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Obert Mpofu behind Chief Ndiweni jail sentence
MDC Alliance treasure general David Coltart has described the case in which Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni was jailed for 18 months as a political sham trial influenced by Zanu-PF and its...Published: 18 mins ago | 65 | by Staff Reporter
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 2 hrs ago | 543 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Gukurahundi victim documents horror story
A Bulawayo-based Gukurahundi survivor is engaging writers to document what he went through during the mass killings and says he wants to ensure the country's history is not distorted.Charles T...Published: 2 hrs ago | 306 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa need to compromise, says Coltart
MDC treasurer general David Coltart has said there is need for both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition party's leader Nelson Chamisa to drop their hardline positions if genuine dialogue a...Published: 2 hrs ago | 338 | by Staff reporter
Miners bail out troubled Zesa
Zimbabwe's top three platinum miners are said to have helped settle the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) $10 million part payment to the South African electricity sup...Published: 2 hrs ago | 179 | by Staff reporter
Reverend Bushiri comes to Chitungwiza
Congregants at the Enlightened Christian Church (ECG) in Chitungwiza had a chance to witness the power of God following the visit by one of the senior members of the church, Reverend Otis Bushiri....Published: 2 hrs ago | 175 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor speaks on his two days of horror
Bulawayo City Council was recently rocked by unrest after a coterie of councillors led by deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami tried to oust town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami last month took adv...Published: 2 hrs ago | 99 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 2 hrs ago | 142 | by Kennet Mufuka
Chamisa's advise to Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa Friday urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to make right, the country's toxic politics insisting this was the best remedy to a rampaging economy.He was addressing the ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 156 | by newzimbabwe
Abductions, torture, dragnet arrests amid vicious crackdown against dissent
Blessing Kunotonga is one of scores of opposition supporters left nursing serious injuries after state security agents launched a crackdown against the MDC ahead of the banned August 16 protests....Published: 2 hrs ago | 55 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 2 hrs ago | 93 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's packed in-tray as Organ Troika chair
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumes the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation - also known as Organ Troika - from his counterpart from the sister republic of...Published: 2 hrs ago | 331 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes 400MW from Mozambique
GOVERNMENT will this week dispatch a high-powered team of experts to Mozambique to negotiate for more electricity imports from Hydro Cahora Bassa as authorities continue putting in place measures to i...Published: 3 hrs ago | 136 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo becoming haven for drug peddlers, gullible youths turn to mental patients' pills
BULAWAYO is fast turning into a haven for drug peddlers, who are pushing an assortment of dangerous substances, turning gullible youths into addicts.Sunday News discovered that so cunning are ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 254 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe govt readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 3 hrs ago | 399 | by Staff Reporter
'Prisca Mupfumira wanted to remove General Chiwenga'
Embattled Former Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira wanted to remove the ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and install herself as the Vice President of the party and of the country. Pr...Published: 18 hrs ago | 13788 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Henry Olonga takes on Mnangagwa...again
Former Zimbabwe Cricket player Henry Olonga has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa head on over the popular video where the President is seen saying: We are the the police, we are the army, we are eve...Published: 21 hrs ago | 7678 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matshela Koko's 100MW solar project gathers pace in Zimbabwe
FORMER Eskom chief executive officer Engineer Matshela Koko is pressing ahead with his company's 100MW solar project in Gwanda, which is expected to be the envy of the continent upon completion....Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual responds to Zimbabwe shareholder who want the Board to resign
Thank you for responding to my request for the Chair and the Board to resign. I am aware that you could not say much because this issue is before the High Court. For you to suggest that these court pr...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2173 | by Old Mutual
Buyanga refutes accusations of land graft in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's anti-corruption drive has sucked in a businessman from that country who is based in South Africa, but the well-established entrepreneur denies any wrongdoing.Reports from that count...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 17:36hrs | 441 | by ANA
'Don't care how Zanu-PF got power, account for it' - too late, MDC gave them absolute power
"THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use th...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:54hrs | 2878 | by Wilbert Mukori
Linda Masarira speaks on HIV scandal
CONTROVERSIAL politician Linda Masarira-Kaingidza says she will not lose sleep over pictures and chats being posted on social media about her husband Gilbert Kaingidza. Kaingidza is being accu...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1683 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Peace, Order Bill still unconstitutional
At a sitting that started on August 8 and ended at 4.10am on August 9, the National Assembly passed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill with amendments, most of which were intended to meet objecti...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 97 | by Veritas
Zimbabwe loses US$34m through illicit financial flows - Report
SOUTHERN Africa is prejudiced of a staggering US$30 billion annually as a result of illicit financial flows, with Zimbabwe losing US$34 million every year due to trade under-invoicing while also losin...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:24hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe tycoon left for dead in SA
Simon Rudland, co-owner of the Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation and a member of the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA), was seriously injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Johann...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to establish Offshore Financial Centre in Zimbabwe
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is "very serious" about establishing an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC) in the country, but analysts say given the country's handli...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa mocks Zifa ban
FORMER ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa says the life ban imposed on him by the new association's leadership "is a joke," which will be dismissed by those who make pronouncements that matter in this ga...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe: At the centre of Soweto!
