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Timveos departure from MDC Alliance to ZANU PF fraught with hypocrisy and deceit, and needs introspection
In my life, I have come across my fare share of strange things - some, which could be characterized as stranger than fiction - but, the open letter allegedly penned by former MDC Alliance member and s...Published: 6 hrs ago | 838 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa mustn't be blamed for poor service delivery
THE Urban Councils Authority of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) says the crusade by the ruling Zanu-PF to blame the opposition on the chaotic state of most urban councils, served no purpose but only worsened service ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 448 | 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: 7 hrs ago | 782 | by Staff reporter
Meet Khami's longest serving inmate
HE was condemned at birth to a life of hardship after being christened Mhlupheki, which is Ndebele for "the one who struggles". True to his name, Mhlupheki Ngwenya (47) has suffered, living a ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Mapfumo calls for UN intervention in Zimbabwe
CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an...Published: 7 hrs ago | 399 | 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: 23 hrs ago | 1696 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Hwange power plant in limbo as Zimbabwe frustrates Chinese investor
Zimbabwe is stalling the completion of a 720 megawatt coal-fired thermal power plant in Hwange in a stand-off between the finance ministry and the military which is in a joint venture with a Chinese c...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes wife over $1 EcoCash
A man from Mberengwa has appeared in court after he allegedly bashed his wife over a $1 ecocash transaction.Ester Ruvengo questioned her husband for sending $1 through ecocash for the upkeep o...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1676 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi's family questions his will
A ROW has erupted over the estate of the late socialite, Genius Kadungure - who was popularly known as Ginimbi.This comes as his family has approached the High Court seeking the removal of the...Published: 24 hrs ago | 2739 | by Staff reporter
Chombo gets bail
Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo was today granted bail by Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje and was ordered to continue following bail conditions imposed on his other previous co...Published: 24 hrs ago | 821 | by Staff reporter
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: 24 hrs ago | 745 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe press conference snubbed
Harare West legislator, Joana Mamombe's press conference which was aimed at calling for the release of Makomborero Haruzivishe, has been snubbed by many who called the legislator to order and lead the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | 1894 | by Political Writer
SA lacks the will to rescue Zimbabwe
IN any discussion on the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the need for South Africa's mediation to find resolution is invariably raised. Calls for South African involvement are getting loude...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 918 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
Suspended Natpharm boss back in court
SUSPENDED National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) acting managing director Zealous Nyabadza appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing criminal abuse of office allegatio...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe grilled over spot fines
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has said government is working on modalities to ensure that various methods of payment are used at police roadblocks to make it easy for payment of spot fines....Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:40hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
'Thief' beaten to death
SEVEN men from Pumula South in Bulawayo have been arrested for heavily assaulting a suspected thief they caught at a house in the suburb, leading to his death in a cell at Pumula Police Station on the...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:33hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Footballer kicks out cheating wife
ZAMBIA-based football star Thabani Kamusoko has kicked out his wife from his Selbourne Park suburb house in Bulawayo after his sister busted his "cheating" spouse being picked up by her boyfriend outs...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe among 7 African governments using Israeli cyber-espionage tools
As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important in organising opposition movements. In response, several governments have at tim...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 20:17hrs | 2515 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe in demo demanding Matanga's resignation
MDC Alliance Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe and scores of party youths Thursday staged a flash demonstration outside the Harare Magistrates' Courts demanding the release of activist Makomborero Haruziv...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 18:38hrs | 2961 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fresh headache
Cash-strapped government is struggling to raise US$1.75bn to compensate former commercial white farmers who lost their farms under the land reform programme amid revelations a bid to raise funding fro...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:20hrs | 6272 | by Staff reporter
No bail for two ZB Bank heist suspects
Two suspects in the US$2,7 million ZB Bank cash-in-transit truck heist case, Gerald Rutizira and Neverson Mwamuka, have been denied bail at the High Court after the court ruled that evidence linking t...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:05hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Chombo bail ruling tomorrow
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo, accused of illegally parcelling pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District Council during his tenure of office as Local Government Minister betw...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:04hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
7 arrested for fatally assaulting suspected burglar
SEVEN men from Pumula South in Bulawayo have been arrested for heavily assaulting a suspected thief they caught at a house in the suburb leading to his death in a cell at Pumula Police Station on the ...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:02hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Man sues Kazembe, police
A HARARE man has filed a High Court application seeking an order compelling the police to investigate an alleged abduction and shooting incident he endured at the hands of suspected cops earlier this ...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 15:59hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Shut up Kembo says MDC A youth
MDC Alliance youth leader Tererai Obey Sithole has blasted Vice President Kembo Mohadi after his press statement on his alleged illicit multiple sexual re...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 12:27hrs | 1982 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa angry over Zanu-PF-linked land barons soiling party image
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is livid over the blemish on the party's legacy created by high-ranking government officials and Zanu-PF-aligned land barons, for the chaotic allocation of land in urban a...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:25hrs | 3084 | by Staff reporter
