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Machete gangs leave one dead, several injured in ore heist
"Mining in Zimbabwe is no longer safe for women," says Sanelisiwe Maseko, a single mother of two whose mine in Colleen Bawn was recently invaded by machete-wielding men in a bloody raid that left one ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala speaks on treason trial
Job Sikhala, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national vice-chairperson who is also Member of Parliament for Zengeza West, is set to appear before the High Court in Masvingo next week to face ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 591 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga threat to rule of law'
High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda has described the use of the military by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga in kicking out his estranged wife, Marry (pictured), from the couple's matr...Published: 8 hrs ago | 549 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC to push for Mnangagwa ouster
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has declared that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be pushed out of power by ordinary citizens this year because they can no longer bear the economic crisis facing the coun...Published: 8 hrs ago | 483 | by Staff reporter
ZBC sued for $6m for copyright
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been taken to the High Court by a businessman, who is claiming $6 027 000 from the national broadcaster for using his original audio-visual works....Published: 8 hrs ago | 375 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt must operate above petty politics
GOVERNMENT'S decision to dispossess former Local Government minister and Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere of his Mazowe farm is a clear demonstration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ad...Published: 8 hrs ago | 76 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional changes could be Mnangagwa's Hobbesian moment
Twenty-seven is the number of changes that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration wants to make on Zimbabwe's Constitution, passed only seven years ago.The intended changes, announced o...Published: 8 hrs ago | 97 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Judge hammered Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has been ordered by the High Court to allow his estranged wife, Marry, to access the couple's Borrowdale matrimonial home after castigating his use of the military ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 397 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa rattled state security agents'
THE MDC has claimed that State security agents have been rattled by party leader Nelson Chamisa's address on Tuesday and have activated their machinery to silence the opposition countrywide.MD...Published: 8 hrs ago | 274 | by Staff reporter
2020 holds no promise for troubled Zimbabwe
A SHORT queue has formed outside a supermarket in Sunningdale, a supposedly middle-class suburb in Harare.Behind the supermarket, a truck is offloading bags of mealie-meal, a commodity that re...Published: 8 hrs ago | 82 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga using military to settle matrimonial dispute'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was on Friday forced to swallow a humble pie after a High Court judge told him that he was not above the law.Justice Dube Banda said what the politician pai...Published: 8 hrs ago | 119 | by Staff reporter
We must unite against Uncle Sam
One of the most apparent things I encountered during my recent sojourn in Empire was a huge contingent of immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.Many can be found even in the outlying...Published: 8 hrs ago | 62 | by Ranga Mataire
Xenophobic attacks erupt in SA after Zimbabwean man shoots cop dead
XENOPHOBIC attacks have erupted in Diepsloot, South Africa after residents stormed a police station Thursday morning demanding officers to hand over a Zimbabwean man accused of killing a cop last week...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3130 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's secret revealed at SONA
In his state of the nation address the MDC A leader shocked the nation by his loud silence on sanctions. ZANU PF has always said the opposition is after destroying the gains of independence and hurt t...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 13:41hrs | 6170 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mzembi to break Zimbabwe political stalemate?
Our political dynamics require a game changer to break the perennial stalemate between the two main protagonists of our failed politics, Zanu PF and MDC A . At the core of this gridlock is the vanity ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 12:19hrs | 5044 | by Tawanda Ruzanhi
Chamisa says Zimbabwe situation ripe for action
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is looking to take advantage of the collapsed economy, to mobilise for action across professional, political and religious lines against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's govern...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:41hrs | 2986 | by Staff reporter
New political outfit promises democracy for all
Leader of the newly established political party, Ideas Party of Democracy Herbert Chamuka says his main aim is to fight for democracy in the country and not specifically fight Zanu-PF leader Emmerson ...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to repeal Gold Trade Act
civil society organisations and captains of industry, among others, have called on government to swiftly repeal the Gold Trade Act and formalise artisanal and small-scale mining to boost gold producti...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:39hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
All that glitters is not gold
I AM not sure of the details but around the year 2000, a geological exploration team found alluvial diamonds at Marange in Zimbabwe. They cut trenches and did further exploration for a number of years...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 981 | by Eddie Cross
'Ruling on US$ debt a grand heist'
TUESDAY'S Supreme Court ruling declaring that debts owed in United States dollars (US$) incurred on or before February 22, 2019 should be settled using the Zimdollar at a 1:1 parity will further deepe...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Council workers demand 6-fold salary increment
Municipal Correspondent Stung by the alleged quadrupling of salaries for top council management, ordinary Harare City Council workers are now demanding a six-fold rise in their earnings to beat inflat...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:16hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa’s Agenda 2020 address to the nation
(Transcript of MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s ‘Agenda 2020’ address as prepared for delivery at Stodart Hall in Mbare on January 21, 2020)Fellow Zim...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 19:47hrs | 1271 | by Nelson Chamisa
Mnangagwa evading Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of evading him so that they could resolve their political dispute.Unveiling his agenda for 2020 in Harare's high densi...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:03hrs | 4931 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'Nation's Agenda: 2020' - a fuzzy and confused plan, blundering from pillar to post
Nelson Chamisa's Harare 21st January 2020 address was dubbed "Nation's Agenda 2020" or "Nation's Plan of Action: 2020" As much as the nation is desperate for change it is as day this so called MDC's p...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2196 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiyangwa bars Zifa from Cosafa AGM
COUNCIL of Southern African Football Association (Cosafa) president Philip Chiyangwa is alleged to be making spirited efforts to bar the Zifa executive committee from attending the regional soccer-gov...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1801 | by Staff reporter
Teacher flees after students protest
