OPINION

The numbers are out, Zimbabwe is afraid

A country that does not respect information will not prosper. Zimbabwe exhibits a fundamental disrespect for information. As such our approach to issues is driven by emotions, not information.The rece...

By Edmund Kudzayi | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Chaos reigns as Zimbabwe police disappear

The Zimbabwe Passenger Association (PAZ) has bemoaned the reduced police presence on the roads, saying the vacuum has resulted in an upsurge in unlicensed drivers that contribute to the high rate of a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Matebeleland South crime rate drops

THE crime rate in Matabeleland South has dropped by seven percent during the period of April to June compared to the same period last year, a development which has been attributed to new policing stra...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Construction of UBH Orthopaedic Centre starts

THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has started refurbishing its former Infectious Diseases Hostel which will be turned into an  Orthopaedics Centre.The double storey hostel has been lying idle s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mberengwa-West Nicholson tarred road construction

THE Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has embarked on massive $19 million road construction projects which links Mberengwa and West Nicholson and another linking Mberengwa and Mata...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Modi complex to employ 300 people

PROMINENT businessman Raj Modi's Cowdray Park shopping complex, which is under construction will employ over 300 people once its completed before year end.In an interview on Wednesday, the seasoned en...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa declares war on infrastructure vandalism

POWER utility company Zesa has embarked on a door to door inspection to check residents who are tampering and by-passing electricity pre-paid meters.The company said it was worried over the rising num...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa donates 50 computers

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Friday donated 50 computers to Mafungautsi Primary School in Gokwe during a rally that was held at an open space near the school.Pledging the donation, President Mnangagwa said ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Vote for Zanu-PF, says Khaya Moyo

PEOPLE in Matabeleland South have been urged to vote for the ruling party Zanu-PF and President Mnangagwa, just like what they did in the 2013 harmonised elections when the party won all the 13 Nation...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa, Grace Mugabe now 'bedfellows'

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa and former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe have become strange bedfellows as they have entered into a pact that will see the latter getting the Vice P...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

LIFESTYLE

'IsiNdebele will be dead in 50 years'

AS he prepares for the release of his tenth album, music star Jeys Marabini believes isiNdebele, the language he sings in predominantly, will die soon as the people of Bulawayo have failed to uplift a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe industry buckles

ZIMBABWEAN companies are feeling the negative impact of the influx of smuggled goods on the local market. These companies have implored Government to take swift and decisive action to deal with the sc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga calls Hwange Board to order

VICE-PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga has called on the Hwange Colliery Company Board to heed calls by Government to step down, saying corruption investigations into suspended managers would be follo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Daniel Shumba returns to Zimbabwe politics

Former Zanu-PF Central Committee member and legislator Dr Daniel Shumba, who has been in and out of the ruling party, returns to politics under a grouping of 22 candidates vying to take-over from Pres...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

OPINION

Chamisa: Walking with an umbrella, waiting for the rains

NAPOLEON Bonaparte was really prophetic when he said: "In politics, absurdity is not a handicap." Political developments in Zimbabwe over the past few weeks have shown that indeed, the floodgates of a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Sanctions poser for mega fuel project

The $5,2 billion coal-to-fuel joint venture project between Government and a Canadian investor planned for Lisulu, Hwange, is facing inordinate delays after it emerged that economic sanctions imposed ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

RBZ doubles cash imports to $100m

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has doubled cash imports to $100 million per month as the central bank tries to ameliorate the prevailing cash shortages as well as meet rising demand from recoverin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa works miracle crowds

ELECTIONS have always been a numbers game. With this in mind, ZANU-PF seems to be taking this numbers game seriously. It started in earnest in Masvingo, then it moved to Gokwe and yesterday, Bindura m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe is allergic to violence

MDC-T leader and one of the four female presidential candidates in the forthcoming harmonised elections, Dr Thokozani Khupe, has promised to end all forms of violence if elected into office.The 54-yea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa can't even advertise even on trees

Zanu-PF is paying for political adverts being aired by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), while the MDC Alliance is crying wolf over unfair coverage by the national broadcaster because of fa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

More jobs on the way, claims Mnangagwa

GOVERNMENT has lined up multiple economic stimulus programmes that are set to create thousands of decent jobs as the new political administration makes headway in putting the country back on track to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa scoffs at Chamisa's ballot paper demands

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at opposition demands regarding the ballot paper for this month's crunch elections and insisted that his disgruntled rivals cannot stop the vote going ahead.Ad...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

POLITICS

Dabengwa's warning

ZAPU leader Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged opposition parties to block "the continued militarisation" of the ruling Zanu-PF party.The liberation war veteran warned that a Zanu-PF victory in this month...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Brazilian wigs weave hairdressers out of business

WHILE most women are celebrating the coming in of the wig-trend, which apparently has made it easy to look good even on a bad hair day, hairdressers are crying foul over loss of business.Wigs come in ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Kana Hospital builds $70 000 mortuary

The new morgue, which accommodates more than 10 bodies, will service five constituencies in the area.Speaking at the commissioning of the mortuary last week, Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 July 2018

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