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Zimbabwe govt risks losing millions in undelivered goods
The Zimbabwean government faces the risk of losing millions of dollars after revelations that several ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) have yet to receive vehicles and other assets paid fo...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 09:04hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally reported for corruption
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's business associate, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, along with senior government ministers, has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for all...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 21:30hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Maminza kicked off Esidakeni farm
The government's seizure of Esidakeni farm in Matabeleland North was unlawful, the High Court in Bulawayo has ruled.Offer letters for sections of the farm given to Zanu-PF secretary Obert Mpof...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:45hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Climate change takes toll on tomato farmers
For decades, villagers in Madzivazvido, Gokwe North, have relied on tomato farming to sustain their families and communities. But climate change is rapidly eroding this once-reliable livelihood, as so...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:10hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1985 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
Chimombe, Mpofu charges dropped
The State has withdrawn fraud charges against businessman Moses Mpofu and ZANU PF central committee member Mike Chimombe in a case involving an allegedly corrupt lighting tender awarded by the Harare ...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 12:52hrs | 2847 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu's defence object to tendering of new documents
Lawyers representing businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe on Thursday protested in court after the prosecution attempted to introduce a crucial document in the ongoing trial over a controversial ...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:31hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
War veterans battle Mnangagwa in court
The escalating succession battle within the ruling Zanu PF party has now taken a legal twist, as a group of war veterans has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court over his controversial land t...Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:38hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Botswana border impasse rages on
A long-standing border dispute between Zimbabwe and Botswana, sparked by the construction of the Kazungula Bridge, continues to be a contentious issue four years after the US$259.3 million project was...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 11:58hrs | 14182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco auction season opens with 36.8% decline in sales
The first day of full-scale tobacco auctioning for the 2025 season began on Thursday, with a notable decline in the quantity of tobacco sold, marking a 36.8% drop compared to the same day in 2024. Exp...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 08:25hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Matebeleland might have a claim in Botswana's Tati concession
The government of Botswana, through the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, acquitted 45,000 hectares of land from the Tati company under the willing buyer and willing seller arrangement. The Botswana ...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 10:10hrs | 22677 | by Zenzele Ndebele
Zimbabwe wheat harvest tops 560 000 metric tonnes
Zimbabwe has harvested 560,000 metric tonnes of wheat this year, a significant increase from the 468,000 tonnes produced in 2023. This milestone was confirmed by the country's Lands and Agriculture Pe...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:11hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's lethargy to allocate land to war vets dominates indaba
A recent meeting of the Zanu-PF War Veterans National Assembly in Harare erupted into a heated verbal confrontation as war veterans expressed their deep dissatisfaction with President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:22hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu trial kicks off this Wednesday
Jailed fraud suspects Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu claim their constitutional rights have been violated, adding they will raise the complaint with the court as trial starts this Wednesday.The...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 14:08hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu rot in jail
ZANU-PF central committee member Mike Chimombe and his business partner Moses Mpofu have been denied bail once again in a case where they are accused of using forged documents to secure a street light...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 17:41hrs | 3056 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in King Lobengula jibe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa stirred controversy this week when he made a joke about the revered Ndebele King, Lobengula, suggesting he was ignorant. Speaking at Mak...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP tears into colleagues
A member of Zanu-PF's central committee, Blessed Geza, asserted that veterans of Zimbabwe's independence struggle wield significant influence in determining the country's leadership, suggesting they h...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:27hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caught between words and wallet
In a scene reminiscent of a political satire, President Emmerson Mnangagwa found himself amidst a whirlwind of irony during a recent event at Nhakiwa Vocational Training Centre in Uzumba, where he lau...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:53hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor under fire
A Zanu-PF councillor has been accused of illegally parcelling out land in Matebeleland North's Bubi district to desperate land seekers from as far as Midlands.Villagers from ward 14 also accus...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt mass evictions raise dust
HUMAN rights lawyers have lobbied Members of Parliament (MPs) to push for the repeal of the Communal Lands Act amid the mass eviction of people accused of illegally occupying state land across Zimbabw...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:05hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chemicals shortage crippling Harare water supplies
A CRITICAL shortage of chemicals is hamstringing Harare City Council (HCC)'s efforts to provide enough water to the capital city which is currently battling a major cholera outbreak.Speaking d...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe claims to have enough grain in stock
GOVERNMENT has assured the nation that Zimbabwe has enough mealie-meal to feed the people amid fears of a possible shortage due to the predicted El Nino-induced droughtZimbabwe and other regio...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials suspended over land theft
Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial executive has suspended Mutare district co-ordinating committee chairperson Binali Yard and four party members for the illegal sale of land in the Gimboki area using the ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints line ministries permanent secretaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has with immediate effect appointed deputy chief secretaries, line ministries' permanent secretaries and provincial affairs secretaries for devolution.In a stateme...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 21:10hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco farmers rake in US$774 million in sales
At least 256.6milion kilogrammes of tobacco worth a cumulative US$774.4 million have been sold so far around the country's auction and contract floors since the selling season opened in March, statist...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Binga installed
GOVERNMENT yesterday installed Grey Sikalelu Muleya as the new Chief Binga at the Bulawayo Kraal Primary School in Binga.Muleya (73), who becomes the area's third chief, takes over from the la...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new mines law a welcome game changer, but.....
