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Villagers petition MP over corruption in food aid distribution
Villagers in Mberengwa East have petitioned local legislator Tasara Hungwe, their ward councillor, and the Department of Social Welfare over allegations of corruption in the distribution of government...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 08:55hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs press Mthuli Ncube to raise their salaries
Zanu-PF MPs pressed finance minister Mthuli Ncube to raise their salaries and commit to give them houses and Toyota Land Cruisers before passing his budget on Thursday.Comparing themselves to ...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 17:38hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
The Ngungumbane Chieftaincy of Mpateni
Today we look at the Ndebele community of Chief Ngungumbane which was relocated to Mberengwa in the late 1920s. Their migration story is similar to that of the Chief Gwebu community of Buhera....Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:30hrs | 27 | by Mzala Tom
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dithers on free education
GOVERNMENT has started to sing a different tune on earlier promises to provide free basic education beginning next year, with Finance minister Mthuli Ncube saying the programme would need more time to...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs scale up dollarisation campaign
PARLIAMENTARIANS have made a fresh call for the scrapping of the weakening local currency in favour of dollarisation.Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Pelandaba–Mpopoma legislator Charles...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda rubbishes SRC's road map for Zimbabwe football
FORMER Zifa vice-president and Vungu Member of Parliament Omega Sibanda has rubbished the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) road map for football as debate on the suspension of Zimbabwe from the ...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru tenders for refuse collection
GWERU City Council has invited private contractors to collect solid waste in the city's residential suburbs after its refuse tucks proved not up to the task.Five years ago, the local authority...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Contractor shifts gear up to complete civil servants' flats
FACED with financial challenges, some contractors halt or abandon projects in a huff, but Pevimag Contractors, has broken that tradition by getting a $45 million loan from a local bank to make sure th...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Britain must compensate Zimbabwe for colonial rule losses'
GUTU South MP Pupurai Togarepi (Zanu-PF) has suggested that Zimbabwe must demand compensation for losses incurred while the country was under British rule.Togarepi said this last Thursday whil...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF campaign in full swing'
Zanu-PF candidates eyeing vacant local government and parliamentary seats have reportedly scaled up campaigns, canvassing for votes in door-to-door exercises, doling out freebies in their constituenci...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to checkmate Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behind Zanu-PF's renewed push for sweeping amendments to the constitution to put a leash on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is said to harbour ambitions for th...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs differ on Constitution Amendment Bill
Zanu-PF and MDC MPs have expressed divergent views regarding Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2, which will see, among other things, the dropping of the presidential running mate clause ahead of the 20...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's selection of by-election candidates raises temperatures
FRESH trouble is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with its leaders now standing accused of overlooking an agreement which allows the group that came with one of the coalition's deputies, Welshman Ncube, t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF decides on expelled Mugabe allies' readmission pleas
MIDLANDS based former government ministers and allies to late ex-President Robert Mugabe will know their Zanu-PF membership status when the party's provincial executive meets this week to examine thei...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo's tenure littered with allegations of corruption
FORMER Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo was this week unceremoniously demoted to a junior ministerial post due to a string of corruption allegations, gross incompetence and fuel short...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ngungumbane blocked the building of a school in his area?
Cultural Activist Nothiwani Dlodlo says Chief Ngungumbane working with some political leaders in Mberengwa blocked the construction of Ngungumbane satellite Secondary school in 2012.Dlodlo sai...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:46hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa climbs down on Hwange parliament hearing
The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development, Temba Mliswa was left licking his wounds this Monday and had to apologise to committee members for trying to f...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 17:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Van Hoogstraten divides MPs
There was commotion in Parliament today when members of the portfolio committee on Mines and Mining Development disagreed among themselves on whether one of Hwange's shareholder, Mr Nicholas Van Hoogs...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 17:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Terror campaign spreads to opposition youth leaders' homes
DISTRICT and provincial youth leaders of the MDC Alliance have claimed mid-night raids on their homes by unidentified men in plain clothes believed to be military personnel and Zanu-PF hit squads....Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF extends lead
The ruling Zanu-PF has extended the lead in early returns. Zimbabweans went to the polls on July 30 in historic elections which take place nine months after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Below ar...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF poised for landslide
Zanu-PF has taken a commanding early lead in National Assembly results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) last night, with the ruling party poised for a comfortable majority in Parli...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reprter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Battle for Mberengwa declared
Aspiring legislator for Mberengwa Takavafira Masarira Zhou who is the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President have declared war for the control of Mberengwa constituency in this year election...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Welshman Ncube unveils Parly candidates - full list
THE Welshman Ncube-led MDC has named its 31 parliamentary candidates for the seats it was allocated by the MDC Alliance.Party spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi yesterday said the candidates' fina...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fear drives Welshman Ncube rigging claims
