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RBZ strangles street money changers
They don't know what has suddenly hit them. It is no longer business as usual for most, if not all, illegal street money changers.They used to call the shots in the last few months, de...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces 'bhora musango' in Gokwe by-election, 2023 polls
Zanu-PF faces protest votes in the forthcoming Gokwe-Kabuyuni parliamentary by- elections slated for later this month and in the 2023 polls following a cocktail of political developments which have ex...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 11:46hrs | 7892 | by Staff reporter
Zesa switches off top officials, police in blitz
TOP government officials, critical security establishments, including police stations and ministry departments, were left in the dark last week after the country's power utility, Zesa, switched them o...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:49hrs | 3308 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visited Mutami at school?
A FORMER boyfriend of Susan Mutami and her school friends at Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands, have validated claims that a man believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa she now accuses of r...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:42hrs | 5389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors shoot down Belarus fire tender deal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) councillors have shot down government's directive that BCC should procure fire tender vehicles from Belarus.A latest council report indicates that town clerk Christ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha: Matebeleland's unsung heroes
OMALAYITSHA (cross border transporters) are among the unsung heroes to most communities particularly in Matabeleland region where most families have relatives based in South Africa who send them money...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1885 | by Staff reporter
2 500 hit-and-run accidents recorded in Zimbabwe
The numbers of motorists who hit pedestrians or other vehicles on the roads and speed off without rendering assistance is now on the increase with the police recording about 2 500 hit-and-run accident...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's councillors join gravy train
After the 26 March by-elections in which the then newly formed political party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) romped to victory in Masvingo Urban which had four vacant wards, the social media was...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 19:00hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Equipment woes force Bulawayo road rehab scale down
A COMBINATION of breakdowns and shortages of plant and machinery has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to scale down on capital projects including the ongoing road rehabilitation works.A ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:52hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe average salary very low as poverty bites
SEVEN out of 10 employed people in Zimbabwe earned a monthly salary of ZW$20 000 in January this year, an income which was below the obtaining bread basket as urban poverty hits the southern African n...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Passport office contractor in row over payments
A dispute has erupted between Kingdom Five Zimbabwe; a company contracted by government to do renovations for the Harare e-passport centre, and its workers as well as subcontracted companies over unpa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | 3410 | by Staff reporter
'Biti was reckless'
A LOCAL vehicle-selling firm Paza Buster has written to lawyer and politician Tendai Biti seeking to have him retract claims he made against them in an online interview failure of which they will sue ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 18:10hrs | 3682 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP survives road accident
Zanu-PF Mutasa South legislator Misheck Mugadza survived a road accident on Wednesday afternoon after his vehicle was involved in a head on collision with a haulage truck in Macheke, Mashonaland East ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3007 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors want parking system contract revised
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday hit out at the "unfair" parking system which was imposed on the city's residents, with one warning fellow councillors that they were underestimating the depth of publ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:32hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
BCC, TTI make close to US$40 000 from parking system
THE Bulawayo City Council has racked in U$$21 433, 71 and US$15 968 in parking and clamping fees in a five-month period from its deal with Tendy Three International (TTI).The BCC in partnershi...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 18:57hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2841 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roads authority increases toll gate fees by 39%
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has hiked toll fees by 39% in line with exchange rate movements.The new fees are with effect from 3 August 2022.In a statement Tuesday, t...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe tightening borders to curb smuggling
GOVERNMENT says it will tighten the country's borders to curb smuggling of minerals out of the country at a time when reports state that Zimbabwe is losing US$100 million worth of gold every month to ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Driving schools risk losing licences
DRIVING schools risk having their registration certificates cancelled if they violate stipulated operating procedures which include ensuring aspiring learner drivers have done at least 30 lessons befo...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants abusing vehicle import rebate
Some of the civil servants recently allowed to import vehicles duty-free are now abusing the privilege, importing vehicles for other people and charging a "fee" of between US$700 and US$1 500 dependin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
5 drown after haulage truck, excavator collide on bridge and plunge into river in Zimbabwe
Five people drowned on Friday after a haulage truck and an excavator collided on a bridge in Beatrice, before both vehicles plunged into the Mupfure river below.Police said one survivor, a man...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:06hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa goes after ANC's Pule Mabe
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing a company with alleged links to ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe over a waste picking tender it scored in 2017.This comes after President Cyril Ramaph...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 07:54hrs | 8477 | by Staff reporter
Push for new route to the sea
IN a short four years, President Mnangagwa and his team have ushered in and carried out breathtaking reforms in our national economic management. He is scoring successes in all the fundamental...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 543 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Massive Zimbabwe police vehicle theft scam exposed
A click of senior police officers allegedly helped themselves to cars that were impounded from motorists with most of the vehicles ending up at an auction business owned by Vice-President Constantino ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:13hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane, Matobo main road 'forgotten'
Villagers in UMZINGWANE and Matobo, Matabeleland South have bitterly complained over the poor state of the main road linking the two areas.Matobo ward 15 councillor Dickson Moyo said the Old G...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:52hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Bulawayo parking management
