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A lesbian Zimbabwean's struggle for UK asylum
Angel fled Zimbabwe in fear of her life after police found her in bed with another woman five years ago. It's taken most of the time since then for her to convince the Home Office that she is gay and ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1670 | by BBC
Gilbert Tachuona aka Sam Mshengu Chabalala granted R500,000 bail
There were jubilant scenes outside the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga on Wednesday after flamboyant, corruption-accused businessman Sam Tshabalala was granted R500 000 bail.Most...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1093 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ready to accept military deal to resign'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is ready to accept a deal which is being pushed by the army Generals that will see him accepting a multi-million dollar package and resigning from his office former Minist...Published: 20 hrs ago | 11329 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 21 hrs ago | 8914 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa kicked out of court
MDC president Nelson Chamisa and top party officials were yesterday banned from attending the court hearing of organizing secretary Amos Chibaya and deputy Sibusisiwe Masara causing a scene that resul...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5543 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is more radical,' says Sikhala
MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala has described party president Nelson Chamisa as a more radical person than himself amid pressure from critics and activists agitating for a confrontational approach wi...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3025 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa makes impromptu court appearance, riot police deployed
DOZENS of riot police officers Tuesday descended on Harare Magistrates' courts in an apparent bid to quell possible unrest after MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa made an impromptu appearance....Published: 23 hrs ago | 774 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses MDC leaders' freedom bid
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for exception filed by two opposition MDC legislators Amos Chibaya and Sibusisiswe Budha, who are accused of failing to stop a party demonstratio...Published: 23 hrs ago | 184 | by Staff reporter
MSU fraud couple challenge conviction at High Court
FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) bursar Mamelo Moyo and her husband Melusi, who formed a briefcase company that saw the institution of higher learning being swindled of more than US$150 000 thro...Published: 23 hrs ago | 603 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges women to take up leadership positions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged women to take up leadership positions in the development agenda as they are the beacon of morality and integrity. He was speaking while officiating at the launch of ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 59 | by Staff reporter
Chibaya's application dismissed
Harare magistrate Mrs Gloria Takundwa yesterday dismissed an application for exception by MDC-Alliance national organising secretary and Member of Parliament for Mkoba Amos Chibaya and his deputy Sibu...Published: 24 hrs ago | 121 | by Staff reporter
WANTED: Bekani Bekithemba Dube wanted for murder
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has reported that it is appealing to the members of the public to assist with information that may lead to the arrest of one Bekani Bekithemba Dube (32) of Som...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 19:29hrs | 2157 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chibaya, Masara matter postponed
The trial of the MDC Organising Secretary Hon. Amos Chibaya and his deputy Hon. Sibusisiwe Masara, who are facing trumped up charges of failing to stop a demonstration in 2019, has been postponed to 1...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 12:24hrs | 613 | by Staff Reporter
Zapu's statement on the issue of Gukurahundi genocide and the Matebeleland Collective
We would like to put in Mnangagwa's 's head and his stooges name Matebeleland Collective, that the Gukurahundi issue was and will never be a disturbance but GENOCIDE. You can run around the country li...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 08:23hrs | 944 | by Godfrey Viki
Showdown as battle to control Mash Central spills into parliament
The political tussle over Mazowe West and supremacy in Mashonaland Central has reached a new level as Kazembe Kazembe has roped in Parliamentary Portfolio Committee to fight Tafadzwa Musarara Grain Mi...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 481 | by Nicholas Ncube
Dad killer in court
A MAN from Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly fatally stoning his father last week. Thabani Ncube (47) of Entumbane suburb allegedly murdered his father Mitsho Ncube (83) last Friday...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:42hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Driver dies in truck and car head-on
A driver of a Honda CRV died following a head-on collision with a haulage truck after encroaching onto its lane in a failed attempt to turn right in front of the on- coming vehicle. Acting Mid...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:41hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer kills three pedestrians
THREE pedestrians died on the spot, while one escaped with minor injuries after being knocked down by a car being driven by a Mount Darwin gold buyer on Saturday at the 157km peg along the Harare-Mkum...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 17:44hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Guruve bound kombi burns
A Guruve bound kombi went up in flames at Tsatse bridge near Concession on Saturday.The accident was due to mechanical fault.A witness Lloyd Kaseke said the kombi had binding brakes bu...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 16:28hrs | 796 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Justice Wadyajena divides parliament?
