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Man battles for life after fight over hookers
A man from Pumula North in Bulawayo is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was attacked by two suspected illegal miners with a knobkerrie fitted with nails following a misunderstandin...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Illegal mining taints city's water
It is a sunny afternoon, and Margaret Noko's heap of clothes is difficult to ignore. She needs to do the wash."I have to use the water I have stored in containers and refill them," says Noko, ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 133 | 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: 11 hrs ago | 281 | by Staff reporter
Growing up eMalokishini back in the day
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but s...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 518 | by Wlliam Phiri
Govt speaks on forex fuel sales
AUTHORITIES say people should not panic over the decision to allow fuel companies with free funds to import and sell petrol and diesel in foreign currency ' as this is part of measures needed to...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:48hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Student doctors yet to sit for final exams
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe's 2019 final year medical students, who were supposed to be deployed as junior doctors in the country's public hospitals, are yet to write final examinations which were due last...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:47hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF hegemonic grip on power depends on poverty and violence' - without reforms, never be broken
Last week, former Zanu PF Minister Walter Mzembi promised to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections. Those who know Mzembi is but a man of little substance, an intellectual midget m...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 683 | by Nomusa Garikai
Man drowns while fishing
A MAN from Hwange drowned in Deka River during the week while fishing with friends, police have confirmed. Matabeleland North police spokesperson Chief Inspector Siphiwe Makonese said the body...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku calls for introduction of by-election for president
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader, Lovemore Madhuku says the country should do away with a constitutional clause that allows a sitting president's party to appoint his or her successor in ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:36hrs | 1983 | by newzimbabwe
Accident kills 4
Four people died on the spot while the driver of a Honda fit vehicle they were travelling in was seriously injured after they were involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck as he tried to o...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:32hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Two Zimbabwean students headed to Oxford
Two final year students at National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo have been selected for the prestigious 2020 Rhodes Scholarships to further their studies at Oxford Universit...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:32hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
BAZ calls for community radio and television licence applications
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has made a call for applications from Zimbabweans wishing to operate community radio, television and campus stations.Six free to air national comme...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo set to receive more Zupco buses
BULAWAYO is set to receive new Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) buses following the arrival of 65 more into the country through Beitbridge border post at the weekend. The develo...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prison mbanje project gets approval
Commercial mbanje production is expected to start on 10 hectares at Chiredzi Prison after the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) completed feasibility studies recently. The inno...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:29hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
CUT database hacker gets nod to attend international hackathon
A CHINHOYI University of Technology (CUT) computer whizkid, who is out on bail on charges of hacking into the university's examination results database and altering his results and those of seven othe...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Of the late Morgan Tsvangirayi and Daniel arap Moi, where are they?
Why do I pause the aforementioned question? What has it to do with the reader, those who are still mourning the death of their loved ones and probably cherishing some good moments they had with them? ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 16:52hrs | 1536 | by Amen Mpofu
There is no honour among thieves
A FORTNIGHT ago, the Constitutional Court in Malawi set a precedent by overturning that country's 2019 election results, setting aside the victory of the incumbent Peter Mutharika, citing "widespread ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 976 | by Crispen Manjonjo
'Zimbabwe is redollarising, not de-dollarising'
On Tuesday, ZUVA Petroleum announced that eight of its service stations would be accepting foreign currency payments as number of fuel operators continue to withhold the liquid.ZUVA said four ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:29hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commissions nothing but a waste of taxpayers money
The meeting that took place between ZANU-PF president Emerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa , who is also the chief architect of the Matabeleland Gukurahundi Genocide and so called Matabeleland Civic Society (fo...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 197 | by Mr Mbonisi Gumbo
Grace Kwinjeh quits MDC
The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) representative to the European Union (EU), Grace Kwinjeh, has resigned from her post to focus on her studies in South America.Nehanda R...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:48hrs | 2827 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust trustees
Information and Publicity Ministry secretary Nick Mangwana announced that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Trustees of the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust. In a statement posted on the Min...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 20:29hrs | 1840 | by Staff reporter
'General Mujuru was murdered'
ZIMBABWEAN-BORN and Oxford University associate professor, Miles Tendi has launched a book which claims that the late army general, Solomon Mujuru, did not die in an ordinary fire hence there was a de...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:41hrs | 5326 | by Staff reporter
Malaba retires
Agribank chief executive Mr Sam Malaba has retired after 16 years at the helm of the financial institution. He was appointed CEO in May 2004 after serving as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:38hrs | 3851 | by Staff reporter
Zera gives final warning to two fuel companies
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has issued a final warning to two fuel firms who risk losing their licences without a hearing if they wantonly increase fuel prices in future based on f...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2919 | by Staff reporter
