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ZANU-PF fights justice
The ruling ZANU PF party is allegedly fighting justice by making suspected criminal abscond courts on the pretext of campaigning for the party....Published: 2 hrs ago | 188 | by Paul Ndou
Top Zimbabwe judges in the eye of a storm
A Harare businessman has written a letter of complaint to Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi raising allegations of criminal abuse of office, conflict of interest and ob...Published: 15 hrs ago | 204 | by Staff reporter
'Biti was reckless'
A LOCAL vehicle-selling firm Paza Buster has written to lawyer and politician Tendai Biti seeking to have him retract claims he made against them in an online interview failure of which they will sue ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 18:10hrs | 2795 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exhibited traits of tribalism on Cont Mhlanga's national hero status
Observers have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of exhibiting traits of tribalism by failing to accord national hero status to the late legendary Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:56hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
CCC seeks SADC, AU help to restore poll reforms in Zimbabwe
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is hopeful SADC and AU will finally exercise their influence on Zimbabwe to bring about much-needed electoral reforms that would usher in credible elections in its ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:19hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi snubs agric show amid fears of CCC protest
FORMER State vice president, Kembo Mohadi Friday snubbed the 75th edition of Mashonaland West Agricultural Show 2022 after security details reportedly sniffed an alleged protest plot over his eligibil...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:18hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Can ED tell Zimbabweans where to find this elusive 'independence' we are supposed to be enjoying and 'jealously guarding'!
I honestly feel like screaming and banging my head against the wall, each time I hear those in the country's ruling elitist privileged clique make noise about some 'independence' that we, the people o...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:57hrs | 1170 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'We're winning (2023) Big! Faka pressure!' claim Chamisa - Doesn't even know who is piling what pressure and on whom?
For the first twenty years of our independence the nation trusted the late Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF cronies whole heartedly, they were the liberation war heroes and heroines would could do no wro...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:44hrs | 1124 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Inside three swing provinces that will decide entry to State House in 2023 polls
The 2023 general election may see the highest turnout in decades, though it comes at the same time as vast uncertainty about the independent auditability of the voters roll and electoral systems, ball...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:29hrs | 1689 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Security guard plotted to kill Mugabe in South Africa
An ITV security guard plotted to kill Robert Mugabe at the World Cup Final in South Africa by breaking his neck, a sports commentator has claimed.Sports journalist Ned Boulting, 53, said that ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:51hrs | 6290 | by Staff reporter
Radisson Group of Hotels seal Bulawayo deal
A NEW hotel is set to be constructed in Bulawayo after the local authority granted an international hotel group, Radisson Group of Hotels permission to build the hotel.Consultations have been ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Gun-crazy Zanu-PF MP steps on woman's breast - then shares picture
A crazed Zanu-PF MP has been photographed stepping on a woman's breast while armed with a gun.Soul Ncube, the MP for Matobo South, posted the picture to a WhatsApp group for his constituents....Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 20:04hrs | 3668 | by Staff reporter
Biti lands self in trouble
A COMPANY alleged by Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) vice president Tendai Biti to have been used as a conduit for corrupt government operations has written to the former finance minister demandin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:56hrs | 2836 | by Staff reporter
Biti urges international intervention in 'abnormal' Zimbabwe situation
ON Monday, Zimbabwe marked the fourth anniversary of the August 1, 2018 tragedy when the military was unleashed to forcefully put down post-election violent post-election demonstrations resultin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2639 | by Staff reporter
Zec shuts out CCC
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will not entertain opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party's calls for bilateral dialogue on electoral malpractices.Last Wednesday,...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:52hrs | 2383 | by Staff reporter
Biti's application unprocedural, claims State
The assault trial of Tendai Biti continued today with deputy prosecutor general Mr Micheal Reza informing the court that his application for recusal of the magistrate was unprocedural and lacked merit...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:06hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Govt insincere over Cyrene Farm invasion, says CCC
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has slammed government for "pretending" that it was assisting the Anglican Church in Figtree, Matabeleland South province to stop land invasions at i...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV+ pregnant women number among world highest
ZIMBABWE has been ranked one of the 22 countries with the highest burden of pregnant women living with HIV.This is despite the country having made major strides in testing and preventing the v...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC barred from holding a victory rally
MAIN opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has vowed to fight back the continued sequence of prohibitions by the police against their political events.This follows the banning ...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:11hrs | 3052 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation spikes to 257%
ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation jumped to 256,9% this month, up from 191% in June, evoking memories of the 2008 hyper-inflationary era nightmares as prices of basic goods continue to skyrocket....Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:09hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Brito is brewing something beautiful at Highlanders
SOMETHING is brewing at Highlanders and the brew master is Portuguese expatriate Baltermar Brito who has so far not only proved to have a good eye for the finest ingredients but a brewmaster of the hi...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:07hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Biti awaits response to recusal application
Deputy prosecutor-general Mr Michael Reza will on August 1 respond to Tendai Biti's third application for the recusal of Harare magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti from presiding over his assaul...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
'We're not far from Rwanda in 1994,' warned Biti. Because we're cursed with great man who're easily corrupted by power
"He (John Kumalo) is a big man, in this place, your brother. His shop always full of men, talking as you have heard. But they say you must hear him at a meeting, he and Dubula and a brown man named To...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 17:56hrs | 400 | by Nomusa Garikai
Biti applies for third recusal of magistrate in a stalingrad move
In another bid to delay trial Tendai Biti today, for the third time, applied for the recusal of Harare regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti after she ruled that he should finish up his a...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
NoViolet Bulawayo makes prestigious Booker Prize shortlist
ZIMBABWEAN writer NoViolet Bulawayo is among the 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Booker Prize for fiction.Bulawayo, was nominated for her second novel ‘Glory' which has been ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Toxic Biti warns of corrosive political divisions; hatred on social media
