2nd Mugabe bomber’s trial set for March
Borman Ngwenya, a soldier attached Zimbabwe Intelligence Corps, is expected to appear before magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe on March 1 answering terrorism and money laundering charges. Ngwenya was charged...
View ArticlePeople First registers as party
Expected to lead prospective People First party … Joice Mujuru Mujuru announced the registration of her party that occurred on Friday in a short statement today. “We are pleased to announce the formal...
View ArticleValentine’s protestors beaten up by cops
Two protestors were left hospitalised as a result of an incident which happened in the full glare of members of the public in Harare’s Central Business District Saturday morning. The march was...
View ArticleGrace doles raincoats, amid severe drought
She has started her nationwide rallies … Grace Mugabe The controversial first lady handed out 1 095kg of raincoats to rally-goers in Chiweshe last week. Only one week ago, her husband President Robert...
View ArticleDzamara: France says changing tack
Dropping confrontation … Ambassador Laurent Delahousse France is one of the western countries piling pressure on government to intensify the search for the missing ex-journalist. Paris and other...
View ArticleAxed war vet leaders defiant, reject ouster
Removed as war veterans leader … Chris Mutsvangwa The ruling party appears at war with itself over the succession of President Robert Mugabe who turns 92 this month. ZNLWVA national chair, Chris...
View ArticleZimbas raid Zambia for mealie meal
ZIMBABWEANS are flocking to buy mealie-meal from neighbouring Zambia, as the effects of the El Nino-induced drought worsen, particularly in Matabeleland North. According to The Post newspaper of...
View ArticleDegradation of Zimbabwean women in Johannesburg
Many women from Zimbabwe are employed in these places where they provide adult services to clients charging an average of R70 for making love with a client. Owners of these places of adult...
View ArticleExploiting Ethnic-minority talents
I am bemused by the stance taken by British Museum of celebrating female genital mutilation by holding an exhibition about a mask used by cutters in Sierra Leonne. Yours sincerely Handsen Chikowore The...
View ArticleA no-brainer
Photolink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/90023465@N03/24913807811/sizes/m/ Having waited until Mugabe returned from his sacred month-long Christmas holiday abroad, the government finally got around to...
View ArticleDrought politics in southern Africa
In 1991-92 I was working with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Farming Systems Research Unit on a project on risk, livelihoods and dryland farming in Chivi district. We had the opportunity of studying...
View ArticleGovt evicts 90 land grab beneficiaries
His intervention sought … Mashonaland East provincial affairs minister Ambrose Mutinhiri Most of the affected farmers moved into the area in 2002 at the height of the land reform exercise. However,...
View ArticleMy G40 phrase wrongly used, Moyo
No such thing as G40 faction … Higher education minister Jonathan Moyo In an interview, Moyo said in August of 2011 he wrote a piece in the state- controlled The Sunday Mail newspaper in which he used...
View ArticleSpot fines minimise ZRP costs, says govt
Admission of guilt … A spot fine receipt Homes Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni told Parliament last week that the $20 fines imposed on the motorists save the law enforcement agents the often...
View ArticleZanu PF feuds: Where is the opposition?
Waiting for the total collapse … PDP’s Jaccob Mafume I am not making things up. Just recently, Jacob Mafume of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) said it would be risky to take the war to Zanu PF as...
View ArticleZim impounds US plane, dead body found
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe GM David Chaota confirmed the development, saying the plane belonged to the Florida-based Western Global airlines. The plane asked to land in Harare during a flight...
View ArticleFour dead in Mbalabala road accident
The accident reportedly occurred when the driver of the Quantum, who was coming from South Africa heading towards Bulawayo, tried to overtake when there was on-coming traffic resulting in a side swipe....
View ArticleNewsDay journalists granted referral to ConCourt
The two are charged with publishing falsehoods in breach of section 31 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act. Matshazi who is the deputy editor and his reporter, Ncube, are jointly...
View ArticleChimbetu accused of using Zanu PF influence to snub payment of debt
Sulumani Chimbetu Chimbetu whose music has taken a drastic deep following the resurgence of his young brother Tryson who seems to have taken the Dendera music throne is set to undergo trial soon at...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe Trust and ZIMCET take Independent Commissions to communities
Participants during the Bikita meetings. These Commissions are the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), Zimbabwe Gender Commission, Zimbabwe...
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