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Ex-Indian soldiers in murky deals
SUSPECTED former Indian army officers, who have been operating in Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado region, have reportedly settled in Zimbabwe, where they are allegedly operatin...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mbudzi interchange fund looted
Several directors at the Ministry of Transport have been quizzed by anti-graft investigators after whistle blowers leaked explosive details linking them to the pillage of a fund meant to compensate ow...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:50hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appointments scandal
Transmedia Corporation's new board approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has integrity issues around its chairperson Phillipa Magnify Phillips-Sadza and Jonathan Gandari, comprising its credi...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 08:15hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tension grips Midlands
SIMMERING tension has absorbed the ruling Zanu-PF in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands backyard, stoked by the party's provincial leadership's decision to block scheduled disciplinary hearings f...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 16:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rescues Wadyajena
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and former Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena, has survived another Zanu PF chop after party spokesperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa, lifted suspensi...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:24hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
US$11m LP gas depot complete
GAS supplies are now more assured with the operationalisation of the first phase of the US$11 million liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage and handling facility with a holding capacity of 650 tonnes ...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes more key govt appointments
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Virginia Mabhiza, former Secretary for Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs, to the position of Attorney-General. The announcement of this appointment w...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Angola for Sadc summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to briefly leave the campaign trail to attend a Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) summit here that will be focusing on sustainable regional industralisation....Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF busses thousand to Cowdry park rally
UNPRECEDENTED scenes were witnessed yesterday as thousands of people from all walks of life swarmed an open space near Mkhithika Primary School in Cowdray Park suburb, Bulawayo where President Mnangag...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps mandatory wearing of masks, Covid-19 vaccination certificate requirement
THE Zimbabwean government has scrapped the mandatory wearing of masks and now allows tourists to come into the country without any proof of vaccination or Covid-19 PRC tests.This comes after t...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Malawi on State visit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for a three-day State visit at the invitation of his counterpart, President Lazarus Chakwera.He was welcomed at Kamuzu Banda International Airport by...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's rigging tendencies exposed
Zanu-PF's rigging practices in elections were seriously exposed during internal primary polls to choose candidates who will represent the party in the coming watershed general plebiscite. The party ha...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoke...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warns old guard accused of blocking challengers in primaries
Zanu-PF political commissar, Mike Bimha, has warned aspiring primary elections candidates who are using underhanded activities that they risk being ejected from pollsThis comes as party member...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt delays payment to contractors
The delays in paying contractors is a result of the due diligence which the government has to carry out after some of them were charging extortionate prices, a cabinet Minister has said. Minis...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani contractors urged to consider locals
The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in charge of implementation and monitoring of governmental programmes, Jorum Gumbo has urged the Gwayi-Shangani Dam contractors to engage local people in...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube elected as a Zanu-PF Central Committee member
Zanu-PF has released names of Central Committee elect members who sailed through in the just ended elections.Some party heavyweights who retained are Cdes Obert Mpofu, Mike Bimha, Christopher ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF knives out for Wadyajena
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials in the Midlands province are reportedly baying for Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena's blood and are seeking his expulsion from the ruling party for his alle...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under fire over Matebeleland projects
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of marginalising Matebeleland region after a breakdown of programmes undertaken by his government since 2021 showed that the region has the least number o...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
112 Cyclone Idai survivors resettled in Chimanimani
Resettled Cyclone Idai survivors have expressed gratitude to government for fulfulling its pledge to relocate them to safe zones after spending nearly three years in tents.Emily Giwa, who lost...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 13:35hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Inconsistent funding hampering Gwayi-Shangani dam completion
Inconsistent funding of the Gwayi-Shangani dam in Matabeleland North is hampering its completion, a ZINWA official has said.The project which was awarded to China International Water and Elect...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dumps SA investor for Russia over nuclear deal
ZIMBABWE has dumped a US$6.5 billion nuclear energy deal with a South African investor, opting instead to do business with the Russian government, after the Office of the President and Cabinet frustra...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rugeje, Makwarimba factions violent'
Zanu PF politburo member Jorum Gumbo, who was in charge of Masvingo District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections held on December 05 - 06, has said a faction allegedly fronted by senior party membe...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 19:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mum on DCC chaos
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has remained tight-lipped on the chaos that gripped the district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections which are yet to be finalised despite voting having ended over a week ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admin ignoring root cause of rot
Poisonous snakes' teeth regenerate. It, therefore, doesn't work to remove the serpent's fangs and think you won't get snake bites anymore. The venom lies deep inside too.The Mnangagwa administ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zanu-PF youths dare old guard
