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Muchinguri, Sanyatwe to pay army brutality victims US$38,000
A Shurugwi magistrate has ruled that Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Commander Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe must pay a total of US$38,000 in compensat...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:48hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army ordered to pay US$40 000 to torture victims
Four residents of Shurugwi who suffered physical torture at the hands of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers during the Covid-19 lockdown are set to receive a combined compensation of US$40,000 afte...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:34hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for CCC MP, accomplices
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Joanah Mamombe and her co-accused, Makomborero Haruziviishe and Tererai Obey Sithole, will learn their fate today regarding charges of incitin...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 06:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
BCC issues permits to commuter omnibus operators
THE Bulawayo City Council has advised residents that it is authorised to issue commuter omnibus operators with permits in accordance with existing public policy and acts of Parliament.In a sta...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps mandatory wearing of masks, Covid-19 vaccination certificate requirement
THE Zimbabwean government has scrapped the mandatory wearing of masks and now allows tourists to come into the country without any proof of vaccination or Covid-19 PRC tests.This comes after t...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe flights register 52% growth
ZIMBABWE recorded a 52,3 percent increase in the number of flights to 50 640 last year while air transport passengers' volume also improved to 1,56 million driven by increased global travel as the Cov...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councils now empowered to control kombis
Local Government minister July Moyo has authorised councils to control movement of commuter omnibuses in their areas of jurisdiction and to enforce traffic regulations.In a statement yesterday...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dormant IPP licences to be revoked
Licences of independent power producers (IPPs) who have failed to provide electricity under their agreement with the State are being re-examined by the regulator and could be revoked, legislators have...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
High Court outlaws Zupco monopoly
A BULAWAYO High Court judge has stripped the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) of its monopoly in the public transport business.Justice Evangelista Kabasa said COVID-19 lockdown regul...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers successfully challenge two-year ZUPCO monopoly
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has ended public transporter Zupco's two-years long monopoly after successfully challenging provision of the Public Health (COVID -19) Prevention, Containm...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga brings back face masks
The latest Statutory Instrument (SI) published on Friday has made the wearing of face masks in public spaces and in public service vehicles and trains mandatory.The SI, published by Vice-Presi...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt cancels exemption facility for importers
THE Government says the exemptions letters issued to importers, but without expiry dates, under the Consignment Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme 2022 have expired.The CBCA programm...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC to embark on night-time refuse collection
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will soon introduce night-time refuse collection in the city centre as it gears to return the city to its former glory of being one of the cleanest in the continent....Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal mining destroys Insiza district
Illegal gold mining activities in Filabusi, Insiza district, are becoming a threat to infrastructure and the environment, which could affect the socio-economic development of the area.Land deg...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare City traffic boss in corruption storm
Harare City Council chief traffic officer Mr Martin Chimombe has been accused of releasing, without following procedures, some of the vehicles impounded after their drivers allegedly violated the Covi...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Trial of CCC members opens
FIVE CCC members accused of staging an illegal demonstration in Warren Park, Harare, during the national lockdown in 2020, yesterday denied the charges when their trial opened at the Harare Magistrate...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramapho$a Dollar Gate: The truth and the lie$
'Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots' - Ziad K. Abdelnour.I am not in the habit of arguing with idiots because I know they will drag me to their level and bea...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 18:44hrs | 17 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Nothing new about CCC's same old characters
When CCC won in the majority of constituencies in by-elections held in March, its leaders ran with a line that they had done well, yet they were a new party on the scene.Yet the claim that CCC...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:50hrs | 3 | by Lovemore Chikova
Magistrate fails to turn up for journalist's trial
ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH) journalists Blessed Mhlanga and Chengeto Chidi had their case of violating the Electoral Act postponed to June 13 after the presiding magistrate failed to turn up yesterday....Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
No date for O and A-level results release, says Zimsec
LOWER Sixth pupils are now expected to start lessons in the second term after the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) failed to release O-level results in time.In the past years, Zim...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New border movement rules gazetted
Travellers vaccinated against Covid-19 may with immediate effect now travel through the country's ports of entry and exit after the Government put in place the necessary legal instruments in line with...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi calls for rural courts
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday officially opened the virtual court at the Harare Magistrates Court, where he implored the Judiciary Services Commission (JS...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies acquitted
TWELVE Mashonaland West Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials arrested last year at the party's Chinhoyi offices while holding a meeting have been acquitted.Authorities claimed the mee...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZITF showcase dates approved
THIS year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) will be held from April 26 to 30 in Bulawayo with a focus on strategic transformation in the configuration and operation of value chains locally an...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 recovery rate continues to rise
