OPINION

Cash crisis a source of poverty in Zimbabwe

THE recent media reports that the parallel market rates ranges between 60% and 65% for mobile money platforms like EcoCash and 75% for bank transfers on the parallel market as forex has become increas...

By David Mhlanga | Published: 13 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Teachers irked by soldiers salary hike

THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday expressed dismay over what they called discriminatory practices by government after soldiers were awarded a 22,5% salary hike and police of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagawa warns divisive elements

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned party insiders bent on derailing his presidential campaign through divisive tendencies after some party officials organised another rally for Vice-President Con...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF, Econet dragged to court

A Masvingo lawyer has taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Zanu PF and its Gutu West candidate John Paradza as well as mobile telecommunications services provider Econet Wireless to court af...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe knocking on doors

MDC-T President Thokozani Khupe has started door-to-door campaigns in Matabeleland region to solicit for votes ahead of the July 30 elections amid appeals from villagers for equal distribution of reso...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

One feared dead as violence flares

ONE person reportedly died while several others were injured when violence broke out in Chitungwiza on Wednesday night after suspected Zanu PF activists went on the rampage, wantonly assaulting reside...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

OPINION

Party-State conflation must be checked

THE late Father Zimbabwe Joshua Nkomo noted in his autobiography that he once asked the then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe which was the supreme organ of the State and to his great shock a...

By Dumisani O Nkomo | Published: 13 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Man in court for swindling GMB $1m in botched deal

A DIRECTOR of Organs Resources Company, Korbs Korbie Mutandiro yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing allegations of swindling the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of over $1 million and a po...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Mohadi still hospitalised in SA

VICE-President Kembo Mohadi is still hospitalised in South Africa, where he is undergoing physiotherapy, while Zanu PF national chairperson Oppah Muchunguri is back in the country and is recovering fr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF dominates resettlement areas

CIVIL rights group, Habakkuk Trust has expressed concern that some of the wards in Matobo district's resettlement areas where Zanu PF candidates were nominated unopposed demonstrated that the land ref...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Gweru ordered to stop selling stands

GWERU's acting town clerk, Douglas Chikwekwe, has revealed that the local authority had received an order from Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Owen Ncube to stop parcelling out land in peri-urban...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Police in postal vote storm

THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday brew a shocker when it clandestinely conducted postal voting for officers in Bulawayo amid reports they were forced to cast ballots before their superiors,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa takes diplomatic offensive to SA

MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa is sending emissaries to South Africa and Angola in his regional diplomatic offensive aimed at pushing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the Zimbabwe El...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Zec must avoid costly poll rigging antics

REPORTS that independent biometric voter registration (BVR) and data science experts analysing the voters' roll have unearthed a suspected loophole that could have a negative effect on the credibility...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Residents disturbed by Zanu-PF vote soliciting

BULAWAYO Central residents said they are living in fear of Zanu PF victimisation if the party's candidate Mlungisi Moyo, who has been soliciting votes through mobile phone messages, loses the July 30 ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa warns against corruption at Zim borders

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a strong warning against corruption at Zimbabwe's borders, saying his government will be ruthless with culprits.Mnangagwa extended the warning to illegal vendor...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

AAG urges probe of Bulawayo mayor

THE Affirmative Action Group (AAG) Bulawayo chapter has approached council's audit and general purpose committee demanding that town clerk Christopher Dube and mayor Martin Moyo be investigated for co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Madzibaba Wimbo dies

JOHANE Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder, Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, commonly known as Madzibaba Wimbo, died yesterday morning at Arundel Hospital in Harare after succumbing to pneumonia.He was...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Shiri takes a swipe at agricultural authority

Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Perence Shiri, has taken a swipe at the Agricultural and Marketing Authority for weak regulatory enforcement in cotton marketing, warning drastic ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

OPINION

Chamisa must not create chaos through rantings

OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa's threat to usurp the powers of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and contravene the Electoral Act by unilat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF to train election agents

A high-powered Zanu-PF delegation led by Politburo member Munyaradzi Machacha descends on Chinhoyi today where the ruling party intends to train polling agents from all 22 constituencies in Mashonalan...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

2 arrested for destroying Zanu-PF campaign posters

Police here have arrested two men who allegedly destroyed campaign posters belonging to two Zanu-PF candidates who are vying for National Assembly seats in the July 30 harmonised elections. Louis Maka...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Don't evict tenants, council warned

Zanu-PF aspiring candidate for Mutare Central constituency Dr Nancy Saungweme has said she will take legal action against Mutare City Council in the event that it evicts Sakubva residents who fail to ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF expels rebels

The Zanu-PF leadership here has said two rebels who are contesting the July 30 harmonised elections as independent parliamentary candidates for Chiredzi West and Masvingo North constituencies, have au...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiefs are not politicians, says Charumbira

PRESIDENT of the Chiefs Council Chief Fortune Charumbira has said traditional leaders are not politicians, but custodians of land, tradition and culture. Speaking at the installation of Chief Mangwend...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

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