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Biti savages Mthuli Ncube
Opposition kingpin Tendai Biti has lashed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for his "wrong economic prescriptions" for the country.This comes after Ncube's recent policy measures - which include t...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5202 | by Staff reporter
Zinara in witch hunt for media 'snitches'
STATE roads manager the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), angered by consistent media reports on the corruption scandals rocking the parastatal, at one point resorted to engaging a priv...Published: 23 hrs ago | 426 | by Staff reporter
Ministers face arrest in blitz
POLICE have reportedly sought search and seizure warrants against named top Zanu-PF officials and former Cabinet ministers as government begins swooping on cash barons and suspected economic saboteurs...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1729 | by Staff reporter
College students abuse 'morning-after pills'
STUDENTS at institutions of higher learning are abusing the emergency contraceptive pill popularly known as the "morning-after pill" to prevent pregnancy after engaging in unprotected sex. The...Published: 23 hrs ago | 632 | by Staff reporter
Man nearly killed over cooking oil
The scarcity of cooking oil in the couthry has landed a Chiweshe man in hot soup after he reportedly axed another man who was holding a 2 litre bottle of cooking oil from Mbizi shop in Chiweshe after ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 16:52hrs | 4920 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Taxi driver hijacked
An unlicensed Mvurwi taxi driver, Mushika shika, was robbed of his blue Honda Fit by an unknown suspect who purported to be a passenger going to Mutorashanga from Mvurwi Town police has said.J...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 14:10hrs | 2701 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Police harass senior Masvingo journalist
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, would like to condemn police details in Masvingo, south east of Zimbabwe after they confiscated a press card belonging to the Union's First Vice Pre...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:44hrs | 398 | by Stephen Jakes
Professor Manyureke under attack over her questions
The Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 post election violence's public hearings at Cresta Lodge in Masasa Harare enters a third day with witnesses appearing before the ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:06hrs | 2193 | by Sithabile Mafu
Prosecutor-General interviews set for next month
THE Judicial Service Commission will next month conduct interviews for the position of Prosecutor-General (PG), which fell vacant after Ray Goba resigned in August. Goba stepped down after a tribunal ...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Wife crushes prophet's jewels
A PROPHET from Bulawayo is likely to undergo surgery after his enraged wife; upset that he was allegedly cheating on her, grabbed his testicles and squashed them hard in her grip for sometime....Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
Betting house drops Ecocash, bond notes
WHILE it is an open secret that football betting has become a source of income for a number of unemployed people in Zimbabwe, some energy sapping developments emerged during the course of the week....Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:23hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube running out of time
AS ZIMBABWE'S economy continues to lurch from one crisis to the other, business leaders and economists say the government is running out of both time and "rope" to turn the situation around.Th...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:06hrs | 3605 | by Staff reporter
David Parirenyatwa wants charges thrown out
Former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa - who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office - has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to stop his prosecution, arguing the charg...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 14:44hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Justice Malaba wants to silence Khupe?
The feud between MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC T president Thokozani Khupe resumed yesterday, after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) heard the matter in which the ex-Bulawayo Metropolitan Prov...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 14:38hrs | 5587 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe feud resumes
The feud between MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC T president Thokozani Khupe resumed yesterday, after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) heard the matter in which the ex-Bulawayo Metropolitan Prov...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:47hrs | 4893 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe forced to submit list of properties he acquired outside Zimbabwe
Former President Robert Mugabe has found himself on a list of individuals suspected to have externalised billions in recent years and forced to submit a list of properties he acquired outside the coun...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:31hrs | 16249 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe killer soldiers 'were driven by cruelty'
SOLDIERS allegedly shot and killed Silvia Maphosa (56) in cold blood at close range on August 1 during post elections violence that rocked Harare, the commission of inquiry into the violence led by fo...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2613 | by Staff reporter
Khupe sues parliament over expulsion
FORMER House of Assembly member and MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe is suing Parliament for damages following her expulsion from the House after she was recalled by the Nelson Chamisa led MDC party in...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Parking loses $20,000 to errant motorists, political protests
Harare City Council's parking subsidiary, City Parking has reported a $20 000 loss for the six mnths to June this year, which it blames on political disturbances before the July 30 elections and lack ...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Police pounce on ZCTU Midlands chairperson
LAW and order police officers yesterday pounced on Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' Central Region chairperson, Kudakwashe Munengiwa, and arrested him at his Gweru City Council office over last week...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:53hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
ZEC blames social media for creating 'falsehoods'
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has insisted it executed its mandate satisfactorily in the July 30 elections despite criticism from mainly international observers who said the poll failed to m...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa accuses PG of malice
Former Health and Child Care minister, David Parirenyatwa has petitioned the High Court seeking permanent stay of prosecution on allegations that he abused his office, which he said were meant to pers...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Bank card cloning fraud cases on the rise in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Information and Communication Technologies (ZICT) says 154 cases of bank card cloning have been reported in the country so far as more people use electronic payment systems in the absence...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe goes it alone on Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation
GOVERNMENT has decided to go it alone and dualise the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway while talks with Chinese Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the $2 billion tender co...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | 2837 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa purging party structures in preparation for congress
With the much anticipated MDC-Alliance elective congress slated for early next year, details of dirty schemes are emerging from the corridors of power at Morgan Tsvangirai House. These maneuvers point...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:42hrs | 2036 | by Alliah Towo
