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'Mnangagwa in constitutional violation over security minister'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing criticism for allegedly violating the Constitution by failing to appoint a Minister of Intelligence, a key position mandated by Zimbabwe's supreme law. The accus...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:05hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP assaults church leader
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Zengeza East, Goodrich Chimbaira (37), and his three brothers—Phillip Chimbaira, Agrippa Shadreck Chimbaira (34), and Jericho Chimbaira (31)—have...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:28hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe High Court Judge faces scrutiny over lawsuit against CIMAS
Justice Phillipa Phillips-Sadza, appointed to the High Court bench in June this year, is embroiled in a legal dispute with CIMAS, a prominent medical aid society, over an alleged mishandling of her me...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:17hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's 250,000 stands projects raises alarm
A Harare-based liberal think tank, the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (Comaliso), has raised concerns over the feasibility of businessman Phillip Chiyangwa's ambitious 250,000 housing stan...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 10:59hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
White teachers at Pretoria High School don't greet black colleagues
A recent investigation commissioned by the Gauteng Education Department has uncovered discriminatory practices at Pretoria High School for Girls, where some white teachers reportedly fail to greet the...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 11:36hrs | 2010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in strategic retreat as Chiwenga faction blocks 2030
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly under intense pressure from Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and his military-backed faction within Zanu PF to abandon his aspirations for a third term an...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:57hrs | 5816 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety grips divided Zanu-PF
This week, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) will convene its annual conference in Bulawayo, facing a turbulent future marked by factionalism, a leadership crisis, and cont...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:13hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty
More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Churches should complement government policies: Arch-Bishop Pferedzai
Leader of ST Luke's Apostolic Ejiwel Jekenishen Church, Arch-Bishop Dr Phillip Pferedzai has urged churches to complement government efforts and policies for the country to fully realise the upper mid...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 19:54hrs | 217 | by Edson Mapani
Involve women in community development, churches urged
The St Luke's Apostolic Ejiwel Jekenishen Church leader, Arch-Bishop (Dr) Phillip Pferedzai has urged indigenous churches to ensure inclusivity of women and girls to complement development amongst com...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 10:03hrs | 88 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Chipinge
Women are architects of peace and conflict resolution; churches
Women have been commended for their role in ensuring sustainable peace and conflict resolution mechanisms amongst communities.Speaking during the official opening of St Luke's Apostolic Ejiwel...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 14:51hrs | 195 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Chipinge
High Court rescinds Assemblies of God default judgment
The High Court has overturned a default judgment that had been passed against leaders of the Assemblies of God - Spiritual Movement (AoG-SM), sparing them from eviction from their church premises in M...Published: 28 Sep 2024 at 12:11hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Young Warriors, Young Zebras draw
Zimbabwe Under-20 1 - 1 Botswana Under-20Zimbabwe's Under-20 football team, the Young Warriors, were left to rue missed opportunities and lapses in concentration as they drew 1-1 against Bot...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:15hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Religious tourism; Sanganai Hlanganani Expo decentralisation gain momentum
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed her commitment to engage [with church leaders], transform and empower indigenous churches through identifying and amplifying the...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 15:01hrs | 463 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Bulawayo
Molefe exposes Transnet's CEO
The role state capture has played in the current troubles facing Transnet was in dispute in Parliament on Tuesday as the state freight company's former CEO, now MK Party MP, Brian Molefe, challenged t...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 06:58hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa denies grabbing land, cites four court rulings
Dr. Phillip Chiyangwa, a prominent Harare businessman, has refuted allegations that he illegally seized land from JC Delonics, a Chinese-owned firm. The dispute centers around a property in Helensvale...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 16:07hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa allocated land meant for road, nothing will done to him
A commission investigating issues at the Harare City Council has been informed that controversial businessman Phillip Chiyangwa was allocated land in a prime suburb of the capital that was originally ...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:21hrs | 10352 | by Staff reporter
2 jailed for plotting armed robbery
Two men have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit an armed robbery, despite never physically carrying out the crime.Phillip Semba, 34, and Ralph Mavura, 39, were each handed five-...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:59hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Relief as High Court reverses Masvingo evictions
The High Court has overturned the conviction of 16 villagers who were previously found guilty of illegally occupying gazetted land in Masvingo. The original conviction, handed down b...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:13hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
Concerns rise over untreatable gonorrhoea as infections reach record levels in UK
Health experts in the United Kingdom have issued a stark warning about the growing threat of gonorrhoea becoming "untreatable" due to increasing antibiotic resistance. The sexually transmitted infecti...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 08:16hrs | 654 | by Staff Reporter
Harare-Mutare road accident kills 5
Five people were killed while four others were injured when a Ford Ranger collided head-on with a Honda Fit on the 53 km peg along the Harare-Mutare highway.The five who died were in the Honda...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:32hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa congratulates victorious Kagame
President Mnangagwa has congratulated Rwandan President Paul Kagame on his landslide re-election for a fourth term, securing over 99 percent of the vote. During the 377th Zanu-PF Politburo meeting in ...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:35hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa at Euro 2024 final in Berlin
Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and Cosafa president Phillip Chiyangwa is in Germany to watch the Euro 2024 final between Spain and England at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Invited by Uefa...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:41hrs | 4440 | by Staff reporter
VBS looter released on parole
Former VBS Mutual Bank's chief financial officer Phillip Truter was released on parole after he was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2020. Speaking to broadcaster Newzroom Afrika on Monday, De...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 11:57hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Phillip Chiyangwa at it again
Phillip Chiyangwa, known as Captain Fiasco, and his long-time fiancée Sarah Frankis, held a lavish wedding planned in just nine days. The event, orchestrated by Sarah’s sister Elaine Frankis, was a...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:40hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor denied bail
Seke Ward 11 councillor Patson Chipunza (Zanu-PF) appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Dennis Mangosi on charges of fraud related to the subdivision and sale of land belonging to the late form...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZINASU wants CVs of recently appointed Judges
The Zimbabwe National Students Union president, Allan Chipoyi, has issued an ultimatum to the Judicial Service Commission, demanding that they provide the CVs and scoresheets of the recently appointed...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 14:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fancy cars for Zimbabwe's recently appointed Judges
The new High Court judges President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed two weeks ago have just received new Land Rover Discovery cars.On 12 June, President Mnangagwa appointed former magistrates Fai...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 13:17hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor arrested for selling Amos Midzi's farm
A Chitungwiza councillor, Patson Chipunza, has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for allegedly subdividing and selling a portion of the late former Mines minister Amos Mi...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 17:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zim under Mnangagwa is now worse than Zuma's SA!
