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Zimbabwe govt sets new US$ fees for lost documents
GOVERNMENT has introduced a basket of new fees exclusively pegged in United States dollars for citizenship application or replacement of lost identity documents.According to Statutory Instrume...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners to pay U$5,000 for Zimbabwean citizenship
Foreigners applying for Zimbabwean citizenship on the basis of permanent residence will be required to pay US$5 000 cash for both adults and minors while those who seek restoration of citizenship afte...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Teacher killed, face skinned, eyes and ears cut off
A RIO Tinto Zhombe High School teacher was allegedly killed and defaced in a development that left the Zhombe community shell shocked.The body of the history teacher only identified as Mr Mwal...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cries foul
PARLIAMENTARY candidates for the Masvingo Urban constituency are crying foul over the illegal defacing of their campaign posters ahead of the crucial August 23 plebiscite.Three candidates; cur...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Police protest abuse by Zanu-PF heavyweights
JUNIOR police officers have complained to their superiors about Zanu-PF officials who are interfering with their duties as the country prepares for the August 23 harmonised elections.NewsDay i...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ups the ante
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has upped the ante as it reportedly intimidates villagers to attend its weekly campaign meetings, warning that an attendance register will be used to punish those who boycott....Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
UZ students granted bail
FOUR University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students arrested two months ago for disorderly conduct were yesterday granted $500 000 bail each by High Court judge Justice Lucy Mungwari.The students were a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai Jnr election campaign posters defaced in Norton
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Norton constituency, Richard Tsvangirai has flagged electoral violations after his campaign posters were defaced.Hordes of posters emblazoned...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala demo student out on $25 bail
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) organizing secretary Gamuchirai Chaburumunda (22) was on Wednesday granted ZW$200 000 bail in a case where she was arrested and charged with disorderly ...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 19:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
French revolution brewing
France has been rocked by a wave of protests after a 17-year-old youth was shot by police near Paris on Tuesday, sparking a ban on demonstrations in some cities, travel warnings and reigniting a debat...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 17:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Charges against CCC activists thrown out
TWO Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters have been acquitted on charges of tearing political campaign posters belonging to a Zanu-PF candidate in Manicaland.Zephenia Nyangani and Lea...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
5th UZ student arraigned over Sikhala protest
They face seven counts of disorderly conduct and malicious damage to property after they defaced some buildings in the capital, including Parliament.A FIFTH University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala demo students denied bail
HARARE magistrate Learnmore Mapiye yesterday denied bail to four University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students arrested last month for disorderly conduct after they protested the continued incarceration of opp...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jail nightmare for 'graffiti painting' UZ students
Four University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students who were arrested last week charged with malicious damage to property shall stay longer behind bars after the investigating officer (IO) who is key to their b...Published: 25 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council bans campaign posters on its buildings
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has banned the pasting of campaign posters on its buildings and other council infrastructure such as signposts saying it compromised cleanliness of the city.Deputy ...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pair arrested for masquerading as police officers
A 48-year-old woman from the leafy suburb of Ilanda together with a 40-year-old man from Barham Green in Bulawayo have been arrested for masquerading as police officers.The pair Samantha Dube ...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder charges for killer dog owners
A COMMUNITY in Southview Park, Harare, is living in mortal fear of vicious dogs belonging to a family that recently moved into the neighbourhood. Some, if not most, properties in the suburb are not ga...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Four nabbed for creating fake IDs
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested four suspects for creating fake IDs used for stealing pensioners money.The four suspects have allegedly swindled more than ZWL$15 00...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 12:23hrs | 5 | by Desmond Nleya and Shelton Muchena
Zimbabweans are a very funny lot
IT came as a major relief that the United States embassy in Harare clarified the validity of its many bank notes which have been so overused that they have turned so dirty and torn to the extent that ...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's youths attack, deface Chamisa's offices
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) officials have blamed alleged Zanu-PF youths for an attack at its Mutare offices, that left the building defaced while all doors and windows were destroyed....Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 09:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft
THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body wa...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 7 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard hit by fresh divisions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard, the Midlands province, has been hard hit by fresh turmoil after losing three crucial seats in last week's by-elections with rival factions blaming and threaten...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
#HowFar campaign ruffles plenty feathers
THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has bemoaned the intolerance against its #HowFar campaign, an initiative to hold the government to account on public finance management....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Candidates cry foul over electoral malpractices
ASPIRING opposition parliamentary and council candidates in Marondera have filed a police report over the defacing of their campaign posters ahead of the March 26 by-elections.Marondera Centra...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diaspora a death trap for cheating partners
