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Racism accused Coltart fires back as Zimbabwe Cricket
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has found itself under intense public scrutiny after its attempt to dismiss Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart's criticisms as a “racially motivated smear campaign” drew widespread...Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 20:49hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Chevron's shoddy performance blamed on regionalism, tribalism
In the aftermath of yet another dismal showing by Zimbabwe's senior men's cricket team, The Chevrons, a Harare-based lawyer has formally petitioned the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to invest...Published: 10 Aug 2025 at 10:21hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Akashinga Anti-Poaching unit rocked by scandal
The high-profile Akashinga anti-poaching unit is facing a leadership shake-up and internal turmoil following the deaths of two suspected unarmed poachers in December 2024. The fallout has triggered di...Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 13:20hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Controversy erupts over Zimbabwe Cricket team selections
The selection process for Zimbabwe's national cricket team has long been mired in controversy, with accusations of favoritism and a persistent snub of genuinely deserving players. Critics argue that s...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:36hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Prof. Moyo's Political Career in Limbo
Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is ...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:22hrs | 2435 | by Leonard Koni
Villager, conservation clash overshooting of dogs
Chief Chundu, born Abel Mbasera, has urged constructive dialogue between Nyamakate villagers and Akashinga, a wildlife conservation organisation, following a disturbing incident involving the alleged ...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 14:53hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Cricket to upgrade local stadia
Zimbabwe Cricket intends to modernize local cricket stadiums to meet contemporary standards. Presently, there are three venues capable of hosting international games: Harare Sports Club, Queens Sports...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Zanu-PF foot soldier gives up on Zimbabwe, migrates to England
Former Zanu-PF foot soldier and youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has given up on Zimbabwe and relocated to England according to a message posted on his official Facebook account. He paints a gr...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:20hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Allow artists to perform without censorship
Winky D born Wallace Chirumiko popularly known as 'The Big Man or Gaffa' deserves that respect amongst his peers. We have freedom of expression in the country so people should be allowed to air their ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:09hrs | 16 | by Leonard Koni
Australian cricketer wants to play for Zimbabwe
Antum Naqvi, a Belgian-born cricketer currently based in Australia, has expressed his desire to play for Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), offering his services to the Chevrons.The 24-year-old explosive ...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spiritual home of Black cricket in Zimbabwe finally gets international recognition
Bill Flower realized 30 years ago that cricket wouldn't survive, let alone bloom, in Zimbabwe unless it reached out to the country's Black majority and found a place in their hearts.Part of hi...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 13:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crush USA
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday praised the Zimbabwe Cricket national team for their excellent performance after a record breaking 304 runs win against the United States of America (USA) at Harare Sport...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to officiate at Cricket WC Qualifier launch
THE ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier is set for official launch today with President Mnangagwa billed to welcome all the 10 participating nations at a ceremony to be held at the Harare Sports Club this...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Warning shots fired
ALL-ROUNDER Sikandar Raza smashed a brilliant century before excelling with the ball as Zimbabwe warmed up for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier with a victory over minnows Oman in a high-s...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chevrons primed for qualifier
ZIMBABWE national cricket team coach Dave Houghton is pleased with the preparations the team has had as well as the condition of players ahead of the International Cricket Council World Cup qualifier ...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills sister over six boyfriends
A 27-year-old Gweru man, has been sentenced to eight years in jail for fatally assaulting his sister whom he accused of being promiscuous after finding WhatsApp messages in her phone showing that she ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF are cowards, Zimbabwe does not belong to their mothers!' - whilst they enjoy absolute power, it does
"Good pple there is need to teach ZANU PF a big lesson once and for all in 2023. They talk a lot of nonsense as if this country belongs to their mothers. They have got arrogance of a coward.Th...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 17:15hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Taylor, Raza left out
SENIOR players, Brendan Taylor as well as Sikandar Raza are not part of Zimbabwe's squad for the five Twenty20 Internationals against Ireland as Zimbabwe Cricket seek a fresh new start.Zimbabw...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:52hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 6 | by Samantha Power
Small Claims Court jurisdiction reviewed to $300 000
The Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has with immediate effect increased the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Courts to $300 000 from $1 000. The move is aimed at decongesting the ...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Magistrates' court claims upped to $3m
Government has increased the monetary jurisdiction of the magistrates' civil court from $300 000 to $3 million in a move set to promote access to justice and to ease pressure on superior courts. ...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi and MDC's Daniel Molokele square off
It was refreshing to listen to this debate, Zanu PF and MDC shared a platform without trading insults or chiding each other. The debate was mature and showed signs of a growing democratic media space....Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's MDC needs to rethink by-elections strategy
An inquest was inevitable following the opposition MDC's loss in the weekend by-elections, particularly the Lupane East constituency, with finger-pointing predictably being the order of the day. For m...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Catholic priest speaks on Mtukudzi
I didn't intend to write anything on Tuku at this time because there is so much going on out there. The nation and the world is struggling to come to terms with his passing, condolence message...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 06:35hrs | 5 | by Fr Dominic Tomuseni SJ
Zimbabwe female rangers denied UK visas
The UK's decision to deny visas for two pioneering female anti-poaching rangers to attend an awards ceremony has been criticised by organisers.Zimbabwean Nyaradzo Hoto risks her life every day...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | | by BBC
