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Zanu-PF, opposition and the road to 2028
Zanu-PF's internal power dynamics regarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally mandated two terms ending in 2028 and the state of the currently fractured opposition....Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:32hrs | 244 | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Zaoga church sex storm
This adage is aptly applied to the case of a 19-year-old woman employed as a marketing agent at a micro-insurance company in Kwekwe who is claiming she was sexually harassed by her supervisor....Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:57hrs | 2843 | by Staff reportrer
Zimbabwe's future is debated in the city but decided in the village
THE electoral lines have been drawn as we face the impending reckoning of the August 23 general election. Intra-party squabbles have been settled regarding who will be the torch bearer in what ward or...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:23hrs | 9 | by Ntando Dumani
No automatic bonuses for Zimbabwe's senior civil servants
GOVERNMENT has directed that there will not be automatic bonus payments for senior civil servants, but they will only receive the 13th cheque depending on their work output in line with performance-ba...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Driver killed as bus overturns, burns
A BUS driver died on the spot while two passengers sustained serious injuries when a Gokwe-bound bus there were travelling in veered off the road, overturned and rolled several times before it caught ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Violence Rocks New Zanu-PF Mashonaland West PCC
VIOLENCE dominated the new Zanu-PF provincial joint council of the main wing, women's and youth leagues' inaugural meeting held in Chinhoyi Saturday.The meeting was meant to officially hand ov...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabwean entrepreneurs win big in AfCFTA Caravan Prize
The AfCFTA Secretariat rewarded winners of the AfCFTA Caravan Prize with five young Zimbabwean entrepreneurs joining a list of finalists and seme-finalists of enterprising entrepreneurs with potential...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:41hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Grown up Zimbabweans are 'more Zanu PF than Zanu PF parents' - more brain-dead than Zanu PF buffoons, it's true
"An untold but deep seated sociological truth about Zimbabwe today is that many grown up kids with ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents. Therefore, Zimbabwe does not only need new leaders...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 13:38hrs | 9 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Man axes ex-girlfriend for spurning his totem
A 30-YEAR-OLD Uzumba woman is battling for life at a local hospital after she was axed several times on the head by her ex-boyfriend after she refused to be identified by his totem.Tawanda Mag...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Jonathan Moyo survived Chiwenga's killers
Professor Jonathan Moyo's escape story from the then Commander Defense Forces Constantino Chiwenga's killers in November 2017 is a candidate for a Hollywood script. While Prof Moyo is ye...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 12:56hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Suspected CIOs send live bullets to ZCTU leaders
ZCTU President Peter Mutasa and Secretary Japhet Moyo on Tuesday received letters containing death threats and two live bullets from suspected members of the Central Intelligence Organisation....Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 10:42hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hungry lions hoovering around to devour Nyaminyami RDC response
I am Mwiimpu Hanjeleha of Monze, Zambia. I read the above story in your news online. I have been serving in the NGOs sector in that district. The persons being attacked in that piece I know them total...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Mwiimpu Hanjeleha
Honorable Joseph Chinotimba is a hands on MP
Solely looking for academic persons and technocrats to fill key positions in government and parastatals has not helped our cause. Some of the alumni are armchair 'bosses' not leaders who get d...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 19:42hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
In politics, there is no free lunch
YESTERDAY, we ran a story on how at least 3 000 families under Chief Misheck Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their illegal settlements in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Chief Njelele's subjects evicted by armed soldiers and police
AT least 3 000 families in Chemagora, Sikombela, Bhadha and Sibusiso, under Chief Njelele in Gokwe were left homeless after being evicted from their settlements by armed soldiers and police.Th...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Njelele in court over 'illicit' land deals
A Gokwe traditional leader last week appeared before the courts for his alleged hand in an illicit land deal that took place in 2011. Chief Misheck Njelele (59) allegedly divided a farm in Che...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rocks from mountain crush huts in Zimbabwe
Thirty-year-old Chipo Dhliwayo was sleeping in her hut when the devastating Cyclone Idai landfall rolled huge boulders over whole villages in Zimbabwe's Chimanimani district in Manicaland province las...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by City Press
Farmer's son brutally killed over pastures
THERE has been another murder at Chemagora farms in Gokwe South after two illegal settlers at Farm 26 brutally killed the son of the property owner following a dispute over pastures. Last mont...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Farm evictions loom in Midlands
Government has issued 500 eviction letters to flush out people who illegally resettled themselves on commercial farms thereby disrupting production and causing massive land degradation in the Midlands...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers bay for Chief Njelele's blood
MEMBERS of the Chemagora Small-Scale Commercial Farmers' Union in Gokwe are baying for Chief Misheck Njelele's blood a few days after the alleged murder of their member, George Jongwe, by illegal sett...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in suspected fresh cholera scare
FIVE people have died from a suspected fresh cholera outbreak in Mavhurume village in Murewa.The deceased are members of the Johane Marange apostolic sect, who are barred from seeking medical ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 4 years for impregnating niece
A man who impregnated his 18-year-old niece before his wife took her to a traditional healer to terminate the pregnancy has been jailed for four years.James Chihuri, 51, of Seke, was initially...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Social Media the new agora
Social media in the form of new technologies has become a new agora world-wide providing a platform for communication among different people regardless of space and time.Several applications s...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | | by Tawanda Matende and Lovemore Chidemo
5 MDC assault soldier
Five MDC supporters were last week arraigned before a Kwekwe magistrate facing allegations of beating up a soldier whom they accused of shooting and killing civilians during the August 1 illegal and v...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC supporters in court for assault
FIVE suspected MDC Alliance supporters allegedly assaulted a soldier in Kwekwe, accusing him of shooting and killing civilians on 1 August during skirmishes that broke after the party's supporte...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zidera 2018 amendments Act, What does this mean for Zimbabwe?
