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Drug syndicate cops convicted
Two Chiweshe-based cops who connived with a drug dealer in destroying evidence of cannabis sold to a schoolboy were convicted yesterday by Concession magistrate Joshua Nembaware.The trio Rober...Published: 1 hr ago | 153 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo suburb plunges into darkness
BULAWAYO's Newton West suburb was plunged into darkness early yesterday morning after thieves once again stole copper cables as the spate of vandalism of critical public infrastructure continues unaba...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:55hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoke...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Drug syndicate cops languish in prison
A Chiweshe-based cop who allegedly sold cannabis to a schoolboy together with her two investigating officers are still languishing in prison after being denied bail by Concession magistrate Joshua Nem...Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 21:05hrs | 1236 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ngwabi Bhebhe started MSU with $50
FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) vice-chancellor Ngwabi Bhebhe has opened up on the struggle he faced to set up the higher learning institution.Speaking last Friday at a golf tournament ...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:44hrs | 4547 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over state of Old Gwanda road
Matabeleland South villagers have decried the poor state of Old Gwanda Road that has been neglected over the years.The road connects Bulawayo to Gwanda, the Matabeleland South capital....Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:54hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reads riot act to Harare councillors in parking storm
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday ordered Harare councillors to urgently review parking penalty charges following a public outcry, ZimLive reported.Chamisa st...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:23hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
TTI, BCC making 'super profits' from parking system deal
IT seems Bulawayo motorists who were boycotting the parking management system introduced in the city in mid-February last year have bowed down to pressure amid revelations that the parking management ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
$20 Zimdollar notes rejected by traders
Public transport operators and traders must accept $20 notes as they are legal tender and failure to accept legal tender in transactions is outside the law, the Finance Ministry warned yesterday....Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:19hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Huge outcry over CCC led city vehicle clamping fine
While the outcry over Harare City Parking's fines continues to grow and a Government investigation has opened, a motorist is trying to get the High Court to rule that Harare City Council has no legal ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned
PARLIAMENT has summoned Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to give a ministerial statement on the chaos at Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas), as well as inform the nation why the public hea...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:02hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
MPs take Soda Zhemu to task
LEGISLATORS say Energy minister Soda Zhemu is painting a misleading picture of Zimbabwe's energy situation, which they say is worsening despite his numerous assurances.In the final quarter of ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:58hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Parly shielding govt from legislative scrutiny, says Chamisa's MP
HATCLIFFE legislator Allan Markham says Parliament is protecting cabinet and the President from answering crucial questions, after Treasury for the fourth time failed to answer questions on the shareh...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:58hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors call for parking fees exemption
BULAWAYO councillors have called for exemption on parking fees around residential flats and medical facilities in the city centre.The city, through Tendy Three Investments (TTI) is charging US...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 16:56hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Environmental Management Agency shuts down 2 lithium mines
THE Environmental Management Agency (Ema) in Mashonaland East province has shut down two lithium mines in Goromonzi district for allegedly operating without environmental impact assessment (EIA) certi...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:39hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Drug syndicate Cops denied bail
A Chiweshe-based cop who allegedly sold cannabis to a schoolboy together with her two investigating officers were denied bail by a Concession magistrate yesterdayPolice officers from Chombira ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 18:50hrs | 1041 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe cuts ties with Western PR firms
ZIMBABWE has terminated the services of consultancy firms which were engaged more than three years ago to help thaw diplomatic relations with the United States as Harare changes tack to break over two...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:56hrs | 2196 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai turning in his grave
THE late opposition MDC stalwart Morgan Richard Tsvangirai who died on 14 February, five years ago, is turning in his grave because some of his family members and close associates have joined the Zanu...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 10:43hrs | 2058 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over witch hunters
HUMAN rights watchdog Coalition for Citizens Advocates (Coca) has petitioned Midlands police against the activities of witch-hunters popularly known as tsikamutandas in Zvishavane.They are rep...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:18hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Minister vows to end schools uniform monopoly after MPs outcry
The government will step in to stop schools from forcing parents to buy uniforms at exorbitant prices, primary and secondary education minister Evelyn Ndlovu told parliament on Wednesday.Ndlov...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:58hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
Lets approach all crimes with the same zeal
While we are focusing on drug dealers and drug pushers, we should put in the same effort to stop the collaboration between criminals at our bus stops and the ZRP who look away while travellers are bei...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 21:13hrs | 325 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Bulawayo mayor wants city's road rehab programme scrapped
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has called for the disbanding of government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP), arguing that the programme has been a monumental failure in the city....Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 19:42hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Senior CIO directors given US$350 000 cash windfall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's financially struggling administration has given senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors US$350 000 housing loans each in a desperate bid to appease crit...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:43hrs | 3192 | by Staff reporter
Passenger group urges citizens to report overcharging transport operators
THE Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has urged citizens to report any incidents of overcharging by commuter omnibus operators in a bid to weed out errant business practices.The call co...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
