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Zanu-PF factional fights exposed
THE reversal of Zanu-PF Manicaland women's league leader, Happiness Nyakuedzwa's suspension yesterday by Zanu-PF party spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa has laid bare factional fights in the ruling party,...Published: 2 hrs ago | 348 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crying out for political remaking
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, the refrain of the song Remake the World by Jimmy Cliff aptly portrays the magnitude of destitution that is prevalent among citizenry....Published: 2 hrs ago | 76 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF shooting self in the foot
IN Zimbabwe, come election time, it can only get crazier in the run up period.We now hear that some politically-drugged individuals in the ruling Zanu-PF party are advising their supporters to...Published: 2 hrs ago | 274 | by Staff reporter
Ferret Team caught in bribery trap
SIX members of security officers deployed at Beitbridge Border Post to fight cross-border crime were on Tuesday night caught red-handed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission officers as they coll...Published: 2 hrs ago | 176 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faction on cloud nine
A faction allegedly aligned to the Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is said to be on cloud nine amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to gazette the new electoral boundaries in...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1346 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Alleged Plumtree witch violently bashed by Tsikamutandas in Matobo
A disturbing video has surfaced on social media showing two youthful men who describe themselves as traditional healers beating up an elderly woman, whom they accuse of being a witch, with tree ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's CCC rules out primary elections
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has revealed that it will not hold primary elections to select candidates for this year's polls.The decision will undoubtedly set tongues wag...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF demands slot in schools' leadership
Zanu-PF has been roping in civil servants including teachers to campaign for Mnangagwa's re-election.Zanu-PF is reportedly meddling in the running of schools in the Midlands province, after it...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members urged to steal opposition members' IDs?
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly crafted a cocktail of anti-opposition strategies ahead of this year's polls, among them being to "steal" national identity (IDs) cards belonging to opposition p...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec in shocking U-turn over 'exam cheats'
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) pulled a shocker yesterday after it released the 2022 Ordinary Level results for Mukaro and Silveira high schools in Masvingo, a few days after withho...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:02hrs | 4851 | by Staff reporter
'UK-based Zimbabwean caregivers being exploited'
SOME Zimbabwean caregivers in the United Kingdom (UK) are allegedly subjected to, among other ill-treatments, unfair labour practises such as working for long hours on poor wages and sacked from work ...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 898 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new TV station knocked off air by technical fault
One of the newly-launched TV stations - Ke Yona TV - has been knocked off air by a fault.The Bulawayo-based station launched its full programming on February 1 on channel 398 on the Azam TV pl...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 20:51hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Malema threatens to reclaim hijacked flats in Hillbrow
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Sello Julius Malema has threatened to take over all the hijacked buildings in Johannesburg and to clean up the town accusing people who stay there of land damage. ...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 16:37hrs | 1650 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa begs DD Mabuza to stay on 'until modalities of departure finalised'
President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked his deputy, David Mabuza, to remain in his position until such time as "the modalities around his departure are finalised".This was the confirmation given b...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter
Concern over Zimbabwe's 'opaque' govt deals
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa (Independent) has called on government to be more transparent when entering into contracts with multinational companies to avoid plunder of the country's resources....Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:53hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Big snake scares Bulawayo residents
A HUGE black snake is scaring people at the traffic light controlled intersection along Robert Mugabe Way and 12th Avenue in Bulawayo.The fact that the snake is dead, is not making a differenc...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:52hrs | 9309 | by Staff reporter
Govt goes all out to complete Lupane Hospital
WORK on Lupane Provincial Hospital, the first public referral health institution in Matabeleland North Province, has gained pace as the Government steps up efforts to meet the end of year deadline to ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:45hrs | 594 | by Staff Reporter
Mliswa leaps to defence of Ginimbi's ex
Zimbabwe has long struggled with the problem of drug and substance abuse with experts noting that a deepening economic crisis and the attendant poverty and despair have resulted in increasing numbers ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | 1350 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec to deregister schools, centres over exam leaks
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) will deregister schools and examination centres complicit in the leakage of examination papers while the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education w...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Lupane on National Youth Day
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to be the guest of honour at this year's National Youth Day commemorations that will be held in Lupane where more than 5 000 youths from across the country will converg...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Unknown Brigadier-General declared a national hero
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on Brigadier-General Epmarcus Walter Kanhanga (Rtd), who died on Thursday. He was 73.In a statement, the Chief Secretary to...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 582 | by Stephen Bates
Charamba justifies Emmerson Junior's presence at meeting with Belarus chefs
DEPUTY Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Office, George Charamba, has justified the presence of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Jr, at a high-level State House me...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:01hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana, Charamba clash?