TWO years ago, I completed my undergraduate studies and thus attained a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Accounting. The process towards attaining this qualification involved completing a research report ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 9 | by Terence Simbi
Chamisa should accept defeat, says MDC-T
THE 2018 harmonised elections were free and fair and MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa should accept defeat, MDC-T vice-president Mr Obert Gutu has said.Disputing elections, Mr Gutu added,...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutare Central demands more from Gonese
MUTARE Central constituency is a high-density suburb, which also stretches to some industrial areas and has six wards. Most people in the constituency are not employed and are informal traders who sur...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man marries mum-in-law after 7-year affair
KEEPING it in the family!A Zvishavane man who had an affair with his mother-in-law for close to seven years finally decided to make her his second wife. In other words, he is now his own fathe...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eye-gouging cops jailed
The five police officers, who gouged a civilian's right eye after assaulting him with batons at the intersection of Kenneth Kaunda Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in March this year, were yesterday jail...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF politician in adultery storm
AN aspiring Zanu-PF councillor is nursing injuries following a beating after being caught in a compromising position with a married woman.Sources told NewsAnchor that Justin Chimuzinga was rec...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police has case to answer
A Harare magistrate has ruled that five police officers who viciously attacked a Harare man and caused the loss of his eye have a case to answer.Harare magistrate Farai Gwitima dismissed their...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops gouge a civilian's right eye after assaulting him
THE trial of five police officers who allegedly gouged a civilian's right eye after assaulting him with baton sticks at the intersection of Kenneth Kaunda Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in March this y...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
This is it! G40 and Lacoste bulls lock horns - we must be quick and uncompromising
Professor Jonathan Moyo and Emerson Mnangagwa are the heavy-weights in Zanu PF; these are two ten tonne bulls, supercharge with testosterone, locking horns; this is the clash of the titans. The Zanu P...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 18:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF member told she will not get residential stand because husband defected to NPP
A Zanu PF activist in Bindura has been warned that she will not be allocated a residential stand because her husband defected to the Joice Mujuru led National People's Party.Zimbabwe Peace Pro...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 09:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mathematics teacher takes Chiredzi by storm
CHIREDZI - Mathematics is believed to be one of the oldest subjects in living memory, and history assumes that after the development of language, humans began counting, and that fingers and thumbs pro...Published: 06 May 2017 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by George Kuraidza
Terror at Grace Mugabe's farm
For a while Tapiwa Daisi believed he would breathe his last on April 7.It was the day a group of armed plain-clothed and uniformed police officers descended on Arnold Farm in Mazowe....Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:16hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Learning sciences in local languages: now is the time
Let's talk about the philosophy of natural sciences. The mention of the word philosophy frightens many a people. Philosophy requires deep thought. Because the average person dislikes cranking his own ...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 14:51hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Criminal skips boarder to South Africa
Cattle rustler Kudakwashe Hwaramba (28) who was arrested on 23 November for stealing a bull in Mvurwi Mashonaland Central is said to have skipped the boarder to South Africa after being granted bail....Published: 24 Dec 2016 at 08:30hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Argentina clowns come to Bulawayo
NHIMBE Trust will this week play host to Argentina's Mandragora Circus in Bulawayo as part of the circus' worldwide tour.Mandragora Circus is a 55-minute long wordless performance where two cl...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:07hrs | | by Peter Matika
Kuwait saga deepens
POLICE in Harare have arrested a Kuwait embassy official and three suspects as investigations into the human trafficking saga deepen.Brenda Avril May (62), a secretary at the embassy, was re-a...Published: 19 May 2016 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Tendai Rupapa
Gokwe hit hard by the drought
EVEN in the best of times, life in Nemangwe Village, in Gokwe South, Midlands Province, is desolate and harsh.The area has light sandy soils that make agricultural activity difficult. They dra...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:40hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
More Zimbabwean women still stranded in Kuwait
FIFTEEN local women who were stranded in Kuwait have returned home, with a senior government official yesterday saying more people than previously thought are marooned in the Gulf state.Warnin...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 10:47hrs | | by Patient Sibanda
Zimbabwean women sold into prostitution
Seven people believed to be part of a well organised human trafficking syndicate that is luring female job seekers to Kuwait, appeared in court yesterday. They allegedly enticed the women on t...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:37hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Ian Khama must come out of the closet
It is about five months since Botswana President Ian Khama took over the chairmanship of the regional body, Sadc. He took over from President Mugabe last year in August.Many people would be fo...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:33hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Four men jailed for possession of pangolin
Two police officers from Gokwe, who together with two other accomplices were found in possession of a live pangolin they intended to sell to a local businessman, have each been jailed for an effective...Published: 28 Dec 2015 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cops arrested for keeping a live pangolin
TWO Gokwe police officers have been arrested together with other two accomplices after they were found in possession of a live pangolin which they were trying to sell to a local businessman.Th...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poverty made me steal, woman tells court
A 20-year-old Sakubva woman was last week fined $200 for shop lifting.Getrude Sagora appeared before Mrs Annie Ndiraya facing theft charges.The accused got into Mutare TM supermark...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe's most wanted 'dissident' Gwesela dead or alive?
The summer heat has engulfed the whole of Zimbabwe's landscape but not as hot as it feels when you get to Zhombe in Kwekwe District of the Midlands province. In this sweltering heat, the people in the...Published: 30 May 2015 at 09:15hrs | 16 | by Sydney Kawadza
Midlands State University 2015 Admission List
Full List FACULTY OF COMMERCE Chikwira Maxwell T Mapu...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 12:07hrs | 21 | by Staff Reporter
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