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Mbuya Nehanda statue ignites debate
ZIMBABWEANS have reacted with mixed feelings to the Mbuya Nehanda statue, which was recently exhibited for President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a tour of Nyati Gallery near Snake Park, where the sculpt...Published: 4 hrs ago | 557 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic named Bank of The Year 2020
HARARE - 3 December 2020 - Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has been awarded the 2020 Bank of the Year 2020 accolade for the second year running by top banking magazine - The Banke...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1174 | by Agencies
Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?
WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and fini...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa urged to find each other
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has urged political actors in the country to embark on dialogue to solve the economic problems that have hindered development.This was said by ZCC adviso...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 6281 | by Staff reporter
'Ministry did not approve Mupfumira loan request'
A DIRECTOR in the Finance ministry Fidelis Ngorora yesterday told chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi that Treasury did not approve former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira's request to secure...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Gweru school records 20 Covid-19 cases
THERE seems to be no end in sight to the increasing cases of Covid-19 at local learning institutions after Anderson High School in Gweru recorded 20 new positive cases.Ever since schools reope...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 15:59hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
What Zanu-PF can learn from China
(In December 2016, ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, then the editor of The Southern Times newspaper based in Namibia, was dragged over the coals and subsequently fire...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1302 | by Ranga Mberi
Teachers jostle for Zanu-PF positions
TWO serving civil servants in Mwenezi are campaigning for positions in the Zanu-PF district coordinating committee (DCC) elections to be held early December in violation of the law, it has emerged....Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
Residents threaten rates payment boycott
GWERU residents have threatened to boycott payment of rates citing numerous cases of revenue leakages, which have affected service delivery.A recent council internal audit revealed that severa...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:55hrs | 499 | by Staff reporte
Police dogs called in to control Black Friday shoppers
Bulawayo was a hive of activity on Friday morning as people thronged various retail shops with the hope to cash in on the Black Friday shopping craze.Long queues were witnessed at the city's m...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:04hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns crash victims
An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) aircraft, SF 260 Genet trainer, crashed near Dabuka Railway Siding in Gweru around 2pm on Tuesday killing instructor Squadron Leader Mkhululi Dube (37) and trainee pilot...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airforce plane crashes
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe instructor and a female student pilot died when a training plane they were flying developed a technical fault and crashed at Dabuka in Somabula on the outskirts of Gweru yeste...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:42hrs | 3798 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
3 men refuse to make way for Mnangagwa motorcade
Three men have appeared in court accused of failing to make way for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's motorcade.Tadzoka Nago, 42, Stanley Zibako, 37, and Honest Diura, 47, had parked their ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 19:00hrs | 10657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coups: What now for the legacies?
Three months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa deposed Robert Mugabe on November 15, 2017, Nelson Chamisa applied the same template to supplant Thokozani Khupe, ensuring he replaced Morgan Tsvangirai...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 330 | by Toendepi Shonhe
Zacc charges dead official
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) last week arrested former Gweru Town Clerk, Daniel Matawu on allegations of corruption involving stands worth more than US$78 000 which were illegally so...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:44hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
3 arrested for speeding unregistered car towards Mnangagwa motorcade
THREE men from Kwekwe have been arrested after they refused to remove their car from the road to pave way for President Mnangagwa's motorcade before speeding off in the direction the convoy was coming...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 1063 | by Staff reporter
How we started MSU: Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa together with the late Vice President and national hero Cde Simon Muzenda, national heroes Cdes Richard Hove and Cephas Msipa, were members of the first committee that resulted in ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:23hrs | 2083 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa caps 3500 at MSU
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped 3 507 graduates at Midlands State University (MSU)'s 21st graduation ceremony held at its main campus in Gweru.Due to Covid-19-induced restrictions, 3 397 ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:58hrs | 617 | by Staff Reporter
Young Farmer does wonders in 'dry' Matabeleland
Despite Matabeleland being a dry region characterised by low rainfall and recurrent droughts, 28-year-old Prosper Chikwara (28) has managed to produce wonders, landing the Best Young Farmer of the Yea...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:50hrs | 4363 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga bemoans corruption at NatPharm
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has bemoaned corruption at the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) which he said was hindering the availability of affordable medicines, especial...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details on land scam
Top officials at Rural District Councils (RDC) are conniving with village heads in the illegal sale of State land especially in peri-urban areas across the country, prejudicing the government of milli...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:23hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
National teenage pregnancy rate worrisome
ZIMBABWE records 70 000 illegal or unsafe abortions per year and one in every five girls drops out of school due to unwanted pregnancies. Statistics also indicate that the national teenage pregnancy r...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:21hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 5247 | by Leonard Koni
Cross-border traders to collect Covid-19 certificates at border
Cross-border traders who usually spend days travelling by road, will be tested for Covid-19 in their respective areas and then collect results from a doctor in the border area they will be using, to e...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora 'backtracks' on new purge?
