Search / Mop-up
Mnangagwa was supposed to be in crashed chopper
The Zimbabwean government has confirmed that the helicopter which crash-landed at an airstrip in Masvingo on Sunday was initially meant to transport President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The President, who wa...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:34hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
War vets mop up vetting set for this month
The government is set to resume the mop-up vetting of war collaborators and non-combatants this month, with plans to publish the names of those who successfully pass the vetting, paving the way for th...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 11:33hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
'Mealie-meal readily available'
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has said surveys indicate that grain and mealie-meal are readily available in both the formal and informal markets, with the consumer watchdog expressing a...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to declare drought state of disaster
ZIMBABWE is expected to declare the drought which is ravaging the country a state of disaster in a bid to marshal resources and avert possible starvation, NewsDay can reveal.President Emmerson...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Delayed payments rile civil servants
SOME civil servants recruited by the Department of Civil Registry to issue national identity cards ahead of last year's general elections have expressed concern over delayed payment for their services...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CBZ commends Mthuli Ncube's bold inflation policy
CBZ Holdings Limited (CBZHL), the country's largest banking institution in terms of deposits and assets, has commended monetary authorities for taking bold inflation-targeted measures. The company has...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo flea burns
ABOUT 350 traders in Bulawayo have been left stranded after their wares were reduced to ashes by a raging inferno, which engulfed Mutize Flea Market, popularly known as the ‘Little Musina" early yes...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records its best ever tobacco sales
The curtain finally comes down on the 2023 tobacco marketing season after nearly four months of record sales with the official closing ceremony now set for 31 July.In a statement on Monday, th...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 19:44hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Voters roll for Zimbabwe elections to be accessible end of June
The voters' roll for the upcoming general elections in Zimbabwe will be made available to election candidates at the end of June, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said.This is according...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 11:53hrs | | by Ndou Paul
National mobile registration exercise extended
The Civil Registry Department will from next Monday send 129 national mobile registration units out again to process and facilitate the issuance of national documents required for voter registration....Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC struggling to control illegal dumping
The continued illegal dumping of litter in the Central Business District (CBD) despite various interventions by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has left councillors concerned as they seek more solutio...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mop-up registration for Zimsec candidates
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council is running a one-week mop-up registration for the November O-level and A-level examinations to catch late entries from examination centres, after regular regis...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate 'buses' rural voters to urban constituency
Zanu-PF central committee member Esau Mupfumi is in a storm for reportedly bussing voters from rural communities for a voter registration exercise in Mutare Central constituency ahead of the 2023 elec...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Give Gukurahundi victims IDs, says Chamisa's Harare MP
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator for Hatcliffe constituency, Allan Markham, has recommended that the national identity registration blitz cater for Gukurahundi victims and ex-farmworker...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe inflation drops to 269%
ZIMBABWE'S annual inflation rate dropped to 268,8% this month, as a series of novel measures including putting a stop to payments to most government contractors take effect.According to latest...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Internal Zanu-PF violence unsettles youth leader
RECENT political violence that rocked the ruling Zanu-PF party elections to choose Masvingo provincial youth chairperson has unsettled the party's youth league boss John Paradza.The post was l...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec extends examinations registration
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has extended the registration period for Grade 7, Ordinary and Advanced Level candidates to next Friday giving examination centres a week-long window ...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets new record of planted winter wheat hectares
ZIMBABWE has this year set a new record of planted winter wheat hectares and farmers have been exempt from electricity load shedding, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica M...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Census: ZimStart begins 5-day mop up
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) will in the next five days, be mopping up those who were not counted for one reason or the other, during last week's counting.Yesterday, ZimStat s...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Census results in 3 months
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) says it will release findings from the 2022 Zimbabwe Population and Housing Census that ended yesterday in three months' time.However, a mop-u...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Population census ends today
Counting for the 2022 population and housing census ends today, with those that were not found at home by enumerators being counted in a mop-up exercise which started yesterday.The count is to...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 11 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe tobacco in forecast busting show
ZIMBABWE'S tobacco output reached 202,8 million kilogrammes last week, surging past official predictions, which had projected volumes to close at 195 million kg this season. The marketing season kicks...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'IDs for Zimsec candidates not urgent'
ACTING Registrar-General (RG) Henry Machiri has said there is no urgency for issuance of identity cards to Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) candidates at public schools since they were no...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA soldiers in shoot-out with vehicle smugglers at Beitbridge
VEHICLE smugglers on Wednesday engaged in a shootout with South African soldiers at an illegal entry point in Beitbridge, forcing them to flee and leave behind three stolen vehicles which were destine...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smugglers flee into Zimbabwe after clash with SA troops
A GANG of vehicle smugglers yesterday fled into Zimbabwe from South Africa after a shootout with soldiers who foiled their attempt to take three stolen cars across the Limpopo River. Border co...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Scrapping of multi-currency regime: The implications
ON Monday, the government announced major changes in the monetary policy of Zimbabwe, highlighted by the ending of a 10-year multi-currency system.Further measures announced include the intend...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Respect Gwenzi
Return of the Zimdollar?
