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Why Kingship in Zimbabwe is Constitutional
True to the proverb that a stitch in time saves nine, the controversy surrounding Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe's letter dated 22 April 2025, to Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart, in which he grat...Published: 55 mins ago | 25 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
MK Party targets 'lavish lifestyle' of South African judges
Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has called for sweeping reforms to ensure greater transparency and accountability within South Africa's judiciary. The party has demanded the immediate impleme...Published: 20 hrs ago | 683 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA disowns job advertisement for Technical Director post
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has issued a strong public warning against a fake job advertisement circulating on social media and other unofficial platforms, falsely claiming that the posit...Published: 20 hrs ago | 133 | by Staff reporter
'Fake' bee attacks spark alarm in Zimbabwe
A growing number of Zimbabweans are falling victim to an alarming trend where self-proclaimed prophets, traditional healers (n'angas), and pastors claim to send bees to punish individuals accused of w...Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:19hrs | 943 | by Staff reporter
Blessed Mhlanga robbed 73 days of his life
Alpha Media journalist Blessed Mhlanga was finally granted freedom on Wednesday night after spending 73 days in pre-trial detention at Harare Central Remand Prison. Mhlanga was arrested in early Janua...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:54hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Interest in Geza might be waning
I was quite surprised to hear that Blessed Geza had another video last Wednesday, an indicator that my interest in him and that of many is waning.Geza makes a lot of sense, but I cannot shake ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 21:23hrs | 1535 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe cop severely assaults till operator over change
A Beitbridge-based police officer has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly struck a till operator with a beer bottle during a dispute over change for a US$20 note.Ziggie Khonz...Published: 07 May 2025 at 16:58hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Catch and release: Mnangagwa's Minister walks free again
In a development that has reignited concerns about Zimbabwe's compromised legal system, the High Court in Masvingo has removed from the roll a high-profile land dispute case involving Masvingo Pro...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:53hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt sets minimum standards for councils
Zimbabwe's local authorities are now legally bound to provide residents with essential services that meet newly approved national minimum standards. This development follows Cabinet's adoption of the ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:51hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Skills audit for Harare council staff
Harare City Council has announced plans to undertake a comprehensive skills audit as part of efforts to address persistent concerns over poor service delivery and a possible mismatch between staff qua...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:48hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Julius Malema denied UK visa
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has accused British authorities of attempting to silence dissent after he was denied a visa to the United Kingdom, just hours before he was schedul...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:11hrs | 1257 | by Staff reporter
6 dead after bus travelling from Botswana to Harare overturns in Gweru
Tragedy struck early this morning when a Hungwe bus travelling from Botswana to Harare overturned at the Fairmile roundabout in Gweru, claiming six lives.The accident occurred around 6AM, send...Published: 07 May 2025 at 10:43hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi Deputy Mayor jailed for double-dipping
Chinhoyi Deputy Mayor and Ward 14 Councillor, Chipo Mlotshwa, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison after she fraudulently obtained a second discounted residential stand by lying about her previou...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:53hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued
Heal Zimbabwe Trust has filed a constitutional application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, alleging that he violated principles of public procurement accountability by enacting a law that makes ...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:40hrs | 2610 | by Staff reporter
OK Zimbabwe targets US$30 million capital raise to revive operations
OK Zimbabwe Limited, the country's largest retail chain, says it is in advanced discussions to raise US$30 million in fresh capital as part of a strategic plan to revive its operations, clear debts, a...Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:22hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition needs to rebrand, not as angry protesters
OPPOSITION politics has been reduced to a one-dimensional game of criticising the ruling party.Zimbabwe is no exception.For decades, opposition parties have channelled most of their en...Published: 06 May 2025 at 15:01hrs | 417 | by Yunah Bvumbwe
JZ Moyo remembered as a political and military strategist
The late Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, former vice-president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) and a key figure in the liberation struggle, was remembered last week as a master strategist, both p...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:55hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Diplomatic villas illuminate Mt Hampden
The transformation of Mt Hampden into Zimbabwe's new administrative hub is steadily progressing, marked by the completion of eight state-of-the-art villas at the Diplomatic Village, a key milestone in...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:50hrs | 6133 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabwe already has a new breed of heroes - but your regime persecutes them
A country's liberation struggle never ends.During the burial of the late Air Vice Marshal (Rtd) Winnie Cabby Mandeya at the National Heroes Acre, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that Zim...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:35hrs | 513 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who Owns the Future When the Youth Are Just Campaign Props?
