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Zanu-PF hails SA envoys
THE visit to Zimbabwe by three South African envoys helped put to rest social media propaganda from the country's detractors that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr...Published: 5 hrs ago | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at crossroads - The new Zimbabwe we crave for
An attempt to build one nationalist liberation movement failed in the 1960s when most of the nationalists of Shona extraction split from Zapu to form a pro-Shona Zanu which was largely mobilised...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1766 | by Hon Lovemore Moyo
Mnangagwa trashes govt critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday lashed out at government critics, describing them as "renegades" bent on derailing the country's economic recovery, the Daily News reports. Addressing the nation...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:59hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa fights to end Zimbabwe's political crisis
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's special envoys arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday and immediately went to work - meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country.Interesti...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
Illegal compensation of stolen Zimbabwe assets to white farmers
Good day Mr EditorI would like to publish my opinion /article concerning the above issue in your paper Bulawayo24 with your permission.The compensation deal that was signed between Zan...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 380 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Mnangagwa to cooperate with SA's envoys
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa conferred with President Emmerson Mnangagwa before he appointed his two special envoys to Zimbabwe last week - amid allegations of human rights violations in the country - it...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 2129 | by Staff reporter
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 261 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe intervention gets off to rocky start
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's cautious intervention in the current Zimbabwean crisis has got off to a rocky start, with the opposition warning yesterday that they will not be railroaded to accept any de...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 20:37hrs | 12752 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party corners Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni
Controversial Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni has received a letter from Zimbabwe Communist party requesting him to publicly publish a paper trail relating to his 4 287 square metres ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2085 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Renewed push for reforms
NATIONAL Convergence Platform (NCP), a group of churches, civil society organisations, diaspora networks and businesses are pushing for political reforms to be implemented by President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:11hrs | 1164 | by Victor Bhoroma
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3832 | by Staff reporter
Charge against Mphoko vague and embarrassing, says Magistrate
A HARARE magistrate has ruled that charges levelled against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko are vague and embarrassing.Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges, where he alle...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:27hrs | 6213 | by Staff reporter
'US sanctions on Tagwirei wrong and devoid of logic'
The imposition of sanctions on Sakunda Holdings and its chief executive, Mr Kuda Tagwirei, by the United States yesterday is wrong and devoid of logic, but will not affect the ongoing re-engagement dr...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1271 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4100 | by US Treasury
Jonathan Moyo attacks VP Chiwenga for being appointed minister of health.
Jonathan Moyo mocks the Vice President Chiwenga. In a Twitter trail Jonathan Moyo was asked to give his wisdom and comment on the appointment of Chiwenga as the minister of Health. Moyo responded and ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5822 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo police recover dumped, mutilated foetus
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a mutilated newborn baby that was dumped at a house in Barbourfields last week.Provincial spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Ba...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
NRZ finally cancels DIDG tender
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe has finally cancelled the US$400 million recapitalisation tender that had been awarded to the Diaspora Infrastructural Development Group (DIDG) in partnership with So...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1304 | by Staff reporter
NRZ top managers fired
THE Martin Dinha-led National railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board has fired the parastatal's management for alleged gross incompetence, mismanagement, and failure to turn around the fortunes of the compa...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 3323 | by Staff reporter
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7533 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Tajamuka/Sesjikile leader explains no-show at #31July protests
#TAJAMUKA/SESJIKILE leader Promise Mkwananzi has claimed most organisers of last Friday's anti-corruption protests decided to go into hiding as a plan of action, and not derail their growing fight aga...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
MDC supporters under siege in Harare South
MDC Alliance members in Harare South yesterday came under attack from Zanu-PF youths, the second time inside a week, with their buildings being destroyed.Youths led by Zanu-PF district secreta...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, soldiers unleash terror
ZANU-PF youths led by Harare district secretary for transport Nicholas Hamadziripi yesterday unleashed violence, beating up MDC Alliance members, breaking water taps, uprooting fence poles and torchin...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:05hrs | 2649 | by Staff reporter
'Mthwakazi nation, not mourning the Zimbabwean terrorist Perrence Shiri'
Today Zimbabwe happens to be grieving after the sudden death through the deadly Corona Virus, of the so-called "Black Jesus" of the 1980s. A self-proclaimed 'Jesus' figure during the 5th brigade opera...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 2782 | by Velile D Moyo
New Twist to Frank Buyanga's Child custody court case
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's son was being physically abused by his maternal grandmother, the Sandton based businessman has revealed. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Buyanga said he reported the matt...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:22hrs | 1410 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Give us our daily bread: Giving thanks
