ASSAULT accounted for the highest number of new prison admissions during the first quarter of 2026. According to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) prison admissions and discharges report, 4 483 people were jailed for the offence. The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service operates 49 main prisons and 31 satellite prisons nationwide. The report showed…
Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR PROVINCIAL councils will only resume constitutional duties once Parliament passes long-awaited devolution legislation, the government has said. The confirmation comes as Provincial and Metropolitan Councils across Zimbabwe continue to find themselves sidelined. Historically, they have failed to assume their constitutional roles due to central government delays in enacting enabling devolution legislation,…
EIGHT unaccompanied children have been identified at the congested Beitbridge Reception Centre, triggering urgent warnings from humanitarian agencies. The discovery comes as 100 000 Zimbabweans have been repatriated from South Africa over the past six weeks. The influx follows intensifying anti-immigrant demonstrations in the neighbouring country, where pressure is mounting on authorities to deport undocumented…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER A VICTIM has told a Harare court how he was blindfolded and held for eight hours by five kidnappers. David Mutanda was testifying on Friday in the trial of Simbarashe Emmanuel Martin Rondozai, who stands accused of the abduction before Harare provincial magistrate Tapiwa Kuhudzai. Mutanda maintained that he was…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER FLUCTUATING prices at Zimbabwe’s tobacco auction floors have been blamed on the spreading use of illegal seed varieties. Industry leaders warn that these unapproved seeds were severely compromising leaf quality and slashing farmers’ overall earnings. Speaking to journalists after a tobacco indaba held in Harare on Friday, Kutsaga chief executive…
FOR generations, a dangerous, unspoken code has governed the lives of many Zimbabwean men. It is the myth of the unyielding patriarch—the belief that to admit to vulnerability, to confess to pain, or to step inside a clinic when one feels “perfectly fine” is a sign of weakness. But today, this stubborn silence is extracting…
Ashley Moyo SENIOR ENTERTAINMENT WRITER HUNDREDS of music lovers turned up for the latest edition of the Xperience Jah Prayzah concert at The Art Farm in Borrowdale on Saturday night. The concert, which began in the afternoon and ran late into the night, attracted fans from across the country as a stellar line-up of local…
Yvonne Ncube in Bulawayo A BULAWAYO man has appeared in court for allegedly impersonating a police officer during a family property feud. Nhamo Karuru, a resident of Cowdray Park suburb, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Isheunesu Mathoba last week facing two counts of impersonating a police officer. He was remanded in custody until today for the…
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has launched XtraData Bundles, a new offering that gives customers up to twice as much data through bonus allocations,…
GOVERNANCE has always been about stewardship. But what does stewardship look like when an organisation’s most critical assets are invisible, intangible, and…
