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Perence Shiri gives ZPRA property to ZANU PF
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement Hon. Air Chief Marshal P. Shiri (Rtd) has instructed ARDA's Acting Chairman J. Makado to transfer Nijo Estate comprising eight (8) propert...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 11:46hrs | 4939 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF slavery
'Slave wages' was the reason the Zimbabwe Nurses' Association (ZINA) gave for health workers going on strike in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.Slave conditions describes what was behind...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1301 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Man gets 30 years for Xmas rape
A 60-year-old Gweru man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for raping a woman in her early 30s as well as her daughter on Christmas Day last year. Appearing before Regional Magistrate Mr...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1495 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council engineer resigns
GWERU council engineer Robson Manatsa has resigned barely two days after another top official was suspended on graft charges, with sources indicating that more senior employees were likely to quit to ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:44hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 970 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T recalls 8 senators from Parliament
DRAMA continues to unfold in the embattled MDC Alliance party after eight Senators were recalled by the MDC-T from the August House this Wednesday.Announcing the dismissal of the eight Senator...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:14hrs | 2414 | by Staff reporter
'Chiefs want Mnangagwa to apologise for Gukurahundi'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is pursuing the call by people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5232 | by Staff reporter
Chinese company compensates shot employee
A Chinese company whose senior manager shot at an employee over a pay dispute has so far paid out US$20 000 for medical bills towards the victims' family while the Asian national implicated in the cas...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5355 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8927 | by Staff reporter
Police in corruption storm
SOME members of the police in Mvuma are in the eye of a storm following reports that they are demanding protection fees from illegal vendors, pirate taxis and foreign currency dealers operating in the...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Chinese people not guilty of compatriots' crimes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday discouraged Zimbabweans from issuing blanket condemnation against all Chinese nationals for crimes committed by individual elements from the ally state.T...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
Police stations get POS machines
Almost all police stations now have functioning "swipe" machines for payment of admission of guilt fines, removing the need for cash payments and associated potential corruption. Unlike previo...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:07hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on mine shooting
The Chinese national who has been charged with shooting and injuring two people at a mine in Gweru over a salary dispute will receive a fair trial, without discrimination, in accordance with the count...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party burns, Zanu-PF rejoices
NELSON Chamisa has everything to gain by embracing the growing calls for unity talks between him and interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe - and everything to lose by spurning the mooted dialogue, analys...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:17hrs | 3000 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Chipangano commander leads protest against Chinese violence
ONCE feared Zanu-PF youth boss, Jim Kunaka will lead a public protest against continued violence allegedly visited upon Zimbabwean workers by Chinese employers.The demonstrations, organised un...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:12hrs | 988 | by newzimbabwe
My parliament is in Mkoba: MDC Alliance MP Chibaya
MDC Alliance legislator for Mkoba Amos Chibaya has said his alleged recall from parliament does not change his responsibility to serve the people in his constituency indicating that his parliament is ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 4045 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC, politics of denial psychology and psychological deflection II
THE Supreme Court judgment set off a series of gaffes by the MDC-Alliance, starting with their denial of the validity, enforceability and effectiveness of the judgment on the MDC-Alliance. The MDC-All...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 1294 | by Jonathan Chando
Chamisa vows to fight back
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to fight against the recall of his legislators from Parliament by the rival Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T.Khupe recalled a total of 13 MDC-Alliance leg...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:21hrs | 5977 | by Staff reporter
Govt terminates CSC deal
GOVERNMENT has cancelled the much touted US$130 million deal with a United Kingdom company, Boustead Beef (Boustead) for the recapitalisation of the Cold Storage Company (CSC), it has emerged....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Khupe inflicts more damage
INTERIM MDC leader Thokozani Khupe unleashed more carnage in the deeply-divided main opposition party yesterday, recalling nine more of her legislators from Parliament.This comes as the sensel...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:20hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Chinese bigots must return to China
Ever since Chinese nationals started flocking into Zimbabwe under the guise of all-weather friends during the time of the late former President Robert Mugabe, there has always been concern over their ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Red Cross to start Covid-19 tests
Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) clinics will soon start polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests after receiving funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation to fight the spread of Covid-19. ZRCS has ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner denied bail
The 50-year-old Gweru miner who on Sunday allegedly shot and injured two of his employees following a pay dispute was yesterday denied bail by a Gweru magistrate. Zihang Xuelin, a manager at R...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:06hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Khupe blames coronavirus, and lockdown
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, has postponed the party's court-directed extra-ordinary congress which was slated for next month - where a substantive new party boss was to be chosen.Kh...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1998 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans beaten raped and held as slaves in their own country
Zimbabwe is the only country we can call ours in the whole world. There is no other country we can call ours besides Zimbabwe. Having stayed outside Zimbabwe for a long time I became aware of the fact...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 10:35hrs | 2450 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Kombis use fake Zupco stickers
SOME commuter omnibuses have been operating using fake Zupco stickers to illegally transport passengers in the Midlands province but law enforcement agents have curtailed the challenge. Only Z...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1428 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe could speak!
