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Bulawayo residents drinking sewage-contaminated water
BULAWAYO residents could have been exposed to sewage and mud-contaminated water through seepage into burst water pipes, a lat-est council environmental, management and engineering services committee r...Published: 3 hrs ago | 373 | by Staff reporter
Man gets 30 years for Xmas rape
A 60-year-old Gweru man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping a woman in her early 30s as well as her daughter on Christmas Day last year. Appearing before Regional Magistrate Mr...Published: 3 hrs ago | 576 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Chief Mvutu's potential successor
The High Court has nullified nomination of Mr Sanders Mlotshwa as a potential successor to the late Chief Mvutu and ordered a restart of the selection process saying gender cannot be used as grounds t...Published: 3 hrs ago | 201 | by Staff reporter
Avenues Clinic to covid-19 test all elective admissions after 'significant increase in cases' - how many?
Dear Medical Director, The Avenues ClinicI direct your attention your letter of 01 July 2020 below."TO: All Specialists, Casualty Officers, Matrons...Published: 4 hrs ago | 171 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Baboons targets Kariba patients
KARIBA - Some residents in the resort town of Kariba have raised red flag to Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management to tame troops of baboons attacking patients at the district hospital....Published: 4 hrs ago | 577 | by Naume Muza
ZimParks rangers drunk with sanitizers
KARIBA - The human and wildlife conflict in the resort town of Kariba is being fueled by Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management (ZimParks) rangers neglecting duty while drunk with sanitizers ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 565 | by Naume Muza
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 17 hrs ago | 839 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa graft fight pie in the sky
European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen's remarks that the EU will not provide budgetary support to Zimbabwe as has happened to other countries to stabilise their economies in the wak...Published: 17 hrs ago | 394 | by Staff reporter
When the clueless and corrupt pray
A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and repentance. The objective was to pray for the intervention of the Almighty in the global pandemic, the COVID-19. Mnangagwa h...Published: 17 hrs ago | 197 | by Shepherd Mpofu
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 17 hrs ago | 645 | by Staff reporter
A Win for Malawians ls A Win for Zimbabweans
Democracy has triumphed over in Malawi.The Courts proved they can deliver justice independently without external influence from those in power.In the end the Court declared a new election afte...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 964 | by A Kadada
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2240 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mupfumira trial kicks off
THE trial of former cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira has kicked off at the Harare Magistrates court this Wednesday with both Mupfumira and her then Permanent Secretary, Ngoni Masoka pleading not guil...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 3010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's superstitious regime unmasked
Behavioural economists and psychologists tell us that we have inherent biases that influence our actions. These experts tell us that we humans have some default behaviours as a result of our lived or ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:21hrs | 13713 | by Edzai Zvobwo
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 | 2895 | by Stephen Jakes
'Chiefs want Mnangagwa to apologise for Gukurahundi'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is pursuing the call by people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5035 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe food crisis worse than last year: UN agency
AFOOD security report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that Zimbabweans are worse-off than they were a year after the launch of the humanitarian ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest bond note snub
Mpopoma residents demonstrate at Mahomva shopping centre against the rejection of bond notes by general dealer shops on MondayDISGRUNTLED residents of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo o...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
Chanisa aligned EU ruled out providing budgetary support to Zimbabwe
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out providing budgetary support to Zimbabwe to stabilise its economy citing lack of accountability and high-level corruption.EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Ol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scuttles Joshua Nkomo gatherings
FOR the first time in 20 years, there will be no public events to celebrate the life of Father Zimbabwe, the late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Every year on Ju...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:13hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Give Us Confidence Cde President
Dear Cde President, I know chances of you reading this letter are next to zero but all the same I write to you on the basis of you being "a listening President". Cde President it is crystal cl...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 18:24hrs | 3356 | by Munya Shumba
FUNDRAISER: Mpopoma woman's backside rotting
Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has launched an online fundraising initiative for one Mirriam Mungami who has developed a rotting wound at her backside. According to Sibanda, Mungami w...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 15:06hrs | 19642 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Toe to Toe with Zanu PF?
I am writing this article in response to Wilbert Mukori's article to Bulawayo24 entitled 'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40'. Yes I know that every responsible Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1856 | by Clement Moyo
Masvingo court jails MDC activist for insulting Mnangagwa
A Masvingo magistrate has remanded Programmes manager for Masvingo Centre for Research and Community Development (Macrad), Ephraim Mtombeni to 13 July after being charged with charged with insul...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:37hrs | 3166 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
FAO doubts Zimbabwe's cereal import capacity
ZIMBABWE'S cereal import requirements for the 2020/21 year are estimated at about 1,1 million tonnes amid concern over the country's capacity to access offshore supplies at a time it is battling worse...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU leader throws veiled attack on The Patriotic Front
ZAPU Spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has thrown a veiled attack on the newly formed opposition party The Patriotic Front accusing it trying to bring back Rhodesian colonisers. party is led by t...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1771 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra adapts to the new ICT-driven business model
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started adapting to the information communication technology (ICT) mode of doing business to prevent the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF is debris, embrace Nelson Chamisa' advised Moyo - two faced buzzard, celebrated MDC GNU blunders
When Mai Mujuru was booted out of Zanu-PF in 2014 within months she was criticizing Zanu-PF and her former mentor, Robert Mugabe, for mismanagement, corruption, vote rigging, murderous oppression, etc...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:29hrs | 4213 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 877 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1436 | by Thandekile Moyo
Amending constitution unfair, undemocratic
To be frank, the late former president Robert Mugabe made so many errors of commission and omission during his 37-year rule.However, in my singular opinion he also omitted to groom a successor...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 242 | by Martin Stobart
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5479 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Is Zimbabwe the sick man of Southern Africa?
The Zimbabwean issue is a painful one. The country has all the ingredients of being a success story. Arable land, good climate, a wonderful pool of human resources across the continuum of production, ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 242 | by Sibangani Dube
Covid-19: 'The worst still to come'
DR Solwayo Ngwenya, a veteran medical practitioner is a worried man. He believes there seems to be lack of seriousness in flattening the coronavirus curve by the ordinary citizens and officials to an ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 164 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 150 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
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 | 983 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water problems littered with superstition and politics: Bajila
MDC Alliance activist Descent Bajila has bemoaned that the saddest issue about the Bulawayo Water Problem is that it is littered with too much superstition and too much politics but too little science...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2554 | by Stephen Jakes
Disability community bears the brunt in Zimbabwe
The COVID-19 regulations that have been put by the government have apparently taken a huge toll on People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) in the southern African country. Many PLWDs are now bearing t...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:29hrs | 156 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1060 | by Charles Murindo
ARTUZ leader arrested
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was arrested in Harare yesterday and immediately transferred to Masvingo, where he is expected to stand trial for an ille...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Malaba's lawyers dress code directive reversed
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has withdrawn Practice Direction (PD) 6 of 2020 banning tight-fitting, body-hugging and colourful attire for legal practitioners appearing before the Magistrates Courts. ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities intercept 21 smuggling commercial trucks
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have increased surveillance and anti-smuggling activities during the ongoing lockdown and 21 trucks and 22 other vehicles smuggling an assortment of goods worth m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:09hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9941 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Health sector showdown looms
GOVERNMENT and striking health professionals are headed for a showdown after the Health Service Board indicated that it will not be able to pay salaries in United States dollars as demanded by the wor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
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