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$4 million bitumen vanishes
AT least 215 drums of bitumen worth RTGS$4 million were stolen at a road construction site in Chivhu last week and Government has rolled out extensive investigations to apprehend the culprits. ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 604 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis in Harare exposes MDC inadequacies
There is an old adage that says fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. This maxim rings true to most of our urban voters who are constantly casting their vote to a failed MDC party whic...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1111 | by Prosperity Mzila
Tiger Wheel & Tyre Opens in Borrowdale, Harare
Vehicle owners in Borrowdale, a suburb of Harare, now have access to the world's biggest wheel and tyre brands, along with award-winning service from Southern Africa's best-loved and most trusted reta...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | 967 | by Staf reporter
China takes over Chimanimani roads rehab
THE Chinese government has offered to rehabilitate all roads washed away by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani at its own cost and has already contracted six private Asian companies to carry out the project....Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
19 injured in Luveve Road pile-up
NINETEEN people were injured in a three- vehicle pile-up accident near Entumbane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo yesterday. The pile-up occurred when a Toyota Quantum headed towards Luveve suburb...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:08hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
58 people killed over Independence and Easter holidays
FIFTY-EIGHT people were killed, while 397 others were injured countrywide in 674 road accidents that were recorded during this year's Independence and Easter holidays. The statistics were reco...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blesses Parliament's probe into ZINARA
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved investigations by a parliamentary portfolio committee into the operations of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) after an audit unearthed mass...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 20:56hrs | 1845 | by Staff reporter
China to build houses for Cyclone Idai victims
Government has announced that Chinese companies have pledged to build houses for the victims of Cyclone Idai who lost their properties during the tragedy that struck the country in March.Durin...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 19:30hrs | 977 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chegutu residents take to the streets
CHEGUTU residents will tomorrow take to the streets and demonstrate against acute water shortages that have persisted in the Mashonaland West Province town since 2008. Combined Chegutu Residen...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 09:50hrs | 2021 | by Staff reporter
War vets call for unity as economy bites
Zanu-PF has denied responsibility over the deteriorating economy in the country and blamed economic sabotage by enemies for the meltdown.This is despite Zanu-PF having been in charge for the p...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Easter Holiday accidents kill 24
The death toll of people who died during the Easter Holiday rose to 24 on Sunday night after 11 people perished on the spot in a fatal head-on collision at the 118km peg along Harare-Mutare highway in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Of heroes betrayed, forgotten
When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the pow...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | 252 | by Zifiso Masiye
Lupane East MP's burial unites Zanu-PF, MDC
THE Lupane East Member of Parliament and liberation war heroine Sithembile Gumbo was yesterday buried at the Matabeleland North Provincial Heroes' Acre at Lupane Centre.Gumbo (56), died on Mon...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:12hrs | 5727 | by Staff reporter
Holiday accidents kill 16
At least 16 people died in road traffic accidents since Independence Day, while 96 were left injured, police have said.A total of 192 road accidents occurred on Independence Day and Good Frida...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:11hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai buried people with their belongings
WHEN we arrived in cyclone hit Chimanimani a week after the monstrous Idai, what we could only see at most places are stone boulders that had buried wholesome villages underneath and someone coming fr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4794 | by Staff reporter
Freebie-hunting teens raped after binge
TWO teenagers believed they could get drunk without spending their money but feeding off grown men until tragedy struck.The two (names withheld) from Pumula suburb one day found their target a...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:52hrs | 3119 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge on massive expansion drive
BEITBRIDGE Municipality, expected to reap a good chunk off spin-offs from the expansion of the Beitbridge Border Post, has already received ground-paving bricks worth thousands of dollars for use in t...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:27hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 3557 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'MDC has no hand in sanctions'
The Daily News on Sunday Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda caught up with journalist, and human rights advocate Grace Kwinje who is the MDC Alliance's European Union representative based in Brussels. S...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 17:48hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 2125 | by Iphithule Maphosa
VID moving in right direction
THE recent move by the ministry of Transport to launch an electronic learners' driver's licence testing process is commendable.As part of the ministry's fight against corruption, prospective d...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 13:34hrs | 2192 | by Staff reporter
11 Wedza accident victims named
POLICE have identified 11 of the 13 victims who died at Mugodhi Apostolic Shrine in a road traffic accident which occurred at the 25 kilometre peg along the Wedza-Mutiweshire road on Monday.Pr...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1097 | by Staff reporter
Police deploy for holiday
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)has deployed officers on all the country's major roads and residential areas to ensure that Independence Day and the Easter holidays are accident and crime-free. ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares Wedza accident state of disaster
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed the government to declare Monday's accident that claimed 13 lives in Wedza a state of disaster and pave way for the availing of government assistance....Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 13:53hrs | 4413 | by Staff reporter
How prioritising Quality over Kwariti, would make Zimbabwe Great
In a World where the best are measured by success, Zimbabwe would excel if we learnt the art of prioritising quality in everything. Quality distinguishes the mundane from the best. Best educated, best...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 12:09hrs | 696 | by Ryton Dzimiri
VID introduces electronic learners' licence testing
Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday launched the electronic learner's licence testing system (ELLT), which is aimed at reducing corruption in awarding of licences by the Vehicle Inspection...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:52hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