As the British Home office plans to deport another plane-load to Zimbabwe again, it has become imperative to find out why many women and some men lost their lives to their spouses over the issue of in...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bodies from SA congest Bulawayo cemeteries
BODIES repatriated from South Africa are topping the list of burials at most Bulawayo cemeteries, with council expressing concern that residents were not adhering to the 30 stipulated numbers of peopl...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bank card cloner gets away with $3m
A-29-YEAR-OLD suspected fraudster yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate after he allegedly withdrew $3 million from various depositors' bank accounts using cloned cards.Tinotenda Chiny...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe represents everything wrong about opposition politics
A young member of the MDC formation led by Nelson Chamisa, Makomborero Haruzivishe, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by the Harare Magistrates Court this week for inciting public violence. ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Illegal miners deface school in gold rush
A week before schools open, after a long Covid-19 induced sabbatical, pupils at Gwangwava Secondary School in Rushinga are returning to a school ravaged by illegal miners who left a trail of destructi...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Worn out US dollar notes notes acceptable'
BADLY damaged, dirty or even torn United States dollar notes remain valid for all transactions and can be exchanged as legal tender. This comes as some businesses and individuals have been rej...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa posters defaced in Marondera
SOME of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's posters, erected on the eve of Heroes and Defences Forces holidays in Marondera, have been defaced and pulled down, in a development that has been linked to ange...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZHRO Vigil celebrates World Refugee week
The ZHRO Embassy Vigil on the 19th of June 2019 at 429 the strand outside of the Zimababwe embassy started on a rather clammy day. The small talk before the protest started was filled with despa...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by ZHRO
4-man syndicate producing fake IDs, drivers' licences arrested
POLICE have busted a four-man-syndicate that was producing fake national identity cards, drivers' licences and defensive drivers' certificates among other documents countrywide. Police did not release...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who is profiting from negative reporting?
Not so long ago, Aljazeera correspondent Haru Mutasa was denied a visa by one Western embassy ostensibly because of lack of a guarantee that she would return home.While it is the prerogative o...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
All vehicles changing ownership to maintain current plates
The Central Vehicle Registry has announced that all vehicles changing ownership should maintain current plates, what only changes is the new registered book with details of the new owner. This c...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's defaced campaign poster
Kudzanai Musengi, who describes himself as a freelancer most eager about covering under-reported issues, stumbled upon this defaced campaign poster in Bulawayo. He wonders who had such guts to do such...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 18:08hrs | | by Social media
Record number votes in Masvingo
A RECORD 512 649 people voted in Monday's historic harmonised elections in Masvingo, representing an 83 percent provincial turnout.The province had approximately 560 000 registered voters....Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
55 375 assisted to vote in Masvingo
A TOTAL of 55 375 people in Masvingo province were assisted to vote in Monday's elections due to illiteracy and different disabilities.Of the number, 14 410 were males and 40 964 females....Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede's Office to open during elections
The Registrar-General's Office will be opened from today till Monday to assist members of the public who lost their national identity documents to obtain new ones to be able to vote during the harmoni...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists accused of defacing opposition campaign posters
POLITICAL tension continues to rise in Manicaland province with most independent and MDC Alliance candidates accusing Zanu-PF activists of defacing their campaign posters ahead of next week's harmonis...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Electoral offences
With the elections some days away, emotions are heating up and the rate of election-related crimes and offences is also rising.Some crimes are being committed intentionally and some unintentio...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
'Political parties violate peace pledge'
LESS than two weeks before the crucial July 30 harmonised elections, the political atmosphere in the country has become toxic, with stakeholders employing dirty tricks against opponents in violation o...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF pastes Killer T gig posters over opposition campaign posters
ZANU PF supporters aligned to Mazowe North Member of Parliament aspiring candidate Campion Mugweni have been accused of pasting their Killer T free gig posters on top of opposition candidates' posters...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 12:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Defacing of campaign posters rampant in Gwanda
Political tension has begun in some parts of Gwanda District as political parties have allegedly started destroying campaign posters belonging to political opponents.Habakkuk Trust election mo...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 11:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'I will suspend import duty for goods from Sadc'
THE leader of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) Pastor Timothy Chiguvare who is one of the 23 presidential candidates in the forthcoming harmonised elections has promised to suspend import duty for...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Epworth duo in trouble over Mnangagwa posters
TWO Zanu-PF activists based in Epworth appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing charges of contravening a section of the Electoral Act after they allegedly defaced President Emmerson...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzi latest political violence hotbed
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has released a report indicating that Mudzi district in Mashonaland East had become the latest hotbed of political violence, with candidates complaini...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Khupe MDC-T spokesperson condemns defacing of her campaign posters
The spokesperson for MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe, Linda Masarira, has condemned malcontents who defaced her campaign posters in Harare.Several of her and other MDC-T candidates campaign post...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Corpse with missing lip
A SHAMVA family is up in arms with authorities at Shamva District Hospital as they demanded answers for the mutilated corpse of their relative.Drama occurred and business came to a standstill ...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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