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Chamisa falls in Marondera
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance candidate for Marondera mayoral elections, Bornface Tagwireyi, was yesterday defeated by MDCT candidate Simbarashe Nyahuye in a tight contest held at council chambers.N...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 13068 | by Staff reporter
'Worn out US dollar notes notes acceptable'
BADLY damaged, dirty or even torn United States dollar notes remain valid for all transactions and can be exchanged as legal tender. This comes as some businesses and individuals have been rej...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1615 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'it's game on'
UNDER-FIRE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unfazed by the relentless attacks from fellow opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and the ruling Zanu-PF party, declaring his pa...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 10833 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets Chamisa-led councils
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to unleash the Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) to sniff out corrupt elements in all councils led by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance.But crit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2079 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist eviction for city expansion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and Masvingo district development co-ordinator (DCC) Ray Hove was on Saturday reportedly booed by over 300 resettled farmers who refused to be forcibly evicted from...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 2544 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe crisis man-made'
OUTSPOKEN cleric and one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top advisers, Shingi Munyeza, yesterday said the country's crisis was man-made, and mainly centred on unresolved succession matrix.In...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Zacc quiz mayor, BCC bosses - Town Clerk refuses to comment
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quizzed Bulawayo City Council managers and the Mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni as it probes alleged corruption in the sale of stands as well as in pro...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unpacks hemp/ mbanje growing regulations
It is now legal to grow, process and sell mbanje in Zimbabwe, but this does not mean throwing a few seeds in your backyard and waiting for a crop: There is a 32-page statutory instrument giving the ru...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
No more singing in Zimbabwe Parliament
PARLIAMENT has enacted a new rule which bans legislators from singing in the chambers, the Daily News reports.Speaking in the Senate recently, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, pictu...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa assigns allies to on fire regions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs to three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party’s DCC elections. Factionalism is said to be rife in ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 08:09hrs | 3231 | by Staff reporter
Residents demand prosecution of council fraudsters
CHIVHU residents have called on Chikomba Rural District Council (RDC) authorities to press charges against four revenue clerks who were recently dismissed from the local authority on fraud charges....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:54hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
5 civil servants up for theft of donated clothes
THE trial of five government employees in the Chikomba district development co-ordinator (DDC)'s office, who allegedly stole donations for victims of a hailstorm which swept across Chivhu in november ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:53hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in fresh freedom push
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala yesterday notified the State that he will apply for refusal of further remand if he is not given a trial date and that he is in any case going to reapply for bai...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Fresh scandal rocks ZESA
AN external audit has unearthed a massive scandal implicating a senior Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) executive who allegedly prejudiced the struggling power utility of millions of dolla...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2413 | by Staff reporter
Khupe barred from Polad
THE MDC has directed its interim president Thokozani Khupe to stop being part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) until she gets the mandate from the party's congress....Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 13559 | by Staff reporter
Police storm hospital, arrest MP
POLICE yesterday stormed a private medical facility in Harare where MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe was admitted for mental disorder, arrested her using a disputed warrant of arrest issued on Tuesday a...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1643 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's recalls a drain to the fiscus
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) last week disclosed that it required about US$18,5 million to be able to run by-elections, a process that should be done by December 5.Most of the by-el...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:07hrs | 1615 | by Staff reporter
ANC, Zanu-PF collides
Zanu-PF and the African National Congress have sharply disagreed over the latter's future role in trying to find a solution to the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe.The ANC on Tuesday said it inten...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 12:07hrs | 6164 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appears in court…refuses to be jailed
A self-proclaimed nephew of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment by Guruve resident magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday for theft.Tafadzwa Mnangagwa pleaded...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:52hrs | 17016 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mthwakazi women rise and take a stand for the sake of your children
There is a lot of noise about the Zimbabwe crisis and it cannot be complete without mentioning Lindiwe Zulu an embodiment of IMBOKODO, she is doing a great job and should be commended. She understands...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:18hrs | 927 | by Mtshumayeli Makhanya
Zimbabwe has cannot buy covid-19 test kits, PPE, etc. but is squandering US$ 100m on pointless by-elections
"The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) would like to inform the public that is has lifted with immediate effect the suspension of electoral activities with immediate effect the suspension of elector...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 809 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ANC defiantly tells Zanu-PF that it will be back to meet MDC
THE South African ruling African National Congress (ANC) party yesterday defiantly told Zanu-PF that its delegation would soon head back to Harare to meet other stakeholders as part of efforts to init...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4926 | by Staff reporter
ANC refuses to be intimated by Zanu-PF
ZANU PF has warned South Africa's ANC not to treat Zimbabwe as one of the neighbouring country's provinces with party spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa saying South Africa's ruling party does not have an...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | 8867 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a regional rebel'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a rebel who is starting many fires that could destabilise the region if left unchecked.This comes am...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3094 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda recants violence threat
ZANU-PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda has claimed that the statement he made at the party's annual conference last December where he was quoted as saying "if elections fail, we will use any o...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zanu-PF afraid of the ANC?
