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Sibusiso Moyo's emergency surgery 'successful'
Foreign Affairs and International Trade minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday underwent what sources said had been a "successful" emergency surgery at a Harare hospital for a kidney-related ailment, the Da...Published: 45 secs ago | | by Staff reporter§
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1330 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in embarrassing climbdown
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly been forced to reverse his decision to fire newly-elected Masvingo mayor Advocate Collins Maboke from his post after residents in the country's old...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 14230 | by Staff reporter
Friend killer faints in court
A 17-YEAR-OLD pupil from Bulawayo who accidentally hit his friend with a stone leading to his death during a rival teenage gang fight, yesterday fainted in court soon after his warned and cautioned st...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Trial date for 27 Chamisa backers set
The trial of 27 MDC-Alliance supporters - who reportedly went on a rampage, destroying property, torching vehicles, blocking roads and attacking people in Harare's central business district (CBD) - is...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Man attacks peeping Tom with machete
Disciplining a peeping Tom backfired for a machete-wielding Glendale man after he was arrested for assault.Cleopas Chimuriwo (27) was fined $100 by Concession resident magistrate, Ruth Moyo ye...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa weighs option to contest Mutoko North by-election
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC, which alleged electoral fraud in the July 30 general election, said yesterday it would consult its rank-and-file membership over a decision to contest in the upcoming Mutok...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 3999 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2716 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Near murder in radio volume row
A MAN (52) from Mangwe District in Matabeleland South has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after a 21 year old man brutally attacked him over radio volume during a beer drink. M...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police detain journalist for 3 hours
Freelance journalist Columbus Mavhunga was detained for close to three hours during a police crackdown on vendors in Harare on Sunday 16 September. Mavhunga was detained after he refused to de...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 11:43hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Couple jailed for teenage abuse
A TEENAGE Bulawayo girl has taken her mother and stepfather to court for physically abusing her over a dead parrot.Janette Fenicia Oliveira Fernandes West (38) and her husband Lance Andrew (39...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Residents attack MDC Alliance mayor over cholera remarks
THE Zimbabwe Combined Residents and Ratepayers' Association has chided newly-appointed Harare mayor Herbert Gomba for making "inflammatory and reckless statements" after the latter blamed central gove...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Murder over rape rumour
A 21-YEAR-OLD man from Tsholotsho allegedly bludgeoned a woman to death with a log after accusing her of spreading rumours that he once raped her. Witson Ncube of Mpanedziba area under chief T...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:57hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Dembare woes mount, relegation a real possibility
Harare City 1 - 0 DynamosIT just keeps getting increasingly desperate with each passing game for beleaguered Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa and his bunch of club misfits.The Harare giants were...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs planning to humiliate Mnangagwa on Tuesday
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will Tuesday come face to face with opposition MDC hostility when he goes to parliament to preside over the official opening of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:09hrs | 11217 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi: Eccentric politician or mere court jester?
For eccentric Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi, old habits die hard.Mutodi, a struggling sungura musician and controversial businessman before his...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:06hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa woos Mugabe protégé
President Emmerson Mnangagwa met one of former president Robert Mugabe's top allies, Ambrose Mutinhiri, amid indications that the Zanu-PF leader is on a charm offensive to lure back his foes into the ...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:05hrs | 6610 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera cases breach the 5 000 mark
The number of cholera cases has breached the 5 000 mark, but the government insists it is on course to bring the outbreak under control.At least 28 people have died mostly in Harare, where the...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Expectant mothers vacate clinic over goblins sexual attack
HEALTH workers, expecting mothers and some patients have allegedly vacated a clinic in Lupane following sexual attacks by suspected goblins, authorities have confirmed.Expecting mothers in wai...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Chidzambga pleads for Euro stars
WARRIORS coach Sunday Chidzambga is desperate to have the United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean players in his squad and is pleading with the relevant authorities to prioritise issuing of passports to the p...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:22hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2871 | by Igomombe
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 2271 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga grounded
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week played the ball firmly into Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's court after politically emasculating him and sidelining his key lieutenants in his cabinet appo...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 19694 | by Staff reporter
Judges should not run elections
On 11 September 2018, a video circulated on social media showing some opposition politicians in Parliament chanting: "mbavha! mbavha!" as Justice Chigumba entered the Parliament chamber to conduct the...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | 2389 | by Tererai Mafukidze
In times of disaster let us bury our differences
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is a human tragedy we should all gather together and prevent more deaths.This is not time to be bickering about who should be doing this or that .Zimbabwean pe...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 13:59hrs | 680 | by A T Kadada
Coventry 'a mere swimmer'?
