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Clashes mar distribution of presidential inputs
THERE was chaos and near clashes on Thursday in Hwange's Mabale ward after former councillor Spiwe Mapfuwa diverted a truck ferrying inputs for the Presidential Inputs Scheme to a Zanu-PF base, result...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams demo ban
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has slammed the banning of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) demonstration which was followed by arrests of the union leaders.Chamisa said the ban and a...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna battles to stop prosecution
CHEGUTU West legislator Dexter Nduna has filed an urgent application seeking to stop his prosecution on alleged political violence charges. Nduna filed the application last week at the High Co...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:18hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga must go back to Zimbabwe hospitals,' says Malema
Social media reports that Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) President, Julias Malema has challenged Zimbabwe government officials including Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and Foreign Affairs Minist...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 21:02hrs | 25571 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda tribal clashes, Gukurahundi commission speaks out
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has expressed concern over continued reports of violent clashes in the artisanal mining sector in Matabeleland South Province amid revelat...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:52hrs | 2352 | by Staff reporter
Police 'acquit' murder accused Mnangagwa 'supporter' who shot and killed tout
POLICE seem to have "acquitted" a President Emmerson Mnangagwa "supporter" after presenting court papers stating the 24-year-old was acting in self-defence when he shot and killed a suspected parking ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:33hrs | 4977 | by newzimbabwe
Gold Baron seeks bail at High Court
NOTORIOUS Esigodini gold dealer Baron Dube, who allegedly shot and killed a member of a rival mining gang in the area, has approached the High Court seeking bail pending trial. Dube of Habane ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Murder ends dream wedding
A MAN (26) was killed by three suspected gold panners in Esigodini after he tried to protect his fiancé from indecent assault, putting an end to their dream wedding that was set for December. ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'critically ill', airlifted to South Africa hospital
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is hospitalised in South Africa, government sources have reported.Chiwenga abruptly left a Cabinet meeting on October 2 after falling violently sick, and wa...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 19:02hrs | 19421 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa clamps down on ZCTU protests
POLICE armed with truncheons, tear smoke canisters and water cannon laid siege on the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) head office in Harare yesterday and arrested top officials as government ...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:43hrs | 3215 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU leaders to spent night in custody as ZLHR rescues detained staff members
TWENTY-SEVEN leaders and members of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) will spent the night in police custody after they were arrested by Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Thursday and c...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 609 | by Stephen Jakes
Woman kicks out broke hubby
A Kwekwe woman approached the civil courts seeking the eviction of her husband from their matrimonial home simply because he is jobless and broke.Tabeth Nyirenda begged Kwekwe magistrate Miss ...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
One killed in machete gang fights over gold claims
ONE man died and five others were injured on Monday after artisanal miners clashed over gold claims at Vova Mine just outside Gwanda.The deceased has been identified as Ndodana Ncube (28)....Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Man shot dead over parking space
A 40-YEAR-OLD man died after being shot during a scuffle over parking space in Harare yesterday, police said.Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said five men have since bee...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 2121 | by Staff reporter
Politics of sabotage won't take the nation anywhere
The past few weeks have been characterised by arbitrary price increases, soaring foreign currency exchange rates and general anxiety among Zimbabweans, who are dreading the spectre of the recurrence o...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 11:39hrs | 5139 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa will regret ignoring Matabeleland restoration cause
In his letter addressed to the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, MLO President Cde Paul Siwela selflessly warned against the dangers of undermining or ignoring Matabeleland restoration ...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:19hrs | 4396 | by Israel Dube
Machete killings, marauding gold panners strike fear in Kwekwe
A week after witnessing a bloody fight between gold panners that saw one of them being hacked to death with a machete, Prudence Sibanda is still traumatised.Some of illegal miners who had just...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:51hrs | 598 | by Xolisani Ncube
Man gets 15 years behind bars for murder
A Gweru man was last week sentenced to 15 years in jail by Bulawayo High Court judge sitting on circuit in Gweru Martin Makonese for killing a patron during a beer binge. Emmanuel Bhumure...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 18:34hrs | 2337 | by Simbarashe Sithole
12 years for under age lover rape
A 28-YEAR-OLD man from Nkayi has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping his minor ex-girlfriend twice after threatening to axe her. Bulawayo regional magistrate Ms Sibonginkosi Mnkandla suspe...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Businessman arrested in movie style
A MUTASA businessman and well-known MDC Alliance member, Tawanda Terera, has appeared before Nyanga magistrate, Anne Ndiraya facing charges of resisting lawful arrest, his lawyer said yesterday....Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:28hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
Zesa blacks out Soul Brothers show
THE much-anticipated Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo shutdown gig - Umcimbi Wabantu - largely anticipated to put the icing on a largely eventful arts jamboree, ended prematurely following a power cut...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1592 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance disability board on cards
THE MDC Alliance is setting up an organ in the party structures that will represent the interests and aspirations of people with disabilities (PWDs) as it pushes for inclusion of marginalised groups i...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zesa sabotage Umcimbi Wabantu?
MISSILES rained at the 'cursed' Large City Hall car park in Bulawayo on Saturday night after a blackout in the middle of Soul Brother's performance at the Umcimbi Wabantu show. The show served...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's UN performance shames detractors
The hatched plan by the MDC-Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the just-ended 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | 519 | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa’s speech offset MDC Alliance demo
The hatched plan by the MDC Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:55hrs | 2777 | by Tafara Shumba
The weapon AK47 was invented in Africa and for Africa?
