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Knives out for Murwira
DOCTORS have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace acting Health minister Amon Murwira whom they accuse of being arrogant.Murwira was appointed to stand in for the then Health minis...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1908 | by Staff reporter
Fake driving licence syndicate bust in Bulawayo
The police have busted a syndicate specialising in creating fake drivers licences after arresting a 21-year-old Pumula East woman.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Inspector, Abednico Nc...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4786 | by Staff reporter
Khupe distances her party from 31 July protests
ACTING MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has distanced her party from the July 31 anti-corruption protests being mooted by other opposition parties which she has described as untimely given the ongoing Cov...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1973 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 16 hrs ago | 5828 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for saying 'ED must go'
A Harare police officer was on Friday charged with insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he allegedly posted a message saying "ED must go" on a WhatsApp group.Milton Murairwa was releas...Published: 16 hrs ago | 789 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop arrested at roadblock
A Harare man was slapped with a three-month jail term for impersonating a police officer while driving without a licence.Daniel Chibvongodze (29) appeared before Bindura magistrate Ethel Chich...Published: 16 hrs ago | 907 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying Zimbabwe's Cyber Bill
This past week I was among those that were observing the Zimbabwean parliamentary publichearings on the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, gazetted on May 15 2020. These public hearings ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 111 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Zimbabwe's new cyber law to target online government and military critics
ZIMBABWE could sanction the search for government critics online, thanks to a planned cyber-security law earmarked to make it an offence to spread falsehoods and deal with leakage of official informat...Published: 16 hrs ago | 191 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Khupe wants Bulawayo councillors to report to her
MDC leader Thokozani Khupe is demanding daily reports from Bulawayo city fathers on the local authority's action plans towards addressing the typhoid, diarrhoea and dysentery outbreak that has claimed...Published: 16 hrs ago | 454 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa against 'catch and release syndrome'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the justice system to step up the fight against corruption and put an end to the "catch and release syndrome", while the arrest of "small and big fish" shou...Published: 16 hrs ago | 280 | by Staff reporter
The Chinamasa versus Matematanda race of ZanuPF Political Violence and Intolerance: Deplorable.
Zimbabweans are stunned by the venomous threats of violence vomited through the press by the two high ranking ZanuPF leaders Chinamasa and Matematanda against organisers of a yet to happen demonstrati...Published: 17 hrs ago | 752 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
Man axes friend over a pair of scissors
Police in Mashonaland Central province are looking for a Jurujena villager from Mushumbi Pools Issah Matore (33) after he allegedly struck his friend with an axe on the head over a scissors' misunders...Published: 17 hrs ago | 239 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Journalists plead not guilty to disorderly conduct charges
TWO freelance journalists on Thursday pleaded not guilty when their trial on charges of failing to comply with instructions issued by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members to observe social dist...Published: 18 hrs ago | 162 | by Stephen Jakes
LIST: 14 COVID-19 positive returnees escape from Beitbridge quarantine centre
14 Covid-19 positive returnees escaped from Beitbridge Covid-19 quarantine centre, bringing the total to 223 of those who have escaped so far from compulsory quarantine for returning residents, with p...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:49hrs | 2907 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3814 | by Staff reporter
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1923 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Armed car-jackers strike in Bulawayo
THREE armed men robbed a 44-year-old woman from Newtown West suburb in Bulawayo of her car, US$400 and a cellphone. The woman was driving into the city centre from her home in her Nissan Sylph...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans killed in Botswana
POLICE in Plumtree have raised concern over the ill-treatment of Zimbabweans in Botswana with two people having been killed in the neighbouring country recently. There have been complaints in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje reinstated and fired as NetOne CEO
NetOne chief executive officer Mr Lazarus Muchenje's turbulent tenure at the helm of the State-owned mobile telecommunications company ended dramatically yesterday after he was fired barely 24 hours a...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1018 | by Staff reporter
ZRP never sanctioned 31 July demo
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has dismissed a fake letter which has been posted on social media platforms indicating that Chief superintendent Smart Matongo the Officer Commanding Harare Suburban Distr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:32hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism and Anti-Imperialism should never be abused to justify corruption, tyranny, and brutality against one's own citiz
In all my 47 years of existence on this planet Earth, there has always been one thing that has always thoroughly vexed my intellect - as I have greatly struggled to fathom how something that appears s...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:42hrs | 960 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
25 year old uncle rapes 12 year old girl
Police in Jotsholo have arrested a 25-year-old man who raped a 12-year-old girl. According to a police report, the girl’s aunt offered the drunk uncle a bedroom to share with the girl....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 08:44hrs | 2879 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 467 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa opens up on his humble upbringing
A GRIEVING Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition MDC Alliance party, has, for the first time, opened up on his humble beginnings, saying his late mother was very instrumental in his meteoric rise t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:05hrs | 12774 | by Staff reporter
Muchenje 'mysteriously' bounces back at NetOne
GOVERNMENT has reinstated embattled NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje with immediate effect.The development was confirmed by a well-placed source, who asked for anonymity for fear of rep...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:02hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes MDC Alliance activists' conviction
BULAWAYO High Court on Tuesday granted the appeal made by three Plumtree-based MDC Alliance activists who were convicted in 2018 on political violence charges after clashing with Zanu-PF activists dur...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 2217 | by Staff reportetr
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3586 | by Staff reporter
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1449 | by Staff reporter
PRAZ boss sent on leave
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (PRAZ) chief executive, Mr Nyasha Chizu, was on Tuesday sent on leave, the day after he told Parliament's committee on the Budget, Finance and Econom...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2553 | by The Big Interview
Armed soldiers raid Hurungwe hospital...steal US$1 500
Detectives of the Zimbabwe Republic Police are said to have arrested commandos and paratroopers who raided Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and stole US$1 500.Media reports say that the ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 11:44hrs | 5208 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is Zimbabwe politics dirty or it's political players who play dirty games?
