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Mnangagwa moves to pacify uniformed forces
THE setting up of shops with subsidised groceries for uniformed forces in their camps by the government are part of efforts to pacify them, analysts have said.This comes after Finance minister...Published: 2 hrs ago | 483 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants savage Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have not only rejected the government's plans to introduce a welfare fund- that will see them contributing 2,5 percent of their salary to this pot every month- they have also slammed Fi...Published: 2 hrs ago | 378 | by Staff reporter
AUDIO: Politicians engineering a split in GMAZ?
Unnamed politicians have been fingered in the recent spat between the Grain Millers of Zimbabwe and Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena pitting ZANU PF youth leader Davis Muh...Published: 5 hrs ago | 592 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC councils in stadium ban storm amidst abuse of office
The disqualification of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) to hold an AFCON qualifier match between Zimbabwe and Algeria has opened a can of worms within the MDC run urban Councils. Their ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 947 | by Tapiwa Mutonhodzi
Mthuli Ncube secretly printing money in Zimbabwe
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe have been secretly printing Zimbabwe Dollars the Financial Times has reported.Quotin...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2804 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harrison raises fitness concerns
HIGHLANDERS coach Mark Harrison will measure the strength of his squad ahead of the Castle Challenge Cup against FC Platinum next month, and the league with a planned friendly match against Black Rhin...Published: 11 hrs ago | 405 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi villagers face starvation
OVER 100 000 Nkayi villagers are facing starvation, a government official has said.Speaking to journalists during a tour, district development co-ordinator Matilda Mlothswa said Nkayi had been...Published: 11 hrs ago | 463 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso striker set for Chiefs move
FORMER FC Platinum and Highlanders striker Charles Sibanda is set to join Bulawayo Chiefs ahead of this year's Castle Lager Premier Soccer League if discussions between the two parties materialise by ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors bemoan health sector decay
THE Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) Mashonaland provincial chairperson, Edward Chagonda yesterday said poverty among health personnel was worsening with some government doctors and nurses no longe...Published: 11 hrs ago | 151 | by Staff reporter
'Parly fact finding mission expose GMAZ'
Discrepancies emerged during a fact-finding visit to millers by a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee yesterday.The Justice Mayor Wadyajena-led Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 324 | by Staff reporter
Malajila quits SA club
HE lasted just five months and Zimbabwean player Cuthbert Malajila has called it quits at South African second tier league side Black Leopards for reasons he says he will divulge soon. Malajil...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1093 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt has not brought desired change
THE Zimbabwean economy has been teetering on the edge of a crisis for the past 20 years, save for a brief interlude during the Government of National Unity (GNU) between 2009 and 2013.The econ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 661 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
Mrs Mnangagwa hands over grain to chiefs' spouses from Matabeleland and Midlands
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa on Thursday handed over a consignment of traditional grain to chiefs' spouses from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces, encouraging them to promote the eating of byproduct...Published: 13 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
Summer season time of plenty and little want
Summer is a season of plenty and 'abundant life' especially when rains are there to make the season complete. All crops in most places are 'very awake' and pointing to full granaries and stomachs. Fre...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:31hrs | 335 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mazowe Central MP implicated in GMAZ saga
Mazowe Central legislator Sydney Chidamba has been implicated in Grain Miller's Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) saga.Allegations are that Mashonaland Central Members of Parliament are sympathet...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 16:59hrs | 868 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Open letter to Tafadzwa Musarara
Their voices are loud, the theatrics are louder. The narrative is confusing, the narrative is confused.They say you took 27 million, they revise it to 26, they say no grain was imported, yet M...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1269 | by Peter Moyo
'ZESA committing genocide in Matobo' says Linda Masarira
LEAD Zimbabwe President Linda Masarira has taken ZESA head on over what she called systematic genocide through the continued lack of electricity in Matobo District. Masarira said the company was b...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Staff Monitored Programme off-track, says IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s economic supervised reform plan for Zimbabwe is off-track due to mixed policy implementation with the Bretton Woods institution imploring Harare to consider ask...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:12hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Govt to recapitalise Air Zimbabwe
Government will raise capital required for the operations of its 100 percent owned airline, Air Zimbabwe, after failing to secure a capable investor or strategic partner.As part of the plan by...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:08hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Mine shaft collapses 2 feared dead
Two artisanal miners are feared dead after a mine shaft they were working in collapsed on Tuesday morning in Shamva.The accident occurred at Lumbo18 Zuze Syndicate Mine.National Police...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 11:54hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Maize 'cartel boss' snubs Parly committee
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday snubbed the parliamentary portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture Water and Rural Resettlement when it visited hi...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 11:48hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
MDC raps govt for asking workers to subsidize the military
The MDC Secretary for Labour and Social Security Gideon Shoko has rapped the government for asking other civil servants to subsidise the military as if they are the only government employees affected ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 09:31hrs | 1075 | by Stephen Jakes
New-look Dembare excites Jaure
DYNAMOS defender Partson Jaure is excited with the display of vigour by the new-look side ahead of the start of the 2020 season and has compared it to that of the all-conquering squad that swept four ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:19hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Court reverses nurses recruitment ban
High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda has handed a lifeline to over 43 prospective nurses whose 2018 recruitment offer letters for admission to the Harare Central Hospital School of Nursing,...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Special tuckshops for Zimbabwean soldiers, cops
