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July Moyo in fresh land scandal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has been implicated in a massive land scandal in Masvingo after it emerged he is piling pressure on the ancient city's local authority to cede vast tracts of land t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2765 | by Staff reporter
NGOs hit back at Zec
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1296 | by Staff reporter
6 ZEC commissioners' term ends
At least six commissioners of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) are set for replacement following the expiry of their six-year terms in July this year.Parliament's Committee on Standing ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 409 | by Staff reporter
Nothing to write home about at Egodini
NOTHING to write home about is happening at Egodini in Bulawayo, years after a tender was awarded to a company to transform the terminus.The Egodini Mall contractor, South African civil engine...Published: 19 hrs ago | 453 | by Staff reporter
Chigumba under fire over poll remarks
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for claiming that rights groups were funding registered voters to re-register multiple times to discredit t...Published: 19 hrs ago | 632 | by Staff reporter
NGOs sponsoring multiple voters
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday claimed that it had unearthed a scam where civic groups were allegedly enticing voters already on the roll to register multiple times so as to discred...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:39hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
ZEC exposes voter registration scam
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has unearthed a scam in which some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) are providing incentives to hundreds of people t...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Mahomva appointed Director
The ruling party ZANU PF has appointed Richard Runyararo Mahomva as Director in the Office of the Secretary for Administration at the party headquarters....Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 21:45hrs | 1110 | by Shelton Muchena
'We want Zimbabweans to work in SA but locals first' - can't have the cake and eat it too, not even Malema
"We want to make an emphasis to the owners of restaurants that no-one should stop employing Zimbabweans and say the EFF said they don't want them," said Julius Malema on Wednesday."We want Zim...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 09:59hrs | 1695 | by Nomusa Garikai
ZEC cannot bar Chamisa
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it could not block Nelson Chamisa and his party from using the MDC Alliance name, dealing a blow to MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora, who is claimin...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 4159 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso set low bar for CEO vacancy'
THE Highlanders executive has been criticised for setting a diploma as the minimum qualification for the club's chief executive post that was left vacant following the departure of Nhlanhla Dube...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wealth case deferred
The High Court has deferred to next month, the case in which the State is seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
RBZ boss rules out chasing black market rates
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, John Mangudya, is reluctant to act to narrow a widening gap between the national currency's official and black market rates, saying that businesses are to blame for ...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, US square off over Zimbabwean affairs
GOVERNMENT yesterday told the United States to back off after Washington said the March 26 by-elections were a test case of Harare's commitment to implement sweeping reforms to guarantee free and fair...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner evicts villagers
CHINESE mining company, Monaf Investments has given villagers in Muchesu ward 12, Binga, three months' notice to vacate their ancestral land after it was granted a permit to extract coal in the area....Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Govt frowns at illegal dumpsites
THE Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry ministry has expressed concern over the proliferation of illegal dumpsites which are posing a health hazard to people and the environment.Envi...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Electoral reforms must dominate political discourse in 2022
AS we bask on the cusp of a new year, Zimbabweans appear to have gone agog about the pending by-elections and what many deem to be the watershed plebiscite of 2023.And yet for some of us, high...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | 165 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Hwange fires probe begins
AN international consultant hired by Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) to investigate the cause of underground fires in the coal mining town is now on the ground as Government moves to come up wi...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
400 schools operating illegally in Harare
The dramatic rise in numbers of small private schools has now seen more than 400 such schools operating illegally in Harare with the office of the Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs and D...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Bosso under fire over CEO qualifications
Bulawayo soccer giants Highlanders Football Club has been criticized by its supporters for circulating an advertisement calling for potential candidates to occupy the office of the Chief Executive Off...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 17:49hrs | 1737 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zinwa reviews water tariffs
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has reviewed tariffs upwards starting this month in response to increases in costs of key resources.The new tariffs are applicable to both treated...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:33hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
State seeks to recover US$32m from Chihuri
The High Court is this week expected to hear a high profile corruption case in which the State is seeking to recover more than US$32 million and forfeit numerous properties from former Police Commissi...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:31hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi spills for second time
Zimbabwe's largest interior dam Tugwi-Mukosi, spilled for the second time since its commissioning, sparking fears of flooding downstream.The Department of Civil Protection (DCP) in Chiredzi is...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:29hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Face to face with brown envelop journalism
WHIle working on a story about how tobacco farmers are getting a raw deal from tobacco contracting companies, I did not anticipate that my investigation would dramatically bring me face to face with c...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:11hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
'Discontinue trophy hunting imports ban bill to save African wildlife'
A leading SADC Safari hunting company that has so far spent over US$367 000.00 to support wildlife conservation and socio-economic development in Tanzania has appealed to the British Government to dis...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 2276 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
Bulawayo parking system imminent
THE Bulawayo parking management system is expected to be up by February, with the contractor to do the job - Tendy Three Investments (TTI) revealing that equipment for the system will be arriving in t...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:57hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
'NRZ, Dunlop resuscitation on cards'
