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Fresh charges for Marova, Chimbiri
MDC ALLIANCe activists Netsai Marova and Cecilia Chimbiri have been summoned to court to answer fresh charges of inciting public violence after they allegedly called for President emmerson Mnangagwa's...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Cost of living hits $40 680
THE cost of living for a family of six surged by 13,4% to $40 680 this month, from $35 877 in April following relentless price hikes stemming from currency volatilities and market jitters triggered by...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
Biti's lawyer fails to show up at court
The lawyer representing MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti in the case in which he is alleged to have manhandled a Russian national during an altercation outside Harare Magistrates Court, failed ...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:01hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Judge blocks anti-corruption court trial of Dangarembga for breaking Covid-19 rules
A High Court judge has granted an application by renowned novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga challenging her trial for breaching Covid-19 regulations in the Anti-Corruption Court....Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
New ARVs to be taken once a month
IN a major milestone that will curb pill fatigue and reduce default cases, Zimbabwe will among other countries introduce a new HIV preventive drug that will be taken only once a month.In the c...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally to lose stand
EMBATTLED former Bulawayo Deputy Mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami is set to lose an industrial stand barely two weeks after councillors endorsed a resolution awarding it to a company he co-owns with his wi...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber jailed 10 years
A Harare based armed robber who pounced on female residents in Bindura was yesterday jailed 10 years by Bindura regional magistrate Amos Mbobo.Vincent Tinashe Mutasa was sentenced after a full...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 19:39hrs | 1204 | by Simbarashe Sithole
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | 4140 | by Staff reporter
Has the Zimbabwe dollar really stabilised against the US unit?
There is a strong debate among economic analysts pertaining to whether the Zimbabwean dollar (ZW$) has stabilised against the American dollar (US$) or not. There is a section which believes that the l...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:00hrs | 701 | by Respect Gwenzi
MPs call govt to order
LEGISLATORS from across the political divide yesterday teamed up in condemning the government sanctioned demolitions, describing them as an open war against citizens, particularly informal traders....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo indicted to High Court
FORMER Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has been indicted to the High Court for trial on criminal abuse of office charges.Prosecutor Garudzo Ziyadhuma told the court that Moyo's tri...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
We've no case against NYT journo: State
THE State yesterday said it had no case against New York Times (NYT), Zimbabwean journalist Jeffrey Moyo.Moyo spent three weeks in custody, with the State opposing bail, before making a sudden...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:09hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Fawcett security guard shot in the head with an AK-47, survives
A Fawcett Security guard escaped death by a whisker after being shot with an AK-47 rifle in the head by armed robbers in Bulawayo on Monday night.The security company's Alarms Reaction Team re...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:21hrs | 4072 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube's trial stopped
GWERU regional magistrate Mr Christopher Maturure has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who was facing US$9 million fraud allegations, pending ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
Robbery gone bad leaves 2 guards shot and injured
FIVE armed robbers shot and injured two Fawcett Security guards with an AK-47 rifle in Bulawayo's industrial sites on Monday night.One of the security guards was shot in the head and is lucky ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Man convicted for ramming into Mnangagwa's barricades
A Chegutu farmer was convicted of negligence driving after he rammed into drums that barricades road at State House in Harare during the night.Robert Harold Paterson (39), who was believed to ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:16hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
Dead body dumped at home of MDC-T's Elias Mudzuri
The body of a man who died following a brutal assault in a Harare bar has been dumped at the rural home of one of his alleged assailants, the MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri.Relatives left ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:38hrs | 5360 | by Staff reporter
Zimra commences deducting mining royalties
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started executing its recently added mandate of deducting mining royalties, through banking institutions, on behalf of Treasury.The tax authority sai...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:18hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
NRZ-Turkish firm ink game-changing deal
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board is convinced that Turkish construction giant, Yapi Merkez, which has agreed to invest in the rehabilitation and modernisation of local railway infrastruct...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:16hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa worse than apartheid South Africa'
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Commemorates Soweto Massacre which took place on 16 June 1976 in South Africa during apartheid regime.While commemorating the day, the Youth Assembly said Mnangagwa...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2136 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
We have stopped prosecution of Smelly Dube - Gweru magistrate's court
Gweru Magistrate Christopher Maturure has accented to the High Court ruling granting Smelly Dube a stay of prosecution in a case in which the businesswoman is facing corruption involving $9 million....Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 22:44hrs | 1574 | by Simbarashe Sithole
UK-based Zimbabwean man found guilty of 11 sexual offences against minors
A 44-YEAR-OLD man has been found guilty of 11 sexual offences against children after a 10-day trial at Northampton Crown Court.Simba Masvaure, from Kingsfold, Bradville, Milton Keynes, was fou...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Police boss's trial set for next month
INVESTIGATIONS into police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, accused of corruptly abusing his post or concealing from the police the business dealings of his girlfriend on a police farm in Mashonaland Eas...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:19hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Court throws out Geogios Katsemberis' application
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Letwin Rwodzi has dismissed an application by controversial builder Geogios Katsemberis to have his matter reffered to the Constitutional Court saying it was frivolous a...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:18hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Musa Taj Abdul gang convicted for spate of armed robberies
NINE notorious armed robbers responsible for a spate of robberies around the country have been convicted of illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.Musa Taj Abdul, Liberty Mupamhanga, Pr...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:18hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Robber who terrified victims with skeleton costume and mask jailed