AFTER years of debates and uncertainty, government finally gazetted the Mines and Minerals Bill in February 2023 to ostensibly replace the current Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05]. The current A...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by James Tsabora
Esidakeni challenge 'not abandoned'
A court application challenging the government's planned seizure of Esidakeni Estate, a coveted former dairy farm in Matabeleland North, is still pending before the courts and has not been "abandoned"...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slams information ministry for 'gross shortcomings'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday launched an extraordinary attack on his government's communications department which he said had "gross shortcomings" and hinted at hiring people with "contemp...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Analysis of the 2023 national budget
The Zimbabwean government presented a ZW$4.5 trillion budget (21% of 2021 GDP) for the 2023 fiscal year. The government expects to collect revenues totaling ZW$3.9 billion (18% of GDP), thus resulting...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:15hrs | 15 | by Victor Bhoroma
Karoro, Masaraure cases deferred to 2023
FORMER Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro's theft case and that of teachers' union leader Obert Masaraure, who faces a charge of obstructing the course of justice, have been postpone...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Witness nails fired deputy minister
THE trial of former Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro who was fired in June this year after being implicated in the theft of inputs sourced under the Presidential Inputs Scheme star...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube raises VAT, restores duty on basics
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled his 2023 budget on Thursday, raising value added tax (VAT) in a move the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) described as "an attack on working p...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube unveiled ZW$4,5 trillion 2023 budget
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube Thursday unveiled a total ZW$4,5 trillion 2023 budget, which will see salaries and operational costs eroding a huge chunk of the money.Very little resources were...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles cane plots to youths
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has doled out sugarcane plots to Zanu-PF youths in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2023 polls.In past elections, the ruling party ha...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'mutilates' Zanu-PF constitution
Zanu-PF president and first secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa has mutilated the party constitution introducing sweeping changes, ostensibly, to remove some provisions that hounded his firm grip to power....Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends Rautenbach's ethanol project
GOVERMENT has said it would defend business tycoon Billy Rauntenbach's ethanol project in Chisumbanje where Chipinge villagers have been objecting to the operations following a land dispute.Ra...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister exposes vote-buying plot
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has unwittingly exposed Zanu-PF's plot to use State resources to buy votes ahead of next year's polls.Addressing villagers in the Chinyamukwakwa a...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus soil testing companies on the prowl
THE Lands and Agriculture ministry has warned farmers to be wary of unscrupulous soil testing companies on the market ahead of the rainy season.Speaking during a campaign on soil testing in Go...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zambia bails out starving Zimbabwe
NEIGHBOURING Zambia has come to the rescue of Zimbabwe with 200 000 tonnes (t) of maize to feed millions currently facing hunger in the country, NewsDay has gathered.Plans by Zimbabwe to impor...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'No to foreign interference'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he would not brook foreign interference in Zimbabwe's internal affairs.Addressing mourners at the burial of the late national hero Highten Nkomo at ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt sets terms for NGOs
GOVERNMENT says non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may only be allowed to operate in the country if they are willing to complement its development policies. Addressing journalists on the si...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiri faces Parly grilling
LEGISLATORS have demanded that Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri be summoned to Parliament to explain why allocated funds in some ministries and government entities for 2021 have not been accounted f...Published: 24 Sep 2022 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Obert Mpofu can't be evicted'
LAWYERS representing Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu have claimed that their client cannot be evicted from Esidakeni Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North province, because he was n...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zacc's political agenda under spotlight as Zanu-PF internal fissures widen
Zanu-PF insiders and lawyers representing Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena claim his arrest this week was a political manifestation of internal squabbles and deep-rooted f...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives weather forecasting equipment
Small-scale farmers are set to benefit from the Green Climate Fund which seeks to mitigate drought and other climate change induced disasters.The project is funded by the United Development Fu...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC caught off-guard?
POLITICAL analysts have described the recent appointment of legislators to serve as opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokespersons in Parliament as evidence that the party needs to urgen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes Mayor Wadyajena
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into a case involving cotton farming inputs which were stocked at a warehouse linked to Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shiri's estate wrangle takes another twist
SOME relatives of the late former Lands and Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri appear to have acquired multiple names to fraudulently benefit from the national hero's estate.A wrangle over th...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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