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Mealie meal shortage: hungry people ignore social distance
MDC top official Tapiwa Mashakada has lamented that due to mealie meal shortage people in Masvingo were seen disregarding social distance to prevent COVID...Published: 8 hrs ago | 207 | by Stephen Jakes
Sex hungry man is an angry man
A married man from Luveve has reportedly turned to abusing his wife in the presence of their children after she slapped him with a sex ban.Austine Soko who has been denied sex by his wife coul...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa called to shut down Zimbabwe for 14 days
THE Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zima) has called for a 14-day lockdown and self-isolation for individuals with a compromised immune system to mitigate the effects of Covid-19.Zima secretary-...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:19hrs | 7278 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa divides MDC as a plot against Mwonzora thickens
MDC has generated into a monstrous party led by vampires who are killers and ruthless in their ways. Biti is flashing his python colours towards the presidency. Biti Sikhala are both ambitious and ver...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 09:45hrs | 6379 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police working with illegal miners at Mazowe mine
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit has been accused of working in cahoots with illegal miners at Mazowe mine despite the on-going "Operation Chikorokoza ngachipere" which has seen a...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 13:43hrs | 877 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Mugabe, Mnangagwa, two sides of the same coin'
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has labelled President Emmerson Mnangagwa a new version of late former President Robert Mugabe.Addressing journalists at a press conference in Bul...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 18:59hrs | 1109 | by newzimbabwe
New settlements turn into squatter camps
Michael has to wash cars along George Silundika Street in Bulawayo so that his wife, Luba, and their 10-month-old daughter do not go to bed hungry. Besides the food he has to budget for on the $25 he ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:40hrs | 437 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Chamisa to be quarantined
Zimbabwe will not survive the Corona virus if God allows it to ravage our beautiful country. It is painful that some idiots are literally hoping that the virus be found in Zimbabwe. We have insane peo...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 22:31hrs | 18111 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sweeping arrests for Mashurugwi
In one of the biggest swoops on potential criminals in recent years, Government using Support Unit brought in from Buchwa Mberengwa, Bulawayo and Harare arrested more than 1 000 illegal gold panners f...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:25hrs | 1759 | by Staff reporter
Villagers bemoan partisan distribution of food
VILLAGERS in Chikomba district in Chivhu have bemoaned partisan distribution of food aid and agricultural inputs, accusing Zanu-PF officials of hijacking government programmes to deny opposition suppo...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
'I committed this offence out of hunger,' Maize thief tells court
A 34-YEAR-OLD hungry Mvurwi man was today slapped with a $300 fine by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for stealing 39 green maize cobs. Francis Machaya of plot number 17, Pembi B, ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 13:58hrs | 1142 | by Simbarashe Sithole
MDC splits again as Chamisa loses grip
MDC A is set to break into further fragments as the infighting becomes intense. Having enjoyed the urban support since its formation MDC is showing signs ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 13508 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe deserves better
After decades of sanctions, mismanagement and corruption, Zimbabwe is in economic trouble. Zimbabweans are poor and hungry and can not make ends meet. In a country that was once among Africa's m...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 17:31hrs | 3163 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Residents threaten to protest over roller meal shortage
BULAWAYO residents have threatened to take to the streets if maize meal shortages persist.Residents queuing for the staple product expressed concern over the shortages, claiming that the obtai...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:14hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda warns youths
ZANU-PF political commissar and deputy Defence Minister Victor Matemadanda has warned youths risked being tormented by avenging spirits if they offered themselves as tools of violence by power-hungry ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:58hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
With Mnangagwa is Zimbabwe a better place?
The rankings of the presidents are abundant in political science, but there is no criteria or basis for judgment in the analyses of presidents. In evaluating success in the Zimbabwean presidency, we m...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 08:43hrs | 729 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe to launch army food bank..as coup looms
In a desperate bid to pre-empt mutiny among it's middle and junior ranks over growing inadequate food rations and supplies, together with appalling conditions of service at the barracks, the cou...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 9468 | by Nancy Mabaya
'Government diverts mealie meal to black market'
The government of Zimbabwe has been accused of channeling mealie meal through the Grain Marketing Board. Political analysts who spoke to this reporter said the suspension of the Grain Marketin...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 12:01hrs | 3218 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Feeding scheme extends to secondary schools
GOVERNMENT is set to extend the schools feeding scheme to secondary schools in line with the country's education policy to improve school attendance and completion rates. The feeding scheme is...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Govt to extend feeding scheme to secondary schools
GOVERNMENT is set extend the schools feeding scheme to secondary schools in line with the education policy to improve school attendance and completion rates. The feeding scheme seeks to keep l...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 179 | by Staff Reporter
Terrence Mukupe blasts Mnangagwa and Zanu PF, tips Chamisa to win 2023
The former deputy minister of Finance Mr Terrence Mukupe came out guns blazing castigating the party and predicting that Chamisa will win the 2023 elections. The former deputy minister labelled ZANU P...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 2413 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Hungry women nabbed for stealing maize cobs
Two Bindura women were convicted today by a Bindura magistrate Ethel Chichera after stealing 26 maize cobs.The duo Philis Munyanda (34) and Irene Kanodza both from Pimento park far...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 14:08hrs | 741 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dictatorship, undemocratic tendencies take root in MDC Alliance
THE expulsion of Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance on allegations of violating party rules and undermining protocol is not onl...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:30hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
There is plenty mealie-meal, claims CIO minister
