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Cape Town discharges +40 megalitres of sewage into the Atlantic Ocean daily
Urban water bodies worldwide - including rivers, lakes, and oceans - are under significant threat from pollution. Large volumes of sewage discharged into the environment cause severe damage, while new...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 12:41hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Major boost for water purification
In a significant environmental breakthrough, the Government of Zimbabwe has inked water purification agreements with Belarus aimed at addressing the escalating problem of leachate pollution at landfil...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Contamination water at Lake Chivero kills several wildlife
Lake Chivero, a crucial water source and recreational site, has become the latest victim of severe pollution, leading to the tragic deaths of multiple wildlife and domestic animals. The contamination,...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 11:14hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Flooding in Harare's CBD highlights need for improved drainage systems
Heavy rains in Harare this week led to significant flooding in parts of the Central Business District (CBD) due to blocked storm drains, creating difficulties for pedestrians and motorists navigating ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:26hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Miners wreak havoc on roads
GOVERNMENT has expressed shock after illegal gold miners dug a four-metre tunnel under a section of the Gwanda-Beitbridge Road as vandalism of national infrastructure persists.Road and railway...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:48hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda - Beitbridge road faces collapse as illegal miner tunnel under it
ILLEGAL gold miners have dug a 4-metre tunnel under a section of the Gwanda-Beitbridge Road as their vandalism of national infrastructure continues unabated with several roads and railway infrastructu...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:47hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
CCC MP, councillor arrested
On Tuesday, Makoni Central legislator Patrick Sagandira, a member of the CCC (Citizens Coalition for Change), along with councillor Teddy Chipere and several other party members, were arrested in conn...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 07:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's pluses ahead of Aug 23 polls
By addressing concerns about a runoff scenario, Chamisa has showcased his leadership qualities and strategic foresight, reassuring voters of his commitment to decisive victory in the first round again...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:42hrs | 16 | by Sharon Hofisi
'Povo are being force to choose Zanu PF or death' Chamisa admits. A consequence of CCC selling out on reforms
Zimbabwe is a failed state, stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical ruling power, Zanu PF. The nation should have got rid of Zanu PF by 2013, at the latest, if it had not been for the fact th...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:10hrs | 17 | by Wilbert Mukori
Runoff highly likely in Zimbabwe elections
If Zimbabwe were to hold its general election today, Zanu-PF would win ahead of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) but it would fail to get the required majority and the election would go into a ...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans forgetting Kasukuwere's injustice'
ZIMBABWEANS are choosing to turn a blind eye on presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere's dirty past, United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) President Elisabeth Valerio has said.Valerio, whose candi...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 20:26hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora kills MDC
AFTER Zimbabwe's fast-fading opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), led by Douglas Mwonzora, failed to field candidates in all constituencies around the country amid reports that it is too...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF mercenaries', masquerading as heroes, hunger for power in insatiable to distraction as nation burn to ashes.
Heroes fight because they believe in the cause, mercenaries fight for a reward. Zanu PF thugs are mercenaries not heroes.As much as Robert Mugabe and many of his fellow Zanu PF cronies love to...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 13:09hrs | 4 | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere threatens knockout punch, but doubts persist
POLITICAL analysts say former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's entry into the presidential election race set for 23 August will eat into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's votes...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's election season begins
THE country was ushered into an election season yesterday as President Mnangagwa proclaimed the road map for this year's polls, setting August 23 as the election date and June 21 as the date for the s...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's harmonised elections: Die is cast
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday proclaimed August 23, 2023, as the day on which harmonised elections will be held, opening the door for political parties' to start their campaigns in earnest and ending ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tonderai Ndira's widow carries heavy heart
THE mere mention of the word "elections" has a chilling effect on Plaxedes Mutariswa Ndira.Memories of her late husband, Tonderai Ndira, who was a staunch MDC-T activist, immediately engulf he...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:58hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries chaos, a harbinger for bloody polls
ALLEGATIONS of kidnapping, guns being fired at polling stations, torture, intimidation, rape and beatings were the order of the day ahead of the Zanu-PF primaries a fortnight ago as aspiring candidate...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
French revolution brewing as France protests gets 'out of control'
Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron's pension reformFrench authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa et al are hell bent on participating in flawed 2023 out of greed. What's in it for povo?
