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Jason Machaya gets four-year jail term
Former Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister, Jason Machaya, has been jailed for four years after being convicted of abuse of office.He was sentenced together with former Midlands Provincial ph...Published: 6 hrs ago | 575 | by Staff reporter
Rushed Zim Dollar introduction cost the economy
The Zimbabwean government recently gazetted the Finance Bill (H.B.4 of 2020) which validates the fiscal changes that were tabled in the Mid-Term budget review in July 2020. The Bill amends the Gains T...Published: 6 hrs ago | 377 | by Victor Bhoroma
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: 17 hrs ago | 4433 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hails ZCC Mutendi
The Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo has praised Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Mutendi and its leader Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi for initiating projects aimed at engendering socio-economic transformation amo...Published: 18 hrs ago | 595 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala acquittal to be quashed?
The National Prosecuting Authority has won the first round in what promises to be a long legal process in its attempt to prosecute MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala over allegedly subversive...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Former Governor convicted
Former Midlands Governor Jason Machaya has been convicted by the Gweru magistrate court of abuse of office and will be sentenced today (Tuesday), his lawy...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1469 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1848 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2989 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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 | 544 | by Ken Mufuka
Mnangagwa says 'crisis only exists in minds of opposition'
President Mnangagwa has shot down claims of a crisis in the country, thanking Zimbabweans for remaining resolute in defiance of machinations by opposition elements bent on fomenting political instabil...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 205 | 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 | 481 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unpacks hemp/ mbanje growing regulations
It is now legal to grow, process and sell mbanje in Zimbabwe, but this does not mean throwing a few seeds in your backyard and waiting for a crop: There is a 32-page statutory instrument giving the ru...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 412 | 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 | 1960 | by Staff reporter
High Court reverses Mawarire's lawsuit loss
HIGH Court judge Justice Edith Mushore has rescinded a default judgment entered against #ThisFlag campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, who had lost his $65 000 damages claim against the Zimba...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2234 | by Staff reporter
Man wins $56k suit against Zimbabwe police
OME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga have been ordered to pay $56 640 as compensation to a Mazowe man whose car was burnt to a shell by law enforcement a...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
5 civil servants up for theft of donated clothes
THE trial of five government employees in the Chikomba district development co-ordinator (DDC)'s office, who allegedly stole donations for victims of a hailstorm which swept across Chivhu in november ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:53hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
NUST student off the hook
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) student Panashe Vongai Sivandani has been removed from remand following her arrest for participating in the foiled July 31 anticorruption protests....Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Charamba spits venom over ban on China game park mining
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has come out guns blazing against lawyers and environmentalists who forced government to abruptly withdraw two Chinese companies' licences p...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 4631 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala in fresh freedom push
MDC Alliance vice chairman Job Sikhala yesterday notified the State that he will apply for refusal of further remand if he is not given a trial date and that he is in any case going to reapply for bai...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe arrest warrant cancelled
A court on Wednesday cancelled an arrest warrant issued against Harare West MP Joana Mamombe after she was forcibly discharged from a hospital by police and taken to court.The warrant was issu...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 19:16hrs | 2503 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife sued over US$6,000 water debt
WOES continue to mount for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry, after she was hit with a US$6 000 lawsuit for failing to pay for water supplied to her. Hesno Holdings, ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 2734 | by Staff reporter
'Mamombe should undergo mental exam'
THE State yesterday indicated that it wants MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, to be examined by two Government doctors to ascertain her mental condition after her doctor indicated that she was suffe...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1506 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son duped
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Tanaka, was allegedly duped of US$1 000 by a Harare man who promised to deliver suits for his wedding on August 25 last year.Samson Mavhunga (31), ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 2502 | by Staff reporter
Police storm hospital, arrest MP
POLICE yesterday stormed a private medical facility in Harare where MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe was admitted for mental disorder, arrested her using a disputed warrant of arrest issued on Tuesday a...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 06:11hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe 'faking' illness
The State has received video evidence from the investigating officer, which suggests that MDC-Alliance member, Joana Mamombe, is not suffering from anxiety disorder as she was captured on CCTV shoppin...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:12hrs | 3392 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe sets dates for resumption of flights
Flag carrier Air Zimbabwe said it would resume domestic flights on September 23 and regional flights from October 3 after the government lifted a coronavirus lockdown in place since March.Air ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:10hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bodies repatriation crisis
Zimbabweans dying in South Africa have been caught up in an industrial dispute that has already stopped the repatriation of Zimbabwean bodies.An average of 70 bodies are sent home by road each...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Circumcision a racist experiment on black boys, says Study