High School faces lawsuit over uniform
GOROMONZI High School faces a lawsuit after it barred two pupils it recently admitted for Form One over their parents' failure to buy school uniforms from the boarding school, at about twice the price...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 11:22hrs | 1064 | by Staff Reporter
Boasting about sufficient power supply now haunts Zambia's president
A video of Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema boasting last month that his government had ended electricity blackouts, is being widely shared on WhatsApp two days after the country's power utility ...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:39hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Victims of 'attempted murder' bouncers urged to come forward
Information Permanent Secretary Nick Mangwana has called for all the victims who were victimized by under-fire bouncers to come forward and testify against them.The duo Gideon Sanyangore, (32)...Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 11:57hrs | 1744 | by Simbarashe Sithole
State forced to abandon pauper's burial on Moreblessing Ali after family outcry
The state was Wednesday forced to abandon burial on Moreblessing Ali's mutilated remains after the slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist's children and other family members fiercely prote...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:34hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 662 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:27hrs | 2581 | by Staff reporter
Belarus spreads Zimbabwe footprint
BELARUS has increased its footprint in Zimbabwe after cabinet this week announced that it was concluding a framework to award the Eastern European country a tender to construct a 100-megawatt photovol...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions 18 Public Service Commission buses
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 18 Public Service Commission (PSC) buses in Gwanda, Matabeleland South Province, under the Civil Service Rural Transport Scheme, which seeks to ease transpor...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Insimbi ZeZhwane's 'inaudible vocals'
Rhumba music band, Insimbi ZeZhwane's latest album release has reignited the debate about their inaudible vocals, something that fans have always indicated each time the group releases new music....Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 18:43hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi poised to bounce back after 2023 elections
FORMER vice-president Kembo Mohadi, who resigned from the government in shame in March last year, amid allegations he was using his office for sexual encounters with married women- including aides, is...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:44hrs | 3388 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel 'settles' land disputes with villagers
Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South through parcelling out one-acre fields of irrigated la...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
New Zupco fares trigger outcry
THE Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) has triggered an outcry after raising intra-city charges to $800, which it also says would be equal to one United States dollar.While the officia...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
The Madhuku option: Proverbial low hanging fruit?
THE out of court negotiations (herein termed the Madhuku Option) being mooted by NCA president, Polad member and prominent legal buff, Lovemore Madhuku, on the continued detention of CCC political pri...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | 590 | by Ted Noham
Zimbabwe funeral policies face scrutiny
Following a public outcry against funeral assurance, the Insurance and Pensions Commission is engaging the Zimbabwe Association of Funeral Assurers on policy design and benefits to address concerns th...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mass transfers rock Zimbabwe police
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has instituted an aggressive transfer of officers countrywide amid reports that the police top brass is furious about rising indiscipline, incompetence and allegatio...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Pushcarts face city centre ban
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) intends to ban push carts, popularly known as "Scanias" from operating within the city centre while also criminalising displaying goods on the city's pavements, triggering ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa forced to withdraw new perks for ministers after DA outcry
"The president listened."This was the message from President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya on Monday when he announced the withdrawal of a controversial amendment to the mini...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents plot garbage blockade
HARARE residents have threatened to block garbage collection in the city to stall the controversial Pomona waste management deal.The Geogenix BV-run US$340 million project is sustained by proc...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:58hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Parliament's US$1,6m laptops tender probe postponed
ABSENTEE parliamentarians, a decision by the finance ministry to send junior officials in place of Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga, and failure to attend by some bidders all contributed to the ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 18:22hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Parly implores Mnangagwa's son in-law to reinstates the suspended Zifa board
MEMBERS of Parliament have launched a fresh bid to pave for the lifting of the country's suspension by Fifa after imploring Sports minister Kirsty Coventry to ensure the Gerald Mlotshwa-led Sports and...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Chokuda told to resign
OPPOSITION legislators have called on Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda to resign after laying the blame for the dodgy laptop and desktop tender, and suspicious fuel allocations at the august House ...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1129 | by Staff reporter
The importance of parastatals
WHEN State-managed institutions work well they are often not recognised or rewarded and are taken for granted. When they fail, everyone suffers the consequences.At independence in 1980, 40% of...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 153 | by Eddie Cross
Calls for probe into Parly US$9 264,48 laptops saga
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) and legislators have called on Auditor-General Mildred Chiri to carry out a forensic audit on how Parliament approved acquisition of 173 laptops and 79 desktops whic...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Africans' 'victim mentality' now sickening and disgraceful!
I know what racism, racial segregation and discrimination are - having spent the first seven years of my life under colonial rule in the then Rhodesia.Thereafter, facing the same at the dawn o...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 12:32hrs | 1186 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zacc goes after schools refusing local currency
THE Government has advised parents to report schools that are refusing fees in local currency to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), saying doing so was a breach of the learners' constitut...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:51hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa praise singer appointed to panel to investigate criminal activity at Phala Phala farm
The EFF has slammed the appointment of President Cyril Ramaphosa's "praise singer" associate Professor Richard Calland to the independent panel set to investigate whether there is a prima face evidenc...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 22:15hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
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