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Mnangagwa to commission new Shurugwi-Mhandamabwe highway
The Second Republic continues to achieve significant milestones in modernisation and infrastructure development, with President Mnangagwa expected to commission the newly-resurfaced Shurugwi-Mhandamab...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:42hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
First shipment of bucket seats arrives for National Sports Stadium renovation
The long-awaited refurbishment of the National Sports Stadium took a significant leap forward yesterday with the arrival of the first consignment of bucket seats. This milestone is part of an ambitiou...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:49hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs press Mthuli Ncube to raise their salaries
Zanu-PF MPs pressed finance minister Mthuli Ncube to raise their salaries and commit to give them houses and Toyota Land Cruisers before passing his budget on Thursday.Comparing themselves to ...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 17:38hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 11 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu-PF grassroots reject 2023 candidates
A protest vote is looming in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard in Midlands where Zanu-PF grassroots are rejecting recently elected party candidates in more than 10 constituencies.Insider...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries show a 'generational shift'
SITTING Zanu-PF legislators paid the price for "ditching" their constituencies as they went on to lose primary elections held a fortnight ago.Zanu-PF this week announced successful candidates ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Primaries: Remaining candidates announced
Zanu-PF has announced the final list of candidates who will represent the party in the forthcoming harmonised elections with 205 candidates cleared, and only five remaining to allow for reruns....Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Miner in bid to appease Zanu-PF
CHINESE company Chenjxi (Private) Limited, which was in partnership with a local miner exposed by The NewsHawks last year in April after conducting illegal mining activities on part of the picturesque...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold smuggling on the rise: Parly
Parliament's Mines Portfolio Committee yesterday raised concern over the proliferation of gold mines amid reports that gold smuggling to South Africa and the Middle East had increased.The comm...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chinese Parly building complete
Epitomising magnificence, the imposing six-storey circular Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the picturesque surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislati...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's enforcer bites the dust again
FORMER State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube's political woes worsened at the weekend after he lost the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship, on which he had imposed himself, and was shunt...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
War in Mnangagwa's back yard, daggers drown in war for positions!
Political tension has risen in the Midlands Province as ZANU PF structures are gearing towards restructuring of all organs of the party up the provincial echelon.Reliable information emanating...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 22:01hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gold deliveries slump
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) is worried about the decline in gold deliveries over the years owing to a number of factors and the firm is working on a cocktail of measures to address the challe...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Storm leaves trail of destruction in Shurugwi
HEAVY rains have spawned a humanitarian crisis in Shurugwi district destroying schools, homes, roads and other public infrastructure such as bridges over the past few weeks.Shurugwi assistant ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP clears the air on CDF abuse allegations
Shurugwi South Member of Parliament Edmond Mkaratigwa (ZANU PF) has come out clean on the allegations of abuse of the constituency development fund.The MP yesterday released documents of the f...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zanu-PF Midlands leaders panic as Mliswa goes back to his roots
CONTROVERSIAL Norton independent MP Temba Mliswa has caused a political storm in his Midlands home province by commissioning various development projects in his village amid growing speculation and fe...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Floods undercut Midlands highway
THE Shurugwi-Mhandamabwe Highway is set to be closed to traffic after flooding undercut part of the road at the Musavedzi River bridge leaving it hanging precariously - posing danger to humans and veh...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mine accidents: MPs grill Chitando
MINES minister Winston Chitando on Wednesday came under fire from legislators demanding answers on what his ministry was doing to prevent fatal mine accidents.Legislators from the Parliamentar...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 18:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says law against 'errant' NGOs in the pipeline
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired warning shots against "errant" non-governmental organisations (NGO) and disclosed that government would soon craft a law to whip them into line.In ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF Councillor under fire for stealing from his people
Shurugwi South Ward 7 Zanu pf Councillor Jabulani Muzvezve under Chief Nhema is accused of misusing his office and stealing from the villagers.It is alleged that Councillor Muzvezve of ward 7,...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 09:22hrs | | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chamisa's selection of by-election candidates raises temperatures
FRESH trouble is brewing in the MDC Alliance, with its leaders now standing accused of overlooking an agreement which allows the group that came with one of the coalition's deputies, Welshman Ncube, t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC chairman buried
MDC's firebrand Shurugwi South district chairperson, Norman Pfeveni, who succumbed to hypertension over the weekend, was buried at his rural home in the district yesterday.He was 62.Pf...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brother stabs sister in a failed rape attempt
A woman from Shurugwi is lucky to be alive after she was stabbed several times on the neck and buttocks by her brother in a failed rape attempt.Benedict Munazvo (20) of Zhaugwe Village in Shur...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands on the mend
THE MDC Midlands has embarked on an outreach programme to mend cracks that emerged in districts ahead of the party's fifth elective congress with the major aim of winning the rural vote in the next po...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
