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Rhodesians hit Angola
TODAY we bring to a close the interview with Somandla Dube pseudo name Richard Machikito Mguni who survived the 26 February 1979 bombing of a Zipra Camp in Boma near Luso, in Angola.In his mem...Published: 15 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's violence call despicable
President Robert Mugabe's statements encouraging Zanu-PF youths to take the law into their own hands in dealing with members of the ruling party that go around perpetrating violence in his wife's name...Published: 51 secs ago | 1 | by The Standard Editor
Mudede dismisses politics in birth certificate registration
THE Government says it is committed to providing citizens with birth certificates and national identity particulars contrary to political sentiments that it is reluctant to give such documentation to ...Published: 4 mins ago | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police pounce on MDC-T youths
Police yesterday crushed an MDC-T youth demonstration in Gweru, where more than five youths activists were arrested after they took to the streets protesting against lack of electoral reforms ahead of...Published: 5 mins ago | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF set structures for the 2018 elections
The Zanu-PF juggernaut was officially set in motion yesterday with countrywide deployment of Politburo members to prepare ruling party structures for next year's harmonised elections. Last Wednesday, ...Published: 17 mins ago | 19 | by Staff reporter
Passport offices: A good case of how to serve
In 2005 government razed down informal structures throughout the country. A denuded Joburg Lines in Mbare, for example, gave you a sense of shock after the Murambatsvina blitz. The shabby laager of sh...Published: 18 mins ago | 33 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why Mutuma left Highlanders
WHEN he packed his bags from Harare to join Bulawayo giants Highlanders, his arrival was met with mixed feelings.Striker Roderick Mutuma had been off-loaded at Dynamos in January after also ha...Published: 25 mins ago | 58 | by Staff reporter
Daily Academic Sociology Questions and Answers with Mwiinde Laison - Criminals are born not made
QuestionCriminals are born not made. Discuss. [25] (Student request question)...Published: 2 hrs ago | 33 | by Mwiinde Laison (Author, Sociologist and Mentor)
Sound legislation to regulate technologies needed to ensure biosafety - Dr. Mufandaedza
The golden question to be answered is, 'What is the purpose of having a biosafety and biosecurity regulatory framework in Zimbabwe?'."A sound legislation to regulate technologies to ensure the...Published: 16 hrs ago | 168 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Grace Mugabe turns 52 tomorrow
Tomorrow the First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe turns 52.Nicknamed the First Shopper, Grace was born on 23 July 1965 to migrant parents in Benoni, South Africa. She was the fourth child in a family of...Published: 17 hrs ago | 3353 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi and the silent whispers and cries behind hatred, death and disunity
The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992. His black ministerial Mercedes Benz was parked near King...Published: 17 hrs ago | 904 | by Tafi Mhaka
Lost crops: Food for thought for Zimbabwe
Many do remember the yesteryear song of Oliver Mtukudzi "Tsika dzedu" in which the musician pitched the importance of the traditional way of living, when people used to consume traditional leafy veget...Published: 17 hrs ago | 565 | by Praxedis Dube1, Rico Ihle1, Wim Heijman1 and Paul Struik2
Lupane underdevelopment irks Zanu-PF youths
The Zanu-PF Secretary for Youth Affairs, Kudzai Chipanga has expressed concern at the under development of the Matabeleland North provincial capital, Lupane, a situation that is forcing all government...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1248 | by Staff reporter
Family of 4 escape death by a whisker
A family of four escaped death by a whisker this Saturday (today) morning, when some police officers allegedly from Highlands police station threw a spike at their Toyota Corolla along Churchill Drive...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy: A case of inherited oppression
The legacy of colonialism in Africa has largely affected the idea and nature of the post-colonial State. It is in the wake of decolonisation (with all its attendant meanings) that discourses of Negrit...Published: 22 hrs ago | 411 | by Patson Dzamara
White farmers did not believe Mugabe would move against them
A Zimbabwean farmers' union leader warned white South African farmers they should agree a deal to share land with the black majority before they suffer the same fate as neighbors in Zimbabwe who were ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1824 | by Reuters
Jonathan Moyo has links to a foreign spy agency, Mnangagwa told Politburo
ZANU PF succession protagonists Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo came eyeball to eyeball in a titanic battle for President Robert Mugabe’s attention as t...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3257 | by Staff reporter
'Zim can now restore its bread basket status,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has said that Zimbabwe would soon regain its status of being the "bread-basket of Africa" after the country recorded a bumper maize harvest this year.Mugabe said this w...Published: 24 hrs ago | 563 | by Staff reporter
New female police boss for Manicaland
