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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: 7 hrs ago | 655 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits to party chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that his party was in shambles and threatened to descend heavily on party members locked in bloody power struggles.Addressing an extraordinary s...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2503 | by Staff reporter
Politburo gears up for Anti-Sanctions Day
Zanu-PF has intensified preparations for the Anti-Sanctions Day, which will be commemorated on October 25.This follows a declaration by SADC member states to unite in the call for the uncondit...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Businessman killed during robbery
A KWEKWE businessman died from wounds sustained after he was attacked by unknown assailants during a robbery.Dan Chikowo (70) of Mbizo 16, was allegedly attacked by armed robbers as he entered...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff killings death toll rises
ONE more person has died from wounds sustained when a man went berserk in Redcliff on Saturday morning killing six people on the spot and leaving several others critically injured.Six people d...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba who massacred 6 family members arrested
Police have arrested Thubelithle Khoshow (26) in connection with cases of Murder and Rape which occurred on October 9 at around 0300 hours at ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 07:27hrs | 3156 | by Shelton Muchena
Mnangagwa warns 'name-droppers' in bloody clashes over gold claims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office has distanced the Zanu-PF leader from the bloody clashes over the control of one of Manicaland's richest gold mines.Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, a gold dealer...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2361 | by Staff reporter
6 people stabbed to death during all-night prayer, man, 26, arrested
A worshipper has stabbed six people to death and seriously wounded four others, police said on Saturday.The incident happened at around 3AM on Stone Claire Road in the Midlands town of Redclif...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 20:05hrs | 1992 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's leadership deficiency exposed by Zanu-PF's vicious factional fights
GROWING infighting in Zanu-PF, especially among President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies in his political citadel, the Midlands, is testimony to weak leadership which has failed to stem the internal stri...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
'Sakhile not linked to Mnangagwa's family'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's office yesterday denied reports that Sakhile Mnangagwa, who was duped of US$68 000 in a car importation deal, was linked to the First Family.Presidential Communi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
78 health workers succumb to COVID-19
AT least 23 doctors, 30 nurses and 25 other professionals in the health sector have succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak in the country last year, Vice-President and Health minister C...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
ZimAlloys to resume production next year
Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys), one of the country's largest ferrochrome producer is looking to re-start production during the first quarter of next year, an official has saidThe company owns thr...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga calls for mandatory vaccination
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child care Costantino Chiwenga discouraged people who are suing the government for mandatory vaccination while he was in Kwekwe yesterday for the official ope...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 20:51hrs | 1290 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chiwenga commissions 'beerhall' turned into hospital
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga Wednesday commissioned the opening of a former Kwekwe City Council beerhall in the populous high-density suburb of Mbizo that has been turned into an infectious dis...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:00hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to commission hospital
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, is set to officially commission the Kwekwe Infectious Diseases Hospital today.Kwekwe City Council conver...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Teacher drags Chiwenga to court
A KWEKWE-based primary school teacher, Mercy Mjikwa, has dragged the Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga to court over new Covid-19 rules targeting unvaccinated citizens.In an urgent chamber ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 2892 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's bitter, vengeful spirit decimating foes'
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's family claims his spirit is causing the death of his tribesmen who are at the forefront of the exhumation of his remains.Mugabe's body was buried at h...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 4257 | by Staff reporter
Renaming roads fails to convince Zimbabweans
A BID to rename major roads in the country after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some fallen heroes seems to have failed to resonate with Zimbabweans as they are still using old names, while in some ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial saga in bizarre twist
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his spirit is fighting back after "mysterious" deaths and illnesses hit families of some traditional leaders that were pushing for the exhumation of the la...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:16hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Minister of state security addicted to gold - Mliswa
Outspoken Norton Legislator Temba Mliswa has accused Minister of state security Owen "Mudha" Ncube and his nephew Energy Ncube of being addicted to gold and brutalizing people in Midlands.Mlis...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 14:37hrs | 6789 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nkayi diasporans mobilise R22k to construct dam back home
NKAYI residents based in the diaspora have mobilised R22 000 to construct Mbizi Dam to ease the water crisis in Nkuba village.This comes as the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is set...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Shock as July Moyo accused of using juju against Mnangagwa
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that ZANU PF Politiburo member July Moyo attempted to send juju laced shoes to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in an attempt to succeed the ZANU PF strongman. ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 12:22hrs | 7690 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe laments accidents that continue to claim lives on national roads
