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How Zimbabwe's ruling elite fund their luxuries at the expense of ordinary citizens
They live a tax-free lifestyle, do not pay duty to import vehicles and yet they introduce a new tax every year to fund their luxurious lifestyle. In Zimbabwe, the stark contrast between the lifestyles...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 12:38hrs | 820 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mnangagwa shields Ruwa Local Board assets from seizure, sale
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has exercised his emergency powers to protect the assets of the Ruwa Local Board from sale and seizure, responding to a dire situation that threatens the well-being of the...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
JSC shields new judges from scrutiny
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has declined to disclose information regarding the selection process of judges in Zimbabwe, despite scrutiny over the judges' performance during interviews....Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 10:11hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda shields President from MPs scrutiny
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda faced criticism after preventing opposition CCC lawmaker Gladys Hlatywayo from raising a point of national interest regarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controv...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt shields ZEC, Chivayo in US$40 million scandal
Government officials, including the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Lovemore Matuke, have dismissed persistent corruption allegations against the executive, despite reports linking unexpla...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimplats shields US$1,8 billion expansion plan
PLATINUM giant Zimplats says the current cost-cutting initiatives aim to lessen the effect of budget cuts on its growth strategy, which includes a US$1,8 billion expansion programme.The compan...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Company employees linked to robbery case
THREE employees at Quest Financial Services have been implicated in a robbery that occurred at the firm's Belgravia branch in Harare on Saturday.The three allegedly teamed up with six others, ...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison boss shields partisan officer
CCC rubbishes Kindness Paradza claimsThe opposition CCC has dismissed as false claims by Deputy Information minister Kindness Paradza and other Zanu-PF officials who say the party has been refusin...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison boss shields partisan officer
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services has ignored a letter written to it by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights attorney Innocent Gonese over the misconduct of ZPCS officer Caroline Manjongo who ha...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 19:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The legend of Chief Maduna of Godlwayo
WHEN the 1896 First Umvukela/Chimurenga military campaign against the Ndebeles had not been a success, arch-imperialist Cecil John Rhodes called for a great indaba with Ndebele chiefs (izinduna) in th...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 08:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Vending in Zimbabwean towns with kids declared an offence
DURING the peak hour, human traffic in Central Business Districts (CBDs) across towns and cities naturally swell, as commuters frenziedly make their way to various pick-up points for transport to take...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Will the real Ndebele please stand up
There has been a lot of talk about the resorgimento of the Ndebele Kingdom and crowning of the King himself. We have had so many pretenders to the throne, all claiming to be the rightful heirs or Prin...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Mnangagwa shields killer soldiers from justice
ZIMBABWEAN human rights organisations under the Crisis in Zimbabwe banner have engaged former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, raising questions and seeking global support in dealing with th...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police persecutes Chamisa's CCC, shields Zanu-PF rogue elements
POLICE are once again on the spotlight over allegations of selective application of the law where they stand accused of moving at lightning speed to arrest and lock up opposition members suspected of ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Moyo shields MDC-T councillors to protect controversial deals?
AS consistently reported by The NewsHawks prior to the March 26 by-elections, Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) has stepped in to protect his multi-million-dollar corrupt deals at Town Ho...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Useless UN Rights Chief tells Russia to stop war in Ukraine immediately
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights on Wednesday called Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from Ukraine and stop the war that she said had caused immeasurable suffering and grief for mi...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We are on the brink of World War III
A Third World War is looming after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The military action which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a special military operation to disarm a neo-Nazi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:02hrs | | by Energy Mutodi
Govt shields dodgy US$400m deal from political scrutiny
THE government has ring-fenced a filthy US$400 million waste-to-energy Pomona dumpsite deal pushed through by Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) from political scrutiny and possible ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 17:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Journey to koBulawayo: Learning about a community through its material culture
WHEN a people settle at a place, there is interaction between them and the environment.Their minds, their worldview impact on the environment, its various aspects and, in the process, space is...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:22hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
'Ukraine President commits crimes against humanity' Jonathan Moyo says
Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of committing crimes against humanity by recruiting civilians to fight Russia. Ukraine is currently recruiting civili...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 16:41hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Urban commuters lament transport crisis
IT was just another day at the bus station. Passengers were waiting in queue at a terminus adjacent Harare Police Station charge office, enduring hours before the next bus came by.The swelteri...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZANLA/ZANU did not liberate Matabeleland
To say that ZANU and it's razmataz armed wing, ZANLA, liberated Matabeleland and therefore are our leaders, comrades or heroes, is as good as claiming that the Rhodesian Army and government liberated ...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 00:20hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
'Some South African judges still have apartheid mentality'
SOUTH AFRICA'S ex-president Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
RG's office 'shields' corruption accused officer
The Registrar General's office is allegedly refusing to cooperate with investigators in the case involving passport processing officer, Prisca Moyo, who is facing charges of soliciting for a US$20 bri...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
People of Godlwayo retain identity and pride
