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Zimbabwe yet to comply with regional electoral guidelines
AFTER President Emmerson Mnangagwa inadvertently announced August as the month for this year's harmonised elections, various researchers, journalists as well as politicians wondered whether this elect...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | 162 | by Lyandra Nyamande
Zanu-PF Politburo meets over primary election results
Zanu-PF will hold an Ordinary Session of the Politburo in Harare today to take stock of the just ended primary elections held last weekend.Confirming the development last night, party spokespe...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
As guns flow into Zimbabwe, armed robberies spike
CHRISTOPHER Holland believed he had done all he could to secure his home: two vicious dogs permanently stationed in the front yard and wall-to-wall security. But as he arrived home from work one day a...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:15hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer opens gemological lab in Kabul
Former Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) evaluator and gemologist, engineer Clever Sithole, has opened a laboratory in Kabul, Afghanistan, to unlock the true value of gemstones and cur...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 23:06hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Multitudes march in South Africa demanding Ramaphosa's exit
Thousands of protesters marched through South Africa's cities on Monday, calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign over the lack of jobs and electricity, as security forces guarded malls and stre...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hit by water crisis
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have been hit by a serious water crisis with most suburbs going for weeks without running water amid fears of a disease outbreak.The city is enduring a prolonged water-sh...Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:41hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Mzilikazi High wins Bulawayo Public Speaking contest
MZILIKAZI High School is this year's winner of the Bulawayo Public Speaking competition.The event was hosted last Friday at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music by the Rotary Club of Bulawayo South a...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:38hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Bretheren in Christ donates to Mpilo Hospital
BRETHEREN in Christ Church has come to the rescue of Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo by donating five refrigerators for the storage of drugs.The women overseer at the Bulawayo branch of the...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP accuses Zanu-PF of fuelling drug scourge
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza East MP Goodrich Chimbaira says Zanu-PF is to blame for the increase in drug and substance abuse in the country.Chimbaira said known drug lords and ...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:51hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos in head start
Hwange 0 - 1 DynamosDYNAMOS missed a glut of chances but still managed to see off Castle Lager Premier Soccer League returnees Hwange at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday.Second-half s...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:44hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Dog eat dog in Zanu-PF primaries
It will be a dog eat dog scenario in Zanu-PF primary elections initially set for Saturday (March 18) but have been postponed to a later date, with big wigs and some completely new faces set to clash i...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1945 | by Staff reporter
SA soldier arrested for allegedly attacking cops, freeing Zimbabwean prisoners
A South African National Defence Force (SANDF) member deployed to safeguard the SA-Zimbabwe border has been identified as one of the two people arrested in Limpopo in connection with an attack on poli...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 07:00hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Die cast in Zanu-PF primaries
THE stage has been set in what promises to be a tough contest in the much-awaited Zanu-PF primary elections to choose the candidates that will represent the ruling party in the forthcoming harmonised ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo CBD expansion to cover Suburbs, Kumalo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is considering extending the Central Business District (CBD) into residential areas such as Suburbs and Kumalo in line with current trends that have seen some companies and...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:25hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Army officer, Zimbabwean aided robbers escape
A SOUTH African soldier and a Zimbabwean national have been arrested for allegedly attacking police and helping six-armed robbery suspects awaiting trial to escape on Monday.Kedibone Albert La...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 6 Zimbabwean prisoners escape in South Africa
Six Zimbabweans who were being transported by members of the South African Police Service escaped this morning after a group of heavily armed criminals attacked and shot at the officers in Makhado are...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 14:34hrs | 2627 | by Staff Reporter
Matopo mine dispute sucks in Bulawayo's top cop, Zanu-PF
A common assault report filed at a police station in Bulawayo has triggered an official complaint against the province's top cop, and left Zanu-PF facing accusations of the attempted abduction of one ...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:18hrs | 516 | by Staff reporter
Mine dispute sucks in top cop, Zanu PF
A common assault report filed at a police station in Bulawayo has triggered an official complaint against the province’s top cop, and left Zanu PF facing accusations of the attempted abduction of on...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 21:05hrs | 759 | by Staff Reporter
Sikhala application dismissed
CCC national deputy chairperson Job Sikhala, facing a pair of trials on obstructing justice and on inciting violence, is still applying for postponements as he seeks to have the High Court and the Con...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:50hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo implicated in murky Chiredzi land deal
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo's staggering US$155 million Chiredzi land deal — stinking to high heaven in the lowveld — for his cronies has now fully exploded as residents and Members of Par...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:16hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF elites perfect the catch-and-release strategy
THE release of Zanu-PF's Gokwe Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena on grounds that the state was not ready for trial four months after arrest is proof of double standards and that the govern...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:09hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean driver fined R1 million by South African court
A 28-year-old Zimbabwean man has been fined R1 million by a South African court for smuggling a contraband of cigarettes worth R1,7 million in a commercial truck last year.The accused, Pathisa...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Polad a tool to sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
FORMATION of the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) in 2019 was primarily meant to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration a veneer of legitimacy after narrowly winning the disputed 2018 gen...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:27hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
300 base stations set for installation
GOVERNMENT has purchased equipment for 300 base stations which will be installed across the country as part of efforts to address connectivity challenges especially in rural areas.Information,...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:39hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
West Nicholson-Mberengwa road is really bad
GOVERNMENT is rehabilitating the West Nicholson-Mberengwa Road linking Matabeleland South and Midlands provinces.The road is one of the five major roads in Matabeleland South that are being ta...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:33hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC, police cross swords
Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya was among 25 CCC members arrested recently for holding a meeting at a private residence in Harare. Picture: Shepherd TozvirevaPolice officers attending training ahead of ...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:01hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba Enock off the hook
A SELF-STYLED Budiriro prominent prophet, Hebert Thabo Senda, known as Madzibaba Enock who was recently bashed by suspected bogus Central Intelligence Organisation operatives, was yesterday acquitted ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:24hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Police protects Minister Kazembe's hitman
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe's alleged hitman Isheunesu "Chief Saunyama" Dzimbiti did not show up at Bindura magistrates courts today where he was supposed to answer to threats charges agains...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 13:10hrs | 2840 | by Paul Ndou
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 1113 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
UK lawyer chides Mnangagwa
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer, Max Lion has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abusing State powers to settle a personal vendetta against incarcerated opposition politician, Job Sikhala.Sik...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 3039 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala asks for postponement of his trial
JAILED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice chairperson Job Sikhala on Wednesday sought postponement of his trial, indicating he wanted to appeal against the magistrate's ruling dismissing an appl...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 20:09hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Today's ZANU PF supporters likely to have backed colonial rule!
