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Herbalists dismiss claims bute heals Covid-19
AS the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hit the country with record infections and deaths being recorded, some desperate locals have resorted to using Bute in the hope the traditional...Published: 20 hrs ago | 606 | by Staff reporter
Bev, MisRed clash over dancer's real name
With just two weeks into the tightened lockdown, locals are already showing signs of fatigue if the clash between media personality MisRed and raunchy dancer, Bev Sibanda today is anything to go by....Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:47hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes dismissal of four Harare water engineers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating how four senior managers in Harare City Council's Water Department were dismissed ahead of the forensic audit on council ordered by Pres...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:22hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Auditor-General exposes CSC rot
A NUMBER of Cold Storage Company (CSC) senior managers did not have relevant qualifications to drive the turnaround of the company with one line manager exposed as only having an Advanced Level certif...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:37hrs | 2413 | by Staff reporter
Govt clears Warriors trip
Ill-prepared Zimbabwe Warriors will take part at this year's African Nations Championships (Chan) which kicks off in Cameroon next week after Zifa secured government clearance to participate in the to...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Another COVID-19 case in Warriors camp
ZIFA have confirmed another case of coronavirus in the Warriors camp, with a member of the technical team the latest to return a positive result for the virus.Association spokesperson Xolisani...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:23hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Jailed widowed teacher out on $2 000 bail
FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD widow Sheila Chirisamhuru, a Masvingo primary school teacher recently jailed 16 months for being part of an unsanctioned wage protest by restless educators, has been freed on bail...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Zifa submits bloated squad for Chan
ZIFA has been forced to submit a bloated final Warriors squad list for the African Nations Championship (Chan) as the Confederation of African Football (Caf) are taking their time to respond to their ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Teacher jailed 16 months for salary protest
Human rights lawyers have filed a High Court bail appeal for a widowed primary school teacher sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after she was arrested for public violence during a "peaceful" protest...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Harare Provincial Heroes Acre still in a sorry state - after 40 years of self-rule
They say the proof of the pudding is in the eating. After all the pro-liberation war rhetoric from President Mnangagwa and media hype around the Mbuya Nehanda statue, the current state of the Harare P...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:43hrs | 896 | by Chatakarwira Chiripi Mandaza
Loga tests positive for COVID-19
ZIMBABWE's participation at next month's African Nations Championship (Chan) finals is in doubt after Warriors coach Zdravko Logarušic was said to be among the 14 players and officials who contracted...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:54hrs | 824 | by Staff reporter
Chicken Inn hold on to Chirinda
CHICKEN Inn will reject any advances for their striker Obriel Chirinda amid reports he is targeted by a number of clubs including neighbours Highlanders.Chirinda, a former Young Warriors strik...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:51hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Footprints lead to arrest of 'midnight-rapist'
A suspected rapist was allegedly sold out by his footprints after he attempted to rape a minor in Rushinga Mashonaland Central province.Raymond Chiripa (23) of Pound village, Chief Makuni in R...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 12:22hrs | 1892 | by Simbarashe Sithole
AG raises red flag on CSC payroll system
COLD Storage Company (CSC) management was evading tax, prejudicing the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) of potential revenue, a recent forensic audit shows.The audit report by Auditor-Genera...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:35hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop tells court he intentionally killed wife
SERGEANT Tichaona Chirinhe, who shot and killed his wife in Chitungwiza with a service pistol following a suspected domestic dispute, denied intentionally shooting her, describing the incident as very...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Bosso target Chicken Inn star
Premier Soccer League side Highlanders are set to invade the player market in a bid to replace the players that have moved on in search of greener pastures.Bosso lost Prince Dune, Mitchell Kat...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Loga names Chan squad
Caps United have contributed five players to the final 23-man squad that will travel to Cameroon for the African Nations Championships (Chan).The Harare giants have Tafadzwa Jaravani, Ca...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
Killer cop almost attacked at funeral
Violence nearly erupted in Chitungwiza yesterday after a police sergeant who reportedly shot and killed his wife, a fellow police officer, at their home in Unit F, Seke, was brought for indications at...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Cop shoots wife
Chitungwiza based police officer Sergeant Tichaona Chirinhe (38) allegedly shot dead his wife Juliana Chirinhe (37) yesterday in unclear circumstances....Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2983 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Managers swindle $100,000 from CSC
THE Cold Storage Commission (CSC) in 2012 lost nearly US$100 000 when four senior managers purchased 7 company vehicles at undervalued prices, in the process violating their conditions of service and ...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:27hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Cop guns down wife
A Police Sergeant yesterday gunned down his wife, a fellow police officer, at their home in Chitungwiza. By last night, it was not clear why Sergeant Tichaona Chirinhe (38) based at Crime Prev...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
John Nkomo, Msika feast on CSC from the grave
THE late Vice-Presidents John Landa Nkomo and Joseph Msika are some of the beneficiaries of "questionable" long-term Cold Storage Commission (CSC) lease agreements beyond the company's specified tenur...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Emergency passport applications in Harare only
IN a bid to expedite the issuing of emergency passports and avoid litigation, the Government has directed that the document be applied and issued only at the Registrar General's Office in Harare....Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Council sued over sewage
CHITUNGWIZA Town Council is being accused of posing a serious health threat to over 650 000 residents in the dormitory town by discharging raw effluent into rivers that provide water to the municipali...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:52hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate acquits ARTUZ leader, convicts another
