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David Coltart responds to the Chamisa - Tendai Biti fight reports
MDC Treasurer General David Coltart had dismissed reports that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is involved in a fight with a fight with his Deputy Tendai Biti.A social media user had posted...Published: 21 mins ago | 64 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe sets its sights on nuclear power
Zimbabwe will have a draft sustainable energy policy by year end that among other critical issues, will promote greater use of renewable sources including nuclear power, according to Energy and Power ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1664 | by Staff reporter
MDC, Zanu-PF snub churches dialogue
AN all-political parties' indaba called by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) to end the current stalemate and possibly forestall antigovernment protests scheduled for July 31 hit a brickwall yest...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1715 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes tariffs 100%
GWERU City Council has imposed an over 100% tariff hike for high-density suburbs, while those for business vary.The local authority cited the runaway inflation for the increases in a developme...Published: 5 hrs ago | 520 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo nurses stage another joint demonstration
NURSES from the United Bulawayo Hospitals, Ingutsheni Mental Health Hospital and Mpilo Central Hospital staged a joint demonstration yesterday over government's reluctance to pay their salaries in Uni...Published: 5 hrs ago | 955 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri sold five properties in 2017, 2018
Five of the properties owned by former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri and his family, now under investigation for diverting US$32 million of public funds into family companies and buyin...Published: 5 hrs ago | 593 | by Staff reporter
Time to redeem Zimbabwe from its political & economic strangulation
The levels of failure by this Zanu PF regime has no comparison. The people have lost faith in the ruling party and whatever the party touches it slips like an eel, hence the majority can no longer tru...Published: 6 hrs ago | 473 | by Leonard Koni
Mahere accused of flirting with Zanu-PF than MDC Alliance
Former MDC Vanguard Leader Shakespeare Mukoyi said MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa erred in appointing Fadzayi Mahere as the party's spokesperson.Mukoyi, who is now the Thokozani Khupe-l...Published: 20 hrs ago | 7556 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 51 MPs drag Khupe to court
FIFTY-ONE die-hard MDC Alliance legislators have approached the High Court en masse seeking an interdict to stop their recall from Parliament by the rival camp led by Thokozani Khupe, saying they woul...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 6379 | by Staff reporter
July 31 anti-Mnangagwa protests: Churches step in
LEADERS of Christian denominations under the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) have said they will today meet the country's main political leaders to enable them to find common ground in a move meant...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 14970 | by Staff reporter
SA based Zimbabwean records own suicide
A SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean phoned his relatives telling them that he was committing suicide, shot photos of a poisonous substance before drinking it after his wife of 15 years allegedly had an en...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Police attempt to abduct ZCTU President's family
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) President Peter Mutasa has reported that some police officers attempted to abduct his family members forcing them to reveal his whereabouts.In a Twitte...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1728 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Murwira
DOCTORS have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace acting Health minister Amon Murwira whom they accuse of being arrogant.Murwira was appointed to stand in for the then Health minis...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 6816 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF SA dismisses July 31 planned demo
ZANU-PF South Africa has dismissed the planned July 31 demonstrations by the opposition as mere attention-seeking manoeuvres meant to cause alarm and despondency.The ruling party's SA district...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 19:50hrs | 4569 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2903 | by City Press
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:00hrs | 3129 | by Staff reporter
Fake driving licence syndicate bust in Bulawayo
The police have busted a syndicate specialising in creating fake drivers licences after arresting a 21-year-old Pumula East woman.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector, Abednico Nc...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 14:31hrs | 8289 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa peace deal on the cards?