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya is due to release the monetary policy and the policy position is highly anticipated against the sustained monetary related macro-economic defi...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:00hrs | | by Respect Gwenzi
The year of justice is nigh!
The Bishop lives! Hallelujah!And so, too, does sungura.What a holiday!Sorry, ndakazoenda ndisina kutaura. You see, this world is corrosive, especially for men of the cloth like...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:44hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mudede's Office to open during elections
The Registrar-General's Office will be opened from today till Monday to assist members of the public who lost their national identity documents to obtain new ones to be able to vote during the harmoni...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2018 elections credibility is in danger
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other relevant state institutions turned a blind eye to thousands of violations during the registration of voters, thereby compromising the legitimacy of th...Published: 27 May 2018 at 18:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mudede in ID mop-up exercise
The Registrar-General's Office has embarked on a national civil registration mop-up exercise for people to acquire identity documents ahead of harmonised elections due in a few months. The one-month m...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudede's office in mop up exercise ahead of polls
The Registrar General's Office has embarked on a national civil registration mop-up exercise for people to acquire identity documents ahead of harmonised elections due in a few months time.The...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu-PF in mop-up BVR campaign
The Zanu-PF Harare Province Women's League has embarked on a mop up exercise to encourage members that have not yet registered under the bio metric voter registration (BVR) system to do so before regi...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe electoral system manipulation signs visible
SIGNS of a systematic manipulation of electoral processes ahead of this year's harmonised elections slated for July are beginning to show, an electoral monitoring body says.In a discussion pap...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Staffreporter
Govt considers waiving ID fees again
Government is considering waiving fees on identity particulars issued by the Registrar-General's Office for the second time in order to cater for potential registrants for the forthcoming harmonised e...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's statements do not accord to Constitution
This article focuses on the timing of elections and is necessitated by comments by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that general elections would be he...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC's long road to BVR success
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 14:14hrs | | by Charles Motsi
'Mnangagwa has no chance against MDC Alliance'
THE biometric voter registration (BVR) mop-up exercise ends this week and President Emmerson Mnangagwa can proclaim elections anytime from now to ensure the polls are held before August in accordance ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CSOs voter registration campaign reaches Bveke
Harare - BVEKE shopping centre, down in Mt. Darwin area in Mashonaland Central province of Zimbabwe, can be reached after labouring in the sweltering heat through a gravel road lined with wilting crop...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by ZimRights
Zanu-PF seeks to correct BVR anomaly
Zanu-PF members have been urged to take advantage of the three-week window afforded by the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) mop-up exercise after it emerged that some party members mistook the issua...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimRights scales up BVR mobilisation
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has lined up a number of community engagement activities to urge people to register as voter ahead of the 2018 elections.On Friday, January 19...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 08:52hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF reads riot act
THE ruling Zanu-PF has embarked on a series of rallies aimed at clarifying to their supporters events leading to Operation Restore Legacy amid revelations that there were unscrupulous individuals fome...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral plan on course, says Zec
The countrywide biometric voter registration exercise has not been affected by recent developments that have seen the military staging a popular political and socio-economic stabilisation intervention...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outlawing metal IDs for BVR registration is electoral fraud
Tobaiwa Mudede's decree that metallic National Identity Cards are not permissible for Biometric Voter Registration because they are not machine readable is not just illegal, but a sheer desperate atte...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 07:08hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tsvangirai claims to have survived many assassination attempts
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told his supporters in Chitungwiza how he had survived numerous assassination attempts at the hands of Zanu-PF goons - further assuring anxious Zimbab...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 13:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai mops up consultation exercise
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will tomorrow begin a three-day mop-up exercise of his listening tour that has taken him to all the country's 10 provinces in the past one-and-half months.Tsvang...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 12:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe targets 190mln kg tobacco output
Zimbabwe has revised its tobacco sales targets from 175mln kg to 190 million as deliveries continue to trickle in. This was after the country last week surpassed its initial target by more...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
NBS a big investment boost to Bulawayo says Mphoko
The opening of the second branch of the National Building Society (NBS) in Bulawayo has been seen as an investment confidence boost by the National Social Security authority (NSSA) which must be emula...Published: 26 May 2016 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
800 000 new voters register
Over 800 000 voters have registered with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to vote since the commission took over the voters roll early last year, increasing the size of the electorate to 6,4 million....Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories