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ON June 22, 2020, we ran a story headlined Lawyer in bribery storm about a lawyer from Kantor and Immerman, Agmos Moyo, who was representing South African firm, Umbrella Holding and Golstone against l...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1742 | by Editor
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1145 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4242 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 463 | by Jonathan Chando
High Court quashes MDC Alliance activists' conviction
BULAWAYO High Court on Tuesday granted the appeal made by three Plumtree-based MDC Alliance activists who were convicted in 2018 on political violence charges after clashing with Zanu-PF activists dur...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:00hrs | 2168 | by Staff reportetr
High Court ends Muthombeni's wee long detention over anti-Mnangagwa slur
HIGH Court Judge Justice Neville Wamambo on Monday ended the week-long detention of Ephraim Muthombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRAD), who wa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2000 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows in the fight against corruption with the Tuesday sacking of a Cabinet minister testimony of his stance to uproot the cancerous vice, a senior Government of...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3576 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporters disrupt Mwonzora rally
Three MDC Alliance supporters accused of disrupting MDC-T secretarygeneral Douglas Mwonzora's rally in Marondera at the weekend were yesterday arraigned before provincial magistrate ignatius Mhene fac...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:32hrs | 9512 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader denied bail
MDC Youth Assembly National Organizising Secretary Godfrey Kurauone who is in custody for allegedly underming the authority of President has been denied bail in Masvingo Magistrate court today....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:54hrs | 1031 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Sikhala waiting for a signal from Chamisa
COMBATIVE MDC Alliance vice-chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has once again warned that the country is on the edge - adding that frustrated Zimbabweans could soon rise against the government.I...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:00hrs | 9285 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MDC Alliance official arrested
MDC Alliance National youth organiser and ward 4 Masvingo urban councillor Godfrey Kurauone has been arrested today.Masvingo based award-winning human rights lawyer advocate Martin Mureri of M...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 16:45hrs | 7947 | by Staff Reporter
Free bail for Marondera MDC Alliance Trio
The trio of MDC Alliance Youth Assembly, Never Bakali, David Jorum and Tarisai Mudiwa were today granted free bail by Marondera Magistrate Liberty Garakara after spending the weekend languishing in po...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 15:46hrs | 943 | by Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
WATCH: Nurses and doctors arrested in Harare
Police in Harare have arrested 12 nurses and an unknown number of doctors at Sally Mugabe hospital.According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the arrested are charged with contr...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:01hrs | 7328 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pressure mounts over killer cop
POLICE are yet to identify the officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Bulawayo man with a senior official claiming provisions of the Inquest Act have now been invoked to ensure the case is not sw...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 19:01hrs | 4270 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1390 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Biti dismiss sanctions document
THE United Kingdom (UK) has dissociated itself from a letter allegedly written by their former Defence minister Geoffrey William Hoon, which fingers MDC vice president Tendai Biti and treasurer David ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 15:50hrs | 3385 | by Staff reporter
Teachers' salaries frozen
TWO vocal unionists representing rural teachers in Zimbabwe have not been paid for almost two years after the government froze their salaries after they took part in last year's protests against a ste...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:10hrs | 6009 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's MDC deliberately tried to soil security forces'
The MDC ALLIANCE took issue with the security forces for failing to intervene when the MDC-T took over Harvest House and instead deliberately tried to sully the image of the uniformed forces by making...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Khupe barred from holding MDC-T Congress
THE government has barred interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe from holding the party's planned extra-ordinary congress slated for July 31 - until the coronavirus pandemic is under control in the countr...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 17:24hrs | 7920 | by Staff reporter
Residents fined for violating lockdown rules win in court
A ZIMBABWEAN court has overturned the conviction of two Mutare residents after they successfully challenged the decision by some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members to order them to pay RTGS$1 000 ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 17:02hrs | 1965 | by Stephen Jakes
Pensioner sues over US dollar savings
AN 86-year-old pensioner is challenging the constitutionality of the statutory instrument (SI) that converted United States dollar balances to Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts, which resulte...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:28hrs | 5311 | by Staff reporter
Matiza censured over collapsed DIDG deal
IN the wake of the controversial termination of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal last year by cabinet, Attorney-General (AG) Prince Machaya reportedly wrote...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2656 | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks Chief Mvutu's potential successor
