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Mnangagwa snubs Joe Biden's US-Africa summit
ZIMBABWE will, for the first time in two decades, participate at the US-Africa Summit starting next Tuesday.President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be represented by Foreign Affairs minister Frederi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 282 | by Zivanai Dhewa
Southern African power crisis stems from post-liberation history
THE electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post-liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerabl...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 550 | by Eddie Cross
Lustful man rapes sister-in-law
A 40-YEAR-old Chinhoyi man has been jailed 15 years for raping young sister to his brother's wife out of lust.Luckson Petros of Village 20, Chikuti, pleaded not guilty to rape when he appeared...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fulfils land compensation obligations?
WITH allocations in next year's budget and the Government and white former commercial farmers ready to work together to raise funds through long-term bonds, the farmers will start receiving compensati...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 289 | by Pamenus Tuso
Zanu-PF makes bold statement ahead of 2023 harmonised elections
AS Zimbabwe barrels towards next year's harmonised elections, Zanu-PF is firing from all cylinders winning elections in urban areas and increasing its leads in rural constituencies in a bold statement...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Police probe ZB Bank Vic Falls robbery
SEVERAL bank employees have been questioned by the police following a theft when a lone armed robber pounced on ZB Bank branch in Victoria Falls last week, entering the banking hall a few minutes befo...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:27hrs | 2540 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt appeases war vets with $4.6 billion
IN a bid to appease war veterans, who play a crucial role in Zanu-PF election campaigns, the government has set aside ZW$4.6 billion to invest in farms, mining and tourism.Finance and Economic...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:09hrs | 5356 | by Staff reporter
Chissano to lead Zimbabwe re-engagement drive
ZIMBABWE has roped in the services of former Mozambican President Joachim Chissano to head a delegation that will seek to resolve the nation's long-standing impasse with its creditors and the internat...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not ready for free, fair elections
FOR decades after independence, Zimbabwe seems to have been disillusioned by the electoral system.Democracy has been elusive. Elections have been marred by violence. Every past election has be...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 254 | by Innocent Mpoki
Mnangagwa chronicles how his clan fled to Zambia
President Mnangagwa yesterday chronicled how the Mnangagwa clan moved from Zvishavane communal areas to Zambia during the colonial era when he and his siblings were still teenagers.The Preside...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | 1719 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to the US as the West lose hope on Zimbabwe's hopeless opposition
ZIMBABWE has been invited to the upcoming United States-Africa leaders' summit in Washington despite concern over a "dire" authoritarian pivot by the Harare government which has seen a crackdown again...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | 3549 | by Staff reporter
ZEC reports US linked Pachedu to the police
IN a litmus test against cyber terrorists, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) yesterday reported an anti-Zimbabwe shadowy group Pachedu to the police on a litany of allegations ranging from hackt...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Honada Fit and 10 cars in freak pile-up
A ROAD accident at Coca-Cola intersection, in Harare's Graniteside industrial area, led to an 11-vehicle pile-up yesterday.Witnesses said the accident was caused by the driver of a bus who los...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa needs everybody's support and sacrifice
MANY factors can push a nation to embark on unstoppable demonstrations.Hunger is one of them. Closure of democratic space, if we read world history, can cause uprising and civil disobedience....Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 361 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Zimbabwe govt rejigs US$3.5bn compensation to farmers
ZIMBABWE'S cash-strapped Treasury has proposed a staggered payout plan to settle the US$3.5 billion compensation to white ex-commercial farmers who lost vast tracts of land when the government embarke...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
'Underfunding cripples NPRC'
HEAL Zimbabwe has decried lack of political will and under-funding that has grounded the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) national healing and reconciliation programmes.In i...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Another probe into AK-47 arms saga
GOVERNMENT has launched yet another investigation — the third one so far in as many weeks — into the controversial AK-47s arms import saga through Beitbridge Border Post which is now entangled in ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 15:00hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo pressures Victoria Falls City Council to give prime land to gold baron
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo, who is entangled in Victoria Falls land scandals — with his ally mayor Somveli Dlamini currently out of jail on bail after he was arrested for a fraudulent land ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt fails to make payments to white farmers
Zimbabwe is proposing changing the terms of a $3.5bn compensation deal signed with white former farmers two years ago, after twice missing agreed-to payments.The revised plan was part of finan...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:56hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's 2023 budget will take 150 years to deliver upper middle income, forget Vision 2030. The maths do not lie!
The Zimbabwe economy has been in decline for the last 42 years, it shrunk staggering 50% in the period 2000 to 2008 alone fuelled by the hyperinflation, that soared to dizzying heights of 500 billion ...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:28hrs | 709 | by Wilbert Mukori
Family finds blood sprinkled on doorstep
IN a scary incident, a family from Emahlabathini Village in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province woke up to a disturbing scene of blood randomly sprinkled on their doorsteps together with a white bloo...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:20hrs | 2481 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions hurting South Africa, says Ramphosa
SOUTH African President, Cyril Ramphosa, has pleaded with the British monarch and government to facilitate a smooth re-admission of Zimbabwe into the Commonwealth and lift the sanctions imposed on the...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails 'excellent' China relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed "excellent" relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
English-Brown joins Chicken Inn
HIGHLY rated former Young Warriors forward, Culum English-Brown has completed a move to Premier Soccer League (PSL) runner-ups Chicken Inn despite being recently linked with a move to Harare giants, D...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 2326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 5 years after Robert Mugabe - so, what has changed?
