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Chief blames rising HIV cases on marital infidelity
Traditional leader Chief Ndanga, born Wilson Makono, has expressed deep concern over the alarming rise in HIV infections in Zaka District, particularly in the Ndanga area, attributing the trend to gro...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 10:56hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa's trial begins
The trial of self-styled King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, accused of undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, commenced today at the Harare Magistrates' Court.Chiminya app...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:43hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of contraceptives hits Zaka amid fears of smuggling to SA
A serious shortage of contraceptive tablets has rocked clinics across Zaka District, triggering suspicions of smuggling operations targeting the South African black market.The revelation was m...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 08:41hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutanda divides families in Zaka
A dramatic tale of deception unfolded in the quiet hills of Zaka District, where a self-proclaimed Tsikamutanda (traditional healer and witch hunter) named Nehemiah Tamanikwa recently stirred both awe...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:35hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's appointment of new police chief sparks clansmen politics allegations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent appointment of Stephen Mutamba as the new Police Commissioner-General, effective January 1, 2025, has ignited accusations of clansmen politics, deepening concerns...Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 19:22hrs | 1740 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commissar applauds FAZ
Zanu-PF national political commissar Dr Mike Bimha has publicly acknowledged the controversial role played by Forever Associate Zimbabwe (FAZ) saying had it not been for this organisation's role in th...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CSO hails Bikita minerals beneficiation to communities
BIKITA - President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned petalite and spodumene processing plants at Bikita Minerals that are valued at US$ 300 million on November 29 2023.The giant processing plant...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 09:09hrs | 20 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF councillors clash over funeral speech
Two Zanu-PF councilors from ward 9 in Zaka District recently clashed over a funeral speech in which the sitting councillor Livison Paradza felt threatened by fellow councillor Beauty Musunda who got i...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 19:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo celebrates Chiduwa's fall from grace
While many people often celebrate the success of their kinsmen and feel sad when bad things happen, the story is different for the Zaka South legislator Clemence Chiduwa whom people in Zaka and ...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 21:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs' spouses appointed to council positions via women's quota
In a surprising and controversial turn of events, some influential members of the Zanu-PF party in Masvingo province have been accused of securing council positions for their wives under the women's q...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'deploys drones' to spy on Chamisa's CCC
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday "deployed drones" to spy on the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) campaign launch in Gweru as the August 23 polls campaign heats up.President Em...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tony Blair pledges to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery?
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a major climbdown and pledged to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery by joining the anti-sanctions lobby to remove the punitive measures which he imp...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected in Zaka this week
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to visit Zaka District, for the first time since he became President, on July 16; 2023 to address a star rally ahead of August 23 election.Zanu-PF Prov...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF embarks on healing exercise to avert 'Bhora Musango'
The ruling party Zanu-PF Masvingo Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) has embarked on a healing process in the province to try and unite party supporters who were torn apart by the chaotic primary...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders milking Zanu-PF candidates
Traditional leaders in Masvingo province mainly in Zaka district are making a killing from Zanu-PF candidates who are campaigning ahead of party primary elections set for Saturday March 25.Can...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'
WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ru...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants forced to buy Zanu-PF cards'
Civil servants in some parts of the country have protested over what they have described as "coercion" by the ruling Zanu-PF party to buy the ruling party's membership cards at US$3 each.To av...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF forces teachers, nurses to buy party cards
Zanu-PF took it's intimidation tactics to a higher level following reports that the ruling party is forcing teachers and nurses to buy party cards in Masvingo province.Zaka district women boss...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Villagers bemoan politicisation of aid
Villagers from Masvingo's, Zaka district have decried the politicisation of government aid by public officials, which they say has condemned many people to poverty.In Zaka central constituency...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe floods destroy 160ha of crops
FLOODS and strong winds destroyed over 160 hectares of crops, including maize and tobacco valued at thousands of dollars, as well as damaging 48 homes in six provinces countrywide over three days last...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ministers battle to control Zaka district
Zanu-PF factional wars in Masvingo are far from over as the battle for dominance between provincial chairperson Robson Mavhenyengwa and his predecessor and current Minister of State for Provincial Aff...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Spooks assault Chamisa's activist
A MEMBER of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zaka, Tafara Chimwaradze, was on Monday briefly abducted and assaulted by known Central Intelligence Organisation operatives while at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rues time wasted on factional fights than voter registration
Zanu-PF Masvingo province is in panic mode over low voter registration in its rural strongholds and is now making frantic efforts to make up for lost ground as the 2023 harmonized elections beckon....Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
$1,2 billion sanitary wear 'vanishes'
SANITARY wear worth $1,2 billion bought by government for distribution to rural schools cannot be accounted for, a Parliamentary probe has revealed.The Parliamentary Committee on Primary and S...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief bans Mnangagwa's minister from his area
ZAKA–Chief Nhema born Rangarirai Bwawanda of Zaka who recently made headlines after promising Zanu-PF more than five million votes in 2023 has given Zaka East MP who is the ruling party District Coo...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'To hell with your fire tenders,' councils tell July Moyo
Local authorities in the province have rejected the directive from central government where each council has been ordered to pay for a fire tender to a certain supplier using devolution funds at a ver...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF subverts traditional leaders
Zanu-PF has promised to give incentives to hundreds of traditional leaders in Masvingo province for them to mobilise people to vote for the party during the 2023 general election while also moving to ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF revives Chamisa's popularity?
