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No COVID-19 jab, no jobs, says Mnangagwa
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a coterie of punitive measures designed to coerce citizens to undergo COVID-19 vaccination following a low uptake of the jab since the launch of the programme...Published: 2 hrs ago | 218 | by Staff reporter
Bribe-taking cop arrested at roadblock
A HARARE traffic police officer was arrested by members of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) last week after he allegedly received a bribe from an unlicensed driver to pass through a road...Published: 2 hrs ago | 420 | by Staff reporter
BCC hikes business development fees
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has hiked business development regulation fees from US$381 to US$1 000 to discourage illegal operations in the central business district, a council report has revealed....Published: 2 hrs ago | 116 | by Staff reporter
Teenager opens shop with stolen goods
AN abrasive Mwenezi teenager yesterday appeared in court on allegations of breaking into various shops in Mberengwa district where he stole goods worth over US$4 000 and used the loot to open his own ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 330 | by Staff reporter
Youths stage a flash demo at High court
Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) youths staged a flash demonstration outside High court Harare on Thursday demanding the release of an activist Makomborero Haruzivishe.Haruzivis...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1650 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Policeman in court for bribery
A Harare police officer appeared in court today on allegations of soliciting US$45 bribe from a motorist he had arrested.Broadway Jongwe was facing bribery charges when he appeared before Hara...Published: 19 hrs ago | 719 | by Staff reporter
6 machete-wielding robbers arrested
Police in Zvishavane have arrested six suspected armed robbers who were part of an eight machete-wielding gang that was targeting people with large amounts of cash.The six are Farai Moyo (21),...Published: 19 hrs ago | 679 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF internal battles escalate
The November 2017 Operation Restore Legacy changed the top echelon of political power in the country. Many business persons, politicians and politically exposed persons sponsored and supported the pro...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1399 | by Anonymous Writer
Kembo Mohadi presidential ambitions thwarted, we saw it coming!
In more than one article we told over ambitious Kembo Mohadi that he will never be the President of Zimbabwe given his Matabele background. We told him not to fly to high because his wings were fake, ...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2835 | by Israel Dube
Most Zimbabweans are not taught to be productive, but competitive
GRADE 7 results are out. A national pass rate of 37% was realised, down by 9% from the 46% recorded in 2019. An encouraging theme in line with aspirations of Sustainable Development Goals on gender eq...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | 779 | by Sapien Sapien
Chamisa's failure to rein in his 'toxic and divisive' SG has destroyed the party
THE defection of top party executive, Lillian Timveos from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to the ruling Zanu-PF has opened a can of worms, with party insiders claiming the young opposition leader...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2662 | by Staff reporter
Honda Fit menace worries residents
BULAWAYO residents have expressed concern over an increase in robbery cases by Honda Fit gangs who go around suburbs snatching mobile phones and handbags from hapless women.The method has been...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:28hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns that unvaccinated Citizens will be barred from public spaces?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zimbabweans to get vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic or they will soon be barred from all public spaces.Zimbabwe rolled out the national i...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:27hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Cops nab 11 armed robbers
POLICE in Harare have arrested 11 suspected armed robbers after foiling a major heist at Maruta Shopping Centre in Hatfield along the Harare-Chitungwiza Road in the early hours of Thursday.Nat...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 18:35hrs | 2158 | by Staff reporter
Machete gang terrorises Mutoko shop owners
POLICE in Mutoko, Mashonaland East province, have launched a manhunt for a heavily-armed six-member machete gang that has terrorised business owners at Karonga, before getting away with cash and cellp...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:50hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Senator Timveos speaks about MDC's politics of witchcraft & factions
I found the Twit by Charlton Hwende that my reasons for resigning from the MDC Alliance was that the First Lady promised me that my senatorial car will not be seized to be demeaning and a lie by an ev...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:28hrs | 2047 | by Senator Lillian Temvoes
Gweru ignores poor service delivery, parades new wheels
Gweru City Council has come under fire as residents are demanding that the local authority must sell the new Toyota VX Land Cruiser bought for the office of the town clerk and channel the money toward...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:27hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Graft-accused top health official denied bail
A HARARE magistrate yesterday denied bail to Health and Child Care ministry director of epidemiology and disease control, Portia Manangazira, who allegedly abused her powers and employed 28 close rela...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Unlicensed lettable shops bleed BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) could be losing millions of dollars in potential revenue from hundreds of lettable shops that have mushroomed in the city and are not paying licence fees and other related ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:49hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Proposal to help people recover lost items
ON February 16, 2012, Hansole was invited to a meeting for a public private sector partnership programme.As Hansole, we wanted to propose the setting up of an online system and create a social...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 22:15hrs | 606 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mwonzora ramps up dialogue push
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora will tomorrow name the MDC team that will lead the party's planned national dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other key stakeholders in the country....Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:23hrs | 1477 | by Staff reporter
Govt official recruits 28 family members
A TOP official in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira appeared in court yesterday charged with criminal abuse of office after she illegally facilitated the recruitment and training ...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 3089 | by Staff reporter
Chikwinya urges Zinara to decongest tollgates
MBIZO MP Settlement Chikwinya (MDC Alliance) has called on the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to decongest traffic at tollgates by introducing tap cards.In a statement yesterda...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1393 | by Staff reporter
