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MDC mourns political violence victim
The MDC Mashonaland East province has been plunged into mourning following the death of party stalwart Obed Pindu Muchabaiwa who died at Marondera Provincial Hospital on Sunday at the age of 81....Published: 11 hrs ago | 1476 | by Staff reporter
Interpol snubs ZRP over G4O
ZIMBABWE Republic Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga yesterday revealed that the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was not willing to assist Zimbabwe extradite certain sus...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1960 | by Staff reporter
Military operation to remove ZANU PF launched
Ideal Zimbabwe President Tinashe Jonas has unveiled what he termed a military operation that will remove ZANU PF. Jonas posted a video which shows him wearing army regalia urging Zimbabweans t...Published: 12 hrs ago | 15737 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court to rule on Nelson Chamisa's Presidency today
The Supreme Court is set to make a determination on the legitimacy of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Wednesday. The case was taken to the appeals court by the MDC who are challenging a decision ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 6669 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Red tape blamed for frustrating Russian investors
ZIMBABWE has potential to lure more Russian investors if it eradicates bureaucracy, Harare's representative in Moscow, Ambassador Major General (Rtd) Mike Sango, has said. Speaking in an inter...Published: 16 hrs ago | 980 | by Staff reporter
Interpol frustrates hunt for Zimbabwean fugitives
THE International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) is frustrating efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the country, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga said yesterday. ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1975 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's era of austerity measures ends
THE era of painful austerity measures is over and the country should brace for positive growth and productivity in 2020, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, said ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 8676 | by Staff reporter
Madinda still under doctors' observation
ZIMBABWE football legend Madinda "Khathazile" Ndlovu is still under constant observation by doctors in Botswana as he continues on his road to recovery following a stroke that saw him being detained i...Published: 16 hrs ago | 606 | by Staff reporter
Businessman dies in hail of bullets
A PROMINENT Maphisa businessman was early yesterday morning shot dead in his home at the growth point in Matabeleland South. Tapson Ncube, who had business interests in mining, transport, reta...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2741 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax to stay
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says the 2 percent Intermediated Money Transfer Tax on transactions will continue for much longer as it covers for tax defaulters. His co...Published: 17 hrs ago | 531 | by Staff reporter
33 arrested over missing receipt books at RG's Office
At least 33 officers were arrested this week over missing receipt-books and embezzlement of thousands of dollars at the Registrar-General's Office in Harare. Receipt-books went missing with th...Published: 17 hrs ago | 433 | by Staff rpeorter
Economy facing new de-industrialization wave
Zimbabwe's hyperinflation and the general economic decline are now posing serious viability challenges for the local industry. This will be a second phase of de-industrialization in a space of 2 decad...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:34hrs | 1904 | by Victor Bhoroma
Pravin Gordhan is a serious liability in 'New Dawn'
It can no longer be avoided Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has become a serious liability to President Cyril Ramaphosa's "New Dawn", says the writer. File picture: ReutersThis week ...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 16:04hrs | 1932 | by Sifiso Mahlangu
Obert Mpofu sues Matutu for $10 million
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Dr Obert Mpofu is suing the party's Youth Affairs deputy secretary Lewis Matutu for $10 million after the latter accused him of being corrupt.The claim ema...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:48hrs | 3781 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo extradition - Interpol frustrating ZRP over?
The ZRP Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has accused the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) of frustrating their efforts to extradite people facing criminal charges in the countr...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 15:47hrs | 4836 | by Staff reporter
Life-size statue in honour of Tsvangirai
THE MDC will erect a life-size sculpture at the party's headquarters in Harare in honour of its founding president - the late Morgan Tsvangirai - before the end of the year, the party's secretary-gene...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 13:00hrs | 5360 | by Staff writer
Do not invade patients, says Govt
GOVERNMENT has warned politicians, activists and media practitioners against unwarranted visits to hospitals, adding that such action violates the rights of patients. In a statement yesterday,...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:57hrs | 3008 | by Staff reporter
Jetsetter Mnangagwa arrives in Sochi-Russia
The President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has arrived in Sochi, Russia to attend the Russia/Africa summit beginning on Wednesday 23rd October 2019. President Mnangagwa was met by the ambassado...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:44hrs | 2238 | by Staff reporter
Chaos at Mugodhi sect leader's burial
CHAOS reigned supreme at the late Mugodhi Apostolic sect leader Tandewu Mugodhi's burial in Wedza on Saturday after two factions clashed over the burial site and the appointment of his son as heir app...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:39hrs | 3471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's future is in new blood and new faces
IT is not possible to spend a couple of hours touring the USS North Carolina (one of the most decorated battleships of World War II and a marvel of engineering built over 80 years ago) without being r...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:39hrs | 1142 | by Noah Manyika
Indian nationals to get visas upon arrival in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean government has scrapped off the complicated visa regime on Indian nationals as they can now be granted visas at any legal entry point in the country.The Information Communicatio...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:38hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP booed for Mnangagwa praise during funeral
ZANU-PF Tsholotsho North MP, Sibangumuzi Khumalo was Sunday booed at a funeral in Mswigana village in Tsholotsho when he tried to praise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership.According to ...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:38hrs | 3549 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets climate change grant
ZIMBABWE has received a US$100 000 grant from the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation to finance the National Climate Change Learning Strategy which seeks to promote climate change awareness...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
4 years in jail for python, pangolin skins possession
AN inyanga from Binga has been jailed for an effective four years for possession of pangolin and python skins. Jerry Mwembe (44) of Kabula area in Lusulu was arrested after an anti-poaching te...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors risk losing salaries
Striking doctors risk losing their monthly salaries should they continue defying calls to return to work as Government is now invoking the Labour Court ruling allowing it to institute disciplinary mea...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:10hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to scrap Presidential running mate concept