Who can forget the daily live broadcasts of the 'Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture' in neighboring South Africa?I, for one, made sure not to miss any of these hearings.Eac...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 15:13hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Increase in road accidents worries Bulawayo police
Police in Bulawayo have expressed alarm over an uptick in car accidents in the region following two recent incidents that resulted in fatalities. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncub...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:38hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
12 newly appointed judges sworn in
The justice delivery system in Zimbabwe is set to improve following the swearing-in of 12 High Court judges by Chief Justice Luke Malaba. The ceremony, held at the Constitutional Court in Hara...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rages at name-dropping Chivayo
Wicknell Chivayo, a controversial businessman, has recently come under scrutiny for leaked audio recordings in which he claims to have secured government tenders through his close relationship with Pr...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 15:01hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mpokiseng Dube appointed as High Court judge - Re a lebogisa
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has released the names of new judges following intense public interviews conducted last month and Mpokisengi Dube is among those appointed as a judge.Judg...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 07:12hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
11 new judges appointed
President Mnangagwa has appointed 10 new judges to the High Court and one to the Administrative Court, following public interviews conducted by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) last month. ...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
UNMASKED: Philippe Van Damme's gross exaggerations on Zimbabwe's hunger situation
Phillipe Van Damme, a former European Delegation country representative to Zimbabwe, has once again demonstrated his propensity for spreading misinformation. His recent claim on social media that ...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 12:36hrs | 26 | by Tonderai Ndoro
Newly promoted senior cops to be reshuffled
The 86 senior officers recently promoted within the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) are expected to be reassigned shortly. President Mnangagwa elevated these officers to ranks ranging from Chief Superi...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:26hrs | 45 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 86 senior police officers
President Mnangagwa has promptly promoted 86 senior officers of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to various ranks, spanning from Chief Superintendent to Commissioner.Among these promotions, ...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:46hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mteki approaches Mukanya over Chivayo lavish offer
African roots musician and sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki has approached Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo to reconsider businessman Wicknell Chivayo's pledge.Last month...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'ZiG difficult to accept in US$-dominated market'
RESPECTED businessman and economist Nigel Chanakira says acceptance of the new currency, Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), will be difficult given that the majority still prefer the greenback.The Reserve B...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZiG difficult to accept in US$-dominated market'
Businessman and economist Nigel Chanakira says acceptance of the new currency, Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), will be difficult given that the majority still prefer the greenback.The Reserve Bank of Zim...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo acquitted
FORMER Zimbabwe Football Association(ZIFA) president Felton Kamambo, who was accused of bribing his way to the presidency of the football motherbody, has been acquitted by the courts.Regional ...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's case is political'
Embattled former Speaker of Parliament has been released on R50,000 bail after she appeared before Magistrate Anna Oosthuizen in a packed Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Thursday morning.The St...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jekenishen church commended for transforming communities, complement govt
The Saint Luke's Apostolic Ejiwel Jekenishen church under Arch-bishop Dr Phillip Pferedzai has been commended for empowering less priviledged members of communities in and around Manicaland province, ...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 23:00hrs | 7 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Chipinge
Lawyer calls out corruption in Zimbabwe legal profession
SEASONED legal practitioner, Lloyd Mhishi, has condemned corruption in the legal profession in his latest book titled Being the Best Lawyer.The book was officially launched by Justice minister...Published: 26 Mar 2024 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife takes over Miss Universe Zimbabwe
MINIYOTHABO Baloyi-Chiwenga, the wife of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was announced as the new chairperson of the Miss Universe Zimbabwe.After a long hiatus from the international stage...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
3 more arrested over US$720 000 heist
Three more suspects involved in the US720 000 robbery, where a financial services company in Belgravia, Harare, was raided and lost over US$720 676, R10 500, Euro 120, a 7.65 mm CZ Vzor pistol and thr...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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