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U.S Embassy offered sanctions activists money to leave its premises
Anti-sanctions activists, camped outside the United States Embassy in Harare for over five years, have claimed they were offered luxurious incentives to leave the premises but turned them down, assert...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:46hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe unfazed by anti-sanctions protestors at embassy
The newly appointed US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, has downplayed the significance of anti-sanctions protestors camped outside the US Embassy in Harare, describing the group as being "just...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 11:54hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean anti-sanctions group seeks reparations from U.S.
The Broad Alliance Against Sanctions (BAAS), Zimbabwe's anti-sanctions lobby group, on Monday, filed a court application at the High Court in the national capital of Harare, seeking reparations from t...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Insimbi ZeZhwane's 'inaudible vocals'
Rhumba music band, Insimbi ZeZhwane's latest album release has reignited the debate about their inaudible vocals, something that fans have always indicated each time the group releases new music....Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhosana thanks fans with track Khiwa
Sikhosana Buhlungu feels like a blessed man and appreciates the outpouring of love from fans and well-wishers who catapulted his life from the doldrums of poverty and transformed it into the man he is...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two-decade-old U.S. sanctions leave Zimbabweans suffering, triggering protests
Opposite the U.S. embassy northwest of the Zimbabwean capital of Harare sits an anti-sanctions camp marking 1,200 days of protest.On July 4, the organizer of the camp — Broad Alliance Agains...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:50hrs | 7 | by Tichaona Chifamba, Zhang Yuliang, Cao Kai
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zimbabwe gets backing in anti-sanctions war
ZIMBABWE scored big in its quest to have the punitive and illegal economic sanctions imposed by the West two decades ago removed after the United States' House of Representatives Committee admitted th...Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police speak on RoilBAAs stoppage
POLICE yesterday said they were forced to walk on stage and stop proceedings during the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards (RoilBAAs) last Saturday after organisers failed to stick to agreed timelines for the ...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa police's conduct in RoilBAA awards laced with tribal bigotry
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has said the police's conduct in storming the stage disrupting the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards (Roil-BAA) ceremony over the weekend at the Bulawayo Large City Hall was disap...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Protest outside US embassy continues in Zimbabwe
A silent protest by a group of Zimbabweans outside the US embassy in Harare has continued unabated and has since gone past the 100 day mark.Spokesperson of the group going by the name Broad Al...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Oskido RoilBAA award snub sparks debate
When Kalawa supremo Oskido rejected the Roil Bulawayo Arts Award nomination this week, it sparked a lot of debate. South Africa-based Oskido was nominated in a new category Outstanding Arts Pe...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Arts Awards built on emotions, says Mhlanga
Amakhosi founder Cont Mhlanga said directors of the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards were supposed to run a good research on the arts industry before launching their awards which are quickly losing their lus...Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oskido rejects anything to do with BAA nomination
South African record label Kalawa Jazmee has rejected Oskido's nomination at the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards (RoilBAAs) saying he does not qualify for the gong. Oskido, the Kalawa supremo was no...Published: 27 May 2019 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim EFF statement of South Africa's elections
It is with enthusiasm that we express our support for the Economic Freedom Fighters in the coming general elections in South Africa. We as the Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters endorse and share EFF'...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 13:10hrs | | by Sipho Phani Sibanda
PHOTO: 7 people camp at US Embassy protesting sanctions
A group of 7 citizens have been camped at the United States Embassy in Harare calling for the removal of the illegal sanctions the country imposed on Zimbabwe.The members who call themselves B...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe won't die, the youth will save it
What really caught Ian Smith unawares was presumptuous complacency and his government's arrogance of incumbency… a deeply entrenched sense, both of class entitlement and invincibility based, not so ...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
'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
Anxiety as Zimbabwe awaits Chamisa vs Mnangagwa ruling
ANXIETY gripped Harare and other parts of the country as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) began the much-anticipated hearing to determine the case in which MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is con...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panicky Chamisa beginning to sound like Tsvangirai
Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it a...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Igomombe