A climate of fear still lingers in Zimbabwe, five years after long-time ruler Robert Mugabe was deposed. As the country marks this milestone, few people are willing to speak openly about whether the g...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 17:18hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
What makes anyone believe blacks can't 'brainwash' whites?
It is always so extremely disturbing watching how much self-decrepitation and self-hate there is amongst us as black people - a sickening trait more prominent here in our own Zimbabwe.Why do w...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 16:55hrs | 659 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF dangles cane plots to youths
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has doled out sugarcane plots to Zanu-PF youths in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2023 polls.In past elections, the ruling party ha...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Illegal diamond dealer robbed of US$10,000
ARMED robbers raided an illegal diamond buyer at Marange diamond fields last Friday and robbed him of US$10 000 and a vehicle at gunpoint after dangling pieces of diamonds to the unsuspecting diamond ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's San community gets inaugural chief
MATABELELAND North leaders have lauded the Second Republic for appointing Mr Christopher Dube as the first substantive Chief Goledema for the San community in Tsholotsho District.He was offici...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean trio arrested for allegedly stealing copper cables, holding guards hostage
Mpumalanga police on Sunday said they had arrested three suspects, aged between 33 and 35, who allegedly robbed and held security guards hostage and stripped copper cables at a plantation in Machadodo...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's iconic Post Office Gardens crumble
A gaping hole now exposes the western part of the Post Office Gardens. It is perhaps ironic that a building also known as the War Memorial Park or the Cenotaph, now looks like it was the victim of a n...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family snubs Mnangagwa
Late former President Robert Mugabe's artefacts are not part of the fascinating array of Zimbabwe liberation heroes' war relics currently on display at the much-hyped Museum of African Liberation in H...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:45hrs | 14571 | by Staff reporter
Bloodshed of Zimbabwe's past elections has citizens bracing for what's to come next year
"Just thinking of voting causes me to become more afraid," Maxwell Tauro told The Globe and Mail. I might be met with bullets. I'm just fearful that I might get shot like my son."With a new el...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:40hrs | 349 | by Jeffrey Moyo for The Globe & Mail
Drama marks bail ruling for witness against Ken Sharpe
Bail ruling for former chief Harare City Council housing inspector Roy Nyabvure was abandoned for 30 minutes after a court official whispered something to...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 18:59hrs | 908 | by Paul Ndou
2 Zimbabweans, 5 SA police crime gang nabbed
IN a sting operation this week South African Police Services (Saps) arrested two Zimbabweans and five Saps serving members over a violent crime wave in Johannesburg's Fordsburg area.In a state...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Reluctance in registering to vote shows distrust in current political players
I said it before - and, I will say it again and again. I can totally understand the immense frustration amongst some sections of our Zimbabwean society - as they wonder why there appears to be...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 08:58hrs | 264 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
5 youths trespass into Mnangagwa's State House
FIVE youths yesterday pleaded guilty to trespassing into State House grounds when they appeared before Harare magistrate Noticia Shenje.Paul Muchena (24), Kupakwashe Pswarayi (24), Daniel Ishe...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 3277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Commonwealth readmission uncertain
ZIMBABWE'S bid to rejoin the Commonwealth will not be a stroll in the park, NewsDay has heard.The visiting Commonwealth team will assess the country's eligibility using a template which includ...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter§
Commonwealth team visiting Zimbabwe starts mission
THE visiting Commonwealth assessment team, which arrived in the country on Saturday for a week-long working visit, will today start engagements with several stakeholders as part of its brief to gather...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 246 | 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 | 4002 | by Staff reporter
When being oppressed is perceived as an honor and privilege!
It is most certainly saddening and tragic when a nation sinks to such levels, whereby there are those who actually perceive oppression as some warped and ...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 19:16hrs | 748 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Could Smith's plan for independence have led to a better Zimbabwe?
Today is 11 November - a day marked in this country’s history as when then Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in a daring move, stubbornly cut off ties with the colonial British Crown - by unilateral...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 14:46hrs | 2839 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Woman arrested in SA's Limpopo while driving hijacked Toyota Prado towards Zimbabwe
Police in Limpopo have intercepted a Toyota Prado vehicle, which was hijacked in Gauteng, while it was being driven towards the neighbouring Zimbabwe by a woman.Limpopo provincial SAPS spokesp...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:20hrs | 3203 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth mission jets in for Zimbabwe assessment
A Commonwealth assessment mission is expected in the country tomorrow for a week-long visit aimed at assessing progress made by Zimbabwe following an application submitted in 2018 for re-admission int...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:01hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Baobab tree faces extinction?
THE Baobab tree faces extinction in a few years as elephants are eating its bark a lot at Manapools National Park in mid-Zambezi region, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZIMPARKS)...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
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