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Businessman in hot water over forged documents in ZPC tender deal
A local businessman is facing criminal charges after allegedly using forged documents to land a lucrative Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) contract, in a scandal that has drawn the attention of the Zimbab...Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:06hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
Surely, my life is far more meaningful and fulfilling than Wicknell's ever will be!
I was recently watching a video of a radio interview featuring the controversial and scandal-riddled so-called "businessman", Wicknell Chivayo. As expected, he wasted no time in boasting about...Published: 25 Mar 2025 at 21:48hrs | 600 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bindura University loses suit against Amtec
Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) has lost a lawsuit against Amtec Motors after the company failed to deliver a Nissan Urvan NV350 diesel minibus despite receiving US$65,000 from the univ...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
How to Deposit to 1Win: All Methods and Safety Tips
Nowadays, it's easy to place bets at any convenient time - you go to the right site or app and deposit. At 1Win, players from Malaysia can easily fulfil in the currency they need. How can you do it, a...Published: 25 Nov 2024 at 13:53hrs | 348 | by Staff Reporter
Harare Poly students resort to prostitution, drug trafficking
In their tireless efforts to settle school fees arrears and sit for their forthcoming end-of-term examination, several students from Harare Polytechnic College have resorted to prostitution and drug t...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 21:05hrs | 2022 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Know your history:- Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings
Why Visit?: - This historic site remembers one of the earliest European murders of the Matabele Rebellion or First Umvukela of 1896. There seems no doubt that the initial killings occurred on ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Why NetEnt stands out as a top-tier game developer
When asked about the best game developers, which software provider would everyone think of? We bet that many will recall NetEnt with its highest-quality slot machines and exceptional features. The com...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 21:45hrs | 182 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
'Dollar deals' cripple bars, nightclubs
ILLEGAL alcohol sellers that have sprouted across the city are crippling the business of registered nightclubs and bars while Government has set high standards of operation to bring sanity to the dist...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farmers expect decent harvest
FARMERS are now expecting to get a decent harvest following the weakening of the El Nino phenomenon which was expected to cause severe drought in most parts of Southern Africa including Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangawa protests blocked by Zimbabwe police
POLICE have blocked planned protests by some members of the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Nelson Chamisa.The party had asked the police for permission to peacefull...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Where’s the logic in fresh elections under the same unfair conditions?
As the opposition CCC struggles to agree on a way forward after the clearly disputed harmonized elections in Zimbabwe - there have been several options thrown around.In a plebiscite that was w...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 23:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Russia's railway giant keen to expand footprint to Zimbabwe
TRANSMASHHOLDING, Russia's leading manufacturer of railway rolling stock and fifth biggest rail company in the world, is looking to expand its footprint in African countries including Zimbabwe in a wi...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe GDP jumps 6,2% to $56 billion
ZIMBABWE's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6,2 percent to clock $56,1 billion during the first quarter of the year 2023 when compared to $52,8 billion recorded in the same period last year....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
BCC to open revenue hall at ZITF
THE Bulawayo City Council has announced plans to open a new banking hall at its offices at the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre as a way of decongesting the revenue hall in the city centre....Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 16:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC installs its first Smart Meters
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has launched its first smart meters, a modern innovation meant to improve the electrical supply chain.According to ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Competence-Based Curriculum set for review
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says the current cycle of the Competence-Based Curriculum is coming to an end this year.Speaking at the presentation of the Secretary's Merit Aw...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs' US$40,000 bribes will haunt them
MY late grandfather Lazarus Nyathi was a well-known panel beater, if not the only one at some point in our community. So great was his work that even insurance companies contracted him to do the resto...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 2 | by Gifford Mehluli Sibanda
'Chamisa learnt nothing from lying about Trump in 2018,' says Jonathan Moyo
Exiled Zimbabwean cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has called out Citizens Coalition for Change leader, Nelson Chamisa over his recent remarks which advocated for the United Nations supervised 2023 elec...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police reject help from Chamisa's MP
OPPOSITION Chitungwiza South legislator Maxwell Mavhunga's efforts to establish a satellite police base in Unit L have hit a brick wall after the law enforcement agency thwarted the initiative....Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chinese Parly building complete
Epitomising magnificence, the imposing six-storey circular Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the picturesque surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislati...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Meikles hotel tells guests to bath using buckets
Top tourist establishment Meikles hotel has told its guests that they should bath using buckets after the institution told the guests that they are running on a generator. Meikles said the cau...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 12:34hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 radio station projects complete
GOVERNMENT has completed four radio station projects while it has embarked on other new projects that include the production of obituaries profiling contributions made by heroes and heroines interred ...Published: 05 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A Zimbabwe-born academic extraordinary thirst for knowledge
With an impressive profile of world recognised academic qualifications obtained at home and abroad, United States-based Zimbabwean academic and technician, Busani Nkosiyabo Siphambili says acquiring e...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The fog has cleared in Zimbabwe, writes Nelson Chamisa
AT the beginning of last year, I wrote an article in which I promised that "the fog will soon clear".The article was at a time when the movement was facing adverse circumstances. It was a mess...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
$800 million boost as BCC resumes suspended road works
Bulawayo City Council is resuming road rehabilitation works which were suspended at the beginning of the year, after Government allocated the city nearly $800 million towards road maintenance....Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rain at last!