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so says Murphy's law.Well, Murphy's law seems to following — nay, stalking — losing MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa.If ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:55hrs | 2446 | by CONWAY TUTANI
Teachers flee goblins' sexual terror
TEACHERS at a school in Tsholotsho District that failed to open after they fled to their respective homes following goblin attacks last week, have demanded that villagers put up in their rooms to witn...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive 'killer' herdboy in court
A PLUMTREE herd boy, who allegedly fatally stabbed his neighbour with a knife 15 years ago for kicking his dog before he fled to South Africa, appeared in court yesterday. Petros Pamani Ndebel...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Coffin dumped at homestead
A CHITAKATIRA man who allegedly obstructed the course of justice by aiding a fugitive to escape is regretting his actions after the suspect returned to haunt him by dumping a coffin containing a myste...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:02hrs | 1148 | by Staff reporter
Gossiper beaten up, hospitalised
TWO HOB-HOUSE women who assaulted their neighbour for bad-mouthing as well as gossiping about them have been convicted and sentenced to 13 months imprisonment by a Mutare court. Precious Nheka...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:01hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Econet joins fight against cholera
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has mounted a massive public awareness campaign to fight the cholera crisis in the country, which is reported to have already claimed 21 lives. The company has also started of...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:14hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed in SA
Several houses in South Africa were reportedly damaged, while cars were burnt on Monday following the arrest of nine taxi drivers after a Zimbabwean man was attacked and killed in his tuckshop in Kler...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1596 | by Staff reporter
Parliament apologises to Chief Justice Malaba, Chigumba
THE Parliament of Zimbabwe has apologised to Chief Justice Luke Malaba and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairwoman Justice Priscilla Chigumba for the rowdy behaviour exhibited by MDC-Alliance l...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Villagers deprived of government food aid
Zimbabwe Peace Project has revealed that villagers were deprived of government sponsored food aid in the run up top elections.ZPP said these reprisals manifested through deprivation of governm...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 16:28hrs | 1258 | by Stephen Jakes
International community should intervene in Zimbabwe Gukurahundi genocide
What do we think of when we hear of which such names as Rohingya, Ndebele, Tutsi, Kazakh, Armenia, and Jew - especially, when they are all in one sentence?...most likely genocide and the Holoc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 561 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Dabengwa condemns gukurahundi commission
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to review his appointment of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) whose composition he said was improper r...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Teachers desert school after robbery attack
TEACHERS at Mangwande Primary School in Lower Gweru have deserted the school's staff houses following a robbery attack that occurred in July where a female employee was raped and assaulted in front of...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs heckle shaken Malaba, Chigumba
THERE was drama in the National Assembly yesterday as opposition MDC Alliance legislators heckled and booed Chief Justice Luke Malaba, calling him a "thief" after he entered the House to swear in retu...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 4912 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa’s dictatorial tendencies exposed
Following the confirmation of President Mnangagwa's election victory by the Constitutional Court and his subsequent inauguration last month, the nation had one eye on the unfolding mayoral elections a...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 599 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe needs to take a leaf from Cameron on safe schools pledge
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ congratulates Cameroon and its people for becoming the 81st country to sign and commit to safe schools pledge of 2015 and is 22nd in African to do ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | 872 | by Choose Kasongo
ARTUZ Gender Secretary attacked by Presidential Guard officers
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ Gender Secretary, cde Moreblessing Madambi was attacked by at least 8 men from the Presidential Guard on Saturday 08 September 2018 night.T...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1383 | by ARTUZ
No difference between Grace Mugabe & Judas Iscariot
The only difference between Grace Mugabe and Judas Iscariot is on gender, otherwise, they are a brother and a sister from different mothers. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christianity because of some few pi...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 09:40hrs | 4997 | by Don Chigumba
Jonathan Moyo statment on Mugabe
Media enquiries have drawn my attention to a front-page story in today's Standard newspaper in which the former first lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe, is said to have called on her alleged followers, presumed ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 6330 | by Prof Jonathan N Moyo
Mnangagwa paid Jonathan Moyo's children school fees?
NPF spokesperson Mr Jealousy Mawarire has suggested that President Emmerson Mnangagwa paid Jonathan Moyo's shildren school fees when Moyo moved to Kenya.Responding to Mr Prof Moyo's attacks on...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:22hrs | 4015 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo lays into Grace Mugabe
SELF-exiled G40 cabalist Professor Jonathan Moyo yesterday tore into former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe while revealing a nasty fall out between the two that led to the latter blocking him from all he...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:59hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's messy fallout with Grace Mugabe
Media enquiries have drawn my attention to a front-page story in today's (9 September) Standard newspaper in which the former first lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe, is said to have called on her alleged follow...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 1916 | by Jonathan Moyo
Matabeleland has been captured
Mzukulu Chamisa, listen to this noble advise: pick up your toys, call all your friends and go back to Harare before tribal fires that you are stocking in Bulawayo consume you. Bulawayo is not a play g...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:13hrs | 4478 | by Israel Dube
Jonathan Moyo savages Grace Mugabe in shock outburst
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe has had a major fallout with her former ally Professor Jonathan Moyo, apparently after the latter called her "toxic and polarising".This is revealed by Moyo, who...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 12:10hrs | 14518 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lived up to his word
Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC A), Nelson Chamisa, huffed and puffed during his rallies, threatening to make Zimbabwe ungovernable, if the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Ze...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2845 | by Prosperity Mzila
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