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Zim obliterates Scotland
It was a revenge of the dreamers scenario as Zimbabwe's U19 cricket team, whitewashed Scotland by 8 wickets in the last match of their World Cup group C e...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1788 | by Daniel Itai at the Witrand Oval, in Potchefstroom
Mnangagwa goes for broke
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly targeting farms belonging to former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi, former Manicaland provincial minister Mandi Chimene and other top allies of the l...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3828 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs leave one dead, several injured in ore heist
"Mining in Zimbabwe is no longer safe for women," says Sanelisiwe Maseko, a single mother of two whose mine in Colleen Bawn was recently invaded by machete-wielding men in a bloody raid that left one ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1963 | by Staff reporter
Does 1Gig of data cost US$75 in Zimbabwe?
A report by the BBC claims Zimbabweans pay US$75 for a gigabyte of dataClaim: Zimbabwe data prices are US$75 per Gigabyte, the most expensive internet prices in the world. Verdict: Not tru...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1168 | by Staff reporter
'Chief' Ndiweni unites MDC
THE MDC Matabeleland North and Bulawayo provincial structures have "temporarily" buried their differences to support the under-fire Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni with a solidarity rally planned for n...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Cosafa humiliates Zifa
Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) delegations led by association president Felton Kamambo suffered a humiliating snub after they were denied entry into the Cosafa annual general meeting in Johannes...Published: 10 hrs ago | 629 | by Staff reporter
Zifa to attend top continental seminar
ZIFA'S top brass will get a chance to exchange notes on football development with about 200 representatives from across the continent when they attend a seminar at the Mohamed VI Football Complex in S...Published: 10 hrs ago | 99 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala speaks on treason trial
Job Sikhala, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national vice-chairperson who is also Member of Parliament for Zengeza West, is set to appear before the High Court in Masvingo next week to face ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banks face bleak future
ZIMBABWE's banks may face hurdles in meeting new minimum capital thresholds by year end, analysts have warned.In a show of lack of confidence in the local currency, the Monetary Policy Committ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 429 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga threat to rule of law'
High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda has described the use of the military by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga in kicking out his estranged wife, Marry (pictured), from the couple's matr...Published: 10 hrs ago | 656 | by Staff reporter
ZBC sued for $6m for copyright
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has been taken to the High Court by a businessman, who is claiming $6 027 000 from the national broadcaster for using his original audio-visual works....Published: 10 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe improves on graft ranking
Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has expressed disappointment over the country moving only two places upwards to be ranked 158th out of 180 countries in the newly-released Corruption Percepti...Published: 10 hrs ago | 113 | by Staff reporter
Gringo resumes acting
POPULAR actor and comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora on Wednesday said he had resumed light acting for social media skits while on his way to full recovery after undergoing surgery in October last year....Published: 10 hrs ago | 227 | by Staff reporter
PG seeks forfeiture of Zimra official's assets
Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has approached the High Court seeking an order to seize a residential stand and vehicles belonging to a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official who allegedly...Published: 10 hrs ago | 180 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe health system digitally stunted'
ZIMBABWE'S health system is suffering from a digital deficiency as the country is yet to advance its e-health strategy, Healthcare minister Obadiah Moyo has said.He was speaking at a media bri...Published: 10 hrs ago | 41 | by Staff reporter
New Warriors coach out next week
ZIFA yesterday said they expect to have appointed new Warriors coach by the end of next week to replace Sunday Chidzambga who left the job in July last year.Since then, Joey Antipas (pictured)...Published: 10 hrs ago | 90 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt must operate above petty politics
GOVERNMENT'S decision to dispossess former Local Government minister and Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere of his Mazowe farm is a clear demonstration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ad...Published: 10 hrs ago | 90 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe needs urgent political dialogue'
EUROPEAN Union ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, has said only urgent political dialogue between the country's main political actors will rescue the country from the humanitarian crisis, which ha...Published: 10 hrs ago | 91 | by Staff reporter
Constitutional changes could be Mnangagwa's Hobbesian moment
Twenty-seven is the number of changes that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration wants to make on Zimbabwe's Constitution, passed only seven years ago.The intended changes, announced o...Published: 10 hrs ago | 117 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Time Mnangagwa admitted failure
THERE is always a scapegoat for failure with this government. Failure is not in their vocabulary. The so-called youth have been absorbed into a web of lies.I had an encounter with a youth who ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 123 | by Tongai Chando
'Chamisa rattled state security agents'
THE MDC has claimed that State security agents have been rattled by party leader Nelson Chamisa's address on Tuesday and have activated their machinery to silence the opposition countrywide.MD...Published: 10 hrs ago | 334 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes after corrupt officials
A FIVE-MEMBER integrity panel set up by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa last year to probe corrupt activities involving party deployees in local authorities will target Harare City Council as its first assi...Published: 10 hrs ago | 57 | by Staff reporter
Cosafa lies exposed
COSAFA'S duplicity in banning Zifa from attending the regional football governing body's annual general meeting (AGM) set for today has been exposed, revealing its dishonesty and vindictiveness....Published: 10 hrs ago | 85 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo scores victory against Ziyambi
HIGH Court judge Justice Phildah Muzofa has ordered Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to respond, within seven days of receiving the court's order, to Intratek Zimbabwe director Wicknell Chivayo's requ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 150 | by Staff reporter
2020 holds no promise for troubled Zimbabwe
A SHORT queue has formed outside a supermarket in Sunningdale, a supposedly middle-class suburb in Harare.Behind the supermarket, a truck is offloading bags of mealie-meal, a commodity that re...Published: 10 hrs ago | 94 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for stealing bus
