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Zec bemoans paltry budgetary allocation
GOVERNMENT has failed to adequately fund the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to conduct electoral activities, including pending March 2022 by-elections.The was revealed by Zec deputy elect...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Covid cases spike
COVID-19 cases have started rising again with latest statistics indicating over 700 new infections on Wednesday up from only nine cases in the last 10-day reporting cycle.On Tuesday, 399 new c...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:28hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Busted cheat commits suicide
A man from Kezi, Matabeleland South Province committed suicide after his wife stumbled on love messages on his phone and later saw semen stains on their matrimonial bed.The incident happened o...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:28hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Miners in bloody fight over isitshwala
AN artisanal miner employed at Black Rock Mine in Esigodini attacked his colleague several times all over the body with a shovel and stabbed him for refusing to cook isitshwala.The incident ha...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:22hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA take battle to Administrative Court
ZIFA have approached the Administrative Court to formally challenge the decision by the Sports and Recreation Commission to suspend the association's executive committee. The Notice of Appeal ...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:20hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suffers yet another diplomatic blow
THE United States government has poured cold water on President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s claim that he held a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden last month to discuss ways of removing san...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:17hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drifts into 2023 election mode
NO date has been set for the 2023 elections, but Zimbabwe is already getting into election mode, with evident electioneering and voter registration awareness campaigns by political parties and various...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:02hrs | 1359 | by Staff reporter
Philip Chiyangwa takes on Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF's Zvimba South legislator and businessman Philip Chiyangwa is challenging the compulsory acquisition of his land in Warren Park, Harare, where the State wants to set up a museum for African li...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 3839 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths call for Sahrawi independence
Zimbabwe has been commended for its firm support for the de-colonisation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).SADR has been colonised by Morocco since 1975.The Sahrawi Arab D...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:26hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Zifa takes SRC to court
THE suspended Zifa board has come out in full support of the ongoing dialogue between the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) and Fifa to resolve their tiff, but forged ahead with its plans to appr...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 12:12hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Man fraudulently acquires 'dead' SA-based businessman's farm
A BULAWAYO man allegedly faked the death of a South Africa-based businessman and fraudulently took ownership of his farm in Umguza District, Matabeleland North, through a court order.Zephaniah...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Judge declares Drax, NatPharm deal valid
THE cancellation of the 2019 contract between Drax Consult SALG and NatPharm for the supply of medicines and related sundries was improper, the High Court ruled yesterday, since the tender had been ap...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
High Court mum on by-election challenge 6 months on
THE High Court is yet to deliver judgment on a matter where human rights activists challenged Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's ban on by-elections six months ago citing COVID-19 measures....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Teachers unions' plot exposed
TEACHERS' unions and other civil society organisations have been roped in to push the Western-funded regime change agenda in the country with handsome perks being given to the unions' leadership....Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC starts auditing MPs, councillors
MDC Alliance councillors in Bulawayo have started receiving their party membership confirmation letters as the party moves in to get rid of all its current elected parliament and council officials who...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Forus party launches manifesto
NEWLY-FORMED Freedom of Rights Under Sovereign (Forus) party on Saturday launched its manifesto in Harare, with its leader Manyara Irene Muyenziwa (44) claiming her outfit was ready to contest the ele...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Experts warn govt over the omicron variant
LOCAL health experts yesterday warned government against giving false hope on its ability to deal with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has since been described as "a variant of concern" by the ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 22 000 from voters roll
More than 22 000 dead people have been removed from the voters rolls in the latest batch of such routine deletions, with a notification and appeal process in place in case a mistake was made, while th...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm yet to start airport job seven months after contract
The multi-million-dollar contract to fix Zimbabwe's Air Traffic Control Communication Systems (ATCCS) by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is yet to commence, seven months after the Chinese mul...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Man sells his car, only to steal it using duplicate keys
A 33-YEAR-OLD man from Plumtree was arrested for allegedly stealing a car he had sold to someone.Chido Abel Chifeku (33) from Dingimuzi suburb allegedly stole a vehicle he had sold to Irvine Muzen...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:04hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for infecting lover with HIV
A woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested over allegations of deliberately infecting her lover with HIV.The 32-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld, allegedly didn't d...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:03hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Lack of IDs a major threat to elections, claims Zesn
GOVERNMENT'S failure to issue national identity document (ID) cards has become a major threat to elections in the country and should be addressed as a matter of urgency, an election watchdog has said....Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 07:57hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
MDC still can't 'do the obvious - withdraw from (sham) elections' out of greed - will SADC continue punish povo for it
There is a real danger of Zimbabwe sending the wrong and confused message to SADC and the international community at large; yet again. SADC and the world at large want to know whether Zimbabweans want...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:26hrs | 644 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Woman (32) arrested for infecting lover with HIV
