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MPs unite is ruckus call for better wages for teachers - yet none of MPs want free elections, that's a bridge too far
"Zanu-PF and MDC MPs showed rare unity on Tuesday as they combined to demand better salaries for public sector workers who have declared "incapacitation", reported Zimlive."Civil servants are ...Published: 1 hr ago | 118 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bumper harvest for Matabeleland
FARMERS in the Matabeleland region, which has over the years been largely characterised by low rainfall and poor yields, are expecting to harvest enough maize and traditional grains to last more than ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 539 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to unleash soldiers on gold panners
GOVERNMENT has threatened to unleash "special security operations" on artisanal gold miners destroying public infrastructure such as railway lines in search of the yellow metal.This was announ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:27hrs | 2070 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation quite a joke
WITH the 2023 elections around the corner, Zanu-PF can promise heaven on earth.The ruling party will promise all the good things that the nation wishes to be put on table if people vote for Za...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:22hrs | 668 | by Chief Chiduku
Kazungula Bridge opening to boost Sadc trade
THE official opening of the Kazungula Bridge and One-Stop Border Post facilities next week Monday is expected to enhance Southern Africa's access to international markets through connectivity with maj...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:15hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Maize harvesting in full swing across the country
Most districts are harvesting enough maize and traditional grains to last more than 12 months with only a few areas having enough to cater for six months and below, the Second Crop and Livestock Asses...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:11hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho kombi operators ditch route over state of road
KOMBI operators who ply the Bulawayo-Nyamandlovu-Tsholotsho route have abandoned it due to the poor state of the road and are now using the Bulawayo-Solusi Road Most roads in the country are in a bad ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:22hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to ease cargo flows due to construction delays
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is working on several measures to speed up the flow of commercial cargo traffic through Beitbridge Border Post where parking space is now limited due to the ongo...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Harare road rehab gets rave reviews
President Mnangagwa has been roundly praised as a pragmatic and visionary leader owing to an array of achievements scored by the Second Republic, including the ongoing rehabilitation of the Harare-Bei...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission Makuti-Chirundu stretch
The completed phase of the US$21 million Makuti-Chirundu road rehabilitation is expected to be commissioned by President Mnangagwa tomorrow, just over 18 months after he officiated at the ground-break...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:14hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa deserves 2023 re-election'
INFORMATION minister, Monica Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa deserved to be reelected the country's leader in the 2023 for what she said was the incumbent's wise leadership in taming what...Published: 03 May 2021 at 17:19hrs | 1924 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge upgrade to cause six weeks of delays
The busiest border crossing in southern Africa will experience six weeks of significant delays as an upgrade begins.The Beitbridge crossing straddles South Africa and Zimbabwe and is an import...Published: 03 May 2021 at 17:17hrs | 1513 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to auction smugglers' vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has resolved to sell impounded vehicles used to transport smuggled goods in and out of the country as the entity escalates its fight against corruption.I...Published: 02 May 2021 at 18:32hrs | 1801 | by Staff reporter
Solutions to eliminating the demon of tribalism
The demon of tribalism that has affected the Ndebele nation since 1980 can be eliminated from Zimbabwean society. Hate and resentment between the Ndebele and Shona will not solve any challenges faced ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1050 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Anticipated delays at Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to advise all travellers, importers, exporters, transporters, clearing agents and the general public that due to ongoing extensive construction work at Be...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:42hrs | 2111 | by Staff reporter
Mobile network operators to set up more tower sites
THE Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has said mobile network operators are engaging local authorities to acquire land in order to set up 13 telecommunication towe...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:16hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Mayor is dismally failing Bulawayo: Why is the Bulawayo Residence Association mum about BCC discrepancies?
