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| [New Zimbabwe] Rescuers have pulled the bodies of at least 22 illegal gold-miners out of shafts at Battlefields that were flooded earlier in the week, and rescued eight more alive, officials and witnesses say. |
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| [News24Wire] Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri's multimillion-rand private jet has been attached by the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) - part of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) - amid allegations that he fabricated loan agreement papers to acquire it. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ominously vowed to go after doctors and nurses who treated victims of the brutal police and military crackdown against protestors last month. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] Harare -Ailing Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is still in India where he is receiving treatment for an as yet to be disclosed ailment, President Emmerson Mnangagwa suggested, Saturday. |
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| [News24Wire] ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has been cleared of sexual harassment charges by the party's grievance panel, City Press reported. He was accused by his former personal assistant of three instances of sexual harassment, but the panel was reportedly not impressed with her evidence. |
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| [News24Wire] Thirty-two senior ANC members, previously nominated by the party to be sent to Parliament and the provincial legislatures, have failed a vetting test, the Sunday Times reported. |
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| [Nyasa Times] Malawi Police in the Eastern Region and across the country have been urged to closely monitor and ensure that they deal with all political violence perpetrators ahead of the highly contentious May 21 Tripartite General Elections. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] Umguza -Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] Opposition icon Morgan Tsvangirai's widow Elizabeth Macheka last week made her first public appearance at an MDC event since the passing on of the late leader. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] Two outspoken Matebeleland South traditional leaders, Chief Vezi Maduna of Filabusi and Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni met MDC president Nelson Chamisa in Harare last week. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] The High Court on Friday called Prosecutor General to order over his plan to transfer a senior staffer Chris Mutangadura to Guruve. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] Gukurahundi survivor Charles Thomas who is accused of killing a police officer during last month's violent protests has taken his bid for bail to the High Court. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] A leaked mobile phone conversation between two senior Zanu PF youth league members has revealed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia as an emerging powerful political actor who can make or break careers like her predecessor Grace Mugabe. |
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| [The Herald] President Mnangagwa has declared a State of Disaster the incident in which between 60 and 70 artisanal miners are believed to have perished after mining shafts at Cricket No 3 and Jongwe Mining Cooperative mines in Mhondoro-Ngezi were flooded on Tuesday. |
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| [The Herald] Prolific writer Charles Lovemore Mungoshi has died. He was 72. Mungoshi died in the early hours today after battling ill health for nearly a decade. Mourners are gathered at his family house in Chitungwiza and funeral arrangements are yet to be announced. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE'S unrepentant government faces renewed European Union (EU) sanctions in the wake of recent army killings and claims of rape, among some serious rights violations pinned on the Emmerson Mnangagwa led administration. |
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| [New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE'S inflation rate has surged to a ten year record of 56.90 percent, according to figures released by the country's statistics agency. |
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| [The Herald] President Mnangagwa has declared Harare Metropolitan Province and other areas a state of disaster due to the intermittent outbreaks of cholera. The notice was published in the Government Gazette General Notice 268 of 2019 yesterday. |
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| [Nyasa Times] Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Jane Ansah has again urged political leaders o practice modern politics by engaging in issue-based campaign. |
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| [SAnews.gov.za] Cabinet has called on all eligible voters who have not registered to vote in the upcoming elections to do so at the offices of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which are still open across the country. |
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| [ISS] South Africa's election to chair the African Union (AU) in 2020 confirms the return of major powers on the continent to steer the organisation's affairs. |
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| [Namibian] The government, through the ministry of gender equality, has decriminalised baby dumping to allow mothers to leave their unwanted newborn babies at safe places without the risk of prosecution. |
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| [The Herald] President Mnangagwa on Wednesday last week held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the country to lay the foundation for dialogue. Here, Our Senior Reporter Tendai Mugabe speaks to MDC leader Thokozani Khupe on what transpired and issues around dialogue. |
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| [The Herald] The country has been hit by African Swine Fever (ASF) which has already caused the death of 156 pigs in Nyakomba and Nyamaropa areas in Manicaland. |
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| [The Herald] Kadoma -Tinashe Kaitano, who was alleged by MDC-Alliance and its non-governmental organisations associates to have been killed by security forces during the illegal demonstrations organised by the opposition party last month, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail. |
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| [The Herald] Zanu-PF yesterday said claims by the MDC-Alliance's Nelson Chamisa that MDC-T late leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai died a bitter man after the ruling party reneged on a deal to co-opt him into President Mnangagwa's Government were cheap propaganda by officials in the opposition who themselv... |
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| [The Herald] The United States must stop lecturing Zimbabwe on how to conduct its affairs as it has no moral ground to do so, Zanu-PF has said. In a statement yesterday, the ruling party's Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the Trump administration should disabuse itse... |
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| [263Chat] Zimbabwe's hopes of raising mineral contribution to the economy from the current $2,4 billion to $12 billion per annum by 2023 has received a major boost following the coming on board of a Canadian based Polaris Seismic International Limited to further explore the country's geology. |
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| [263Chat] China has urged Zimbabwe to adopt use of drones in the agriculture sector to bring more efficiency and maximum productivity. |
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| [News24Wire] Cape Town -Cricket South Africa (CSA ) has thrown its weight behind athlete Caster Semenya and her fight for gender equality ahead of her landmark hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) next week. |
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