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Zimra activates facility to send groceries home
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has activated an imports relief facility to help Zimbabweans based in South Africa to send groceries and other goods home in commercial trucks through Beitbridge...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 20:03hrs | 4628 | by Staff reporter
Birth certificate concern in rural Matebeleland
SOME rural folk in Zimbabwe remain excluded from social amenities due to the lack of official identity documents. Birth registration allows one to enjoy a lot of other rights such as the right...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:02hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Human rights commission paralysed
FOUR Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) commissioners have retired with immediate effect leaving the commission without a quorum to execute its mandate. Dr Ellen Sithole, Dr Joseph Kurebw...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:13hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Kasukuwere's special message to Africa
Happy Unity Day fellow African brothers and sisters! It has been an interesting road from the time our founding fathers formed the Organization of African Unity envisaging a united Africa 57 years ago...Published: 25 May 2020 at 14:18hrs | 2903 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
Nick Mangwana our Joseph Goebbels: Where is Itai Dzamara?
Your nauseating article of today should put even Lucifer to shame. You must tell us where activist Itai Dzamara is. Is Itai Dzamara still stage-managing his ongoing abduction? If your government is go...Published: 24 May 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1078 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chaos at border as locals troop back
ZIMBABWEANS returning from South Africa have expressed frustration over confusing processes they are subjected to before admission to Covid-19 quarantine centres in Beitbridge.The confusion ha...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:54hrs | 2095 | by Staff reporter
Thieves crash in getaway car
TWO men from Bulawayo who were court on camera stealing from a vehicle in Gwanda were arrested after their getaway car was involved in an accident during a speed chase. Mpilwenhle Ndlovu (35) ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
Passport office keys stolen
Masvingo police have been guarding the provincial registry complex for the past four days after a staffer lost a bunch of keys allegedly to thieves, TellZim News reported.Sources said a member...Published: 19 May 2020 at 22:12hrs | 2804 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested over Covid-19 fake news
ANOTHER Bulawayo woman who allegedly peddled fake news on WhatsApp and shared with her daughter a false Press statement bearing President Mnangagwa's fake signature announcing the extension of the loc...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 shifts attention from other health services
In a few days time, Langa Mthethwa will be due for a visit at Mpilo Central Hospital to get her Jadelle removed. The implant contraception has helped ensure she does not have unplanned pregnancies as ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
For country or love? Mangwana, Mthuli Ncube must put money where mouth is
Let's be honest, at law there is nothing wrong in individuals acquiring dual citizenships.Even the Zimbabwean constitution has not said anything untoward about multiple or dual citizenships ex...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:22hrs | 3254 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Registrar General suspended
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has suspended without salary and allowances Registrar-General Clemence Masango who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office as a public officer after he allege...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Judge raps arrested bigwigs
The High Court has castigated high-profile individuals facing corruption charges for abusing bail conditions, seeking passports for travel for medical or business reasons not revealed in the original ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt dismisses reports of mandatory 5-year ban on SA Returnees
The government has dismissed reports of a mandatory five-year-ban on all individuals returning from neighbouring South Africa.The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity ...Published: 12 May 2020 at 12:26hrs | 6138 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans detained at Beitbridge border
South African officials detained scores of Zimbabweans who were self-repatriating themselves from neighbouring South Africa. According to reports received on Sunday afternoon, several the trav...Published: 10 May 2020 at 21:07hrs | 4232 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Buyanga responds to the arrest of RG Masango
PRESS STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE ARREST OF REGISTRAR-GENERAL CLEMENT MASANGO AND ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MR FRANK BUYANGA SADIQIRegistrar-General Clement Masango was recently arrested and our cl...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1297 | by William Wilcock
Illegal Ghanaian immigrant jailed in Zimbabwe
A 38-YEAR-OLD Ghanaian national was sentenced to 5 months imprisonment by a Bindura magistrate Maria Msika on Friday for illegally staying in Zimbabwe.Homadi Martin Peniel pleaded guilty to th...Published: 09 May 2020 at 10:04hrs | 2817 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Buyanga says he never got preferential treatment
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED businessman, Frank Buyanga has denied receiving illegal assistance from the Registrar-General (RG) Clement Masango following allegations that he was issued with a passport for his s...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Man 'steals' R45 000 from car
A BULAWAYO man who has pending robbery and unlawful entry cases, has been re-arrested for allegedly stealing R45 000, US$800 and RTGS$800 from a parked car belonging to a local businessman before spee...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Homeless troop back to CBD
HOMELESS people in Bulawayo, who disappeared soon after the announcement of the total national lockdown on March 30, are back on the streets capitalising on the Government's decision to downgrade to l...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:28hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Sort out travel documents for those stuck in diaspora
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of the lockdown is a good thing to control the potential spread of coronavirus, I feel he should have announced contingency measures, especially with reg...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:52hrs | 760 | by Tafirenyika
Nguluvhe details Manama wartime recruitment
IN January 1977, the ring of a bell, usually alerting pupils at Manama High School in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, of the time to go to the dining hall for supper, signalled a new chapter for ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners in SA defy lockdown regulations...scramble for food parcels
Foreign nationals staying in Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion turned out in numbers on Saturday to queue for food parcels defying the mandatory social distance regulation. Gory still and moving ima...Published: 02 May 2020 at 14:50hrs | 2217 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Buyanga, Muteswa using courts as 'playground', says High Court judge
An exasperated judge on Thursday said he wished he could stop businessman Frank Buyanga and his ex-girlfriend Chantelle Mutesewa from using courts as a "playground" in their long, drawn-out child cust...Published: 02 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
Passport office to observe Covid-19 regulations
