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Police warn against fake news
POLICE in Bulawayo have dismissed claims circulating on social media that six people were killed in a kombi accident in the city last week.Bul...Published: 15 hrs ago | 924 | by Staff reporter
UK sanctions scuttle ambulances export to Zimbabwe
CONTRARY to Western propaganda that sanctions do not affect ordinary Zimbabweans, a United Kingdom-based businessman was barred from purchasing medica...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 2944 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moots new party constitution
Zanu-PF has announced plans to draft a new party constitution which will have a clause compelling all members to be on the voters' roll and vote for p...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1891 | by Staff reporter
Sad milestone for Zimbabwe democracy or momentous occasion?
CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment No 2 Bill sailed through Senate yesterday with three MDC-T senators, Piniel Denga, Morgan Femai and Jane Chifamba voting in Z...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:34hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
PDP wants Rukanda arrested for fraud, perjury
THE opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) has turned the tables against its member Benjamin Rukanda and reported him to law enforcement agents fo...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:29hrs | 2530 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa speech thieves' skip bail
TWO of the three daring thieves, who allegedly stole a copy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2020 Independence Day speech and a laptop have skipped b...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for MDC Alliance duo
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance legislator Joanah Mamombe (Harare West) and party activist Cecilia Chimbiri will know their fate today after Harare High Court...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to unleash soldiers on gold panners
GOVERNMENT has threatened to unleash "special security operations" on artisanal gold miners destroying public infrastructure such as railway lines in ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:27hrs | 2041 | by Staff reporter
New AAG executive joins Zanu-PF campaign train
THE new-elected Affirmative Action Group (AAG) executive has said it will mobilise youths to vote as part of Zanu-PF's youth mobilisation drive ahead ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:25hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner breaks silence on Dinde project
CHINESE company Beifa Investments (Pvt) Ltd has broken its silence on the Dinde project in Hwange and absolved itself of wrongdoing after it was accus...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:25hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water points record spike in violence
THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has decried the sharp increase in cases of violence at water points in Bulawayo.This was re...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:24hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni COVID-19 centre still closed a year on
BULAWAYO's Ekusileni Medical Centre is yet to admit COVID-19 patients a year after it was declared a coronavirus treatment centre, amid calls for stre...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:23hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe back on UK radar
THE House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK) has raised a red flag over the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe and called for action on...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | 4596 | by Staff reporter
MDC, Zanu-PF whip senators ahead of crucial vote
Zanu-PF and MDCT yesterday allegedly whipped their senators into line ahead of today's vote for the passage of the Constitutional Amendment (No 2) Bil...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths target bigwigs' farms
Zanu-PF youths in Headlands are reportedly eyeing farms allocated to party bigwigs in the constituency, among them former Finance minister Patrick Chi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
War vets want more cash
WAR veterans in Karoi have demanded more cash from Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, instead of being given loans for income-generating projects....Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
RG Office's inefficiency unsettles Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF party in Mashonaland East province is fretting over the Registrar-General (RG) Office's inefficiency, saying this would negatively affect ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Arrest Zinara looters, says Parly
PARLIAMENT'S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered law enforcement agents to arrest chefs implicated in the looting of Zimbabwe National Road Ad...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
ZRP block opposition clean-up exercise
POLICE yesterday blocked a clean-up exercise in Mbare initiated by opposition Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume saying they feared that the p...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe police arrest machete gang leader
POLICE in Kwekwe last week arrested a notorious leader of a machete gang in connection with attempted murder and murder in the Midlands city.C...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Minister flouts COVID-19 safety regulations
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has come under fire for allegedly flouting COVID-19 safety regulations following a meeting she held last w...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Senate to vote on Amendment Number 2 Bill
SENATE will today vote for the passage of the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Number 2 Bill, whose proposed amendments have been rejected by civic ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
'Incentives must be stopped to equalise students'
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has revealed that teachers said to be reporting for duty were charging up to US$10 per pupil per wee...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
BCC under pressure to publish assets register
BULAWAYO City Council has come under pressure to publish a list of its properties to enhance transparency and accountability. The call by civi...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:32hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
POSB privatisation gathers pace
STATE-OWNED financial services provider POSB's preparations for partial privatisation and subsequent listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange have moved...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:28hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Commuters bear brunt of Zupco's shambolic transport system
IT'S 5:10pm and Harare's Market Square bus terminus is teeming with commuters desperate to get home before dark, but there are no Zupco buses....Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Witness nails Chiyangwa in Kamambo bribe case