THE national Covid-19 recovery rate continues to rise, raising hope for a return to normalcy under the new normal, with reopening of schools becoming a possibility.From Wednesday last week to ...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Covid-19 regulations for hotels
THE Government has directed restaurants attached to hotels, backpackers' lodges and guest houses to restrict provision of food and drinks to room service while learning institutions are prohibited fro...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools reopening further delayed
Schools may only be able to reopen in three weeks at the earliest, depending on progress in limiting Covid-19 infection, with Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday extending the Level Two lo...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
13 Covid 19 deaths on Day One of 2022
COVID-19 claimed 13 lives on the first day of the year, while 269 were hospitalised as of December 31 countrywide.On New Year's Day Zimbabwe had recorded a total of 214 214 confirmed cases, in...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 kills 133 in one week
A TOTAL of 133 Covid-19 deaths and more than 10 000 Covid-19 infections were recorded in the seven days between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve in Zimbabwe, a situation that has prompted a revision o...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defers 2022 schools' opening
President Mnangagwa has today deferred indefinitely the opening of schools as part of measures to contain the Covid 19 pandemic whose infection rate and deaths have risen in recent days.He said on...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 10 | by Staff writer
Mnangagwa extends lockdown measures
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday extended the Covid-19 level two national lockdown by a further two weeks, citing the a rapid rise in infections driven by the new Omicron variant, and moderately tighteni...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission bus terminus
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to commission the new-look Kudzanayi Long Distance Bus Terminus in Gweru.The Kudzanayi Long Distance Bus Terminus is now open to the public following a ma...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 guidelines for returning residents and visitors coming into Zimbabwe from abroad
Following the enactment of Statutory Instrument 267 of 2021: Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) (N0.2) (Amendment) Order. the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 20:45hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's quarantine order 'distressed' Zimbabwe's tourism council
The Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe says it is "distressed and disappointed" by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to impose mandatory quarantine for everyone arriving in the country except ...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 17:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe case deferred
THE matter in which MDC-Alliance members are facing charges of staging an illegal demonstration during the national lockdown period sometime last year in Harare, was yesterday deferred to December 7 t...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
War veterans wants trial date or to be remove from remand
THIRTY-NINE members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) who are accused of participating in a gathering with the intention to cause public violence were today remande...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt to construct 144 modern boarding schools
GOVERNMENT will construct 144 modern boarding schools countrywide next year to mitigate against the shortage of learning institutions.The boarding schools will be built in each of the country'...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Top Bulawayo primary schools revealed
MALINDELA Primary School of Pumula North suburb was the top performing Bulawayo City Council owned school in the 2020 Grade Seven results with an impressive 81,8 percent pass rate.The school's...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economic fundamentals are strong'
THE economy is on a growth trajectory with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected to grow by 7,8 percent in 2021, attributed to a favourable rainfall season, higher international mineral commodity pri...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 12 | by Professor Mthuli Ncube
Zimbabwe transport woes: Women endangered by private cars
SINCE the first national lockdown in March 2020, Zimbabwean commuters in urban areas have faced transport problems. The government banned private public transport operators, allowing the ailing State-...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt police officers put on notice
Police need to redouble efforts to eliminate corruption within the force, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe said yesterday, amid reports that some bus operators plying the Ha...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Joana Mamombe faces fresh criminal charges
MDC-Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe was yesterday re-issued with summons to appear in court on fresh criminal charges after she allegedly trespassed on two farms in Harare where she allegedly shot v...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims Zanu-PF 'upholding constitutionalism' as war vets charged
Tyrant Emmerson Mnangagwa made a bizarre claim on Thursday that he was "upholding constitutionalism."On a day 40 war veterans were taken to court later than the constitutional limit of 48-hour...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Positive growth visible, says Mthuli
The economy is on a robust growth and development trajectory, with major sectors performing above projected levels despite the existence of a number of problems affecting the economic activity, Financ...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 09:07hrs | 40 | by Staff Reporter
Govt adamant on child marriages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is adamant that it has accomplished a lot in stopping child marriages in Zimbabwe despite some reported rising cases of the pervasive practice.In resp...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 16:07hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Court dismisses MDC Alliance activists' application
HARARE regional magistrate Mr Taurai Manwere yesterday dismissed five MDC Alliance activists' application for exception to the charges where they allegedly staged an unsanctioned demonstration during ...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cellular operators hike tariffs
Mobile network operators in the country have adjusted promotional bundles in response to rising industry wide operating costs which grew by 15,8 percent to $8,9 billion in the second quarter of 2021, ...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Courts cannot overturn Cabinet's Covid measures
HIGH Court Judge Justice Owen Tagu has ruled he cannot overturn measures put by the Cabinet in curbing the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus.His ruling follows an application by the Passenge...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccination rate tumbles
ZIMBABWE'S average weekly COVID-19 vaccination rate last week fell to its lowest since July, prompting fears that the country could be vulnerable to a fourth wave of the killer virus.A fortnig...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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