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UDC accuses BDP of 'smuggling' Zimbabweans in buses to rig Botswana vote
As Botswana prepares for its general elections tomorrow, the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) is raising serious allegations against the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). The UDC'...Published: 4 hrs ago | 390 | by Staff reporter
Botswana vote shaken up by angry ex-president
Botswana holds a presidential election on Wednesday energised by a campaign by one previous head-of-state to unseat his handpicked successor whose first term has seen rising discontent amid a downturn...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3063 | by AFP
Zanu-PF wreaks havoc in Sadc
The ruling Zanu-PF party has come under fire for allegedly attempting to manipulate election outcomes across the Southern African region, with accusations of interference surfacing in Botswana, Namibi...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:45hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe adjusts age limit for kombi, bus drivers
Under new plans aimed at curbing the surge in traffic accidents and fatalities, bus and kombi drivers will now need to be aged 30 and above. The Government hopes that by raising the minimum age requir...Published: 30 May 2024 at 08:29hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo warns CCC MPs who intend to resign en masse
The former Minister of Information in Zimbabwe, Jonathan Moyo, has warned that if the Citizens Coalition For Change (CCC) legislatures and councillors decide to resign en-masse to force it will be unc...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
51 Zimbabwe parastatals fail to submit financials
A total of fifty-one state-owned enterprises have failed to submit their financial statements for auditing to the Auditor-General, as required by law.The Acting Auditor-General, Mrs. Rhea Kuji...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC press conference disruption stage-managed?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters have accused the opposition of staging-managing a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) press conference disruption.A Twitter account which is believe...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aspiring MP in land scam
Zanu-PF's aspiring parliamentary candidate for Goromonzoi South constituency Tinashe Chikonye has been accused of parcelling out State land to home-seekers in Caledonia, claiming the land was his....Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nanny on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as parents
Archie's former nanny has described the moment she met Prince Harry, revealing he was ‘walking around barefoot' outside of the marital home Frogmore Cottage.Lorren Khumalo, from Zimbabwe, sp...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco on cusp of collapse
THE Zimbabwe Passenger Company (Zupco) is on the cusp of catastrophic collapse with simmering indications that private operators contracted to provide buses have since ditched the state-owned pu...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 20:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Low to middle-income housing project takes off from Bulawayo
BULAWAYO yesterday witnessed the official launch of a US$11 million housing project that will result in the construction of thousands of low-cost housing units in selected parts of the country with th...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Masvingo master plan raises stink
RED flags have been raised over a deal to design a master plan for development between Masvingo City and the Urban Development Corporation (UDCORP) amid allegations of flagrant violation of public...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Munatsi, Dzanya wanted US$14m from BancABC
AT the time of his mysterious death, which relatives and friends believe was a cold blooded murder, Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency boss Douglas Munatsi and his business partner Francis Dza...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi: A smart distinguished banker
Zimbabwe is witnessing one of the largest outpourings of grief following the tragic loss of Douglas Tawanda Munatsi (‘DTM') on Monday November 29, 2021.It is definitely a tragedy of unspeaka...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 7 | by Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda
'Land barons hiding behind Mnangagwa's name'
A HARARE resident, Samuel Mutete, has written to Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) calling for invest...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among 7 African governments using Israeli cyber-espionage tools
As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important in organising opposition movements. In response, several governments have at tim...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt rescues duped UDCORP beneficiaries
THE government has pledged to assist Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) beneficiaries that paid for residential stands four years ago in Chitungwiza that were not delivered.The stands in q...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cabinet halts sale of houses, flats
The sale of Government houses and flats to sitting tenants has been halted with immediate effect as part of measures to address shortages of accommodation for civil servants, with more housing to be b...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: MDC launches #2020MunhuWeseKumusha
The opposition MDC-Alliance has embarked on program dubbed #2020MunhuWeseKumusha campaign as a way of establishing their branch structures in the rural areas.Organising Secretary Amos Chibaya ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 11:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ian Khama quits, trashes his BDP membership card in public
Botswana's former president Ian Khama on Saturday quit the governing BDP which has ruled since independence more than half a century ago, citing deep differences between him and his successor....Published: 26 May 2019 at 20:30hrs | 4 | by AFP
Mnangagwa business associate's planes impounded in Botswana
South Africans' involvement with Botswana's election politics caused embarrassment once again when two planes of the controversial South African businessman, Zunaid Moti, were impounded at Francistown...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 15:10hrs | | by City Press
Khama, Venson-Moitoi's South African handlers calling for Masisi's ouster
A team of South African experts who recommended that Pelonomi Venson Moitoi should withdraw her challenge against President Mokgweetsi Masisi for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) presidency have al...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army abductions, torture raise political temperatures
After spending two weeks in hiding, MDC activist Julius Chogodora believed he had escaped a deadly clampdown by security forces that followed protests that rocked Zimbabwe a fortnight ago.One ...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers fined for bashing cops
Two members of the Zimbabwe National Army have been slapped with $400 fines for assaulting two female police officers as they resisted arrest after bashing a Udcorp employee who had denied their reque...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makokoba, Sakubva, Mbare set for a facelift
GOVERNMENT has mobilised $139,24 million to regenerate the country's oldest urban settlements, with Mbare, Makokoba and Sakubva suburbs set to benefit, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing j...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
One year on with a listening President
Following the events that transpired last year around this time, Zimbabwe underwent government transition ushering in the Second Republic which has proved far removed from the era of former president ...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 15:06hrs | 5 | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa cries
Harare South legislator, Tongai Mnangagwa broke down in parliament this morning as he narrated how the government has left land seekers at the mercy of land barons.Narrating to the situation i...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Absence of a responsible Local Authority reducing Caledonia to a ghost location
Situated approximately 21kilometers from Harare city centre, Caledonia is a home to about 33 000 households that are predominantly civil servants. The area is further divided into almost 21 phases. Ge...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 08:54hrs | | by Brightface Mutema
Govt to set up new suburb in Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is set to establish a new suburb in Bulawayo with more than 2 000 housing stands and will build civil servants' houses in Lupane, Matabeleland North. Delays in construction of civil...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
5 000 'duped' in stands deal
AT least 5 000 Bulawayo residents, mainly youths from the ruling Zanu-PF who registered to benefit from Umvutshwa housing project could have been duped of their monies after Government indicated it wa...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to establish policy think-tank
ZANU-PF is set to establish a think-tank that will research on policies that the party intends to implement to avoid implementing programmes that may negatively impact on the economy. In an in...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government secures $940m lifeline for Harare water
Government has secured funding commitments worth $940 million from China to overhaul Harare's water and sewer system, which is in a state of disrepair and has been blamed for the current cholera outbr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa evictees seek recourse
RESIDENTS occupying the contested Nyarungu Estate under the Phillip Chiyangwa-owned Jetmaster Properties have approached the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZHLR) in a bid to stop a High Court dire...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government to float $150m housing bond
The government will in the next few weeks float a $150 million bond to kick start the command housing project across the country.The plan which is being made through government housing investm...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Calls for Kasukuwere's arrest
ZANU-PF Central Committee member Elifasi Mashaba has called for the arrest of former Cabinet Minister, Mr Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing him of duping Bulawayo residents over stands at Umvutshwa on the ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
$150 million for Command Housing
GOVERNMENT has issued a $150 million bond to kick-start the Command Housing Programme, which is part of Zanu-PF's sustainable development programmes to deliver more than a million houses by 2023....Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa, Muduvuri in verbal tussle
Zanu-PF National Consultative Assembly member Jimayi Muduvuri has accused Norton legislator Mr Temba Mliswa of making unfounded allegations over ownership of a piece of land in the constituency....Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo youths sold bottled smoke
Zanu-PF youths in the second largest city and its hinterland are seething with anger after President Robert Mugabe 's government claimed last year to have made available swathes of land for housing de...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere reads riot act
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has threatened to fire the Urban Development Corporation management for reported failure to perform to expectations....Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt focuses on high-rise buildings
Government is now moving towards constructing high-rise apartments as opposed to expending more land on single storey houses following President Mugabe's call to stop the wanton distribution of land f...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Mugabe 'is our life president', says Zanu-PF youth chair
Get the latest details as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe kicks off a nationwide series of rallies to drum up support from youths ahead of the 2018 elections....Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 13:24hrs | | by Online
Mugabe a huge embarrasment for Africa
As we commemorate Africa Day today, we reflect on whether the continent has made any strides in extracating itself from its notority of being a haven of war and dictators to being a proud land of milk...Published: 25 May 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda
Kasukuwere in contempt of court over land
Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been taken to court for contempt together with the Urban Development Corporation (Udcorp) after they sub-div...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mugabe wants Kasukuwere out
President Robert Mugabe was influenced to turn against Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere after being lobbied by a businessman close to his wife and a State House official angered by a $20 m...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt dupes civil servants
Government's non-monetary incentive residential stands scheme has hit a snag after the122 000 signed up civil servants threatened to pull out following revelations that they will have to pay for t...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No rule of law in Zimbabwe,' says Mugabe ally
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says land barons are giving him "sleepless nights" as they are raking in millions of dollars in untaxed money so that he now agrees with the notion that "there i...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants to revolt aganist Government
Thousands of disgruntled civil servants have threatened to revolt against government as they feel cheated on residential stands deal. Close to 122 000 signed up for the stands to be...Published: 12 Dec 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Robert Mugabe's SONA address - Fulltext
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, COMRADE RG MUGABE, TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2016.Madame Presi...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Roberg G Mugabe
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