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Plumtree renaming street to reflect Kalanga history
The Plumtree Town Council has renamed several streets to reflect the town's deep Kalanga history and cultural identity. The initiative forms part of a broader urban renewal programme aimed at modernis...Published: 4 hrs ago | 102 | by Staff reporter
Standoff erupts between Zimpapers board and management
A major standoff has erupted between the Zimpapers board and management, and three former company executives dismissed in January over allegations of corruption and fraud, as the board insists no exit...Published: 17 hrs ago | 477 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa pushes for schools' inclusive sporting curriculum
ZVIMBA - Vibrant sports enthusiast and former Norton Independent legislator, Temba Mliswa has called for an inclusive and enabling sporting curriculum environment amongst rural and urban schools in th...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 23:07hrs | 435 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Kutama
When a government feels compelled to use the media to showcase its successes, there's really no success to speak about
A person's actions often reveal more than their words ever could.Recently, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Jenfan Muswere, invited a group of journalists from...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 23:39hrs | 368 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why most Zimbabweans still can't afford to fly
For most Zimbabweans, boarding a plane remains an unaffordable dream - a privilege reserved for government officials, foreign visitors, and the wealthy elite. Despite Zimbabwe boasting key urban centr...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 17:56hrs | 606 | by Satff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt Pension Fund acquires Monomotapa Hotel
Zimbabwe's largest hospitality group, African Sun Limited (ASL), has agreed to sell the historic Monomotapa Crowne Plaza Hotel and its adjacent car park to the Public Service Pension Fund in a deal va...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 12:18hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water passes quality test
About 95% of water samples collected from various points across Bulawayo have tested negative for faecal coliforms, while 78% met all safety standards for key parameters, including high coliform count...Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 09:59hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Rugby Union's Parirenyatwa resigns
Acting President of the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU), Tapfuma Parirenyatwa, has tendered his resignation, bringing an end to his brief tenure at the helm of Zimbabwean rugby administration. In a letter ...Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 10:16hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Lake Chivero crisis pushes wildlife and people to the edge
The stench of decay hangs heavy over Lake Chivero, long before the water even comes into sight. Once a shimmering lifeline for Harare's three million residents and a sanctuary for wildlife, the lake i...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 13:07hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Marange communities protest ZCDC retrenchments
Communities in Zimbabwe's diamond-rich Marange fields have launched a rare protest against the state-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), demanding an immediate halt to a retrenchment e...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 13:06hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Govt backs Bulawayo's Khumbul'Ekhaya Investment drive
The government has thrown its support behind Bulawayo's Khumbul'Ekhaya Investment initiative, a programme designed to attract both local and diaspora investors to help revive the city's struggling eco...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 09:17hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zimra prosecutes over 50 employees over corruption
Zimbabwe's tax authority says it has prosecuted more than 50 employees for corruption during the first seven months of 2025 and suspended 306 since 2016 - part of a sweeping purge sparked by lifestyle...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:41hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders Board: Guardians or Grave-diggers of a proud legacy?
