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Pensioner sues over US dollar savings
AN 86-year-old pensioner is challenging the constitutionality of the statutory instrument (SI) that converted United States dollar balances to Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts, which resulte...Published: 2 hrs ago | 658 | by Staff reporter
Khupe expels ex-Lover from Senate?
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has been accused of using her new position to hound an ex-lover, Gideon Shoko through recalling him from the Senate, New Zimbabwe reported.Shoko is a Bu...Published: 3 hrs ago | 3065 | by Staff reporter
Metallon sells gold assets to Tagwirei's Landela
MZI Khumalo's Metallon has completed the sale of Shamva Mine to Kuda Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures, while the sale of Mazowe Mine is expected shortly.The transaction represents a change o...Published: 3 hrs ago | 332 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's policies a security threat'
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube was Thursday told in Senate the newly introduced foreign currency exchange auction trading system was a security threat as it had added burden to long suffering Zimbabwea...Published: 3 hrs ago | 374 | by newzimbabwe
Lancet Lab workers down tools
LANCET Clinical Laboratories employees yesterday staged a sit-in at their workplace over poor remuneration, demanding salaries in United States dollars or the black market rate equivalent.Thei...Published: 3 hrs ago | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 3 hrs ago | 318 | by newzimbabwe
Gweru council engineer resigns
GWERU council engineer Robson Manatsa has resigned barely two days after another top official was suspended on graft charges, with sources indicating that more senior employees were likely to quit to ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 286 | by Staff reporter
Avenues Clinic to covid-19 test all elective admissions after 'significant increase in cases' - how many?
Dear Medical Director, The Avenues ClinicI direct your attention your letter of 01 July 2020 below."TO: All Specialists, Casualty Officers, Matrons...Published: 4 hrs ago | 169 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The truth about coup rumours in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumours of a coup following a statement against corrupt leaders by the army General during a burial of a national hero Nleya, with even left some...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1989 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matiza, NRZ board clash
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Biggie Matiza has declared war on the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board and top management over failure to fully implement his directive on ca...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 17 hrs ago | 838 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 17 hrs ago | 914 | by Staff reporter
Time to down tools
Mnangagwa's dzimbabwe ruins have tilted beyond a stable state, by far beyond the leaning tower of Pisa, Italy. Mnangagwa's walls are tumbling and a little push will see them on the ground. Why should ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:21hrs | 9194 | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya
100 retail operators arrested for not accepting Zimdollar, bond notes
Refusing to accept the Zimdollar and bond notes as payment for goods has landed 102 Zimbabwean business owners and retail employees in trouble, with 28 of these appearing in court as the government en...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:55hrs | 3888 | by Staff reporter
Striking nurses' issue taken to government
THE Health Service Board (HSB) yesterday said it had submitted the demands of the striking health workers to government and was still awaiting a response.HSB chairman Paulinus Sikosana made th...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter
Killer arrested after staging suicide
A GWANDA miner has been arrested for allegedly strangling his workmate before dumping the body on a railway line, where it was crushed by a train to conceal the murder. The matter was initiall...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:52hrs | 3974 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths, CIOs threaten nurses
NURSES at St Alberts Mission Hospital, Mt Darwin, were reportedly threatened by Zanu-PF youths and State spy agents after notifying the district medical officer Kelvin Mupunga last week of their inten...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 3353 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Malaria death toll rises to 279
THE malaria death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to 279 since January amid reports that 306 365 have been infected with the disease. In April the deaths stood at 201 with 185 585 cases countrywide...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants, govt meet over salaries
Government is set to meet with civil servants today over salaries and perks under the National Joint Negotiating Council. The NJNC has since written to the Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Ale...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5723 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to tumble
A forex dealer brandishes wads of $2 and $5 notes in Harare. The Zimdollar has continued losing value against stronger currencies like the rand and the United States dollar.THE Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4223 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
City health workers reject salary offer
Harare City Council nurses have rejected a $4 498,18 salary offer presented by the local authority, arguing that the proposed figures were below the poverty datum line, and have issued a 14-day ultima...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU dares Khupe over congress invite
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has vowed it will not entertain reinstated MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe who reportedly plans to hire the labour group to observe a party elective poll in S...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2953 | by newzimbabwe
'Godwin Matanga has no O' Level certificate'
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga is not qualified for the job, his predecessor Augustine Chihuri claims in court documents.Now living in exile, Chihuri also accuses Matanga of "conti...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:01hrs | 2442 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8876 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government!
