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Chief ordered to return teacher's property
A CHIVHU court has ordered Chief Nyoka, born Musafare Matizha, to return household property worth US$700 he seized from a local teacher after she failed to pay a US$250 fine.The Marondamashanu...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's Presidential candidature hearing postponed to July 7
HIGH Court judge, Justice David Mangota has moved to July 7 the hearing of a matter in which a Zanu-PF activist Lovedale Mangwana is seeking to block former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere from co...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 21:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere tears ZANU PF apart
Exiled Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has given the ruling party sleepless nights especially in ZANU PF strongest area Mashonaland Central prov...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kasukuwere snubs cheerleader Lumumba
PRESIDENTIAL independent candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has named his campaign technical committee headed by ex-cabinet minister Walter Mzembi.In a statement Monday, Mzembi announced a team of f...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere says Mnangagwa can't arrest him
EXILED former cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has announced that he fears for his safety if he returns to Zimbabwe where he is expected to launch his election campaign in person.He will be...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere likely to change the dynamics of the fierce battle between Mnangagwa and Chamisa
Harare lawyer Jacqueline Sande briefing journalists after successfully filing Zimbabwean former minister and MP Saviour Kasukuwere's nomination papers to run as an independent candidate in the 2...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Edd Branson appointed Chairman of US - Africa Business Initiative
The US - Africa Business Initiative is an investment, trade and commerce promotion. The Initiative seeks to fast track Africa’s integration into global markets, leveraging on the demographic...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 05:53hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Sikhala must be released on health grounds'
INCARCERATED Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala's close allies have expressed concern over his deteriorating health.They suggested that Sikhala, who is the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala freedom bid now lost cause, declined bail AGAIN
DETAINED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) lawmaker Job Sikhala's freedom bid is turning out to be a lost cause after Harare magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka yesterday denied him bail for the umpteenth ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel challenges ground Beitbridge courts sessions
BEITBRIDGE courts sessions have since last been disrupted by a serious shortage of fuel at the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) which is now failing to bring accused people to court f...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student wins US filmmaking award
RISING filmmaker and Millennial Academy School student Tinayeishe Wakatama is on cloud nine after scooping the Judges Champion Award worth US$5 000 at the recently held ConnectHER Film Festival at St ...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala trial postponed
DETAINED Citizen's Coalition for Change (CCC), legislator-cum-interim deputy chairman, Job Sikhala had his trial postponed in absentia at the High Court Tuesday.The trial is now set to commenc...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda labels Owen Ncube a 'Grade 7 dropout'
FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar, Victor Matemadanda has advised fired State Security Minister Owen 'Mudha' Ncube to sit for Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s Grade Seven examinations...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally acquitted of fraud
ECONOMIC Empowerment Group (EEG) president, Mike Chimombe (41) has been cleared of fraud charges after the matter was withdrawn before plea.Chimombe appeared before Harare Magistrate, Dennis M...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa legitimacy challenge struck off the roll
THE High Court has struck off the roll an application by Zanu-PF activist, Sybeth Musengezi who is challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy to lead both the ruling party and Zimbabwe....Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa violates 2017 coup agreement?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will not be contested at Zanu-PF's elective congress next month which will go ahead regardless of a court bid to block it and murmurings of disappointment by Vice-Presiden...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe a safe haven for wanted genocidists
The Zimbabwe government is known for deploying the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to commit genocide in which over 40 000 Matabele civilians including women and children were dasta...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UANC on the move to revive Zimbabwe
United African National Council women's league last week, Thursday held their first meeting in Harare with all women representatives drawn from 10 provinc...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Desire Tshuma
Nasty chieftaincy row sucks in Zanu-PF, divides party
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's family is embroiled in a nasty fight over a chieftainship in her rural village in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central province, amid fears she used her influence to ha...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man steals firearm, knocked down by a car in a botched robbery
THE trial of a 33-year-old man from Gutu, Masvingo who was recently arrested in Beitbridge after allegedly breaking into two houses and stealing an assortment of goods among them an AK-47 rifle belong...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
More trees for Mazowe
The First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa hosted a tree planting day at Rusununguko Primary school in Mazowe South Ward 9, which saw over 100 trees planted, adding to the 1225 planted before yesterday's event...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 22:01hrs | | by Alice Mangwanda
Grace Mugabe tells of 'intense mental torture'
Robert Mugabe's widow says her family has been subjected to "intense mental torture" over attempts to exhume and rebury the late former president against the family's wishes.Grace Mugabe, 56, ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
When the judiciary abuses the liberators; Revolution under attack (The Zuma debacle)
When I was a prosecutor in the 1990's in Zimbabwe we had some prosecutors and lawyers who would come into court and make submissions which will be aimed at the people sitting in the gallery. They were...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tshinga Dube supports Mugabe family for clinging to ex-leader's body
OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe's family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba.Add...Published: 29 May 2021 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt 'annoyed' by links to Mugabe voodoo, exhumation fuss
INFORMATION ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has distanced government from ongoing manoeuvres to have late President Robert Mugabe's remains exhumed from the former ruler's rural home in Zvi...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafume's former cellmates die of Covid-19
Three former cellmates of Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume succumbed to Covid-19, a court heard on Monday.Mafume was not in court for his routine remand. His lawyer Tendai Biti told magistrate Vongai...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross president barred from work premises
HARARE Magistrate Trynos Wutawashe has barred re-elected Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) president Edison Mlambo from visiting his work premises so that he does not interfere with witnesses in his m...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 17:51hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chiwenga wife's arrest warrants cancelled
THE two warrants of arrest issued Monday morning against Marry Mubaiwa have been cancelled at the Harare Magistrates' Courts.This was after Mubaiwa was Monday afternoon rushed to court in an a...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 19:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's bad friends
In its short years as the Zimbabwean first family, the Mnangagwas have fared quite sorely in one area: Choosing good friends.You will naturally remember Draxgate, the scandal that rocked the r...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
RBZ boss survives hellish Covid-19 experience
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Deputy Governor Dr Kuphukile Mlambo views himself as a lucky and blessed man after surviving what he described as a hellish and nasty Covid-19 ordeal. Dr Mlambo had to...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent miller arrested
Harare miller Wayne Moss (46), the managing director of Mr Brands, and another local company director were recently arrested on allegations of duping a city businessman of US$25 000 cash after misrepr...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
5 things to know about the upcoming immigration raids in major U.S. cities
A series of immigration raids is expected to begin as early as Sunday in several major American cities, according to President Donald Trump.It's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:47hrs | | by Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
BREAKING: Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter dies
MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java has died from injuries sustained in an accident last month.Tsvangirai-Java who was MDC Alliance Glenview Sou...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 14:34hrs | | by Gibson Nyathi
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 10 | by PUMA
WATCH: Chamisa's full May day speech
MDC President Nelson Chamisa addressed the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions May day celebrations on Wednesday where he told the huge crowd which had gathered that MDC is prepared to unleash pea...Published: 01 May 2019 at 14:45hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lawyers derail Parliament committee hearing
ORAL evidence of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to look into a matter involving four legislators affiliated to the Mines Committee who allegedly demanded a $400 000 bribe from businessm...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants strikes, opposition's Trojan horse
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a "strike country" as various civil service arms try and outdo each other in registering their grievances against Government through withdrawal of labour and other forms of p...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:26hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
Zimbabwe: Policing the police
Every human system needs checks and balances. For developing societies, none is more apparent than the uniformed forces. The fundamental flaw of democracy is that uniformed forces, just like assassins...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 16:45hrs | | by Sonny Jermain
Ailing Mtukudzi misses Coca-Cola awards
Superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi failed to attend the ZBC Coca-Cola winners' prize-giving ceremony held at a local hotel yesterday in Harare due to an undisclosed illness.Popularly known as Sa...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Zimbabwean 'Ninja' honoured in Italy
The First Zimbabwean born World Kobudo Champion & First Zimbabwean Internationally Certified Bujinkan Ninja Wilfred Mashaya was honored in Italy last night. He was honored with Master of the Year ...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Agencies
Mnangagwa's UN performance shames detractors
The hatched plan by the MDC-Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the just-ended 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Mnangagwa’s speech offset MDC Alliance demo
The hatched plan by the MDC Alliance supporters in the United States to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa, through demonstrations during the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Kaseke fails to show up for court hearing
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive, Karikoga Kaseke, yesterday failed to show up for court hearing where he is accused of threatening to assault a female lawyer and poking her while using abus...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Karikoga Kaseke's assault trial date set
A HARARE magistrate yesterday set July 10 as the trial date for Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive Karikoga Kaseke, who is accused of threatening to assault a female lawyer and poking her whil...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa summons rebel party members
ADVOCATE Nelson Chamisa led MDC-T has summoned 40 defiant members standing as independent candidates in the coming elections to a meeting.The meeting, insiders said, is meant to convince the i...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inmates fail to show up in court after prison truck breaks down
INMATES from Bulawayo have failed to show-up in court since last week following the breakdown of the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) truck.The grounded truck is allegedly bei...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wishes ailing Mohadi 'speedy recovery'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday wished Vice President Kembo Mohadi a speedy recovery amid reports he is critically ill in hospital in South Africa.Mohadi and Retired General Const...Published: 05 May 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dismisses Mohadi death rumours
Zanu-PF President and First Secretary Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday dispelled social media rumours that his deputy and party's Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi had died.The President dismiss...Published: 05 May 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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