ZRP called in as high school ‘bombed’
According to the School Development Committee chairman, Dickson Zhou, receipt books, computers and desks in the bursar’s office were destroyed by fire Monday night at around 8pm. A ZRP officer in...
View ArticleGukurahundi: Lay off Coltart, says MDC.
Angered vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa … David Coltart Self-assured and usually unflappable, Mnangagwa hardly reacts to adverse media reports about him but he recently made a rare exception and used...
View ArticleNo one wants me to retire, claims Bob
President Robert Mugabe These were the remarks of President Robert Mugabe in an interview with Japanese journalists Tuesday as he continued his visit to the country. He also appeared to suggest that...
View ArticleBuy Zim campaign slams Zhuwao threat
Threatened to close foreign companies … Patrick Zhuwao Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao last week said last Wednesday Zimbabwe will, from April 1 cancel licences for foreign firms, including those...
View ArticleViolence: Zanu PF MP, youths in court
Appeared in court Tuesday … Masvingo West MP, Ezra Chadzamira Chadzamira, 41, together with Aaron Muvengwa, 30, Edmond Chikukwa, 35, Alex Mugova, 35, Notwell Ruzenge, 58, and Tawanda Dube, 40, appeared...
View ArticleRenamo opens fire on government convoy in Manica
The delegation was travelling from the town of Catandica to the Manica provincial capital, Chimoio. The area where it was attacked has been the scene of at least three earlier ambushes. The most...
View ArticleTit for tat Kariba arrests: Zim, Zambia meet
Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri confirmed the meeting at a press conference in Harare. This comes after Zimbabwean officials arrested eight Zambian men in January this year for allegedly fishing...
View ArticleBob’s ‘Zim angry if I go claim’ mocked
Mugabe is clearly senile … PDP spokesman Jacob Mafume Mugabe told journalists during a state visit to Japan over Easter that he was not keen on giving up a job he has held for nearly 36 years,...
View ArticleEurope Croc meat demand lifts Padenga
The company is the world’s biggest producer of luxury quality Nile crocodile skins. Net income for the 12 months ended Dec. 31 rose to $7 million from $6.4 million the year before even as revenue...
View ArticleVideo: Mugabe dozes next to Japan PM
The 92-year-old Zimbabwean leader is currently visiting Japan at the invitation of Abe who is keen to further diplomatic ties ahead of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development...
View ArticleZANU PF Commission paralyses Gweru
The commission, led by former Masvingo Town Clerk, Tsunga Mhangami is being criticised by all sectors of society amid revelations that they are more interested in self gratification than in the well...
View ArticlePiracy is killing the entertainment industry
The entertainment industry is susceptible to the infringement of Copyrights Act by perpetrators who benefit from stealing other people’s creative ideas. Is there any hope for this country’s ailing...
View ArticleThe Burmese Connection
Suu Kyi Just after the Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, the post independence Burmese Government was overthrown and the military took control of the State. That was 50 years...
View ArticleWake up Zimbabwe
Agriculture minister Joseph Made It was a light news night in February 1983. The wait between the 7’45 and the 10’00 bulletins seemed unending in the lonely corridors of the ZBC television studios....
View ArticleCHRA takes Ministry to court for rescinding Town Clerk appointment
Saviour Kasukuwere We the organizations here present, United under the banner of the Harare Metropolitan Residents Forum (HamRef) with whom the Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) is our...
View ArticleCourt: Zuma failed to uphold the constitution
“The remedial action taken against the president has a binding effect,” said Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. “The president failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution.” He said that if...
View ArticleGovt issues contradictory statements on civil servants’ bonuses
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa Treasury was expected by the end of March to pay bonuses to members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services and the health sector...
View ArticleClipboard: what’s on in Harare
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View ArticleIt’s chaos down there, So what?
Admirable Weya art from Chiendambuya outside Rusape on traffic congestion. Five checkpoints on a six kilometre stretch in the once-thriving industrial district on a Friday make up the driver’s mantra:...
View ArticleGive back Zimbabwe’s bird!
Credit: REUTERSZimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe admires the rejoined halves of a prized soapstone sculpture with German ambassador Peter Schmidt in Harare in 2003. Now Zimbabweans would like the...
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