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Swiss Ambassador Outsmarts CIO
The Swiss Ambassador to Zimbabwe allegedly outsmarted the dread Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Organisation after successfully carrying out a series of clandestine meetings meant to influence the Gukur...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:02hrs | 2669 | by Hilary Ntini
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Disband Zinara, demands Zapu candidate
ZAPU candidate for Lupane East, Mthenjwa Gumbo, has demanded that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) be disbanded due to its failure to rehabilitate national roads, especially in the M...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa no saint, but Chamisa sleeping on duty'
WITH three weeks before Zimbabwe holds general elections on August 23, there is already a sense of déjà vu among those following the run up to the polls.This week, leading analysts said they...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 21:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bus operators bend the rules, flout BCC by-laws
WITH the words "Inter Africa" inscribed at the back, a silver Toyota Quantum vehicle makes a sudden stop and a tout bolts out, approaches two women and asks where they are travelling to. The tout tell...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Peace commission knows nothing about attacks on Chamisa's supporters
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has blasted National Peace and Reconciliation Commissioners (NPRC), whom it has accused of turning a blind eye to violence meted on its supporters by Zanu-PF....Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Musa Kika
Zanu-PF in panic mode
The ruling party Zanu-PF is in panic mode as another 'Bhora Musango' is looming following chaotic primary elections which are yet to be concluded since there are reruns in some provinces.Speak...Published: 13 May 2023 at 20:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Intercity buses turn Bulawayo CBD into a Mbare
CALL it lawlessness or chaos. This is what several long-distance bus operators plying intercity routes are turning Bulawayo city centre into.For sometime, there has been rampant illegal pickin...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Corruption tarnishing Zimbabwe's image
ON April 18, 2023, Zimbabweans from all walks of life thronged different venues across the country to celebrate Independence Day.The day is a milestone in the history of the country as it acco...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Zanu-PF MP gets 8 votes in primaries
THE ruling Zanu-PF party primary polls last month were reportedly the worst nightmare for sitting Mutare West MP Teedzai Percy Muchimwe.It has emerged that he only managed to garner eight vote...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jitters over Gwai-Shangani Dam relocations
A MATABELELAND based human rights group has accused government of dithering on plans to relocate hundreds of villagers in Lubimbi, Binga in Matabeleland North to pave way for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam....Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says his govt slept on duty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday admitted that government has been sleeping on duty as far as developing the country's economy was concerned.Officially opening the first phase of the US$...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blows top over govt bureaucrats
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Cabinet ministers and top civil servants to desist from frustrating potential investors by sleeping on duty.Speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony at Di...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa threatens to fire members of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa has threatened to fire members of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) and accused the staff at the State Procurement Board (SPB) of ‘sleeping on duty'...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Our MPs are sleeping on duty
IF it is, indeed, true that Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi dribbled the country's civil society organisations (CSOs) by completely ignoring their contributions to the Private Voluntary Organisations...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives 2017 'ice cream' horror
President Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on his infamous Gwanda poisoning incident in 2017, saying the medical treatment that saved his life after being airlifted to South Africa inspired his mantra th...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza choke on own garbage
In front of Mrs Florence Kasambira's home in Manyame Park lies an enormous landfill.It is easy to miss her well-manicured front yard as one's attention is easily drawn towards mounds of waste ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, prosecutors trade barbs over graft
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) yesterday accused each other of failure to nail political bigwigs and private sector bosses involved in graft.T...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chris Mutsvangwa panics...Temba Mliswa to drop files
ZANU PF Spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa is reportedly panicking over the meeting between Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa and exiled former ZANU PF Political Commissar Saviour K...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 13:04hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Road rehab moves to high-density suburbs
The emergency road repairs and rehabilitation being undertaken by the Government are now moving into the suburban roads in high-density suburbs, which have been neglected for years by inept and corrup...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt plans to fully implement smart cities concept
GOVERNMENT plans to fully implement the smart cities concept in line with the recently launched climate policy with Figtree in Matabeleland South set to be transformed into such a city, President Mnan...Published: 18 Nov 2021 at 19:13hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter
'Mental patient' torches vehicles at carpark
A SUSPECTED mental patient went berserk and allegedly stoned four cars at an overnight carpark in Bulawayo's Mpopoma suburb before torching two of them, reducing them to shells while security guards w...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown guards need guarding
Lockdown robbery. That's perhaps the best thing to call it.The setting is a once-famous nightclub off Old Mazowe Road on the outskirts of New Marlborough. The time is 10pm on a Friday evening....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Graft rife in govt, says Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) yesterday exposed massive looting by senior government officials and parastatal bosses, accusing line ministries tasked with playing an oversight role of...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Should Zimbabweans give Mwonzora a chance?