Police docket on ZCTU leaders rejected
PROSECUTORS at the Gweru Magistrates' Courts over the weekend rejected a police docket in the trial of three Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Midlands leaders who had been arrested for demonstrating ...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU bosses await outcome on freedom bid
ZIMBABWE Republic Police (ZRP) officers on Friday altered charges faced by seven Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders to public violence after initially charging them with disorderly condu...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:10hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Born Free Crew dumps Mugabe
IF there is anything that the State broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), has always been disliked for by many, it is the way it is often used as a channel for Zanu-PF propaganda and h...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Midrand Housing Cooperative must be investigated
Editor, I am humbly appealing to the Commission of Enquiry of the Sale of State Land, headed by Honourable Justice Uchena Tendai,cto investigate a housing Cooperative called Midrand Housing Co...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Prof Luke Mbune
Mugabe bootlicking musicians hit hard times
The majority of musicians who had carved their careers through bootlicking former president Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF regime are facing a bleak as their compositions are now considered "politicall...Published: 06 Mar 2018 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ICC team inspects Bulawayo venues
Officials from ICC yesterday toured venues to be used for matches and practice in Bulawayo ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier matches to be played in the city in less than two weeks....Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bans live elephant trade
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured below, has banned trade in live elephants following a global outcry in the wake of the sale of 34 baby elephants to China late last year.Mnangagwa also b...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Rambai Makashinga' artiste was exploited
Controvesial artiste Last "Tambaoga" Chiangwa, 46, whose land reform jingles Rambai Makashinga and Sendekera clogged Zimbabwean radio and television stations in the run-up to the 2002 elections, is a ...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi to headline Human Rights Day
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has said proffering solutions of reconciliation to Gukurahundi atrocities will be central in this year's International Human Rights Day commemorations to be...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nhari-Badza rebellion was always coming
Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai (born 1952), was deployed to the war front in Rhodesia in 1972. He fought many battles and was at one time mistaken for a sello...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:39hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Tambaoga back with anti-corruption song
"Agirimende" hit-maker, Last Chiyangwa, affectionately known as Tambaoga has resurfaced with a new anti-corruption song titled "Mutemo Wavirima".The mbira musician, who made his name in early ...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Numbers don't lie
Morgan thinks a return to the original MDC will save him but then the dynamics have changed a lot. A company of fools suffers harm and bad company corrupts good character.JUST like I told you,...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Bishop
Grace Mugabe agonises over her sons' behaviour
First Lady Grace Mugabe, just like her husband, President Robert Mugabe, at the weekend shared her agony with relatives over the continuing wayward behaviour of sons - Robert Junior and Chatunga Bella...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga threatens war vets
The majority of war veterans have nothing to do with this nonsense that we are now getting daily in our media.The ones who are now championing themselves as the war veterans are members of an ...Published: 02 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | 15 | by Gen Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga
Mugabe ally warns against technology abuse
THE Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Dr Christopher Mushohwe yesterday commended the role played by radio in mobilising people during the country's liberation struggle addi...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZUJ Commemorates World Radio Day
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has joined the rest of the world in commemorating World Radio Day.The Union joins forces with local broadcasters, organizations and communities in...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:39hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
'Radio brings immense benefits'
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe addresses guests during commemorations to mark World Radio Day at Takashinga Cricket Club in Highfield yesterdaySp...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Dr Christopher Mushohwe
Zim judge overturns suspension of university student expelled over protest placard
HIGH Court Judge Justice Francis Bere on Tuesday 23 August 2016 ordered authorities at the state-run Midlands State University (MSU) to reinstate a university student whom they had suspended for alleg...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 00:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Moyo's passion for music
Zimbabweans who once danced to songs like Let it Play and those nonstop jiggles on the State broadcaster like Hondo yeminda should yet again brace for more as Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo s...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 13:31hrs | 4 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Please get Tendai Biti back on the economy levers
Cooperation, inclusivity, true patriotism and sanity only hope for Zimbabwe: Please get Tendai Biti back on the economy levers The post-independence gen...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Dr Tapiwa Shumba
Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out'
'The streets are our employers' : Dismissing our vendor economy is 'selling-out' and failure to nurture economic nationalism.The ultimatum by the stat...Published: 09 Jun 2015 at 11:12hrs | 7 | by Richard Mahomva
'God loves Zanu-PF,' says Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday savaged opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC at a rally in Harare, while bragging that God was allegedly on Zanu-PF's side.The Zanu-PF s...Published: 25 May 2015 at 11:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Call me 'president' says Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday forced his party supporters to chant "yes president" whenever he makes a point in a move to command respect in his beleaguered party.Addressing a handf...Published: 23 May 2015 at 10:17hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
ZIM-ID fully conscious of a political independence of 35 years
As a people of Zimbabwe we are to remember 35years of living in an African state that gained sovereignty by blood, tears and sweat of its liberators, of whom some are swallowed today by death in the n...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 13:47hrs | 1 | by ZIM-ID
Youth of Zimbabwe Arise and fight for your lost future
Do you remember the day when we all rejoiced, the day when we all thought we were free?Do you remember that day when Bob Marley performed his song 'Zimbabwe' in front of thousands jubilant peo...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 20:24hrs | | by Lenin Mafela
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