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Colliery rescuers retrieve snake victim's body
RESCUERS from Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) yesterday used hooks to finally fish out the body of a Lupane man who was allegedly fatally bitten by a snake in a well last Wednesday. The...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor defends Victoria Falls induction retreat
Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni has sprang to the defence of his fellow councillors after the city fathers came under a barrage of criticism for choosing to hold their induction retreat in the resort tow...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's spin nurse fingers Victoria Falls residents
MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Dr Nkululeko Sibanda has torched a storm in Victoria Falls after he claimed that the residents association was being used by some political parties to destabilis...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:09hrs | 1563 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa suspends Victoria Falls mayor again
THE MDC Alliance has again suspended recently re-instated Victoria Falls Mayor, Councillor Somvelo Dlamini, on fresh allegations of bringing the party into disrepute by defying directives and undermin...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe excites Japanese tourism market
ZIMBABWE'S continued re-engagement with the international community has excited key tourism source markets that are now keen to visit the country to sample its diversified tourism products. Ja...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
More than $5 billion required for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
THE Government requires more than $5 billion to rehabilitate the country's entire road network with more than $250 million having been availed to the department of roads as work on re-establishing tra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa hands over radio receivers
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has called on Zimbabweans to use information as a tool to foster unity and development than abuse it to denigrate each other...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:34hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
KFC is back in Zimbabwe, but its damn expensive
Fast food outlet Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Africa which closed all its restaurants in the country a month ago, has re-opened the restaurants. In a statement, KFC Africa - the franchise in Z...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1389 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe informal sector rises to 95%
The number of Zimbabweans earning a living from the informal sector rose to 95 percent in 2014 from 84 percent in 2011, a new study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revealed....Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:27hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Government calls rogue pharmacies to order
GOVERNMENT has directed pharmacies to stop demanding foreign currency from patients for drugs which are now available locally through NatPharm. In an interview at the close of the 67th East, C...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for tourist boom
Government is putting in place measures to accommodate the influx of tourists expected after Zimbabwe was named one of the best countries in the world to visit in 2019, a Cabinet minister has said. ...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030. This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 210 | by Emerson D. Mnangagwa
'Prioritise universal healthcare systems to achieve SDGs'
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has urged African countries to prioritise universal healthcare systems in order to achieve the United Nations' crafted Sustainable Development Goals.Mohadi said thi...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:03hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Suicide after lecturer 'beds student's girlfriend'
A FINAL year Local Government student at Midlands State University allegedly hanged himself from the roof truss at his lodgings in Nehosho area in Senga early yesterday morning for unknown reasons. ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
Multi-lingual Mohadi charms delegates
VICE President Kembo Mohadi yesterday charmed health ministers and experts from Central, East and Southern Africa with some jokes while speaking in various indigenous languages spoken in the region. ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Passerby killed as cars collide
FIVE people were injured yesterday when a Bulawayo-bound Extra City Bus from Victoria Falls veered off the road and overturned while a pedestrian died in Bulawayo when two cars collided at an intersec...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 17:30hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Driver disappears after strange car crash
MYSTERY surrounds a suspected accident where a Mercedes Benz E class 450 plunged onto the railway line at the Emakhandeni fly-over in Bulawayo, forcing residents to panic and intercept a speeding good...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:23hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Economic Dialogue: Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030.This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabili...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:29hrs | 65 | by HE Emmerson D Mnangagwa
Time to value add, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed an indaba on how Zimbabwe should develop value chains for the country's mining and agriculture sectors with a view to advancing the twin objectives of moderni...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Artistes mourn Joe Maseko
The Executive Producer of Rising Sounds Studio Joe Maseko has passed on. He is remembered as one of the unsung heroes who positively shaped the music Industry in Southern Africa. Artistes ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:09hrs | 924 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's govt sabotage teachers' march
Teachers have accused government of sabotaging their march after some headmasters were reportedly directed to hold compulsory meetings with teachers yesterday afternoon to deter them from protesting o...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:50hrs | 2994 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa receives US humanitarian award
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's philanthropic work has been recognised after she was Thursday honoured with a Matter Humanitarian Award from the Matter group president Quenton Marty in the United Stat...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:43hrs | 2586 | by newzimbabwe
Police okay teachers' march
Teachers protesting against deteriorating conditions of service have been given the green light by police to picket at Public Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) and government offices in Harare....Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:41hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
I'm not a dictator, claims Chamisa
MDC president Nelson Chamisa, has rubbished accusations that he is a dictator, saying he is only out to protect his party from Zanu-PF's bid to overtake MDC party mayors.Chamisa recently axed ...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 13:49hrs | 3722 | by Staff reporter
Defining and identifying the new leadership trajectory in MDC-T
The last days of President Morgan Tsvangirai will always be remembered as the episode when the truth was the biggest casualty as the succession debate moved from his office to his death bed. After a w...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2121 | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Mnangagwa's panicky govt meets teachers
Following threats by teachers to down tools on Friday to press for improved working conditions, government has now reached out to the country's educators in a bid to iron out differences.The D...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:01hrs | 5386 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance rocked by confusion over expulsions
