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Mnangagwa not in COVID-19 quarantine
George Charamba, the interim Chief Secretary to the President, has rubbish allegations that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under 14-day quarantine after being in contact with one of his aides who pu...Published: 2 hrs ago | 662 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1129 | by Staff reporter
NPA recruits 291 prosecutors
The highest court in the land ruled that the seconding of members of the uniformed forces to the prosecutorial unit is unconstitutional.Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi was ordered to disenga...Published: 3 hrs ago | 279 | by Staff reporter
VID officials fined for violating lockdown restrictions
The love of beer landed two Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials and their three accomplices in trouble.Fidelis Munetsi (45) a...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1864 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'If I die in Chikurumbi, it will be for freedom' penned Sikhala - no, it's for pole position in gravy train rat race
The fight amount opposition politicians for headlines is hotting up! "MDC Alliance's outspoken Vice Chairman and MP, Job Sikhala that despite all adversities in jail and even if it means dying...Published: 8 hrs ago | 977 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga airlifted to China? - Highly unlikely
There are unconfirmed reports that Zimbabwe Vice President Rtd Gen Chiwenga has been airlifted to China this evening as his condition deteriorated.This was revealed by the usually reliable Chi...Published: 13 hrs ago | 10678 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Chiwenga to rest
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week ordered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest after the former army general appeared overwhelmed due to overworking and losing relatives to COVID-19...Published: 13 hrs ago | 6638 | by Staff reporter
Lies have short legs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made many promises since he entered office in November 2017. He was greeted with all the confidence that the people could give from all quarters of society.His asc...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2710 | by Worried
Platinum raid Caps
HARARE giants Caps United are set to lose midfielder Innocent Mucheneka who is on the verge of joining ambitious FC Platinum.Mucheneka joined Caps as a free agent after his contract with Chick...Published: 13 hrs ago | 410 | by Staff reporter
Fifa demand Mamutse reinstatement
WORLD football governing body Fifa have demanded the reinstatement of Zifa general-secretary Joseph Mamutse, who was suspended by the Sports Recreation Commission (SRC).Fifa observed that the ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 313 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1296 | by Staff reporter
Illegal immigrants struggle in the UK
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the UK jobs market has changed substantially, take a look at what this means for recruitment and occupational shortages, as well as serious implications for people's...Published: 13 hrs ago | 810 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 13 hrs ago | 468 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Cop in court over US$17 bribe
A police officer stationed at ZRP Goromonzi has appeared in court on allegations of demanding a bribe from a motorist he had arrested with a colleague while undertaking an unsanctioned lockdown Covid-...Published: 14 hrs ago | 593 | by Staff reporter
Govt probes $25bn mobile money scam
Prosecutions on a wide range of financial crimes are likely as investigations continue inside and outside Zimbabwe into the huge pool of unregulated liquidity estimated at $25 billion created within t...Published: 14 hrs ago | 764 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week. Dr Moyo succumbed to Covid-19-re...Published: 14 hrs ago | 532 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1299 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Sikhala spends another weekend in the cage
Opposition MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala's bail appeal hearing was pushed forward to Friday after prosecutors argued they had only received his record moments before proceedings, and were,...Published: 22 hrs ago | 669 | by Staff reporter
Paradzai Zimondi has died
FORMER Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Retired Major-General Paradzai Zimondi has died.The retired Major-General ha...Published: 23 hrs ago | 7063 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says he will never give up fighting for people's freedom
MDC Alliance's outspoken Vice Chairman and MP, Job Sikhala that despite all adversities in jail and even if it means dying in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison - "a concentration camp" - he will never...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:29hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Zimbabweans to maintain coronavirus discipline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zimbabweans to maintain their coronavirus discipline, while also encouraging the public not to lose hope as the country battles a deadlier second wa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:13hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Four Tips to Circumnavigate the 'New' Workforce
The UN's Framework for the Immediate Socio-Economic Response to the COVID 19 Crisis warns that "The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis; it is affecting societies and econ¬omies at the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 603 | by Hamilton Katsvairo
Poet 'Obert Dube' coughes blood after beaten by police
The famous poet Obert Dube has described how he was beaten by the police for breaking curfew rules until he started 'coughing blood'.In a Facebook post, the outspoken poet said the police thre...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 07:44hrs | 4017 | by Bhebhe Mandla
'Two health workers infected by COVID-19 each day'
At least two members of the health frontline workers in Zimbabwe's major hospital are contracting the dreaded COVID-19 virus per day and putting a strain on the country's health provision system....Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 15509 | by Staff reporter
Mawere stokes flames in SA judiciary
THE case of exiled Zimbabwean business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere, who was controversially muscled out of ShabanieMashaba Mine (SMM) Holdings, is now at the centre of judicial capture.Mawere was in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cripples freight industry
THE Shipping and Freight Forwarding Agents of Zimbabwe (SFFAZ) has implored the government to facilitate smooth flow of goods across borders amid confusion over lockdown rules.The industry is ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Self-ordained 'Mother of the Nation' got it all wrong
