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Mnangagwa should apologise for Gukurahundi massacres, says Tshinga Dube
FORMER War Veterans Minister Tshinga Dube says the grudge between government and survivors of the early 1980s military massacres on 20 000 civilians in Matabeleleand and Midlands provinces, will not g...Published: 4 hrs ago | 836 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa scores Midlands backing for 2023 elections
The Zanu-PF Midlands Provincial Inter-district Conference has endorsed the candidature of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's sole candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.The res...Published: 5 hrs ago | 511 | by Staff reporter
Man fingers police boss, hangs self
A 54-YEAR-OLD man from Maboleni area in Lower Gweru committed suicide by hanging himself from the trusses of his bedroom hut and left a note indicating he took his life after failing to raise money to...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2159 | by Staff reporter
Econet people urged to learn isiNdebele
A SPECIAL data treat promotion by mobile telecommunications operator Econet Wireless turned into a public relations nightmare after a spelling mistake attracted ire from Ndebele speakers....Published: 7 hrs ago | 1843 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF panics over new Zanu-PF party formation
ZANU-PF was Friday forced to issue a statement describing as insult, the formation of a new political party calling itself Zanu-PF Original.The formation of the new Zimbabwe African National U...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3577 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube scorns Mnangagwa talks with political nobodies
FORMER War Veterans Minister, Tshinga Dube Wednesday dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political dialogue with a group of less influential political leaders coalescing under the so-called Polit...Published: 11 hrs ago | 3561 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa's Mutare rally gets green light
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has approved an MDC rally set for Chisamba Grounds in Sakubva, Mutare on December 15, after months of banning the opposition party's events.This comes as the...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2529 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for dressing dog with Mnangagwa T-shirt
ANGRY Zanu-PF supporters in Guruve on Saturday effected a citizen's arrest on a villager last week who dressed his dog in a T-shirt that had the face of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in front of it....Published: 11 hrs ago | 6008 | by Staff reporter
Minister Obadiah Moyo sees red over audit report
Health minister Obadiah Moyo is taking the heat from an audit report which exposed massive corruption at Chitungwiza Central Hospital during his term at the helm of the institution.But Moyo ye...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Security forces fingered in Youth Games scam
SECURITY forces could have helped themselves to huge sums of money meant for the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games that were hosted in Bulawayo in December 2014, a fore...Published: 11 hrs ago | 279 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo eyes City of Choice status in sports
THE Bulawayo City Council has declared its intention of being the country's City of choice in hosting international sporting activities and will take a deliberate approach to improve the various sport...Published: 12 hrs ago | 181 | by Staff reporter
Nsingo declared Zanu-PF DCC chair
A BULAWAYO businessman, Mnothisi Nsingo, has been declared Zanu-PF Area 5 District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson after a losing candidate was mistakenly announced as the winner in polls hel...Published: 12 hrs ago | 192 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dismisses G40 cabal over 'Zanu-PF Original' reports
ZANU-PF has castigated the G40 cabal, a grouping of the revolutionary party's rejects, for fuelling false reports of the registration of a shadowy organisation named "Zanu-PF Original", saying the dis...Published: 12 hrs ago | 220 | by Staff reporter
Boy crushed to death by falling tree
A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy was crushed to death when a teak tree fell on him as he was walking past a vegetable market in Victoria Falls, police confirmed yesterday. The incident occurred at 12 midday on...Published: 12 hrs ago | 282 | by Staff reporter
DStv gives local clients Christmas bonus
LOCAL DStv subscribers will be getting a rare treat from their service provider when they renew their subscriptions this month as they will get a free upgrade to the next bouquet package. This...Published: 12 hrs ago | 798 | by Staff reporter
Rains damage 35 Matebeleland South schools
INFRASTRUCTURE in 35 schools in Matebeleland South Province has been damaged by rains. Presenting a report during a Matebeleland South Provincial Drought Relief Committee meeting on Wednesday,...Published: 12 hrs ago | 328 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry steps down
A new chairperson of the International Olympic Committee will be elected at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, after Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe decided not to stand for re-election to the body. Co...Published: 12 hrs ago | 956 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions on Zimbabwe condemned
Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries have not only impacted negatively on the country's economic performance, but also on the military's ability to access resources such as armoured vehi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 196 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commissions 2 bridges
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday officially commissioned two Bailey bridges constructed by the South African National Defence Forces (SANDF) and the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) at Kopa, ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 330 | by Staff reporter
