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5-year ban on Dynamos referee for match-fixing
Assistant referee Kudzanai Hiya has been handed a five-year ban and fined 100,000 Swiss francs (approximately US$116,650) after being found guilty of match manipulation and corruption in the Castle La...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:19hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's new land laws biggest heist'
Former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has raised concerns over a possible land grab by Zimbabwe's elite following the government's announcement of a new model that allows for land acquired under the l...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 07:50hrs | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe compensates farmers over land invasions
The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost land in farm invasions under former leader Robert Mugabe at the turn of the centu...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:34hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Bulilima villagers flee homes in fear of elephant attacks
In Bulilima, Matabeleland South, villagers are fleeing their homes due to a surge of elephant invasions driven by drought conditions. The elephants, migrating from Botswana, have been seeking food and...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:53hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe War veterans denounce Zanu-PF interference
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) war veterans association has urged Zanu-PF and government officials to refrain from interfering with the preparations for the upcoming Zimbabwe National...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:27hrs | 958 | by Staff reporter
Harare Commission uncovers massive land looting
The Commission of Inquiry into Harare City Council operations has revealed that ahead of last year’s harmonised elections, councillors from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) engaged in a large...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:50hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Is your Zimbabwe property safe from property hijackers
This is a follow up article of title deeds fraud which I wrote in January 2022 that went viral. There is now a new fraud trend called Property Hijacking happening in South Africa. Property hijacking i...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 22:32hrs | 756 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Borrowdale land invasions irk residents
Harare residents are outraged over what they describe as "illegal and corrupt" land distribution by the Harare City Council, particularly in the affluent Borrowdale neighborhood. During a recent inqui...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:43hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP demands shares in mining for war vets
Zanu PF lawmaker Joseph Mapiki has proposed that war veterans should receive shares in lithium and coal mining companies, as well as plots and conservancies in Matabeleland North and Masvingo. ...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 13:42hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is responsible for scuttling development in rural areas!
Forty-four years after Zimbabwe attained her independence, rural areas are still largely as backward as they were under colonial rule. Nothing much to write about, in terms of development, has...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:57hrs | 18 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drawing parallels between Kenya and Zimbabwe's social, economic, and political disturbances
We want to believe that the demonstrations in Kenya just happened overnight. The Gene Zs went on a rampage assisted by criminals. To framing them so thin, is to trivialize a genuine revolution that wa...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 23:08hrs | 30 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's political crisis has dragged on for too long
The phrase "political economy" has entered the dictionary of the World Bank and other development organizations around the world.Academic interest in the components of the political economy of...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 11:35hrs | 24 | by Evans Mathanda
Chitungwiza runs out of land
Chitungwiza Municipality is facing a land shortage crisis for residential, recreational, and industrial development, prompting plans to expand into surrounding areas of Manyame Rural District Council....Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zacc arrests 235 public officials for land deals
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) reports the arrest of 235 public officials for various offenses, including illegal land deals, criminal abuse of office, and fraud.Zacc Commissio...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt declares war against barons
THE government has issued a stern warning to land barons invading private and State land in Harare South and other provinces saying their days are numbered.Illegal land invasions have resulted...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Shona youth that attack Matabele possessed by the demon of gukurahundi
Shona youth that drive all the way from Mashonaland to Matabeleland armed with machetes and fire arms to invade Matabeleland and violently attack and kill...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | 27 | by Israel Dube
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Zanu-PF disown Saturday Retreat land barons
The ruling Zanu-PF party has disowned some land barons in Harare South's Saturday Retreat (Border Gezi) who have embarked on an overdrive to dupe unsuspecting homeseekers through allocating them land ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 10:31hrs | 21 | by Paul Ndou
Zanu-PF youths invade Harare greenway
A GROUP of suspected Zanu-PF youths has invaded a greenway in Haig Park, Harare and demarcated it into residential stands.The greenway, a corridor of protected open space managed for conservat...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Blitz against land barons divides Zanu-PF
In an unprecedented move, Zanu-PF recently issued a statement disowning some of its officials that were behind invasion of farms, especially in urban areas where they sold housing stands to homeseeker...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked space barons invade Bulawayo CBD
A GANG of suspected Zanu-PF space barons illegally parcelled out new vending bays to illegal traders in Bulawayo's Central Business District (CBD) on Thursday this week.The bays were reportedl...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare Council warns of third flooding in Budiriro, Kuwadzana areas
Harare City Council has issued a warning about a potential third round of flooding in the heavily affected areas of Budiriro and Kuwadzana.This alert follows the first wave on Unity Day, durin...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thrives on dividing nation
Ever since the party was formed on August 8, 1963, its modus operandi has always been the same: Dividing the people of Zimbabwe. In fact, Zanu-PF's existence and survival have been premised on fomenti...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:00hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF disciplines land invaders
The ruling party Zanu-PF has implemented disciplinary measures against the Mutare DCC Chairman and certain party members implicated in the unlawful sale and allocation of land.In a statement f...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 09:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare families evacuated from flooded areas
More than 100 families have been relocated to temporary shelters due to flash floods displacing residents in the Budiriro and Kuwadzana suburbs of Harare.Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has urged th...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before'
ZAPU says Zimbabweans are more divided than ever before as there is no unity whatsoever, to warrant a whole public holiday, under the guise of commemorating the pivotal signing of the Unity Accord bet...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 13:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF at the forefront of dividing Zimbabweans!
