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Zimbabwe de-dollarisation on track, claims RBZ
Zimbabwe is making progress towards enforcing the use of the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender, after 189 million transactions valued at $459,6 billion were completed using local currency last ...Published: 9 hrs ago | 209 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economy most vulnerable in the region'
ZIMBABWE'S economy is vulnerable, with its growth trends now 2% below the average of sub-Saharan Africa's economic expansion, partly due to exchange rate misalignment, volatile weather patterns, and u...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Queen Bee and Chinamasa's fat lies
Where just about everything is going nowhere very fast — as is the case in Zimbabwe — even a badly scripted drama series is not a bad idea.There was that time when we were kept glued to th...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:40hrs | 627 | by Tawanda Majoni
The MDC circle of despair continues
THE MDC has been going round and round in circles heading nowhere, in a case of chasing one's tail. To this end that party has not achieved anything meaningful. Its existence now depicts a circle of d...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:35hrs | 430 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Egodini contract to be scrapped
Bulawayo City Council will next month be forced to cancel the multi-million dollar Egodini Bus Terminus rehabilitation tender as it is highly unlikely that the contractor, Terracotta Trading Company w...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex dealers take over parking areas
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has said it is incapacitated to deal with the menace of illegal forex dealers conducting business on parking bays in the Central Business District (CBD) as it does not have...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:16hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF did not care about destruction caused by war, since it ruined us, still don't care - Enough is enough
"If you see anyone purporting to represent Zanu-PF youth league, those people are pretenders, they are masquerades. This is the real and authentic Zanu-PF youth league that is gathered here at the par...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 09:37hrs | 298 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa's MDC rocked by serious internal fissures
SERIOUS divisions pitting the old guard and emerging young academics have erupted in the main opposition party MDC, with party leader Nelson Chamisa being accused of siding with the Young Turks....Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3869 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7448 | by Staff reporter
Youth league pledge to defend Mnangagwa's presidency 'at all cost'
THE Zanu-PF youth league yesterday disowned its suspended leaders, and pledged to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency "at all cost."This follows the politburo's decision to suspen...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 738 | by Owen Gagare
Flash floods hit Chipinge, Chimanimani
Chipinge and Chimanimani districts have been hit by flash floods as memories of last year's Cyclone Idai are still fresh in the villagers' minds.Officials said Biriiri 2 Bridge was damaged by ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Short-term fuel structures causing fuel shortages
Zimbabwe is facing fuel shortages which have been attributed to the short nature of structured agreements between government and oil companies while other firms are offering conditions which are beyon...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 13:43hrs | 1364 | by Paul Ndou
State of hydrants in Byo worry Councillors
The state of fire hydrants in the city has worried Councillors who said they are not unusable.This is revealed in the latest council minutes that the Chamber Secretary Sikhangele Zhou submitte...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 13:36hrs | 501 | by Stephen Jakes
16 new magistrates sworn in
ACTING Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has said the 16 newly sworn in crop of magistrates is set to increase the rate at which cases are cleared as it brings the total number of magistrates to aro...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Market rejects Zimdollar
PRESSURE is mounting from business, labour and informal traders for government to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar, which is being rejected as a medium of exchange because of lack of confidence and its ins...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 2479 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP arrested for 'corruption’
FORMER Bulawayo Deputy Mayor Gift Banda has been arrested for alleged corruption involving a US$60 000 land sale deal. Banda (50) who is also Njube-Lobengula constituency MP is accused of conn...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1730 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes Gweru City Council rot
Gweru City Council is losing thousands of dollars through double-dipping by senior management as well as flouting of tender procedures. This is contained in the minutes of an audit commi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
'Fake' Audit results wreck NetOne board
NETONE board members that tendered resignations letters last week have cited lack of professionalism and tenets of good corporate governance at the mobile network operator by some board members as the...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:33hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda dragged to court for forgery
Member of Parliament for Njube-Lobengula Constituency Gift Banda has appeared in court facing allegations of forging signatures of a Bulawayo man resulting in him losing a residential stand worth US$6...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 16:02hrs | 2294 | by Staff reporter
Egodini Mall contract to be terminated if it misses March 2020 milestone
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has threatened to terminate the Egodini Mall contract if the contractor fails to meet set deadlines.Bulawayo Town Clerk Christopher Dube noted with concern that...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 15:09hrs | 2101 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's game of fools to deceive the downtrodden
THIS week, two leaders of the Zanu-PF youth league were seen in public ranting against corruption. These were sights reminiscent of youths high on "bronco", shouting at their own reflections in the lo...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 445 | by Muckraker
Unveiling the next ZANU PF Youth leader
The race to succeed Pupurai Togarepi began in February 2019 when Godfrey Tsenengamu tried leading a coup against Togarepi and Matutu.Many names have been thrown into the race with speculation ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 5314 | by Peter Moyo
Man challenges RG's $3,5m defamation suit
The Harare man being sued for $3,5 million defamation damages by Registrar-General Clemence Masango is defending himself and has asked for evidence that he did say what was alleged. Godwine Mu...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Penalties for businesses demanding forex
Businesses selling goods and services in foreign currency face stiff penalties for defying the Government, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Statutory Instrument...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:33hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Discord within Zanu-PF is further destabilizing Zimbabwe
Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that security chiefs are becoming increasingly anxious that discontent may lead to unrest. They are said to have deployed large numbers of intelligence officers in civili...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2680 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
