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In Zimbabwe, surviving means improvising, and some luck
In crisis-stricken Zimbabwe, where prices are soaring, the local dollar is plummeting and time is always short, even a trip to the gas station can be an adventure in the struggle to survive.Fi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 651 | by AFP
Chamisa, diplomats crank up pressure on Mnangagwa
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday pointed an accusing finger at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime following the abduction of the doctors' union president....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 2084 | by ZimLive
Man found dead in car
BULAWAYO residents yesterday discovered a dead man inside a locked car in the central business district, in a suspected murder case.The man's trousers were unzipped and his head was wounded....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1231 | by Staff reporter
Govt secures number plates
Government is set to receive 20 000 number plates for trucks and trailers at the end of the month, while other plates which are not for public service vehicles are now available, Government has said. ...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Cops raid, steal US$41,000 from realtor
TWO serving members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court on Friday facing theft charges after they allegedly raided a project manager of an infrastructure developm...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
A history of abductions, assassinations in Zimbabwe
October 15, 1975: Edson Sithole and his secretary Miriam Mhlanga were grabbed by unknown assailants, bundled into a car and were never seen again. A few weeks earlier, Sithole had fallen out with othe...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1500 | by Staff reporter
From the 404 to the Honda Fit
"KIDNAP, robbery and near rape", the newspaper headline screamed on 22 August. "Honda Fit Crew robs osiphatheleni," our sister paper The Chronicle's headline read on 27 August. In the ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:48hrs | 362 | by Bruce Ndlovu
Pair steals US$2 300 from cars
TWO men from Bulawayo have appeared in court for allegedly stealing more than US$2 300 and other valuables from two motor vehicles in the Central Business District. Valet Nyoni (27) from Mzili...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:04hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists, family members brutalised in midnight raids
Fears are mounting over the safety of opposition activists, following abductions of members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a night raid allegedly by armed gunmen in Bulawayo last week....Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fears Sudan-style protests will rock Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S deep-seated fears of massive Sundanese-style protests over the deteriorating political and economic emergency have been exposed after it moved yesterday to block mass demonstrations calle...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:58hrs | 2468 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must ignore Chamisa's calls for anarchy
TODAY is the day for peace-loving and patriotic Zimbabweans to shame merchants of violence by ignoring calls for violent demonstrations by the Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance whose agenda is to try...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:00hrs | 287 | by Editorial - Chronicle
'Police unearth MDC plot to commit violence'
Zimbabwe police say they have gathered intelligence that the MDC Alliance wants to unleash violence when they take to the streets in their anti President Emmerson Mnangagwa demonstrations.In a...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 10:00hrs | 4375 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in new wave of price increases
ZIMBABWE is witnessing another wave of massive price increases, following the presentation of the 2019 mid-term fiscal policy review, which are further decimating citizens' incomes.In the mid-...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
Heroes' Day eclipsed by new lows
It is sad that the relevance of Heroes' Day has been obliterated by the new levels of suffering going on in Zimbabwe.It seems incomprehensible that any other matter can overshadow the levels o...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 647 | by Learnmore Zuze
Mnangagwa unleashes CIOs on 'coup plotter'?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is accused of sending members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation to terrorise the family of Sitabile Dewa who is accused of plotting to illegally remove the ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 09:32hrs | 18298 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beitbridge border post toll fees hiked, paid in forex only
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday gazetted Statutory Instrument 174 of 2019 gazetting new toll fees for Beitbridge Tolling Regulations tha...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 17:47hrs | 10415 | by Staff reporter
Toll gate fees go up
GOVERNMENT yesterday increased toll gate and vehicle registration fees in response to increasing costs for road construction and rehabilitation. The funds that are collected from toll gates an...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:55hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
'Tollgate fees hike unconstitutional'
THE steep hike in tollgate fees by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is unconstitutional and legislators must unanimously block the move, a top MDC official has said.Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:18hrs | 2748 | by Staff reporter
Prices of goods set to skyrocket
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday announced a three-fold increase in electricity tariffs and raised tax on fuel imports in addition to raising the cost of obtaining government services in a midt...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | 4589 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube piles more misery
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday announced a three-fold increase in electricity tariffs and raised tax on fuel imports in addition to raising the cost of obtaining government services in a midt...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1861 | by Staff reporter
Professor Madhuku, Advocate Mpofu square off over Mupfumira bail refusal
Lawyers Professor Lovemore Madhuku and Advocate Thabani Mpofu have differed sharply about the application of Section 32 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act by a court on Saturday to further det...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 19:23hrs | 15316 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwean brothers bound, tortured and killed in South Africa
Two brothers from a Bulawayo crime family are being buried on Sunday after they were tortured across several days, killed and their bodies dumped on a farm in South Africa.Sydney and Addmore G...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1635 | by ZimLive
Bribes for passports as crisis worsens
Desperate Zimbabweans are parting with huge sums of money to pay bribes in order to obtain passports amid reports that applicants are being told to wait until 2022.The Registrar General's offi...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:44hrs | 1775 | by Staff reporter
Bribery allegations rock RG's office as passport crisis deepens
Zimbabweans are allegedly paying as much as US$400 to obtain passports, as officials at the Registrar General's office cash in on a crisis that has seen production of the travel document coming to a v...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 19:32hrs | 2010 | by Judith Sibanda
Mnangagwa in silent judicial revolution
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is a man on a mission — changing the judicial landscape as much and as quickly as he can. The changes are coming at an alarming pace, but Zimbabweans are too preoccupied...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1407 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Evidence-swallowing cop loses appeal
