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Alliance executives stampeded to voice their support for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office-bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 640 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance leaders rally behind Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 2047 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks mealie-meal distribution
CHIREDZI residents have declared that they will not comply with the 21-day lockdown order which began on Monday after Zanu-PF took over the sale of mealie-meal in the sugar-cane producing town....Published: 7 hrs ago | 779 | by Staff reporter
Thieving manager crashes after high speed 100km chase
THERE was drama in Masvingo recently when an N Richards Retail and Operations Manager was allegedly involved in a high speed chase with Fawcett security guards for more than 100 km before being involv...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Digitisation progress charms Govt
MANY communities in remote areas now have access to radio services following the successful roll-out of Government's digitisation programme that has so far seen the installation of six gap filler tran...Published: 7 hrs ago | 101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean returnees to undergo mandatory 21-day isolation
ZIMBABWEANS returning from South Africa via Beitbridge Border Post will undergo a mandatory 21-day quarantine at the defunct Beitbridge Rainbow Hotel while Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo is now ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:35hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Baker's Inn reduces bread supply
BREAD manufacturer, Baker's Inn, says it has reduced supply of bread onto the market due to depressed demand following the 21-day national lockdown period. Speaking by telephone from Harare ye...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:34hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC leadership ascent 'flawed'
The Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed in on the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leadership dispute, ruling that Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of the party and confirming an earlier r...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 19:10hrs | 7846 | by Staff reporter
Komichi reinstates all MDC mayors fired by Chamisa
MDC-T National Chairman Morgan Komichi has announced that the party has reinstated all the Mayors that were recalled during the times when Nelson Chamisa was the leader of the party. ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 17:27hrs | 6321 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Komichi backs Chamisa ouster
MDC top politician Morgen Komichi has welcomed the Supreme Court ruling declaring current MDC leader Nelson Chamisa was not legitimate leader of the main opposition.In his statement, Komichi i...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 16:14hrs | 10539 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Morgan Komichi announces removal of Chamisa as President
Today, the Supreme Court, which is the highest Court of the Land except in constitutional cases, has pronounced itself on the dispute that has long been affecting our Party.This follows the ch...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 16:07hrs | 4206 | by Morgan Komichi
Harare Institute of Technology develops ventilator
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has developed a ventilator which it is testing before trials begin, with the potential of making 40 such gadgets per day, while other tertiary institutions are...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:51hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans flee to rural areas
THOUSANDS of food insecure families in Harare and other cities and towns yesterday flocked to their rural homes after failing to stock up enough food supplies to last them until the end of the 21-day ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:30hrs | 2737 | by Staff reporter
Judge's son appears in court
THE son of High Court judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze, who was arrested along with his two accomplices on accusations of murdering a cellphone dealer in Harare last week, claimed detectives poured hot...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:56hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Strict new curbs on life begin countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown stalls Zimbabwe's 10-year census
A partial lockdown in an attempt to avoid the worst of the Covid-19 virus has stalled the preliminary stages of Zimbabwe's preparations for the 2022 census.However, it is business as usual els...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 19:17hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suspends top four MDC members
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa, has suspended four top Masvingo Provincial Executive Assembly members over alleged acts of misconduct, the Harare Post reported.Sources from the Morgan Richard Tsva...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 18:59hrs | 11244 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally cracks whip on business over COVID-19
As the country recorded its third case of Covid-19 and one death, the Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has ordered all big businesses to avail hand sanitizers and temp...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1940 | by Staf reporter
2 killers jailed 70 years for slitting motorist's throat, burning body
TWO stranded deportees from Botswana who stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond recognition, have been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal shortage: hungry people ignore social distance
MDC top official Tapiwa Mashakada has lamented that due to mealie meal shortage people in Masvingo were seen disregarding social distance to prevent COVID...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:14hrs | 264 | by Stephen Jakes
Headmaster, teacher refused rice after Mnangagwa Cleanup Campaign
There was fracas at Glow Service Station in Masvingo CBD after a councillor defied instructions and refused to give a school head and a teacher 3kg rice each allocated to them for attending President ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:27hrs | 6920 | by Staff reporter
Business as usual as Covid wreaks havoc
Hundreds of thousands of people in the five southern provinces of Zimbabwe continue to do business as usual including gathering in overcrowded places, selling food in the streets, hugging and clubbing...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:26hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo woman tests negative
A pregnant Masvingo woman who was on Tuesday placed in self-isolation on suspicion of having Covid-19, has tested negative and is on her way to recovery at home in Mucheke. The development com...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Of shrinking internal democratic space in MDC
One of the key changes which President Mnangagwa rang on his assumption of power in November 2017 was opening up the democratic space. This saw MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa clockin...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 331 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Thorngrove hospital still to get funding for coronavirus equipment
THORNGROVE Hospital in Bulawayo, which is one of the two infectious diseases hospitals that have been established to cater for coronavirus patients, is still ill-equipped to admit patients as governme...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 251 | by newzimbabwe
Judge's son up for murder
