyo says the abduction of MDC female officials was a stage-managed theatrical display meant to tarnish the image of the government. Moyo issued a ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2056 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Justice Wadyajena's car impounded by police
Information coming from Harare indicate that a vehicle belonging to a compony owned by Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena has been impounded after the driver was found condu...Published: 5 hrs ago | 4835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Farmer names his bull after Nelson Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has granted a Beatrice farmer to name his newly purchased bull after him citing that the beast reminds him of Chamisa's tenacious fight against the Harare administration. ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 5768 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC official granted bail
HARARE Ward 23 councillor Stanley Manyenga, who is also the opposition MDC Alliance Harare provincial chairperson, was freed on $1 000 bail on Friday after he appeared in court on public violence char...Published: 9 hrs ago | 507 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chiwenga attacks Star FM
Controversial Harare preacher Talent Chiwenga has thrown a jibe at radio station Star FM after the radio station hosted a talk show which insinuated that he was a false prophet who was attacking other...Published: 10 hrs ago | 7205 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa to send army to fight islamic terrorists in Mozambique
South African government is reportedly putting systems to send its army to wage a war against the extremist Islamist insurgents that have liberated some parts of northern Mozambique. South Afr...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3713 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hospitals demand COVID-19 records
PATIENTS seeking admission to public and private hospitals are now required to produce coronavirus test results before being taken in under a new policy likely to force the majority poor to die at hom...Published: 14 hrs ago | 848 | by Staff reporter
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1269 | by newzimbabwe
US praises Zimbabwe
THE coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc world-wide with countries such as the United States (US) being one of the most affected. Zimbabwe has so far recorded over 50 confirmed cases, 18 ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3166 | by Staff reporter
The fear of lightening is called astraphobia
Folklore and hearsay has it that some people from Manicaland could and still can 'even it out' with home made lightening. The fear of lightening is called astraphobia which is very prevalent i...Published: 24 hrs ago | 101 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Africa Day celebrations while abroad makes you home sick
IT is that time again when Africa comes together to celebrate being African.It is not just jumping up and down in cultural costumes to great applause.It is deeper than cultural display....Published: 24 May 2020 at 20:21hrs | 270 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance was on the right direction until......
The MDC Alliance was on the right direction until Komichi, Mwonzora and others decided to drag the party into the gutter for their personal political interests. All party cadres and structures should ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:10hrs | 4118 | by Christopher Nyamandi
Mnangagwa's govt rocked by infighting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired controversial politician Energy Mutodi following accusations that he was part of a faction undermining the Zanu-PF leader amid allegations of fissures in his governm...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:04hrs | 5382 | by Staff reporter
Zipra cadres celebrate Dabengwa's life
EX-Zipra cadres have paid tribute to former Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa (pictured) as the country marked the first anniversary of his death.Dabengwa died on May 23 in Kenya on his way back hom...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:01hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Arrested journalists to spend four nights in remand prison
Two journalists arrested for trying to interview three hospitalised MDC Alliance activists will spend at least four nights in remand prison after they were denied bail yesterday.Frank Chikowor...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:55hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Attacks evoke memories of Gukurahundi tactics
LAST week on Wednesday night (May 13, 2020), I woke up to find several missed calls and messages from fellow human rights defenders telling me that Zimbabwe's youngest MP, Joanna Mamombe (27), and her...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:40hrs | 316 | by Thandekile Moyo
Major diplomatic row brewing between Harare and Islamabad
A largely unknown, but wealthy businessman, Mian Sohail Qaiser, is threatening to ignite a diplomatic row between Zimbabwe and Pakistan. The Pakistan embassy in Harare is unhappy with the protection Q...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Celebrating an auspicious Day
TOMORROW is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent's calendar.On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Add...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 133 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Let's clean our dirty stables!
AS human beings, we need to accept that there are often both comprehensible and incomprehensible life forces around us.Where Bishop Lazi comes from, for example, you cannot venture deep into t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 73 | by Bishop Lazarus
ZACC hunts down corrupt ministers
A former Cabinet Minister, a Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and a prominent property mogul face arrest for criminal abuse of office, fraud and abuse of funds following investigations into la...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirmed Covid-19 cases spike to 56
THREE Malawians who were intercepted at the Beitbridge border post after illegally entering into Zimbabwe from South Africa, are part of two ‘Zimbabweans' who tested positive to Covid-19 Friday, bri...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora rubbishes Chamisa allies' 'unconstitutional' meeting
REINSTATED MDC secretary- general Douglas Mwonzora has described Thursday's meeting of the party's 2014 national council at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House as unconstitutional and meant to derail ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 20:45hrs | 3034 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's quarantined citizens stage demo
GROUP of returning Zimbabweans currently quarantined at Belvedere Teachers' College in Harare Saturday staged a demonstration against a government requirement for them to each pay a private medical fa...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2526 | by newzimbabwe
Laduma ladlula: lakhothama iqhawe lezwe.