Highlanders Football Club, Bosso, as it is affectionately known, is more than a sports team. It is a symbol of heritage, pride, and resilience for its supporters and the broader community. Yet, today,...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 07:19hrs | 233 | by Silent Echo
Company director in court for US$2,000 bribery
A Harare businessman and director of Whitecard Tobacco Company (Pvt) Ltd, Tawanda Mandudzo (51), has been arrested for attempting to bribe a senior official from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Boa...Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 08:16hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula perpetrating genocide: Black on Black violence in SA
Operation Dudula is hunting down people and killing them by burning and stabbing them to death. Zimbabweans, together with other foreign nationals, all blacks are hunted down by criminals - Operation ...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 17:12hrs | 863 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man in court over US$9,300 fraud in botched car import deal
A 32-year-old Harare man has been hauled before the courts for allegedly defrauding a client of US$9,310 in a failed vehicle importation scheme.Owen Matamai appeared before Harare magistrate T...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 16:16hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed director of water and sanitation by Polokwane
The Polokwane Municipality has appointed Zimbabwean national Chihota K. as the new Executive Director of Water and Sanitation, a decision that has triggered both political debate and public concern ov...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 16:01hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Police ban dangerous weapons in Victoria Falls
Police in Victoria Falls have issued a prohibition order banning the carrying of dangerous weapons in public spaces, responding to a recent surge in violent crimes. The ban was announced by Chief Supe...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 15:04hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco, gold dominate Zimbabwe's exports
Zimbabwe's export economy remains firmly anchored in its traditional staples of tobacco and gold, while imports are still dominated by fuel, vehicles, and machinery, according to the latest Trade and ...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 18:26hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
RuNyanga Ultra Trail Run returns to Eastern Highlands
Zimbabwe's most exhilarating trail running event, the RuNyanga Ultra Trail Run, returns to the breathtaking Eastern Highlands from September 4 to 7, 2025, drawing adventurers and athletes into the hea...Published: 28 Jul 2025 at 20:33hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Tourism hopes derailed by neglected road infrastructure
Hopes of transforming Kariba into a premier tourist destination are being undermined by chronic neglect of road infrastructure, with stakeholders voicing growing frustration over the government's inac...Published: 28 Jul 2025 at 14:51hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mutapa, RBZ push for economic transformation
The Mutapa Investment Fund and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) have pledged to play pivotal roles in driving economic transformation and ensuring financial stability as the nation accelerates effor...Published: 28 Jul 2025 at 14:18hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos thrashed 3-0 in BF relegation dogfight
Chicken Inn delivered a fiery performance and heaped misery on a lifeless Dynamos side with a commanding 3–0 victory in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League relegation six-pointer at Barbourfields S...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 20:58hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Tapera leaves Manica Diamonds
Premier Soccer League side Manica Diamonds have parted ways with head coach Jairos Tapera in what sources say was a mutual agreement, as the club continues to struggle near the relegation zone....Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 11:25hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Thabani Mpofu slams moral decay under Mnangagwa
Renowned constitutional lawyer and Seventh Day Adventist member Advocate Thabani Mpofu has ignited fierce debate across Zimbabwe's political and religious circles after unleashing a stinging rebuke of...Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, Mnangagwa golf video sparks outrage
A video showing controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei casually interacting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a golf outing has ignited public outcry and intensified speculation over the...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 18:37hrs | 1703 | by Staff reporter
High Court halts trial of King Munhumutapa
The High Court has temporarily halted the trial of Timothy Chiminya, who styles himself as King Munhumutapa, after ruling that prosecutors failed to follow proper legal procedures in pursuing charges ...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 17:58hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
DJ Ollah 07 has divided opinion
The man about town DJ Ollah 07 has divided opinion with his latest podcast on the St Mary's accident which killed 17 people. This soon after his ground-breaking interview with Mai Jeremaya who had cla...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 14:24hrs | 242 | by Nevanji Madanhire
ZESA appoints interim leaders
ZESA Holdings has announced key interim leadership changes in the wake of the sudden passing of its executive chairman, Dr. Sydney Gata.In an internal circular seen by this publication, the st...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 20:27hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporte
IMF sees signs of recovery in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is showing early signs of economic recovery and macroeconomic stabilization, buoyed by recent policy reforms and improved fiscal management, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 16:53hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's formal economy tanks
Zimbabwe's economy has become overwhelmingly informal, with the latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) revealing that 76% of business operations in the country are now i...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 16:09hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to install cameras on transformers
