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Plumtree man jailed for using stolen donkeys in brick moulding scheme
Prospects of launching a large-scale brick moulding community project using five stolen donkeys were short-lived for a Plumtree man after his arrest and conviction. Evidence Moyo (32), of Siyephi vill...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 12:40hrs | 224 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
Manicaland mining communities demand fair benefits
Mining communities across Manicaland Province have intensified calls for local policies that prioritise their welfare and ensure they derive tangible benefits from the extraction of the region's rich ...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:02hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo loses Tagwirei to Harare
Zanu-PF's Masvingo Province has lost its bid to co-opt prominent businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei into the party's Central Committee, despite being the first to recommend his inclusion. The slot was ul...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 10:58hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Gated communities redefine Bulawayo's residential landscape
Once considered exclusive enclaves for the elite, gated communities are rapidly transforming the urban fabric of Bulawayo, introducing new standards of security, lifestyle, and legal property ownershi...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:42hrs | 5116 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF commits US$ 30,000 Presidential empowerment fund
ZANU-PF has reaffirmed its dedication to grassroots development and empowerment during a highly successful rally held yesterday at Sweet Home, Ward 13 in Insiza North Constituency. The ev...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:48hrs | 220 | by Stephen Jakes
Gwanda shuts down crime infested youth centre
The Gwanda Municipality has officially announced the closure of the Greenland Youth Centre in Phakama Township following years of complaints from residents about rampant drug abuse, violent crime, and...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:25hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
NGOs social entrepreneurship in the age of development aid disruption
Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Disruption of Traditional Development is and other actions are urgent as alternatives to reduce the carnage that is faced by non-state actors after the dismantlin...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 17:44hrs | 342 | by Michael Ndiweni
Nkulumane MP mobilising resources for community development
Nkulumane Member of Parliament Desire Moyo has announced plans to mobilise resources to address social and economic challenges facing his constituency. He said they are engaging donors, non-government...Published: 01 Feb 2025 at 08:48hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge's 'Shule Shule' Nguluvhe dies
Beitbridge is in mourning following the passing of one of its most renowned businessmen and farmers, Mr. Chris Nguluvhe, popularly known as "Shule Shule." Mr. Nguluvhe, aged 61, passed away on Tuesday...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:19hrs | 1582 | by Staff reporter
Mafume led Harare City Council defends bankrolling Mnangagwa wife's projects
The Harare City Council (HCC) has vehemently dismissed allegations of resource abuse regarding community projects led by First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa, asserting that all activities are conducted trans...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to construct 3,000 housing units for ZDF members
During the 44th anniversary of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced plans to construct 3,000 housing units for ZDF members and upgrade military healthcare faciliti...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:37hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe implementing 12-hour power cuts
The Government has attributed the current power cuts in Zimbabwe to reduced power generation at Hwange Power Station. The country is implementing 12-hour power cuts to manage domestic demand, as the n...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:47hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa releases ZiG 154m for cash transfers to urbanites
The Treasury has released ZiG154 million to the Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare for disbursement to vulnerable persons in urban areas. The funds will be available for withdrawal...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 08:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Remittances and FDI: Harmonizing Zimbabwe's economic strategies for sustainable growth
Zimbabwe's economy stands at a critical juncture, grappling with deep-seated challenges such as systemic unemployment, volatile currency fluctuations, and an uncertain business climate. Within this pr...Published: 18 May 2024 at 15:27hrs | 24 | by Dr Bekithemba Mpofu
Wicknell Chivayo gifts Mnangagwa's ally US$1million
The flamboyant entrepreneur, Wicknell Chivayo, has escalated his extravagant displays by generously donating a staggering US$1 million to the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Mbungo, led by a prominent all...Published: 01 Apr 2024 at 21:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu reported to ZACC...amidst massive corruption allegations
Minister of Environment, Climate Change, Tourism, and International Trade, Mangaliso Ndlovu, is under scrutiny for alleged corruption and misconduct. Citizens Against Corruption, a prominent local org...Published: 23 Feb 2024 at 12:55hrs | 11 | by George Tshuma
'Zimbabwe army plays critical role in border control operations'
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has played a critical role in maintaining peace and security in Matebeleland provinces through border control operations, as well as combating stock theft, which were ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's 'Kenyan-style' cancellation of legal international hunting tender denounced as communities hope uninterrupted internat
Zambia's 'Kenyan-style' moment-of-madness-cancellation of legal international hunting tender was recently denounced ruled as illegal by the country's high court, creating local hunting communities' ho...Published: 18 Dec 2023 at 20:51hrs | 39 | by Emmanuel Koro
ZNA officers trade guns for trowels to safe lives
In 1998, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) demonstrated exceptional valor in the distant N'Djili region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country still grappling with conflict today. Facing ...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs disown Zimdollar
Members of Parliament from the ruling Zanu-PF party have called for the disbursement of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocations in United States dollars, as they expressed concerns about servi...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Life-changing international hunting benefits the world can't ignore
There is a generation in which wildlife brought clean-drinking water to thirsty humans, built them a school, a clinic, a road that linked them to the rest of the world and created employment.M...Published: 11 Oct 2023 at 21:59hrs | 27 | by Emmanuel Koro
Fifa Foundation visits community projects in Zimbabwe
Melisa Cuzzani, the senior project manager of the FIFA Foundation, recently visited Zimbabwe as part of her two-day tour to meet organizations benefitting from the foundation's community program. Her ...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Villagers pool resources to repair roads neglected by govt
FED up with government inaction, the tenacious villagers of Hope Fountain in Umguza, Matabeleland North province, have joined hands to repair their heavily damaged roads.The roads in Hope Foun...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Anything called the Zimbabwean GEIST?
