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Zanu-PF leader in fuel tender scam
A Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) member in Zaka is under fire for allegedly failing to deliver 9,000 liters of fuel paid for by the Zaka Rural District Council (RDC) over the past three...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 16:41hrs | 3285 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members use dead people's IDs to steal food aid
Some Zanu-PF supporters in Ward 19 of Zaka Central are up for stealing social welfare food aid by misrepresenting that they have more kids than they actually have, with them even using deceased people...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC notifies of power outage
ZETDC has warned of a power outage that is affecting Chiredzi after a mainline fault.In a notice on its X page, ZETDC said there were a number of areas affected and engineers are working flat ...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pays homage to Tagwirei
Zanu-PF held its last star rally at Tongogara growth point in Shurugwi yesterday, which many believe was meant to pay homage to the party's chief benefactor, controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwi...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RBZ cannot control black market exchange rate
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is not responsible for the skyrocketing black-market exchange rate amid rising inflation in the country, according to the its senior payment systems analyst, Howard ...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of Zimbabwe's watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parent sues Zimsec for discrimination
GOVERNMENT and the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) have been dragged to court for discriminating against students in private schools in the payment of examination fees for Grade Seven, ...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Shadowy group sends shivers down voters' spines
A Zanu-PF-affiliated organisation, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), has deployed tens of its members in Masvingo province to collect personal voter information from each rural household, raising fea...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF forces teachers, nurses to buy party cards
Zanu-PF took it's intimidation tactics to a higher level following reports that the ruling party is forcing teachers and nurses to buy party cards in Masvingo province.Zaka district women boss...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
3 dead in bus crash with private vehicle
Three people died while one was seriously injured when an Inter Africa bus carrying some 50 passengers was involved in a fatal road traffic accident with a private vehicle Friday.The tragedy, ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 16:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spooks assault Chamisa's activist
A MEMBER of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zaka, Tafara Chimwaradze, was on Monday briefly abducted and assaulted by known Central Intelligence Organisation operatives while at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police gun down violent suspect
POLICE in Zaka, Masvingo, shot dead an assault suspect who had been on their wanted list after he resisted an arrest and tried to take one of them hostage.Douglas Mahoya (35) was wanted by the...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
New twist to police shooting victim case
THE case of Masvingo man, Douglas Mahoya, who was mistakenly gunned down by police for allegedly not wearing a face mask on Wednesday has taken a new twist with the law enforcement agents claiming tha...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspect shot dead while resisting arrest
A 35-year-old man who was on police wanted list was shot and killed in Zaka, Masvingo, after attacking police officers while he was resisting arrest on Wednesday.Douglas Mahoya had a warrant o...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman up for hijacking truckload of drinks
A 35-year-old woman appeared at Chitungwiza Magistrates court on allegations of teaming up with her three male friends to hijack a truck-load of soft drinks along the Harare-Masvingo highway.T...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Friday November 14 1997
The day the Zimbabwe currency tumbled or hit the lowest mark was in 1997 when war veterans got Z$50 000 in gratuities each from the former late President Robert Mugabe’s government after they embark...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:08hrs | 14 | by Leonard Koni
Robber killed in Masvingo shootout
A suspected armed robber believed to be part of a gang that committed a spate of robberies in Masvingo was fatally shot by the police after in the act.The robber and his three accomplices had ...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prison officer charged for insulting ED
A ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer, who was accused of insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some traditional leaders for genuflecting before the Mbuya Nehanda statue, ha...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2008 terror leader dies
ZAKA residents say they are not sorry about the recent death of a Zimbabwe National Army colonel, Christopher Rufu Mayoyo, who led a murderous terror campaign against opposition supporters in the dist...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP, councillors clash over CDF
Trouble seems to be brewing in paradise for Zaka Central legislator Davison Svuure whose councillors have pinned him down demanding accountability for the 2020 Constituency Development Fund (CDF)....Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 11:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bloodshed over a cellphone
Cyril Chitumba (25) died yesterday at Jerera Zaka after a misunderstanding rose from the disappearance of a A30 Samsung cellphone while consuming beer....Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Lloyd Rabaya
Man knifed to death for stealing phone during beer drink
A 25 year-old Zaka man paid a heavy price for violating lockdown regulations and joining two friends on a drinking binge late into the night after the friends turned on him and allegedly killed him fo...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police boss 'savagely' assaults teacher over curfew violation
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer-in-charge at Zaka police camp has earned public scorn after he allegedly beat up a teacher for allegedly violating the Covid-19 curfew regulations.As...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corruption trials to be speeded up
