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Gweru hikes Kudzanai bay rentals
INFORMAL traders operating at the Kudzanai bus terminus in Gweru will now have to fork out between $400 and $800 in rentals per day after the company contracted to refurbish the rank, Bentach Re...Published: 21 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
Sydney Gata slams Guvamatanga for stalling solar power plants
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) executive chairperson Sydney Gata has strongly castigated Finance Ministry secretary George Guvamatanga for refusing to guarantee Independent Power Produce...Published: 5 mins ago | 5 | by Staff writer
UN envoy flies into Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance war
UNITED Nations (UN) special rapporteur, Alena Douhan, who arrives in the country today to assess the impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, flies into a storm with the ruling Zanu-PF party and the oppositio...Published: 24 hrs ago | 4052 | by Staff reporter
'Matebeleland politicians have let us down'
MATABELELAND human rights and political activists have blasted the ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC formations for letting the region down by not fostering development.This came out...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected during the impending Zanu-PF district or ward elections across Mashonaland West province scheduled to kick off Tuesday.This follows a resolution Saturday by the provinci...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe in heated exchange with Zanu-PF Mashonaland central 'chefs'
DIVISIONS among warring Zanu-PF Mashonaland Central province's top dogs deepened at the weekend after they turned their WhatsApp group into a battleground, exchanging fierce vitriols and threatening e...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 182 | by Nobleman Runyanga
He who acknowledges his failings has started his journey to success
Have Zimbabweans ever wondered why they appear 'cursed' - in a country seemingly entrapped in a never-ending vicious cycle of economic malaise and poverty, whereby each minute is expended on how to ju...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:22hrs | 572 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa shows hand as Zanu-PF fights suck in police
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and top Zanu-PF officials intervened after ruling party members in Mashonaland Central were allegedly brutalised by police in a case that has revealed deepening factionali...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:09hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
SA-bred Mafura set for Sables debut
EXPLOSIVE Pumas utility back Tapiwa Mafura is finally set to make his debut for Zimbabwe's national rugby team after his inclusion in the Sables squad ahead of the upcoming Quadrangular Series to be p...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:07hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zacc okeys Bulawayo mayor's $165 per month rent
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has cleared Bulawayo mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni and the Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, of any wrongdoing regarding corruption allegations that were level...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:03hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira inches closer to PAP presidency
SOUTHERN Africa's candidate for the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Chief Fortune Charumbira, is close to landing the presidency of the continental legislative body after the PAP executive council on Fr...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:58hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Dawson names his Sables
ZIMBABWE Sables team manager Jason Maritz has announced a 27-man squad for next month's quadrangular rugby tournament that will also feature Kenya, Namibia and Brazil.The tournament – slated...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP assaults party youth as tempers flare ahead of elections
ZVIMBA East Member of Parliament, Tawanda Tungamirai punched and verbally assaulted a fellow Zanu-PF youth member Saturday just before the party's decisive meeting to pass a resolution to hold distric...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official bashed, hospitalized for dumping Chamisa
Former MDC-A official Shewu Meda has been hospitalized after being brutalized by MDC-A supporters for dumping their party and joining ZANU-PF where he was rewarded with the most senior post in Chiwesh...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 07:03hrs | 4698 | by Ndou Paul
Chiwenga invites private sector to partner Govt
GOVERNMENT is forging ahead with infrastructural development as it is the bedrock for sustainable economic recovery and growth, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Car...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 3339 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders in bruising fist fight
FACTIONAL violence in Zanu-PF has turned physical in the Midlands province, with senior officials exchanging blows in public last weekend in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's troubled citadel.Pre...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:22hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
US plotting to discredit Chinese investments in Zimbabwe
THE Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State is implementing "an intricate plan" designed by Washington to smear Chinese businesses in Zimbabwe "through disinformat...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Fresh turmoil rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is undergoing a fresh turmoil threatening intra-party stability as jostling for provincial leadership reaches fever-pitch.The chaos has rocked all the provinces as warring factions in ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:20hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Govt, business stalemate rages
BUSINESS executives made desperate attempts from last week Friday to worm their way out of arrests for violating foreign currency exchange regulations, but the government turned a deaf ear as it vowed...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:19hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa betrays SA war vets
SOUTH AFRICA'S elite task force rescued two cabinet ministers and a deputy after they were held hostage by war veterans demanding reparations for their role in the fight against white minority rule....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:19hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Violence in Masvingo makes Chamisa a hero
The recent events in the Masvingo province against MDC-Alliance President Advocate Nelson Chamisa raised his bar graph very high. The MDC-A leader is in a meet the people whirlwind tour, meeting commu...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 17:41hrs | 1213 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Guns drawn out in Bulawayo politics brawl
A local businessman assaulted a Zanu-PF chairperson for Bulawayo Province and pulled a gun on him after he was accused of dividing the party in the city.The dramatic incident happened at Aisle...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3700 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC claims more attacks
THE MDC Alliance yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF supporters mounted a "roadblock" in Gutu, kidnapped and beat up some opposition supporters at their meeting with party leader Nelson Chamisa, who is on ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 2662 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fundraises for national conference
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is rallying its members and stakeholders to provide financial resources and other items towards its forthcoming annual conference slated for this month in Mashonaland Central....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
BCC announces revised 200% budget increase
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday announced a $23 billion 2022 budget, down from the initially proposed $24 billion budget, while rate increases have been revised downwards to 200% from 216%....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP calls Martin Dinha a 'thief'
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) chairperson Martin Dinha, has been called a "thief" who is busy stripping the state-owned entity's assets for resell and thereby reversing the gains of Zimbabwe's l...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Illicit dealings cost Zimbabwe $2bn annually
Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo has said the country is losing about $2 billion annually through illicit dealings with the private sector being the ma...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:16hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Who remembers Ben Kofi?