Confusion has rocked the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC amid conflicting signals from senior officials over suspended mayors as well as the fate of those who stood as independent candidates in the July 30 ele...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 11:43hrs | 3287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt, teachers headed for showdown
Teachers are headed for a showdown with government this week over deteriorating conditions of service as they plan to down tools on Friday and march in protest.Teachers' unions told the Daily ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | 3256 | by Staff reporter
Chief Nhema embroiled in chieftainship row
A fierce wrangle has erupted over the Mkanganwi chieftainship, with retired Major-General Gibson Mashingaidze accusing Rangarirai Bwawanda, the current Chief Nhema, of receiving kickbacks to influence...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:49hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
NRZ train derails
A NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train derailed between Hwange and Victoria Falls on Sunday night as a result of broken rail caused by excessive temperatures. Hundreds of rail p...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 2227 | by Staff reporter
US orthopaedic surgeons jet in
A group of nine medical experts based at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Centre in the USAm is in the country to offer free knee surgical operations at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Har...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 18:28hrs | 1991 | by Staf reporter
Mwonzora reverses decision to fire Victoria Falls mayor
MDC Alliance secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has reversed a decision by the Matabeleland North provincial leadership to fire Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini.Dlamini was accused of brin...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1834 | by Staff reporter
10 Congolese illegal immigrants arrested
POLICE recently arrested 10 Congolese who entered the country through an undesignated point claiming to be seeking asylum.The Congolese, who included four women and two children, were intercep...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:30hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami's ouster recieved with mixed feelings
The resignation of Bulawayo Deputy mayor at the behest of MDC President Nelson Chamisa has been received with mixed feelings by residents of Bulawayo. Some have welcomed the development calling it a p...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 18:54hrs | 3617 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Chamisa must explain mayor appointment procedure'
Residents have castigated the MDC Alliance for failing to educate the electorate on the method applied by the party in its process of selecting mayors.Mfundo Mlilo, the director of Combined Ha...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:44hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
Retracing the life and death of Dr Sithole
This is the third and final contribution on the life, abduction, disappearance and subsequent death of Dr Edson Sithole - a veteran nationalist, barrister and national hero whose heroic life remains s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 497 | by Isaya Muriwo Sithole
'Masvingo mayor a product of Zanu-PF,' says Chamisa
MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa has fired another salvo at Masvingo mayor Collen Maboke, saying the beleaguered city father was a product of some Zanu-PF arrangement and not the party's choice for the cov...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:12hrs | 4705 | by Staff reporter
Commission of inquiry into sale of State land heads to Matebeleland
The commission of inquiry into the sale of State land which was sworn-in in February will be visiting Matebeleland North and South provinces next week as part of their inquiry into the sale of State l...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 09:59hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora nullifies Bulawayo 'foreign' mayor's expulsion
MDC Alliance national secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has nullified the expulsion of Bulawayo's deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami.Mwonzora told Southern Eye yesterday that the party stood guid...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:16hrs | 2678 | by Staff reporter
Shun corruption in awarding tenders: Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged procurement and supply practitioners to discard the habit of awarding themselves tenders without following proper procedures.Officiating at the Chartered...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:07hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Pupil's letter to school exposes rapist cousin
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl from Victoria Falls has caused the arrest of her cousin who allegedly raped her sometime last year by writing a letter to the school head demanding justice after her parents alle...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | 947 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for culture of buying local
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to Zimbabweans to develop a culture of buying locally produced goods and services to promote domestic industry and economic transformation. Officiating a...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance reverses decision to fire Vic Falls Mayor
THE MDC Alliance national leadership has reversed a decision by its provincial committee in Matabeleland North to fire Victoria Falls Mayor, Councillor Somvelo Dlamini. The party's provincial ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Democracy or Dictatorship?
Nelson Chamisa's ascendancy to the MDC Alliance leadership was controversial, questionable and undemocratic at best and led to the formation of a splinter group led by the former Deputy President, Tho...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1661 | by Claver Nyuki
Mwonzora blocks Chamisa from firing Mayors?
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has moved in to stop the removal of Mayors and Deputy Mayors who were elected by Councillors outside Party whipping system.In letters in possession of Bu...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 11:10hrs | 8721 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government urged to set up monetary policy body
ECONOMIST, Mr Eddie Cross, has urged Government to set up a professional monetary policy committee to advise the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and guard against financial leakages. The Centra...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Hwange prostitute haven shut down
Police in Hwange have shut down a popular hub of commercial sex work and crime in the coal mining town much to the delight of residents who have welcomed the move as they had on numerous occasions com...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:26hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Odds against Chamisa
Voltaire had seen right when he said 'God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh', hence, every Zimbabwean must loosen up and pay particular attention to Zimbabwe's God given...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 4394 | by Caitlin Kamba
Air Namibia resume flights to Zimbabwe
Air Namibia announced that its flights to Harare and Victoria Falls will commence with effect from the 28th of October 2018 while the days of operation remain unchanged.Windhoek to Harare is o...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires Bulawayo's Shona mayor
THE Mr Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has ordered Bulawayo Deputy Mayor councillor Tinashe Kambarami to step down from his post or risk being expelled from the party and recalled from council. Ward 3 ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 05:22hrs | 2837 | by Staff reporter
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