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Ambassador 'directs' break-in at Canadian diplomat's house in Zimbabwe
A Canadian diplomat, Jennifer Lee Boudreau, walked into Marlborough Police Station in Harare on December 11 to file an unusual complaint involving a break-in at her residence. The alleged break-in was...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 14:46hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
Juice picked up from Renkini kills toddler
Tragedy struck the Makokoba family in Bulawayo on Tuesday when three-year-old Avuyile Mpengesi suddenly fell ill and died after drinking a beverage given to him by his grandfather, Shepherd Mhlanga....Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:05hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Ways around GamStop absence for Zimbabwean gamblers
Responsible gambling is a widely discussed issue globally, and governments and regulatory authorities actively implement measures to minimise the number of users negatively affected by this risky ente...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 10:10hrs | 110 | by Staff Reporter
Tuku 'son' cannot use family name
THE late music superstar and national hero Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's alleged son, Aaron Chaka, has suffered a blow after the High Court struck off the roll his application seeking an order compelling t...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:18hrs | 933 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers rescue detained toddler, pregnant woman
POLICE have set free a toddler and a pregnant woman who were detained alongside other aggrieved villagers after they had protested maladministration by some school authorities at Sagambe Primary Schoo...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Suspected armed robbers acquitted due to 'shoddy police work’
Only two members of a seven-person gang were found guilty of carrying out a series of armed robberies in and around Karoi, revealing flaws in the investigations conducted by local police detectives....Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 17:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Police identify victims of horror crash that killed 22
Police have identified 15 of the 22 people who were killed in a road traffic accident which occurred on 14 November 2023 at the 27 Kilometre peg along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road when a Toyota Quantum mo...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 18:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes more appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed three additional deputy ministers to complement those appointed last week, as announced by Acting Chief Secretary to the President Dr. Martin Rushwaya in a statement....Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Love birds hit by goods train named
POLICE have named victims of Beitbridge goods train accident who may have died in their sleep at a makeshift love nest between the railway lines.The officer commanding Beitbridge Police Distri...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
R Kelly gets new 20-year jail term for child porn crimes
A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child pornography and other charges - but he will serve most of it simultaneously with a previous sentence....Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife lands top post in Zanu-PF Politburo
THE Politburo that was appointed by President Mnangagwa on Friday blends the old guard and youth and also catapults women to influential positions in the party.This new team that will steer th...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs tame divisions
Zanu-PF bigwigs in Mashonaland West province are fighting to tame deep-seated divisions caused by the party's restructuring exercise including the recent Central Committee elections.Divisions ...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga leads Mashonaland West clean-up campaign
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has arrived at Kuwadzana Shopping Centre in Banket where he is leading Mashonaland West's provincial clean-up campaign.The Vice President also planted a tre...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masuku, Mutsvangwa retain top posts in the Zanu-PF National Women's League
ZANU-PF's National Women's League yesterday re-elected Angeline Masuku as the deputy secretary for the women's wing, while Secretary for Administration Monica Mutsvangwa also retained her post at the ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthulisi Ncube reminded of PWDs
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been reminded to timely release funding for social services for people living with disabilities (PWDs).The reminder came during the 2022 national budget feedb...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa dreams of a stable Zimdollar
Zimbabwe's economy continues to grow despite illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the West and the nation is now being rallied to support President Mnangagwa's vision of stabilising the local c...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Matutu elbowed out of mine
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu has been elbowed out of the late business tycoon John Bredenkamp's gold-rich Thetford Estate in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Independent has established.This c...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at pains to charm Matebeleland
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made desperate moves to appease the people of Matebeleland over the early 1980s Gukurahundi genocide which claimed 20 000 lives.Mnangagwa, who is yet to public...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions 42km water pipeline
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a US$48,1 million 42km pipeline which will supply water to Hwange Power Station from Zambezi River....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC's Jennifer Moyo dies of Covid-19 in UK
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party's United Kingdom and Ireland Assembly has expressed "shock and sadness"over the death of its former women's assembly chairperson Jennifer Moyo.Wal...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 17:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
BaTonga cultural village for Kariba
NYAMINYAMI Rural District Council chief executive Cletus Matingwina says the local authority was working towards reviving the arts and culture industry in the district by opening a Tonga Cultural Vill...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lionel Messi wins Ballon d'Or for 7th time
Lionel Messi admitted winning the Copa America with Argentina might have been the determining factor in him claiming the men's Ballon d'Or prize for the seventh time after a turbulent year, as Spain's...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 07:37hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
5 nabbed over 1 000m electric cables
