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Bopoma dam Project moves upstream to protect sacred ponds
The construction of Glassblock Bopoma Dam in Matabeleland South must be preceded by traditional rituals to appease the ancestors, according to local traditional leaders. Initially, the dam's planned l...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:45hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in destructive gold mining
THE once-pristine and picturesque Boterekwa escarpment in Shurugwi, Midlands province, now stands as a haunting monument to the ravages of human exploitation and destructive gold mining activities by ...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:51hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Maintaining graves is not Bulawayo City Council's job
THE Bulawayo City Council has urged residents with relatives buried at different cemeteries in the city to constantly check and maintain the graves as it is not the duty of the local authority to do t...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
CCC undoing is a strategy of innovating around the familiar
To put it bluntly, Zimbabwe's main political opposition party, the CCC, in its present construct, is wasting the people's time, resources and mostly emotions as they continue to prove through unbeliev...Published: 09 Dec 2023 at 18:56hrs | 13 | by Brian Sedze
Sex worker's ngozi surfaces 50 years later
A Nyanga family is living in fear of a vengeful spirit that claims to be a sex worker who was murdered 50 years ago by the family's patriarch.The spirit, which speaks through various possessed...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dead man's private parts retrieved 41 years later
THE popularly used 'stranger than fiction' phrase was brought to life this afternoon in Mutasa after the alleged private parts of a man who was allegedly murdered for rituals 41 years ago were retriev...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa reined in his rival Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this year emerged triumphant at the Zanu-PF elective congress after a fierce five-year power struggle - characterised by scheming, backstabbing, a grenade attack, poisonin...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga down but not out'
ALLIES of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was brought to his knees by President Emmerson Mnangagwa - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress last weekend, say the forme...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings rival Chiwenga to his knees
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has brought his bitter rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to his knees - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress which ended in Harare yester...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death and burial of King Mzilikazi
KING Mzilikazi reigned until his death in September 1868.. At the time of his death he was estimated to be in his late 70s or early 80s. His death followed that of his senior and closest wife Queen Lo...Published: 18 Sep 2022 at 16:55hrs | 1 | by Mzala Tom
Fallen heroes' spirits speak out
SPIRITS of freedom fighters, who died during Zimbabwe's 1970s war of liberation, have reportedly expressed their displeasure at how those in Zanu-PF have forgotten their promises to the fallen heroes....Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Binga hot springs dry out
THERE are more than 30 hot springs in Zimbabwe where warm water gushes from the ground.Geologists believe natural hot springs are found where water seeps into areas of volcanic activity in the...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Something stinks in Nelson's yellow shack
The fissures in the country's opposition party recently ruptured as Mr Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party going by the ideologically-barren name; Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), but ther...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
380 Zimbabwean teachers commit suicide
EVEN though suicide is considered the 19th most common cause of death in Zimbabwe, a slew of suicides by teachers have shocked the country.According to the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimba...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 2030 masterplan coming out nicely
IN May 2019 President Emmerson Mnangagwa made his infamous statement: "2030 ndeenge ndichipo," meaning: I will still be President in 2030.To many that ...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe is still haunted by Robert Mugabe
IN OUR series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the gr...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ngozi demands second top-up
THE avenging spirit of a man who was allegedly murdered by his lover's brother almost 50 years ago is wreaking havoc in his killer's family, demanding two more beasts as compensation after the 26 init...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nurses infected with COVID-19 rising, says Zina
PRESIDENT of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA), Enock Dongo yesterday said there has been a worrying increase in the number of nurses infected with COVID 19.Although Dongo said he did not...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unity Accord: Pan-Africanism & nationalist leadership legitimacy
THE celebration of Unity Day this year registers yet another moment of our ideological reconnection as a nation.The same commemoration allows us to audit ZANU-PF's legitimacy.In this i...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Traditionalists cleanse Victoria Falls
All is set for the traditional cleansing of Victoria Falls and its environs at a shrine in Phakama Village, Mvuthu today. Traditionalists from Chief Mvuthu's area led by descendants of the Tok...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi survivors demand answers from Mnangagwa
RELATIVES of Gukurahundi victims and survivors in Lupane, Matabeleland North province, have demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should go to them to explain why people in the region were tortur...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nature and function of 'Alien Spirits' in the Shona/Ndebele traditional religion
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion.The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 43 | by Brian Maregedze
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, diviniti...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:29hrs | 502 | by Brian Maregedze
Chimanimani: Valley of the shadow of death
CHIPO Dhliwayo (30) of Rusitu village in Chimanimani is a devastated woman after a nasty encounter with the fury of nature.The blank look on her face, long after shedding many tears over the l...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora-based artist sings on Zimbabwe problems
Diaspora-based Taffy Theman has lamented the suffering being experienced by Zimbabweans in a song titled Oneday.The song reflects on the troubles currently obtaining in Zimbabwe while also goi...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious fires raze down two family homesteads