I am made of thick skin: Matsunga
IN the country's political sphere, it has almost become a trend that the majority of female politicians are now making it to Parliament through the Proportional Representation route, set by government...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Midlands in crunch indaba
THE MDC Midlands provincial executive is tomorrow set to hold a crucial indaba to heal simmering divisions that emerged in the run-up to the opposition party's national congress held in Gweru last mon...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers forced to fund Uhuru festivities
VILLAGERS in Shurugwi South constituency, Midlands province, were last week reportedly forced to contribute money towards the district and provincial independence celebrations by Zanu-PF youths....Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Congress: Internal party violence rears its ugly head
The battle for the top leadership posts within the MDC Alliance ahead of the elective congress pencilled for 24 to 26 May has reached a crescendo with officials trying to outwit each other by unleashi...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
More chaos visits MDC elections
CHAOS characterised the recently held MDC ward and district congresses in Midlands and Beitbridge where new structures were being elected ahead of the national crunch event set for May.Top par...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Nduna dropped from Parly committees
PARLIAMENT has removed Norton and Chegutu West legislators, Mr Temba Mliswa and Dexter Nduna, from their positions as portfolio committee chairpersons. Mr Mliswa was the chairperson of the Min...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Nduna kicked out Parliamentary Portfolio Committees
INDEPENDENT Norton MP Temba Mliswa and his Chegutu West counterpart Dexter Nduna, were on Thursday dropped from the newly constituted Mines and Mining Development Portfolio committee, Speaker of Parli...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:19hrs | | by newzimbabwe
MDC Shurugwi backs Chamisa
MDC Shurugwi South district has passed a resolution to nominate party leader Nelson Chamisa for presidency ahead of the elective congress scheduled for May.The resolution was unanimously passe...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex inflows hit $6 billion
Zimbabwe's foreign currency earnings for the year to date have hit the US$6 billion mark, from US$4,6 billion realised in the whole of last year as the country's exports and Diaspora remittances conti...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF victory celebrations end in chaos
THERE was chaos at the Zanu-PF victory celebrations in Shurugwi South constituency held at Dorset business centre at the weekend after party supporters and other villagers accused their leadership of ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance meeting ends in chaos
INTRA-PARTY violence reared its ugly head on Sunday during a crunch MDC Alliance district meeting in Shurugwi meant to suspend party cadres who stood as independent candidates during the July 30 polls...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF extends lead
The ruling Zanu-PF has extended the lead in early returns. Zimbabweans went to the polls on July 30 in historic elections which take place nine months after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Below ar...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF poised for landslide
Zanu-PF has taken a commanding early lead in National Assembly results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) last night, with the ruling party poised for a comfortable majority in Parli...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reprter
Zanu-PF still in the lead, wins 110 seats out of 153 announced
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has announced a further 50 National Assembly results, bringing the total so far to 153.Of the 153 Zanu PF has won 110 seats while the MDC Alliance got 4...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe must be the winner
For every winner there has to be a loser.But the more closely I look at Zanu-PF and MDC Alliance, the less I see differences in style and substance between them, with mere days before the elec...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Gen Tongo's brother endorses Mnangagwa
Felix Tongogara, young brother to the late national hero and commander of ZANLA military forces, General Josiah Magama Tongogara, has implored the people in Shurugwi South to vote resoundingly for Pre...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 11:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance candidates in fierce clash
FIERCE clashes have broken out between MDC Alliance's Shurugwi South parliamentary candidate Oshed Mtunami and his MDC-T counterpart Daniel Mabonga, who is contesting as an independent.Mtunami...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T 'rebel' backs Chamisa
SHURUGWI-BASED MDC Alliance activist, Daniel Mabonga, who successfully filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate for Shurugwi South, has embarked on a door-to-door campaign where he is a...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance tightens bolts on rebels
The MDC Alliance, the biggest opposition party in the country is working 24 hours to persuade rebel candidates who filed nomination papers against party decision to withdraw from the race before this ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by A Mhlongo
MDC-T activists petition Chamisa over Shurugwi South candidate
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance members for Shurugwi South have petitioned him to resolve the issue of the parliamentary candidate for the constituency saying they were not comfortable with the se...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Headache for Mnangawa, Chamisa
Both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa face major problems as the country's national elections beckon, with dozens of disgruntled former Cabinet ministers and MPs from ...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 22:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa dribbles coalition partners
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has dribbled his coalition partners by unilaterally fielding candidates in constituencies reserved for them, threatening the co-existence of the Alliance and trig...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Full list of MDC members standing under MDC Alliance banner
The nomination court set on 14 June countrywide, below is the full official list of our members whose papers sailed through:1. Bulawayo East - Ilos Nyoni2. Luveve - Stella Ndlovu...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 11:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF losing candidates expose party rigging tricks
ASPIRING Zanu PF candidates who lost in the ruling party's recent primary elections in Shurugwi South have spilled the beans, accusing the winner, Edmond Mukaratigwa of using unorthodox means in the p...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
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