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Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Alleged drug dealers accuse police of bias
A CHITUNGWIZA couple charged with unlawfully dealing in drugs has accused police of bias whenever they conduct drug searches in communities.Armstrong Tayengwa (33) and Joylene Mabika (41) were...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Why others will land man on Mars whilst we still 'struggle to cross the street!'
"And we (in Africa) are still struggling to cross the street!" was the spontaneous respond of "Mwalimu" (Teacher) Julius Kambarage Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, when he learnt the American had ...Published: 11 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZACC probes Koefman estate ownership
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is now digging into reports that some people are jostling to grab the Mbare property popularly known as "Kwa Koefman" some, 89 years after the death of the owne...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No leader has enjoyed universal approval
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, if ever there was a period in your life that you needed to exercise diligence and foresight, it is now. It is at this moment that you need to...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Air Force commander files notice of opposition
AIR Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Elson Moyo, who is being sued by a former subordinate he fired last year for trespassing into a gold mine in Kwekwe, has approached the High Court to ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop bashed in domestic violence
A 27-YEAR-OLD woman from Fairbridge Police Camp who allegedly ran amok, bashed her husband who is a police officer and smashed electrical gadgets worth more than $8 000 following a domestic dispute, w...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bloodshed over a cellphone
Cyril Chitumba (25) died yesterday at Jerera Zaka after a misunderstanding rose from the disappearance of a A30 Samsung cellphone while consuming beer....Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Lloyd Rabaya
Even slaves refused to sell their souls
As the world marks 400 years since 1619, when Africans were first abducted and sold into slavery in America, this extract below from the book To Be A Slave by African-American author Julius Lester, pu...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:16hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwean national appointed to ICAEW Africa Members Advisory Board
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales - has today announced the appointment of Tinashe Rwodzi to its Africa Members Advisory Board. Rwodzi, who is the Zimbabwe and Malawi country...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 20:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jim Kunaka's life in danger
If Jesus Christ managed to forgive and took a robber/murderer on the cross to paradise, MDC Alliance supporters should forgive Jim Kunaka too. Jim Kunaka is a courageous and religious man who accepted...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | | by Don Chigumba
The view from up here
Stalin's Chicken Part One: The case of Zimbabwe Just as axiety.org describes Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Jos...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Peter Muzira
The Most Popular Teen Boy Haircuts for Short Hair
New trends are pushing teenage guys to look for their own style to emphasize the individuality and character.Now fashion has totally chan...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 16:40hrs | 24 | by Life Style reporter
Zimbabwean family in Canada endures strife, separation, death on long way home
THE Murasiranwas' story is about a separated family's quest for a better life, a heart-wrenching but necessary Zimbabwean exodus, agonizing refugee nomadism in North America and the death of a brother...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by his article is taken from Kamloop This Week
UK doctors tour Parirenyatwa School of Nursing
United Kingdom-based doctors who are in the country for an exchange programme began their tour at Parirenyatwa School of Nursing where they conducted workshops and made donations.During the to...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remittance income drives Africa's economic growth - Report
A report launched by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has said that despite an economic slowdown, most African countries are having a positive economic outlook. ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
#ChamisaChallenge launched
Social Media users in Zimbabwe are pocking fun on allegation that Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa told a rally last week that he met Kagame in Geneva and the East African nation's...Published: 30 May 2018 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donel Mangena misses out on the Voice UK
Ruti Olajugbagbe has won The Voice UK 2018, shrugging off stiff competition from Bulawayo-bred Donel Mangena.Ruti burst into tears when her name was called out and looked completely stunned....Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Timeline of Zanu-PF chefs accidents
Below is a timeline of the accidents.Outspoken Guruve South MP Edward Chindori-Chininga was in June 2013 involved in a road accident that claimed his life.General Josiah Magama Tongoga...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 17:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mystery car crash deaths
This is a 2013 article extracted from amabhungane website.The death of outspoken Zanu-PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga has reignited debate over the mysterious deaths of Zimbabwean politicians t...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:34hrs | | by amabhungane
Ngunis eat imbiba too
I GREW up in the area famously called the midlands, specifically in Lions River. I have grown up to realise that everyone brags about the area he or she grew up in. I am no exception. You can take you...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by MOKGOTSI Ngcobo
Fuzwayo leads Matabeleland into Human Rights Awards
Prominent Gwanda bases activist Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo on Friday night led the hopes of the people of Matabeleland in the presumed highly polarised Zimrights Community Human Rights Award. Wit...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Drumgold Mine takes minister to court
VANSBURG Drumgold Enterprises has taken the Minister of Mines and Mining Development Walter Chidhakwa to court challenging the suspension of mining operations at Dundrum Mine in Zhombe, in the Midland...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:22hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Failed gold heist gang walks free
SIX men accused of attempting to rob a miner of 47kgs of gold worth over $1,8 million in Kwekwe, yesterday walked free after a magistrate ruled that the State had failed to prove a prima facie case ag...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 06:53hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Mutsvangwa speaks on 'treasonous' communique
Former War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has distanced himself from the recent War Veterans communique, saying he has "no copyright to the English language".Zanu-PF on Friday descri...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War vets disown communique
WAR veterans have disowned last week's communique linking them to an attack on President Mugabe amid suspicions the document could be the work of a 'Fifth Column', the Minister of Defence, Dr Sydney S...Published: 25 Jul 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Felex Share
$1,8M 'failed gold heist': Gang of six pleads not guilty
SIX men appeared in court yesterday facing allegations of attempting to rob a Kwekwe miner of 47,5kgs of gold worth over $1,8 million which was destined for Fidelity Printers in the gold mining town....Published: 22 Jul 2016 at 09:44hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Mwenezi ‘murderers’ bury body in the mountains
Three men and a woman from Chigoi Village in Mwenezi have been arrested after they allegedly assaulted and killed a man they accused of being a rapist and buried his body in Viriviri Mountain in the s...Published: 21 May 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
In devising democracy Greeks took a giant leap for mankind - we still failing to emulate 2 500 years on!
