Zimbabwe Government Suspends Urban Tollgates Installation Project

Government has temporarily shelved its controversial plan to introduce toll gates within cities. Government is now prioritising rehabilitation of major highways, including construction of state-of-art toll plazas and revamping existing urban and rural roads. While Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, Dr Joram Gumbo could not shed much on the suspension of the urban tollgate programme, he said Government was concentrating on revamping the country’s road network. “At the moment, there are other issues that…

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Zimbabwe To Ban Fuel Imports For Personal Consumption

GOVERNMENT is in the process of crafting a legal instrument that will ban petroleum companies from holding both wholesaling and retailing licences as a deliberate move to loosen the stranglehold that big fuel companies have on the local market. If successful, the new intervention will slacken the grip that multinational companies such as Puma Energy, Total and Redan have on the sector. Fledgling companies fear that multinational fuel companies are using their leverage to rig…

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Mbare-Based Chipangano Zanu-PF Militia ‘Godfather’ Dies

Mbare-Based Chipangano Zanu-PF Militia ‘Godfather’ Dies

ZANU-PF central committee member and suspected godfather of the Mbare-based Chipangano militia, Edward Chataika has died. Chataika — a former sergeant in the Harare City Council fire brigade — died at his home in the early hours of yesterday after a battle with diabetes. Chataika’s daughter Shamiso confirmed the death. “My father passed on early around 2am from diabetes. He had been at home for the past week after he was discharged from hospital,” Shamiso…

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Zanu PF Bulawayo Suspends 19 Members Including Senator Angeline Masuku

Zanu PF Bulawayo Suspends  19 Members Including Senator Angeline Masuku

Zanu PF Bulawayo is yet to formalize its suspensions by submitting a report to the National Disciplinary Committee on the 19 members including Senator Angeline Masuku it suspended about two weeks ago for attending a meeting of ex-combatants that was held in Bulawayo last month. The meeting was addressed by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairman, Christopher Mutsvangwa and expelled Zanu-PF member, Jabulani Sibanda. The Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairman, Dennis Ndlovu, said they…

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Press Statement By Mugabe’s Nephew The Youth Minister ‘Patrick Zhuwao’ In Response To Chinamasa

Press Statement By Mugabe’s Nephew The Youth Minister ‘Patrick Zhuwao’ In Response To Chinamasa

Press Statement by the President Mugabe’s nephew, Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment, Patrick Zhuwao. It is with a heavy heart and great disappointment that I am forced to issue a press statement in response to the press statement issued by Honourable Minister P. A. Chinamasa, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, on submission of Indigenisation Plans by the Financial Services Sector as published in the print media of today, 2nd April 2016. It…

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‘Mugabe Returns And Warns War Vets- ‘Express Grievances Through Zanu PF, Or You Will Be Expelled’

President Robert Mugabe has returned home from his five day visit to Japan. He was met at the Harare International Airport by the two vice presidents, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, senior government officials and hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters. Speaking to journalists soon after arrival, Mugabe said the envisaged assistance to be given to Zimbabwe by Japan to the entire spectrum of the Zimbabwean economy is most likely to be fruitful considering the meetings he…

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Beitbridge Prosecutor Allegedly Kidnapped Three Men, Tortured Them & Ruptured One Man’s Kidney

Beitbridge Prosecutor Allegedly Kidnapped Three Men, Tortured Them & Ruptured One Man’s Kidney

PROSECUTOR in Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped three men and tortured them until one of them ruptured a kidney after accusing the trio of stealing from his house. Muchiwande Forbes Sithole, 35, allegedly went on the warpath when he found that his house had been broken into and property worth R7,300 had been stolen. He allegedly teamed up with two people, who were not named in court, to severely assault Knowledge Mike, Gabriel Choruwa and Clemence Moyo,…

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‘Mugabe, Inexplicably Stops In Singapore, A Country He Regularly Visits For Treatment From’..Again!

‘Mugabe, Inexplicably Stops In Singapore, A Country He  Regularly Visits For Treatment From’..Again!

President Robert Mugabe has made another unexplained stopover in Singapore from his five-day State visit to Japan. The 92-year-old leader travelled to Japan at the invitation of that country’s Premier Shinzo Abe on March 23 to lure investment to Zimbabwe. But on his way to the Asian giant, he initially made a curious a four-day unofficial stopover in Singapore before his latest stoppage. According to details of his latest trip as shown on flightradar24, an…

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Two Killed And Three Seriously Injured In Free For All Brawl At Masvingo’s Mudzivo Bottle Store

Two Killed And Three Seriously Injured In Free For All Brawl At Masvingo’s Mudzivo Bottle Store

TWO men died while three others were seriously injured in a free-for-all beer brawl in which patrons set upon each other with iron bars in Masvingo Acting Masvingo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Kudakwashe Dehwa said the fierce fight started when one of the patrons at Mudzivo Bottle Store confronted a group that he accused of having caused his arrest in a 2014 assault case.   He said Soul Kani, 42, Paul Masimire, 65, and Lloyd…

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‘Gweru Man Allegedly Raped Daughters Aged (Two & Seven), Bribing Them With Sweets To Stay Silent’

‘Gweru Man Allegedly Raped Daughters Aged (Two & Seven), Bribing Them With Sweets To Stay Silent’

A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Gweru allegedly raped his two daughters aged two and seven and gave them sweets to buy their silence. The accused (name withheld to protect the identity of the minors) appeared before Gweru Regional Magistrate Morgan Nemadire facing two counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty to raping his biological daughter, 2, and his stepdaughter. The man was remanded out of custody on free bail to April 6. In his defence, the…

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