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'Mnangagwa still not safe'
Unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa deals with those who are out to destroy him his life will remain under constant threat, social and political analysts contend.The recent bomb attack in Bula...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Blast at Zanu-PF rally raises more questions than answers
QUESTIONS abound over the weekend explosion that rocked a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. For starters, the Zimbabwean police seem clueless about both the cause of the explosion and t...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Why this same Minister all the time?
Shall the President demonstrate to all and sundry that the war against corruption has no sacred cows, in earnest. Why should a single individual be allowed to denigrate and disrespect the whole ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 18:11hrs | | by Munyaradzi Mhaka
House-Kwasa King releases 'Edladleni' video
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean House-Kwasa hit-maker Zee Wengoma is set to release his first-ever video this week.The Plumtree-born singer revealed in an interview in Johannesburg that he was on th...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Mxolisi Ncube
ZBC unlikely to reform ahead of 2018 elections
As the 2018 watershed elections loom in the country, public broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) which enjoys a monopoly on the local airwaves has come under the spotlight as opposition...Published: 15 May 2017 at 17:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Unemployed youths turn to gambling as their main source of income
In difficult economic times some youths have turned to gambling as a way of life. When jobs are scarce, the risky business can be a lifeline.According to Radio VOP, some unemployed Bulaw...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 10:47hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zim opposition fiddling whilst country burns - what else, they are fiddler crabs
"Zim Opposition Fiddles While Zanu PF Burns" wrote Sij Ncube in Radio VOP. Sure enough, Zanu PF is imploding and the opposition has done nothing of note to show they are ready to form th...Published: 12 Feb 2016 at 13:48hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zee-Slizer combo produces scorcher
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean House-Kwasa singer, Zee Wengoma, recently collaborated with Botswana dance queen, Slizer to release a scorcher of a single track titled "Edladleni".The song, recorded...Published: 18 Jan 2016 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Mxolisi Ncube
$500 to have an intimate moment with Tsvangirai
Zimbabweans willing to share dinner and mingle with the country's former Prime Minister and main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will have to fork out $500 to enjoy such an intimate moment....Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZLHR concerned over rising harassment of journalists
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Communications and Marketing manager Kumbirai Mafunda has said his organisation is very much concerned over the increase in cases of journalists being harassed and ar...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 06:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Jarzin Man' to be buried in Bulawayo
Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) presenter, Lazarus Tembo who died in the United Kingdom will be buried in Bulawayo on a date still to be advised.His brother Million Tembo told R...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 19:59hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
'Surrender of Zimdollars instils confidence in sickly economy'
CASH-STRAPPED citizens have started trooping to banks to surrender the old Zimbabwe dollar rendered useless at the adoption of the multiple currency regime in February 2009, a development analysts say...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 16:36hrs | 1 | by Sij Ncube
Tsvangirai defaults on $60k bank loan, issued summons
Zimbabwe's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is currently locked in a legal battle with a local financial institution over a $60 000 loan.AfrAsia Bank recently issu...Published: 30 May 2015 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Rhodesian soldiers release videos showing raids on guerrilla camps
Pretoria - Some former members of the Rhodesian special forces who took part in daring cross border raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique towards the end of the liberation war have re...Published: 12 May 2015 at 15:21hrs | 45 | by Thabo Kunene
Tsvangirai sticks to election boycott decision
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned Zanu-PF against killing people as he advocated for the return of the missing pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara at a rally held at Mucheke Stadium on Saturday u...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland farm crisis could fuel violent conflicts
Zanu-PF is in a catch-22 situation in Matabeleland South over the intensification of farm seizures at its stronghold as party faithful vehemently resisting the take-over of prime land by President Rob...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 09:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No CSO propping up of Tsvangirai will change the fact that he is a failed leader
"MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai this week received a major boost in his bid to cajole the country's influential civil society community after they turned up for a key meeting where he appealed for sup...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 23:13hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Anti-Mugabe protests resumes
Zimbabwe's pro-democracy activists have resumed protests calling for the resignation of President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF administration for failing to remedy the country's political and eco...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 21:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T MP arrested for importing over 800 radios in 2010
Former Deputy Local Government minister and MDC-T MP for Gweru, Sessil Zvidzai, has been arrested and formally charged for unlawfully importing over 800 wind-up radio stations in 2010. Today the M...Published: 16 Aug 2014 at 20:32hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
'Radio VOP operations legal'
Privately-owned radio station Voice of the People (VOP) broadcasting into Zimbabwe was doing so legally according to Dutch law, the Netherlands envoy said yesterday.Gera Snelle, Netherlands Am...Published: 08 May 2014 at 12:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Police target Tsvangirai loyalists
Zimbabwean police have charged MDC-T youth leader James Chidhakwa with assaulting the opposition party's deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma as it emerged that a manhunt has been launched for...Published: 22 Feb 2014 at 18:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Police terror in Tsholotsho' story lands journalist in trouble
Zimbabwe police on Wednesday morning summoned Southern Eye journalist, Nqobani Ndlovu to Matabeleland North provincial police headquarters over a story he wrote titled "Police terror in Tsholotsh...Published: 19 Feb 2014 at 22:23hrs | 1 | by Farai Sibanda
'Only leadership renewal can save Zimbabwe'
Zanu-PF's economic blueprint will not help Zimbabwe come out of its current hardships unless the country's leadership is renewed, economic analyst Vince Musewe says.President Robert Mugabe's p...Published: 18 Dec 2013 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cash crunch forces Zanu-PF to reduce conference days
The ruling Zanu-PF party has been hit hard by the current cash crunch forcing it to reduce its national conference to two days.The Zanu-PF national conferences have in previous years been held...Published: 13 Dec 2013 at 18:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Goche issues ultimatum to union leaders over stalled salary negotiations
