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Mnangagwa govt chases Kasukuwere shadow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration activated its entire security and bureaucratic machinery which spent the better part of last week hunting for exiled former Local Government minister Savi...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Zera dismisses Zimdollar fuel hoax
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (zera) has not designated any service station to sell fuel exclusively in Zimbabwe dollars, contrary to reports circulating on social media.In a statem...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2nd Republic of contradictions, inconsistencies
DEVELOPMENTS in the past few days and weeks have shown that those in charge of our so-called Second Republic are nothing more than a clueless bunch given to gross lies, glaring contradictions and emba...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:26hrs | 485 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Nature of Government deals must be made public!
We have so many deals, apparently, which Government of Zimbabwe, has signed with several countries, we have been briefed of MOUs, signed on behalf of the country, which have never been disclosed to th...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 12:05hrs | 640 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Brotherly advice to Hon Joanna Mamombe
In our families, communities, religious and political groupings and even at workplaces, people tend to be hesitant to tell each other the truth especially that which is deemed the unpalatable truth. H...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:51hrs | 2311 | by Harare West Constituency Voter
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | 3219 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC says Bulawayo defections a hoax
THE opposition MDC Alliance's Bulawayo province has dismissed claims that its members had defected en masse to Zanu-PF, accusing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's party of concocting statistics as part o...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:13hrs | 3484 | by Staff reporter
Passports hoax triggers panic
THE government has described messages circulating on social media claiming that passports for people that applied for the travel document in 2019 are now ready for collection as a hoax.A messa...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3696 | by Staff reporter
Govt dismisses 'mischief' hoax note claiming passports ready for collection
THE government has dismissed as false and "mischief" a message circulating on social media platforms that people who applied for passports between 2019 and 2020 can collect their travel documents star...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 20:45hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Private players will open path for counterfeit vaccines
Counterfeit drugs are a menace and a definite threat to global peace and stability. Inert drugs are being peddled on the drug market to an unassuming market with dire consequences. Entire communities ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 200 | by Sapien Sapien
Do morals require a code of conduct for politicians?
Tongues were sent into overdrive in the recent past weeks amid revelations of a multitude of trysts of Zimbabwe's the third in command, Vice President Kembo Mohadi with numerous married. What started ...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 21:40hrs | 758 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Vaccine at Zimbabwe State House?
Once again in a desperate move to cause anarchy and pandemonium in Zimbabwe an audio which featured Mr Simba Chikanza and an i identified male made rounds. The audio was celebrating the deaths of Zimb...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:02hrs | 7960 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance activists' arrests 'ploy for sanctions renewal'?
Recent allegations of targeted arrests and human rights abuses in the country have been described as a ploy by opposition linked political activists to influence the outcome of a sanctions review proc...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:12hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
Hydro-politics depriving Bulawayo and Matebeleland of water
MORE than a century ago in 1912, the people of Matebeleland and Bulawayo regions were promised that they will draw water from the Zambezi River, through the Matebeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP)....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:56hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Nurses demand risk allowance
NURSES have accused the government of depriving them of the COVID-19 risk allowance several months after they were promised the stipend.Government offered to pay allowances for health workers ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:02hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
A tale of two funerals
THE angel of death has once again struck - it has paid the nation the all but unfamiliar visit.It is not the visit that surprises many, but it is how it stole from the roll-call of the famous ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:24hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Africans taken aback by US election turmoil
FOR some Africans, President Donald Trump's actions in the aftermath of the US election have been a cause for dark humour, while others reacted with dismay or disbelief.In countries whose own rece...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3511 | by Staff reporter
2021 exams pupils back in class
Next year's examination classes returned to school yesterday under careful supervision and strict adherence to regulations aimed at controlling the spread of Covid-19. Reports from across the ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
You can't continue to lie in this era of technology
Last week Zimbabweans watched in awe when the ZBC TV serialised a documentary that exposed the alleged abduction of the MDC-Alliance trio of Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa, as a ch...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 16:38hrs | 1700 | by Innocent Mujeri
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 278 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1891 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mupambi Spills the beans on foreign funded training to desturbilise Zim
A Controversial Activist and Human Rights Defender, Abigale Mupambi has exposed that the opposition forces have been funded by foreign forces to desturbilise the country in a regime change agenda in w...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 21:10hrs | 7800 | by Stephen Jakes
'There are no angels in Zimbabwe, President!'
Kapish Sir, forgive the Chinese, but such erratic, gladiatorial and unhinged exuberance, exuding brute visceral and coming from any one never too shy to publicly comport embedded bats in belfry charac...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:54hrs | 3826 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Mr. President your own people will soon surrender you to the public!!!
To me the loot, reflects racing against time. There is something fishy around this kind of looting. It looks like there is a deadline, or there are fixed targets which must be met, and the whole drama...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 12:23hrs | 8624 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
The abduction of the three MDC activists explained.
