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Covid-19 aid resurfaces on black market
While Government, corporates, organisations and individuals have opened their hearts and wallets, pooling resources to support those who are likely to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, shameles...Published: 7 hrs ago | 136 | by Staff reporter
2 cops arrested
Detectives on Wednesday night fired warning shots to arrest a policeman and a member of a Harare neighbourhood watch suspected to be part of a group of rogue officers demanding bribes from truck drive...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:11hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US$1 million Coronavirus tender saga takes new twist
United Arab Emirates based company Drax International which was recently caught in a procurement storm has threatened legal action against publications whom they accuse of making unsubstantiated c...Published: 29 May 2020 at 10:16hrs | 3523 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army, police flee Islamic terrorists in Mozambique
Mozambican military and police fled Macomia district after extremist Islamist militants launched a violent attack on Thursday, an online publication AFP reported on Friday morning.According to...Published: 29 May 2020 at 09:49hrs | 7804 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube in catch-22 situation
THE provision of subsidies to small-scale gold miners in defiance of advice from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has left the government in a quandary amid a rapidly deteriorating economy....Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:30hrs | 1781 | by Staff reporter
An introduction to Radical Economic Structural Transformation (REST)
"We have been caught in a spider's web of lies about our history, our potential and our future as a country since 1980. The only way we can extricate ourselves from it is to first change our belief sy...Published: 28 May 2020 at 14:47hrs | 997 | by Vince Musewe
Human Rights Commission to probe man shooting
A Bulawayo man who was shot dead by police on Saturday was buried yesterday and a local Member of Parliament has engaged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate the matter. ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
ZR police teargas imbibers in Karoi bottle store
KAROI - Members of Zimbabwe Republic Police deployed to monitor Covid-19 regulations violations had throw tear gas to force out imbibers who sought sanctuary in a bottle store at the weekend.T...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1416 | by Naume Muza
Robert Mugabe divides opinion on Africa Day
THE South African Presidency yesterday used the Africa Day commemorations to remember the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's much-quoted "Africa is for Africans" statement, but immediate...Published: 26 May 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2164 | by Staff reporter
oMalayitsha call on Government to provide special permits
CROSS border transporters popularly known as oMalayitsha have called on Government to assist them with special permits which will ensure smooth passage of their goods into the country to enable them t...Published: 25 May 2020 at 16:16hrs | 2970 | by Staff reporter
Fixed Exchange Rate: More harm than good
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe suspended the new managed floating exchange rate and introduced the fixed exchange rate of 1 US Dollar to 25 Zimbabwean Dollars on the 26th of March 2020. Two weeks earlie...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1751 | by Victor Bhoroma
Spare a thought for the orphan this winter
Very soon some orphans, lonely widows and the neglected elderly will be shivering like reeds in flooded rivers because of the cold. It is that time of the year when those in better situations should s...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 134 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bulawayo police kill city man...laugh at his girlfriend
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in Bulawayo are reported to have killed Paul Munakopa, a thirty-four-year-old man who was driving with his fiancé at Hillside suburb. The woman ,Tracy ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 15:26hrs | 12390 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Copper smuggling women caught in Beitbridge
Beitbridge - Two women from Karoi farming town we're arrested at Beitbridge border town on Thursday as they tried to smuggle copper using a donkey cart.According to Beitbridge police s...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:29hrs | 2213 | by Naume Muza
Uproar over Beitbridge police brutality
A BEITBRIDGE court has ordered police to refund a resident, who was coerced to pay a fine for violating the lockdown regulations, amid accusations of gross human rights violations by law enforcement a...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:52hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Lodges closure fuels bush, car sex
THE Covid-19 pandemic which has forced the temporary closure of lodges to stop the spread of the coronavirus has also pushed some randy lovebirds to brazenly use cars and bushy areas close to their su...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:52hrs | 6302 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi fire tender under probe over Banket hospital inferno