POLICE in Beatrice, Mashonaland East province, have arrested five people for illegal possession of 1 000m of electricity cables.They were arrested movie-style after a high-speed chase by the p...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's remains coming home
THE body of the late former CAPS United midfield kingpin, Joe Mugabe, is set to be repatriated to Zimbabwe for burial. Mugabe, who had been based in England since the turn of the millennium, s...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Omega says Methembe is Bosso's messiah
FORMER Zifa vice-president and Highlanders' life member Omega Sibanda has suggested that United States of America-based former club coach Methembe Ndlovu takes over ownership of the Bulawayo giants. ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Methembe Ndlovu appointed women's coach in USA
Highlanders legend and former coach Methembe Ndlovu has been appointed associate head coach of a United States based women soccer side Claremont-Mudd-Scripps whose head coach is another former Bosso c...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation and the legend of Chief Zvimba
I will not enter the debate on where the late Robert Mugabe's body must be buried or reburied.Hearing the debate raging in the media reminded me of the legendary Chief Matthew or Matewu Zvimba...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Tererai R. Mafukidze
Zanu-PF youth leader on terror campaign
Zanu-PF youth league secretary for indigenisation Mike Chimombe is under fire for allegedly fanning factionalism and sponsoring violent gangs that are reportedly decampaigning President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe lobbies for cushion fund for teenage mothers
MDC-T legislator Dr Thokozani Khuphe has lobbied the government to assist young girls who fell pregnant during the course of the Covid-19 induced national lockdown period in order to enable them to su...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
New twist to tycoon's estate
The late John Bredenkamp‘s widow, Jennifer, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to block her son Gavin from holding on to the family's Thetford Farm in Mazowe. The case...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide initiative goes cold
TRADITIONAL leaders have lamented that the Covid-19 restrictions on public gatherings have prevented them from spearheading Gukurahundi exhumations and reburials, among other peace-building efforts ai...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 passengers miss flights after NHS bungling
DISGRUNTLED Ethiopian Airways passengers yesterday expressed disappointment over what they said was poor service delivery by the National Handling Services (NHS), which closed airport check-in bays ea...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Inside Bulawayo's worsening water crisis
It is 6am on a Saturday and residents of Sizinda, a poor suburb in Bulawayo, have begun their desperate hunt for water.The taps at home dried up three months ago.Water has become a dai...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to fill gaps in compensation debate
THERE are issues in the compensation debate to which government has closed its mind and, therefore, has miserably failed to justify the decision. They include government's failure to justify compensat...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Bulawayo councillors face the axe
THE much-anticipated report on the Government-stipulated investigation on the conduct of Bulawayo City Councillors is out, with indications that some councillors' conduct was deemed inappropriate and ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains unitary state
ZIMBABWE is maturing as a democracy and in politics as evidenced by the devolution drive spearheaded by the Second Republic, but will however remain a Unitary State in the wake of the provincial and l...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factionalism rears ugly head
There was drama at Chinhoyi Stadium during the Defence Forces Day celebrations when security and protocol members were reportedly forced to remove top Zanu-PF provincial members who had invaded the hi...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money grows on trees - don't uproot them
Jennifer Handondo, a small-scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family's needs.Because of uncharacteristically high temperatures an...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by IPS
Mnangagwa appoints ZBC, BAZ, Transmedia boards
Government has appointed boards for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), Transmedia Corporation Limited and Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). The appointments are with immediate effect...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt rolls out community bakeries
Government is establishing community-led bakeries to increase the production of confectionery products, including bread, at affordable prices in rural areas. The programme is also expected to ...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora woman sues mother
A BULAWAYO woman who is based in the United Kingdom is locked in a legal battle with her mother whom she accuses of duping her of a house in the affluent Suburbs in the city. Ms Prisca Banda a...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa struggling to shake off gukurahundi genocide stains
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa met chiefs from the Matabeleland region and the Midlands Province at State House here yesterday to discuss a number of issues, including traditional leaders taking a leading role i...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meet Ndiweni
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday met controversial Matebeleland traditional leader and fierce government critic Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni but details of the closed-door indaba were not yet mad...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:25hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's fear over Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and top government officials, particularly Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Agriculture minister Perrence Shiri, are scared stiff of personal criminal responsibilit...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:15hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa co-option civil society to silence growing dissent
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to co-opt sections of civil society organisations, the church, business and some political parties in a mollifying move meant to silence growing dissent....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
24 year old installed as Chief Dakamela of Nkayi
TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Mbusi Bekithemba Dakamela was on Friday installed as Chief Dakamela of Nkayi District in Matabeleland North Province at a colourful ceremony amid calls for chiefs to safeguard tra...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
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