Corruption cases will now be expedited within two months after a suspect is arrested with nine of the 27 recently opened court cases ready for trial a departure from the previous trend where accused p...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Newly appointed chiefs have no power to apportion land
Masvingo Provincial Development Coordinator (PDC) formerly known as Provincial Administrator (PA) Fungai Mbetsa has said newly-revived chieftainships in formerly white settlements have no power to dis...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stephen Chifunyise dies
VETERAN playwright and former permanent secretary in the Education ministry Stephen Chifunyise has died. Chifunyise, who at one time taught in the Theatre Arts Department of the University of ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 17:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stephen Chifunyise dies aged 70
Playwright and culturalist Stephen Chifunyise died on Monday, friends said.He was 70.The former arts and culture ministry's permanent secretary founded Chipawo in the 1980s to identify...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 22:26hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
REA targets to electrify 60% of rural areas
Government is forging ahead with its thrust to modernise rural areas, with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) pledging to bring access to electricity to 60 percent of the rural populace in line wi...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Child prostitution rife in Masvingo
MASVINGO province is grappling with disturbing phenomena of child prostitution at most busy leisure spots, fuelling incidents of Sexually Transmitted Infections, an official has said. In an in...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 11:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimondi ignores 'traitorous' prison officer's appeal
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi is yet to respond to the appeal of Chiredzi-based prison officer, John Mahlabera who was convicted and dismissed ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 14:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Presidential inputs distributed at Zanu-PF offices
Agricultural inputs under the Presidential Input Scheme are being distributed at Zanu-PF district offices in Zaka, with widespread conceptions that the move was meant to side-line non-ruling party sup...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF celebrates terror leader return
ZANU-PF last week threw a lavish party to welcome back its official after he was released from jail, having spent 14 years behind bars for killing an MDC activist in the run-up to the 2002 general ele...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reorter
Panic as military chopper lands in Jerera
People at Jerera growth point and surrounding areas were thrown into jitters last Thursday after an army helicopter landed twice in the area.Various leaders in Zaka confirmed that there was an...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'prison officer' fired
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has finally fired the prison officer accused of undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa by addressing MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa as "my presid...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer fired over 'Chamisa my president' tweet
A prison officer has been dismissed from his job over a tweet in which he referred to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa his President, his lawyers said.John Mahlabera was discharged on Monday after an...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by ZimLive
Prison officer in soup for 'undermining Mnangagwa'
A Zimbabwe prison officer on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa through posting some political comments on social media and to some misconduct charges....Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe authorities intensify clampdown on dissent
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have laid misconduct charges against a prison officer, who allegedly attended an opposition political party rally ahead of the country's harmonised elections.The Zimbabw...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 16:42hrs | | by Stepohen Jakes
MDC Alliance meeting ends in chaos
INTRA-PARTY violence reared its ugly head on Sunday during a crunch MDC Alliance district meeting in Shurugwi meant to suspend party cadres who stood as independent candidates during the July 30 polls...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
STIs spike in Masvingo
MASVINGO province is reeling under a serious Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) burden, with Chiredzi district topping the list, followed by Masvingo urban and rural as well as Bikita districts, l...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chammisa violence timeline - February to present
February 20, 2018: At the burial of Tsvangirai, in Buhera, rowdy MDC-T youths harass party co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe and secretary general Mr Douglas Mwonzora before trying to torch the gra...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Youths told to rally behind Mnangagwa
Masvingo provincial Youth League chairman Brian Munyoro has implored youths to go out in numbers and vote President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF in this year's harmonised elections. He said it was important ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harurwa consumed as delicacy in Masvingo but Claude Maredza says, 'there is more that people should know'
Harurwa is an insect, consumed as a delicacy mostly in the Masvingo province of Zimbabwe. The insect is naturally light green in colour. It's usualy prepared by roasting and salting it. In Masvingo Ha...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Chamisa 'employs' underfire prison officer
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa (pictured) has promised to employ in his security department a Chiredzi prison officer who was charged and is set to appear before an internal tribun...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ChamisaChallenge launched
Social Media users in Zimbabwe are pocking fun on allegation that Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa told a rally last week that he met Kagame in Geneva and the East African nation's...Published: 30 May 2018 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer in soup for 'praising' Chamisa
A PRISON officer based in Chiredzi has been summoned to appear before the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services internal disciplinary hearing after he allegedly heaped praises on main opposition ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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