It is quite scary witnessing how ZANU PF supporters are always so ready and too eager to defend the brutal oppressive reign of the Zimbabwe regime. Whenever I come across the numerous posts on...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 12:02hrs | 1063 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'My Comrades want to poison me' Job Sikhala says
Imprisoned CCC lawmaker Job Sikhala has sensationally claimed that persons close to him have been bringing poisoned food to prison in a plot to kill him. Sikhala alleged the plot in a sensatio...Published: 02 Jan 2023 at 13:22hrs | 4525 | by Mandla Ndlovu
If Zimbabweans are serious about change then 2023 should be a year of action!
In this world, only a fool expects their aspirations and goals to just fall onto his laps - as if manna from the heavens. Anyone who genuinely supposes that their dreams and objectives will be...Published: 01 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 921 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's CCC grabs land worth US$5m
LAND worth millions of United States dollars was parcelled among Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and management at the Harare City Council with the corruption also sucking in legislato...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:38hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Jail has cost Job Sikhala a fortune already
Just before the presidential elections of early 2002, two young MPs from the united MDC, Job Sikhala and Tafadzwa Musekiwa, arranged a meeting with the late Perrance Shiri, who was then commander of t...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 662 | by Tawanda Majoni
PHOTO: Pothole causes head-on collision
A Harare-bound Nissan vehicle encroached into the oncoming lane at Mazowe while trying to avoid a pothole and crashed into an oncoming Toyota vehicle this afternoon.Witnesses said the accident...Published: 23 Dec 2022 at 12:36hrs | 2731 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mazowe
High Court reserves judgement in latest Job Sikhala bail application
INCARCERATED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala is facing the grim prospect of spending Christmas behind bars after High Court Judge Justice Samuel Deme reserved judgement...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:12hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to spend Christmas behind bars?
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala looks set to spend Christmas behind bars after High Court judge Samuel Deme Wednesday indefinitely reserved ruling on the troubled politician's...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:11hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala pens another letter from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has penned another letter from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison where he says he is being crucified by the regime of President...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:10hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's UK activist jailed 13 years for terrorism
A CCC activists based in the United Kingdom has been jailed for three years for inciting public violence using his Facebook page.William Chinyanga was convicted last month on two of the four c...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:10hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's bid to have magistrate removed from case fails
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala, who is being accused of inciting public violence, had his application for recusal of the magistrate presiding over his case dismissed....Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Glamping Adventures head awarded for fostering inclusive rural tourism and conservation
Johannesburg - Gugu Sithole, CEO of Glamping Adventures was recognized with two awards for leading her organisation with conservation strategies that turn the focus on host rural communities within to...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 14:53hrs | 265 | by Agencies
'Sikhala a victim of his own mischief'
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has described jailed Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala as a theatrical character, who is "author of his own situation".The minister s...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Plot to take out Ramaphosa's deputy David Mabuza?
A number of South Africans are wondering if there is a plot to take out ANC Deputy President David Mabuza, who is also known as the "CAT".Mabuza's convoy was involved in a freak accident in Mi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 12:35hrs | 2305 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's 12 children struggling to survive
Opposition MP Job Sikhala refused to go to court this week for the ruling on his 10th bail application in protest against what he knew would be the outcome.His lawyer, Freddy Masarirevu, told ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:09hrs | 4349 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala freedom bid now lost cause, declined bail AGAIN
DETAINED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala's freedom bid is turning out to be a lost cause after Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka yesterday denied him bail for the umpteenth ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo not dead
CITIZEN Coalition for Change member and former Bulawayo MP Ms Thabitha Khumalo is alive contrary to claims that she had died. Messages circulating on social media platforms claimed that Ms Khu...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:28hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a 'hypocrite' who can't preach tolerance when Sikhala is jailed, says Sybeth Musengezi
CONTROVERSIAL Zanu-PF member, Sybeth Musengezi, has once again dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa over hot coals labelling him a hypocrite, who was unqualified to speak of political tolerance when h...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala trial fails to kick off
EMBATTLED Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala, currently locked up at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Thursday protested against Harare Magistrate Tafadzwa Miti presiding over his t...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
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