Cabinet yesterday approved constitutional amendments that will result in the scrapping of the concept of running mates in Presidential elections and extend the women's quota system by another 10 years...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Govt threatens striking doctors
The Government say it will haul striking doctors before disciplinary hearings for “absenting” themselves from work in what it calls an illegal strike....Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 22:13hrs | 2502 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's Bulawayo province haunted by ghosts of its provincial congress
THE MDC Bulawayo province is still haunted by ghosts of its provincial congress, with some party members now raising fears that the chaos that accompanied it will cost the party in future by-elections...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 20:28hrs | 996 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF pushes for Chiwenga resignation'
A clique within the ruling Zanu-PF is pushing for the resignation of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on health grounds. Chiwenga, the former army general who orchestrated a coup to depose form...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 17:16hrs | 27367 | by Ndou Paul
Lupane University lecturers, staff go on strike
Lecturers at Lupane State University (LSU) have reportedly embarked on industrial action citing incapacitation to continue reporting for duty.This comes at a time when state doctors have gone ...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:48hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Suspicious break-in at council offices
Mutare City Council's finance director Blessing Kapuya's office was on Thursday last week allegedly broken into and there are fears that important council documents might have been stolen, NewsDay can...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 15:05hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group angry over child abuser's lenient sentence
Women's Comfort Corner Foundation (WCCF) director Rita Marque-Mbatha has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking his intervention in a matter in which a Chitungwiza woman, who scalded a six-y...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:44hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Farm workers get 84,62% salary increase
WORKERS in the general agriculture sector have been awarded an 84,62% salary increment, which will see the lowest paid employee getting $360 a month.According to the collective bargaining agre...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:44hrs | 2126 | by Staff reporter
The sanctions conundrum
The debate on sanctions imposed by the United States is once again hogging the limelight and polarising the nation. Sanctions under the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (Zidera) is an Act ...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:43hrs | 694 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe plans law against those calling for sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration will support calls for a law to sanction citizens who support moves by foreign governments against the State, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said....Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:43hrs | 798 | by newzimbabwe
SA economist urges Zimbabwean authorities to think outside the box
A SOUTH AFRICAN economist, Nisha Sewdass, has urged the Zimbabwean authorities to think outside the box and in a disruptive way to rescue the nation from economic rot.Sewdass made the remarks at t...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Teachers declare 2-day working week
TEACHERS have declared that they have become so incapacitated financially that they are now only able to work two days per work starting today until government has heeded their demands for a massive s...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors launch crowd funding initiative to replace salaries
STRIKING doctors have set up a crowd funding initiative appealing for donations from the public after government denied them their October salaries.The health workers, who are pressing on with...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 3751 | by newzimbabwe
Hwange station needs complete overhaul
SUBDUED power generation at Hwange Power Station is contributing to prolonged load shedding as only four units out of six are operating, general manager for the plant, Engineer Arnold Chivurayise, has...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira joins anti-sanctions drive
Labour Economists and African Democrats (LEAD) president Ms Linda Masarira-Kaingidza yesterday joined the anti-sanctions drive and pledged to mobilise communities and fellow citizens against the illeg...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
PROPHECY: General Philip Valerio Sibanda to replace Mnangagwa?
Zimbabwe Defense Forces Commander Philip Valerio Sibanda is set to succeed President Emmerson Mnangagwa a prominent clergyman Pastor Ian Ndlovu has said. In a veiled message to Mnangagwa Ndlov...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:30hrs | 15209 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joshua Nkomo favoured Zanu-PF split, says Zapu
THE late Father Zimbabwe - Joshua Nkomo - always emphasised the need to pull-out of the 1987 Unity Accord agreement with Zanu-PF that was signed to ostensibly stop the1980s massacres in the region, Za...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:55hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
Oskid 'kicked out' of ZiFM
Controversial music producer Prince "Oskid" Tapfuma and his label Oskid Productions have parted ways with AB Communications subsidiary Six Finger Records amid alleged contractual breaches and unprofes...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:53hrs | 1907 | by Staff reporter
Cartels killing the Zimbabwe economy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to take out the whip on business for the current price madness. That, predictably, is a good idea.If things go according to his plan - most of the tim...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:50hrs | 1501 | by Tawanda Majoni
Iyasa continues to produce stars
INTERNATIONALLY-travelled and acclaimed Bulawayo arts group, Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa) director Nkululeko Innocent Dube says its a myth that working overseas always translates into pi...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:49hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Judiciary is compromised: An insider's view of the justice system
Celebrated human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa says interference by the executive in the operations of the country's judiciary has compromised the justice system.Mtetwa (BM) told Alpha Media H...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:48hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Ex-NSSA boss spills the beans
FORMER National Social Security Authority chairman Robin Vela has revealed that a former Zanu-PF minister took a staggering US$400 000 from the state pensions body to fund her election campaign....Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:47hrs | 3651 | by Staff reporter
14 655 graduates pass through Joshua Mqabuko Polytechnic
THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Professor Amon Murwira, has said the new curriculum for higher and tertiary education is meant to develop skills amon...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:44hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
The Anti-Sanctions Declaration: Disentangling Neo-Colonial Political thought
The burden of historyToday the pan-African nationalist movement is bestowed with the mandate of tackling the ever-changing complexities and complexions of colonialism. This comes again...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:43hrs | 92 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
600MW Hwange plant takes shape
WORK on the expansion of the Hwange Power Station Stage 7 and 8 expansion is on track with 26 percent ground work having been covered so far, Sunday Business has learnt.The Government contract...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:43hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
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