The 33 member Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and rural resettlement is alleged to be divided on tribal, political and personal interest lines as it emerged tha...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 13:16hrs | 2138 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Mnangagwa regime cannot silence me,' says Sikhala
Masvingo High Court judge, Justice Garainesu Mawadze, recently acquitted MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges after he allegedly called for the overthrowing of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after Sikhala
AS THE MDC cranks up the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to act on the country's worsening economic rot, its firebrand deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, says tha...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:15hrs | 5582 | by Staff reporter
The liberation war was not a stroll in the park
A shot rang breaking the tense silence, followed by a high pitched cry associated with death and severe anguish. A crack shot enemy sniper had taken out comrade Bvuma, number two in command of a group...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 91 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Starfm remembers Macheso
Sungura kingpin Alick Macheso was yesterday honoured with a life time achievement award by Star Fm radio in their music award 2020 winners....Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 1384 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC position on the proposed constitutional amendments
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is deeply concerned with the various constitutional amendments that were recently proposed by the Zanu PF regime....Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 21:07hrs | 843 | by Kucaca Phulu
Finance director arrested
GOKWE Town Council director of finance Joconia Nyoni has been arrested for allegedly abusing his office.Nyoni (58) was arrested last Wednesday and later appeared before Gokwe magistrate Mr Hil...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Growing up eMalokishini back in the day
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but s...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 698 | by Wlliam Phiri
Chiwenga wife faces attempted murder charge in SA
IT SEEMINGLY does not rain but pours for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry, with the beleaguered former model now also facing an attempted murder charge in South Africa....Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:46hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
Wave of arrest in Zimbabwe as authorities clamp down on dissent
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have stepped up their onslaught against dissent after arresting a total of 47 people in one day for allegedly participating in anti-government protests over the country's worsen...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3062 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 708 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt warns Chamisa
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it is ready to thwart any unsanctioned dissent in the wake of threats by the country's opposition political party - the MDC - to unleash crippling protests in a bid to push P...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:51hrs | 5832 | by Staff reporter
Police to descend heavily on Chamisa
POLICE yesterday warned MDC leader Nelson Chamisa that they would descend heavily on him if he incited opposition party supporters to engage in street protests and cause chaos in the country.C...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 1492 | by Staff reporter
CID boss faces criminal abuse of office charges
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, has appeared in court facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly releasing a vehicle stolen from South Africa that wa...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Calls to diversify energy mix grow louder
CALLS for Zimbabwe and its regional peers to diversify the energy mix are growing in the face of biting climate change, whose effects have been erratic rains or too much rains in some areas, impacting...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:37hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Man crushes father's head with huge rock
AN 83-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo died yesterday morning after he was bludgeoned with huge boulders by his son who accused him of withcraft following an argument over tenants' rentals. Thabani ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:33hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Man kills father over witchcraft claims
In a bizare incident that has left residents of Ntumbane shell-shocked this morning a Bulawayo man gruesomely murdered his father with a brickWitnesses said Thabani Ncube fatally pelted his fa...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 13:34hrs | 2360 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cops quiz students over demo led by the school's former head-boy
Police in Harare yesterday quizzed seven Allan Wilson High School students for allegedly participating in a demonstration led by the school's former head-boy recently, where he allegedly attacked Mnan...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Gweru top cop trial kicks off
THE trial of officer-in-charge CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, who is facing allegations of releasing a stolen vehicle held as an exhibit yesterday kicked off with accused denying the c...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby over toilet sex
A 29-YEAR-OLD Guruve woman was arraigned before Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for scalding her husband with hot water over toilet sex.Talent Chinemwamwasa (29) of Nyamuseve villa...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 20:33hrs | 4283 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ginimbi arrested on fresh
Flamboyant Harare businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure has been arrested on a fresh charge at the Harare magistrates court where he had come for routine remand for another matter in which he was rec...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 15:56hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Pinching the nose quietly does not mean not knowing who did it.
The duo of Comrades Tsenengamu and Matutu have seen the light by listening to wise counsel and accepting to be censured. Whilst no one condones corruption, there are laid down procedures in Zanu-PF fo...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:31hrs | 283 | by Gabarinocheka
High school pupils in Valentine's gig sex storm
STUDENTS at the Reformed Church of Zimbabwe (RCZ)-run Pamushana High School in Bikita East were reportedly involved in a beer binge and sex escapades at the school premises after the institution hired...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:30hrs | 1634 | by Staff reporter
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 77 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Zimbabwe's tragic failure of leadership can be reversed
In 2008 Nelson Mandela said there was a "tragic failure of leadership" in Zimbabwe. His words have never been truer than they are today. There is evidence of failure everywhere you look.In Mar...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:58hrs | 2478 | by Nelson Chamisa
Chiwenga collapses in his office... flown to SA
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga collapsed in his office last week Wednesday and was flown to South Africa instead of his usual destination of China because of the coronavirus.Nehanda Radio...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 13555 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa was not a ZPRA founder member'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not one of the founding members of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) as he recently claimed, former high ranking ZPRA and Zapu cadres have revealed.L...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 16:32hrs | 3798 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube key witness in Jokonya trial
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is billed to testify as one of the chief witnesses in Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board chairperson Callisto Mazorodze Jokonya's graft trial.Jokonya is bei...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:20hrs | 2236 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi granted $10 000 bail
Local businessman and socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure has been granted $10 000 bail today by High Court Judge Justice Erica Ndewere after spending two weeks in prison.Kadungure was repres...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:19hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, families sparring over Gukurahundi genocide
THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s - mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands - are at loggerheads over the official reference to the ki...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:18hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
2 die in accident
Two people died - one on the spot and the others upon arrival at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital - when a haulage truck hit a pothole, veered off the road and ploughed into pedestrians at the 255km peg a...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
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