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Zimbabwe marriage age of consent raised
GIRLS under the age of 18 will no longer legally enter into marriages, while marrying off minors will become a criminal offence under a new law that will be introduced in Parliament soon.Inter...Published: 2 hrs ago | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins regional power exports
ZIMBABWE has started exporting electricity to regional countries especially Namibia, buoyed by increased production at the Kariba Power Station which came into life in March last year.Presiden...Published: 2 hrs ago | 168 | by Staff reporter
MDC hammers Mnangagwa over 'infantile and embarrassing love of flying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared two days of mourning the victims of Cyclone Idai - and then left on a trip to Angola, his 28th foreign visit in the 15 months since he assumed power.The M...Published: 3 hrs ago | 106 | by ZimLive
Supa Mandiwanzira's passport return bid deferred
A HARARE magistrate deferred until next week a decision on whether to release a passport to ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Mandiwanzira, who...Published: 3 hrs ago | 45 | by Staff reporter
ED is not the only Mnangagwa: Jonasi
IDEAL Zimbabwe leader Tinashe Jonasi, who is accused undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa's authority, has said the head of State was not the only person called Mnangagwa and challenged the State ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 118 | by Staff reporter
39 school kids feared dead
NEARLY 40 students from Dzingire Primary School in Chimanimani are feared dead as the country continue to count the cost of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.This comes as the death toll from...Published: 3 hrs ago | 112 | by Staff reporter
'ED presidency expires in 2020' says coup plotter - this time, will earn hangman's rope
A Spotlight Zimbabwe's report suggesting that Zimbabwe's military are plotting to remove Mnangagwa should be taken very seriously. There is no doubt the junta can see that Mnangagwa's grip on power is...Published: 17 hrs ago | 11949 | by Wilbert Mukori
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1446 | by Takura Zhangazha
Cyclone Idai deaths shoot to 259 in Zimbabwe
ABOUT 259 people have so far been confirmed dead and 217 unaccounted for, while over 16 000 households have been displaced by Cyclone Idai-induced floods that hit the eastern part of the country last ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 4635 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members urged to show loyalty to party
ZANU-PF members in Bulawayo's Ward 28 have been urged to show their commitment and loyalty to the party by voting for the party's candidate, Kidwell Mujuru, in the council by-election set for March 30...Published: 19 hrs ago | 362 | by Staff reporter
Beira-Harare fuel pipeline to reopen next month
THE Companhiado De Pipeline Mozambique-Zimbabwe (CPMZ) fuel pipeline, which transports fuel from Beira to Harare, will resume operations early next month after authorities closed it two weeks ago as a...Published: 19 hrs ago | 701 | by Staff reporter
Search on for missing persons
GOVERNMENT is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that all those who succumbed to Cyclone Idai are given decent burials, with those tasked with the mission to rebury the bodies walking for more than 2...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Spanking ban: Where to now?
Government has gazetted the Education Amendment Bill which effectively seeks to outlaw corporal punishment on pupils and encourages teachers to pursue alternative disciplinary methods, a Cabinet minis...Published: 19 hrs ago | 755 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe revamping education system
THE Government is revamping the country's education system to ensure it meets the country's economic development needs, President Mnangagwa has said. In a speech read on his behalf by Higher a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:43hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Teaching University or Research University: More than a case of to be or not to be
That our State Universities have modeled themselves mostly as teaching-focused universities where, the main activities are teaching and scholarship of learning and teaching, is a public secret. With a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:30hrs | 332 | by Enock Jonathan
Kirsty Coventry outraged
Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has expressed outrage over the barring of the Zimbabwe Warriors from the National Sports Stadium yesterday.The Warriors were denied t...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:23hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Entrepreneurship is key for economic Development in Zimbabwe
We are all collectively linked to the survival misfortunes of this country. I must say, in one way or another we are all affected. We need to address economic challenges and solutions of this country....Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | 208 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Queen Elizabeth consoles Zimbabweans
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, her son Prince Charles and her grandsons and their wives the Dukes and Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex have conveyed their heartfelt condolences to the gove...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 19:10hrs | 2412 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 1742 | by Matabeleland Collective
Victoria Falls tour operators dispatch helicopters, rafters to Chimanimani
SHEARWATER Adventures and Chikopokopo Tour Operators in Victoria Falls have dispatched two six-seater long-range helicopters and water rafters to cyclone-ravaged Chimanimani to help in rescue operatio...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:34hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Fuel shortages worsen
MOTORISTS here have for the past week endured stock outs of fuel supplies, indicating a worsening fuel situation in the petroleum industry.So bad has been the situation that even the pump stat...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:23hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa throws out chief, MP from event
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa ordered a Member of Parliament and a traditional chief removed from an event she had organised, ZimLive can reveal.Mnangagwa recently spent two weeks in New York,...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:22hrs | 6327 | by ZimLive
Cyclone did not affect fuel pipeline, says Gumbo
Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Jorum Gumbo says the Cyclone Idai devastating effects did not affect the feruka pipeline which pumps fuel from Beira to Zimbabwe as being reported.Dr G...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blocks US$1bn pipeline project
THE Ministry of Energy has blocked a plan by South African-owned Mining, Oil and Gas Services Company (MOGS) to construct a US$1 billion 550-kilometre fuel pipeline from Beira to Harare, arguing that ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:08hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must be open on deals
PRESIDENT EMMERSON Mnangagwa's trip last weekend to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, brought to the fore the issue of transparency on economic deals cut during state and official, as well as working v...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:06hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi head on again
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has called upon Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to clean himself from the allegations that he is behind the transfer of former Bikita MP Munyradzi Kereke.The matter sta...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 15:53hrs | 1008 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army told China Mnangagwa’s power expires in 2020
