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Storm over public toilets commercialisation
HUMAN rights watchdog, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR), has criticised government's plans to commercialise public toilets as a measure to promote sanitisation and hygiene.The Lo...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:32hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'hijacks' govt recruitment
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the recruitment of government workers as it ostensibly intensifies its third term campaign bid for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, NewsDay has established.The rul...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:58hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Tragedy Strikes in Chikangwe: Illegal fuel storage claims 3 lives in devastating fire
In a grim incident that unfolded on February 24, 2024, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has officially confirmed the death of three individuals following a fire outbreak at a residence in Chikangwe, Karoi...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 21:34hrs | 1141 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabwe fights illegal settlers on state land 'sold' after being repossessed from white farmers
Two decades after a disastrous attempt at land reform, which drove out more than 400 white commercial farmers, the Zimbabwean government is fighting illegal settlers on state land handed out by tradit...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 07:22hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Enjoy the zen whilst I bring you tea, the stewardess seemed to say
Between the sardine-packed spaces, noise and all, its not easy to fall asleep on long-haul flights. Hiatus from shuteye can play havoc with one's sycardian rhythm (body clock), causing the debutant ai...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:12hrs | 173 | by Tondo Murisa
Vendors defy Bulawayo council directive
IT was business as usual yesterday for vendors operating along 5th Avenue in the City Centre, as they openly defied a Bulawayo City Council directive to vacate the street by Sunday to pave the way for...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
BCC orders vendors to vacate 5th Avenue by tomorrow
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has issued a stern warning to vendors who are operating illegally along 5th Avenue. They have until tomorrow to leave the road or have their wares confiscated b...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 08:36hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Thokozani Khupe was from the wrong region
It has happened across the continent so many times, sometimes successfully, and sometimes it is thwarted.When the founding President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta was dying, his Kikuyi clansmen mafia...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 20:20hrs | 2684 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Tshabangu inflicted damage
"WHEN I saw the recall letter circulating on social media I thought it was a hoax. I showed it to my colleagues and we laughed it off," says Evidence Zana, the recalled Bulawayo youth quota member of ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:53hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
BCC shuts down 5th Avenue marketplace
THE Bulawayo City Council has decided to temporarily close 5th Avenue for vending activities as it plans to create 500 vending bays in the area and allow smooth vehicular passage. The council ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 06:29hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council not going back on decongesting CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says there is no going back in decongesting the city centre and has directed informal traders and taxi operators to move to newly upgraded Egodini Terminus and other de...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:56hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube donates soccer kits to Cowdray Park Schools
THE Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Professor Mthuli Ncube continued to fulfil his pledge to develop Cowdray Park and strengthen links with the community after he do...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:41hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF linked space barons cause havoc
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF linked space barons are giving Gweru City Council a torrid time at the Mtapa fresh produce market as they collect fees from vendors, a situation that has forced the local authority t...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:11hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
BCC to reverse decision to close 5th Avenue market
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will this week deliberate on a move that is likely to see the reversal of a resolution to shut down vending activities along 5th Avenue and opening the road to vehicula...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:35hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe genocide victims must be protected during Mnangagwa hearings
CHURCHES and civic groups yesterday called on authorities to ensure the safety of Gukurahundi victims when they testify during the upcoming public hearings.Public hearings into the massacres a...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
'Violence deters youths from politics'
Violence has lowered the percentage of youth voters in the country, a study by a local non-government organisation has revealed.Project Vote 263, in a study titled Youth Participation in Elections, re...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:00hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa slammed for human rights abuses
A human rights organization has strongly criticized the government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for its failure to investigate alleged abuses committed by Zanu PF supporters and security forces...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:21hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers can't breathe
When the teachers are happy (elephants making love), the learners will naturally benefit from their physical and intellectual energies that will be deployed in the teaching-learning process.TH...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 07:26hrs | 763 | by Nicholas Aribino
Vendors relieve themselves in the open in Bulawayo CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the increasing practice of open defecation by vendors in the central business district (CBD) particularly in the streets and sanitary lanes....Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo traffic lawlessness continues unabated
DRIVING on Bulawayo's roads in the Central Business District is now a nightmare as rowdy push-cart operators, pirate taxi drivers, kombi and bus crews flout traffic rules and regulations as the city f...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:13hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe least free in SADC according to US, Canadian NGO
ZIMBABWE's steady decline on The Human Freedom Index (HFI) has seen it slide to being worse than coup-ridden Niger and Gabon while taking the trophy for being the worst in Southern Africa.The repo...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:43hrs | 2118 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt blames land shortage on failure to build schools
GOVERNMENT says it has failed to meet its target to build more schools to ensure quality learning because of land shortage, but critics said authorities were not serious.Students in marginalis...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 08:14hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disciplines land invaders
The ruling party Zanu-PF has implemented disciplinary measures against the Mutare DCC Chairman and certain party members implicated in the unlawful sale and allocation of land.In a statement f...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 09:01hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF draws line in the sand
Zanu-PF has demanded that all illegal land occupations, sale or parcelling out of land and stands, as well as illegal developments, stop forthwith, as the ruling party only supports planned settlement...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:51hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Why is Welshman Ncube being ethnically targeted and bullied?
