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'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 5 hrs ago | 427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa drills boreholes for Binga Chiefs
THE Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme in Matabeleland North Province is progressing well with three having been drilled at three chiefs' areas, an official has said.President Mnangagwa in ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zapu top officials seek to overturn new leadership
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) members have revived their bid to overturn the results of a congress which ushered in the party's new leadership.The members include Matthew Sibanda,...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 15:09hrs | 1638 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC caught off-guard?
POLITICAL analysts have described the recent appointment of legislators to serve as opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokespersons in Parliament as evidence that the party needs to urgen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7371 | by Staff reporter
1 200 primary and secondary schools built in last 4 years?
AT least 1 194 primary and secondary schools, averaging about 300 per year, were built countrywide in the last four years in line with the Government's quest to reduce the distance learners walk to an...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:08hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'has already identified his new Chief Justice and RBZ head'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has appointed a team to "overshadow" government ministries in parliament with insiders describing the development as demonstrative of the party's rea...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:33hrs | 13768 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa names shona dominated CCC shadow cabinet
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has named his shadow cabinet, which interestingly does not constitute his loyalist MPs who remain in parliament under the MDC Alliance identit...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 19:23hrs | 5528 | by Staff reporter
Cops 'rob' suspect of US$1 000
EIGHT Gweru-based police officers have been arrested for allegedly stealing US$1 000 from a suspect before assaulting him with batons, resulting in him sustaining a fracture on the right leg and a dam...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:06hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
Dawson names Sables squad for Namibia clash
SABLES coach Brendan Dawson has made five changes to the starting 15 which beat Cote d'Ivoire in the quarter-final for the crunch semi-final tie of the Rugby Africa Cup against Namibia at the Stade Ma...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 18:04hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Musarara, Kazembe fight escalates
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province is boiling with Mazowe District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) Tafadzwa Musarara and party Provincial chairperson Kaze...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 21:19hrs | 1093 | by Desmond Nleya and Shelton Muchena
Zimbabwe's new political party launches, promises economic revival
A NEW political party, the Zimbabwe Republican Front (ZRF) was launched last Friday at the Bulawayo Media Centre.Addressing journalists, the party's 38-year-old leader Fanuel Lisenga said Zimb...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe takes principled stand on Russia'
Government made the right decision to reject brazen attempts by the United States (US) to arm-twist Zimbabwe into joining a Washington-led coalition to isolate Russia for the conflict in Eastern Europ...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Mapping for urban title deeds underway
Mapping of seven urban suburbs in the title formalisation process is now complete and while that process continues with the next suburbs on the list, the first stand owners being processed are now acq...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Police shoot machete wielding miners
POLICE in Bindura allegedly shot three illegal machete wielding miners who were causing myherm at Kitsiyatota mine in Bindura.The matte...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 13:44hrs | 2395 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt's housing projects take shape
Nearly a dozen Government-funded housing projects involving the construction of high-rise residential flats and servicing of land for thousands of residential stands are currently underway countrywide...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 08:59hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Woman uses borrowed baby to claim US$1 800 from ex
IN a matter that left the Gweru magistrate court dumbfounded, a Senga woman allegedly borrowed a baby from her friend, which she used to claim US$1 800 from her ex-husband.This was heard when ...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:27hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Residents' property attached over council debts
AT least 10 residents from Senga suburb had their household property attached by the Messenger of Court at the instigation of Gweru City Council (GCC) in a bid to force ratepayers to settle their bill...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zapu to stage protest at Mnangagwa's offices
ZAPU says it is planning to stage a demonstration at Munhumutapa government offices which house President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office this Friday, protesting against the murder of Zimbabwean national ...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:56hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Chinamsa and friend steals Government car
TWO men appeared in court yesterday on allegations of conniving to steal a car from the Office of the President and Cabinet after the driver parked it in Harare's city centre to buy a pair of shoes....Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:06hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa humiliates Tsvangirai tormentor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week waded into a chieftainship row in his in-laws' family by endorsing his wife Auxillia's brother, Paradzai Kutyauripo, to take over a chieftainship in Mazowe distr...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 12:34hrs | 3390 | by Staff reporter
Don't read much into campaign crowds
ZIMBABWEANS are set to cast their votes in key parliamentary and local government by-elections tomorrow. The by-elections have the potential to set the tone for next year's national elections....Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:12hrs | 344 | by James Muzondidya/ Munyaradzi Mushonga
Binga to benefit from US$100,000 irrigation project
COMMUNITIES in Binga are set to benefit from a US$100 000 irrigation project funded by the Campfire Association of Zimbabwe (Caz) in partnership with the Kavango Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Ar...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:24hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Club interviews aspiring CEOs
Highlanders Football Club yesterday conducted interviews for the post of club chief executive officer.A panel made up of board vice chairman Cosmos Sikhosana, board member Elkannah Dube, execu...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF candidates trade barbs over posters
Zanu-PF and Citizens Coalition for Change candidates in St Mary's, Chitungwiza, have traded accusations of defacing each other's campaign posters ahead of the March 26 by-elections.CCC parliam...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:43hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
ZRU releases Sables provisional squad
THE Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has released an enlarged provisional Sables' squad, which also incorporates the Goshawks squad, that will do battle in the Currie Cup tournament in South Africa next mon...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:55hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Youth bulge: A demographic dividend or bomb?
