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Fired Rural District Council CEO refuses to surrender vehicle
Tongogara Rural District Council CEO, Brian Rufasha who was fired last week has refused to surrender a council Toyota Hilux that he was using as his official vehicle.Rufasha was fired on Novem...Published: 19 hrs ago | 888 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt petitioned over police harassment on taxis
MATABELELAND secessionist group Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga over harassment of commuter omnibus o...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:13hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe keen to rejoin Commonwealth
Government will prioritise rejoining the Commonwealth as a launch-pad to unlock international goodwill and sustain re-engagement milestones already realised through resumption of political dialogue wi...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Ex-minister's aide arrested
Ex-HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo's former aide was yesterday arrested and charged with criminal abuse of office for allegedly illegally facilitating issuance of visas to gold dealer, Ali Muhamad and hi...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Teachers dig in over PPE
DEFIANT teachers have dug in demanding provision of personal protective equipment for fear of contracting COVID-19 before returning to the classrooms.The teachers also vowed not to invigilate ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:23hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, nurses headed for another showdown
A legal showdown is looming between Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured below), who doubles as Health minister, and public hospital nurses, with the health professionals vowing to continue f...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
Girls College closed over Covid-19 case
GIRLS College in Bulawayo has indefinitely closed following a Covid-19 case which was detected after the school held a leavers' party for Upper Six students. This development comes at a time w...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Former Health Minister's PA arrested
A former personal assistant to sacked Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested yesterday on allegations of criminal abuse of office. Gideon Mapokotera was picked at 2.30pm yest...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:52hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Shot women complain against police conduct
TWO women from Hwange in Matabeleland North have petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police to carry out investigations into incidents in which they were allegedly shot by law enforcement officers during...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
The phone call that led to Robert Mugabe's resignation
SPEAKER of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda has, for the first time, revealed how he managed to convince late former president Robert Mugabe to tender his resignation, allowing him to leave office wi...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 4716 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi family accepts unsigned will
RELATIVES of the late socialite and businessman Genius Ginimbi Kadungure and other possible beneficiaries of his estate, yesterday unanimously accepted an unsigned will recently filed at the Master of...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 5437 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC frets over infiltration
THE opposition MDC Alliance is panicking over suspicions of infiltration within its structures by suspected State agents to destabilise the party.A leaked audio recording by the MDC Alliance B...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:48hrs | 4986 | by Staff reporter
High Court bars ex-minister from evicting white farmer
FORMER Foreign Affairs deputy minister Edgar Mbwembwe has been ordered by the High Court to stop evicting a white farmer, Simon Ross Worsley-Worswick, after he was declared the rightful owner and occu...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:44hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
White farmers lease farms as beneficiaries give up, says Biti
MDC Alliance co-vice president Tendai Biti says a growing number of white commercial farmers are quietly returning back to their farms and leasing the land from non-productive black beneficiaries who ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | 3925 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe minister linked Zinara workers in $2 million fuel levy scandal
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) allegedly lost US$21 000 ($2 million) to a syndicate of employees working in its cash office through misrepresentation of money paid for fuel levies....Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 2281 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe in trouble over G40 links
Tensions are running high in the ruling party Zanu-PF following the just ended DCC polls.War Veterans in Mashonaland Central where Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe is the chairman a...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:58hrs | 7813 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations
More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 imp...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | 811 | by Emmanuel Koro
Govt investigates corona donations
AUTHORITIES are launching a nationwide probe into donated coronavirus funds and other materials, amid fears that significant portions of these gifts were looted by politically-connected individuals, t...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens to withdraw land offer letters over subletting
GOVERNMENT has threatened to withdraw offer letters to beneficiaries of the land reform programme who have entered into joint ventures without permission from the Lands ministry.In a notice ye...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:09hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe minister linked Zinara workers in $2 million fuel levy scandal
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) allegedly lost US$21 000 ($2 million) to a syndicate of employees working in its cash office through misrepresentation of money paid for fuel le...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:55hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda 'poisoned' as Zanu-PF infighting escalates
TENSIONS are high in Zanu-PF following the alleged poisoning of national commissar and Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda by rivals unhappy with the party's restructuring exer...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:52hrs | 1817 | by Staff reporter
Tension remains high in Zanu-PF
POLITICAL temperatures remain high in Zanu-PF as party bigwigs jostle to lead the former liberation movement's provincial structures.The polls for the influential positions will take place soon af...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 2169 | by Staff reporter
Nurses plead for dialogue
ZIMBABWE Nurses Association (Zina) has written to the government seeking to have dialogue to solve their differences.This comes after the High Court on Friday gave temporary relief to nurses a...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety over freak Zupco accidents
"Naturally, when you get into a Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) bus, safety, with regards to the fitness of the vehicle, should be the least of your worries. We are made to believe the buses...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Bhebhe fights expulsion from MDC-T at High Court
MDC-T acting national organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has approached the High Court seeking a review of his expulsion from his party position last week by the national council.MDC-T inter...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:35hrs | 2453 | by AFP
Chiwenga suffers a crashing legal defeat