ZANU-PF has been throwing tantrums against the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa over the last two weeks and that peevishness clearly exposes fright on their part.Spin-doctors in...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 2932 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda in major climbdown, calls for dialogue
IN an unprecedented development, the Defence deputy minister and Zanu-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been forced to make a major climbdown from a threat that Zanu-PF would use any means ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 5797 | by Election Resource Centre
Chin'ono says 'international pressure saved me'
A ZIMBABWEAN journalist who was imprisoned on charges of incitement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has accused the successor to Robert Mugabe of having him jailed because he exposed pand...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 07:55hrs | 3375 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'No one can dethrone me'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has confirmed that there is a plot from within the ruling Zanu-PF party to unseat him, but dared his detractors to dream on. Addressing a Midlands provincial co-or...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12185 | by Staff reporter
US$23m 'vanishes' from NRZ
A top National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) official has been accused of misappropriating US$23 million in what insiders say could be a glimpse of the financial rot at the struggling parastatal....Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2259 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 647 | by Oscar Nkala
Emirates in passenger ill-treatment storm
A UNITED KINGDOM (UK) based Zimbabwean woman living with disability has taken Asian airline, Emirates, head-on over her alleged ill-treatment by the cabin crew on her flight to Harare two years ago....Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2474 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa a rumbling tinpot
Temba Mliswa is a political turncoat and ruble rousing attention seeker. September 2014 Temba Mliswa supported Joyce Mujuru and labelled Jonathan Moyo and others as gay gangsters who worked for the CI...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 06:05hrs | 3277 | by Richard Mthwakazi
Govt adopts quarterly salary reviews
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said government had now resolved to review civil servants' salaries after every three months to hedge against runaway inflation rate.Ncube announced the...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:32hrs | 5041 | by Staff reporter
2 journos acquitted for violating COVID-19 lockdown regulations
TWO Zimbabwean journalists Frank Chikowore and Samuel Takawira, who were arrested in May on allegations of violating COVID-19 lockdown regulations after they visited three MDC Alliance members at a pr...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu soldier killer named
POLICE have named Elphas Jani (20) of Gutu, now deceased, as one of the gunmen who shot and killed Lance Corporal Lorance Mupanganyama, and injured Corporal Peter Zvirevo, in Chivhu last Saturday....Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:20hrs | 7883 | by Staff reporter
Magistrates decline to sign Sikhala's voluminous docket
THE MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala will further languish in prison after his High Court bail appeal hearing was Wednesday postponed to this Friday amid indications magistrates at the Harare...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 2741 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must not pin hope on ANC
THE African National Congress (ANC) has dispatched a six-member delegation of its national executive committee to have bilateral discussions with the leadership of Zanu-PF. The world of former liberat...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:10hrs | 504 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Bouncers hired in nasty house wrangle
A PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and his ex-wife allegedly hired bouncers on Monday to prevent a woman the couple sold a house to, from occupying the property.The stage was set for an epic cla...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:01hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to pick ministers outside Parly
ZANU-PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has proposed changes to the Constitution to allow the President to appoint all ministers outside Parliament to avoid a situation where Cabinet ministers holding sen...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:33hrs | 6598 | by Staff reporter
Nurses hit back at Chiwenga
STRIKING nurses yesterday reacted angrily to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's claim that they were using patients as pawns to fight for higher salaries.The nurses, who have paralysed the ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 6217 | by Staff reporter
ANC determined to dump camaraderie approach and reprimand Zanu-PF
Analyst Phillan Zamchiya yesterday said while liberation parties operate secretively, the actors and nature of the delegation dispatched by Ramaphosa showed that South Africa was now more determined t...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
New Harare Mayor decries archaic billing system
In a veiled admission of failure, Harare's new Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said the capital was behind in terms of development and was riddled with corruption.The MDC has been in charge of H...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Zambia President Edgar Lungu's Prophet survives gun attack
Zambian Prophet Isaac Kabamba popularly known as DD Isaac survived an attack from gunmen in August. DD Isaac is widely known as Edgar Lungu's prophet after he prophesied on 31 December 2019 that Edgar...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 23:27hrs | 4685 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 989 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga is Joshua Nkomo of Mashonaland
Like Joshua Nkomo, Chiwenga is too generous with political power. Imagine a man who spent grueling weeks at the Blue Roof and State House in 2017 wrestling for political power from the late President ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 10281 | by Israel Dube
Woman sues Choppies
A BULAWAYO woman who tripped after stepping on a slippery floor while shopping at a local Choppies Supermarket has taken the shop owners to court demanding $3,5 million in damages for pain, suffering ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Sophie Mokoena flouted SABC procurement processes, in hot water?
Three top news managers at the SABC are facing numerous charges before disciplinary hearings over irregular expenditure of R2.5m involving a foreign news agency and allegations of poor performance....Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:24hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T has to put voters first
The ongoing destabilisation of opposition-controlled urban councils as part of a battle for power in the MDC ranks is one of the most cynical attacks on Zimbabwe's nascent democracy.Following ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1798 | by Staff reporter
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