FORMER Zifa boss Philip Chiyangwa and the police have been accused of helping build a case against current Zifa president Felton Kamambo, who is being...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Zim Achievers Awards UK bounce back
ORGANISERS of the annual Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) United Kingdom have opened the nomination platform for the 10th edition of the honours schedu...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:24hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho kombi operators ditch route over state of road
KOMBI operators who ply the Bulawayo-Nyamandlovu-Tsholotsho route have abandoned it due to the poor state of the road and are now using the Bulawayo-S...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:22hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Government starts issuing birth certificates for children born during lockdown
GOVERNMENT has started issuing birth certificates to children who were born during the Covid-19-induced lockdown and had not been captured in the nati...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:21hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Bosso in line for windfall in anticipated Prince Dube move
HIGHLANDERS could be in line for a windfall should Tanzanian side Azam decide to sell red-hot striker Prince Dube in the next transfer window. ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Council workers in bribes-for-stalls storm
GWERU City Council (GCC) employees in the Housing and Community Services department are allegedly demanding US$150 bribe from vendors desperate for st...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
DJ Phuti bounces back
IN between serving the nation as Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technologies, Postal and Courier Services and Bulilima West legislat...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:19hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Zifa cancel friendly matches
ZIFA has decided against organising friendly matches for the Warriors ahead of their Fifa World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and Ethiopia next ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:19hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Cold spell expected to continue in some areas
THE cold spell that was experienced during the past few days was caused by rainfall patterns in Botswana which came through Matabeleland and spread to...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:18hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Telecoms want more forex
Telecommunication companies are facing a shortage of foreign currency that has made it difficult for them to acquire equipment and upgrade their netwo...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:18hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to ease cargo flows due to construction delays
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is working on several measures to speed up the flow of commercial cargo traffic through Beitbridge Border Post ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:17hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF could regret constitutional changes'
LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu-PF, Rugare Gumbo, says the removal of the running mate clause from the country's Constitu...Published: 02 May 2021 at 18:33hrs | 3286 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to auction smugglers' vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has resolved to sell impounded vehicles used to transport smuggled goods in and out of the country as the entit...Published: 02 May 2021 at 18:32hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Cop run over by kombi, battling for life
A police officer is battling for life at Kwekwe General Hospital after he was deliberately run over by a pirate commuter omnibus in the early hours of...Published: 02 May 2021 at 18:28hrs | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF parades returning Mutinhiri
Zanu-PF in Mashonaland East yesterday paraded former MDC Alliance member Tracy Mutinhiri and 51 other people that defected to the ruling party from th...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:46hrs | 1969 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mamombe trial
BRITAIN says it is following closely the trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other activists for allegedly faking their abduction....Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:45hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T revisits Zanu-PF sponsored bill
UNDER FIRE MDC-T says it will next week conduct a cost benefit analysis of the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 which party MPs ha...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:44hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
Anticipated delays at Beitbridge border post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to advise all travellers, importers, exporters, transporters, clearing agents and the general public tha...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:42hrs | 2104 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police use Facebook to nab syndicate
A BULAWAYO syndicate of thieves, who broke into people's cars, was arrested after one of them gave away information about his location to detectives t...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:04hrs | 618 | by Staff Reporter
Police disperse MDC Alliance Assembly of Women meeting in Mutare
MDC Alliance Women Assembly Manicaland Province meeting was prematurely abandoned after the Police invaded their office and arrested Studio seven Jour...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:32hrs | 428 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Khama Billiat faces another injury lay-off
KHAMA Billiat could be facing another lengthy spell on the sidelines, barely a few weeks after returning from another injury, following an admission b...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:06hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
3 Thornhill High pupils test positive for Covid
THREE pupils at Thornhill High School in Gweru have tested Covid-19 positive.The outbreak follows another one at Anderson High School early th...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 18:43hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Zesa seeks new tariff
Zesa is in the process of applying for a new tariff in a bid to boost its operations, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) chief executive offi...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 18:42hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
NGO boss says Mnangagwa sponsoring new law to safeguard 2023 poll ambitions
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika says frantic efforts to pass Constitutional Amendment No.2 is a sure sign President Emmer...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
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