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Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 456 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe among 12 most fragile countries, claims World Vision
INTERNATIONAL aid agency World Vision yesterday warned that over 19 million people, including 10 million children, were at risk of famine in 12 of the world's most fragile countries due to a deadly mi...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:05hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba pledges cars to Bosso captains
THE leader of a local apostolic sect Madzibaba Manuel Mutumwa has pledged at least two cars for use by Highlanders' captains, while serving the club. After hearing reports that Highlanders hav...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1505 | by Staff reporter
Breakdown at Bulawayo waterworks
A PUMP breakdown at the Bulawayo waterworks has seen the city's water pumping capacity dropping by over 100 megalitres (ML), piling more woes on residents.The Bulawayo water shortage has force...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1679 | by Staff reporter
Siblings 'murder' mother over 'witchcraft'
THREE men from Chivi in Masvingo province have been arrested for allegedly teaming up to murder their 72-year-old mother after accusing her of witchcraft.The accused - Duduzile, Bright and Dan...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 580 | by Staff Reporter
Prophets in spiritual showdown
AN epic spiritual showdown is looming between two of Bulawayo's famous prophets - Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa and Mduduzi Dube popularly known as Black Elisha with the former challenging the latter to ...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 21:32hrs | 1555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans on Twitter show Jah Prayzah the middle finger
Award winning superstar Jah prayzah had a rude awakening after Zimbabweans on Twitter snubbed his appeal to vote for him at the African Entertainment Awards USA Entertainer of the year category. ...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | 18929 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 163 | by Pardon Muzavazi
Teachers demand meeting with government
TEACHERS' unions have demanded to meet government in order to resolve the current impasse between the two parties. This comes as most teachers across the country boycotted the reopening of pub...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:22hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 613 | by Ken Mufuka
Mambo Dhuterere reveals soft spot for needy people
Darlington Mutseta, aka Mambo Dhuterere, says one unique aspect about his music (which he also labels Dhuterere) is that it addresses the challenges of mainly the poor.Speaking on the sideline...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:50hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zacc quiz mayor, BCC bosses - Town Clerk refuses to comment
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quizzed Bulawayo City Council managers and the Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni as it probes alleged corruption in the sale of stands as well as in pro...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Zacc swoops on Bulawayo City Council
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has descended on Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to investigate alleged corruption in the municipality. A team of ZACC investigators are said to have...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
'There is a crisis in Zimbabwe' South African leader says
South African Communist Party Secretary Bonginkosi Emmanuel Blade Nzimande says Zimabbwe has a crisis and the South African government must acknowledge that reality.Nzimande was addressing his...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 13:24hrs | 5788 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fake abductions: New tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a house...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 525 | by Emmanuel Murema
Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | 2707 | by Emmanuel Murema
Nurses call off strike
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has told its members employed by the Government to end their industrial action and immediately start reporting for work. ZINA yesterday also endorsed pla...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Residents demand Chamisa's Mayor, town clerk assets register
BULAWAYO residents have piled pressure on mayor Solomon Mguni and town clerk Christopher Dube demanding that they declare their assets following reports that they were recently clandestinely awarded c...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
Fury over Bulawayo town clerk's 24,407sqm land offer in plush suburb
Bulawayo residents have reacted with anger after town clerk Christopher Dube was offered a stand measuring 24,407 square meters as part of his new four-year contract with the local authority.T...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3803 | by Staff reporter
Retailers reel under diminished demand
RETAIL outlets and corporates are reeling from a major reduction in sales volumes with some facing closure as a result of shrinking disposable income due to a weakened local currency and impact of the...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 2838 | by Staff reporter
Creating in-roads for sustainable peace
The New Dispensation is engrossed with the ever growing malcontented youths, coupled with exasperated civil society owing to the perceived economic meltdown. This disgruntlement has manifested...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:50hrs | 144 | by Emmanuel Murema
Water crisis puts residents' health at risk in Bulawayo
"YOU'LL get water when it's available," Bulawayo City Council officials loosely told residents recently after struggling to stick to the six-day water shedding schedule put in place to manage the dwin...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 23:59hrs | 1815 | by Staff Reporter
Walking the corridors of the engagement and re-engagement policy
The most difficult people to convince that the situation in Zimbabwe is mutually hurting are neither the politicians nor the ordinary person in the streets, but the intellectuals. They are the ones wh...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:33hrs | 464 | by Emmanuel Murema
Zimbabwe ripe for change!
