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I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
Ulunyoka, the spell that binds love and punishes betrayal
IN the shadowed corners of tradition lies the practice of ulunyoka - a spellbinding ritual that binds a spouse to fidelity with consequences dire enough to stir the soul. This ancient art of "centrall...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:43hrs | 22 | by Leonard Ncube
Chamisa in a catch-22 situation
I MUST begin by apologising, dear reader, for not informing you that I will no longer deliver my instalment weekly as had become the tradition.I received a few inquiries and some scolding from...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 19:16hrs | | by Ntando Dumani
Mnangagwa enforcer and ex-minister laments death of provincial hero
"It's painful that one of our own dies whilst we have the means of assisting her", former State security minister Owen ‘Mudha' Ncube said last Wednesday at the funeral of a Zanu-PF official while su...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pair in court over fake fertiliser
TWO Harare men yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with fraud after they tried to sell fake fertiliser mixed with sand.Sean Joubert and Charles Gumbeze appeared before m...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula's most trusted chieftaincy seeks reinstatement
EARLY on Sunday morning last week, Mr Minus Mabhena made his way to the back of the Maphungo homestead in Nkayi's Sikopo area, in Matabeleland North province and stood on what looked like an anthill....Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF is intolerate, period!
LAST week we expressed our serious reservations over the ruling Zanu-PF's conduct as far as respecting this country's laws after its women's league members unlawfully used a school bus to travel to Fi...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hit hard by storms and forest loss, Zimbabweans building stronger homes
For Florence Panda, the best thing about her new house in eastern Zimbabwe is not the modern design or the size, big enough for her family of nine.It's the fact that the house is built with ce...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man fatally assaults father with hammer
A Plumtree man has gone into hiding after he fatally assaulted his 68-year-old father with a two-pound hammer over an undisclosed matter, as more murder cases are reported countrywide.The Plum...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Title deeds for urban dwellers ready
THOUSANDS of urbanites will on Saturday be presented with title deeds as President Mnangagwa delivers on his promise to implement development that leaves no one and no place behind.The title d...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dumps pregnant wife at lover's home
IN a dramatic incident which left villagers in Village1 Dawlish area in Chiredzi North shocked, a man dumped his six-month pregnant wife at her alleged lover's house after he caught them having sex in...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lockdown guards need guarding
Lockdown robbery. That's perhaps the best thing to call it.The setting is a once-famous nightclub off Old Mazowe Road on the outskirts of New Marlborough. The time is 10pm on a Friday evening....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
How does Zimbabwe define its heroes?
I WANT to thank President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his team for the conferment of provincial war hero status on Saul Musaka, Soul Jah Love. I would like to thank him again for the conferment of national...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:50hrs | 9 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Nick Mangwana and the Medical Assassins, Did he mean any harm?
The past few days social media was awash with the news of the Permanent Secretary of Information Ndavaningi Mangwana's statement on the Medical assassins. Many sort to accuse Nick for alleging that th...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 19:53hrs | | by Dr Masimba Masimba
Man beats 1-yr-old stepson to death, secretly bury body in anthill
A LUPANE man allegedly whipped his 18-month-old stepson to death and connived with the boy's mother to conceal the death by secretly burying the body in an anthill.Saviours Ncube (22) and his ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's MPs says 'without unity Zimbabwe is doomed'
ZANU-PF legislators on Tuesday said there is need for unity in the country despite political differences to save the nation from doom.This comes as there is a fresh push by the church to persu...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivhu shooting: Details emerge
Chivhu residents were left in awe of the manner in which security services tracked, shot and killed two gunmen who had attacked two other soldiers on Saturday, killing one and seriously wounding anoth...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boy (9) battling for life after axe attack
A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy from Chiwundura is battling for life at Gweru Provincial Hospital following an axe attack by an unknown assailant.Acting Midlands provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Xo...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
The bane of rabid, frenzied media
Again, dear reader, if ever you are in doubt, if ever you are confused, if ever you need a moral compass, or whenever you find yourself agreeing with Jonathan Moyo, you should know that you are close ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
We must flash out all the sloths
Hairdressers of Natpharm head honchos must understandably be worried since they might not be seeing their clients anytime soon, especially after they received quite the "hairdryer treatment" last week...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
How long shall we suffer fools, loons?
