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3 die in kombi, truck collision
THREE people died when a kombi and a truck collided as they tried to avoid a broken down truck and stray donkeys about 40 kilometres from Gokwe centre along the Kwekwe–Gokwe road. Four donke...Published: 16 hrs ago | 417 | by Staff reporter
Minister storms out of YaFM launch, says cannot address 'empty chairs'
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavhima Friday left the regional launch of private radio station YA FM in Kwekwe in a huff saying he could not be found addressing "empty chairs".The...Published: 16 hrs ago | 490 | by newzimbabwe
3 in court for assault
Three Kwekwe artisanal miners were arraigned before a Kwekwe magistrate last week facing charges of assaulting a colleague on tribal grounds using machetes.Albert Tembo (26), Tawanda Donjijena...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:03hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Teacher jailed for assaulting pupil
Kwekwe magistrate Tayengwa Sangster has sentenced a female teacher who assaulted a five-year-old pupil to an effective 12 months in prison.Mejulla Matina (51) was convicted on her own plea of ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:00hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Cop steals car at police station
A POLICE officer based in Gokwe has been arrested after he tried to drive out a car that was kept at a police station as exhibit.Brighton Sebata (25) based at Gokwe Police Station last week ap...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:26hrs | 2041 | by Staff reporter
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modeled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:30hrs | 520 | by Enock Jonathan
Proposed govt law to bring clarity on forex repatriation fears
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is in the process of formulating a law that would spell out how foreign investors can repatriate their profits from Zimbabwe, a country facing foreign currenc...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:31hrs | 580 | by newzimbabwe
Kwekwe VID receiving bribes in exchange for drivers' licences
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has called for an investigation into reports that officials at the Kwekwe Depot of the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) are allegedly receiving...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:06hrs | 2692 | by Staff reporter
Candidates nominated for ZACC - full-list
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED FOR THE ZIMBABWE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (ZACC) The Standing Rules and Orders Committee of the Parliament of Zimbabwe is mandated in terms of Secti...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 08:33hrs | 4471 | by Parliement
Ex-Zanu-PF Senator sued over $368k power debt
Former Zanu-PF Midlands Senator Flora Buka, has been taken to court by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) over aUS$368 833 debt for electricity supplied at her ...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:27hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Heavyweights vie for ZACC posts
High-profile figures are among the list of 133 people who have been nominated for interviews to become commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC). Following the resignatio...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients'
NURSES at Zimbabwe"s foremost medical institution, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, have resorted to washing bandages to dress burns on patients as health crisis at the institution deepens, plastic su...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 314 | by newzimbabwe
MDC Midlands in power-sharing deal
MDC Midlands structures have struck a power-sharing deal which will them equally share provincial posts following the merging of Midlands north and south provinces ahead of the party's May congress....Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
Milestone in Harare-Bulawayo dualisation
GOVERNMENT has completed dualising another 12-kilometre section of the Harare-Bulawayo highway, with work on the road-over-rail bridge after the Norton tollgate expected to be completed in four months...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:41hrs | 11041 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephew in fierce tug-of-war for land with church group
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephew, Charles Mpofu is still involved in a fierce tussle for farmland with an apostolic sect group in Kwekwe's Mbembeswane area with the white robbed church members fi...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1850 | by newzimbabwe
RBZ accused of buying stolen gold
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe responsible for the purchasing, refining and exporting of gold, is under fire for buying "stolen gold" from illegal a...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:00hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt the worst human rights abuser'
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday labelled the Zanu-PF government as the worst human rights abuser in the country.This emerged during a debate on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) report on t...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:04hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council, workers in salary deadlock
AN ad-hoc committee has been appointed to look into the impasse between Gweru City Council workers and their employer.The development comes hardly a week after the restive workers issued a not...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF band leader gets death threats
Former Midlands province-based leader of the Zanu-PF-aligned band, Chimurenga IV, John Mutemeri (pictured), who ditched the rilling party to join the opposition MDC Alliance, has received threats over...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:13hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabwe's 'unwitty' MPs be sent back to school?
In our series of letters from African writers, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe looks at whether politicians need better qualifications.Zimbabwe has one of the highest liter...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 16:19hrs | 823 | by Brian Hungwe
Political tags bad for local music
DURING January's bloody political protests, this reporter had a conversation with Winky D's manager, Jonathan Banda, who at the time, sounded very worried about the safety of his artiste as the politi...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1128 | by Kennedy Nyavaya
Zimbabwe's First Lady a humanitarian person
Auxillia Mnangagwa the fourth first lady in Zimbabwe was born on the 25th March 1963. She precedes Mrs Banana. mrs Sally Mugabe. Mrs Grace Mugabe She is a second born in a family of 5. She grew up in ...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 12:56hrs | 1267 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gweru council workers' demo shelved
GWERU City Council workers have shelved their planned demonstration which was meant for yesterday and instead gave their employer 14 days to address their grievances, Zimbabwe Urban Council Workers' U...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:20hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa snubs dead miners
ONLY a few hours after his rally criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to visit the site of a recent mine disaster that killed 24 artisanal miners in Battlefields, Mashonaland West, MDC ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | 3281 | by newzibmabwe
Chamisa, Mnangagwa stampeded to Mtukudzi funeral but snubs dead miners
ONLY a few hours after his rally criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to visit the site of a recent mine disaster that killed 24 artisanal miners in Battlefields, Mashonaland West, MDC ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:24hrs | 301 | by newzimbabwe
Teacher cracks pupil's forehead
A teacher at Amaveni Primary School in Kwekwe was on Monday arraigned before the courts for shoving a Grade One pupil against a desk, resulting in her sustaining a cut on her forehead. The pup...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:30hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF only listens to violent rebellion!
