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Makokoba blackout sparks crime
A-THREE-month electricity blackout in some parts of Makokoba in Bulawayo is being blamed by residents for making the area a hiding place for criminals."It has been three months now and there i...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:09hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United hammer hapless WhaWha
CAPS United 6 - 0 WhaWhaAFTER a rocky start to the season, CAPS United finally remembered how to win, in emphatic fashion, when they put hapless WhaWha to the sword in this Castle Lager Premiershi...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Africa's 'largest' ferrochrome plant takes shape
FORTUNE 500 company, Tsingshang's massive steel and ferrochrome production plant is taking shape near Zimbabwe's mining town of Mvuma, Standardbusiness established last week.The operation is b...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:28hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
Zacc secured only 4 convictions in 2021
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), which last year blew over US$33 million to probe graft cases and fund its other operations, has admitted that it only secured four convictions while fou...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
More ZBC employees arrested for extorting Prophet Freddy
An engineer at ZBC appeared in court Friday on allegations of attempting to extort Prophet Tapiwa Freddy of US$20 000 after threatening to expose a love affair between the prophet and radio presenter ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
National Blankets halts production as tiff with Zimra escalates
TEXTILE giant National Blankets has temporarily stopped production after the manufacturing firm failed to settle a ZW$800 000 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) debt.The Bulawayo company...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:51hrs | 201 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa urges mindset change in civil service
CIVIL servants should change their mindsets and be drivers of devolution and decentralisation to ensure that every citizen has access to basic services such as clean water and well-resourced schools, ...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Let's protect the gains of our independence'
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ZIMBABWE DEFENCE FORCES HIS EXCELLENCY, CDE. ED MNANGAGWA AT THE BURIAL OF NATIONAL HERO DR MARIYO MARIYAWANDA NZUWAH ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AT T...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nzuwah declared national hero
The former Public Service Commission chairman, Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah, who died after a short illness on Tuesday, has been declared a national hero. Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister ...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns ex-PSC chair Nzuwah
President Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to the Nzuwah family following the death of former Public Service Commission chairman Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah yesterday. The cause of his death was not ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mock return of 'Zupco trains'
ZIMBABWE United Passengers Company (ZUPCO)'s incapacitation has forced the government to reintroduce the unpopular old and dilapidated commuter train system.However, the initiative has not bee...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of cables, transformers haunts Zesa
ZESA Holdings is struggling to replace vandalised transformers and power cables in Bulawayo, resulting in residents going for months without electricity.Iminyela and O Square residential areas...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa to develop load-shedding schedules
POWER utility Zesa Holdings is developing load-shedding schedules which will be availed to all customers through different media platforms.Responding to questions from Sunday News, Zesa acting...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
IPP doubts Zimbabwe judiciary
AN independent power producer (IPP) that is battling to force Zesa Holdings to settle US$9 million for electricity transmitted into the national grid has cast doubts in the independence of the judicia...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power firm demands payment in forex, drags Zesa to arbitration
ONE of Zimbabwe's biggest independent power projects (IPPs) has approached the Johannesburg-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to arbitrate over a payment dispute with the State-run Zimbabw...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Minister warns farm invaders
THE Government will not allow the invasion of farms and grazing lands and land seekers need to follow procedure. Speaking after a tour of Gandawasvika Clinic which is being constructed by Mako...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
No to factional mudslinging…Discipline comrades discipline!
