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ZANU won't laugh last still- MLF
The removing of chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni from the Nhlambabaloyi chieftaincy does not do ZANU any good than bad. The move exposes not only how much ZANU fidgets on Mthwakazi cultural matters ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1592 | by MLF
Chamisa meets Swedish PM
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa spent the better part of last week in Sweden where he had an opportunity to meet the country's Prime Minister and leader of the Swedish Democratic Party, Stefan Lofven includ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1345 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt squanders US$10.6 billion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government spent over US$10 billion in unbudgeted public finds, and now wants Parliament to okay the unexplained expenditure, raising the ire of opposition members of Pa...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister caught in messy scandal
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has been accused of failing to pay back US$8 000 she allegedly took from the corruption-ridden National Social Security Authority (NSSA) under the guise of ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 2230 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 1794 | by Edmund Kudzai
Mnangagwa warns corrupt councillors
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday issued a stern warning against corrupt councillors and council officials who divert public funds for personal use, saying Government will not hesitate to punish those cau...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 08:08hrs | 801 | by Staff Reporter
Industry get-together 'roars' to life with 1920s inspired soiree
Wedding industry experts and professionals from across the United Kingdom gathered in North Yorkshire this week, as part of a wider initiative that seeks to foster a working relationship between the N...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 09:27hrs | 435 | by News Correspondent
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet reshuffle fails to impress
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet reshuffle last Friday, where he retained tired and incompetent ministers, including those tainted by corruption allegations, and assigned supposedly fresh minds t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
No doctors, no currency Zim heading for total collapse
The main functions of the Zimbabwean government are not to: Check and challenge the work of the Government (scrutiny) Make and change laws (legislation) Debate the important issues of the day (debatin...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 22:06hrs | 3813 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Businessman sues wife for malicious prosecution
Local businessman, Ian Ross Waters, has approached the High Court filing an application of malicious prosecution in which he is claiming $750,000 from his former wife Arpana Waters (nee Patel), accusi...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:55hrs | 1351 | by Staff reporter
The world of online casino gaming
The generation we belong to had just started to understand something known as computer games. Our generation that would rely heavily on entertainment watching Hanna Barbara's epic creation of Tom &...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 08:21hrs | 379 | by Staff Writer
Exam cheats given community service sentences
FIVE Form Six pupils at Gebhuza Secondary School in Hwange arrested for sharing a leaked Economics Paper 3 question paper have been each sentenced to 12 months in jail, but will all have to perform 35...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer admitted to SA hospital
Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo was on Tuesday admitted to a South African hospital for a "scheduled operation", days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government okayed a process of firing a third ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:09hrs | 8937 | by ZimLive
Inflation out of control: Guvamatanga
Finance ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has revealed that the government is not considering removing the 2% tax on mobile transactions despite criticism that it is fuelling inflation....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:46hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
MDC leadership meets, charts way forward on key national issues
The MDC national executive met today for seven hours and spent the better part of the meeting deliberating on the deteriorating situation in the country, particularly the worsening plight of t...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 16:44hrs | 2866 | by MDC Communications
Madam Khupe: Is it not high time you moved on?
ZIMBABWE'S political landscape is so littered with all manner of wreckage from past deadly and bloody battles that for someone to then try and make sense of how all this mess came about is akin to slo...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:58hrs | 1932 | by NewsDay Comment
Zimbabwe now a police State, says Chamisa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has chided President Emmerson Mnangagwa for putting the country into a de facto state of emergency and his reliance on the police to stifle dissenting voices again...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 1058 | by Sports Reporter
CAPS United's luxury coach lands in SA
IT has been a trying few weeks for CAPS United but the Green Machine are set to smile in the next few weeks.The Harare giants have stumbled in their bid to move clear of the chasing pack in th...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 05:39hrs | 2323 | by Sports Reporter
How Masisi outsmarted the Khamas
Mokgweetsi Masisi's decisive victory in the recent Botswana elections over a coalition backed by his former boss, Ian Khama, is the culmination of an astonishing 10-year political career. Morp...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:55hrs | 1176 | by Barry Morton
Zimbabwe baby elephant sales rake in US$3,2m
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) raked in over US$3,2 million in the sale of 101 baby elephants to China and the United Arab Emirates between 2016 and this year....Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:53hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
'Develop African internet exchange points'
Southern Africa Telecommunications Association executive secretary Jacob Munodawafa has urged information and communication technology stakeholders to push policymakers to speed up regional internet e...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo expected in court today
MINISTER Joram Gumbo, who was questioned and released yesterday, appears in court today on charges of criminal abuse of office involving US$37 million arising from four separate incidents when he was ...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:43hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Bosso referee was wearing a blue jersey under his kit?
