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CIO owns abductions car rental company
ZIMBABWE's hospitality giant, Impala Car Rental, which has a big footprint in the tourism sector, and is implicated in the abduction and torture of severely traumatised journalism student Tawanda Much...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA to open B/Bridge amid tight COVID-19 protocols
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it was going ahead with the reopening of the Beitbridge border post on December 1 as scheduled but with tight COVID-19 protocols in a bid to control the spread of the virus i...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:24hrs | 3017 | by Staff reporter
Parliament moots law to regulate DNA testing
NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has revealed that Parliament is contemplating crafting a law that will regulate DNA testing in the country amid revelations that there is no such law.Mu...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a new ZBC
THE awarding of licences to six national free-to-air commercial television broadcasting stations last week was received with mixed feelings by Zimbabweans. Many hailed the momentous occasion as unpara...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 660 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa vows opposition poll defeat
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his party Zanu-PF should draw inspiration from Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha mapinduzi's landslide victory to defeat the opposition in forthcoming by-elections and othe...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:31hrs | 2714 | by Staff reporter
MDC welcome Thomas-Greenfield US ambassador to UN - she must read ambassador Dell's Tsvangirai report
MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart has welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda Thomas Greenfield as US ambassador to the United Nations....Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 529 | by Nomusa Garikai
New US envoy to UN good news for HRDs, claims Coltart
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance treasurer-general David Coltart yesterday welcomed the appointment of United States human rights defender and career diplomat Linda ThomasGreenfield as US ambassador to the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
Of Zanu-PF and poisoning
0N August 11, 2017, at a rally in Gwanda, the then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa fell ill, allegedly after eating ice cream which had been poisoned and spent over a week in South Africa under trea...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:33hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Jamesina King red flags Mnangagwa over Chin'ono
THE African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) special rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, Commissioner Jamesina King, has written to President Emmers...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:21hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
6 Zanu-PF linked TV stations get licences
Six new free-to-air private television stations will go live in Zimbabwe within the next 18 months, joining ZBCTV, after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) yesterday issued licences, ending ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:15hrs | 250 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF spells out Mnangagwa succession plan
ZANU-PF yesterday said the party's succession matrix would al-ways be guided by its constitution and remained a straitjacket where the most senior party member would succeed an incumbent party leader....Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | 11694 | by Staff reporter
2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 472 | by Nomusa Garikai
Justice Ndewere tribunal sworn in
A three-member tribunal led by retired judge Justice Simbi Mubako was sworn in yesterday by President Mnangagwa to inquire into the fitness of suspended High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, to hol...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1322 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start getting bonuses
Civil servants will start getting their annual bonuses this month with the last groups being paid out next month. The payments are based on the 41 percent salary rise and new allowance agreed ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official cleared of kidnapping
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday absolved its national council member Tendai Masotsha of assisting State security agents in the alleged abduction and torture of a university student Tawanda Muche...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1108 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF seeks Biden indulgence on sanctions
THE Zanu-PF government has tasked Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo to approach the United States President-elect Joe Biden in a fresh bid to mend the frosty relations between Harare and Washingt...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Lack of funding stalling Gwayi Shangani Dam construction
LACK of funding is reportedly stalling progress at the US$121 million Gwayi Shangani Dam, with only 39% of the project funds having been expended to date, while government is failing to secure more to...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga assesses situation before reopening borders
GOVERNMENT is monitoring the situation on the ground before reopening of the country's borders for human traffic in two weeks as saving lives remains top of its agenda in view of Covid-19 threats, Vic...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 4556 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP tells youths yo demonstrate against govt and get bashed
ZANU-PF MP for Chirumhanzu-Zibagwe Prosper Machando has warned youths they will be beaten up if they dared protest against government.Machando was speaking at Thursday's National Association o...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions frustrate Zimbabwe intervention in Mozambique'
THE ruling Zanu PF party yesterday claimed that government efforts to intervene and stop Islamic insurgents in neighbouring Mozambique were being frustrated by economic sanctions imposed on Harare by ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2640 | by Staff reporter
Nichols should stop interfering in Zim affairs
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols' continued interference to the Zimbabwe's internal affairs has reached alarming levels with the ambassador now behaving like a prefect with the t...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 13:46hrs | 1916 | by Innocent Mujeri
'Mugabe tactics replicated by Trump'
JOURNALISTS in the United States yesterday accused their President Donald Trump of emulating Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe in refusing to concede electoral defeat.The US went to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2479 | by Staff reporter
Thugs in Zanu PF soiling the good name of the party
In this time of DCC elections, a lot of hero-worshipping and name dropping within the party is rife. Many people are abusing the name of the president in order to gain momentum. Some in provinces are ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 13:04hrs | 975 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZEC ready for polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is ready to hold by-elections that are Covid-19 compliant once the ban imposed on health grounds is lifted. Voter registration has reached top gear, wit...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers study latest pay increase offer
The government attempted to break a crippling teachers' strike on Tuesday with a 40 percent wage increase, coupled with a 10 percent risk allowance.Most of Zimbabwe's 130,000 teachers have bee...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 14:07hrs | 4925 | by Staff reporter
War vets see no change of bitter Zimbabwe-US relations
