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Our salaries must not be linked to President branding: ARTUZ

The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has strongly condemned the branding of civil servants' salaries and benefits with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name and title, arguing that it undermines the professionalism and in…

Published: 16 Oct 2025 at 20:15hrs | 917 | by Stephen Jakes

Varakashi4ED condemn coup in Madagascar

Varakashi4ED has condemned the coup taking place in Madagascar, declaring full solidarity with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in rejecting the attempted overthrow of constitutional order in the Republic of Madagascar."We…

Published: 16 Oct 2025 at 20:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

At Least 42 Dead in Limpopo Bus Crash, Zimbabweans onboard

LIMPOPO, South Africa - A devastating bus accident on the N1 highway near Musina has claimed the lives of at least 42 people, including a 10-month-old child, in one of the country’s deadliest road tragedies this year.The bus, which was rep…

Published: 13 Oct 2025 at 07:11hrs | | by Mandla Bhebhe

Madlanga Commission to hear about big names on Monday

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System will resume its hearings on October 13, though proceedings are expected to be held behind closed doors due to the sen…

Published: 11 Oct 2025 at 21:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa posts explicit videos on X

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa's official X account (@CyrilRamaphosa) briefly published explicit videos on Friday during his oversight visit to the North West province, sparking a social media uproar and fresh questions about gover…

Published: 13 Sep 2025 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter

Member of Executive Council Botha Warns: Climate Education Fails Without Economic Relevance

Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Environment, Ewan Botha, has drawn on his childhood experiences to highlight gaps in climate change education and emphasised the need for a new pathway that balances environmental and eco…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 17:29hrs | 6 | by Emmanuel Koro

WATCH: Naledi Pandor blames Ramaphosa

Former International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said that the African National Congress (ANC) has lost its glory and South Africans now look on the former liberation movement with "disdain".Pandor said that the party …

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 23:02hrs | | by Staff reporter

Criminals trying to rubbish Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's claims

Contrary to KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's claim that dockets from the political killings task team were "gathering dust" in the office of the Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection Shadrack Sib…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 20:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

'ANC of Ramaphosaon the verge of collapse'

Embattled ANC NEC member Senzo Mchunu has warned that the ANC is on the verge of collapse, saying a serious intervention is needed to save it.Speaking at Machobeni in Ngwavuma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday during the tombstone unve…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 20:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

MK Party seeks to extend land restitution cut-off date to April 6, 1652

Member of Parliament Mzwanele Manyi has announced his intention to introduce a Private Member's Bill aimed at overhauling South Africa's land ownership framework to address historical injustices and structural inequalities. The proposed Co…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 11:12hrs | | by Frank Talk

International Hunting for Harmony - How a Tanzanian Village Balances Life and Wildlife

The midday sun hung low over Kimokoa Village, turning the dust into gold and the air into a shimmering haze.In the distance, the flat, dry landscape of the Longido Game Control Area stretched endlessly, its acacia trees standing like senti…

Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 22:48hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

South Africa ripe for a coup

Recent developments within South Africa's military and government circles, combined with warnings from national intelligence, suggest the country may be facing a precarious period of political instability.Minister in the Presidency, Khumbu…

Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gwanda court complex nears completion

Chief Justice Luke Malaba has confirmed that the construction of the new Gwanda Court Complex, one of the judiciary's largest infrastructure projects, is in its final stages, with completion expected by the end of 2025.During a site visit,…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

DA/ ANC govt reprimands SANDF General

South African National Defence Force (SANDF) General Rudzani Maphwanya has been officially reprimanded for reported comments he made against Israel and in support of Palestine during a recent visit to Iran.International Relations has issue…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter

DA/ANC-led Ethics Committee refuses to probe kaffir tweets

PARLIAMENT'S Ethics Committee will not investigate a racism complaint against Sport Minister Gayton McKenzie. His offensive tweets containing the use of the Kaffir word predate his time as a Member of Parliament.The African Transforma…

Published: 12 Aug 2025 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Ndiraya voted coach of the month

Scottland secured their spot in the next stage of the Chibuku Super Cup after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over GreenFuel in a largely uninspiring match played yesterday at Sakubva Stadium in Mutare.Despite featuring several highly rated play…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chief ordered to retract Zanu-PF slogans

The High Court has found Chief Seke, Stanley Chimanikire, guilty of breaching the Constitution by chanting Zanu-PF political slogans while addressing a gathering, and ordered him to publish a public retraction within seven days.Justice Sam…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Lab-grown diamonds causing havoc

South Africa's cabinet has approved participation in an international effort to boost the marketing of real diamonds, responding to the increasing appeal of lab-grown gems and funded by a 1 percent levy on the annual revenues of diamond co…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

Failed state warning for South Africa

Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) chief executive Busi Mavuso says that businesses cannot function properly in a failed state, but partnering with the government to fix its failures comes at a steep cost.The key signals of a failed s…