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga and Health and Child Care minister has suffered a crashing legal defeat after the High Court barred him from forcing nurses to return to full-time shift work....Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:24hrs | 3735 | by Staff reporter
Jamesina King red flags Mnangagwa over Chin'ono
THE African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) special rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, Commissioner Jamesina King, has written to President Emmers...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:21hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross boss fires subordinates 'for exposing corruption'
ZIMBABWE Red Cross Society (ZRCS) acting secretary-general Elias Hwenga yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing charges of obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedl...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga political tussling escalates
A FIERCE row has erupted between the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) over the manner in which investigations are being handled, relating to alleg...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:17hrs | 10470 | by Staff reporter
Green Fuel selling ethanol in 'real money'
ZIMBABWE'S biggest ethanol producer Green Fuel is now selling the commodity in hard cash and accepts only transfers to its nostro foreign currency account accompanied by letters from the clients' bank...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi estate fraught with complications
There may be complications and delays in winding up the estate of late businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure as the will submitted this week is unsigned, with the Master's Office at the High Court no...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:58hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Corruption rocks Mines ministry
Top officials in the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development are parcelling out already occupied mining claims to cronies and politicians prejudicing government of millions of dollars, a latest Zimba...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:12hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives in to Ndewere's demands
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reinstated suspended High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere's salary and benefits "after further considerations to the provisions of section 187(10) and 188(4) of the ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 14729 | by Staff reporter
FCB set to retrench employees
FIRST Capital Bank (FCB) is set to retrench workers as the business restructures in the face of the hyperinflationary environment and the need to digitalise.In a letter dated November 12, FCB ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:36hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start getting bonuses
Civil servants will start getting their annual bonuses this month with the last groups being paid out next month. The payments are based on the 41 percent salary rise and new allowance agreed ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1185 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
High Court Chiyangwa blocks from evicting farmers
THE High Court has barred flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa from evicting farmers from his leased Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi.The order was issued on November 9 2020, by Justice Benjamin...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 11:24hrs | 3592 | by Agencies
More families evicted from Cyrene Farm
THE Messenger of Court, assisted by the police last week evicted 12 families from Cyrene Farm in Figtree which is owned by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church in the Diocese of Matabeleland...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
Khupe spokesperson steps down over rape allegations
THE spokesperson for MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, Khaliphani Phugeni has stepped down from his position following allegations of raping an unnamed woman in Bulawayo.Last week, Phugeni, 44, who ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:17hrs | 2707 | by Staff reporter
PDP to revisit Harare Mayor's recall
SELF-STYLED People's Democratic Party (PDP) official Benjamin Rukanda who could not be located when the High Court barred his attempt to recall Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and two councillors has now su...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:17hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean healthcare workers facing deportation after saving lives during COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland
CNN - Lily was taking her lunch break at the Dublin nursing home where she works when a friend called with the news that an official-looking letter had arrived for her. She asked the friend to open it...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 09:07hrs | 5216 | by CNN
Bulawayo slides back into lockdown
BULAWAYO will go back to either complete lockdown or suburb specific lockdown as officials try to quickly combat the continued increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the city, Sunday News reporte...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | 6947 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora 'backtracks' on new purge?
A letter purportedly signed by disputed MDC-T secretary general Douglass Mwonzora notifying the Minister of Local government, Public Works and National Housing of the recall of 87 MDC Alliance council...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | 4278 | by Staff reporter
Justice Ndewere challenges suspension of salary, benefits
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has petitioned Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, seeking restoration of her terminated salary and benefits following the a...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
BCC rejects Mrs Mnangagwa donation request
BULAWAYO City Council has expressed reservations over expending resources to a project spearheaded by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa to transform a refugee centre at Chambuta in Chiredzi into a rehabil...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 7658 | by Staff reporter
ZACC pounces on housing director
Bindura Municipality Evelyn Madziire has been arrested by Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) this morning facing three counts of abuse of office and was dragged to Bindura magistrates courts....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2146 | by Tarisai Mudahondo /Simbarashe Sithole
Police warn late Ginimbi's friends
POLICE have warned Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadungure's friends to desist from any attempts to violate the late businessman and socialite's corpse as the law enforcement agents granted them permission to stag...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:41hrs | 7937 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over nurses suspension
THERE is confusion in the handling of the cases of over 1 000 nurses whose suspension was ordered by government as some health institutions are reportedly reinstating them.About 1 280 nurses w...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3668 | by Staff reporter
False start to 'brutal' Beitbridge cops trial
THE trial of two Beitbridge policemen who allegedly assaulted citizens under the guise of monitoring compliance to the COVID-19 lockdown regulations failed to kick off because their lawyer was absent....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Parents withdraw kids from private school over fees
Parents whose children are enrolled at the Welton Group of Schools in Beitbridge have withdrawn them from the private learning institution after they disagreed on a new fee structure. The disg...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
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