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Chamisa's supporters arrested traveling to rally, vehicles impounded
POLICE in Masvingo reportedly arrested some Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters who were heading to a victory celebrations rally at Mucheke Stadium on Sunday.The supporters who were...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Heavy police presence in Masvingo ahead of Chamisa rally
THERE has been heavy police presence since Friday in Masvingo ahead of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) thank you rally where the party's leader, Nelson Chamisa is expected to address his party sup...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:04hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani pipeline excites villagers
THE Gwayi-Shangani pipeline is set to transform the lives of thousands of people in six districts in the Matabeleland North Province as well as benefit Bulawayo and Matabeleland South immensely as the...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:20hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Mr Mnangagwa, wheels of justice will catch up with you
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, methinks it is astonishing that you appear to be the only stranger who is not impacted by the allegations of sexual impropriety made by an Au...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | 434 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
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 | 117 | by Staff reporter
Donkey bites, swallows Bikita woman's finger
In a bizarre incident that has left the community tongue-tied, a Bikita woman recently lost her finger after it was bitten and chewed by a donkey in Munatsi village, ward 31 of Bikita.It is re...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 19:00hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Fake Chamisa intel: riot cops in heavy Kuwadzana deployment
ZIMBABWE Republic Police's (ZRP) anti-riot officers Saturday besieged Kuwadzana community hall, thwarting a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and residents interface after getting ‘false intellige...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:44hrs | 2336 | by Staff reporter
Ian Smith was an archangel compared to Mnangagwa
No one must come to Matabeleland bragging that they fought in a war that brought about Zimbabwe independence. The Zimbabwe independence struggle produced the tribal Shona supremacist government that i...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:47hrs | 2278 | by Israel Dube
'We're winning (2023) Big! Faka pressure!' claim Chamisa - Doesn't even know who is piling what pressure and on whom?
For the first twenty years of our independence the nation trusted the late Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies whole heartedly, they were the liberation war heroes and heroines would could do no wro...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:44hrs | 1374 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF MP survives road accident
Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator Misheck Mugadza survived a road accident on Wednesday afternoon after his vehicle was involved in a head on collision with a haulage truck in Macheke, Mashonaland East ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3011 | by Staff reporter
Police called in to defuse pupils gang violence
POLICE in Bulawayo were yesterday called to escort some pupils to prevent gang fights that characterise closing day at some schools.Learners at Sobukazi High in Mzilikazi and Msitheli in Mpopo...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Court tosses Tsitsi Dangarembga freedom bid
Celebrated film maker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga will next week stand trial on public violence incitement charges after a Harare magistrate Thursday dismissed her application for discharge at the c...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:31hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads authority increases toll gate fees by 39%
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has hiked toll fees by 39% in line with exchange rate movements.The new fees are with effect from 3 August 2022.In a statement Tuesday, t...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
The effects of bogus Zifa actions on Zimbabwe youth
As Zimbabwe remains suspended from international football, players in the country – from a very promising rookie who made his national team debut as a schoolboy to the established professionals plyi...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:24hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala: Arrested over 70 times under Mugabe, Mnangagwa
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala shows signs of defiance as he fights for freedom.Having spent this week battling it out in the courts to secure bail following the latest of multi...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | 1620 | by Staff reporter
ZRP pays heavily for abuse
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) continues to count its losses as it is constantly found on the wrong side of the law and made to pay in cases of human rights violations.In the latest case, ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:02hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zimbabwe starving?
LONG-STANDING financial troubles and drought in Zimbabwe have pushed millions to the brink of starvation.Government has declared a state of disaster as months of drought have exacerbated a nat...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 761 | by Claire Felter
Mnangagwa guns for NGOs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), accusing them of being appendages of foreign powers and diplomats seeking to effect regime change.In his...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:14hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya implicated in Mazowe gold fields plunder.
CONNECTED syndicates linked to Zimbabwe Miners' Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya (pictured) are plundering rich gold fields in Mazowe, a fresh report has revealed. Mazowe is locate...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:36hrs | 3876 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala has no regrets
Like a heavyweight wrestler caught with an ankle lock move and expected by his opponent to give up, Zimbabwean serial victim of state repression, opposition politician Job Sikhala is not about to thro...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 1097 | by Israel Dube
135 properties to make way for Mbudzi interchange
At least 135 residential, industrial and commercial properties built near Mbudzi roundabout in Harare will have to be demolished to pave way for the construction of 14 bridges and bridge-like structur...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolishes illegal structures
Chitungwiza Municipality started destroying illegal structures, often tuckshops, at the start of a 30-day blitz on Wednesday to remove them, especially those under power lines and over sewers. ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army is part of Zanu-PF, says Mutsvangwa
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has bragged that it has the country's armed forces and war veterans on its side, raising fears that the security sector might be used to influence the outcome of next year's p...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:23hrs | 6639 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | 5567 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt defends appointment of Mohadi's daughter as ZEC commissioner
GOVERNMENT has defended the appointment of Zanu-PF Vice President Kembo Mohadi's daughter, Abigail, as a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioner, saying she has a right to serve the nation ju...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:41hrs | 5691 | by Staff reporter
Massive roadworks change face of Beitbridge
THE massive road construction projects in Beitbridge, which dovetail with the ongoing US$300 million modernisation of the border post being spearheaded by the Second Republic, have transformed the fac...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda State University complex to boost mineral beneficiation
THE construction of an Engineering Laboratory and Innovation Complex at Gwanda State University is set to spur mineral beneficiation and exploration initiatives as the country moves towards attaining ...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
ED has absolutely nothing to show for his five years of misrule!