Published: 11 Aug 2025 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter

ZRP cracks down on illegal use of blue lights, sirens

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has issued a stern warning to motorists illegally using blue lights, sirens, and bar lights on their vehicles, with Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba vowing to clamp down on offenders.Speaking on Frida…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa delivers cyclone relief to Mozambique

President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in the central Mozambican city of Chimoio on Saturday to hand over a consignment of humanitarian aid to communities affected by Cyclone Chido, which struck the region in December last year.The devastati…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter

Dr Mncwango appointed as new secretary general

Jacob Zuma led uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has appointed Dr Bongani Mncwango, a former executive at insurance giant Sanlam, as its new secretary-general, replacing Floyd Shivambu.The party also named Nomsa Dlamini as the new deputy secreta…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Operation Dudula members arrested

Three women associated with Operation Dudula have been arrested in Diepkloof, Soweto, after allegedly storming a medical facility and demanding patients produce identity documents to verify their nationalities.Police confirmed that the arr…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 17:20hrs | | by Staff reporter

Hichilema can have Lungu's corpse, rules SA court

A South African court has ruled that Zambia's government can repatriate the body of former President Edgar Lungu and give him a state funeral, despite his family's opposition.The Pretoria high court ruled in favour of the Zambian state, wh…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mashaba calls for deportation of Rutendo Matinyarare

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has called for the deportation of Zimbabwean-born commentator Rutendo Matinyarare, following Matinyarare's recent public criticism of KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.Matinyarare a…

Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

MRP call for self-determination as Africa celebrates Africa day

Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has reminded heads of African states that as they celebrate Africa day they must remember that there is unfinished business of some of the states like Mthwakazi which are yet to attain self det…

Published: 26 May 2025 at 12:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

Zim female gold panner arrested twice in four months in Botswana

A Zimbabwean female gold panner has been arrested twice in the neighbouring Botswana in four months.Reports state that, apparently unable to resist the lure of gold, four months after she was released from prison for illegal mining, she we…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 08:44hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

International hunting brightens Namibian villages

When you enter Southern African hunting communities involved with international hunting and talk to the local residents, you soon discover their win-win co-existence with wildlife.This has been the experience of this writer for many years …

Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 09:29hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro

Walter Mzembi Steps in to Mediate Mozambique's Post-Election Crisis

The President of the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) Africa, Walter Mzembi, has been called upon to mediate the escalating political crisis in Mozambique, following disputed elections that have plunged the nation into chaos.In a form…

Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 07:22hrs | 5 | by Nkululeko Nkomo

Sanef linked Press ombudsman sides with DA 'racist' who wanted to 'kill the k*ffirs'

Renaldo Gouws is not to everyone's liking. Like Marmite. So when IOL published a video clip in which he is seen and heard spewing racist hate speech, supporters and detractors of the controversial politician both lined up to have their say…

Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 17:23hrs | | by Ombud Watcher for GroundUp

Miss South Africa Contestant Faces Identity Theft Allegations and Online Abuse

A major scandal has erupted in South Africa after Miss South Africa contestant Chidimma Adetshina withdrew from the competition amid allegations of identity theft involving her mother. The controversy began when questions arose about Adets…

Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 16:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Angry South Africans burn 4 Zimbabweans to death in Alexandra

Four Zimbabwean men accused of terrorising the community met their untimely demise in Setjwetla, Alexandra township South Africa when they were doused with gasoline and burnt to death on Tuesday night. The men were taken from their shacks …

Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 19:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

South Africa's Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng found guilty

Former South Africa Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng  has been found guilty for defying Judge Mojapelo's Judicial Conduct Committee decision ordering him to unconditionally apologise and retract his pro-Israel views made in June 2020.Jus…

Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | 96 | by Mandla Ndlovu

'Discontinue trophy hunting imports ban bill to save African wildlife'

A leading SADC Safari hunting company that has so far spent over US$367 000.00 to support wildlife conservation and socio-economic development in Tanzania has appealed to the British Government to discontinue the trophy hunting imports ban…

Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg

Chaos as Swaziland citizens besiege US Embassy

Pro-democracy protesters in the Kingdom of Eswatini besieged the United States of America Embassy on Friday calling for an end to the Western country's support of the dictatorial monarchy led by King Mswati III. Thousands of protestors who…

Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 11:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Violent scenes unmasked the facade of South Africa's rainbow nation

With the country mopping up following violent protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the country finds itself divided not only by class but also among racial lines as tensions ran high in some communities afflicted by the marauding violenc…

Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | | by Manyane Manyane, Karabo Ngoepe, Mzilikazi Wa Afrika

Calls mount against 'Zulu' security cluster ministers over lapses

THE startling admission by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the government was caught napping during the violent protests and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was a sign that he was let down by his ministers in the security cluster.This …

Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:40hrs | 3 | by Mayibongwe Maqhina, Tarryn-Leigh Solomons, Mervyn Naidoo

Blacks being murdered by Indians in South Africa, SA media on mute - graphic videos