A MASVINGO magistrate has acquitted Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) president Obert Masaraure of violence charges but convicted the union's provincial gender and welfare secretary...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:50hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Brave lawyer goes after RG over wrong passport IsiNdebele words
A BULAWAYO-based lawyer Mr Nqobani Sithole is suing the Registrar-General over errors and misspellings of IsiNdebele words on the Zimbabwe passport. Mr Sithole, who filed the application at th...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1447 | by Staff reporter
Fortune Chasi's fight to be held on Boxing Day
Twenty-year-old online comedy sensation Melusi Chiripowako, affectionately known as Ray Vines, is set to take former Minister of Energy and Power Development, Fortune Chasi, in a boxing ring as part o...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
King 98 lightens up Xmas with Tanzanian connection
Zimbabwean rapper, King 98 has teamed up with two Tanzanian music sensations, Juma Jux and Shebby Medicine to lighten up the festive mood with an explosive hit song, Jogodo which is a fusion of Afro-p...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 14:47hrs | 254 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1009 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Injuries hit Warriors camp
WARRIORS stars Partson Jaure and Nqobizitha Masuku have picked injuries at training although they are expected to have fully recovered by the time the African Nations Championships (Chan) finals start...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:08hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda accused of being a sore loser
A war of words has erupted in Gokwe South amid reports that the winners of last week's chaotic District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections have vowed to stop the National Commissar Victor Matemada...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Loga chops off six
WARRIORS coach Zdravko Logarušić has dropped six players from the African Nations Championships (Chan) squad who failed to impress in friendly matches against local clubs.The Warriors played...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Traffic, street lighting nightmare in Harare
Many traffic lights at major Harare intersections are either not working or working intermittently, creating massive traffic jams especially when there is a sequence of failed robots along a road, wit...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
What's going on with Zimbabwe soccer?
COVID might still be affecting the good people of Zimbabwe, but things are finally starting to get back to normal. With soccer now back in full swing, there are a lot of exciting things going on. In f...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:35hrs | 610 | by Staff writer
Pupils in Zimsec nightmare
ZIMBABWE School Examination Council (zimsec) examinations started in earnest last week but some candidates failed to sit due to failure to obtain national identity cards.John Mhandu (not his r...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Gideon Gono's stature abused in scam
IT HAS emerged that imposters are abusing the name of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, to scam unsuspecting people.Gono told the Daily News yesterday that a number of peo...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 16:15hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Loga names Chan provisional squad
WARRIORS coach Zdravko "Loga" Logarusic has named a provisional 34-man squad for the African Nations Championship (Chan) finals set for Cameroon in January next year. Chan is a competition for...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:27hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa calls on Zanu-PF to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers
WAR veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has called on Zanu-PF leaders to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers whom he accuses of fomenting chaos in the ruling party ahea...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 19:34hrs | 1528 | by Staff reporter
Zulu urges artistes to eradicate GBV
Afro-jazz artiste Phillip Zulu urged artistes to respect and spread awareness prior to 16 days of activism against gender based violence.As artistes we are the mouthpieces of the society hence...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:26hrs | 278 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
'Zanu-PF must crack whip on troublemakers'
WAR veterans leader and former Cabinet minister, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has called on Zanu-PF leaders to deal ruthlessly with troublemakers whom he accuses of fomenting chaos in the ruling party ahea...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2226 | by Staff reporter
'Bank heist as Kuda Tagwirei acquires ZB', says Biti
FORMER Finance Minister, Tendai Biti has described as a ‘bank heist', businessman Kuda Tagwirei's reported acquisition of ZB Bank and becoming a major shareholder against the provisions of the Banki...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 13393 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda bemoans Parly budgetary allocation
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday expressed dismay over the $7,1 billion budgetary allocation that Parliament got for 2021 saying it would compromise its oversight role. ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mines now 'death traps'
AN investigation by the auditor general Mildred Chiri revealed that a number of mining operations across the country do not adhere to occupational health and safety regulations, exposing miners to dan...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Only few heads have to roll in Midlands for sanity to prevail
In the 2018 elections ZANU PF lost in Kwekwe to a G40 kingpin the late Blackman Matambanadzo. It was not the campaign of Matambanadzo or the idiocy of Chebundo which lost the plot for ZANU PF. It was ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 23:46hrs | 1054 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF youths march in solidarity with murder accused leader
ZANU-PF youths Friday brought Kwekwe CBD to a standstill when they were marching in solidarity with the party's youth leader Tapiwa Muto who faces charges of assault, public violence and murder....Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 18:07hrs | 1984 | by Staff reporter
Govt investigates corona donations
AUTHORITIES are launching a nationwide probe into donated coronavirus funds and other materials, amid fears that significant portions of these gifts were looted by politically-connected individuals, t...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
King 98 set to spoil lucky fans
Hip Hop star King 98 is set to spoil winners with a holiday in Kariba.The musician today released a song "I Bet" with a video.He said as a token to fans, they have launched an I ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:26hrs | 202 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe reels over junk cars from East Asia
Authorities are coming under growing pressure that will lift Zimbabwe's manufacturing capacity to stem the dumping of sub-standard goods in the country, including poor quality vehicles mainly from Eas...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1876 | by Staff reporter
Mines Ministry does not have database
The Ministry of Mines does not have a database of mining claims and relies on mining registration cards and monthly revenue returns for information on existent mining operations. In a statemen...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
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