Zimbabwe's 2008 elections were a watershed elections in that Zanu PF's power to rig elections was exposed in its ugliest and graphic details. Ever since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the co...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 15:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Prophet Edd Branson congratulates US Reverend Warnock on Georgia win
Harare based Flamboyant preacher Edd Branson has congratulated American Baptist pastor and politician Sen. Raphael Warnock who defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia r...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 13:31hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa endorsed Zim's Commonwealth readmission regardless 2023 elections are being rigged - his 'Easy Street' down payment
The important thing is Chamisa has endorsed Zimbabwe's readmission into the Commonwealth before the 2023 elections, in his usual long winded and confused way.Chamisa and his CCC team met the C...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Fellow citizens, be strong' edges Chamisa - but why forfeit free for uphill battle of violent elections
"VIOLENCE IN MATOBO, INSIZA & CHIRUMANZU ..Zpf panicking, desperate & violent because they are not supported in villages, in rural areas. Thuggery is not politics. Violence is not civilized ca...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 17:24hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
'I taught at Eton College!' said Mliswa - pity exposure failed take ape-mentality out of you
Many people have listened to an audio posted on Zimeye in which the Right Honourable Themba Mliswa, Independent MP for Norton, was ranting and raving calling me "a political novice". What was all that...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 17:42hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF rigged 2018 and, with no reforms, is likewise rigging 2023 - holy grail is to deny it legitimacy
There are three questions anyone serious about getting Zimbabwe out of this economic and political mess must asked oneself, a CCC supporter and, most important of all, any CCC leaders including Nelson...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 09:14hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
UK has new PM, 8th since 1980, Truss too will be booted out if she fail - Zim on 2nd, both way, way past 'use-by date'
The British people have a new Prime Minister, the 8th one since 1980! Liz Truss 2022 - present ...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 10:11hrs | 12 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Above normal rainfall forecast
Most parts of Southern Africa are expected to have normal to above-normal rainfall in the coming summer cropping season, especially the southern and central areas, which include Zimbabwe.The l...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga allies cry Mnangagwa betrayal
WHILE the poisoned relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are hardly spoken about publicly, close allies say the former army commander feels betrayed by...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Zanu-PF
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa on Sunday challenged Zanu-PF to stop threatening people with displacement if they choose to vote against the ruling party in next year's po...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF subverts traditional leaders
Zanu-PF has promised to give incentives to hundreds of traditional leaders in Masvingo province for them to mobilise people to vote for the party during the 2023 general election while also moving to ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
BCC acts on Cowdray Park flooding
FOLLOWING perennial flooding in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to demolish 17 properties and relocate the affected families to pave way for development of drainage infrastructu...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe electoral violence looms'
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has warned that the country risks sliding into electoral violence similar to the 2008 mayhem which resulted in several opposition activists being killed or had their l...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
MDC led councils short-changing ratepayers
FOR a period stretching over 20 years, service delivery in cities, towns and even rural communities has collapsed, underpinned by unchecked plunder and theft by those voted into public office by the r...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
2023 elections, Mugabe predictive intelligence
THE leader who carries off the remarks by the late President Mugabe will likely win the 2023 elections in Zimbabwe. The leader who does not let the Mugabe decision affect him at a personal level will ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:44hrs | 17 | by Sharon Hofisi
CCC 'improving system' by participating in rigged elections – so wasted GNU chance to end dictatorship 'to improve' it!
"Chamisa has accused the government of rigging elections and still insists he won the 2018 presidential elections," reported Bulawayo24."He however, called on supporters to exercise their righ...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 13:10hrs | 11 | by Wilbert Mukori
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.From arrogance, insatiabl...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs question Mnangagwa's legitimacy
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa, struggling to consolidate and maintain power at the volatile helm amid renewed internal Zanu-PF infighting and disintegration of the coalition which drove his ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will the Zambian winds blow in Zimbabwe?
IF the opposition in Zambia wins the elections this year, then the Zimbabwean opposition will win the elections in 2023. The Zambian opposition won the elections. Therefore, the Zimbabwean opposition ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo dams are not filling up
THE fact that Bulawayo and Matabeleland South province have been receiving torrential rains since January is evident to everyone.The fact that most dams nationally are full and spilling (inclu...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Khumbulani Maphosa
SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy
"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then M...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
More floods predicted
THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) is on standby for evacuations in flood prone areas of the country after the Meteorological Service Department (MSD) warned that tropical cyclones and serious floods rem...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Risks of flooding increasing
Significantly higher rainfall continues to fall throughout the country with most areas already surpassing 300mm, says the Meteorological Services Department in a mid-season outlook which further predi...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Massive flooding hits Gweru areas
Incessant rains that have pounded Gweru and surrounding areas since the onset of the rains, have caused massive flooding in residential areas and a number of dams in the Midlands provicnes are already...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam water levels improve
Water levels are rising early in Lake Kariba as runoff from nearby areas starts flowing in and the first signs are seen of greater inflows from the upper catchment, allowing zesa to increase significa...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo receives record rains
BULAWAYO residents were left stranded yesterday after a record breaking 29mm was recorded in 20 minutes in the Central Business District. Due to poor drainage systems, the flash floods made it...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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