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Bulawayo seeks more land to bury its dead
Bulawayo City Council has revealed plans to designate a portion of Good Hope Farm for burial services, as the city's cemeteries have run out of burial space, according to the latest council minutes....Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:29hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Fuel fraudster jailed for 20 years
The High Court of Zimbabwe, sitting in Harare, has sentenced Tinashe Sibanda to 20 years in prison after convicting him of fraud. In a related ruling, the court ordered the confiscation of assets belo...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:45hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
5 family members die after eating treated maize
A tragedy has struck Dombodema Village in Mazetese communal lands, Mwenezi, where five people, believed to be members of the same family, have died after allegedly consuming mealie-meal made from trea...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 07:10hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling racket busted at Plumtree border
Police at the Plumtree Border Post successfully foiled a smuggling operation, intercepting three South African-registered vehicles carrying contraband worth over R600,000. The goods, which included gr...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:26hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Water levels in Zimbabwe dams decline
WATER levels in major dams have started declining as demand for irrigation water has been picking up with a significant number of farmers resorting to irrigation to sustain their summer crop.I...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police smash car smuggling ring
POLICE in Matebeleland South have smashed a well-orchestrated smuggling syndicate at Plumtree Border Post and recovered five smuggled Honda Fit vehicles, including some an assortment of goods illegall...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:20hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
High Court stops Zimbabwe's lands minister from grabbing farm
The High Court has intervened to halt the lands ministry's efforts to seize a 50-hectare farm in Mount Hampden from a man who has held ownership since 1981.The government had officially design...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 20:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold digital tokens to hit market on Monday
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s will release its gold-backed digital tokens into the market on Monday to serve as both an instrument for store of value and transacting.The bank has since ...Published: 05 May 2023 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff reportr
Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom
RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa church splashes US$500,000 on Bulawayo properties
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa has bought two expansive properties for the expansion of his church premises in Bulawayo.The properties, one on 30 Sadie Ka...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:10hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Auto spares gobble US$160m in 2021
Zimbabwe spent US$60 million more on auto spares in 2021 than a year earlier, figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) show, as trade with the rest of the world increased due to ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
40 000 bodies face exhumation
MORE than 40 000 bodies that are buried at Chikomo Chemhute Cemetery, which is part of the Glen Forest Memorial Park face being exhumed after allegations were raised that the burial grounds and cremat...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe planning a new tourism town in remote Kanyemba
GOVERNMENT is planning a new tourism and trade-based town in far-flung Kanyemba, right at the confluence of the Zambezi and Luangwa rivers that spill into Mozambique's Cabora Bassa, explaining Vice Pr...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malunga gets notice to vacate farm
SHAREHOLDERS of Kershelmar Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabele land North province, have been issued with a 14-day notice to vacate a portion of the farm allocated to one of the beneficiaries, Dumisani Madz...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:17hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe a dumping ground for used cars?
LAST year in November, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube announced that imports of second-hand vehicles more than 10 years old were to be banned to contain the import bi...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nampak engages Govt over estates
Listed paper and packaging group, Nampak, says it is holding discussions with the Government over a possibility of getting back control of its estates, group managing director John Van Gend said in a ...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 38 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 5 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zacc uncovers rot in BCC land allocation and sales
MORE arrests over corruption are imminent at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and other local authorities following a series of investigations on land allocation and sales by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption C...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Urban to rural migration the new scenario in Zimbabwe
IN a reversal of the normal trends with regards to rural-to-urban migration worldwide, the current pattern in Zimbabwe is pointing towards a shift in migration, this time, urban to rural migration bei...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Peter Makwanya
Zimbabwe Parliament should veto land compensation
ZIMBABWE in 2000 embarked on a revolutionary nationalisation of agricultural land that saw a massive 4 500 white commercial farmers pushed out of their land without compensation. The fast-track land r...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 4 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Bulawayo Mayor alleges Zacc witch-hunt
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) recently offered mayor Councillor Solomon Mguni a piece of land where he intended to build six town houses for an unjustifiable amount of US$2 500. According to cou...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets, mines officials clash over gold claims
WAR veterans in Shurugwi and the Midlands mines office have reportedly clashed over gold claims the ex-combatants allege they bought from Falcon Gold seven years ago, Southern Eye reported.The...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Goromonzi farm wrangle: More details emerge
A FARM wrangle between former Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe and 600 Goromonzi farmers has opened a can of worms with the Local Government ministry saying the disputed piece of land was legall...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kuruneri sues Mazowe RDC over damaged farm
Former Finance minister Christopher Tichaona Kuruneri has petitioned the High Court to compel Mazowe Rural District Council (MRDC) to rehabilitate part of his farm damaged when the local authority was...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army faction wants Mnangagwa gone
