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6 traditional questions stalling Mugabe's burial
Traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe are demanding that the body of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been part of a dispute ove...Published: 1 hr ago | 456 | by AFP
Zimbabwe to set up billion dollar oil, gas refinery
A US$1 billion oil and gas refinery is to be set up in Zimbabwe to complement Government's efforts in finding a long-term solution to high fuel prices, ballooning fuel bill and shortages.Zueth...Published: 1 hr ago | 284 | by Staff reporter
Doctors march to parliament
Over 200 doctors joined by other health workers marched from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament on Thursday to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union.The march was all...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2040 | by Reuters
High Court allows doctors' march
High Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri has granted an order allowing Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) to peacefully march from Parirenyatwa Hospital to within a radius of 20 metres from th...Published: 4 hrs ago | 482 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai food donations rotting in warehouses
Food items worth thousands of dollars donated to Cyclone Idai victims are rotting in warehouses in Chimanimani East and it is unclear why they have not been handed over to the intended beneficiaries....Published: 4 hrs ago | 308 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes police head-on
THE MDC has confronted the police demanding an explanation on why Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has allegedly issued an illegal ban on the party's internal meetings across the country....Published: 4 hrs ago | 919 | by Staff reporter
Top businessman convicted for stealing Zesa cables
Top Zvishavane businessman Kudakwashe Diza (43) and his companion Mark Tiweni (39) were yesterday slapped with a 48-month jail sentence each for stealing 810kg of aluminium cables belonging to Zesa Ho...Published: 12 hrs ago | 2668 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo residents snub voter registration'
A POOR voter registration turnout is haunting Bulawayo, with less than five residents taking part in the ongoing exercise each month, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said.If there ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 767 | by Staff reporter
NUST enrolment must be biased towards Matebeleland region students
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) should have a deliberate policy biased towards enrolling students from Matebeleland region as it suffered underdevelopment during the early yea...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1689 | by Staff reporter
PSL rejects Zifa match fees increase
THE Premier Soccer League has rejected Zifa's match fees increase for referees saying they are unaffordable to the clubs. Zifa chief executive officer Joseph Mamutse wrote to his PSL counterpa...Published: 12 hrs ago | 364 | by Staff reporter
Bossolona clamp Chuma
NOMADIC goalkeepers' coach Tembo Chuma's move to Castle Lager Premier Soccer League new boys TelOne is a gross breach of the contract he signed with Highlanders, club chairman Kenneth Mhlophe has said...Published: 12 hrs ago | 501 | by Staff reporter
5 'armed robbers' arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo arrested five suspected armed robbers a day after a dramatic high speed chase in which four of the suspects dumped their vehicle and eluded detectives on foot. The four alle...Published: 12 hrs ago | 718 | by Staff reporter
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 12 hrs ago | 995 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Chamisa's MDC holds governance workshops
MDC-Alliance is conducting workshops with the party's councillors in all the provinces as a way of enabling them to improve service delivery amid widespread evidence of poor administration. Ur...Published: 12 hrs ago | 223 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance behind abductions
The quest for power should never ever replace our humanness and the inherent spirit of Ubuntu that is the hallmark of our people, either in their deeds or spirit. Such virtues that are found in Zimbab...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1047 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mavhunga's family shuns Heroes Acre
Chief Provincial hero Martin Mavhunga, who was supposed to be buried at Mashonaland Central Provincial Heroes' Acre yesterday, will now be buried today at his rural home in Mashonaland West as per his...Published: 12 hrs ago | 525 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pisses on the graves of Provincial and District Heroes Acres
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:36hrs | 3423 | by Zororo Shumba
Mthuli Ncube a disappointed man
If the minister of finance was serious about his 2 percent transaction tax (si205), he was supposed to have approached the Parliament, to gazette a bill in respect of that.We can not hav...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 3854 | by Nothisa Dube
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 984 | by Daniel Itai
Chombo denied his passport again
Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's bid for the temporary release for his passport has hit a brick wall once again after a Harare magistrate dismissed his application.Chombo made an appl...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1302 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's funeral fuels tensions due to traditional beliefs, rituals
As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been p...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:20hrs | 3868 | by AFP
German national missing in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for information that may lead to the location of a 37-year-old German national who went missing in Bulawayo last week. Bulawayo acting provincial police ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2112 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe, 'small house' clash at court
There was a near fistfight at the Harare magistrates' Court yesterday when suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe's alleged mistress demanded US$10 000 she claimed to have paid to lawyers to fac...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Court set to hear bid to nullify PG appointment
The Constitutional Court is today set to hear an application filed by Harare lawyer Joshua Chirambwe, who is seeking to nullify Kumbirai Hodzi's appointment as the substantive prosecutor general of Zi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
RG's Office urged to stop the habit of going into the rural areas during election periods only
Some traditional and community leaders in Mashonaland East province have called on the Registrar-General's Office to decentralise and stop the habit of going into the rural areas during election perio...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Health workers down tools over abducted colleague