Every election season in Zimbabwe brings with it a familiar theatre: politicians parading youth like trophies, cladding them in party regalia, praising their energy, and promising them a future that n...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:21hrs | 156 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With
I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother's antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. There was no doctor on duty, again. And someone's mot...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:13hrs | 221 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Innscor facilitates cleft lip, palate surgery
Innscor Africa Limited, through its health subsidiary Providence Health and Wellness, has partnered with the Global Cleft and Cranio-Facial Foundation to provide life-changing cleft lip and palate sur...Published: 05 May 2025 at 15:58hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Protesters in bid to stop Mnangagwa wife's UK visit
Protests have broken out across the United Kingdom in a bid to block Zimbabwe's First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, from attending a high-level African first ladies summit scheduled for next month in Lond...Published: 05 May 2025 at 15:47hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Gutu villagers want Tagwirei for MP
A group of villagers in Gutu are reportedly mobilising to persuade businessman Kuda Tagwirei to stand as their representative in the upcoming Parliamentary by-election, citing his track record of succ...Published: 05 May 2025 at 14:05hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Man ordered to stop stalking ex-wife
A Harare woman has taken her ex-husband to court, accusing him of stalking, harassment, and physical assault driven by jealousy after she moved on from their relationship.Kelly Mufambi testifi...Published: 04 May 2025 at 20:21hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
RBZ's market-determined exchange rate spurs ZiG stability
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s adoption of a market-determined exchange rate system has ushered in a new era of stability and confidence in the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, with the recent remo...Published: 04 May 2025 at 09:15hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
NetOne champions cleaner Zimbabwe, partners with Harare City
The streets of Harare were alive with action early Friday morning as hundreds of NetOne and Harare City workers came together, brooms in hand, to answer President Mnangagwa's call for a cleaner nation...Published: 03 May 2025 at 12:42hrs | 339 | by Simbarashe Sithole
It's high time foreign governments took the lead in investigating Zimbabwe's corrupt elite
The Zimbabwe ruling elite clearly won't act against high-level corruption.There is something profoundly disturbing about the silence of Zimbabwean authorities in the wake of the damning exposÃ...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:48hrs | 610 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why community engagement and dialogue are key for Zimbabwe's development
Communities are the backbone of any country.I was recently privileged to moderate the Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue on Bridging Community Solutions and National Policy - organized by the Institu...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:45hrs | 144 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's exports surge by 13.5%
Zimbabwe's export earnings surged by 13.5 percent in March 2025 to reach US$581.9 million, up from US$512.6 million in February, underscoring the country's growing productivity, mineral output and the...Published: 03 May 2025 at 08:35hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Husband fights crocodile to save wife
A courageous husband from Hwange is being hailed as a hero after he bravely rescued his wife from the jaws of a crocodile that attacked her while she was collecting water from the Zambezi River on Tue...Published: 03 May 2025 at 08:32hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
'Garwe must not bully the mayor'
Opposition party ZAPU has come out strongly in defence of Bulawayo mayor David Coltart, following a public rebuke by Local Government minister Daniel Garwe over the mayor's decision to host self-procl...Published: 02 May 2025 at 19:48hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at a Crossroads: A Time for Inclusive Renewal
'The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free' Dr Joshua NkomoZimbabwe's post-independence story is one of betrayal. ...Published: 02 May 2025 at 14:34hrs | 472 | by Fikile Motsamai Malikongwa
ZANU PF succession battles open window of opportunity for Matabeleland breakaway
Zimbabwe Independence Day Celebrations on 18 April 2025 marked 132 years of Matabeleland oppression. Firstly by the British South Africa Company, 1893- 1980, under the rule by coquest, secondly by the...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 1318 | by Israel Dube
Garwe must change colonial mentality
SOMETIME last year in August, the Zimbabwean government issued a strong condemnation and warning against Mike Moyo and Timothy Chiminya for claiming titles as ceremonial King Mambo and King Munhumutap...Published: 02 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 948 | by Phakathwayo Gumede
Mnangagwa declares vacancies in Gutu East and Insiza North
