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Zimbabwean Sensation Ananya Revisits Childhood Nostalgia on New Single 'Long Jump'
Johannesburg - Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ananya has always walked a tightrope between worlds. Her latest single, Long Jump, is a deeply personal indie-pop track that captures that de...Published: 9 hrs ago | 92 | by Agencies
Mzilikazi win Bulawayo inter-district competition
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province concluded a thrilling Baker's Inn National Association of Secondary School Heads Inter-District Athletics Championships at White City Stadium on Friday, showcasing excep...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:21hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
ZimAchievers Awards South Africa announce 2024 nominees
The stage is set for one of the biggest events on the social calendar with Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) South Africa releasing the nominees shortlist for their 9th Awards Dinner Gala.Social...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 21:34hrs | 1008 | by Agencies
2 Royal baLozi graves in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Bulawayo's Athlone Cemetery is the oldest formal graveyard in the modern city, being established in December 1893 in the vicinity of what was known as White Man's Camp. There are many significant pers...Published: 25 Sep 2024 at 11:12hrs | 1111 | by Paul Hubbard, Independent Researcher, Bulawayo
5 arrested for US$193,000 robbery
Five young men, aged between 21 and 25, have been arrested for staging a robbery along the Harare-Masvingo Highway on Sunday. The suspects, Richard Banda (2...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:29hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Southerton robbery suspect shot dead
On Saturday, law enforcement officers fatally shot one of the individuals implicated in last week's armed robbery in Southerton, following an exchange of gunfire in Chitungwiza's Unit A neighborhood....Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Ghosts of colonialism still haunt Zimbabwean names
In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings.As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and onomastics (the scient...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Tendai Mangena
War on shocking teen pregnancies
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Illegal structures resurface in Mbare
ALMOST three months ago, an armada of bulldozers, front-end loaders and earthmoving equipment rolled into Harare's Mbare suburb at the break of dawn.What followed was the razing of hundreds of...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Suspected Zanu-PF activists torch CCC councillor's homestead
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF supporters on Saturday burnt Bindura ward 8 councillor Oswell Shambare's house shortly after he had hosted an opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) meeting at his home....Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloody road to March 26 by-elections
ON February 26, 2022, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, warned the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and its leader Nelson Chamisa that Zanu-PF would crush the party like lice."Let me ass...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 4 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze
ZHRC laments increase in political intolerance
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has lamented the rising cases of political intolerance and escalating interparty violence ahead of the March 26 by-elections and the 2023 harmonised electio...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hungry mine worker steals 5 kg beef
A hungry Fredda Rebecca worker Jonah Mufananyawe (52) was arraigned before a Bindura magistrate Maria Msika for stealing meat on Friday....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 02:19hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Snake Attack: Black mamba kills two brothers
Two brothers, Tawananyasha Mujeyi and Tinotenda Newman Mujeyi, were bitten by a black mamba (lobambila/rovambira) in Buhera, Gukurabenzara mountain on Sunday.Acting Manicaland province assista...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 17:17hrs | 12 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Thousands denied citizenship in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's discriminatory citizenship laws have rendered thousands of people stateless and pushed them to the fringes of society, depriving them of access to education, healthcare, and housing, Amnest...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told release Chin'ono, Mahere, Sikhala
AMNESTY International has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration immediately and unconditionally releases incarcerated opposition leaders, MDC Alliance vice-chairman, Job Sikhala ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Drop charges against Chin'ono, Mahere and Sikhala, demands Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the Zimbabwean government to drop "malicious" charges against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition MDC Alliance officials Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Horror crash fatality increases to 18
GOVERNMENT will meet funeral expenses for 18 people who died in a horrific road accident near Mutoko Business Centre on Sunday afternoon.Eight members of the Rutsito family, seven from the Chi...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF bigwigs endorse Obert Mpofu's book
ZANU PF Secretary for Administration's Obert Mpofu's book has received endorsements from senior Seniior ZANU PF and government officials. The biography titled On the Shoulders of the struggle ...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 16:56hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe and abductions
Since the beginning of the year, some people, mainly government detractors, and opposition members have claimed to have been abducted and tortured in Zimbabwe, but it is not easy to say who could be b...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Questions over Amnesty fraud unanswered
What is going on at Amnesty International? First, two staff members killed themselves last year. Then an internal review ordered by Amnesty secretary-general Kumi Naidoo revealed a "toxic" wor...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by International Policy Digest.
Exposing the log in Amnesty's eyes
AMNESTY International's ability to speak authoritatively on alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe has come under scrutiny after it closed its Harare branch in June over alleged abuse of donor funds ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa presides over gross abuse of human rights'
During his first year as President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has presided over a systematic and brutal crackdown on human rights, including the violent suppression of protests and a witch-hunt a...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | | by Agencies
'Hold to account Aug 1 post-election killer soldiers'
Amnesty International (AI) has expressed concern that Zimbabwean soldiers, who a year ago opened fire on protesters in the aftermath of the general elections, killing at least six civilians and causin...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 22:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police in Zimbabwe: Helping hand or iron fist?