THE question and answer session in the National Assembly degenerated into a circus yesterday after State Security minister Owen Ncube briefly assumed the position of acting leader of the H...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Teachers play on the cards
A play highlighting the challenges that teachers are facing in Zimbabwe is on the cards. The play Mbalisi Balis' ungabalisi, loosely translated to mean "Teacher teach, don't complain" is...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:00hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni's hidden agenda to appease his handlers exposed
The collective voice of condemnation of the mischievous statement by the dethroned former Chief of Ntabazinduna must be amplified for the record. In not hidden agenda to appease his handlers in Chamis...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1366 | by Qinisela Dube
Mthuli Ncube's maize meal coupon plan shred to pieces
Mthuli Ncube's plan to introduce mealie meal coupons has been shot down as endeavour that will not yiled any desired fruit in regards to the constant supply of affordable mealie meal.Speaking ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 4217 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Taken over by monkeys and baboons'
It is not surprising that runaway former minister Saviour Kasukuwere should use Friday's absurd Mugabe Day to attack the regime which overthrew the former president. Predictably defending Mugabe, Kasu...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:14hrs | 949 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa appeals to Chamisa
AMID rising political temperatures and a worsening economic crisis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, as well as the business community, to join him ...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:50hrs | 13338 | by Staff reporter
Hungry chiefs' wives beg for mealie-meal
WIVES of traditional chiefs yesterday appealed to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for mealie-meal, as the shortage of the staple commodity spreads across the country.The First Lady was in Masvin...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:30hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Crocodiles in Runde River are vicious and always hungry
Yesterday is gone, never to come back again but what I saw yesterday keeps criss-crossing my mind like a video game. On my early morning 'brisk walk' exercise to the shores of Ruya dam, there ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:27hrs | 595 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
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 | 215 | by Mr Mbonisi Gumbo
Sikhala says enough is enough to Mnangagwa
FRESH from being acquitted on treason charges, firebrand MDC deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to prepare for major civil unrest, unless he halts Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:21hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya and Mthuli's economic policies failing as the RTGS tumbles
As the Zimbabwe's economy meltdown continues to hit the vulnerable people from both the urban and rural areas, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation has been put on a litmus test...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:42hrs | 4401 | by Leonard Koni
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 | 1095 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
Chamisa approaches Sadc, AU on Mbeki, talks
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says he will approach Sadc and the African Union (AU) in a bid to compel the government to accept former South African President Thabo Mbeki as a mediator in the count...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 20:09hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Wadyajena misled the nation on GMAZ?
Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Chairperson Mayor Justice Wadyajena has been accused of misleading the nation into believing that the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has refused to appear bef...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 09:48hrs | 937 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZANU PF facing another split?
The past few days have been quite interesting with the developments in Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU PF. The unfolding events have been triggered by a press conference by the now-suspended two&nb...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 15:01hrs | 11702 | by Blessing Vava
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 | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa admits failure
MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has blamed his party's dismal performance in the 2018 elections on shambolic preparations and the imposition of candidates. Speaking at the Bulawayo Pr...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:03hrs | 1451 | by Staff reportert
Drought leaves citizens desperate to feed their families
The drought that the country is currently grappling with has made it very difficult for citizens to provide food for their families.This is contained in the Zimbabwe Peace Project latest repor...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 13:33hrs | 474 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC's greatest misconception… that demonstrations and violence will lead to power
The violence-prone Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), since its introduction in the country's political arena 20 years ago has not been able to dislodge ZANU PF from its stranglehold on power and h...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1813 | by Dr Claver Nyuki
Mutambara's Zimsec prognosis will hurt the poor
Renowned and leading African scientist and scholar, Professor AGO Mutambara, ignited a storm with his recent piece alleging shameless and scandalous grade inflation by ZIMSEC citing a school where 79 ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1695 | by Munya Gwisai
Be patient with Zimbabwe on reforms, says Misihairabwi
MDC-T legislator Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has urged the international community to extend financial support to Zimbabwe to speed up the reform process. She said this last week durin...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF business expo flops
The much-hyped Zanu-PF youth business expo held at Marondera Showgrounds on Tuesday was a flop with just a few ruling party supporters mainly from central Marondera turning up.NewsDay Weekende...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Villagers feast on cattle struck by lightning
There was a scramble for meat at Dorset Village in Shurugwi South's Ward 21 when villagers feasted on meat from two cows that were struck by lightning. This came as a shock to some villagers a...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 10:00hrs | 1670 | by Staff reporter
Restore public trust in land allocation
Land remains an important economic and cultural asset for both rural and urban communities in Zimbabwe. Access to and control over land is, however, mediated by varying factors, including corr...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:41hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
After naming Kudakwashe Tagwirei then what?
We have been witnessing this merry go round drama in Zanu-PF for years, and this is either a simple diversion from the real things happening on the ground or they are factions manifesting from within ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 17:24hrs | 3071 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabweans freaks over mealie-meal crisis
Long-suffering Zimbabweans yesterday made an imposed plea to the government to work harder to end the biting shortages of mealie-meal in the country. This comes as millers were yet to receive 50 000 t...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:26hrs | 2748 | by Staff reporter
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