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The Zimbabwean political allegory: A dystopian complex
Read it to me Benjamin, Muriel the goat bleats pleadingly; "…, and all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."This quote from George Orwell's Animal Farm novel is pe...Published: 11 hrs ago | 868 | by Terence Q Ndlovu
Tsvangirai sidelined in new street names
City of Masvingo's quest to rename Hofmeyer Street after Morgan Tsvangirai has failed after the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing ignored the recommendation and gave the ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:58hrs | 2599 | by Staff reporter
Residents stampede for subsidised roller meal
GwERu and Bulawayo residents yesterday risked contracting the deadly coronavirus as they jostled to buy subsidised roller meal at DCK supermarkets.Police in riot gear and soldiers had a torrid...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
We are tired of being abused: Sikhala
MDC Alliance deputy chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said people are tired of being abused by the Zanu PF government which instead of taking time to listen to the people's concerns it oils its repressive...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:15hrs | 3411 | by Stephen Jakes
13 arrests as army, police quash demo
PEACEFUL protesters, among them prominent novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, were arrested yesterday as heavily armed soldiers and police crushed the planned pro...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Colonel Mugwisi buried
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) director of public relations, Colonel Overson Mugwisi, was a hardworker and remained loyal to the liberation war before and after independence, Minister of State for Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9867 | by Staff reporter
Protests: Army takes charge
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army and the police yesterday shut down the central business districts (CBDs) of major cities and towns, kicking out civilians and barricading all roads into city cent...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 4417 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Armed sodliers take over major CBDs
Armed soldiers and police officers stormed Harare and Bulawayo on Thursday beating up people and shutting down shops. In Bulawayo, armed soldiers and police entered the Central Business Distri...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 12:38hrs | 7235 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1340 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Amaveni stadium to host Blackman's body viewing
Deceased Kwekwe MP Masango Matambonadzo body will be in Ameveni stadium by 10am tomorrow.Bulawayo24.com has learnt that the body shall be taken the next day for burial in his homestead H...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 682 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Blackday for Kwekwe
Today has marked a black day for Kwekwe with the loss of the National Patriotic Front member of parliament for Kwekwe Central Matambanadzo Masango and 2 gold miners being trapped to death....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:25hrs | 9311 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
BREAKING: NPF Member of Parliament Masango Matambanadzo dies
National Patriotic Front Member of Parliament for Kwekwe Central Masango Matambanadzo has died. His passing on was announced by NPF Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire who said the party is yet to ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:53hrs | 5601 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fugitive Murderer surrenders himself to cops
A Kwekwe based murder suspect Tatenda Moyo surrendered himself to the police from his hiding base on Saturday.Moyo alleged...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 16:09hrs | 2193 | by Tarisai Mudahondo and Simbarashe Sithole
NRZ expects to fail to achieve target again
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will for the second consecutive year likely miss its annual freight movement target largely owing to the impact of Covid-19.NRZ public relations manager...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents resist renaming of streets after Mnangagwa
BULAWAYO residents have objected to the renaming of city streets after President Emmerson Mnangagwa, court papers filed at the High Court have revealed.Local Government minister July Moyo rece...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:37hrs | 4160 | by Staff reporter
Accident leaves one dead
A passenger died on the spot while the driver was critically injured when a blue Toyota Mark X they were travelling in rammed the back of a haulage truck about 3 km outside Gweru along the Gweru-Kwekw...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:12hrs | 1610 | by Staff reporter
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Nyamadzawo dies
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Alderman Reason Nyamadzawo has died.This was announced by MDC Alliance legislator for Kwekwe Settlement Chikwinya through his Facebook page."Have learnt with...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:24hrs | 1885 | by Stephen Jakes
Top cop appeals conviction, sentence
FORMER officer-in-charge Criminal Investigations Department in Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, who was last week sentenced to an effective two-year jail term on charges of releasing a stole...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
4 killed in road accident
FOUR people including a 3-months-old baby died on the spot after a commuter omnibus they were travelling in dislodged a rear tyre and veered off the road.The accident happened in the wee hours...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:46hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Looting exposé shakes Gideon Gono
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday appeared shaken to the core after names of government fat cats who benefited from the 2007/8 Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-funded farm mechanisation scheme were exp...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 9309 | by Staff reporter
RBZ looting talk aimed at whipping public emotions against Zanu-PF?
