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Zimbabwe's govt announcement on 4 000 teachers recruited is a joke
Labour unions representing teachers say the announcement by government that it had recruited an estimated 4 000 teachers was a joke, saying the country has over about 50 000 vacant posts.Prima...Published: 4 hrs ago | 353 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are very united - hating a regime that impoverishes us doesn't mean we're divided!
I always find statements by Zimbabwe's ruling establishment, urging us to be united, quite mind-boggling - since, as far as I can tell, Zimbabweans are so...Published: 4 hrs ago | 137 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rwanda, Zimbabwe relations in spotlight
PARLIAMENT has summoned Foreign Affairs minister Frederick Shava to explain why Zimbabwe brought in, harboured and buried one of the world's most wanted genocidaires, Protais Mpiranya, the last of the...Published: 4 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ignores colonials masters' poll recommendations
ZIMBABWE has failed to effect critical recommendations of the European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) that observed the 2018 harmonised elections with the grouping warning of a potentially...Published: 4 hrs ago | 90 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters registering fake domains including for Zimbabwe passports
A fraudster has registered http://zimpassports.online to defraud Zimbabweans who are desperate for the elusive Zimbabwean passport.According to the website https://who.is, whoever registered t...Published: 4 hrs ago | 90 | by Jacob Mutisi
Mnangagwa's govt throws industry under the bus
THE decision by the government to open up importation of basic commodities by citizens together with a six month suspension of duty on various products will have a damaging impact on the revival of th...Published: 4 hrs ago | 106 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices up, again after govt pledged to lower the pump price
FUEL prices have gone up, hardly a week after government pledged to lower the pump price after increasing ethanol blending from E10 to E20.The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has failed to implement electoral reforms: EU
ZIMBABWE has failed to take steps to implement electoral reforms that would guarantee free and fair elections next year, a European Union observer mission (EUOM) said yesterday.The EU mission ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
Zinara raises tollgate fees
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has increased toll fees with effect from Monday, May 23.‘"In terms of section 4 of Statutory Instrument 32 of 2021, toll fees which are peg...Published: 5 hrs ago | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 23 | by Staff reporter
Hwange gets passport office
Government is committed to ensure citizens access national documents with ease hence the decentralisation of services so that there are as close as possible to citizens.Officially commissionin...Published: 6 hrs ago | 151 | by Staff Reporter
Cancelling CCC congress will not only 'keep infiltrators stewing' but citizens and democracy itself too
"KEEP THEM GUESSING & TOSSING, STEWING & ROASTING! THROW THEM OFF-BALANCE … Remember they infiltrate, manipulate and capture using 4 things ..1.Structures 2. internal Processes 3. Law-fare 4...Published: 7 hrs ago | 171 | by Wilbert Mukori
Air Botswana resumes flights to Harare
Air Botswana has resumed the Harare- Gaborone route in a development that is expected to boost business interactions and tourism sector in Southern Africa. This comes at the back of post COVID-1...Published: 7 hrs ago | 111 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's once-off sale of ivory stockpiles acceptable
ZIMBABWE is desperately seeking international support to be allowed to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise funds for its conservation efforts.It is an age-old problem for the southern African...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt tightens screws on nurses
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on nurses wishing to resign from the civil service as it battles to stem the massive exodus of health workers.Hundreds of nurses are leaving the country for gre...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 2690 | by Staff reporter
Town officials arrested by ZACC
KAROI acting town secretary Tongai Namisala has been charged with criminal abuse of office alongside housing director Admire Jimu following their arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZAC...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi sends roads SOS to govt
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has sent a distress call to the Government over lack of road maintenance machinery, a development that has seen it being shortchanged by contracted companies....Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
What became of Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill?
