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Sanctions affect the man on the street sir
The newly appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nicholas had an interesting interview with one of the pirate radio stations, Voice of America, wherein he was very economic with the ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1339 | by Tafara Shumba
3 Zimbabweans shortlisted for World Remit-Arsenal coaching programme
UNITED Kingdom: Three of the 25 shortlisted applicants for the WorldRemit Future Stars soccer coaching programme are from Zimbabwe, it has emerged.The Future Stars programme was launched in Au...Published: 9 hrs ago | 544 | by Agencies
ZB in talks for $30m line of credit
ZB Financial Holdings (ZBFH) is in talks with a regional bank for a $30 million line of credit, which will enable ZB Bank, its commercial banking subsidiary, to support international transactions....Published: 10 hrs ago | 243 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, the broken window philosophy
There are crimes that injure individuals, and then there are crimes that injure society. Crimes that injure individuals can be measured through weighing scales of gravity.Is it a serious injur...Published: 18 hrs ago | 403 | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe to purchase smaller Embraer aircraft
Newly appointed minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Joel Biggie Matiza, revealed that the Government is securing smaller Embraer aircraft in other deals still being negotiated for t...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Dr Lance Mamobondiani to keynote at Zim Achievers USA this Saturday
Steward Bank CEO, Dr Lance Mambondiani has been announced as this year's keynote speaker at the USA edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA), taking place on Saturday 29 September in Washington....Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 1073 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe sex vendor brags about bedding 6,000 men
"I used to bed more than 300 men every year with most of my clients being long distance truck drivers who passed through this border post," says 52-year-old Prudence Nyeke (not her real name), Chirund...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 11:02hrs | 5797 | by Staff reporter
Mudede's replacement vows to clear queues, end corruption
Newly appointed Registrar General, Mr Clement Masango yesterday vowed to end perennial queues for various documents, fight corruption and instill a new work ethic to ramp up service delivery in line w...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:04hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree chief appeals to Govt to tar major roads
PLUMTREE Senator, Chief Masendu, has appealed to the Government to tar major roads in Bulilima district for easy access to the Maitengwe Border post for the economic development of the area. B...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:02hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu denies growing rich off govt corruption
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu sits down for a wide-ranging interview with the Daily on Sunday's Mugove Tafirenyika. Find below excerpts of the interview.Q: Zanu-PF has intro...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar eyes political career in Zimbabwe
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe and Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce "Jungleman" Grobbelaar has set his sights on a political career as he looks to open a new chapter in his life after stepping down from his role...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 6727 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'bloody' police station
Featherstone Police Station's backyard is not for the faint-hearted.Accident-damaged vehicles, some blood-stained, can invoke scary images, fear and especially traumatic memories for survivors...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
Schools competition postponed due to cholera
The ministry of Primary and Secondary Education last week postponed the National Annual Science Sports and Arts festival due to cholera outbreak in some parts of the country.The NASSAF was sup...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 78 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa urged to ensure citizens participate in governance issues
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been urged to ensure that there is citizen participation in governance issues as well as demilitarise and de-politicise functional commissions so that they are effecti...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Government disburse $20 million towards fuel importation
GOVERNMENT has disbursed $20 million towards fuel importation as it moves to ease the supply gap across the country which has seen some towns suffering temporary shortages resulting in queues at fuel ...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:14hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
SA advises Zimbabweans on permits
SOUTH Africa has advised Zimbabweans intending to seek permits to ensure their documents are in order and file their applications before the deadline on October 31. The neighbouring country's Departme...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2280 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airways $70m scandal sucks in Mugabe, Gumbo
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into the controversial Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) deal in a probe that has sucked in former president Robert Mugabe's so...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:32hrs | 2188 | by Staff reporter
Marc Cayeux gives everyone hope after top ten finish in Cape Town
Marc Cayeux's story is one that stays with you for the rest of your life once you are aware of it. For anyone unaware of the Zimbabwean's journey so far, observing the final leaderboard of the Vodacom...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 11:27hrs | 712 | by Agencies
BREAKING: Harare - Johannesburg Intercape bus in accident, 10 people dead
At least 10 people were killed in a bus crash on the N1 in Limpopo on Friday morning, police said. There are reports that the InterCape bus, a Volvo bus reg no: ICG 077 GP, travelling from Har...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 09:47hrs | 14382 | by Staff reporter
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1146 | by Anonymous
Madinda issues rallying cry
HIGHLANDERS coach Madinda Ndlovu has demanded that his players win the Chibuku Super Cup and fight for a top four finish in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League to prove that the club's rebuilding p...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Streak seeks ZC liquidation
FORMER national team coach Heath Streak has applied for an order for provisional liquidation of Zimbabwe Cricket after the Association failed to respond to his claims to pay him, and his sacked staff,...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Forex crisis vexes Mnangagwa
AROUND mid-day on Tuesday, a decorated procession blasted off State House, its lash green lawns and flowering jacaranda trees complimenting to give breathtaking scenery.It was a long processio...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 18:56hrs | 5123 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | 5600 | by Staff reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede booted out
LONG-SERVING Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede (74) has finally been retired while Information secretary George Charamba was elevated to the unfamiliar position of Deputy Chief Secretary Presidential C...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | 8382 | by Staff reporter
Couple fined for beating their kids
A COUPLE from Bulawayo appeared in court on Friday for assaulting their two children who vomited and cried when their parents proceeded to the dock in court.Lance West (39) and Janette West (2...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:50hrs | 3319 | by Staff reporter