After graduating with a Degree in Politics and Public Administration in (2016), I still find myself within the circles of thousands of unemployed graduates in our country. It's now five years while I ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 2 | by Knowledge Hakata
Chiwenga declares war on land barons
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has started implementing recommendations of the Uchena Commission land audit which implicated several Zanu-PF-linked land barons in the illegal sale of State land....Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa says Mnangagwa is clean on corruption
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa has come to the defence of President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is under fire for failing to deal with his corrupt cronies.At a media briefing Tuesday, Mliswa said the "peop...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide must not be swept under the carpet, says Gandawa
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister, Godfrey Gandawa has called for truth telling and prosecution among perpetrators of the Gukurahundi atrocities before steps could be put in ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Machete attacks resurface
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has raised concern over cases of violence involving machetes which have resurfaced in mining areas in Matabeleland South Province. The commissio...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blow for Warriors
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo has ruled out any possibility of the Warriors playing friendly matches ahead of the resumption of the qualifying games for the 2021 Cameroon Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon)...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Musina residents 'reject' their police
RESIDENTS of Musina, South Africa's northernmost town bordering Zimbabwe, last week demonstrated against their police's alleged general dereliction of duty in the wake of rising crime such as murder a...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament of Zimbabwe exposed
The constitution of the Republic of Zimbabwe provides for a robust and effective legislative arm of government, which provides oversight to the executive. Recent events have exposed Parliament as weak...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zimbabwe MPs demand Land Cruisers, houses in Harare
Members of Parliament have demanded to be issued with Toyota Land Cruiser V8 vehicles, houses in Harare, security and five-digit salaries, accusing Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube of prioritising the ot...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:25hrs | | by ZimlIve
Sympathizers turn against Chamisa after by-election defeats
The opposition MDC has received criticism from unlikely quarters after losing two council by-elections in Bikita and Nyanga to the ruling Zanu-PF party.The by-elections held yesterday saw Zanu...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ability to lead questioned
Former ZANU PF Youth Leader Farai Mteliso has questioned MDC President Nelson Chamisa's ability to lead a mass struggle arguing that the newly elected leader was neglecting hundreds of masses arrested...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Prosecutor General in bid to regain control of graft cases
PROSECUTOR-GENERAL Kumbirai Hodzi has beefed up his staff complement and embarked on a drive to take over all high-profile corruption cases assigned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special anti-corr...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora wants to end the standoff between Chamisa and Mnangagwa
TENSION continues to rise in the MDC ahead of its elective congress with secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora saying party president Nelson Chamisa failed to meet a target of attracting 4,5 million vote...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans, we are our own worst enemy
Dear EditorI'm sure somewhere someone is calling Zimbabwe a big joke as we are a country with misplaced priorities. For starters, we have good farming land, good climate, plenty natural resour...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 14:08hrs | 2 | by Munya Shumba
'RBZ must be as clean as possible'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been under scrutiny following the suspension of four directors - Messrs Mirirai Chiremba (financial intelligence), Norman Mataruka (bank supervision), Gresham Muradzik...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black market dragnet targets bigwigs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will invoke the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act to introduce tough regulations to bring currency manipulators to book.In his ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala blast Minister Moyo for sleeping on duty
MDC Alliance legislator Job Sikhala has blasted Local Government MInister July Moyo for sleeping on duty after he displayed ignorence that some debt collectors were contracted during the previous Mini...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Grace Mugabe owns Wellcash'
Local Government minister July Moyo was yesterday grilled in Parliament over government's engagement of a company owned by former first lady Grace Mugabe as debt collectors in several local authoritie...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
MRP thanks Beitbridge West voters
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has thanked the Beitbridge electorate especially these who voted for MRP. "We value your votes and your faith in entrusting us with your political destiny. We wo...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 08:27hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Man crushed to death by sugarcane harvester
A Chipinge man from Macdom Green-Fuel Company in Chisumbanje was reportedly crushed to death by a cane harvester last Friday night after sleeping on duty.According to a leaked police memorandu...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 19:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zimbabwe opposition slept for 5 years'
The MDC-T has admitted to sleeping on duty in Parliament instead of working on reforming the Electoral Act and attending to issues they are now raising on the eve of an election. It admitted the refor...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Battle for Mberengwa declared
Aspiring legislator for Mberengwa Takavafira Masarira Zhou who is the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President have declared war for the control of Mberengwa constituency in this year election...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T run Harare threatens imminent demolitions
Harare City Council (HCC) has opened a Pandora's Box on the eve of elections set for July 30 after the municipality declared war on illegal settlers residing in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone Farms....Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ritual killer names four businessmen who bought human body parts
A HONDE Valley man, who is being troubled by the avenging spirits of people he murdered for ritual purposes together with 11 accomplices, has opened up on how the ruthless gang trailed unsuspecting vi...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No toilets at new Bulawayo termini
BULAWAYO councillors have called on residents to be patient and make do with the temporary commuter omnibus ranks and vending bays as the city did not have enough space to accommodate them amid confus...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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