THE Zimbabwe government has made several attempts to close down the civic space in Zimbabwe through existing and new legislation. This includes some amendments to the Criminal Law Codification and Ref...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 487 | by Nompilo Simanje and Otto Saki
Why Mugabe desperately supported Chamisa
IT has emerged that the late former President Robert Mugabe decided to support the then MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's 2018 presidential bid after President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly shut the...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2724 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena defeats Munyeza, regains access to Borrowdale Brooke
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu-PF) has won a case against the Borrowdale Brooke Homeowners Association (BBHOA) that was accusing him of violating rules governing the residence....Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Journalists at threat after governments passed cyber security laws
JOURNALISTS have been urged to protect themselves against digital surveillance threats after the country passed cyber security legislation.A statement by Fesmedia Africa yesterday said a survi...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Residents' property attached over council debts
AT least 10 residents from Senga suburb had their household property attached by the Messenger of Court at the instigation of Gweru City Council (GCC) in a bid to force ratepayers to settle their bill...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Businessman acquitted
A COURT has ruled that a case in which a Bulawayo mechanic is accused of driving a client's vehicle without authorisation is a civil matter that cannot be tried in a criminal court.The case wh...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Another Rwandan fugitive confirmed dead
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) yesterday confirmed the death of Phénéas Munyarugarama, one of the remaining fugitives indicted by ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Biti clerk's trial applies for exception
A legal clerk with Tendai Biti Law Chambers, who is facing two fresh counts' of fraud yesterday made an application for exception.Constantine Chaza in his application argued that the charges o...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt recruits extra 10 000 teachers
More than half of the extra 10 000 teachers needed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have now been recruited over the last couple of months. The Public Service Commission has ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba confronted for denigrating Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe Revolutionary and Patriotic Youth Network (ZIRAPAYON) has taken Buhera South legislator, Joseph Chinotimba, head on for calling the President Emmerson Mnangagwa by his surname.Chi...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:47hrs | 4459 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt reduces fuel prices
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:45hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must resign'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti, has launched a scathing attack on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying he was an extremely incompetent leader with no capacity to run th...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 10130 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on lending
THE central bank yesterday lifted its temporary suspension of lending services by banks after the policy triggered sustained protests from industry, commerce and the public in general.In a sta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:23hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
Parly probes tobacco company
PARLIAMENT has launched a full-scale investigation into Premium Leaf Zimbabwe operations and the quality of its tobacco exports.The company executives yesterday appeared before the Parliamenta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Top medical firm in labour, tax evasion storm
ONE of Zimbabwe's oldest and major private medical services provider, Baines Imaging Group is embroiled in a nasty fight with serving and former employees, who are accusing the institution of external...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi readies for court battle
WARRIORS forward Kudakwashe Mahachi has denied allegations of scalding his four-year-old son with boiling water and has threatened legal action in a bid to be allowed access to the boy.Mahachi...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pull out of CITES?
Zimbabwe, which is sitting on more than 136 tonnes of ivory and rhino horns worth about US$600 million, is prepared to operate outside the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Ethanol blending up increased to 20% to kill injectors
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's nephews denied bail in firearms case
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has denied bail to two siblings, believed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephews who were allegedly involved in a foiled robbery attempt....Published: 17 May 2022 at 20:00hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
Mahachi denies allegations of scalded son with boiling water
SOUTH African-based footballer, Kudakwashe Mahachi, who stands accused of having scalded his four-year-old son Diego, with boiling water has denied the allegations.It has also emerged that con...Published: 17 May 2022 at 19:59hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ's currency auction a headache'
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) yesterday told Parliament that the country's foreign currency auction system was problematic, resulting in a huge backlog.Giving oral evidence be...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
Mwazha bishops barred from church shrine
FORMER bishops and the secretariat of the African Apostolic Church (Vapostora VeAfrica) have been barred from visiting the church's shrine in Chivhu without the authority of the current leadership....Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenger further detained
Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musengezi, who challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ascendency to power, was yesterday further remanded in custody after the State requested postponement to today....Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begs EU over it's ivory
ZIMBABWE yesterday begged the European Union (EU) to support its plea for a once-off sale of its ivory stockpile at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) meeting schedule...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Senators fume over bunking ministers
SENATORS have attacked the Executive after ministers bunked the Upper House question and answer session.Only five ministers pitched up to take questions from Senators last Thursday, resulting ...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
BCC abandons Centenary Park
BULAWAYO residents have accused the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) of abandoning Centenary Park.Residents say the park is now an eyesore and a hotspot for criminal activities and a haven for drug...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Schools defy govt on fee
SCHOOLS are defying a government directive that they should not turn away pupils who have not paid school fees.When schools opened for the second term on May 4, the Primary and Secondary Educa...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda calls out Zimbabwe on genocide
RWANDAN authorities have expressed dismay on how the Zimbabwean government is portraying the 1994 genocide against Tutsis.In an official statement released by Foreign Affairs minister Frederic...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1233 | by Staff reporter
Hwange to twin with Namibia, SA towns
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) plans to twin with Namibian and South African local authorities to improve service delivery in the coal mining town.The arrangements will also boost wildlife tourism a...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Schools complain over exam fees collection
SCHOOLS are left financially poorer every time they collect examination fees on behalf of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) through bank and transport costs charges and have appealed t...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Issuance of community TV licences on cards in Zimbabwer
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) is set to start licensing community television stations following the successful licensing of community radio stations that have contributed to improving u...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
'Flu bug not linked to coronavirus'
AS Zimbabwe is entering the Southern Hemisphere's colder winter months there is an increase in cases of flu but health authorities yesterday said the bug is not linked to the coronavirus.Howev...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
148 unregistered private schools face closure
So far 287 of the 435 private schools found operating illegally in Harare at the beginning of the year have gone through the licensing and other requirements, and now the authorities are moving agains...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
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