Despite their supposed genius and intellectual heft, Western scientists are still grappling with establishing the causal link between lunar cycles and madness.While there is innumerable anecdo...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Calling for talks from burning anthills
There is so much talk about a Government of National Unity (GNU); talk which seems to be gaining traction, especially so with the coming on board of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), and the dem...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
Brick moulder trapped to death
A CHINAMHORA teenager died after earth collapsed on him while he was moulding bricks.Zvikomborero Chimunda (16) of Musiyiwa Village, under Chief Chinamhora, was digging soil in a three-metre d...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rugeje publicly humiliated
Zanu-PF national political commissar Engelbert Rugeje Zanu-PF met his match in Zaka East when he was publicly humiliated and accused of imposing candidates during a consultation meeting at Zibwowa, in...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools must stop rampant book piracy
Photocopying of textbooks, especially Literature set books, is illegal and must be stopped. Schools caught photocopying anybody's literary works without permission must be sued and face the long arm o...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Morris Mtisi
It's time for rural cemeteries
Now that developmental projects like irrigation and fisheries are being commissioned in Chiweshe, Mash Central, orderly arrangements are needed. Village heads and elders must seriously consider coming...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 16:15hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
One revolutionary bullet and a tank full of commandos for my mother
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Tafi Mhaka
Sex tree attracts scores of tourists to Great Zimbabwe
A spoonful of the sex-enhancing powdered herb ground from the tree's roots is sold for only $1 in the Shona Village, ...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Staff writer
'I will choose all senate candidate,' decrees Tsvangirai - last democratic vestiges gone
Babies are so flexible they can have their foot in their mouth. It is disconcerting when an adult makes a habit of having their foot in the mouth. Tsvangirai has the intellectual habit of putting both...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 19:40hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Woman gives birth, shoves baby into anthill hole
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman from Kezi in Matabeleland South province appeared in court last week charged with infanticide after she allegedly killed her newly-born babygirl by shoving her into an anthill hole...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pythons 'ransack' teachers' bins
FOUR large pythons measuring between three and six metres are giving Rukweza villagers and pupils sleepless nights as they are seen roaming the area in broad daylight and feeding on leftover sadza and...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman 'kills' baby to conceal affair
AN injiva's wife from Kezi, who fell pregnant when her husband was in South Africa, allegedly strangled her four days old baby and shoved the body down an anthill to conceal her adultery.Polic...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe escalates fight with villagers
GOVERNMENT has cleared the remaining villagers at Manzou Farm to make way for First Lady Grace Mugabe's business expansion and the reported establishment of a national monument, an official has confir...Published: 10 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Republic Party a refreshed threat to Mashonaland hegemony.
On the 15th of March in Gwanda MRP sent its officials led by Cde Ngqabutho Mpofu, the party's Organising Secretary for Matabeleland South at Red cross Hall where there was a meeting organised by (wild...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 05:57hrs | | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Mujuru lies about her wealth
Former vice president Joice Mujuru has opened up on her wealth, dismissing claims that she is superrich, with interests in the diamond-rich Chiadzwa fields, as a joke.Speaking on BBC's Har...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dineo caused widespread destruction
CYCLONE Dineo that was downgraded to a tropical storm before it hit the country on Friday has caused widespread destruction in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces leaving one person dead, hundreds...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anointed condoms and anointed sewage: Zim a tragic religious joke
And another headline heats the papers, "Congregants made to drink Anointed sewage." Clearly it is safe to say, Dear white people, do claim your religion back. Yours truly, a nation of failures. ...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 22:22hrs | | by Rayanne Prince Chidzvondo
Mujuru's impending trip to Chatham House where she hopes to impress her British benefactors
THE Tongas have a good saying: Hearts are not far from concord when noses have already fraternised. Let me open my gonamombe, pull out the lid of the cow-horn canister, so you the reader and me, c...Published: 17 Sep 2016 at 12:29hrs | 6 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Imagine a rat dreaming making love to a cat!
This week I enjoyed two statements sure to enrich the national stock of political sayings. The first one came from Kudzai Chipanga, the de facto leader of the Youth Wing of the ruling party, Zanu-PF. ...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Gutu accepts 2018 elections will NOT be free and call for coalition - how will that stop vote rigging
Politics is like marriage, it is not to be entered into lightly because once the vote has been, like the tying the marriage knot, it will take years to withdraw the vote/ to divorce. The consequences ...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 16:25hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
When criticising Evan Mawarire becomes a crime
BACK in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, we know of teaser bulls - those small bullocks that fret and strut on the stage - beating the bushes and anthills with their green ho...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zimbabwe: WhatsApp or Whatsfear?
One seemingly innocuous detail from history I always want to share with Zimbabweans relates to the relationship between a few whites in Bulawayo and King Lobengula soon after the signing of the fatefu...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Two women fall prey to fake prophet
An apostolic sect prophet has been arrested in Zvimba for inserting a cooking stick in the privates of his clients and later raping them as part of "rituals" to cast out evil spirits.Madzi...Published: 23 May 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai has no clue what reforms are required for free elections, never did!
Listening to Tsvangirai is like listening to a five year old telling a joke way out of his depth of comprehension and thus lose track of the punch-line and yet goes on to laugh totally unaware what he...Published: 01 May 2016 at 19:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Man shove fingers into six old girl's private part
A 20 year–old man from Zaka Masvingo has been slapped with 13 years jail term after he was found inserting his fingers into the private parts of a six-year-old girl.Masvingo Mirror reported ...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru to represent Zimbabwe
THE Federation of Zimbabwe Bodybuilding and Fitness will next week announce the team that will represent the country at the Arnold Classic in South Africa.Female bodybuilder Precious Mujuru wi...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Ndebele kingdom revival storm
In last week's instalment, we learned how Bagedze stole the Kalanga king Tjilibundule's hair strand so that her father Tjilisamhuli's medicine man, Ngomane Gumbo, could perform his magic to neutralise...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 08:06hrs | 87 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
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