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More than $5 billion required for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
THE Government requires more than $5 billion to rehabilitate the country's entire road network with more than $250 million having been availed to the department of roads as work on re-establishing tra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa risks capture by corporate leaders
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's idea that the industrialists and bankers he met on October 29, 2018 should constitute and second some advisers from within their ranks to his office stinks of inviting c...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:02hrs | 2353 | by Brian Sedze
Africa Recognises His Royal Majesty King Mzilikazi II
His Royal Majesty King Mzilikazi II attends to a Conference organised by EMBO Kingdom on the 10th of November 2018.The conference was held in South Africa, Carolina, EMpumalanga at Silob...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 08:13hrs | 927 | by Greater Sibanda, Mzilikazi II Spokeserson
How bond notes remind me of street scams
Plot Mhako grew up on the mean streets of Glen-Norah and Glen-View and is familiar with a street scam or two. He makes a compelling analysis of bond notes - Zimbabwe's surrogate currency.This ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 10:10hrs | 2427 | by Plot Mhako
Strategy changes needed to push Zimbabwe media forward
IN this instalment, I will try to discuss, albeit briefly, strategic issues of the media in Zimbabwe, going forward. I am not sure how far forward we should look, but I would assume that so long we lo...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:55hrs | 63 | by Takura Zhangazha
Ndebele kingship takes another twist - umbiko esizweni sika Mthwakazi
Sanibona sizwe sikamthwakazi kwaBulawayo, nina benkanyamba emakhandakhanda uMzilikazi kaMashobane Khumalo nomdabuli wesizwe sonke. Sicela ukwazisa isizwe samahlabezulu ukuthi kunendlu endala endlini y...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 11:26hrs | 1926 | by Lucky Khumalo
Umithisa unina! . . . 'Sasisithi siyadlala'
KULEMULI yeDzivarasekwa eHarare esele ithwele imikhono emakhanda kulandela ukuba enye indoda imithise unina omncane besithi bayadlala.Inina leli kubikwa seliseduze ukuthi libelethe.Abemuli le ...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 18:20hrs | 3029 | by Umlobi woMthunywa
Family threatens to bury daughter in hubby's bedroom
A family in Silobela is demanding 11 head of cattle from their son-in-law to bury the body of their daughter who committed suicide over her husband's infidelity.Alphina Bhebhe's family is refusing...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:21hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Which way Zimbabwe economy?
Zimbabwe's economy now resembles a dog's breakfast. There's panic, uncertainty and speculation. Prices of basic commodities are rising and nobody seems to care. Fuel is in a fictitious short supply. M...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 869 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiyangwa faces Kamambo challenge
FORMER Zifa board member Felton Kamambo - a rabid critic of the current Zifa leadership - yesterday revealed his bid to challenge incumbent Philip Chiyangwa in elections scheduled for December 1....Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:50hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi pushed me into politics'
THE main opposition MDC Alliance's deputy chief whip in the National Assembly, Nomathemba Ndlovu, has opened up on her traumatic childhood as a victim of Gukurahundi. Ndlovu, a proportional representa...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:30hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
Zupco buses in head on collision
TWENTY six people were injured when two Zupco buses were involved in a head-on collision at the 91KM peg along the Binga-Cross Dete Road. The injured were rushed to Binga District Hospital whe...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 06:17hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwe police officers being transferred
FROM COMPOL [HRA] TO ALL STNS CLASS ‘A’ RDO TM 375/18 DD 11/10/18'IMMEDIATE'SUBJECT: TRANSFERS: OFFICERS AND...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 20:02hrs | 13408 | by Compol HRA
Tsikamutandas warned
Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Larry Mavima has warned self-styled traditional healers, popularly known as tsikamutandas who have reportedly taken Silobela by storm, fleecing villagers of their ...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:36hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council, Chitungwiza, Epworth and Ruwa Town Boards to be mainstreamed
Local Government Minister July Moyo has admitted that Harare has four local authorities and an effort was being made to mainstream them."There is the Harare City Council, Chitungwiza Municipal...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 09:10hrs | 1458 | by Staff Reporter
Tsikamutandas demand sex as payment
A Silobela man was left counting losses after he was forced to part with two head of cattle as two self-styled traditional healers demanded to engage in sex with his daughter if he failed to pay for a...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Mines ministry officials grab gold mine
The Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has intervened in a mine ownership wrangle after senior Zanu-PF officials and officials from the Mines ministry attempted to wrestle a gold mine from Chief Sigodo in...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
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 | 273 | 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 | 1982 | 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 | 2310 | 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 | 220 | 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 | 4934 | 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 | 11228 | 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 | 1842 | 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 | 4411 | 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 | 2001 | 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 | 361 | 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 | 2849 | 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 | 1752 | 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 | 436 | 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 | 9433 | 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 | 738 | 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 | 1418 | 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 | 2159 | 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 | 3924 | 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 | 171 | 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 | 349 | 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 | 1752 | 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 | 1962 | 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 | 1335 | 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 | 208 | 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 | 1785 | 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 | 632 | 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 | 148 | 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 | 210 | 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 | 1667 | 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 | 525 | by Staff Reporter
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