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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: 5 hrs ago | 990 | by Staff reporter
When a government starts abducting its own doctors…
While the President of the Republic is busy trying to be endorsed by a dead man called Robert Mugabe, all the country's referral hospitals are without doctors, after the Doctors Association called for...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4001 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zanu-PF official jailed for fraud
A ZANU-PF district chairman in Mhangura was recently sentenced to an effective six months in prison after defrauding two people of about US$342 in botched land deals.Harmony Mavesere (40) of T...Published: 12 hrs ago | 2905 | by Staff reporter
Heavy winds destroy 2 top schools
Heavy winds destroyed infrastructure worth thousands of dollars at two top schools in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, at the weekend, an official said yesterday.The Anglican-run Mt St Mary's...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1284 | 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: 13 hrs ago | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba scoops club's man of the match award
Marvelous Nakamba became the first Zimbabwean to play in the Premier League in 13 years on Monday night.The midfielder was given his first league start by Dean Smith as Villa battled to a 0-0 ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2616 | by Birmingham Mail
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: 13 hrs ago | 366 | 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: 13 hrs ago | 1005 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Police intensify anti-smuggling blitz
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Tuesday said it will continue intensifying anti-smuggling operations along the borders targeting smuggled goods and vehicles until there is sanity. This c...Published: 13 hrs ago | 381 | by Staff reporter
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: 13 hrs ago | 223 | 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 | 3430 | by Zororo Shumba
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
New Zimdollar the worst-performing currency in the world
If you thought Argentina's currency crisis was bad, spare a thought for Zimbabwe.Measures to protect the Zimbabwe dollar - including sky-high interest rates - seem to be coming to naught....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:41hrs | 2683 | by Bloomberg
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 10151 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to seal Zivhu's fate
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive is moving to seal the fate of embattled Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu, despite the party's national disciplinary committee, headed by chairperson Oppah Muchinguri s...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:34hrs | 2063 | 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
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF fights over another corpse
RELATIVES of the late Dominic Martin Mavhunga husband to minister of state for Provincial Affairs in Mashonaland Central, Monica Mavhunga are breathing fire after Zanu-PF and their in-laws allegedly h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1217 | 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 | 1362 | 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
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1243 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 734 | by Staff reporter
Uncle Sam ups black ops in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's politics is sick. It is sickening. It is self-defeating. It is toxic. Of late there has been a worrying dangerous trend of Zimbabweans staging abductions and kidnappings, all aimed at false...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 333 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Zanu-PF brimming with confidence ahead of the Zaka East by-electio
Zanu-PF is brimming with confidence ahead of the Zaka East by-election slated for Saturday, with officials saying victory is certain as they wrap-up the party's campaign juggernaut. Out of 26 ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:46hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Abductions aimed to tarnish Mnangagwa govt image
FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister Sibusiso Moyo says ongoing abductions on government critics were well calculated to coincide with impending visits by high profile officials from world bodies or international...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 200 | by newzimbabwe
'Dr Magombeyi's 'abduction' the work of a third force'
GOVERNMENT on Tuesday said the abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi could be the work of a third force out to tarnish the country's human righ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 15:53hrs | 2248 | 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 | 4242 | by Zororo Shumba
Abductions choreographed ahead of Mnangagwa's UNGA meeting
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet in charge of Presidential Communications Mr George Charamba said the recent alleged abductions were choreographed ahead of the President's United Na...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2079 | by Staff reporter
Gweru sued over shoot-to-kill policy on stray dogs
THE Gweru City Council has been dragged to court by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) over the local authority's decision to shoot stray dogs and donkeys, a senior council of...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Police shoot car's wheels to stop smuggler
BEITBRIDGE police on Saturday shot at a suspected smuggler who bolted into the night, abandoning a latest model Land Rover Discovery believed to have been illegally brought into the country.Th...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti led team queries 'rogue' RBZ payments
Parliament yesterday slammed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for carrying out quasi fiscal activities outside its mandate and using taxpayers and pensioners' money to fund government activities....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mugabe T-shirts divide mourners