Zimbabwe's Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Nicholas Goche has given bickering government labour leaders a five-day ultimatum to put their house in order so as to expedite negotiatio...Published: 10 Dec 2013 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hunger kills more than 100 Zimbabwean inmates
More than 100 prisoners have died in detention in Zimbabwe's prisons since January owing to biting food shortages, it has emerged.Radio VOP understands that the country's prison inmates are su...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 02:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Exiled Zim media practitioners keen to return home
Exiled Zimbabwean media practitioners are keen to return home and set up their enterprises from home soil once the government creates a conducive operating environment.Speaking during a discu...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 14:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gideon Gono yanked to court over chicken debt
A business enterprise owned by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono has been hauled to court by a leading poultry producer after the company allegedly defaulted on paying for a consignm...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo does the unthinkable
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Jonathan Moyo, for long viewed as an enemy of the media, on Tuesday did the unthinkable.He walked calmly into the offices of the privately...Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ian Kay chased away from MDC-T meeting
Former MDC-T legislator Ian Kay was on Monday chased away from the party's district meeting as retribution for calling for leadership renewal within the Morgan Tsvangirai-led party.Last month...Published: 02 Oct 2013 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe chief suspended - report
Air Zimbabwe's acting chief executive officer Innocent Mavhunga has landed on a hard patch after being suspended from employment.Information stitched together by Radio VOP show that Mavhunga w...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 19:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku luring disgruntled MDC-T members to his party
Professor Lovemore Madhuku's National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) is reportedly luring disgruntled MDC-T members into a new political party which it intends to launch soon.The discontented ...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara 'might be given a ministerial position in Zanu-PF govt'- claims
Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and deposed MDC leader Professor Arthur Mutambara on Monday made his first public appearance in months after hibernating from the political radar at a national event boy...Published: 12 Aug 2013 at 22:36hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chombo hits out at police
Marian Chombo, the former Zanu-PF member and Zvimba North constituency aspiring candidate has accused the police of selectively applying the law by failing to arrest some Zanu-PF supporters, who are t...Published: 20 Jul 2013 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Criswell Chisango
Zanu-PF cannot stop the freedom train
"If you are a bully / I beg you look for me goodIf you are a bully, a folly, a bully / Treat ...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 05:26hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Police bans distributing of shortwave radios
Zimbabwe Republic Police on Tuesday threatened to arrest anyone found distributing or in possession of shortwave radios."We have information that some people or political parties are engaging...Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe readies for Airbus flights
AIR Zimbabwe has engaged South African Airways (SAA) to carry out some maintenance check on one of its Airbus aircraft as the airline readies itself to re-launch regional and international flights nex...Published: 20 Feb 2013 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'New charter no guarantee for free and fair elections'
The man in charge of leading the crafting of Zimbabwe's new constitution says a new bill of rights for the country alone is not enough to guarantee Zimbabwe a free and fair election.Eric Matin...Published: 15 Feb 2013 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zim rolls out ambitious plan, to take delivery of 2 new planes
ZIMBABWE's troubled state-run airline, Air Zimbabwe has rolled out an ambitious plan as it seeks to revive its fortunes following years of maladministration that at one time grounded the airline's air...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitution referendum expected in January
Zimbabwe is going to hold a referendum earliest in January 2013 as having it this year only applies theoretically, the constitutional parliament select committee has said.This comes after the ...Published: 24 Oct 2012 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ousted Canadian doctor refuses to go, seeks refuge at Canadian Embassy
The Canadian doctor, who was recently forced to leave his post as the resident doctor at the famous Salvation Army church owned Howard Hospital, is now resident inside the Canadian embassy in Harare, ...Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 06:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zim, Bots set to seal a P500 million deal
Harare - Zimbabwe and Botswana will on Monday sign a memorandum of agreement that will see Gaborone opening up 500 million pula in lines of credit to revive its neighbour's comatose industry, the Radi...Published: 01 Sep 2012 at 06:57hrs | | by Radio VOP
Zvenyika Makonese now a taxi rank marshal in SA - report
Former Warriors national team player, Zvenyika Makonese, is now a taxi rank marshal in South Africa after failing to attract a team to take him on board.The Sunday Sun claims Zvenyika's family...Published: 28 Aug 2012 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths launch blitz against gays
A hoard of Suspected Zanu-PF youths in Harare at an up market bar in the city centre Friday night brutalised four young men accusing them of practising homosexuality.It all started with the vi...Published: 27 Aug 2012 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU to support Zimbabwean gays
The European Union has pledged to give legal support to the vilified Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) which the Zimbabwean Police Thursday charged with "illegally" operating."As a matter o...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T admits that Zanu-PF is gaining ground
Despite vehement public denials by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party in the wake of the Freedom House survey which claimed the party had been upstage...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai ally's farm invaded by War vets
A group of Zanu-PF activists numbering about 200 on Thursday invaded a farm belonging to Norman Sachikonye, the principal director in the Prime Minister's Office and an aspiring MDC-T parliamentary ca...Published: 25 Aug 2012 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF welcomes survey, MDC-T dismisses it
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's formation of the Movement for Democratic Change has reacted angrily to an independent survey showing that its support has plummeted.The survey by Freedom Hou...Published: 23 Aug 2012 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T stunned by the 'Change and 'New' Politics in Zim - Survey Report 2012'
The Movement for Democratic Change has been stunned the Freedom House survey ...Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 15:18hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Man to be prosecuted for distributing materials that promote homosexuality
Zimbabwean police have moved close to prosecuting Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) director, Chesterfiled Samba, after they accused him of distributing materials that promote homosexuality....Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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