GroundUp Over 180,000 Zimbabwean nationals living in South Africa have applied for official documentation to allow them to stay, work, study and conduct businesses legally in the country, the department of home affairs said on Thursday. “The Department of Home Affairs is pleased to announce that it has completed the adjudication and printing of 178,172
By Staff Reporter THE Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has threatened to reveal more damaging detail linking the country’s army to civilian shootings in Harare August 1 which resulted in the death of six. This followed claims by the group that the State owned Herald newspaper was trying to discredit the independent
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE’S working women who fall pregnant less than a year into their employment are not entitled to the mandatory 98 days of one going for maternity leave on full salary. This was said by Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi while responding to questions by Senators in the Upper House on Thursday. “Firstly, the
By Audience Mutema POLICE are set to use advanced electronic equipment such as digital cameras to try and stem the tide of a road carnage that continues to claim dozens of lives on the country’s highways. This was said by President Emmerson Mnangagwa soon after he had officiated at a police pass-out parade at Morris
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a flagship economic report on Zimbabwe, titled: “Building a new Zimbabwe: Targeted policies for growth and job creation” which aims to support renewal and transformation of the country. Prepared by the Bank Group’s Economic Governance and Knowledge Management Vice-Presidency, the report was presented in a plenary meeting by
By Court Reporter THE trial of MDC vice president Morgen Komichi was this week deferred to January next year because the magistrate is not available, it has emerged. State lawyers indicated Thursday that magistrate Ruramai Chitumbuta is away on sick leave and expected back next year. “Her (Chitumbuta) leave ends on December 16. By then,
By Staff Reporter Nyanga: Three Nyanga cattle rustlers were each slapped with nine year jail sentences by a local magistrates who found them guilty of stealing two oxen. This was after the trio, Christopher Dzimano of Gondokondo village in Nyanga, Konai Nyagombo of Gowera village in Mutoko and Tendai Nyambondo of Chifamba village under chief
By Staff Reporter VETERAN broadcaster and former ZBC Radio Services general manager, John Masuku has been appointed spokesperson of the Kgalema Motlanthe chaired Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 political disturbances in Harare. Masuku, who now heads an Internet based multi-media entity that promotes access to information, landed the job after he came out
By Anna Chibamu MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti had a good day in court Thursday after he secured the removal of a top prosecutor from his case and also had his passport returned for a trip to Uganda. Biti is facing charges of inciting the August 1 post-election violence which left six people dead
By Staff Reporter & Agencies FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa is in Kenya “to see and learn” and learn from counterpart Margaret Kenyatta. The two first ladies met at State House in Nairobi on Thursday with Mnangagwa saying she was keen to be ‘mentored’ by Kenyan counterpart and benefit from her “wide experiences”. “I have come
By Agencies A ZIMBABWEAN woman was arrested in India Wednesday night after being found with a narcotic substance. The woman, identified as 45-year-old Norest Gwatidzo, was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi by agents from India’s Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). According to CISF officials, surveillance and intelligence staff noticed the woman
By TimesLive Over 180,000 Zimbabwean nationals living in South Africa have applied for official documentation to allow them to stay, work, study and conduct businesses legally in the country, the department of home affairs said on Thursday. “The Department of Home Affairs is pleased to announce that it has completed the adjudication and printing of
Aljazeera A year since a trio of army generals held former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest as part of a 10-day military operation that enabled his protege, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to take power, there are mixed feelings as to how different the proclaimed “new dispensation” is from Mugabe’s autocracy. In an unprecedented show of
By Robert Tapfumaneyi SIXTY-EIGHT year-old Anna Pint says she has retired from decades of sex work in Chivhu but keeps being pestered for unprotected sex by far much younger men. While age may be a put off for most men who prefer younger women for sex, hers is a different story as men come to
By Matabeleland North Correspondent Hwange: An Inyathi man in Matabeleland North who beheaded his wife when he caught her having sex in the bush with his nephew was on Wednesday jailed 12 years after the courts found him guilty for culpable homicide. David Chaloma (31) of Village 11 in Goodwood in Siganda had tried to
By Robert Tapfumaneyi A group of sex workers in Chivhu are putting their lives at risk by inserting pieces of cloth inside their private parts when having unprotected sex. The unorthodox practice was to avoid unwanted pregnancies as well as get protection from sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This came out during a recent cervical cancer
By Mashonaland East Correspondent Mudzi: A 50-year-old man recently took poison and died, moments after wrestling and beating up his two minor children who were trying to stop him from taking the toxic liquid. Police in Mashonaland East have since confirmed the death of Joel Kofi of Chambaruka Village in Mudzi through consuming an unknown
By Leopold Munhende ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC) chair, Priscilla Chigumba has admitted having been frightened by hordes of protesters who were baying for her blood during the August 1 post-election violence in Harare but maintains security forces should have used live ammunition “as a last resort”. She was giving oral evidence Tuesday before the Commission
By Staff Reporter A Bulawayo court has freed a Mthwakazi Republic Party activist who last month claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa was responsible for the killing of his parents during the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres by the military. Wisdom Mkhwananzi was being accused of undermining the President’s authority after he boldly pointed at Mnangagwa’s portrait while making
By Staff Reporter PRO-DEMOCRACY NGO, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has condemned the army and police’s bare denials they ever played a part in the killing of six civilians during the August 1 post electoral violence in Harare’s CBD. Top military and police commanders on Monday appeared before the Kgalema Motlanthe chaired Commission of Inquiry
