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Son kills chickens, burns huts in tantrum over 'little food'
A 26-year-old man, Bruce Mudarikwa, has been arrested and sentenced to 12 months in prison for vandalizing property in a fit of rage after his mother served him small portions of food for supper....Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:15hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Anglican bishop acquitted
BISHOP Eric Ruwona of the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland, and his standing committee members were yesterday acquitted on charges of violating the Education Act.Ruwona, Walter Majoni, Daphine M...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 12:59hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
NetOne employees arrested in foiled cyber heist attempt
Two NetOne employees, Linda Mutemeri (30) and Anotida Dee Munyaradzi (30), appeared in court on charges of unlawful disclosure of data code after allegedly attempting to hack into the company's IT sys...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:55hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP trial on attempted murder charges kicks off
THE trial of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Sunningdale legislator, Maureen Kademaunga, on attempted murder charges kicked off before Harare magistrate Estere Chivasa.Kademaunga is being ...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Z.A.A South Africa Nominations Announced
The nominees shortlist for the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) South Africa 8th Edition has been released, featuring some of the most enterprising personalities in South Africa as well as a list of ho...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 19:58hrs | 6 | by Agencies
Battles to watch in today's Zimbabwe election
AFTER five very short years, we are back to the polls.It feels it was just yesterday when President Mnangagwa gave us that signature dance to the Kutonga Kwaro soundtrack. It feels it was just...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring citizens' concerns,' says NGOs
COMMUNITY-Based organisations (CBOs) in Manicaland province have said President Emmerson Mnangagwa does not want to accept the truth that Zimbabwe is facing severe economic challenges that have left c...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:49hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, more Zanu-PF heavyweights fall in party primaries
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has suffered defeat in weekend Zanu-PF primary elections, becoming one of the high profile casualties in the just ended ruling party internal polls.A fervent l...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Senior Zanu-PF members fall in Primaries
So far 22 Senior Zanu-PF members have fallen in party primary elections held over the weekend... Dexter NdunaMary MliswaPhilip ChiyangwaJoseph Chinotimba&nbs...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Massive turnout in Zanu-PF primaries
VOTERS yesterday turned out in huge numbers, as Zanu-PF held its primary elections in eight provinces across the country, prompting the party leadership to extend voting to today in some areas....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalists target Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe
Uzumba is one of the most talked about constituencies in Zimbabwe's political history.Just like its neighbouring Maramba constituency, also known as Maramba-Pfungwe, Uzumba is popularly known ...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East hunts for commissar
Zanu-PF party, Mashonaland East Province, is hunting for a new political commissar following the elevation of Tinoda Machakaire to the politburo.Machakaire, Wedza South legislator and Youth, S...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean MPs call for harsh penalties for sanctions beggars
ZIMBABWEANS inviting sanctions against the country and so causing people to suffer should be barred from holding public office, Zanu-PF chief whip, Pupurai Togarepi, told the National Assembly yesterd...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns Uzumba 'rebels'
Zanu-PF officials in Uzumba constituency have disowned party supporters who recently demonstrated against Chinese miner, Heijin's granite mining operations in the district.The supporters threa...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner loses granite licence
A Chinese firm, Heijin Mining Company, is set to lose its certificates of operations in Kaseke and Chibvi 2, in Murehwa following complaints by the community, Chief Nyajina and Councillor Marowa....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Villagers don't have title to communal land: Chinese miners
CHINESE mining company, Heijin, has reportedly told villagers in Kaseke, Uzumba district, that they have no capacity to stop their eviction to pave way for granite stone mining as they have no title d...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs keep cards close to chests
Zanu-PF bigwigs in Mashonaland East are keeping their cards close to their chest as the race to elect a new provincial leadership intensifies.The provincial chairpersonship is vacant following...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt privatises IDs, passports production
GOVERNMENT has awarded a tender to an unnamed private company to print citizens' identification (ID) cards and passports under a build operate and transfer (BOT) agreement in a bid to ease the current...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Land barons, infighting cost Zanu-PF Goromonzi South seat
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial leadership has admitted that infighting and land barons caused them to lose Goromonzi south constituency to the opposition MDC alliance in the 2018 elections....Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charumbira wades into Chief Nyamukoho estate wrangle
CHIEF'S Council president Fortune Charumbira on Sunday waded into Chief Nyamukoho's family wrangle, urging the late traditional leader's family members to find common ground in the distribution of the...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs jostle for Matiza's posts
THE death of Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza two weeks ago has plunged Mashonaland East province into election mode, with Zanu-PF party members reportedly jostling to take over his parliamentary...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retired Major-General Nyambuya NOT dead
Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well.There are some sections of the media which repor...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 died in holiday accidents
Eighteen people were killed, while 73 others were injured in 147 road accidents on Christmas Day and Boxing Day holidays. During the same period last year, 17 were killed, while 174 others were injure...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Easter Holiday accidents kill 24