SA sets deadline for Zimbabwe exemption permits applications
ZIMBABWE'S consulate in South Africa has advised locals with pending Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) applications in the neighbouring country to apply for new passports to have their permits process...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2831 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa retires Mudede in major shake-up
ONE of the country's longest-serving bureaucrats, Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede, was retired yesterday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa also got rid of several permanent secretaries and directors in...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Time for West to back Zimbabwe
IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government.There are no two ways to it.Long-time fo...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 661 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
BCC urged to be vigilant to prevent cholera outbreak
RESIDENTS' associations and political parties have hailed the Bulawayo City Council for maintaining a high level of health standards which has kept communicable disease outbreaks at bay, but urged the...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Gokwe-Siabuwa Road rehabilitation begins
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has started work to rehabilitate Gokwe-Siabuwa Road. The rehabilitation work, which includes bush clearing and resealing, is expected ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Baby dumper arrested after two years on the run
A BULAWAYO woman who has been on the run for two years after dumping her two children outside a pub and going to live with "boyfriends" has been arrested. A court heard Thandiwe Dube (27) left...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Motorists fume over new tollgate
MOTORISTS have expressed dismay over the establishment of the Colleen Bawn tollgate along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road, saying they were already paying too much at existing tollgates. Government y...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ONLY 1 permanent secretary from Matebelenand
President Mnangagwa yesterday appointed new permanent secretaries for ministries, reassigned some and retired others as his Government takes the Second Republic into motion. Long time Information, Pub...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 5971 | by Staff reporter
Mudede hunts down staffer who revealed blacklist
THE officer who revealed the existence of a government passport blacklist could be at risk after Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede made clear he is keen to uncover the identity of what he described as ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | 3914 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's impressive cabinet line-up under a severe parliamentary vaccuum
For the first time in history, the new president has made constructive use of the specially elected parliamentarians window.From this window the president has addressed key discrepancies to br...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1759 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Kariba on high Cholera alert
The Kariba District disaster preparedness team held an emergency meeting this Monday at the District Administrator's boardroom where all heads of departments and other critical players on service deli...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:14hrs | 810 | by John T Chirinda
Man kills domestic worker's family
A Buhera man ran amok on Sunday and fatally shot his domestic worker's wife and two children aged four and one, over maize, rapoko and groundnuts that were stolen from his home. The incident o...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Fading giants seek solace in Chibuku
FADING giants Highlanders, Caps United and Dynamos have been presented with an opportunity to salvage something from a disastrous season when they shift focus to the country's premier knockout tournam...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally resigns as NRZ board chairman
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board chair, Larry Mavima, has resigned as the parastatal's chairman following his recent swearing in as Senator for Shurugwi-Zvishavane and appointment as Minister...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
What does investment look like on the ground in Zimbabwe?
LAST week I was at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASA) conference in Birmingham. I was co-hosting, with my colleague Jeremy Lind (whose earlier blog this one draws from), a fantastic strea...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 356 | by Ian Scoones
Evening kick-off for DRC showdown
FOR the first time in many years, Zimbabwe will play a competitive international assignment at home under floodlights after ZIFA yesterday confirmed a hectic weekend for the Warriors next month. ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Khupe earmarked for a diplomatic posting
Speculation is rife within the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe that its leader could be earmarked for a diplomatic posting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.This follows claims on social...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 14:06hrs | 2414 | by Staff reporter
Man denies kids birth certificates
A HARARE man is said to be in the habit of denying his own children their rights to birth certificates when hauled for maintenance by ex-wife at the Harare Civil Court.The court heard when Vim...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 13:22hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
11 killed, 9 critical after bus travelling from Zambia to SA
Eleven people were killed when a bus travelling from Zambia crashed in Polokwane on Monday morning."Eleven people are confirmed to be deceased," Limpopo Department of Transport spokesperson Ma...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 11:46hrs | 2280 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's trial postponed
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's fraud trial was last week postponed pending a High Court's decision on an application challenging his arrest.Through his lawyer, Chombo applied for a ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:33hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law under probe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption unit has reportedly opened investigations into former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore's involvement in the botched ZimAirways deal, N...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2932 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff MP lays down vision
NEWLY-elected Redcliff MP, Lloyd Mukapiko - the undertaker who "buried" President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally, Local Government minister July Moyo in July 30 elections - said he will work hard to en...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:09hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Kariba District Chairperson Mr George Masendu elected Kariba Mayor
Finally Kariba Municipality has a set of new councillors, 8 from the MDC Alliance and one from ZANUPF who has claimed such ward from the former deputy Mayor in ward 6. The fresh set brought about a lo...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 444 | by John T Chirinda
Beyond the fiscal policies, long term national vision is required
The political drama and the rituals that come after elections have come and gone. It is time to hit the ground running and get the country back to normalcy. The new Cabinet is well aware of the challe...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | 70 | by Tapiwa Gomo
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