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Kazembe promises urgent review into lockdown expiry learner's licences
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe on Wednesday promised an urgent review after the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) turned away scores of learner drivers whose provisional licences expired duri...Published: 5 hrs ago | 23 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo et all told 'return home and clear your names'
HOME Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe has called on exiled former Zanu-PF politicians who skipped the country past three years citing political persecution to return home and clear their names in crim...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt targets social media activists
GOVERNMENT has threatened to intensify its snooping into citizens' social media posts to thwart dissent and any plots to unseat or sabotage President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration.Home A...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:32hrs | 1877 | by Staff reporter
Rising crime worries govt
THE government is very concerned about the increase in violent crime in the country, as well as the continued abuse of social media.This comes as the country has witnessed a spate of armed rob...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:23hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Matanga admits bus teargassing cops messed up
POLICE Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has admitted his subordinates messed up when they threw teargas cannisters into a bus full of passengers at a bus stop near the Harare showgrounds early this...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:27hrs | 2143 | by Staff reporter
ZRP says recruiting 1,000 police officers
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says it will recruit 1,000 new police officers as soon as the coronavirus pandemic eases up.Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga told a news conference in Ha...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:26hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Kurauone slaps Govt with $2 million lawsuit for unlawful arrest
MDC-Alliance party youth leader Godfrey Kurauone has slapped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and other accomplices with a $2.4 million lawsuit over his unlawful arrest, detention and malicio...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 16:29hrs | 757 | by Stephen Jakes
Kazembe, Mthuli face contempt over $17k damages
AN ACTIVIST who was granted $17 000 damages by the High Court after being brutally assaulted by the police while demonstrating against xenophobia at the South African Embassy in 2015 is now seeking to...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:50hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe faces 2 months in jail
A HARARE magistrate has ordered the imprisonment of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage minister Kazembe Kazembe for 60 days for contempt of court.Kazembe failed to compensate a Gweru student, ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2482 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crafts Gukurahundi genocide burials policy
GOVERNMENT is crafting a policy that will guide the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims as it implements measures aimed at national healing. President Mnangagwa has pledged Governme...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:08hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is missing out on gold's rally
Gold might have rallied to a record high above US$2 070 this year, but policy missteps by the Zimbabwean authorities saw the southern African country missing out on the uplift.Zimbabwe, which ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:59hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Few delegates for Zanu-PF conference
THE number of delegates to the Zanu-PF annual national people's conference set to be held in Mashonaland Central province in December would be scaled down in line with COVID-19 guidelines, a party off...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe on mission to learn Ndebele language
HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said he is learning Ndebele and being conversant in the language is his priority at the moment. Since the adoption of the 2013 C...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe behind the arrest of Nicholas Goche?
A certain section of ZANU PF structures in Mashonaland Central have expressed anger over the arrest of ZANU PF Provincial Kingmaker Nicholas Goche over charges of stock theft and being accused of stea...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:59hrs | 7888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa in fresh ouster fears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday alleged a plot by Zanu-PF insiders to oust him from office after agreeing to pay white commercial farmers US$3,5 billion in compensation for land expropriated by...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:15hrs | 17744 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally re-opens Beitbridge border
ZIMBABWE has re-opened its side of the Beitbridge Border Post but to only allow Zimbabwean citizens in South Africa to return home.Zimbabweans with valid South African permanent residence and ...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 13166 | by Staff reporter
DCCs tear Zanu-PF apart
ZANU-PF leaders are reportedly toying with the idea of suspending district coordinating committee (DCC) elections following reports that the exercise had caused sharp divisions in the party.Th...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:31hrs | 3971 | by Staff reporter
Travellers turned away at Beitbridge border post
A HANDFUL of travellers seeking to cross into South Africa were yesterday turned away at Beitbridge Border Post as the Zimbabwean side is yet to be opened.Earlier, there was a haulage trucks j...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe keeps borders closed, but opens its airports to visitors
Zimbabwe re-opened its borders to air travellers on Thursday, but officials said borders would remain closed.Zimbabwe imposed a national lockdown at the end of March to curb the spread of the ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 09:09hrs | 3262 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs confront Mudenda
MDC Alliance MPs on Tuesday confronted National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda over the continued incarceration of Harare West legislator Joanna Mamombe.The embattled Mamombe was earlier this ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe borders still closed to general human traffic
Zimbabwe has only opened international airports to passenger traffic while land borders remain closed to human traffic for the time being. Only commercial traffic, diplomats and returning resi...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe defies ZANU PF Politburo directive?
