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Chiwenga abandon C&J mansion for 'White House', he's loaded - cut loot, two more white elephants
"VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga whose previous two divorce cases revealed that he is loaded with money, property and businesses has completed building a new luxurious mansion in Harare's upmarket...Published: 1 hr ago | 176 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo residents enduring sleepless nights
The Covid-19 outbreak has piled more misery on Bulawayo residents, who are enduring sleepless nights due to the irritating mosquito menace caused by council's failure to disinfect breeding sites, citi...Published: 3 hrs ago | 670 | by Staff reporter
Reform and sanctions will go
Barely a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Dr Frederick Shava, Joseph Biden the United State of American President sla...Published: 3 hrs ago | 546 | by Leonard Koni
Ministers aided theft of state land by Smelly Dube
GWERU Urban MP, Brian Dube has accused some government ministers and functionaries of aiding the illegal sale of state land by controversial Gweru land developer, Smelly Dube who was arrested this pas...Published: 3 hrs ago | 775 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers up for murdering villager
Two army officers and four civilians were arrested by police for allegedly assaulting and killing a local man following an altercation.The soldiers, Vitalis Dube of Shamva and Terence Kagogoda...Published: 3 hrs ago | 639 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga evictions: State capture at play
You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such reg...Published: 3 hrs ago | 223 | by Tawanda Majoni
Civics must drive the VP's office
In our new kind of normal, where restraint, moral integrity and sound values have been replaced by lumpen orgy, profanity and clown foolery, I meet the question: So what do you think of the latest VP ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 142 | by Zifiso Masiye
Govt under fire over evictions
Rights groups have denounced government plans to evict thousands of villagers from their communal land and convert it to industrial animal feed farming.More than 13 000 Shangani people, an ind...Published: 3 hrs ago | 109 | by Staff reporter
Padare advocates for female vice-president
Female participation in politics has remained a contentious issue with various women organisations and pressure groups pushing for adherence to the Zimbabwean constitution that stipulates equal repres...Published: 3 hrs ago | 122 | by Staff reporter
Ex-top banker speaks on daring escape
NMBZ Holdings founder James Mushore has spoken of how he evaded arrest and fled to exile over a decade ago after being accused of externalising foreign currency.Mushore (JM) told Alpha Holding...Published: 3 hrs ago | 545 | by Staff reporter
Tyson Wabantu movement struggles to take off
THE Tyson Wabantu movement has blamed its failure to register any meaningful growth since 2019 on Covid-19 and associated lockdown measures aimed at stemming the spread of the disease.Former Z...Published: 3 hrs ago | 281 | by Staff reporter
Deal with Gukurahundi genocide first, MPs say
Zimbabwe does not need any Patriotic Act before resolving the country's dark past, particularly the Gukurahundi massacres, parliamentarians argued last week as they dismissed a motion pushing for the ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 217 | by Staff reporter
Pandemic forces city dwellers to migrate
Thirty-nine-year-old retrenchee Thembelani Masuku ditched the bustling life of Bulawayo in May 2020 for his rural home in Matshetsheni village in Gwanda North, about 100 kilometres away.It was...Published: 4 hrs ago | 146 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC Alliance leader left for dead
MDC Alliance national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo was attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into her Bulawayo home yesterday and severely assaulted her using a knobkerrie before stabbing her....Published: 4 hrs ago | 321 | by Staff reporter
School girls pregnancy shocker
GOVERNMENT is agonising over spiking teenage pregnancies and marriages during Covid-19 lockdowns amid shocking revelations that a total of 7 000 girls were affected during the stringent January-Februa...Published: 4 hrs ago | 284 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga leaders living in fear
CHILONGA community leaders who are at the forefront of resisting goverment's decision to forcibly evict them from their ancestral lands to pave way for commercial production of lucerne grass say they ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 149 | by Staff reporter
Encounter with the Selous Scouts: A former guerilla shares personal experience
IN mid-1979 I left Lupane and Nkayi areas operations where I had been deployed to in 1977 and joined the furthest platoon in Bubi District. Most of the comrades I found there had been trained in Angol...Published: 4 hrs ago | 247 | by Retired Lieutenant-Colonel Stanford Moyo
Smelly Dube denied bail over US$9 million land deals
PROMINENT Gweru businesswoman and property developer - Smelly Dube - who is the chief executive officer of River Valley Properties - has been remanded in custody to Tuesday after a Gweru court ruled t...Published: 4 hrs ago | 176 | by Staff reporter
Mwanjale regrets not winning any league title
FORMER Zimbabwe senior national team captain, Method Mwanjale, who announced his retirement from playing football last week, has only one regret throughout his career, that is not winning the league t...Published: 4 hrs ago | 115 | by Staff reporter
Family dumps corpse at police station
CHAOS reigned supreme at Gweru's Mtapa high density suburb yesterday when aggrieved residents and family members dumped the body of Tatenda Kasinyore, known as "Nyale", near Monomutapa Police Station ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 236 | by Staff reporter
13 accident victims identified
THIRTEEN accident victims who died in two separate road accidents which occurred in Manicaland and Mashonaland Provinces on Friday have been identified.Among the seven people who perished in M...Published: 4 hrs ago | 163 | by Staff reporter
$10bn for dam projects
The GOVERNMENT has poured in over $10 billion into the development of 10 major dam projects across the country this year - three of which will be commissioned before year-end - in a programme aimed at...Published: 4 hrs ago | 129 | by Staff reporter
All in place for teachers' inoculation
The GOVERNMENT has undertaken to vaccinate all teachers who are prepared to receive Covid-19 immunisation jabs immediately after schools reopen next week as authorities ramp up efforts to create a saf...Published: 4 hrs ago | 134 | by Staff reporter
ZEC begins delimitation process
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has begun drawing up new National Assembly constituency boundaries that will be used for the 2023 harmonised elections. ZEC has started undertaking the ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 73 | by Staff reporter
GMB primes for bumper harvest
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) will establish 1 800 mobile buying points countrywide by the end of this month as part of a cocktail of measures to ratchet up preparations for a record-breaking bumper...Published: 4 hrs ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC calls for Dendairy product boycott
MDC Alliance is calling on Zimbabweans to boycott Dendairy (Pvt) Limited products to protest the company's bid to dislodge some 12 500 Chilonga villagers from their Chiredzi ancestral land to make way...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2294 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo attacked at her home