BCC re-advertises parking system tender
THE Bulawayo City Council has re-advertised its contentious parking management system tender nine years after it first called for bids to implement the system which could see millions of dollars being...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:24hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Council dumps Harare firm
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has dumped a company owned by the Harare City Council (HCC) it had awarded a tender to provide money-spinning parking metier services in the city under controversial circum...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he risks being swept away by an impending revolution if he does not urgently dialogue w...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 2726 | by Staff reporter
More contractors for Beitbridge Highway rehab
Government will rope in more contractors to rehabilitate the Harare-Beitbridge highway in order to expeditiously complete the three-year project and prevent project costs from escalating.It is...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records unprecedented jump in sextortion
Zimbabwe loses close to $2bn (£1.5bn) to corruption annually, contributing to financial instability, according to Transparency International. Photograph: BloombergZimbabwe has recorded an unp...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 10:22hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Of Zimbabwe's educated fools, thinkers
LAST week, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Amon Murwira made a startling revelation in as far as the Zimbabwean education system is concerned.Speaking at a Zanu-PF meeting in Masvingo, ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1028 | by Cliff Chiduku
Community newspapers boss leaves in a huff
COMMUNITY Newspapers' Association of Zimbabwe (CNAZ) chairperson Jasper Maposa has resigned in protest over irregularities and corruption allegedly dogging the organisation.Maposa tendered his...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council defends awarding of tenders to outsiders
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says companies in the country's second largest city were failing to meet required tender requirements, something that has seen firms based outside the city snatching th...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1473 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo companies to blame for tender losses'
BULAWAYO City Council has said some companies based in the city fail to meet tender requirements but end up crying foul after losing to outsiders. Local businesses have in the past complained ...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now weak and vulnerable
ZANU-PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 18:22hrs | 9200 | by Staff reporter
Heads roll in Zanu PF
ZANU PF yesterday summarily fired President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies, youth league leader Pupurai Togarepi and his deputy Lewis Matutu, from its top decision-making body, the politburo, for "...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 6452 | by Staff reporter
Private pharmacy at Parirenyatwa raises stink
DOCTORS at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have asked Parliament to intervene and investigate the issue of a private pharmacy within the hospital's premises, which is competing with the hospital pharm...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Bar manager killed over empty bottle
POLICE at Kotwa Growth Point in Mudzi have arrested an imbiber who allegedly stabbed a bar manager with a pool stick after a misunderstanding over an empty beer bottle.Nyasha Mafuku (age not g...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Losers of the recent Supreme Court ruling
"THERE are winners and losers," said Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana about the controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe last month which allows for the settling o...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 333 | by Tatira Zwinoira
Fire Brigade Statement: Fire at 29 Penrith Road, Morningside, Bulawayo
CITY OF BULAWAYO PRESS STATEMENT FIRE AT 29 PENRITH ROAD, MORNINGSIDE, BULAWAYO The City of Bulawayo received a report through a running...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 12:54hrs | 631 | by Spekiwa Mugiya
Fireworks expected at Zanu-PF politburo
THE Zanu-PF politburo will today sit in a potentially explosive meeting, two days after members of the party's youth league accused some of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies of corruption and for ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2146 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi arrested for fraud
Socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, was yesterday detained over the importation of his US$200 000 Bentley vehicle after handing himself over to the police Anti-Corr...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:10hrs | 3211 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Fire Brigade denies being ill-equipped
THE Bulawayo Fire Brigade has denied allegations that they attended the fire which burnt down a house in Morningside suburb and claimed three lives last Wednesday, without water. In an intervi...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Zifa seek Logarusic's work permit
ZIFA, eager to have the new Warriors coach begin his familiarisation with local football immediately, have begun processing Zdravko Logarusic's paperwork. The newly-appointed coach is still holed up i...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:54hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth league chief whip warns The Herald
Zanu-PF youth league chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has issued a warning against The Herald saying it should not publish articles aimed at dividing the ruling party's youth league.The Herald toda...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 17:23hrs | 4391 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe speaks on Malawi election results nullification
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi says the Observer Missions did not have the evidence of rigging when they pronounced the 2019 elections as free and credible. Speaking a day after ...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 14:09hrs | 3835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean economy re-dollarizing rapidly
The recent public notice by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) on the payment of domestic taxes in foreign currency is nothing short of a tacit admission by the government that de-dollarization ha...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 10:48hrs | 11755 | by Victor Bhoroma
Pumpkin leaves can make great relish
Pumpkin leaves can make great relish and go down well with sadza. Many recipes are available and since cooking is a form of art, one can always try something new. Tender pumpkin leaves cooked ...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:42hrs | 2052 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zanu-PF youths demand arrest of tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, is a name-dropping wealth accumulator who has amassed a fortune on the back of weak governance systems and buying the silence of politician...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:27hrs | 4767 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths finger Mnangagwa allies
ZANU-PF youth leaders yesterday labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Kuda Tagwirei "the most corrupt person in the country" at an extraordinary Press conference that also exposed growing facti...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
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