A letter purportedly signed by disputed MDC-T secretary general Douglass Mwonzora notifying the Minister of Local government, Public Works and National Housing of the recall of 87 MDC Alliance council...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | 4281 | by Staff reporter
MDC activist's wife trial date set
THE trial of Gweru MDC Alliance activist Tamuka Denhere's wife, Lilian on charges of falsely claiming that her husband was abducted, is set to kick off on December 9.Lilian (38) of Mkoba 3, Gw...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:30hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wary of Covid-19 second wave threat
VICE President Dr Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned of the possibility of the country being hit by a second wave of Covid-19, saying ignorance, denial and wishful thinking could lead to more death...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:23hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son's name-dropped in R30 000 fraud
THE name of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Tafadzwa Sean, has been dropped in a case where an alleged conman duped a Gweru businesswoman of R30 000 in a yet-to-be revealed deal.The conman...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:49hrs | 5013 | by Staff reporter
Police blitz nets 100 pirate kombis
POLICE in Gweru have since Monday arrested at least 100 pirate kombi drivers and impounded their vehicles for operating illegally.The arrests were made as part of measures to curb the spread o...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in gold mine grab
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Tarirai David Mnangagwa is being accused of seizing gold mining claims in Gweru after the owners had invited him to invest in the project.The gold mining cl...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:01hrs | 17969 | by Staff reporter
Exclusion of Bulawayo boys in the Under-17 squad 'an insult'
FORMER national team and Highlanders captain Thulani Biya Ncube and Mkhokheli Dube have reacted with dismay and anger while questioning the criteria which career Under-17 boys coach Tafadzwa Mashiri u...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over MSU degrees scrapping chaos
LOCAL and media scholars in the diaspora have come out guns blazing, blasting the unilateral decision by authorities to change the Midlands State University Department of Media and Society Studies cur...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 13:47hrs | 8393 | by Staff reporter
Rape accused proves love affair with stepdaughter
A 49-YEAR-OLD man from Sikombingo Village, Lower Gweru in the Midlands Province, initially arrested for rape after impregnating his 15-year-old stepdaughter, has been convicted of a lesser charge of e...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:34hrs | 2120 | by Staff reporter
Boy (15) electrocuted in school hostel
A Form 3 pupil at Nkululeko High in Lower Gweru was electrocuted on Sunday while washing his blankets in a tub at the boys' hostel. Midlands Police spokesperson Inspector Joel Goko said the bo...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Govt steps up kombi seizures
Government has warned private kombis which are not under the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (ZUPCO) service that they risk having their vehicles seized if they operate outside the state transport ...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:59hrs | 4610 | by Staff reporter
5 300 new teachers start work
THE 5 300 teachers recently engaged to beef up staff at schools following Government's decision to reduce classes to maximum of 30 pupils to allow for social distancing start work today. The l...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police impound 127 pirate taxis
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded 127 vehicles that were pirating in defiance of the Government's travel regulations meant to curb the spread of Covid-19. Government in March banned private pu...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:30hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt councils need cleansing
AS the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Tr...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 101 | by Shepherd Chikomba
Police arrest spear-wielding serial robbers
POLICE in Kwekwe last week arrested Panashe Masekera (20) and Mathwe Mawino alias Mawindo (37), both of no fixed abode, after they allegedly terrorised Kwekwe residents and miners around the Midlands ...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:59hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Door shut on non-Zupco kombis
Private kombis and pirate taxes remain banned from carrying commuters and travellers as part of the precautions to contain the spread of Covid-19. However, owners of suitable kombis can still apply to...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira seeks magistrate's recusal
THE trial of former Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is jointly charged for graft with former ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka, on two counts of criminal abuse of office continued yesterd...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:27hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU presses for US$ wages
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on government to revert back to the 2017 United States dollar salary regime to cushion workers against the unstable local currency.This ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:25hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
Brick by brick, Vision 2030 is realisable
The achievements scored so far by President Emerson Mnangagwa's New Dispensation have raised a ray of hope that Vision 2030 is indeed possible, more so if unity of purpose prevails in the country....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1116 | by Grace Chekai
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 | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala talks tough
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala says Zimbabwe has reached a tipping point, warning President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government not to take boiling discontent against its leadership lightly....Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5581 | by Staff reporter
Half-dressed couple dies in car crash
A 29-year-old man from Zvishavane and his girlfriend died in an accident when a Honda Fit they were travelling in veered off the road, hit a tree and overturned before landing on its roof after allege...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1676 | by Staff Reporter
Man bashes women for refusing with phone numbers
A man from Masvingo slapped and punched two women after they refused to give him their cellphone numbers, moments after he had complimented them for their body structures.This emerged when Pau...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 07:46hrs | 597 | by Staff Reporter
Kazembe pays police brutality victim to avoid jail
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe yesterday rushed to pay $195 500 compensation to a Gweru-based student Simon Mandoza, who was brutalised by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in 2018.Kaz...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:29hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls gets city status
PARLIAMENT has approved Victoria Falls' city status following recommendations by a commission that was set up to assess the town's capacity. Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moy...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
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