By Robert Tapfumaneyi THOUSANDS of villagers in Mazowe, once tormented by then First Lady Grace Mugabe 2016 and 17, now face fresh eviction worries, this time in the hands of the country’s lands ministry which has earmarked their land for redistribution to a suspected top government official. The close to 600 villagers and their families
By Idah Mhetu NETHERLANDS ambassador to Zimbabwe, Barbara van Hellemond has urged the Zimbabwean government to release the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the country’s post-election violence of August 1. The disturbances saw six civilians gunned down by what is widely believed to be members of the national army deployed into central Harare
By Staff Reporter POLICE officers left out of recent internal promotions by the force have slammed their bosses for allegedly abandoning the normal examination processes to elevate their favourite individuals without any explanation. Speaking on condition of anonymity, some police officers are also up in arms with the system for allegedly sidelining Ndebeles after the
BBC Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila says he will leave office after the 23 December poll, but may seek re-election in the future. Kabila, 47, said he would remain in politics after the poll as “there is still a long journey ahead”. He became president of the resource-rich African state in 2001 following
By Mary Taruvinga POPULAR Zimbabwean socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure has pleaded with the courts to let him use his passport so he could help fix the issue of gas shortages in the country. Kadungure, affectionately known as Ginimbi, is being tried for allegedly prejudicing Treasury of $3,5 million in a tax evasion scam. He
By Idah Mhetu PROPERTY worth millions of dollars was destroyed Friday morning when a fire razed part of Harare’s Gulf Complex. The facility, located in downtown Harare, is popular with those looking for reasonably priced imports from countries such as China. The fire is the latest in a number of such unexplained infernos that have
By Staff Reporter SOCIAL media was abuzz much of Friday over claims that a mermaid had been found in central Mutare and that the creature had been apprehended and taken into custody by the police. This was however denied by the ZRP. “It’s a lie that a mermaid was brought to our station. As police,
By Leopold Munhende POPULAR for her role in the history making Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War as ‘General Okoye’, Zimbabwean Danai Gurira has been appointed as a United Nations (UN) Goodwill Ambassador. Gurira who is only the fourth African to be on the list after the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, Didier Drogba and Jaha Dukureh
By Anna Chibamu MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Bit has hit out at finance minister Mthuli Ncube for travelling aboard at a time the country’s economic problems have taken a turn for the worst. Biti, a former finance minister, was not impressed Thursday as it was revealed that Prof Ncube was not available for debate
By Court Reporter ONE of the senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) suspended in October over corruption allegations appeared in court Thursday charged with criminal abuse of office. Mirirai Chiremba – director of the RBZ’s financial intelligence unit – appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa who granted him $6,000 bail. The charges relate to allegations
By Times Live From packing water bottles, playing music loudly in their cars and drinking a few beers while waiting for their turn at the fuel pump, motorists across Harare have found ways to pass time as they spend hours in queues at service stations. At Newlands shopping centre in the Zimbabwean capital, where there
By Staff Reporter FOUNDING National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Vice Chancellor, Professor Phenias Makhurane has been declared a national hero but he will not be laid to rest at the Heroes Acre. Prof Makhurane, who was 79, died last Saturday at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo after battling diabetes and hypertension for a
By Staff Reporter THE crisis in Zimbabwe’s healthcare sector continues to deepen with government-employed radiographers calling a nationwide strike beginning this Thursday. Radiographers work with cutting edge technology to produce X-rays, CT (computed tomography) scans, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans and other medical images to assist clinical radiologists and other doctors diagnose, monitor or treat
By Anna Chibamu UNITED States ambassador Brian Nichols has said there is great scope for cooperation between the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC despite the dispute over the July 30 elections. The MDC has refused to recognise president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election in the July 30 elections, claiming the outcome was manipulated in
By Xinhua HARARE: Zimbabwe’s pharmaceutical sector said Wednesday it is struggling to import critical medical drugs due to the ongoing shortage of foreign currency. Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe president Portifa Mwendera told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Welfare that the sector owes foreign medicine suppliers 38 million U.S. dollars, up from 13
By Audience Mutema MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has chided President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF over alleged attempts to take away citizens’ freedoms through a proposed constitutional amendment to raise the presidential age entry point from 40 to 52. He was responding to utterances by Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association secretary Victor Matemadanda
A SENIOR mental health nurse originally from Zimbabwe who had sex with a teenager in his care has been jailed for seven years and eight months. Givemore Gezi, 40, groomed the girl, who had a history of mental illness, after starting to treat her in 2017. Judge Timothy Rose told Gezi, from Devon, that he
ANA Middle-level doctors at Zimbabwe’s Mpilo and Chitungwiza Central Hospitals have joined the industrial action started by junior doctors, defying government which has called the action illegal. “As Health Medical Officers (HMOs) at Mpilo Central Hospital, we hereby confirm to your office(s) that we have reached the conclusion of stopping discharging our services in view
By Kwekwe Correspondent A top government official has slammed local authorities for unnecessarily fanning resistance towards rate payment by residents who quite often watch managers squander the same rates through lavish spending while service delivery is placed at the tail end of the priority list. Christopher Shumba, who is Principal Director with the Local Government
By Leopold Munhende CITIZENS Manifesto convenor Briggs Bomba Tuesday said the time taken by the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 post-election violence to hear submissions and later conclude its findings was way too short to accommodate every Zimbabwean who wished to testify before it. This is after the Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission has