THE re-industrialisation of Bulawayo's major companies such as the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and Dunlop are at the top of the agenda of the newly elected Zanu-PF Bulawayo Provincial Secretar...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:55hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts enter digital age
Judicial officers and court staff have started receiving training on operating the Integrated Electronic Case Management System (IECMS) in preparation for launching the new paperless court system on M...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:52hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Africa benefit from China's Health Silk Road
LAST week, China announced that it will give Zimbabwe 10 million doses of Covid-19, as part of the 1 billion doses pledged by Beijing to African countries at last year's Forum on China-Africa Co-opera...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | 100 | by Albert Chavhunduka
'Snub March 26 by-elections'
LITTLE-KNOWN opposition Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Democrats party (ZSD) yesterday called on all political parties to boycott the March by-elections saying they were poorly planned and costly.The...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Zec must respect citizens' rights
THE announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) that all new voters who registered this year will not be captured on the national voters' roll and might not vote in the March 26 by-e...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:15hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean heads Africa list of women to watch in banking & finance
WOMEN to Watch in Banking and Finance program has announced the list of Top 10 women shaping Africa's financial services sector.The list was compiled following a 3 month entry period which saw...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Zec drops registration bombshell
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday revealed that new voter registrants, who were given voter registration slips after registering to vote this year would not be automatically added onto...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:22hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Bill outlaws strike action for health workers
THE Health Services Amendment Bill, which will outlaw industrial action by health workers lasting more than three days and upgrade the Health Services Board to a Commission is now before Parliament....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:19hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records worst road accidents mortality rate in the Sadc region
AT least five people die in road traffic accidents every 24 hours in Zimbabwe, giving the country the worst mortality rate in the Sadc region, with the Plumtree highway as one of the hotspots....Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:18hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Malaba slammed
JUDICIAL independence and impartiality in dispensing justice, not over-emphasis on the use of information communication technology, will provide useful tools to ensure effective administration of just...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:03hrs | 1948 | by Staff reporter
Storm-damaged Manama hospital gets facelift
RENOVATIONS at Manama Mission Hospital where infrastructure and buildings were extensively damaged by a violent storm late last year are nearing completion following the erection of a new roof....Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 09:25hrs | 1058 | by Staff Reporter
Sadc regional integration will benefit Zimbabwe
THE Southern African Development Community's (Sadc) regional indicative strategic development plan (RISDP) 2020–30 of October 2020 is a framework for the implementation of Sadc's regional integratio...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:13hrs | 415 | by Vince Musewe
Bribes, vicious circle of illegal immigrant re-arrests at Beitbridge border post
Arresting and deporting people trying to cross the Beitbridge border post illegally is a vicious circle and a waste of government resources, according to Home Affairs officials and the police....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:10hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
ANC calls for 'lifting of sanctions' against Cuba, etc but not Zimbabwe - new awakening condemn rigged elections too
"The #January8statement at @MYANC's 110th anniversary by @CyrilRamaphosa called for the unconditional lifting of sanctions against Cuba, solidarity with Palestine and Western Sahara, but was silent on...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:29hrs | 1373 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mangudya ranked worst performing central bank governor in Africa
The Central Banker Report Cards, published annually by Global Finance since 1994, grade the central bank governors of 101 key countries and territories, including the European Union, the Eastern Carib...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 05:13hrs | 5050 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF toilets ‘invaders' released without charge
TWO Zanu-PF officials, who were arrested in Mbare, Harare, after they forcibly took over council toilets and started charging members of the public were yesterday released by the National Prosecuting ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:33hrs | 1093 | by Staff reporter
SA immigrants crisis: Zimbabwe must play ball
AT the centre of the immigration crisis that has been making headlines for the past few days in South Africa is the failure by the Zimbabwean government to provide better living standards for its citi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:29hrs | 944 | by Tatenda Kaponda
Mwonzora ally wins Gweru mayorship
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday suffered a blow after former Gweru mayor and Ward 1 councillor, Mr Hamutendi Kombayi, who is aligned to Mr Douglas Mwonzora's MDC-T party, bounced back ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:26hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Lifestyle audit is needed at BCC
WHY do local authorities in Zimbabwe think it is normal to be owed money by residents?Take for example, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) which is failing to effectively collect revenue to the exten...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:24hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
DDF worker dies in croc attack
A BINGA District Development Fund (DDF) employee was attacked and killed by a crocodile while collecting fishing worms at the council sewage pond on Saturday morning.Matabeleland North police ...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:38hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Zec indicating right but turning left
ON its website, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) lists among its top goals "to conduct and manage elections and referenda in Zimbabwe in a transparent, impartial and independent manner and to p...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:37hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
'Vote for people-centred parties,' says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged voters to vote for local council and parliamentary representatives who have the interests of the people at heart in the coming by-elections.Speaking duri...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
ZEC says sorry
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday admitted that it had deprived thousands of prospective first-time voters an opportunity to participate in the upcoming by-elections after it failed to...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 2023 | by Staff reporter
Noisy bars, churches risk heavy fines
GWERU City Council has come up with by-laws to deal with noise pollution, a development that will see offending bars, churches among others being penalised.Councillors, management and resident...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:59hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
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