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'I tried to change Zanu-PF from within'
Veteran politician and war veteran Margaret Dongo said she tried to change Zanu-PF from within by being outspoken and critical of the ruling party's policies.Dongo (MD), who was eventually exp...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3031 | by Staff reporter
Gweru embarks on property revaluations
GWERY City Council (GCC) has begun revaluation of its non-domestic properties to come up with a valuation roll for ease of billing, Southern Eye has learnt.Council last carried out a similar e...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Pastor caught on camera stealing from his own church
A 31-year-old pastor was caught on camera stealing property worth US$13,000 from his church, a Harare court heard on Wednesday.Adolf Lwazi Moyo appeared in court charged with two theft counts....Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3878 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's daughter survives eviction
LATE former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Mutsahuni Chikore has survived eviction from a Mazowe farm after the High Court ruled in her favour.Bona and husband Simbarashe Chikore wer...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1703 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe and husband granted chance to fight for Mazowe Farm
HIGH Court judge, Justice Rodgers Manyangadze, has granted Bona and Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore a chance to fight for their Mazowe farm by staying execution of an earlier judgement evicting them....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:18hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's dairy estates collapses
GUSHUNGO Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1,4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about 120 workers jobless.The...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 37149 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents to self-read water meters
THE Gweru City Council has encouraged residents to record water meter readings at their premises and submit them to the local authority following continuous complaints by ratepayers of overcharging....Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Drunkard kills church pastor
A GOKWE pastor was murdered on Sunday after he reproached an imbiber for drinking beer at a funeral church service.In a statement yesterday, police said: "Police in Gokwe are appealing for inf...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo blasts ZANU PF over National Hero status
Professor Jonathan Moyo has accused the ruling party ZANU PF of engaging in political fraud when it comes to the conferment of the National Hero status to fallen former liberation war fighters. ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 12:50hrs | 3174 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Top Army Boss dies
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)is mourning the death of the country's Defence Attaché to Botswana, Colonel John Mhlanga who died on Tuesday after he was involved in a fatal road accident along the B...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 16:24hrs | 6577 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's party confident of victory
Zanu-PF is confident of snatching a number of seats from opposition political parties tomorrow when the country goes for by-elections in 28 constituencies and 122 wards.The by-elections are be...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation case struck off roll
THE High Court has removed from the roll a case where former First Lady Grace Mugabe is challenging an order to exhume the remains of her late husband former President Robert Mugabe for reburial at th...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:53hrs | 3015 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United hammer hapless WhaWha
CAPS United 6 - 0 WhaWhaAFTER a rocky start to the season, CAPS United finally remembered how to win, in emphatic fashion, when they put hapless WhaWha to the sword in this Castle Lager Premiershi...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
CAPS Utd to sign Machazane
CAPS UNITED could add another ace in their squad with the signing of defensive pillar Marshal Machazane expected to be completed today ahead of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against M...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Gweru gets automated water kiosk
GWERU City Council, with the assistance of a German non-governmental organisation (NGO), Welthungerhilfe has established its first automated water kiosk which uses a tap-card system to draw water from...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Oliver Mtukudzi releases latest album 'Abiangi'
My Better Half, the latest duet from the late music icon Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's features a fellow Zimbabwe Afro-fusion musician, Mbeu.The song, released by Gallo Record Company and Tuku Musi...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 07:59hrs | 7166 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water woes force schools to turn away learners
Gweru's water crisis has worsened, forcing some schools to send learners back home on the first day of reopening, NewsDay has learnt.Most of Gweru high density suburbs: Mkoba, Ascot, Mambo, Mt...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Uproar as recalled Gweru mayor clings to luxury car
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing, amid reports that former mayor Josiah Makombe, who was recalled by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC, is refusing to hand over to council a high-powered Toy...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:32hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council protects US$10m dodgy dealers
SOME corrupt Gweru City Council officials who benefited from more than US$10 million in unprocedural land deals over the past decade are yet to be made public with residents criticising the local auth...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:02hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
'Bona Mugabe not on social media'
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Chikore has disowned more than 50 fake social media accounts that were created in her name.Bona has threatened to take legal action....Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:09hrs | 2963 | by Staff reporter
Zacc secured only 4 convictions in 2021
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), which last year blew over US$33 million to probe graft cases and fund its other operations, has admitted that it only secured four convictions while fou...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe a nation or just a country?
