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Mnangagwa's govt to register food insecure families
Government has started registration of all food insecure families and school children in need of food assistance ahead of the launch of an expanded food aid scheme countrywide in the wake of drought i...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
MDC congress roars to life
The MDC Alliance will hold its national congress in Gweru from tomorrow Friday to Sunday. In a statement, the Nelson Chamisa party has reveled itinerary for the elective event which is aimed a...Published: 23 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 5488 | by Methusi Ncube
New Zupco buses come to Bulawayo
FIVE of the 39 new Zupco buses which were commissioned recently are coming to Bulawayo to service urban routes. This comes in the wake of Government slashing fares by 50 percent resulting in fares for...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Soldier up for carjacking
A 36-year-old Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) soldier deployed at One Independence Barracks here has been dragged to court for allegedly teaming up with three civilians to rob a suspected smuggler of his...Published: 23 May 2019 at 06:39hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Demand for Zupco up
Demand for Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses has spiked and the public transport operator is set to take delivery of 300 more coaches in a major leap for the country's mass transpo...Published: 22 May 2019 at 23:21hrs | 1924 | by Staff reporter
Soldier, taxi driver fined for stealing Cyclone Idai aid
A CHIPINGE soldier and a taxi driver who were accused of stealing Cyclone Idai relief aid escaped jail, but were fined $500 after their charges were amended by the State.Bigbrain Sithole (23) ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:23hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Millers Association embarks on price monitoring exercise
Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) says it will this week move around the country, monitoring prices of basic commodities to protect consumers from being short-changed by unscrupulous retailers....Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:15hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3585 | by PUMA
Chief Charumbira loses more land as Nemamwa chieftainship is restored
Chief Charumbira is set to lose more land to the Nemamwa clan following government's decision to upgrade the Nemamwa headmanship to a chieftainship, a move which will leave the former with only one wa...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:29hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Zimparks fails to catch large python at Zinwa offices
Zimparks only managed to catch the smaller of the two pythons spotted at Zinwa officesThe Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) was recently called to catch two large pythons spotted at...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reels over security sector reform
AS the European Union (EU) and Zimbabwe prepare to resume formal re-engagement talks, with Brussels insisting on sweeping reforms, including security sector overhaul, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is b...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:22hrs | 3275 | by Staff reporter
Fresh divisions rock ZANU PF Youth league
Fresh divisions have resurfaced in ZANU PF Youth League with some members accusing the National Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Lewis Matutu as being a demigod. A Provincial member of the M...Published: 16 May 2019 at 16:22hrs | 3467 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rival MDC Alliance faction vows to organise parallel party programmes
Disgruntled MDC members who were left seething with anger after chaotic districts and provincial congresses in Masvingo will have to live to fight another day after provincial chairperson James Gumbi ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 22:19hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to stop people from Masvingo from personalising Chamisa
High-ranking MDC party officials want to personalise the party leader, Nelson Chamisa because they come from the same village a high ranking official has revealed. This was revealed during a p...Published: 15 May 2019 at 14:27hrs | 2268 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans spend $1,5m on candles
THE majority of people in rural areas who have no access to electricity are spending at least $1, 5 million on candles annually, an official has said.Zonful Power Energy products' chief execut...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 240 | by Staf reporter
UK beef giant takes over CSC
CABINET has approved a joint venture between the Cold Storage Company (CSC) and a United Kingdom firm, Boulstead Beef (Pvt) Limited, which will see the investor injecting US$130 million into the meat ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2257 | by Staff reporter
SA bus accident: Bodies arrive
THE bodies of 13 of the 14 Zimbabweans who died in a Marsmery bus accident in South Africa on May 6 arrived in the country yesterday through Beitbridge.Initially 10 of the 13 bodies were broug...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1716 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land audit makes startling revelations
THE Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC), which recently completed the first phase of the audit involving more than 18 000 farmers, has unearthed gross underfunding of the agricultural sector and is now pus...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2273 | by Staff reporter
Charamba loyalists targeted in fresh round of purges at The Herald
The Herald's acting editor Tichaona Zindoga has rung the changes at the Zimpapers title, controversially deploying three senior journalists to provincial offices in a purge targeting loyalists of Pres...Published: 11 May 2019 at 15:46hrs | 4076 | by ZimLive
MPs demand new NSSA audit report
PARLIAMENT has given Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza an ultimatum to release the latest external forensic audit report on the National Social Security Authority (Nssa),...Published: 10 May 2019 at 13:58hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
'Auxillia Mnangagwa joins Grace Mugabe league'
POLITICAL analysts and opposition parties have questioned First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's "philanthropic" work, which has reportedly seen her interfering in government business.In some cases, ...Published: 09 May 2019 at 18:57hrs | 3339 | by Staff reporter
Parents struggle with school fees as economy bites
PARENTS yesterday said they were struggling to send their children back to school for the second term as they were failing to cope with rising fees and cost of living against stagnant salaries....Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths disrupt clinic project
Political fighting in Bikita East has seen Zanu PF youths barring MDC Alliance ward 15 councillor Samson Dzinodya from constructing a clinic in Manjovha village under Headman Nerumedzo.The rul...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe still committed to migration to digital analogue'
ZIMBABWE is still committed to migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting but scarcity of foreign currency is hampering progress, a Cabinet Minister has said. Giving a public lecture at G...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:15hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe University fails to pay lecturers