CHINHOYI - The Government has instructed a probe into Chinhoyi municipality fire brigade after it failed to react to put down ravaging fire that destroyed a drug room at Banket district hospital on We...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:31hrs | 450 | by Naume Muza
Farmer axes man for linking him in a love triangle
KAROI-A 28 year old man from Tengwe farming area east of Karoi town who could not stomach the reality of being fingered as a womanizer while at his girlfriend's residence has appeared in court after h...Published: 21 May 2020 at 15:33hrs | 1138 | by Naume Muza
Army, police lock down Harare CBD
Police and soldiers yesterday locked down central Harare, ordering jaywalkers and those not formally employed to go back home.On Monday, following the easing of the lockdown restrictions by Pr...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 7257 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants conned in grocery scam
HUNDREDS of civil servants in Matebeleland South province are reportedly counting losses after paying huge sums of money to a conartist a fortnight ago who reportedly misrepresented that he could supp...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
SA police seize $1,5m Zimbabwean cigarettes contraband
OFFICIALS in South Africa's Limpopo province last Friday recovered Zimbabwean made cigarettes worth R1,5 million that were being smuggled into that country.In a joint operation conducted in Mu...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:30hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Stocktheft suspect escapes from remand prison, rearrested
A NTABAZINDUNA stocktheft suspect who allegedly escaped from remand prison recently, has been re-arrested.Obvious Mnkandla (25) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Adelaide Mbewe last week cha...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:28hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Sex vendors in the jaws of COVID-19
THE catastrophic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe have left many people financially crippled and impoverished.While lockdown proclamations in many...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 2225 | by Staff reporter
Businessman loses cars in inferno
Kwekwe property mogul, Peter Gore, was left counting losses after he lost three cars with an estimated value of US$100 000 to fire at his house on Monday. Gore lost a Chrysler, Toyota Avensis ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 shifts attention from other health services
In a few days time, Langa Mthethwa will be due for a visit at Mpilo Central Hospital to get her Jadelle removed. The implant contraception has helped ensure she does not have unplanned pregnancies as ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urges police to arrest three MDC youths
IN A move that is likely to further stoke political tensions in the country, authorities are demanding the arrest of three MDC youth leaders who participated in a flash demonstration in Harare last we...Published: 18 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 2213 | by Staff reporter
These strange funerals
In 2004 I attended a bizarre funeral ever. It took place in sleepy tiny English village on the outskirts of Salisbury, Wiltshire County, United Kingdom. I had taken a temporary live-in care worker job...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1533 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Police probe MDC activists' case
Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe and two other MDC-Alliance activists, who reportedly went missing on Wednesday after a flash demonstration in Warren Park, Harare were on Thursday night found in B...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
BVTA distributes masks to members
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) is giving out masks to its ward structures to help curb the spread of coronavirus.After the government of Zimbabwe made wearing of homemade or s...Published: 14 May 2020 at 10:25hrs | 251 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe fails to make lockdown payments to 'vulnerable'
Zimbabwe has not made any disbursements from a Z$600 million fund announced in March to support vulnerable people affected by the coronavirus lockdown, ministers admitted on Tuesday.Finance mi...Published: 13 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Soldier in court for biting off lender's nose
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) attached to the demining regiment in Dumisa, Chikombedzi, yesterday appeared beforeChiredzi magistrate Regis Mawarire facing two charges of biting ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Overcrowding worries at isolation centres
HEALTH officials have been urged to speed up Covid-19 testing of returnees so they can be discharged to avoid crowding at quarantine centres. This comes as the quarantine centre at Mosi-oa-Tun...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Opposition caught in ethical dilemma
MANAGEMENT guru Gillyher describes an ethical dilemma as a situation where there is no obvious right or wrong decision, but there is a right or wrong answer. An ethical dilemma is a conflict between c...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:21hrs | 991 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Returnees from South Africa given 5-year bans