CRITICAL appraisal has dismissed World Health Organisation ( WHO)-recommended campaigns to circumcise millions of African boys and men to reduce HIV transmission as mere systemic racism and "neo-colon...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:25hrs | 2701 | by Staff reporter
Judge queries Job Sikhala arrest
THE High Court yesterday questioned the State if there was a legal obligation for incarcerated MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala to surrender himself to the police after they issued a press st...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:48hrs | 8478 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Court issues warrant of arrest for Joana Mamombe
A Harare Court has issued a warrant of arrest for MDC-Alliance Harare West Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe for failing to attend court for trial on allegations of faking their abductions.Ma...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 11:37hrs | 4185 | 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
Chin'ono further remanded to October
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono, who faces a charge of incitement to commit public violence, yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate who further remanded him to October 19.Chin'ono's lawyer...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 6227 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko's trial continues in camera
Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trial continued yesterday in camera at the Harare Magistrates Court. Mphoko is facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly instructed ...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
MDC 'abduction' trio in bid to avoid trial
The trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other party activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova who are facing charges of communicating false statements prejudicial to the State af...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:10hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's legs swollen
LAWYERS for incarcerated MDC deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, say his health is continuing to deteriorate after prison authorities allegedly barred him from accessing a private doctor....Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 3134 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to appoint new Minister of Industry
The Reserve Bank and the entire monetary policy team have done well towards stabilising the local currency. A stable currency forms the foundation for a strong economy. The country now needs an ...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 13:49hrs | 7842 | by John Mbizvo
Clinical trial of new Covid-19 herb starts
Some local doctors on Friday launched clinical tests in Masvingo to ascertain the effectiveness a of a powder made from local herbs, against Covid-19. The powder, called Bhanan'ana, was discov...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono says 'international pressure saved me'
A ZIMBABWEAN journalist who was imprisoned on charges of incitement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has accused the successor to Robert Mugabe of having him jailed because he exposed pand...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 07:55hrs | 3374 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in its own league
Readers had a lot to chew last week. So much to chew that if one was not perceptive, he or she could have ended up in a maze. Let's dissect events of last week one by one and assess their impa...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Fact finding mission that never was
We are back to square one... It took six months for Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) to release the official 2008 election results with Patrick Chinamasa then Legal and Justice Minister insi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 23:23hrs | 1168 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 646 | by Oscar Nkala
Kasukuwere, Mzembi to be extradited
FORMER Government and ZANU-PF officials who fled the country while facing criminal charges are set to be extradited to face justice back home, Government has resolved.Addressing the ZANU-PF Mi...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 2271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will be exporting power by 2023, says Zhemu Soda
Muzarabani North Member of Parliament, Honourable Zhemu Soda, was last month appointed Energy and Power Development Minister. Before his appointment, he was relatively unknown to many Zimbabweans desp...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's former aide appeals for bail
JAILED former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aide Douglas Tapfuma yesterday applied for bail pending appeal against conviction and a six-year prison term for criminal abuse of office.Tapfu...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:11hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Boss kidnaps female subordinate
A SENIOR official at a local non-governmental organisation has been taken to court for allegedly kidnapping his female subordinate at a Mutare hotel.Robert Munhenga (53), who is a director at ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 1806 | by Staff reporter
'Medical aid societies should accommodate low income earners'
THE Ministry of Health has challenged medical aid societies to structure their products in such a way that they are affordable to low-income earners, as healthcare costs continue to rise beyond the re...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:23hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance trio turns to prophets
MDC-Alliance activists who faked abduction in May this year have now turned to apostolic prophets in what appears to be a desperate bid, wrapped in superstition and mythology, to have the State's case...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:07hrs | 2542 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga outlines health policy to partners
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Wednesday briefed foreign and local development partners and suppliers on the new structures in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and other moves taken to bo...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rules out taping into CBD aquifer
BULAWAYO City Council has ruled out chances of drawing water from an aquifer underneath the central business district (CBD) citing technicalities as the process involves destroying some buildings....Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:56hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's supporters denied bail
Three suspected MDC-Alliance hooligans who were arrested at the Harare Magistrates Court and found in possession of weapons while demanding the release of the opposition party's vice chairperson, Job ...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
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