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A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 2941 | by newZwire with The Source
A 'Operation restore citizen-power' only path to Zimbabwe's prosperity
As Zimbabwe commemorates last year's military intervention that led to the removal of long-time president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and replaced by his then recently expelled deputy Emmerson Dambudzo Mna...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:56hrs | 982 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe horror accident victims named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has released 36 names of the people who died on Wednesday this week near the Rusape tollgate.Their next of kin have since been informed.The names of ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:33hrs | 15739 | by Staff reporter
MDC mourns bus disaster victims
Opposition Movement for Democratic Change has issued a condolence message to the victims of the bus crash that occurred on Tuesday evening.Forty seven people, 45 adults and two children, were ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:31hrs | 2647 | by Mandla Ndlovu
47 dead, death toll expected to rise
At least 47 people died yesterday evening in an accident involving two buses that occurred at the 166-kilometre peg along the Harare-Mutare Highway. The accident that involved Bolt Cutter and Smart Ex...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | 2489 | by Staff reporter
MDC @19: A lamentation over the death of democracy
This week the police gave the MDC-T Chamisa faction the go ahead to hold an event to celebrate its 19th anniversary after postponing the event over the cholera outbreak of September in Harare. While t...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:50hrs | 1054 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Kudzi Chipanga seeks permanent stay of prosecution
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga has petitioned the High Court, seeking permanent stay of prosecution on charges of communicating falsehoods, causing dissatisfaction in the army and under...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
NSSA reviews retirement grants
The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) is reviewing its retirement grants through an exercise that is likely to benefit about 5 500 members.According to Nssa's communications representa...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 13:18hrs | 2481 | by Staff reporter
Churches and faith leaders seen backing Mnangagwa against Chamisa
As religious leaders urge the two warring sides in Zimbabwe to resolve their political impasse, many Zimbabweans suspect them of backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa and accuse the clergy of fueling t...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 08:19hrs | 7363 | by Agencies
Tendai Biti always has something to say
The Daily News on Sunday's Pauline Hurungudo sits down for a wide-ranging interview with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy national chairperson for the MDC, about the state o...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:19hrs | 1390 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai estate sued
The late MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai's estate has been hauled before the High Court over the late founding leader's alleged failure to pay a man who claims to have helped the opposition leader sti...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:00hrs | 2073 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land audit begins next week
The Zimbabwe Land Commission will embark on a national land audit from the 22nd of October to the 24th of November to establish a full account of all agricultural land.The long awaited land na...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:19hrs | 4047 | by Staff reporter
EU Observer Mission in climbdown over Zimbabwe elections?
The European Union Election Observer Mission to Zimbabwe's July 30, 2018, harmonised elections yesterday made a huge climb-down by admitting that Government had already implemented some of the recomme...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Biti to chair Parly's Public Accounts Committee
HARARE East MP Tendai Biti will chair Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, while his Norton counterpart Temba Mliswa will head the committee on mines, Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudend...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1620 | by Staff reporter
Rapist father pours hot porridge on pregnant daughter
A RUSAPE man who raped his biological daughter several times recently ran amok and scalded her with hot porridge after she told him that she was pregnant.The victim (17) (name withheld) discov...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Empty shelves, rationed bread ring alarm bells in Zimbabwe
In one of the biggest supermarkets in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, cooking oil, rice and Coca-Cola are all out of stock while a notice on the bread rack tells shoppers they can only buy one loaf each....Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 19:06hrs | 3486 | by AFP
Mugabe's former white minister pens biography 'Mugabe's White Hand Man'
FORMER Agriculture minister, Dennis Norman, flew into the country from his retirement base in England to launch his autobiography - The Odd Man In: Mugabe's White Hand Man - which traces his life in t...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
MPs eye unclaimed Constituency Development Funds
NEWLY-elected Members of Parliament have requested that they take over Constituency Development Funds (CDF) not claimed by some legislators during the recently-ended Eighth Parliament amidst reports t...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Nyanga district endorses Madiro leadership
EMBATTLED Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairperson and Home Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro has received endorsement from the party's Nyanga district, which resolved to rally behind his leadershi...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Opposition cautious on Mnangagwa's diaspora vote offer
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's pledge to create conditions that will allow millions of Zimbabweans in the diaspora to vote will be a welcome move if implemented, opposition parties have said.M...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:22hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Raza back after committing to Zimbabwe Cricket
ZIMBABWE have added the all-rounder Sikandar Raza to their squads for the ODI and Tests in Bangladesh next month after sorting out contractual issues and apologising for his social media posts from ea...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves cholera fund
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved a budget of nearly $64 million for immediate needs in the fight against dual outbreaks of cholera and typhoid in Harare and other parts of the country, chairperson of ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF structures making Mnangagwa unpopular in Manicaland
WAR veterans in Manicaland are up in arms against the Zanu-PF provincial leadership, accusing the executive of making party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa unpopular in the province.Alread...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Fake Magaya on the loose
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans may have fallen victim to a Facebook scam, where a suspected Nigerian scammer has been impersonating Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2081 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 3072 | by Igomombe
Zimbabwe's new Cabinet: A patronage, merit alchemy?
