Zimbabwe has started assembling Yutong buses with Quest Motor Corporation plant located in Mutare being the first of many to roll out.“Their strategy is to use Zimbabwe as a launch pad to enter the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and SADC,” Quest operations manager Carl Fernandez said.“Yutong’s long-term plan for expansion in Africa is not to export fully built buses but rath

Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) has declared independence from the President Robert Mugabe led ZANU PF party, claiming that the association should not be inclined to any political party in the first place.Responding to the Zanu PF politburo’s decision to fire secretary-general Victor Matemadanda, spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, national commissar Francis Nhando and

Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri is set to be grilled over wide spread use of brutal means employed by police to disburse protests in a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with members of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC).ZHRC official Petunia Chiriseri made the announcement during a stakeholder engagement workshop held in Chinhoyi yesterday.Chiriseri said the commission was seiz

THE best schools in Matabeleland North Province are Dimpamiwa Primary in Nkayi District and John Tallach High School in Umguza District.They produced the best results in the November 2015 public examinations.The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education last Friday rewarded the institutions with medals, certificates and floating shields at the Better Schools Programme Zimbabwe provincial merit a

Police have launched a man hunt for a Bulawayo City Council accountant who allegedly swindling home seekers of $108 000 in a bogus residential stands scheme.Freddy Ndabalime Dube (42) allegedly misrepresented to home seekers that he was selling residential stands, but failed to deliver after being paid.Acting Bulawayo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Abednico Ncube said Dube committed the c

Bulawayo City Council has revealed that government left nearly 8 700 people in crisis after errors of double allocation of stands under the Hlalani Kuhle/Garikai housing project in Cowdray Park suburb.When council took over the housing project from government in 2012, it revealed that there had been double allocation of stands, but this is the first time it has released the number of people affect

Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda has warned that the army is ready to deal with any threats following a number of protests against the President Robert Mugabe government.Lt-Gen Sibanda said insurgent groups were now resorting to cyber warfare, hence the need for the security sector to increase alertness.“We are already dealing with these threats,” Lt-G

HARARE - United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Harry Thomas has urged missing pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara’s family not to give up.Dzamara — popular for his Occupy Africa Unity Square anti-President Robert Mugabe protests — has been missing for 17 months, after he was abducted. Thomas said the United States will stand by the family in their efforts to get the former journalist back.�

WAR VETERANS have drown down the gauntlet at President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF, scoffing at the government's savage crack down on their leadership which they say is akin to what the late Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith and his minority government did to blacks before Zimbabwe's independence. Ever since a grouping of war vets claiming to be ‘sick and tired’ of Mugabe’s leadership

TELECOMS regulator — Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has reportedly forced mobile networks Econet Wireless, Telecel and NetOne to suspend their air time promotions with immediate effect, ZimNet has heard. The state owned mobile network operator, NetOne issued a press statement announcing the suspension of its Data Bundles Reloaded and Bundles Reappea

VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s adversaries in the ruling party are launching a final assault on the beleaguered politician’s stronghold — the Midlands Province — in order to dismantle the political infrastructure put in place by his allies to support his troubled presidential bid.Having been forced to distance himself from elements that had anointed him as President Robert Mugabe’s

KADOMA mayor Muchineyi Chinyanganya has urged government to take over the millions of dollars of debts owed by local authorities to enable them to concentrate on service delivery.Chinyanganya said most councils were in the red and failing to effectively deliver services to residents due to the huge debts they owed statutory bodies such as Zimra, Zesa and NSSA.“Nearly 50% of our revenue collectio

The MDC-T is demanding the resignation of Harare deputy mayor Chris Mbanga pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing over allegations that he defied a party directive not to suspend James Mushore as town clerk.MDC-T secretary for local government, Eddie Cross on Tuesday said that Mbanga was told to resign on Monday while a disciplinary committee chaired by party chairperson Lovemore Moyo dec

A MAN from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly killing a man who was assaulting his girlfriend.Moses Chimanisa (25) allegedly responded to a distress call from Abigail Ndlovu, saying she was being attacked by Tapela Ndebele. Chimanisa allegedly armed himself with a bottle and a knife, rushed to Masiyephambili Drive near New Lobengula suburb where he fatally stabbed Ndebele.Yesterday, he appea

A former member of the Central Intelligence Organisation and a Gweru newspaper editor have been arrested on charges of demanding more than $6 000 from a local businessman who was filmed while taking a bath in his butchery for suspected ritual purposes.Tendai Manhundu-Marobana of the Monitor Newspaper and Jonathan Madamombe were arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to extort the cash from Emton