THE ugly infighting that has divided the MDC could soon come to an end, amid renewed attempts to unite Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa ahead of the party's planned extra-ordinary congress.A...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 11589 | by Staff reporter
Khupe distances her party from 31 July protests
ACTING MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has distanced her party from the July 31 anti-corruption protests being mooted by other opposition parties which she has described as untimely given the ongoing Cov...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 2324 | by Staff reporter
Khupe gets Chamisa's millions from govt purse
The government on Friday gave MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe $7,4 million, insisting that she is the legitimate leader of the main opposition in Parliament despite ongoing court disputes about her statu...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 5758 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri must explain wealth, PG insists
Former police boss Augustine Chihuri must not be allowed to use his feud with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to evade justice, prosecutor-general (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has argued.Hodzi was respond...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop arrested at roadblock
A Harare man was slapped with a three-month jail term for impersonating a police officer while driving without a licence.Daniel Chibvongodze (29) appeared before Bindura magistrate Ethel Chich...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
North Korean 'forced labour' in Zimbabwe, claims US
THE United States says some North Koreans may have been forced to work in Zimbabwe by their government amid concerns of human trafficking in the country.According to the 2020 Trafficking in Pe...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 1931 | by Staff reporter
Fighting at funerals unAfrican, stop it
MY Dear People,I would like to start by paying my deepest condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following the death of his mother recently.The loss of a mother is a major blow ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 366 | by Dr Stop It
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 4932 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 12669 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister stranded in Australia
THE Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi, who has been stuck in Australia due to the Covid-19-induced international travel restriction, is eager to return home to resume his duties as a ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Transport situation to normalise
THE transport situation in Bulawayo is set to normalise from today after Zupco received 120 000 litres of fuel yesterday.Thousands of commuters had to walk to and from work on Friday and yeste...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK vulnerable to Covid-19, embassy warns
The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic.It is a revelation which under...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 424 | by Staff Reporter
ZiNA seeks army, police, judiciary protection during July 31 protests
The new pressure group called Zimbabwe National Anthem has petitioned the state institutions which include the army, the police and the judiciary to protect citizens from the power-hungry political le...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1204 | by Stephen Jakes
Drama at Chamisa mother's funeral
Tempers flared up in what should have been a somber moment when MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was burying his late mother in Gutu on Tuesday.Chamisa's mother collapsed and died in her gar...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 9142 | by Staff reporter
Soldier in cold blood murder
Zimbabwe National Army Lance Corporal Brighton Matura allegedly murdered his girlfriend Fungayi Tendayi and shot himself to death on Wednesday morning at Nyimo shopping centre in Sanyati.Two b...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 6138 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
Justice Mangota in maintenance row
THE estranged wife of High Court judge David Mangota has approached the courts seeking a variation of her $500 monthly maintenance fees which she is receiving from the judge, saying it was not suffici...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2779 | by Staff reporter
Churches invites political parties to dialogue
ZIMBABWE Council of Churches (ZCC) secretary-general Kenneth Mtata has revealed that political parties invited to the church's mediated dialogue on Monday next week have submitted conditions for their...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1954 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa's MPs in bid to block dreaded Khupe recalls
A TOTAL of 51 MDC Alliance legislators and councillors have approached the High Court seeking to interdict MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from filling up vacancies created by ongoing recalls of party MP...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 5019 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3465 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns NGOs
President Mnangagwa has warned rogue non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, churches and some foreign embassies against destabilising prevailing peace, unity and harmony through dabbling...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given thr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:14hrs | 14354 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matemadanda savages Chamisa, son of a 'Rhodesian African riffler'
ZANU-PF national commissar and minister Victor Matemadanda has declared MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa will not rule Zimbabwe because of his perceived disdain for First Chimurenga icon Mbuya Nehan...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 16:05hrs | 6171 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 970 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 258 | by Vince Musewe
Zanu-PF bigwigs linked to July 31 mass demos
IN A surprising development, expelled former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu, pictured, has sensationally claimed that some ruling party bigwigs are involved in the organisation of the planned...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:30hrs | 9588 | by Staff reporter
RG application dismissed
Suspended Registrar-General Clemence Masango today lost his bid to have his bail conditions varied after the court noted that there were no changed circumstances from the day he was granted bail....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 4169 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4402 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2407 | by Staff reporter
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