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Mnangagwa moves to thwart military threat
IN the aftermath of the recent general elections which gave him some semblance of political legitimacy, albeit a hotly-disputed presidential poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now making bold yet r...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:44hrs | 14803 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints top ally as State Security minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed his long-time ally Owen Ncube to the powerful position of Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office.Ncube, a Mnangagwa ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa side-lines Ncube
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent cabinet and party appointments featured curious inclusions and exclusions.After taking over power late last year following a military backed intervention ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:35hrs | 16064 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has changed Zanu-PF into a fresh new-look organisation
Political analysts say President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet - in which he dumped both friends and foes alike on Friday last week - demonstrates that he is determined to reset the government's co...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 20:01hrs | 5122 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's aunt buried
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's aunt, Gogo Deliwe Mpofu - nee - Mnangagwa, who died on Friday, has been buried today at her homestead in Mapanzure Village.Gogo Mpofu died after a short illness ...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:25hrs | 4028 | by Staff reporter
Hope as Mnangagwa swings axe
Cabinet appointments anywhere in the world are by their nature highly-contested and emotive affairs - because virtually all politicians think they are Cabinet material, while ordinary citizens harbour...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors relive running battles with municipal cops
Molleen Makasi (54) runs across a busy street in Gweru's central business district while clutching a bag full of tomatoes, onions, carrots and vegetables. At the corner of the road, she is blocked by ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints technocrats in new Cabinet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Cabinet shocker
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2787 | by Staff Reporter
17 ministers left out of Mnangagwa cabinet
The following are no longer ministers in President Mnangagwa's new cabinet:Patrick Chinamasa - (Minister of Finance and Economic Development)...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:46hrs | 24691 | by Stephen Jakes
Gweru vendors bow down to Joc blitz
ILLEGAL vendors in Gweru have piled pressure on council to regularise their operations following a blitz by the Joint Operations Command in conjunction with municipal police to flush them out of the c...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans highway mining
GOVERNMENT has ordered chrome miners to stop operations along the Shurugwi-Zvishavane highway with immediate effect saying the activity was threatening the million dollar highway and lives due to unpl...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Gweru vendors, police clash
THERE was chaos in Gweru central business district yesterday as vendors and riot police clashed after government ordered illegal traders to vacate undesignated sites to curb the spread of typhoid....Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally sets soldiers on vendors
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube has set the dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC) units on vendors to forcefully move them from the Gweru central business district (CBD).JOC i...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 5214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs 15 000 tractors
THE country needs more than 15 000 tractors for it to be fully mechanised in agriculture and be able to utilise land productively, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri has...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Gweru vendors face 'heavy-handed' evictions over typhoid
Midlands Provincial Affairs minister, Owen Ncube yesterday revealed that government has engaged State security instruments to effect a combined blitz with municipal cops to flush out illegal vendors i...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:23hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans pay tribute to fallen heroes, heroines
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans from all walks of life yesterday thronged various venues across the country to commemorate Heroes' Day.In Bulawayo, residents converged at the Provincial Heroes' Acre ...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents to get water treatment pills
GOVERNMENT says it is providing water treatment pills to every household in Gweru as a matter of urgency to contain the typhoid outbreak, which has so far killed five people in the city. The m...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
MPs-elect told to 'hit ground running'
Zanu-PF has urged its elected members for the National Assembly to hit the ground running and complement President Mnangagwa's effort in transforming the economy and uplifting the lives of the people ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:13hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Hit the ground running, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF has urged its elected members for the National Assembly to hit the ground running and complement President Mnangagwa's efforts in transforming the economy as well as uplifting the l...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:39hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
'School boy' Tinago gets hero status
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred boxing legend Langton 'Schoolboy' Tinago with a provincial hero's status. Tinago will be buried tomorrow at Gweru's Provincial Heroes' Acre. The legendary boxer...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:11hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns 'School boy'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent his condolences to the Tinago family following the death of boxing legend, Langton "Schoolboy" Tinago.The three-time Commonwealth champion died in the ear...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:39hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa-West Nicholson road tarring begins
The tarring of the road linking Mberengwa and West Nicholson has been commissioned, marking the commencement of works.Barely two weeks after Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:55hrs | 1794 | by Staff reporter
Gweru ordered to stop selling stands
GWERU's acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF has no control over ZEC,' claims Chiwenga
ZANU-PF does not control the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) and the electoral body is totally independent, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has said. Addressing thousands of Zanu-PF su...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 06:57hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
300 National Youth Service students graduate
More than 300 National Youth Service (NYS) students graduated at Dadaya Training Centre after completing their two months long training.Officiating at the graduation ceremony of intake 1 of 20...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 17:19hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Kana Mission Hospital builds $70 000 mortuary