ZESA Holdings has launched a nationwide anti-vandalism initiative that will see the installation of surveillance cameras, alarms, and sensors on electricity transformers in a bid to curb the rampant d...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:08hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
High Court slashes harsh 15-year jail term for cannabis dealer
The High Court has sharply criticised and overturned a 15-year prison sentence imposed on a Beitbridge man convicted of dealing in cannabis, citing gross misapplication of the law and failure to consi...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 18:07hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei reacts to Mutsvangwa attacks
Local business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has dismissed as "unfounded" and "ungrateful" recent allegations by Zanu-PF that he is trying to buy his way into the party's leadership structures through man...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 15:29hrs | 2444 | by Staff reporter
Judge proposes lawful use for seized mbanje
High Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has urged magistrates to reconsider the blanket practice of automatically ordering the destruction of large quantities of mbanje (marijuana) forfeited to th...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 10:03hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Zimra defends aggressive tax enforcement
Foreign currency-generating sectors such as tourism and agriculture are being choked by excessive regulations, multiple taxes, and bureaucratic red tape, industry experts have warned. Despite being cr...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 09:12hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
EUZ president in soup over missing funds
The president of the Educators Union of Zimbabwe (EUZ), Tafadzwa Munodawafa, has been reported to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) amid allegations of embezzlement involving missing teac...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:17hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Gun-Toting Ex-Ambassador Seizes War Veteran's Farm, Terrorises Family
War veterans in Mashonaland East province are protesting against former Zimbabwean ambassador Charles Kunzwa, who has reportedly seized the late decorated liberation hero George Charambarara's Tweespr...Published: 20 Jul 2025 at 14:57hrs | 2282 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Seke
Kadoma land dispute case crumbles
The State has formally withdrawn criminal charges in the high-profile land dispute involving popular cleric Tapiwa Freddy, founder of Goodness and Mercy Ministries, and property developer Kudakwashe T...Published: 20 Jul 2025 at 09:23hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Moses Mpofu to stand trial over US$7m fraud allegations
High Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda has dismissed an application for discharge filed by businessman Moses Mpofu, who is accused of defrauding the Zimbabwean government of US$7 million through a b...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:07hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Harare plunged into darkness as Zesa switches off tower lights
Harare's last remaining tower lights were switched off this week, plunging Zimbabwe's capital further into darkness - a stark metaphor for the city's deepening governance crisis and financial dysfunct...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 14:46hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Zimra cracks down on fake tech flooding Zimbabwe's streets
Harare - The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has launched a sweeping crackdown on counterfeit electronics flooding the country's markets, targeting fake mobile phones, laptops, and accessories that...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:59hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Mutapa, Jindal Steel seal US$455m deal
The Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) has finalized a $455 million concession agreement with Indian conglomerate Jindal Steel and Power Company for the rehabilitation of Units 1 to 6 at Hwange Therma...Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 20:58hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warns Chinese firms over illicit deals
The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has issued a sharp and public rebuke to Chinese businesses operating in Zimbabwe, warning them to immediately halt illicit financial activities, environme...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:41hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Zinara starts enforcing radio licence requirement
The controversial Broadcasting Services Amendment Act of 2025 has officially come into effect and is now being enforced by the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (ZINARA), sparking ...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 21:57hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe applies for discharge in US$7m goat scandal
Zanu PF Central Committee member and businessman Mike Chimombe, along with his co-accused Moses Mpofu, have applied for discharge at the close of the State's case in their ongoing US$7 million fraud t...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:26hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Man bites off victim's nose in violent assault
A 22-year-old man from Victoria Falls, Kelvin Ndebele, has been remanded in custody after appearing before the courts on Friday over a gruesome assault in which he allegedly attacked a fellow villager...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 15:59hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Mutapa to shake-up State firms
Mutapa Fund Plots Major Shake-Up of State-Owned Enterprises to Enforce Governance and ProfitabilityZimbabwe's sovereign wealth vehicle, the Mutapa Investment Fund, is preparing to roll out swe...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 16:12hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over new Zinara vehicle exemption rules
There is growing outrage among Zimbabwean vehicle owners following the introduction of a new, cumbersome vehicle licence exemption policy by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)....Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:42hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa unveils self-drafted 'constitution'
Bogus king in another daring actStandardSelf-styled King Munhumutapa, born Timothy Chiminya, has once again stirred controversy by unveiling a self-drafted "constitution" last week that outlin...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:32hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
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