Reports from South Africa are that 15 black people murdered by Indians in Phoenix in the KwaZulu Natala province.Wednesday was the bloodiest in the days of violence and unrest that broke out in the Durban North suburb. Police have yet to p…

Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

40 million South Africans to receive COVID-19 vaccine in 2021

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday that the government was committed to rolling out vaccines with urgency to establish herd immunity against Covid-19.Speaking during a virtual public briefing, outlining the Department of Health's …

Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 17:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi makes a fool of himself in ConCourt

The state capture inquiry contends that former president Jacob Zuma should pay the legal costs of its urgent Constitutional Court bid to compel him to give evidence - even though he chose not to participate in the case."We are using state …

Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 18:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Malema shuts down Clicks' stores

SOUTH AFRICA - One of the country's leading pharmaceutical retail giant, Clicks, is currently embroiled in a racial storm following an online advertisement it aired last Friday.The ad described African women's hair as "damaged, dry and fri…

Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:57hrs | | by Daniel Itai

Botswana President survives near-chopper crash

Reports from Botswana indicate that the country's President Masisi survived a potential helicopter crash in the country's second-largest city Francistown on Saturday.In a statement issued by the Botswana Defence Force and the Office of the…

Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 12:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Jacob Zuma survives assasination attempt

Former South African President Jacob Zuma says there was a detailed plot to kill him in Durban during the recently held Fill up Moses Mabhida stadium show by Masikandi artist Khuzani Mpungose.Khuzani became the second artist in the space o…

Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 12:38hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu

Buyanga, guns for the lawyer in a child custody case

Johannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN  businessman Frank Buyanga says he has been unfairly maligned by news coverage of an infamous child custody case and he's now fighting to get the lawyer representing his ex-girlfriend, mother of his young son…

Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

Maimane suspends Helen Zille from DA

DA leader Mmusi Maimane has announced that former party leader and Western Cape premier Helen Zille has been suspended from the DA following her controversial tweets about colonialism.According to News24, Maimane made the announcement at a…

Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Hit and run driver nabbed

A MAN who hit a pedestrian and fled from the scene was arrested two weeks after the accident when the deceased's friends led a spirited manhunt.When Muchinyenya Mazorodze (28) was finally arrested he was in the process of changing the car'…

Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter

4 Sadc countries including Zimbabwe plan power project

FOUR Sadc countries - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia are planning a $223 million power project expected to produce 600 megawatts to feed into the region.The project is code-named ZIZABONA, an abbreviation derived from the first two…

Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Botswana stops importing power from Zimbabwe

BOTSWANA Power Company has put on hold talks for power imports from Zimbabwe following the closure of two major smelters in the western neighbouring country. BPC wrote to Zesa Holdings yesterday advising that poor global commodity prices h…

Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Doctor 'gives' child expired drugs

FRIDAH Malatji (45) is accusing a local clinic of having given her daughter expired medicine."Now my daughter is worse off than before," said Fridah, from Block PP in Soshanguve, Tshwane.Daily Sun reported that she said her daughter, Lebog…

Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Maskandi Indidane Mtshengseni was a hitman

Mtshengiseni Gcwensa a Maskandi musician in South Africa popularly known as Indidane was loved by thousands of fans, respected for his humility and his respect for other people, but according to the book, Indidane Inkosi Kamaskandi, the st…

Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 11:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter

News / Africa

SARS is in the business of celebrating hollow victories

Mnangagwa, Chiwenga project unity at Zanu-PF conference

Geza's protest call flops

Nkayi village buries murdered mother and her 2 children

'Local authorities driving up property prices'

Police Amendment Bill gazetted

Zanu-PF targets Parly for ED2030 agenda

Chiwenga urges Zanu-PF to uphold liberation ideals

King Mzilikazi sites included in 2026 Independence legacy projects

Mnangagwa urges Zanu-PF to prepare for the next elections

Zimbabwe on locusts high alert

Zimbabwe tightens vetting of student nurses

Chiwenga rallies for unity, integrity at Zanu-PF Conference

Unpacking Mnangagwa's legal coup against Chiwenga

Man sets mother-in-law's hut on fire

Chinese ambassador to Zim Ding hails Zanu PF conference as strategic

Police probe Chegutu murder case at Chipato Syndicate Mine compound

Zimbabwe targets $1 billion reserves

Man busted stealing diesel from NRZ

3 killed in knife frenzy

Mnangagwa's strategy against Chiwenga borrowed from Ramaphosa

PHOTOS: NRZ resumes passenger train services

Mnangagwa condoles Kenya following Raila Odinga's death

CCC senator Femai dies

MPs demand urgent revival of NRZ

Gweru residents face 3-day water shortage

No bank at risk of collapse in Zimbabwe

Top cop's family feud escalates

Mutsvangwa, Tagwirei embrace sparks debate

South Africa risks FIFA sanctions

Jonathan Moyo fires back hard, using Jah Prayzah song