Kombis hike fares
SCORES of commuters in Bulawayo were yesterday stranded after commuter omnibus operators hiked fares, some doubling them during peak hours, citing fuel shortages that have forced them to source the co...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1785 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1090 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
Mnangagwa, families sparring over Gukurahundi genocide
THE government and families of people who were slain during the Gukurahundi atrocities in the 1980s - mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands - are at loggerheads over the official reference to the ki...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:18hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa linked company Zuva Petroleum to sell fuel in forex
Zuva Petroleum Service Station has announced its excitement that it has started accepting foreign currency in the purchase of fuel from its service stations."We are excited to announce 8 Zuva ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 16:33hrs | 2747 | by Stephen Jakes
Residents call for ban of donkeys in city
GWERU residents have implored the local authority to come up with a by-law effectively banning the rearing of donkeys in the city following an upsurge in their numbers as they are used as draught powe...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube explains subsidised roller meal system
GOVERNMENT is next week expected to roll out the new targeted system for the distribution of subsidised roller meal to vulnerable groups with more work still needed to upgrade the database of urban be...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Database for roller meal beneficiaries out soon, says Mthuli Ncube
Government is compiling a database of the vulnerable in urban areas who will benefit from subsidised roller meal. Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said: "The ex...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
ZERA speaks on fuel price increase reports
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has advised members of the public not to believe reports that the pr8ice of fuel has gone up. In a statement on Monday ZERA said, "We would like...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 13:42hrs | 3223 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beitbridge Hospital to be upgraded
GOVERNMENT has given green light to the upgrading of Beitbridge hospital, in light of the huge volumes of traffic that pass through the border town.Between 13 000 to 30 000 people pass through...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:54hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Prof Kurewa dies
Zimbabwe's first black Clerk of Parliament and founding Vice Chancellor of Africa University Professor John Wesley Z Kurewa has died. He was 87. Prof Kurewa who died in Harare on Frida...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
StanChart has no plans to exit Zimbabwe
One of Zimbabwe's oldest financial institutions, Standard Chartered Bank, has reiterated it has no plans to exit the country but is rationalising its distribution channels, becoming more digital as it...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:35hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt mobilises $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Government injects $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:34hrs | 192 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa doesn't have power to define Zimbabwe's destiny
MDC President Nelson Chamisa says only the people of Zimbabwe have the power to chat the destiny of their country, and not President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Speaking to journalists on the sidelines...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:38hrs | 780 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa disappointed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has conceded that little has been done to address the issues affecting Matabeleland region nearly a year after he met Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) operating here....Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:36hrs | 8149 | by Staff reporter
Man torches in-law's hut in dispute with wife
A WOMAN and her mother escaped death by a whisker when her husband set his mother-in-law's bedroom hut on fire after accusing his wife of infidelity.The court heard Ayibongwe Sibanda (34), who...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:40hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Assaulted goat thief dies
SIX Chipinge villagers were on Monday dragged to court for allegedly murdering a 28-year-old man whom they caught stealing a goat.The suspects - Aaron Chibhamu (58), Nhamo Simango (33), Miriam...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:39hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fails 'ungovernable route' now wants to smoke peace pipe
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has insisted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party must dialogue in order to end the suffering of Zimbabweans as the economy crumbles at an alarming rate...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:25hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not sincere about gukurahundi genocide'
CIVIC society organisations operating under the Matabeleland Collective banner yesterday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that people in the region did not believe he was sincere about addressing the...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:24hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe accident victims named
The death toll from the Kwekwe accident that occurred on Monday this week involving a Zupco bus, a Honda Fit and two kombis, has risen to nine. In a statement yesterday, national police spokes...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:12hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Mobile banking, FinTech services under threat as critical upgrade costs soar
Digital mobile banking in Zimbabwe has matured beyond the proof-of-concept stage into mainstream adoption where it is servicing millions, driving local transaction volumes and furthering financial inc...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1359 | by Agencies
Journalist survives horrific crash
Freelance journalist Tarisai Mudahondo survived a fatal accident that claimed seven people outside Kwekwe on Monday.Mudahondo was among the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (ZUPCO) passenger...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:05hrs | 2798 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt demands $200 top-up for ordinary passports
ALL citizens who paid $53 to get an ordinary passport before the fees were raised to $253, are expected to pay the difference of $200 before their travel documents are processed.This was annou...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
Zupco subsidy a red herring, says MPs
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has come under fire from legislators over subsidising mealie-meal at 25% compared to Zupco’s 80% subsidy amid widespread hunger.During a Parliament sitt...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
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