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The Health Centre is desperately in need of curtains
Curtains are for privacy, decor, cooling effect and giving the first impression of an institution or home. If curtains fail to provide none of the aforementioned then they are not worth hanging up. By...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 17:55hrs | 318 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Hands Up! New App 'SizeHim' claims to predict penis size and sexual compatibility from your palms
Forget swiping left and right based on photos - a new app is promising to revolutionize dating by using hand pictures to predict a man's package and sexual compatibility.Yes, you read that rig...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 07:34hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Grace Mugabe warms up to Mnangagwa
THE last time former first lady Grace Mugabe made a public statement was on November 5, 2017 at Rufaro Stadium in Harare.At an event dubbed "Super Sunday" in some quarters, she gathered thousa...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:40hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Luna Park returns to Bulawayo in time for ZITF
PROPRIETORS of the most loved and cherished Luna Park, Family Amusement Park, have announced their return to the city in time for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) The Luna Park is ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
America: They kill us for sport!
My little story on American sanctionsOnly a few weeks shy of my sixty-first birthday, I have been, until late last week, on United States list of sanctioned Zimbabweans.I have been the...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:12hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mtukudzi tried to avoid Zanu-PF
AT the turn of the millennium, Zimbabwe's government introduced what it called "galas", where top musicians performed at different national events to mark important events in the country's history....Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
New city takes shape in Umguza Rural District
A NEW city named Kings City with state-of-the-art facilities including shopping malls and gated townhouses is taking shape on the outskirts of Bulawayo in Umguza Rural District.The development...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:29hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor cries after party loses council chairperson post
A recent incident at Chiredzi Town Council unfolded with unexpected emotions when Charles Njopera, Zanu-PF's ward 4 councilor, found himself in tears after Roger Chikonye of the Citizens Coalition for...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new ICT Minister faces scrutiny over interview
Zimbabwe's new Information Communication Technology (ICT) Minister, Tatenda Mavetera, has found herself at the center of controversy and criticism following her recent interview at State House. The in...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
China new variant of COVID 19 could infect 65 million per week.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese epidemiologist, said Monday that two new vaccines for the XBB omicron subvariants (including XBB. 1.9.1, XBB. 1.5, and XBB. 1.16) had received initial approval, accord...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Spacious Luna Park welcomes Trade fair visitors
Visitors to the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair who have over the years been accustomed to having the Luna Park adjacent to the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre (ZIEC), the venue of th...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's so difficult to speak for the suffering when suffering yourself!
These are one of those rare moments I just feel like wearing my heart on my sleeve.Those days when life in my country becomes so unbearable and reaches stressful levels, such that the only way...Published: 12 Apr 2023 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe family snubs Mnangagwa
Late former President Robert Mugabe's artefacts are not part of the fascinating array of Zimbabwe liberation heroes' war relics currently on display at the much-hyped Museum of African Liberation in H...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Liberation museum sitting on goldfield'
SATELLITE images dating back to 1985 show that the famed US$40 million Museum of African Liberation project is being constructed on a goldfield, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.According to ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Jamwanda
Tech drifts that are changing the gaming business
In the previous ten years, the universe of betting has quickly advanced. This is expected essentially to the turn of events and development of the web. The ubiquity of web-based betting is obvious aro...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 16 | by Staff Writer
A political accident waiting to happen
Communities are glued and bound together by more than blood.They share a common past, history, heritage, values, norms and aspirations.The commonality bred by sharing similar languages...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 8 | by Bishop Laz
Remembering Ginimbi
People make their names for different things, good or bad.There are others, though, who attain fame naturally, without much effort, larger-than-life characters of our time.You can say ...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:18hrs | 53 | by Tafadzwa Zimoyo
Mistakes to avoid when playing online slots
Casinos are full of amusement and excitement because you can explore several games according to your skill level. Sometimes, however, players are attracted to a new game without understanding its risk...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 16:46hrs | 15 | by Staff Writer
Reminiscing the thrills, pains of village life
The only shop in the village was perched precariously on a rock promontory, competing with itself in stature, grandeur, glamour, ambience and trinkets.It was a tapestry.Pricing was not...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Mr Cross's zeal with limited knowledge, a danger to macro-economic stability
Mr Eddie Cross's article titled "Challenges facing the foreign exchange auction" made a lot of casual reading amusement, especially for those amongst us uninitiated in the domain of macro-economic ana...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:32hrs | 6 | by Jameson Dapi
Grey hair comes with wisdom
Mature age comes with wisdom, nephews and nieces but sometimes it comes alone. My progeny extension so far is to the power of six, two boys and four girls, grandpa's pride. The eldest a boy, second ye...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 19:17hrs | | by Tondo. Chinehasha.