ZANU-PF secretary for war veterans, Douglas Mahiya expects no change of relations between US President elect Joe Biden's envisaged administration and the Zimbabwean government.His sentiments a...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Aide sucks in minister in fuel scam
Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza has been fingered in a $66 000 fuel scam by his aide who told the Harare Magistrates Court on Monday that he took 19 000 litres of fuel with the minister's knowle...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:37hrs | 2991 | by Staff reporter
Court tells Mtetwa stop embarrassing the State
HARARE magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa yesterday castigated Hopewell Chin'ono's lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa for embarrassing State prosecutors after she told the court that corruption was stopping prosecutors...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:36hrs | 5769 | by Staff reporter
We're not in control, says Zec
ELECTORAL management body, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has washed its hands over the by-elections which Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga embargoed citing the novel coron...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2820 | by Staff reporter
10% risk allowance for teachers: New basic salary package now $18 237
GOVERNMENT has introduced a 10 percent risk allowance for teachers while proposing a 40 percent salary increase for civil servants which will result in the lowest paid employee getting over $14 500. ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | 2587 | by Staff reporter
MSU lecturers threaten to resign en masse
MEDIA lecturers at the Midlands State University have threatened to resign en masse in protest over curriculum changes they say were unilateral and without their input.NewsDay gathered that mo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 7880 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's waterworks buffer dries up
CITY of Bulawayo's Criterion Waterworks buffer is now left with 10 days supply, a situation which could worsen the water crisis in Bulawayo where some residential areas have gone for a month without s...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC launches 1 million voter registration campaign
THE MDC Alliance has launched a voter registration campaign targeting 1million new first time voters to guarantee victory in any upcoming elections.Government has suspended the holding of elec...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 23:32hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Gringo lashes out at govt
ARTISTES have been known for moralising at the expense of reality through their creative work, setting the agenda in national discourse, but popular yesteryear actor Lazarus "Gringo" Boora has decided...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
SADC foreseeing Mnangagwa's downfall, claims Sikhala
MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala believes the recent war of words between South Africa's ruling ANC and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration was evidence the regional bloc, SADC wo...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:12hrs | 3168 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs, DA denounce violence against foreigners
South Africa's Home Affairs Department and that country's main opposition political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday denounced the violence by some locals targeting foreign nationals in D...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Drama as Chin'ono is brought to court late
THERE was drama at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday as journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's was brought to court well after all the courts had closed for business and staff knocked off.A speci...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1563 | by Staff reporter
Allan Chimbetu returns
When Allan Chimbetu took a sabbatical to music industry he has shelved songs he intended to release sometime in future.While doing some menial jobs, the musician was just penning songs though ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 09:51hrs | 3496 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chinamasa rubbishes Khupe's overtures
Zanu-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has rubbished opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's push for a government of national unity.Chinamasa told journalists during a party Press co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12061 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to choke opposition
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday announced that it will use its parliamentary majority to tighten screws on civic society organisations and the opposition, whom it accuses of calling for more sancti...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:41hrs | 3527 | by Staff reporter
Youths demand justice for rights defenders
A YOUTH pressure group in Matabeleland South province has demanded justice for human rights defenders, including slain MDC Alliance member Joseph Mazwi Ndlovu, who was reportedly killed in July for qu...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:54hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
1 032 nurses struck off payroll
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has removed 1 032 defiant nurses from its pay sheets after they declined to resume normal working hours and insisted on either not working or working sharply reduced ho...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
NewsDay journalist kicked out of Zanu-PF meeting
DIFFERENT media organisations yesterday condemned the expulsion of a freelance journalist Nunurayi Jena by Zanu-PF members at a Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) function at the weekend....Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frets over graft links
GOVERNMENT yesterday claimed that reports linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family to corrupt deals were designed to cause public disaffection and lead to a rebellion.Information minister...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 2487 | by Staff writer
Zimbabweans await US election with apathy, anticipation
THE upcoming vote could mark a major shift in American politics, but it's unclear how the outcome will affect the two nations' frosty relationship.Whether the issue is the coronavirus pandemic...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 2582 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's former MP joins Zanu-PF
Former MDC T legislator for Masvingo Central Tongai Matutu has joined Zanu-PF saying the opposition party "in its various forms" has lost direction as it is now wasting precious time bickering among t...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:32hrs | 8818 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ups anti-corruption fight
President Mnangagwa has appointed a 13-member steering committee to oversee the implementation of the National Anti Corruption Strategy, which was launched in July. Members of the committee in...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1962 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa 'blocked' SADC army deployment to save Mugabe
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa has made sensational claims regional body, SADC sat and considered deploying an army to save then President Robert Mugabe who had been put under siege by the military November 2...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:39hrs | 1706 | by Staff reporter
Why police stormed Harare Town House
POLICE stormed Harare City Council chambers to stop the city fathers from passing a resolution that would have seen suspended executives returning to work as fears of government interference in the op...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2148 | by Staff reporter
British lingering nostalgia for an Empire forever lost
Mr Speaker, I rise to inform this House that, on 27 October, the British House of Lords, conducted yet another of their meandering debates on the situation in Zimbabwe. The fascination with Zi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:09hrs | 300 | by Hon Kindness Paradza
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