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CIO operative in Matobo land grab storm

Villagers at FOX Farm in Matobo, Matabeleland South, are resisting what they describe as a corrupt attempt by senior officials to seize their land and re-allocate it to outsiders from outside the province.The dispute involves long-term res…

Published: 23 Oct 2025 at 08:53hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter

War veteran's smart city dream stalled

A war veteran's vision to transform his Elmswood Farm in Marondera into a modern smart city has been thrown into turmoil amid allegations of land grabbing and corruption by senior council officials.John Fadzisayi Jani, a liberation war vet…

Published: 24 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chaos erupts in Zanu-PF affiliate ZEPPDRA

A leadership crisis has gripped the Zimbabwe Ex-Political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees Association (ZEPPDRA), with members accusing the current executive of clinging to power beyond their mandate.The dispute surfaced soon after the…

Published: 24 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF DCC Chair in assault storm

Zanu-PF Buhera District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson Causemore Chimombe has been accused of assaulting provincial youth league secretary for information, Edson Mapani, in a dispute reportedly linked to a party WhatsApp group.Th…

Published: 24 Aug 2025 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter

Justice Katiyo in fresh storm

High Court judge Justice Never Katiyo is once again under scrutiny after granting the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) leave to appeal in a politically sensitive case before the deadline for respondents to file opposition had expired -…

Published: 20 Aug 2025 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Legal clerk in impersonation storm

A legal clerk with Munangati and Associates, Adiel Shingai Mushore, appeared in court over the weekend charged with impersonating a police detective in an alleged scam targeting a commuter omnibus operator.Mushore, who appeared before Hara…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

Storm brews over 1 000ha Mashonaland farm

A storm is brewing in Zimbabwe's agricultural sector after the government allocated a farm to businessman Billy Rautenbach, displacing farmers who had been allocated and developed the land during the controversial land reform programme. Th…

Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Detective Kedha' in the eye of a storm

The highly publicised rape trial of social media influencer Mai Jeremaya has come to a controversial end, with Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi dismissing the charges against the two accused men, Thabo Blessing Dube and Martin Charlie, afte…

Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 09:09hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter

AFM pastor in US$158K fraud storm

A reverend from the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Church and his wife appeared in court yesterday on allegations of defrauding a private school operator of US$158,000 in a failed rent-to-buy property deal.The couple, Titus Murefu (59) and …

Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

RioZim in eye of financial misconduct, fraud storm

Mining giant RioZim Limited is at the centre of a deepening scandal as allegations of financial misconduct, asset stripping, and systematic fraud continue to surface. According to sources familiar with internal operations, the company is f…

Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter

Biggie Matiza's son in US$1 million project theft storm

The son of the late Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Joel Biggie Matiza, has been dragged to court over allegations that he attempted to seize control of a US$1 million agro-forestry project to boost his political ambiti…

Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Heavy rains bring widespread flooding in Bulawayo

Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in Bulawayo, affecting homes and roads across the city. Suburbs such as Entumbane and Old Lobengula have borne the brunt of the downpour, with residents and motorists struggling to cope with the …

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter

Storm brews over BCC leases

Decades-old family businesses at Iminyela Shopping Centre in Bulawayo face an uncertain future as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) moves to lease the premises to new tenants, raising fears among the current occupants about losing their live…

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Can Mnangagwa steer SADC through the storm?

As Southern African leaders converge in Harare today to address the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), all eyes are on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose leadership is now under intense scrutiny. Wit…

Published: 31 Jan 2025 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe safe from severe Tropical Storm Dikeledi

The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has assured Zimbabweans that the country will not be affected by Severe Tropical Storm Dikeledi throughout the week of Friday, January 10 to Wednesday, January 15, 2025. The storm is currently l…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 18:46hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter

Severe storm topples tree, causing extensive damages in Bulawayo

A fierce storm swept through Bulawayo on Thursday, leaving a trail of destruction as a decades-old tree crashed onto a family home in Kumalo suburb. Despite the extensive damage, no injuries or fatalities were reported, according to the Bu…

Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:54hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter

Dembare coach in car theft storm

DYNAMOS Football Club coach Genesis "Kaka" Mangombe faces allegations of involvement in a car theft incident. Mangombe, also a policeman, is recognized as a promising young coach in the country, having even been attached to the Warriors te…

Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 10:03hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Ministry in storm over e-passports

THE Auditor-General (AG) has raised the red flag over failure by the Home Affairs ministry to provide information on how much was raised from the issuance electronic passports (e-passports), amid concern that Treasury could have been preju…

Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 16:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Fidelity Printers in kickbacks storm

FORMER Fidelity Printers and Refiners general manager Fradreck Kunak (pictured) a and the company's head of gold operations Mehluleli Dube were allegedly paid US$30 000 and US$3 000 kickbacks apiece each month by controversial Kenyan tycoo…

Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Lithium rush takes Zimbabwe by storm

Three Chinese energy firms have snapped up controlling equity in Zimbabwean lithium mines over the past four months, as the world's biggest electric vehicles market takes a strategic position in Africa.Growing interest in Zimbabwe by Chine…

Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Storm over roads rehab tenders

THE multi-million-dollar government-funded Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) in Chiredzi is now mired in controversy after it emerged that tenders were allegedly awarded without due diligence.One of the companies that clinched…

Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Racism storm hits top Zimbabwe school

PARENTS of children at Hellenic Academy in Harare have raised racism allegations against the school authorities.They told NewsDay that as a result, one of the "racist" teachers had since been disciplined after using derogatory words in ref…

Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

RTG weathers COVID-19 storm

ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed leisure chain, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) weathered the COVID 19-induced storm during the year ended December 31, 2020, posting an inflation-adjusted $352 million post-tax profit.This was a 61,5% slowd…

Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:18hrs | 5 | by Tired Citizen

COVID-19 perfect cover for autocrats

ZIMBABWE has never been the same after March 30, 2020. Ever since then, the country has been in a lockdown and normal life in a constitutional democracy has been severely pared in the name of combating the global COVID-19 pandemic.The pand…

Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:49hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu

Mnangagwa's luxury junkets cause storm

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's junkets have caused a storm after he hired a luxury jet from Dubai early this week to fly him to Victoria Falls, where he officially opened the third edition of the rural district councils chairpersons' indab…

Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The perfect storm is coming

I do not know what we have to say or do to get those in authority here to get them to understand that if they do nothing, Zimbabwe is headed for a political storm which could change everything or even sink the ship. I am regarded as a perp…

Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Sikhala's foot in mouth: Storm in a tea cup

THOSE who have been following Zimbabwean politics since the country's independence in 1980 are most likely wondering what all the hullaballoo is about over the statements made by ultra-controversial opposition MP, Job 'Wiwa' Sikhala.Those …

Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Editorial - Newsday

Chiwenga flies into Gukurahundi storm

GOVERNMENT should stop public relations stunts and political gamesmanship by making token visits to Rwanda, which is commemorating the International Day of Reflection on Genocide, while paying lip service to the post-independence Gukurahun…

Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The storm that knew no boundaries

TROPICAL Cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the storm made landfall in Beira, Mozambique in the middle of th…

Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 5 | by Jennifer Fitchett

Five years of peaceful storm

"I cannot vote for my tormentors. Never!"Of the thousands of statements made this election year, Robert Mugabe's openly paraded acrimonious divorce with his childhood love and avowed life partner, Zanu-PF, clearly takes the trophy of "divo…

Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye

Another people's storm is coming

What has been unfolding in opposition circles over the past few days reflects the fact that the opposition lacks relevance in fulfilling its backers' desired goal.As President Mugabe was discussing lucrative co-operation with his Iranian c…

Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Teddie Bepete

Zimra fiscalisation touches off storm

ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) is in the eye of a storm amid accusations companies it shortlisted to sell fiscal gadgets are charging exorbitant and inflated prices for devices which can be sourced cheaper on the international market.T…

Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter

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US$600,000 school commissioned in Kwekwe

Bulawayo Councillors Alarmed by Water Bowser Shortage Amid Ongoing Crisis

Mr. Ambassador, surely you can't deny that China treats Zimbabwe as a colonial outpos

Dzimbabwe our heritage, let's claim our heritage at all cost

Zimbabwe–SA relations: A long history of cooperation and tension

President Zandile Dubula is illiterate

Zimbabwe opens electricity sector to private players

Govt, ZIFA in landmark schools football deal

Parents protest controversial head's appointment

Chimanimani emerges as new HIV hotspot

Madzibaba WeShanduko's denied bail over Geza demo

Police dragged into messy Gwasira estate feud

Grade 7 pupil helps deliver neighbour's baby

Zambezi River tiger fish faces extinction

Traditional ceremony ends in murder as siblings kill brother

O-Zapu leader clashes with Binga traditional leaders

ZIFA to name new Warriors coach within a week

Treasury slashes Health Ministry's 2026 national budget bid

'Mnangagwa won't serve beyond 2028': ZANU-PF insider, opposition confirm

Harare woman arrested for stabbing husband over loan shark dispute

Gweru man killed in hit-and-run near church, driver surrenders to police

Zimbabwe's teacher training colleges face sharp decline in male enrolment

Zimbabwe rubbishes remarks by US lawmaker

US lawmaker warns Mnangagwa

George's political Sudoku failed to align

Mohadi awarded Honorary Doctorate

ZRP addresses public concerns over roadblocks

Kasukuwere rubbishes Mnangagwa's 2030 bid

'A junior soldier, not Chiwenga, could remove Mnangagwa' analyst warns of a 'neat, sadly bloody' plot

Jonathan Moyo's legal gymnastics cannot stretch Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028