VILLAGERS from Goodwood in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province are living in fear after a series of mysterious fires razed down three huts at a homestead in four days.The fires also destroyed...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prisoners seek spiritual cleansing
FOR killing his sister-in-law and attempting to murder his wife, 38-year-old Simbarashe Munakamwe was sentenced to 17 years in prison.Now an inmate at the Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Munakamwe i...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Man demands reburial 39 years later
POWER of the dead!A family from Mwenezi will live to testify about the power of the dead following a disturbing incident where a man who died 39 years ago troubled his son and grandchild deman...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tackle causes of Tribalism and not dwell on symptoms
Dear Mr. Kernan Zwelikahle, If there are issues that the government of Zimbabwe has not done so far, one of them is to effectively tackle tribalism in our societies. Tribalism has been with us...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 17:23hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
War vets, IDBZ headed for showdown
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) is headed for a showdown with war veterans, resettled on the periphery of Masvingo, after the institution was offered 100 hectares of their land ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will explode if its dark history is not openly addressed
History is one of the most stubborn aspects of any community, and no matter how one tries, it can never be ignored and wished away, as doing so would be the gravest mistake any nation can ever make....Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 07:37hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Gukurahundi not an issue,' says Mohadi
Vice President Kembo Mohadi, who is also the Minister of National Peace and Reconciliation, last weekend said the Gukurahundi atrocities that killed mainly Ndebele people in the 1980s, should not be a...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa using military's 'spider-web' campaign strategy
RM: Your appointment as ZANU-PF national political commissar was hailed by war veterans and other party membership as a positive development. What are your priority areas of concern?ER: I was ...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should warn Kabila of coup d'etat if he doesn't step down
As Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa visits the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and briefs President Joseph Kabila on the circumstances surrounding last year's military intervention -...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 15:21hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Peter Munetsi murdered on coup day
This Zhuwao Brief Reloaded (ZBR) is dedicated to the memory of the late Peter "Comrade Kasina" Munetsi.On this day, Saturday 27th January 2018, the family, relatives, friends and colleagues of...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:07hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao
Mnangagwa to announce his new Cabinet this week
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to announce his new Cabinet team this week, which analysts say will indicate how his administration is likely to perform - amid much speculation and jockeying ...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
Leaders who want to rule forever should have been traditional chiefs, not presidents
This past week witnessed another embarassing dent to the image of African national leaders - as Ugandan parliamentarians broke into a fist fight during a fierce debate on removing presidential age lim...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 08:29hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tsvangirai at it again 'wooing army bosses' - reforms are not negotiable, not now not ever
"Tsvangirai woos top army bosses!" read the headline in the Daily News. The news must have left every thinking Zimbabwean out there sick and it only confirmed that Morgan Tsvangirai and ...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 22:57hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
In Mujuru's Party, they break each other's knee caps
Of course political pressure comes in many ways, and manifests in many forms.In Mujuru's National People's Party, they break each other's knee caps in order to hurt Zanu-PF! In the MDCs, they ...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe birthday bash moved to Cecil John Rhodes' school
IN an ironic twist, President Robert Mugabe's birthday bash has been moved from Matopos National Park to the Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (Reps), named after Cecil John Rhodes, who spearheaded...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe insults, mock Matabeleland on Gukurahundi
Matabeleland pressure groups and opposition political parties have labeled President Robert Mugabe as an insensitive old man who has insulted the region. Mugabe has controvers...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 04:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Government offers unpaid workers maize, rice
Thousands of Hwange Colliery Company Limited workers who have endured more than two years without pay have been appeased by being allocated 50kg bag of maize and 10kg of rice each. ...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Traditionalists predict rains, bumper harvest
TRADITIONALISTS have predicted that the country will receive normal to above normal rainfall in the 2016/2017 farming season, relying on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), on the back of "success...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
I never promised any war vet US$500k, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I was really shocked when Cde Sydney told me of the claims that some rogue war veterans are making … It is being claimed that they were promised U...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by CZ
Are racist whites really a minority?
Two white males filmed themselves beating a black man, before forcing him into a coffin. The video went viral and caused an uproar all over social media. The men were eventually arrested, and howled b...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 09:30hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: the Zimbabwe case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 02 Nov 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Changing cultural political mind set is required for Africa: The Zimbabwe Case
BRIEF PREVIEW Apparently Africa is not conscious of the global political change processes transitioning in the world. Similarly, just as North America is blind to people behavioural change manifes...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 22:18hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
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
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