Zimbabwe's GEIST?NATIONS have what Antonio Gramsci terms "particularity of their mind", GEIST in German language, or ESPRIT in French.Here in Africa, thinkers called the same variously...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mangaliso Ndlovu didn't contest in Zanu-PF's primary elections for the good of the party
Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Provincial chairman Mangaliso Ndlovu says he did not contest in party's primary elections in the reconfigured Bulilima Constituency over the weekend for the good of the part...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel 'settles' land disputes with villagers
Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South through parcelling out one-acre fields of irrigated la...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
Brain drain hits Mater Dei Hospital
MATER DEI Hospital in Bulawayo has been experiencing massive brain drain despite its efforts to equip its workers with various health response skills.This was revealed by one of the senior nur...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets former Malawi leader
AFRICANS should listen to the wise wisdom of President Mnangagwa who has emphasised economic development that leaves no one and no place behind, visiting former Malawian President Joyce Banda said....Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Joyce Banda in Zimbabwe for groundbreaking ceremony
FORMER Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda is in the country where she will preside over a groundbreaking ceremony for a community project targeting hundreds of villagers in Hwange's Msuna area along the...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sakunda Holding's Rufaro lease take shape
SAKUNDA Holdings have started conducting feasibility studies on Rufaro Stadium with the energy giants yesterday visiting the facility together with officials from the City of Harare.The energy...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga, 41 years on but no development
AS by-elections beckon, underdevelopment continues unabated in Binga with very little imprints of positive strides within communities.By-elections will be held on March 26 and candidates from ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Local labour for Bulawayo roads rehab
BULAWAYO roads are undergoing a major facelift after Government and the Bulawayo City Council yesterday started a citywide road rehabilitation programme to improve the city's road network.The ...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Namibian professional hunters also conserve wildlife
They bring international hunters and income to Africa. Additionally, they contribute to wildlife management and conservation through acceptable hunting...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 19:01hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa must arrest corrupt ministers
IN Zimbabwe, it is very easy to stop corruption and demonstrations. President Emmerson Mnangagwa does not have to use brutal force and intimidation.Firstly, Mnangagwa should find out why...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:30hrs | 12 | by Community Podium
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
ZimThrive on course for December 2021 with scaled down event
The organisers of ZimThrive have announced that the event will go ahead in December as a scaled back celebration.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the event which was due to run from 1-...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 10 | by Staff writer
ZAA & WorldRemit honor five Zimbabweans for contributions to education
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has partnered with global fintech company WorldRemit, to honour five outstanding contributors towards the education sector in Zimbabwe at the upcoming ZAA UK 10th Anniv...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 14:12hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF youths batter 6 soldiers
TWENTY EIGHT Zanu-PF youths mainly from Samba Ranch in Chiredzi North were on Monday arraigned before Chiredzi magistrate Simbarashe Gundani on charges of assaulting six Air Force of Zimbabwe soldiers...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 stalls Tsholotsho Campfire projects
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council acting chief executive Nkululeko Sibanda yesterday said the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (Campfire) programme in the district has been...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance, Zanu-PF clash
MDC Alliance is accusing Zanu-PF of hijacking community projects initiated by the main opposition party members in partnership with locals and Zimbabweans living in the diaspora.The party's Ma...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inhlokomo rolls up its sleeves
Inhlokomo YeSizwe sika Mthwakazi is rolling up its sleeves and getting hands on by setting regional structures on the ground. After taking a momentary and deliberate pause to give space for the Phuthe...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by IYS
Zhowane FM appealing for financial assistance
The Tsholotsho community in Matabeleland North is appealing for financial assistance to set up a community radio station, covering at least five wards within the district.The Broadcasting Auth...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa embroiled in ugly wrangle over school
THOUSANDS of pupils at Southlea Park, a community primary school in Harare South, face a bleak future after a controversial decision by a dodgy consortium to turn the learning centre in the low-income...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Matiza family to complete late minister's projects
THE family of late Transport minister, Joel Biggie Matiza has set sights on completing projects that were started by their patriarch in his home constituency of Murewa South. Matiza succumbed ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:36hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Lightning strike kills 19 cattle
Five families on the outskirts of Victoria Falls under Chief Mvuthu were left counting their losses after 19 cattle were killed by lightning during a heavy storm in the early hours of Saturday....Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Botswana bounces back on international hunting map after long absence
Africa's hunting culture, including that of Botswana, will never die, no matter how much Western animal rights groups try to influence African leaders to ban it. For a country that missed...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 16:53hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mozambican community's promising hunting revenue powered development
Wildlife hunting is increasingly becoming the main 'driver' for not only socio-economic development but also for wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation, in southern African communities that co...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 17:03hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Koro
ZAA Canada and USA go virtual as WorldRemit is announced as partner
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has announced a combined virtual awards event for the ZAA USA and Canada editions in partnership with WorldRemit on 12 December 2020.The ZAA USA editi...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Agencies
ZimThrive announces new dates for 2021
The organisers of ZimThrive have announced that the event will now take place in December 2021.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the month-long event, which was initially set for April ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:25hrs | | by Agencies
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