The Health Apex Council yesterday said its members were downing tools starting today until the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi, who was abducted by suspe...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:22hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Messenger of Court suspended
THE Justice ministry has suspended Chivi Messenger of Court Albert Meke Chamwadoro, who is facing allegations of fraud after minister Ziyambi Ziyambi roped in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:21hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Mnangagwa will deliver the State of the Nation Address on October 1, the same day he will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys soldiers to hospitals
Government has moved to avert possible disruption of services at hospitals by deploying medical professionals from the uniformed forces so that they attend to patients. Health professionals ha...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
Zifa increase match fees
IN a bid to cushion referees and shield them from match-fixing, Zifa has increased match fees for Castle Lager Premier Soccer League officials by more than 100 percent with effect from next month. ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scholarship bosses arrested
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday arrested three Government officials for allegedly abusing the Presidential Scholarship Programme. Deputy Director Scholarships in the O...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Mbeki hails Mugabe as a true African patriot
Former president Thabo Mbeki has lauded the work done by former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, calling him a combatant and true African patriot."He was a great patriot, a defender of Afri...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Govt pisses on the graves over Mugabe
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 12:24hrs | 4241 | by Zororo Shumba
Chamisa linked councillors snub Bulawayo budget meeting over Kambarami issue
BULAWAYO councillors yesterday snubbed the 2019 second supplementary budget meeting as well as the 2020 budget announcement which the finance department was scheduled to present to council. The counci...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:06hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Doctors paralyse Zimbabwe hospitals
ZIMBABWE's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: ZBC CEO granted bail
Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro has granted bail to former ZBC Chief executive officer Patrick Mavhura and former director finance Benania Shumba who are jointly charged for fraud....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 10:31hrs | 1662 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa panics over Paul Siwela TV interview
According to information from MLO's Central Intelligence Bureau ie CIB, Cde Paul Siwela' s hard hitting interview with Newzroom Afrika has sent shockwaves down the spine of Zimbabwe President Emmerson...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4310 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's ex-aide denied bail again
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed former State Residencies director Douglas Tapfuma's bail application, saying there were no changed circumstances when he approached the lower court for the seco...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, Wadyajena square off in US$3,6m dispute
The High Court will this Thursday preside over a US$3,6 million dispute between legislator Mayor Wadyajena and business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei emanating from a botched truck hire deal. Wady...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:36hrs | 1920 | by Staff reporter
ZBC bosses bail ruling today
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday said she would today make her bail ruling on two Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation bosses, Patrick Mavhura and Benania Shumba, who stand accused ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
18 more counts for ex-ZBC bosses
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Patrick Mavhura and ex-head finance, administration and human resources manager Benenia Shumba are likely to be charged with 18 more case...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ex-top aide sweats for bail
Former principal director of State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Douglas Tapfuma's bid for freedom hit a brick wall yesterday after Harare Provincial magistrate Mr Hosea Mujay...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' doctor left home intentionally, hospital memo reveals
Missing Harare doctor Peter Magombeyi bade his house-mate farewell and told him to lock up the door since he was going for an all-night prayer, an internal hospital memo has exposed. According...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Doctors confront Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:23hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
ZB introduces international bank cards
ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFHL) is currently working on introducing an international bank card following its removal from the US sanctions list in 2016, chief executive Ron Mutandagayi has revea...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:19hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Econet buys lithium-ion batteries from Tesla
Zimbabwe's biggest telecommunications company, Econet Wireless, has turned to lithium-ion batteries to power its base stations in the wake of incessant power shortages currently rocking the country....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:13hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to kick out Mnangagwa?
Recuperating Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly going to use the country's dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC), to forcefully kick out President Emmerson Mnangagwa from...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:16hrs | 24228 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Striking doctors blocked from confronting Mnangagwa
Striking Zimbabwean doctors in Harare were Monday blocked within just a hundred mitres from marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa offices amid fears for the State leader's security....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 645 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's minister condemns doc's 'abduction'
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has condemned the alleged abduction of Harare Central Hospital medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, saying he has since engaged State secur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:02hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
CIO rubbishes connection to missing doctor's case
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) yesterday told the High Court that there was no connection between the two security institutions and the alleged abductio...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:53hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
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