Cabinet meetings by Ndaba Sibanda: A review by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
The book kicks off with a scene featuring a technology-crazy old man who is drinking with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. The old man's table manners do not endear him to the girl either....Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 12:13hrs | 6 | by Banqobile Virginia Dakamela
Mnangagwa's Secrets to win In 2023 Revealed
The President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has proved the world wrong. The world expected to see Zimbabwe crumble into the dust and become obsolete. But true to his word Emerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Global giant fires Hwange furnaces
CHINESE global investor, Tsingshan Holding Group, has started construction of its second 150 000-tonne coke battery in Hwange, Matabeleland North Province, following completion last month of the first...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance fight over Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Victoria Falls
THE MDC Alliance and Zanu-PF are fighting over glory in the roll-out of vaccination in the country's prime tourism city.The government rolled-out vaccination exercise for all willing residents...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Is Nepotism a Good Thing, or Bad?
I read with amusement the article written by Luke Tambolinyoka titled "Emerson Mnangagwa : the primitive clansman and the villagisati...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | | by Geoff Nyarota
Killer Zivhu accuses Temba Mliswa of being gay
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa on Tuesday denied sensational allegations by a woman claiming to be pregnant with his twins that he is a gay in relapse.Mliswa also rejected similar ch...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:58hrs | 1 | 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 | 3 | by Samantha Power
Does a white chicken taste better than a black one?
Why keep someone's grandfather's head or that of a grandmother and still claim to be a God fearing people? In Africa if a human head, or any other body part is found anywhere in your home thin...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:34hrs | | by Tondo Chiweshe.
Chiwenga sends Chamisa packing
Tongues are being rolled overtime as Zimbabweans are being fed propaganda over the suspension of by elections on December. The Vice President Dr comrade Constantino Gueveya Chiwenga, who is also...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 10:50hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Kambarami: A pig in royal robes still finds amusement in mud
The Tinashe Kambarami cabal's crass exhibition of foolishness unmasks the failure of the MDC to run urban councils. The exalted office of councillorship has been defiled by the repugnant behaviour of ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Ndabazabantu Sondokhulu
Drama at school as mistress scurries for safety from enraged lover's wife
PUBLIC disgrace!An action-packed drama which left pupils and teachers stunned, punctuated Pakame High School in Shurugwi, Midlands Province when a receptionist dashed out of the office for fre...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Best things to do for kids in Australia
The holiday is a time of enjoying as a family together with long-time friends. It’s important as a guardian or a parent to make sure that kids are not addicted to tech. This can be ...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:16hrs | 6 | by Staff Writer
Lunar Park comes to Bulawayo
OWNED by Spares Mania and trading as Family Amusement Park, Lunar Park is in Bulawayo for the Easter, Independence holidays and the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair.Having started in the 1970...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first black woman to get driver’s licence
JOANNA Sibanda's life has been one long series of firsts and she is not shy to tell anyone who cares to listen. When one visits her warm home, she speedily unearths a stash of certificates and...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chombo was tortured, but must face trial, says Court
THE High Court has dismissed an application for a permanent stay of prosecution filed by former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo, who is facing several cases involving corruption, fraud and criminal n...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
What type of forex trader are you?
Forex traders come in all shapes and sizes. Everyone has their own unique style of trading forex, but it is possible to discern some similarities between successful traders. There are some dis...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans weary of protests
Mark Twain once said 'it is easier to fool people than convince them that they are being fooled' and that is exactly the process a section of Zimbabweans are going through as MDC leader Nelson Chamisa...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Mnangagwa finally breaks free of Mugabe shodow
After 56 years of working under Mugabe, ED finally breaks free from the ambits of his master and successfully established himself in one year. November has become a month which will be r...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Commodity broker Kelvin Mazhandu to build Mqabuko plaza
Zimbabwean born commodity broker Kelvin Mazhandu is set to construct the biggest mall in Bulawayo in honour of the later Father Zimbabwe Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo.Mazhandu who is based in ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 19:19hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
RBZ, fat cats rule the black market
Someone must do the right thing, grab the office keys from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya, and take him to a job that he actually deserves. Because he looks and acts like a...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:53hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Ian Khama learnt at Whitestone Primary School in Bulawayo
Former Botswana President Dr Ian Khama Seretse Khama has revealed his Zimbabwean connection, saying he leant at Whitestone Primary School in Bulawayo's Burnside suburb.Dr Khama praised Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 15:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Walter Nqabeni Mthimkhulu, legendary political activist and would-be hero (1940-2018)
This piece is being sent out on 14 August 2018, the last day of the long Heroes Day weekend of the year in Zimbabwe. This is barely two weeks after the country's critical presidential, parliamen...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 23:04hrs | 13 | by Dr Strike Mkandla
Killing our children is amusement for Chiwenga and Mnangagwa
The carnage, blood bath and dehumanization in the central district of Harare is a confirmation of what has been defined as free, fair and creditable elections led Priscilla Chigumba, Chiwenga and Mnan...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 21:53hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
'White interface' rally triggers storm
Picture this: When President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses rallies in most parts of Zimbabwe, there are dozens of security personnel around him armed with guns.His supporters spend long hours, ...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 14:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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