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Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 32 mins ago | 212 | by Staff reporter
Police to impound cars not displaying registration plates
POLICE yesterday said they have launched an operation to impound all cars that move around without displaying registration number plates.Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi ...Published: 34 mins ago | 70 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans killed in Botswana
POLICE in Plumtree have raised concern over the ill-treatment of Zimbabweans in Botswana with two people having been killed in the neighbouring country recently. There have been complaints in ...Published: 40 mins ago | 66 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 44 mins ago | 42 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 45 mins ago | 42 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 17 hrs ago | 225 | by Vince Musewe
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 17 hrs ago | 7988 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa considers tightening lockdown restrictions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly considering changing the lockdown restrictions due to the sharp increase in positive cases.Online publication Zimlive reported that, "President Emmer...Published: 20 hrs ago | 7013 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3884 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2162 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 3341 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 3638 | by Staff reporter
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3111 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces Bulawayo revolt
MDCAlliance is facing a revolt in Bulawayo with reports that some councillors and legislators want to join acting MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe. According to insiders, the councillors and MP...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3293 | by Staff reporter
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1407 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been taken to court by one Tendai Chitinhe who is involved in a fierce wrangle for the Chivero chieftainship with Cornleous Chengera.Chengero was recently appo...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 21:04hrs | 11680 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9435 | by Staff reporter
RBZ designates Zimswitch as a national payment switch
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect as it moves to operationalise Statutory Instrument 80 of 2020, which enables it to contro...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:21hrs | 1985 | by Staff reporter
UBH reviews user fees upwards
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals have reviewed its user fees upwards the fees ranges from between $250 to $15 000.The development comes at a time when the government recently increased civil serv...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:21hrs | 963 | by Stephen Jakes
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2350 | by The Big Interview
High Court ends Muthombeni's wee long detention over anti-Mnangagwa slur
HIGH Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Monday ended the week-long detention of Ephraim Muthombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRAD), who wa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 1985 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20368 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens to clamp down on big business
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down on big business fond of disrupting government policies by inflating prices of goods and manipulating the black market.Speaking at a policy meeting in Harar...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 2990 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Zapu cross swords over seized properties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has angered opposition Zapu leaders after he met them shortly before the November 2017 coup and early last year where he pledged to return their seized properties before h...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2058 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean born actor invades Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES-BASED Zimbabwean actor Rick Cosnett has disclosed that his journey to become a Hollywood star did not come on a silver platter, but he travelled a difficultroad.Cosnett is popu...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rescues Khupe at his mother's funeral
MDC-Alliance hooligans allegedly manhandled and temporarily blocked MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe from attending the burial of Gogo Alice Chamisa, the mother to MDC-Alliance faction leader Mr Nelson...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 4417 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 18 UBH health workers test positive
EIGHTEEN health personnel working in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after allegedly attending to an infected patient, The Chronicle reported....Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1729 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa fails to manage South Africa's coronavirus death rate
South Africa now has the world's 14th highest number of Covid-19 infections globally and officials are concerned that the virus's "doubling rate" is currently higher than all countries with more cases...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 21:38hrs | 3953 | by Staff reporter
Readmission of former colleagues divides Zanu-PF
Discord has reportedly rocked Zanu-PF over the readmission of former colleagues who were ejected from the party post the November 2017 coup that removed the late former President robert Mugabe from bo...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 3513 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in trouble
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and some officials in his ministry face contempt of Parliament charges after the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Finance accused them of treating the august H...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 14165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu recalled from Parly
CHIVI South MP, Killer Zivhu, has been recalled from the National Assembly following his expulsion from the ruling Zanu-PF party last month.The announcement of his recall was made by Speaker o...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parly structure complete
Structural works on the imposing six-storey Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the scenic surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislative supremacy, are 10...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala slept in urine soaked blankets
MDC Alliance deputy chair, Job Sikhala has filed a $1,5 million lawsuit against Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, police and the prosecutor general over his arrest and prosecution last year....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2203 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader denied bail
MDC Youth Assembly National Organizising Secretary Godfrey Kurauone who is in custody for allegedly underming the authority of President has been denied bail in Masvingo Magistrate court today....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:54hrs | 1030 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
WATCH: I am ready to pray for Covid-19 patients in isolation centres - TB Joshua
Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has signalled his readiness to virtually offer prayer for COVID-19 patients in isolation centres around the world.In a special announcement posted to Joshua's YouTube...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1294 | by Emmanuel Koro
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1561 | by Emmanuel Koro
Panicking Zanu PF hunting 'detractors' to stop protests - then hunt all 34% living in abject poverty
"Our party detractors continue with their anti-establishment agendas. The party is aware of the plan for mass protests (on July 31) being organised by the MDC Alliance renegades: Tajamuka, the Front f...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 2277 | by Nomusa Garikai
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11548 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Coming protests are unstoppable' boasted MDC - blocked reforms for 20 years so can protest, genius!
The MDC e-rally gave the party leaders the opportunity to once again grandstand and drum their chest like silverback gorillas!"The video by this nurse (protesting nurse) is a reflection of the...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:43hrs | 2880 | by Nomusa Garikai
Undenge loses last bid for freedom
JAILED former Energy Minister Samuel Undenge has lost his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against a High Court decision upholding a 30 month-jail sentence imposed on him for corru...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:26hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
MDC houses, motorbikes and cars missing
TOP MDC Alliance officials (names supplied) used their positions to strip the troubled opposition party of assets that include houses, vehicles as well as lining their pockets with donor and public fu...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:21hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Fresh push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa dialogue
Zimbabwe's clergy is on a fresh drive to bring political parties to the negotiating table aimed at coming up with lasting solutions to the country's worsening economic challenges, CITE reported....Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2965 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to depreciate against the dollar
The Zimbabwe dollar depreciated 3.2% at the foreign currency auction to 65.8765 from 63.7442 last week. Today's auction marked the entry of exporters and holders of free funds who were liquidating the...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:42hrs | 3046 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a 'liar' who doesn't deserve the presidency, says MDC councillor
The MDC-Alliance Bulawayo East District has allegedly suspended its district chairman, Silas Chigora from his position over allegations of denigrating the party's President Nelson Chamisa and declarin...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2960 | by Staff reporter
'There are no 2023 elections without reforms' said Chamisa - same s***t different elections
Same s***t different day! That really sums up beautifully what Nelson Chamisa's E-Rally was about!"We want political reforms and these reforms must have people's consultation. We want credible...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2967 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zec ready to replace Chamisa's senators
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is ready for filling of proportional representation seats in the Senate and National Assembly, since there is no extra voting in this regard, the results of the...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:59hrs | 6600 | by Staff reporter
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