A special delegation of senior military officials reportedly told Chinese generals that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political reign will expire in 2020, and that he was going to be an interim caret...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 09:51hrs | 24466 | by Spotlight
Piece-meal austerity without reforms a wild goose chase
AUSTERITY measures introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will have a devastating effect on the economy and is at variance with Zanu-PF's elec...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss coup death: Family wants justice
THE family of senior Central Intelligence Organisation operative Peter Munetsi, who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup that toppled former president Robert Mugabe, has written to...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 4008 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa won't return Zapu properties'
GOVERNMENT has declared it will not return Zapu properties confiscated before the advent of the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.Former guerrillas of Zipra, the arme...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube negotiates 'smart' Rand credit facility
Government is structuring a deal with South Africa's Reserve Bank that will see banks in the neighbouring country paying directly to South African suppliers for Zimbabwe private sector's raw material ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | 6706 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Honourable Minister Professor Amon Murwira
Honorable Minister Professor Amon Murwira, I humble submit, now maybe the right time for your Ministry to sponsor a true Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) bill through Parliament, which when it...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 312 | by Enock Jonathan
Chimanimani: Valley of the shadow of death
CHIPO Dhliwayo (30) of Rusitu village in Chimanimani is a devastated woman after a nasty encounter with the fury of nature.The blank look on her face, long after shedding many tears over the l...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:39hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Agribank sues Chombo over $33 000 loan
Agribank has approached the courts seeking to recover a real time gross settlement of a (ZWR) $33 720 loan advanced to former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo six years ago.The former minister...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:38hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Parly ratifies African Charter on democracy, elections
PARLIAMENT on Tuesday ratified the African Charter on Democracy and Elections and Governance, which, among other things, is meant to enhance the quality of elections in Africa, promote human rights, s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Undenge in trouble over $121,000 bank loan
Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge has been taken to High Court by CBZ Bank Limited over a US$121 062 debt.The financial institution recently issued summons against the former minister, who...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt on industrialisation education drive
Government is making strides to complete implementation of education that focuses on industrialisation by ensuring the building of innovation hubs at the country's institutions of higher learning....Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:34hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
These critics need more help than cyclone victims
CYCLONE Idai has brought out the good and the ugly in people.Many Zimbabweans have, commendably, risen to the occasion to assist fellow human beings, while others are using this as an opportun...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:33hrs | 315 | by Conway Tutani
China offers to help rebuild cyclone ravaged areas
THE Chinese government has offered to help Zimbabwe rebuild infrastructure in Chimanimani, where most roads, bridges, schools and clinics were destroyed by Cyclone Idai last week. Speaking at ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:31hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions and jecha affect Zimbabwe's response to natural disasters
I rise to give a statement on the condition of Cyclone Idai which has affected people in Manicaland and many other provinces and to state what Government is undertaking in order to relieve the pressur...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:30hrs | 454 | by July Moyo
Bulawayo sends help to Manicaland
BULAWAYO province yesterday donated 30 000 tonnes of mealie-meal, an assortment of groceries and clothes to victims of Cyclone Idai in Manicaland province. The mealie-meal was donated by the G...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:29hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Donga dies
THE founder of the Revival Crusade Missions International (RCM) Church Bishop Sibusiso Donga has died. He was 52. Born on November 30 in 1966, Bishop Donga passed away on Saturda...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife cuts short UN event attendance
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa had to cut short her attendance at the 63rd UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Monday to assist affected citizens following the devastating effects of Cyclone ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:27hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in frank discussions with Matebeleland civic groups?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday held frank and robust discussions with Matebeleland civic groups at the State House in Bulawayo, stressing the need for national cohesion and collective efforts in taking...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:23hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Judge rules that NPRC will be operational until 2028
A Masvingo High Court judge has ruled that the lifespan of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) will be 10 years from January 5 last year when it became operational after the enactm...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:20hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa blames Mnangagwa over cyclone deaths
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa believes that government could have prevented the loss of lives in Manicaland and Masvingo if it had evacuated people well before these areas were hit by Tropical Cycl...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:17hrs | 4221 | by Staff reporter
'Mandiwanzira potential fugitive'
Special Unit prosecutor Michael Chakandida yesterday opposed former minister and Nyanga South legislator Supa Mandiwanzira's application for variation of bail conditions saying that he is a potential ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:16hrs | 3519 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs warn that govt may have to exhume Cyclone Idia bodies
Traditional leaders in Manicaland have been left seething by the manner in which some victims of Cyclone Idai have been buried - which had seen the interment in some instances of more than one person ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:47hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Arbitrary arrests won’t solve Gukurahundi
Zimbabwe African People's Union is dismayed by the state's arrest on journalist Zenzele Ndebele at Bulawayo State House today. As much as it is a clear misplacement of priorities in a co...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1512 | by Iphithule Maphosa
ZAPU calls for the release of Zenzele Ndebele
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) has expressed its dismay at the arrest of Bulawayo journalist Zenzele Ndebele.Ndebele was arrested at the Bulawayo State House where there was a civi...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 1847 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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