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US$ prices must come with US$ salaries, says MDC Alliance
THE main opposition MDC Alliance has blasted government for its decision to price passport fees in United States dollars at a time when workers in the country earn measly amounts in local currency....Published: 4 hrs ago | 405 | by Staff reporter
Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3728 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
British citizen bashed by police in Zimbabwe
A HARARE-BASED British citizen on Saturday night came face-to-face with local police brutality when he was assaulted while in Warren Park to drop off his auto-electrician in the suburb.Kireto ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2116 | by Staff reporter
Caps United make new signing
AFTER losing Wallace Magalane to FC Platinum, Caps United have pinned down rookie goalkeeper Spencer Ngwerume. Magalane returned to FC Platinum early this year following the reappointment of N...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Fake stamps syndicate man fined $100,000
A 44-year-old Beitbridge man who is part of a syndicate using fake customs and immigration stamps to illegally clear travellers and goods at the country's port of entry has been fined $100 000 by a Be...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:03hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Woman loses US$90 000 to lover
A UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean woman lost US$88 000 to her lover who allegedly duped her on the pretext that he was investing the money in some businesses in the country. Joseph Tapfu...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 06:59hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
Improve mobile phone network connectivity, says Chiwenga
MOBILE phone operators have been called upon to play their part in ensuring network connectivity in the country so as to bring inclusivity to the previously marginalised communities.Speaking a...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:42hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Galloway confident of Warriors call
ENGLAND-based defender Brendan Galloway might have missed Zimbabwe's Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers but he remains optimistic he will gatecrash into the Warriors party at the tournament in Cameroon ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:40hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Council boss remanded in custody for bail ruling
Harare City Council director of works Zvenyika Chawatama appeared in court yesterday for the second time in a week charged with fraud after he allegedly appointed himself town clerk.He was rem...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:25hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Passport office turns away hundreds
POLICE in Bulawayo on Tuesday turned away hundreds of people who had thronged the Registrars General's Office for the application and collection of passports defying Covid-19 regulations. As a...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:34hrs | 2129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect
United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to all...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt increases passport fees
GOVERNMENT has increased passport fees and those applying for the travel document will pay in United States dollars to mobilise enough resources to clear the 256 000 backlog.In a post-Cabinet ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:50hrs | 3133 | by Staff reporter
Passport fees reviewed
Government yesterday marginally reviewed upwards, application fees for ordinary passports and approved the release by Treasury of US$4,5 million to boost the production cycle of passports and clear a ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:41hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
PJ Moor off to Ireland
Cricket Ireland yesterday confirmed that Zimbabwe international wicketkeeper-batter Peter "PJ" Moor will play club cricket in Ireland this summer, and has agreed to join the Munster Reds inter-provinc...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance's Marova trip to Liberia flops
MDC-Alliance activist Netsai Marova, who is facing a number of criminal charges at the Harare Magistrates Court including making a false report about her alleged abduction, yesterday could not get her...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:47hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Accused gold smuggler Rushwaya wants bail terms varied
Accused gold smuggler Henrietta Rushwaya yesterday said she will apply for a relaxation of her bail conditions on her next court appearance, although no details of the desired variation were given. ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:46hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Birth certificates nightmare for Covid-19 era babies
CHILDREN who were born from March last year to date are reportedly not captured in the national registry as most of them have failed to acquire birth certificates, Sunday News has established....Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Passport lands duo in custody
TWO people suspected to be part of a syndicate fleecing desperate passport seekers at the Registrar-General's office by soliciting bribes for quick release of the travel document have been denied bail...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:50hrs | 2563 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Embassy opens up more consular services in SA
The Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa has opened more consular services in line with the new Covid-19 regulations under the lockdown level one in that country.The Consul-General to Johannesburg...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:55hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
NetOne CEO's passport temporarily released
Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has temporarily released the passport of NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje to allow him to go for business trips.Muchenje, who was recen...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 18:40hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Passport office employee in court for bribery
AN employee at the Registrar-General's Office in Harare appeared in court yesterday for criminal abuse of office after she allegedly demanded a bribe from a passport applicant.Prisca Moyo (46)...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | 2627 | by Staff reporter
Govt frets over Easter holidays
AUTHORITIES and medical experts are worried about gatherings during the upcoming Easter holidays, amid fears that these could trigger a local third wave of the lethal coronavirus.The concerns ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 404 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe to issue Covid-19 'passport'
ZIMBABWE will be among the first countries in the world to issue out Covid-19 certificates that will be linked to the person's passport and National Identify Document.The certificate will also...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
No vaccination certificate, no drink at the pub
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggested this week that some pubs might require customers to produce vaccine certificates, an idea that he had previously deemed unlikely. Almost 29 milli...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 08:37hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on deaths of fellow generals
