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Zimbabwe's COVID-19 recovery rate drops drastically
ZIMBABWE'S Covid-19 recovery rate has dropped drastically in the second wave of the new variant of the virus and most infections are local, showing that communities should adopt safe behaviours as the...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Mother denies baby's death in Sikhala case
THE mother of the child who was reported by MDC-Alliance activists as having been struck to death by a police officer using a baton in Harare, denied that her baby was beaten to death during the incid...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains in extreme poverty range
The country's poverty datum line rose 5.5% to $4 670.04 in December from $4 425.64 the previous month. This means that a person required $143 or US$1.75 per day to purchase both non-food and food item...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 17:04hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Cellphone thieves on the run
POLICE in Mashonaland Central province are hunting for suspected robbers who allegedly assaulted a 24-year-old man before robbing him of his cellphone and money on Tuesday.Suspects committed t...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1108 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Lawyers expose Mnangagwa's 'daughter'
WOMAN, who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter, Chantelle Chikafu has had her "unholy" alliance with the Mines ministry officials exposed by lawyers after she intended to grab ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:08hrs | 6012 | by Staff reporter
Ex-presidential aide's sons in land rage
FORMER Deputy Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Justin Mupamhanga's sons have been taken to court for destroying at least eight hectares of a maize crop belonging to their ne...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 2313 | by Staff reporter
Excavator operator kills security guard
A SECURITY guard at Salgro Investment in Rushinga, Mashonaland Central province died yesterday when an excavator uprooted a mango tree he was on.Trust Manyanga (24) succumbed to injuries susta...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Security guard 'killed' on mango tree
A SECURITY guard at Salgro investment in Rushinga, Mashonaland Central province died yesterday after he was seriously injured by an excavator which uprooted a mango tree he was on.Manyanga Tru...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 15:26hrs | 1888 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jim Kunaka denied bail
Political activist and National Patriotic Front (NPF) member Jim Kunaka was on Tuesday denied bail on allegations of trying to incite the public to engage in violence in August. Kunaka was fac...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:31hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Footprints lead to arrest of 'midnight-rapist'
A suspected rapist was allegedly sold out by his footprints after he attempted to rape a minor in Rushinga Mashonaland Central province.Raymond Chiripa (23) of Pound village, Chief Makuni in R...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 12:22hrs | 1889 | by Simbarashe Sithole
EFF member voted in MDC-T elections
THE opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe has confirmed one of its senior officials voted in the MDC-T chaotic weekend extraordinary congress held at the Harare International Conf...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2209 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T candidates' election agents condemn 'farcical' Congress
THE six chief election agents representing losing candidates at the just ended MDC-T extraordinary congress (EOC) are supporting the decision of former acting president Thokozani Khupe to cancel the c...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
2020: The year Zimbabwe opposition was decimated
The year 2020 put Zimbabwe's democracy to the test as many political activists were arrested for trying to exercise their rights to demonstrate while others were allegedly abducted.Political a...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's 'brother' implicated as foreign firms defy govt ban on river bank mining
FOREIGN-LINKED companies - particularly from China and Belarus - are deploying heavy machinery to river banks to mine for gold under the guise that they are desilting the watercourses, it has emerged....Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa throws 'niece' under the bus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown his "niece", Shantel Chikafu, under the bus after she was arrested for abusing his name in a messy mine ownership wrangle in which she ejected John Maungwa from...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 4506 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Minister Mavhunga
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central province Monica Mavhunga is under fire from stalwart of the liberation struggle after she allegedly removed their chairperson from the provincial lands commit...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2254 | by Tarisai Mudahondo/Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe crisis presents immense opportunities'
IT has been an eventful year for Tendo Electronics MD and recent winner of the director of the year award at this year's edition of the Megafest awards, Mike Kamungeremu (MK).The firm, which s...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:10hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Minister elbows war veterans Chairperson at a funeral
Fights in Zanu Pf camp Mashonaland Central province escalates as Minister of state for the province Monica Mavhunga allegedly elbowed war veterans chairpe...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 20:22hrs | 2847 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa battles G40, Gamatox remnants
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:10hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
'G40, Gamatox teaming up against Mnangagwa'
ZANU-PF's vanquished Generation 40 (G40) and Gamatox factions have joined forces in a bid to destabilise President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party ahead of the 2023 polls, a senior official of the fo...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 7055 | by Staff reporter
PPC Zimbabwe shelves Mt Darwin clinker plant construction
The country's largest cement maker, PPC Zimbabwe, has shelved plans to construct a clinker plant in Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province, due to reduced construction activity in the country....Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 08:53hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC elections underway
THE ZANU-PF District Coordinating Committees' (DCC) election process currently underway in the remaining eight non-metropolitan provinces is now 80 percent complete, the party's national chairperson O...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 20:45hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in trouble for 'disrespecting Mnangagwa'
MAZOWE Central MP Sydney Chidamba faces disciplinary action for disrespecting President Emmerson Mnangagwa by walking out of a meeting that was preparing the Zanu-PF leader's visit to the legislator's...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:13hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chefs fingered in Chiweshe gold rush