I am a country like no other I am Great Zimbabwewith a heart that pumps full of love for my inhabitants endowed with an assortment of mineral resources, Gold, diamonds, platinum and al...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3742 | by Brilliant Pongo
WATCH: Chinese manager shoots 2 black workers in Gweru
A Gweru Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin has been arrested for shooting two black workers at his Reeden mine over a wage dispute.Xuelin is said to have shot the workers, Wendy Chikwaira and K...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 21805 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nurses' strike rages on
THE countrywide strike by nurses at public hospitals which started on Friday continued into the weekend with the health professionals saying they would only resume duty after receiving United States-d...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2568 | by Staff reporter
1 111 cops resist transfer
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga (pictured) was on Friday left with egg on the face after more than 1 111 junior officers successfully challenged their "intermittent transfers" at their own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5954 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 death toll rises
A 79-year-old woman from Bulawayo succumbed to Covid-19 on Saturday bringing Zimbabwe's cumulative deaths to six. Bulawayo also recorded two new Covid-19 cases which brings the city's total re...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Zupco bus burns
ZUPCO bus burns in Gweru CBD. No injuries recorded....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 5422 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa needs Mwonzora
I have been reading and listening to comments from supporters of the MDC party since the day of the Supreme Court ruling which declared comrade Wamba an i...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 00:25hrs | 8618 | by Etiwel Mutero
5th COVID-19 death recorded in Zimbabwe
A WOMAN who tested positive to Covid-19 died on Friday in Gweru, bringing the number of deaths due to the disease in the country to five.This is the first Covid-19 death in Midlands province....Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 19:55hrs | 1221 | by Staff reporter
Komichi spied against Chamisa
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party chairman Morgen Komichi yesterday unwittingly exposed that he was a spy who worked to destabilise and undermine MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.Addressin...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 7855 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest striking nurses
POLICE yesterday arrested health and general workers at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare as nurses and some doctors deserted major hospitals across the country following a call by their unions to d...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2006 | by Staff reporter
PICTURES: 3 dead in haulage truck, kombi and Ford Ranger accident
Three people have died in an accident involving a haulage truck, a commuter omnibus and a Ford Ranger near Guinea Fowl Secondary School along the Gweru -Shurugwi road....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 14:36hrs | 5046 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in US, China to return home
THOUSANDS of Zimbabweans, stranded in China, the United States, South Africa and other countries after Covid-19 induced lockdowns have registered with Government to be repatriated as quickly as possib...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
Phased reopening of polytechnics 'imminent'
Polytechnic colleges are set to reopen in a few weeks, as Government is almost done with the clearing out of returnees that were being quarantined at such institutions across the country. Hara...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
No takers for Gweru mayoral mansion
BIDDERS who last year expressed interest in renting the Gweru mayoral mansion are yet to respond to requirements laid down by council more than seven months after they applied, council spokesperson Vi...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
MSU to open before end of June
PLANS to reopen Midlands State University (MSU) are at an advanced stage with the first batch of students expected on campus on June 22. While other universities such as University of Zimbabwe...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:41hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans ignore Mnangagwa's prayer day
ZAOGA leader Ezekiel Guti prays at the national day of prayer and fasting at State House in Harare yesterdayMOST Zimbabweans yesterday snubbed the national day of prayer and fasting pronounced...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:42hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have a duty to free themselves from crocodile jaws
EVERYTIME I travel to and from the US, I have noticed, the flight crew will always ask those who are serving or have served in the military to board first. As they present their boarding passes to the...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 476 | by Dr Shepherd Mpofu
Transport operators fret over Zupco scheme
Transport operators that are part of the Zupco franchise scheme are up in arms against the government-owned company, which they say is underpaying them for the use of their vehicles.Last year ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:07hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Zupco bus fares up 100%
THE Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) has hiked fares by 100% barely three months after an increase by the same margin in March putting pressure on the already economically overburdened commu...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 2466 | by Staff reporter
Machaya must face trial: High Court
THE High Court has ruled that former Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya, who is accused of criminal abuse of office, must face trial as permanently staying his criminal trial would be ...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
The Republic of Matabeleland (ROM) beckons
With Ambazonia's final breakthrough in their quest for self-determination, it has become abundantly clear that after experiencing a series of tragedies under Zimbabwe's colonial rule Matabele people c...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 20:15hrs | 2769 | by George Mkhwanazi
Destabilising opposition will not make crisis go away
IN yesterday's issue of NewsDay we carried a story in which Zanu-PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa disclosed that Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was "helping" an opposition MDC faction to m...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Illegal panners 'destroy' Boterekwa Road
A SECTION of the famous Boterekwa Road in Shurugwi caved in on Friday after illegal gold panners allegedly dug a series of tunnels under it over the years. The damage threatens motorists trave...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
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