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MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 6 mins ago | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Council police officers to be given arresting powers
GOVERNMENT is crafting an enabling legislative framework for establishment of municipal courts across the country, giving council police officers arresting powers.The impending laws would spec...Published: 5 hrs ago | 780 | by Staff reporter
The many political lives of Mohadi
WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternit...Published: 6 hrs ago | 553 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Rights commission says to broke to monitor 2023 polls
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has warned that it may not be able to monitor the 2023 elections citing budgetary constraints.In a report presented in Parliament last week, the ZHR...Published: 6 hrs ago | 67 | by Staff reporter
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 6 hrs ago | 167 | by Pamenus Tuso
Gweru orders owners to fix dilapidated buildings within 3 months
THE City of Gweru has given three-months' ultimatum to owners of dilapidated buildings to fix them.It said after the deadline it will either close or demolish the buildings hence the need for ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 93 | by Staff reporter
370km of Harare-Beitbridge road open to traffic
The ongoing upgrade of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway into a modern road by the Second Republic has now seen a total of 370km being opened to traffic, with many other roads being reconstructed...Published: 6 hrs ago | 195 | by Staff reporter
70% registered to vote, claims ZEC
More than 70 percent of Zimbabweans eligible to vote have registered and are already on the voters roll, the chief elections officer of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Mr Utoile Silaigwana, has tol...Published: 6 hrs ago | 64 | by Staff reporter
'Ramaphosa to challenge section 89 report in his ally Zondo's court'
President Cyril Ramaphosa's lawyer has confirmed that he will seek to challenge, in the Constitutional Court, the section 89 panel report which disbelieved his account of the Phala Phala break-in....Published: 19 hrs ago | 926 | by Staff reporter
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 19 hrs ago | 2154 | by Staff reporter
Joburg motorist arrested as SA registered Audi A4 found fitted with Zimbabwean number plates
A 42-year-old man has been arrested by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department's (JMPD) undercover reaction unit officers in Ormonde for allegedly committing fraud.JMPD spokesperson Xo...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:23hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa says Ministers' US$20m controversial allowances not budget for
CONTROVERSY over the huge housing allowances for Zimbabwean ministers and deputy ministers has deepened amid revelations the money was not budgeted for in the first place.This is according to ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe dragged into council graft scandal
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has been accused of influencing the return into office of two Mvurwi council officials suspended for alleged corruption.Town secretary Sherry Nyakudya and...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:13hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
UZ exam paper leaks under probe
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has taken a keen interest in reports that rich and politically exposed persons are bribing their way to obtain law qualifications at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:13hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's 12 children struggling to survive
Opposition MP Job Sikhala refused to go to court this week for the ruling on his 10th bail application in protest against what he knew would be the outcome.His lawyer, Freddy Masarirevu, told ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:09hrs | 3225 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court says magistrate was too lenient with Ex-minister Kagonye
HIGH Court judge, Justice Benjamin Chikowero, has lashed out at jailed former minister, Petronella Kagonye after she the sought Supreme Court's intervention in her appeal against imprisonment, stating...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:08hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Kariba to continue producing electricity
KARIBA South Hydro Power Station will no longer have to shut down even though it has exhausted its water allocation for this year, but is limited to an average of 300 megawatts, half what it was able ...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Zimra boosts manpower at ports of entry
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has beefed up its manpower at the country's borders to ensure smooth movement of goods and people as the festive season beckons.The Beitbridge Border Pos...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:05hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Harare diarrhoea outbreak rages
Harare City Council is producing about a quarter of the residents' daily potable water requirements, with the authorities last week sanctioning a rationing regime amid a diarrhoea outbreak in the capi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chides CCC MPs for getting US$40 000 loans
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says the US$40 000 loans given to legislators were in fact bribes to stop the MPs from speaking out against ongoing looting.He says a...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:12hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's bribe-taking cops warned
Police have warned officers against dabbling in corrupt activities including taking bribes from motorists saying the move was the key driver of road traffic accidents as unroadworthy vehicles were all...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Cotton farmers give Mnangagwa's Intwasa middle finger
Some cotton farmers who got free inputs from President's Emmerson Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza programme have chosen the most unorthodox way to pay back the Zimbabwean leader's presumed benevolence through s...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:15hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman physically, emotionally and racially abused in alleged domestic violence campaign
A Woman was subjected to a prolonged campaign of domestic abuse by her partner, a court has heard.Peter Vermaak (54) from Charlemont Street, Moy faces four counts of assault, twice causing act...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:14hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter
'No funding for power imports'
ZIMBABWE could be headed for darker days as Energy and Power Development minister Zhemu Soda yesterday revealed that there was no immediate funding to ease power outages.Zhemu revealed this af...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:13hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Rival amakorokoza groups clash in Nkankezi
GOGO Martha Mlotshwa swears that she has never seen so much blood in her 75 years of existence.At her age, she has seen it all - the good, the bad and the worst of humanity but the level of vi...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:12hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says everyone has a duty to clean Zimbabwe