Reports coming from Mashonaland Central's Mazowe District indicate that ZANU PF Provincial Chairman Kazembe Kazembe has defied the Politburo directive which ordered Provincial Executive Committees not...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 21:33hrs | 5587 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 3979 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide survivor loses court bid to stop exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese Friday dismissed with costs a case involving a Gukurahundi survivor, Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu Likazulu who were seeking an interdict barring...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt steps up Old Bulawayo restoration
GOVERNMENT has stepped up efforts in restoring King Lobengula's original capital, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago, with the reconstruction of 10 beehives among other civil w...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:17hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa should deploy General Chiwenga to Mash central'
Battle lines have been drawn ahead of ZANU PF's annual indaba which is set to be hosted by Mashonaland Central province. Political analysts have postulated that ZANU PF President Ememerson Mnangagwa n...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 16:29hrs | 7950 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cabinet puts state firms up for sale
CABINET on Tuesday resolved to finalise the privatisation of perennial loss-making parastatals and state-owned enterprises by year-end after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube reported that it had become u...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Matiza grilled over vehicle plates shortages
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday said government ordered a clampdown on vehicles without number plates after witnessing a spike in accidents involving unregistered vehicles.Resp...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 3387 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has an undying love for lies, propaganda
LIES and threats have now become the order of the day for the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government.Since his inauguration, people have been subjected to gross human rights violations, t...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1658 | by Toedza Fungai
Mnangagwa still to decide on Beitbridge Border Post re-opening
THE Government is still deliberating on whether to re-open its land borders especially Beitbridge Border Post to international travellers following an announcement by South Africa that it will re-open...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 4687 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Battle over ZANU PF Mash Central heats up
The battle for the soul of ZANU PF Mazowe DCC chairmanship has kicked off with John Mudzonga launching his campaign without clearance from the office of the National Political Commissar. In a ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 10:45hrs | 4073 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 25004 | by Staff reporter
Man wins $56k suit against Zimbabwe police
OME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay $56 640 as compensation to a Mazowe man whose car was burnt to a shell by law enforcement a...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
G40 kingpins scoff at extradition threat
SELF-EXILED Zanu-PF G40 kingpins Saviour Kasukuwere and Walter Mzembi yesterday scoffed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's threat to have them extradited from South Africa for prosecution.They ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 4930 | by Staff reporter
King Mzilikazi's Commemoration 2020
The Covid 19 pandemic protocols made it impossible for formal annual first week of September celebratory gatherings and festivities to take place at the Royal Palace, Emhlahlandlela in the Matop...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:10hrs | 787 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
Zimbabwe army, police victims sue
Two human rights activists are suing the government demanding the enactment of an Act of Parliament to comply with a provision of the constitution which says there must be an independent body to recei...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:08hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgment on Gukurahundi exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese yesterday reserved judgment in a case where Gukurahundi survivors were seeking an interdict order to stop President Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to fast...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Chaos ahead of Mash Central DCC elections
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections are reportedly marred with vote buying and rigging before they have commenced.Mazowe district is one of the...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 22:25hrs | 1513 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Fuel shortages cripple police operations
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is grappling with severe transport and fuel shortages resulting in its officers failing to attend crime scenes and other duties.This was confirmed by Home Af...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa and all politburo members
Mashonaland Central is burning and if left unchecked the situation will result in catastrophic political losses for ZANU PF. Several concerned party members have written letters, some have sought audi...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 8074 | by S. Utete
US$100 million gold smuggled out of Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is losing at least US$100 million worth of gold every month, which is being smuggled out of the country through porous borders with Government now in the process of rolling out measures to pl...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to restore Old Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula's original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi'...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:31hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not ready to defend Gukurahundi exhumation bid
A Bulawayo High Court Judge was Thursday forced to postpone hearing into a case in which a Gukurahundi survivor and local pressure groups are seeking to stop victim exhumations linked to the 1980s hol...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1707 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dangerous drift puts Mnangagwa under spotlight
ZIMBABWE is quiet for now after President Emmerson Mnangagwa clamped heavily on dissent while figures who have led calls for protests have been locked up in jail, with investigative journalist Hopewel...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2279 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Zimbabwe acquires drones for border surveillance
GOVERNMENT has acquired drones for surveillance and patrolling of the country's porous borders as part of efforts to capacitate security personnel in addressing security challenges posed by border jum...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1940 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda warns absconding ministers
Cabinet ministers will he held in contempt of Parliament if they continue missing business sittings, Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda warned yesterday. He issued the war...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says he is an apostle of peace
OUTSPOKEN MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala says he has been critical of the government since he was 16 years old and would not flee the country despite the State's desire to persecute critics...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 16:55hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can't lead Gukurahundi reburials, says Survivor
GUKURAHUNDI survivor Charles Thomas, Ibhetshu LikaZulu and Zapu have filed a High Court chamber application seeking to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting the exhumations of victims of Ma...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1737 | by Staff reporter
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