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Legendary broadcaster Phumlani Msibi dies at 57
The South African sporting fraternity is mourning the death of legendary football and boxing commentator Phumlani Msibi, who passed away on Friday at the age of 57 following a short illness.Bo...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 10:02hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga receives honorary PhD from Rhodes University
Renowned Zimbabwean author, playwright, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga continues to rise as one of Africa's most celebrated literary icons, cementing her legacy with the conferment of an Honorary Do...Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 16:10hrs | 4847 | by Staff reporter
Danai Gurira inspires African playwrights with Zimbabwe workshops
A group of emerging playwrights has gathered in Harare this week for an 11-day conference aimed at fostering the next generation of dramatic talent in southern Africa. The Almasi African Playwrights C...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 07:30hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gears up for Sadc summit
THE country is geared up for the Sadc summit for Heads of State and Government set for August with several massive construction works ongoing, while a Sadc interministerial team is in Harare to finali...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 49 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe must bolt the doors to biased observers
Recently, an African teenage boy living in the French ghettos known as banlieues was shot dead in a botched traffic stop that was captured on video, spotlighting systematic violence and racism in Fran...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mnangagwa remembers Samora Machel
ZIMBABWE will forever cherish and remember the late Mozambican founding father Cde Samora Machel, who offered the country a base to wage the liberation struggle that ended colonial rule in 1980, Presi...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
MultiChoice adds Daily News's Zimbabwean channel 3Ktv to the DStv Platform
As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance its customers' television viewing experience and offer Zimbabweans content that resonates with them, MultiChoice is excited to announce the launch of 3Ktv, a ...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 07:42hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Africa Factbook
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday signed copies of The Africa Factbook and accompanying letters, which will be distributed to the heads of state and government of the other 54 African Union countries. ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unity Accord bedrock of nation's stability, says Mnangagwa
We publish here the address by the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, his Excellency Dr ED Mnangagwa on the occasion of Unity Day. Tod...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Dr ED Mnangagwa
ZimAchievers Awards host inaugural ZAA Botswana gala
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has honoured Zimbabwean achievers who have been outstanding in the year at the inaugural ZAA Botswana Awards Dinner Gala held at Cresta Lodge in Gaborone on Friday....Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:36hrs | | by Tinashe Mukono
Indeed, let's tell our own true African story, including the brutality we have suffered under our 'liberators'
It was with great delight and jubilation when I learnt about the establishment of an African museum, that would tell the true African story, from the perspective of Africans themselves - as that would...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 16:51hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Wayward Child
After an uneasy pregnancy and long hours of labour pains, there was a great celebration when baby Lerato was finally born. Lerato was born into a broken family of school dropouts. Her elder siblings n...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Salom Shilongo
When the undertaker wishes you long life
This time Africans have abjectly disappointed the world.For Pete's sake, why can they not simply die?At least that is what the world expected after the outbreak of the coronavirus....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa to launch Africa Factbook
President Mnangagwa is expected to officially launch the Africa Factbook in Harare today. In July, the President endorsed the production of the Africa Factbook, which captures the liberation s...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Morgan Tsvangirai: A lasting epoch in the national story
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, my boss for 10 years until he died last year on 14 February on the day the power of love is celebrated worldwide, was not a persona but a gargantuan political moment whose i...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Cont Mhlanga scouts for partnership
Renowned playwright and filmmaker Cont Mhlanga of the Amakorokoza fame says the story of Otsheketsha (small scale miners) is a soap opera yet to be fully explored and resources permitting he is ready ...Published: 10 May 2018 at 18:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
African 'YouTube' to be officially launched in January 2018
Everyone knows something that the next person doesn't thus it is important that everyone shares their experiences with the world. Spurred by a deep yearning for freedom of expression and for the Afric...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Welcome to the dark side of Donald Trump
Taking a walk into the world of our imaginations and picturing how our geo-political environment has taken us so far. I have always desired to see a real change in the global political dichotomy and e...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Unmasking Isibaya's scoundrel Ngwebedla
THERE are actors who always make immediate impact when they step on stage, spicing up things with their facial expressions, body language and their on-point costumes that draws the audience into their...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bob and Grace Mugabe's Muppet Show is in full swing
Get ready to salsa to the sounds of party-political kongonya when Grace Mugabe takes centre stage at the Zanu-PF special congress scheduled for December. So I hope Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa ca...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 09:59hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Living in the Age of Mugabeism
