By Staff Reporter MDC President Nelson Chamisa has described as a national scandal, salaries that teachers in government schools are earning and demanded that the government must restore their dignity. The opposition leader said this at the weekend while addressing delegates attending the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) 4th national congress at Belvedere Teachers’ Technical
By Leopold Munhende HUNGRY Zimbabweans longing to taste meat in their homes have been told by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to eat vegetables instead, as it was healthier food. “Meat? What about vegetables? Vegetables are healthy; that is what doctors have always said,” Mnangagwa told hundreds of Kuwadzana residents in Harare, gathered for his monthly clean-up
By Thandiwe Garusa PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans should stop ‘fighting’ the recently re-introduced Zimbabwe dollar in favour of other people’s currencies. Addressing residents of Kuwadzana 2 in Harare during his monthly clean-up campaign, Mnangagwa was at pains as he tried to explain to the local community that the Zimbabwe dollar was legal tender and
AFP Oil prices soared more than four percent Friday following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region, with Tehran warning of retaliation. The head of Iran’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad’s international airport early Friday, according
By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa feels it is the duty of every Zimbabwean to defend and protect the recently re-introduced Zimbabwe dollar as the new currency was a symbol of national pride and sovereignty. In his 2020 New Year message, Mnangagwa said the government would not allow Zimbabwe revert to the use of the
By Anna Chibamu THE MDC, will in 2020, hold more political campaigns in rural communities where it has performed badly in elections since 2000, party President Nelson Chamisa has announced. In his New Year’s message to party supporters Wednesday, Chamisa said the party would also continue pushing for electoral reforms ahead of the 2023 elections. “We
By Staff Reporter POLICE have with immediate effect banned all illegal gold mining activities across the country following the callous murder of a police officer in Kadoma last week and a high increase in violent clashes among artisanal miners. Two men have since been arrested in connection with the murder of Constable Wonder Hokoyo last
By Mary Taruvinga JAILED Marry Chiwenga, the wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts Monday for routine remand wearing a fancy black dress, expensive jewellery and with both hands wrapped in bandages. Marry, who is facing charges of attempting to murder her husband and fraud, was also looking better than
By Leopold Munhende GOVERNMENT is set to implement all recommendations raised by the Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission, those cited by election observer missions and a few other democracy related reforms by June next year, Information Ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has said. He was speaking to NewZimbabwe.com in the wake of pressure on government by
AFP Jihadists aligned to the Islamic State group have released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in restive northeast Nigeria. The footage posted online late on Thursday by ISIS-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being shot and stabbed by jihadists from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) at
BBC A passenger jet has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 people but leaving dozens of survivors. The Bek Air plane was flying from Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest city – to the capital Nur-Sultan when it smashed into a building just after take-off. The Fokker aircraft had 100 passengers and crew on board. Survivors
By Robert Tapfumaneyi EXILED former cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwao has made an application to join Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), one of South Africa’s most prominent opposition political parties. This, according to late former President Robert Mugabe’s nephew, will help him and Zimbabweans based outside the country, dislodge President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime. “Yes, I
By Robert Tapfumaneyi PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted Zimbabweans were suffering but says his government was taking steps to remedy the country’s dire economic situation. He said this in his Christmas message on the eve of the festive day. Mnangagwa said since he came into power 2017, he has been working hard to protect and
BBC A woman in China is suing a hospital after doctors refused to freeze her eggs because she is unmarried, in line with a law on assisted reproduction. Teresa Xu visited Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital last year with the aim of freezing her eggs while she focused on her career. The freelance editor, 31,
The Star Infidelity and lies in a sordid love triangle tale that stretches across three countries ended in a South African-based Zimbabwean businessman being shot dead in Joburg while he sat in a vehicle. The gunmen who murdered businessman Bekimpilo Ndlovu in a hail of bullets are still at large. Furious family and friends of
Fin24 Drought has plunged millions of Zambians and Zimbabweans into darkness as hydro-power dams drain, and their governments’ debt is making matters worse. Rolling electricity blackouts lasting 18 hours a day have choked the two economies. Ballooning debt has left them unable to afford to import enough power to help cushion shortages. Even if they
By Mary Taruvinga Marry Mubaiwa, who was Monday denied bail and remanded in custody facing charges of attempting to kill her husband, Vice President Chiwenga, says she is critically ill and unable to stand trial. Describing her arrest as baseless and hilarious in court papers filed Wednesday at the High Court, Marry made startling revelations
ZimLive The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) arrested Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged customary wife, Marry, on Saturday morning – a day after a stormy family meeting. A furious Chiwenga allegedly ordered his wife’s arrest on money laundering and fraud charges following a testy meeting on Friday which was called to discuss the collapse of their
By Idah Mhetu GOVERNMENT has lost close to $3.5 billion through non-payment of intrinsic value on land for urban residential stands by developers. Presenting the findings of the Commission on Inquiry into the sale of State land in and around urban areas since 2015, Commission chair, Justice Tendai Uchena said the Local Government Ministry has
BBC The UK will go to the polls on Thursday for the country’s third general election in less than five years. The contest, the first to be held in December in nearly 100 years, follows those in 2015 and 2017. Polling stations in 650 constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland open at 07:00