The death toll of people who died during the Easter Holiday rose to 24 on Sunday night after 11 people perished on the spot in a fatal head-on collision at the 118km peg along Harare-Mutare highway in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
11 dead in kombi, Honda fit head-on accident
Eleven (11) people are feared dead following an accident involving a commuter omnibus and a Honda fit near Headlands this morning.The tragedy once again hit the Apostolic Christian community a...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Expanding economy driving fuel demand'
The huge demand for fuel, which has caused supply challenges and spawned fuel queues across the country, is testimony that economic activity has expanded significantly over the past year or so, Reserv...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya grilled over RTGS$, US rate disparity
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya was on Thursday grilled in Parliament over disparities between the official United States dollar rates of 1:2,5 and the parallel market rate of 1:3,6 re...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribute to Dr Oliver Mutukudzi - A Disability Perspective
When one reflects on such an artist and icon as is Dr. OLIVER MUTUKUDZI, one finds it difficult to even start writing WHAT'S ON ONE'S MIND about him. Suffice to say, TUKU, as we fondly called him, was...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:37hrs | 14 | by Timothy Mudarikwa
Of mute MPs and their mute brigade
Parliament offers its members many platforms to speak on diverse issues.A member can rise on the floor to table a petition, a private members' Bill, raise a matter of national importance, ask ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:55hrs | | by Blessings Mashaya
Perrance Shiri's imposter in court for swindling farmers
AN unrepentant ex-convict who allegedly registered cellphone lines in the name of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri and used them to swindle unsuspectin...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MPs should serve two 5-year terms,' says Zanu-PF legislator
A ZANU PF legislator has suggested that MPs should be limited to serving two five-year terms, after which they should exit Parliament.Chikomba Central MP Felix Mhona said legislators should kn...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF top brass besiege Vambe's funeral
TOP Zanu-PF officials on Sunday besieged Magunje Village in Uzumba to pay their last respects to the late traditional drummer, Douglas Vambe.Vambe died on Tuesday at Parirenyatwa Hospital, six...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:24hrs | | 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 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
Accept poll results, says Chiwenga
CANDIDATES vying for political office in the harmonised elections set for Monday must accept the outcome of the polls as every race has a winner, Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has said....Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scrap off cannabis/ mbanje license fee
The radical Member of Parliament for Uzumba, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has urged the government to completely erase the recently proposed $50 000 licensing fees for mbanje farmers highlighting that the fee...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by A Mhlongo
MPs want cannabis/ mbanje fees reduced
LEGISLATORS yesterday lobbied the government to reduce the $50 000 licence fee charged on farmers, who want to take up the production of cannabis on a commercial scale.The MPs claimed the fees...Published: 10 May 2018 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary poll voters in massive drop
Zanu-PF'S 2018 primary election figures have significantly dropped in terms of the numbers of voters who participated compared to the previous poll in 2013, which could spell disaster for the ruling p...Published: 07 May 2018 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primary elections: Success wrapped in chaos
Last week I focussed on unpacking the Zanu-PF primary elections, which have now come, but have not gone as they still dominate the news cycle.There is a prevalent view that the commissariat (o...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Innocent Batsani Ncube
Mnangagwa faces 'Bhora musango' scenario
In a stunning development, many long-serving Zanu-PF stalwarts have fallen by the wayside in the party's selection of candidates who will participate in this year's watershed elections, the Daily News...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo disowns G40 cabal
FORMER Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Minister Mrs Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo, who was expelled from Zanu-PF last year, has distanced herself from the G40-linked political outfit, the National Patriotic Fro...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MPs distance selves from NPF
SEVERAL Zanu-PF legislators yesterday distanced themselves from the newly formed New Patriotic Front launched by members of the G40 cabal whose leader Retired Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri met f...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri 'anointed' G40 party leader
Former Mashonaland East Minister of State Brigadier-General Ambrose Mutinhiri (Retired) has been reportedly "anointed" by former President Robert Mugabe and former First Lady Grace Mugabe as the leade...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell mocks Parly Committee
CONTROVERSIAL Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo yesterday mocked members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mines and Energy who 'grilled' him on Monday over the ZPC Gwanda solar project....Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demonstration against new minister flops
A BID to demonstrate against the new Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister David Musabayana by a section of war veterans flopped after members refused to take part, NewsDay reported.Mus...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Made managed Mugabe, Grace's farms'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa lampooned former Agriculture minister Joseph Made saying during his tenure he spent time managing former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's farms instead of inspecting...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
$2,7 million CMED fuel scam, MPs demand action
Parliament has called on Government to expeditiously resolve the $2,7 million fuel deal in which CMED Pvt Ltd was prejudiced in a botched fuel deal, where a private company failed to supply the State ...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Euphoria after news of Mugabe's resignation
WILD cheers erupted in Bulawayo late yesterday afternoon as news spread that Mugabe had finally resigned as the country's leader after 37 years in office.Residents broke into song and dance, w...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
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