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has thrown its weight behind Njube High School biology teacher, Brian Mutsiba, who has gone into hiding after police in Bulawayo launched a manhunt to...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2804 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells supporters not to be afraid of guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday warned his supporters to prepare for more demonstrations to force political and economic change in a country lurching from one crisis to another.Chamisa ad...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:37hrs | 975 | by AFP
Zifa barred from Cosafa indaba after exposing Chiyangwa funds abuse
THE relentless boardroom battle between ZIFA and their former president, Philip Chiyangwa, has taken another ugly twist with the country's football leaders being barred from attending the COSAFA annua...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'reduces debt by theft' after Supreme Court ruling: lawyers
The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of a controversial government decree from February 2019 which converted debts accumulated in United States dollars to the local RTGS currency – at a great l...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:20hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has failed on human rights'
GLOBAL human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week released a damning report, describing Zimbabwe's human rights record as appalling despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reform pledges...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 299 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MDC under siege
THE opposition MDC has claimed that it is now a banned political party in Zimbabwe and accused Zanu-PF of making Zimbabwe a de facto one-party State.MDC secretary for international relations, ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:53hrs | 743 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's political demise beckons
It is a view expressed by astute political observers, this scribe included, that unless the MDC-Alliance denounces violence and joins President E.D. Mnangagwa and other political parties in the Politi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 458 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Chamisa to close window for negotiations very soon
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will tell the nation on Tuesday that his party has tried negotiation to solve Zimbabwe's political impasse, but that the window "is closing fast".Chamisa was stopped ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:38hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Changing labels of Empty Bottle - Zimbabwe
(This article was first published in Newsday in November 2014, titled There's Victory in Losing. This piece was centred on Pres R Mugabe and pointed on the point that...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 15:11hrs | 4471 | by Terence T Simbi
A tribute to the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi
On 23 January 2019. I received a text message from my daughter Hazel Rumbidzai saying "Nematambudziko Tuku atisiya your favourite musician"."Tuku" Mtukudzi was a musician, businessman, philant...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 14:55hrs | 5789 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa's police allow Chamisa to launch MDC's agenda 2020
POLICE Sunday afternoon allowed MDC President Nelson Chamisa to launch his much anticipated State of the Nation Agenda (SONA) 2020 mini-rally at Stodart Hall in Mbare, Harare Tuesday.The launc...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:15hrs | 3802 | by newzimbabwe
'Mnangagwa is archbishop of maShurugwi'
THE MDC has fired at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing the Zanu-PF leader as the archbishop of the notorious machete wielding gangs commonly referred to as Mashurugwi.This comes after p...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2392 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa savages Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has savaged the government after police raided his party's offices on Friday in a surprise move which has once again raised political tensions in the country.T...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:24hrs | 6897 | by Staff reporter
Marry throws Chiwenga under the bus
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry has thrown another salvo at her husband, claiming the retired military commander is a dangerous character who uses the army to deal with pe...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:17hrs | 11877 | by Staff reporter
Matanga, Kazembe sued for $783,000
Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been slapped with a $783 100 lawsuit by a Chitungwiza man who was shot and injured by Zimbabwe Republic Polic...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:17hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's complex situation requires political will
People continue to die from curable disease in Zimbabwe as the health sector remains paralysed while the country is going through what has been described by the United Nations as a man-made drought. S...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 13:10hrs | 171 | by Tapiwa Ziviri
'Mnangagwa in no hurry to fix economy'
As the world marks the 61st anniversary of the International Human Rights Day, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has lamented the deterioration in living standards, claiming that the Pre...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:44hrs | 7797 | by Staff reporter
'US, Britain sponsoring terror groups in Zimbabwe'
Zanu-PF national political commissar and Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda launched vitriolic attacks against the United States and Britain, alleging that the two powers were meddling into Zi...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:43hrs | 5978 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal tracker launched
THE Government, working with other agencies has unleashed monitors to track the movement and selling of subsided mealie-meal as concerns grow over the continued channelling of the commodity to the bla...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:36hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Commonwealth bid nears
Zimbabwe is inching closer to readmission into the Commonwealth ahead of the grouping's biennial meeting slated for Kigali, Rwanda, in June.The Sunday Mail has gathered that Commonwealth Secre...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:29hrs | 208 | by Staff rpeorter
Police raid MDC party HQ
The MDC said Zimbabwe had become a "fascist state" on Friday after over a hundred police officers stormed the party's headquarters in central Harare, ostensibly to look for "subversive materials"....Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:45hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
'Nhlanhla Ndiweni dismissal above board'
GOVERNMENT has dismissed claims by dethroned Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni that his removal from the chieftainship by President Mnangagwa, following recommendations by Cabinet and the Matabelela...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:37hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo squeals over farm
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Jonathan Moyo, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of systematically grabbing his property and others owned by G40 a...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:34hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Journalist acquitted on anti-govt protest charge
HARARE-BASED freelance journalist, Doubt Asima, who was arrested in August last year on public violence charges after he was found rendering first aid to an elderly woman during an anti-government pro...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:32hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Court acquits Good Samaritan Journalist over anti govt protest
A ZIMBABWEAN court has acquitted Doubt Asima, a freelance journalist, who had been on trial on charges of committing public violence after he was arrested when he tried to rescue an elderly woman, who...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1307 | by Stephen Jakes
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