By Reason Razao ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament (MP) Job Sikhala’s wife, Ellen, broke down while narrating the hardships the family is enduring since her husband’s arrest in June last year. Ellen, who was speaking at the launch of two publications on Sikhala, revealed that her husband’s lengthy pretrial detention is taking a toll on
By Staff Reporter A DARING man, Masimba Craig Maganira (26), who made headlines over the weekend after he tried to confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the Presidential Title Deeds and Settlement Program launch in Epworth has been taken to court. He is being charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful possession of drugs after he was
By Xinhua MARONDERA – It’s harvesting season, and tobacco farmer Ian Nhata is making final preparations before transporting his golden leaf to the market in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Nhata, a commercial farmer from Marondera, a farming area about 70 km east of Harare, produces tobacco under contract farming with Tianze, a subsidiary of
By Eyewitness News CAPE TOWN – The Helen Suzman Foundation said that it was concerned about the allegations of corruption at the Zimbabwe consulate office in Cape Town. Angry Zimbabwean citizens stormed the consulate office last Wednesday, accusing them of taking bribes in order to issue their identity documents. The Helen Suzman Foundation said that
By Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s rainy season brings a bonanza of wild mushrooms, which many rural families feast upon and sell to boost their incomes. But the bounty also comes with danger as each year there are reports of people dying after eating poisonous fungi. Discerning between safe and toxic mushrooms has evolved
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE continues to lead the 10 countries with the highest food price rise globally despite a significant drop in its year-on-year food inflation, a World Bank report has revealed. According to its latest report on food security, the World Bank revealed that there was an increase in almost all low- and middle-income
By Al Jazeera BEATRICE, Zimbabwe – For most of the last nine years, Admire Munatsi has gotten to his boss’s farmhouse in Beatrice, 65km (40 miles) south of Harare, at dawn, to begin a range of tasks from cleaning the chicken run and pigsty to washing cars. By 7am, he joins his workmates in his
By Sports Reporter DURHAM Cricket have become the latest top English County Cricket Championship side club to commit to touring Zimbabwe for their preseason tour, joining Glamorgan, who will be coming to Harare next month. The three-time English County Championship winners revealed in a statement, Sunday that they will be returning to the Southern African
By Anna Chibamu GOVERNMENT says the recent tuition fees hike by over 450% was justifiable considering that tertiary education fees had not been increased for almost two years. Leader of government business in Parliament and Justice Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi, Wednesday told legislators that a lot of developments, including salary increments, had taken place but tertiary
By UK Correspondent FORMER State vice president Kembo Mohadi was in Japan this week attended the funeral of country’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, it has emerged. Mohadi is now just second secretary of the ruling Zanu PF party after being forced to resign the State vice presidency in ignominy due to sex scandals. He was
By UK Correspondent UNITED States-based rights group PEN America has called on Zimbabwean authorities to drop charges against world acclaimed writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The Harare-based writer will know her fate Thursday in case where she is charged with inciting public violence. “Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested for exercising her right to peaceful protest,” said
By Idah Mhetu US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols Thursday made a surprise appearance at Tendai Biti’s court hearing telling journalists soon after that the decision by Zimbabwean authorities to charge the MDC Alliance politician was “worrisome”. Biti was Thursday charged with inciting poll related violence as well violating the country’s electoral laws through claims
By Staff Reporter THE US government has condemned Zambian authorities for handing Tendai Biti back to Zimbabwe following the embattled MDC Alliance co-principal’s failed bid to seek asylum in the neighbouring country Wednesday. Biti was among opposition officials and activists targeted in a widely condemned state crackdown on opposition leaders linked the violence that erupted
By Staff Reporter DOZENS of local and international journalists walked out of a press briefing which was meant to be addressed by the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe National Army at Morris Depot, Harare Sunday afternoon. The press briefing was called for 12.30pm but by 2pm, the journalists were still waiting with no word
THE deadly violence that followed Zimbabwe’s first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted has created tension in a country that was hoping to put its past behind it, says BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane. The political drama in this country has oscillated between euphoria, tragedy and farce – from a remarkably peaceful election day, to
By Staff Reporter THE United Kingdom says Zimbabwe still has to do more to inspire confidence in its often controversial electoral processes. This was said by UK Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin in the wake of Zimbabwe’s July 30 national elections whose outcome is being disputed by the MDC Alliance. “While polling day passed off
By Staff Reporter THE United States of America says the use of live ammunition by Zimbabwe`s armed forces leading to the death of six civilians in Harare last Wednesday has dented what was set to become the country’s most peaceful election since independence. In a statement, the Donald Trump led government said Zimbabwe has squandered
By Staff Reporter GLOBAL rights lobby, Amnesty International has urged the Zimbabwe government to put up a prompt and effective investigation into army killings on six people and the injury of a dozen others following post-electoral violence in Harare last Wednesday. In a statement, acting secretary general Colm Ó Cuanacháin regretted the use of firearms
By Staff Reporter SOUTH AFRICAN President and current SADC chair, Cyril Ramaphosa has appealed to Zimbabwean political players aggrieved by the outcome of Monday’s elections to either accept the results or take their grievances to the courts for redress. Ramaphosa made the appeal in a press statement attributed to him by his office Friday. “President
By Idah Mhetu ZIMBABWE’S general election recorded an average 75 percent voter turn, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) revealed soon after polling ended Monday evening. Addressing a media conference at Harare’s Rainbow Towers Monday night, ZEC chair Justice Chigumba praised Zimbabweans for turning out in their millions to exercise their right to vote. “At