The High Court has nullified nomination of Mr Sanders Mlotshwa as a potential successor to the late Chief Mvutu and ordered a restart of the selection process saying gender cannot be used as grounds t...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:08hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Matiza, NRZ board clash
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Biggie Matiza has declared war on the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board and top management over failure to fully implement his directive on ca...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 22:26hrs | 2751 | by Staff reporter
Businessman loses house to wife
A SOUTH AFRICAN-based business executive walked out of his marriage empty-handed after the High Court awarded the family home jointly acquired to his estranged wife due to his failure to disclose to c...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:51hrs | 4322 | by Staff reporter
Divorced men stand to lose all their property to the estranged wife
The High Court has ruled that men who do not take care of their children while on separation stand to lose all their property to the estranged wife.high Court judge Justice Alphas Chitakunye m...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:28hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi, Russell dragged to court
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe's brother, Samson Marufu, is embroiled in a court battle with his nephew Russel Goreraza and businessman Genius Kadungure following a botched sale of a Mercedes Benz ML6...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:53hrs | 2060 | by Staff reporter
Suspend NetOne CEO suffers setback
SUSPENDED NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje and his alleged accomplices yesterday suffered an initial setback after a Harare magistrate threw out their application for refusal of remand....Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:53hrs | 1990 | by Staff reporter
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2989 | by Stephen Jakes
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo court jails MDC activist for insulting Mnangagwa
A Masvingo magistrate has remanded Programmes manager for Masvingo Centre for Research and Community Development (Macrad), Ephraim Mtombeni to 13 July after being charged with charged with insul...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:37hrs | 3190 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Plot to oust Khupe gathers pace
VULTURES are circling over MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe with insiders saying there is a plot to oust her by end of this month after she failed to convene an extraordinary congress (EOC) with...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:22hrs | 15721 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested over expired Press card
Freelance journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) vice-president Godfrey Mtimba was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking pictures of stranded commuters who were demonstrating at a Zupco ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested for 'insulting' Mnangagwa
MASVINGO-based journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) vice president, Godfrey Mtimba was arrested Monday on charges of insulting and undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 2314 | by newzimbabwe
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5130 | by Staff reporter
Khupe changes congress date
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T was yesterday forced to change its extra-ordinary congress date from September 4 to July 31 following legal advice from its lawyer Lovemore Madhuku. The faction had to re...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2913 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa abducted?
MDC Alliance's Goromonzi South Youth Chairperson Davison Chamisa and Mashonaland East Provincial executive member Ishmael Jeke is reported to have been abducted in connection with the whistle prot...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:19hrs | 8945 | by Staff reporter
There was no attempt to arrest Chiwenga, claims Chihuri
One of the alleged triggers of a 2017 coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe was based on false information, according to the former Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri.Chih...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5110 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu
Khupe in congress U-Turn
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date.This comes ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 6822 | by Staff reporter
'Godwin Matanga has no O' Level certificate'
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga is not qualified for the job, his predecessor Augustine Chihuri claims in court documents.Now living in exile, Chihuri also accuses Matanga of "conti...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:01hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3253 | by AFP
ED time is up - Sikhala
MDC Alliance National Vice Chairman Job Wiwa Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's time is up and he must resign before he is embarrassed by the disgruntled citizens due to his failure to ru...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1776 | by Stephen Jakes
Businessmen's fight drags in NPA boss
A TOP National Prosecuting Agency (NPA) official has been implicated in a scandal involving a Bulawayo couple embroiled in an alleged US$75 million loan fraud.Chris Mutangadura, the NPA's chie...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's faction receives another morale-sapping blow
IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa's MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic natio...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 9252 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1069 | by Charles Murindo
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4953 | by Staff reporter
ARTUZ leader arrested
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure was arrested in Harare yesterday and immediately transferred to Masvingo, where he is expected to stand trial for an ille...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
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