POLITICS

Flush out money changers, says Zanu-PF

ZANU-PF members in Bulawayo have raised concern over the continued existence of illegal foreign currency dealers they claim are now operating in secret to evade arrest, and called for the re-introduct...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe ally's trial postponed to next year

THE trial of former Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Jason Machaya, which has failed to take off on several occasions, has been rolled over to next year.The trial had been scheduled to kick off ye...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe bonus payments to power retail boom

ZIMBABWE'S retail sector is seen picking up in the short-term as consumer spending is expected to firm up following Treasury's timely payment of bonuses for civil servants this year.Government, for th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Wicknell Chivayo escalates fight to have fraud charges dismissed

IntratRek Zimbabwe director Wicknell Chivayo, who is facing a $5,6 million fraud charge in a botched Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) solar project deal, has petitioned the High Court, seeking a review of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe now a regional security threat, claims Chamisa's MDC

Zimbabwe is fast degenerating into a regional security threat as its economic situation worsens, the opposition MDC party said yesterday and announced plans for more demonstrations against government....

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

POLITICS

Chinotimba identifies prostitute in Parliament

ZANU-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba caused furore in the National Assembly yesterday after calling MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo a prostitute, leading to her walking out wi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt, doctors talks deadlocked

THE strike by doctors at public hospitals, which started last weekend, is set to continue after a meeting between Health minister Obadiah Moyo and the doctors' representatives yesterday ended without ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

EDUCATION

Scramble for Form One boarding entrance

A MAJORITY of boarding schools countrywide are overwhelmed by online applications from pupils seeking Form One places for next year. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Educat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Econet unit launches instant loan platform

CASSAVA Smartech banking unit, Steward Bank and Ecocash yesterday launched a platform where Econet mobile network subscribers will be able to open bank accounts through cell phones in a minute. Codena...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance MPs accused of hypocrisy

Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday accused MDC Alliance House of Assembly representatives of hypocrisy for demanding to have Cabinet ministers attend Parliamen...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Stock up for Christmas, retailers urged

Government is working flat out to ensure the availability of goods in shops especially this festive season, VP Kembo Mohadi has said. In a speech read on his behalf during the Confederation of Zimbabw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe, India seal $25m drugs deal

Government has concluded a $25 million deal for medical equipment, medicines and surgical sundries with India to ease drug shortages and deal with price distortions. This comes as junior doctors at pu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa ready to seize idle land owned by top allies

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government was ready to seize and redistribute tracts of idle farmland mostly owned by his top Zanu-PF allies.This follows a land audit which unearthed multiple f...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Mudzuri not on MDC agenda

THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC is heading into a potentially explosive standing committee meeting today following the embarrassing and hostile reception deputy president Elias Mudzuri received at last wee...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF Bulawayo province endorses Mnangagwa for 2023 elections

THE ruling Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial leadership has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's presidential candidate for 2023 and told off opposition leader Nelson Chamisa for demanding t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

War vets plot to block Chamisa

WAR veterans are plotting to force the ruling Zanu-PF party to make a constitutional amendment that will raise the age limit of presidential aspirants from 40 to 52 years, which would effectively bloc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF conference to gobble millions

THE Zanu-PF national people's conference scheduled for December 10 to 15 at Umzingwane High School in Esigodini, Matabeleland South is projected to gobble over$1 million, with provinces expected to co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Police block 'Ndebele king’ coronation

BULAWAYO police have barred self-imposed Ndebele king, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, from holding an enrobing ceremony - a cultural event where a king's heir is officially presented with the royal regalia ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

'Unequal marriage triggered Mugabe’s fall'

ZANU-PF national chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has chided elderly male politicians who targeted ambitious young women for marriage and warned that they risked having their political careers derailed....

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Shumba blasts Zanu-PF MPs

FORMER chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy, Daniel Shumba yesterday blasted Zanu-PF legislators who disrupted a parliamentary meeting where British businessman Nic...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

'Jail corrupt people without trial'

ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial chairperson and resident minister Ezra Chadzamira said people accused of corruption should go straight to jail without trial.Speaking during the party's victory celebration...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Chiefs to set up Gukurahundi genocide taskforce

CHIEFS have unanimously resolved to urgently set up a taskforce to tackle the emotive Gukurahundi massacres that claimed about 20 000 lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

OPINION

Doctors' demands more important than chiefs' cars

IN the run-up to the July 30 elections, Zanu-PF leader President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised that he would be a listening President and that his government was going to guarantee an affordable, but vi...

By Editorial - newsday | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

MPs rip into Mthuli Ncube's budget

THE Budget and Finance Portfolio Committee chaired by Zanu-PF legislator Felix Mhona (Chikomba Central) yesterday ripped into Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2019 National Budget statement and questio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Civil service strike looms

CIVIL servants yesterday threatened to down tools if government failed to reverse its austerity measures, including partial payment of bonus and payment of customs duty in foreign currency.In a joint ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

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