'Enact law to deal with money changers'
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and lawmakers to come up with a law to deal with illegal currency trading and related financial activities ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 15:55hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
UK donates another 2.6 million US to the cholera fight
Since the start of the cholera outbreak in Harare at the beginning of September, the UK and its partners have been at the forefront supporting the efforts of the Government of Zimbabwe and the City of...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 15:08hrs | 813 | by Agencies
Ex-Zanu PF MP in court over $10m theft
Former Zanu PF MP for Muzarabani South and Zimbabwe Farmers Development Company (ZFDC) chairperson, Edward Raradza appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday facing charges of defrauding the...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged electoral victory is worse than a Pyrrhic - dog got hare's ticks and worse
You can tell the dog has a flea or tick problem by the frequency the poor creature scratches itself and the greater the vigour the greater the infestation! Rigging the recent elections was the easy bi...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:57hrs | 1604 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Vacant Senate seats gazetted
Government has gazetted the two vacant seats in the Senate that were created by the resignation of Zanu-PF's Obert Mpofu and the death of national heroine Thokozile Mathuthu.Both senators were...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2249 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams demo ban
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has slammed the banning of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) demonstration which was followed by arrests of the union leaders.Chamisa said the ban and a...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:41hrs | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Woman dies in crocodile attack
Wild animals in and around Lake Kariba have killed 12 people in the past two months, with authorities urging residents to be more careful when moving around or engaging in fishing activities. ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:16hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Cricket trying to cheat Heath streak
FORMER Zimbabwe senior national cricket team coach Heath Streak has rejected payment in the form of a transfer by Zimbabwe Cricket made to him at the beginning of this month, instead demanding through...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:49hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Warriors beat DRC
DRC - (0) 1 Zimbabwe - (1) 2 Zimbabwe's Warriors ran themselves to a standstill, lost skipper Knowledge Musona to a questionable red card, and still managed to win an Africa Cu...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:05hrs | 2756 | by Staff Reporter
Police 'acquit' murder accused Mnangagwa 'supporter' who shot and killed tout
POLICE seem to have "acquitted" a President Emmerson Mnangagwa "supporter" after presenting court papers stating the 24-year-old was acting in self-defence when he shot and killed a suspected parking ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:33hrs | 4984 | by newzimbabwe
NSSA board fired
Government has, with immediate effect, dismissed the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) board after its tenure lapsed in June. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Dr Seka...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Youth Governance Hub launched in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) in conjunction with Youth-led Innovative engagement With Leadership and Development Trust (YIELD) recently launched a Youth Governance Hub in Eastl...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 19:41hrs | 447 | by Lisa Tazviinga
Chamisa calls Mudzuri to order
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa called his deputy Elias Mudzuri to order during the party's national standing committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Harare recently for engaging in perceived ac...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 18:27hrs | 1763 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean economy reflects state of governance
IN 2015, I argued that the economy was Zanu-PF's most virulent opposition.The 2016 introduction of bond notes pegged to the US dollar saw the emergence of a parallel market for foreign exchang...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 13:47hrs | 3192 | by Brian Kagoro
Multi-million dollar scandal rocks Zinara
AN external forensic audit has uncovered massive corruption, tax evasion and corporate governance rot at the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), in which the government agency lost millio...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 13:38hrs | 3401 | by Staff reporter
Majome eyes PG post
Former MDC Member of Parliament Jessie Majome is among the legal minds gunning to become Zimbabwe's next Prosecutor-General (PG).Majome will battle it out with 10 other legal experts, who have...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:39hrs | 5308 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri taken to task over Masvingo highway
OPPOSITION Alliance MPs on Wednesday took Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri to task over delays on the Beitbridge-Chirundu dualisation project, saying government was fond of holding groundbreaking cer...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga blacklisted from property dealings
Businessman Frank Buyanga has been banned from making property transfers in Zimbabwe by the Attorney-General's office after several complaints of people losing their properties surrendered as surety f...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry fires SRC board
EDWARD SIWELA'S 13-year-tenure in the Sport and Recreation Commission came to an end yesterday when Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Coventry dissolved his board. The Minister wielde...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 3669 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe black market rates tumble
PARALLEL market rates plummeted in Bulawayo yesterday after Government guaranteed the 1:1 convertibility value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances into the United States dollar as well as av...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:53hrs | 6895 | by Staff reporter
Man beats wife to death
A 58 YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man reportedly murdered his wife by assaulting her with open hands yesterday after the couple went for a the funeral in a compound the previous day where the wife subs...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 19:06hrs | 4138 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF bars renegade Chiredzi councillors
ZANU-PF Chiredzi town councillors have been barred from carrying out party business for two weeks pending disciplinary action on allegations of working with "party renegades" and voting for MDC Allian...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's government re-activates price control taskforce
Government has re-activated the inter-ministerial committee on price stabilisation that will engage the business community and address challenges causing price hikes and shortages of basic commodities...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:25hrs | 931 | by Staff reporter
Zinara board fired
THE Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza has dissolved the Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (Zinara) board. He said the entity's board, whose management ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: We rise and fall together
The prophets of 'scorched earth politics are at it again. Suddenly, according to their reading Zimbabwe is back to year 2008. What utter nonsense! The scenarios could never be more different. If we ar...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 18:23hrs | 2352 | by Lloyd Msipa
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