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Chamisa says 'walls of Jericho falling'
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday vowed his party will not surrender the MDC Alliance name to the rival MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe warning that they would henceforth take to a radical res...Published: 15 mins ago | 40 | by Staff reporter
Progress against virus brings complacency in parts of Zimbabwe
With Zimbabwe's coronavirus infections on the decline, schools are reopening, along with churches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions. Strict lockdowns designed to curb the disease ar...Published: 17 mins ago | 10 | by Farai Mutsaka I Associated Press
Chamisa, Khupe youths violently clash over Kwekwe offices
YOUTHS aligned to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his political rival in MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe Saturday had violent clashes over the control of the party's offices in Kwekwe....Published: 21 mins ago | 41 | by Staff reporter
Khupe set to recall Chamisa's VP, 5 MPs
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has set her sights on recalling MDC Alliance co-vice president, Lynnette Karenyi-Kore and five other MPs from the beleaguered rival opposition.The six M...Published: 23 mins ago | 65 | by Staff reporter
SA opposition parties demand Ramaphosa fire Mapisa-Nqakula
President Cyril Ramaphosa's reprimand of Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for taking ANC officials on an air force jet to Zimbabwe isn't enough - she should be fired, two...Published: 51 mins ago | 109 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala exhibiting leadership Chamisa is lacking
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, says the struggle for a just and better Zimbabwe for all will never be derailed by the alleged persecution of individuals like h...Published: 58 mins ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
UN to assist debt-ridden landlocked countries including Zimbabwe
THE United Nations (UN) says it is committed to finding solutions to assist landlocked developing countries, including Zimbabwe, whose debt crisis has been exacerbated by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pa...Published: 1 hr ago | 160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cost of living up
ZIMBABWE'S cost of living, as measured by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ), food basket for a low income family of six, rose to $14 438 in August from $14 256 in July, representing a 1,27 percen...Published: 1 hr ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Dembare targets Bosso striker
DYNAMOS are pursuing striker Tinashe Makanda following the expiry of his contract at Highlanders.H-Metro heard DeMbare coach Tonderai Ndiraya has tasked the executive to land the marksman's si...Published: 1 hr ago | 143 | by Staff reporter
Millions of people forced from their homes face dual hardship of Covid-19
Around 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centr...Published: 4 hrs ago | 489 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa threatens radical action
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday vowed his party will not surrender the MDC Alliance name to the rival MDCT led by Thokozani Khupe, warning that they would henceforth take to a radical respo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4602 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, govt clash over schools opening
The standoff between the government and teachers yesterday reached tipping point with all teachers' unions declaring total job action while government sought to placate the angry educators and at the ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3132 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig loses bid to evict Mnangagwa aide
FORMER Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Bernard Makokove's bid to evict President Emmerson Mnangagwa's aide Alfred Chagonda from his Rushfontain Farm in Chivhu was dis missed at the Civ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2289 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 11 hrs ago | 2869 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo threatens to publish Cabinet minutes
SELfEXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has threatened to publish Cabinet minutes to prove that G40 elements were not taking instructions from the late for mer president Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace....Published: 11 hrs ago | 6580 | by Staff reporter
Drama as Zanu-PF women's league holds ‘secretive' elections
THE Zanu-PF women's league in Mashonaland East on Friday held a "secretive" election that saw provincial chair lady Nyarai Tsvuura being replaced by her deputy Lyn Gororo as factional wars in the prov...Published: 11 hrs ago | 722 | by Staff reporter
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1782 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to block doctors' migration
SENIOR doctors have slammed the Health ministry for trampling on the Health Professions Act by throwing thorns into their path to stop them from looking for green er pastures.This follows an a...Published: 11 hrs ago | 543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 11 hrs ago | 477 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Has Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch signed a treaty with Zimbabwe?
