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'Wadyajena is a liability to Zanu-PF", say villagers
It never rains, but pours for embattled Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator, Justice Wadyajena, whose constituents now accuse him of not only turning his back on the electorate, but of being a liability to th...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1862 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe MPs, ministers shunning local languages'
BUSINESSWOMAN and talk-show host Rebecca Chisamba has accused parliamentarians of not doing enough to promote the country's indigenous languages.Chisamba made the statement during an interview...Published: 12 hrs ago | 237 | by Staff reporter
DJ Tira vows to promote Zimbabwe's tourism
South African record producer, DJ and Kwaito artiste, DJ Tira (real name Mthokozisi Mkhathi) has vowed to help promote Zimbabwe's tourism through various initiatives.The Afrotainment boss who ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Contractor shifts gear up to complete civil servants' flats
FACED with financial challenges, some contractors halt or abandon projects in a huff, but Pevimag Contractors, has broken that tradition by getting a $45 million loan from a local bank to make sure th...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Fake promises anger Zimbabwe army, police
DESPITE efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create the impression that it is supportive and taking good care of the uniformed forces, morale remains low in the military barracks an...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:23hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza acting mayor claims he is being sabotaged
ACTING Chitungwiza mayor, Kelvin Mutimbanyoka says council employees, including management, were sabotaging an on-going operation against illegal structures."I have realised that a lot of coun...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Mphokos, Choppies legal wrangle rages on
THE legal battle pitting Choppies Enterprises Limited against former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela over the 51 percent shareholding that they claim at the retail giant will ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Robber, poachers arrested
A 34-year-old suspected armed robber has been arrested in Bulawayo for allegedly attacking, with help from an accomplice, a man at a bus stop, stealing his wallet containing US$2 500 before speeding o...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 23:14hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda demands return of Zipra properties
Zanu-PF Bulawayo province chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has demanded that government returns all Zipra-owned properties to Zapu war veterans.Speaking on Friday during the official opening of th...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:50hrs | 3112 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha: Matebeleland's unsung heroes
OMALAYITSHA (cross border transporters) are among the unsung heroes to most communities particularly in Matabeleland region where most families have relatives based in South Africa who send them money...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra guerilla now a successful farmer
EX-ZIPRA guerrilla Moses Moyo is a beneficiary of the land reform programme and owns a plot under the A1 model in Makokomba village in Umguza District. He now has what he fought for – the land....Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors want parking system contract revised
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday hit out at the "unfair" parking system which was imposed on the city's residents, with one warning fellow councillors that they were underestimating the depth of publ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:32hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Another bread price hike looms
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for another bread price hike after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of wheat by 30%, industry officials said yesterday.NewsDay understands that GMB ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses Mphoko's application in Choppies dispute
THE Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an application by former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko and his son Siqokoqela, who took Choppies Enterprises to court over 51% shareholding that they claim ow...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2843 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation spikes to 257%
ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation jumped to 256,9% this month, up from 191% in June, evoking memories of the 2008 hyper-inflationary era nightmares as prices of basic goods continue to skyrocket....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:09hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Bulawayo parking management
BULAWAYO business owners and residents have claimed that the new city parking management system run by South African company Tendy Three Investment (TTI) in the central business district (CBD) is adve...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Court accepts pictures as exhibit in CCC members trial
THE State yesterday tendered into court record as evidence pictures taken from CCTV footage extracted from shops at Belgravia, in Harare, where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri were alle...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:33hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa party's logo irked the West because of the ISIS index-finger symbol, says Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwean health workers receive Chinese Medicine trainingXinhuaThe Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture Centre at the Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 3686 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roadworks create 11 000 jobs
Fifty-five contractors and nearly 11 000 people have so far been hired countrywide to conduct works under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2), bringing joy to communities along the r...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
'Don't abandon US$ demands'
INCARCERATED teachers' union leader Obert Masaraure yesterday urged fellow educators not to "sell-out" in the push for United States dollar salaries ahead of their crunch meeting with government next ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:30hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must avoid self-destruction
WITH our motherland not completely out of the West's evil economic sanctions woods, but encouraged the warmth of some European union members, excluding this country's former coloniser Britain — whic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 96 | by Stephen Mpofu
Mnangagwa too desperate
POLITICAL survival remains democratic when the leader of a country is deriving their power from the masses.Politics remains peaceful when those in power are running a successful economy, with ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1101 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Passengers steal $30 000 from Zupco kombi
THIEVES pounced on a Zupco kombi in Bulawayo and got away with $30 000 and US$30 and mobile phones on Sunday morning.The three suspects, who are still at large, according to police, boarded th...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:36hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe total shutdown looms
Zimbabwe's public service sector faces total shutdown this week over a salary deadlock as government maintains it cannot afford to meet their pay demands.Civil servants are demanding to be pai...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
