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What happened to Zimbabwe - how could a principled Chimurenga/Umvukela produce such an uncaring rogue and brutal regime?
Last night (2 August 2020), I did something I had ceased doing in quite a long time - watched something on the state broadcaster, ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation), other than the news and some ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 975 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa enforces terror tactics he used in Gukurahundi days'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is using terror tactics that were used by the notorious 5th Brigade to implement a crackdown on persons who are labelled as opposition to his regime, Professor Jonathan Mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 11:32hrs | 2611 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Armed police and army vehicles storm Bulawayo CBD
A convoy of armed police and military vehicles drove through the Bulawayo Central Business District on Sunday with a hailer telling residents to stay at home because Coronavirus kills. The arm...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 10:25hrs | 4920 | by Mandla Ndlovu
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 6541 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in top 10 best wildlife conservation destinations
ZIMBABWE is one of the 10 countries in the world with the best wildlife conservation methods, according to a research by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in partnership with Pan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party thrown by a city socialite and businessman last mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3844 | by Staff Reporter
Shiri burial today
THE late Lands minister and former Air Force boss, Perrance Shiri has been declared national hero and will be buried at the national shrine today, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said yesterday...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC Alliance activist 'abducted'
THE MDC Alliance Bulawayo province yesterday claimed that suspected State security agents on Tuesday night abducted and tortured another party activist, Nyasha Musundire.The opposition has bee...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
New Twist to Frank Buyanga's Child custody court case
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's son was being physically abused by his maternal grandmother, the Sandton based businessman has revealed. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Buyanga said he reported the matt...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:22hrs | 1397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Give us our daily bread: Giving thanks
Today I woke up thinking of a certain event that touched my heart a few years ago. This is a true story, and I believe the person concerned would find no qualms in me sharing the story. This is a stor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:30hrs | 458 | by Robert Sigauke, fellow servant in the Lord, Johannesburg
Chamisa aligned activist 'abducted' over July 31
BULAWAYO MDC Alliance youth activist Takunda Madzana was on Sunday night allegedly abducted by suspected State security agents who went on to quiz him on the planned July 31 protests.Governmen...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:33hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Defiance in Covid-19 hotspot suburbs
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs continue to flout lockdown regulations despite the threat posed by the global pandemic in their communities, as local transmissions constitute 90 perce...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defence ministry official dies suddenly on eve of US$20m fraud trial
The central figure in a fraud case involving more than US$20 million allegedly siphoned from Zimbabwe's ministry of defence died a day before he was due in court.Peter Muchakazi, 56, an army p...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:30hrs | 3311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party mourns South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni
The Zimbabwe Communist Party (ZCP) has mourned the passing away of South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela at South Africa's infamous R...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:17hrs | 367 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa has failed to justify imposition of curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:23hrs | 3270 | by Staff reporter
Don't shoot the critic
IN order to solve our problems we have to first identify them, but we human beings have an inherent flaw of not being able to give ourselves an accurate self-evaluation more often than not, so who els...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:21hrs | 336 | by Black Edward
Zesa boss faces corruption probe
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi says he has been alerted to fresh corruption allegations at Zesa Holdings (Zesa) - and specifically being perpetrated by executive chairperson Sydney Gata - and which the...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:20hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style robbery at Harare private hospital
OVER a dozen suspected armed robbers pounced movie-style on the affluent Borrowdale Hospital Trauma Centre yesterday -an incident that was captured on CCTV. National police spokesperson Paul N...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1854 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, civil servants delight in housing programme
Scores of war veterans and civil servants on Sunday expressed their delight after benefitting from a housing project in Melfort, Goromonzi, that will see many of them becoming property owners....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:15hrs | 1585 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Police boss sucked into bloody mine wrangle
Police in Mvuma have been accused of illegally grabbing a lucrative gold mine at the centre of a dispute between two miners with some officers allegedly shooting to death an employee during the violen...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Daring suspect tries to disarm detectives
A BULAWAYO man was shot dead after he allegedly tried to disarm detectives arresting him for a spate of robberies and theft cases.According to a police internal memorandum dated July 17, Webst...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
NRZ expects to fail to achieve target again
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will for the second consecutive year likely miss its annual freight movement target largely owing to the impact of Covid-19.NRZ public relations manager...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
ZEC readies for next elections
ELECTORAL activities will soon commence under strict Covid-19 guidelines crafted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to allow for safe resumption of elections, The Sunday Mail has gathered....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
