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Zimsec exams proceed without reported leakages
The 2024 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Grade 7, Ordinary, and Advanced Level examinations have unfolded without any reports of paper leakages, marking a significant improvement compare...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:07hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime is demonic, says Mzembi
Former cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has condemned the imprisonment of Ordinary Level student Nicole Chabata as "demonic" following her release from a 90-day remand prison. Chabata was arrested on Ju...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:28hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry's ascendancy to IOC presidency brightens
Zimbabwe's Minister of Sport, Kirsty Coventry, is emerging as a strong contender for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following new election rules that may hinder the candid...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 07:59hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Minister of Sports hotly tipped for top IOC seat
Zimbabwean Minister of Sport, Kirsty Coventry, is strongly tipped to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the current president, Thomas Bach, announced he would...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 13:13hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Love Island crowns Zimbabwe's Mimii winner in grand final
The winners of summer Love Island's 2024 grand final have been announced.During their eight weeks in the villa, this year's contestants have missed a Euros tournament, an Olympics opening cere...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:42hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Exemption Permit extension a temporary relief but ....
EMILY Machingauta (44), a Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (Zep) holder, has welcomed the decision by the government of South Africa to grant a two-year extension to Zimbabwean permit holders.The wai...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 06:06hrs | 12 | by Sally Nyakanyanga
SAP in hot water over dodgy deal with Zimbabwe
Multinational software giant SAP is in hot water over allegations that it used code names and set up a shelf company in Botswana to circumvent European Union (EU) sanctions imposed on the Zimbabwean g...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 11:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US spies busted, deported
FOUR United States nationals contracted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly sneaked into the country last month without notifying the authorities as per protoc...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diasporan intervenes in Mzilikazi water crisis
A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean has come to the rescue of Mzilikazi residents after drilling boreholes to address the suburb's acute water shortages.Bulawayo residents are currently enduring...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
JZ High School continues with 100% A-level pass rate
SITUATED in Gwanda District in the sprawling Matebeleland South Province, Jason Ziyaphapha (JZ) Moyo High School is not only named after a revolutionary luminary whose legacy cannot be bloated, but th...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
3 students in court for selling leaked exam paper
Three students from TelOne Centre of Learning who allegedly sold a leaked HEXCO Engineering and Mathematics paper that was written last week to some first year counterparts have appeared in court toda...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 15:14hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Helen Suzman Foundation rush to court to protect Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) rushed to court this week in an attempt to secure an order to protect Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders whose presence in South Africa, it said, was again und...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Exam cheats face nine years in prison
Individuals convicted of leaking public examination question papers in Zimbabwe now face more severe penalties, including up to nine years in prison, while students found guilty of the same offense wi...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court application to suspend the arrest or deportation of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits holders
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has brought a court application to suspend the arrest or deportation of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) holders, pending an appeal by home affairs minister Aaron Mot...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Mass deportation' of illegal immigrants from South Africa opposed
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has launched an urgent application against Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and his department in the High Court to stop the "mass deportation" of illegal im...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa wants to throw Zimbabwe into anarchy,' says angry Chamisa
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa is livid following the disqualification of 12 opposition parliamentary candidates in Bulawayo saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on the...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 08:56hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe election offers regime a last chance to end financial isolation
JEFFRIES Ncube looks around Zimbabwe's second city and fallen industrial heartland and observes that, for all President Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to resurrect a ruined economy, many of Bulawayo's ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nicole Scherzinger engaged to Zimbabwe-born Thom Evans
Nicole Scherzinger is one happy lady after saying yes to her partner Thom Evans. The soon-to-be bride shared the photo of the special moment he proposed on Instagram Tuesday with her 5.8 million follo...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC clears air on double candidacy
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has cleared the air on the Bulawayo double candidacy debacle amid concerns that the anomaly was triggered by unapproved candidates whose nomina...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zec's refusal to avail electronic 2023 voters' roll dents election
THE voters' roll which is in a shambles and the persistent refusal by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release the electronic version for audit have dented the credibility of the 23 August g...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga brandishes Zanu-PF fist on 'holy' pulpit
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, Sunday stood at St. Alois Parish's pulpit before tens of congregants, wearing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's scarf and brandishing a clenched fist in what might be...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twitter threats to litigants in Zimbabwean Exemption Permit court case
Litigants in the court case to stop the scrapping of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) have received threats on Twitter. Archive photo: Tariro WashinyiraThe director of the Helen Suzman Fo...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 15:54hrs | | by Ashraf Hendricks
Zimbabweans storm consulate office in Cape Town
The Helen Suzman Foundation said that it was concerned about the allegations of corruption at the Zimbabwe consulate office in Cape Town.Angry Zimbabwean citizens stormed the consulate office ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-Australian actress co-stars as Will Smith's wife in slavery epic 'Emancipation'
Zimbabwean-Australian actress Charmaine Bingwa (37) who was born and raised in Perth starts as Will Smith's wife in slavery epic Emancipation which debuts in theatres on December 9.Speaking at...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to the US as the West lose hope on Zimbabwe's hopeless opposition
