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Confusion hits schools restart
CONFUSION has hit the reopening of schools, with teachers refusing to return to classes until government offers them a good salary deal.Schools, which closed in March following the outbreak of...Published: 2 hrs ago | 806 | by Staff reporter
Schools reopen today
SCHOOLS reopen today under a new normal which requires both teachers and learners to strictly adhere to Covid-19 prevention regulations as directed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education S...Published: 2 hrs ago | 167 | by Pardon Muzavazi
Progress against virus brings complacency in parts of Zimbabwe
With Zimbabwe's coronavirus infections on the decline, schools are reopening, along with churches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions. Strict lockdowns designed to curb the disease ar...Published: 14 hrs ago | 508 | by Farai Mutsaka I Associated Press
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2435 | by Staff reporter
Musona returns to Anderlecht
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona will have a point to prove after being included in the KAS Eupen side to face his parent club Anderlecht today in a Belgian Pro League match that is set to bring back...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:30hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Marked decline in SA returnees
THE South African government's relaxation of Covid19 restrictions to Level 1 has seen a reduction in Zimbabwean nationals seeking to be repatriated home, Zimbabwe's chief envoy to South Africa, Ambass...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa demands courts to speed up trial of child gruesome murder
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has condemned the brutal killing of young children for ritual purposes in the wake of the death of a sevenyearold Murewa boy, whose mutilated body was found while being fe...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:13hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Govt recruits 6 000 teachers
Government has scrapped Second Term school fees, while 6 000 teachers are being recruited ahead of the phased reopening of schools starting tomorrow.This comes amid reports that a crash progra...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
How Zanu-PF came into existence
The born-free generation, born after Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, has grown up knowing a political system run by the Zanu PF party.Unbeknown to many people, the ruling party, is a...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:17hrs | 2846 | by Irvine Sibhona
'we are too vindictive of each other,' says Kasukuwere
Zimbabwe is in deep pain and needs healing, former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere said Wednesday.Kasukuwere currently resides in neighbouring South Africa...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:16hrs | 2419 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Zimbabwe cross-border traders
CROSS-BORDER traders across the country are set for a major relief following the unveiling of a cheaper coronavirus (Covid-19) testing facility, in a development that will be cost effective.Th...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Parliament should veto land compensation
ZIMBABWE in 2000 embarked on a revolutionary nationalisation of agricultural land that saw a massive 4 500 white commercial farmers pushed out of their land without compensation. The fast-track land r...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 321 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Who is to blame for Zimbabwe's land reform disaster?
0N August 31, the government of Zimbabwe announced that foreign white farmers settled in the country who lost land between 2000 and 2001 under the late former President Robert Mugabe's controversial l...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 362 | by Tafi Mhaka
Sangoma loses bones, charms to hooker
CALL it an epic clash of the world's oldest profession and the spiritual world of divination.A youthful sangoma from Inyathi, Matabeleland North province, reportedly lost a bag containing his ...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:23hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Biti demands a gym at Parliament?
Female MPs represented by Mutasa North MP Chido Madiwa demanded that there should be a nursery and breastfeeding room in Parliament to cater for MPs with young babies. Mudenda responded: "Ther...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand US$7 000 salaries
ZANU-PF legislator Christopher Peter Chingosho (Headlands MP) yesterday raised a matter of privilege with the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, requesting that Parliament raises salaries...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2484 | by Staff reporter
Mafume saved by the court
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume got a reprieve after the High Court granted him and other councillors from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) an order barring their recall that could have seen him leave of...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
Varsity workers declare incapacitation
WORKERS at State universities have declared incapacitation and threatened to return to work only after government reviews their salaries.Institutions of higher learning were set to reopen on O...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Police kombi shooting: Fresh details emerge
POLICE have arrested the driver of a fleeing unregistered kombi and two cops following the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman which occurred in Gletwyn, Harare, on Wednesday.National police...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1945 | by Staff reporter
VIPs bleed Zesa, parly to probe
PARLIAMENT will next month launch a full-scale investigation into operations at the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) with the aim of recovering millions of dollars, which were, according t...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi District Council withdraws order to suspend CEO
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has withdrawn its application at the High Court in which it sought an order interdicting its suspended chief executive officer Mr Zimbabwe Ndlovu from accessing coun...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Dr Masimba Mavaza, sex in Zimbabwean culture is tantamount to rape. Men think sex is physics!
