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Zimbabwe govt slams shoddy workmanship
The government has strongly condemned the poor construction standards at Bhale Rural Health Centre in Hwange District, warning the contractor to urgently rectify the substandard work or risk having th...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:30hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1983 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
Indian business mogul tried to defraud Zimbabwean govt over $100 million
Documents obtained by NewZimbabwe reveal that Ashok Jain, an Indian businessman, attempted to defraud the Zimbabwean government of over US$100 million in a dubious deal. According to these doc...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam rehab project 88% complete
THE Special Advisor to the President on Monitoring Implementation Of Government Programmes and Projects Dr Joram Gumbo, toured the Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project on Friday.The Ministr...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints first female Attorney General
President Mnangagwa has officially appointed the nation's inaugural female Attorney-General, Mrs. Virginia Mabhiza, effective from November 1.Additionally, the President has made three other k...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt applauds NUST
The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and Monitoring Implementation of Government Programmes, Joram Gumbo has praised the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) for building a T...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 16:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nust construction projects on course
MASSIVE progress has been recorded at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), where the institution's Technovation Centre is now 88 percent complete.The construction of facto...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Crisis meetings as turmoil grips Zanu-PF province
ZANU-PF early this week dispatched two senior party officials to the Midlands to hold crisis meetings following political turmoil that has gripped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province ahead of...Published: 22 May 2023 at 19:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Govt's broken promises over Chilonga Bridge irk community
In 2000, Cyclone Eline caused severe damage to the Chilonga Bridge in the Lowveld region resulting in its collapse.This bridge connected the town of Chiredzi to rural communities including Chi...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:53hrs | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Senior Zanu-PF officials elbow out Young Turks
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials have been accused of using unorthodox means to elbow out ambitious Young Turks seeking to challenge them in party primary elections slated for this Saturday.President ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New ZANU PF Politburo announced, Mnangagwa promotes wife
President Emmerson Mnangagwa promotes his wife to a ministerial post In Zanu PF while announcing the new politburo. Mnangagwa has announced a full line-up of Politburo members, whose work...Published: 23 Dec 2022 at 14:14hrs | 2 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Govt pledges $2 billion for NRZ rehab
GOVERNMENT has pledged to fund rehabilitation of National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) infrastructure to the tune of $2 billion.Speaking during a tour of the NRZ workshop in Bulawayo yesterday, ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jolts Zimbabwe ministers into compromise agreement
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently forced to compel 13 ministers who sit in the Tripartite Negotiating (TNF) Forum to urgently attend meetings to discuss solutions to worsening economic hardshi...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo defends government projects
Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in charge of implementation and monitoring, Joram Gumbo has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime is seeking to develop key infrastructure in al...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assigns Reconciliation Act to Justice Ministry
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has assigned the administration of the National Peace and Reconciliation Act to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who needs to give the required su...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge to get US$100m airport
BEITBRIDGE is set to have a state-of-the-art airport to match the standards of the modernised border post as the Second Republic steps up efforts to transform the face of the border town.Beitb...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF made 235 poll promises, keeps 13
Zanu-PF made 235 electoral promises in the run up to the 2018 polls, but only managed to keep only 13, less than a year to polls in 2023, a non-governmental organisation has claimed.Independen...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda State University complex to boost mineral beneficiation
THE construction of an Engineering Laboratory and Innovation Complex at Gwanda State University is set to spur mineral beneficiation and exploration initiatives as the country moves towards attaining ...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presides over corrupt government
REVELATIONS by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri that Treasury made foreign direct payments on behalf of 16 government ministries amounting to more than US$300 million without the required parliamentary a...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 19:30hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tuli-Manyange dam project takes shape
THE construction of Tuli Manyange Dam has commenced in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, where preliminary works - to be completed by June this year - involving the building of saddle dams are unde...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally's company named in bid to revive Zisco
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had chosen Kuvimba Mining House, a company in which it has majority shareholding and is linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally, to revive the moribund ZiscoSteel....Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Senior CCC members praise Zanu-PF?
