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Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 4029 | by Israel Dube
Econet scoops best ZITF stand award
Telecommunications giant Econet Wireless yesterday scooped the award for the best overall stand at this years' Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) for its ultra-modern exhibition stand, which dre...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Govt, teachers standoff deepens
TEACHERS have threatened to go on strike to force government to re-verse its no-work no-salary policy against its workers who are claiming incapacitation. Labour unions representing teachers s...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police in stand off with armed robber
There was a standoff between the police and a suspected armed robber in Dulivhadzimu suburbs, Beitbridge.The house where there was a standoff, police was cordoned off the areaThe suspe...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gweru City officials illegally allocate stands to each other
GWERU City Council (GCC) officials allegedly allocated each other more than two stands against rules and regulations permitting them only one stand per person.According to employment condition...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 14:57hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Destroying Bulawayo towers is akin to destroying the Great Zimbabwe monuments
A STAND off between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and the Zimbabwe Power Company over the demolition of cooling towers at the Bulawayo Thermal Power Station looms after council officials yesterday w...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 2668 | by Staff reporter
Maize ban triggers Zimbabwe - Zambia border stand-off
Some Zimbabweans without proper documentation were denied entry into Zambia last week as the neighbouring reacted to the confiscation of maize by Zimbabwean authorities following the introduction of S...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa lied to the world'
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Secretary General Japhet Moyo has lamented that Zimbabwe has a president (Emmerson Mnangagwa) who lied to the entire world that he was targeting criminals around form...Published: 30 May 2018 at 07:12hrs | 8455 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe must accept Chamisa's ascendancy
The discord, pollution and noise within the MDC-T standing committee must come to a screeching halt, if the MDC-T and its partners in the MDC Alliance entertain any hopes of bagging the presidential r...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Pardon Maguta
Chamisa vs Mudzuri: MDC-T factionalism rears its ugly face at Alliance rally as Chamisa orders around senior citizens
Hell broke loose today at an MDC Alliance rally at Huruyadzo in Chitungwiza as MDC-T deputy president, Eng E Mudzuri refused to speak at the rally.This was the first of such a public stand off...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 07:43hrs | 9943 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube pleads with SADC
Dear SADC , AU, EU, US,We plead with you to stay out of the political stand off in Zimbabwe. 37yrs of your errors of commission and omission has hurt us. We are very clear what we want...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Trevor Ncube
Mugabe under siege
President Robert Mugabe's government will face one of its biggest tests in over six months when civil servants go on strike tomorrow demanding their 2016 bonuses.In sign that the governmen...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimPF congress to elect Mujuru as President, Sipepa Nkomo as second VP
There have been claims that the troubled Mujuru's faction is set to hold its congress in April where it will elect Mujuru as President, John Mvundura 1st Vice President, Samuel Sipepa Nkomo 2nd VP, Ma...Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa, Gumbo allegedly register company in ZimPF name to block Mujuru
There have been claims that the troubled ZimPF expelled members Didymas Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo have registered a company in the ZimPF name in efforts to block Joice Mujuru from using the name....Published: 26 Feb 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MPs demands meeting with Mugabe
OPPOSITION MPs yesterday demanded an audience with President Robert Mugabe to discuss government decay, saying the Zanu-PF leader was being misled over the true state of the nation by his divided ...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 06:10hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Warriors vow to boycott Afcon games
Warriors have threatened to boycott the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) fixtures in Gabon if Zifa fails to pay their appearance fees by Friday. After an intense standoff, a deal...Published: 08 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Harare street vendors in a stand off with municipal police - Live Update
Harare street vendors are running battles with municipal police. Shops around the CBD closed & tear gas fired at Main Post Office....Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 10:51hrs | | by iNdaba Ndaba
Lovemore Moyo raise the ire of MDC-T Bulawayo provincial executive
MDC-T national chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo has raised the ire of the party's Bulawayo provincial executive after allegedly scuttling plans to hand over a communiqué denouncing the recent appointment of...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:25hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
AG told to advise his clients to respect the courts
Harare West MP Jessie Fungayi Majome has told the Attorney General's office to advise his clients to respect the courts, the legal processes and the constitution which dissolved the powers of the mini...Published: 27 Apr 2016 at 07:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors are law abiding citizens- ZISO
The Zimbabwe Informal Sector's Organisation (ZISO) has warned the Harare municipality police that vendors are law abiding citizens who need respect as they go about their business to sustain their fam...Published: 15 Oct 2015 at 07:10hrs | 2421 | by Stephen Jakes
Vendors night vigil with the police
There are running dangerous battles currently going on between the police and the vendors in Zimbabwe's capital city harare. Tired of incessant and unjust confistication of their wares by the municipa...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 21:03hrs | | by Ziso