Meet 'The Awards Mafia'
COMEDIAN Carl Joshua Ncube abruptly brought the Bulawayo arts scene down from the high of hosting the recently held Bulawayo Arts Awards when he suggested that there was a clique of arts practitioners...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC, Zanu PF contesting for recognition by the west - ZCP
The Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said at the turn of the political events which saw the ouster of Robert Mugabe the nation has seen both Zanu PF and MDC co...Published: 16 Dec 2017 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
The cross of Eddie Cross
The Former Rhodie's Cross of shameful groveling at the expense of Matebeleland stinks to the high heavens. Obliviously blind to the vote that gave him that so-called MDC-T seat in parliament, he is on...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Njabulo Sibanda
Uproar over 'slavery' on Zimbabwe farms
Farmworkers in Zimbabwe can now be employed for four and half years by the same employer on short-term contracts, an arrangement that leaves them vulnerable to abuse and without terminal benefits....Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lashes out over black people leasing out land to white farmers in Zimbabwe
President Mugabe yesterday lashed out lazy beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme, including traditional leaders, who were leasing out farms to white former commercial farmers, saying this had to ...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Boer, donkeys and Zimbabweans
Over the Easter holiday, while most good Christians were looking up in the sky, I went home in Mberengwa.That journey would take me as far as Bulawayo, along the Beitbridge Highway, from the s...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Date set for Bulawayo Arts awards
THE much anticipated inaugural Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) have been launched with the awards ceremony set for June 30 at the Large City Hall.The BAAs to honour the efforts of artistes from...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim community in SA hails Rosettenville residents for driving out drugs dealers
Zimbabwe Communists in South Africa have hailed the residents of Rosettenville in that country for driving away drug dealers.Zimbabwe Communist Group and the Zimbabwe Communist League in South...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Memories of farm life before Independence
Sunday afternoon, in the blistering heat, I was driving on a dusty winding road, along the Hwedza mountains going to the village. Then I saw an elderly lady flagging me to stop, obviously wanting a li...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 07:10hrs | | by Dr Sekai Nzenza
Mugabe tears into NGOs
President Robert Mugabe yesterday savaged Western-sponsored non-governmental organisations for their open campaigns to subvert African economies in pursuit of regime change.The Head of State a...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 08:55hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Springtime: Rhodesians called it the suicide season
The Rhodesians called it the suicide season. Zimbabwe's springtime. Particularly the month of October when temperatures soar exponentially, and then peak. Even trees are drowsy and resigned; they wilt...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 09:56hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The tweet that sparked the twar was aimed at Mugabe
The Zhuwao Brief will this week interrogate President Mugabe's empowering leadership in Africa and how house niggers and Uncle Toms are used to demonise African leaders who do not bow to the neo-liber...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao
MDC-T: Independence Day Message by the political leadership of Zimbabwe
IntroductionTomorrow, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of our national independence.We in the political leadership urge all Zimbabweans to ...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 16:44hrs | | by MDC-T
When even the gullible can no longer be fooled
The west has once more attempted to stain the beautiful name of Zimbabwe with sordid grime. Typical of previous attempts, the latest was once more a miserably monumental letdown that left Lars Ron...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 13:44hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Stray lions wreak havoc in Beitbridge
A PRIDE of lions suspected to have strayed from South Africa's Kruger National Park is terrorising Tshikwalakwala villagers where the big cats have already killed several donkeys and cattle. V...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 01:19hrs | 9 | by Mashudu Netsianda
This and that with Mal'phosa - That is not in the Bible
There are four women who 'haunt' Jourbert Park all day every Sunday. They take turns to preach to a passers-by congregation, shouting their lungs out and prancing and flapping like chickens trying to ...Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 14:49hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Just declare Zimbabwe a one party state to save Zimbabweans from Zanu-PF violence
ZANU PF is a party which cannot countenance competition for political office. It is the belief of the party leadership that Zimbabwe is a private property that the party wrested from the whites t...Published: 30 Aug 2012 at 10:06hrs | | by Kudakwashe Marazanye
Tsvangirai's mediocrity making Zanu PF shine
I AM surprised that it has taken the world this long to discover that Tsvangirayi is a man of limited intellect. Or could it be that the world is only coming to terms with a fact they had a...Published: 06 Mar 2011 at 15:09hrs | | by Kudakwashe Marazanye
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