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Matebeleland political parties divided on election pact
OPPOSITION political parties have expressed differing views on calls by activists and other stakeholders to form a united Matebeleland front ahead of the 2023 elections.A number of political p...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:26hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
RBZ strangles street money changers
They don't know what has suddenly hit them. It is no longer business as usual for most, if not all, illegal street money changers.They used to call the shots in the last few months, de...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank considers currency board
ZIMBABWE is considering establishing a currency board to support the Zimbabwean dollar, as inflation surges.The southern African country is fast moving back into a hyperinflationary crisis, ab...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:19hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora claims he is brewing a shocker for Zimbabwe
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora has said his party is brewing a shocker for the nation ahead of the crucial harmonised elections pencilled for next year.This is despite his party having fared...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:09hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Zimbabwean migrant shot dead in Limpopo
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) on Wednesday said it was investigating two separate cases against members of the police in Limpopo involving illegal immigrants from Zimba...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1615 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabweans must copy Kenya on diaspora vote
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has applauded Kenya for allowing the diaspora vote and said Zimbabweans living outside the country should be allowed to vote in the 2023 polls...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2897 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ignores Motlanthe advice, 4 years on
SOLDIERS who shot and killed innocent civilians on 1 August 2018 have not been prosecuted, four years on, with growing calls for justice falling on deaf ears.Despite appointing former So...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says partisan politics toxifying army
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday spoke out against the "partisan political toxification" of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and urged security forces to serve nati...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told walk the talk
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "walk the talk" on improving the welfare of civil servants.Mnangagwa made a pledge to improve c...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors shoot down Belarus fire tender deal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) councillors have shot down government's directive that BCC should procure fire tender vehicles from Belarus.A latest council report indicates that town clerk Christ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga traces his and Mnangagwa's lineage to Mzilikazi
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has claimed his family, and that of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, have roots in Mzilikazi's kingdom of Matebeleland.In a 17-minute video shot during his mee...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 8987 | by Staff reporter
Botswana jails Zimbabwe pensioner for shooting fisherman
A 72-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean pensioner, Ian Douglas Carlisle, has been jailed one year in Botswana for shooting a fisherman whom he found fishing in a river at his farm.The shooting incident occur...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:48hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | 1149 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans suffer horrific medical exclusion in SA
SOUTH Africa arguably boasts the highest standard of healthcare on the continent where everyone can access public healthcare. However, access to public facilities comes at a cost over around US$300 US...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC will not continue 'whining' over electoral malpractices
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday said it was now a lot wiser as an opposition and was busy plugging loopholes for possible vote rigging going into the 2023 elections.Ad...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Shot in arm for BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved well-wisher's offer to instal solar systems at some of the council's facilities to ensure smooth running of operations during power outages.According t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to be the guest of honour at the wedding ex-army general's wedding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been invited to be the guest of honour at the wedding of Former Presidential Guard commander, retired Brigadier-General Anselem Sanyatwe tomorrow in Nyanga, NewsDay re...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1619 | by Staff reporter
Chief Fuyana: The warrior who delivered the fatal blow on Major Allan Wilson
DEEP down in the hills of rural Matobo District sits Mbembeswana, a humble and unassuming village. But, humble as it may appear, it is where the remains of one of the greatest Ndebele warriors, Chief ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Police sweat over smuggled firearms
POLICE have expressed concern over the proliferation of illegal firearms, some smuggled into the country, as the law enforcement agency sweats over a spate of armed robberies and violent crimes of pas...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
August 1 shooting victim wins $3m compensation
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri and her Home Affairs counterpart, Kazembe Kazembe, have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensation to a victim of the August 1, 2018 shootings by the army....Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1466 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2649 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born American golfer wins Hero Open at St Andrews
Zimbabwe-born American golfer Sean Crocker held off a spirited challenge from Eddie Pepperell to claim his first DP World Tour title with a wire-to-wire victory in the Hero Open on Sunday.Croc...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2826 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF made 235 poll promises, keeps 13
Zanu-PF made 235 electoral promises in the run up to the 2018 polls, but only managed to keep only 13, less than a year to polls in 2023, a non-governmental organisation has claimed.Independen...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council does not build dams, says Mayor
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume yesterday shot back at Zanu-PF claims that the local authority had failed to provide enough potable water to residents because it had not built an adequate number of dams for...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
2018 shootings still haunt victims
VICTIMS of the August 1, 2018 post-election shootings are still struggling to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones, four years on.None of them have received any form of government s...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC remembers August 1 shooting victims