SENIOR Assistant Commissioner, Dorothy Mupara is the new Officer Commanding Manicaland after replacing Senior Assistant Commissioner Isaac Tayengwa who transferred to Harare.Snr Ass Comm Mupar...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 11:11hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Dirty dancing' in Mashonaland Central
The moment two 'Dancing queen' dancers jumped on stage at Chivavaya night club in Guruve Mashonaland Central during Romeo Gasa's show last night (Friday)....Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:56hrs | 2027 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mugabe admits the existence of Zanu-PF militia groups
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday admitted the existence of Zanu-PF militia groups unleashing terror against political opponents, but absolved the ruling party of the crime, describing the militias as...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:48hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai warns against imposition of candidates
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday met Bulawayo provincial structures in a closed-door meeting at MacDonald Hall in Bulawayo to rejuvenate the party in preparation for the watershed 2018 electio...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:47hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Bosso founding player dies
ONE of the founding Highlanders players Wilfred Randen has died. He died on Tuesday aged 98.Randen played for Highlanders as a centre forward two years after its inception in 1926 when it was ...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:45hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Jomo Sono invites Bosso to anti-Xenophobia Cup tourney
LEGENDARY South African footballer and businessman Jomo Sono has invited Bulawayo giants Highlanders to a four team anti-Xenophobia Cup that will also feature his side Jomo Cosmos at the Vosloorus Sta...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:42hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Couple's only 2 kids drown in dam
TWO siblings aged three and five years drowned in Filabusi on Thursday after attempting to swim in Zamba Dam.Junior Nkala (5) and Sithandweyinkosi (3) were the only children in their family....Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:41hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Police approve Mthwakazi rallies
POLICE in Matabeleland North have cleared the two Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) rallies to be held in Nkayi today, but gave stringent conditions that include a ban on utterances that insult President...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:40hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
'Mat North a Zanu-PF stronghold,' claims Grace Mugabe
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday declared that Zanu-PF will make a clean sweep of all constituencies in Matabeleland North in next year's general elections, saying the opposition stood no chance agai...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:34hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Villagers to pay $10 for Heroes Day commemorations
GOVERNMENT has ordered villagers, resettled farmers and civil servants in Manicaland to contribute various sums of money each ranging between 50c and $10 towards the Heroes Day commemorations slated f...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:32hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe challenges Zanu-PF chefs
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday called on senior Zanu-PF leaders to emulate the unity shown in the party's youth league as he invoked the spirit of his late deputy Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo while emphasising...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:32hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe mine wrangle turns ugly
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe's aides and police officers allegedly fighting on the side of President Robert Mugabe's wife have reportedly "poisoned" mine shafts as a wrangle over a gold-rich claim turned u...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:31hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Messenger of court storms funeral
THERE was commotion in Vainona after the messenger of court stormed a funeral attaching property as the debtor's body lay in state at his home.Genius Chigwada, 63, died on July 17 and he was o...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:29hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Of artists fostering & protecting tyrants
People living in that country currently called Zimbabwe are going through what can be at best be called troubling times and at worst tyranny. As things stand we look at artists to not only to sing the...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:12hrs | 69 | by Tshaka Mgazo Ndlovu
Tsvangirai set to meet party structures in Harare
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai will today meet the party's Harare provincial structures as he continues to consolidate and marshal the party membership to back his candidature as coalition leader in t...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 07:56hrs | 260 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe declares Zanu-PF win in Matabeleland North
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe on Friday declared that Zanu PF will make a clean sweep of all constituencies in Matabeleland North in the 2018 general election.Dr Mugabe told Zanu PF supporters at So...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 07:10hrs | 1267 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo business people cry foul over poor business