RBZ summons retailers, manufactures
RETAILERS and manufacturers have been summoned to a no-holds-barred meeting on price hikes by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a unit of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, especially against the back...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa laments banking sector rot
GOVERNMENT's recent adoption of tough economic measures is in response to mischievous behaviour by some economic players and syndicates who are bent on sabotaging the economic transformation achieved ...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza demolishes illegal structures
Chitungwiza Municipality started destroying illegal structures, often tuckshops, at the start of a 30-day blitz on Wednesday to remove them, especially those under power lines and over sewers. ...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:03hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Biti claims Zimbabwe iInflation now 430%
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader and Harare East legislator Tendai Biti has demanded a ministerial statement by Treasury on the country's worsening economic crisis....Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
State allowed to play incriminating footage in CCC case
A COURT yesterday allowed the State to play CCTV footage extracted from shops in Belgravia shopping centre in Harare where CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abduc...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economy not as bad as claimed, says Mangudya
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, John Mangudya has said the country's economy is doing well despite the negative perception among the people.Giving oral evidence on the performance of ...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1946 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's economic measures illegal'
LEGAL think tank Veritas has poked holes into recent measures announced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to tame inflation saying they undermined Parliament's legislative role.In its latest Bi...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:20hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
'Exclusive USD pricing illegal'
PRICING of goods exclusively in US dollars remains completely illegal and businesses not accepting local currency payments for every product should stop the illegal practice forthwith or risk having t...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:18hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa grilled over propaganda
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank have run out of ideas and are introducing complicated policies that continue to confuse and disadvantage the ordinary people while failing to address...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:15hrs | 2687 | by Staff reporter
Shops rejecting RTGS
Most shops in Bulawayo have started rejecting the ever-falling RTGS in favour of foreign currency.A snap survey carried by this publication indicated that most shelves have now pegged their go...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 16:00hrs | 2295 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
South Africa's #NationalShutDown continues today
South Africa's national shut down will continue today and has spread to other parts of the country.Yesterday, truck and taxi drivers blocked various roads in Mbombela and the surrounding areas...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 8721 | by Staff reporter
Price controls backfires in Zimbabwe
MANUFACTURERS and retailers have reportedly deliberately stopped supplying basic commodities such as mealie-meal, cooking oil and sugar, resulting in shortages as government's pricing regulations begi...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:05hrs | 3918 | by Staff reporter
Road rehab ignites hope in Manama
FOR villagers in Manama, the rehabilitation of the Guyu-Manama Road in Gwanda District is the beginning of endless possibilities.With a good road network, villagers believe more investors will...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe puts demolition of illegal tuck shops on hold
KWEKWE City Council has put the demolition of illegal tuck shops on hold pending consultations with stakeholders.The local authority had given an ultimatum to illegal tuck shop and gas vendors...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:57hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
New details emerge on police shooting
EYEWITNESSES to a recent Chitungwiza shooting incident that left two residents seriously injured have accused police of misleading members of the public by claiming that the shooting incident happened...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:19hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP fumes over demolition of illegal tuck-shops
KWEKWE Central legislator Judith Tobaiwa is up in arms with council city management following the latter's decision to demolish some illegal tuck-shops and gas cages.In a recent notice, counci...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says he is no longer free
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday says he no longer enjoyed public life because he was always surrounded by more than 100 security personnel.Addressing businesspeople at the official open...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 19224 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri seek to block damning video evidence
CCC members Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, accused of faking their abductions in May 2020, yesterday mounted a bid to block the State from playing and tendering into court record CCTV footage obt...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe to demolish illegal tuck-shops
Kwekwe City Council has given illegal tuck-shop owners an ultimatum to regularise operations or risk their structures being demolished.The ultimatum has also been extended to illegal gas vendi...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Armed police miss the target, shoot innocent people
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has admitted to shooting of two innocent people in a shootout out with armed robbers yest...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 22:18hrs | 2503 | by Shelton Muchena
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 2947 | by Staff reporter
'No need to import cement into Zimbabwe'
THE country's leading cement manufacturer, PPC Zimbabwe says they will continuously invest in their operations through maintenance and capital development programmes to ensure excellent product qualit...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
CCC quartet to spend weekend in remand
FOUR Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists will spend the weekend behind bars following their arrest in connection with political violence that occurred at the funeral of slain opposition acti...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:38hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink: Living in fragile peace
YESTERDAY, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) launched the 2021 State of Peace Report. It is an annual product of the ZimRights' Right to Peace Campaign which seeks to empower communiti...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 409 | by Dzikamai Bere
CCC blasts Sikhala bail ruling
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has condemned a court decision Wednesday to deny party legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole bail.The duo returned to remand after they...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:53hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
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