I READ with great interest a re cent letter to the editor by Ben Freeth in which he raises issue with the government of Zimbabwe regarding the land compensation question and property rights of individ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 173 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Pakistan to name full strength squad for Zimbabwe
Pakistan coach Misbahul Haq has hinted that there may not be major changes his squad for the upcoming cricket home series against Zimbabwe, saying that the team already had young players.Durin...Published: 11 hrs ago | 73 | by Staff reporter
Mwaruwari back at Portsmouth
Portsmouth favourite Benjani Mwaruwari is back at Fratton Park although the ever popular striker is completing his coaching badges with the Blues' Under16s rather than earmarked to rediscover the firs...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1391 | by Staff reporter
Leopard scare in Filabusi
VILLAGERS at Filabusi in Insiza district of Matabeleland South have expressed fears over a leopard and its puppies terrorising their area.Village head in Ndwangu area Godfrey Makhulumo Ndlovu ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 409 | by Staff reporter
Pasture depletion adds misery to Matabeleland South
A serious shortage of pastures for live stock has brought more misery to villagers in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are already affected by the socioeconomic im pact of the Covid19 pandemic...Published: 12 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
Residents boil sewer water to drink
CLOSE to 15 years since it was established, residents in Mbundane in Umguza District, adjacent to Mganwini (Bulawayo) still have no water connected to their households with residents forced to illegal...Published: 12 hrs ago | 173 | by Staff reporter
Soda Zhemu unhappy with pace of rural electrification
The 6% rural electrification fund (REF) levy is not adequate to fund the programme to power rural communities, leaving most parts of rural communities, Energy Minister Soda Zhemu has said.Comm...Published: 12 hrs ago | 204 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle number plate delays rile motorists
DELAYS in the issuance of vehicle number plates have raised disgruntlement among affected motorists in Bulawayo who are accusing the police of harassing them yet the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR) is ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 362 | by Staff reporter
Water rationing hours to be reduced
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is now working 24 hours a day on the Epping Forest Borehole Project in Nyamandlovu, a move meant to ease water problems in Bulawayo by end of next month....Published: 12 hrs ago | 354 | by Staff reporter
Universities apply for radio licences
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and Lupane State University (LSU) have applied for radio broadcasting licences for their respective campus radios.Nust based in Bulaway...Published: 12 hrs ago | 124 | by Staff reporter
More elephant deaths recorded in Victoria Falls
TWO more elephants were found dead in Victoria Falls last Friday, bringing to 27 the number of jumbo deaths in Zimbabwe in the last two months.The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Author...Published: 12 hrs ago | 119 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's DCC elections to be held at once'
ZANU-PF will hold all outstanding District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections at once as it moves to consolidate its structures, the party's national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has sai...Published: 12 hrs ago | 97 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands courts to speed up trial of child gruesome murder
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has condemned the brutal killing of young children for ritual purposes in the wake of the death of a sevenyearold Murewa boy, whose mutilated body was found while being fe...Published: 12 hrs ago | 285 | by Staff reporter
Salary top-up for civil servants
GOVERNMENT will this week pay civil servants an additional Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) allowance, while salary negotiations continue.Civil servants are expected to start receiving the add...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1108 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spells out Zimbabwe successes
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa last week underlined Zimbabwe's economic gains to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), giving the world an accurate depiction of the economic transformation being undertaken...Published: 12 hrs ago | 259 | by Staff reporter
Govt recruits 6 000 teachers
Government has scrapped Second Term school fees, while 6 000 teachers are being recruited ahead of the phased reopening of schools starting tomorrow.This comes amid reports that a crash progra...Published: 12 hrs ago | 366 | by Staff reporter
'Show us what was looted by G40,' says Kasukuwere
FORMER ZanuPF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has demanded answers from his erstwhile colleagues who accuse him and other ruling party's G40 faction members of looting state resources, to reveal...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1191 | by newzimbabwe
Gwayi-Shangani dam construction to resume
The construction of the Gwayi-Shangani dam is set to resume after the government recently availed US$200 million towards the project which had stalled due to funding constraints and the outbreak of Co...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1348 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 24 hrs ago | 2607 | by Irvine Sibhona
Russian plan to dig biggest Zimbabwe platinum mine advances
A project that aims to develop Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine has cleared a significant hurdle, with the African Export-Import Bank completing a due diligence study allowing it to proceed with a $50...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe wrangling hits rock bottom
THE suicidal bloodletting consuming the main opposition MDC is now stomping towards its funereal end, with the party's interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe now planning to recall about 38 more le...Published: 24 hrs ago | 7123 | by Staff reporter
'Drax allegations tarnished Mnangagwa's family'
DRAX International country representative Delish Nguwaya yesterday told the court that allegations the company swindled the State have tarnished the images of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his wife Au...Published: 24 hrs ago | 5477 | by Staff reporter
CID boss denied bail
THE director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Crispen Charumbira will spend the weekend behind bars after he was denied bail by a Harare magistrate.Charumbira was Saturday haul...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1568 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi proposes peace studies for security sector
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has proposed peace studies for State security agents for the country to avoid unnecessary conflicts.Presenting the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPR...Published: 24 hrs ago | 662 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo trial date set
FLAMBOYANT businessman Wicknell Chivayo, accused of bribery emanating from the Gwanda solar deal that he signed with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), will now stand trial on November 24 after the Hig...Published: 24 hrs ago | 536 | by Staff reporter
Fresh divisions rock civil servants
FRESH divisions have rocked civil servants after the Apex Council leadership decided to transform the government workers organisation to the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Service Trade Unions (ZCPT...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Zimbabwe cross-border traders
CROSS-BORDER traders across the country are set for a major relief following the unveiling of a cheaper coronavirus (Covid-19) testing facility, in a development that will be cost effective.Th...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1128 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa requests Zimbabweans to pray for Joana Mamombe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has urged Zimbabweans to pray for jailed MDC MP Joana Mamombe and other political prisoners who are languishing in prison. In a Twitter post on Saturda...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:06hrs | 3683 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi genocide survivor loses court bid to stop exhumations
BULAWAYO High Court judge, Justice Martin Makonese Friday dismissed with costs a case involving a Gukurahundi survivor, Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu Likazulu who were seeking an interdict barring...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents push for home ownership
GWERU residents living in Mtapa high-density suburb recently confronted council demanding transfer of ownership of the houses which they occupied during the colonial era.Mtapa sections 3 and 7 hav...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's vindictiveness will cripple health sector
GOVERNMENT'S decision to impose stiff measures on doctors intending to leave the country in pursuit of the proverbial greener pastures is quite unfortunate as it seems designed to punish health profes...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4779 | by Staff reporter
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