Power outage hits Chirundu border post
RESIDENTS, businesspeople and regional transporters at Chirundu Border Post have gone for three weeks without electricity due to a faulty transformer.The transformer was hit by lightning three...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown reprieve for customs clearing agents
Government has revised lockdown regulations and classified customs clearing agents and freight forwarders operating inland and at the country's ports of entry/exit as essential service providers in a ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:32hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Thieves steal Mnangagwa speech, laptop
POLICE in Kwekwe last Wednesday arrested three of a four-member daring gang which was on the "wanted list" for stealing a laptop, and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's speech from a car driven by one of ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 21:52hrs | 3919 | by Staff reporter
Dr Masimba Mavaza is a tribalist: Inherent hatred for non-Shona people
I want to excuse myself right from the beginning of this article: It is not about protecting VP Mohadi and his scandals of his previous marriage with Senator Tambudzani Mohadi that left us cold about ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 18:02hrs | 1993 | by Nomazulu Thata
Police warn felons, rotten cops
ANGRY authorities vowed yesterday that they would hammer perpetrators of violent crime in the country, while also dealing ruthlessly with rogue police officers caught participating in criminal activit...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:12hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 439 | by Ken Mufuka
Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed
It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural r...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 186 | by Zifiso Masiye
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 83 | by Bishop Lazarus
Police gun down 6 robbers
FOUR suspected armed robbers were killed while two others were arrested in a shootout with police along Mbuya Nehanda Street in Harare on Friday.One of the robbers was a serving member of the ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
4 'armed robbers' including a cop killed in shootout with police
Four suspected armed robbers have been killed in a shootout with police in Harare.Police said one of the dead suspects was a police officer based at Hatfield Police Station.Police are ...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 11:41hrs | 4826 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official case deferred to today
MDC Alliance national council member Makomborero Haruziviishe, who was arrested on kidnapping allegations after he locked the doors at Impala Car Rental offices in protest at the company hiring its fl...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:59hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
ZRP Milking informal traders
The latest lockdown extension by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened new avenues for Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to continue milking the public.Most informal traders who spoke to this r...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 14:39hrs | 2363 | by Shelton Muchena
Zanu-PF's 2023 plot exposed
HARARE residents and MDC formations yesterday claimed Zanu-PF was behind the chaos in most urban local authorities as part of a grand plan to set the electorate against the opposition ahead of the 202...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:20hrs | 2791 | by Staff reporter
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Kadewere surpasses Benjani
ZIMBABWE international forward Tino Kadewere has surpassed former Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari's explosive start in his debut season in France where he won rave reviews after joining from Swiss ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination roll-out kicks off
Vaccination against Covid-19 starts tomorrow with 49 000 health workers and thousands of other high-risk frontline staff being scheduled for stage one of phase one using the first batch of the Sinopha...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tears into Chamisa's MDC
ZANU-PF says the MDC is now operating from "the last chance saloon" to work with the former liberation movement and other political parties in the interests of the country and its long-suffering citiz...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:18hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not create his own opposition
This epitome of throwing the baby out with the bath water should not be tolerated.Where on earth have you heard of a President saying that, "this is the official opposition party" referring to...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:23hrs | 2550 | by Leonard Koni
241 new houses for Beitbridge
A PROPERTY developer in Beitbridge, Alpha International Land Developers has struck a deal with a local bank to construct 241 houses in the border town.The project will include the construction...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 08:00hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Harare roads funds need audit
The heavy rains have highlighted the lack of maintenance and lack of required rebuilding on many Harare roads, with the city council getting its fair share of Zinara funds and having access to parking...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's herbalists, doctors unite thwarting non-communicable diseases
HARARE - With government's research confirming that 80 percent of Zimbabweans consult herbalists prior to visiting hospitals, the country's Ministry of Health has shifted to partnering traditional hea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 16:56hrs | 750 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze
Mnangagwa outfit suffers major blow
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial platform for opposition parties is at risk of becoming irrelevant due to MDC-T's reluctance to endorse it following the elevation of Douglas Mwonzora....Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:36hrs | 8950 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gives away 99% of exported tobacco
A STAGGERING 99% of the tobacco crop produced annually by Zimbabwean farmers is shipped to the international markets without being processed, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) revealed l...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:31hrs | 1297 | by Staff reporter
Housing project for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is set for a massive new housing project that will see 8 500 stands being developed on a 5 000-acre area along the Bulawayo-Gwanda road.The project is being implemented by Thompson Pr...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:47hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu: A splendid traditional leader, cultural activist, nationalist
UGODLWAYO! Yithi! This is a familiar slogan in the Godlwayo Communal Land whenever people are gathered. Yesterday at around 01.00 hrs their Chief, Vezi Maduna Mafu passed away.Chief Maduna was...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:45hrs | 462 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Wananchi - never awaken a sleep-walking foe
Ignorance can be pure bliss.It makes life unburdensome through avoiding the inconvenience of putting up with inconvenient truths, facts and realities.What better way of preventing the ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:38hrs | 237 | by Bishop Lazarus
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