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BVTA urges BCC not to use violence on illegal vendors
BULAWAYO Vendors and Trader Association (BVTA) has urged the city council to desist from using violence to solve the problem of illegal vendors occupying restricted areas.BVTA Director Michael...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:19hrs | 412 | by Stephen Jakes
SA companies caught in Russia-Ukraine crossfire
JSE counters with even a remote connection to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have taken a pounding in the past week as gun-shy investors decided they were not worth the risk.Leading the fall was ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel consumption hits 1,2bn litres after bounce back
ZIMBABWE'S fuel consumption increased to almost 1,2 billion litres during the 11 months to November last year, compared to just over one billion litres in 2020, data from the energy regulator showed y...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
5 killed in bar brawl
A member of the security services allegedly entered a bar in Mhondoro-Ngezi armed with an AK47 assault rifle and fatally shot five people on Christmas Day after being accused of proposing love to an u...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 06:57hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Alleged police brutality alarming
Allegations of human rights violations by the Zimbabwe Republic Police are alarming. Such accusations force citizens to lose confi...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | 4 | by Shelton Muchena
'Zimbabwe industry defies odds, hits 95% capacity'
ZIMBABWE'S industries have emerged from the crossfire of Covid-19-induced lockdowns and forex shortages to extend a bounce-back registered since the second quarter of this year, central bank chief Joh...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs on SA crisis intervention
LEGISLATORS have called on Zimbabwe and its regional counterparts to urgently take action on the raging South African crisis to rescue locals who could have been caught in the crossfire following rece...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as demolitions rock Harare
POLICE yesterday barricaded roads leading into Harare's oldest and most populous suburb of Mbare to pave way for demolitions of informal business structures in an operation sanctioned by President Emm...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Banjani abantwana ngekhaya? Ndebele women included: Celebrating the International Day of the African Child
To be fair to other cultures in Zimbabwe, it is only in Ndebele culture where a woman is considered and addressed as a child regardless of her age. Ndebele women are called abesintwana by their male c...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 21:56hrs | 5 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC Alliance officials exposed to Covid-19 in police cells
THERE are fears that 11 of the 12 MDC Alliance officials, recently arrested for holding a meeting in defiance of Covid-19 regulations, could have contracted the deadly virus while detained at Chinhoyi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fires NatPharm board, officials
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has dissolved the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) board, while ministry principal director Gibson Mhlanga is in trouble over a Covid-...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown hits exam classes
THOUSANDS of students writing Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council "O" and "A" Level examinations were yesterday caught in the crossfire due to the absence of clear-cut directives which resulted in t...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Kwekwe violence ring leaders go into hiding
ZANU-PF youth leaders, who spearheaded the violent clashes at the party district offices last week leading to the abandonment of primary elections to choose a candidate for the vacant Kwekwe Central p...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pressure keeps mounting on Chamisa
Pressure keeps mounting on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa as his former top lieutenant and now MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance name belongs to the MDC-T and the...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Terror in Seychelles Zimbabweans in crossfire
THIS is the second in a three-part series about the hijacking of an Air India Boeing 707 flying from Harare to New Dehli India on November 26, 1981. The plane flew into a coup attempt in the S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Motorist shot by cop wants $100 000
A MAN from Bulawayo who was accidentally shot and wounded by a policeman who opened fire on a suspected robber within the city's Central Business District, is suing Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage ...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army killings survivor speaks out
As the nation is still in the month of August, citizens recount the dark cloud that enveloped the nation on 1 August 2018 when the national Reaction Force led by Retired General Senyatwe stormed the s...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 11:49hrs | 3609 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shot protestor claims bad luck
A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Luveve suburb in Bulawayo who was shot and injured by police while allegedly planning to loot Choppies supermarket during January violent demonstrations has appeared in court. ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to appreciate Zimbabwe progress
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
30 July election: one year later
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:28hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Matemadanda warns MDC
The deputy minister of defence Victor Matemadanda threatened on Saturday that soldiers would be unleashed to crush opposition protests, warning: "They are trained to kill."The chilling threat ...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 16:12hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe, SA transporters in route wars
There is a looming route war between Beitbridge-based Zimbabwean Cross-border Transport Association (ZCTA) and South Africa's Beitbridge Taxi Association (BTA) after the groups clashed over passengers...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers civil servants another salary hike
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday assured Parliament that government is hoping to further increase civil servants' salaries to cushion them from the rising cost of living.Responding t...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prices shock!
