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Mphoko seeks direct access to ConCourt
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday filed an application for the postponement of his corruption trial to allow him to directly approach the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) for recourse ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 113 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi harvester strangles leopard, arrested
AN expedition to harvest the much sought after mopani worms (amacimbi) almost turned tragic for a security guard employed at Whitewater High School in Matobo District, Matabeleland South, as he found ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 548 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist says Govt roller meal taskforce foolish
South African based President Emmerson Mnangagwa's confidante and MDC critic Kudzai Mutisi has scoffed off at Industry and Commerce Minister Sekai Nzenza's roller meal committee set to monitor the sel...Published: 16 hrs ago | 199 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt revises civil servants pay offer
Government and representatives of civil servants are set to meet again today after the latter turned down Government's revised salary offer made on Friday, which would see the least-paid employee earn...Published: 16 hrs ago | 441 | by Staff reporter
'MDC 2020 Agenda will not lift sanction' - more significantly, will not end rigged elections
There is a mountain of evidence proving that the root causes of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown are 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The reason why the nation has been stuck with t...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 09:44hrs | 772 | by Nomusa Garikai
Millers maize imports start arriving
THE Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says maize bought using free funds has started arriving in the country with the association calling upon local cross border transporters to facilitate...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:03hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Unethical retailers face blacklisting
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) says it will blacklist its members that would be involved in side-marketing the roller meal from the Government's subsidy programme. Of late, conc...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:03hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
World Economic Forum, opportune platform to lure investment
Zimbabwe's participation at this year's 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland is a big opportunity for her to lure Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)....Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 13:33hrs | 479 | by Chido Chikuni
Marry Chiwenga has shown the way, can Zimbabweans emulate her?
Vice-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry, is a nasty piece of work, who does not deserve much sympathy in her ongoing legal problems.When she first took over the running of the Miss Z...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:38hrs | 15378 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mthuli Ncube to introduce $50 notes
GOVERNMENT will soon introduce $50 notes to address the currency crisis in the short term as the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) continues to devalue, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said.In June 2019...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2735 | by Staff reporter
Siblings in court for double murder
TWO siblings from the Midlands province who ganged up and allegedly murdered a taxi driver in Bulawayo and a shop owner in Inyathi in Matabeleland North before stealing their property worth more than ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance divided over former 'Chief' Ndiweni
DIVISIONS have emerged in the MDC Alliance over a solidarity rally in support of dethroned Chief Ndiweni from Ntabazinduna. Mr Nhlanhla Ndiweni lost the chieftainship in November a...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube claims drought situation is under control
THE MINISTER of Finance and Economic Development has assured the international community that the drought situation in the country is under control as the government is putting in place measures to av...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:29hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Makokoba teen in trouble for theft of clothes worth $9K
An 18-year old man from Makokoba in Bulawayo appeared in court on allegations of theft of property worth $9050.Vincent Ncube was not asked to plead to theft when he appeared before Bulaw...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:28hrs | 1091 | by Stephen Jakes
Settlers seek eviction of conservancy owners
NINE Beitbridge villagers who were resettled at the Jompembi Farm in the district in February 2001 have filed summons at the Bulawayo High Court seeking the eviction of the owners of the wildlife cons...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:43hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Stray donkeys, scotch-carts a menace in Victoria Falls
THE increase in the number of stray donkeys and scotch-carts in Victoria Falls town has irked residents who have taken the local authority to task to deal with the domestic animals and their owners as...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1120 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Executive plots coup against Parliament
WHILE the citizens are glued to the ongoing circus in Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have decided to sneak in a sinister constitution...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:42hrs | 5773 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Fake cop rapes prostitute
A MAN who impersonated a police officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a prostitute he had hired for sex at a Bulawayo hotel. Desire Siaponda (30) allegedly hired the services of a pro...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:36hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Supermarket forces clients to buy grocery worth $150 if they need 10kg mealie meal
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube yesterday intervened to stop a local supermarket that was selling a 10kg of subsidised roller meal on condition that a customer first bought groceries...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Woman murders husband with petrol fire
A BULAWAYO woman has appeared in court facing a murder charge after she allegedly doused her husband with petrol before setting him on fire in a dispute over an extra marital affair. Sindiso N...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Roller meal shortages persist
Subsidised mealie-meal supplies have remained erratic across the country, with major supermarkets running out of the commodity, forcing most consumers to access it on the black market. The sho...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:22hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'reduces debt by theft' after Supreme Court ruling: lawyers
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of a controversial government decree from February 2019 which converted debts accumulated in United States dollars to the local RTGS currency – at a great l...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Duty on bus kits cut to 10%
Stakeholders in the transport industry have welcomed the Government's decision to cut to 10 percent import duty on semi-knocked down kits used in assembling buses, saying this will reduce the cost of ...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:19hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Things giving Mthuli sleepless nights
Food, power and currency stability are the three things keeping Finance minister Mthuli Ncube awake at night.The southern African country is facing drought for the second consecutive year, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:59hrs | 2557 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube must stop lying on inflation
EXACTLY a year after Zimbabwe's first biggest fuel hike since President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power from the late Robert Mugabe, the administration was at hand to celebrate the Jan...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:48hrs | 143 | by Staff rpeorter
