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Mudzuri says to challenge Khupe for MDC-T presidency
Former MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri will challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe for the presidency, he announced on Friday.The party has been rocked by leadership disputes which spille...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2957 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'a brighter future depends on us all'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday made an impassioned call to all Zimbabweans to set aside their political differences and work together to build the country.At the same time, the 78-year-old...Published: 14 hrs ago | 390 | by Staff reporter
RBZ debt accumulation above US$2 billion
THE US$2,23 billion debt accumulated by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in the 12 months since July 2019 could be grossly understated, as fresh details emerged this week indicating the central bank...Published: 23 hrs ago | 760 | by Staff reporter
Securocrats scale up surveillance
THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots total control of NGOs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has tasked Parliament to fast track the Private Voluntary Amendment Bill in order for his administration to have total control over the operations of nongovernmental organ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 815 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says law against 'errant' NGOs in the pipeline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired warning shots against "errant" non-governmental organisations (NGO) and disclosed that government would soon craft a law to whip them into line.In ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 228 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest High Court 'armed robber'
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man from Makokoba suburb who is linked to the botched armed robbery at the Bulawayo High Court earlier this month. Evidence at hand has led police to believe...Published: 23 hrs ago | 812 | by Staff reporter
SeedCo International delists from ZSE, debuts on VFEX
LEADING seed producer and distributor, SeedCo International Limited, will delist from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) with effect from today and shift focus to the foreign currency denominated Victo...Published: 23 hrs ago | 297 | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love confirms undying love for ex-wife Bounty Lisa
CONTROVERSIAL dancehall chanter Soul Jah Love has once again confirmed his undying love for ex-wife Bounty Lisa through a yet-to-be released song titled Hatisisiritose if a snippet from the video of t...Published: 23 hrs ago | 832 | by Staff Reporter
New reports claim Mamombe ill
Two medical reports handed over to court yesterday state that MDC Alliance member Joana Mamombe has a psychological problem that requires treatment, with her defence lawyer arguing for postponement of...Published: 23 hrs ago | 829 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans die in horrific car crash in Cyprus
IN a tragic incident, three Zimbabwean students from the European University of Lefke in Cyprus died Tuesday night while returning from an outing.Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Med...Published: 23 hrs ago | 885 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy to grow 4,2pc in 2021: IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week revealed Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year and grow 4,2 percent from a decline of 10,2 percent forecast for 2020. The world body's pred...Published: 23 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Unite to achieve brighter future, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the country is on a new path towards prosperity calling for unity of purpose among Zimbabweans as a brighter future depends on every individual. President Mn...Published: 23 hrs ago | 281 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa spells parliament's legislative agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has outlined the third session of the Ninth Parliament's legislative agenda that is expected to consolidate the Government's political and economic reform agenda.Officially...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | 2412 | by Staff Reporter
Touts 'hassle' back at passport offices
TOUTS operating outside the Bulawayo Passport Offices are allegedly cashing in on desperate travel document seekers as they claim to be working with registry officials to facilitate processing of pass...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 14:50hrs | 2610 | by Staff Reporter
French company happy with Zimbabwe investments
Saint-Gobain Construction Products Zimbabwe says it is happy to continue with its investments in Zimbabwe despite the numerous challenges facing the national economy.The French-owned company h...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 13:11hrs | 1235 | by The Anchor
Battle for control of MDC-T intensifies
Rival candidates have heightened their campaign activities ahead of MDC-T's extraordinary congress as the battle to control the party intensifies.Early this month, the Supreme Court gave MDC-T...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 11:27hrs | 7094 | by Staff Reporter
Time for African youths to silence the gun
Africa as a continent needs a fresh start with new crop of leadership who are not necessarily militant or use their muscles to solve the problems facing their nations but who will use their brains....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1227 | by Leonard Koni
Harare City chefs dupe govt
Harare City Council (HCC) bosses could have fleeced the government of ZWL$12m after selling acres of State land in the capital as the illegal parcelling out of land in the capital reaches a new low....Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2034 | by Staff Reporter
Tshinga Dube says Mnangagwa can't fix country
ZANU-PF stalwart Tshinga Dube has warned that the ugly factionalism and succession wars plaguing the ruling party are derailing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to resolve the country's decades-...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:20hrs | 11645 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries worsen party wars
ZANU-PF has failed to announce the results of its elections to choose the party's parliamentary and council candidates for Harare, amid claims that the polls were riddled with bribery and rampant chea...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:19hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
Hostilities persist in Chamisa party
HOSTILITIES in the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance are escalating with each passing day amid complaints that its elections directorate approved unqualified candidates to contest the Highfield West pri...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 3588 | by Staff reporter
Investigator nails CID boss
AN INVESTIGATOR in the case involving Stephen Kuwaza, 42, the officer-in-charge of police Theft From Car department - arrested for allegedly interfering with a witness in the probe against suspended C...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:17hrs | 2599 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for private sector-govt dialogue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called on private players in the economy to dialogue with his government to find ways of improving the country's ease of-doing business and attract direct ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:17hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Abednico Bhebhe in soup over MDC court case
FISSURES continue to widen in the Thokozani Khupeled MDC as the party bigwigs want to haul organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe before a disciplinary hearing.This comes after Bhebhe claimed in...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:16hrs | 2314 | by Staff reporter
'You like us dead' unions tell government over new US$500 funeral cover