ZANU-PF has dismissed as baseless, claims that some of its senior officials looted millions of United States dollars in public funds through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s farm mechanisation sch...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will continue to arrest rights activists'
THE government will continue arresting human rights for violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations, Nick Mangwana, the Information Ministry secretary has warned.In the past few weeks, Zimbabwe ha...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 4220 | by newzimbabwe
Assault on property rights closes Zimbabwe for business
The government directive to suspend the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) operations on the 26th of June 2020 and the recent political threats to eject Old Mutual Zimbabwe, PPC and SeedCo International fr...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1358 | by Victor Bhoroma
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4582 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt using COVID-19 to lock down democracy'
GOVERNMENT has used COVID-19 to "lock down" democracy, a human rights lobby group, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has said.Speaking during a virtual meeting marking the launch of a COVID-19 r...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Police target Namatai again as High court ends detention of opposition councillor
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) members on Wednesday arrested Namatai Kwekweza, a pro-democracy campaigner and charged her with participating in a gathering with intent to promote public violence, brea...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 535 | by Stephen Jakes
Police arrest MDC Alliance youth chair
Disturbing news reaching us is that Emmerson Mnangagwa's illegitimate regime has once again illegally arrested one of our MDC Alliance Youth Chairperson, Sekai 'Muchaina' Marashe ahead of July 31. ...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 14:54hrs | 3590 | by Stephen Jakes
Khupe takes over chamisa's offices nationwide
MDC-T party secretary general, Mr Douglas Mwonzora yesterday said the party was pursuing legal action against the MDC-Alliance for continuing to occupy the party offices and properties national wide....Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:03hrs | 4506 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying Zimbabwe's Cyber Bill
This past week I was among those that were observing the Zimbabwean parliamentary publichearings on the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, gazetted on May 15 2020. These public hearings ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 248 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
4 killed in Gweru accident
FOUR people died on the spot when a Toyota Corsa vehicle they were travelling in was involved in a head on-collision with a haulage truck near Kaguvi Training Centre between Gweru and Kwekwe on Friday...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths foil Khupe office grab attempt in Kwekwe
REDCLIFF councillor, Nyasha Benza and some 15 other activists believed to be aligned to the Thokozani Khupe led MDC Saturday stormed MDC Alliance offices in Kwekwe and demanded the eviction of members...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
CID boss jailed for abuse of office
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal abuse of office. Gwandu will, however serve an effective two years in ja...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe seeks legal advice on Tsvangirai Street
KWEKWE councillors, who early this year passed a resolution to name a street after the late MDC founding icon Morgan Tsvangirai, have started seeking legal advice before implementing the decision to a...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:01hrs | 388 | 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 | 1223 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC suspends nine managers
NINE senior Zimbabwe Electricity, Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) managers have been suspended pending investigations over allegations of spearheading illegal power connections. ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1813 | by Staff reporter
Online, radio lessons challenged
GOVERNMENT'S efforts to offer on-line and radio lessons to schoolchildren stranded at home due to the COVID-19 lockdown, which forced schools to re-main closed, has been challenged by non-governmental...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exam centres moved
Zimsec has established alternative centres for the June 2020 examinations that begin today to replace a handful of schools that were being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres. In a statement o...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF united behind Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF is united behind President Mnangagwa as the party's sole 2023 Presidential candidate and will not yield to external or internal pressures imagined by its detractors now and in the future, Poli...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers up for a gold rush
TWO Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) members and their five accomplices were arrested at a roadblock after they were found in possession of 50 kilograms of gold ore.Prichard Padzuru (30) a corpora...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 3007 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1329 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 421 | by Staff reporter
Youth organisation call for immediate release of young activists
The Zimbabwe Youth Leadership Training (ZYLT) Alumni Association a platform for providing an efficient and democratic platform for debate, exchange of ideas and carriage of projects dedicated to the s...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 657 | by Stephen Jakes
US worries over abuse of women in Zimbabwe and not blacks in America
THE United States has expressed concern over the State-sponsored violence and political persecution of women in Zimbabwe and called for investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.This follo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1061 | 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 | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Fisherman drowns after hippo attack
A FISHERMAN drowned in a dam in Kwekwe during a fishing expedition with a colleague when their boat capsized after a hippopotamus attack. Ndumiso Nyamazana (age not given) died instantly while...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops accused of disrupting the economy
Security forces have been accused of disrupting the economy through the chaotic implementation of Covid-19 lockdown regulations after they forced the closure of Bulawayo businesses without notice last...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:37hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
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