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Harare public toilets deplorable
Harare is sitting on a health time bomb as most of its public toilets are in bad shape and no longer fit for use.While council has refurbished public toilets in some parts of the central busin...Published: 7 hrs ago | 150 | by Staff reporter
MSU fraud couple challenge conviction at High Court
FORMER Midlands State University (MSU) bursar Mamelo Moyo and her husband Melusi, who formed a briefcase company that saw the institution of higher learning being swindled of more than US$150 000 thro...Published: 7 hrs ago | 487 | by Staff reporter
Judge accused of 'fraud' over non-disclosure that landed him job
A lawyer appointed as a High Court judge in 2017 failed to disclose that a judgment was obtained against him for failing to pay rentals to a pension fund for his legal practice.Newly-obtained ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1904 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs run riot in Zhombe, Mangwe
MACHETE-WIELDING gangsters linked to the infamous MaShurugwi on Saturday stormed two schools in Zhombe and Silobela and got away with valuables belonging to teachers after detonating explosives to sca...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Parents storm school over satanism scare
BUSINESS came to a standstill at Kamba Primary School in Triangle yesterday when parents invaded the Tongaat Hullet-run institution, demanding the transfer of a teacher accused of practicing satanism....Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
215 Binga households displaced by floods
THE National Association of non-governmental organisations (Nango)'s latest report dated February 17 shows that 215 households totalling 967 individuals were seriously affected by the recent flash flo...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:57hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
Bankers seek 40% salary hike
ZIMBABWE'S banking sector workers are pushing for a 37,6% salary hike as salaries continue to be wiped out by rising inflation.Currency volatility and inflation, which closed 2019 at 521%, rem...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Lover 'murdered' at dump site
A CHINHOYI man was reportedly brutally murdered by her lover.Patricia Chimbodzi, the court heard, was brutally murdered by her lover Munyaradzi Matemera, 47, of Sharara Village, Chief Zvimba....Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 21:58hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala organising MDC flash demos behind Chamisa's back?
MDC vice president, Tendai Biti and the party's deputy chair, Job Sikhala last Wednesday organised the sporadic protest march in Harare's central business district behind Nelson Chamisa's back as powe...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 20:45hrs | 4446 | by Staff reporter
Thieves target parked vehicles
Police have expressed concern over a surge in cases of theft from parked vehicles countrywide. This follows a video circulating on social media in which some unidentified men are seen stealing cellpho...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
10 firms bid for Bulawayo parking tender
TEN companies, including TelOne had by close of business on Thursday submitted their papers for consideration for the long-standing Bulawayo parking management tender, Sunday News can reveal.T...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 16:27hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Inside Zhombe's mining cartels
CONTRARY to the common perception in which fingers are only being pointed at the machete-carrying illegal gold panners for the chaos and lawlessness that characterises the small-scale gold mining sect...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:18hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
800 Zimbabwean nationals in coronavirus lockdown
About 800 Zimbabweans are among the 60 million people that are living in Hubei province — the epicentre of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak — but all of them are currently safe from the respira...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2376 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to lease out two planes
Troubled flag carrier Air Zimbabwe is going to lease two Boeing passenger planes acquired from Malaysia pending re-introduction of direct flights to China and London, the administrator has said....Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3831 | by Staff reporter
Judgment reserved on Mupfumira application
THE High Court has reserved judgment on an application by former Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira for a review of a magistrate's dismissal of her original ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:26hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions a cheap excuse for failure, industry tells govt
INDUSTRY in Bulawayo yesterday challenged government to stop crying about sanctions, but start creating a conducive operating environment, give them fuel and forex for raw materials as well as sort ou...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:26hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
'Maize being smuggled to DRC from Zimbabwe'
LOCAL small-scale millers yesterday sensationally accused large milling companies of collecting subsidised maize from the Grain Marketing Board and smuggling it to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
'Tagwirei provided fuel for Chamisa's MDC 2018 elections campaign'
Sakunda Holdings boss, Kuda Tagwirei reportedly sponsored the opposition MDC's 2018 elections campaign with fuel and money.These allegations were made by popular socialite, Matigary who posted...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:49hrs | 6154 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa playing dangerous gukurahundi games in Matabeleland - we see blood on the floor
This has to be put as crude as it is. Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF government and the Shona majority that cheered the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade and celebrated the death of innocent Matebeles in the 198...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 09:08hrs | 4757 | by Israel Dube
Machete gang wreaks havoc in Lupane
AN eight-member machete-wielding gang on Thursday morning went on a rampage in Lupane, Matabeleland North leaving victims seriously injured before fleeing with undisclosed amounts of cash and grocerie...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps allies
President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly gave under-fire Zanu-PF youth league leaders the green light to launch a crusade against three businessmen accused of sabotaging the economy, but backtracked aft...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:52hrs | 13514 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Industry capacity utilisation to fall to 27%
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has projected that industry's capacity utilisation will fall to 27% this year if the government does not change its policy direction.According to...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala brings Masvingo to a standstill
IT was Valentine's Day without much love in Masvingo's central business district this year.For those who know Masvingo, the morning of February 14 was anything but normal.Not even the ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:37hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
National interest or Partisan dynamics in Economic Policy Design
This instalment marks the end of this series on political transitions and economic policy architecture in Zimbabwe. To refresh your memory reader, you would recall that policy-making is a seri...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 74 | by Richard Mahomva
The MDC circle of despair continues
THE MDC has been going round and round in circles heading nowhere, in a case of chasing one's tail. To this end that party has not achieved anything meaningful. Its existence now depicts a circle of d...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:35hrs | 476 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Inside the feud around Hlabangana tshisa nyama