The Zanu-PF youth league, which triggered a storm early this month when it listed several people as being corrupt, will soon release a list of multiple farm owners mostly bigwigs in the ruling party. ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'shame list' brews huge storm
An international money laundering watchdog has put Zanu-PF bigwigs and prominent people on its radar after ruling party youths named them in a list of people that are allegedly driving the foreign cur...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF turns heat on Obert Mpofu
Zanu-PF is in the process of setting up provincial commission of inquiries to collect evidence against Obert Mpofu and other people accused by the youth league of corruption.Last week, the you...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's son fingered in ZANU PF corruption list
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the ZANU PF Youth Leaders were sent by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Emmerson Jr to do a press conference that alleged Senior Party and Government officials are invol...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Scandal prone Zinara caught up in yet another murky deal fiasco
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) could have lost US$5,2 million in a murky deal which was supposed to see a 'controversial third party' earn a US$5 million kickback as a condition fo...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Election losers turn to campaign at Dr Dabengwa's funeral
The passing on of one of Zimbabwe's liberation war icons, Dr Dumiso Dabengwa on 23 May 2019, saw all people from all walks of life from far and near coming to pay their condolences in respect of the l...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Biti wants Zimbabwe to redollarise
THE crippling fuel and power shortages facing Zimbabwe are likely to get worse if government fails to deal with price distortions on the market, former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said.Sp...Published: 20 May 2019 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs besiege Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube finally walked into parliament Tuesday, igniting celebrations from MPs who felt the elusive Treasury boss owed them a lot of explanation on the current economic tailspin ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 10:05hrs | 4 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa sacks Gumbo, NOIC boss
Amid a deepening electricity and fuel crisis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday reshuffled Energy and Power Development Minister Jorum Gumbo and appointed Zanu-PF's rising star Fortune Chasi, fo...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 9 | by ZimLive
BREAKING: Mnangagwa reshuffles cabinet
Reports from Harare indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa effected a mini cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday evening. Advocate Fortune Chasi has been appointed the new Minister for Energy...Published: 14 May 2019 at 19:07hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New fuel prices announced
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced new prices of fuel effective 29 April and 6 May 2019. The new prices are in line with the mandatory fuel blending that was announced in a...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 18:35hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government enforces mandatory blending of fuel
The Minister of Energy and Power Development Jorum Gumbo on Wednesday gazzetted a mandatory blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol.In a General Notice 740A of 2019 the Minister sai...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 21:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
No fuel price hikes, says Jorum Gumbo
Government has no intention of adjusting current fuel prices, a Cabinet Minister has said, dismissing claims on social media that fuel prices will go up next week.Energy and Power Development ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins regional power exports
ZIMBABWE has started exporting electricity to regional countries especially Namibia, buoyed by increased production at the Kariba Power Station which came into life in March last year.Presiden...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone did not affect fuel pipeline, says Gumbo
Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Jorum Gumbo says the Cyclone Idai devastating effects did not affect the feruka pipeline which pumps fuel from Beira to Zimbabwe as being reported.Dr G...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fingers Mnangagwa in Mugabe Airways saga
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has sought to correct the narrative carried in the Herald on Monday that Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore was solely responsible for the ...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 08:52hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe, Zanu-PF bigwigs looted $1 million ZINARA funds
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe as well as top ZANU-PF leader went on a looting spree and stole over $1 million funds from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA), according to a report by ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 00:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Treasury released funds to procure 2 000 transformers
GOVERNMENT is set to procure 2 000 electricity transformers to address power transmission gaps, which are negatively affecting service in critical sectors, the Minister of Energy and Power Development...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Botswana ties elevated
Zimbabwe and Botswana have taken the traditional long friendship and close ties to a higher level by holding the inaugural Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission in harare this Thursday with the two...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 17:30hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe fuel crisis deepens
Hundreds of people were left stranded late Monday after a sudden shortage of fuel with public transport operators hiking fares.Reports of people walking on foot to areas like Glen Norah and Ma...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa Expected to Correct Mistakes in Mini-Cabinet Reshuffle
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hinted that he will name the new resident minister for Harare Province, almost 6 months after appointing his cabinet.The ZANU PF First Secretary is also ex...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 20:41hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dexter Nduna admits to killing more than once
A Zanu-PF MP once accused firing his gun during an election campaign has boasted that he has killed before.Dexter Nduna, the MP for Chegutu West, made the shock claim while threatening Norton ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Mliswa, Nduna trade insults
It was ugly business in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development this Monday as proceedings came to a halt with members trading insults in full glare of the media and witn...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to take over 'Mugabe airline' planes
THE Government on Tuesday effectively killed a shadowy airline established by former Transport Minister Jorum Gumbo with reported links to former First Lady Grace Mugabe.New Transport Minister...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Acute fuel shortages rock Zimbabwe again
Energy and Power Development minister Jorum Gumbo yesterday claimed that fuel companies were concentrating on supplying outlying areas resulting in a shortage of the commodity in urban areas.G...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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