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Beitbridge mulls solar farm project
BEITBRIDGE Municipality has revealed plans to develop a solar farm on land measuring about 100 hectares to ease rolling electricity outages that are being experienced across the country.Zimbab...Published: 13 hrs ago | 665 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors fellowship oversubscribed
The Higher Life Foundation fellowship for doctors, which was re-opened last week, is reportedly oversubscribed, with more than 900 doctors having applied barely a day after the fellowship was announce...Published: 13 hrs ago | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a reset
We are at a stage in our country where what seems to be a political problem, is not only hindering our ability to develop but decimating any hope of doing so in the foreseeable future. We are in a sta...Published: 13 hrs ago | 167 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa powerless to stop Chamisa
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has pooh-poohed threats by the government at the weekend that authorities would arrest him if he mounted any unsanctioned demonstrations.The MDC boss said yest...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi flaunts new Ferrari
Flamboyant businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure is known for high life and his penchant for luxury cars seems insatiable.Ginimbi, who owns numerous top-of-the-range cars, has added a new lux...Published: 13 hrs ago | 764 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Central Hospital completes special radiotherapy battery room
Mpilo Central Hospital Clinical director Solwayo Ngwenya has announced that the health institution has completed special radiotherapy battery room."Our Mpilo Central Hospital special radiother...Published: 22 hrs ago | 793 | by Stephen Jakes
Nust hunts for Mazithulela replacement
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has started hunting for Dr Gatsha Mazithulela replacement since his latest appointment as a deputy director-general in the President's Departme...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:47hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rolls out life training skills for women
Zanu PF party, through its Women's League, is rolling out initiatives to socially and economically empower women.Beitbridge Senator Tambudzani Mohadi said women played a critical role in socie...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:46hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
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: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3873 | 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: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1907 | 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: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1534 | by Staff reporter
PG seeks forfeiture of Zimra official's assets
Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has approached the High Court seeking an order to seize a residential stand and vehicles belonging to a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official who allegedly...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:23hrs | 350 | 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: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:18hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to charge in forex
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has granted the National Railways of Zimbabwe permission to charge in foreign currency for goods exported under the Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) conditions.NR...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist says Govt roller meal taskforce foolish
South African based President Emmerson Mnangagwa's confidante and MDC critic Kudzai Mutisi has scoffed off at Industry and Commerce Minister Sekai Nzenza's roller meal committee set to monitor the sel...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:11hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
A dragonfly cannot spit fire and brimstone
Dogs can be deceptively vicious or gentle.This is why it is often not uncommon for dogs that bark the most to be less known for their bite, while conversely, those that are seemingly benign, w...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:10hrs | 91 | by Bishop Lazarus
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: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:09hrs | 107 | by Ranga Mataire
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismissal com...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:02hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Give love, respect to elderly, says Auxillia Mnangagwa
NINETY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Gogo Luda Mpofu of Mahlothova in Umguza District, Gelitazi Village 1, is in a class of her own. She still has the energy to perform household chores, and formed an art and craft ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:21hrs | 965 | by Staff Reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismi...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 20:02hrs | 1263 | by Staff Reporter
NRZ to collect railage charges in foreign currency
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has authorised the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to collect railage charges in foreign currency for exported goods.NRZ submitted an appeal to RBZ last ...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 19:55hrs | 1049 | by Staff Reporter
BCC disconnects water supplies to defaulting rate payers
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said it will start disconnecting water supplies to defaulting rate payers in Ward 7 encompassing suburbs such as Makokoba, Mzilikazi and surrounding areas. In a...Published: 25 Jan 2020 at 07:54hrs | 743 | by Staff Reporter
Sports casters wary of Zimbabwe's World Cup draw
Some of Zimbabwe's local sports casters are not confident enough that Zimbabwe will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Qatar.This follows CAF's Tuesday announcement whic...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 17:32hrs | 1638 | by Daniel Itai
MDC position on the proposed constitutional amendments
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is deeply concerned with the various constitutional amendments that were recently proposed by the Zanu PF regime.Indeed, despite all the grave concerns...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 11:14hrs | 696 | by Kucaca Phulu
Zanu-PF Women’s League rolls out entrepreneurship skills
ZANU-PF through its Women's League is rolling out a number of initiatives to socially and economically empower women with entrepreneurship skills. In an interview yesterday, Beitbridge Senator...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:07hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge modernisation project to begin
MAJOR civil works on the $241 million Beitbridge modernisation project are expected to begin next month with the contractors indicating having covered a lot of ground on the pre-work commencement logi...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:04hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Unethical retailers face blacklisting
