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Govt lavishes Mthuli Ncube with a US$200 000 hotel stay
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home...Published: 22 hrs ago | 6088 | by Staff reporter
Britain expresses concern over Makomborero Haruzivishe's incarceration
THE British government has expressed concern over the continued incarceration of pro-democracy activist and MDC Alliance youth leader Makomborero Haruzivishe.Haruzivishe has been in jail for t...Published: 23 hrs ago | 428 | by Staff reporter
Tsotso Stove is the way to go
Little smoke, furnace-like heat and clean working enviroment, Tsotso Stove is a pleasure to use. Using only a few dry twigs and wooden debris one can cook sugar beans with minimum effort ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1397 | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
Inmates 'strangle' jailed MDC Alliance activist
IN a bizarre development, incarcerated MDC Alliance youth leader and pro-democracy activist Makomborero Haruzivishe is being strangled in his sleep by fellow inmates at Harare Central Prison.T...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1671 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa; Citizens are converging for change
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, at the start of this year, the people's president, Nelson Chamisa presented our Zimbabwe Agenda 2021 address in which he announced our big id...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:35hrs | 2416 | by Fadzayi Mahere
'Zanu-PF chefs jostling for positions for self-enrichment'
A Zanu-PF politburo member has charged that the nationwide jostling for positions by party members in the ongoing restructuring exercise was aimed at self-enrichment.Zanu-PF secretary for exte...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:24hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Daggers out in Zanu-PF restructuring
THE Zanu-PF restructuring exercise has exposed deep-rooted factionalism as well as infighting fuelled by jostling for positions ahead of the party's provincial elections.The party is set to co...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:17hrs | 2545 | by Staff reporter
Matabeland provinces start receiving Intwasa inputs
GOVERNMENT has started distributing farming inputs to Matabeleland provinces under the Intwasa/Pfumvudza programme before the onset of the rains expected to start next month. Government introd...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's successes celebrated in US?
Scores of people today converged in New York city to celebrate the works and positive vibes that have been brought by President Mnangagwa since he became President. On the backdrop of a succes...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:09hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Johanne Marange Church sued for marrying off young girls
The constitutionality of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church doctrine of marrying off young girls and covering up alleged sexual abuse among congregants is now under the spotlight after gender activi...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
All Zanu-PF provinces endorse Mnangagwa
ALL Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2023 elections in a major show of confidence in his leadership following the advent of the New D...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Dembare mum on Gold Leaf Tobacco deal
HARARE team Dynamos have remained tight-lipped on their five-year partnership with Gold Leaf Tobacco, which still had two and a half years to run when they signed another lucrative deal with petroleum...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:48hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Are sangomas really 'linked' to armed robberies?
Armed robbery in criminal law is an aggravated form of theft that involves the use of a lethal weapon a victim typically motivated by the desire to obtain money.Cases of armed robbery have rea...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 248 | by Blessing Mandabva
Zesa eases load shedding
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says there has been an improvement in the generation of power at Hwange Power Station which has seen easing of the load shedding ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:32hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
$5 000 fine for failure to display house number
BULAWAYO City Council has updated its Fire Brigade by-laws which will among other provisions make it a Level Three offence for home owners not to display their house numbers at their premises....Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:19hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe anti-sanctions fight reaches UN HQ
SCORES of people, led by anti-imperialist group December 12 (D12) Movement yesterday picketed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States of America, calling for the removal of illeg...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:14hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
One of Hwange generators unit back on grid
One of Hwange Thermal Power Station's two largest boiler-turbine-generator units went back on the grid on Monday giving Zesa an extra 150MW and Zimbabweans can expect the ongoing load shedding to ease...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Misa Zim hails licencing of community radios
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe yesterday said the licensing of eight more community radio stations will enhance access to information and exchange of ideas on issues that affec...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:19hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
NSSA, banks in talks over charges
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) says it has lined up a cocktail of incentives to improve pensioners' incomes, including removing bank charges.Nssa deputy director for social secu...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Sex for debt landed me in jail
A man from Binga is languishing in prison after he was convicted on rape charges that he claims were manufactured by a neighbour who had failed to pay his debt on time.Sanele Ncube (46), who i...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Prison cell at Khami Prison should be a national heritage site
WHILE there is a clarion call to refurbish and transform liberation icon and founder of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Cde Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo's house in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb ...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayoral fights hold city to ransom
MDC-Alliance has simply turned Harare into a circus. Mayoral fights pitting councillors Jacob Mafume and Musarurwa Mutizwa, both claiming to be in charge of the city, have further exposed the shortcom...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hands over buses to security sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has handed over five buses to the country's security establishment and pledged to secure more to improve the transport situation for members of the uniformed forces. The Pr...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 19:52hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
VFEX moves to fund tobacco
ZIMBABWE'S bourses have moved to help the tobacco farming sector raise foreign currency for their operations, in a development seen as a solution to the industry's a long-running capital crisis....Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranked among high-risk money laundering countries
RELEASED on September 13, 2021, the 10th Basel anti-money laundering index showed Zimbabwe scored 6,78 out of 10 (where 10 indicates the highest risk level) and has landed in the top 12 of the unenvia...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:49hrs | 454 | by Prosper S Maguchu
'Zimbabwe food security remains low,' says USAid
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) says household food stocks are beginning to run low as the surging cost...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Viral message on Zimbabwe civil servants trips to SA is fake
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima yesterday admitted that civil servants could not afford locally made products and recommended that government sponsors them to buy cheaper goods in neighbouring Sou...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
Rising cement prices choke construction sector
Zimbabwe's construction sector is on a massive rebound, boosted by public spending on infrastructure and private development, but recent rising cement prices is becoming a major threat to the industry...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Who needs two VPs, anyway?
