Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter THE blockbuster tie pitting Highlanders FC and Caps United scheduled for Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday is hanging by a thread, but Bosso have not taken their eye off the ball as they are intensively preparing for the Battle of the Cities. It’s all gloom in the visitors’ camp ahead of one […] …
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Monthly Archives: August 2022
First Lady’s security push Bulawayo journalists out of city event
Journalists who were barred from the event also felt mistreated by the first lady’s communications team which failed to inform them beforehand that they were not welcome. …
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Militant Zanu PF supporters launch attack on Chamisa’s Gokwe rally
Attacks against Chamisa’s convoys and rallies are now increasingly becoming common as the country prepares for harmonised elections next year. …
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CSOs confront Mudenda over PVOs Bill
BY PRIVELEDGE GUMBODETE CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) have written to the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda expressing discontent over the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, saying it is unconstitutional. The letter was penned by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika on behalf of 20 CSOs which include Veritas, Transparency […] …
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US$96m flows into tourism industry
BY FREEMAN MAKOPA INVESTORS injected US$96 million into Zimbabwe’s tourism sector during the first half of 2022, defying pandemic induced setbacks, a Cabinet minister has told NewsDay Business. Tourism minister Nqobizitha Mangaliso Ndhlovu said the increase was a result of government initiatives through the Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy. “Although the tourism sector was hard […] …
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Backlash as SA doctor belittles Zim patient
BY LORRAINE MUROMO/TAPFUMANEI MUCHABAIWA/SILAS NKALA SOUTH Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has lodged an official complaint against medical doctor and Limpopo province Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba for “dehumanising” a Zimbabwean patient. “This follows a disturbing video clip doing the rounds where she is seen in Bela Bela Hospital dehumanising, abusing and […] …
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Chamisa’s convoy attacked in Mash East
BY TAPFUMANEI MUCHABAIWA/ JAIROS SAUNYAMA OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa’s convoy was reportedly attacked by suspected Zanu PF supporters in Mashonaland East province on Tuesday and yesterday. On Tuesday, his convoy was attacked when he made a surprise visit to Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe (UMP). UMP is traditionally known as a Zanu […] …
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National Youth Service for ECD learners
BY TAFADZWA KACHIKO GOVERNMENT says it is rebranding the infamous National Youth Service (NYS) programme, set for re-introduction next year, to include early childhood development (ECD) learners. This was revealed by Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry when she appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth yesterday. “So rebranding is everything. There […] …
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Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna arrested for land invasion
Nduna accused of parcelling out land to thousands of farm invaders without lawful authority …
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Defiant Ramathuba slams Zimbabwe officials for seeking private hospitals in South Africa
‘Our SADC partners are willing to pay private hospitals in this country, millions of rands but they are not willing to reimburse the state hospitals which is attending to the millions of their citizens’ …
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