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African Bishops push for greater autonomy in UMC
African bishops in the United Methodist Church (UMC) have resolved to push for the regionalisation of the denomination's structures, seeking greater autonomy and a stronger voice in global decision-ma...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 13:38hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Nurses in desperate bid to flee Zimbabwe
Thousands of Zimbabwean nurses are stranded and financially drained after spending up to US$2 000 each in failed attempts to migrate for better-paying jobs abroad, as government authorities allegedly ...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 09:03hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Number of women filing to end marriages soars
Zimbabwe is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of women initiating divorce, according to the latest national data. A new survey shows that nearly 100,000 more women are now divorced or separate...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 14:39hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF warned against donating the party to wealthy elites
A senior government official has cautioned against allowing wealthy individuals to manipulate Zanu-PF structures through their donations, warning that the revolutionary party risks straying from its i...Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 22:06hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Kadewere signs for Greek side Aris Thessaloniki
Zimbabwe international forward Tino Kadewere has completed a move to Greek Super League side Aris Thessaloniki on a free transfer, bringing an end to his underwhelming stint in France with Nantes....Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 13:30hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Edgars Zimbabwe customers seek longer payment plans
Clothing retailer Edgars Stores Limited says more of its customers are increasingly requesting longer payment periods of up to nine months to settle their clothing purchases, a clear reflection of the...Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:27hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Pushcart operators blamed for City chaos
Pushcarts, once seen as a harmless tool of livelihood for many struggling Zimbabweans, have become a growing source of frustration and danger for Harare residents. The city's central business district...Published: 20 Jul 2025 at 09:18hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Rev. Dongo, so you'll gladly accept cash from the Devil just to avoid looking for money?
As the saying goes, the love of money is the root of all evil - and it seems some so-called "churches" are finding that temptation far too irresistible.It is astonishing - and frankly heartbre...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:19hrs | 1017 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
School accused of emotional abuse over unpaid levies
Parents of learners at Helemu Primary School in Bulawayo have accused the school of emotionally abusing children whose families are unable to pay bus and stationery levies, sparking outrage over the t...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 20:56hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man denied bail in SA over rape of landlord's daughter
The Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court in Pretoria has denied bail to a 55-year-old Zimbabwean national based in Saulsville, who was charged with three counts of raping his landlord's 12-year-old daugh...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:52hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Zesa spreads prepaid meters to farms
ZESA Holdings has been ordered to implement prepaid and smart electricity meters across all sectors of the economy by October this year, a government move aimed at enhancing revenue collection and cur...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 08:30hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa kicks the can down the road
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, a key political ally instrumental in Ramaphosa's rise to the presidency in 2017, amid allegatio...Published: 14 Jul 2025 at 08:02hrs | 1522 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to decentralise treatment of cancer
Stakeholders in Zimbabwe's health sector have commended the Government for taking significant steps to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment, with plans now in motion to decentralise services beyond ...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:33hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2 rotten apples
One of life's greatest follies is assuming that what matters to us matters equally to others. That our fears are shared, our desires understood, our sense of decency mutual. Quite the contrary, realit...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 09:35hrs | 3048 | by Edmund Kudzayi
Zanu-PF turns party office into illegal night club
The Government has ordered the immediate closure of a Zanu-PF party office converted into a nightclub in Harare's Borrowdale area following mounting complaints from local residents over persistent noi...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:56hrs | 1321 | by Staff reporter
Zesa western region contract workers down tools
More than 30 contract workers operating hired vehicles for the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) in the western region have downed tools in protest over what they desc...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:26hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Church summons police, politicians over drugs menace
The St John Apostolic Church of the Whole World has called on politicians and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to intensity fight against drugs and substances abuse scourge amongst communities, with the...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 10:44hrs | 171 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Hwedza
Dynamos' slow but obvious death
Dynamos' downfall is no longer a rumor - it's a reality show, and the doubting Thomases are now the panic-stricken prophets, DeMbare DotComs reported. The problem isn't the coaching staff...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 11:31hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Councilors in near fist fight over international trips
A tense Masvingo City Council meeting held on June 27 nearly turned violent as councilors clashed over a proposed international trip to Zambia and the licensing of a new liquor operator in Hills...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:26hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Mai Jeremaya rape suspects found not guilty
Harare magistrate Letwin Rwodzi has acquitted Thabo Dube and Martin Charlie, two men accused of raping socialite Ashley Masendeke, popularly known as Mai Jeremaya, after ruling that the State failed t...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 12:51hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis
Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis as contribution arrears soar to a staggering US$93 million, prompting the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) to announce an aggressive enforceme...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:27hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
South Africa urged to deport foreign convicts
South Africa's Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has proposed the deportation of foreign nationals serving prison terms, arguing that the move would drastically cut the R11 million spen...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 11:44hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
Failure to invest in youth sexual health could cost Zimbabwe $3.6bn
A new report by UNAIDS reveals that Zimbabwe stands to save billions of dollars by investing in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services targeted at young people. The study, titled Th...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 18:36hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
'Bring in ZACC to clean up Highlanders'
Highlanders Football Club is currently engulfed in a storm of controversy following the sudden resignation of Acting CEO Kindman Ndlovu, who last week submitted a scathing letter citing a toxic workin...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 13:14hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi hearings turned into 'a farce'
An international researcher and leading authority on state-sponsored atrocities has sharply criticised the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, describing the closed-door process as a "final betrayal"...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 19:00hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
ZERA defends US$191,000 IT equipment purchase