TODAY is six months and 11 days since former vice-president Kembo Mohadi resigned from his post following two weeks of juicy revelations of his bedroom commissions with two married women, one of who w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:59hrs | 613 | by Tawanda Majon
Another bumper harvest on the cards
MAIZE production for the forthcoming 2021/22 summer cropping season is projected to hit three million tonnes, an all-time record high, up by nearly a million tonnes compared to last season's bumper ha...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 117 | by Staff writer
Online Gambling Vs. eSports: Key Differences
Technology affects everything, how we spend leisure time. The internet unlocked new entertainment opportunities. That includes esports and online gambling. But before you choose an activity, you shoul...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | 47 | by Staff writer
UK deported man attacked in Harare?
A BRADFORD (UK) resident who was recently deported from the United Kingdom was reportedly attacked in Harare while getting some food.Mpofu's best friend, John Priestley informed The Telegraph ...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:54hrs | 4434 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warned over continued fuel hikes
AN economist Prosper Chitambara has warned the government against continued fuel price increases highlighting that such acts are a thorn in the flesh of current efforts to stabilise the economy....Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:54hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Stop confusion over fees hikes
IT is not only shocking but disappointing that the Primary and Secondary Education ministry issued a "directive" that schools may only effect a 33% fee increase for the second term because the term is...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:43hrs | 167 | by Kurai Dapi
Remembering Mugabe
HISTORY has many lessons. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, many a time people regret decisions they would have made. People sometimes fall into nostalgia.Zimbabweans are no differen...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:42hrs | 185 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Another lie exposed in Mnangagwa biography?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography by his newfound ally, Eddie Cross, has yet another major distortion which borders on lies on what happened after the former vice-president had been fired by hi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 2889 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls merger of six banks into three entities
A PROPOSAL to merge six financial institutions into three big ones is being considered by the Zimbabwean government, in a different consolidation process from the CBZ Holdings, ZB Financial Holdings, ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
Biti caution govt over IMF windfall
ZIMBABWE'S former Finance ministers Herbert Murerwa and Tendai Biti have warned the government against using the recent US$961 million worth of special drawing rights (SDRs) from the International Mon...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:39hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Foreign investors line up new bank in Zimbabwe
A group of domestic and foreign investors has lodged an application with Zimbabwean authorities to roll out an investment bank, the first such institution since investment banks were toppled under the...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:35hrs | 2979 | by Staff reporter
Bureaux de change start selling US dollars to public
BUREAUX de change yesterday started selling foreign currency to ordinary walk-in customers as per the resolutions of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe monetary policy committee MPC) meeting last month to promo...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Food, rent gobble 78% of workers' wages
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabwean workers are spending an estimated 78% of the monthly earnings on food and rental costs, leaving very limited room for personal growth and long-term investments owing to deep ec...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Police taunt 'killer' woman as she is made to dig-up her murdered lover
A woman accused of killing her live-in lover before burning and burying his remains on a mountain was made to dig him up with a shovel while police officers taunted her, a shock new video seen by ZimL...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe foreign currency receipts jump to US$5bn
ZIMBABWE'S foreign currency receipts have risen by 32 percent to US$5,09 billion in the last eight months against US$3,85 billion received in the corresponding period last year. The bulk of th...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Learn soccer livescore results in a convenient format
A new season of the Spanish championship has started. In order not to miss a single important news about it, be sure to go to the sports statisti...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 05:39hrs | 170 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwean-born boxer's career off to a flying start
ZIMBABWE-BORN boxer, Musa Moyo, got his career off to a flying start after winning his debut professional fight against the experienced Lewis Van Poetsch. He won their light-heavyweight contest at Vil...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
New offer letters for farmers
Old offer letters for resettlement land and land permits are being replaced with new documents that have improved security features to curb illegal parcelling out of land and weed out fake offer lette...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1402 | by Staff reporter
Lake Kariba levels recede
Lake Kariba water levels have trended downward steadily in August dropping to 481.55m from a level of 482.16m recorded earlier in that month, according to the Zambezi River Authority.The water...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:25hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Chidhakwa, Gudyanga trial hits brick wall
The trial of former Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa and his permanent secretary Francis Gudyanga that was set to resume today hit a brick wall following indications that the magistrate who was presidi...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:25hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers demand US$600 pay per month
Mineworkers have demanded their pay base to be pegged at US$600 inclusive of their Covid 19 allowances.In a statement Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Mineral Workers Union Secretary-general Justic...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 12:18hrs | 1029 | by Stephen Jakes
$60 million windfall to Mwonzora gives away Mnangagwa's game plan
THE swift allocation of funds under the Political Parties Finance Act to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC- T by the government clearly reveals the aim by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF to d...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 6496 | by Staff reporter
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