ON this day four years ago, security forces fired on Harare residents in the central business district (CBD) following post-election protests after delays by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:08hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Robbers net US$100,000 and R500,000 in Zimbabwe cash-in-transit robbery
Shots were fired as armed robbers targeted a cash-in-transit van on a busy street in Bulawayo on Monday morning.Police said US$100,000 and R500,000 was stolen as at least four armed men wearin...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:07hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, civil servants meet over salaries
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima has invited more than 40 public service unions to a meeting to discuss salaries and conditions of service today.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Ximex mall dealer a ZANU PF activist
The late Ximex mall dealer Tafadzwa Murengwa who fatally shot his girlfriend in a love triangle was identified on social media in ZANU PF regalia....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 20:43hrs | 2780 | by Paul Ndou
Residents challenge BCC over 'unreasonable' bills
BULAWAYO residents have challenged the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over astronomical bills, but city fathers said they are not to blame because inflation has pushed up the cost of everything.T...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:08hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Ximex mall dealer commits suicide
The Harare Ximex Mall dealer, Tafadzwa Murengwa alias Boss Pangolin who yesterday morning shot and killed his girlfriend along Simon Mazorodze Road after accusing her of cheating him with a married ma...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:07hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Ximex dealer guns down lover
A dealer at the former Ximex Mall in Harare, Tafadzwa Murengwa alias Boss Pangolin, yesterday shot and killed his ex-girlfriend near Bathroom Boutique along Simon Mazorodze Road in Waterfalls after ac...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Propaganda, lies will not resurrect Zimbabwe economy
THE country's economy is on its knees and probably needs biblical resurrection.The Zanu-PF government has lost its marbles and its successive economic blueprints have failed to turn around the...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:50hrs | 429 | by Leonard Koni
Martin Dinha shoots self on the thigh fighting off armed robbers
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board chairperson and Zanu PF acolyte, Martin Dinha, is nursing injuries after he reportedly shot himself on the thigh fighting off armed robbers who attacked...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 20:33hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 1609 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Chamisa resorting to double-Dutch to sell autocratic CCC - anything to avoid demanding Truss vs Sunak democratic slug
"It (CCC party structures) is a dead issue, a non-issue really," Chamisa said. "We are introducing fresh politics and new culture and, of course, it will have a new structure carrying within it new st...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 13:05hrs | 1724 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Police brutality victims challenge Police Act
SOME victims of the 2018 police shootings have challenged the constitutionality of discriminatory provisions in the country's Police Act.Tomorrow, High Court judge Justice Siyabona Musithu wil...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC fires 'warning shots'
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was on cloud nine yesterday after thumping the ruling Zanu-PF party in weekend council by-elections, prompting it to declare that this was a harbinger fo...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2758 | by Staff reporter
Bosso struggle to victory
Highlanders 1-0 Bulawayo CityHIGHLANDERS might have failed to replicate the poetic football they have been exhibiting lately, but they bounced back to winning ways, halting Bulawayo City's three-m...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Inflation wipes out govt budget
GOVERNMENT says it has failed to recruit teachers required to minimise the shortfall of educators at the country's public schools because inflation has wiped out the budget for theexercise....Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Baron Dube sent back to prison
ESIGODINI gold dealer Baron Dube is back in prison after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against conviction and sentence for lack of merit.Dube (46) of Habane Extension Township was in ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Madlela ropes in fresh talent on new song
MADLELA Skhobokhobo has roped in young and fresh talent in the creative game for his latest offering titled Ama International.The urban music track due to be released today alongside its visua...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Injuries cripple Dembare
LIMPING giants Dynamos have been forced to drop five key players from their plans ahead of the high stakes Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against Chicken Inn scheduled for Barbourfields tomo...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
What exactly is Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF afraid of?
THAT Zanu-PF has ruled this land called Zimbabwe for the past 42 years would make one believe that by now the governing party would have matured to the level of being tolerant to those opposed to its ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens to block Kariba's development if opposition CCC wins by-election
Zanu-PF has hinted it will not facilitate infrastructural development in the already marginalised Kariba Urban constituency if its candidate loses the local authority by-election scheduled for Saturda...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:15hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe NGOs trade accusations
A PRESS briefing held last week in the capital revealed deep-rooted divisions within the civil society after accusations were levelled against the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations group fo...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:29hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Dembare sweat for draw
Dynamos 0 - 0 FC PlatinumDEFENDING champions FC Platinum turned up flat and giants Dynamos were equally uninspiring as the eagerly-awaited Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match between th...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:13hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga introduces new wife to family
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga recently took and introduced his new wife Miniyothabo Baloyi (donning white hat and mask), who is a colonel and his junior in the military ranks, to his extended fa...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:41hrs | 32335 | by Staff reporter
CCC not taking threats against Chamisa lightly
Zanu-PF has been described as a "criminal gang" after a ruling party member threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his family with death.The police were evasive yesterday when contact...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Joel Ngodzo still Bosso player
HIGHLANDERS have insisted that Joel Ngodzo is still their player following reports that the club has gotten rid of the midfielder.Ngodzo was reportedly on his way to Bulawayo City on loan as B...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
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