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Pupils to proceed to next grade
Pupils will proceed to the next grade next year despite limited learning this year, Senators heard yesterday. Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said p...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will soon be making its own number plates
Zimbabwe will soon be making its own number plates that follow international standards and common Sadc guidelines and will cost motorists just over US$45, significantly less than the US$80 that import...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2202 | by Staff reporter
NetOne, TelOne refurbish Mpilo Hospital ward
STATE-RUN telecommunications companies NetOne and TelOne yesterday unveiled a refurbished wing at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo as part of their corporate social responsibility project to capacit...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | 1369 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers turn to 'chikorokoza'
IMPOVERISHED Zimbabwean teachers have resorted to "chikorokoza" as they try to make ends meet, a body representing them has claimed.Zimbabwe Teachers Association Bulawayo chair, Wilson Mangena...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:22hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 234 | by Staff Reporter
ZimThrive announces new dates for 2021
The organisers of ZimThrive have announced that the event will now take place in December 2021.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the month-long event, which was initially set for April ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 10:25hrs | 680 | by Agencies
You can't continue to lie in this era of technology
Last week Zimbabweans watched in awe when the ZBC TV serialised a documentary that exposed the alleged abduction of the MDC-Alliance trio of Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa, as a ch...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 16:38hrs | 1679 | by Innocent Mujeri
Woza engages Parly over schools opening
WOMEN of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) will tomorrow engage the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education, stakeholders and parents to gauge the country's readiness for the re-openi...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:37hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Gambia artist partners with Bulawayo's hip hop artist
Gambian Artist AC Cham from Kombo East in Gambia will be collaborating with Lunatic Sway a Bulawayo hip hop artist who is signed under Alicious Muzik.The music project was brokered by Sibusiso...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 11:34hrs | 382 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF tells SA to 'go hang' as it is controlled by white men
ZANU-PF yesterday threw down the gauntlet and ordered South Africa to stop mediating in the Zimbabwean crisis after being angered by the frank talk from President Cyril Ramaphosa's six-member mediatio...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 6209 | by Staff reporter
Tonderai Katsande appointed ZiFM Stereo station manager
VETERAN radio personality Tonderai Katsande has been appointed as ZiFM Stereo's station manager, which for some is the right move given the amount of experience and knowledge he has in the world of br...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 15:48hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa pledges transparency in broadcasting licensing
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday promised Parliament that issuance of the broadcasting licences would be transparent.This was after opposit...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 547 | by Stff reporter
Matemadanda attacks Ian Khama for failing to get married
Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has made personal attacks on outspoken former Botswana President Ian Khama who has urged Zimbabweans to press harder in their quest to free them...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 00:10hrs | 10851 | by Staff reporter
Sophie Mokoena flouted SABC procurement processes, in hot water?
Three top news managers at the SABC are facing numerous charges before disciplinary hearings over irregular expenditure of R2.5m involving a foreign news agency and allegations of poor performance....Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:24hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 325 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
No need to panic over land?
Zimbabweans who benefited under the Land Reform Programme should not panic, but focus on improving productivity since their farms will not be repossessed, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:09hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to provide PPE to all learners
GOVERNMENT will provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all learners when schools reopen, with Treasury releasing $350 million to prepare learning institutions for safe reopening. Cabin...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Autonomous drones to patrol SA's borders
State-owned company Sentech, which distributes broadcast signals for radio and television, is in the market for sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to patrol South Africa's borders.U...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:49hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Misred denies being in love with ZANU PF leader Lewis Matutu
Radio personality Misred (real name Samantha Musa) has denied that he is having an affair with disgraced ZANU PF Youth leader Lewis Matutu. The denial comes after pictures of a woman looking l...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 7543 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Social media are vehicle of change
We are victims of propaganda news disseminated by the government. We are always bombarded by news whose agenda has been set by those in authority to maintain the status quo.We always spoil the...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 985 | by Leonard Koni
4 robbery suspects arrested in Gwanda
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have arrested four suspects who are alleged to have committed a series of robberies in Gwanda.Provincial police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Philisani Nd...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 21:47hrs | 1585 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda uses fame to drive philanthropy
VETERAN broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has used his international standing to positively impact on people and communities around him. From being a radio presenter on Radio 2 now Radio Zimbabw...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
BAZ shortlists ZTN, KeYonna for TV licences
ZIMPAPERS Television Network (ZTN) and Fair Talk Communications KeYonna TV have been shortlisted as some of the applicants to be interviewed during a public inquiry for the six free-to-air national co...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Tich Mataz and 'Hello Mwari'
JAH Master's dancehall hit song Hello Mwari has rekindled an episode that happened some years ago in which popular radio and television presenter Tich Mataz "communicates" with God over the phone at c...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2387 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro FM, Breeze FM seek chief executive
Fair Talk Communications (Private) Limited, the parent company of Skyz Metro FM and Breeze FM, is looking for a chief executive officer (CEO) to fill a vacancy that arose at the beginning of this year...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exams complete with no Covid-19 case recorded
THE June-July Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) examinations have been completed without a Covid-19 case being reported in centres countrywide. There was nationwide anxiety when the Govern...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:27hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer attacks 'captured' AU
