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American Chamber of Commerce launched in Harare
UNITED States of America-based companies are taking a keen interest in Zimbabwe through increased investment and trade.Signs of the USA warming up to business opportunities in Zimbabwe were co...Published: 2 hrs ago | 206 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe's $5 000 withdrawal limit no longer adequate'
THE transacting public has implored the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to consider increasing cash withdrawal limits saying the weekly $5 000 cap is no longer convenient given the exchange rate moveme...Published: 7 hrs ago | 297 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnapped, drugged and robbed by Honda Fit crew
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman from Emganwini suburb was kidnapped, drugged and later dumped in a bush on Sunday after boarding a silver Honda fit bound for the city centre.She got onto the vehicle at ar...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Theileriosis kills hundreds of cattle in Matabeleland South
A widow and farmer Mrs Thulani Mpofu is left with only an empty kraal and cattle bells after Theileriosis, which has claimed hundreds of cattle in Insiza District, Matabeleland South Province, and the...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Gold thief killed at girlfriend's house
A group of illegal miners allegedly bashed a suspected gold thief to death in Mazowe before setting the cabin of his girlfriend ablaze on Sunday.The now deceased Llyod Ncube (32) was fatally a...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:33hrs | 653 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mazowe
WATCH: Govt declares quarantine... sends chemicals to contain disease
A widow and farmer Mrs Thulani Mpofu is left with only an empty kraal and cattle bells after Theileriosis, which has claimed hundreds of cattle in Insiza District, Matabeleland South Province, and the...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 00:01hrs | 1127 | by Staff Reporter
Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1658 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa tightens the noose
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's elections as fears continue to grow that it will use ame...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn heat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disputed 2018 polls have turned their swords on the Zimb...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:17hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe aims for top spot in carbon steel production
ZIMBABWE is now on a sustainable economic growth path following a number of interventions and is set to become one of the top carbon steel producers in sub-Saharan Africa in the next three years on th...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:10hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
ZINARA speaks on non-compliant vehicles
Compliance with the country's transport sector rules and regulations remains a challenge, amid revelations that vehicles that are either unregistered or are not regularly paying licences to the Zimbab...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 20:52hrs | 3547 | by Staff Reporter
NGOs under siege as Mnangagwa tightens noose
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has started restricting operations of non-governmental organisations ahead of this year's elections as fears continue to grow that it will use amendments to t...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:14hrs | 1105 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa allies turn swords on Zec
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies that are members of a platform ostensibly set up to improve the country's electoral environment after the disputed 2018 polls have turned their swords on the Zimb...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 08:04hrs | 3709 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa food security claims raise dust
POLITICAL analysts have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of misleading the world at the Feed Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal, early this week where he said Zimbabwe was food secure.They sa...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 00:09hrs | 2438 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo beer merchant sues police over US$110,000 worth of seized liquor
Bulawayo's Wood Liquor Warehouse Trading Company (PVT) Limited owners have threatened to take the Zimbabwe Republic Police to court if the law enforcement organisation fails to release an alcohol cons...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 09:03hrs | 2726 | by Staff reporter
Zinara asks Harare to prove use of road rehab millions
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has revealed Harare City Council has failed to make use of ZW$1,1 billion allocated to it for reconstruction of its network.In a strong-worded re...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:42hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Education ministry bemoans lack of funding as shortage of schools soars
PRIMARY and Secondary Education permanent secretary, Tumisang Thabela has admitted that the ministry is buckling under pressure due to under-funding consequentially hindering deliv...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:41hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
West Nicholson-Mberengwa road is really bad
GOVERNMENT is rehabilitating the West Nicholson-Mberengwa Road linking Matabeleland South and Midlands provinces.The road is one of the five major roads in Matabeleland South that are being ta...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
'1987 Unity Accord brought peace!' Shut up! It brought capitulation and the de facto dictatorship
It is a matter of public record that Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi of Zion Christian Church (ZCC) is one of Zimbabwe's many church leaders who have received far...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 00:18hrs | 1008 | by Wilbert Mukori
Harare council, Zinara trade barbs
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has threatened to take the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to court saying its model for road construction is not working, adding that since 2009, Zinara has n...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:34hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Sue Nyathi's novel translated to Arabic
LOCAL best-selling fiction author from Bulawayo, Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi has achieved yet another milestone after her sophomore novel, The Gold Diggers was translated to Arabic by theatre director and ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:34hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mutendi calls for peace ahead of elections
ZION Christian Church (ZCC) leader, Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi has implored churches to play a leading role in promoting peace and unity in the nation as the country heads towards this year's harmonised ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Harare fails to account for Zinara funds
Harare City Council has failed to acquit funds that have been allocated to it by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) resulting in the local authority failing to access new disbursements...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:31hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and CCC pursuing the 4th Chimurenga agenda: Is it mere coincidence?