GREAT Zimbabwe University in Masvingo has come under fire for failing to pay part-time lecturers' salaries since last year.Some of the affected lecturers told Sunday News that the university h...Published: 05 May 2019 at 12:18hrs | 1611 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai remembered in style
IT is 5am, the grass is covered in morning dew and cool temperatures are biting, but to multitudes of MDC supporters it is just another time to celebrate their late leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.F...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland hay for Matebeleland cattle
EFFORTS are being made to move hay from Mashonaland region to the southern part of the country so as to save livestock in these areas from succumbing to the effects of drought, an official said....Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:48hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
'If we fail to adapt, we are doomed,' says Mutsvangwa
SalutationsLadies and gentlemen,It is my great pleasure to join you today, at a moment we are marking the 2019 World Press Freedom Day commemorations under the international theme "Med...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:39hrs | 5865 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Govt avails $1,5m for science teachers training
At least $1,5 million has been mobilised by Government towards training of science teachers and promotion of science education, which is regarded as a key pillar for industrialisation and development....Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC splits
A serious brawl is going on within the local structures of the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, with two factions that both claim to be the legitimately-elected Mwenezi district executive emerging.At t...Published: 04 May 2019 at 23:05hrs | 16137 | by STaff reporter
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | 1172 | by Nhlanhla Moses
48-hour water cuts are back in Bulawayo
Reporters THE Bulawayo City Council has with immediate effect re-introduced a 48-hour water shedding schedule in all suburbs amid revelations the city is among areas that will be hit by severe water s...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Costa Nhamoinesu retires from international football
Zimbabwe international defender Costa Nhamoinesu has retired from international football.Confirming the development this evening, Nhamoinesu on his Twitter account said; "Calling it a day at i...Published: 02 May 2019 at 19:10hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe National Army wants to recruit Officer Cadets
Required are suitably qualified candidates to be trained as Officer Cadets to fill existing vacancies within the Zimbabwe National Army.Candidates should:• Have a m...Published: 01 May 2019 at 15:02hrs | 4394 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mawarire defends ex-G40 members in MDC
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has defended the decision by MDC to elect Shadreck Mashayamombe who is former Zanu-PF Harare province secretary for commissariat to the po...Published: 01 May 2019 at 13:00hrs | 3391 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Newly-commissioned road needs repairs
The newly-constructed 2,4km West Road in Tshovani Township in Chiredzi, which was funded by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) at a cost of ZWL$510 000 and commissioned by Masvingo Pro...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:59hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC allocates posts to ex-G40 cadres
FORMER members of the deposed Generation 40 (G40) faction have secured positions in the opposition MDC party's Harare provincial executive. G40 is a Zanu-PF faction that worked tirelessly to secure fo...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 20:45hrs | 2176 | by Staff reporter
Congress splits MDC Alliance in Masvingo
The just-ended MDC-Alliance provincial congress continues to widen fissures in the beleaguered party, with rival factions escalating attacks on each other amid allegations of rigging that threaten to ...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 303 | by Charles Laiton
Zanu-PF MPs jeered at party rally
Zanu-PF supporters in Chiredzi booed and hauled insults at the party's Masvingo provincial Women's League chairperson Alignia Samson and Chiredzi West MP Farai Musikavanhu at victory celebrations held...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 2833 | by Staff reporter
CPU warns of Cyclone Kenneth, landfall
The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has issued a warning of a tropical storm that is developing into a cyclone named Cyclone Kenneth, which is projected to make a landfall in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1830 | by Staff reporter
MDC to gobble $3 m on congress amid huge debts
The MDC Alliance is going to gobble more than $3illion for its elective congress scheduled for next month in Gweru amid huge debts in unpaid workers' salaries and allowances for their 2018 polling age...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 14:35hrs | 417 | by Christopher Makaza
Highlander's worst start
HIGHLANDERS will have to replicate Monomotapa's incredible turnaround produced in 2008 to win the league after losing their opening four games to appease their army of restless fans. Defunct M...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally stabs father
A Gutu man allegedly fatally stabbed his father with a sharp object after he disowned him. Steward Ganda (23) of Ganda Village under Chief Mazuru allegedly stabbed his father, Diti Ganda (60),...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Of the Zimbabwe bird and political ignoramuses
In the morning of the eve of the celebration of our 39th Independence anniversary last week, the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa torched a storm on the social media when he insinuated that the Zimbabwe bir...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 11:50hrs | 2195 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC set to heal divisions in Masvingo
NELSON Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has moved to heal divisions following the acrimonious congress in Masvingo where some officials were disqualified in controversial circumstances. In an intervie...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Family whips granny to death over witchcraft
EIGHT Chivi family members allegedly whipped their elderly relative for more than 10 hours with mulberry tree switches leading to his death after accusing him of witchcraft, police have confirmed. ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lied about his arrest by whites?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly misled the nation when he created a narrative that he was arrested by the white minority regime for derailing a goods train and sentenced to death but was spared...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 10:31hrs | 9072 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Military rifle recovered from poachers
POACHERS cornered in a section of the vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge recently abandoned an AK-47 assault rifle traced back to the Zimbabwe National Army, police sources said at the weeken...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira calls for truce in boundary row
Zimbabwe Chiefs' Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira has called for an end to a long-standing boundary dispute between himself and newly-installed Chief Bere of Mashava. This follows th...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1857 | by Staff reporter
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