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Cyber crimes under-reported
Despite tireless efforts made by local, regional and global state and non-state actors to curb cybercrimes, statistics continues to spike because victims shun reporting these cases and therefore suffe...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:14hrs | 291 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Zimbabwe deploys gold mobilisation taskforce
Authorities have deployed a national gold mobilisation taskforce to Zimbabwe's eight mining provinces in a strategic move to increase gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refineries (FPR). This in...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:35hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo drug hotspot suburbs named
Police in Bulawayo are set to launch a crackdown on drug barons in several identified hotspots, including Hillside, Famona, Bradfield, Nkulumane, Thorngrove, Pumula South, Makokoba, and Hope Fountain....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:56hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns against land allocation in rural areas
GOVERNMENT will continue to regularise settlements that existed before the 2021 National Human Settlements Policy to deal with the scourge of land barons, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said....Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:50hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Inter-Ministerial committee formed to combat drug abuse in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, led by Hon. Kazembe Kazembe, has established an Inter-Ministerial Committee to address drug and substance abuse in marginalized communities. ...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 17:44hrs | 42 | by Tonderai Ndoro
No holy cows in Zimbabwe's forex violations blitz
Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the police delivered a firm message yesterday, emphasizing that in the nationwide crackdown on individuals and entities breaching the Exchange Control ...Published: 18 May 2024 at 12:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Jameson Timba; Chibaya to wrestle CCC from Welshman Ncube...as Chamisa plots comeback
Nelson Chamisa’s lieutenants led by Jameson Timba are this Friday expected to set in motion their "Blue Movement Moments" working plan whose first phase is wrestling the party from the Welshman Ncub...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:11hrs | | by George Tshuma
Sikhala launches new movement
FORMER Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala has launched a new movement, the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG), which he hopes will "free masses from political chains".The outspoken poli...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt opposed to the demolition of people's homes
Government is opposed to the demolition of people's homes and will continue regularising informal settlements, with over 1,5 million homeowners set to receive title deeds under the Kwangu/Ngakwami Pre...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCC has plunged deeper into further chaos and confusion
The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has plunged deeper into further chaos and confusion after party leader Nelson Chamisa quit last last week in a huff, citing infiltration and sabotage...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mafume's mayoral victory exposes infighting in Chamisa's camp
WE close the year with a circus at Town House in Harare, where Jacob Mafume last week bounced back as Harare mayor.He was elected as the capital city's third mayor in just four months and this...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube fingers 'the Emperor'
Former MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube has claimed there is a team of the trolls set up by the Emperor to push others out of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party.Professor ...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC youths link Tshabangu with 'second Gukurahundi'
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) youths in Bulawayo have have accused Zanu-PF of attempts to trigger a "second Gukurahundi" through allegedly sponsoring recalls on party legislators and councillors...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South farmers start losing livestock to drought
Matebeleland South has reactivated the provincial livestock drought taskforce, acting provincial director of agricultural Rural Development and advisory services, Mr Mkhunjulelwa Ndlovu has said....Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mafume fearing for his life after threats from CCC officials
Harare councillor Denford Ngadziore is reported to have blocked former mayor Jacob Mafume from entering a councillors' caucus meeting at Town House before the election of Lovejoy Chitengu.Chit...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 17:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti exposes Chamisa's hand
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday fingered activists linked to party president Nelson Chamisa for creating parody social media accounts to link him to self-impos...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charamba accuses Ngadziore of faking abduction and forging Zanu-PF signatures
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has accused Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Takudzwa Ngadziore, of faking his own abduction and forging a Zanu-PF signature.Ngadziore,...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
100 Zimbabweans probed over US$70m ill-gotten wealth
Over 100 individuals suspected of acquiring assets worth US$70 million through money laundering and illicit financial activities are currently under investigation. The National Prosecuting Authority (...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open another conference
Today, President Mnangagwa is set to preside over the 20th edition of the International Inter-Ministerial Conference on South-South and Triangular Co-operation in Population and Development, which wil...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Dudula hates foreigners
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members o...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside the life of Mthuli Ncube's 'nightmare'
BORN and bred in the sprawling suburb of Cowdray Park, Bulawayo, in 2005, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) National Assembly member-designate, Pashor Raphael Sibanda, was seen as a nonentity and co...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says western countries are vultures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabwe will never be ruled by puppets, describing Western countries as "vultures" hovering over the country's resources.In his speech during the c...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
UAE suspends Gold Refinery over owners' alleged laundering links
The United Arab Emirates suspended the accreditation of one of its biggest gold refineries over concerns that its owners had ties to alleged money launderers.Emirates Gold DMCC — which has o...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 11:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC demand credible, auditable voters roll
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has demanded an accessible, auditable, and credible voters roll ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 Harmonized elections.The announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral...Published: 24 May 2023 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC claims Matebeleland North youth are heading call to register to vote
