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Govt blasted for abandoning trapped miners in Matebeleland
GOVERNMENT has been rapped for its failure to retrieve six bodies of miners trapped in a shaft at Matshetshe Mine in Esigodini since November 10.Today marks day 17 after the miners got trapped...Published: 9 hrs ago | 264 | by Staff reporter
40 trapped in collapsed Bindura mine
ABOUT 40 illegal miners were yesterday trapped at Ran Mine in Bindura after a disused mine shaft collapsed. Six miners were retrieved and rushed to Bindura Hospital for treatment, according to Zimbabw...Published: 9 hrs ago | 672 | by Staff reporter
Alarm over Harare flyover bridge
HARARE City Council yesterday admitted it was not inspecting its infrastructure due to resource and skills constraints, a development that could prove disastrous following claims that a bridge on a bu...Published: 9 hrs ago | 990 | by Staff reporter
Biti says RBZ forex auction system headed for collapse
FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has dismissed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency auction system as a charade that is set implode once all economic fundamentals begi...Published: 9 hrs ago | 714 | by Staff reporter
Dembare gets UK kit deal
GOOD times certainly continue to roll for Dynamos after the Harare giants yesterday announced a three-year kit sponsorship deal with an unknown England-based sports equipment and apparels manufacturin...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:34hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Esigodini mine incident: Stakeholders urged to resume efforts to retrieve bodies
Stakeholders have been challenged to work together and retrieve the bodies of six Esigodini gold panners who are feared dead after a mine shaft collapsed two weeks ago.It's been two weeks of m...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:15hrs | 724 | by Staff Reporter
Need 'very hard-working' ethics back to fix Zimbabwe - no, need thinking caps on
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political rot is that Zimbabweans have lost their work ethics, Dr Simba Makoni, former Zanu PF Minister of Finance during Mugabe's days, told Trevor Ncube. ...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1176 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabweans live in fear of terror attacks from Mozambique
A POLITICAL science student from the University of Zimbabwe, Jethro Ngara, sees doom and gloom as his country dares to wade into Mozambique's war on terror.Ngara, 25, said he is too young to d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:53hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Hope fades in Zimbabwe 3 years after Mugabe's ouster
ZIMBABWE'S former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly four decades of iron-fisted rule.His resignation came days after military tanks rolled throu...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:34hrs | 628 | by AFP
Toilet saves family from violent storm
GWANDA villager Absalom Sibanda says his seven-member family survived a recent violent storm by hiding in a toilet.The storm, which flattened the family's house, pounded Gwanda's ward 1 area in Matabe...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:22hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's straitjacket has no wriggle room, especially now coups are 'legal' - off with his head with crown upon it
"Zanu-PF has a constitution and under that constitution, we sit as a congress to elect our president," said Zanu PF acting national spokes-person Patrick Chinamasa."In 1977, a lot of the leade...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:31hrs | 816 | by Wilbert Mukori
Search for trapped miners intensifies
A CHINESE mining company, Zhong Jian has intensified efforts to search for illegal gold miners suspected to be buried alive in Premier Estate area in Penhalonga with the company claiming the exercise ...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Ziscosteel 'ghost' can still be brought back to life
THE car suddenly stops by a gate, hidden by the overgrown grass and shrubs. This is one of the many entrances to Ziscosteel's Sinter Plant, an abandoned factory located in the middle of the woods whos...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:10hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Cop sued by colleague's wife over affair
A Bulawayo-based police woman was sued by her alleged's lover's wife for allegedly boasting of having an adulterous relationship with her husband who is also a police officer.An angry Best Tsh...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:04hrs | 1226 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over marriage collapse
A MAN whose marriage was on the brink of collapse hanged himself from a tree at his rented home leaving behind a suicide note that gave a glimpse into his troubled soul.The deceased, Richard C...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:03hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes down as Mnangagwa rises high
After 37 years in power, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe resigned via in November 2017. His successor and former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, promised a break from Mugabe's authoritarian ru...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | 9504 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gas tank blast guts apartments
Some residents of Chirundu Court in Belvedere, which is owned by Harare City Council, lost all their property in a fire that was ignited by a gas tank explosion in one of the apartments yesterday morn...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:24hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3784 | by Zanda Shumba
Pray, President Biden upgraded ZDERA Mark 2 effect change in 20 months, can't afford another 20 years waiting
"Mnangagwa's govt taking initiative to woo Joe Biden, Washington!" reported Daily News. "From the historical narration, the election of Biden may mean more of the same for Zimbabwe, although w...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 09:46hrs | 3339 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF seeks Biden indulgence on sanctions
THE Zanu-PF government has tasked Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo to approach the United States President-elect Joe Biden in a fresh bid to mend the frosty relations between Harare and Washingt...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
6 workers trapped in collapsed Esigodini mine
SIX mine workers are reportedly still trapped in a mine shaft which collapsed last Tuesday at Matshetshe Mine in Esigodini.Indications are that no efforts have been made so far to rescue them ...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Man loses wife to sangoma
IT was apparently a bad move for a Mberengwa man to accommodate a sangoma he had consulted to cleanse his wife from goblins that she claimed were sexually harassing her during the night.This w...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 4120 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions frustrate Zimbabwe intervention in Mozambique'
THE ruling Zanu PF party yesterday claimed that government efforts to intervene and stop Islamic insurgents in neighbouring Mozambique were being frustrated by economic sanctions imposed on Harare by ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2632 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe trapped between State collapse and State failure'
ZIMBABWE is trapped between State collapse and State failure because President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has failed to provide basic amenities for its citizens, uphold civil liberties and arrest...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1518 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi crash: Honda Fit driver lucky to be alive
The driver of the Honda Fit which was involved in a head-on collision with Genius Kadungure's car along Liberation Legacy Way (Borrowdale Road) on Sunday morning, resulting in the death of the flamboy...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya wants her gold back
