Zimbabwe offers to raise civil servants’ salaries by 76 percent

HARARE – The government has offered to raise public sector wages by 76 percent, the umbrella group for public sector unions said on Friday, up from an initial offer of a 10 percent hike that the unions had rejected. The unions group, known as the APEX Council, said that the new offer was still below […]

Zimbabwe Police, Soldiers Seal Bulawayo as MDC Challenges Protest Ban

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) – Soldiers and police deployed in large numbers in Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo on Monday to enforce a ban on an anti-government demonstration, as the country’s main opposition party sought to overturn that decision in court. The street protest was the second called in four days by the Movement for Democratic Change’s […]

PICTURE: Caged MDC Chairperson Thabitha Khumalo

The MDC chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo was on Saturday arrested alongside the party’s Bulawayo provincial women’s affairs chairperson Tendai Masotsha. Police in Bulawayo alleged that the officials were trying to mobilise residents to participate in the demonstrations the party had planned to hold in the city this Monday. Reports indicate that Ms Khumalo and her colleague […]

Zim police say August 16 protest banned, but Chamisa vows to push on with marches

HARARE – Police have banned street demonstrations planned by the opposition on Friday and anyone who takes part would be committing a crime, a police spokesman said, likely escalating political tension. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said the protests will be peaceful, but police earlier issued a statement saying they believe the protest will […]

VP Chiwenga Bounces Back

 Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe, has been told. A senior aide in the VP’s office who was recently with him here in Pretoria, before his transfer, has for the first time revealed […]

Furious Mugabe rejects Heroes Acre burial

FORMER president Robert Mugabe, one of the luminaries of the liberation struggle and the architect of the National Heroes’ Acre Monument, which was supposed to symbolise sacrifice, bravery and triumph of good over evil, has told his family members that he does not want to be buried at the North Korean-style shrine in Warren Hills […]

Zimbabwe MPs get diplomatic passports as 280,000 await ordinary passports

HARARE – All 350 Members of Parliament will be issued with diplomatic passports starting next week – even as thousands of Zimbabweans who applied for passports are still waiting more than a year on. Makonde MP Kindness Paradza (Zanu PF), who chairs the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, made the announcement in the National Assembly […]

Nakamba To Earn £55k A Week

ZIMBABWE international midfielder Marvelous Nakamba is set to become the country’s highest earning local footballer ever following reports that he will earn an eye-watering £55,000-a-week (US$ 67 000) in addition to a multi-million pound signing-on fee as he edges closer to a dream £11million move to English Premier League side Aston Villa. According to the […]

Zimdancehall singer Soul Jah Love struggles to pay £9800 NHS bill

Dark web dealer laundered millions by buying 100 quadrillion old Zimbabwe bank notes

NEW YORK, United States – A drug dealer who used dark web marketplaces to ply his trade apparently used part of the proceeds to buy vast quantities of Zimbabwean cash. The FBI said Richard Castro, of Florida, had bought the equivalent of “approximately 100 quadrillion [1,000 trillion] Zimbabwe bank notes” in June 2018. Use of […]