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to more retail shops charging in US dollars, with government joining in the bandwagon, amid shortages of basic commodities such as cooking oil and sugar.The devel...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Religious leaders must pray for bloodless separation of Matabeleland and Zimbabwe
China's revered revolutionary, Mao Zedong, was spot on when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Zimbabwe is the product of the barrel of the gun so is the 2nd Republic tha...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | 3868 | by MLO
Zimbabwe army must not contradict itself
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces' (ZDF) stance that soldiers will remain on the streets is regrettable considering the trauma Zimbabweans have suffered in recent weeks.Over 100 people suffered guns...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for SADC intervention in Zimbabwe crisis - Fulltext
Text of speech by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa as prepared for delivery at a news conference in Harare on Tuesday, January 29:THE situation in the country...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 08:10hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Chamisa's full statement on army killings
The situation in the country has reached crisis levels. The country is currently mired in a multi-layered political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis. Added to this is the latest onslaught by ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:04hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Mnangagwa's re-engagement efforts with Western countries is dead
Zimbabwe is now entering unchartered waters following several deaths of innocent people and arrests of pro-democracy activists and senior opposition figures by security agents in the on-going clampdow...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ZimbabweShutDown costs economy $300m
The economy could have lost business amounting to $300 million over the three-day forced shut-down that started on Monday and ended yesterday, industrialists have said. Confederation of Zimbab...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political drama engulfs 2018
The curtain came down on 2018 and as 2019 is finally into full swing, the Daily News spoke to a number of social and political analysts who gave us what they think were the political highlights of the...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man shot in robbery crossfire
A MAN from Bulawayo was accidentally shot and wounded on the shoulder when a police officer allegedly opened fire at a suspected robber within the city's Central Business District on Friday afternoon....Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors' strike bites
Seventy-four-year-old Elliot Moyo is a bitter man. He was hit by a car and suffered a broken leg, among other serious injuries, early last week.Since then, he has been making several fruitless...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' lives are not bargaining chips
TRUE to the base instinct of human nature - that subconscious urge or behaviour directed by primeval, animalistic, self-serving, and/or ignoble motivations - some people have quickly rushed to complet...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Eyewitness account of Zimbabwe's August 1 shooting
On August 01, 2018, my life changed entirely in ways I had not imagined when I woke up that day. A part of me died, while a new me was born out of the horrors I filmed, right from the frontline....Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:33hrs | 4545 | by Maynard Manyowa
'Double tragedy' for victims of August 1 army shootings as probe begins
GENUINE victims of the August 1, army shootings were given a torrid time during public hearings by a commission set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to investigate the killings amid accusations that...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:51hrs | | by Valentine Maponga
Cops bash MDC official
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance elections director, Henry Chimbiri, was seriously injured after he was caught in the crossfire and assaulted by Harare law enforcement agents pursuing illegal vendors on Friday...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare CBD resembled a war zone yesterday
HARARE central business district resembled a war zone yesterday as police continued to engage in cat-and-mouse chases with vendors and rogue commuter omnibus crews.Trucks full of police detail...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police brutality: A personal encounter
SOMETIMES it is very easy to dismiss reports or allegations of brutality and inhuman treatment perpetrated against ordinary citizens by the police, who are constitutionally mandated to, apart from fig...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political grandstanding will not sanitise Mnangagwa legitimacy
IT'S rather bizarre that President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa has chosen to profess ignorance over who ordered soldiers to use live ammunition on civilian protesters in Harare on August 1, killing seven...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Time for Zimbabwe to move on
THE 2018 harmonised elections have come, but not exactly gone because the main opposition MDC Alliance has signalled its intention to approach the Constitutional Court to challenge the results, which ...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:57hrs | 555 | by Conway Tutani
Arrested 'protesters' are MDC Alliance polling agents
SUSPECTED MDC Alliance protesters, who were arrested at the party headquarters last Thursday were mostly polling agents and candidates who were submitting their V11 forms collected from various consti...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
In the aftermath of the 'most peaceful' elections
The repeated calls by President Mnangagwa for unity and understanding, together with the condemnation of all violence must bring much hope to all Zimbabweans. This is a stance of a true statesman. If ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 18:16hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Soldiers to remain in Harare until 'situation over'
Zimbabwean authorities say the military will remain in the capital until "this situation is over", a reference to opposition protests over alleged manipulation of Monday's election results.Hom...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 11:25hrs | | by AP
Mgagao clashes: A ZIPRA narrative
COMRADE Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi whose Chimurenga name was Joseph Sibuko was born in 1951 in Beitbridge. He grew up in a family that was heavily involved in politics. His big Brother John Mbedzi was expel...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:38hrs | 1134 | by Staff reporter
The plight of war collaborators
The Second Chimurenga was far from a honeymoon, it was brutal and painful. Death, blood and tears were an everyday feature in the war of liberation. It was a people's war where everyone played a part ...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Tondorindo
Armed robber up for murder
A suspected robber, who reportedly shot a Harare man in a crossfire between armed robbers and police last week has appeared in court.Prince Makodza, 29, was not asked to plead when he appeared...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 16:31hrs | 1368 | by Staff reporter
Killed by stray bullet
A HARARE man is suspected to have been fatally shot by a stray bullet in a crossfire between suspected armed robbers and police last Thursday in Marlborough.Muchesa Chatsama was shot dead by a...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa demonstrators 'assaulted', arrested
THE eight Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) workers suspended for taking part in an "illegal demonstration" in February were arrested yesterday while attending a colle...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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