MDC-T deputy President and legislator Thokozani Khupe has lamented over the continued road carnage along the national roads."Minister (Felix) Mhona (Transport) is one of the Ministers who norm...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1877 | by Stephen Jakes
Mayihlome concerned over haulage trucks transporting chrome
ZANU PF legislator for Umzingwane Levi Mayihlome has expressed concerns over the increase in number of haulage trucks transporting chrome and other ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1372 | by Stephen Jakes
'The only way to unite ZANU PF camp is through election,' says Mugabe
Aspiring Kwekwe central member of Parliament Kandros Mugabe said he is prepared to face his rival Energy Ncube (Dhala)and win election....Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1439 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mthuli Ncube commits to Nkayi Road completion
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said the upgrading of the 158km Bulawayo-Nkayi Road is a top priority among key infrastructure projects being championed by the G...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 7904 | 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 | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland marginalisation
THE marginalisation of the Matabeleland region is viewed as a deliberate extension of the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the Zanu pF government, to punish the people in the southern parts of the count...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:47hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
Midlands close to herd immunity
The Midlands province is moving fast towards achieving herd immunity with over 31 percent of the population having been vaccinated across the province so far. According to the provincial...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence
I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened th...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1404 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kwekweza, Zimudzi set free over protest against tinkering with constitution
HARARE Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has set free two pro-democracy campaigners who had been on trial on charges of promoting public violence after they were arrested for allegedly protesting ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 15:55hrs | 619 | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Samkange faces ZLS censure
PROMINENT Harare lawyer Jonathan Samkange of Venturas and Samkange was given a 24-hour ultimatum by Sabonabona residents to withdraw papers he filed at the Supreme Court on their behalf without their ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces
ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China's Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Poor roads haunt region
WHILE roads development brings social, cultural and economic changes in the lives of people in terms of providing connectivity between places and reducing poverty, in rural Matabeleland it is a privil...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:40hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner rehabilitates roads
A newly-rehabilitated gold mine in the Simona communal area which is on the border between Mazowe and Bindura is changing the lives of at least 9 000 villagers after it sponsored the rehabilitation of...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:38hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Wife catches husband raping 16 year-old daughter
"FOR better or for worse" is part of the common marriage vow but a woman from Zhombe in the Midlands province could not have anticipated that the worst scenario she can encounter in her marriage is to...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:29hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF resumes indigenisation meetings
ZANU PF has resumed the Revised Policy on Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment roll out programme. It started in May this year in Bulawayo. During the first roll out programme, Zanu P...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Zupco in head-on collision, 1 dead
One person died on the spot while six others were injured when a car collided head on with a Zupco commuter omnibus along the Kwekwe -Redcliff Road. The driver of a Toyota Alex died on the spo...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Man murdered for 'showing off' beer
SEVEN men are on the run for the murder of a 30-year-old man, who was stabbed for allegedly 'showing off' at a bar in Kwekwe's area of Munyathi. The now deceased David Tembo (30), was stabbed ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 19:51hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner brings life to Bindura
FOR 27 years, the residents of Simona struggled to access medical facilities and markets for their farm produce in nearby Bindura due to the appalling state of the roads.But in just two months...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Air Force commander files notice of opposition
AIR Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Elson Moyo, who is being sued by a former subordinate he fired last year for trespassing into a gold mine in Kwekwe, has approached the High Court to ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 831 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa says his party has been infiltrated
THE MDC Alliance says the party has been penetrated by infiltrators who are spying on it and selling its secrets to government and Zanu-PF.Speaking during the party's 22rd anniversary commemor...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 19:46hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
'Con job' that cost Mnangagwa dearly
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's projected winter wheat harvest has been severely cut after the government failed to stop an invasion by quelea birds at his Kwekwe farm because authorities bought a wron...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 3376 | 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 | 678 | by Staff reporter
Deadly helicopter was meant for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's fleet of presidential helicopters was depleted in April when an Air Force of Zimbabwe chopper crashed in Acturus, 30 kilometres east of Harare, as new details emerge on ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:51hrs | 3323 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwewide construction, upgrade of bus terminuses
Shelters at bus terminuses countrywide will be repaired, replaced or installed before the next rains as part of a Government programme to upgrade urban public transport President Mnangagwa announced y...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF pin hope on Chinese and Russian vaccination
Zanu PF Midlands provincial secretary for information and publicity Cornelius Mupereri thanked the government for relying on Chinese or Russian vaccines during the Kwekwe district restructuring exerci...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 15:02hrs | 440 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
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