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So, when will the UN hold a Summit on democracy and human rights?
As world leaders make their way back to their respective countries after the COP29 Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, one can't help but ask: when will the United Nations (UN) hold a summit de...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:22hrs | 286 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo woman loses US$5 730 trying to secure UK sponsorship
Mnangagwa returns home with his bloated delegation of 238 peoplePresident Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned from Baku, Azerbaijan, where he attended the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nati...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:45hrs | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes 238 people to UN climate summit
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has drawn scrutiny after bringing a delegation of 238 people to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. According to data from...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:19hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Plundering of Zimbabwe's minerals stalling a just energy transition in fighting climate change
In his address at a High-Level Meeting on Resourcing the Energy Transition with Justice and Equity, held on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivere...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 12:37hrs | 157 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Where are communities affected by climate change in Zimbabwe's bloated COP29 delegation?
The 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), held in Baku, Azerbaijan, is once again the focal point of global climate discussions. ...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 22:10hrs | 414 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa arrives in Baku
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in Baku this afternoon to participate in the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), a key global event convening nations committed to the United Nations Framework...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 12:30hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Rampant deforestation blamed for climate change
The Africa Carbon Forum (formerly the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum, or AVCCMF) has blamed the rampant cutting down of trees and irresponsi...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:09hrs | 98 | by Stephen Jakes
Madzibaba sodomizes boy (12) at church shrine
In a bizarre incident a 39-year-old Apostolic congregant has been arrested after he indecently assaulted a 12 year old boy at a church shrine in Guruve.Albi Karambakuwa of Magwenya village is ...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 21:24hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
David Coltart to review of BCC-TTI contract after elections
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) candidate for Ward Four, Mr David Coltart has said council will review the contract awarded to Bulawayo's parking management company, Trendy Three Investments (TTI...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers steal from Mnangagwa's wife to raise school fees
A RECENT court case has exposed the First Family as having more than one farm, with First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa owning a farm in Glendale, while her husband, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has Precab...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Daring soldiers jailed for stealing from Mnangagwa
Two daring soldiers and a District Development Fund (DDF) driver who stole building materials from the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's farm have been sentenced to 15 months behind bars by Concession m...Published: 15 Jul 2023 at 10:54hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Soldiers steal from Mnangagwa to pay fees
Two daring soldiers who stole building materials from First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's farm are in trouble together with their civilian accomplice.The matter came to light at Concession magistr...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 17:33hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Village mob assaults fhief
Villagers believed to have been hired have allegedly assaulted Chief Murinye, Mr Ephias Munodawafa, accusing him of refusing them permission to bury a deceased relative at a place of their choice in h...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi challenges Zimbabweans to stop their continued fear
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) has challenged Zimbabweans to stop their continued fear of the ruling elite which keeps them in bondage and under continued poor governance for the rest of their lives....Published: 29 May 2023 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
'People's fear to join politics has strengthened Zanu-PF'
Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) officials say fear to join politics has strengthened Zanu-PF's political standing in Matabeleland, as fewer people are willing to confront its oppressive rule.Ad...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers embark on 2-day working week
TEACHERS unions have declared that their members will only report for duty two days a week due to financial incapacitation.Schools reopened for the second term yesterday with educators under t...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa copying Smith's colonial handbook'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been accused of copying the late colonial leader Ian Smith's system of weaponising the law against critics."In fact, the methods used by the Smith regime on th...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Girlfriend in court over fraudulent estate claim
A woman believed to be a girlfriend of a recently-deceased Harare man appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court for allegedly tendering fraudulent documents to the Master of the High Court to claim a s...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exposed
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left exposed and politically vulnerable following ground-breaking revelations by Qatar-based international television network Al Jazeera's of gold...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:23hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers earn ZW$39 636 (US$33)
THE impoverishment of professionals by the government has reached heart-rending levels, but those who dare complain are often victimised, leaving public sector workers feeling helpless in the face of ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bogus agents defraud nurse aides of US$36 000
Two men from Harare who pretended to be agents who could facilitate sponsorship certificates to travel to the United Kingdom have appeared in court for allegedly fleecing US$36 000 from desperate nurs...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fraud-accused socialite cleared to contest Zanu-PF elections
Zanu-PF has given the nod to socialite Mike Chimombe's candidature to stand in the weekend elections for the ruling party's Central Committee (CC).The polls are being fiercely contested amid a...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF ropes in touts
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has enlisted the services of touts, popularly known as mahwindi in its 2023 electoral campaign.Fears abound that the touts could be used as a youth militia against pol...Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's murder case; