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Family fights over Mpepereki's estate
A FIGHT over the estate of the late Zanu-PF apologist and soil scientist Isheunesu Mpepereki pitting his surviving spouse and a daughter from his first marriage spilled into the High Court yesterday....Published: 2 hrs ago | 296 | by Staff reporter
Gwinyai Chingoka dies
FORMER Zimbabwe Davis Cup tennis team player, Gwinyai Chingoka, has died.Chingoka, the son of the late former Tennis Zimbabwe president and ex-president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, Paul...Published: 2 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean hired by Google as senior vice president
Google has hired Zimbabwean James Manyika, the head of McKinsey Global Institute, to be the company's first senior vice president of Technology and Society, the company said.Manyika, who has b...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 21:16hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Is Mwonzora playing to his master's tune?
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba is fond of political prophecies, usually involving the opposition.One of his "prophesies" came to pass when MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora last week wr...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:49hrs | 5809 | by Staff reporter
Traditional healers lure women with promises of easy births
TWO daughters. Long, painful labours. Several miscarriages.For Soko, a hairdresser in her late 30s, the quest for a son and a safe, easy birth led her to seek professional help - from a herbal...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:45hrs | 843 | by Vimbai Chinembiri
NUST starts making PCR test kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is set to start manufacturing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits next month following delivery of a US$86 000 reagents manufacturing machine....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Farm workers jobless as Mpofu defies High Court
DOZENS of workers at Esidakeni Farm, located about 67km from Bulawayo, are said to have lost their jobs after Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu defied a court order to vacate the farm....Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's John Robertson dies at 85
One of Zimbabwe's leading economist and commentator, John Robertson has died.Robinson died this morning at his home in Harare after suffering a stroke several weeks ago.Born 1937 in Bu...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Biti hits back at Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube came under fire at the weekend after blowing his own trumpet following a controversial award that ranked him among Africa's top five treasury bosses.The award by ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 08:05hrs | 5016 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe permit holders bank on SA ConCourt ruling
A SOUTH AFRICAN Constitutional Court ruling late last year could provide some reprieve for Zimbabweans battling possible deportation after the expiry of their special exemption permits last month....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa replaces fired Zanu-PF Admin
Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has replaced fired director of administration Dickson Dzora with former party research officer Richard Mahomva.Dzora was fired last week following...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:18hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Mahomva appointed Director
The ruling party ZANU PF has appointed Richard Runyararo Mahomva as Director in the Office of the Secretary for Administration at the party headquarters....Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 21:45hrs | 1115 | by Shelton Muchena
US sanctions on Zimbabwe's elite ricochet across economy
Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days.In the 1990s, his factory, located in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, was buzzing....Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 911 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy suffers under US sanctions
Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days.In the 1990s, his factory, located in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, was buzzing with a ...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:31hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Key expectations from upcoming monetary policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is expected to present the first monetary policy statement of 2022 within the next 30 days amid rising inflationary pressures. The monetary policy comes after the de...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 11:52hrs | 605 | by Victor Bhoroma
7 injured in gold mining clashes
AT least seven people were seriously injured after a machete-wielding gang reportedly aligned to former Zanu-PF youth league provincial chairperson for Mashonaland West, Vengai Musengi, ran amok and a...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:21hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party urgently needs new name
POLITICAL scientists say the main opposition MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has no choice but to rebrand and change its name ahead of the 26 March by-elections and the crucial general elections ne...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:18hrs | 3617 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa democratic credentials face litmus test in election season
THE year 2022 is a litmus test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime which promised to open up political space and uphold civil liberties as temperatures hot up ahead of next year's general electi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:13hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 324 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Mnangagwa's govt grabs Chombo's farm, gives to ex-wife
Government is continuing its retributive land seizures targeting political opponents, real or imagined, this time cancelling former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's 99-year lease for Allan Grange Fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:01hrs | 2222 | by Staff reporter
Not blind to justice
"YOU will definitely lose cases because you will not be able to see the demeanour of witnesses."Mr Mehluli Ndlovu, a legal practitioner (44) from Njube suburb, in Bulawayo remembers how these ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa enforcer's fall from grace
FAMED for his role as Zanu-PF's political enforcer for the Midlands province, former State Security minister Owen Ncube popularly known as "Mudha" had a nasty fall from the echelons of power to the st...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:14hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu turns to armed militia to evict Siphosami Malunga from Esidakeni farm
Zanu PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has deployed armed men to evict a prominent human rights activist and his partners from a coveted farm in Nyamandlovu, thumbing his nose at a court ord...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 06:19hrs | 2921 | by Staff reporter
Mike Madiro gives up contesting Zanu-PF internal elections
Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro has vowed not to contest in future highly contentious party elections to allow new leadership to take over.However, the decision has been vie...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:04hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa castigates media over sub-Saharan Africa reporting
