Search / Joseph tshuma
Zimbabwe Health Ministry refuses to admit healthcare system is deteriorating
Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Sleiman Kwidini dismissed claims about the deteriorating state of public hospitals as being largely fueled by "social media" during a heated session in Parliam...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:51hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Top 6 Members of Parliament who shook Bulawayo in 2024
Bulawayo's political landscape was alight in 2024, with six Members of Parliament shining brightly for their transformative and relentless efforts to uplift their constituencies. Using a sophisticated...Published: 12 Jan 2025 at 22:31hrs | 884 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
'Gwayi-Shangani to transform Matabeleland region'
The near-completion of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam is poised to transform Matabeleland's agriculture, ensuring year-round crop production and bolstering food security, according to Pelandaba MP Joseph Tshu...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 09:09hrs | 2373 | by Staff reporter
Zinwa leaves incomplete borehole projects in Bulawayo
Pelandaba-Tshabalala MP Joseph Tshuma has publicly criticized the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) for its failure to deliver functional boreholes in Bulawayo, leaving residents without adequ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 15:21hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Parliament face to face with Bulawayo water woes
Bulawayo's escalating water shortages took center stage yesterday as parliamentarians engaged directly with the dire situation affecting the city. With the water supply dam levels in continuous declin...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:34hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP protests neglect of rural roads
ZANU-PF legislator Joseph Tshuma from Tshabalala-Pelandaba has raised concerns about the neglect of rural roads amidst ongoing major road rehabilitation efforts, particularly in Harare ahead of a Sout...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt faces pressure to fix Matebeleland roads
Lawmakers representing Matebeleland are urging the government to address the longstanding issue of poor road infrastructure in the region, emphasizing that improving roads is crucial to alleviating th...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets two-thirds majority
The ruling Zanu-PF party won all the six seats in by-elections held on Saturday last week as it attained a two-thirds majority amid fears there will be rounds of constitutional amendments.Zanu...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF man becomes Pelandaba-Mpopoma MP with only 1 845 votes
Zanu-PF candidate Joseph Tshuma has won the Pelandaba-Tshabalala by-election following the polls held on Saturday.The seat fell vacant after Citizens Coalition for Change interim secretary gen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 18:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Tshuma confident of victory in Pelandaba-Tshabalala
ASPIRING legislator for Bulawayo's Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency, Joseph Tshuma, says his vision is to empower young people to be economically independent in line with the Government's development...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi slams CCC for wasting State resources
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi has slammed the fractured CCC for bleeding national resources through its leadership chaos, which has caused unnecessary by-elections that have become a strain to the nat...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's aspiring MP told to stop promising heaven on earth after failing for 44 years
Residents of the Pelandaba - Tshabalala Constituency have emphatically conveyed to Zanu-PF candidate Joseph Tshuma that making promises holds no sway with them, as they have grown weary of the party's...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate for Pelandaba-Tshabalala grilled
A Bulawayo voter grilling former Zanu-PF MP and now candidate for Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency in the 3 February 2024 by-election, Joseph Tshuma, while telling him how Zimbabwe has been destroyed...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF confident of winning Gift Siziva's Pelandaba-Tshabalala seat
The ruling Zanu-PF party is confident of winning the Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency in the by-election slated for February 3 as it has proved to be gaining popularity in urban areas in previous pol...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member wants govt officials barred from seeking medical attention abroad
Zanu-PF's candidate for the Pelandaba -Tshabalala Constituency by-election, Joseph Tshuma, says if he is elected as the Member of Parliament, he will immediately propose a bill that would prohibit gov...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 18:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Recalled CCC members to contest by-elections
RECALLED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators yesterday successfully filed their nomination papers ahead of by-elections set for February 3.The by-elections will be held to fill six...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's Joseph Tshuma emerges lone nominee in Pelandaba-Tshabalala By-election
In an update posted on X by online publication CITE earlier today, the nomination court for the upcoming by-elections in the Pelandaba-Tshabalala constituency revealed that, as of the latest updat...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 11:18hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa to boycott Mnangagwa parliamentary address
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says they will be boycotting the official opening of the first session of the tenth parliament on Tuesday where President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expec...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard wins central committee elections in Matebeleland
Most of the senior Zanu-PF members in Matebeleland won in the party's central committee elections held on Saturday.The central committee is the party's highest decision-making body outside of ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rock Zanu-PF polls
Zanu-PF held elections across the country to choose members of its provincial executives, but the polls were marred by chaos amid claims of rampant rigging and vote-buying.Voting started much ...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elections kick off in Bulawayo
ZANU-PF provincial elections in Bulawayo kicked off smoothly on Tuesday despite delays in the distribution of ballot papers to some polling stations in the metropolitan province.The ruling par...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members protest against district elections amid vote buying
Zanu-PF's ward 8 Mziba district is pushing for a rerun of September 26 elections, which it says were fraught with rigging.The district petitioned the provincial leadership on October 3 seeking...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
200 to contest for Zanu-PF posts in Bulawayo
MORE than 200 aspiring candidates in Bulawayo submitted their CVs to Zanu-PF for consideration to contest party posts in the party's provincial elections scheduled before the end of this month....Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man (61), hangs self over cow sex shame
A MAN from Binga could not stomach the shame of being caught by his wife while committing bestiality with a cow and later committed suicide while the hapless wife watched in horror.So traumati...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa overruled politburo on Ncube hero status
