By Midlands Correspondent ZANU PF lawmaker for Silobela, Mthokozisi Manoki Mpofu has been sucked into an ugly gold mine ownership row with a widow who has pleaded with Parliament to help her. Sibusisiwe Moyo, widow to the late Silobela Development Trust chairman, Arthur Nkiwane accused Manoki of forcing her out of a gold mine left
By Alois Vinga FARMERS have threatened to reduce their hectarage citing high input costs, a move that could perpetuate Zimbabwe’s struggles with food shortages. In interviews with NewZimbabwe.com Business on the sidelines of the just ended Zimbabwe Agricultural Show, several farmers said their plans for the coming season have been hampered by exorbitant prices of seed,
By Robert Tapfumaneyi AUTHORITIES at Chitungwiza hospital have had to issue a warning to staff after food meant for patients started disappearing. According to an internal memo Friday to Ward management, heads of departments and all staff members, the hospital said it would discipline staff seen “eating food meant for patients.” “It has come to
By Costa Nkomo JAILED Ntabazinduna Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni’s spirits remain unbroken despite an 18 months jail sentence he is serving at Khami Maximum Prison, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said. Ndiweni was slapped with one year six months jail term by Bulawayo Magistrate Gladmore Mushove last week for damaging his subject, Fetti Mbele’s homestead.
By Thandiwe Garusa HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo shared with medical practitioners his dream of having top government officials being treated locally. After superintending over the breakdown of the country’s health delivery system, top government officials have resorted to seeking medical treatment in other countries mainly in South Africa and Asia. Moyo told a Zimbabwe Medical
By Anna Chibamu RECENTLY appointed provincial mining directors have little knowledge of the industry and bring no value to it, the Small Scale Miners Associations has said. The association was giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines regarding the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill. According to the small scale miners, the current
By Mary Taruvinga FORMER Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi is demanding $500 000 compensation from the police who arrested him for possessing a camouflage umbrella earlier this year. Kudzayi was detained and taken to court but was acquitted at the close of the State case after Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba ruled that the State’s case
By Costa Nkomo POLICE on Friday brutally crushed a wild-cat protest by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) members who wanted to picket at the Ministry of Finance in protest over the poor salaries. Last year, ARTUZ members marched from Mutare to Harare demanding salaries in US dollars. ARTUZ has alternatively been calling
By Idah Mhetu THE Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has condemned the arrest of NewZimbabwe.com reporter Leopold Kudakwashe Munhende. Munhende was arrested while covering a protest by the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) in central Harare. In a statement Friday, ZUJ secretary general Foster Dongozi said the rights of journalists and their working
By Paidashe Mandivengerei ZIMBABWE is aiming to ease pressure on its major referral hospitals by establishing district health centres across the country, Health Minister Obadiah Moyo said Thursday. According to Moyo, the district hospitals will create a referral system and improve the nation’s doctor/patient ratio. Moyo was speaking at the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZIMA) 2019
By Alois Vinga GLOBAL labour federation, the International Trade Union Confederation-Africa has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa urging him and his administration to urgently investigate reports of death threats against the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders. A copy of the letter in our possession dated August 20, 2019 signed by ITUC-Africa general secretary,
By Paidashe Mandivengerei THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission should not use its recently acquired arresting powers to settle personal and political scores, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned. Mnangagwa in June issued Statutory Instrument 143 of 2019 giving the new Zacc board chaired by High Court Judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo arresting powers. Previously Zacc had limited powers
By Staff Reporter ARMED anti-riot police Thursday sealed off the eastern border city of Mutare, putting paid to plans by MDC to storm the streets of the Manicaland capital in defiance of a police ban on a protest initially scheduled for the same day. Authorities issued a fifth prohibition order on the planned demonstration after
By Alois Vinga PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s re-engagement efforts aimed at wooing back powerful western countries seem to be heading for the rocks after the European Union (EU) condemned his government’s heavy handedness for the third time inside five days. EU Head of Delegation to Harare, Timo Alkonnen told the launch of a project funded by
By Robert Tapfumaneyi FORMER liberation movement Zapu’s candidate for the Glen View South by-election has unwittingly taken a dig at former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s son Vincent the MDC’s candidate in the race to replace the late opposition leader’s eldest daughter Vimbai Java. Tsvangirai-Java succumbed to injuries sustained in a horrific accident in Kwekwe ahead
By Thandiwe Garusa FAILURE by regional power block Sadc to raise issues around the violation of citizens’ rights by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has left the opposition seething with anger. In a statement on Tuesday the opposition MDC led by Nelson Chamisa said Sadc had instead concentrated on trivialities choosing to congratulate Mnangagwa on his
By Leopold Munhende TROUBLED by a recurring electricity crisis, Zimbabwe agreed terms with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment in a bid to begin generation, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo revealed this week. Moyo recently visited the Kremlin and on Tuesday told a post-Cabinet media briefing that Russia and Zimbabwe had signed a Memorandum
By Manicaland Correspondent MUTARE-Police in the eastern border city of Mutare late Wednesday issued another prohibition against a demonstration organised by the opposition MDC which was scheduled for Thursday. This is the fifth opposition demonstration to be prohibited by police inside a week after such intended moves in Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru and Masvingo were also
By Idah Mhetu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and European Union (EU) Head of Delegation, Timo Olkonnen were on Wednesday involved in a harsh public exchange of words over the human rights situation in the country. Mnangagwa was keynote speaker at the launch of anti-graft body the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission’s awareness campaign co-hosted by the National Prosecuting
By Mary Taruvinga EFFORTS by MDC, Warren Park, MP, Shakespear Hamauswa, to have the Presidential Powers (Temporal Measures) Act declared unconstitutional has hit a snag after the High Court ruled the law maker failed to support his argument. Hamauswa had petitioned the court arguing that the Act used by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to effectively reintroduce