Surely to their word the police have finished their investigations in the alleged abductions of the three MDC Alliance women leaders. For sometime now the press is awash with the charges and arrests o...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:46hrs | 6105 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF supporters fall for food hoax
SCORES of Zanu-PF supporters fell for a social media hoax after they thronged the Bulawayo central business district, where they expected to receive free mealie-meal.A fake letter on a Zanu-PF...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:02hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2741 | by Staff reporter
The Daily News won't be bullied by nincompoops within the burning MDC
IT'S a sad reality that Zimbabwe's fortunes have been plunging on many fronts for the past four decades.Unfortunately, one of the things that should have fallen for good by now, but which is s...Published: 14 May 2020 at 10:49hrs | 3853 | by Daily News
Zimbabweans in South Africa fall victim to Covid-19 food aid hoax
Zimbabwean football internationals Khama Billiat and Nyasha Mushekwi have been dragged in yet another food aid hoax this time in Pretoria.An audio message (provided) widely circulated on Whats...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 18:19hrs | 1312 | by Josiah Mucharowana and Masara Taruberekara
Fake news on Covid-19 causing unnecessary panic
Governments through out the world battle to tackle the biggest health emergency in a generation, as another pandemic gripped the world with fear. It is the pandemic of fake news on Corona virus. Would...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2234 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1162 | by Sibanengi Dube
A fool and his pen, what a bad combo!
April Fools' Day has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures. The media embraced the tradition and have been participating in the Apri...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:50hrs | 2015 | by Tafara Shumba
ZANU PF refuses to grant Clark Mpofu national hero status
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 15:33hrs | 4303 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 18:58hrs | 4252 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Scornful Professor appointed Chief Disinformation Offticer (CDO)
One of the leading writers and critic of misinformation and disinformation, David Letvin, says the term "fake news" sounds too playful and he further says it's like a schoolchild faking illness. He ar...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:55hrs | 2159 | by Nick Mangwana
Mayhem as protests erupt
POLICE and Chitungwiza residents fought running battles yesterday after an early morning raid on MDC vice-chairperson Job Sikhala's house by the law enforcement agents sparked protests in the town....Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:51hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Car importer in court for botched deal
A Bulawayo car importer Hoaxy Investments, which trades as Be Forward Bulawayo has been dragged to court for allegedly defrauding the administrator of Sethule Lodge in the city.Be Forward Bula...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:48hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Maize cartel 'boss' fails to account for US$27 million in Pairliament?
The Herald Herald Correspondent GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Mr Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday failed to account for US$27 million which the association received from the Reserve...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
14 Nov 2017 - a dark day that moved Zimbabwe to another level of suffering and oppression
I remember - as if it were just a few hours ago - waking up as usual at dawn on the morning of 15 November 2017, then routinely checking my WhatsApp, only to be greeted by a barrage of messages to the...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 13:48hrs | 1948 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man murders wife in South Africa, flees to Zimbabwe
A 25-year-old woman from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo was stabbed to death allegedly by her Zimbabwean husband in Cape Town, in South Africa, before he reportedly fled to Harare. The inc...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:00hrs | 3129 | by Staff reporter
Zera dismisses social media fuel hike notice
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has dismissed as a hoax, a notice circulating on social media to the effect that the maximum pump price for diesel has gone up from $15,64 to $18,25 and...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Daily News lampoons Jonathan Moyo
The Daily News has lampooned the self-exiled former Cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo, for suggesting that its sister newspaper, The Financial Gazette, is owned by the country's notorious Central Intell...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:23hrs | 8045 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fall for passport hoax
An apparent hoax circulating on social media stating that the Registrar General's office was doling out emergency passports had scores of people chasing the wind yesterday. Students, cross-bor...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 06:50hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
RBZ's desperate measures will only worsen the situation
LESS than a week after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) unilaterally banned all mobile money cash-in, cash-out and cash-back transactions – before quickly backtracking, the central bank has o...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:02hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
The abductor of Dr Peter Mugombeyi exposed
The story that unfolded in Harare seemed tailor-made to stare and brew some ugly scenes in Zimbabwe. During a plan for a labour dispute and a demonstration by medical doctors in Zimbabwe D...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 17:08hrs | 17300 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Goblins on the prowl
According to the standard definition of a goblin, this is a hostile, small, grotesque and mischievous supernatural creature.But if you live in Matabeleland's Kezi kingdom or Cowdray Park, Bula...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:28hrs | 383 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Schools opening date clarified
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services says the schools are opening on the 10th of September contrary to circulating hoax messages on social media. A message that circ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 08:53hrs | 9657 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga bounces back
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe reporte...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 8649 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Fuel hike notice a hoax: Zera
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has dismissed as a hoax, a notice circulating on social media to the effect that fuel prices have increased to slightly above $9 per litre.Respo...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Case against pain linked to Lukau 'resurrection' provisionally withdrawn in court
A case against two people who allegedly participated in the hoax resurrection of a Zimbabwean national at Alleluia Ministries was provisionally withdrawn in the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court on Wedn...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:18hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
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