My 54 political toddler years which are founded 'On the Shoulders of Struggle' signify a journey of robust African revolutionary tutelage which has been vastly enabled by those national paternal and m...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:04hrs | | by Obert Moses Mpofu
'Team Number 2' faction emerges in Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has been rocked by the emergence of a shadowy new faction going by the moniker, Team Number 2, which was showcased at recent clandestine Women's League meeting in Bulawayo, the Zimbabwe Indepe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off Harare council over $1 billion debt
Municipal Reporter More than three million people in Harare Metropolitan province spent two days with dry taps as Zesa Holdings switched off power to Harare's major supplying water treatment, Morton J...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 14:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US$7 million Zesa debt hampers Zimasco operations
KWEKWE-based ferrochrome producer, Zimasco's plans to commence production on its Western Plant have hit a snag amid reports that the company has to first clear a US$7 million debt to the power utility...Published: 21 May 2021 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Birthday greetings, Zimbabwe
Like yesterday, I remember the day that the late former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith declared independence from Britain.I was driving down what was North Avenue in Salisbury (now Harare)...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Ex Victoria High head tries luck in Zanu-PF
John Muzamani, the former Victoria High head who had a disgraceful departure from the school last year is now trying his luck in Zanu-PF.Muzamani is among 11 candidates who have submitted thei...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Power outage hits Chirundu border post
RESIDENTS, businesspeople and regional transporters at Chirundu Border Post have gone for three weeks without electricity due to a faulty transformer.The transformer was hit by lightning three...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station catches fire
A fire has broken out at the ZPC Hwange Power Station in what could be a major blow to the country's power situation.Efforts to get a comment from ZESA have been fruitless as the power utility...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Woman found with tongue missing
A 45-year-old Mberengwa woman was found dead near her homestead with her tongue missing. The killing, which the police suspect could be ritually motivated, occurred last Sunday night in Butete...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land barons 'queen' under fire
Budiriro residents are up in arms with their council District Officer (DO) Chiratidzo Dzama whom they accuse of continuously parcelling out State land to land barons.She is further accused of ...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 09:28hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Gun-totting land barons terrorise vapositori
Unrepentant gun-wielding lands barons have beyond reasonable doubt become a menace in Harare's Budiriro high-density suburb where they invade land earmarked for Johane Masowe Nyenyedzinomwe low income...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 15:01hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 23 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | | by Livingstone Kazizi
ZESA to curb vandalism of electricity infrastructure
Power utility, ZESA Holdings, says it is working on strategies to curb vandalism and theft of electricity infrastructure after suffering a loss of more than US$2 million last year.ZESA Holding...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Woman kills hubby, daughter over New Year's Eve gig, commits suicide
Florance Notito of Tavamo village under Chief Neshuro in Mwenezi East killed herself moments after allegedly using two axes to kill her husband Simbarashe Butete and their two-year-old baby girl, Tell...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 13:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross Society boss freed
ZIMBABWE Red Cross Society (ZRCS) acting secretary-general Elias Hwenga was last Friday remanded out of custody at his own recognisance by Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna on allegations of obstructing o...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber slapped with 24-year jail term
A BEITBRIDGE armed robber has been slapped with a 24-year jail sentence after a crime spree which include an attempted murder of a villager in the border town.Petious Ndou (26) of Beitbridge d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red Cross boss fires subordinates 'for exposing corruption'
ZIMBABWE Red Cross Society (ZRCS) acting secretary-general Elias Hwenga yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing charges of obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedl...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
False start to 'brutal' Beitbridge cops trial
THE trial of two Beitbridge policemen who allegedly assaulted citizens under the guise of monitoring compliance to the COVID-19 lockdown regulations failed to kick off because their lawyer was absent....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's weird fight against corruption
THERE are some weird winds winds sweeping corruption in high places blowing across Zimbabwe since November 2017. No one can tell which direction the tornado will blow, but a pattern is emerging some p...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Political novice wins Zanu-PF Chivi primary
A ZANU-PF activist considered a political novice has been elected to represent the party in a December by-election to replace sacked Chivi South MP Killer Zivhu.Nine party candidates contested...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conducts Chivi South primaries
Zanu-PF will tomorrow conduct primary elections to choose its parliamentary candidate in Chivi South to fill a vacancy left following the expulsion of Mr Killer Zivhu, who was legislator for the area....Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Misheck Sibanda set for exit in retirement age shake-up
Chief Cabinet Secretary Misheck Sibanda is set to be retired after 17 years in the job.Sibanda is being forced to stand down after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved the harmonisation of th...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zesa explains power outages
ZESA HOLDINGS has said power outages being experienced in different parts of the country are due to a technical fault at Kariba and Hwange Power station. Power supply had vastly improved since...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZANU-PF is good at killing'
FOLLOWING Zanu-PF's chairperson for Mashonaland Central Kazembe Kazembe's alleged threats of violence saying there will be bloodbath in the province if people try to remove him from his position and r...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe Kazembe in 'bloodbath' threats against Zanu-PF competitors
Muzarabani: Zanu-PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central province, Kazembe Kazembe has reportedly threatened violence against anyone who dared contest his position in the party's internal restructuring...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Kazembe Kazembe fights for his party position
EMBATTLED Zanu-PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central province Kazembe Kazembe has warned ruling party members against remaining in the campaign mode and urged them to accept the current party leaders...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's secretary runs parallel government'
Chief Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda is running a parallel government that has more Permanent Secretaries reporting to him that those reporting to Cabinet Mini...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cop bashes workmate in adultery row
A MARRIED police officer from Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly assaulting another cop who accused him of having an extramarital affair with his wife.Edson Utete (35) who resides at...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man catches wife pants down with churchmate
A praise and worship team- member at Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries who lied to her husband that she was going for music practice while she went for trysts at her churchmate's house was ...Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:35hrs | 5065 | by Staff reporter
Cop beats up cop
A POLICE officer from Bulawayo allegedly assaulted another officer believing that he was having an affair with his wife. Edson Utete pleaded not guilty to an assault charge when he appeared be...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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