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Mwonzora party's plot to delay polls revealed
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T party has started pushing Parliament to ensure that pending by-elections are suspended indefinitely, claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic has made the playing field uneve...Published: 2 hrs ago | 415 | by Staff reporter
Forget about traditional funeral rituals, says Omega Sibanda
THE death of five people in Lower Gweru from Covid-19 after performing body viewing of a deceased relative from South Africa has raised concerns over rites traditionally observed upon the passing on o...Published: 2 hrs ago | 170 | by Staff reporter
IDs shortage to ease
THE GOVERNMENT has enlisted the services of a Lithuanian printing company, Garsu Pasaulis (GP), to produce national identity documents (IDs) to ease current shortages.A progress report present...Published: 2 hrs ago | 48 | by Staff reporter
'No vaccination, no by-elections'
ZIMBABWE will only hold by-elections if the country vaccinates about 10 million people, representing 60% of the population required to reach herd immunity, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. ...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe documents citizens in foreign lands
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry claims it has begun a process of documenting the number of fellow citizens residing in foreign lands.There is no exact number of Zimbabweans in foreign land...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Kariba MP arrested in SA 'smuggling' Broncleer
AN ASPIRING Kariba MP Stanley Kauso was arrested in South Africa recently for attempting to help a Zimbabwean woman smuggle out boxes of cough syrup, Broncleer.The cough remedy, commonly known...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:18hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF official calls for Mnangagwa impeachment
A FORMER senior Zanu-PF official in Mashonaland Central province has called for the impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly running down the economy, human rights violations and fail...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:35hrs | 7190 | by Staff reporter
Fears, drama as 14 Zimbabweans return home
AT least 36 Zimbabweans, who stayed behind in the United Kingdom, raised fears of persecution by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, citing human rights violations in Zimbabwe.Only 14 o...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 3096 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ demands data bundles for teachers
GOVERNMENT has been urged to avail free data bundles for teachers to enable them to conduct virtual lessons in the absence of face-to-face learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has caused havoc g...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:28hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC calls for halt to UK deportations
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance on Thursday urged the United Kingdom to halt the deportation of failed asylum seekers, warning that human rights abuses are "increasing" under President Emmerso...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:41hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
UK deportation flight to Zimbabwe takes off just one-third full on Wednesday
A controversial Home Office deportation charter flight to Zimbabwe took off at about 10.30pm on Wednesday evening with only around one-third of the passengers on board that officials had hoped to remo...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:35hrs | 1847 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe deputy mayor dies
KWEKWE deputy mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa has died.Tobaiwa who also once served as the mayor of Kwekwe between 20082013 is believed to have succumbed to Covid-19 complications.Kwekwe Mayor ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:18hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
New twist to 'mysterious' £330 000 supercar
THE company that sold and delivered a £335 000 Rolls Royce Phantom to a "mysterious Zimbabwean minister" has backed down and alleged the vehicle was actually sold to an ordinary Zimbabwean.Th...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
Forex pricing SI haunts Mnangagwa's govt
ZIMBABWE'S Senate yesterday said the controversial statutory instrument (SI) promulgated in May spelling out restrictions on trade in foreign currency had turned businesses into "saboteurs" after the ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
5 die of Covid-19 after attending funeral
Five villagers from Lower Gweru under Chief Sogwala have died of Covid-19 in a space of a week after attending a funeral service for a relative who had succumbed to the virus. According to the local l...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 07:44hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's mid-term budget review set for tomorrow
The 2021 mid-term budget review statement will be presented in Parliament tomorrow, Information Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, said yesterday.Finance and Economic Development Minister, Mthuli Nc...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:26hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF denies plan to ban women from wearing mini-skirts
Zimbabwe's governing Zanu-PF party on Monday denied social media reports that it was planning legislation to ban the wearing of mini-skirts by women in public, calling the reports "fake news."...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 16:31hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dissolves Bulawayo structures
THE MDC Alliance Commission of Inquiry set up to probe infighting rocking the party's Bulawayo structures has recommended that the party's provincial executive should be dissolved and replaced by a fo...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:19hrs | 2618 | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi embarks on Zanu-PF national tour
AT a time the government has banned public gatherings to stem a surge in Covid-19 infections at a time Zimbabwe is battling the third wave, Zanu-PF second secretary Kembo Mohadi has begun a countrywid...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:16hrs | 1467 | by Staff reporter
UK MP fumes over Zimbabwean minister's US$330K supercar purchase
Zanu-PF has declared war with the United Kingdom after one of the former coloniser's MPs yesterday said he would raise questions in the House of Lords over how a yet to be identified Zimbabwean minist...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:31hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC attacks Khaya Moyo
A WAR of words has erupted between the country's two main political parties after the MDC Alliance Monday afternoon angrily reacted to Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo's claims that the oppositio...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:25hrs | 1727 | by Staff reporter
Zec under pressure to release 201819 financials
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been put under pressure to avail its 2018 and 2019 books of accounts for audit by Auditor-General Mildred Chiri as stipulated by section 195 of the Constitu...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:23hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions akin to economic terrorism'
The illegal sanctions imposed by the United States on Zimbabwe are a form of economic terrorism against the country's citizens, Iranian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Abbas Navazani has said. Ambassa...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Companies threaten to sue Auditor General Mildred Chiri
AUDITORGeneral (AG) Mildred Chiri says her office has been threatened by some companies named in her recently released hardhitting annual audit report for 2019.Giving oral evidence to the Publ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Mass UK deportations exposes MDC's double standards
The news which has gripped the Zimbabwean community in the UK about the chartered flights of loads of Zimbabwean criminals has shaken the community with mixed feelings. But the most surprising wailers...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:16hrs | 3254 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC Alliance & Civic Society Organisations in caucus for Gays & Lesbians Law
As the nation is experiencing vast socio-economic reforms since the inception of the New Dispensation, the MDC Alliance have chosen to join the train by amending the Constitution to incorporate same s...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1136 | by Shelton Muchena
Nature of Government deals must be made public!