2 die in Luveve road crash
A DRIVER and a passenger died in an accident blamed on speeding which resulted in the vehicle hitting two pedestrians before ramming into a tree along Luveve road on Sunday evening. The incide...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:44hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Ginimbi to pay US$58k more duty
Genius Kadungure must pay an additional US$58 000 excise duty for one of his recently imported top-of-the-range vehicles, a Bentley Continental GT, that he had undervalued on its arrival. The ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:42hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Police release names of Mutare accident victims
Police yesterday released 12 names of the 17 people who perished in a bus accident that occurred near Odzi along the Harare-Mutare Highway on Saturday evening.National police spokesperson Assi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 12:16hrs | 2082 | by Staff Reporter
Man in trouble for raping girl (11)
A man from Umguza appeared in court for allegedly raping a 11 year old at Umguza river.Saul Ncube (46) appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Lizwe Jamela.He was remanded in custody...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 07:53hrs | 2498 | by Stephen Jakes
Venda soapie to premiere on ZBCtv
Uhangelwa, a television soapie mostly in Venda language which is in the post-production stage is almost complete and expected to premiere on ZBCtv soon. As the word uhangelwa means forgiveness...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:19hrs | 2232 | by Staff reporter
Police seize journalist's phone
Chiredzi based journalist Patrick Chitongo's phone was seized last week by ZRP Chiredzi, the gadget was suspected to have been used to steal a classified document from the Police force's district head...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 16:42hrs | 1940 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
'Mnangagwa is archbishop of maShurugwi'
THE MDC has fired at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing the Zanu-PF leader as the archbishop of the notorious machete wielding gangs commonly referred to as Mashurugwi.This comes after p...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Businesses defy Mthuli Ncube on new tax regime
Some businesses are defying Treasury's directive to review downwards the 15% Value Added Tax (VAT) to 14,5% levied on certain goods to stimulate aggregate demand.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:15hrs | 1741 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants rule out strike
Government has reiterated its commitment to improve the welfare of its workers ahead of another round of salary negotiations.The Government workers have also ruled out the possibility of a str...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:11hrs | 1308 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's maize subsidy sabotaged
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a Presidential Maize Subsidy meant to benefit the masses. This was a response to Mthuli Ncube's poorly planned removal of subsidies on maizePresident Mna...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:52hrs | 6829 | by Nicholas Ncube
Bosso's flower that blossomed elsewhere
ISAAC Riyano remains one of the best junior players ever to come out of the Highlanders Football Club nursery in the 1980s.Sadly he could not graduate into the first team to fill in vacancies ...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:38hrs | 536 | by Lovemore Dube
Mealie-meal tracker launched
THE Government, working with other agencies has unleashed monitors to track the movement and selling of subsided mealie-meal as concerns grow over the continued channelling of the commodity to the bla...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:36hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sticks to his guns
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has stuck to his guns, maintaining that the country is going to achieve 3 percent economic growth for 2020 in the face of independent f...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:33hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe governance system beyond fixing
Of late, I have been quite irritated by my smartphone's maddeningly frequent demands for me to upgrade its system at times, as little as only two days after my last upgrade. What I, however, found ver...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:24hrs | 178 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Percy Gwanyanya takes philanthropic work to all corners of Zimbabwe
Harare based business man and philanthropist Percy Gwanyanya (37) has launched a scholarship program which will benefit many across the country.Gwanyanya who is the founder and Managing Direct...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1087 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Man demands lover's underwear after break up
BREAK UPS can be awkward, especially when ex-lovers start demanding their gifts back from each other.One Bulawayo woman approached the court to voice her horror after her seemingly bitter ex-l...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Zenzo Moyo gets calls of 'his death'
NO one wants to wake up and read that they are dead. Football legend Zenzo Moyo spent the week inundated by phone calls, some from fans, former teammates and ex-employers as news circulated on social ...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1860 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants receive cushioning allowances
GOVERNMENT has said civil servants will be paid more cushioning allowances this year as its employees yesterday started receiving their promised payments for this month. Government this week r...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:43hrs | 3564 | by Staff reporter
Junior cops rebel over poor working conditions, police abort operation
A PLANNED police anti-riot operation in residential areas of Bulawayo was Thursday aborted after over 50 officers based at Mzilikazi Police Station rebelled in protest over poor working conditions, Ne...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:37hrs | 648 | by NewZimbabwe
'Nhlanhla Ndiweni dismissal above board'
GOVERNMENT has dismissed claims by dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni that his removal from the chieftainship by President Mnangagwa, following recommendations by Cabinet and the Matabelela...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:37hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
'Telecel on the brink of collapse'
WORKERS at mobile network operator Telecel Zimbabwe have raised a red flag over the state of affairs at the company, saying it faces imminent collapse unless government urgently intervenes to rescue t...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe governance system beyond repair
OF late, I have been quite irritated by my smartphone's maddeningly frequent demands for me to upgrade its system—at times, as little as only two days after my last upgrade. What I, however, found v...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 334 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli Ncube misses 10% year end inflation target
ZIMBABWE'S implied annualised inflation rate closed 2019 at 521%, defying authorities' target to reduce it to at least 10-15%.According to Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) month-on-mo...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:15hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo shops abusing mealie-meal subsidy'
BULAWAYO residents have accused some retail shop owners of abusing the subsidised mealie-meal facility by forcing consumers to buy other goods in order for them to be able to purchase the commodity....Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:07hrs | 295 | by Staff rpeorter
Gukurahundi exhumations shelved
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has angered human rights activists after saying it was in the dark as to when it would resume the much-awaited exhumation and reburial of Gukura...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:04hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
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