THE son of a High Court judge and his two friends allegedly robbed a Harare cellphone dealer of his four handsets and fatally stabbed him before dumping the corpse in a bush in Ruwa. Munyaradz...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig points gun at daughter's 'boyfriend'
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial political commissar Jevas Masosote was recently in the eye of a storm after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a man he accused of impregnating his teenage daughter who is s...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:02hrs | 9016 | by Staff reporter
Man clones Zimbabwe military bank card
A 28-year-old Kuwadzana man has been hauled before the court on fraud charges after he allegedly cloned the Zimbabwe Defence Forces(ZDF) Agribank card and stole over ZWL $63 000.Thabani Chiduw...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:32hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Zapu province hails SA govt for efforts to combat Covid-19
The Zimbabwe African People's Union has expressed its gratitude to the South African government for standing tall and take such a tremendous effort in combating the spread of the Coronavirus within th...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 07:26hrs | 608 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe confirms third positive corona virus case
The Health ministry has revealed that one male tested positive for the virus from some 15 specimens tested on Tuesday."As of today, the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country is now...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6481 | by Staff reporter
A' Level pupil gives birth in hostel
A Form Six pupil at Gokomere High School gave birth to a bouncing baby girl in her hostel yesterday. She allegedly went into labour at around 2am and gave birth a few minutes later in the host...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his dark sense of humour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has never been a prolific orator like his predecessor the late Robert Mugabe, he seems to have been trying to compensate for that lack of the gift by using humour....Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 7151 | by Staff reporter
MDC factions threaten to tear Masvingo apart
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has hit turbulent waters in Masvingo after members of rival camps fought each other during district elections conducted last weekend.The clashes pitted members of th...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
Jobs bloodbath hits Zimbabwe firms
A staggering 210,333 jobs were made redundant in 2019 as local companies threw workers onto the streets in response to the realities of a debilitating liquidity crunch, low productivity, punitive real...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3075 | by Staff reporter
Catholic Church in Zimbabwe to live stream Mass
The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe will live stream Mass celebrations in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, which government has declared a national disaster.Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference ...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
BCC not ready to deal with Covid-19
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said it has not received all the requisite equipment to adequately deal with Covid-19 cases that may arise in the southern parts of the country. The local a...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Recruitment freeze grounds Mpilo
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo is lobbying Government to scrap the staff recruitment freeze in the health sector as hospitals are hamstrung due to staff shortages leading to poor service delivery ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:39hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lawsuit withdrawn
FIRED Victoria Falls Mayor, Councillor Somvelo Dlamini who recently approached the High Court challenging the MDC Alliance's decision to recall him has withdrawn the lawsuit. Mr Dlamini was fi...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:38hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Businessman killers in accident
SIX armed robbers who allegedly shot and killed a popular local businessman - Kumbirai Kumbula - were early on Sunday morning involved in an accident along the Mutare-Masvingo highway as they fled in ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
Residents associations gang up to challenge govt on COVID-19
Residents associations across the country have ganged up to call on the government and responsible authorities to act on the COVID-19 preparedness.In a statement residents associations (RAs) f...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 08:40hrs | 983 | by Stephen Jakes
Civil servant bus fleet doubles
Another 33 buses were yesterday handed over to the Public Service Commission (PSC) to ferry civil servants, more than doubling its fleet, at a ceremony attended by President Mnangagwa who promised to ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 605 | by Staff reported
16 prostitutes lose property to 1 client
A crafty Masvingo man enriched himself by stealing thousands of dollars worth of property using one modus operandi in which he dated a sex worker, studied her home environment before coming back as a ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:25hrs | 2676 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confronts coronavirus
TWO Chinese nationals were yesterday admitted at Wilkins Hospital for coronavirus tests, while a tourist who visited the premier tourist resort of Victoria Falls tested positive soon after returning t...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:41hrs | 1549 | by Staff reporter
Ex-boxer kills girlfriend
FORMER Chiredzi boxer, Charles Jackson (45) was last week sentenced to 35 years over the cold blood murder of his live-in girlfriend, Ndaizivei James.The incident happened sometime in March la...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:10hrs | 2517 | by Staff reporter
'ZRP shields killer cops'
FORMER police Assistant Commissioner Gideon Baloyi has exposed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s alleged underhand dealings, including cover-ups for officers who committed murder and other various ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:09hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Treacherous Harare-Beitbridge highway
A HAULAGE truck hobnobs, huffs and puffs, swerves and suddenly drops its speed to an uncharacteristic crawl. Several other vehicles behind it screech to near halt and one-by-one, they weave past dotte...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 20:42hrs | 3248 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, MDC dither on rolling demos
THE MDC is blowing hot and cold on its plans to stage rolling mass actions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and Zanu-PF.This comes as ructions consuming the party continue ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:47hrs | 3502 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa backs 'imminent' ZCTU protests
THE opposition MDC has joined forces the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner to push for salaries in United States dollars, with the labour body saying workers are itching for mass action ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:11hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Looted Great Zimbabwe national bird statues returned
They figure on Zimbabwe's national flag, banknotes and official documents - birds representing stone statues taken by colonialists more than a century ago.The eight original sculptures hold gr...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1113 | by AFP
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