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government says it will set up subsidised grocery shops in army barracks to cushion restive members of the uniformed forces from the rising cost of living, but made no i...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Flash floods destroy $110 000 property
THE Bulawayo Fire Brigade has revealed that the flash floods that pounded the city on Sunday caused an estimated damage to property worth $110 000.Despite the heavy downpour, supply dams locat...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels critical despite inflows
BULAWAYO supply dam levels have gone up but remain critical despite recent rains received in the country over the past week. According to the statistics released by the Zimbabwe National Water...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
BCC, Zifa scramble to get BF ban lifted
ZIFA and Bulawayo City Council officials held a four-hour meeting in Bulawayo yesterday in the aftermath of the surprise ban of Barbourfields Stadium to host international matches by Caf. Zifa...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Businesswoman off the hook
BUSINESSWOMAN and Connect Water chief executive, Ms Smolly Moyo, who was facing allegations of duping a businessman of R290 000 has been freed. Moyo will only return to court by way of summons...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Algerian protest led to Barbourfields ban
THE Confederation of African Football banned Barbourfields from hosting international matches following complaints by Algerian officials that the stadium's dressing rooms were too small. The t...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:45hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays Eskom US$1m monthly
ENERGY and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has said Zimbabwe is paying nearly US$1 million towards clearing its debt to South Africa's State power utility, Eskom, and expects improved power s...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:45hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Parliament to follow up on RBZ funds
Parliament will follow up on all companies that received foreign currency from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to promote accountability and transparency. This came out yesterday when the L...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:44hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
A lesbian Zimbabwean's struggle for UK asylum
Angel fled Zimbabwe in fear of her life after police found her in bed with another woman five years ago. It's taken most of the time since then for her to convince the Home Office that she is gay and ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 18:05hrs | 1988 | by BBC
GMB, Musarara clash over 'missing' US$8 million
After months of continuous haggling, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) finally appeared in parliament on Tuesday along with Grain Marketing Board (GMB) officials. They appeared ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 16:41hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
NUST wins Local CFA Institute Research Challenge
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has won the local CFA Institute Research Challenge and advances to the next round where it will compete with universities from Europe, Middle E...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 15:32hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Gender activists bay for Wadyajena's blood
Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Justice Wadyajena has come under fire from gender activists who have accused him of using a sexist line of questioning when asking when interviewing the Grain Mil...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1215 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa must know that Zanu-PF is not God'
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he must know that his party Zanu PF is not God and Zimbabwe is cursed because of his hands that are dri...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1353 | by Stephen Jakes
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:28hrs | 713 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 13764 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into US$9m GMB saga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa have been sucked into a US$9 million saga for the rehabilitation of Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos fronted by millers, whi...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2794 | by Staff reporter
Job-seeking expedition ends in tragedy
A JOB-SEEKING expedition ended tragically for Uzumba twins after one of them drowned while crossing a flooded Nyaguwe River in a makeshift canoe.Twenty-six-year-old Lovemore Gunde's body was r...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:17hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Matutu,Tsenengamu await Mnangagwa intervention
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF youth leaders, who have been at the forefront of fighting corruption by exposing alleged cartel leaders, bleeding the country through their perceived corrupt actions, now await Presi...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$3bn to illicit financial flows
ZIMBABWE has lost over US$3 billion to illicit financial flows through tax evasion, smuggling, corruption, fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chai...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Calls to punish roller meal cartels soar
A cross-section of Zimbabweans has urged authorities to deal ruthlessly with those abusing taxpayers' money and depriving the market of subsidised commodities through hoarding or diversion to the blac...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
US$7bn loot stashed in foreign lands:, says ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) says it has identified over US$7 billion in cash and properties stashed outside the country by former and current senior Government officials and captain...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Maize cartel 'boss' fails to account for US$27 million in Pairliament?
The Herald Herald Correspondent GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Mr Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday failed to account for US$27 million which the association received from the Reserve...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa unsurping NPRC powers'
THE exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims should be overseen by the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and not the State which is a conflicted party, activists and analysts h...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:54hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says committed to reforms
Zimbabwe is committed to implementing political, economic and legislative reforms as part of efforts to escalate sustainable socio-economic development initiatives, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sa...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 20:52hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Book reveals Solomon Mujuru's dance with Bulawayo
The late former Zimbabwean army general and war hero Solomon Mujuru moved to Bulawayo at the age of 18 where he worked as a salesperson for tyre manufacturer Dunlop while he stayed at Mzilikazi suburb...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4502 | by Staff Reporter
Grain Millers bullied by ZANU PF MP
In an unprecedented move in legal circles, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Mayor Justice Wadyajena on Tuesday refused Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Chaiman Tafadzwa Musara...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 10:50hrs | 2258 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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