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Commuters stranded as Zupco fleet is grounded
SCORES of commuters in Bulawayo were left stranded yesterday as fuel shortages grounded most of the Zupco fleet. The city has been facing acute fuel shortages which the Ministry of Energy and Power De...Published: 7 hrs ago | 522 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'puts Dr Chiwenga in a trap?'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bizarrely appointed his Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Last month Obadiah Moyo was sacked as...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5805 | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter trends on Twitter
PRESSURE on President Emmerson Mnangagwa escalated yesterday, with politicians and rights groups from the southern African region flagging the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe and worsening rights abuses ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 5904 | by Staff reporter
Bread flour price to go up 34%
THE price of flour is this week likely to go up by over 30% following the skyrocketing foreign currency auction-rate which is now chasing the parallel market. The government, through the centr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 829 | by newzimbabwe
ZLHR secures release of protest detainees on bail
HARARE Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Saturday granted bail to 13 residents of the capital city, who appeared before him facing various charges after they were arrested by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZR...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 544 | by Stephen Jakes
Shutdown continues amid tension
Security forces for the third day running yesterday blocked people from entering business districts in major cities as authorities feared an uprising over corruption and misgovernance.Tensions...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 7007 | by Staff reporter
Exiled Zipra ex-combatants slam Shiri
FORMER Zipra cadres yesterday said they were still bitter with the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri because he commandeered the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade military unit that committed atr...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM on Perence Smallboy Chikerema Shiri's death
The most evil and barbaric man who led the Matebeleland Gukurahundi Genocide accompanied with mass beatings, mass rapes, mass disappearances and mass starvation of the Matebele through curfews in the ...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:52hrs | 10697 | by 1893 MHRRM Bayethe Board of Directors
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6782 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2734 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Shiri burial today
THE late Lands minister and former Air Force boss, Perrance Shiri has been declared national hero and will be buried at the national shrine today, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said yesterday...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
Government should stop crying wolf
THE more things change, the more they remain the same. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Demagogues throughout history have perpetuated the idea of an us vs them.It...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 144 | by Maverick Maphosa
Mnangagwa vows to put down protests
AHEAD of tomorrow's planned mass demonstrations, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned that security forces will deal robustly with all unsanctioned protests, the Daily News reports.This com...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reveals what killed Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Mnangagwa told mourners who were gathered at Shiri's house that, "Now that...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:38hrs | 9489 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shiri was poisoned, says his family
THE family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Ch...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 8169 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'opposition parties are terrorists'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has described MDC Alliance and all opposition political parties backing the Friday demonstrations as terrorists seeking to subvert the Constitution and usurp power illegal...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri timeline
Born 11 January 1955 Joined ZANLA in 1973 and rose through the ranks to become member of the High Command in 1977. Joined Zimbabwe National Army in 1980, attained Brigadier rank in 1982. Trans...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
'Take Zanu-PF's threats seriously'
AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to rise ahead of Friday's planned protests, analysts have warned the organisers of the demonstrations to take Zanu-PF's warnings about the mass actions se...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 1714 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents fume over steep council fines
RESIDENTS here have shot down proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other by-laws governing the operations of informal traders.The proposal by...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading justice by running to the realm of the dead.
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading accountability and justice by running to the realm of the dead. While not every death, and this particular one is a tragedy, it is with sadness that we learn o...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 967 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Perrance Shiri's driver dies of COVID-19...Minister hospitalised
Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Perrance Shiri (born Bigboy Samson Chikerema) has been admitted at an elite hospital after his driver died of the deadly Coronavirus.Onlin...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 22:39hrs | 15807 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New fines proposals unsettle Bulawayo vendors
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other bylaws governing the operations of informal traders.The...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill gravely flawed, says Lawyers
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which is government's response to global technological upheavals, has been described as gravely flawed and an illustration of the Zanu-PF administration's ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to pay more to make calls
In a notice to operators on Wednesday, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said operators may now use dual pricing on their tariffs.This is in line with...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:49hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe telecom operators get forex greenlight
Zimbabweans will now pay more to make calls and use the internet after the telecoms regulator authorised operators to peg their tariffs at the official exchange rate and in United States dollars....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Misa Zimbabwe blocks police raid on Econet
The High Court has interdicted Econet from complying with a police warrant to seize information on the mobile phone operator's transactions on the Econet platform.High Court judge Justice Tawa...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Mutsvangwa statement on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Ngarivhume
Government would like to set the record straight on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume and their subsequent appearance in court. We have noted with dismay, a well-coordinated local a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 4261 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Econet faces black market, externalising forex charges
THE country's biggest mobile money provider, Econet Wireless was allegedly involved in black market activities between January and June which saw the company crediting huge sums of money to "runners" ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 3406 | by Staff Reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must heed UN rebuke on human rights abuses
A REPORT by the United Nations special rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, makes for interesting reading.Zimbabwe, he noted...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:49hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
UN raps Mnangagwa
POLITICAL polarisation, poor governance and a fragile economy have exacerbated people's discontent with government, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the root cause of the problems rathe...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 8432 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes tariffs 100%
GWERU City Council has imposed an over 100% tariff hike for high-density suburbs, while those for business vary.The local authority cited the runaway inflation for the increases in a developme...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1480 | by Staff reporter
Millers mull roller meal price hike
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has announced plans to increase the price of subsidised roller-meal to between US$2,50 and US$3 to cushion millers from infla...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2501 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4438 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9731 | by Staff reporter
High Court ends Muthombeni's wee long detention over anti-Mnangagwa slur
HIGH Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Monday ended the week-long detention of Ephraim Muthombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRAD), who wa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2086 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21724 | by Staff reporter
Harare reverses parking fees hike
With most motorists boycotting street parking in Harare city centre yesterday morning and shopkeepers counting severe losses, Harare City Council reversed the US$1 an hour new parking charges and reve...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's policies a security threat'
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube was Thursday told in Senate the newly introduced foreign currency exchange auction trading system was a security threat as it had added burden to long suffering Zimbabwea...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1157 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 4053 | by newzimbabwe
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2995 | by Stephen Jakes
Striking nurses' issue taken to government
THE Health Service Board (HSB) yesterday said it had submitted the demands of the striking health workers to government and was still awaiting a response.HSB chairman Paulinus Sikosana made th...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 2600 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
The differences between Malawi events and Zimbabwe.
I have been closely following the events of Malawi for the recent and the people comparing the situation to Zimbabwe.In my view in this article l would beg to differ that the situation was the...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:36hrs | 2904 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
RBZ confirms mobile money ban but keeps platforms open for small transactions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has suspended all money agents from mobile financial transactions but the general public can still continue to transact using the platforms.In a statement ye...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's former Economic Minister slams government
Zimbabwe's former Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion, Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada has slammed at the country's recent foreign currency auction.On Tuesday, the government launched ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:37hrs | 4869 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Mobile money services banned
THE Government has suspended phone-based money transactions with immediate effect as investigations into allegations that they fuel black market transactions that have caused runaway inflation gather ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
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