Without the former deputy mayor of Bulawayo Tinashe Karambani, the senior executives in the City Council are failing to eradicate corruption in the city. The BCC is once again in the headlines today f...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:35hrs | 1936 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mwonzora, Khupe bury hatchet
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora and his deputy Thokozani Khupe have buried the hatchet and agreed to work together again following months of acrimony triggered by last December's disputed extraordinary co...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 07:26hrs | 3566 | by Staff reporter
Top cop threatens to shoot messenger of court
A TOP police officer stationed in Beitbridge town has landed himself in soup after he allegedly threatened to shoot a messenger of court on two occasions for attemptingto serve him with a court or...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
16-year-old rapes, robs dying aunt
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy from Beitbridge East who allegedly attacked his 53-year-old aunt with a log, and then raped her while she lay dying, bleeding from the head before stealing R1 700 has been remanded i...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:37hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South to get 3 new COVID-19 centres
GOVERNMENT is in the process of constructing COVID-19 treatment centres in three districts of Matabeleland South province that have remained a transit zone for cross-border travellers, often accused o...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:18hrs | 144 | by Staff writer
54 buses intercepted with smuggled goods
FIFTY-FOUR buses transporting smuggled goods worth over US$20 million have been intercepted since the beginning of March.As a result of the smuggling, the country has been losing millions of d...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 16:58hrs | 1781 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man in UK court for holding up store carrying knife, hammer
MUNASHE Chikomba (22) appeared at York Crown Court via video link on Monday when he admitted attempted robbery, possessing an offensive weapon, and carrying a knife.The raid occurred at Summer...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Separated by a river, but worlds apart
Depending on one's propensity to follow the news, the world, at varying days of December of 2019 was introduced to the novel corona virus, a highly contagious and deadly virus preliminary reports at t...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 14:40hrs | 2264 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Political crowd funding: A new fleece
When author and Irish nationalist, Jonathan Swift, established the first recognised crowd funding in the early 1700s as a way of providing loans to the poor, but creditworthy people in Dublin, little ...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 99 | by Innocent Mujeri
Teenager rapes, kills woman (53)
A 16-year-old boy from Beitbridge East allegedly attacked a 53-year-old woman from his village on Friday with a log, then raped her while she lay dying, bleeding from the head, and then stole R1 700. ...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge road contractors on track to complete revamp
Five Zimbabwean companies contracted to widen, rehabilitate and upgrade the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway are confident of completing all the roadworks and have the revamped road fully working ne...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:56hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Police intercept Bulawayo bound bus laden with smuggled contraband
A BULAWAYO bound Inter Africa bus was intercepted by police in Mutare Saturday smuggling contraband of second-hand merchandise worth thousands of dollars.The goods had been illegally brought i...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:35hrs | 2535 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has reduced malaria cases, deaths'
ZIMBABWE has made huge strides in reducing malaria cases and deaths, Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has said.In a statement to mark World Malaria Day yesterday, Chiwen...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:35hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns the death of helicopter accident victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) is in mourning after the horrific accident that claimed the lives of two pilots and an aircraft technician.The pilots who perished are Wing Commander Thomas Tin...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Elections have already been rigged
IN rural areas, men and women, just as cattle and donkeys, are beasts of burden.Life doesn't come cheap and easy in the village.Success also often comes from or after unavoidable physi...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
If I were President Mnangagwa, unfortunately I'm not !!!
Apparently, I woke up at 3 am, I'm just thinking of the November 27, 2017 event, and I can safely conclude the phrase " New dispensation, has just been eroded, by a flood of events ".Can you b...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 20:29hrs | 1283 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1993 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Covid-19 vaccine to jump-start tourism sector
On January 30, 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern....Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 20:10hrs | 254 | by Tirivanhu Kateera
Cops turn down US$9 000 bribe
Police in Nyazura, Manicaland, on Wednesday exhibited a high degree of professionalism when they resisted a US$9 000 bribe dangled by members of a smuggling syndicate. They arrested six ...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fast running out of Covid-19 vaccines
AUTHORITIES have called upon the government and private players to procure more Covid-19 vaccines for Bulawayo where there is a short supply of the jabs. Addressing members of the Bulawayo Pro...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:34hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Ex-policeman turned serial armed robber seeks bail
One of the country's serial armed robber and former Masvingo Central police officer Rudolf Kanhanga alias Tapiwa Munatsi (29) who exchanged gunfire with a police crack team in an attempt to evade arre...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 20:28hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
'Bureaux de-change to bridge forex needs'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has approved the selling of foreign currency to registered bureaux de-change operators for on-selling to their clients as part of measures to increase formal access ...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:15hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Chopper border patrols deter smuggling
The introduction of helicopter patrols by security officials has resulted in reduced cases of smuggling along the country's border with South Africa.National police spokesperson Assistant Comm...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 14:52hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
Transport shortage cripples Zesa
NATIONAL power distributor, Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), says it is failing to execute its mandate due to an acute shortage of vehicles, with the current fleet b...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
'3rd wave already in Zimbabwe'
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the third wave of COVID-19 had already hit the country as evidenced by the surge in new infections in the past few weeks, a situation which poses a huge challenge ...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
IsiTonga Short Stories competition launched
A short stories competition targeted at promoting ChiTonga young writers has been launched at secondary schools in Binga district, Matabeleland North province. The competition dubbed ChiTonga ...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:01hrs | 95 | 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 | 724 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle imports tumble more than 60%
Numbers of second-hand vehicles imported through Beitbridge have slumped from around 60 a day to an average of 22 a day this month following the introduction of new regulations that make it very hard ...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says he is more patriotic than Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday scoffed at suggestions by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he was unpatriotic to the country and pandering to the whims of his Western handlers...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2537 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe breaks law for US$50m Covid-19 vaccines loan
Zimbabwe has contracted yet another US$50 million loan from the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to finance its Covid-19 vaccination programme despite government claims it is using internal res...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:15hrs | 963 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda villagers build dams
VILLAGERS in the Garanyemba area of Gwanda in Matabeleland South province have launched a community initiative to build small dams and roads to boost development in the area.In an interview, w...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:07hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shall rise again
EMMERSON Mnangagwa, in his message during Zimbabwe's 38th Independence celebrations, months after the coup that removed long-serving leader Robert Mugabe and a few months before his election as ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:54hrs | 221 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Covid-19 in schools: Situation under control
Press Statement by the Hon. Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino Chiwenga on outbreaks of Covid-19 in learning institutions in Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 07:40hrs | 307 | by Dr Constantino Chiwenga
Zimbabwe battles to fix damaged roads
AUTHORITIES are escalating their bid to rehabilitate all damaged roads in the country after heavy rains pounded the region this past rain season.Speaking yesterday at the newly-constructed Kar...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
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