ZIMBABWE could easily be engulfed in a deadly conflict on the scale of Rwanda's 1994 Genocide which claimed more than 900,000 lives, opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tenda...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Biti assault case to be heard daily after serious delays
HARARE regional magistrate Mrs Vongai Guwuriro Muchuchuti has adopted a strategy to expedite Tendai Biti's assault trial by ordering the court to hear the case on a daily basis after observing serious...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:42hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
'Puppets will never rule Zimbabwe'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said time has come to vote out corrupt opposition councillors whose parties have not only run down local authorities but are puppets of Western countries that want to rem...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:37hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Benjani Mwaruwari fired
NGEZI Platinum Stars have sacked head coach Benjani Mwaruwari, barely three months after his appointment following a difficult start to his coaching career at the ambitious Premier Soccer League (PSL)...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 15:32hrs | 6011 | by Staff reporter
Bosso struggle to victory
Highlanders 1-0 Bulawayo CityHIGHLANDERS might have failed to replicate the poetic football they have been exhibiting lately, but they bounced back to winning ways, halting Bulawayo City's three-m...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:27hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Sithole's lawyer seeks Matanga's audience over ZANU PF militia
Freelance journalist Simbarashe Sithole's lawyer, Alice Mujakachi, has sent a formal complaint to Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga over delay by police in bringing ZANU PF militia Isheanesu ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 21:47hrs | 569 | by Paul Ndou
Victoria Falls to be decommissioned: UNESCO
The United Nations has warned that plans by the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia for the development of a golf course, lodges and a hydroelectric dam near the Victoria Falls will put the renown...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 21:32hrs | 1142 | by Shelton Muchena
Zimbabwe secures 300MW
ZESA Holdings has secured a 300 megawatt (MW) power import deal with regional suppliers as the energy crisis threatens to cripple industry and domestic consumers, confidential documents show.T...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:43hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
POLAD electoral reform declaration forces ZEC to announce results in 72 hours
The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of 16 political parties which took part in the 2018 elections, including Zanu-PF, has released a declaration recommending electoral reforms before nex...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 07:37hrs | 1988 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Biti, Ziyambi in feisty Gukurahundi exchange
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Vice President Tendai Biti and Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had a feisty exchange in Parliament this week over the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 198...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with daily blackouts
ZAMBIA'S integrated power utility ZESCO has declared that the country how has surplus capacity of about 1,000 megawatts (MW) at a time the country is also enjoying an economic rebound.Across t...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must stop meddling in councils
IF it is, indeed, true that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has woken up to its folly of meddling in local authorities affairs as far as the problematic Pomona Waste to Energy deal betwe...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mining surpasses US$5 billion
Zimbabwe's mining sector is registering unprecedented growth, for the first time in history, with earnings jumping to US$5,2 billion in 2021 from about US$2,9 billion in 2017, as positive gains contin...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Dubai firm agrees to invest US$100m in Zimbabwe's drugs deal
The drive to attract fresh investment continued yesterday, with Zimbabwe now set to become a hub of pharmaceutical manufacturing for national and regional consumption following the signing of a joint ...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Biti challenges Minister on ‘one man and his wife' dominating ZBC news daily
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare East Tendai Biti on Tuesday challenged the government on ZBC's compliance with the Constitutional obligation for impartiality and diversity of views in its n...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 9804 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls could lose heritage status if golf course is built
THE United Nations has informed the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia that Victoria Falls could lose its unique heritage status if a golf course is built at the site.According to The Times, t...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1718 | by Staff reporter
Arm of colonialists getting more active, told to form structures
THE mad season is upon us where the country's detractors enter into all sorts of alliances with willing vessels in an attempt to effect illegal regime change.Even the Citizens Coalition for Ch...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Bulawayo for Mine Entra
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo last night ahead of today's official opening of the 25th edition of the Mining, Engineering and Transport (Mine Entra) at the ZITF exhibition centre.The...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'sanctions must go'
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa ignited varied criticism after he was cornered by a Twitter user on the issue of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western nation...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:38hrs | 6742 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'hijacks' IDs registration
Zanu-PF has reportedly hijacked the mobile national identity registration blitz and commandeered the services to the party's perceived strongholds to make sure its supporters obtain identity documents...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 6449 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC caught off-guard?
POLITICAL analysts have described the recent appointment of legislators to serve as opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokespersons in Parliament as evidence that the party needs to urgen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7368 | by Staff reporter
Biti seeks Reza's recusal
The case in which Tendai Biti is accused of assaulting an investor continued today with him submitting that deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza was not objective and therefore does not qualify t...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:36hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Two-decade-old U.S. sanctions leave Zimbabweans suffering, triggering protests
Opposite the U.S. embassy northwest of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare sits an anti-sanctions camp marking 1,200 days of protest.On July 4, the organizer of the camp — Broad Alliance Agains...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:50hrs | 519 | by Tichaona Chifamba, Zhang Yuliang, Cao Kai
Police fail to bring Kazembe's hitman to court
Zimbabwe Republic Police ZRP has failed to bring Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe's follower Isheanesu Dzimbiti to Bindura magistrates courts for initial remand today....Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 14:49hrs | 1890 | by Paul Ndou
400 solar boreholes for Matabeleland North
GOVERNMENT aims to drill 400 solar-powered boreholes in Matabeleland North Province by December this year, which will boost access to clean water and facilitate establishment of nutritional gardens in...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:24hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
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