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government after the Zanu PF government has successively failed to ruin the country for 40 years now."Zi...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1741 | by Stephen Jakes
Council worker drowns in sewage
Chegutu Town council employee Love Chengeni (35) drowned yesterday while fixing sewage pipes in Chegutu.Sources familiar with incident allege a trench collapsed while he was changing dil...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1630 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa snatched Chihuri's pregnant wife?
FORMER police boss Augustine Chihuri has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of hounding him to settle scores after they clashed over a woman.Chihuri, who is on the verge of losing his sprawl...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 16761 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Amending constitution unfair, undemocratic
To be frank, the late former president Robert Mugabe made so many errors of commission and omission during his 37-year rule.However, in my singular opinion he also omitted to groom a successor...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 242 | by Martin Stobart
Machete gangs resurface
ARMED robbery cases involving machete-wielding gangs have resurfaced in Matabeleland South province, invoking memories of terror-filled moments linked to the thugs that traumatised communities....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nkomo: The triumph and paradox of the liberation agenda
Early career timing and ideological wiringTHE nationalist anti-colonial movement in modern Zimbabwe directly intertwines the ideological efforts and political charisma of the late Vice-Preside...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:28hrs | 164 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Pensioners send SOS to Govt
THE National Railways Pensioners Association has appealed to the Government to extend the US$30 allowances to retired workers that were not in civil service, saying pensioners were struggling to make ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Sticky-fingered conductors strike Zupco, again
PILFERING staffers have been the proverbial monkey on Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s case ever since it was brought back to life.Last year, the mass public transport operator jett...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:15hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food aid comes with condoms'
Faced with a decreasing condom uptake in the country because of the tight Covid-19 lockdown, the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations Fund for Population Agency (UNFPA) have come up with a prog...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 3665 | by Staff reporter
Wild partying as Tagwirei takes over gold mine
Workers are said to have gone into wild partying and drinking at Sabi Gold Mine in Zvishavane three weeks ago after Kudakwashe Tagwirei rated as one of the country's richest persons took over the mine...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:18hrs | 13098 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Chinese people not guilty of compatriots' crimes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday discouraged Zimbabweans from issuing blanket condemnation against all Chinese nationals for crimes committed by individual elements from the ally state.T...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2373 | by Staff reporter
Brutality and Aggression against journalists by security forces must stop
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety of journalists following the latest incident in which two journalists were tortured by soldiers and...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:44hrs | 444 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4747 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt ignores striking nurses'
STRIKING nurses yesterday vowed to continue with their industrial action after government allegedly spurned their engagement efforts and ignored their call for decent salaries.Zimbabwe Nurses ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Of ugly vultures and bad wolves in good sheep's clothing
I shall begin with our own fathers and ancestors, it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of mention, for handing free to us this country, augmented by valiant valor, their blood an...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 1538 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Ex-Chipangano commander leads protest against Chinese violence
ONCE feared Zanu-PF youth boss, Jim Kunaka will lead a public protest against continued violence allegedly visited upon Zimbabwean workers by Chinese employers.The demonstrations, organised un...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:12hrs | 983 | by newzimbabwe
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9941 | by Brian Raftopoulos
'Zimbabwe slowly but surely re-dollarising'
GOVERNMENT last week announced a 50% increment and a Covid-19 allowance of US$75 for civil servants and US$30 for pensioners. This is despite government earlier banning the multi-currency regime and m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1470 | by Staff reporter
Health sector showdown looms
GOVERNMENT and striking health professionals are headed for a showdown after the Health Service Board indicated that it will not be able to pay salaries in United States dollars as demanded by the wor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Top Swaziland born lawyer leads 'Obadiah Moyo must go' campaign
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has joined thousands of disgruntled health workers and ordinary citizens in calling for Health minister Obadiah Moyo to be fired from government over alle...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
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