3 banks to extend credit facilities to farmers
THE agriculture commodities exchange - the Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) - to be introduced soon, has courted three banks willing to extend credit to farmers as more progress is made towards the ...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1641 | by Staff reporter
Habitual thief rearrested
Police have rearrested a habitual car thief on allegations of breaking into a parked vehicle in Bulawayo and stealing a cellphone, just a few days after he was released from prison. The latest...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Top cop wants ZACC officer arrested
A senior police officer Chief Superintendent Joseph Josphat Matipforo has filed a report alleging that Zimbabwe Anti Corruption (ZACC) investigator Eric Chacha is obstructing the course of justice and...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter
Chombo remanded in custody
Former Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, arrested on Tuesday on charges of illegally parcelling out land in Harare and Zvimba, will hear today whether his application for bail is successful a...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
'Housing co-ops remitted money into Chombo personal bank account'
SEVERAL housing co-operatives around the country reportedly deposited cash into former Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo's personal bank account instead of remitting the money to the State, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:51hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes another U-turn on mines
GOVERNMENT on Tuesday reverted to Zimbabwe dollar-denominated mining fees, only a week after Mines minister Winston Chitando made wide-ranging reviews based in United States dollars.Chitando's...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:46hrs | 1836 | by Staff reporter
Dreaming of Zimbabwe: Stories from the diaspora
NEARLY 24 years ago, Lance Guma came face to face with a gun. A man had followed him out of the main post office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, before attempting to provoke him into an argument. L...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Chombo in court for fraud, abuse of power
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Morgan Chombo today appeared in court on allegations involving illegal parcelling out of pieces of land in Harare and Zvimba Rural District during his tenure as the Mi...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:07hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army deserters fight deportation from Botswana
AT LEAST 300 Zimbabwean political refugees, some of them army deserters, are fighting imminent deportation from Botswana.They fled to Botswana in 2008 during a violent election season that for...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 16:52hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Man bashes colleague with braai stand
A Bindura man was assaulted using a braai stand and a stone when he had gone to collect his debt.The matter came to light when Blessing Chabowoka (41) stood before Bindura Magistrate Morebless...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 13:17hrs | 900 | by Lloyd Rabaya/Simbarashe Sithole
Fishing girl raped by two men
Two Mvurwi men are in hot soup after they allegedly took turns to rape a 15-year-old girl at a local dam.Joshua Magomo (22) and Ephraim Makatowa (21) were not asked to plead to rape charges by...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 13:13hrs | 1901 | by Simbarashe Sithole
JSC investigate allegations against a member of the judiciary
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) says it is investigating a sex scandal involving a member of the judiciary.In a statement, the JSC said, "The Judicial Service Commission has taken note o...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1555 | by Staff reporter
Drama at Chief's funeral
THERE was drama at Chief Nyamukoho's funeral in Mutoko on Monday after some of his children refused to set foot at their father's homestead due to a feud over the late traditional leader's estate....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 3649 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested over 190kg dagga
A CHIREDZI-BASED police officer has been arrested after he was allegedly found in possession of 190 kilogrammes of dagga.Sergeant Luckson Munhukwaye (43) is expected to appear at the Chiredzi ...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:50hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Security company to lose property
An unregistered security company was fined $20 000 and is set to lose its properties after the court ordered its sale through the Sherriff after being convicted of operating without a license....Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:21hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Chombo spends second night in police cells
THE director of Epidemiology and Diseases Control in the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira will remain behind bars after she was Tuesday denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande.Mana...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ threatens legal action against Daily Maverick
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has released a scathing response to the Daily Maverick Cartel Dynamics report.In a statement released by the Acting General manager Garikai Chaunza, t...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 13:03hrs | 886 | by Nicholas Ncube
Chombo caged
FORMER Finance minister Ignatius Chombo was last night detained at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare following his arrest on charges of fraud and criminal abuse of office over illegal parcelling ou...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:53hrs | 5599 | 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 | 3097 | by Staff reporter
Suspected serial armed robber out on $20 000 bail
ONE of the suspects allegedly linked to a series of armed robberies in Bulawayo during which they raided several homes in the city and went away with more than US$45 000 and R300 000, has been release...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
33 arrested at illegal party
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested 33 youths from Pelandaba West suburb for hosting an illegal birthday party in violation of national Level Four lockdown regulations.Under Level Four National L...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:44hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Man fights for life after assault over goats
A 35-YEAR-OLD man from Kamativi in Hwange district is battling for life in hospital after a neighbour assaulted him with a metal bar in a fight over goats that strayed into a maize field.Mr Bo...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Robber on bail survives city shoot-out
One of the armed robbers arrested following a shoot-out with police on Friday night after robbing a Harare businessman of US$10 000 had just been released in jail on bail pending appeal. Bless...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1982 | by Staff reporter
'Mohadi's sex scandal should be probed'
Vice President Kembo Mohadi's sexual excursions betray a culture of "abuse of office and power by public officials" that should be thoroughly investigated and punished, two civil society groups said o...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:34hrs | 3157 | by Staff reporter
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