ZIMBABWE has been invited to the upcoming United States-Africa leaders' summit in Washington despite concern over a "dire" authoritarian pivot by the Harare government which has seen a crackdown again...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA High Court delays Zimbabwe exemption permit case to next April
The Helen Suzman Foundation's (HSF) challenge of home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to terminate the Zimbabwe exemption permit (ZEP), which was set down for Monday, will now be heard in...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans face 'modern day Mfecane' in South Africa
ZIMBABWEANS in SA are living in a perilous state of uncertainty as the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) system is due to come to an end in June 2023.There are reports of Zimbabweans, living and...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Ciaran Ryan
Zimbabwe - SA relations turn frosty in the wake of an immigration crisis
POST-2000, millions of Zimbabweans have migrated to the United Kingdom, Australia or the United States, but estimated millions more have trooped to South Africa in search of greener pastures and safet...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Foundation threatened for challenging Motsoaledi's decision to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit
The executive director of the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) says they have received "alarming" threatening responses to the announcement that the foundation is challenging Home Affairs Minister Aaron ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC sings from ZANU PF hymbook...appeals to Generals
Nelson Chamisa's CCC officials have been accused of changing its neo-liberal mantra and adopting the ruling ZANU PF's nationalist and Pan-Africanism's ethos and values in a bid to appeal to the Milita...Published: 23 Apr 2022 at 19:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chihuri wealth inquiry opens
The inquiry seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of the family's large property portfolio opened at the High Cour...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPA targets US$50m ill-gotten properties
THE Asset Forfeiture Unit at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has lodged six High Court applications to seize assets from individuals who allegedly acquired them through proceeds of crime....Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
State seeks to recover US$32m from Chihuri
The High Court is this week expected to hear a high profile corruption case in which the State is seeking to recover more than US$32 million and forfeit numerous properties from former Police Commissi...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
New brooms at ZimAchievers Awards
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has appointed Nicolette Matuku as the new ZAA Global chief executive, with publisher Sakhile Khanye stepping in as the country director for ZAA UK.Matuku ta...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Helen Suzman Foundation fights in Zimbabwe migrants corner
MORE than 200 000 Zimbabwean migrants holding South African special permits called Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) yesterday received a major boost when the Helen Suzman Foundation moved in to assi...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 18:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
New 4-star hotel opens in Victoria Falls
A NEW 4-star hospitality facility, Palm River Hotel, will be officially opened in Victoria Falls today. It is located on the shores of Zambezi River, more than 6km away from the city centre an...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 08:56hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Chicken In through to Chibuku Super Cup quarter-finals
Chicken Inn FC 2-0 Bulawayo City FCCHICKEN INN are through to the quarter-finals of the Chibuku Super Cup after completing a double over Bulawayo City in a Group B encounter at Barbourfields S...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kenya destroys Zimbabwean sugar worth more than US$12 million
About 20 000 tonnes of condemned brown sugar worth about US$12,9 million which was sourced from Zimbabwe three years ago is set to be destroyed by Kenyan authorities today, a newspaper in the East Afr...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 20:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
eThekwini mayor refuses to apologise for supporting Jacob Zuma
ETHEKWINI Municipality mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has stuck to his guns and defended his support for former president Jacob Zuma during the unrest last week.Kaunda was berated by the DA in a special...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Displaced Chipinge families flee to Mozambique
SCORES of displaced Chisumbanje and Chinyamukwakwa villagers in Chipinge, are reported to have resettled in neighbouring Mozambique, after losing their ancestral land to Green Fuel Pvt Ltd.Bus...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts for Mnangagwa's govt to free jailed New York Times correspondent
THE SA National Editors' Forum (SANEF) has supported a call by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for Zimbabwean authorities to release New York Times freelance journalist Jeffrey Moyo who was...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
US court exonerates Zimbabwean 'fugitive' businessman
A ZIMBABWE Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef ) contractor, who was alleged to be a fugitive from justice in the United States, was never convicted of any crime in that country, it has emerged....Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:10hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Thandie Newton reverts to original spelling of first name, Thandiwe
Actress Thandie Newton has said she is reverting to the original Zimbabwean spelling of her first name, Thandiwe.The actress has hitherto been known as Thandie, an anglicised version of her na...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 18:26hrs | 6 | by BBC
6 subjects for Grade 7
PHYSICAL Education and Arts (PEA) has been introduced as an examinable subject at Grade 7 with effect from this year, bringing to six the number of subjects written by final-year primary school pupils...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
State capture: Time to declare party financiers
SINCE time immemorial, the political class has been defined across the world by class, capital and raw power.In many instances, these groups of people have formed elite pacts to foster their h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:15hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Health time bomb looms in Harare
The world is at loggerheads trying to deal with the covid-19 pandemic that is threatening to wipe out humanity.The Pandemic has affected millions of people around the world and millions have a...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 09:14hrs | 4 | by George Swarei
Invigilators paid with plates of isitshwala
THE country's examination body, the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) last week allegedly paid some "O" Level examination invigilators with plates of isitshwala instead of cash, which has ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec in another exam boob
The Zimbabwe Schools examination Council (Zimsec) mixed up examination dates for the Ordinary Level Agriculture Paper One, with students only finding out via social media that they were supposed to si...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs demand answers over Zimsec boob
MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday demanded that Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema must explain the issue of the Geography paper examination boob and the fact that children at rura...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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