In response to public protests against a drastic increase in fuel prices in January 2019, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were joined by the army in a brutal crackdown that resulted in at least 15 ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Afrobarometer
Man kills estranged wife, hangs self
A MAN from Fort Rixon in Insiza District of Matabeleland South allegedly killed his estranged wife by stabbing her 10 times with a homemade knife before hanging himself in his fields.Matabelel...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Crackdown alarms Amnesty
A new briefing by Amnesty International documents how the Zimbabwean authorities have mounted a brutal crackdown and violence against protesters, using killings and torture, among other serious human ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | | by Amnesty International
Amnesty International urges global Mnangagwa censure over army abuses
GLOBAL rights lobby, Amnesty International has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's friends within the broader international community to dump diplomacy and call him to order in the wake of a fierce s...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by NewZImbabwe
'It's time to correct Zimbabwe's human rights record'
GLOBAL human rights lobby group, Amnesty International (AI) has called on the Zimbabwean electorate to seize the opportunity availed by the July 30 polls to elect leaders committed to improving the co...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
REWIND: Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga
On July 2, 2017, five months before the coup that dethroned Robert Mugabe, The Standard published the interview below.Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enem...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
President Mugabe, a champion of human rights
President Robert Mugabe has always been a champion of human rights and democracy despite his detractors professing ignorance to this fact.Reports from some sections of the media have it that U...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 16:14hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Diasporans petition UK over Mugabe rights abuses
Several of United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean women's rights activists last week petitioned the Zimbabwean embassy in London protesting against the violation of women's rights by President Robert Mugabe'...Published: 19 Sep 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
WOJA petition the British govt to intervene against on violence against women in Zim ahead of the 2018 Elections
London -15 September 2017- Tawananyasha Widows and Orphans Christian Organisation (TWOCO) U.K under the umbrella of, Women Of Justice Arise (WOJA) marched from the Zimbabwe embassy-London-to number 10...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 20:41hrs | 1 | by Kingstone Jambawo
'Avoid speaking against each other,' says Mugabe
Below is President Mugabe's full address at the Mashonaland West Presidential Youth Interface Rally in Chinhoyi yesterday. Ndinoda kuvamba nekukutendayi, kukutendesesayi, nokundimuka kwamaita ...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga, takes aim at Mnangagwa - full interview
Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enemy of the state" by Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Constantino Chiwenga for criticising the implementation of the co...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Season of more arrests beckons
ANIMAL lovers in every part of the world have a way of knowing the start of the mating season for birds.In dry deserts or other arid habitats, the sudden appearance of water through season...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When life becomes a living hell
Owen Dzapasi (28) of Village 4A in Simoona, Bindura must be could be cursing the gods. His fortunes - which appeared to be on the rise - have just crushed with a thud. The young man is admitted in...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
7 crash victims named
POLICE have named seven people who were killed while four others escaped with minor injuries when a vehicle they were travelling in plunged into Tsambe River bridge, 15km off the Glendale-Centenar...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty International lambasts Mugabe's government
THE rights body Amnesty International has lambasted Zimbabwe's government over the arrest of Pastor Mawarire, who is one of the people behind the two-day stay-away. "The arrest of Pastor...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Activists in Malawi call for action over albino killings
Attacks against people with albinism this year have also been reported in Burundi, Mozambique and Zambia - Al Jazeera The targeting and killing of people with albinism in Malawi has a rea...Published: 07 May 2016 at 08:06hrs | | by AFP
Faces behind 'Happy Birthday Gushungo'
This could be Zimbabwe's first band made up of young kids aged 10 and below. If there is another I have not heard of them.Meet Sound Crest Music Club the group behind the song and video making...Published: 20 Feb 2016 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by Xolisani Nyathi
Zimbabwe government 'intimidating' media
Human rights group Amnesty International has strongly criticised the arrest of three journalists in Zimbabwe, calling it a "shocking attempt to intimidate the press".Amnesty's comments on ...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 09:47hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Sunday's accident nearly wipes whole family
The tragic accident that killed 26 people on Sunday along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway, almost wiped out an entire family.It remains a nightmare for the Chinyama clan from Mutoko after four m...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flood victims named
Police have released the names of people who died when the vehicle they were travelling in was swept away by heavy floods at Ngwazani River bridge near Kadoma.Police have confirmed the deaths ...Published: 03 Jan 2015 at 17:40hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Learnmore Jongwe's daughter pass with flying colours
Dear friends of Learnmore and Rutendo Jongwe. I am so happy to let you all know that the deceased couple's daughter Tawananyasha managed to pass her Grade Seven exams with an excellent result ...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 22:21hrs | 163 | by Daniel Molokele
Gospel celebration - Ishe Wenyasha with Fungisai 26 and 28 April 2014
Nepachem cc is promoting two live concerts in Gauteng dubbed "Gospel Celebration - Ishe Wenyasha" where well known Zimbabwean based gospel artiste Fungisai Zvakavapano Mashavave will perform. "I am ex...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 07:56hrs | | by LT Makunike
3-month-old baby dies in road accident
A THREE-MONTH-OLD baby and a 27-year-old man were killed after an overloaded commuter bus burst a rear tyre and overturned in Masvingo on Sunday. Half-a-dozen other people were injured and remain hosp...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Ndabaningi Sithole was a sellout' - Ex-Zanla
Sellouts such as the late Ndabaningi Sit­hole and Wilfred Mhanda have been in existence since the liberation struggle and there is nothing surprising to see "...Published: 12 Aug 2012 at 03:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reported
Gold panner to languish in jail for 5 yrs for just 0.9g of gold
A gold panner in Gweru, Cleopas Chinyananya would spend next 5 years in jail for possessing JUST O.9g of gold. The gold is valued at ONLY $24. Gweru magistrate Sithembinkosi Msipa handed th...Published: 28 May 2012 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Alois Sibanda
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