The recent violent protests that rocked most Zimbabwe cities between 14 and 16 January 2019, have offered enough proof that the only way the ZANU PF regime will ever seriously listen to the people's g...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1323 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Mnangagwa visits Kwekwe farm, ignores nearby mine disaster scene
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa had time to visit his Sherwood farm in Kwekwe Sunday but could not spare a few moments to make a stop at the scene for last week's tragic mine disaster in Kadoma where doz...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1110 | by newzimbabwe
Letter to my friends in the MDC Alliance
I write to advise you as a friend that in your next congress scheduled for this year kindly introduce Term Limits for your Councillors and Members of Parliament. Your primary elections were ve...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 10:23hrs | 2465 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo, Sr
Beitbridge houses built on collapsing mine tunnels
A DOZEN families in the HaMbedzi section of Dulivhadzimo suburb in Beitbridge are living in fear of an imminent disaster after they were allocated stands and built their houses above a disused mine wh...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi clears air on Nuanetsi Ranch ownership
President Mnangagwa has appointed a board of trustees for the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) and board of directors for Nuanetsi Ranch Limited. The board of trustees for DTZ are former Mu...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1709 | by Staff reportert
Thabitha Khumalo barred from visiting MDC Alliance looters at Bulawayo prison
STAFF at Mlondolozi Women Prison in Bulawayo on Saturday barred MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and her delegation from visiting party members incarcerated at the penal facility.Khum...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 374 | by newzimbabwe
'Madzibaba Kagoro has God-given powers'
God of Miracles Apostolic Church leader Jonah Kagoro, who is based at St Mary's in Chitungwiza where has a great following, has a story to tell.The 37-year-old Murehwa-born Man of God says he ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:09hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zifa Cup set for return
The Zimbabwe Football Association is set to bring back the biggest football competition, the Zifa Cup, after more than a decade of absence.The tournament was last contested for in 2005 as the ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:02hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa whips NGOs into line
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) operating in Kwekwe have called upon to be transparent in their operations and to desist from conducting community projects without approval from Government. ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:25hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe Remand Prison bans cooked food
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has banned visitors from bringing cooked food to inmates at Kwekwe Remand Prison at a time the institution is failing to provide standard meals....Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:40hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Two MDC MPs arrested over #ShutdownZimbabwe
MDC Member of Parliament for Mbizvo, Settlement Chikwinya and Redcliff MP Lloyd Mukapiko were arrested on Friday arrested on fresh charges of inciting public violence when they went to report to...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:24hrs | 2372 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa snubs prayer breakfast attended by Chamisa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today snubbed The National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Meeting organised by church leaders and attended by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa. Mnangagwa decided to send Mi...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 14:47hrs | 5682 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dialogue compared to Smith's 'Internal Settlement'
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) vice president Welshman Ncube compared talks initiated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resolve Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis, snubbed by his party on...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 20:45hrs | 3444 | by ZimLive/Reuters
Parents withdraw kids from schools
TEACHERS reported for duty yesterday in Bulawayo, Midlands and parts of Matabeleland North but education authorities decried the decision by some parents to withdraw their children from schools. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance MPs freed on bail
Mbizo legislator Settlement Chikwinya and his Redcliff counterpart, Lloyd Mukapiko, who are facing charges of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, have been granted bail by the High Court...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:58hrs | 1780 | by Staff reporter
Kombi crash kills 4
Four people died on the spot this morning when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in burst a rear tyre at Tiger Reef-Bridge at the 15 kilometre peg along Gokwe-Kwekwe road.According to ey...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 13:27hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs granted bail
MDC Alliance legislators Settlement Chikwinya (Kwekwe) and Lloyd Mukapiko (Mbizo) were last Friday granted $300 bail each by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese.Justice Makonese ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:09hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
Hwange extension project underway
The actual construction works for Zesa's US$1,4 billion Hwange Power Station (HPS) 7 and 8 extension project have started, giving hope the project will be completed within time and original budget, a ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman to assemble, sell cars locally
A ZIMBABWEAN professional and businessman based in the United States of America has partnered an Indian and Italian car maker to set up a car assembling plant in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, focusing mainly on a...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:27hrs | 8377 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa no-show at rally raises eyebrows
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday failed to attend a rally to thank his supporters following his controversial July 2018 election win, raising fresh speculation about alleged fissures in the pres...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:01hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
Riot police crash Gweru lawyers march
RIOT police yesterday blocked Gweru lawyers from marching in protest against the alleged absence of rule of law and lack of independence of the magistrates' courts.The legal practitioners unde...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:54hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs bailed after 2 weeks in custody
BULAWAYO High Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese on Friday granted bail to two treason-accused MDC legislators from Kwekwe.Redcliff MP Lloyd Mukapiko and Mbizo counterpart Settlement Chikwiny...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:43hrs | 323 | by newzimbabwe
The death of Zimbabwean economic giants
The market landscape of any country is shaped by a few companies that underpin socio-economic activities of that particular nation. These companies are mirrored on the competitive advantages that the ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:16hrs | 843 | by Victor Bhoroma
Redcliff, Mbizo MPs approach High Court for bail
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance's Redcliff and Mbizo MPs, Lloyd Mukapiko and Settlement Chikwinya, have taken their freedom bid to the Bulawayo High Court.The two were arrested on January 17 on allega...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:44hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
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