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MDC bigwig off the hook
MDC women's assembly chairperson Lynette Karenyi, who was accused of insulting former president Robert Mugabe, is off the hook after the State indicated yesterday that it was withdrawing the charges....Published: 12 hrs ago | 1598 | by Staff reporter
Schools seek permission to close early
At least five boarding schools in Manicaland are seeking permission to either increase boarding fees or close early citing dwindling food supplies due to shortages on the market and high prices on ava...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1502 | by Staff reporter
'Allow community to benefit from diamonds'
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba has alleged looting of diamonds by previous miners at Chiadzwa diamond fields and challenged the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:05hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Update on 1 August killings
As the Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August post-election violence hears evidence from members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and Zimbabwe Republic Police today we give you an update of the hea...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 07:18hrs | 4019 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Condom uptake on the rise
The National Aids Council has installed 400 condom dispensers at tertiary institutions, hospitals, hotels, drinking spots and other public places across Zimbabwe as part of efforts to curb the spread ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:20hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Marange diamond comes under the spotlight in Brussels
Human rights abuses in Marange and plans by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) to rope in artisanal miners risk putting the country on the agenda of the Kimberley Process Certification S...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:15hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Horror accident driver surrenders to police
THE Smart Express bus driver who fled the scene after the Rusape accident that claimed 46 lives on Wednesday evening has handed himself over to Rusape traffic police. Manicaland provincial pol...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | 8876 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu says no to Zanu-PF restructuring
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has poured cold water on party members who are jostling for positions saying the party will not carry out a restructuring process soon, adding that the...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:42hrs | 2951 | by Staff reporter
Polygamist ALMOST DIES during sex with churchmate
SEX took me to the ER! (Emergency Room).That's what happened to a polygamous Bulawayo man who is also a member of a popular Apostolic sect was admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after he...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:18hrs | 6825 | by Staf reporter
Rusape bus crash declared a national disaster
Government has declared a state of national disaster an accident in which 46 people were killed when two buses side-swapped at the 166-kilometre peg along Harare-Mutare highway on Wednesday evening. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:05hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe horror accident death toll jumps to 50
Fresh details from the Rusape bus disaster indicate that the accident was not a head on collision but a side swipe.It has also emerged that 50 people died contrary to earlier reports that had ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:06hrs | 4789 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for horror crash driver
POLICE have launched a manhunt for the Smart Express bus driver, Cosmas Marembo, who fled together with his conductor soon after surviving the horrific bus accident that killed 47 people yesterday eve...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:03hrs | 2164 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer arrested
A SUSPECTED black market fuel dealer who turned violent upon being arrested by police officers while trying to pump hundreds of litres of diesel into a dilapidated, engineless truck at a filling stati...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 07:01hrs | 5976 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland fights reach boiling point
POLITICAL dogfights within the Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial leadership have intensified ahead of the ruling party's national conference as other members, who are not loyal to the provincial leadershi...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1975 | by Staff reporter
'ZCDC security staff looting diamonds'
ZIMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) security officials have been implicated in cases of diamond looting in Chiadzwa after they allegedly formed syndicates with illegal miners.This was...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions nearly exchange blows
A ZANU-PF Manicaland dialogue meeting last week nearly degenerated into a fistfight when some members were chased away as deep factionalism continues to rock the party.Zanu-PF has allegedly be...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:31hrs | 3846 | by Staff reporter
Paul Mwazha @100 years: The amazing testimonies
A few days ago, Archbishop Paul Mwazha, the founder & leader of the African Apostolic Church was bestowed with rains of congratulatory messages from distinct churches and our entire body politic f...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 19:34hrs | 2819 | by Benny Gudo
Madiro accounts for 'missing' Zanu-PF funds
ZANU-PF Manicaland provincial chairman, Michael Madiro has dismissed as baseless reports that money, which was sourced for Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri's celebrations for her elevation to the position of ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa divides Mutsvangwa family
Factional politics of in ZANU PF has divided Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa and his wife Monica Mutsvangwa forcing them to issue conflicting statements in regards to the current happenings in...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 14:02hrs | 17603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Minister in farm dispute with villagers
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba is embroiled in a land dispute with Mutasa villagers whom she is accusing of occupying her farm.The villagers appeared before a Mutasa ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:31hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Stricken family in limbo over witchcraft
LOCAL leaders in Nyanga have been accused of stalling progress in an attempt by an MP to help a stricken family suffering from a rare disease.Chivi South lawmaker Killer Zivhu last year bought...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland implodes
KNIVES have been drawn against Zanu-PF Manicaland political commissar Gift Kagweda, with some provincial executive committee members (PEC) calling for his suspension after he wrote to the party's nati...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:44hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shuts door on G40 bigwigs
The ruling party has all shut its door on the majority members of the G40 faction who were seeking to re-join Zanu-PF, nearly a year after they were give their marching orders. The Zanu-PF Pol...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 08:33hrs | 4368 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF youths call for transparency in land allocations
