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Rising star from Tokwana village aims to dominate Kalanga hip-hop scene
Growing up in the rugged landscape of Tokwana village in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South, Praise Muleya, known by his stage name TyzaSlimtee, dreamed of stepping into the limelight and bringing ...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 16:21hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Baby mama wants to pluck out ex-lover's eyes
Most of the time men suffer in silence when they are abused by their wives or ex-wives. They fear to be branded not man enough by society.But Michael Manenji from Entumbane suburb summoned cou...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:04hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Dear Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mushayavanhu
Dear Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, 1. Please hire a Comms team ASAP. 2. Part of fostering confidence is having timely, reliable, and accessible means of informing the public in advance of ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Anonymous
Mnangagwa niece's legacy woes haunt ZBC
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is grappling with serious management challenges linked to Helliate Rushwaya - the newly appointed board chair - during her tenure as the acting chief execut...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zim teachers frog-marched to administer iron and folate supplements, Govt evasive
School teachers in Highglen District have raised red flag over alleged compulsory administration of iron and folate supplements amongst learners in schools without the presents of health officials or ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 08:18hrs | 9 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Redwing: a tale of plunder, impunity, chaos and death
Redwing Gold Mine, once touted as a giant gold mining venture capable of transforming the quality of life in the Penhalonga area of Manicaland province and a cash cow for the national economy, has bec...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 12:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Voters' roll must be audited before elections' CCC's folly is no excuse for granting Zanu PF legitimacy again
A year or so ago, Team Pachedu warned that the voters' roll was in shambles. ZEC denied the accusation by denying ownership of the voters' roll Team Pachedu have used for their analysis. Team Pachedu ...Published: 31 May 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Bulawayo needs to be prime shooting location for films'
The Zimbabwe International Film and Festival Trust (ZIFFT) in partnership with Bulawayo-based Rebel Film Productions brought together 10 production studios for a meeting at the Nust American Space in ...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mlalazi in show-stopping album launch
Gospel singer Everton Mlalazi launched his second album, In The Presence Volume 2: God's Grace in Bulawayo over the weekend. Many who passed by the Large City Hall on Saturday evening wer...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
KeYona TV station goes live
THE forthcoming Kings and Queens Festival which will serve as a celebration of the launch of KeYona TV station on Saturday is set to be a permanent feature in the city's entertainment calendar....Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 00:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Bulawayo-based KeYona TV goes live
Zimbabweans from various walks of life have welcomed the launch of the Bulawayo-based KeYona TV which is currently available on the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and set to start beaming on Aza...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 12:46hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Arrest traffic violators
To the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner General Cde Godwin Matanga, Please can you bring sanity on our road. The careless driving in Zimbabwe Roads is getting out off order. Please ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Breakthrough as Elvis Nyathi children get birth certificates
Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has reported that children of the slain Elvis Nyathi have been assisted by government to kick start the process of acquiring birth certificates. In a Fa...Published: 22 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZAA UK releases nominee list
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) on Friday announced the final nominees list for its UK 11th Anniversary Awards slated for May 28.The awards dinner gala will be held at Holiday Inn City, Bi...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coast 2 coast should be banned from operating in Zimbabwe
It is with a heavy heart that we write this communication and the sad bit is you continue to advertise and sending your ads to our WhatsApp numbers. As a family we made a decision to buy and import ou...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:23hrs | | by Sandy Mwnza
Prisons service guard turns Gqom queen
AFTER a two-year stint as a teacher at Kezi Primary School in Matabeleland South province, Moreblessings Khumalo decided to quit her job, and followed her passion which was music in 2015.After...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-based rapper to represent Zimbabwe at the MTV Africa Awards
MULTI-award-winning rapper Asaph believed he had a good chance in representing Zimbabwe at the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) Lister's Choice Category saying nothing is impossible in bagging the cont...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-based rapper on MTV awards shortlist
BULAWAYO-based hip-hop star, Asaph, has been shortlisted for the prestigious MTV Africa Music Awards (Mama) People's Choice category.The talented youngster has been shortlisted alongside some ...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo photographer publishes photobook
BULAWAYO-BASED photographer, Mgcini Nyoni has published a photobook titled #ConvergenceZW which will be launched at Amakhosi Cultural Centre on Saturday.In an interview with NewsDay Life &...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cal Vin receives hero's send-off
Thousands of people from all walks of life convened at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre yesterday to say their final goodbyes to the country's rap king, Mgcini "Cal Vin" Nhliziyo. It was more like a ...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko faces arrest
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko faces imminent arrest after resisting officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) who wanted to pick him up from his Bulawayo home over allega...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Latest on ex-VP Phelekezela Mphoko's arrest saga
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has issued a statement regarding an incident that happened on Friday evening when one of their officers attempted to arrest the former Vice President of the cou...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Umcimbi Wabantu brings Dr Malinga
SOUTH Africa's Dr Malinga will be one of the main acts at the Skyz Metro FM Umcimbi Wabantu concert taking place at the Large City Hall car park next month. The concert on August 31 will be pa...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gilmore Tee makes Forbes list
Global citizen Gilmore "Tee" Moyo has made it into this year's list of the Forbes Africa list of 30 under 30, a list which includes Africa's top entrepreneurs, entertainers and leaders and influencers...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU President Peter Mutasa acquitted
Harare Magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa on Thursday acquitted 7 leaders of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade who had been on trial for allegedly staging anti-govt protest on 11 October 2018.The acq...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 12:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
UZ students snub Zupco, complain over kombi fare hikes
Kombi fares for University of Zimbabwe students were hiked to $1,50 from $1, causing an uproar amongst students not resident at the institution.However, the university has said the students ha...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 17:12hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
The theory and practice of educational games as a means to promote better education
When educators and parents think about games, they see them as tools of distraction. They instantly imagine kids glued down to their smartphones, paying zero attention to what's going on outside that ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 6 | by William Steward
Zupco forces kombi operators to reduce fares
COMMUTER omnibus operators in Bulawayo have resolved to reduce kombi fares across city routes to $1,50 from $2 with immediate effect. This followed calls by residents for a downward review of the komb...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Solve doctors' grievances ASAP
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has reportedly been forced to cut his vacation short due to the worsening health crisis, needs to address the doctors' grievances immediately.Zimbabweans are ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
2018 Skyz Metro FM Music Awards nominees announced
Bulawayo's premier radio station Sky Metro FM has announced the nominees for the Skyz Metro FM Music Awards 2018.The 2nd edition of SKYMAS will be held at a colourful ceremony on Friday 21 Dec...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 20:06hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Plumtree town hit by artificial cement shortage
Former MDC legislator for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has bemoaned that Plumtree town was recently plunged into artificial shortage of cement.This happened as there are escalating speculations ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Stephen Jales
'There is no Mambo in Ndebele kingdom'... Cal_Vin whips up tribal storm
Twitter users were recently treated to unexpected drama when rapper Cal_Vin posted a tweet that some believed to have tribal connotations as his ongoing battle for the Bulawayo hip-hop crown with man ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Be strong young man, lead my people!