14 die at apostolic sect shrine
FOURTEEN members of the Mugodhi Apostolic Sect died, while several others were injured after a lorry loaded with bags of maize veered off the road and ploughed into worshippers at a roadside shrine in...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's fuel crisis bites hard
The government is running out of time to ensure that Bulawayo has enough fuel stocks to cover the forthcoming Independence and Easter holidays, as well as the annual Zimbabwe International Trade fair ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 5351 | by Staff reporter
Tourism can rake in millions for Mashonaland Central
In Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central Province there is a very tall granite hill standing almost upright like a giant's sore thumb. Its called Bare Hill, maybe on account of being without vegetation, no tr...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:29hrs | 517 | by Thomas Murisa
How Grace's power grew in inverse proportion to Mugabe's declining health
Chapter 29Shortly before the Zanu-PF conference held at Victoria Falls in early December 2015, the Women's League proposed a resolution to reintroduce a...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:09hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Coltart hails Mnangagwa govt
FIERCE Government critic and opposition politician David Coltart has described the move by the Government to facilitate the issuance of birth certificates and death certificates as well as the exhumat...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 09:21hrs | 2889 | by Staff Reporter
Glut of fuel during ZITF
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is now known for bringing good news to the second city.In previous editions, the authorities would go out of their way to ensure that the city's ro...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:49hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Traffic council threatens to deregister driving schools
THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has threatened to deregister driving schools that do not meet stipulated standards. In a telephone interview, TSCZ communications manager Mr Taten...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:11hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
The Bulawayo Tower block; a labour of love?
A running thread in generations of residents that have called Bulawayo home has been their deep veneration and steadfast belief in its status as an exceptional habitat. Exemplary epochs of thi...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 18:02hrs | 8052 | by Innocent B. Ncube
Mnangagwa co-option civil society to silence growing dissent
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to co-opt sections of civil society organisations, the church, business and some political parties in a mollifying move meant to silence growing dissent....Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:53hrs | 1347 | by Staff reporter
Malema loves to attack Zimbabwean leaders
Malema this week came pout on eNCA TV news calling for President Mnangagwa a sale out and urges him to step down. This was because Zimbabwe has started compensate farmers. The Righ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 11:52hrs | 2725 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Parliamentary committee aborts Chiredzi visit due to bad roads
Parliament's Standing Rules and Order Committee last week aborted their visit to parts of Chiredzi North due to extremely bad roads that were further damaged by Cyclone Idai.Many roads in the ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal price set to go up
THE Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says the country should brace for an increase in the price of mealie meal in the next few days in line with the new producer prices. In an int...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
China pledges to fund Zimbabwe's road, rail network
Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun yesterday pledged to assist Zimbabwe access funding for infrastructure development from the $60 billion pledged by his country to assist African nations las...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:36hrs | 343 | by Staf reporter
Zimdaba concludes on a 'successful note'
LONDON - Business forum, Zimdaba concluded its two-day conference on a very productive note, with high-profile business leaders and governmental officials conti...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 09:11hrs | 867 | by Tidi Kwidini
Mthuli Ncube to update IMF on Zimbabwe
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is in Washington DC, the United States of America (USA) for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank 2019 Spring Meetings, where ...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF did not steal anything in Chimanimani'
Bulawayo based Pastor Anglistone T. Mthiyane Sibanda has absolved ZANU PF from allegations that its officials have been looting aid meant for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge and Chimanimani. ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 16:38hrs | 2130 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ibhetshu lika Zulu speaks on Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan
We note that finally, the acknowledgement by the government that Gukurahundi genocide took place in our history as a country, after so much denial and unnecessary violation of the rights of thos...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1954 | by Mbuso Fuzwayo
Gukurahundi healing measures, a step in the right direction
The new dispensation has slowly but positively proven that there is an overhaul in the administration of the country's affairs, an indication that Zimbabwe is breaking from the old ways. In the recent...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 12:02hrs | 452 | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Zec in fix as jailed MDC councillor resurfaces
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is in a dilemma after Mutasa Central ward 10 councillor Frank Chitembwe (MDC), whose seat was declared vacant following his incarceration for public violence, r...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 07:01hrs | 5372 | by Staff reporter
'3.8 magnitude earthquake hit before Cyclone Idai'
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chimanimani and Chipinge shortly before Cyclone Idai which left 344 people dead and destroyed property worth billions of dollars, Government revealed yesterday. ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1359 | by Staff reporter
Police probe several bigwigs over Cylone Idai aid looting
POLICE have arrested dozens of people and are probing a number of senior government officials, following the sickening looting and diversion of goods donated to victims of the deadly Cyclone Idai stor...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:40hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders fan dies, 5 others injured in car crash
A HIGHLANDERS Football Club supporter coming from watching the Bosso and Caps United match at Barbourfields Stadium died on the spot while five other people were injured after the vehicles they were t...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Ministry official nabbed over Idai donations
A deputy director in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development on Saturday appeared before a Chipinge magistrate facing charges of stealing Cyclone Idai donati...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Good policies will boost the solar energy and minerals business in Africa
In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world's largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | 402 | by Enos Denhere
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