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Sting evictions leave rural settlers high and dry
Stanley Gutu
Masvingo—Sting evictions sponsored by the government early this year have worsened living conditions for hundreds of people formerly and currently settled on land straddling a huge portion of the Lake Mutirikwi basin in…
Manicaland grassroots communities geared to combat disinformation
Sofia Mapuranga
Harare—There is need to equip grassroots and marginalised communities with skills and knowledge to fight all forms of disinformation and misinformation, according to Tawanda Majoni, an advocate of sustainable…
Desperate home seekers building houses on Chitungwiza cemetery
Edgar Gweshe
Chitungwiza—Desperate home seekers in Chitungwiza have invaded a cemetery in the Nyatsime area where they have been allocated housing stands by land barons with strong political links.
The area, off Chitungwiza Road from…
Victims of Rhodesia’s ‘worst’ massacre live in abject poverty
Stanley Gutu
Masvingo--Winter had just arrived in mid-May 1978 as the war of liberation against the Ian
Smith-led Rhodesian Front was intensifying to a crescendo.
A small group of Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (ZANLA) fighters…
Govt warned over PVO Bill
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Political scientist and publisher Ibbo Mandaza has described the revised Private Voluntary Organisations (Amendment) Bill currently at the second reading stage in parliament as “superfluous” and urged civil…
BREAKING: Mnangagwa’s “best performing town clerk” in court over corruption
Stanley Gutu
Masvingo – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has indicted the Masvingo town clerk, Edward Mukaratirwa, for alleged fraud and criminal abuse of office related to two official vehicles, NewsHub can reveal.
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Harare municipality sweats over missing business records
Mafume told NewsHub that the local authority has tasked a new Rufaro Marketing board to pursue the former chief executive officer (CEO), Daniel Mutiwadirwa, who was suspended early last year and later fired by the old board for alleged…
Police stop Mwonzora tour
Annahstacia Ndlovu
Bulawayo—Police last Saturday barred the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader, Douglas Mwonzora, from conducting a walkabout in Bulawayo.
Mwonzora had planned to lead his delegation in the visits in the…
Election watchdogs urge SADC states to copy South Africa
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Southern African Development Community (SADC) members must adopt new technologies for results collation and transmission for more transparency and accuracy, election watchdogs have urged.
The Electoral Support…
Matanga, Kazembe sued for refusing to surrender election observer gadgets
The observers want Matanga and Kazembe to be held responsible for forcibly and illegally seizing their electronic gadgets—comprising mobile phones and laptops—when they were arrested on the first day of last year's elections.