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said it was every citizen's duty to clean up Zimbabwe and called for a high stakeholder engagement and creation of public private partnerships (PPP) for b...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:12hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Power Company to get 300MW from Kariba
Kariba South Hydro Power Station will no longer have to shut down even though it has exhausted its water allocation for this year, but is limited to an average of 300 megawatts, half what it was able ...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:11hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa MPs jostle for US$40,000 housing loan
PARLIAMENTARIANS are legally bound to service the recently extended US$40 000 residential stands loans at an interest rate of 5% for the next five years.Some MPs have offered vehicles as colla...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:31hrs | 384 | by Staff rteporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | 210 | by Staff rteporter
Chiwenga calls Zimbabwe hotels to order
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has warned operators in the hospitality industry against charging exorbitant rates which he said contributed to economic instability.Officially opening the ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 7645 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new HIV infections drop 8,4%
NEW HIV infections in the country dropped from 25 000 in 2020 to 22 800, which translates to 8,4%, in 2021, National Aids Council chief executive officer Bernard Madzima said yesterday.Madzima...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants compromising credibility of 2023 polls'
THE Residents Association Coalition for Electoral Reforms (Racer) says the country's civil servants' declaration of allegiance to the ruling Zanu-PF party presidential candidate President Emmerson Mna...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
'Graft rife in Zimbabwe courts'
Corruption has to be eliminated in the court system so that the courts can then eliminate it elsewhere, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson Justice Loyce Matanda-Moyo said yeste...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:55hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
New free-to-air satellite service Imperial TV launched
A new free-to-air satellite TV service Imperial TV HD has been launched on Eutelsat 7B at 7° E available in 83 countries with an estimated combined viewership of 53 million. Imperial TV's bou...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 15:52hrs | 5224 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa rebukes party MPs who accepted government loot
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday issued a guarded condemnation of party MPs who have joined the queue to receive government's US$40,000 windfall issued generously to...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 2402 | by Staff reporter
ZEC claims over a hundred failed attempts to hack into its voters roll server
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chief Elections Officer Utoile Silaigwana has told parliament that there has been over a hundred failed attempts to hack into its voters roll server, a day after re...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
ZRP officer faces grim prospect of his pay being garnished for torturing civilian
A ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officer could soon have his monthly salary garnished to pay up ZW$400,000 damages to a Chitungwiza man, Ednock Dube, who he tortured for violating Covid-19 curfew regu...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs defy Chamisa on US$40,000 'loot'
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday blasted legislators from his party for accepting a US$40 000 loan facilities from Parliament.Government has offer...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 1782 | by Staff reporter
Team Pachedu labelled a terrorist organisation
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday accused a group of data analysts, Team Pachedu, of employing "terrorist tactics" to try to hack into its system and destabilise the country's election...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:01hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
'Police invisible in communities'
NATIONAL police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has urged police officers to improve their engagement with members of the public following complaints of police invisibility in communit...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa's doctors on-call doctors sleep in cars
DOCTORS based at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have demanded a meeting over the deteriorating conditions at the hospital which they say are leading to patients dying from preventable illnesses....Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
High Court reinstates Buyanga arrest warrant
THE High Court has set aside the cancellation of a warrant of arrest for South Africa-based controversial businessperson Frank Buyanga Sadiqi.This follows an application by the National Prosec...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
The alternative Sona by Trevor Ncube
DEAR compatriots, comrades, and friends.Since independence in 1980, our nation has experienced moments of joy punctuated with anguish and trauma.The dream of our liberation struggle of...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 278 | by Trevor Ncube
Mnangagwa promotes 40 senior military officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, has promoted 40 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) senior officers.Twenty Lieutenant Colonels were promoted to full Colonels w...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Girls outperform boys in Grade 7
Grade Seven examination results released by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday produced a pass rate of 40,09 percent, marginally below the 41,13 percent of last year, but girl...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Biti details illegal land grab in dodgy deal between Augur Investments and Harare City Council
HARARE East legislator, Tendai Biti has revealed that part of the land reportedly grabbed by Augur Investments in their dispute with the City of Harare (COH) was nefariously seized without the knowled...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 18:44hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Hacking attempts made on ZEC server
There have been several attempts to hack a server of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and the electoral management body has made a police report against a shadowy group calling themselves Team ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 18:42hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to boycott 2023 elections?
Sources within the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC have revealed that a fierce debate on whether or not to participate in next year's elections is raging. According to the sources, the debate has...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 10:37hrs | 4316 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe turns to Zambia for power bailout'
ZIMBABWE is reportedly negotiating with neighbouring Zambia for additional power imports following indications that the country's Kariba Power Station could soon be switched off due to low water level...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt failing Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted failing to run elections properly, but has laid the blame on poor funding by the State.In its latest report on the March 26 by-elections, Z...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
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