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga says he feels hurt after losing his fellow former military generals, Perrance Shiri, Sibusiso Moyo and Paradzai Zimondi describing them as "great friends."A...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 7815 | by Staff reporter
Vaccine certificate will soon be a passport, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga warned yesterday that government could soon be forced to make the COVID-19 vaccination certificate a prerequisite for public services if citizen...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 06:00hrs | 4808 | by Staff reporter
118 MDC MPs face Parly sanctions
The 118 sitting and former MDC Members of Parliament and senators who sang, remained seated or walked out when President Mnangagwa came to Parliament on five formal occasions should be found in contem...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:29hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife likely to abscond trial, says court
THE Supreme Court has thrown out Marry Mubaiwa's application to get her passport back to travel to South Africa for medical treatment, saying she is likely to abscond trial.Mubaiwa is facing m...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 12:22hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Danger lurking at passport offices
HORDES of people have resumed camping outside the capital's passport offices, raising the spectre of coronavirus infections, as standard health protocols are not being strictly observed.Since ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:17hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Man runs bogus immigration office at the border
A 44-year-old man believed to be part of a syndicate running a bogus immigration office in Beitbridge was early this morning arrested by border officials during a sting operation.Thomas Chidza...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 16:05hrs | 2299 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis cripples RG's office
THE Registrar-General's Office in Bindura has not been processing passports, birth certificates and identity cards after failing to purchase pre-paid electricity tokens for several months.Prov...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:03hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Manager uses Zesa employee as domestic worker
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) last week arrested suspended Zesa southern region manager King Dube on allegations of using one of the power utility's employees as his domestic worker, ...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
Registrar's office fails to pay electricity bill
BINDURA registrar's office has failed to pay electricity prepaid tokens for several months thereby muzzling the whole system.Sources who spoke to Bulawayo24.com said the office has been runnin...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 15:47hrs | 439 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Where is Dr. Masimba Mavaza? A story worthy-Amai Merry Chiwenga is left in the mud and mire
This is exactly what we mean when we say tribalism is giving a bad smell at every corner of Zimbabwe. Tribalism is raw and present, not even possible to conceal it because it appears to be the lifelin...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2921 | by Nomazulu Thata
POLAD's opportunism and greed exposes a poverty-stricken nation whose leaders are so hungry would sleep with the devil for a pla
In some of my articles, I have usually expressed how I had been shocked by something that would had occured, but this time around, what I have just come from reading did not shock me at all - rather, ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 10:02hrs | 1555 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's Polad allies 'greed' exposed
LEADERS of fringe political parties that are part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's preferred dialogue platform are making extravagant demands such as diplomatic passports and farms as rewards for the...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | 3310 | by Staff reporter
Passports hoax triggers panic
THE government has described messages circulating on social media claiming that passports for people that applied for the travel document in 2019 are now ready for collection as a hoax.A messa...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3653 | by Staff reporter
RG's office dismisses fake passport news
THE Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has dismissed as fake news, reports circulating on social media advising people who applied for passports from February 2019 that their travel docume...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel earmarked for Goodwill Ambassador post
EVANGELICAL preacher, Prophet Uebert Angel, will be appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Zimbabwe contrary to widespread reports that he has been appointed to serve as an envoy in one of the coun...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Govt dismisses 'mischief' hoax note claiming passports ready for collection
THE government has dismissed as false and "mischief" a message circulating on social media platforms that people who applied for passports between 2019 and 2020 can collect their travel documents star...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 20:45hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Private players will open path for counterfeit vaccines
Counterfeit drugs are a menace and a definite threat to global peace and stability. Inert drugs are being peddled on the drug market to an unassuming market with dire consequences. Entire communities ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 190 | by Sapien Sapien
Guards break into gold miner's home, steal passport
TWO private security guards have been arrested after they allegedly broke into gold miner and clergyman, Mathias Madziwanzira's Ruwa home at the weekend, where they stole goods valued at $670 565, a p...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:09hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo passport backlog reduced, 2019 passports now ready for collection
THE Registrar General's (RG's) Office in Bulawayo has said citizens who applied for passports before end of February 2019 should collect their travelling documents as they are now ready. The R...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Council finance director still on the run
Harare City Council's acting finance director, Stanley Ndemera who is wanted by Police and the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on allegations of criminal inquiries relating to land allocation and ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Ali Mohammad gets passport back
PAKISTANI business tycoon, Ali Mohammad, accused of attempting to smuggle gold out of the country along with Henrietta Rushwaya and three others, today temporarily got his passport back to allow him t...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 18:29hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1835 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga is abusing state power, says estranged wife
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's three minor children are now in the care of maids after he shut his estranged wife Marry out of their lives, The NewsHawks reported.Marry revealed in an i...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 07:56hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Passport dilemma not pulling 'The Bulawayo Bomber' down
DESPITE delays in getting a new passport, South Africa-based heavyweight boxer Elvis Moyo is stepping up preparations for his March 26 non-title bout in Tanzania. Moyo has less than two weeks ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
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