Dynamos 1 - 1 HighlandersI WAS disappointed with the referee, I must say. He just wasn't fit enough for a game of that stature." Those were the words of Sir Alex Ferguson when he described the off...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 12:01hrs | 3036 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally defends move by MPs to blow US$5m in 5 days at Vic Falls
MDC secretary-general Chalton Hwende has defended the move by the 350 Members of Parliament to camp for five days at the Elephant Hills Resorts hotel in Victoria Falls and gobble over $5 million in al...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:42hrs | 3448 | by Staff reporter
Patrice Motsepe's sister cited in Botswana $10 billion theft
South African businesswoman Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe has been fingered as a co-signatory to at least two bank accounts holding some of the more than $10 billion (R150 billion) allegedly stolen from th...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:17hrs | 5431 | by City Press
Swords out for Mpofu
JAZZ crooner and Green ambassador Dereck Mpofu's decision to engage the services of raunchy dancer and singer Beverly "Bev" Sibanda on his latest song Chimbozvizunza and its accompanying video have be...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli tax funds roads rehabilitation, construction
GOVERNMENT spent ZWL$465 million rehabilitating road infrastructure in the first 10 months of this year using funds collected through the once contentious Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT). Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare in stalemate Dynamos set club record
Dynamos 1-1 Highlanders UNRESTRAINED tensions on and off the pitch almost marred the eagerly-anticipated Castle Lager Premiership football match between Dynamos and Highlanders which ended in a st...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:48hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
City bigwigs blow cash on banned trips
Harare City Council has held two workshops at Kadoma Ranch Motel in the past three weeks, blowing thousands of ratepayers money at the expense of service delivery. The jaunts are in defiance of a Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:44hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs blow $5m in 5 days
Members of Parliament will gobble over $5 million in allowances and expensive accommodation in Victoria Falls where they are holding a 2020 pre-budget seminar, it has been revealed.The Victori...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:57hrs | 2884 | by Staff reporter
Only genuine reforms will bring change to Zimbabwe
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo's strong rebuke of United States ambassador to Harare Brian Nichols last week was yet another indication that Zimbabwe's re-engagement efforts are not going acco...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 364 | by The Standard - Editorial
'We're going to improve lives of our people,' says Mthuli Ncube
Zimbabweans are bearing the brunt of soaring prices of basic commodities and cash shortages. They are also worried about the continued loss of value of the Zimbabwe dollar. To date, Government's auste...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:35hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa applauds his wife's philanthropic work
Philanthropic works by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, which have spread across the length and breadth of the country, have helped to shine a light on living conditions of most Zimbabweans, prompting G...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions conundrum
The USA first enacted ZIDERA in 2001 as a response to gross human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, violent grab of white owned farms, violent crackdown on opposition and dissent, costly deployme...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:52hrs | 1002 | by Terrence Wuragu
Zimbabwe threatens to expel U.S. ambassador
Zimbabwe on Thursday threatened to expel the United States ambassador to Harare in a new low in diplomatic relations between the two countries.Zimbabwe accuses the United States of imposing "i...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 21:39hrs | 1558 | by ZimLive
Anti-sanctions march a waste of resources, says Mliswa
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has said last week's anti-sanctions march was a waste of resources that could have been used to buy medicines and other essentials in the country.His senti...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
The Mnangagwa led govt has failed
It is a fact that ZANU PF party has failed this nation since 1980, it is also a fact that ZANU PF is known locally for all the wrong reasons, ranging from gukurahundi genocide, government sponsored tr...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 14:07hrs | 3440 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
SADC protest against UN cites unfair trade restrictions
Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe are going to submit protest documents that will allow them to legally trade in their elephants, rhino and giraffes. The three countries are declaring themselves independ...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2232 | by Emmanuel Koro
Biti approved funding of Command Agriculture he is bashing
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya last week produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Snake beds 600 women, abused women pay $1800 for cleansing ceremony
ABOUT 600 women in Shale, uMzingwane District confessed to prophets that a mysterious snake would lick their privates before having sex with them.The incident happened in Ward 8 Shale, Dindind...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:57hrs | 3172 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya throws Chinamasa under the bus?
RESERVE Bank governor John Mangudya yesterday threw former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa under the bus after he refused to take responsibility for the US$3,2 billion Treasury Bills that were unla...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:53hrs | 4565 | by Staff reporter
Prison gave Ndiweni time to write a book
OUTSPOKEN Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, has revealed that he used his incarceration period in August to write a book on the country's appalling prison conditio...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:52hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya nails Biti
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:39hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya, Biti clash in Parliament
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 08:51hrs | 2193 | by Staff Reporter
There shall be no anti-sanctions demonstration in Mthwakazi - MLF
We hope all those who have always doubted us over that SADC is a brain child of Robert Mugabe and ZANU has now sobered up to realise how much true we have been. SADC is only an apparatus designed to s...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 18:15hrs | 4263 | by MLF
Zimbabwe's future is in new blood and new faces
IT is not possible to spend a couple of hours touring the USS North Carolina (one of the most decorated battleships of World War II and a marvel of engineering built over 80 years ago) without being r...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 11:39hrs | 1186 | by Noah Manyika
Hundreds stage sit-in at Mpilo Hospital over shona nurses recruitment
Hundreds of people thronged Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, Monday, with the hope of being recruited as student nurses following the controversial recruitment of nurses a week ago where locals from Matabe...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:48hrs | 2888 | by Staff reporter
Government probes schoolgirl naked parade
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is investigating a possible case of child abuse at Lukosi Secondary in Hwange where a deputy headmistress allegedly forced a Form One girl to strip nake...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Man cuts self to death in butchery
In a stranger than fiction case, a 29-year-old man recently left the small town shocked and baffled after he killed himself by cutting his throat using a knife at a butchery at Old Location shopping c...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:21hrs | 7015 | by Staff reporter
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