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Zimbabwe police decimate notorious armed robbery gang
A gang of suspected armed robbers who were behind the widely publicised J and P Security robbery, among other movie-style thefts, are now behind bars after they implicated each other one after another...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 13:32hrs | 2299 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans decry sharp increase in mealie-meal price
Villagers across Zimbabwe are facing severe hardships due to a sharp rise in mealie-meal prices, exacerbated by drought conditions. Traditionally, a 20-litre bucket of maize, costing US$3, now transla...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:50hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Scandal erupts in Zimbabwe Young Farmers partnership with ADDI
In a recent letter addressed to Mr. Joseph Kakoto, Executive Director of Zimbabwe Young Farmers Sustainable Development, Brenda Mudzimu, the Executive Director of Albinism and Disability Development I...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 10:40hrs | 5 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
CCC should reconsider its position on structures
THE ongoing drama within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is unfortunate and a huge blow to the country's fight for democracy, but this should serve as a wake-up call for the opposition outfit ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Canisio Mudzimu
Zanu-PF bigwigs, chiefs loot farming inputs
In various regions of the country, villagers have accused prominent Zanu-PF members of taking control of the presidential inputs program and engaging in theft and favoritism.The government cla...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's citrus farm destroyed by fire
A fire has ravaged an unspecified area of citrus crops on Concorpia Farm in Mazowe, which is owned by Saviour Kasukuwere, a former Cabinet minister who has been in self-imposed exile. Kasukuwere had e...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss accused of ordering hit on wife's competitor
Zanu-PF Central Committee member Tafadzwa Shumba has accused Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director General Isaac Moyo of ordering a hit on him in an ongoing fight for Mwenezi West's parliam...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring MP withdraws candidature after Mnangagwa's warning
A Zanu-PF member Ndinyarei Mupukuta who was contesting the Maramba-Pfungwe National Assembly seat under an independent ticket has withdrawn his candidature citing personal reasons.The withdraw...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans flocking to Zambia for medical treatment says aspiring Chamisa MP
A COLLAPSED local health system is reportedly forcing scores of Zimbabweans to seek medical treatment at well-equipped and staffed hospitals in neighbouring Zambia.After crossing the border in...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Orange thief bashes guard
A 49-YEAR-OLD Buhera man is in trouble after he was caught stealing 200 kg of oranges from a farm in Mazowe and went on to assault the security guard with a wooden log.Christopher Mudzimunyi p...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 18:59hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jah Lemmy eyes Mozambique
TRADITIONAL musician Ginatsia "Jah Lemmy" Nyanhete is set to go to Mozambique in a fortnight for shows and shooting of his Mudzimu video.The Guruve arts marimba ensemble boss said he is going ...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:52hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa's activists jailed 18 months
A MARONDERA magistrate yesterday invoked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-violence mantra while sentencing two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters accused of assaulting a Zanu-PF support...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Leg irons should be used on dangerous criminals, not MPs'
The use of leg irons should be reserved for dangerous criminals and not those with minor cases and those who hold public office, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Willias Mudzimure has sa...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Survivors relive Gukurahundi horrors
A SOMBRE atmosphere prevailed on Thursday when villagers gathered at a site in Emkhonyeni Village, Tsholotsho district where 21 women and one man were burnt into ashes in a hut on March 16, 1983....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student wins US filmmaking award
RISING filmmaker and Millennial Academy School student Tinayeishe Wakatama is on cloud nine after scooping the Judges Champion Award worth US$5 000 at the recently held ConnectHER Film Festival at St ...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Female teachers in Zimbabwe demand unlimited maternity leave
TEACHERS affiliated to the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have called on government to come up with labour policies that will ensure unlimited paid maternity leave for female tea...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former senior cop in murder storm
AN inquest is set to be held for a woman who was allegedly poisoned to death in a fight over inheritance in which a former Assistant Commissioner in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Mrs Marian Tige...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Violent ZANU PF DCC chair suspended
Zanu PF Buhera District Coordinating Committe(DCC) Chairman Cosmore Chimombe has been suspended on allegations of failing to discharge his duties an...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 15:25hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
War vets cry foul over rigging
Former liberation war fighters in Mashonaland Central say there is an elaborate plan to rig elections for a new Zimbabwe National Liberation Association (ZNLWA) executive.The former fighters f...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Nuclear Scientist Embarks On Ambitious Project To Build A Scientific Research Center In Chihota
HARARE - Cain Manzira, a nuclear scientist based in the United States, has come up with a project to build a scientific research center in Chihota area wh...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 20:20hrs | 22 | by Agencies
Kusukuwere's once thriving orange estate now lies desolate
MAZOWE district war veterans' chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi, who grabbed former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF supremo, Saviour Kasukuwe's Concorpia farm in Mazowe, has run the once thriving estate down....Published: 31 May 2022 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophetess uses spirit medium
A JOHANE Masowe yeChishanu prophetess has SENSATIONALLY claimed that all prophets, who claim to be using the Holy Spirit, are a bunch of LIARS.Gogo Miriam has been a prophetess for 30 years....Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a military state, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is a military state and as such, it will now allow Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa to become president.He said his governme...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Figtree to be turned into a town
GOVERNMENT has set in motion the smart city concept that will see the development of Figtree as a tributary town to Bulawayo, as efforts to ease congestion in major cities gathers pace.Figtree...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazembe in heated exchange with Zanu-PF Mashonaland central 'chefs'