A GOLD rush involving some powerful political figures in the country has erupted in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central province, prompting the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to deploy state securi...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:28hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Mazowe amidst DCC election rigging fears
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly heading to Mazowe in Mashonaland Central for the National Tree planting day. The national tree planting day coincidences with ZANU PF's much awaited DCC elec...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 11:06hrs | 2386 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zhemu Soda electrifies Mash Central
Energy Minister Zhemu Soda has received praises in Mashonaland Central province after he made sure that electricity and fuel is readly available in the pr...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 14:32hrs | 2289 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa threatens to cut loose errant Zanu-PF bigwigs
A LIVID President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu-PF bigwigs to be loyal to the party or risk being cut loose, as he bids to contain growing divisions in the former liberation movement.Addr...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:18hrs | 6469 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gold wars turn nasty
A NASTY fight for mining rights has erupted over gold mining claims in Umfurudzi Game Park where violence is said to be the order of the day between machetewielding Zanu-PF youths from rival camps....Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
Opposition hails Chiwenga for promising land to youths
OPPOSITION The Patriotic Front's (TPF) youth wing, The Young Patriots (TYP) has praised Vice President Constantino Chiwenga for initiating a programme that will see the young generation receiving agri...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 2541 | by Staff reporter
Spirit Medium aid killed with machetes
A Rushinga spirit medium aid Kingston Kazasi 81 was allegedly murdered by two unknown Mozambicans in Rushinga last week.The two suspects claimed to have come from Zenga village in Mozambique....Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 08:11hrs | 3754 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cost of living spirals to $20 680
ZIMBABWE'S monthly cost of living rose by 4,4% to $18 750 in October, even as the Zimbabwe National Statistics agency (ZimStat) said the annual inflation rate dropped during the period.This fi...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF finalises DCC vetting process
Zanu-PF has completed the vetting of candidates vying to contest in the District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections in eight provinces, a process it launched as part of its due diligence.H...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:13hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba pulls out of DCC elections
Mazowe ward 34 councillor Edwin Chinotimba has pulled out of Mazowe District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections where he was contesting for Science and Technology post.Chinotimba announced...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 08:05hrs | 2654 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF DCC polls widen fissures in party
FISSURES within Zanu-PF continue to widen as power struggles intensify ahead of the reintroduced district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) elections, with some provincial members seething with anger af...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF centralises printing of ballot papers
ZANU-PF has centralised the printing of ballot papers for its forthcoming district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, to avert cases of fraud and rigging which have previously blighted its inter...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 18:34hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCCs process soiled by factionalism, name-dropping and tribalism
SEVERAL Zanu-PF bigwigs, including Cabinet ministers, survived a nerve-racking and tension-filled process at the weekend as the ruling party chose candidates for its divisive district co-ordinating co...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 19:52hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
DCC candidates invoke Mnangagwa, Chiwenga names in campaigns
A LEAKED conversation between two senior Zanu-PF officials in Mashonaland Central province has exposed a rift in the ruling party ahead of the district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 5328 | by Staff reporter
Poverty Datum Line jumps 4,1% to $17 957
THE Poverty Datum Line (PDL) for an average family of five increased by 4,1 percent to $17 957 in September from $17 244,07 in August, official figures show. The latest increase is, however, s...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
DCC candidates ordered to campaign
ZANU PF Candidates for the District Coordinating Committee in Mashonaland Central province have been given the green light to the campaign.Addressing the party Provincial leadership in Bindura...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 17:17hrs | 364 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF infighting continues to mar run-up to divisive DCC polls
So bad is the political climate within Zanu-PF at the moment that its secretary for security in pictured, readily admitted to the Daily News yesterday that senior the deepening infighting within the r...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:30hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Prophet clashes with soldier
GOODNESS and Mercy Ministries leader, Prophet Tapiwa Freddy has clashed with a member of the uniformed forces over mineral resources at a hill in Mashonaland Central province.Prophet Freddy, t...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:52hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
'Bigwigs causing mayhem in Zanu-PF'
ZANU-PF stalwart and ex-secretary for administration, Didymus Mutasa, says very senior party officials are behind the dog-eat dog mayhem ravaging the former liberation movement ahead of its divisive d...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:22hrs | 4885 | by Staff reporter
Seven perish in road accidents in Mash Central
SEVEN people died in separate traffic accidents in Mashonaland Central Province this week.Mashonaland Central province deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Fidelis Dhewu confirmed th...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | 2579 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1305 | by Staff reporter
Suspected rapist bashed to death
A 42-YEAR-OLD man was on Monday bashed to death in Mukumbura, Mashonaland Central province, after members of the community accused him of being a rapist.Given Kanyera (42), of Hore village, al...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1495 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa attempts to end enduring Zanu-PF ructions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, is once again extending an olive branch to many of his disaffected erstwhile Zanu-PF comrades - including former vice president Joice Mujuru, as he seeks to unite t...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 1827 | by Staff reporter
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