BULAWAYO business owners and residents have claimed that the new city parking management system run by South African company Tendy Three Investment (TTI) in the central business district (CBD) is adve...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
SA customs officials strike: Commercial cargo movement improves
The movement of commercial cargo between Zimbabwe and South Africa has gradually improved after some customs officials from the neighbouring country who have been on strike over a pay increase returne...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:36hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
CCC Beitbridge district chair case postponed
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Beitbridge district chairperson Elliot Mabeza, who is accused of convening an unlawful gathering in Beitbridge border town, had his case postponed to August 17....Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:32hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Borrowdale tenants file petition against Wadyajena
BORROWDALE Brooke Estate residents have petitioned trustees of the Borrowdale Brooke Home Owners Association (BBHOA) complaining of youthful politician Justice Mayor Wadyejena's continued violation of...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 863 | by Staff reporter
Power imports cost Zesa US$17m monthly
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) requires US$17 million per month for power importation to augment local supplies which are set to receive a major boost with coming on line of Hwange u...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Slain Moreblessing Ali's family goes into hiding
THE family of slain Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali have been hounded out of their Chitungwiza house by Zanu-PF activists while suspected state security agents are perio...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:59hrs | 2073 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge highway project: A new big step in the right direction
AS we turn right off the Harare-Beitbridge highway - just before the intersection of the Harare and Bulawayo arteries five kilometres north of Beitbridge Border Post on the banks of the Limpopo River ...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, July Moyo accused of bunking Parliament
MEMBERS of Parliament (MP) have expressed outrage at the repeated failure to attend House of Assembly business by some cabinet ministers and accused the Executive branch of government of disrespecting...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:29hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Man dated business women to kill & rob them
POLICE in Shurugwi have arrested a man who allegedly targeted single business women with whom he entered into love relationships before killing them and taking their properties such as vehicles as wel...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa thrown under the bus by Wally Rhoode
In his response to the Public Protector, President Cyril Ramaphosa's head of Presidential Protection Service, Wally Rhoode, has revealed the roles allegedly played by the President and his Namibian co...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 12:40hrs | 11438 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must avoid self-destruction
WITH our motherland not completely out of the West's evil economic sanctions woods, but encouraged the warmth of some European union members, excluding this country's former coloniser Britain — whic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 94 | by Stephen Mpofu
Zimbabwean ministry fails to recruit 5,000 new teachers
THE government has failed to recruit 5,000 new teachers after the budget allocation to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education was eroded by inflation, Parliament heard this week.Zimba...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with daily blackouts
ZAMBIA'S integrated power utility ZESCO has declared that the country how has surplus capacity of about 1,000 megawatts (MW) at a time the country is also enjoying an economic rebound.Across t...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Inflation wipes out govt budget
GOVERNMENT says it has failed to recruit teachers required to minimise the shortfall of educators at the country's public schools because inflation has wiped out the budget for theexercise....Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa too desperate
POLITICAL survival remains democratic when the leader of a country is deriving their power from the masses.Politics remains peaceful when those in power are running a successful economy, with ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1099 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Mnangagwa's govt must stop meddling in councils
IF it is, indeed, true that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has woken up to its folly of meddling in local authorities affairs as far as the problematic Pomona Waste to Energy deal betwe...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
City gets back impounded ambulances
KWEKWE City Council is set to get back two ambulances that the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) had impounded on allegations that they were not properly imported.The ambulances were purchase...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Bloodbath in Tshabalala head-on accident
A FUEL attendant who witnessed a head-on collision involving a Honda Fit and a Nissan Elgrand where Nketa Drive and Imhlotshana Road intersect near Tshabalala suburb rushed to the scene and was greete...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's unemployment rate now at 19%
ZIMBABWE's unemployment rate now stands at 19% basing on the strictest definition of employment, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) has reported.The details, contained in the agency...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:38hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF convoy overruns Goromonzi tollgate
Rowdy Zanu-PF supporters overran a tollgate in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, after destroying a side gate and driving through in a convoy of nearly 15 vehicles, witnesses said.The Zanu-PF suppo...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:53hrs | 6570 | by Staff reporter
Long delays at Beitbridge as SA border workers strike
THERE were long delays in clearance of commercial cargo at the Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, as South African Revenue Services (SARS) customs officials continued their strike pressing for a 12 per...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:14hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt ends Zupco monopoly
PRIVATE transport operators are expected to resume soon under a new set of regulations to repeal Zupco's monopoly and establish an efficient urban mass public transport system, it has been learnt....Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:07hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
180 000 errors on Zimbabwe's voters roll
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday said it had picked up over 180 000 errors on the voters roll as of June 23, a figure election watchdogs said was too huge and could have a strong bear...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:31hrs | 821 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC legislators unite to condemn fire tenders deal
In a rare show of consensus Thursday, opposition and ruling party legislators roundly condemned the government's deal to procure fire tenders from Belarus with most telling deputy local government min...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:14hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
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