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." These are the famous words of Neil Alden Armstrong, an American astronaut on July 21 1969 as he became the first man to set foot on the moo...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 12:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Teen mum poisons self, daughter
A TEENAGE mum from Maphisa in Matobo District has been arrested for allegedly killing her two-year-old daughter before attempting to commit suicide following a domestic dispute.Nokuthaba M...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 16:20hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Teenage mum poisons self, kills daughter
A TEENAGE mum from Maphisa in Matobo District has been arrested for allegedly killing her two-year-old daughter before attempting to commit suicide following a domestic dispute. Nokuthaba...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Policeman steals poison from evidence room, commits suicide
A POLICEMAN from Gweru beat up four people in a street fight while in uniform and allegedly went on to commit suicide by drinking poison which he stole from the evidence room at his workplace....Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:15hrs | | by Elizabeth Tsuro
So Zulus eat imbiba too?
I GREW up in the area famously called the midlands, specifically in Lions River. I have grown up to realise that everyone brags about the area he or she grew up in. I am no exception. You can take you...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 16:55hrs | 74 | by MOKGOTSI Ngcobo
The truth behind Malema's cancelled 'Game Changing' talk in Zimbabwe
THIS week's instalment is a pot-pourri of sorts from the political jungle. Politics is a dirty game, but so too the mystery that emanates from it. As Neil Armstrong says, "mystery creates wonder and ...Published: 07 May 2015 at 17:33hrs | | by Hildegarde
Who killed Solomon Mujuru?
The controversial and clearly un-procedural expulsion of Joice Mujuru from Zanu-PF last week lends credence to the widely held belief that her husband, Solomon, was assassinated by party insiders. It...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 09:39hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mugabe, Carter and the African renaissance
Paying tribute to the Pan African giant Dr W.E.B. DuBois, Dr King eloquently stated: "He could have amassed riches and honour, lived in material splendour and applause from the most powerful and impor...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Mphoko must be investigated, says coup 'plotter'
Coup accused ex-army officer and opposition party United Crusader for Achieving Democracy (UCAD), Albert Matapo has labelled vice president Phelekezela Mphoko a "lying divisive element" who must be in...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 22:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mphoko exposed himself as a contributor to Gukurahundi'
Coup accused ex-army officer and opposition party United Crusader for Achieving Democracy (UCAD), Albert Matapo has labelled vice president Phelekezela Mphoko a "lying divisive element" who must be i...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 22:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Lance Armstrong charged with crashing into two parked cars
DENVER - Disgraced professional cyclist Lance Armstrong has been charged with crashing into two parked cars in the Colorado ski resort town of Aspen, with his girlfriend initially telling authorities ...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 17:14hrs | | by Reuters
'Sex is for the mature,' says magistrate
A PLUMTREE magistrate yesterday warned and discharged a 19-year-old teenager who fondIed his Form Three girlfriend that he had to wait until he was married in order to have sex.Armstrong Maja...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:00hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
President Mugabe fall out with Mujuru due to Coup d'état
COLOGNE - President Robert Mugabe's bitter fall out with ousted vice president, Joice Mujuru, has nothing to do with an alleged plot to kill him nor graft charges laid against his former deputy, but a...Published: 16 Jan 2015 at 06:07hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Rtd Cpt Matapo spells better Zimbabwe
Why United Crusader for Achieving Democracy (UCAD) deserves to lead Zimbabwe? Albert Matapo has all the qualities of the leader that Zimbabwe wants. According to Matapo, Zimbabwe shall become an e...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 17:38hrs | | by Vuyisile Moyo
Timeline of Zanu-PF bigwigs accidents
Zimbabwe's Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday escaped unhurt after being involved in a road accident along Hebert Chitepo Avenue in Harare near the US Embassy. The minister was reportedl...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
200 schoolchildren escape death
TWO HUNDRED primary schoolchildren escaped unhurt when a fire gutted a Victoria Falls lodge they were booked in for a school trip on Wednesday night.Tatenda Safari Lodge in the tourism hub of ...Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Robbers charged with vagrant's murder
TWO suspected robbers appeared in court on Friday charged with the murder of a vagrant who tried to effect a citizen's arrest on them as they fled the cops.Lookout Dube, 32, from Mpopoma and E...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 13:04hrs | | by Senior Court
'Brig-Gen Paul Armstrong Gunda was assassinated by CIOs' - report
FORMER army captain Albert Matapo, who on Saturday completed his three-year jail term over an attempted jail break following his detention for allegedly plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe,...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for vandalising National Heroes Acre
A Harare man allegedly destroyed vaults at the graves of 14 fallen national heroes who are buried at the National Heroes Acre.Titus Ruoko (24) was apprehended by security personnel from the Zi...Published: 04 Dec 2013 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Train up a child to solve the problems we can't solve - Masiyiwa
I learnt a principle from King David in the bible, which is that we must have the wisdom and courage, and above all the humility, to appreciate that there are some problems, which we can only addres...Published: 12 Nov 2013 at 02:09hrs | | by Strive Masiyiwa
Elephant death toll reaches 95
FIVE more elephant carcasses, suspected to have been poisoned with cyanide have been discovered at Ngamo Forest, an area in Lupane adjacent to the Hwange National Park.The carcasses bring to ...Published: 03 Oct 2013 at 17:16hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
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