DIVISIONS among warring Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central province's top dogs deepened at the weekend after they turned their WhatsApp group into a battleground, exchanging fierce vitriols and threatening e...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rain-making ceremonies still relevant
Normal to above-normal rains received in Makonde District and the rest of Zimbabwe last season have raised debate.Traditionalists, Christians and scientists have divergent views on why the cou...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 nabbed over 1 000m electric cables
POLICE in Beatrice, Mashonaland East province, have arrested five people for illegal possession of 1 000m of electricity cables.They were arrested movie-style after a high-speed chase by the p...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling project to benefit chiefs
THE DISTRICT Development Fund (DDF) has embarked on a massive borehole drilling project aimed at providing traditional chiefs with safe drilling water across the nation.DDF has since sited, dr...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya drafts 'retirement' plan
CHIMURENGA musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he is setting up an arts and culture centre in Domboshava on the outskirts of Harare as part of his departure from the mainstream music industry, whic...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saviour Kasukuwere fumes over farm invasion
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused State institutions of failing to enforce the country's laws after a war veteran leader who led the invasion of his Mazowe farm, last yea...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC must avoid inter-party fighting to win 2023' - subtleties of rigging are a mystery to simpletons
The one thing Zanu PF apologist and propagandist have done well since the 2008 to 2013 GNU is convince the brain-dead MDC leaders and their supporters that the democratic reforms SADC leaders set out ...Published: 20 May 2021 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe opposition politics needs radical paradigm shift
A RADICAL paradigm shift is necessary to extricate opposition politics of this country from the doldrums of extinction and annihilation as the status quo is fraught with "owngoals" that gift the rulin...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Canisio Mudzimu
Tertiary education should focus on quality, not quantity
THE proliferation of a gamut of universities and tertiary institutions churning out tens of thousands of graduates each year is a welcome development in the country's quest to close the skills gap and...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Canisio Mudzimu
Mark Ngwazi poised for sungura throne
RISING sungura musician Mark Ngwazi is poised to take over the sungura throne if the new heights scaled by his latest offering is anything to go by.The Njanja Express frontman is riding high w...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bruising battles in Zanu-PF DCC polls
THE stage is set for bruising battles as the ruling Zanu-PF conduct their much awaited district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) elections across eight provinces today.This comes as cracks have bee...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs, ministers angle for positions in Zanu-PF DCCs
ZANU-PF bigwigs who include Cabinet ministers and MPs have engaged in fierce fights for top positions in the forthcoming district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections as they seek to consolidate th...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer challenges Kasukuwere eviction order
A MAZOWE farmer, who lost his piece of land to former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere, has approached the court seeking to reverse the eviction order. In an application through his lawyers...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Mnangagwa and all politburo members
Mashonaland Central is burning and if left unchecked the situation will result in catastrophic political losses for ZANU PF. Several concerned party members have written letters, some have sought audi...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by S. Utete
Good Samaritan stabbed to death
A GOOD Samaritan, who was assisting police officers to arrest an assault suspect in rural Marondera, was stabbed to death after manhandling the suspect.Kennedy Nyandoro (38) of Mudzimukunzi vi...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
No one will die of hunger, Mnangagwa tells cyclone victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has today visited Chimanimani - the epicentre of the devastating Cyclone Idai - and has assured the affected communities that none will die of hunger as government was sei...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs hail Mugabe as 'humane', slams Mnangagwa
FORMER President Robert Mugabe was more "humane" than current Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa, an opposition MP has said.Contributing to debate on Mnangagwa's statement notifying P...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
4 illegal forex dealers freed on bail
FOUR suspected illegal foreign currency dealers arrested in a weekend police blitz in Marondera were brought to court on Monday and granted $50 bail each.Rutendo Mudzimurema (31), Stephania Go...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Zanu-PF targets Gandawa clinic
ZANU-PF officials in Hurungwe are putting pressure on the local rural district council to grab a private clinic owned by former Higher Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa. The formal local MP ha...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing defeats unity and oneness'
Problems and misunderstandings between Zanu and Zapu necessitated the Unity Accord of 22 December 1987.After the 1980 elections, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, incorporated members of...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:34hrs | | by Clifford Sileya
The untold horror stories of the July 30 Zimbabwe elections
Forty-three-year-old Givemore Madziva Kanyurira looked dejected when he recalled his "worst experiences" ahead of the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections that exposed Zanu-PF's coercion and intimidatio...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's 'all-khaki party'
Businessman and socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who spent the weekend in remand prison is now a subject of ridicule on social media.Famous for his expensive, flashy all-white parties mean...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets corner Mnangagwa over Obert Mpofu
Veterans of the country's liberation struggle last Saturday met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and demanded that he fires Zanu-PF's secretary administration Obert Mpofu who they allege faces a lita...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs divide war vets
Cracks have emerged in the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) over the fate of ex-Cabinet ministers assigned to the "Shake-Shake Building" to run the party's affairs on a f...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu receiving hostile reception at Zanu-PF HQ
It never rains but pours for Obert Mpofu, the Zanu PF secretary for administration who is being frustrated by a group of former liberation war fighters who want him out.The former Home Affairs...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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