UZ investigates fake documents ring
If you have "qualified" employees that are proving to be incompetent, you have every reason to cross-check the authenticity of their qualifications.It is possible for a person who has never se...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's MDC starves youths
THE MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe is failing to feed party youths who are guarding its Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House headquarters amid further complaints that they are also working without protection...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 19:04hrs | 3628 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Khupe camp
THE interim leadership of the MDC has been thrown into fresh turmoil after party youths assaulted acting leader Thokozani Khupe's aide and some party workers in Harare on Monday.This comes as ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 21:17hrs | 6216 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa impose curfew to contain covid-19 - madness, need nurses and PPE not soldiers and guns
I have listened to President Mnangagwa's address to the nation three times and still failed to understand what understand the purpose. Yes, the number of corona virus cases have increased significantl...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1061 | by Nomusa Garikai
Only essential services staff to report for duty
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe passed 1 700 yesterday, with more than half the patients infected within the country, the Government has decided that only civil servants providin...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 2841 | by Staff reporter
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3024 | by Staff reporter
66 positive Covid-19 cases at Bulawayo Prison
FORTY-THREE inmates and 23 prison officers at Bulawayo Prison have tested positive for Covid-19 amid reports that cases are on the increase in the city. Bulawayo has recorded 36 new Covid-19 c...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:02hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Mash Central calls for urgent Provincial election
The past weekend began a chapter in the history of Mashonaland Central province. Various districts began their own campaign dubbed the #TanonokerwaNeElection. The people of Mashonaland Central...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 19:36hrs | 4815 | by Tichaona Utete
Looting exposé shakes Gideon Gono
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday appeared shaken to the core after names of government fat cats who benefited from the 2007/8 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-funded farm mechanisation scheme were exp...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 9297 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to handle 31 July protesters as terrorists'
JITTERY authorities have once again warned the opposition and civil society groups planning to hold unsanctioned mass demonstrations on July 31 that they will be treated like terrorists and likely end...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 2678 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7381 | by Dr Gideon Gono
RBZ looting talk aimed at whipping public emotions against Zanu-PF?
ZANU-PF has dismissed as baseless, claims that some of its senior officials looted millions of United States dollars in public funds through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s farm mechanisation sch...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF leader fails to bury son
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka has had to endure a painful week-long mourning for his late son as health authorities are demanding his coronavirus Covid-19 test result before they can bury him...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 17639 | by Staff reporter
Preacher 'centrally locks' a cheating married man
BULAWAYO-born preacher Mduduzi Dube, popularly known as Black Elisha pulled off another first in the second largest city after "centrally locking" a married cheating man. The Mpopoma-based pre...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4292 | by Staff reporter
Council insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
As debate on the use of Khami Dam water to ease water shortages in Bulawayo continues, the local authority has insisted there is no need for panic as the water posed no health riskto residents contrar...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Billion-dollar kitty for Zimbabwe's white ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT has tabled a multi-billion dollar offer towards infrastructure compensation to about 3 500 white former commercial farmers whose land was appropriated by the State during the Fast Track Lan...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1873 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt clears air on ZSE, agent lines closure
GOVERNMENT has rubbished falsehoods published by CNBC, an American business news portal, alleging that security chiefs ordered the closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and agent lines for mobi...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
Gono clarifies farm mechanisation
GOVERNMENT'S Farm Mechanisation Programme undertaken between 2007 and 2008 was not a loan scheme and beneficiaries were not required to pay for the equipment they received, former Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume dares Zanu-PF youths
ORGANISER of the July 31 nationwide protests against high level corruption in the country, Jacob Ngarivhume remains unfazed by threats from Zanu-PF youths plotting to disrupt the demonstrations with v...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start receiving US$ salaries
CIVIL servants and Government pensioners have started receiving US$75 and US$30 Covid-19 relief allowances respectively as part of an initiative to cushion them from skyrocketing prices of goods....Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 2978 | by Staff Reporter
Raids on homes of Mnangagwa's critics escalate
THE government stands accused of escalating its clampdown on critics ahead of the planned July 31 mass demonstrations, which have raised fears of potentially bloody clashes between protesters and secu...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 3715 | by Staff reporter
Copper thieves blackout Plumtree
PLUMTREE has been hit by a power outage after thieves stole copper cables supplying the border town on Sunday night, compromising security at the border post.The outage has also reportedly aff...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:45hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Woman stabs live-in boyfriend to death
A 31-YEAR-OLD Victoria Falls woman allegedly fatally stabbed her live-in boyfriend with a kitchen knife for refusing to open the door for her when she arrived home at night from a beer drink. ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
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