Politics isn't dirty but it's Political Players with dirty political attitudes and approach in politics who makes Politics Dirty. It's only in Zimbabwe where Dirty Politicking is practised and or impl...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 953 | by Hon Richard M Simango
High Court ends Muthombeni's wee long detention over anti-Mnangagwa slur
HIGH Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Monday ended the week-long detention of Ephraim Muthombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRAD), who wa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2024 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20852 | by Staff reporter
7 soldiers rob hospital
SEVEN armed soldiers and five civilians were arrested in Chinhoyi after raiding Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and getting away with US$1 500 and other valuables.The armed robbery reported...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 2702 | by Staff reporter
The Unfollow Mnangagwa charade and plots of violence
THE past weeks have witnessed efforts by known opposition elements and their sponsored phantom characters taking part in the "Unfollow ED" campaign on microblogging site Twitter to create a false impr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2097 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mugabe sowed seeds of violence
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party preach peace during the day, but when night comes, they practise something entirely different.The ruling party, all its members and the secur...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 2849 | by Worried
Chamisa supporters disrupt Mwonzora rally
Three MDC Alliance supporters accused of disrupting MDC-T secretarygeneral Douglas Mwonzora's rally in Marondera at the weekend were yesterday arraigned before provincial magistrate ignatius Mhene fac...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:32hrs | 9522 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests
JITTERY Zanu-PF officials are sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests, which they claim are meant to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power.Addressing a party meeting in Harare...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2341 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'insult' lands MDC youth assembly leader in soup
MDC Alliance national youth organiser, Godfrey Kurauone was arrested Tuesday and charged with undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa's authority.According to court papers, Kurauone, in the c...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala slept in urine soaked blankets
MDC Alliance deputy chair, Job Sikhala has filed a $1,5 million lawsuit against Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, police and the prosecutor general over his arrest and prosecution last year....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2214 | by Staff reporter
'Army fired Minister Obadiah Moyo'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the Zimbabwe military was behind the expulsion of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo.Moyo added that the Minister was fronting First Lady Auxilia Mn...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 11:37hrs | 14784 | by Mandla Ndlovu
31 July a defining moment for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere.Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the majority of the people feel in the air the winds of chan...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4162 | by Leonard Koni
Was Chamisa punished for belittling Mbuya Nehanda? stranger than fiction
Last week the disputed president of the MDC A belittled Mbuya Nehanda. In his response the erection of a statute in honour of Mbuya Nehanda Chmisa said Mbuya Nehanda was not an important person and as...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 21:55hrs | 11597 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: Zimbabwe nurses sing while in police handcuffs
A video of nurses singing while being led to a police station on Monday has surfaced on the internet. The nurses who were arrested at Sally Mugabe hospital where singing the song Senzenina/Tatadzei wh...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:55hrs | 5021 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matter of Fact
ON Saturday, July 4, we ran a story headlined NetOne board member arrested, charged and released in one day. In the story we stated: Rangarirai Mavhunga is accused of having presented before t...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 404 | by Editor
Biti tears into Mnangagwa Gvt over nurses' arrest
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has slammed the President Emmerson Mnangagwa government for the arrest of health workers demonstrating over poor w...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 06:50hrs | 11177 | by Moyo Roy
BREAKING: Bulawayo Mayor instructed to report to Thokozani Khupe daily
MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has constituted a Presidential Task Force to look at the death of about 13 people in Luveve in the past months and has instructed Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mad...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 9031 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: MDC Alliance official arrested
MDC Alliance National youth organiser and ward 4 Masvingo urban councillor Godfrey Kurauone has been arrested today.Masvingo based award-winning human rights lawyer advocate Martin Mureri of M...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 16:45hrs | 7962 | by Staff Reporter
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