ZANU-PF factional fights nearly marred former President Robert Mugabe's largely low key funeral wake at Murombedzi Growth Point in Zvimba yesterday as the late leader's followers protested against dis...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:36hrs | 2107 | by Staff reporter
Treasury instructed RBZ to pay US$660m to Sakunda
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday told parliament that it paid US$663,8 million worth of treasury bills (TBs) to Sakunda Holdings (Sakunda) owned by fuel mogul Kuda Tagwirei under instructi...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1361 | by Staff reporter
Only 76 Zimbabwean xenophobia victims back home
THE body of a Zimbabwean man who died during the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa and 76 Zimbabweans affected by the mayhem, were yesterday repatriated back home through Beitbridge.Th...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba bid Mugabe farewell
Scores of people gathered at Murombedzi Business Centre and former President Robert Mugabe's rural home in Zvimba yesterday to bid farewell to the African icon. Speakers described former Presi...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 460 | 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 | 24271 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Anger over Mnangagwa regalia as Mugabe's body goes to Kutama
The body of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6, arrived in his home village on Monday for a subdued farewell at a dusty sports field after a weekend state funeral with Af...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:03hrs | 3860 | by AFP
Chamisa's MDC to roll out more demos
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC is priming its membership for another wave of demonstrations to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to urgently address the country's deteriorating so...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:49hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 5556 | by Staff reporter
Fuel price hike expected in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is expected to increase petrol and diesel prices after a strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility removed about 5% of global supplies, an attack the US ha...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:18hrs | 4422 | by Staff reporter
Record spike in oil price after shock drone attacks on Saudi oil
Oil surged along with gold and Treasury futures after a strike on the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil production increased geopolitical risk concerns. U.S. and European equity futures declined, while shar...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1147 | by Bloomberg
Political hand behind Malema charges
The case of common assault against EFF leader Julius Malema and party national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is "ready for trial" and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamil...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates MDC on anniversary, but which MDC?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday congratulated the MDC on its 20th anniversary and reaffirmed his commitment to national dialogue. The MDC was formed in September 1999 and the late Morgan Tsvangirai was ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
Production of Zimbabwe buses starts next month
THE production of 500 buses offered to Zimbabwe to modernise its mass public transport starts next month, Belarus Chief of Presidential Affairs General Colonel Victor Sheiman has said. The vis...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1890 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open 2nd Parly session
President Mnangagwa will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament on October 1 and layout the legislative agenda. The opening of the Second Session marks the end of the First...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:38hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Sympathy for the devil
The sham solidarity with Mugabe shown by African leaders at his funeral is in sharp contrast to the enlightened attitude taken by the African Union over the plight of African refugees and migrants str...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:40hrs | 1368 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa congratulates Chamisa's MDC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the Nelson Chamisa led MDC for attaining 20 years of its existence as a political party in Zimbabwe. MDC was formed in September 1999 with the la...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 12:05hrs | 16906 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Inside the fight over Robert Mugabe's body
Former president Robert Mugabe's family was told that they risked losing his Harare mansion and other Harare properties if they did not accede to government's demands that the long-time ruler should b...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2141 | by Staff reporter
The other side of Mugabe
In the late 1990s, a big birthday bash was planned for the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo at Ascot racecourse, with the late former president Robert Mugabe being the guest of honour.When Mug...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 885 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zesa, BCC agree on compensation for power station use
AFTER years of fighting between the Bulawayo City Council and Zesa, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Power Company, over the ownership of the Bulawayo Power Station, the impasse seems to be coming to a co...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's funeral will be tricky because there are so many narratives
As the dictatorial president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe occupied the national pulpit and wrote his own colourful story.It is a well-tuned narrative about a man who liberates a nation from the ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 22:55hrs | 1788 | by John Sparks
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