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THE Zimbabwean government heaped praise on itself recently at the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in Geneva in a report tabled to explain the country’s human rights situation despite a plethora of abuses recorded by opposition parties and civil society leaders. The report …

State-owned power utility Zesa is banking on the judiciary to hand down severe penalties against copper cable thieves who cost the company US$4.5 million last year alone as the criminals continue wreaking havoc on suburbs and farms. Zesa officials said they have recorded more than 1 300 cases of vandalism …

A video of Limpopo health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba lashing out at a Zimbabwean patient at a provincial government hospital has sparked an outcry. The MEC is heard telling the patient that migrants are to blame for her department’s stretched budget. Dr Angelique Coetzee, a Solidarity Doctors Network board member, …

A young woman living in Australia, Susan Mutami, took to a four-hour Twitter Space in July to reveal how she was allegedly raped by Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a young age in Kwekwe, 215km from the capital of Harare, back in the 2000s. Oppositionists and activists say his government …

Government has suspended the mandatory wearing of face masks in open public spaces after the country has registered a continuous decline in new Covid-19 infections. The easing of the Covid-19 restriction, which takes immediate effect, was announced at a post-cabinet media briefing in Harare on Tuesday by Information Minister Monica …

Controversial ZANU-PF legislator for Gokwe-Nembudziya Justice Mayor Wadyajena and four Cotton Company of Zimbabwe officials have been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for allegedly committing fraud and money laundering involving US$5 million. ZACC announced their arrest in a brief statement on Tuesday. “The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time admitted that there has been massive pilferage and corruption in government departments which is driving the black market and prices of goods and services. Writing in his weekly Sunday Mail column, Mnangagwa said: “Many things have been going wrong in (public) sector, …

Doctors have delayed a planned operation on Vice President Constantino Chiwenga following tests at a private hospital in Harare on Thursday, ZimLive can reveal. Chiwenga, 65, is due to go under the knife in a procedure to correct some discomfort in his stomach, according to sources. The retired army general …

A tense meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Innscor Africa shareholders over allegations of fuelling currency volatilities rocking the market had a chilling effect after Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga reportedly issued a strong warning against the conglomerate, saying government would treat “economic saboteurs” as enemies of the state. This was revealed …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was admitted to a hospital in Harare on Thursday for what sources described as a “long-planned procedure”. The 65-year-old retired army general arrived at the Trauma Centre in Borrowdale just before 3PM in a six-vehicle convoy flashing blue lights, with sirens turned off. Chiwenga walked into …