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Walter Mzembi's PhD raises red flags
In December 2015, former Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Walter Mzembi proudly declared that he had earned a PhD from Aldersgate University College. However, the United Kingdom investigative unit Dug Up h...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Court kicks out Chinese company from villagers' land
The High Court in Chinhoyi has issued an interdict against Labenmon, a Chinese mining company, barring it from expanding its operations into a grazing area owned by two villages in Magunje, Hurungwe....Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 19:19hrs | 10127 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF admits employing internet trolls to attack opponents
Zanu-PF has confirmed that it employs a group of internet trolls under the Varakashi4ED Social Media Unit to attack its opponents and amplify its messages, according to a document obtained by ZimLive....Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 11:42hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash Holdings to rebrand
EcoCash Holdings Limited has announced plans to rebrand following a corporate restructuring that has left Steward Bank as its only remaining unit. This follows the takeover of the company by businessm...Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 11:12hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
HIT probes allegations of corruption, misgovernance
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has announced that it is verifying allegations of corruption, misgovernance, and nepotism leveled against one of its senior officials, acting Pro-Vice-Chancell...Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 11:07hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Arrest of Blessed Geza wife
Zimbabwean police have detained Roseline Tawengwa, the wife of militant war veteran Blessed Geza, in an apparent bid to force the ex-combatant to surrender. Geza, who recently fled to South Africa, ha...Published: 21 Feb 2025 at 10:56hrs | 2125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Industries removed from EU sanctions
THE European Union Council has removed the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) from its restrictive measures imposed in 2002, but maintained its embargo on arms and equipment that could be utilised for ...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:55hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures 6 month stock of ARVs
Zimbabwe has secured enough antiretroviral (ARV) drug stock to last for the next six months, with additional procurement efforts already in progress to ensure supplies are sustained until the end of t...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:30hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
NSSA chairman embroiled in underhand Rainbow Tourism Group takeover bid
NATIONAL Social Security Authority (Nssa) chairman Emmanuel Fundira, who is former chairman of African Sun Limited, and an ex-Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) senior executive Paula January are accused of ...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 20:01hrs | 1344 | by NewsHawks
Mnangagwa's 2030 withdrawal violates ZANU-PF Conference resolution
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will continue to serve beyond the maximum term limit as adherence to the party structures' demand and last year's conference resolution number one, ZANU-PF insiders and in...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 19:46hrs | 3376 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Arresting officer fails to appear, trial postponed
The trial of three civic society leaders accused of protesting outside the Harare Magistrates' Court against the arrest of Jameson Timba and 78 other Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists has ...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 14:19hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Woman jumps to death
In a heart-wrenching incident of gender-based violence, 33-year-old Siphiwe Ndlovu from Burombo Flats in Bulawayo has died after allegedly being assaulted by her husband before she jumped from a third...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:38hrs | 3609 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to resume shooting of stray dogs
The City of Bulawayo has resolved to resume the shooting of stray dogs, as concerns over their growing menace continue to mount. The local authority last conducted such an exercise in 2015.Acc...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:36hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa throws ED2030 praise singers under the bus
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated his commitment to serving only two terms in office, dismissing efforts by some within Zanu-PF to extend his tenure beyond 2028. Speaking at an interactive m...Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:35hrs | 1261 | by Staff reporter
Illicit wealth case resumes in Zimbabwe court
The trial of Dennis Madondo, a 33-year-old man from Murehwa accused of acquiring property using illicit funds, resumed yesterday, with the prosecution presenting evidence on his unexplained wealth....Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:30hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Wife bites policeman's finger over cellphone password
Plumtree-based police officer is nursing injuries after his wife Balbina Chowe bite him over cellphone password.The matter came to ligh...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 22:02hrs | 954 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jailed Buyanga in critical condition
Lawyers representing incarcerated businessman Frank Buyanga Sadiqi have raised concerns over the impact of his continued detention on his health. Reports from South Africa indicate that Buyanga has fa...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 09:03hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
World Bank implores Zimbabwe to maintain tight money supply
The World Bank has urged Zimbabwe to maintain its tight monetary policy stance and resist spending pressures to control inflation and ensure lasting exchange rate stability.Inflation in Zimbab...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 09:00hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Kenya's Raila Odinga loses election again
Kenyan political heavyweight Raila Odinga's streak of electoral misfortunes continued yesterday as he lost the race for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairpersonship to Djibouti's Foreign Affairs...Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:44hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Zinara targets one million licensed vehicles by 2025
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has announced an ambitious plan to license one million vehicles by the end of 2025, aiming to boost compliance and increase funding for the country's...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 12:58hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council Enforces Stricter Dog Regulations
The City of Bulawayo has issued a notice to all dog owners regarding new and existing regulations on pet ownership within the council area. The move comes in response to an increase in the number of d...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 10:45hrs | 850 | by Mandla Bhebhe
Mass NGO, CSO closures loom in Zimbabwe
The Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill, long criticized by rights activists and opposition groups as a tool to suppress dissent and shrink democratic space, has cleared the Senate an...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:08hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
'You're remotely controlled, I'll switch off main socket,' Tshabangu tells panel
Senator Sengezo Tshabangu has promised to deal with the invisible hand behind his party's discord through switching off the main (invisible) political con...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 03:41hrs | 3439 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Gunshot wound leads to arrest of armed robbery gang
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has apprehended six suspects linked to multiple robbery incidents and a case of unlawful entry into premises and theft. The arrests were confirmed by ZRP spokesperso...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 16:11hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Edmund Kudzayi responds to Kenneth Sharpe accusations
Statement in Response to False Accusations by Mr Kenneth Sharpe (recordings in tweet below)It has come to my attention that Mr Kenneth Sharpe has fabri...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 11:44hrs | 724 | by Edmund Kudzayi
