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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 | 424 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's age-old factionalism burns hot
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu-PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party's District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections.Zan...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 21:09hrs | 1510 | 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 | 1231 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance marshals' remand refusal bid flops
Eleven suspected MDC-Alliance marshals who allegedly assaulted a police officer at a food court in Harare last year had their application for refusal of further remand dismissed yesterday. Eva...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:45hrs | 211 | 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 | 2491 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Uganda: What Nelson Chamisa can learn from Bobi Wine
Yesterday two despots shared the same birthday - that is one Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe and the other being Yoweri Kaguta Museveni from Uganda. Despite old age, these two brothers in de...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 17:38hrs | 2637 | by Leonardo Makuya
Zimbabwe does not have whistle-blowing legislation
Zimbabwe does not have a stand-alone law that sets out guidelines for persons who report incidents of corruption and misconduct, a new report has said. In its report, Platform to Protect Whistle-blowe...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:52hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Is the MDC-Alliance winning ANC support?
Forces inside the MDC-A have claimed that they now have a "new friendship" with the ANC. According to two MDC-A NEC members who are close to Chamisa the two political parties were brought closer to ea...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 08:14hrs | 2334 | by Felix Kundishora
GMB depot supervisor arrested for 4t maize 'theft'
GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) Binga depot supervisor and a clerk have been arrested together with the district's social welfare officer after they allegedly stole nearly four tonnes of drought relief ma...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 may become a seasonal virus
COVID-19 may eventually become a seasonal illness like the flu, but only when the population achieves herd immunity, meaning a sufficient number of people are immune to prevent constant spread, a new ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:13hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to regain strength
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe allotted its highest foreign currency to date at the weekly foreign currency auction today as the local currency continues to regain strength. The Zimbabwe do...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:40hrs | 3344 | by Staff reporter
18 000 dead voters struck off roll
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) struck off the voters' roll, more than 18 000 deceased people between January and December last year. ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba s...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance calls out ZANU-PF officials
MDC Alliance's National spokesperson, Stephen Chuma, has fingered some of the ZANU-PF officials as the ones behind the continued brutal attacks that some of their members are encountering.Acco...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2110 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
It's time for Zimbabweans to bite the bullet
FOR the longest of times, Zimbabwe seems to continue hogging the limelight for its blustery manner in terms of handling human rights, and the coming in of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was expected to ...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 586 | by George Machanja
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
Gono bitter and lonely outside Government
After a lengthy period of hibernating from the media spotlight, Gideon Gono, the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor resurfaced in a twitter interview with Alpha Media Holdings' Trevor Ncub...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 09:45hrs | 6688 | by John Mhazo
MDC Alliance councillor acquitted after 42-day prison hell
Godfrey Kurauone, an MDC Alliance councillor from Masvingo who was held without bail for 42 days has been acquitted on a charge of obstructing the free movement of traffic and participating in an ille...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1764 | by Staff reporter
Residents jostle for water in Magwegwe
CHAOTIC scenes were witnessed at Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s Magwegwe reservoir as scores of thirsty residents stampeded to fetch treated water which gushed out of the 140-megalitre overnight storag...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:49hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army loses $2,7m in botched travel service deal
A 30-YEAR-OLD Harare woman appeared in court yesterday charged with swindling the Defence ministry out of $2 700 546 after she allegedly misrepresented that she bought 79 air tickets for members of th...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Zambia President Edgar Lungu's Prophet survives gun attack
Zambian Prophet Isaac Kabamba popularly known as DD Isaac survived an attack from gunmen in August. DD Isaac is widely known as Edgar Lungu's prophet after he prophesied on 31 December 2019 that Edgar...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 23:27hrs | 4678 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NatBake donates to Chitungwiza's famous soup kitchen
Thousands gathered in Chitungwiza to witness a local bakery NatBake, donating five tonnes of mealie meal and bread to a local kitchen that has been feeding thousands of vulnerable residents during the...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 912 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chivhu shootings: Fresh details emerge
FRESH details on circumstances surrounding the weekend shooting incident that claimed the life of a soldier in Chivhu, about 140km south of Harare along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, have emerged....Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 11113 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lacking visionary leaders
Allow me to unpack some of the few things which are derailing the country from progressing and if they are fixed, we can all enjoy the treasures in our country.The recent developments witnesse...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 12:34hrs | 950 | by Leonard Koni
Policy implementation key in reindustrializing economy
The re-industrialization of the economy is a vital piece in the achievement of Zimbabwe's sustainable economic development goals and effective participation in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:15hrs | 434 | by Victor Bhoroma
4 senior army officers promoted
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President Mnangagwa has promoted four colonels, who are all ex-combatants from the liberation war, to the rank of Brigadier-General, a few months befo...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Cheating wife hangs self
A Bindura woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on a tree after she was caught cheating by her 82-year-old husband a fortnight ago.Sophia Tendere of Mavhunga village, Chief Musa...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:34hrs | 9661 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Masango freed on bail