Barbara Tanyanyiwa, a woman representative at CCC was on 19th January 2022 interviewed by Studio 7 on the arrests of 25 CCC members in Budiriro in Harare. In her 2 minutes, 15 seconds inte...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:55hrs | 1938 | by Mqondisi Moyo
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF captures Zimbabwe's private media?
FORMER Education minister, David Coltart has accused the ruling party, Zanu-PF, and its leadership of infiltrating the country's privately-owned news outlets to muzzle dissent.A vociferous gov...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:06hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
18 000 teachers get school fees support
The Government, through the Public Service Commission (PSC), has processed more than $820 million in school fees payments for children of 18 794 teachers.To date, the PSC has processed applica...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:12hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to banks to fund roads rehabilitation
ZIMBABWE'S roads administrator said this week it had kicked off processes to draft in banks to bolster its capacity to fund rehabilitation of the country's crumbling road network.In an intervi...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 11:25hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 4144 | by Staff reporter
Vicious crackdown on opposition part of Zanu-PF election playbook
THE arrest of Citizens' Coalition for Change parliamentarians Costa Machingauta and Amos Chibaya (pictured in khaki shirt) alongside other party members, including the elderly and juveniles, for ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa blasts parly ad hoc committee
OUTSPOKEN independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa this week attacked the composition of the Parliament ad hoc committee analysing the preliminary delimitation exercise report cautioning on possible...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Man kills father, castrates corpse
A Nyamandlovu man allegedly strangled his father, castrated the body with a blunt object before further dismembering it and stashing it in a maize field.Police are hunting for Effort Nothoenhl...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt, white farmers head for showdown
White former commercial farmers, whose land was acquired under the land reform programme are reportedly worried about a "longer" period that the compensation process may take after Zimbabwe Government...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:38hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans targeted by Operation Dudula members
Members of Operation Dudula have been chasing away immigrants from the Jeppe Clinic in central Johannesburg. The provincial department of health says it is not aware of this.On Monday, GroundU...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:45hrs | 4946 | by Johannes Marisa
NewsDay editor resigns after Mnangagwa spokesman claims he is on payroll
A seemingly innocuous Twitter post by George Charamba, the president's spokesman, has ousted NewsDay editor Wisdom Mdzungairi.Mdzungairi, who doubled up as editor in chief of Alpha Media Holdi...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:04hrs | 1867 | by Staff reporter
Illegal vendors crowding the city's streets are not originally from Bulawayo
A Bulawayo City Council top official has claimed that illegal vendors crowding the city's streets, blocking pavements and other roads are not originally from the city.Town clerk Christopher Du...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Man axes brother over wheelbarrow
A 39-year-old man from Methodist Village on the outskirts of Bulawayo axed his 22-year-old sibling to death for selling his wheelbarrow without his consent, police have confirmed.The incident ...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:18hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions choking Zimbabwe: Myth or reality?
"African politics is dogged by crises of legitimacy, monetised politics and corruption, personalised leadership, and lastly the sit-tight syndrome" notes the African Exponent. During an electoral seas...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 597 | by Zvikomborero Sibanda
Mnangagwa should make a clarion call for peace
THE savage beating of elderly people in Murehwa last weekend for political reasons has once again raised concern over the spectre of violence in the country ahead of the harmonised elections to be hel...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suspends health services director over CBD garbage
Bulawayo's health services director Dr Edwin Sibanda has been suspended for alleged incompetence over uncollected garbage in the city centre and deteriorating environmental standards.The decis...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:56hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Neighbours' witchcraft row spills into court
OCTAVIA Moyo has suffered enough verbal abuse at the hands of her neighbour who brands her a witch and a prostitute.Moyo claims her neighbour Alice Maseko accuses her of practising the dark ar...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Dad terrorises family with murder-suicide threats
"I'LL kill you, myself and the children…"An abusive Bulawayo man has reportedly developed homicidal tendencies after his wife left him, to get peace of mind.It seems like a no-win si...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
4 detectives in court on charges of extortion
FOUR more members from CID Minerals Fauna and Flora Unit DHQ in Harare appeared in court yesterday on allegations of extorting US$10 000 from owners of Shengiang Investments, which buys, processes and...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:34hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF must show patriotism
THE only thing new about the terrorism meted out in Murehwa on the poor elderly villagers is that someone who was part of the gang filmed and sent it to his bosses in Zanu-PF as proof that they could ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:00hrs | 374 | by A Mbire
Zimbabwe looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis
BULAWAYO: As lingering droughts hit southern Africa's hydropower dams, Zimbabwe faces growing electricity shortages – but connecting individuals and businesses that have installed private solar pane...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalisation of Zimbabweans
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed "sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe".He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 1566 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Business community slams BCC forex conversions
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries have accused the Bulawayo City Council of using a wrong formula to convert the 2022 and this year's tariffs to Un...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:47hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
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