As the wave of violence, threats of violence and looting against foreign nationals and their businesses subsided in Johannesburg, it finally arrived in Soweto!Just after sunset on Wednesday 14...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 276 | by Walter Nyabadza
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State,that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve t...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 173 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe - MLF
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State, that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 293 | by MLF
Mnangagwa ally's hearing deferred
Harare magistrate, Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa, yesterday deferred to August 29 the matter of former Principal Director State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet Douglas Tapfuma who alleg...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:03hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's R27 000 vanishes
MDC-Alliance's preparations for a demonstration next Tuesday reportedly in disarray after the disappearance of 27 000 Rand which was earmarked to cater for logistics for the day. The missing f...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:56hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Beit Trust Scholarship application now open for Zimbabwean candidates
THE BEIT TRUST - SCHOLARSHIPS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES: 2020 IN THE UK AND 2021 IN SOUTH AFRICA INVITATION TO ZIMBABWEAN CANDIDATES Every year, ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 19:52hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa top aide implicates Cabinet Secretary in duty-free vehicle import ring
Douglas Tapfuma, a top aide of President Emmerson Mnangagwa facing corruption charges, on Thursday implicated Chief Cabinet Secretary Misheck Sibanda.Prosecutors say Tapfuma, while working as ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 19:34hrs | 6232 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe cigarette mafia boss shot in South Africa
Reports from South Africa indicate that cigarette mafia boss Simon Rudland survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday. Announcing the tragedy Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa said,...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | 4454 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Zimbabweans businessman critical following assassination attempt in Joburg
Simon Rudland, co-owner of Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation and member of Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA), was seriously injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Johannesburg on ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3535 | by Staff reporter
Eskom sets Zesa stringent demands
South Africa's power utility Eskom has set stringent conditions for its Zimbabwean equivalent after agreeing to a payment plan for US$33 million debt owed by Harare and to the subsequent supply of 400...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 5862 | by Erasmus Pongo
Fact-checking Mthuli Ncube
"It's early days, we just introduced the new currency regime a little over a month ago, so it (the new currency) is trying to find its way, it is trying to find equilibrium; it will get there and clos...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Radio presenters get a feel of SA broadcasting
FORMER CapitalkFM station manager Napoleon "Napster" Nyanhi's Radio Presenters Masterclass initiative launched last year has started paying off for young local broadcasters who recently went on a tour...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blessed Chiyangwa life ban?
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and board member responsible for finance Philemon Machana have formally apologised to President Mnangagwa for the unfortunate events that rocked the Zimbabwe camp during ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming on ways of...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 3039 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's special envoy on regional offensive
ZIMBABWE'S Special Envoy, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday met Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi and delivered a special message from President Mnangagwa. Ambassador Khaya Moyo further di...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo calls on Zimbabweans to boycott Aug. 16 protests
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo sparked internet fury on Wednesday after calling on Zimbabweans to boycott protests called by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change.The ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:39hrs | 4494 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa on a SADC diplomatic offensive ahead of MDC demo
Zimbabwe's Special Envoy to the SADC region, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo today met the President of Mozambique, His Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, ahead of the 39TH SADC Heads of State and Governmen...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:32hrs | 4569 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt now printing 800 passports per day
Government has confirmed that the production of passports is improving and now stands at 800 passports per day from the previous 60, boosting chances of clearing a backlog that stands at 300 000....Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:29hrs | 2349 | by Staff reporter
Philip Chiyangwa, Omega banished for life
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) says it has banned its former president Philip Chiyangwa and his sidekick Omega Sibanda for life for "bringing Zimbabwean football into disrepute."...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 19:05hrs | 3248 | by BBC
African legislators draft 'model law' to strengthen Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
The Pan-African Parliamentary (PAP) Committee on Rural Economy, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources recently came up with this draft model law on food security and nutrition in Africa whose...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:11hrs | 176 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | 2820 | by The Guardian
ZANU PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology. The Party works in very mysterious ways to such an extent that when people think i...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:34hrs | 651 | by Elijah Chihota
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