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Witchcraft accusations land woman in court
A CHIPINGE woman landed herself in the dock after she accused a fellow villager of possessing a snake, which she said once bit her.Loice Rumbidzai Mutema (28) of Marwendo village under Chief M...Published: 19 mins ago | 15 | by Staff reporter
Harare house burns with US$200 000 inside
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says a Harare house was burnt to ashes with money valued at US$200 000 inside. Posting on Twitter the ZRP account said Police are investigating circumstances surro...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1133 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ex-top aide sweats for bail
Former principal director of State Residences in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Douglas Tapfuma's bid for freedom hit a brick wall yesterday after Harare Provincial magistrate Mr Hosea Mujay...Published: 3 hrs ago | 95 | by Staff reporter
Econet buys lithium-ion batteries from Tesla
Zimbabwe's biggest telecommunications company, Econet Wireless, has turned to lithium-ion batteries to power its base stations in the wake of incessant power shortages currently rocking the country....Published: 3 hrs ago | 202 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa arm-twisted Mugabe family to force Heroes Acre burial
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government used strong-arm tactics to force Robert Mugabe's family to lift their objections to his burial at the National Heroes Acre burial, it was reported on Sunday....Published: 10 hrs ago | 3792 | by ZimLive
Schweppes US$60m new Beitbridge plantation
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited is set to establish a 4 000 hectare citrus plantation in Beitbridge with an estimated value of US$60 million in a development set to increase production and exports. ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's death breathes life into sleepy Zvimba
TWO young women, flanking a middle-aged man who appears to enjoy every moment of it, stagger in a beer gut along the short road which branches off the smooth highway connecting Harare and Murombedzi g...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 4566 | by Staff reporter
Join me in condemning Gushungo Clan & Mnangagwa over Mugabe's Mausoleum (Blue Roof)
The decision by president ED's government to construct a Mausoleum for our dictator RG Mugabe should be condemned by right thinking Zimbabweans. The hospitals have no medicine, parents are struggling ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 3278 | by Don Chigumba
Sympathy for the devil
The sham solidarity with Mugabe shown by African leaders at his funeral is in sharp contrast to the enlightened attitude taken by the African Union over the plight of African refugees and migrants str...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:40hrs | 1326 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Inside the fight over Robert Mugabe's body
Former president Robert Mugabe's family was told that they risked losing his Harare mansion and other Harare properties if they did not accede to government's demands that the long-time ruler should b...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2112 | by Staff reporter
Zesa, BCC agree on compensation for power station use
AFTER years of fighting between the Bulawayo City Council and Zesa, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Power Company, over the ownership of the Bulawayo Power Station, the impasse seems to be coming to a co...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Crafty Bob is not just history but our history
No matter how intelligent we might be, sometimes it is difficult to wrap our heads around some things; they are simply inscrutable.I am sure many people have heard the name Saint Augustine, wh...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 94 | by Bishop Lazi
What is his legacy?
Sometimes haters magnify your small mistakes to make them look so big so that the good which you have done is obscured by lies. I would describe Mugabe as generally a good person, a good and intellige...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:35hrs | 710 | by Etiwel Mutero
Zimbabweans now living in extreme poverty as economy declines
With Zimbabwe's economy all but confirmed to contract by at least 8% in the year 2019, households are feeling the heat as poverty levels surge at alarming levels. Zimbabwe's last recession cycle occur...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1293 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zifa pursue Mapeza
There are indications that Zifa are plotting to engage Norman Mapeza to take over as the Warriors coach in January after the former national team captain quit FC Platinum to take a break from football...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:05hrs | 1493 | by Staff reporter
What is Robert Mugabe's legacy?
Sometimes haters magnify your small mistakes so that they look so big so that the good which have done is obscured by lies. I would describe Mugabe as generally a good person, a good and intelligent t...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 291 | by Etiwel Mutero
Police need riot control training: ZPP
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on government to implement recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 politically-motivated violence by ensuring police officers a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:44hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe death ignites an inferno of debates, discussions
DEPOSED late former President Robert Mugabe is currently the most talked about individual among Zimbabweans. Ever since his death last week, tongues never took leave from wagging. His death was bound ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 237 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Obiang Nguema jets in for Mugabe funeral
The President of the Equatorial Guinea, His Excellency Theodore Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has arrived in the country for the funeral of the late former President Robert Mugabe.Accompanied by his w...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:47hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets up centre for xenophobia victims
Government has reactivated a reception centre at Beitbridge to handle Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The first batch of 60 repatriates was expected to arrive last night....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:05hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy: Diarrhoea outbreak hits Harare
A diarrhoea outbreak has hit some Harare suburbs, with hundreds of residents being treated at various clinics after drinking contaminated borehole water, Harare City Council's Health Services director...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:52hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
EMA and the Municipality of Kariba complicit in Kariba's escalating human-wildlife conflict
As Kariba mourns for the umpteenth time the death of a victim of Human-Wildlife Conflict, voices have been raised against inaction by wildlife authorities which borders on criminal negligence. Matound...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:29hrs | 162 | by Laiton Kandawire a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio correspondent in Kariba
Makhosini Hlongwane set to lose property over US$30 000 vehicle debt
FORMER Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister and Member of Parliament for Mberengwa East Makhosini Hlongwane's property is set to be auctioned over a debt of more than US$36 000 for a vehicle and asset ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:24hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Hip-hop top 10 spansers
Earlier in the year, June to be precise, Rapper Jay-Z made history by becoming rap's first ever billionaire. The report released by Forbes on June 4 claims Jay-Z's wealth now "conservatively tops $1bn...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 13:05hrs | 940 | by Staff Writer
It is impossible to portray dictator Mugabe as a hero, impossible, 'Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!'