'Peace begins with me, Peace begins with you, Peace begins with all of us'The Chief Secretary, Dr. Misheck Sibanda, Deputy Chief Secretaries, Heads of Departments, Senior Management and Staff in t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1739 | by Dr. M.J.M. Sibanda
Mnangagwa in low spirits as COVID-19 ravages allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in "low spirits" as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two vice-presidents...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 3239 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF to blame for COVID-19 deaths'
MDC ALLIANCE vice-president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in COVID-19-infested jails as a way of exterminating the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono battles for freedom
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono yesterday insisted that he was being incarcerated under a nonexistent law when he appeared before High Court judge Justice Davison Foroma for bail hearing. Chin'on...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:38hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Zisco pensioners getting $25 per month
FORMER employees of the now-defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) are being paid $25 per month as pension on retirement, NewsDay reported.The pensioners who spoke to NewsDay said the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:38hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Sally Mugabe nurse resigns, cites victimisation
AN official for the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) Samson Gurupira has resigned from Sally Mugabe Central Hospital and Health Services Board (HSB) alleging inhumane treatment and victimisation fro...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Chief pleads for soldiers to enforce lockdown
A TRADITIONAL leader in Insiza, Matabeleland South, Chief Sibasa born Bekezela Sibanda yesterday implored the government to deploy soldiers to his area to enforce the lockdown and curfew.The c...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Donkeys in residential areas menace grows in Bulawayo
SOME Bulawayo residents are keeping donkeys in residential areas in violation of the city's bylaws. The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is struggling to deal with donkey crews as residents have made numer...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer dismisses gun crime claims
THE Bulawayo gold dealer who stands accused of pulling out a gun in a dispute over a Honda Fit has claimed that he did not do such a thing but instead was robbed of US$30 000. Police in Bulawa...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South under armyworm attack
FARMERS in Matabeleland South fear a reduced harvest following an outbreak of the fall armyworm that is causing massive damage to crops especially the late planted ones. The fall armyworm has ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya accomplices bail ruling next week
HARARE regional magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna is next week expected to make a ruling on a fresh bail application on changed circumstances made by Henrietta Rushwaya's accomplices in the gold smuggling cas...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:32hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's letter to Joe Biden. Twitter has some guesses on what's in it
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday told reporters that outgoing president Donald Trump had left him a "very generous" letter, in keeping with a long-standing tradition. Trump spokesperson Judd Deere ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 08:15hrs | 4400 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono bail hearing set for today
INCARCERATED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's bail hearing over charges of communicating falsehoods will be heard today at the High Court after the State yesterday requested more time to file submission...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Govt defies COVID-19 lockdown
GOVERNMENT yesterday gathered between 450 and 500 people at the Emakhandeni Hall to receive farming inputs under the presidential inputs scheme, in violation of COIVID-19 lockdown measures that outlaw...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2307 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro, Gwanzura upgrades 'not a priority'
HARARE City Council-owned football stadiums Rufaro and Gwanzura are likely to stay in their rundown state as the local authorities have insisted they are currently not in a position to finance the ren...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Deputy head arrested over pupils assault
Police have arrested the deputy head of Chemhanza High School in Hwedza over the recent brutal assault of some pupils for alleged acts of misconduct. Tarirai Mararike (52) was picked up by pol...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:24hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Biti claims Mnangagwa want to exterminate rivals through COVID-19
MDC ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in Covid-19 infested jails to try and exterminate them throu...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa buried
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa's brother, Daniel Parirenyatwa was buried yesterday in Zimunya, Manicaland Province. Minister Mutsvangwa's husband, ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2089 | by Staff reporter
Can your Employer Force You to Have a COVID-19 Test?
There are times the situation calls for measures which are tough but protecting the public and making work places safe. The world has embraced a world order which would have been pervasive in normal c...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 15:54hrs | 1084 | by enford Madekufamba and Dr. Masimba Mavaza
At exactly 12.01 EST 20/01/21 America will heave sigh of relief - government of the people was tested and survived
Today, 20 January 2020, at exactly one minute past high noon Eastern Standard Time the whole of America will heave a huge sigh of relief. The four years of chaos, arrogance and down right lawlessness ...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 09:14hrs | 1878 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Rainy season to end in March'
THE Meteorological Services Department has urged farmers to plant early maturing crops amid indications that the rainy season would end in March.Bulawayo provincial meteorological officer Chip...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | 2800 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 death toll spikes
ZIMBABWE recorded an unprecedented record high 60 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours on Monday, a situation that has forced health experts to conclude that this could just be a tip of an iceberg, considering...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1659 | by Staff reporter
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