Man hides lover in toilet
A man from Warren Park in Harare had to hide his small house in a toilet after he was found by his wife having nice time with the mistress in their matrimonial home.Violet Mutanda kept her coo...Published: 05 Sep 2015 at 07:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chombo, Sekeramayi in stand-off over the vendors' ultimatum
Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi has said Chombo's ministry could enlist the services of the police if it wanted to enforce council by-laws.Committee of the Zimbabwe People's Charter (...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 12:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Boko Haram scare in Zimbabwe
The Central Intelligence Organisation has claimed that an intelligence report has been made that the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is in Zimbabwe en route to South Africa to fight that countr...Published: 27 Apr 2015 at 14:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF official threatens party members for working with MDC-T
A Zanu PF official John Moyo of Bubi Constituency ward 18 threatened two female Zanu PF members with unspecified action for working for a top MDC-T official.Moyo accused the two women of b...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 07:46hrs | 2133 | by Stephen Jakes
Council mobilising residents to go on mass action
Municipality of Gwanda councillors are reported to be mobilising residents of the town to go out on a mass demonstration against the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) over continued water woes...Published: 20 Feb 2015 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Don't dictate to us,' Chombo tells British delegation
Government says delegations coming into the country seeking investment opportunities should not undermine the country's leadership and dictate how policies should be implemented.This was s...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 15:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions in fist fights
ZANU-PF factional fights took a violent turn in Gwanda this morning with party members turning the streets around the party offices into a war zone.According to reports from sources withi...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T MP in stand off with Cops, ZBC inspectors
Harare West legislator Jessie Majome was involved in a 30 minute standoff with police and Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) licencing inspectors as she refused to pay fine for not having a l...Published: 14 Apr 2014 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hairdresser, nurse hairdresser fight over married man
A nurse stationed at Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council clashed with a hairdresser of Executive hair salon over a married barber in the Avenues.Tsitsi Mutaramuswa caused a stir when sh...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 18:46hrs | 5857 | by Arron Nyamayaro
Sacred sex, prostitutes in the temple, nuns of a kind!
THERE has been a very interesting occurrence in some churches in the country where as a result of the operation of the prophetic gift women's lives and livelihoods have been transformed. Prostit...Published: 02 Feb 2014 at 11:32hrs | 8345 | by Talking Spiritually Rev Paul Bayethe Damasane
Civil servants, govt agree on salary increment
The salary adjustment stand off between the government and its workers has come to an end after the two parties finally agreed that the least paid civil servant should earn $375 per month.Addr...Published: 20 Jan 2014 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Not As Bad!
It's now clear that the Zimbabwean electorate resembles the plebians in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. In one moment they are mourning Julius Caesar and in the next, Mark Anthony hops on stage and g...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 03:04hrs | | by Joram Nyandoro
Ugly Econet-Telecel tiff continues to play out
The crusade by the country's largest telecommunication gladitors - Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and Telecel - to defend their turf, convert new subsribers and grow their market has spawned an ugly tiff as...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 06:25hrs | | by Business Reporter
MDC: Building a war psychosis
In the early eighties I had a friend who worked in the security establishment. He was in charge of VIP protection. One day he was tasked to ensure a VVIP was transported to Kushinga-Pikhelela, transpo...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:47hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai, ZEC stand off threatens to derail GPA
A nasty stand-off between Premier Morgan Tsvangirai and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission over the role of security agents in the country's elections threatens to derail polls aimed at ending the coun...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Laptop Cooling Stand is Turning in to Fad
Comtek USA has developed a creative laptop cooling stand to deal with the problem of overheating that is common in most laptops due to poor air circulation. The Cool Stand offers an inexpensive soluti...Published: 10 Jan 2012 at 18:57hrs | 1168 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe church leaders sucked into Wikileaks revelations
WIKILEAKS cables reveal that in 2006 some church leaders intended to court Zanu-PF to participate in activities that would lead to regime change.The Mutare "bishops troika" comprising Trevor M...Published: 08 Sep 2011 at 04:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Western Democracy - Brazen Use of Force to Obtain Compliancy
IT is ironic that the brazen use of economic force with a view to obtain compliance to the US-led Western alliance a clear intent of conquest, well in accordance with the ancient law of nations; th...Published: 19 Aug 2011 at 08:27hrs | | by .
MDC T youths clash with police in Makokoba
MDC T youths were yesterday twined in a stand off with gun wielding police officers after they threatened to unleash terror on officers who had gone arrest the former party's burial society treasurer...Published: 16 Mar 2011 at 13:40hrs | 763 | by Mafu Sithabile
Two ’presidents’ claim power in I.Coast standoff
ABIDJAN, (AFP) - Two men crowned themselves president in Ivory Coast’s bloody election dispute Saturday as Laurent Gbagbo defied international calls for him to cede power.As ...Published: 05 Dec 2010 at 00:23hrs | | by Reuters
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