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Youth Task Force, claims youths in Matebeleland North have headed the call to register to vote under their flagship programme – the Register, Elect and Protec...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Experts give COVID-19 warning
HEALTH experts have urged COVID-19 caution ahead of schools opening next week and the approaching winter.Speaking to NewsDay on Tuesday, chief coordinator of the COVID-19 taskforce in the Offi...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors petition Chief Charumbira
SURVIVORS of the Gukurahundi atrocities that rocked Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s have expressed reservations over the role of a traditional leaders taskforce constituted by P...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'High technology needed to combat drug smuggling,' in Zimbabwe
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has called on the Government to invest in state-of-the-art technologies at the country's ports of entry and exit to combat the smuggling of illicit drugs and...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC wants Electoral Amendment Bill to be overhauled
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) believes the Electoral Amendment Bill which is in the second reading stage in Parliament needs serious amendments that include improving the design o...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Youths must capitalise on final registration blitz
ELECTORAL watchdogs have appealed to unregistered voters to take advantage of next week's voter registration blitz for them to participate in the forthcoming polls.The Zimbabwe Electoral Commi...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi claims that Zimbabwe opposition has failed urban people
Opposition political parties have failed to run councils as evidenced by bad roads, failure to collect garbage and provide clean water to residents, Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi has said....Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has no electronic trade agreements, treaties database'
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry has no electronic database of trade agreements and treaties signed by government, NewsDay has learnt.This was revealed by Foreign Affairs deputy minister Da...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC says, 'electoral Bill targeted at us'
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has described the proposed amendments to the Electoral Amendment Bill as "retrogressive" and aimed at blocking as many opposition candidates as possi...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
USAid warns of Zimbabwe funding threat
THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, which has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups for muzzling government critics and narrowing democratic space, has gone a s...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Schools concealing drug and substance abuse by students'
SCHOOLS in the country are reportedly concealing rampant drug and substance abuse by students to protect their reputation, NewsDay Weekender can reveal.This comes as the country has been exper...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 19:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe: A move to curb freedom of association as election nears
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe should reregister hundreds of civil society groups whose registration it has withdrawn, and amend its Private Voluntary Organization Act to bring it in line with its obligation...Published: 27 Jan 2023 at 15:13hrs | 1 | by APO
1 000 robbers sent to prison
About 1 000 robbers were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for periods ranging from 6 months to 60 years during the first 10 months of the year, as the clampdown on rising cases of violent crime...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to train security guards
Private security guards will soon undergo basic formal levels of training by the police, as Government upgrades the industry following a recent rise in robberies through a review of the Private Invest...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign nationals arrested in Zimbabwe over drugs
THREE foreign nationals have been arrested at the country's airports between September and this month while trying to smuggle heroin to India with a combined street value running into millions of doll...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to resume school feeding
GOVERNMENT is set to resume the schools feeding programme whose aim is to nourish learners and reduce absenteeism due to hunger.Government initiated the schools feeding programme whereby schoo...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi under fire over 2018 army shootings
CRISIS in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has written to Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi demanding answers on the compensation of August 1, 2018 army shooting victims.Six people were fatally shot a...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
19 000 robberies, 3 500 murders rock Zimbabwe
Nearly 19 000 cases of robbery and over 3 500 murders were recorded in Zimbabwe between January 2020 and December 2021, official statistics show.Data obtained from the Zimbabwe National Statis...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lies have short legs, Cde Ziyambi
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi ZiyambiIN 1997, the first recognisable social media site, Six Degrees, came on stream, redefining the world of communication as ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Uzumba has never known independence
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president, Nelson Chamisa, has said villagers in Zanu-PF stronghold Uzumba are yet to enjoy fruits of independence due to ruling party militia engaged in activities...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Justice minister lied to the world'
ZIMBABWE'S civil society organisations (CSOs) have accused Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi of misrepresenting the country's human rights situation at the 107th session of the International Convention...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
EU's outgoing messenger wants Zimbabwe to rethink on PVOs Bill
THE European Union (EU) yesterday urged Parliament to take the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill back to the people for further consultation because some of its provisions would re...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in no hurry to relax masks mandate
GOVERNMENT says it is in "no hurry" to relax mandatory wearing of face masks despite a decline in new COVID-19 infections in the country.On Tuesday, Information and Publicity minister Monica M...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police officer testifies in trial of CCC members
ASSISTANT Inspector Tevedzerai Shonhai, who led a police reaction team from Warren Park police station in Harare on the day five CCC members allegedly staged an illegal demonstration during the lockdo...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makeshift border footbridge demolished
Another makeshift bridge that was being used by smugglers and border jumpers to cross into Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been destroyed by the National Security Task Force (NTF) to curb illegal activ...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
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