Former G40 Kingpin calls for unity
Former Minister of Arts, Sports and Culture Makhosini Hlongwane has called for the political leadership of the country to unite for the sake of the nation building. In a tweet on Saturday Hlon...Published: 14 hrs ago | 3261 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Let Zimbabweans find one another, by themselves' diplomats instructed - after 39 years, ravenous hyena midwife to a goat
It is a real tragedy that Zimbabwe is now in a serious mess; millions are facing heart breaking hardship from lack of water, no food, no work, no fuel, no medicine, etc. The situation is now so bad th...Published: 15 hrs ago | 601 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo police warn against vuzu parties
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned teenagers against convening the infamous underground Vuzu parties and abusing drugs after schools closed on Thursday as they risk being arrested. The police said...Published: 15 hrs ago | 861 | by Staff Reporter
10 Zimra officers, agents arrested for 'smuggling vehicles into Zimbabwe'
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested 10 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officers and agents stationed at Beitbridge Border Post on allegations of smuggling vehicles into the ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1732 | by Staff Reporter
Teen boy 'drinks brandy' to death
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a boy (13) from Bulawayo who allegedly finished an undiluted 750ml bottle of brandy in less than an hour.The brandy has an alcohol percentage of 43 percent compa...Published: 15 hrs ago | 794 | by Staff Reporter
The worse ever political year in Zimbabwe
As we come to the wire of the year 2019, there is nothing to write home about as poverty, hunger and unemployment continue to sting the ordinary people in the country.Looking at the political ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:55hrs | 2294 | by Leonard Koni
Attempted assassination and abduction: The new MDC campaign tools
The opposition MDC has become a pale shadow of itself and has failed to occupy the coveted address in Zimbabwe, the State Presidency of staying at Number One Chancellor Avenue in the party's 20 years ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:53hrs | 2828 | by Elijah Chihota
Government officials try to extort South African businessman
South African based Engineer Matshela Koko has claimed that the 100MW solar power plant project which he was supposed to commence in August this year has been delayed because of people in government w...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:46hrs | 7297 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 die in city bus accident
Speeding bus overturned at corner Robert Mugabe and Chiremba Road in Harare this morning killing 2 people on the spot. Forty-eight others survived with different degrees of injuries and were i...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:34hrs | 3018 | by Staff reporter
12 land barons arrested
Twelve suspected land barons in Harare accused of duping desperate home seekers and illegally selling land have been arrested as police intensify its operation targeted at weeding out illegal sales....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:34hrs | 3302 | by Staff reporter
The guilty are always afraid
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is a scared man, seeing shadows everywhere he looks as succession battles loom in his ruling Zanu PF party, a faltering economy condemning many into abject poverty and a d...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2189 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer rules out external mediation
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo has again ruled out the use of external mediators to resolve the political and economic crises in the country, saying Zimbabweans must be allowed and afforded th...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:31hrs | 1849 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt distances itself from Matemadanda utterances
GOVERNMENT yesterday distanced itself from recent statements by Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda, who claimed that human rights lawyer Doug Coltart was paying doctors to stay away from work....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:30hrs | 3720 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss resignation raises eyebrows
The Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara)'s acting chief executive officer Saston Muzenda resigned recently amid reports that operations at the troubled parastatal have been affected by interferen...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1296 | by Staff reporter
ZPP raps Minister Mthuli Ncube over his space satellite budget
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has rapped Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube for budgeting for space satilite at a time when majority citizens are wallowing in perpetual poverty due...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 1953 | by Stephen Jakes
REVEALED: China plotting to elevate Grace Mugabe to vice Presidency
Former first lady, Grace Mugabe, is reportedly set to make an astonishing return to politics as the country's first vice president, under a 2023 Zimbabwe presidential election plot, which China is all...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:51hrs | 6528 | by Nancy Mabaya/Malvin Motsi
Walter Mzembi distances self from #TysonWabantu
Former Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has distanced himself from the G40 "Tyson Wabantu" campaign saying he will make his political pronouncements in due course. The faction on Thursday launch...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 12:08hrs | 2787 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's political stalemate: Who are the victims?