BULAWAYO and some parts of Matabeleland yesterday received rains after a prolonged dry spell that was experienced in most parts of the country.Victoria Falls, Hwange and Binga are some of the ...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) suspends road repairs
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said 75 percent of its road network is in poor condition but has suspended road repairs until the end of the rainy season.Driving around Bulawayo's roads is...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans not angry enough over their oppression and suffering, then I don't know what we really want!
After another bout of involuntary strenuous morning exercises - engaging in some heavy lifting of several twenty litre (20lt) plastic containers [weighing about twenty-five to thirty kilograms (25-30k...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 09:26hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mureza to assemble Prim8 vehicle in Zimbabwe
MUREZA Automobile Company, a South Africa-based Zimbabwean auto mobile company, says it is now looking to localise production of its Mureza Prim8 vehicle that has been "successfully accepted" worldwid...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
14 community radio stations licensed
GOVERNMENT has made tremendous progress in opening up the airwaves with 14 community radio stations having been licensed so far.In her post-Cabinet briefing, Information, Publicity and Broadca...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa stuck in generational curse
WHOEVER bewitched African leaders probably perished at Nagasaki in 1945, many years before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963. That person, alongside his tools of trade and hi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 13 | by Sapien Sapien
How Nick Mangwana tweet invoked my memories of old
As a good percentage of Harare's social media community exploded in anger following the reintroduction last Tuesday, by Local Government minister July Moyo, of the former Rhodesia Railways coaches, no...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:01hrs | 14 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
'No teacher can go to work under unfair conditions'
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) Obert Masaraure has warned that government's newly recruited 3 816 teachers will soon join their colleagues to fight for better working conditions ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 12:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Catholic nuns seize control of US$2m Covid-19 project
CATHOLIC Church nuns, through Sisters of the Little Company of Mary (LCM), owners of St. Anne's Hospital in Harare, have acrimoniously seized control of the refurbished health facility's Covid-19 cent...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to compensate for power surge damages?
ELECTRICITY users who suffer losses due to power surges can now be compensated after the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), developed a mechanism to cover such mishaps...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe embracing technology
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) is fully embracing technology and widening its technological base in all areas in order to meet demands of the 21st century and effectively deal with emerging threats a...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC seeks $11m for roads rehab
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it is planning to borrow about $11 million to carry out emergency road rehabilitation.This was revealed by the BCC director of engineering services Simela Dube...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ working to modernise operations
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) chairman, Advocate Martin Dinha, says the company is working towards transforming its operations into a modern and world-class service that caters for both inter an...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bumper harvest to save US$200m
The forecast record maize harvest of 2,8 million tonnes and significant output of other crops such as soyabean, cotton and traditional grains could save the country more than US$200 million, which cou...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stop giving despotics regimes in Africa a free pass
Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient, and they threaten Africa's chances of unleashing the productive potential of its youth, writes Nelson Chamisa....Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa.
Countering reactionary and authoritarian politics in Africa
Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repres...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Bulawayo roads now untrafficable
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has budgeted almost ZW$300 million for the rehabilitation of local roads this year as the heavy rains have worsened the city's dilapidated road network. Most Bulawayo r...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube allocates $595 million for Parliament buses and vehicles
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated $595 million for the procurement of Parliament buses and vehicles after MPs complained that the current fleet was dilapidated.The buses were procure...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara commits $1 billion to roads rehab
The ability of local authorities to spruce up roads, especially ahead of the rainy season, has been further enhanced after the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) injected an additional $1,...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council identifies three sites for stadium
THREE locations in Cowdray Park, Emganwini and Killarney have been identified by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) as possible sites for the construction of a new state-of-the-art stadium that conforms ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) usage in Zimbabwe low
THE use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Zimbabwe is still at its infancy as the country makes headway to ensure its populace make use of alternative energy sources instead of relying on grid elect...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 05:00hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Datlabs massive plant refurbishment nears completion
ONE of the country's leading pharmaceutical and personal care products manufacturers, Datlabs is on the verge of completing its US$4,5 million major factory refurbishment as it seeks to ramp up produc...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools, Households and Businesses are the game changers in curbing electricity crisis in Zimbabwe
Greetings Editor, Of recent I got an interest especially from Zimbabwean school and I realized that especially schools can be game changers that is in solving power crisis not only in Zi...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:02hrs | 2 | by Justice Maphosa
Zimbabwe shines to glory despite hardships
Zimbabwe has struggled to improve its deteriorating infrastructure in business, education, and healthcare. Zimbabwe's power grid is overstressed, and power failures have been daily occurrences in...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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