A robber who dressed up as a human skeleton to terrify his victims is beginning a three-year prison sentence this week.Norman Chagwiza, 27, of Mutsambiwa Village in Gutu, pleaded guilty to one...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 18:17hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda solar project: Ex-ZPC board chair jailed
FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chair Stanley Kazhanje will now have to serve his three-year-jail term after the High Court on appeal, found overwhelming evidence proving that he concealed h...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:10hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gearing to crush Chamisa's MDC?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend attack on the MDC Alliance, calling it a terrorist organisation has attracted backlash from the opposition and political analysts who say that it was a ploy by t...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | 4936 | by Staff reporter
MDC factions have bungled in running Harare
The MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction leader, Nelson Chamisa, uses every opportunity he gets to pontificate about smart cities each time he has to talk of Zimbabwe's urban areas.Given the fact that...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:17hrs | 406 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa's fired ally allocated cheap industrial stand by Bulawayo City Council
THE uproar that resulted in former Bulawayo deputy mayor, Mr Tinashe Kambarami attempting to bulldoze a full council meeting despite his recalling has been exposed as a "mere smokescreen", as during t...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:58hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
US$1,5m biscuit plant for Bulawayo
A food manufacturing company, Flynote Investments, has announced that it has invested more than US$1,5 million in setting up a state-of-the-art biscuit making plant in Bulawayo as it moves to compleme...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 556 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Half a million Zimbabweans lose jobs
ABOUT 500 000 Zimbabweans have lost their jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out last year igniting de-industrialisation, the World Bank (WB) said, as it revealed extensive food shortages and wors...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for bar murder
MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri faces arrest for murder, ZimLive reported.The former Harare mayor was named by a dying man as the one of the people who brutally assaulted him at a bar in Ha...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 09:07hrs | 5805 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora streets not paved with gold
Living abroad is one of the most eye-opening experiences that you can have for yourself. It allows you to be challenged in new settings and work through problems you wouldn't encounter at home...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | 475 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Biti's recusal application thrown out
There will be no changes in the prosecution team facing lawyer and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti in his trial on charges of manhandling a Russian woman during an altercation outside Harare M...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:48hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
A new film about Zimbabwe's 2018 elections is worth watching, but flawed
Danish director Camilla Nielsson's documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe's main opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change A...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | 1290 | by The Conversatio - David B. Moore
Why fighting against Malaba and Patriotism & The Judiciary in Zimbabwe
Separation of powers refers to the division of a state's government into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict wit...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 16:42hrs | 1331 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Persistent moaning for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver by Africa questions our intellectual capacity
Please allow me to start this discourse with a list of names - Max Theiler, Allan McLeod Comack, Aaron Klug, and Sydney Brenner.I am not sure if these names ring a bell for most of us, but the...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 14:00hrs | 337 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Court blasts Biti for delaying assault trial
A HARARE magistrate yesterday accused MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti of deliberately delaying his trial for assaulting a Russian investor last year.Biti allegedly assaulted Tatiana Al...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga admits Zimbabwe health sector collapse
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday admitted that Zimbabwe's health sector was on its knees at a time when the country is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that a lot needed to be...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suffers US$300m trade deficit
ZIMBABWE suffered a US$300 million trade deficit during the first quarter of 2021, as imports continued to dominate the value of goods exported by the country, data from the Ministry of Finance and Ec...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:36hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 598 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Bosso players accept offer
TENSIONS in the Highlanders' camp have eased after the players agreed to accept US$70 salary top-ups and give the club time to find a solution to their demands of an upward review.Bosso player...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for slapping Macron
A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right "patriot" was sentenced to four months in prison yesterday for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face.Dam...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:29hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Ruling on Biti prosecutor's recusal expected today
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti is today expected to rule on an application for recusal of senior prosecutor Mr Michael Reza from the matter in which MDC Alliance vice presid...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:29hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Malaba contempt case dismissed
The urgent High Court application by the executive director of an NGO to have Chief Justice Luke Malaba found in contempt of court has been dismissed."The application for civil imprisonment fo...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:26hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth leader's Mnangagwa insult trial fails to take off for the 4th time
MDC Alliance Midlands provincial youth deputy treasurer, Knowledge Makiwa's trial over an alleged 2017 insult on President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to take off at Zvishavane Magistrates' court fo...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:23hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
BCC appeals for US$1bn to overhaul water system
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it requires US$1 billion to overhaul its water and waste management infrastructure.Mayor Solomon Mguni made the appeal during a meeting with Africa Develop...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:37hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
US$600 million for Bulawayo infrastructure
BULAWAYO is poised for a major economic transformation and growth following a pledge by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to pump US$600 million towards the city's major infrastructural developmenta...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:23hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
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