Public sector workers accused the government of being "insensitive" on Tuesday after a new US$500 funeral cover was announced.Information ministry spokesman Ndavaningi Mangwana announced the n...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:59hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Minister 'misleads' Parly committee
THE Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture has threatened to charge Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba with contempt of Parliament for providing contradictory statements over lan...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:54hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Kombi conductors, drivers to pay tax
GOVERNMENT has directed workers in the transport sector, including commuter omnibus drivers and conductors, to register with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) as part of social protection ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:47hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers get 22% wage increase
MINING sector workers have been awarded a 22 percent wage increase, which will see the lowest paid employee for the period October to December 2020, earning a basic salary of ZWL$18 000.Previo...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 16:49hrs | 1673 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe records another Covid-19 death
ONE more Covid-19 related death was reported in Matabeleland South bringing to 233 the number of people who have succumbed to the pandemic in Zimbabwe.The Ministry of Health and Child Care sai...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 13:09hrs | 2775 | by Staff Reporter
Kombi conductors, drivers to pay tax
GOVERNMENT has directed workers in the transport sector, including commuter omnibus drivers and conductors, to register with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) as part of social protection ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7030 | by Staff Reporter
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 477 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zicorba ushers the majority of Zimbabweans into commercial rabbit production
The Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) was mooted in June 2020 by a group of like-minded persons during a WhatsApp discussion, setting a stage for what has become household name...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1218 | by Lloyd Mangoh
EcoCash self-care platforms enhance clients' safety, improve the customer experience
CASSAVA Smartech Zimbabwe's mobile money platform EcoCash is leading the way in maintaining social distancing for its customers and employees through the use of self-care platforms. With the w...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 19:57hrs | 953 | by Agencies
Bright future awaits those who dare to dream
Although with the Covid-19 pandemic and two decades of economic downturn the situation in Zimbabwe looks dire, a bright future awaits those who dare to dream, graduates of the Institute of Chartered S...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 10:32hrs | 2053 | by Agencies
Khupe party implodes
INFIGHTING and political gamesmanship have ripped apart interim MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe's party ahead of its planned extraordinary congress to choose a substantive successor for the opposition's ...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 12118 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths hit back at Mohadi
MDC Alliance youths have hit back at Vice-President Kembo Mohadi's claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has improved the lives of ordinary people since taking over power from the late former Presi...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 5709 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border post not ready for reopening, says Zimbabwe govt
GOVERNMENT officials at Beitbridge at the weekend said the border post was not yet ready for fully-fledged reopening and recommended a staggered process fearing seas of lockdown-weary crossborder shop...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 11846 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to cut military expenditure
CHIREDZI residents last week called on government to reduce military expenditure in the 2021 national budget and channel more resources towards social services.The residents were speaking duri...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:22hrs | 4432 | by Staff reporter
Black Umfolosi album storms world music charts
BULAWAYO-BASED internationally-acclaimed Imbube/Iscathamiya group Black Umfolosi has scored big after its latest album Washabalala Umhlaba (Earth Song) was featured on the World Music Charts Europe (W...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
FAO hails govt over Mnangagwa's concept?
THE Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has hailed government for adopting the-PFumvudza agricultural concept saying it would go a long way in ensuring food security at household level.Pf...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Woman collapses and dies on busy Bulawayo street
A woman collapsed and died suddenly on a busy Bulawayo street on Monday.The unidentified woman had just walked out of a shop close to the Tredgold Magistrates Court at about 2PM when she slump...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 3852 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa tactics miserable'
AS TURMOIL consumes the country's opposition, renowned professor of World Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Stephen Chan, has once again warned Nelson...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 4166 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube says peace key to Zimbabwe growth
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, says he will adequately fund security forces and anti-graft bodies going forward, in a bid to secure peace and the ease of doing business in the country....Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:54hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Chief drives out tsikamutandas
CHIEF Bango of Matobo District in Matabeleland South has become the latest traditional leaders to drive out self-styled traditional healers, popularly known as tsikamutandas, out of his area.T...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:54hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
Man robbed of forex while praying
A Beitbridge man lost US$200, R10 000, seven cellphones and various goods to five armed robbers who attacked him while he was praying alone in a bushy area, as such cases continue to rise in the borde...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:52hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions meant to weaken Zimbabwe
ILLEGAL economic sanctions unilaterally imposed on Zimbabwe by Western nations are motivated by a desire to slowly weaken the nation, leaving the country vulnerable to poverty, droughts and epidemics ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Form Four pupil tests positive for Covid-19
A FORM Four pupil at a Bulawayo school tested positive for Covid-19 resulting in her contacts who include her classmates, being forced to self-isolate at home.The pupil is part of the exam cla...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:40hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Mkhaya's John Vul'gate challenge goes viral
AUSTRIA-based imbube music exponent Vusa Mkhaya's version of the John Vul'gate challenge went viral over the weekend with the artiste releasing a song Ngiyabongamina to celebrate his birthday....Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:39hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Man kills co-tenant
A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly severely assaulted his co-tenant until he fainted, rushed him to hospital where he pretended to be his next of kin and disappeared when doctors called and informed him th...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:39hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
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