It is a pity that we have become a polarised nation with the ordinary citizen bearing the brunt of elitist politics.Zanu PF, the ruling party since 1980, claims it won the 30 July election. MDC, t...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 10:30hrs | 914 | by Nkosiyazi Kan Kanjiri
Bleak festive season as Government fails to guarantee fuel supplies
The Zimbabwean government has failed to guarantee citizens of adequate fuel supplies in the festive season in a development set to dampen the festive mood already affected by the country's failing eco...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 10:25hrs | 1383 | by Staff Reporter
Unleash army on killer mashurugwi panners: MDC-A Senator
MDC Alliance Senator Lilian Timveos has recommended that the army is unleashed to deal with the notorious ma Shurugwi gold panners who have terrorised and killed people in gold wars across the country...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 10:24hrs | 1995 | by Staff Reporter
'Armed machete gangs will defeat security forces'
Former Minister Arts, Sports and Culture Makhosini Hlongwane has warned that the armed machete gangs from Midlands popularly known as Mashurugwi and Al Shabaab will soon liberate their own territory a...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:51hrs | 5144 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kasukuwere same as Mnangagwa - MDC
The main opposition party MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the former Zanu PF national Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere are the same as they both contributed to the dest...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:27hrs | 4042 | by Stephen Jakes
How General Chiwenga disarmed policemen at Harare airport
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's security guards disarmed members of the paramilitary PSU - the Black Boots who were waiting at the Robert Mugabe International Aiport to arrest him in November 20...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:10hrs | 17114 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga gives wife until November 6 to vacate Borrowdale home
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has given his wife, Mary, until Friday, November 6, to leave their matrimonial home in Borrowdale.According to ZimLive, the retired army general furiously c...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:05hrs | 5626 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa cannot run for third term without a referendum
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu last week raised the prospect that the party could change the country's constitution to remove the presidential term limits clause.The amendmen...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 09:04hrs | 1854 | by Veritas Zimbabwe
Impact of shona teacher deployment to Matebeleland schools, 0% pass rate
At the beginning of 2019, the government has apologised after teachers who cannot speak Ndebele were recruited to take infant classes in Bulawayo....Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3338 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga files for divorce
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured) is on the brink of divorcing his wife, ex model Marry Chiwenga, after the pair had a nasty fallout when he was seriously ill and hospitalised in South Af...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:34hrs | 10350 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gobbles over US$11,4m on foreign trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bloated entourage splashed US$12 million on travel expenses between January and September this year at a time government is battling to contain an intractable econ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:33hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Sense of crisis in Zimbabwe worsens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants "time, patience, unity of purpose and perseverance", to get Zimbabwe's stuttering economy working again. The economy was "dead" under his predecessor and mentor, the...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:32hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties failing citizens
AS the year draws to an end, it has become obvious to millions of Zimbabweans that the prospect of a broad-based, credible dialogue process are fading, further threatening the country's desperately ne...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:32hrs | 247 | by Faith Zaba
EU takes Mnangagwa govt on over rights abuses
THE European Union (EU) has taken government to task over the slow pace of reforms and the country's deplorable civil rights record following a series of incidence where state security agents have use...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
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