Bulawayo business people have cried foul over the poor business during the Mine Entra.This was revealed by Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo following his invitation buy some...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 06:38hrs | 577 | by Stephen Jakes
'Beat up Zanu PF thugs,' says Mugabe - what blood red Moon has he seen rising
President Robert Mugabe has urged members of his party's youth league to beat up anyone suspected of causing political violence in the name of his party ZANU PF."We hear that there are some pe...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1368 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Dr Moyo hope to emulate Macron is misplaced narcissist ego - no free elections in Zimbabwe
Dr Moyo and his APA party wants to be the Emmanuel Macron of France who started his own En Marche party from scratch and a year later was swept into the Elysee Palace, defeating all the established tr...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 21:04hrs | 433 | by Nomusa Garikai
Borrowdale telephone numbers to change
The country's sole fixed telephone operator, TelOne is currently in the process of digitalizing it's network, in a move that will unlock new capacity as well as introduce more technologies and increas...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 16:49hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns harassment of Mzilikazi II by govt
The 1893 Mthwakazi Restoration Movement condemns any form of threats and harassment directed at Mzilikazi II, Stanley Raphael Khumalo by the Government of Zimbabwe (Mashonaland) through its Gukurahund...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 16:23hrs | 822 | by Thembani Dube, Secretary for Information and Publicity, 1893 MRM
Mr Mqondisi Moyo dispels the CIO accusations and releases Mthwakazi activists
In an explosive interview with the Bulawayo24 News journo, Mr Mqondisi Moyo, the President of Mthwakazi Republic Party broke the CIO spell and released Mthwakazi activists from the CIO strangleh...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 16:12hrs | 924 | by Thulani Nkala
Zanu-PF militia revives terror base
Suspected Zanu-PF youth militia have revived what local residents call a terror base at Damara in Chitungwiza's Unit N suburb, where they have embarked on a reign of terror intimidating, beating and m...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 15:32hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Politburo grills VP Mnangagwa
AS the Zimbabwe Independent accurately reported on June 23, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was put in the Zanu PF politburo dock and grilled on Wednesday by bitter rival Jonathan Moyo, who is bayin...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 15:07hrs | 4159 | by Staff reporter
Mystery shrouds Mugabe accident
Mystery surrounds the car which was involved in a horrific accident with a biker who was leading President Robert Mugabe's motorcade last Saturday.On Saturday, one of the bikers leading the mo...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 14:54hrs | 3491 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly in Zanu-PF politburo
Zanu-PF's politburo has virtually become a war zone for factional fights playing out in the top echelons of the ruling party, with Wednesday's meeting proving beyond any reasonable doubt that Presiden...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 14:50hrs | 2297 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi eyes Bikita South seat
Outspoken businessman-cum politician Energy Mutodi is eyeing the Bikita South National Assembly seat after the ruling Zanu-PF party transferred him from Mashonaland East to Masvingo with effect from J...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 14:43hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
'There is hunger, poverty of leadership in MDC-T,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe is in Matabeleland north where he is expected to address over 100 000 Zanu-PF party supporters, as he resumes his nationwide rallies following...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 13:13hrs | 1119 | by Online
The desire for self determination by Matabeleland: My personal Opinion
Sometime last year Job Sikhala, an MDC senior official challenged Mthwakazi activists to take him into their confidence and explain why they wanted to secede from Zimbabwe. I am not sure if he got the...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 11:38hrs | 773 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Thambolenyoka's changed life
THE Biblical story of Saul who persecuted Jesus's followers but later turned to be the Lord's ardent follower and apostle, assuming the name Paul, preaching the Gospel to many and saving souls, vividl...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 11:31hrs | 1715 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Mugabe rally
15:16 President Mugabe says Matabeleland North has created a name for itself as a province."Well done Mat North. Let other provinces learn. To those who have hosted the rallies, keep your ...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 10:48hrs | 2614 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe resumes nationwide rallies
President Robert Mugabe is set to resume his nationwide rallies in Lupane, Matabeleland north on Friday amid speculation the gatherings are a prelude before he calls a snap election during the first q...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 10:11hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
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