Today I woke up thinking of a certain event that touched my heart a few years ago. This is a true story, and I believe the person concerned would find no qualms in me sharing the story. This is a stor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:30hrs | 461 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord, Johannesburg
'Mthuli Ncube cannot revive the economy within a few years'
Zanu-PF Politburo member, Tshinga Dube, has said Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, cannot revive Zimbabwe's economy, which has been mismanaged for 40 years in just a f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 2815 | by Staff reporter
Vapostori tells Chamisa to accept defeat, move on
APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) President Johannes Ndanga said it was high time opposition party leaders accepted the 2018 election's defeat and stopped fighting the government for the ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 3702 | by Staff reporter
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF brands US ambassador Nichols a 'thug'
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday threatened the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe with expulsion, accusing him of "coordinating violence" ahead of planned anti-government protests on July ...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:30hrs | 2092 | by Staff reporter
NRZ expects to fail to achieve target again
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will for the second consecutive year likely miss its annual freight movement target largely owing to the impact of Covid-19.NRZ public relations manager...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Concern raised over corpses smuggling
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over reports that bodies of Zimbabweans who could have died from Covid-19 in neighbouring countries are being smuggled into the country, saying that could be a source ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
America should stop lecturing Zimbabwe
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is behaving like a demigod. He is indeed way out of order and lost because he has removed his diplomatic robes and stepped into the local political a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1618 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Accident leaves one dead
A passenger died on the spot while the driver was critically injured when a blue Toyota Mark X they were travelling in rammed the back of a haulage truck about 3 km outside Gweru along the Gweru-Kwekw...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:12hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
BCC warns against smuggling of corpses
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned residents against smuggling groceries into the country following reports that omalayitsha (cross-border transporters) were either sneaking in corpses with basic ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew has little to do with coronavirus pandemic
THE government's critics accused authorities yesterday of allegedly hiding behind the soaring coronavirus infections in the country to trample on people's freedoms, after President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:16hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni in dire straits
AUTHORITIES at Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo are struggling to raise the US$3,4 million required to upgrade the facility to enable it to cater for COVID-19 patients.Authorities said the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:29hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, war vets warn instigators
ZANU-PF and veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle yesterday warned opposition parties that are working in connivance with some Western embassies to subvert the will of the people through illegal ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:16hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
'No freebies under Mnangagwa regime'
Mechanisation and irrigation projects initiated by Government are not for free and beneficiaries will be expected to pay back loans, with all loans being issued through banks using banking criteria of...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:57hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe health system too frail to fight Covid-19
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnagagwa Monday admitted the country lacked capacity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic due to its poor health systems.He was speaking while receiving a donation for Personal Pr...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 08:57hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Key aspects sinking the Zimbabwean Dollar
The Zimbabwean economy is rapidly re-dollarizing, less than 12 months after the government banned the trading of multiple currencies through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 and introduced a local cur...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 3290 | by Victor Bhoroma
31 July protest organisers being stalked by CIOs
ORGANISERS of the July 31 anti-corruption march yesterday alleged harassment by suspected State security agents in a bid to stop the planned nationwide protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3739 | by Staff reporter
FNB Botswana, STOP leaking your client's information!!
Dear Tebogo, Batsaakane,As requested several times, can you kindly do not leak your customer's transactional information to strangers. I have requested you to stop it several times but it look...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:45hrs | 107 | by None FNB Client
Mnangagwa warns NGOs
President Mnangagwa has warned rogue non-governmental organisations (NGOs), trade unions, churches and some foreign embassies against destabilising prevailing peace, unity and harmony through dabbling...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
NRZ splurges US$319K on vehicles
THE state-owned National Railways of Zimbabwe has spent more than US$319 000 on six luxury cars for top managers, amid allegations the money was diverted from a purse meant for the refurbishment of lo...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Japan launches Chamisa's bullet train
A NEW bullet train has entered service in Japan that's the country's fastest, smoothest, most comfortable and safest yet it's able to "escape" to safety in the event of an earthquake.The N700S...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:14hrs | 5483 | by Staff reporter
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2655 | by The Big Interview
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11722 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC houses, motorbikes and cars missing
TOP MDC Alliance officials (names supplied) used their positions to strip the troubled opposition party of assets that include houses, vehicles as well as lining their pockets with donor and public fu...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:21hrs | 2390 | by Staff reporter
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