This year's Africa Day celebrations, which must ideally continue well after May 25, should recognise President Mugabe's political and economic teachings.Just like Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong, h...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:19hrs | | by Teddie Bepete
Al Jazeera highlight: 'Julius vs The ANC'
On 26 April 2017, Julius vs the ANC will broadcast South Africa's political turmoil to more than 310 million households in over 100 countries. Starting with the police killing of 34 strik...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Top SA DJ in trouble for stealing Zimbabwean song
SOUTH Africa's DJ Maphorisa is probably one of the most phenomenal DJs to emerge from the country at the moment.With a series of hit collaborations, not only in South Africa but regionally and...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police should be transformed from a 'Black Watcher' role
When I was growing up, my father used to refer to police as 'mabhurakwacha', a name that I never understood, until in my primary school years, when I eventually asked him.He explained to me th...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Of protests, puppets and parochialism
NEO-COLONIALISM has and continues to be a stealthy yet salient cancer on the African and in particular, the Zimbabwean political landscape. The West's mantra of the ineptitude of African governments a...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Mpumelelo Nyoni
West's bad Press against President
Shall we start by taking a cue from the great British journalist, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (now 92), former editor of the Sunday Telegraph (1986-91).Confessing in an article in the Daily Mail ...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Baffour Ankomah
SABC to play 90% South African music
Some of the artistes set to benefit from SABC's 90 percent local music implementationThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has taken a decision to implement 90 percent of local mus...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Avoid criticism of African leaders,' says Mugabe
African journalists should champion developmental issues in their reportage and avoid unnecessary criticism of the continent's leadership, African Union and SADC chairman President Robert Mugabe has s...Published: 22 Jul 2015 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tonight With Zororo Ep. 3 - Video
Zororo talks about telling our African Story. He also interviews leading blogging personality, Larry Kwirirai of 3-mob.com and finally a performance by Producer/Singer. Squash on the Coca Cola Sound S...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by TWZ
Ezra Sibanda blasts SA Xenophobic attacks
Former ZBC DJ Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has lashed out at 'lazy and uneducated South Africans' for brutalising Zimbabwean nationals in Durban.According to Sibanda, images of Zimbabweans being i...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 13:20hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe's future has always been in Zimbabwean hands
There is no argument that Zimbabwe is not leaving up to its potential nor expectations it had for itself at Independence, an African story but this piece is looking at Zimbabwe in particular. Zimbabwe...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 17:06hrs | | by Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Golden Baobab Prizes announce 2014 Shortlisted Writers
The Golden Baobab Prizes have announced their shortlisted writers for 2014.Established to inspire the writing and publishing of African stories that captivate the minds of children, the prizes...Published: 04 Nov 2014 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru commends Zim film makers
Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday applauded Zimbabwean filmmakers for taking the lead in telling the true African story from an African perspective saying the film will ensure a larger share of ...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe headed to a new political discourse?
IS our opposition politics hitting a tipping point? Are we headed towards a new political discourse that gives Zimbabwe priority over foreign interests, a political discourse that fosters faith i...Published: 24 May 2014 at 20:29hrs | 3 | by Joram Nyathi
Nigeria's film industry could provide 2 million jobs
As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa's largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over $8 million sinc...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 13:20hrs | 9 | by Rebecca Moudio
Celebrating Panafricanism through artistic expression
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - As part of the ongoing series of events to celebrate 50 years of Panafricanism, the African Aesthetic Exhibition will be hosted at the Addis Ababa University Institut...Published: 22 May 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by APO
Ex-Amakorokoza actor hot property in SA
FORMER Amakorokoza actor Earnest Ndlovu is one of the most sought after actors who features in two top South African soaps - "Inkaba" and "Generations" as Vukani Khoza, who is the father to Zamani and...Published: 10 Jan 2013 at 06:09hrs | 3 | by Arts Correspondent
New documentary exposes conscious spreading of HIV among Zimbabwean sex trade
In Zimbabwe some mothers are selling their bodies just to put food in their children's mouths, putting their lives at risk in the process. Prostitution is a common survival mechanism in third wo...Published: 30 Aug 2012 at 12:16hrs | 3 | by Jane Green-Thorne
A $100 billion Economy for Zimbabwe by 2040 - Tsvangirai
Keynote speech by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the CEO Africa Roundtable in Victoria Falls on 18 February 2012...Published: 20 Feb 2012 at 14:54hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
International Veteran Actor joins the Welshman Ncube led MDC
Ernest Ndlovu yesterday met in Johannesburg with the MDC South African leadership to get his first MDC membership card.Ernest Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean actor based in South Africa best known fo...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nehanda Heritage Tree in Second Accident
At approximately 02:30 am on the morning of December 18, I was driving home from a party in the Harare suburb of Borrowdale when I noticed that a lorry had crashed into the Nehanda heritage tree. De...Published: 24 Dec 2011 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by Nonku Vundla | relzim.org
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