The AK 47 stands for Avtomat (Automatic) Kalashnikov: and 47 is the year in which it was invented. Mikael Kalashnikov is the sole inventor of AK47, he was at an early age obsessed with creating a sub-...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 12:40hrs | 3580 | by Nomazulu Thata
It is now established fact: Zanu PF rigged the 2018 elections - Mnangagwa's world is falling apart
The electoral victory of the rigged elections has been but a hollow Pyrrhic victory for Mnangagwa.Here is the man who had executed all Zanu PF's vote rigging activities and Mnangagwa knows bet...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:40hrs | 17785 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe: A double standard undermining US interests
I WANT to talk about an African election. The ruling party, in power since independence, was not shy about using the power of incumbency to ensure it remained in place. It splashed out pre-election la...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 631 | by John Siko
Zimbabwe on the verge of re-joining Commonwealth
Zimbabwe is on the verge of re-joining the Commonwealth and this week President Mnangagwa met with the organisation's secretary general Ms Patricia Scotland on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
'My deliberate decision to (half) open democratic space', boasted ED - boast 38 years CLOSED it
"Madam President, Peace, security, stability, democracy and good governance are essential ingredients for sustainable development. In view of the fact that elections as an integral element of democrac...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 19:42hrs | 1294 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa demands Mnangagwa to reverse the appointment of Owen Ncube
The absence of an Act of Parliament regulating the operational use of intelligence services in Zimbabwe is a concern for the MDC.The Army is regulated through the Defence Act, the Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 17:37hrs | 12573 | by MDC Communications
Harare vendors fight back
Police are maintaining a heavy presence in most of the country's cities as authorities fear the worst amid a clampdown on desperate vendors who are now fighting back.In Harare, law enforcers h...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:23hrs | 4953 | by Staff reporter
Failure to secure 'financial package scarring investors' reported Guardian - quelea home to roost
President Mnangagwa and his cronies started singing the sing-song "Zimbabwe is open for business!" soon after last November coup; it was way too premature to do so. Zimbabwe was a pariah state ruled b...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 899 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe economic collapse looms again
Zimbabwe faces a deepening economic crisis as hopes fade of a new wave of international investment and aid, following historic elections in July.Locals say conditions have deteriorated since J...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 16:33hrs | 1857 | by The Guardian
Veritas, MDC Alliance, Zapu raise red flag over security sector reforms
LEGISLATIVE watchdog, Veritas and the opposition have raised a red flag over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lack of political will to institute security sector reforms after he failed to include them ...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe MPs warned
CLERK of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda yesterday warned legislators against making inflammatory statements that can cause violence during parliamentary public hearings.Chokuda said this at an ind...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 08:43hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
'Economy will grow 6%' insist Ncube (Tsvangirai mark 2) - not without real political change first
"Zimbabwe will be joining the group of six countries which have the fastest growing economies with a growth rate of six percent per annum which comprise Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania and Ivory Coast," said ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 17:19hrs | 2613 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zidera 2018 amendments Act, What does this mean for Zimbabwe?
TWO years ago, I completed my undergraduate studies and thus attained a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Accounting. The process towards attaining this qualification involved completing a research report ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1118 | by Terence Simbi
Mnangagwa tells the world he is his own man
Since arriving in New York for this year's United Nations General Assembly summit last Thursday, President Mnangagwa and his delegation have been busy with meetings and interviews.Various medi...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:31hrs | 1483 | by Staff reporter
#Tajamuka leader freed on bail
Leader of pressure group #Tajamuka has been freed on bail after his arrest at a news conference just after castigating government for using disproportionate force to drive vendors from the streets of ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:47hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revisits his nearly fatal ice cream poisoning
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again revisited his nearly fatal poisoning at the height of the ruling Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars last year - revealing how he had lat...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:43hrs | 1384 | by Staff reporter
Murder suspect in police cell suicide
A MAN (24) who is said to have been ditched by his five-months-pregnant girlfriend allegedly savagely axed and stabbed her to death before committing suicide in police holding cells. Zibusiso ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:57hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
UNGA, an opportunity to tell the Zimbabwean story
The 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly currently in motion in the United States provides boundless opportunities for Zimbabwe to tell its story following the recent political...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:05hrs | 865 | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa will not follow Mugabe's ways
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will chart a different path from that of his much-criticised predecessor - former leader Robert Mugabe - adding that he will only serve the two terms permitted by ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:30hrs | 2478 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs the best brains Zimbabwe can produce
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently in New York, United States of America, for the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Friday, he had an interview with CNN's Christi...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Court drama as woman bashes small house over maintenance
There was drama at Masvingo Magistrate's Court when a married woman clobbered a small house that had come to claim maintenance from her husband.The drama happened at the exit gates to the cour...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:21hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Police escalate fight against vendors
POLICE yesterday reinforced their security, with some police details getting onto the streets armed with AK-47 rifles, as the law enforcement agency upped its effort to evict defiant vendors from Hara...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:28hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Man guns down 3 family members
Tragedy struck when three Mandigo family members were allegedly shot to death by one, Takadu Magwiro following a dispute over allegations of stolen maize, rapoko and groundnuts in Buhera.The g...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:13hrs | 4613 | by Staff reporter
38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 3030 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1974 | by Staff reporter
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