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially declared Gutu East and Insiza North constituencies vacant, paving the way for by-elections following the expulsion and death of their respective former Memb...Published: 02 May 2025 at 07:58hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa slams Mnangagwa's borehole projects
Former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has launched a blistering critique of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Borehole Scheme, accusing the government of failing t...Published: 01 May 2025 at 12:18hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Striking UZ lecturers tell deans of faculties to stop interfering
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Association of University Teachers (AUT) has written a stern letter to the deans of faculties, calling for an immediate end to alleged attempts to interfere with the on...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:56hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends pensionable age for workers to 70
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has announced a significant change in the pensionable age for local authority workers, extending it to 70 years, a move that has been welcomed by many...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:55hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Ministry urges farmers to prepare for potential stockfeed shortages
The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development has issued a critical warning to farmers, urging them to prepare for potential livestock feed shortages, particularly for ca...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:47hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Jere led Caps United slip back into relegation zone
CAPS Utd 1 - 2 FC PlatinumHarare – CAPS United's inconsistent Castle Lager Premier Soccer League campaign took another downward turn on Sunday, as they slumped to a 2-1 defeat at the hands...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:44hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Gugugu Magorira you are faking! Welshman Ncube the worst politician in town!
Citizens must be told that Sengezo Tshabangu is Welshman's brainchild. A lot was cooked behind the curtains. Welshman wants to make a comeback into politics using Tshabangu as a doormat. Gugugu, you a...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 15:06hrs | 617 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa dragged into messy, illegal takeover of Arlington Estate
Barely a month after President Emmerson Mnangagwa handed over 480 hectares of Arlington Estate to PPC Zimbabwe, a storm is brewing over the land's true ownership, with fresh court documents revealing ...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 12:18hrs | 3988 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans and Zambians stage counter-protests at Chirundu Border Post
Trade and commercial activity ground to a halt on Monday, 28 April, at the Chirundu Border Post as Zimbabwean and Zambian nationals staged rival protests, escalating tensions at one of Southern Africa...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 08:52hrs | 2582 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners tighten grip on Zimbabwe's retail sector
Foreign nationals are increasingly dominating Zimbabwe's retail sector, raising concerns over the flouting of laws that reserve the industry for indigenous Zimbabweans.Despite legal provisions...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 08:52hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Chinese duo acquitted in attempted murder storm
Two Chinese nationals, Hui Xiang and Zhao Yunfeng, who were accused of attempted murder, walked free yesterday after the Harare Magistrates' Court acquitted them at the close of the State case....Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:06hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe becomes 5th largest avocado producer in Africa
Zimbabwe has emerged as Africa's fifth-largest producer of avocados, following a 164 percent surge in production over the past six years, thanks to increased investments from both government and the p...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:05hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF registers over 5,000 new members at ZITF
The ruling ZANU-PF party has registered more than 5,000 new members during the 65th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), reflecting what party officials described as growing public...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 06:58hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
7 injured in Binga road accident
Seven people were injured in a terrifying accident on Saturday night when a commuter omnibus, travelling near Chilila in Binga, developed a mechanical fault and rolled backwards on a slope. The vehicl...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 13:39hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chivayo raise eyebrows again
Corruption-accused businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who has long been a subject of public scrutiny, was a conspicuous presence during President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent visit to Bulawayo for the Zimba...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:47hrs | 6949 | by Staff reporter
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