Postal, courier volumes decline 4%MidweekThe Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has released its abridged sector performance report for the first quarter o...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:57hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zesa rebundling begins
Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) has initiated the process of rebundling ZESA Holdings, aiming to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs within Zimbabwe's struggling electricity secto...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:21hrs | 7448 | by Staff reporter
Mass exodus of teachers hits Zimbabwe's education sector
Zimbabwe's education sector is facing a worsening crisis as thousands of government-employed teachers continue to resign each year due to poor salaries, lack of job satisfaction, and growing politicis...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:03hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Dembare teetering on the edge of collapse
Once the undisputed giants of Zimbabwean football, Dynamos Football Club is now teetering on the edge of collapse. After years of decline, fans are beginning to fear the unthinkable - that the legenda...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 21:15hrs | 2231 | by Staff reporter
Bosso acting CEO quits
Highlanders Football Club is on the verge of making a critical leadership decision that could shape its trajectory both on and off the field. The Bulawayo giants are scheduled to interview four candid...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 09:22hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Growth prospects shine in Zimbabwe's construction markets
Construction markets in Zimbabwe and South Africa are expected to maintain a strong growth trajectory, creating favorable conditions for companies like PPC to enhance their competitiveness against imp...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:17hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
South Africans, Zimbabweans pray together after xenophobic attacks
Last month's killing of a South African man in Valencia, Addo, ignited devastating xenophobic revenge attacks that left at least four immigrants dead, dozens injured, and hundreds of families displace...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:08hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
Coventry faces difficult task
The world that Zimbabwean sports icon Kirsty Coventry steps into today as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is already vastly different from the one that elected her just ...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:32hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Freddy fails to appear in court again
Self-proclaimed prophet Tapiwa Freddy has, for the tenth time, failed to appear at the Kadoma Magistrate's Court, where he is a key witness in a legal battle over a disputed land donation involving pr...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:03hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Manicaland ready for Hlanganani
Manicaland Province has declared its full readiness to host the prestigious Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo for the first time outside Bulawayo, with extensive upgrades to key infrastructure, t...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:35hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Inside Zimbabwe's market of pregnant vendors
Commuters along Seke Road have started calling the busy H Bus stop by a new and curious name - "Pamimba", a term referring to pregnancy in Shona. The moniker reflects an unusual yet poignant reality: ...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:35hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Dembare withdraw from 2025-26 CAF Confederation Cup
Cash-strapped Harare football giants Dynamos FC have officially pulled out of the 2025-26 CAF Confederation Cup, citing overwhelming financial constraints and the ongoing lack of a CAF-approved home s...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:28hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Zebra Kiss bus crew abducts, assaults cross-border trader
A cross-border trader was abducted, assaulted, and humiliated by a Zebra Kiss bus crew in a harrowing case of mistaken identity that has left the woman physically and emotionally scarred.Charl...Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:36hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drivers will need medical report to renew licences
Seventy-year-old Sekuru Moyo was unsettled when he read a newspaper report suggesting that all local drivers might soon be required to undergo mandatory retesting. For Moyo, whose daily life revolves ...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:31hrs | 16725 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to slash regulatory fees for beef, dairy and food processing sectors
The Government will soon gazette a revised schedule of regulatory fees for three key agricultural sub-sectors - beef, dairy and food processing - in a move designed to enhance the competitiveness of l...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:55hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Silent jobs massacre sweeps through Zimbabwe
A silent but brutal jobs massacre is sweeping across Zimbabwe's construction industry, as companies contracted by the government for key infrastructure projects plunge into financial turmoil due to ch...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:04hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Land bonanza for Zimbabwe civil servants, war veterans
Civil servants and war veterans are set to benefit from heavily discounted land purchases under a bold new government land distribution initiative aimed at empowering citizens and recognising the cont...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 13:36hrs | 4489 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans appreciate real development but can't keep quiet when it's a veil for looting
This is a fact we all need to understand. Zimbabweans are a naturally appreciative people. We are not inherently negative or ungrateful. On the contrary, we cherish and celebra...Published: 31 May 2025 at 19:31hrs | 3102 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's pension crisis: Full compensation for 2008 losses may take 100 years
Zimbabwe's pension funds have sounded the alarm over their inability to compensate retirees who lost their life savings during the 2008 economic collapse, warning that, at current fund levels, full re...Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:08hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
BCC resumes sorghum production
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resumed commercial sorghum farming at Aisleby Farm after a five-year hiatus, aiming to diversify income sources and reduce dependence on ratepayer funding. The init...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:54hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Businessman in messy divorce
Harare businessman Itai Samanyai is currently embroiled in a heated divorce battle with his estranged wife, Grace Precious Mutongerwa-Samanyai, amid serious allegations of forged signatures linked to ...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:53hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
There were no Zvigananda under Smith because Rhodesians loved Zimbabwe more than ZANU-PF!
There is something tragically ironic about the state Zimbabwe finds itself in today.A country that was once described by none other than former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere as the "jewel...Published: 27 May 2025 at 20:45hrs | 1238 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why were Zimbabweans left behind 45 years after independence, in the first place?
There's always something telling - yet deeply disturbing - about the mantras repeated by the Zimbabwean government.Yesterday, I watched a report on the state-controlled broadcaster in which th...Published: 24 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 1377 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Treasury launches last-ditch push to stabilise Zimbabwe economy
Zimbabwe's Treasury has embarked on a last-ditch effort to stabilise the country's fragile economy, amid growing fears that policy inconsistency, inflation, and currency volatility could derail indust...Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:33hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
No, Mr. Chivayo, it's not your money, it's ours!
It's mind-boggling how easily some people slip into delusion.Wicknell Chivayo's recent outburst on social media - declaring that he has no obligation to assist public hospitals and can do what...Published: 20 May 2025 at 21:36hrs | 1472 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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