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's continued stay in power is now allegedly being seen as an unprecedented threat to national security, by an army faction said to be loyal to Vice President, Rtd General ...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 22:38hrs | 2 | by Spotlight Zimbabwe
Supporting Zimbabwe's devolution plans with devolved blockchain
8-10 minutesThe aim of devolution that the government of Zimbabwe plans to implement is to arrest economic decline and set the country on a path to sustained recovery and growth while Zimb...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:52hrs | 10 | by Donald Mudenge
Mnangagwa and Matabeleland leaders finally find each other
Yesterday, 21 March 2019, more than 120 civic societies, church bodies, faith based and community based organisations' leadership met the President of Zimbabwe, His Excellency Emmerson Dambudzo Mnanga...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 18:42hrs | 2 | by Matabeleland Collective
Zanu-PF activists chucked off farm
Zanu-PF activists who were at loggerheads over a piece of land at Kia Ora Farm, in Banket have been ordered off the property by Chinhoyi magistrate Letwin Rwodzi at the close of the court case....Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, the Statesman versus Chamisa, the charlatan
"A Statesman thinks about future generations, while a politician thinks about winning the elections" so goes the popular saying. This adage rings true to the Zimbabwean scenario.When there was...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Supporting Zimbabwe's devolution plans with devolved blockchain
The aim of devolution that the government of Zimbabwe plans to implement is to arrest economic decline and set the country on a path to sustained recovery and growth while Zimbabwe remains a unitary s...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 09:43hrs | 9 | by Donald Mudenge
Mnangagwa expresses preference for dialogue
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the new political administration prefers dialogue to acrimonious relationships and will do everything in its power "to address people's concerns and grievances"....Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa declares row with Britain over
President Mnangagwa yesterday declared over the more than two decades-long quarrel with the United Kingdom over, stressing his administration prefers dialogue with all nations in place of acrimony. He...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa yet to sign Land Commission Bill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has failed to formally approve legislation giving the Zimbabwe Land Commission (ZLC) power to be responsible for the allocation of rights in State land for agricultural pu...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi Shangani project employees are from other regions
Community benefits from the Gwayi Shangani project have become questionable with the project said to have employees from other regions at the expense of the local community.The first stage of ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe relative jailed for fraud
President Robert Mugabe's close relative from the Chidziva clan, Charles Jenami (39), has been jailed for an effective eight years for engaging in fraudulent land allocations.In passing senten...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Elections are a numbers game, not about coalitions
With presumably a year and a few months away from the next general election in Zimbabwe, a harmonised election for both the Executive and Parliament, the campaign season has undoubtedly begun....Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Christopher Farai Charamba
Madzibaba whose congregants assaulted cops loses farm
`Jailed Johanne Masowe Echishanu Budiriro sect leader Ishmael Chokurongerwa has lost his Nyabira farm in Zvimba in a long-running land dispute.Chokurongerwa was slapped with a five-year prison...Published: 30 May 2017 at 13:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
8-hour storm pound Gwanda, washes away 3 dams
They received poor rains last year, and hunger followed as they did not harvest anything.The villagers had to rely on the benevolence of non-governmental organisations, and government food...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 07:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains leave trail of distruction in Gwanda
AN EIGHT-HOUR downpour in Gwanda South left a trail of destruction, leaving communities desperate.The heavy rain started shortly after 3PM last Thursday and ended after 11PM in Gungwe area und...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs want Mugabe out,' says Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday appealed to church leaders to pray for President Robert Mugabe from party insiders whom he claimed were ready to use any means necessary to...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP mobilise villagers to demonstrate against Arda
ZANU-PF Member of the National Assembly for Matobo South constituency Soul Mahalima Ncube has allegedly formed an "unholy alliance" with MDC-T Senator for Matobo Sithembile Mlotshwa and some NGOs ...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC halts market gardening
BULAWAYO City Council has stopped enterprising residents living at suburbs within the vicinity of its water reservoir at Lobengula West to harness water from the basin to irrigate their thriving m...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:03hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe
The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 09:17hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe
The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that the g...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by John Mukumbo
Utilize polluted Khami Dam water - Mphoko
Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko wants Bulawayo to make full use of dirty water at Khami Dam.About 3,5 million litres of water has been lying idle for more than 20 years.Mphoko toured...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Plans underway to harvest Khami Dam water
THE government is exploring ways of fully harnessing about 3,5 million litres of water at Khami Dam, which has been lying idle for more than 20 years, Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has said. ...Published: 03 May 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
United States provides additional $20 million boost to drought response
The United States government has provided an additional $20 million boost to drought response as the country faces critical food shortage this year due to erratic rainfall.The US Embassy in Ha...Published: 22 Apr 2016 at 06:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Massive food price hike looms
Government has introduced Value Added Tax (VAT) on nearly 40 imported basic food commodities that constitute the bulk of the consumer bread basket. These commodities have previously been e...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
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