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Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 681 | by Staff Reporter
Bosso's new kit
HIGHLANDERS have given their supporters a glimpse of the club's new kit as well as replica shirts, which should be available for the fans to purchase soon.Bosso have in the past few weeks used...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3487 | by newZWire
Zimbabwean coach drags Chiefs to Fifa
FORMER Warriors assistant coach Bongani Mafu has taken Botswana team Mochudi Centre Chiefs to Fifa in a bid to force the team to pay him outstanding salaries and bonuses.Mafu was part of the Warri...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:35hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Leadership crisis puts Zimbabwe on international radar, again
ZIMBABWE finds herself the subject of international focus again, and not because of how the novel coronavirus is devastating its fragile economy, overwhelming its creaking health system and demoralise...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:34hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi embarks on land audit exercise
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has embarked on a land and mine audit in Matabeleland and Midland provinces to unearth what it says is unfair distribution of the resources at the expense of deserving l...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 6976 | by Staff reporter
Hunger stalks Plumtree villagers
BULILIMA traditional leader Chief Masendu has called on the government and non-governmental organisations to strengthen social protection systems to complement traditional leaders' efforts in assistin...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Warriors stars join #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
NATIONAL football team stars have joined other local and international celebrities in condemning human rights abuses in the country under the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter social media movement.The m...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 4527 | by Staff reporter
#31July protests coincided with Sadc's 40th summit
The 40th SADC Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government is expected to be held virtually owing to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Both the summit and preceding meetings will be h...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
CIO bosses violated the constitution
ONE crazy thing happened last week. Not quite surprising, but shocking, nonetheless. A brazen case of crass impunity and criminality in the ruling Zanu-PF.The ruling party held a politburo mee...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:26hrs | 1616 | by Tawanda Majoni
Ex-DeMbare boss dies
ZIMBABWE football has been thrown into mourning once again following the death of another football administrator and former Dynamos chairman Phillip Mugadza.A football administrator, businessm...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:20hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Musona strikes ahead of season kickoff
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona sharpened for the upcoming Belgian Pro League season with a goal in KAS Eupen's 2-2 friendly match draw against league rivals Sint Truiden at Kehrwegstadion on Friday...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
British MP calls for more sanctions against Mnangagwa
BRITISH MP and former anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has urged the British government to extend sanctions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime because of "escalating human rights violat...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1144 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Perence Shiri the Zimbabwean own hero
Perrence Shiri was known best as Zimbabwean Air Chief Marshal. He was a Military officer Zimbabwe had ever had. Perrence Shiri was born in Gweru on the 11th January 1955. He was born as Bigboy Samson ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:58hrs | 2767 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Protests: Army takes charge
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the police yesterday shut down the central business districts (CBDs) of major cities and towns, kicking out civilians and barricading all roads into city cent...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 4413 | by Staff reporter
Shiri was poisoned, says his family
THE family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Ch...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 8182 | by Staff reporter
Traditional leaders to be installed by chiefs
TRADITIONAL leaders will now be installed and disciplined by other chiefs, a shift from the obtaining position where Government installs and disciplines them.The development is in line with pr...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:08hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda statue erection challenged
A HARARE man wants the High Court to stop the erection of the statue of Zimbabwe's late heroine, Mbuya Nehanda, in the capital, arguing the government had bypassed traditional rites by not engaging he...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
July 31st: The Strategy
The opposition parties in Zimbabwe are pathetic at best - they lack imagination to achieve anything of worth for the country. July 31, 2020 protests are a case in point - I am sorry to say but the opp...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:12hrs | 7558 | by Sam Wezhira
Zanu-PF slams Magaisa's hypocrisy
ZIMBABWE survived under the yoke of illegal sanctions that were imposed by the West following the land reform programme because of regular interventions by the Zanu-PF Government that include the Farm...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nationalist Particularism: A pitfall to the resolution of regional question of Matabeleland
In recent times the political framing of the question of regional development of Matabeleland has increasingly sought to locate Matebeleland citizenship and nationhood within the broader narrative of ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4169 | by Ntando Dumani
Mnangagwa imposes curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed a dusk to dawn curfew from today aimed at combating the coronavirus outbreak and warned that security forces would enforce the new measures. This...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 3277 | by Staff reporter
Bosso says NO to Zifa replica jerseys
HIGHLANDERS have said they will not accept the Zifa kit deal which the national association is negotiating without the club's consent. Bosso chairman Kenneth Mhlophe said the replica jerseys designed ...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:44hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Farm Mechanization grand looting
Professor Jonathan Moyo says the much talked about farm mechanization saga was nothing more than a subsidy scheme meant to assist farmers. Moyo's remarks follow the statements issued by former...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 13:45hrs | 8522 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7390 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe headed for upheaval, report says
WITH security forces having seized control of economic and financial policy at a time of shrinking GDP and skyrocketing inflation, Zimbabwe is facing its worst crisis in more than a decade.Bas...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:23hrs | 16746 | by Elliot Smith
Mnangagwa's govt clears air on ZSE, agent lines closure
GOVERNMENT has rubbished falsehoods published by CNBC, an American business news portal, alleging that security chiefs ordered the closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and agent lines for mobi...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 2918 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Mnangagwa, MPs, Army...
Dear, PRESIDENT, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, Ministers, Members of Pa...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:17hrs | 14240 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe army distances self from planned demo
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has distanced itself from social media allegations that it is backing a deceitful plan by the opposition to effect regime change on July 31 under the guise of denounc...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
'Ex-ZPRA Commanders takeover Zimbabwe's security forces'
Former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the retirement of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi was a historic end to the post...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 20899 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Does Lobengula deserve a monument?
I read with great interest the report that a monument is to be built in honour of Mbuya Nehanda at long last. But then i said to myself: Why not do the same for King Lobengula or even Mukwati (Makwati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 711 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
July 31st protests
This is in response to the article by Dr Masimba Mavaza with regards to the upcoming July 31st national demonstrations. People who have long benefitted from the Zanu pf gravy train and its insti...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 7218 | by Lungisani Ndlovu
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9410 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3731 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF frets over planned protests
ZANU-PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an "unholy alliance" to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstituti...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parly structure complete
Structural works on the imposing six-storey Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the scenic surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislative supremacy, are 10...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:50hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Chief Mvutu's potential successor
The High Court has nullified nomination of Mr Sanders Mlotshwa as a potential successor to the late Chief Mvutu and ordered a restart of the selection process saying gender cannot be used as grounds t...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt drafts policy for victims of Gukurahundi
GOVERNMENT is drafting a policy to facilitate Gukurahundi exhumations and has also relaxed registration requirements to acquire identity cards, birth and death certificates for affected families. ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt splurges millions on ambassadors' new cars
THE cash-strapped Zimbabwe government has splurged millions to purchase top-of-the-range vehicles for nearly 50 ambassadors posted across the globe when the State is failing to pay agitated civil serv...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 4060 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe's political climate remains tense
WITH Zimbabwe's political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the militar...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
'Chiefs want Mnangagwa to apologise for Gukurahundi'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is pursuing the call by people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5298 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5852 | by Staff reporter
Meet the reigning Ndebele leader Queen Cynthia Khumalo Mzilikazi
The Kingdom of Mzilikazi Khumalo whose people are predominately found in present day South-Western Zimbabwe is marred with civil fights to select the authentic successor of the people called Amahlabez...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 7830 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5183 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4409 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3491 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3254 | by AFP
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