When I read the statement by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa in her reaction to the Catholic bishops' pastoral letter, I was shocked at the ignorance and arrogance displayed in it. I said to my...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 607 | by Ken Mufuka
BCC accused of misplaced priorities
BULAWAYO Progressive Residents Association (Bpra) has accused the city council of misplaced priorities - a development it says has exacerbated the current water crisis.The Bpra's concerns come...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 21:38hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Residents blast MDC city fathers over worsening water crisis
BULAWAYO'S water situation has reached alarming and desperate levels with residents accusing city fathers of poor planning and misplaced priorities following a shock move to suspend water supply for t...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:17hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: TB Joshua 'heals' Zimbabwean member of parliament
A Zimbabwean Member of Parliament, Dr Ruth Labode, was among those who 'received healing' from COVID-19 during an online prayer session on TB Joshua's Emmanuel TV on Sunday 16th August 2020.Dr...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 12:34hrs | 4605 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's MPs fight over 20 litres of water
THE MDC-Alliance-run Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) failure to manage the worsening water crisis has resulted in two National Assembly members from the same party fighting over delivery of 20 litres of...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Makandiwa and his spiritual son killed a Chinese boy'
Controversial former Prophet Jaycob Dube (also known as Jay Israel) has accused Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his spiritual son Prophet Evidence Chari of covering up the killing of a Chinese child in...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 12:31hrs | 9075 | by Mandla Ndlovu
What's in a name? From Gukurahundi to Murambatsvina, Mugabe to Mnangagwa
THERE'S something strangely fascinating about the Venda culture in relation to the names given to people. It all sounds so idiosyncratic that I recently found myself reflecting on it during a discussi...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:00hrs | 412 | by TSHILIDZI MARWALA
Beer brawl turns fatal
POLICE in Mutawatawa, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two men who fatally assaulted a friend following a brawl over beer.Wiriranai Chipika (40) of Manyika village under Chief Nyajina ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Prophets Magaya and Makandiwa urged to speak against human rights abuses
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Walter Magaya and his counterpart UFIC leader Emmanuel Makandiwa have been urged to add their weight in calling for the respect of human rights in Z...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 11:27hrs | 3364 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 die in road accident
FOUR people died after an Uzumba traditional leader's vehicle burst a tyre and veered off the road before overturning several times along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway on Friday.The vehicle, b...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda miners disarm police to release friend
SIX miners, among them a woman, have been arrested for allegedly attacking three police officers and damaging a vehicle they were using in protest to the arrest of their workmate.Tawanda Msima...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
3 in court over illegal gathering
THREE people yesterday appeared in court facing allegations of staging an illegal demonstration at Boka Auction Floors in Harare demanding the release of fellow Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
3 MDC Alliance youths abducted on Monday night
Three Harare South MDC Alliance youths were abducted last night from their homes.I n a statement, the MDC Alliance said the trio, Emmanuel Mukwemu, Petronella Mapaire and Trynos Hove, were las...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:32hrs | 2907 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IFC Announces $50 Million Loan to Equity Bank to Support Kenyan SMEs During COVID-19
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 15:56hrs | 171 | by Stephen Jakes
IFC Announces $50 Million Loan to Equity Bank to Support Kenyan SMEs During COVID-19
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced a $50 million loan to Equity Bank Kenya to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:19hrs | 150 | by Stephen Jakes
PSC, MDC Alliance councillors face off
TWO MDC Alliance councillors in Chikomba Rural District Council (RDC) have been ordered to step down from their posts after failing to resign from the civil service following their win in the 2018 ele...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths to arrest protesters?
ZANU-PF youths have threatened to work hand-in-glove with police in "arresting malcontents" planning to stage anti-government protests on July 31. The protests are being organised by citizens,...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Youth League mobilises to defend Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF youths have declared war on demonstrators of the planned July 31 nationwide protests insisting they will not sit idle as their adversaries plot to unseat their leader, President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
'Free Zimbabwe from illegal sanctions'
President Mnangagwa has made international re-engagement, fighting corruption and achieving Vision 2030 his major priority areas. Political Editor Fungi Kwaramba (FK) sat down with Tanzanian A...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Gold stamp mill invades school grounds
VILLAGERS in PFungwe are up in arms with a gold mine that set up its milling plant at Dindi Mission School grounds.More than 300 villagers have since petitioned the relevant authorities, sayin...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1853 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: I am ready to pray for Covid-19 patients in isolation centres - TB Joshua
Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has signalled his readiness to virtually offer prayer for COVID-19 patients in isolation centres around the world.In a special announcement posted to Joshua's YouTube...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1329 | by Emmanuel Koro
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1794 | by Emmanuel Koro
BCC to bill in forex
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is considering billing residents in foreign currency and has re-adopted selling of residential stands in US dollars. The local authority, in the latest council repo...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1739 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
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