THE Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC is already running scared ahead of the country's harmonised elections claiming that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) decision not to go public about procuri...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs fight over for their lives
Several Zanu-PF heavyweights who include Cabinet ministers could fall by the wayside in the party's forthcoming blood and thunder primary elections, with the youth league cranking up the heat on senio...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mzembi 'to remain loyal to Zanu-PF despite expulsion'
FORMER Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Walter Mzembi has accepted his expulsion from Zanu-PF and subsequent ejection from Parliament.However, he pledged to remain loyal to the revolutionary party ...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 Zanu-PF MPs expelled
Parliament yesterday expelled eleven Zanu-PF legislators after the ruling party notified the august House that they no longer represented the interests of the revolutionary party.This brings t...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Coltart react to Hlongwane arrest over beans
Norton house of assembly member Temba Mliswa and former Minister of Education have responded to the arrest of sacked former Minister of Sport, Arts and Recreation Makhosini Hlongwane.Hlongwane...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Former sports minister arrested, found with tonnes of beans
Former Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister and Member of Parliament for Mberengwa East Makhosini Hlongwane was yesterday picked up by police at his farm on the outskirts of Zvishavane town.Pol...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 23:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
G40 MPs set to be ejected from Parliament
At least eight more Zanu-PF Members of Parliament are set to be ejected from Parliament after the ruling party's Extraordinary Congress held last Friday adopted a Central Committee report recommending...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF to recall more MPs
More heads will roll in the National Assembly as the ruling Zanu-PF party moves to weed out all expelled members, party chief whip Lovemore Matuke said yesterday. On Tuesday, the ruling party ...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 linked MPs spared the Parly axe
EXPELLED Zanu-PF bigwigs and G40 kingpins Jonathan Moyo, Ignatius Chombo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Mandi Chimene and Kudzayi Chipanga were yesterday fired by Parliament as ruling party legislators....Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF rigs Amendment No 1 Bill vote'
HARARE West legislator Jessie Majome (MDC-T) has challenged the legality of President Robert Mugabe assenting to the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No 1 Bill, saying the voting process to pass the...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ugly infighting rattles Zanu-PF
Rival Zanu-PF factions shall momentarily shift their focus to primary elections due to be held either in the final quarter of this year or early next year, as they battle for control of the National A...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa to get boarding school
THE Government has accepted a request by villagers in Mberengwa East constituency in the Midlands Province to upgrade Mbuya Nehanda High School into a boarding school.The school, the only Gove...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Parliament to investigate Mugabe's nephew?
PARLIAMENT will next month begin another public inquiry into the alleged abuse of a government administered-fund meant to benefit underprivileged youths in a move that could turn into a witch-hunt aga...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dineo caused widespread destruction
CYCLONE Dineo that was downgraded to a tropical storm before it hit the country on Friday has caused widespread destruction in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces leaving one person dead, hundreds...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa should be declared a state of disaster as cyclone Dineo leaves a trail of destruction
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President Takavafira Zhou has said Mberengwa North should be declared a state of disaster as cyclone Dineo left a trail of destruction in the area....Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Violence will never be tolerated, says Chihuri
Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri says violence and the misuse of social media will never be tolerated in Zimbabwe.He said this during the commissioning of housing units in Buc...Published: 15 Jul 2016 at 20:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's tour de force
THE Robert Gabriel Mugabe Square lived up to its billing yesterday when hundreds of thousands of Zanu-PF supporters gathered there in a show of force to celebrate President Mugabe's legacy and affirm ...Published: 26 May 2016 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff Reporters
Bhasikiti reveals Zanu-PF 2008 poll secret
Ousted ex Zanu PF Masvingo Resident Minister , Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, has revealed that President Robert Mugabe personally deployed the Zimbabwe National Army to wage a violent campaign against MDC-T s...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Minister defends Zifa deal
SPORT and Recreation Minister Makhosini Hlongwane says ZIFA's new multi-million-dollar partnership with sponsors from United Arab Emirates will not expose domestic football to Asia's shadowy match-fix...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:08hrs | | by Grace Chingoma
Prophet Magaya makes U-turn
PROPHET Walter Magaya has had a change of heart and will not only complete the construction of a multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art multi-sports complex in Waterfalls, which he had abandoned midway...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Grace Chirigoma
Kasukuwere chickens out of Zanu-PF's Midlands infighting
Zanu-PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, has chickened out of the vicious infighting in Midlands province, as warring party members in Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home provinc...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints 14 new ministers
President Mugabe has appointed 14 new ministers, who are expected to take the oath of office at a ceremony to be held at State House in Harare today, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Mi...Published: 11 Sep 2015 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Hebert Zharare and Innocent Ruwende
Mugabe obstacle to business
President Robert Mugabe's stranglehold on power, along with the ongoing acrimonious internal strife within Zanu-PF, have created an uncertain political environment which is militating against suc...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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