A woman from Hillside suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested over allegations of deliberately infecting her lover with HIV.The 32-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld, allegedly didn't d...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:00hrs | 1545 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa suffers yet another diplomatic blow
THE United States government has poured cold water on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that he held a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden last month to discuss ways of removing sanctions agai...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:38hrs | 5367 | by Staff Reporter
ZEC ready for elections under Covid-19
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has come up with a policy that will ensure the country resumes electoral processes even under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, which previously affected the...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 08:51hrs | 572 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF exposes thousands to Covid-19
THOUSANDS of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre in Harare to witness the burial of national hero and Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo in defiance of COVID-19 protocols...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Zec suspends voter registration
THE suspension of the December 6 voter registration blitz by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has raised concern amid suspicion that it could be the work of a hidden political hand meant to blo...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:58hrs | 1104 | by Staff reporter
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for Life President, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has unwittingly exposed the ruling Zanu-PF party's plans to use its parliamentary majority to railroad constitutional amendments and declare its leader Emmerson Mna...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
'Stop criminalising human rights defenders'
HUMAN rights defenders have been under siege in the Sadc region amid calls for governments to respect the law, democracy and rights.The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:12hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Mutanda fights CAPS govt shareholding claim
WAR veteran and businessman Fredrick Charles Mutanda has approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside an arbitration ruling that government is the majority shareholder of pharmaceutical com...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:11hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Is South Africa ready for a white president?
SOMETIME in October this year, there was a leaked audio purportedly recorded in 2019 at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport in which the Democratic Alliance (DA) federal council chair Helen ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:10hrs | 681 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Suspension of Zifa board ill-advised
WHILE it is true that human beings, unlike pigeons, have the intrinsic capacity to do wrong and, therefore, needs some form of regulation, it is important to point out that such interventions must not...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:10hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Malema defends EFF's failure to disclose funders
EFF leader Julius Malema says his party has nothing to hide and this was the reason they did not disclose any donations.The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) published a second quarte...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a prima facie failed state and incapable of self-governing - will we finally take the cure
"Blacks are incapable of self-governing!" was the standard justification for continued white colonial rule. Not many things said and done by the white supremacists got under my skin half as deep as th...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:35hrs | 873 | by Wilbert Mukori
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 7576 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chitungwiza launches stands audit
CHITUNGWIZA Municipality has launched a verification exercise for all stands allocated from January 2019 to date as part of updating its property database.In a statement yesterday, acting town...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
By-elections spook opposition
PROSPECTS of by-elections in the first quarter of next year have spooked the broke and divided MDC-Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa, which is now threatening to boycott the polls for alleged absence ...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:12hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo: Selfless freedom fighter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned nationalist and liberation struggle stalwart Simon Khaya Moyo, who has been declared a national hero, as a true patriot, courageous and selfless freedom fighter....Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo's journey over the years
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who died yesterday at the age of 76, was born in Plumtree, Matabeleland South on October 1 1945 to Mr Robert Khaya Ngulani ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 3991 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to cut on hired wagons, locomotives
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is working on a framework to reduce wagons and locomotives hired from third parties as part of a broader scope to save the organisation millions of dollars in f...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
'Be wary of politicking NGOs'
President Mnangagwa has called on the rural folk to be on the look-out against some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that set base in communities with ulterior motives which have no benefit for t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to import 400MW to bridge power deficit
STATE power utility, Zesa Holdings, intends to import up to 400 megawatts from Mozambique and Zambia as part of measures to end a debilitating power crisis, a senior executive said.This comes ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said dialogue remained the only solution to rescue Zimbabwe from its deep socio-economic crisis and put the country on a recovery path.Chamisa said...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Proposed law 'exposes Mnangagwa panic'
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC Alliance has condemned the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday calling the draft legislation unconstitutional, draconian and und...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | 2974 | by Staff reporter
6 school gangs unearthed in city
AN investigation has revealed disturbing insight into gangs in the Emganwini and Nketa areas that have become a threat to the safety of both teachers and pupils at schools within the areas.Sun...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Telecel dragged to court over unpaid rentals
MOBILE network operator Telecel has been dragged to court for failing to pay rentals for one of its branches in Harare's Mabelreign suburb with arrears now at US$34 400.The landlord, Peter Sao...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:45hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
High Court exposes rot in Masvingo land allocation
A HIGH Court judge has further exposed the corrupt allocation of land by senior government officials in Masvingo province after handing down a ruling on Wednesday dismissing an offer letter issued thi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:45hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
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