Dr. Mavaza, your article was informative, I am sure many will benefit from your input. What excited me most in your article is not so much about sex element which is exciting enough but your confirmat...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 12:39hrs | 5112 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa calls for broad-based confrontation against Mnangagwa
THE MDC Alliance has threatened to stage a fresh broad-based confrontation against the Zanu-PF-led government in the wake of deteriorating socio-economic conditions.In a communique signed by p...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 7267 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF tells ANC to 'stay in your lane'
ZANU-PF yesterday reacted angrily to South Africa's persistent calls for the party to come clean on the crisis in Zimbabwe and receive assistance in resolving the problems, arguing that there was no n...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:08hrs | 5601 | 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 | 2213 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pledges to improve the working conditions of health workers
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who is also the country's Health Minister has pledged to improve the working conditions of public sector health workers.This comes as the Health Apex Counci...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Govt salary talks collapse
GOVERNMENT salary talks broke down last week, with teachers saying they will boycott classes when schools reopen for examination classes next week as a result.The Apex Council, an umbrella bod...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 4850 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu gunman was DRC war vet who dreamed of 'freeing Zimbabwe'
One of the Chivhu gunmen who shot dead a soldier was a Democratic Republic of Congo war veteran who often spoke of "freeing Zimbabwe", according to friends and family.Elliot Chihambakwe, of Gu...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 19:15hrs | 5851 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Hard Talk builds nations and dreams !!!
In 1994, I was doing my primary education at Nyazura Primary school, a boarding primary school in Manicaland Province. It was the norm back then that you would buy an envelope and get a postage ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3636 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Strict rules in place for intercity passenger safety
Strict new operating procedures and an upgrade of terminuses so they are secure with controlled access and washing facilities are among the measures being introduced to ensure the resumption of interc...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still to decide on Beitbridge Border Post re-opening
THE Government is still deliberating on whether to re-open its land borders especially Beitbridge Border Post to international travellers following an announcement by South Africa that it will re-open...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 4410 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 4893 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has wow factor, claims Mutsvangwa
ZANU-PF is the only party that can take Zimbabwe in the right direction and the revolutionary party will continue to welcome defectors who repent and commit to return to its structures - Information, ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Mastering art of 'villagising' cities
In Bishop Lazi's village, there lived this super-reclusive chap who, after a quarrel with his father over witchcraft, decided to build his own hut a spitting distance from the family homestead....Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:30hrs | 415 | by Bishop Lazarus
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2077 | by Staff reporter
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 588 | by Ken Mufuka
Mystery surrounds Mnangagwa meeting with sheik
MyStery surrounds the recent visit to Zimbabwe by a top United Arab emirates (UAE) official, Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi, who arrived in Harare last Sunday to reportedly discuss invest...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1442 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers vote with their feet
HUNDREDS of teachers are leaving the country or preparing to do so to escape worsening economic problems amid deteriorating working conditions, a new report says.Over the past couple of weeks,...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Government and kombi operators in crunch talks
The Government and private commuter omnibus operators are this week expected to hold crunch talks as the latter angle for a return to intra-city operations after a six-month ban.The discussion...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:47hrs | 917 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK living with the aftermath of Covid-19
Many Zimbabweans in the UK who contracted COVID 19 have recovered. This brought joy and hope not only for the recovered but for the world at large. While the vast majority of those who contract Covid-...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1833 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF tells ANC to 'rein in your talkative officials'
ZANU-PF has told South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) to restrain some of its officials from communicating inaccurate information on what the sister parties had agreed during their...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 3017 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zanu-PF that 'soldier needed to silence nurses'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare that he appointed Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to head the Health portfolio to sort out striking doctor...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 6707 | by Staff reporter
No Covid deaths in Zimbabwe for a week
ZIMBABWE has gone for seven consecutive days without recording any Covid-19 deaths amid reports that 35 new cases were recorded on Thursday. Statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Mahere, 10 opposition activists to contest placement on remand
Eleven opposition political activists, including MDC Alliance spokesperson, Fadzai Mahere and playwright Tsitsi Dangarembga, have indicated that they will challenge their placement on remand when they...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
10 Zimbabwean students win Chevening Scholarships
TEN bright students from Zimbabwe will be travelling to the United Kingdom (UK) next month (October) to further their studies. Probably the last time such a large contingent of students from o...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
South African International Relations Minister speaks on Zimbabwe
South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor was interviewed by SABC's Sherwin Bryce-Pease on the issue of the ANC's government with Zimbabwe's ZANU PF.Read the interview below...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 16:24hrs | 6833 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1501 | by Wilbert Mukori
War vets sue Mnangagwa
A WAR veterans group has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court seeking the nullification of the recently signed US$3,5 billion deal by government and commercial white farmers who lost their land...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 5611 | by Staff reporter
We're still Zanu-PF, says G40
EXILED members of the Zanu-PF's G40 faction have said they are still Zanu-PF members and are fighting tirelessly to force the ruling Zanu-PF party to return to constitutionalism, accusing President Em...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 24762 | by Staff reporter
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