I repeat and for good reasons, no matter what it takes, Shona ethnic majoritarianism, Gukurahundism and imperialism has to be fought in the following spheres: culture and language , education, healthc...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 08:48hrs | 1425 | by Bekithemba Sibhalwa Jnr
Marginalisation hinder youth participation
Fear of prosecution and negative perception in communities was preventing several youths from actively participating in civil processes, it has emerged.This was revealed by young Zimbabweans p...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:28hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Rains leave trail of destruction
TORRENTIAL rains accompanied by strong winds left a trail of destruction in Dete, Hwange District in Matebeleland North and Masvingo where several homes had their roofs blown off and other property da...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:53hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Indigenous churches should own properties
The Saint John Apostolic Church of the Whole World's Projects Director, Mr Francis Mugandani urged indigenous churches to own properties and become self-reliant, fully empowered and realise developmen...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 14:08hrs | 646 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Gideon Madzikatidze
Peer engagement essential to fight GBV, drugs, substance abuse
Churches in Zimbabwe been urged over the weekend to roll out series peer engagements amongst youths in an effort to combat the scourge of gender-based violence, drugs and substance abuse in communitie...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 07:11hrs | 106 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe political parties should respect voters
THE election season is upon us once again with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga promising youth in Bulawayo that government will create more jobs for the constituency.Drumming up support fo...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:20hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Cholera is wreaking havoc in Harare's poor suburbs
TWO men struggle to push a rusty wheelchair over quarry stones into one of the tents at a clinic in Kuwadzana phase 4, one of Harare's densely populated suburbs.In the wheelchair is an elderly...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:35hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to challenge Mnangagwa from prison
Former Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala, currently incarcerated, has initiated a nationwide movement aimed at challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's governance, which has witnessed an increase ...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 1494 | by Staff reporter
Churches overrun Bulawayo CBD
STAKEHOLDERS in Bulawayo are concerned that a growing number of churches are taking over premises in the central business district (CBD) and industrial sites.Fears abound that this is seriousl...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:33hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman lands top WHO post
A Zimbabwean woman, Ms Chipo Mpemba, has been appointed co-chair of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Commission on Social Connection.The Commission will have its secretariat housed at the U...Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:02hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Open defecation rife in Gwanda
RESIDENTS of Gwanda urban still practise open defecation, according to a latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2023 exposing poor investment on sanitation services."Atten...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Internal conflict and leadership crisis plague CCC
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is once again in the throes of internal conflict, as party factions led by Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube, and Sengezo Tshabangu have escalated the...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1743 | by Dereck Goto
Didymus Mutasa seeking to evict 39 land permit holders
Former State Security minister Didymus Mutasa is embroiled in a land grab storm at the 700 hectare Zingondi farm in Rusape where he is seeking to evict 39 land permit holders.The farmers have ...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 12:01hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govtto roll out rural housing designs
THE Government will soon roll out the rural housing architectural transformation in the country's eight rural provinces after securing 15 best designs from local tertiary institutions as it moves to s...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:44hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet UAE counterpart
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is set to hold bilateral meetings with United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Aal Nahyan, as well as with UAE business leaders when he attends the United Nations Climate...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 06:41hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry begs Treasury for infrastructure development
Sports Arts and Culture Minister, Kirsty Coventry, made a plea to the treasury for funding to address the dire state of sports infrastructure, implicitly urging the government to invest in sports....Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:43hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
CCC, Zanu-PF clash over Mupedzanhamo, again
Tensions have arisen between the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the ruling Zanu-PF party regarding the allocation of vending spaces at the soon-to-reopen Mupedzanhamo flea market. ...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:47hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to establish special youth economic zones
President Mnangagwa is set to participate in the commemoration of Africa Youth Day on November 22, according to Youth Empowerment, Development, and Vocational Training Minister Tino Machakaire....Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | 4554 | by Ntando Dumani
Zimbabwe orders foreigners to get required documentation to continue operating businesses
The government has issued a directive requiring foreign nationals to obtain proper documentation in order to conduct business operations. This decision was prompted by the discovery that some expatria...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 21:41hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:53hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual Zimbabwe empowers women in Mutare
Old Mutual Zimbabwe, a leading financial services provider, has joined hands with New Faces New Voices for a training event aimed at empowering women in various areas, including entrepreneurship and f...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 20:11hrs | 34 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa has no one to blame but wapusa wapusa
Growing up in the country's ghettos, playing plastic balls was commonplace. Young boys stripped to their shorts, sometimes with holes that revealed their nether parts, and ran in the scorching...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | 465 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Harare Mayor vows to push CCC, Zanu-PF out of Mupedzanhamo
Harare Mayor, Ian Makone, has pledged to put an end to the political disputes that led to the closure and disruption of business at the city's largest market, Mupedzanhamo.Mupedzanhamo was shu...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:29hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Govt committed to ensure women's inclusion in disaster management - Mutsvangwa
The government of Zimbabwe has called on for stakeholders collaboration and partnerships with women to ensure disaster management efforts are inclusive, equitable and effective in addressing climate c...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 15:10hrs | 187 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Gideon Madzikatidze
Mnangagwa brings back PVO Bill on Parliament schedule
President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially commenced the First Session of the 10th Parliament of Zimbabwe on Tuesday. In his address, he urged legislators to prioritize the completion of several outstand...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
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