Fabisch, Sunday Chidzambwa, Peter Ndhlovu, Benjani and Konjera. Not forgetting the mercurial Francis Shonhai, Kaitano Tembo and Dumisan Mpofu the defence bulwark of our Warriors of the glorious past. ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:10hrs | 986 | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha.
Zanu-PF frets over internal chaos
Zanu-PF yesterday conceded that jostling for positions in the district elections has caused chaos in the party, and threatened to act on the "rogue" elements who it said were fanning divisions....Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Private sector major culprit of graft, says Zacc boss
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says the private sector is the major culprit in corruption as players are evading taxes and inflating figures, among other ills causing serious damage to...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
'Forex rentals at blackmarket rates illegal'
PROPERTY owners and managers demanding rentals in foreign currency, without giving tenants an option to pay the equivalent in local currency using the auction rate, risk being arrested as the fight ag...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Commercial cargo piling up at border
Commercial cargo continues to pile up on both sides of the Beitbridge border post where truck drivers are passively protesting over the poor service delivery at the border and the introduction of rela...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC legislator survives car crash
FORMER MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe cheated death on Sunday evening when he was involved in a car accident that saw his vehicle fell off a cliff along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Highway....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 3120 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa attacks harbinger of a more violent 2023
THE 2008 run-off elections pitting former President Robert Mugabe and MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai (now both late) witnessed violence on an unprecedented scale.Mugabe had been outpolled by hi...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Govt must be serious about devolution
DEVOLUTION means transferring power and authority from central government to lower tiers of government, especially local authorities and provincial councils.The government, despite having said...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 550 | by Harare Residents Trust
Zanu-PF violence forces politburo to descend on Manicaland
Zanu-PF politburo members yesterday descended on Manicaland province to douse factional fights which have seen party members demonstrate against provincial chairperson Mike Madiro since Sunday....Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:12hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject 216% rates increase
BULAWAYO residents have rejected a 216% proposed rate increase in the 2022 budget that would see residents in some wards paying as much as $12 000 in rates.The residents advised the loca...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
'Top cops transferred for bashing Zanu-PF supporters'
MASHONALAND Central police commanders have been transferred with immediate effect in what sources claim was retribution for actions over their alleged failure to control juniors who assaulted Zanu-PF ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry could be amputated, court hears
Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.The Harare Ma...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions collapsed Zimbabwe beef industry
THE country's famed beef industry collapsed at the turn of the millennium following the imposition of illegal sanctions by Western countries when the country embarked on the successful fast-track land...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:06hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'teargassed'
RIOT police yesterday teargassed MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at a private residence in Masvingo while suspected Zanu-PF youths attacked his convoy three times and injured several aides and his ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:02hrs | 8617 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume further remand
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume's application for removal from remand in a case where he is accused of public incitement to violence.Last wee...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland fights: 20 arrested
POLICE yesterday arrested 20 Zanu-PF supporters in Manicaland province following intraparty violence.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said: "The Zimbabwe Republi...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
'Govt to blame for health workers' exodus'
THE Zimbabwean Community in South Africa (ZCSA) has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for paying "slave wages", thus causing local health workers' migration to neighbouring countrie...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
Storm leaves trail of destruction in Bulawayo
STRONG winds hit parts of Bulawayo on Monday and left a trail of destruction in the city.Emganwini Residents Association chairperson Janana Ngwenya yesterday told Southern Eye that the storm w...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1002 | by Staff reporter
Silobela community demands share of Jena Mine
VILLAGERS in Silobela are demanding that the redundant Jena Gold Mine claims be allocated to them as they are living in poverty while their area is endowed with gold deposits.The Jena Mine cla...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Galloway set to make Warriors debut
ENGLAND-based defender Brendan Galloway is set to earn his maiden cap with the Warriors, in a 2022 World Cup qualifier against Ghana's Black Stars, at the National Sports Stadium this afternoon....Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
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