THE Department of the Registrar General has said once it resumes services, people will be served in batches according to their surnames as part of measures to avert the spread of Covid-19. In ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:52hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga a fugitive from justice, says Police chief
Frank Buyanga, who snatched his five-year-old son from his ex-girlfriend movie style last month, is now regarded as a fugitive from justice after fleeing the country with the boy, Police Commissioner-...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport seekers to be served in alphabetical order
The Registrar-General's Office will serve clients seeking non-urgent passports in alphabetical order using their surnames on specific days. Passport seekers with surnames between A-F will be s...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 5375 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean UK nurses top the covid-19 death statistics
Zimbabwe counts for over 30% of the total number of health workers who have died in the U.K. The minister of Health in the U.K. has said over a hundred health workers have died in the fron...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 09:22hrs | 6688 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
29 Zimbabweans die of Covid-19 in UK
At least 29 Zimbabweans living in Britain have died of Covid-19, mostly nurses and other medical staff, according to the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. The pandemic has so far killed at least&n...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son duped
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Tanaka Mnangagwa, reportedly lost US$1 500 to a bogus wedding garments supplier whom he had contracted to supply suits ahead of his wedding last year. Samso...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 3419 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to extend TIPs of foreign cars in line with visa extension
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will only extend Temporary Import Permits (TIPs) for foreign-registered vehicles, which entered the country before the ongoing lockdown guidelines in lin...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga challenges court order
Businessman Frank Buyanga, who was given 24 hours by the High Court to return his five-year-old child he forcibly took from the mother at Waterfalls Shopping Centre recently, Friday said he was filing...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 17:08hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga gets 24hr ultimatum
Frank Buyanga has been given up to 24 hours by the High Court to return his five-year-old child he forcibly took away at Waterfalls Shopping Centre recently. Failure by Buyanga to return the c...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:24hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga to return son to ex-girlfriend
The High Court on Thursday ordered millionaire businessman Frank Buyanga to return his five-year-old son to the boy's mother within 24 hours, or face contempt charges.Justice Jacob Manzunzu, w...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA begs to return home
Government has offered to assist more than 100 Zimbabweans in South Africa who now wish to return home as they are distressed and finding it difficult to make ends meet due to the national lockdown in...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
'We did not complain when our nationals where mistreated in Zim so you need to shut up when yours suffer,' China tells Zimbabwe
In a very ironical turn around Chinese are blaming foreigners for bringing Corona virus in China . In December 2019 Corona Virus reared it's ugly head in Wuhan. It ravaged the city killing ...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2404 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cape Town consulate rescues COVID-19-distressed Zimbabweans
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town, South Africa, is set to repatriate fellow countrymen based in the country who are finding the going tough owing to the extension of lockdown restrictions to fight ...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
South Africa and Zimbabwe should recognise border citizens
An article in the ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 14:31hrs | 1948 | by Adopted from article by Inocent Moyo
Botswana deports over 200 Zimbabweans
THE government of Botswana has in recent days deported 281 Zimbabweans illegally staying in the neighbouring country as part of its measures to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus.The 2...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Ronaldinho released from Paraguayan jail
Brazil football legend Ronaldinho has been freed from a Paraguayan jail after being held in custody for 32 days after he was caught attempting to enter the country with an altered passport.The...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 09:51hrs | 1993 | by Staff reporter
Jet carrying Frank Buyanga forced to reroute to Dubai by SA authorities
A jet carrying Frank Buyanga and his son was reportedly forced to reroute to Dubai on March 27 as South Africa gets tough on unauthorised flights.On March 27, a Dubai-registered chartered jet ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 12:20hrs | 5524 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mum over 'Italian national' turned back from OR Tambo
Zimbabwean officials were tight-lipped on Thursday after a charter aircraft originating from Harare was turned away by authorities at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa – exposing lapses...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 12:18hrs | 4469 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ probes charter plane incident
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is investigating reports that a private charter plane from Zimbabwe was on Wednesday turned away at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
10 Zimbabwean nationals arrested while travelling to PE farm for work
The fate of 10 undocumented Zimbabwean migrants, who were locked up in Graaff-Reinet, is in the hands of the department of home affairs.The Zimbabweans were en-route to Port Elizabeth when the...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 17:18hrs | 22735 | by Staff reporter
Flight from Zimbabwe turned back at OR Tambo airport
An Italian national carrying a South African passport was barred from entering South Africa on Wednesday afternoon when he arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on an unauthorised private chartere...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:14hrs | 5881 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1041 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Zimbabwe suspends issuance of travel documents, birth certificates
Cabinet on Tuesday suspended the issuance of travel documents, birth certificates and national identity cards during this period of coronavirus.It was agreed that only burial orders and death ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 12:43hrs | 2064 | by Staff reporter
Re-equipping hospitals a top priority, says Nigel Chanakira
Prominent banker Nigel Chanakira recently featured on the growing platform In Conversation with Trevor to share the story about his rise in the banking sector from working for the Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Police intensify blitz on Covid-19 defaulters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night raided beer halls in Harare's suburbs in enforcement of a government directive banning public gatherings of more than 50 people to mitigate the spr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Govt must address economic situation to stop illegal cross border - Mcijo
Former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Western Region Regional Officer Percy Mcijo has urged the government to address the economic situation in the country so as to curb the problem of illegal migr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 10:15hrs | 2200 | by Stephen Jakes
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