A MAN from Njube in Bulawayo has been arrested on charges of stealing a bus parked in Thorngrove after it was involved in an accident four years earlier.The bus, which had Botswana registratio...Published: 10 hrs ago | 141 | by Staff reporter
Pamushana High School records best A-level results in Masvingo
SCHOOLS in Masvingo Province recorded 251 candidates who scored 15 points and above in the Zimbabwe School Examination Council A-level public examinations for 2019, records have shown.An...Published: 10 hrs ago | 205 | by Staff reporter
Search for new NRZ suitor begins
The renewed search for a suitor for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is set to begin this week after the US$400 million deal with Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG)-Transnet conso...Published: 10 hrs ago | 46 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to charge in forex
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has granted the National Railways of Zimbabwe permission to charge in foreign currency for goods exported under the Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) conditions.NR...Published: 10 hrs ago | 240 | by Staff reporter
Zesa secures $100 million to ease load shedding
Zimbabwe is set to clear its arrears owed to Mozambique and South Africa after securing a US$100-million facility from Afreximbank and revive a 30-year trilateral agreement with the two neighbouring c...Published: 10 hrs ago | 111 | by Staff reporter
Zifa barred from Chiyangwa's Cosafa AGM
ZIFA officials were yesterday barred from attending the Cosafa annual general meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Zifa delegation, led by president Felton Kamambo, board member in ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 46 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt forfeits 1 000 mining claims in Matabeleland South
THE Government has forfeited more than 1 000 gold mining claims in Matabeleland South following failure by owners to pay inspection fees since last year and beyond, as it implements its "use it or los...Published: 10 hrs ago | 103 | by Staff reporter
Cash shortages persist
While premiums paid to access cash have dropped from the lofty levels of around 50 percent prior to the injection of additional cash in November last year, they remain high at 30 percent due to the ac...Published: 10 hrs ago | 67 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga using military to settle matrimonial dispute'
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was on Friday forced to swallow a humble pie after a High Court judge told him that he was not above the law.Justice Dube Banda said what the politician pai...Published: 10 hrs ago | 139 | by Staff reporter
Junior doctors announce end to strike
Striking junior doctors will end a four-month strike after accepting an offer from a telecoms billionaire to pay them a monthly allowance of about $300 for six months, their union said on Thursday....Published: 10 hrs ago | 259 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's stadium bid rubbished
Independent observers and sports analysts have poured cold water on Philip Chiyangwa's audacious plans to build a multi-purpose stadium saying such a venture needs a massive financial injection of hun...Published: 10 hrs ago | 129 | by Staff reporter
A dragonfly cannot spit fire and brimstone
Dogs can be deceptively vicious or gentle.This is why it is often not uncommon for dogs that bark the most to be less known for their bite, while conversely, those that are seemingly benign, w...Published: 10 hrs ago | 45 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zinara in staff clear out
A substantive chief executive officer for the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) will start work on April 1 as the face of a new executive that took over from the previous scandal-plagued ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 88 | by Staff reporter
We must unite against Uncle Sam
One of the most apparent things I encountered during my recent sojourn in Empire was a huge contingent of immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.Many can be found even in the outlying...Published: 10 hrs ago | 63 | by Ranga Mataire
Zacc wades into gold smuggling
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has been handed an explosive gold smuggling report that details well-knit gold smuggling by a coterie of gold buying barons, which is costing Zimbabwe bi...Published: 10 hrs ago | 49 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt revises civil servants pay offer
Government and representatives of civil servants are set to meet again today after the latter turned down Government's revised salary offer made on Friday, which would see the least-paid employee earn...Published: 10 hrs ago | 345 | by Staff reporter
Zesa unveils plans to ease load-shedding
Zimbabwe is set to clear its arrears with Mozambique and South Africa after securing a US$100 million facility from Afreximbank and revive a 30-year trilateral agreement with the two neighbouring coun...Published: 10 hrs ago | 73 | by Staff reporter
Fake cops raid vendors
TWO Bulawayo men, one of them a member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), allegedly masqueraded as police officers and swooped on illegal vendors near Tredgold Building in an early morning "raid" be...Published: 10 hrs ago | 86 | by Staff reporter
RBZ acts on foreign exchange rate manipulators
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has started acting on foreign exchange rate manipulators and has since frozen a bank account belonging to an entity identified as China Nanchang being the first casu...Published: 10 hrs ago | 105 | by Staff reporter
New Air Zimbabwe planes must start generating revenue
The acquisition of two aircraft by the Government for Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) can impact the horticultural and tourism sectors positively, spurring the sectors' growth. This week, the Government took de...Published: 10 hrs ago | 135 | by Staff reporter
'Mapeza is the Pitso Mosimane of Zimbabwean football'
Chippa United owner, Siviwe Chippa Mpengesi, says Norman Mapeza is the Pitso Mosimane of Zimbabwean football and has placed a R20 million (about US$1.384m) release clause on the former Warriors skippe...Published: 10 hrs ago | 689 | by Staff reporter
National Archives speaks on Jonathan Moyo book 'sabotage'
The National Archives of Zimbabwe has stressed that it facilitated with the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) Agency a genuine ISBN, 978-1-77929-583-5, for Professor Jonathan Moyo's recent boo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 74 | by Staff reporter
Zinara boss fired
Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) tolling manager Mr Ostern Chimedza has been fired for presiding over financial leakages at tollgates running into millions of dollars. His dismissal com...Published: 10 hrs ago | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seizes land from Mugabe allies
Zimbabwe has started repossessing land grabbed by former president Robert Mugabe's allies during a controversial agricultural reform programme amid claims the exercise is politically motivated....Published: 10 hrs ago | 47 | by newzimbabwe
Divorce exposes Chiwenga's flashy lifestyle
Chiwenga flashy lifestyle exposedTHE ongoing legal saga involving Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, has lifted the lid on the lifestyle of the ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 4101 | by Staff Reporter
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