We have so many deals, apparently, which Government of Zimbabwe, has signed with several countries, we have been briefed of MOUs, signed on behalf of the country, which have never been disclosed to th...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 12:05hrs | 610 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Peter Ndlovu's party is not a Zanu-PF project'
SOCCER legend Peter Ndlovu was recently named as leader of a newly formed opposition party, All People's Party (APP).However, Ndlovu, who is currently based in South Africa where he is team ma...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Parliament resumes sitting
PARLIAMENT will tomorrow resume National Assembly sittings with only 20 legislators physically attending to minimise the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.The House adjourned last month, taking ...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:44hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe internet service providers widening digital divide
The cost of internet bandwidth in Zimbabwe during Covid-19 has created an inequality that will only be improved through policy formulation and enhancement, a MISA Zimbabwe Multi-stakeholder engagement...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:47hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Displaced Chipinge families flee to Mozambique
SCORES of displaced Chisumbanje and Chinyamukwakwa villagers in Chipinge, are reported to have resettled in neighbouring Mozambique, after losing their ancestral land to Green Fuel Pvt Ltd.Bus...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | 1450 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | 781 | by Kenneth Mufuka
City will pay dearly for few voters
BULAWAYO'S loss of any constituency in the delimitation exercise will result in under-representation with devastating consequences on development and legislative priorities for the city, civic groups ...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:04hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deputy minister shells out $770,000 on Rolls Royce
Deputy sports minister Tinomudaishe Machakaire has splashed US$770,000 on a Rolls Royce Phantom - the latest illustration of the gulf between Zimbabwe's poor and super rich political elites.Th...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:36hrs | 3470 | by Staff reporter
Who is the next ZNA commander?
Zanu-PF internal political dynamics are expected to play out when President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints the new Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander following the death of Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chi...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:30hrs | 6134 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance factionalism report kept under wraps
THE MDC Alliance is yet to release a report on deeply en-trenched factionalism rocking its Bulawayo structures almost a month after a five-member probe team submitted its findings. The party's...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
Undocumented citizens to get COVID-19 jab
GOVERNMENT has ordered the vaccination of undocumented residents amid soaring COVID-19 infections and deaths.National identity documents were a mandatory requirement for one to get their jabs,...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 07:57hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case: Judgment reserved
THE Constitutional Court yesterday heard the arguments for nullifying the High Court decision that disqualified Chief Justice Luke Malaba from exercising a new constitutional right to extend his term ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 07:49hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote remains a pipe dream ahead of 2023 polls
While citizens of some Southern African countries such as South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi enjoy the right to vote in national elections while domiciled in other countries, for millions of Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:32hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF a militarised graveyard, says Jonathan Moyo
FORMER Information Minister Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF has become a military outfit working against the interests of the majority of the country's citizens.Commenting on the readmission of for...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:32hrs | 2822 | by Staff reporter
Zec in 'Catch Them Young' campaign
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will roll out voter education in tertiary institutions under its ambitious project dubbed "Catch Them Young", aimed at encouraging students to register ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:20hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Biti set to lose Parly car
PARLIAMENT has approached the High Court to repossess top-of-the-range vehicles it issued to six former People's Democratic Party (PDP) MPs following their recall and expulsion from Parliament in Marc...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:05hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
G40s Jonathan Moyo, Kasukuwere, Zhuwao don't exist, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has ruled out any prospects of readmitting vanquished G40 faction kingpins Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Ignatius Chombo, and Patrick Zhuwao as it considers them to be non-existent....Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:46hrs | 2434 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has fulfilled only 2% of 2018 pledges'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government has fulfilled only 2% of its 2018 election promises, independent research body Sivio Institute has said.Statistics released yesterday by Sivio...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:38hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Court judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:53hrs | 2040 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa deploys 27,500 soldiers to KZN and Gauteng, at what cost?
Defence Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has told Parliament, preparations are underway to deploy 25,000 additional soldiers in the battle to restore calm in Gauteng and KZN.She was briefing ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 19:01hrs | 3121 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to block Law Society's foreign funding
Cabinet has announced intentions to amend the Legal Practitioners Act in a bid to insert a clause that will allow the Justice Minister to approve or disapprove external funding for the Law Society of ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:28hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Malaba in no show as 2 High Court judges are sworn in
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba Tuesday failed to preside over the swearing-in of two High Court judges in Harare following his recent controversial reappointment as the head of the Constitutional Court....Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:44hrs | 1854 | by Staff reporter
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