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Makandiwa 'fake prophecy' trial date set
UNITED Family International Church (Ufic) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, who are embroiled in a $6,5 million litigation over an alleged "false prophecy", will now have to defend...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1113 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Finance Minister Ncube - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
You may remember the ever-popular Hollywood film Groundhog Day. (It seems to shown every day!) The film tells the story of a man who had to repeatedly relive the previous day until he finally learnt t...Published: 21 hrs ago | 618 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
The Church as seen by a Young Layman: Unmasking the darker side of modernity in Christianity
It is now forty one years since Steve Biko, the doyen of South African Black Consciousness Movement passed on. A part of this piece title is developed from Steve Biko's, I Write What I Like. Although ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 17:03hrs | 1358 | by Brian Maregedze and Tedious Ncube
Remembering Sidney Malunga
TWENTY-four years ago on August 28 my father died. It was sudden, unexpected, shocking!BY SIPHOSAMI MALUNGAHe had endured and survived much suffering in his lifetime. He had struggled ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 15:47hrs | 2309 | by Siphosami Malunga
Zanu-PF, Mines ministry officials grab gold mine
The Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has intervened in a mine ownership wrangle after senior Zanu-PF officials and officials from the Mines ministry attempted to wrestle a gold mine from Chief Sigodo in...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1265 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile Gang: 'Last man standing'
This week we publish the first part of an account from Enock Sithole, the lone survivor and commander of the six-member Crocodile Gang that operated in Melsetter (Chimanimani) in the 1960s. The group ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:42hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs the best brains Zimbabwe can produce
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently in New York, United States of America, for the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Friday, he had an interview with CNN's Christi...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's party has not disbanded
The Eunice Sandi Moyo-led National Patriotic Front yesterday dispelled claims by a rival faction of NPF led by retired Brigadier General Ambrose Mutinhiri that the party has been disbanded because it ...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 19:22hrs | 4599 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa waiting for Masvingo mayor's resignation
The MDC Alliance says nothing has changed with regards to its decision to force controversially-elected new City of Masvingo mayor, Collen Maboke to step down and pave way for fresh elections....Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:06hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as Mnangagwa 'visits' RBZ
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made two surprise visits to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Tuesday, which generated a lot of anxiety among staff and the public after he spent a combined four hours at th...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 8467 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 pupil impregnates own cousin
Chief Makope has expressed dismay over three cases of incest by school children in his area of jurisdiction.According to Makope a cousin brother and a sister from Mbari Secondary school in Mvu...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 19:47hrs | 4272 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimra workers resist lifestyle audits
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) and its employees have clashed over loss control lifestyle audits after the board approved a policy which permits use of the audit findings as a basis for contract r...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Village head sues chief over cattle
A CHIRUMANZU village head, Sifile Chiradza, has appealed to the Mvuma Magistrates' Court to intervene in a matter in which Chief Chirumanzu, born Gerald Mudzengi, is allegedly failing to pay back his ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Nomazulu Thata, not all Mthwakazi women are scared of their freedom like you
As I put this piece together in response to your article that appeared on Bulawayo 24 news on 18 September 2018, I'm shocked as to why you tremble in fear of freedom to the point of inviting oth...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 22:19hrs | 1093 | by Khohliso Maqhoba
Zimbabwe teachers unions call for schools closure over cholera
Faced with a nationwide cholera outbreak that has claimed 31 lives and left thousands others infected, two leading teachers' unions have called for the closure of all schools until the disease is cont...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa summons Victoria Falls councillors
MDC ALLIANCE Matabeleland North provincial management committee members and Victoria Falls councillors have been summoned to appear before party leader Nelson Chamisa in Harare today."All Vict...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:24hrs | 2691 | by Staff reporter
ZBC to pay out $1,2m to ex-general manager
The Supreme Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) to pay its former general manager (radio programming), Allan Chiweshe, over $1, 2 million in unpaid salaries and benefits afte...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-finance minister in $20k Land Development Levy debt
Mazowe Rural District Council has petitioned the High court seeking an order to compel former Finance minister, Christopher Kuruneri, to settle a $20 677 Land Development Levy debt.Through its...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand pay for invigilating
TEACHERS have demanded payment from the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) for invigilating public examinations. Invigilation has always been deemed part of teachers' duties so they...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Court inspects ZBC records in Pambuka, Mazivisa fraud case
A HARARE court yesterday inspected Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) records in a case which television personality Oscar Pambuka and former Zanu PF legislator Psychology Maziwisa are accused of...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Hiding in the comforts of Sweden: Paul Siwela pens a letter to Mnangagwa
Dear Bhudi Paul, With dismay I read the letter you wrote President Mnangagwa today. I hasten to say that I was disappointed by this militant language you have now adopted as a party: MLO. What...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 20:25hrs | 3492 | by Nomazulu Thata
Teachers request ZIMSEC meeting
Teachers under the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe PTZU have threatened to boycott participating in the upcoming ZIMSEC examinations if the examination board fails to engage them and come up wi...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:31hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Paul Siwela pens letter to Mnangagwa, Demands immediate restoration of Matabeleland State
Dear President ED Mnangagwa, Ref: Demand for Immediate Restoration of Matabeleland StateYour Excellency, I am writing to you in my capacity as t...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 10:57hrs | 4616 | by Paul Siwela
Zanu-PF structures making Mnangagwa unpopular in Manicaland
WAR veterans in Manicaland are up in arms against the Zanu-PF provincial leadership, accusing the executive of making party leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa unpopular in the province.Alread...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa alliance victory leaves Zanu-PF divided in Chiredzi
