POLITICS

Toy guns fuel crime wave in Zimbabwe

A worrying crime trend is emerging in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province, where robbers are increasingly turning to fake firearms to terrorise communities.Once dismissed as toys or harmless props, the repli...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Magunje cement must follow established processes

Presidential Affairs and Devolution secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has raised alarm over suspected corruption in the licensing of a Chinese-owned cement and power plant project in Magunje, Mashonaland West...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 August 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Magunje cement plant licence sparks corruption fears

Government officials have raised alarm over the controversial licensing of a Chinese-owned cement plant in Magunje, Mashonaland West, amid allegations of corruption, regulatory breaches, and community...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Gun-toting robbers storm Murombedzi wholesale

Police in Zvimba have launched a manhunt for an armed gang that attacked a wholesale shop at Murombedzi Growth Point, making away with US$29,700 in cash on Thursday morning.According to a statement fr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2025

Magunje cement project accused of rights abuses

The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has issued a scathing report accusing developers of the US$1 billion Magunje cement and mining project of widespread human rights abuses, forced displ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2025

POLITICS

Mnangagwa woos Gamatox, G40 big guns

IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close confidantes have been meeting and "exchanging notes" with some of the leading lights of Zanu-PF's vanquished Gamatox and Generation 40 factions...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 October 2019

POLITICS

Zanu-PF, MDC big guns push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks

MANY Zimbabweans have welcomed the tentative moves to end months of political brawling in the country between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa - through the holding of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

POLITICS

Zimbabwe 'killer soldiers' facing the gun

IN A surprise development, a close confidante of President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the long-awaited prosecution of soldiers who killed innocent civilians in August last year will begin next year, the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

POLITICS

USA big guns move to punish Mnangagwa's wife for Zimbabwe chaos

AN INFLUENTIAL 15-member American group that includes three former ambassadors to Zimbabwe wants First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, pictured, stripped of an award that was given to her by a top United Sta...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 September 2019

POLITICS

Bulawayo Mayor dismisses Kambarami's actions as a non-event

BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwe need food not guns

GOVERNMENT'S recent purchase of weaponry as reported in media circles has shown that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is gearing itself for a brutal confrontation with defenceless Zimbab...

By Harry Peter Wilson | Published: 11 June 2019

POLITICS

21 gun salute as Museveni lands in Zimbabwe, Chamisa slams the invite

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni jetted into the country yesterday and is today expected to officially open the ongoing 60th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo. Last ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 April 2019

POLITICS

Chamisa sticks to his guns

THERE are murmurs of discontent among MDC party members here after the just-ended Bulawayo provincial congress ushered in a leadership dominated by members from one tribe.At the provincial congress, M...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2019

POLITICS

Chamisa allies gun for Mudzuri

DIVISIONS rocking the MDC Alliance played out in the open yesterday when allies of party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa confronted vice president Engineer Elias Mudzuri, scolding him in public for having at...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2018

POLITICS

Matemadanda gunning for Mutsvangwa's position?

ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans' Association secretary-general Victor Matemadanda says the association's chairman, Chris Mutsvangwa, should stop dragging his name into his fights to do with ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa guns for Mwonzora, Mudzuri

OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has reportedly triggered a fresh bid to elbow out senior party leaders suspected of plotting to challenge him for the party presidency at congress next year, NewsD...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga aligned war vets gun for Mutsvangwa

WAR veterans in Mashonaland West province on Tuesday resolved to recall Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa on allegations of sowing divisions. Mut...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 November 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF lawyer guns for Mnangagwa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's lawyer in the just-concluded presidential election challenge, Advocate Lewis Uriri, yesterday challenged the Zanu-PF leader's authority to appoint a special anti-corrupt...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

POLITICS

Gunshots at Beitbridge border as omalayitsha rampage

SOLDIERS manning Beitbridge Border Post had to fire warning shots yesterday to quell a potentially volatile situation after a rowdy crowd charged at customs officers after refusing to comply with bord...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa faces stern Magunje test

President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a stern test in Hurungwe, a traditional Zanu-PF stronghold after former Zanu-PF member and now independent candidate for Magunje constituency, Godfrey Gandawa, has p...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 July 2018

POLITICS

Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint

ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Rangers gun down suspected poacher

ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers last week gunned down one suspected poacher, recovered rifles and cyanide-laced cabbages and oranges in two separate incidents. ZimP...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2018

POLITICS

Goodson Nguni exposed in Undenge graft trial

Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)'s investigative head, Goodson Nguni, was yesterday exposed for forcing a witness to testify against former Energy minister Samuel Undenge, who is facing crim...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 June 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga's from guns to politics story

Dressed in camouflage, a black beret and with his epaulettes all over his attire, the then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Constantino Chiwenga was stern, stiff and looked stressed on a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa jumped gun on poll date

The MDC Alliance has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of jumping the gun when recently announcing dates for this year's crunch elections and demanded an audit and fresh inspection of the voters' ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
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