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Numbers & brand only can't take you to State House
Zanu PF is not afraid of Facebook posts, Whatsapp and Twitter rants. Zanu PF only panics when you go back silently to the drawing board to plan and refresh on ideas. Come 2023, opposition may be given...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 13:43hrs | 2856 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi
TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Securit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2932 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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 | 413 | by Bishop Lazarus
ZACC busts US$3m Covid-19 racket
SENIOR Government officials reportedly connived with private suppliers to siphon US$3 million from Treasury by inflating prices for Covid-19 consumables, it has been learnt.The matter is being...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Corruption Commission busts US$3m Covid-19 racket
SENIOR Government officials reportedly connived with private suppliers to siphon US$3 million from Treasury by inflating prices for Covid-19 consumables, it has been learnt.The matter is being...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | 247 | 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 | 6600 | by Staff reporter
Fresh scandal rocks ZESA
AN external audit has unearthed a massive scandal implicating a senior Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) executive who allegedly prejudiced the struggling power utility of millions of dolla...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2409 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda fingered in controversial appointment of ZINARA board member
Reeds Dube, the losing ZANU PF candidate for Hwange Central has been appointed to the ZINARA board. Dube is a business man and politician who has contested 3 times under the ZANU PF banner and i...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 14:56hrs | 2352 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
UMD supports fair, just land reform programme
The Zimbabwean masses have been unequivocally sold out and abandoned by the Zanu-PF government in their quest to be legitimate owners of pieces of land in their motherland. The announcement to...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 262 | by Lovemore Moyo, UMD president
Mnangagwa twins have 'corrupt relationship' with Delish Nguwaya'
In a bombshell voice note sent to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's twin sons Shaun and Collins, Norton MP Temba Mliswa - who enjoys close ties with the Zanu-PF leader - hits the roof accusing the duo of...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2919 | by Staff reporter
The binding African spirit in challenging the Zimbabwean crisis
The Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union Patriotic Front is indebted to the steeped bona fide pan-Africanist spirit which facilitated the convening of the interparty dialogue with our sister revolutiona...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 357 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Corruption trials to be speeded up
Corruption cases will now be expedited within two months after a suspect is arrested with nine of the 27 recently opened court cases ready for trial a departure from the previous trend where accused p...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
New Harare Mayor decries archaic billing system
In a veiled admission of failure, Harare's new Mayor Councillor Jacob Mafume said the capital was behind in terms of development and was riddled with corruption.The MDC has been in charge of H...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Fury over Bulawayo town clerk's 24,407sqm land offer in plush suburb
Bulawayo residents have reacted with anger after town clerk Christopher Dube was offered a stand measuring 24,407 square meters as part of his new four-year contract with the local authority.T...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | 3802 | by Staff reporter
Nkosinathi Ncube Appointed ZINARA CEO
Zimbabwe National Roads Administrator (ZINARA) has appointed Nkosinathi Ncube Chief Executive Officer following the dismissal of former CEO Nacy Masiyiwa Chamisa over graft allegation.The appo...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:11hrs | 1960 | by Staff reporter
Service delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare
SERVICE delivery has deteriorated to unprecedented levels in Harare with residents going for days without water, while garbage goes for months uncollected. At the centre of the rot is the MDC ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2107 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Commuters swindled in tap-card scam
Problems in recharging Zupco tap-cards in Norton have seen vendors using their own cards, and some have a lot, charging desperate passengers $50, more than twice Zupco's $24, which now on many routes ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:00hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
'Urban councils failing to contain corruption
URBAN councils lack the required political will to fight the scourge of corruption and are not dedicated to end the cancer which has resulted in poor service delivery.This comes as various urb...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:31hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono, Ngarivhume in 4th bail bid
Incarcerated investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume who are being charged with inciting the public to commit public violence when they called for protest...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 2568 | by Staff reporter
'Chasi a victim of state capture'
FORMER energy minister Fortune Chasi (pictured)'s dramatic sacking from cabinet two weeks ago was a culmination of an intriguing plot of state capture by powerful fuel cartels, notably his spirited bu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 9178 | by Staff reporter
'Sanction are causing incapacitation and fuelling corruption' - do tell, what incapacitations diamonds looters are suffering
”There is a relationship between sanctions and corruption, whereupon due to incapacitation of Government or the private sector to provide competitive salaries in the region, workers end up engaging ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:28hrs | 1231 | by Nomusa Garikai
ED's human rights record as the president of Zimbabwe under scrutiny
Zimbabweans dotted throughout the world woke up on the morning of 14 th January 2019 not feeling particularly patriotic. Tired of long queues, runaway prices very grumpy not patriotic anymore. Very fe...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:12hrs | 4821 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Amanda Mavhaza
African jurists angry over Mtetwa 'victimisation'
THE Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF) has called on the Zimbabwean government to immediately stop victimising human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa and blocking her from representing detained journ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1617 | by Staff reporter
Council boss destroys property to conceal evidence
CHIREDZI town engineer Wesley Kauma has reportedly destroyed one of his illegally-acquired properties in an alleged bid to destroy evidence.Kauma is facing charges of criminal abuse of duty as...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono's release a threat'
ACTIVIST journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who is being charged with inciting public violence, has been denied bail for the third time, with Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna saying his release from remand pr...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:24hrs | 6970 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Finance Minister threatens Zambian President