It was quite intriguing learning of a group calling itself, Varakashi4ED, reportedly traversing the width and breadth of Zimbabwe - ostensibly, on a mission to showcase achievements made in the countr...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:03hrs | 1196 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Wanqoba' an absorbing burst of oomph
Gospel music singer Janet Manyowa combined some of the local and regional greatest gospel musicians for one of her most scintillating concerts at the ZITF Hall 3 in Bulawayo over the weekend, where sh...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:54hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs face axe in purge
Several Zanu-PF heavyweights are living on borrowed time as the party hurtles towards a potentially divisive congress later this year amid revelations that many will lose their influential positions i...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:30hrs | 3086 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is on irreversible forward march
ZIMBABWE is experiencing increased inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in most provinces, at a time when the world is grappling with multiple economic challenges.This indicates...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:22hrs | 2370 | by Staff reporter
Cameras can bring sanity on Zimbabwe's Road
It is a fact most Zimbabwe's lack civil sense, when it comes to road usage, on our roads we go by our self-concocted guidelines. Many make their own lanes or try to squeeze through congestion due to s...Published: 02 Jul 2022 at 22:01hrs | 514 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to prepare for his retirement
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that he will rule the country after elections expected next year.Addressing scores of mourners at the burial of the...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | 5851 | by Staff reporter
Your Excellency Mnangagwa, the buck stops with you
DEAR President,Your Excellency, the cost of living has been skyrocketing for quite some time now. Salaries are subjected to progressive erosion. As I see it, long before teachers in public ser...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:47hrs | 392 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe headed for a political dead heat in 2023
ZIMBABWE'S marginalised and poor communities, which have traditionally voted for the ruling Zanu-PF party and often abused as political fodder in the fractious politics of the country, are turning aga...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 385 | by Rashweat Mukundu
Steel plant furnaces components arrive
GIANT furnaces worth millions of dollars yesterday arrived at the Manhize steelmills site in Mvuma as the US$1 billion iron and steel plant takes shape.Villagers and the surrounding community ...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Police probe death of Zanu-PF officials
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have launched investigations into the death of two senior Zanu-PF officials in Nyatsime area of Chitungwiza with one of them alleged to have been poisoned, while the other...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
Former territories of the British Empire snub Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S bid to be re-admitted into the Commonwealth group of nations appears to have flopped after the economic bloc snubbed the Southern African country.The Commonwealth Heads of Governmen...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
'To hell with your fire tenders,' councils tell July Moyo
Local authorities in the province have rejected the directive from central government where each council has been ordered to pay for a fire tender to a certain supplier using devolution funds at a ver...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:40hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge man stores 220 litres of urine in room
IN a bizarre incident in Beitbridge town, a shipping agent has been storing 220 litres of his urine in bottles in a rented house in Dulivhadzimo high-density suburb.The man (whose name has bee...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe media, police in key pact
THE media and police in Zimbabwe have agreed to have key engagements that will see them work together and allow free flow of information and ensure security of journalists as they cover potentially vo...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:25hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma factory creates 400 jobs
WHILE several established Bulawayo companies struggle to keep afloat citing numerous challenges, a small-to-medium scale furniture enterprise in Mpopoma is basking in solid growth and is now focused o...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
There is need to professionalise ZRP
AN opinion written by Paidamoyo Muzulu titled Pro-lege, Pro-patria, Pro-populo: This is not our ZRP refers.I could not agree more with the writer. There is need to reform the Zimbabwe Re...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 427 | by Chief Chiduku
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South official dies
THE ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women's League.Mpofu, who passed on Friday wa...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa bars media from Phala Phala farm 'crime scene'
There was a heavy police presence outside President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm on Saturday where some of his livestock was on auction.Police in uniform and civilian clothes were statio...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:18hrs | 1940 | by Staff reporter
Jamba to lead police on Ali murder indications
PIUS Jamba, the man accused of murdering Moreblessing Ali in Nyatsime, Chitungwiza, is today expected to lead police on indications, narrating and demonstrating how he allegedly committed the crime....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth re-admission at crossroads
A REPORT produced by the Commonwealth after observing Zimbabwe's 2018 elections will potentially scupper the country's desperate bid to rejoin the group, four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Duration Gold launches Zimbabwe 'second biggest' exploration
AMBITIOUS resources outfit Duration Gold said this week it had launched a ground breaking multi-commodity exploration campaign, which could help it achieve a long-cherished ambition to become a large-...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:56hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala faces weekend detention
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national chairman Job Sikhala and fellow legislator Godfrey Sithole spent their third night in detention after court proceedings only ended after 7 pm Thursd...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:37hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
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