WITH the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) throwing the rule book at them as it promises to clamp down on council leased sport clubs that are flaunting regulations, insiders at the Babongile Sikhonjwa-run H...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu says, 'It's game on'
FORMER Zanu-PF national youth commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu has vowed to continue with the anti-corruption fight, saying plans were at an advanced stage for the first ever anti-corruption conference sl...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:24hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Residents accuse BCC of making empty threats
Bulawayo City Council has once again threatened to shut down venues around the city that are flouting lease agreements. The clubs include Highlanders Football Club, Queens Sports Club, H...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala acquittal shows rule of law alive, says legal experts
MDC-Alliance vice national chair Job Sikhala was yesterday acquitted on subversion charges by Masvingo High Court Judge Justice Garainesu Mawadze, with lawyers describing the decision as a sign that t...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:11hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4469 | by George Mkhwanazi
MP holds school heads to account for 0 to 3% pass rate - real change guaranteed is when people hold MP to account
"Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Leve...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 08:58hrs | 764 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks quashed
The prospects for direct talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to end Zimbabwe's growing political and economic crisis, appear to be dead in the water. ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:58hrs | 5206 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC rocked by serious internal fissures
SERIOUS divisions pitting the old guard and emerging young academics have erupted in the main opposition party MDC, with party leader Nelson Chamisa being accused of siding with the Young Turks....Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3876 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri, Chimonyo deny shooting victims compensation
DEFENCE Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo have refused to pay two shooting victims over ZW$800 000 in damages for injuries ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to avail 19 campus radio licences
Government has gazetted a Frequency Allotment Plan and Regulations that enable the establishment of 19 on-campus radio stations to be operated by institutions of higher learning, Information, Publicit...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 130 | by Staff reportert
MPs bid to invade closed mines blocked
GOVERNMENT has directed players in the mining sector to operate orderly, saying artisanal miners should not be allowed to invade closed mines dotted across the country. Responding to a questio...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 158 | by Staff reportert
Chamisa's MDC captured by G40
MDC-Alliance has been captured by the G40 cabal, amid indications that the cabal kingpins funded the opposition outfit and did consultancy work ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections. Former e...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 356 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
'Mbeki not facilitating talks between Mnangagwa and Chamisa'
Former South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki, is not a facilitator of any political dialogue in Zimbabwe, and assumptions that he is, are a media construction, a senior government official has said....Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 21:02hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
'Revolutions if don't chuck out leaders a.s.a.p' said G Orwell - 40 years, our supremacists still there
"Despite all the hurdles and all the barriers, Zimbabwe in 2019 leaped 15 places in the Global Ease of Doing Business rankings. As we look to improve this in 2020, privatisation is a big part of this ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1250 | by Nomusa Garikai
'You will be in Chikurubi prison soon' Mliswa told
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has been warned that his time is up and he will be jailed at Chikurubi Maximum prison for allegedly taking over companies belonging to British businessman Paul...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 17:04hrs | 11757 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ally wants Chinese nationals barred from entering Zimbabwe
MDC Parliamentary Chief Whip, Prosper Mutseyami has questioned why the government is still allowing visitors from China to enter Zimbabwe in light of the calamitous coronavirus outbreak, which has kil...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:42hrs | 2259 | by newzimbabwe
Bulawayo should have 1 grave for entire family to save space
'By the time I die, I have no idea where I would be buried.'Bulawayo councillors have proposed to offer free cremation services the residents amid a low uptake due to cultural and religious be...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 16:29hrs | 1540 | by Bazangenzani Khuzumoya
WATCH: Thomas Mapfumo questions Chiwenga's wealth
Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has taken Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to task over reports he owns several mansions including one whose estimate cost is US$10 million.Mapfumo qu...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:39hrs | 15537 | by Staff reporter
Robbers rape, rob 83-year-old Granny
Police in Chivhu have arrested three people suspected of raping and killing of an 83-year-old woman after robbing her of an undisclosed amount of cash.The three broke into the woman's house ar...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:09hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe mine rescue ends, only 5 people were trapped
Only five miners had been trapped in a collapsed mine in Kwekwe, and not up to 20 as initial reports indicated, an official said on Friday.A tunnel collapse at Globe and Phoenix Mine on Wednes...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1031 | by Staff reporter
BREXIT like Britain or breakaway like Matabeleland
Undoubtedly, the resounding success of BREXIT shows that many nations under the sun, big or small, are now seeking to restore or maintain their independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and be ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1150 | by Israel Dube
RBZ clears Dubai firm in US$20 million deal
Zimbabwe's famous five-star hotel, the Meikles Hotel, is finally set to change hands after the current owner Meikles Limited last week received approval from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s excha...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 08:18hrs | 3235 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe joins Africa Free Trade Area
Zimbabwe yesterday officially joined the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) despite outstanding issues "in the spirit of moving forward and our commitment to the principles that inspired the...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:37hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Police officer in soup over WhatsApp leaks
A Harare police woman has been arrested for allegedly leaking classified information meant for her superiors to the public, through WhatsApp. Lorine Mugoronji now faces criminal charges, yet t...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube commissions housing units for Zimra officers
Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube, Saturday commissioned 20 new housing units for ZIMRA staff built at a cost of US$4m at the Chirundu Border Post.Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, Ncub...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 15:17hrs | 2414 | by Staff reporter
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