There has, arguably, been no greater force of division in modern-day Zimbabwe than the ruling ZANU PF. Ever since the party was formed on 8th August 1963, its modus operandi has always been th...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 22:22hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drought-claiming livestock in Matebeleland South
The El Nino-induced dry period experienced across Zimbabwe is claiming the lives of livestock especially cattle, whose conditions have deteriorated due to water shortages in the Matebeleland South pro...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
War vets, minister lock horns
WAR veterans who were allocated conservancies in the wildlife-rich Gwayi area Matabeleland North, have expressed fears of a foot and mouth disease outbreak after Zanu-PF youths were settled on their g...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us
Zimbabwe's political parties have been taken over by modern day thugs, God have messy on us. I have been saying it and now it's so obvious. After seeing a tweet from Hopewell Chin'ono @daddyhope...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 11:21hrs | 8 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
An account of Zimbabwe's elections of August 2023
I HAVE been present at Zimbabwean elections since 1980. The independence elections of that year followed intense negotiations first in Lusaka, Zambia, and then in London over the latter part of ...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 16:24hrs | | by Stephen Chan
Zimbabwean soccer referees fail to make CAF grade
FOR the umpteenth time, local referees have been snubbed from the list of officials for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.The Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a lis...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 15:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi residents count losses after BF violence
Residents of Bulawayo's Mzilikazi high-density suburb have grown increasingly concerned about the recurring losses they suffer whenever soccer matches at the nearby Barbourfields Stadium escalate into...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to compensate land reform displaced farm employees
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora says he will compensate black farm workers who lost their jobs when Zanu-PF embarked on a land reform programme if he is elected as president on August 23....Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Public wage bill balloons 3 times ahead of key Zimbabwe elections
ELECTION-related spending by the Zimbabwean government is going through the roof as President Emmerson Mnangagwa goes for broke, spending public funds like confetti at a wedding to retain his position...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Maimane blames Zimbabwe Exemption Permit debacle on ANC and Zanu-PF relationship
"The courts have no choice but to uphold refugee laws and the constitution. If we want to solve the immigration crisis we have to go directly to the root of the problem, namely the dictatorship in Zim...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
We have neglected Manicaland for too long Mr President Sir
On the 24th of June 2023, the President and First secretary of Zanu-PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, will launch the Zanu PF campaign foundation upon which this year’s election bid will be built upon in Chipin...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Justice Mbatha and a white judge blocks Malema, EFF from repossessing land
AfriForum on Wednesday welcomed a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal to dismiss the application of leave to appeal by EFF leader Julius Malema and his party against an interdict which AfriForum won...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land barons ride on Zanu-PF campaign
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF-linked land barons have invaded large tracts of land in Harare and Chitungwiza, where they are doling out residential stands to desperate home-seekers as a vote-buying gimmick ahead ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
On inflation Mthuli Ncube must listen to Chinamasa and Gono, 'in the know' advised Moyo. A very sick joke.
Professor Jonathan Moyo would be fountain of wisdom if only his contributions are not more often than not laced with propaganda, lies and damned lies whose sole purpose is to poison the mind. ...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa must not deliver another Lima
WHITE commercial farmers forced off their land over 20 years ago have waited since 2018 — when government agreed to a compensation deal — to receive their settlements. It is important to note that...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Re-engagement will depend on holding credible 2023 elections' AfDB warns. At long last, some home-truths
"The African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading ef...Published: 22 May 2023 at 21:59hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa ally's diplomatic flaws exposed
A UNITED Kingdom-based commentator says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to London for the coronation of King Charles III exposed the weakness of the Foreign Affairs ministry in diplomatic planning...Published: 09 May 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions on Zimbabwe no excuse for failure
NATIONAL Housing minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said sanctions were no excuse for failure to develop the country.Zanu-PF has been quick to blame sanctions for the country's socio-economic cri...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe alone got 21 farms peasants, supposedly beneficiaries of Land Redistribution, got nothing
If you asked most Zimbabweans out there today what the war of independence was about; most of them will say, "Land!" Before independence the major would have said "One man, one vote!" but all ...Published: 04 May 2023 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Why does Africa feel it has to be a slave to one global power or the other?
Will Africa ever be truly free? That is the question that always bugs my mind, as I watch the manner in which our leaders appear perpetually trapped in a 'slave mentality' - whereby, they beli...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 12:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'White commercial interests dominating Zimbabwe,' says Biti
HARARE East legislator who is a Former Finance Minister and one of the leaders of Nelson Chamisa's Citizens' Coalition for Change Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe government's land ownership structure was st...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biden claims immunity from SA courts in Zimbabwe sanctions case
The US Embassy in Pretoria has issued a diplomatic note to SA claiming the Johannesburg High Court lacks jurisdiction over the US in the case brought a year ago by the Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to destroy boreholes drilled on wetlands
HARARE Metropolitan province secretary Tafadzwa Muguti yesterday said all boreholes that were illegally drilled on wetlands will be destroyed and equipment confiscated.Muguti revealed this in ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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