MDC Alliance National Chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo, was, Saturday morning, attacked by two armed men who brazenly broke into Saurcestown home in Bulawayo, severely beat her knees, head using a ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5261 | by Staff reporter
Both ZANU PF and MDC have betrayed and failed people of Zimbabwe, and it's time for citizens to reclaim their power
There is no better definition of 'fail', as the one provided by my trusted dictionary, which says, "Not to achieve a particular stated goal" - and as such, there is no other more appropriate way to de...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | 1028 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kazembe uses farm house to plot factionalism
Embattled ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central province chairperson Kazembe Kazembe is reportedly using his Concession farm house to plot factionalism in the province.Most of his allies whom he backed ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:30hrs | 3334 | by Paul Ndou
The race to succeed Kembo Mohadi is on
FOLLOWING the resignation in shame on 1 March of Vice-President Kembo Mohadi over a sex scandal, a political race to succeed him has already started among former Zapu senior officials and Zipra comman...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:12hrs | 3205 | by Staff reporter
Contract workers petition Chiwenga
CONTRACT workers employed by the Health and Child Care ministry are complaining of unfair labour practice, saying they are being subjected to abuse, discrimination and non-payment of salaries....Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:05hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1572 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blocked son-in-law, daughter and nephew over attempts to take over Telecel
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe's regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its business cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very st...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2161 | by Staff reporter
IDBZ student hostel project nears completion
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ)'s US$14.8 million student accommodation project in Bulawayo is now 69% complete and expected to be fully completed in November this year....Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 07:59hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga is abusing state power, says estranged wife
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's three minor children are now in the care of maids after he shut his estranged wife Marry out of their lives, The NewsHawks reported.Marry revealed in an i...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 07:56hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo has always been Zanu-PF says Matemadanda
While MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is down and bruised after two officials defected to Zanu-PF, the ruling party has come out rubbing more salt to Chamisa's wounds claiming that the top official...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2028 | by Staff reporter
Stop abusing Chiwenga's wife, Mtetwa tells court
PROMINENT lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has accused the Judiciary of abusing her client, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, saying the assault case she was facing could have ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:49hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
'Wetland evictees to stay in tents'
GOVERNMENT says it is planning to house people who were settled on wetlands and illegal settlements in temporary shelters pending proper relocation. Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube cornered over US$10m loan deal
GOVERNMENT's insatiable appetite for borrowing has once again come under scrutiny after legislators grilled Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday over Treasury's decision to borrow US$10 million f...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Aston Villa block Nakamba
WARRIORS midfielder Marvelous Nakamba has been blocked by his English Premier League club Aston Villa from travelling to Zimbabwe for the back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Govt should not worship capital
THE proposed relocation of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district to pave way for a private farming project has attracted a lot of debate given that they are being moved from their ancestral land aga...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 128 | by Chief Chiduku
Vusa Mkhaya opens up on life outside the studio
AUSTRIA-BASED Zimbabwean imbube crooner Vusa Mkhaya has been in the showbiz industry for several years as a member of Insingizi.This is the group that put him on the showbiz map since the rele...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
When mjolo turns sour: Should you give back gifts?
In his emotive single Juzi, Kae Chaps asks his ex-lover to pick up the jersey she left at his house as the sight of it was haunting him. He's heartbroken but says it's only a matter of time before he ...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 249 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Loyalty or defection: The path of a female politician
Its midday, and Lillian Timveous, a former Midlands senator, arranges her pot plants placed on a table next to her home entrance in Zvishavane. She sells them for a dollar each. There's constr...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 272 | by Nyaradzo Ruwisi
Chiwenga wife's trial deferred
The trial of Marry Mubaiwa, estranged wife of Vice President Constantano Chiwenga, on assault charges yesterday failed to start after she said that she was very ill and under heavy medication and coul...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabweans must know about Retail Forex Trading
The forex market is the largest financial market in the world surpassing even the global stock markets. The BIS triennial survey of 2019 states that the global forex market generates nearly 6.6 trilli...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 05:21hrs | 277 | by Staff writer
13 die in 2 separate accidents
Thirteen people died in two separate road accidents which occurred in Manicaland and Mashonaland Provinces today.Seven people died on the 67 km peg along Mutare-Nyanga Road when a fuel tanker ...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:50hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa issues bleak warning to MDC
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told the Zanu-PF politburo to expect more big shot defections from the opposition, in an ominous warning that could spell even more pain for the brawling MDC....Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:47hrs | 2985 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF heavyweights bounce back
ZANU-PF senior party members who have been lying low in the second republic under President Emerson Mnangagwa have bounced back to reclaim their political clout within the party structures.Bus...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:46hrs | 5129 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T battling partisan divisions
MDC-T is battling to unite its deeply divided supporters since its divisive elective congress held in the capital in December last year, a senior party official has said, amid fears the rift would cos...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:46hrs | 1489 | by Staff reporter
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