The election of an MDC Alliance councillor and an independent as chairman and deputy chair of Chiredzi Town Council has left the ruling Zanu-PF party deeply divided.Zanu-PF won resoundingly al...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts fired Zanu-PF rebels
Zanu-PF has extended an olive branch to former party cadres who were sacked between 2014 and last year. Among those invited back into the party are Rugare Gumbo, Didymus Mutasa, Ray Kaukonde, ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:48hrs | 13448 | by Staff reporter
Letter to Nelson 'Mischief' Chamisa
Dear Mr Chamisa First, greetings from the cotton tuft-haired elders in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve. Admittedly, this is the first time that the council of Karitundundu, the agel...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 3294 | by Staff reporter
Sugar firm in $45m tax storm
Zimbabwe Sugar Sales (ZSS) Ltd, a company that sells and distributes sugar on behalf of Hippo Valley Estates and Triangle Limited, has been caught up in a $45 million tax evasion storm. The Zi...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Small political parties likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023
A number of opposition political parties are likely to collapse before the next polls in 2023 primarily as a result of lack of funding and their failure to gain traction at the just-ended polls....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:36hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Mphoko from Choppies exposed
Zimbabwean shareholders in the Botswana-based multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer Choppies Enterprises have accused the company's other shareholders of trying to "capture" them like...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:33hrs | 5314 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forces Obert Mpofu to relinquish his Senate seat
Former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has been forced to relinquish his Senate seat to make way for his successor Cain Mathema, a week after he lost his Cabinet post.President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:14hrs | 14793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa woos Mugabe protégé
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met one of former president Robert Mugabe's top allies, Ambrose Mutinhiri, amid indications that the Zanu-PF leader is on a charm offensive to lure back his foes into the ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:05hrs | 6698 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec prints exam papers in the UK
THE Zimbabwe Examinations Council (Zimsec) is printing part of the November public examination papers in the United Kingdom to avoid leakages, it has been revealed.Zimsec has its own printing ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to my Mother - My heroine
Dear Mom, I'm not sure where to actually start this letter, because I have so much to say.I think it's difficult as a child to express a lot of things to their mother especially if its...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 353 | by Mberi Prince
Bread price shoots up, bakeries shut down
THE price of bread is set to go up today as bakers struggle to secure flour amid rising operational costs and shortage of foreign currency to buy essential raw materials and equipment, it has emerged....Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:24hrs | 2878 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 2884 | by Igomombe
Sipepa Nkomo regrets dumping Tsvangirai for Biti
Former Water minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, who recently resigned from politics, has revealed how he painfully regrets dumping the MDC then led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai for a splinter party led by...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:09hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporter fights UK deportation
Human rights organisations have accused the Home Office of breaking international law after it decided to deport a Zimbabwean member of the opposition party whose life would be in danger if he returne...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:59hrs | 4837 | by theguardian.com
MDC @ 19 Celebrations postponed
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has postponed its 19th Anniversary celebrations that were slated for this Saturday 15 September 2018 due to the cholera outbreak in some parts of Harare. The A...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:05hrs | 2663 | by Cllr Jacob Mafume
Female representation in local authorities dips
Female representation in local authorities has continued to drop since 2008 with a paltry 261 women councillors voted into office in the July 30 polls, down from 373 and 323 in 2008 and 2013, respecti...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland in flames
ZANU-PF's former Manicaland provincial vice-chairman Joseph Mujati has been banned from carrying out party activities on allegations of decampaigning provincial chairman, Mike Madiro, as factionalism ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 4364 | by Staff reporter
'Engage every Zimbabwean' Manyika tells ED - fishing for gravy train seat, reward for selling-out
"In an open letter to Mnangagwa dated September 11, (Noah) Manyika said there was need for the country to avoid the trauma of disputed elections in future to ensure whoever is elected can govern with ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 16:41hrs | 2369 | by Nomusa Garikai
Debt-ridden CSC downscales
COLD Storage Company (Ltd), a beef producer with refrigerated warehousing, has downscaled its operations and put its employees on a "short time" work schedule under which they will now be paid based o...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs to engaging every citizen locally and abroad
Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika has said Zimbabwe's economic transformation needs President Emmerson Mnangagwa to go beyond appointing a good Cabinet to engaging every citizen locally and ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Chipanga sued for grabbing farmer's property
One of former Wakefield Estate owners, Andrew Dawson, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to prohibit former Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanayi Chipanga from taking over his assets.Daws...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter
Bid to spite whistle-blower backfires on Zimra official
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has suspended its commissioner responsible for investigations Charles Jaure with immediate effect after he was implicated in a bribery case in which he allegedly...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:14hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa downgrades Tendai Biti
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has set the stage for fresh clashes with Tendai Biti after he boldly elevated Welshman Ncube to the lofty position of party Vice President while downgrading the former Financ...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:51hrs | 5969 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's NPP on the verge of collapse
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru's National People's Party (NPP) is on the verge of collapse after members of its national leadership have begun resigning en masse.Amongst those who have dit...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:51hrs | 1427 | by Staff
Zimbabwe's 'enemy of the people' returns home
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist Wilf Mbanga reflects on his return home after 15 years in exile - and 10 months after long-time leader Robert Mugabe was ousted from office....Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 10:43hrs | 3813 | by BBC News
Mujuru partner joins Zanu-PF
OPPOSITION Democratic Assembly for Restoration and Empowerment (Dare) leader Gilbert Dzikiti has dumped his own party that was a member of People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC), led by National People's Pa...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
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