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Redcliff MP lays down vision
NEWLY-elected Redcliff MP, Lloyd Mukapiko - the undertaker who "buried" President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally, Local Government minister July Moyo in July 30 elections - said he will work hard to en...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Silo blast exposes GMB can of worms
The recent explosion which killed six people at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lions Den silos along the Harare-Chirundu Highway has exposed favouritism in the parastatal's employment policy and fail...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1966 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blamed for failure to address 'legitimacy' issues, prices soar
THE prices of basic commodities have risen sharply since elections held on July 30 to levels that are too high for a dollarised economy.The bout of inflation is blamed on excessive government ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
GMB blast kills 4 workers
At least four workers were killed, while three others were seriously injured after a massive explosion, whose cause is still unknown, rocked the Grain Marketing Board's Lions Den depot in Mashonaland ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
GMB explosion - One body recovered, three workers missing
One body has been recovered and three workers are missing after an explosion at the Grain Marketing Depot (GMB) Lions Den Depot this afternoon.The explosion resulted in fire in the control tow...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | 4801 | by Staff Reporter
8 unique things you didn't know about Auxillia Mnangagwa
1. Birthday and place of birth Auxillia was born on 25 March 1963 in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central.2. Family li...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 16:37hrs | 10967 | by Sithabile Mafu
Do your job, do it well, says Matanga
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has challenged officers to continue working hard as part of efforts to gain public trust and confidence countrywide. He said senior officers should motivate ...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:30hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zanu-PF retains two-thirds majority
Zanu-PF has retained its two-thirds majority in the National Assembly following the announcement of the latest batch of results from 55 constituencies announced today. The party now has 144 se...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 16:21hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
The bones that haunt Mnangagwa
At the bottom of a crevice in the rocks - just as the eyewitness had said - was a parcel of bones, wrapped in a shirt. It was a shirt just like the one Fanta Ndlovu was wearing when he went missing 33...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:47hrs | 4394 | by BBC
Promoting savings culture in Zimbabwe indispensable
Since time immemorial, generations have been saving. And going down the memory lane, lessons can be learnt from the Zunde raMambo concept from the Zimbabwean tradition where the kings store and preser...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 89 | by Dephine Mazambani
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 1942 | by Staff reporter
'Undenge jailing sends message to thieves'
THE Government is committed to fighting corruption by public officials as evidenced by the jailing of former Cabinet Minister Samuel Undenge and more prosecutions of that nature will help fight agains...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
'We removed Mugabe, not the Zanu-PF system'
MDC Alliance spokesperson Prof Welshman Ncube has said Zimbabwe's deep economic morass goes beyond the removal of former President Robert Mugabe from power.Speaking at a campaign rally for the...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:45hrs | 2840 | by Staff reporter
Over 20 000 killed during Gukurahundi: Researcher
ONE of the surviving researchers who compiled a report on the 1980s mass killings in Midlands and Matabeleland has said the documented 20 000 civilian deaths during Gukurahundi was a conservative figu...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 08:06hrs | 1732 | by Staff reporter
Does Njelele hold the keys?
"It was on June 29, just a month before the nation votes on July 30, that they came and desecrated our shrine. Whether that is pure coincidence, a planned act or just another act of vandalism, we are ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:46hrs | 427 | by Staff rpeorter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | 9370 | by Staff reporter
Khupe knocking on doors
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has started door-to-door campaigns in Matabeleland region to solicit for votes ahead of the July 30 elections amid appeals from villagers for equal distribution of reso...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Let's give President Mnangagwa a chance
Whenever one is given a task, duty or role to perform in the interest of serving the citizens, many expectations and positive results will be anticipated. The citizens will indeed expect change, thus ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 14:46hrs | 1415 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Zhuwao: Why the economy will vote for Chamisa to eliminate cash shortages and bank queues
The economy will vote for Chamisa to eliminate bank queues. In order to understand how the economy will vote for Chamisa we need to recognize that the construction of the term economy comes from its o...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 14:32hrs | 2155 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Open letter to Ezra Tshisa Sibanda and All
Hello My Dear brother this is Mqondisi Moyo. Ngifisa ukukubonga ngenkulumo zakho ezinhle oziyenze ngami lebandla leMRP. Ngidlulisa ukubonga kwami okukhulu kuwe ngisithi eSibanda baba.Ngamadoda...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 18:17hrs | 3900 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Jail for machete attack
A Silobela man has been sentenced to 12 months behind bars for striking a man with a machete on the head for 'touching' his opaque beer.Tawanda Mpofu (31) of village 16 Chief Ntabeni in Silobe...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:00hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash glitches leave thousands stranded
THOUSANDS of Econet customers have been stranded in recent days as the popular EcoCash mobile money transfer platform has been misfiring.Subscribers have been struggling to make payments via E...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 465 | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu PF activist fined for tearing MDC Alliance poster
A ZANU PF activist was yesterday fined $200 for defacing a campaign poster belonging to MDC Alliance Gweru Urban parliamentary candidate, Brian Dube.Emmanuel Mangena (28) of village 1B, Lahlek...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:05hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
List of Mthwakazi candidates
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), Mqondisi Moyo, says his party managed to successfully field candidates in all the 12 constituencies in the Bulawayo province while in Matebeleland North they managed to...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 12:01hrs | 1732 | by Ndou Paul
Chamisa plays the tribalism card
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has called for compulsory teaching of local languages in primary school as a means of reversing "language imperialism".Addressing a bumper cr...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 08:43hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Silobela man axed to death in $1,50 robbery
