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Shocking: Hillcrest College demands fees for 3 terms
In a shocking move, a private school in Mutare, Hillcrest College is demanding payment for 3 terms for the current school calendar year despite students attending for only 2 terms.Pare...Published: 2 hrs ago | 227 | by Concerned Parent
High court exposes 'shady' MDC Alliance MPs recall
The High Court has described a shadowy politician who tried to recall MDC Alliance deputy president Tendai Biti and five other opposition legislators as behaving like a hired gun.Justice Josep...Published: 2 hrs ago | 124 | by Staff reporter
PSL, ZIFA clash over refs
ZIFA and Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs are headed for another clash after the association allegedly reneged on paying match officials as part of a FIFA-funded Covid-19 relief package guaranteeing ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 25 | by Staff reporter
Fierce battle erupts over new media law
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has come out guns blazing as it accuses professional bodies of trying to usurp its constitutional duties through the proposed Media Practitioners Bill.Corre...Published: 11 hrs ago | 549 | by Staff Reporter
BCC to hold WhatsApp budget consultations
BULAWAYO City Council will for the second year running hold WhatsApp-based budget consultation meetings and also present the 2022 budget projections via the social networking platform.Last yea...Published: 12 hrs ago | 138 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents object to virtual budget review
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) has objected to plans by the local authority to conduct a joint virtual 2021 budget review and 2022 budget presentation, arguing the processes wer...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Minister in trouble over gold mine
SPARKS flew in the Ministry of Mines this week, as the long-running dispute over Ran Gold Mines, a 122-year-old asset in Bindura, took a new twist, with an angry party to the deadlock accusing Mines m...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:48hrs | 2074 | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean loses US$53,000 in bogus house deal
A UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean lost US$53 000 after a Bulawayo woman she had tasked to buy her a house converted the money to her own use.Mary Bayephi Matewele, through her lawyer, Godfrey ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:14hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1682 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally saved by Zanu-PF elections suspension
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has emerged as the main beneficiary of the Zanu-PF politburo's decision to suspend provincial elections which were scheduled for month-end, as the ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:35hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
Consumer watchdog slams business
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says businesses have effected "unjustified" price hikes in the past few months despite accessing foreign currency on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s foreign...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:32hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mafume vows to challenge third suspension
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) are reportedly in a winding blame game over the prolonged delay in prosecuting suspended Harare mayor Jacob ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa not losing sleep
The MDC Alliance said it was not fazed on Monday after a new political party appeared to have hijacked one of its social media mobilisation slogans which some were advocating for to be the new party n...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:53hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi dragged to court
A FORMER ZESA employee has dragged Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to court after he was blocked from filing a US$550 000 lawsuit against the power utility.Ken Francis Manyellah intended to s...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 20:51hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' Chamisa project
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused "jittery" Zanu-PF and State security agents of hijacking his party's Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) project and registering it at...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | 8022 | by Staff reporter
New CCC political party formed in Harare
A new political party called Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC), has registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) of its existence.In a letter addressed ZEC on Monday, the party'...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 14:35hrs | 5315 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF reaches 3,6 million members
THE ruling party, Zanu-PF whose 2023 harmonised election voter-drive targets five-million people is achievable with at least 3,6 million eligible voters having been recorded under the party's cell reg...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Angry ex-Zipra fighters warn govt
Disgruntled Zipra war veterans say they will now take matters into their own hands because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is dithering about returning their properties seized during the Guk...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 2568 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
School, parents clash over fees
Parents and management at Maranatha Junior School in Harare are at loggerheads after the institution demanded payment of fees for a "non-existent second term".Government deferred the re-openin...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:35hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs up in arms with Zimplats over shares
CHIEFS in Mhondoro-Ngezi, Chegutu and Zvimba are up in arms over platinum miner Zimplats' failure to allot the 10% community shares agreed to in 2011.The chiefs are also disgruntled that the c...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso now an attractive club, thanks to Sakunda’
THE melancholy that Highlanders were subjected to from June came to an end on Tuesday when giant energy company Sakunda Holdings unveiled a game-changing multi-million dollar sponsorship deal for the ...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1893 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally suspended as councillor
Suspended Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has been suspended as councillor too, without pay, for gross misconduct and wilful violation of the law after he was arrested for allegedly trying to bribe a key St...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Chirumanzu chieftainship wrangle
THE Chirumanzu chieftainship wrangle has taken a new turn amid reports that Acting Chief Fidelis Mudzengi "fraudulently created" and registered a trust to consolidate his stay in office.Mudzen...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:22hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Row over Shiri estate
THE family of late national hero and Cabinet minister Perrance Shiri has questioned the authenticity of documents used by the Master of the High Court Eldard Mutasa to handle his vast empire.A...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2534 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into mine dispute