There is no need for anyone to call on the Zanu-PF Government to go when it is addressing all the issues that were not handled well by the old dispensation, a former top MDC official who has joined th...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba to lead Zisco revival
Kuvimba Mining House, which has both private and State shareholding and has been resuscitating gold mines, has been chosen by Cabinet as the investment partner for the resuscitation of the Redcliff-ba...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bimha sucked into deadly Zanu-PF wrangle
Zanu-PF national political commissar, Mike Bimha, has been caught up in the deadly factional firestorm raging in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands backyard amid reports he received a US$4 000 ca...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mavhima's mammoth task in uniting Zanu-PF Midlands factions
THE Zanu-PF Midlands provincial elections have come and gone, with the new executive in place, but incoming Midlands chairperson Larry Mavhima (pictured) faces a herculean task in uniting the divided ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enforcer's fall from grace
FAMED for his role as Zanu-PF's political enforcer for the Midlands province, former State Security minister Owen Ncube popularly known as "Mudha" had a nasty fall from the echelons of power to the st...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What is going on in ZANU PF?
The recent ZANU PF Provincial elections and the Provincial Coordinating Committee meetings which followed have left analysts asking the question what is going on in ZANU PF?The provincial elec...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
Chiefs homestead access roads rehab begins
The Government has started rehabilitating access roads to chiefs' homesteads countrywide to improve accessibility to traditional leaders as well as enhance their dignity and development in communities...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Larry Mavhima wins Zanu-PF Midlands Chair uncontested
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavhima becomes the first victor of the ongoing Zanu-PF catfights after he won the Midlands provincial party chairmanship following his imposition by Preside...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Cattle branding affects leather quality'
STAKEHOLDERS in the leather industry have said cattle brand marks compromise the quality of leather products, particularly those destined for the export market.Zambezi Tanners finishing manage...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'National Blankets out of the woods'
NATIONAL Blankets Ltd in Bulawayo requires a capital injection of US$1,5 million to operate optimally.The company's business development manager Shepherd Nyambirai said this during a tour of t...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Govt increases internet access in rural areas
GOVERNMENT has reaffirmed its commitment towards increasing the internet penetration rate to 75,4 percent by year 2025 in order to ensure improved access and usage of Information Communication Technol...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Midlands factions renew jostling for posts
THE battle for the political control of the Midlands pitting rivals State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and incumbent Daniel Mackenzie Ncube has continued despite the two front-runners dropping o...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border modernisation to improve efficiency
The efficiency challenges that had become a perennial headache at the Beitbridge Border Post are gradually being addressed through the ongoing US$300 million modernisation works carried out by the Sec...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to tackle Mnangagwa
IN a move that could have far-reaching political consequences for the ruling Zanu-PF and the nation, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in th...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mudha Ncube plays hidden card in tussle for Midlands
THE Zanu-PF Midlands provincial elections pitting State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube (pictured) and incumbent Daniel McKenzie Ncube has taken a new dimension, amid reports the former has chicken...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tense as factional intrigue overshadows upcoming conference
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will preside over a potentially heated Zanu-PF conference in Bindura next week amid bruising infighting in the Midlands and Masvingo, with the party leader expected to cra...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 23:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudha Ncube plays hidden card in tussle for Midlands
THE Zanu-PF Midlands provincial elections pitting State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and incumbent Daniel McKenzie Ncube has taken a new dimension, amid reports the former has chickened out to p...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 23:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to fire State Security Minister Mudha Ncube
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa recently threatened fire State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube following his involvement in devastating factional battles currently ravaging Zanu-PF, highly placed sour...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mudha Ncube chickens out of Zanu-PF Midlands race
STATE security minister Owen Mudha Ncube has dropped out of the race for the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairmanship as the deadly internecine fights for control of the party heats up following the i...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders in bruising fist fight
FACTIONAL violence in Zanu-PF has turned physical in the Midlands province, with senior officials exchanging blows in public last weekend in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's troubled citadel.Pre...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard stews in Zanu-PF fights
Zanu-PF factional fights exploded in its leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands home province Monday, with under siege provincial chairman Daniel Mackenzie Ncube issuing a strong warning to h...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional firestorm worsens
THE Zanu-PF factional firestorm has continued raging, with officials blatantly defying last week's injunction by the politburo - its highest decision-making organ between congresses - as they continue...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SA businessman arrested in Zimbabwe over presidential solar plant project dispute
A South African businessman was arrested last week on his arrival in Zimbabwe, and now can't leave the country because of a contractual dispute involving $1m (R14.66m) and material for the constructio...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
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