Every year, at my High School, we had a college ball. We invited girls from the neighbouring school to the ball and, before the end of the afternoon's dancing, it was the tradition to have a lucky dra...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1053 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Giving Mugabe a hero's send-off proves we love our dictators and don't want change - not yet
Zimbabweans are not yet ready to end the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and with it the economic meltdown and political paralysis.Last year Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | 858 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC led council hikes water costs by 900%
Harare City Council has torched a storm following its proposal to increase water charges by at least 900 percent, while some ratepayers will now be charged in foreign currency.Water charges wi...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 19:28hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
If you don't believe in yourself, who else will?
Believing is the only gateway / input into making into life. There is no where you can make it in life without self confidence . Believe is to accept that something is true, especially wit...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:34hrs | 478 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwe to acquire radar to track cyclones
Government is in the process of acquiring equipment and software for tracking and monitoring tropical cyclones and storms to improve the accuracy of weather information and avoid a devastating impacts...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:58hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig threatens Mnangagwa with ICC prosecution
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:00hrs | 3581 | by Staff reporter
Teacher jailed 3 years for bedding Grade 6 pupil
A 39-YEAR-OLD teacher in Chipinge has been jailed for three years for being intimate with a Grade 6 pupil.The primary school teacher, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of hi...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:45hrs | 2366 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crisis: Time for second govt of national unity?
ZIMBABWE is going through its worst socio-economic and political crisis in two decades. Crippling daily power outages of up to 18 hours and erratic supply of clean water are just some of the most obvi...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:41hrs | 804 | by Tapiwa Chagonda
Victoria Falls 'zoo' still on the cards
THE Santonga "Zoo" project, which put Victoria Falls Town Council at loggerheads with animal activists and tourism players in the resort town, is still on the local authority's plans, a situation whic...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:37hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not immune to ICC prosecution'
MDC deputy secretary for legal affairs and Gweru urban legislator, Brian Dube, says the continued human rights violations in the country coupled with the August 2018 and January 2019 army killings, co...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son wins Glen View South by election
FORMER Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's son Vincent won the right to represent Glen View South in the National Assembly after beating Zanu-PF candidate Offard Muchuwe by close to 2000 votes in Satur...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1755 | by newzimbabwe
Parliament to punish absentee ministers
Parliament will take disciplinary measures against Cabinet ministers and their deputies that missed last Wednesday's Question and Answer session in the National Assembly without seeking leave of absen...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:22hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zinara boss explains his millions
FORMER Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) chief executive Frank Chitukutuku has made his first attempt at explaining how he acquired massive wealth valued at over US$20 million following a...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:19hrs | 630 | by Staff reporter
Firms fork out US$15m for power imports
Over 20 local firms have signed up to Zesa's facility to ring-fence electricity imports and are contributing up to US$15 million a month as they seek to avoid widening losses due to long hours of load...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:44hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree goes for a month without electricity
Zesa has restored electricity supplies in Plumtree ending a month-long blackout that also saw the border town running dry.The electricity crisis was blamed on a damaged transformer and theft o...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
What the heck is happening at Highlanders?
FOOTBALL without Highlanders and Dynamos in the mix or top of the log, should I say is not interesting and that on its own lowers the standard of football in the country.I'm writing with a hea...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 159 | by Zenzo Moyo
Goblins on the prowl
According to the standard definition of a goblin, this is a hostile, small, grotesque and mischievous supernatural creature.But if you live in Matabeleland's Kezi kingdom or Cowdray Park, Bula...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 266 | by Emmanuel Kafe
The land developer short-changed the people
Whoever came up with the land development plans for Msasa Park suburb in Harare may have 'committed' plenty omissions. This is a very large residential area with nice large houses but far placed from ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:49hrs | 303 | by Gabarinocheka
Respect foe dead Mugabe is no excuse for riding roughshod over his victims and truth – he was a dictator
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a ruthless tyrant who viewed the ordinary Zimbabweans as little more than pawns, sub-humans, to dispose of as he saw fit. In expressing their grief over Mugabe's death many p...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:47hrs | 318 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bob: As divisive in death as he was in life
ROBERT Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, has died.Mugabe was 95, and had been struggling with ill health for some time. The country's current President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Mug...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:11hrs | 603 | by Roger Southall
Chamisa's youths in flash demonstration
POLICE and security services were Friday caught out after MDC youths stormed the capital in a flash demonstration that took them to Parliament where they left their placards with all sorts of messages...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:10hrs | 3303 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF mourns former leader
Zanu-PF has described the death of former president Robert Mugabe as a great shock to the nation, continent and the world. The party's secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu said the entire ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:56hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi leads clean-up campaign in Glen View
Vice-President Kembo Mohadi has called on Zimbabweans to promote sustainable waste management practices and initiatives in a bid to keep a clean environment. Speaking at the National Environme...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:54hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's love-hate affair
He came to power as a Mao-jacketed revolutionary, charmed the West with his policy of racial reconciliation, adopted stylish Saville Row suits and was knighted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth.But...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 18:31hrs | 3438 | by AFP
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:38hrs | 2394 | by Percy Zvomuya
British govt insists on reforms for support
THE British government this week insisted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must bring to book perpetrators of human rights violations, as well as implement substantive political and economic reforms ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
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