WHAT started as a pedestrian civic engagement for Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to interface with communities and the grassroots in Masvingo this week ahead of the 2023...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:43hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Shops shut down ahead of Chamisa's visit
POLICE Wednesday forced all shops at Janet Shopping Centre in Ward 17 Bikita, Masvingo to shut down while villagers were forced to go home blocking them from meeting MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teacher sleeps in the open for 6 days
A teacher from Zaka will rue the day he decided to transfer to another school, after he was forced to sleep in the open for six days as school head refused to accept him saying his place had already b...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No donations without Zanu-PF approval'
Zanu-PF Zaka District Coordinating Committee (DCC) has banned party members from doing charity work like donating goods without knowledge and approval from the DCC, sitting councilor and respective Me...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zanu-PF MP, councillors clash over CDF
Trouble seems to be brewing in paradise for Zaka Central legislator Davison Svuure whose councillors have pinned him down demanding accountability for the 2020 Constituency Development Fund (CDF)....Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 11:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Children's home to be named after Mnangagwa's wife
Chambuta Children's home in Chiredzi district part of Masvingo province is going to be named under First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa in recognition of her philanthropic work in uplifting livelihoods of the...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens grip on Masvingo
While the just concluded DCC elections could have dealt a body blow to unity in the ruling Zanu-PF party, in Masvingo Province President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tightened his power grip as all those wh...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
DCC elections expose Zanu-PF
THE chaos that has been the hallmark of Zanu-PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections continued yesterday in different parts of the country with re-runs and failure to produce results, whil...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bruising battles in Zanu-PF DCC polls
THE stage is set for bruising battles as the ruling Zanu-PF conduct their much awaited district co-ordinating committees (DCCs) elections across eight provinces today.This comes as cracks have bee...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 20:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP says he is still in the game
Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Zaka Central Paradzai Chakona says he is still in the political game and hopes for a comeback to the party leadership, this time as the Zaka District Coordinating ...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2008 election violence victims walk away empty handed
Two MDC Alliance activists who lost livestock to Zanu-PF supporters in the violent run-up to the 2008 presidential election re-run were recently left disappointed after the court dismissed their case ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Soldier trades gun for the mic
A Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officer and rising sungura musician, Masharl Farirepi, who fronts Orchestra Zaka Kings, has made his intentions clear with two promising singles whose quality demonstrat...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man beaten to death over mubobobo
A man from Zaka District in Masvingo Province was last week beaten to death by his relatives on suspicions that he possessed mubobobo, a magical way of having sexual intercourse with women without the...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF historian dies
Zanu-PF historian and social worker, Raymond Mazorodze, who worked as a voluntary social worker died at a local hospital in Harare on Monday. He was 72. He collapsed on Monday at the Z...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC close ranks
The late veteran educationist and Zaka East Member of Parliament (MP), Katson Gumbwanda was laid to rest at his homestead in Chekenyere last weekend, with Members of Parliament (MPs) from across the p...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police probe robbery victim's source of money
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating a Beitbridge robbery victim Muchineripi Hlaringo's source of money after he lost R569 000 and US$4 500 during a night raid at his home this week.H...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi farmers lose unutilised land
SCORES of Chiredzi A1 farmers in Essenby have received letters of withdrawal from the Lands ministry after failing to utilise the land allocated to them during the fast-track land reform programme....Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Gumbi's ugly fight divides MDC Alliance branches
The battle for the MDC Masvingo provincial chairperson post between incumbent James Gumbi and rival Tongai Matutu is turning ugly in Mwenezi district with members of the two camps engaging in serious ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai death toll hits 139 in Zimbabwe
THE death toll from Cyclone Idai floods ravaging eastern Zimbabwe has risen to 139 according to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services.A...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone hits Masvingo
Tropical Cyclone Idai is also wreaking havoc in Masvingo Province, with at least 15 houses having already been destroyed in Zaka under Chief Nhema. Zaka District Administrator,Ndeya Nyeda...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teacher kills self in school storeroom
A female teacher at Muparuri Primary School, identified only as Mrs Kwangwari, committed suicide by hanging herself in the school storeroom in the early morning hours of Wednesday January 09, TellZim ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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