I MUST admit that I really underestimated this young Wamba kid. I had initially never given him much chance, but I am really gratified and very delighted that God and the gods timely intervened in the...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 19:07hrs | | by CZ
Of Zimbabwe's 2 presidential candidates, plus 21 others
THEY came literally from all walks of life, in a kaleidoscope of colours, shapes and sizes to stake a claim to Zimbabwe's top job and in the end 23 will go into the hat in what is set to be a brutal f...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo calls on some of the 23 presidential candidates to withdraw
Serial flip-flopper and G40 kingpin, Jonathan Moyo, who has been calling for a grand national coalition to beat Zanu-PF candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa in next month's election, seems upset by the huge n...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man steals 2 cars
A 25-year-old man has been nabbed for allegedly stealing two cars worth US$9 430 after misrepresenting that he was hiring them.Rifasi Simbarashe Machokoto was not asked to plead to theft of tr...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 21:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Terry Africa and Zim Top Producer, Young DLC collaborate
South Africa based DJ and Coke Studio Africa 2017 producer, Young DLC (Born Darlington Chikwewo) who was recently in Zimbabwe during the festive season holidays, has cooked a simmering single together...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by Agencies
Carl Joshua to make a movie
While he has rocked many of the country's stages as a stand-up comedian, one of the country's most prominent funnyman Carl Joshua Ncube is now ready to take the country's film industry by storm as he ...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cassper Nyovest's Bulawayo show flops
Bulawayo's Large City Hall has proved to be a dungeon for artists, with both locals and internationals failing to draw reasonable crowds at the open space venue.South African hip-hop star Cass...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rugare Gumbo faces fraud charges
Former Cabinet minister Rugare Gumbo made a surprise appearance at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday, amid accusations that he swindled an agricultural equipment dealer $27 000 through a botche...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Congolese radio journalist arrested at protest is beaten in custody
New York - Congolese authorities should immediately drop all charges against Jean Pierre Tshibitshabu, a reporter for the independent broadcaster Radio Television KADEKAS, and investigate claims that ...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by CPJ
89 CSOs rap parly for passing Amendment bill on Chief Justice appointment
About 89 Civil Society Organisaions have rapped parliament of Zimbabwe for passing the Amendment Bill No 1 of the constitution in which it gives powers to the President to appoint the Chief Justice....Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Carl Joshua invades Asia
ONLY a few days after he was shortlisted among the best comedians in Africa, Carl Joshua Ncube has now set his eyes on Asia, where he has several gigs as part of his year-long tour around the globe....Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
All set for Bulawayo Arts Awards
Bulawayo City Hall in the City of Queens and Kings plays host to the inaugural ceremony of the much-anticipated Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) on Friday.Given the socio-economic situation in the c...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
PDZ secretary general arrested
Progress Democrats of Zimbabwe is shocked by the cowardly arrest of our National Secretary General Mthokozisi Ncube today in Bulawayo following a Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe- PDZ PRESS CONFERENC...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Morgan Mpie Nare
Load shedding to affect Masvingo on Tuesday
Masvingo will be in darkness on Tuesday as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company announced.ZETDC advised its customers in Masvingo that there will be a shutdown of Mkw...Published: 29 May 2017 at 14:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cop threatens to send student lover's indecent pictures to her mother
A MARRIED cop believed to be attached to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission team is threatening to expose his 19-year-old lover's indecent photographs to her parents after they separated....Published: 25 May 2017 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Music Carnival back!
FOLLOWING last year's successful holding of the inaugural Bulawayo Music Carnival, organisers want to have another go at it this year with a mouth-watering line up of artistes from the city.Th...Published: 10 May 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Better to die in battlefield'
COMRADE Gilbert Musekiwa Simon Majiri, whose Chimurenga name was Chabudaishudhu Kufahakuurayi is an unassuming war veteran. Born in 1938, Chabudaishudhu who now stays in Mvurwi, grew up in Shamva,...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Manama High Scool bus in fatal accident reports NOT true
Unconfirmed reports circulating on social media that the Manama school bus was involved in an accident in the early hours of today have been dismissed as not true.We spoke to a teacher from Ma...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
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