SOUTH African immigration officials at Beitbridge Border Post were yesterday reportedly imposing five-year bans on returning Zimbabweans without explanation.This was revealed yesterday when 14...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:39hrs | 15347 | by Staff reporter
52 arrested over masks
AT least 52 people countrywide were arrested yesterday and fined between $200 and $500 each for not wearing face masks in public. Government recently gazetted a law compelling all people to wear face ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:28hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
328 SA based Zimbabweans home bound
A total of 328 Zimbabweans based in South Africa have been cleared for self-repatriation via Beitbridge Border Post with the first group arriving from Cape Town in two buses on Thursday morning....Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:39hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Harare businessman nabbed in cocaine tip off
POLICE have recovered US$18 000 worth of crack cocaine, cutting utensils, a cutting agent and a scale from a vehicle and house of a local businessman following a tip off. Tafungiswa Kennedy Ja...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:12hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
$500 fine for not wearing mask
DEFYING Government's directive on wearing face masks yesterday proved costly for a Harare man who was fined $500. The Government recently announced that the wearing of masks was now a legal re...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Soldier arrested over US$60,000 robbery
A SOLDIER attached to One Commando Regiment allegedly led an armed robbery gang that pounced on a Madokero family in Harare last week and stole US$60 000 as well as various gadgets, a court heard yest...Published: 05 May 2020 at 16:18hrs | 3104 | by Staff reporter
Dozens arrested over mask violations in Zimbabwe
Police arrested 115 people for not wearing masks while thousands stood for hours in bus queues on a chaotic day Monday, as Zimbabwe began easing lockdown restrictions which had shut down most of the c...Published: 05 May 2020 at 16:14hrs | 2514 | by Staff reporter
BVTA member produces reusable masks
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) member Lady Rose founder Nqobile Ndlovu is producing re-usable masks during the national lockdown period to help minimize the spread of the corona virus...Published: 05 May 2020 at 13:08hrs | 835 | by Stephen Jakes
Kudos to Minister Shiri and his team
IT pains a lot when a person knows swimming is the only way to survive drowning or being carried away by a flooded river, but denied by a stagnant log that pins one of his legs against the surface. ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:54hrs | 1379 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Government steps in to assist Zimbabweans stranded in foreign lands
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is inundated with pleas from Zimbabweans stranded in foreign countries who want to be assisted to return to the...Published: 04 May 2020 at 13:14hrs | 1557 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Spurned man resorts to rape'
A 22-YEAR-OLD Dete man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl who turned down his love proposal. The man allegedly pestered the girl asking her to marry him and after his ad...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Anyone without face mask will be jailed for 1 year'
Attorney General Advocate Machaya has announced that all Zimbabweans who will be caught without wearing masks during level 2 of the Coronavirus lockdown mighty face custodial sentence.Machaya ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 03:10hrs | 3098 | by Mandla Ndlovu
People not wearing masks face arrest
PEOPLE who will get out of their homes without face masks will from tomorrow be arrested as part of a raft of measures meant to ensure that the country conforms to Covid-19 lockdown Level Two guidelin...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:06hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Are undocumented Zimbabweans stranded in South Africa?
The developments of the past three (3) months have exposed the vulnerable people of communities around the world to unprecedented suffering. COVID-19 is a disease that has exposed how the systems of t...Published: 02 May 2020 at 18:35hrs | 5939 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Retailers are corrupt, says Ncube
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs minister Judith Ncube yesterday accused some retailers tasked with handling the government subsidised food of being corrupt.Ncube made the remarks yesterday when th...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes uncle's wife over drinking water
A 29-YEAR-OLD Binga man suspected to be mentally challenged allegedly raped his uncle's wife after she refused to give him water to drink. Matabeleland North police spokesperson Chief Inspecto...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:20hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Herd boy arrested for theft a jack hammer
A herd boy at Sunninghill in Bulawayo has been arrested for stealing a jack hammer worth $10 000 from his work place.This was aft...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:20hrs | 494 | by Stephen Jakes
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