KANA Mission Hospital has constructed a $70 000 mortuary to serve the Gokwe South, Nkayi community and other parts of Matabeleland North province.The new morgue, which accommodates more than 1...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 08:43hrs | 197 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF expels four members
Zanu-PF has expelled four members who decided to stand as independent National Assembly candidates in the July 30 harmonised elections. Zanu-PF Midlands chairperson Mackenzie Ncube confirmed t...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:46hrs | 1474 | by Staff reporter
Gweru faces fire tender shortages
Gweru City Council is operating with three functional fire tenders out of a possible six, a situation that compromises on effective mitigation against loss of human life and property, NewsDay reported...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
98.4 FM Midlands presenter dies in accident
98.4 FM Midlands presenter and Zimpapers correspondent Lovemore Zigara (pictured far right) has died.Zigara (36), reportedly died on his way to Kwekwe District Hospital after the Toyota Wish h...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:46hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Masvingo
Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans Victor Matemadanda has urged Zimbabweans to vote for President Mnangagwa on July 30 as he is an exemplary leader who pursues national interests. He said this while a...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:06hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
'No to political violence against women,' says Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has urged political parties to desist from violence against women as the country braces for the July 30 elections, saying they (female) should be afforded the opportunity t...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
'God ordained Zanu-PF to remain in power until eternity,' says Chiwenga
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday claimed the ruling Zanu party was God's creation and ordained to remain in power until eternity.Addressing mourners at the burial of fuel mogul Ku...Published: 17 May 2018 at 16:04hrs | 2511 | by Staff reporter
Miner shot in the head in clash with police
One person was seriously injured after being shot in the head with a pistol while several others were injured when a group of artisanal miners clashed at Amaveni Shopping Centre in Kwekwe on Sunday ev...Published: 09 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Chief makorokozas ‘bless' Kwekwe, use money to buy votes
In what can be regarded as the battle for Kwekwe, prominent Zanu-PF "godfathers" of illegal gold mining in Kwekwe have invaded the political arena with much controversy.The "godfathers" of ill...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:04hrs | 604 | by Roy Muroyi
Minister condemns machete attacks
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Owen Ncube has urged police to deal decisively with criminals behind machete attacks that have resurfaced in Kwekwe.Speaking during the launch of the Kwekw...Published: 02 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Skirmishes rock Zanu-PF
SKIRMISHES have reportedly rocked Zanu-PF ahead of tomorrow's primary elections, where aspiring candidates dumped the party rules for holding joint rallies and opted to go it alone as tension escalate...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:46hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens biggest ZITF fair
President Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday ahead of the official opening of the 59th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) today. The President, accompanied by First Lady Auxilia Mna...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 06:14hrs | 2494 | by Staff Reporter
'Mphoko is a Mozambican'
FORMER Vice president Phelekezela Mphoko is a Mozambican who didn't understand Zanu PF's revolutionary ideology, says Midlands provincial affairs minister, Owen Ncube.According to New Zimbabwe...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 16:29hrs | 16625 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 11569 | by Staff reporter
Auxilia offers to serve everyone
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday offered to serve everyone, including those across the political divide, as she seeks to unite people as the mother of the nation.She made the remarks yes...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
The West suspicious of Mnangagwa
In recent years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa seem to have discovered that Britain and the West are good.For example, when newly-appointed as vice-president in 2013, Mnangagwa was not ashamed ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | 3720 | by Tinhu
Embrace new political dispensation, youths urged
Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs Owen Ncube has urged youths to embrace the new political dispensation led by President Mnangagwa.He also urged them to shun drug abuse and cor...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Minister in car crash
THE Minister of State for Midlands Provincial Affairs, Owen Ncube, escaped unhurt when his BMW vehicle was involved in an accident between Gokwe and Kwekwe on Monday afternoon.Minister Ncube w...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:40hrs | 820 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF in Midlands 'vote-buying gimmick'
THE Zanu-PF youth leadership has promised to build 54 000 houses for its members in the Midlands province in a move believed to be a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the general elections due this year....Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:55hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
#EDhasMyVote campaign launched in Midlands
THE Zanu-PF Youth League yesterday launched the #EDhasMyVote campaign in the Midlands Province as it moves ahead with its quest to reinvigorate the party ahead of the harmonised elections in July....Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:07hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
3 000 get jobs in Midlands
AT least 3 000 people in the Midlands province have been engaged in different jobs by companies since the ushering in of the new political dispensation led by President Mnangagwa last November....Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 06:03hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Mimosa increases production as platinum grade depletes
ZVISHAVANE-BASED platinum miner, Mimosa, has been forced to increase its production and push volumes as its sales are being affected by the depleting grade of its mineral as well as plummeting platinu...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:44hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Gokwe's traditional leader finally installed
70 years after being robbed of their title as traditional leaders by the Rhodesian regime, government has finally restored the Mazinyo traditional leadership in Gokwe's Manoti area.Officially ...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 09:01hrs | 2015 | by Staff reporter
Shabanie and Mashaba Mine has started recruiting
SHABANIE and Mashaba Mine (SMM) has started recruiting and its target is to employ 800 people by the end of the year.The asbestos mining company which was closed in 2004, used to employ 4 500 ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:30hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
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