South Africa's worrying big brother interference into regional countries governing took a new low on Saturday when South Africa's Finance Minister Tito Mboweni threatened Zambian President for sacking...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:07hrs | 3981 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC deeply implicated in corruption
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a scathing attack on corruption by some members of the governing African National Congress.In a letter to all its members he referred to r...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 18:35hrs | 693 | by BBC
Leaked audio shakes Mnangagwa allies
ZANU-PF heavyweights whose names feature on a sensational audio clip of a conversation allegedly between business tycoon Kuda Tagwireyi and Temba Mliswa which points to growing frustration with Presid...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:25hrs | 6164 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda reported to the Special Anti-Corruption Unit
Pressure Group Chapter 2 Movement has reported Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda to the Special Anti-Corruption Unit over allegations involving a $1 million land scandal which involves ZESA Holdings...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 18:19hrs | 4748 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Lawyer sucked into US$40 000 bribe scandal
The Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating a case in which a Harare lawyer, Mr Meluleke Lunga, is alleged to have filed papers in the High Court purportedly from the Civil Division of the Attorney ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 19:32hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe church leaders, hiding behind Bible, to defend regime brutality and corruption have sold souls to devil
I have always asserted that the Holy Bible is the most perverted book in the history of mankind, as it has found itself at the mercy of all manner of scandalous individuals - from abusive husbands, an...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1810 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1277 | by African Arguments
'Beatrice Mtetwa and Hopewell Chin'ono are bedmates,' court says
Harare magistrate Ngoni Nduna has accused prominent lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa of being bedmates with jailed journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The magistrate was giving a judgment that barred Mtetwa f...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 14:51hrs | 6398 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beatrice Mtetwa can't wash her hands like Ponthias Pilato in the Bible
BEATRICE Mtetwa has been permanently barred from representing Hopewell Chin'ono after a Harare court found the top rights lawyer to have abandoned professional conduct but developed personal interest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 9737 | by newzimbabwe
ZANU PF's Cde Mugwadi refuse to be bullied by biased Aljazeera news anchor
Zimbabwe is a peaceful country under attack from a clique of desperate fortune seekers disguised as politicians and human rights activist, ZANU PF Information Director, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, said yesterda...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 2331 | by David Mwanza
Mtetwa abdicated her role as officer of the courts
Below is the full judgement of matter where the State was seeking the disqualification of Ms Mtetwa from handling the Chinóno case on the basis that she had abdicated her role as an officer of the Co...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:22hrs | 2812 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Beatrice Mtetwa prosecution
A magistrate on Tuesday ruled that Harare lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa should recuse herself from representing journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, citing her for "scandalising the courts."Magistrate Ngoni...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:17hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Court orders Beatrice Mtetwa's practicing certificate to be cancelled
Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna has ruled that prominent Human Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa stands down from representing journalist award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. He also directed...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 11:35hrs | 12600 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga still to meet doctors, nurses
The new Minister of Health, Constantino Chiwenga is yet to meet doctors and nurses to address the challenges plaguing the country's public health system. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association said t...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3993 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary flies family in private aircraft after beating Covid-19
Super-rich ministry finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has celebrated beating the coronavirus by hiring a private aircraft to fly his family to Victoria Falls.Guvamatanga was hospi...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2950 | by Staff reporter
Compatible with the President's expectations on 'looting'
In 2016, APR, a US company won the Dema project through a proper tender system, and on the last minute the tender was reversed and awarded to Sakunda Holdings which is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei. Th...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2045 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Tall tales of an evil regime in Harare
Life is a tapestry that is woven out of various religious, political, cultural and normative beliefs and persuasions.As is often clichéd, variety is a major spice that leavens and livens life...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa condemned by bishops who failed to condemn Mugabe
CATHOLIC bishops in the country have called President Emmerson Mnangagwa to order over escalating human rights abuses and worsen-ing political and economic situation in the country, and warned him tha...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:01hrs | 2635 | by Staff reporter
State, court frustrate Chin'ono bail hearing
A HARARE magistrate yesterday deferred the bail hearing of incarcerated investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono hearing to Tuesday next week, saying he had no WiFi at home to do research on an appl...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:59hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's endemic corruption needs strong institutions
ONE thing that has hurt Zimbabwe is the politics of impunity – that one steals money and still gets away with it.Corruption is fundamentally a problem of governance. It thrives in economies ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:51hrs | 212 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Drama as police besiege Chin'ono lawyers
POLICE in full riot gear yesterday besieged the offices of human rights lawyer and activist Beatrice Mtetwa in Harare twice in a show of force, in what observers said was meant to intimidate the lawye...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 798 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Persons with disabilities concerned about Zimbabwe human rights violations
Zimbabweans had yet another opportunity to define their destiny as a collective when they exercised their constitutional right to choose a leader of their choice. The July 2018 elections had new conte...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 11:35hrs | 1001 | by Tsepang Nare and Abel Mavura
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