THE names of Zimbabwe's late strongman Robert Mugabe and his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) have been dragged into a blazing dispute over Ran Gold Mine, a Mashonaland Central domic...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets district polls guidelines
Zanu-PF Secretary for Security Lovemore Matuke yesterday urged the party members to desist from vote buying and name dropping, saying candidates should stick to the set the guidelines for the district...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Ambassador Matemadanda presents his credentials to the Mozambican president
On Thursday 16th September 2021, comrade Victor Matemadanda presented his Letters of Credence to His Excellence president of Mozambique, accrediting him as Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the Nation of Mozam...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1515 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 827 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fresh farm invasions in Beitbridge
FRESH farm invasions have been reported at Denylinian Conservancy in Beitbridge where settlers armed with 2014 letters are trooping in.Most of the settlers are reportedly setting up shacks and...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:50hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Anti Mnangagwa CSOs petition Sadc
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe have petitioned the new Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chairperson and Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera to immediately intervene and or...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:46hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa expels 14 more councillors
Fourteen Gweru urban and Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have been expelled from the party after they attended a meeting called by a rival faction led by Mr Douglas Mwonzora. Acc...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam: Lubimbi villagers set demands for relocation
THE Lubimbi villagers in Binga are resisting government's move to relocate them from their ancestral land to pave way for the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam, demanding a clear relocation plan....Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Parents report 'errant' school to govt
PARENTS of pupils at the Roman Catholic Church-run St Martins Convent Primary School in Harare have approached the Primary and Secondary Education ministry to seek its intervention on alleged unsancti...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:57hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires councillors
The MDC faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has fired 10 Gweru urban and four councillors from Vungu Rural District Council after they recently attended a meeting which was called by MDC-T leader Mr Doug...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:52hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Mvuma granted town status
THE Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has granted Mvuma town status, making the gold mining centre the fourth town in the Midlands Province. The other towns in the province are Gokwe, Zvis...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Pensioner's impounded vehicle released on humanitarian grounds
Bulawayo City Council has released on humanitarian grounds the pensioner Isaac Donald Donono's vehicle (ADL 4359) that was impounded due to failure to display a valid licence disc abandonment in the s...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 11:45hrs | 1837 | by Stephen Jakes
Bloodbath in banking sector
ZIMBABWE'S banks, under siege from prolonged market turbulences and the Covid-19 scourge, fired almost 300 workers during the seven months to July, continuing a carnage sparked by the worldwide migrat...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:55hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Women pressure groups abandon Marry Chiwenga in her hour of need
WOMEN'S rights groups have remained silent over the mounting struggles Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has been facing for the past 18 long months.In ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Matabeles to disown 'gukurahundi' sellout Chiefs, blood on your hands!
Confidential information on our hands confirming that some Matabele traditional chiefs have accepted bribes from the genocidal Zimbabwe government to assist it to impose its suspicious Matabeleland ge...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 11:07hrs | 538 | by Israel Dube
'It's wrong for Chinese miner to evict villagers'
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has described the planned eviction of Kaseke villagers in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, by a Chinese mining company as illegal.Heijin Mining C...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:29hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Gweru councillors in trouble for attending Mwonzora meeting
AT least 11 Gweru urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors who last week attended a meeting chaired by MDC-T secretary for local government Faith Musarurwa Kamutsungira have expell...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2304 | by Staff reporter
Mafume still Harare mayor?
JACOB Mafume yesterday told court that he was still Harare mayor.This was after the State filed an application to have him stopped from entering Town House, saying he could interfere with witn...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Sherrif under fire over corruption
A HARARE man wants the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to expedite investigations against the Sheriff of the High Court, whom he is accusing of fraudulently attaching and selling his proper...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Bosso clarify Utande deal
THE Highlanders' technical staff and the secretariat are not covered by the $3,6 million partnership Bosso entered into with internet service provider Utande last month. The deal will see the company ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mai TT begs Mnangagwa
Socialite Felistas Murata wrote a letter to the First Lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa asking for permission to walk around with her in elevating lives of women and children.This was revealed...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 17:17hrs | 3935 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/Simbarashe Sithole in Mvurwi
Don't sign Cyber Bill into law: Misa
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to defer signing the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill into law following its passage in the H...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 514 | by Cedric Steele
Ntabazinduna farm wrangle
FORMER owner of Tabas Induna Farm in Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North Province, Mr Brian Davies, has dragged the Government and newly resettled farmer, Mr Floyd Ambrose, to court for allegedly faili...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
New offer letters for farmers
Old offer letters for resettlement land and land permits are being replaced with new documents that have improved security features to curb illegal parcelling out of land and weed out fake offer lette...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
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