ZCC bishop flogs 2 congregants, 1 dies during 'healing' session
A 36-year-old bishop from the ZCC Damsko church in Limpopo View, Beitbridge, has been convicted of flogging and causing the death of a church congregant after claiming she and her husband were mentall...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 15:14hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
'Baba Jukwa' wanted over $40k extortion charges
Police are searching for public relations expert and journalist Edmund Kudzayi, who was at some point linked to the Facebook page known as Baba Jukwa, who has been implicated in an extortion case invo...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:40hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate fined US$400 for causing fatal accident
Local magistrate Tavengwa Timeon Makunde has been fined US$400 after being convicted of culpable homicide for a road accident that claimed the life of a school pupil. The incident occurred on November...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:32hrs | 323 | 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 cu...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:35hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2024 foreign currency receipts top US$13bn
Zimbabwe's foreign currency inflows grew by 21 percent in 2024, reaching US$13.3 billion compared to US$11 billion in 2023, driven primarily by an increase in export proceeds, according to the Reserve...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:35hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Drama at business centre as sisters bash shopkeeper
A violent altercation at Maninji business centre in Mayobodo has led to the arrest of Nyarai Mpofu, aged 34, and two accomplices following an assault on Mpofu Noliwe, a 24-year-old shopkeeper at ...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 20:37hrs | 1391 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo registers 200 diarrhoea cases, one death
The City of Bulawayo reported over 200 cases of diarrhoea and one related death as of December last year, according to the latest council disease surveillance report. The city has implemented intensif...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:45hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Geza embroiled in fraud and intimidation scandal
Controversial war veteran, Blessed Geza, finds himself at the center of a fraud, perjury, and corruption scandal after failing to pay US$1,250,000 for a piece of land in Harare. Geza, who is embroiled...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:41hrs | 1769 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs wife with screwdriver
A 28-year-old man from Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, has been fined US$120 or sentenced to two months in jail for stabbing his wife with a screwdriver during a domestic dispute.Tushonupane Mwembe wa...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 18:23hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Concerns over RBZ's reduction of forex retention for horticulture exporters
The Horticultural Development Council (HDC) has expressed concerns about the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) recent decision to lower the foreign currency retention threshold for exporters from 75% t...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 09:41hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 49% surge in divorce cases
Zimbabwe has experienced a significant increase in divorce cases, with 3,214 recorded across the country in 2024, up from 2,149 in 2023. Despite this rise, only 1,562 of the cases have been finalised,...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:37hrs | 507 | by Staff reporter
RBZ predicts inflation to trend down in 2025
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is optimistic about continued inflation moderation, forecasting the monthly inflation rate to average 3% or less in 2025. The central bank expects the annual inflati...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:31hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala details arrest drama in Penhalonga
National Democratic Working Group (NDWG) chairman Job Sikhala, a prominent activist and former MP, has recounted the events surrounding his arrest alongside 39 others during a meeting in Penhalonga, M...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 16:34hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Mukuru advocates for cashless economy
The logistics of handling cash in Zimbabwe present significant obstacles, but Doug Tait-Knight, the Chief Executive Officer of Mukuru Zimbabwe Financial Services, believes that embracing digital payme...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:30hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Truck driver sentenced to 4 years for fatal road accident
A truck driver who was found negligent in a road traffic accident that resulted in the deaths of six people has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Denny Taziva, 36, appeared before the Nyanga...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:51hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council cracks down on illegal street vendors
The National Consumer Rights Association (Nacora) has expressed support for the ongoing operation by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) aimed at curbing the growing presence of illegal street vendors in ...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:46hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Prof. Moyo's Political Career in Limbo
Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is ...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:22hrs | 2413 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF women backs Mnangagwa's tenure extension to 2030
The Zanu-PF Women's League has expressed strong support for a resolution to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure to 2030, arguing that his continued leadership is essential to achieving the ru...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 17:24hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and Elections in an Uneven World
Democracy is often presented as the great political ideal—the fairest system of governance, where people choose their leaders, shape their future, and hold their governments accountable. In theory, ...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 10:53hrs | 294 | by Avelina Banda
Hero status sought for Chigudu
The ZANU PF Manicaland Province has formally recommended to the Politburo that Tinaye Elisha Nzirasha Chigudu be declared a national hero in recognition of his significant contributions during and aft...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:34hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Will SA become the next Zimbabwe with Expropriation Act?
The signing of the Expropriation Act into law has been one of the most topical subjects of 2025 so far, with the recently elected US President Donald Trump taking aim at the law on Monday, sending the...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 09:08hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for unity in push towards Vision 2030
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a powerful call for unity, accountability, and accelerated grassroots development, as Zimbabwe advances toward its Vision 2030 goal of becoming a prosperous upp...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:31hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Daughter sues father over abuse allegations
In a case that has shocked local communities, 20-year-old Dion Jiri has obtained a peace order against her father, Arnold Jiri, following allegations of repeated physical and emotional abuse. The case...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:21hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
Kangai's first widow awarded US$345 000 share from estate
Ms. Esther Chatindo, the first widow of Zimbabwean national hero Kumbirai Manyika Kangai, has been awarded US$345,750 in maintenance from his estate, marking the end of a decade-long battle for recogn...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:40hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi leads push to oust Geza from Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF Politburo member, Ziyambi Ziyambi, has led a strong push to expel outspoken Central Committee member Blessed Geza, who has been publicly demanding the immediate resignation of President Emmers...Published: 04 Feb 2025 at 17:18hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
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