SUSPENDED Registrar-General Clemence Masango, who is facing theft charges involving fuel coupons worth $108 000, has been freed on $10 000 bail.The State had opposed his admission to bail and ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:25hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Jere out, Sikhala still in
BUSINESSMAN and Caps United Football Club boss Farai Jere has been granted $20 000 bail by the High Court following his arrest late last month on fraud charges.Since his arrest, Jere has been ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Masarira slams Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the Labour Economists and Afrikan Democats (LEAD), opposition party, has slammed the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for initiating the land compensation progr...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:49hrs | 3981 | by Daniel Itai
Job Sikhala denied bail
MDC deputy chairman Job Sikhala was denied bail on Thursday following his arrest on August 21 accused of incitement of public violence.Harare magistrate Lazini Ncube said Sikhala had been foun...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 18:44hrs | 2211 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation used and dumped us: Zipra
Zipra war veterans have complained that they were used by the new dispensation during the November 2017 military take over and later dumped.They also accused the government of squandering an o...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:40hrs | 2211 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance statement on Zanu-PF back licking the West
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance Youth League notes that in a way to cheat their way out of the current economic turmoil, the incumbent ZANU PF regime led by ED Mnangagwa has back stepped on the land ref...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2489 | by Thabiso Nxumalo
Speedster mows down cop on duty
A speed junkie in Gweru, Kudakwashe Manyuchi (40), who was well-known in the city for driving around in top-of-the-range sports cars, was arrested after he fatally knocked down a police officer on dut...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says 'Cops always came to my office for lunch money'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who is incarcerated at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, yesterday denied charges that he evaded arrest and went into hiding before his arrest la...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:40hrs | 3234 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala tells court he is too stout to hide in ceiling
BAIL hearing for jailed MDC Alliance vice chair, Job Sikhala continued Tuesday with the firebrand politician taking to the witness's stand before a Harare magistrate to deny both being violent and fug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2890 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono not a risk to inmates'
POLITICAL activist Hopewell Chin'ono has no symptoms of Covid-19 and is not a risk to other inmates, the court heard yesterday. Chin'ono, who is facing charges of inciting public violence, app...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Man fakes erectile dysfunction to avoid sex with wife, 'rapes' minor
A Zvishavane man who faked erectile dysfunction for 17 years to avoid having sex with his wife was exposed after he was arrested for rape. Custon Jojo Machanja (68)'s wife shocked the court wh...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:25hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala claims he is being victimised over coup rumours
Through his lawyer Jeremiah Bamu, Sikhala said he even confronted Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in Parliament for allegedly spreading the coup rumours.Sikhala is fighting for his release on...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:37hrs | 3347 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by drug resistance
ZIMBABWE is experiencing a high burden of drug resistance to common antibiotics, a situation which has made disease control difficult and too expensive for the poorly resourced country.Also kn...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:23hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala bail hearing continues
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala (pictured), who was arrested last month for allegedly inciting public violence, will today continue with his bail application before magistrate Laz...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:22hrs | 912 | by Staff reporter
Urgent need for MDC Chamisa to rebrand
The right to choose one's political leaders; the ones that were once chosen, shape the political destiny of a nation, is vested in every adult citizen and enshrined in the constitution. This supreme p...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 4318 | by Marakia Bomani
ZUNDE condemns violation of the rule of law in Zimbabwe
On 24 November 2017, Zimbabweans United for Democracy (ZUNDE) issued a press statement in which we welcomed the fall of President Robert Mugabe and congratulated the incoming administration. We genuin...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 226 | by Moses Chamboko
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1859 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu-PF big shot appeals for sanity
WITH ZANU-PF continuing to reel from its long-standing demons of factionalism and tribalism, its national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned that the future of the party is on the line ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 6891 | by Staff reporter
Role of government and Matabeleland Collective under scrutiny
For decades, successive Zanu-PF governments have attempted to introduce developmental and political programmes in Matabeleland without consulting the locals. In all instances these programmes ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:01hrs | 736 | by Lovemore Moyo
Mangudya's auction has made doubting Thomases believe
On June 23, 2020, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, introduced a market-based foreign exchange (forex) auction system for the country.Indeed, the auction came as refre...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 561 | by Jameson Dapi
Man stabs estranged wife seven times
A BULAWAYO soldier followed his estranged wife to her family home where he allegedly fatally stabbed her seven times and in the process ripping open her stomach using a kitchen knife after she refused...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala video clips viewed in court
TWO video clips were played in court yesterday showing MDC national vice chairperson, Job Sikhala, who is facing charges of inciting public violence ahead of the flopped July 31 protests, boasting tha...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 4276 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's auction has made doubting Thomases believe…
On 23 June, 2020, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, introduced a market-based foreign exchange (forex) auction system for the country. Indeed, the auction came as refreshingly...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:04hrs | 2295 | by Jameson Dapi
We must not politicise the Zimbabwean judiciary system
Zimbabwe has been on the social media, news , whatsapp and any other news outlet took time to cast a flood light upon Zimbabwe. Indeed the world in now global village and any events in any country are...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 13:08hrs | 4093 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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