Zanu PF Manicaland Youth League has called for transparency in land allocation following alleged corrupt dealings in the past that saw youths failing to benefit from land programmes.There are ...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 13:23hrs | 647 | by Staff Reporter
Govt cracks whip on Border Post officials
GOVERNMENT has cracked the whip on clueless Forbes Border Post officials for failing to find sustainable solutions to the congestion characterising the port of entry, resulting in long queues of truck...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
Fuel crisis hits ambulance services
A health time bomb looms in Manicaland as some ambulances in the province are reportedly grounded due to the crippling fuel shortage in the country. Ministry of Health sources in Mutare told N...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official challenges suspension
FORMER Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial vice-chairperson Joseph Mujati has appealed his suspension from the ruling party alleging that his successor Dorothy Mabika, who chaired the disciplinary, hearing ...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF officials loot Muchinguri party donations
ZANU-PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri yesterday said some funds and fuel coupons donated towards the party to celebrate her appointment into the party presidium have gone missing, with senior party off...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to crack whip on errant members
THERE will be no more liberalism in Zanu-PF in Manicaland because cases of indiscipline are increasing and creating fissures within the ruling party, the party's provincial chairman, Michael Madiro, h...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:24hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa introduce performance dashboards for ministries
The government is set to introduce performance dashboards to monitor and keep in check progress being made by ministries as well as performances of provinces as devolution takes shape.While Pr...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 18:41hrs | 4166 | by Staff reporter
Human rights violations down in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that human rights violations have declined from the previous record number of 266 to 226 in the last month.ZPP made the declarations in its latest month...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 09:12hrs | 775 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa has to deliver and, urgently too
When the new dispensation was ushered in following Robert Mugabe's resignation last November, it rode on the narrative of restoration to win people's hearts.True, there was need for restoratio...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:23hrs | 6941 | 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 | 4046 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe goes it alone on Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation
GOVERNMENT has decided to go it alone and dualise the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway while talks with Chinese Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the $2 billion tender co...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | 3064 | by Staff reporter
New TV series for Bulawayo
A NEW TV series Izolo that will be shot in Bulawayo with a cast from the City of Kings, will be hitting screens next year with auditions set to take place next month. The series, that will be ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Madiro rubbishes $15 billion diamond saga
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro on Thursday described the $15 billion diamond issue as frivolous after MDC Alliance senators grilled him in Parliament over whether there had been any arrests ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU activists granted bail
TWENTY Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) activists who were arrested in Mutare on Thursday on allegations of attending an illegal gathering with intent to promote violence were yesterday grante...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:21hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 13366 | by Compol HRA
Musician's wife kills self over infidelity
UPCOMING popular Mutare youthful musician Lionel "Caff" Matanda is facing the darkest moment in his life after his wife – Oreen Sheila Phiri – hanged herself from a roof truss at the couple's Dang...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | 2623 | 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
Potraz to host innovation drive workshops
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) is calling for ICT Innovators to attend its innovation Drive workshops to be taking place this week and next week in Bulawayo an...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 20:28hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wins Chimanimani East by-election
VOTER apathy marred the Chimanimani East Ward 13 local authority by-election, with only 20% of registered voters taking part in the poll which, was won by a Zanu PF candidate at the weekend.Fi...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1580 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims to have a solution
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said he has the solutions to the country's deepening economic crisis that has seen the shortages of fuel emerging and prices of commodities skyrocket since last ...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Puzzle of a thriving Ndebele tribe in Buhera explained
The existence of a thriving Ndebele community deep among the Shona has been vexing observers for decades.Sitting comfortably in Buhera and holding on to their language and culture after almost...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 17:06hrs | 5133 | by Norma Tsopo
Cold spell to continue
THE cold spell being experienced in most parts of the country is a result of dropping of temperatures in South Africa and may prevail until tomorrow, the Meteorological Services Department said yester...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
National Youth Service defends involvement in Zanu PF politics
MEMBERS of the infamous National Youth Service (NYS) have defended their involvement in Zanu PF politics, saying their recent move to thwart demonstrations by party activists in Mutare and Chipinge la...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:51hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF reviews election victory
The ruling Zanu-PF party held inter-district rallies and meeting in various provinces, where leaders thanked the people for voting for the party in July's harmonised elections and called them to unite...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:27hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Soccer stars lost to the war
THE liberation struggle was an inevitable development in the history of the country.So many sporting talents were lost to the war because of the call to serve. Football was among the biggest l...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:42hrs | 460 | by Lovemore Dube
Cholera outbreak a wake-up call
Indications that the cholera outbreak that has killed 49 people out of 6 643 suspected cases countrywide has been contained must not lull the country into complacency.This is the time to put i...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:35hrs | 92 | by The Standard Comment
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
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