Ibandla elidala le ZAPU lisungule inhlelo ezizathatha iviki eyodwa egcweleyo likhumbula owaye ngu Mongameli walo umuyi u Dr Dumiso Dabengwa owayesaziwa ngegama elithi"The Black Russian''loba ''DD'...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:42hrs | 911 | by ZAPU
Mnangagwa accident a hoax, says Police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday dismissed reports on social media that First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was involved in an accident, injuring a seven-year-old girl.The police said it was Z...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2648 | by Staff reporter
Pressure to arrest MDC officials' tormentors
CIVIC organisations yesterday called on government to institute thorough investigations into allegations of sexual abuse and torture of MDC Alliance officials by State security agents.Harare W...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:53hrs | 2055 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba separates ConCourt from Supreme Court
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba yesterday officially separated the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) from the Supreme Court.Addressing guests at the ConCourt premises in Harare, Malaba said the event ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Universities reopening date set
Zimbabwean universities will be re-opening from June 1, but only final year students will be on campus with the rest learning remotely using virtual and distance education and most activity online. By...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1821 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approached in chieftainship row
A MEMBER of the Jaka clan in Chivi has written a letter to President Mnangagwa protesting over the imposition of Mr Chishanu Magora Muzogwi as Chief Jaka. Mr Jere Jaka, who is being represente...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance official in court
MDC-Alliance Harare provincial chairperson and Ward 23 councillor, Stanley Manisa Manyenga (38) appeared in court yesterday on allegations of participating in illegal demonstrations held by members of...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
America wants Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks
WITH Zimbabwe's political and economic crises deepening, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) have once again implored authorities to engage the MDC to end the country's myri...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 3816 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus in new twist
THE battle for the control of the MDC took a new twist yesterday after Nelson Chamisa's allies convened a meeting in Harare that was attended by many of the party's 2014 members.The gath...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 4375 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Robbers break in at Mutodi's house
Information coming from Harare indicate that four men broke into the Borrowdale residence of former Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi and stole valuables including 30 pairs of designe...Published: 22 May 2020 at 16:20hrs | 5695 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCP Central Committee condemns ZANU PF sponsored abuse against women
Three recent incidents involving the beating of 6 women by police and army unmask not only the patriarchal nature of the Zimbabwean society but also, the reluctance of government to take disciplinary ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1464 | by ZCP
Sikhosana was unhappy with the new dispensation
Revelations emerging following the death of Zanu PF Acting Bulawayo Chairman Absolom Sikhosana who was declared a national hero and buried in Harare is that he was confused and unhappy with the ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:39hrs | 2897 | by Stephen Jakes
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1328 | by Leonard Koni
Chinhoyi fire tender under probe over Banket hospital inferno
CHINHOYI - The Government has instructed a probe into Chinhoyi municipality fire brigade after it failed to react to put down ravaging fire that destroyed a drug room at Banket district hospital on We...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:31hrs | 447 | by Naume Muza
BREAKING: Police arrest journalists in Harare
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have reported that police in Harare have arrested two freelance journalists Frank Chikowore and Samuel Takawira. The journalist were arrested in Watetfalls on...Published: 22 May 2020 at 09:50hrs | 2778 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa in Khupe counter
THE reconvened MDC-T 2014 National Executive and Council members met Thursday at the party's headquarters and ordered their acting president, Thokozani Khupe, reinstated secretary general Douglas Mwon...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:27hrs | 6724 | by Staff reporter
Father of MDC activist won't forgive brutal security agents
HENRY Chimbiri, the father of MDC-Alliance activist Cecilia Chimbiri (pictured), who was reportedly abducted and tortured by suspected state security agents, says he broke down when he first saw his 3...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1737 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique's problems are ours too
A FEW months ago, I travelled to Mozambique. I was struck by the stark dichotomy on one hand between the unmistakeable sense of optimism which is palpable when you talk to the local intelligentsia and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1437 | by Brezh Malaba
Khupe's MDC-T plunged in huge disarray
THE MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe has been plunged into chaos amid deepening divisions within the interim leadership.The development comes at a time the party is awaiting a High Court decision ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 5851 | by Staff reporter
Queen B in Zupco buses procurement scandal
LEAKED government documents this week confirmed that buses initially said to belong to Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) were imported by a private company Landela Investments (Landela), befor...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4580 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance abductions unsettle top police officers
MISTRUST and suspicion have intensified within the police in the wake of the alleged abduction and torture of three MDC-Alliance youth leaders with panicky commanders this week taking extraordinary me...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:17hrs | 3552 | by Staff reporter
'Over-reliance on China to derail Zimbabwe recovery'
ZIMBABWE is highly exposed to any sharp economic slowdown in China due to what will likely be an overreliance on the Asian economic powerhouse for financial support.There are fears the escalating ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:17hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of COVID-19 test kits
ZIMBABWE is sitting on a potentially catastrophic Covid-19 time bomb as the government is fast running out of test kits and protective clothing, resulting in a huge backlog of thousands of untested la...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere farm take-over scuttles US$5m investment
THE invasion of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured)'s thriving Cornucopia Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central province by a war veteran comes after the Reserve Bank of Zim...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 4095 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bags 2014 MDC structures
HE fight for control of the country's main opposition party took a new twist yesterday, with 151 out of a possible 200 members who constituted the MDC-T 2014 national council structures rallying behin...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:13hrs | 5889 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi's firing was long overdue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to fire his long-blundering Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi on Wednesday did not come as a surprise because that decision was long overdue given the m...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2074 | by Staff reporter
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 428 | by Leonard Koni
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