Confusion reigned on Saturday after two government spokesmen contradicted each other about the status of a delimitation report handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday.Moments aft...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 19:58hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Cyril Ramaphosa accepts David Mabuza resignation letter
South Africa Vice President David Dabede Mabuza has for the first time told South Africans that he has tendered his resignation to President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa in a bid to pave way for ANC Deput...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 17:50hrs | 1356 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Surely, why study 10 subjects at school as if unsure of one's goals in life?
The ZIMSEC Ordinary Level results are out - and, already we are hearing of those outrageous numbers of subjects passed by single candidates. This inevitably leads to the usual debate - is it r...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 16:39hrs | 3421 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UZ Lecturer's shenanigans with students exposed
A University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Media Lecturer Dr Teddy Mungwari is being accused of demanding sex from female students in exchange of giving distinctions.This comes after Mungwari was exposed b...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 14:45hrs | 1679 | by Paul Ndou
Why have Smith's prophetic words about Zimbabwe come to pass?
If ever there were any painful words spoken about an independent Zimbabwe - none, arguably, can surpass those supposedly uttered by Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith.He is alleged to h...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 08:48hrs | 5075 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zanu-PF preparing for early polls'
THE Zanu-PF-led government is reportedly busy tying up all loose ends, including fast-tracking passage of the delimitation report, election-related legislation in Parliament and bussing its members to...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:17hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
6 die of diarrhoea in Harare
The diarrhoea cases come after typhoid wreaked havoc in Harare, with 19 new suspected cases having been recorded early this week.SIX people died while over 6 000 diarrhoeal cases were recorded...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:17hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt zeroes in on rogue teachers
GOVERNMENT has moved to uproot rogue teachers reportedly ill-treating pupils whose parents would have failed to pay for extra lessons.The latest case happened in Norton, Mashonaland West provi...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:16hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Airforce of Zimbabwe warns against fake mass recruitment exercise
The Airforce of Zimbabwe (AFZ) on Friday dismissed as false an advert circulating on social media claiming that the AFZ intended to conduct a massive recruitment exercise throughout the country....Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 15:28hrs | 347 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chicken Slice say Chicken Inn are bullies
Chicken Slice founder and chief executive officer Tawanda Mutyebere has accused his competitors the Simbisa Brands-owned Chicken Inn of bullying and of trying to stop his business empire from using re...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:11hrs | 1447 | by Staff Reporter
Health experts concern over govt's lazy approach to new COVID-19 wave
HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the government's lackadaisical approach to the new COVID-19 wave which has seen a spike in infections and deaths.On Monday, World Health Organi...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:05hrs | 324 | by Staff Reporter
Reserve Bank slashes lending rates, increases forex retention
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has trimmed its bank policy rate to 150 percent from 200 percent per annum and increased foreign currency retention thresholds for exporters on domestic sales while ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 22:58hrs | 1097 | by Staff Reporter
USAid warns of Zimbabwe funding threat
THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, which has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups for muzzling government critics and narrowing democratic space, has gone a s...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:53hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean asylum seeker subjected to torture for 3 years
An asylum seeker has claimed that he was subjected to torture for three years, adding that sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin was better than sleeping in a house in Zimbabwe.The Zimbabwea...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:44hrs | 1135 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy invites ZEP holders to apply for repatriation assistance
Zimbabwe's embassy in South Africa on Thursday announced an online registration process for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders who need assistance to return home when their permits expire on June...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:40hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Zinara, Harare mayor war over road funds escalates
THE war over road rehabilitation fund disbursements between Harare mayor Jacob Mafume and the Zimbabwe National Roads Association (Zinara) yesterday escalated, with the latter releasing a schedule of ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
How do you win in binary options trading?
Binary options have entered the stock market and taken beginners by storm. For those who have always been wary and just a little afraid of traditional stock markets like Forex, this new instrument all...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 13:06hrs | 160 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt told to probe Zec commissioners
ELECTORAL watchdogs have demanded that government must launch an inquiry into the fallout among Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, which they say has crippled the electoral body six mo...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
KeYona TV starts fully fledged programming
KeYona TV yesterday started broadcasting live fully fledged programming with soapies such as Umntakabhudi and a morning show called New Dawn.KeYona TV which was officially launched in December...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:24hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Police spokesperson subpoenaed to testify in Mahere police 'baby murder' tweet
Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has been subpoenaed to court February 17 to give his testimony in a case in which Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Maher...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:43hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala must be released on health grounds'
INCARCERATED Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala's close allies have expressed concern over his deteriorating health.They suggested that Sikhala, who is the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:45hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe desperately needs leadership renewal
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as you are quite aware, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) symbolises the antiquity of State-owned public institutions. It is ground...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:43hrs | 365 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Hichilema must push Zimbabwe diaspora vote case
YOUR ExcellencyPresident Hakainde Hichilema,Chair,Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and SecurityThe Zimbabwe diaspora vote, a grouping of Zimbabweans living outside Zimba...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 269 | by Rosewiter Mangiroza
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