THE High Court has dismissed an appeal against conviction by a traffic policeman who under-receipted a fine paid by a tourist and later swallowed the doctored traffic ticket to conceal the evidence af...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
SA cops gun down armed Zimbabweans
TWO suspected armed robbers from St Joseph, Matabeleland South and another robber yet to be identified, were shot dead by South African Police who intercepted a cash-in-transit heist on Tuesday mornin...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
Cop robs miners
A GWANDA-based police officer allegedly teamed up with eight accomplices to attack a group of artisanal miners and rob them of one tonne of gold ore. Ray Moyo (30), who is based at the ZRP Mat...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
7 Zimbabwean teens living under a tree in SA
THEY say they have been living off food scraps in a nearby municipal bin, and it's actually been sustaining them.Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a big tree near Shoprite in L...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 11:55hrs | 3988 | by GroundUp
WATCH: Fake Zim Dollar video goes viral
A video of some foreign nationals in possession of some gold platted Zimbabwean dollars has gone viral on the internet. The video shows the men entering a room and they speak to each other bef...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 18:47hrs | 7945 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Another soldier in the suspected armed robbery nabbed
Another member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) who was part of the alleged armed soldiers who pounced on Ocelia mine in Concession last week has been nabbed after being implicated by their injured...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2604 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chihuri nailed in funds abuse
FORMER police Commissioner-General, Augustine Chihuri, allegedly stole the number plates of a broken down Mercedes Benz belonging to the Zimbabwe Republic Police which he used to fraudulently get the ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 01:20hrs | 3511 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faces culpable homicide charges
CONTROVERSIAL Harare preacher Talent Chiwenga is likely to face culpable homicide charges after the car he was driving from South Africa was involved in an accident killing three people including his ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 21:41hrs | 6380 | by Staff reporter
ZRP impounds 5 000 unregistered vehicles
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has impounded 5 000 unregistered vehicles since January this year as part of its ongoing crackdown on unregistered vehicles.Registration of vehicles and disp...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:28hrs | 2231 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire attacks Chiwenga
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has blasted controversial preacher Apostle Chiwenga over his claims that the accident that befell him was an assassination attempt.Chiwe...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 17:27hrs | 7611 | by Mandla Ndlovu
JUST IN: Apostle Chiwenga speaks out...says it was an assasination
Controversial preacher Apostle Chiwenga has released a video from the hospital bed amidst rumours that he had passed on. Chiwenga who was involved in an accident which claimed his wife a...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 14:46hrs | 24581 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Director's Life in grave danger: Q & A Interview
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) has had contact with the Director of the Dr Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation who is now in hiding and fears for his life. We put to him a co...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 16:46hrs | 1028 | by Thembani Dube
Suspected CIOs besiege Dabengwa Foundation offices
Suspected members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation on Tuesday descended at the Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation offices with an aim to intimidate the staffers. One of the staffers sa...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 12:22hrs | 4925 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Police, robbers in high speed chase
THERE was drama in Bulawayo central business district last week when police engaged in a high speed chase with robbers, who had broken into a car and stolen a purse.Several motorists joined in...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2377 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani dam completion set for 2020
Forget that Matabeleland North province sticks out as the only province out of the 10 that is yet to have a provincial hospital.That the Government composite building is yet to be completed an...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 11:27hrs | 1843 | by ViewFromMatopos
Fuel firms to lose licences
Mystery surrounds the distribution of fuel in Zimbabwe after authorities have established that while enough money has been availed for players to procure the product, it has not been channelled to the...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim compensated 9 years on
A HARARE man, who was shot several times on both legs by the police in a case of mistaken identity during an investigation into the theft of a motor vehicle in 2010, has finally been paid ZWL$21 000 i...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
'Arrest Nelson Chamisa' says ZANU PF Youth
A ZANU PF Youth activist Kudzai Mutisi has called upon the Zimbabwe Republic Police to arrest MDC leader Nelson Chamisa for driving around in a car that has no number plates. Said Mutisi, "Cha...Published: 20 May 2019 at 17:12hrs | 7998 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EXTRACT: The men who helped Chiwenga to execute the coup
Two Weeks in November by Douglas Rodgers is the thrilling story of a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixe...Published: 20 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 16251 | by Douglas Rodgers
Nature and function of 'Alien Spirits' in the Shona/Ndebele traditional religion
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion.The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 727 | by Brian Maregedze
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, diviniti...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2732 | by Brian Maregedze
Zinara bosses resign, 19 employees arrested
Zinara's acting chief executive officer Ms Mathlene Mujokoro and audit manager Mr Shadreck Matengabadza have resigned, while 19 employees have been arrested for fraud cases involving more than US$210 ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2395 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers arrested through forensic evidence
An armed robber was recently arrested after police officers found two spent cartridges and a stolen radio at a crime scene, where a motorist was attacked in Bulawayo.This was heard when Christ...Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1247 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe: Mazowe villagers threatened with eviction
Settlers at a farm in Mazowe, once claimed by former first lady Grace Mugabe, say there are fresh moves to remove them from the property, a few years after they won the right to remain at their homes....Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:35hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
A Squirrel Wedding Party, As the MDC's Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) Makes No Show?
The originally proposed Internal Independent Electoral Commission(IIEC) by the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC), as it geared itself to hold its electoral congresses in 2019 had been hailed a...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:20hrs | 1197 | by Nhlanhla Moses
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