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday castigated the media for framing sub-Saharan Africa as poorly-run resulting in foreign intervention.Mutsvangwa made the remarks while presentin...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:15hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa activist's trial kicks off January 18
THE trial of MDC Alliance Makomborero Haruzivishe has been set for January 18.Haruzivishe who was released from remand prison on Saturday after spending 10 months in prison appeared before mag...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:14hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo ZANU PF warlords bury hatchet
Feuding ZANU PF Masvingo province warlords Ezra Chadzamira and Robson Mavhenyengwa have buried the hatchet after a bruising provincial election campaign. The two made peace and pledged to work togethe...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1723 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA immigrants crisis: Zimbabwe must play ball
AT the centre of the immigration crisis that has been making headlines for the past few days in South Africa is the failure by the Zimbabwean government to provide better living standards for its citi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:29hrs | 944 | by Tatenda Kaponda
NetOne grows subscriber base
NetOne has increased its mobile subscription base by at least 500 000, figures from the regulatory authority reveal.This was contained in statistics released by the Postal and Telecommunicatio...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:35hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Warriors 2022 AFCON squad
THE Warriors embark on a fresh battle on the continent this Monday when they face Senegal in their first match at the rescheduled 2021 AFCON finals in Cameroon.Zimbabwe were drawn in Group B a...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
High Court ends Makomborero Haruzivishe's incarceration
Prominent MDC Alliance activist Makomborero Haruzivishe was granted bail by the High Court on the last of his three pending criminal cases on Friday - ending his nearly 10-month pre-trial incarceratio...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:41hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Zec credibility questioned
THE recent announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that only 2000 new voters were registered in 2021 has once again raised credibility issues against the electoral body.Zimbabw...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:39hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Adv Sibanda declared national hero
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has posthumously declared the late former High Court Judge Advocate Siwanda Kennedy Mbuso Sibanda a national hero.Adv Sibanda, a legal icon of the liberation struggle, di...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:58hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Nyambabvu joins Destiny Media as Group CEO
THE Executive Chairman of Destiny Media Group (DMG) Mr. Jeff Madzingo has announced the appointment of Gilbert Nyambabvu as the group chief executive.The appointment is effective from 4 Januar...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Nust student commits suicide
A Nust final year student committed suicide in his rural home of Masvingo, the university's Students Representative Committee (SRC) has said.It is still unclear what caused Tanaka Muzondo to k...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF gatherings a threat to COVID-19 control'
THE Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) has called on the government to lead by example by limiting crowds at its events in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.In its latest monthly report,...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
From Gwabalanda to Silicon Valley
RAISED by a single mother who worked as a maid, a young man from Gwabalanda suburb in Bulawayo found himself landing at one of the world's top tech companies, Twitter.Eric Khumalo (26) did his...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'engaging' UN to recoup millions from countries hosting Zimbabwean nurses, doctors
THE Zimbabwean government says it is engaging the United Nations in an attempt to recover millions of dollars from countries that have recruited the nation's health workers, including nurses and docto...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 18:55hrs | 2427 | by Staff reporter
UK can help solve mystery of Mbuya Nehanda's missing skull
FOR Zimbabweans have been calling on Britain to return the skulls of a former spiritual leader, Mbuya Nehanda, and several chiefs who were killed during the First Chimurenga, an Ndebele-Shona revolt a...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 1989 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwe peddles a world-class Constitution that guarantees
The truth however, is this is just for show and is rarely enforced. How then can we use the beautiful...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 16:49hrs | 926 | by Sam Wezhira
20 years of ruinous sanctions
The unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West in the last 20 years have, among others, adversely affected the country's ability to boost its manufacturing sector, build health and education...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Govt gives guidelines on booster shots
GOVERNMENT has authorised administering of COVID-19 booster shots beginning with frontline workers, Health and Child Care ministry secretary Jasper Chimedza has said.Chimedza said frontline wo...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Brother rapes sister
A 19-year-old man from Mufakose in Harare appeared in court yesterday on allegations of raping his five-year-old sister on Christmas eve after she was left in his custody while their mother was attend...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:03hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Court kicks out Obert Mpofu from Farm
A court in Bulawayo on Thursday gave Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu 24 hours to vacate a disputed farm in Matabeleland North or be removed by the police.Justice Evangelista K...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:39hrs | 3777 | by Staff reporter
Lafarge appoints new CE
LAFARGE Cement Zimbabwe has appointed Geoffrey Ndugwa as its chief executive, replacing Precious Nyika, who left the group in September.The Lafarge board said the appointment was with effect f...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:40hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Wife sells veggies, raises hubby's versity fees, he gets degree and weds another woman
A woman who claims to have paid her husband's fees until he got a University degree was shocked on Friday when she found the latter wedding another woman at Chiredzi Magistrate Courts.Albert N...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 17:46hrs | 4690 | by Staff Reporter
UZ students call for SRC fraud scandal to be further investigated
University of Zimbabwe students have called for an audit and intervention of Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Committee (ZACC) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) following the recently expelled St...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 07:44hrs | 1107 | by Shelton Muchena/Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's govt pressuring South Africa to reverse permit suspension
REPORTS from South Africa indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is fighting hard to keep Zimbabweans domiciled in South Africa there despite Tswane threatening to send them packi...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
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