Maduna Mafu, the chief of Godlwayo, led the armed struggle of 1896 in the eastern Ndebele State, together with other leaders such as Mahlahleni Mafu, Siminzela Mathema and Fezela Khumalo.Godlw...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:05hrs | 49 | by Phathisani Nyathi
Mr President open Ekusileni Hospital - People are Dying
In June 2018, ahead of the July 2018 general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the government had engaged the Indian Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI) to operate the health facil...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:14hrs | 1 | by Dr Edwin Moyo
Zimbabwe chiefs to dump colonial regalia
CHIEFS are set to abandon their colonial regalia as it does not reflect Zimbabwe's traditional heritage and cultural values but cements colonial dominancy. The red and purple gown and round sh...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
School head in car accident
Chibuwe High School head walked from a car accident with minor injuries after the school minibus he was driving while being towed overturned and landed on the side.The accident happened at aro...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic named Bank of The Year 2020
HARARE - 3 December 2020 - Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has been awarded the 2020 Bank of the Year 2020 accolade for the second year running by top banking magazine - The Banke...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 09:04hrs | 5 | by Agencies
'Illegal kombis risking lives'
PASSENGERS and pedestrians are risking their lives everyday due to the running battles between police and pirate commuter omnibus operators in all urban centres across the country.Ever since t...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
52 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Zimbabwe
The national recovery rate now stands at 90,3percent after 11 new recoveries were recorded.Total PCR tests done over the period were 604."As of 21 November 2020, Zimbabwe has now recor...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police beefs up para-military unit
SOME 352 junior officers drafted into a police crack unit specifically to deal with protests earlier this year, have all been transferred to the ZRP's para-military Support Unit, NewZimbabwe.com repor...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa shields purse
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa), whose account was recently garnished over a US$518 331 debt owed to former administrator Lazarus Mhurushomana, has petitioned the High Court with an urgent ch...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Commemorates the visit of Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in 1889
The African community in the UK will be Celebrating the 1889 visit of two Ndebele Chiefs to Queen Victoria in London. In late 1888 King Lobengula sent 2 emissaries from present day Zimbabwe to go and ...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 22:29hrs | 38 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
Ndebele villages or regiments: Organisational units within the state
FOR about 25 weeks now we have been investigating the phenomenon of naming, initially starting off at the cosmic level but later getting down to the terrestrial plane. Our interest has been to investi...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Pathisa Nyathi
WATCH: Youths savagely attack rogue Bulawayo councillor
BULAWAYO Ward 5 Councillor Felix Mhaka was yesterday savagely attacked by rogue youths while other councillors were held hostage at the City Hall as tempers flared over the aborted suspension of Town ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
High school boys 'beef' turns Bulawayo CBD into warzone
IN A split second, a usually uneventful street corner adjacent to the Chronicle building is suddenly turned into a war zone by a handful of boys from Milton and Gifford high schools. The boys ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police buy 4 000 AKs, sniper rifles
POLICE have acquired an assortment of weapons - including 3 343 AK-47 assault rifles and about 600 sniper rifles - as they prepare to quell looming street protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A timeline of an almost failed state
I. Stone Age; hunter-gatherer San (Twa) presence (20,000–15,000 BC) of modern homo sapiens.II. Iron Age; Niger-Congo Bantu pastoral migrations (2000–1500 BC).III. Ophir; alleged "p...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Sonny Jermain
Mnangagwa buys new weapons
ZIMBABWE's state security forces have acquired new equipment and weapons, including water cannons, teargas canisters and guns, to prepare to combat looming street protests due to the collapsing econom...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn rioters
POLICE are ready and will in future not hesitate to react ruthlessly if attacked by rioters a senior police officer here has warned.Officer Commanding Marondera district, Superintendent Didymu...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
Cyclone Joanina will not hit Zimbabwe
The government has dismissed social media reports that another cyclone known as Joanina, is set to hit the country after the devastating Cyclone Idai.Speaking at a media briefing, Information,...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube settling score with Mwonzora, shields Chamisa from possible challenge
MDC Alliance deputy president, Professor Welshman Ncube, has joined a slew of the opposition party's sycophantic officials who are shielding party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa from possible challenge at t...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
How the nature of online casino venues changed to increase their attraction to millennials
One of the most essential considerations online players require of online casino entertainment venues is their range of available games modernised to offer the excitement of gamification. A number of ...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:34hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Protesters jailed 30 years for destroying police station
FIVE Marondera men who were part of protesters that destroyed a police station, were on Friday sentenced to a combined 30 years in jail by magistrate Pasipanodya Maturure, who found them guilty of pub...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concern over using of children during riots
CHILDREN are considered as the voiceless and innocent and are often susceptible to various forms of abuse by social misfits and political vultures who use them in skirmishes for their selfish gain and...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:55hrs | 2 | by Peter Matika
Zimbabwe protests: 1 100 arrested
At least 1 100 people have so far been arrested over violent protests that rocked the country last week. Statistics released by the police show that the suspects were arrested in all the 10 prov...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe demos and the double face of human rights activists
The recent shutdown called for by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and backed by its affiliates, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, some non-governmental organisations and civi...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 22:34hrs | | by Norman Moyo
Zimbabwe protesters overrun police station
Eighteen protesters who allegedly invaded and caused damage to a police in station in Marondera on Thursday appeared before magistrate Ignatius Mugova facing charges of public violence.Some of...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
More deadly protests lined-up in Zimbabwe
DEADLY street protests which brought Zimbabwe to a standstill this week have added impetus to calls by opposition parties and civil society organisations for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to agree to d...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
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