EIGHBOURING Zambia at one time an emblem of democracy in the southern African region, provides the best example of transitioning with changes in governance having taken place since the historic unseat...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 105 | by Ashton Bumhira
Mnangagwa's borehole drilling scheme begins
The Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme has started as Government seeks to provide clean water to urban areas after successive opposition led councils have failed to ensure potable water for residen...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Nasty chieftaincy row sucks in Zanu-PF, divides party
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's family is embroiled in a nasty fight over a chieftainship in her rural village in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central province, amid fears she used her influence to ha...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:14hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Economic attitudes, poverty of mind
THE psychological cost of economic insecurity in Africa today is a damning indictment of poverty and how it warps the way we see our challenges and how to resolve them.It seems when poverty hi...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 84 | by Anotida Chikumbu
Mudzuri launches by-election campaign in Masvingo
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-Alliance) vice president Elias Mudzuri last week launched the party's by-election campaign in Masvingo province for candidates taking part in the March 26 by-electi...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:15hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
Elections always unfailingly produce rare and curious political creatures and species.You might think you have seen it all only for another election cycle to remind you that you ain't seen not...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:49hrs | 290 | by Bishop Lazi
Zanu-PF to hold massive rally in Harare
It's all systems go as Zanu-PF readies for a massive rally in Harare to be headlined by President Mnangagwa this weekend as he launches the ruling party's campaign for the March 26 by-elections....Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:22hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water woes force schools to turn away learners
Gweru's water crisis has worsened, forcing some schools to send learners back home on the first day of reopening, NewsDay has learnt.Most of Gweru high density suburbs: Mkoba, Ascot, Mambo, Mt...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate kneels begging for votes
Zanu-PF candidate for the Chitungwiza St Mary's Parliamentary seat, Nobert Jinkika had to kneel before voters last weekend as he begged for their support during the forthcoming March 26 by-elections....Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
A golden future: Unpacking the new direction
LAST week, Advocate Nelson Chamisa unveiled the Citizens Coalition for Change as the new name of the people's movement. Our old name had been pilfered and Zanunised by the political pirates of our tim...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 204 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu-PF bigwigs unsettled by 'militant' Muguti
SENIOR officials in Zanu-PF and the government are unsettled by the militant approach adopted by Harare Metropolitan provincial secretary Tafadzwa Muguti.His abrasive approach in "bringing san...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:44hrs | 2852 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hand picked 'Citizens Candidates'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants have chosen to do away with primary elections by hand-picking candidates to represent the newly formed organisation in th...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:36hrs | 3310 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora at it again
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora is under fire following a criminal case of perjury being opened against him by Gweru mayor Josiah Makombe who, together with former party president Dr Thokozani Khupe ...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:10hrs | 5377 | by Staff reporter
Teenager says raped by cop biological father, stepfather and third relative
A police officer has been arrested accused of raping his 16-year-old biological daughter at a police station.Police are investigating the New Year's Day incident at Senga police camp in Gweru ...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 19:29hrs | 3522 | by Staff reporter
2 minors die in car boot
TWO girls aged three and four died in a Honda CRV vehicle boot while two survived after being forgotten in the car when it got parked.The incident happened in Chiredzi on Tuesday where Seline ...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Referees turn against Malandule and company
REFEREES have turned against the Zifa Referees Committee chairperson Bryton Malandule and the two active members Brighton Mudzamiri and Obert Zhoya for ordering them to withdraw their whistles moments...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 16:09hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge armed robbers net R1,7m, US$50K in spree
FOUR suspected armed robbers yesterday appeared before Beitbridge magistrate charged with 11 counts of armed robbery.The spate of robberies were allegedly committed in the border town between ...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo elected new Zapu President
THE son of the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, Sibangilizwe was Saturday elected new Zapu new president during a drama-filled elective congress held in Bulawayo.Nkomo polled 793 votes to lan...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 18:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
The ZAPU's hour of reckoning has come.
The ZAPU National Elective Congress starts tomorrow on the 28th October 2021 at Bulawayo Amphitheatre and it will run until the 30th. The first day is earmarked for receiving delegates from various br...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 19:57hrs | 16 | by Thulani Nkala
ZIFA flying into major storm
ZIFA could be blindly flying into another constitutional storm which has the potential of pushing out scores of those in charge of domestic football, ahead of the elections to choose their leadership,...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 Zapu provinces endorse Nkomo presidency
OPPOSITION Zapu's 10 provinces have nominated the late party founder and Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko's son, Sibangilizwe for the party presidency.The nominations began a fortnight ago and Nk...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sibangilizwe Nkomo wins Bulawayo nomination
SIBANGILIZWE Nkomo, the son of the late Zapu founding leader Joshua Nkomo, on Saturday won the Bulawayo nomination to contest for the Zapu party presidency, making him the leading contender.This m...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 06:03hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Woman kidnaps 4-months-old child
IN a movie-like incident, a woman from Tarusenga Village in Zaka, Masvingo is on the run after she allegedly kidnapped and disappeared with a four-month-old baby of a fellow villager.The woman...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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