ZIMBABWE has sensationally claimed that the African Union Commission was influenced by the United Kingdom to issue a statement denouncing Harare for the deteriorating human rights situation in the cou...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 15719 | by Staff reporter
Sadc asked to intervene in Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN African leaders have been urged to deal with the human rights crisis in Zimbabwe when they hold their annual summit tomorrow.officially, Zimbabwe will not be on the agenda of the Sout...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 2447 | by Staff reporter
Honeymoon over for 'new dispensation'
South Africa's insistence that Zimbabwe is facing a crisis that needs urgent intervention should send a clear signal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government that our neighbours are getting fed up...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 3653 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must accept help, crisis impacting us, says SA foreign minister
Zimbabwe has an economic and political problem which is impacting its neighbours, South Africa's International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor said on Friday.Zimbabwe insists it has no proble...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:51hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe must allow us to help' South Africa says
Zimbabwe must accept that the country has a political ands economic problem which South Africa is willing to assist in solving, the South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperative Na...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2688 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's regime buckles under the tide of #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
THE growing momentum of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter campaign on microblogging site Twitter and other social media applications against President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s government is indicative...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:01hrs | 1720 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa betrayed as Biti throws his name for presidency 2023
The year 2020 has not been a good year for Nelson Chamisa the leader of a heavily fractured MDC A as he presides over a breaking up party. Nelson Chamisa had rode on the lightning of firm and glory as...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 00:32hrs | 16768 | by Masimba Mavaza
Drones, choppers to police Zimbabweans borders
THE Government is mobilising resources to procure drones, helicopters including all-terrain vehicles to improve the efficacy of patrols along the country's borders with neighbouring countries. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Magufuli bans Tanzania's media outlets from broadcasting foreign content
Tanzanian government has officially banned all local media outlets from broadcasting foreign content without government permission.As crackdown on free press and dissident voices intensifies i...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:46hrs | 7445 | by Staff reporter
Bob Mabena dies
Veteran radio personality Bob Mabena has died at the age of 51, the SABC reported today. Mabena was a renowned television and radio host.On Monday afternoon South Africa came to a standstill w...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 2347 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe govt does not tolerate abuse of citizens by uniformed forces'
GOVERNMENT does not tolerate abuse of citizens by uniformed forces enforcing Covid-19 lockdown measures and those who violate the law must be reported to authorities, Media, Information and Broadcasti...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:51hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans inmates' visits
Government is decongesting prisons and has banned visitors for prisoners following a surge in Covid-19 cases among inmates and prison officers, especially in Bulawayo, Information, Publicity and Broad...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:50hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to address nation
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to address the nation as Zimbabweans commemorate Heroes' Day at home due to the threat of Covid-19. Over the years, commemorations were punctuated by spectacular ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:49hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Schools to reopen when safe minister
THE reopening of schools this year hangs in the balance as officials continue to monitor the rising Covid-19 caseload.Last month, the Government deferred reopening schools to a later date from...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Misred apologises to Zimbabweans
Radio personality Samantha Musa (popularly known as Misred) has apologized to Zimbabweans for trivilising the struggle faced by Zimbabweans during a radio interview recently. Musa had told the...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 16:57hrs | 7890 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives out for Misred
Radio personality Samantha Musa, popularly known as MisRed, has come undefire after telling a radio presenter during an interview that the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe are exaggerated. ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 8875 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The price of tribal politics in Zimbabwe is dangerous and costly: A warning to the people of Mashonaland once more!
Hätte der Hund nicht geschießen, hätte der Haufen nicht gegeben, this is a German adage it means we regret bitterly the decisions we made in previous times. Indeed if the dog had not shot, th...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:22hrs | 4331 | by Nomazulu Thata
Government to re-write the history of Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet has made a resolution to avail funding to historians to re-write the history of the country.The revelations were made by Minister Sithembiso Nyoni during...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 12:33hrs | 3649 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to address the nation on Tuesday morning
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to address the nation on Tuesday morning, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation has said. In a tweet, ZBC said, "ON stand-by for Presidential address to the...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 07:43hrs | 5166 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZDF dismisses fake demo news
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has reiterated that it has nothing to do with any illegal July 31 demonstration, as has been falsely peddled on social media platforms, and will not be involved in an...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
ZBC shuts down after Coronavirus hits the company
National Broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation will be shutting down normal programming from Wednesday after a positive case of Coronavirus was detected at the state-owned entity. Acti...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 07:33hrs | 3193 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kariba Sparkles But Economic Malaise Dulls The Shine
The Municipality of Kariba is on a charm offensive, softening and winning hearts, grinding impressive results and winning accolades. If this lasts, then the happy days will return to the resort town....Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:01hrs | 570 | by Laiton Kandawire: Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
Tilda Moyo leaving Star FM?
THE recent departure of Phathisani "Mashuga" Sibanda from Star FM to seek greener pastures may have left his cohost Kudzai Violet Gwara, aka KVG, "widowed" and their legions of radio followers the mor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 2825 | by Staff reporter
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