Former Bulawayo provincial minister Angeline Masuku declared that she too must not be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare after the Zanu-PF politburo initially turned down a request to have M...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF announces fundraising sub-committee
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province yesterday launched its provincial fundraising exercise for the party's forthcoming 17th Annual National People's Conference to be held next month and announced members of the...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 Shonas arrested over Gwanda mine murder
A GANG of eleven miners have been arrested for killing a man in a mine claim conflict in Vhovha, Gwanda. Two victims who are admitted to the Gwanda Provincial Hospital said the altercation was a resul...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'doomed without whites' says MUgabe ally
An outgoing member of parliament for Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly claimed that the southern African country cannot prosper "without the involvement of whites" in its "affairs"....Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma legislator vows to retain seat
ZANU PF Mpopoma-Pelandaba legislator Joseph Tshuma has described himself as the candidate of choice in this year's forthcoming elections, claiming the constituency has benefited a lot from the ruling ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF has no election violence policy'
ZANU-PF central committee member and legislator for Mpopoma-Pelandaba constituency, Joseph Tshuma, has dismissed opposition claims that the ruling party was behind most cases of political violence rec...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We don't have a rule book on election violence' - Zanu PF
ZANU PF central committee member and legislator for Mpopoma-Pelandaba constituency, Joseph Tshuma, has dismissed opposition claims that the ruling party was behind most cases of political violence rec...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa texts charm Zanu-PF candidates
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has sent text messages to Zanu-PF candidates for the forthcoming harmonised elections, urging them to push the party's election agenda, centred on development and serving the peopl...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Parliament aspirants preach unity
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province yesterday held constituency meetings to introduce candidates for the forthcoming general elections to the electorate.The message at all the meetings was that the part...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll re-runs in select Zanu-PF constituencies
Zanu-PF yesterday released the official list of candidates who were successful in the primary polls to contest for the National Assembly seats in elections set for July with more of the old guard maki...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF aspiring candidates for primaries in Bulawayo
ZANU (PF) members to battle it out in the primary elections in Bulawayo Province to select candidates to represent the party in the 2018 elections;...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF MP donates rice to disabled community in Mpopoma
Zanu PF legislator for Mpopoma Pelandaba Joseph Tshuma has donated rice to the disabled community in Mpopoma, Bulawayo."Sights from Lukanyiso Primary School in Mpopoma, where l met people livi...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 09:57hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu calls for unity ahead of primaries
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has called for unity among party members ahead of the party's primary elections.Mpofu made the calls while addressing a Provincial Coordinat...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, MDC-T legislators are useless'
ASPIRING People's Democratic Party (PDP) Bulawayo South parliamentary candidate, Clayton Jones, has described the city's sitting Zanu-PF and MDC-T legislators as useless, citing their failure to effec...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Putting God first pays for Pelandaba-Mpopoma
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's now famous catchphrase – the voice of the people is the voice of God – is what drives Pelandaba-Mpopoma legislator, Joseph Tshuma, so he said during an interview....Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP exposes price cheats
MPOPOMA-Pelandaba legislator Joseph Tshuma on Tuesday made surprise visits to Bulawayo businesses, a move that unearthed unjustified price increases in the city.The MP said he decided to embar...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T takes on Zanu-PF over BVR intimidation
THE opposition MDC-T has threatened to take Zanu-PF to court for allegedly dangling food aid at voter registration centres and inciting its activists to demand serial numbers from voter registrants....Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Boycott Mugabe 'body viewing' rally
OPPOSITION parties in Bulawayo yesterday threatened to mobilise their members to boycott President Robert Mugabe's scheduled youth interface rally at White City Stadium on Saturday.The parties...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Formalise art in education curricular: Artists
The Zimbabwe Applied Arts in Craft Association (ZAACA) is praying for Government's hand in improving artists and craftsmen working conditions. This, the organisation says, will improve individual live...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 10:13hrs | 13 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Idle farm owners accused of sabotaging economy
THE Member of Parliament for Pelandaba-Mpopoma constituency, Joseph Tshuma, has said there are people owning multiple farms in the country that they are failing to utilise, thereby sabotaging economic...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni Hospital sabotage
THE Member of Parliament for Mpopoma-Pelandaba Constituency, Joseph Tshuma, has urged Government to investigate reasons behind delays in opening Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo.Contributing to ...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 02:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Tsvangirai ally to contest on PDP ticket
FORMER Mpopoma-Pelandaba MDC-T legislator, Bekithemba Nyathi, has been elected as People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the same constituency in preparation for the 2018 elections.Nyat...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe invades Gwanda
A carnival atmosphere engulfed Gwanda yesterday as thousands of youths arrived at the mining town for the Presidential Youth Interface rally scheduled for today.Ecstatic youths flooded the str...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ecstatic Zanu-PF youths flood the streets of Gwanda
A carnival atmosphere engulfed Gwanda yesterday as thousands of youths arrived at the mining town for the Presidential Youth Interface rally scheduled for today.Ecstatic youths flooded the str...Published: 12 Aug 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF MP cries for the revival of Zisco Steel
Zanu PF MP for Mpopoma Pelanda Joseph Tshuma has cried out for the revival of the Zisco Steel with the view that the company used to employ huge number of people and promoted the operations of the Nat...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 06:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Load More Stories