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) says it will blacklist its members that would be involved in side-marketing the roller meal from the Government's subsidy programme. Of late, conc...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:03hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri's dodgy deals exposed
An up-market housing scheme in north-eastern Harare meant for top police officers was allegedly hijacked by former Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri in its final phase, and he allocated...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:02hrs | 3529 | by Staff reporter
Roller meal taskforce set up
The availability of subsidised maize-meal is expected to improve following the establishment of a taskforce to ensure transparent and equitable distribution of the product. The taskforce will ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:01hrs | 506 | 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 | 6356 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Top cop in rhino poaching storm
A BULAWAYO senior police officer and two accomplices, one of them a Zambian, have appeared in court for allegedly poaching rhinos at Bubye Valley Conservancy at Mazunga area in Beitbridge. Nhl...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:21hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe public hospitals to go digital
Zimbabwe's public health institutions will have all patients' records available in digital form at any health facility after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered Estonia in a project whose pilot p...Published: 23 Jan 2020 at 06:14hrs | 189 | 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 | 1319 | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa hold the keys
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he holds the keys to President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding in normalising Zimbabwe's relations with the West and attracting much-needed foreign investment to th...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 13:01hrs | 3824 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1808 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Executive plots coup against Parliament
WHILE the citizens are glued to the ongoing circus in Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's messy divorce, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Cabinet have decided to sneak in a sinister constitution...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:42hrs | 5809 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Maize meal shortage to ease next week'
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has promised to ease the maize meal challenges as of next week.This was said during a GMAZ media briefing on Tuesday on a roller meal subsidy and p...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:50hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows street protests on the way
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader said Tuesday he will roll out anti-government street protests this year, declaring that the collapsing economy will improve only if political issues, including a long...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:35hrs | 464 | by AP
Supermarket forces clients to buy grocery worth $150 if they need 10kg mealie meal
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube yesterday intervened to stop a local supermarket that was selling a 10kg of subsidised roller meal on condition that a customer first bought groceries...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:34hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal supply to improve
THE supply of mealie-meal is expected to improve starting next week as all millers are being registered under Government's subsidy programme while mechanisms to import maize using free-funds have been...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:31hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Roller meal shortages persist
Subsidised mealie-meal supplies have remained erratic across the country, with major supermarkets running out of the commodity, forcing most consumers to access it on the black market. The sho...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:22hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels the pressure over roller meal
CHURCHES have vowed to pressure President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to come up with strict measures to ensure that all millers who get grain under the government maize subsidy programme sell...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:51hrs | 452 | by Staff rpeorter
The most famous people from Blackjack
Blackjack is without a doubt one of the most popular card games in history. Those who become skilled at the game have, at times, made millions from playing. It's so popular that it has featured in cou...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 10:08hrs | 555 | by Staff Reporter
AirZim receives new Boeing 777 from Malaysia
AIR ZIMBABWE has received a new plane Boeing B777 in a development that is part of the government's ongoing plans to resuscitate the airline. Three more planes are set to arrive in the following weeks...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 16:53hrs | 6447 | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa in Cosafa storm
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa is in the eye of a storm after it emerged that he and his executive members at the regional football governing body allegedly pocketed over R1,5 million in allowances...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 09:22hrs | 3031 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe economy to contract by 5.5% says UN
Zimbabwe's economy will register a negative growth of 5.5% and 2.5% in 2019 and 2020 respectively owing to foreign currency shortages, elevated public debt and uncontrolled inflation, a recent report ...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1601 | by FinX
60 years jail for armed robber cop
A POLICE officer who was part of a five-member gang of armed robbers wailed in court after each of them was handed a 60-year jail term for armed robbery. The cop, Thulani Nkala (38) appeared t...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:19hrs | 2232 | by Staff reporter
Hwange floods threaten power supplies
Zimbabwe could face increased load-shedding after critical coal mines that supply Hwange Thermal Power Station were flooded following heavy rains that pounded the area on Saturday. Hwange rece...Published: 20 Jan 2020 at 05:13hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Man caught shoplifting books
There was drama at Candy shops, Harare this morning as John Muzukuru a resident of Southlea park was caught stealing exercise and counter books.Muzukuru was unaware that the shop was secured w...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 16:53hrs | 6156 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa's maize subsidy sabotaged
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a Presidential Maize Subsidy meant to benefit the masses. This was a response to Mthuli Ncube's poorly planned removal of subsidies on maizePresident Mna...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 05:52hrs | 6834 | by Nicholas Ncube
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