Henrietta Rushwaya says she wants her day in court to clear her name and recover her US$333 000 worth of gold which is kept at Fidelity Printers and Refiners pending her trial and acquittal.Ru...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:59hrs | 3123 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa bemoans health sector decay
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lamented the decay in the country's public hospitals which he described as death traps where people now die from curable ailments as the Zanu-PF gover...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Thank God, covid-19 is not as deadly as Ebola, still it has delivered coup de grace on economy
"854 PCR tests done today (Wednesday), with the positivity at 2 percent. All 17 are local cases. 25 new recoveries reported: National Recovery rate stands at 94,5 percent and active cases go d...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 12:15hrs | 542 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
BCC intervenes in United Refineries hitch
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) is expected to resume operations at its factory on Monday following interventions by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to solve water supply challenges that forced the co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says, 'Zimbabwe has reached tipping point'
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala celebrated his 48th birthday on Friday. The politician was recently arrested and charged with inciting violence ahead of the abortive July 31 protests. He...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Hospital security guard dies on duty
A security guard at Mvurwi hospital Nicholas Chiwore allegedly collapsed and died this afternoon.He was 58.Hospital officials confirmed the sudden death.Allegations are that he...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 13:44hrs | 2924 | by Simbarashe Sithole
UK imposing sanctions on Zanu PF pressuring SADC to do same - is it too little too late
One of the biggest Zimbabwe foreign policy blunders the British government has ever made in the last decade was to believe Mnangagwa's foolish rhetoric that Zimbabwe had changed for the better followi...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4940 | by Wilbert Mukori
Hospital security guard dies on duty
A security guard at Mvurwi hospital Nicholas Chiwore allegedly collapsed and died this afternoon.He was 58.Hospital officials c...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 19:53hrs | 3679 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nzenza sets ambitious 2021 Zisco revival target
The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Sekai Nzenza, has set an ambitious target of turning the defunct steel giant, Zisco, around by the end of next year. The Zisco revival drive has twi...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:49hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Kamushinda ordered to pay N$1,5 billion
THE Namibian High Court has ordered embattled top Zimbabwean banker Enoch Kamushinga to pay liabilities for his failed Windhoek-based SME Bank amounting to N$1,5 billion.Liquidators were seeki...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:42hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demanding 'automatic entry into power' - povo can kiss 'One man! One vote!' goodbye
"One man! One vote!" was clarion call in the fight for independence. Not after independence and certainly not now!The very fact that blacks were denied a meaningful say, a free vote, in the go...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | 3144 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe industry calls for tougher taxes on Chinese imports
ZIMBABWE'S industries have scaled up their campaign for tougher action to protect manufacturing companies against Chinese plastic imports, even as earlier calls to ban fabric shipments from Beijing fl...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Zim sanctions a CIA regime change agenda project
The illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe are a CIA regime change agenda project being spearheaded by the African-American USA Ambassador to Harare, Brian Nichols, with the assistance of his MDC-Alliance runn...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 1611 | by David Mwanza
Zimbabwe firm battles to recover 'sanctions' blocked funds
Gweru-based Fuest Industrial Supplies is battling to recover US$33,414 export proceeds blocked by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) seven years ago....Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:24hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions unpacked
As the nation, region and continent come together to mark 25 October as an anti- sanctions day it becometh expedient that I add my voice to the matter at hand. It is said knowledge is power and indeed...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2284 | by Prof Blessing Kasiyamhuru
Diarrhoea spikes as Bulawayo water crisis deepens
BULAWAYO is recording a spike in diarrhoea cases in the middle of a deepening water crisis where most suburbs are receiving water for about 12 hours in a week. Mzilikazi, Magwegwe and Luveve c...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Stop blaming sanctions for economic collapse, says Khupe
The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T has said all economic saboteurs must face the music saying continuous blaming of sanctions for economic collapse by the country's leadership was not helpful.It sa...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:33hrs | 10612 | by Staff reporter
US, UK, EU, lie about Zimbabwe sanctions
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom vigorously pushed back on charges by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that sanctions are behind the economic collapse and the general poverty in the co...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 3482 | by Staff reporter
The political economy of corruption
As a cancer inherent in varying degrees of intensity across the globe, corruption is an integral part of the political economy of world capitalism.So, the capitals of the western world lie at ...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1888 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Boy (10) kills man attacking mum
IN a case that has left residents of Chief Ndanga in Zaka, Masvingo Province shell shocked, three children allegedly ganged up and attacked a man with hoes and an axe until he died, while trying to re...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Violent soldier killed by minors
A 37-YEAR-OLD 1 Commando Regiment-based soldier was on Thursday night killed by three minors after he allegedly attacked their mother over suspected arson at his parents' home in Zaka, Masvingo provin...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1961 | by Staff reporter
Sex prophet preys on flock
A self-styled prophet who started a virtual church on WhatsApp has admitted bedding several female congregants who came to him for prayer and confided in him about problems they were having in their r...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 18:44hrs | 3013 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
TEACHERS' unions have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding an urgent meeting with him over poor remuneration and working conditions.The teachers, who did not return to work after ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:44hrs | 2846 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's loudest cheerleader dies
FORMER Cabinet minister and diplomat Florence Chitauro (79) has died.Chitauro died on Monday night after she collapsed at her Borrowdale home with relatives suspecting she suffered a severe st...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:57hrs | 2995 | by Staff reporter
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 260 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
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