THE question is often asked "Where did Zimbabwe go wrong?" but it is not necessarily a helpful question. Any attempt to pin down what has gone wrong to one single factor like corruption or bad governa...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:06hrs | 211 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chinese miners' trucks damaging our roads: Mayor
GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has blamed Chinese-owned mining vehicles for damaging city roads.Makombe said the Midlands capital was witnessing a proliferation of Chinese companies venturing into...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:41hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe's Christmas message to Zimbabweans
Former President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona Mugabe-Chikore has urged Zimbabweans not to be carried away by the Christmas craze otherwise they will be stranded in January. Writing on Faceboo...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 17:56hrs | 19681 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Entreprenuer wrestles with Econet
HARARE-BASED businessman, innovator and entrepreneur Ignatius Munengwa has reported the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) top executives to the regulator's chairp...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:44hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Colonel Dennis Pahla dies
The Commander Zimbabwe National Army, General David Sigauke has mourned Colonel Dennis Pahla who died on Monday. Col Pahla, whose Chimurenga name was Kid Nyikandeyedu, died at Parirenyatwa Gro...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Grace approaches High Court over Mugabe exhumation
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday filed a High Court application seeking to challenge an order by a Chinhoyi magistrate to exhume the remains of her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bona does not know secrete relationship between Mugabe and Mnangagwa: Nor has she Zezuru powers to recite Nyakasikana rituals
Bloggers go overdrive in wanting to make much awaited narratives become facts overnight. Bona cannot make holly cries of Zezuru-Nyakasikana to prevent her father from exhumation and be interred in the...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:26hrs | 135 | by Nomazulu Thata
Gweru defaulters face water cuts
Gweru City Council will from Monday start the process of disconnecting water to defaulting ratepayers.In a statement yesterday, the local authority said it could only offer adequate services i...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council in drainage clean-up
Gweru City Council has embarked on a storm drain clearance exercise ahead of the rainy season in a bid to reduce the effects of flash floods that usually hit the Midlands capital during the rainy seas...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor moves into mansion
GWERU residents this week came out guns blazing against mayor Josiah Makombe who moved into the mayoral mansion (pictured top) despite his suggestion in past years that the white elephant built in the...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Evicted Zanu-PF supporters stranded
About 200 families that were evicted from a farm on the outskirts of Marondera in June are still living in the open as the government is yet to fulfil its promise to resettle them.The families...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent lawyer in conflict of interest storm
A HARARE-BASED innovator and entrepreneur, Ignatious Munengwa, has reported prominent lawyer Phillipa Phillips to the Law Society of Zimbabwe for allegedly failing to declare an alleged conflict of in...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:25hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Rapist kills own father, aunt
Police have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly killed his father and aunt before raping a woman and committing a spate of robberies around Kadoma.Evans Chikore (29) of Village 1 Luwana...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 07:02hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer
THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague — who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bona Mugabe's hubby off the hook
THE late former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore was yesterday acquitted of criminal abuse of office charge in a matter where he was accused of signing a memorandum of...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 17:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe debt assumption promotes corruption
ZIMBABWEAN taxpayers continue to be burdened by debt from parastatals which are riddled with mismanagement and corruption, with the latest being the assumption of Air Zimbabwe's huge debt, as governme...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:04hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
400 resettled farmers evicted
MORE than 400 newly-resettled farmers in Maganga near Marondera, were last week evicted to pave way for the farm's original owner, Hunyani Estate.The farmers were chucked out by the Messenger ...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son in-law to apply for exception to criminal abuse charges
FORMER Air Zimbabwe chief operations officer and the late former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore today notified the State that he will be applying for exception to the criminal abus...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Gweru residents clash over vending space
THE ruling Zanu-PF is headed for a showdown with Gweru residents who are accusing the party of bypassing city council procedure in the allocation of vending space to accommodate its members ahead of i...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US$137m loss sinks run-down Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), chalked over a US$137 million loss in four successive years which helped sink the airline deep into the abyss under the yoke of corporate malfeasance, inc...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents slam mayor's lavish lifestyle
GWERU residents associations have slammed mayor Josiah Makombe's plans to move into the mayoral mansion despite suggestions that the house be turned into a money-spinning venture.Addressing jo...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
Grace Mugabe's huge daily cash withdrawals exposed
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe allegedly made multiple United States dollar cash withdrawals amounting to US$300 000 per day in 2019 from her CBZ Bank account at a time ordinary Zimbabweans were allow...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Broke Zanu-PF candidates slow down campaigns
A NUMBER of Zanu-PF candidates who are eyeing the vacant Marondera East constituency in Mashonaland East province have slowed down their campaigns after the party delayed announcing a date for the pri...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Simba, Bona's mansion: Monument to corruption
THE huge mansion that former president Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona and son-in-law Simba Mutsahuni have been struggling to complete since the longtime ruler was unceremoniously removed from power thr...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:22hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe orphanage rocked by sodomy scandal
SALACIOUS details have emerged of how the former first family's elite schools and orphanage nestled in a vast estate in Mazowe - 40km north of Harare - were rocked by an alleged child sexual abuse sca...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:43hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents get home ownership
AT least 198 families in Gweru's oldest suburb, Mtapa, will become home owners after the Gweru City Council agreed to give them ownership of the properties.This comes after several years of lo...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bona, hubby get 20ha prime land for a song
Then Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo reportedly facilitated a deal whereby the daughter of the late former President Robert Mugabe, Mrs Bona Nyepudzai Mutsahuni, and her husband, Mr Simbarashe Mutsah...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hires private firms to fix streetlights, water infrastructure
GWERU City Council, which has over the years been struggling to repair streetlights and replace obsolete water equipment, has invited private players to rehabilitate the infrastructure.Acting ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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