A SILOBELA man who fatally axed another villager and robbed him of $1,50 and a mobile phone before dumping his body in a disused mine last week appeared in court facing a charge of murder.Jowm...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 11:15hrs | 1321 | by Staff Reporter
Man in court on murder charge
A Silobela man has appeared in court for allegedly axing another man before dumping his body in a disused mine. Jowman Ndlovu (21) of Nkomozabo Village under Chief Malisa in Silobela allegedly...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi candidates disqualified
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) says it has engaged lawyers to challenge the disqualification of some of its candidates by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) on grounds which the separatist party ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:58hrs | 1784 | by Staff reporter
Man 'axed', thrown in disused mine
A MAN was killed and his body dumped in a disused mine in Silobela.The body of the man identified as Bukhosi Dube was discovered with a deformed face in the pit by passersby who spotted a trai...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
GMB forecasts decent deliveries
Farmers have delivered more than 47 136 tonnes of maize, 5 000 tonnes of soyabeans and 136 tonnes of small grains to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) within the first month of the marketing season, rai...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:16hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Mashonaland West
Mashonaland West is a very important province in Zimbabwe as it provides the country with abundant economic opportunities in agriculture and mining, President Mnangagwa said recently.In his ad...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T raps Matematanda for trying to defend Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
MDC-T Bulawayo spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has rapped the war veterans Secretry general Victor Matemadanda for trying to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the involvement in the Gukurahundi m...Published: 27 May 2018 at 12:11hrs | 1666 | by Stephen Jakes
Gukurahundi 'victim' remains exhumed
A family from Silozwi in Matobo last week exhumed the remains of their relative, who was reportedly killed during the Gukurahundi massacres, after several failed attempts.Police on several occ...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:06hrs | 475 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo donkey abattoir saga rages on
When Zimbabwean businessman Gareth Lumsden announced in October 2017 that he had set up a $150,000 donkey abattoir in Bulawayo, local animal welfare organisations protested that his proposed slaughter...Published: 26 May 2018 at 19:38hrs | 3487 | by Oscar Nkala
Senior Zipra cadre dies
A high-ranking Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) cadre, Masilo Muleya, who is also credited for training many senior war veterans among them the Defence Forces Commander General Philip Vale...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Another Gukurahundi victim exhumed
The Nyathi family in Silozwi in Matobo North, could not hide their joy when the remains of their relative who died in the hands of the brutal Gukurahundi, was exhumed today the 19th of May 2018....Published: 20 May 2018 at 13:43hrs | 2663 | by Stephen Jakes
'We cannot operate in silos,' says Mnangagwa
We publish here the full text of the Address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces E. D. Mnangagwa at the Southern Africa Confederation of ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:44hrs | 423 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
It's good for our generation to groom, front Chamisa if we want Ebay in Silobela
If we want our mothers to order an iPad on Ebay from their rural home in Silobela, we need to first think why they can't do it now. We need to think who, in the catalogue of given Presidential asp...Published: 08 May 2018 at 09:04hrs | 2743 | by Ryton Dzimiri
If we want Ebay in Silobela, only Chamisa
If we want our mothers to order an i-pad on Ebay from their rural home in Silobela, we need to first think why they can't do it now. We need to think who, in the catalogue of given Presidential aspira...Published: 07 May 2018 at 14:54hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Bangwato in Zimbabwe seek repatriation
A short walk from Matsiloje village in north-eastern Botswana across the Ramokgwebana River into Zimbabwe leads to Mphoeng's Reserve. Though administratively in Zimbabwe the residents of the reserve a...Published: 06 May 2018 at 12:44hrs | 1388 | by Mmegi
Chief Maduna petitions Mnangagwa over Obert Mpofu
Chief Vezi Maduna of Filabusi in Matabeleland South is seeking President Emmerson Mnangagwa's permission to summon Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu to appear before his court on allegations of meddli...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:37hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga opens $3,5m plant
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday commissioned a $3,5 million Splash Paints and Plastics plant in Harare and challenged all sectors of the economy to be active contributors to foreign curr...Published: 01 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | 3399 | by Staff Reporter
Woman sets boyfriend's ex-lover' hut ablaze
A 19-year-old Silobela woman went berserk after she saw her boyfriend entering his ex-lover's bedroom and went on to set the house ablaze out of jealousy while they were still inside.Moleen Mp...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:25hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe must bury their differences
CIVIC society group, Concerned Citizens Support Network of Zimbabwe, has called on the warring MDC-T factions to bury their differences and unite ahead of this year's general elections to avoid splitt...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 20:11hrs | 1701 | by Staff reporter
Woman stabs baby, hangs self in infidelity row
A 24-YEAR-Old woman from Nkayi allegedly stabbed her one-year-old child before she committed suicide by hanging at her in-laws's home over an infidelity dispute with her husband.Nkosilomusa Gu...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:48hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Mine collapse victims named
POLICE have released the names of six people who died after a tunnel at disused Old Motapa Mine in Bubi District, Matabeleland North Province, caved-in last Thursday afternoon.National police ...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:12hrs | 1743 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidates list
THE ruling Zanu-PF yesterday released the full list of its candidates who have been given the green light to battle it out in the primary elections, with some party bigwigs and businessmen from Bulawa...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:10hrs | 11564 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miners feared dead as mine shaft collapses
Several illegal gold miners are feared dead at Motapa Old Mine in Matabeleland when a shaft collapsed on Thursday.Sources close to investigations allege four people have been retrieved so far ...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 07:09hrs | 661 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Machete war at gold mine
GAIKA Gold Mine in Kwekwe, which recently opened under a Community Ownership Trust, has temporarily ceased operations following the death of two people after a war of machetes broke out.The mi...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:09hrs | 2127 | by Staff reporter
FDI expert to address Cabinet
Visiting Rwandan investment expert Ms Clare Akamanzi has said political will to make bold decisions and listening to concerns of the private sector were some of the cardinal principles Zimbabwe could ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:48hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
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