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, following a disputed narrow victory in July which had to be validated by the Constitutional Court in August, appointed a new Cabinet on Friday, September 7....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 1646 | by Washington Katema
Mnangawa's Cabinet was tight balance between economy, politics
I WATCHED the Cabinet announcement with a colleague from East Africa, who opined that Zimbabweans are too easy to please and that they move on faster than expected.From the dusty campaign trai...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 601 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe Cricket respond to Raza saga
ZIMBABWE Cricket has seen social media posts by Sikandar Raza Butt regarding ZC's decision not to offer him a new contract. As a matter of policy, we do not discuss employee issues in the media beyond...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 440 | by ZimCricket
Raza denied Zimbabwe Cricket contract
SIKANDAR Raza will not take part in the national team's upcoming tours of South Africa and Bangladesh after being surprisingly axed from Zimbabwe Cricket's (ZC) list of centrally contracted players fo...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:48hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Harare petitions court over suspended chamber secretary
THE Harare City Council has petitioned the High Court, seeking an order to dismiss an application filed by its chamber secretary Josephine Ncube, who is challenging her suspension from work.Nc...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
As long as there is corruption Minister Mthuli will not do anything - Ruhanya
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said even though President M=Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed some of the good brains in the country, that will not change any thing as long as corruption an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:07hrs | 3286 | by Stephen Jakes
'Time to move out of political mood'
Zanu-PF Makoni South MP-elect Misheck Mataranyika has challenged the nation to quickly move out of the phase of political contestation and focus on development if the country's economy is to be lifted...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:40hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Post-poll violence commission criticism baseless
Following the unfortunate incident in which six people died in the post-election violence of August 1, 2018, which was instigated by the MDC-Alliance as it staged anti-Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Z...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 190 | by Nobleman Runyanga
In Zimbabwe commissions of inquiry will always fail
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's newly-established commission of inquiry into the politically-motivated violence of August 1 that led to the death of at least six civilians is bound to fail just like se...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 12:56hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Simba Makoni, Nkosana Moyo emerged from defeat far, far better than Chamisa
I HOPE Chamisa's simmering and smarting hordes are now settled, after what by now should be a long enough cooling period. He is himself showing signs of recovering from zealous political Pentecostalis...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1494 | by Igomombe
Acid test for President Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will face his first greatest test when he selects his new Cabinet in which he will have to strike a balancing act between his old Zanu PF lieutenants' political interests ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 3061 | by Staff Reporter
Cheat seeks refuge in granary
A GOKWE man became a prisoner of his own scheming after he was held hostage in a granary all night following being caught in bed with his neighbour's wife.Waimon Dzete of Siyanungu villa...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:31hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 5649 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes housemaid
A 24-year-old Gweru man has been hauled before a Gweru regional magistrate for allegedly raping a domestic worker at his house.Makoni Mazarire (24) from Mkoba 13 appeared before Midlands Regio...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 14:46hrs | 5984 | by Staff reporter
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 8343 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 2694 | by Staff reporter
A deep dive into the world of the Constitutional Court
NO one can deny that this election season has been a rollercoaster and people are confused, anxious and hopeful as they face an unpredictable outcome from the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the pe...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 312 | by Thabani Mnyama
Storm over plan to bar Chamisa from polls
Zimbabwe risks confirming its pariah status in spite of claims by the new dispensation that it has broken away from former president Robert Mugabe's autocratic rule if it tweaks with the Constitution ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 12:52hrs | 4984 | by Staff reporter
EU to cut funding to Zesn over positive report on Zimbabwe election?
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), an independent electoral watchdog, has been under tremendous pressure from European Union (EU) donors, particularly Britain, to doctor and alter its repor...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:51hrs | 4803 | by Staff reporter
#ZIWA2018: The Nominees are Here!
The shortlisted nominees for the highly anticipated 5th Zimbabwe International Women's Awards, more popularly known as 'The ZIWAs', have been announced.The ZIWAs were founded in 2013 to celebr...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 07:51hrs | 880 | by Molah Media
'Hard work over miracles,' says Chiwenga
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe marks Heroes Day and on Tuesday Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day. The Sunday Mail News Editor Darlington Musarurwa spoke with Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga about these i...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Nox 'robbed' in Cape Town
ENOCK Nox Guni this week joined the ever-growing list of artists who have been used and never get paid by unscrupulous conmen masquerading as music promoters in Cape Town.Our sources say the m...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 14:27hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Ishmael Kumire died at the MDC-Alliance violent demonstration: No single alliance official attended the funeral
He was buried in Chinamhora, writes German Journalist Christian Selz and there was not even one MDC-Alliance at his funeral. Ishmael was a street vendor eking out a living for his family when he was c...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 08:00hrs | 6142 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa racing against time
The MDC Alliance is racing against time in its desperate bid to overturn results of the just-ended polls, with the party keeping the whole world guessing about the veracity of the evidence it claims t...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 13:21hrs | 2172 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists intimidating, threatening opposition supporters
ZANU-PF activists in Manicaland have allegedly gone on a rampage, intimidating and threatening to repossess land belonging to suspected MDC Alliance supporters in Makoni North constituency as cases of...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
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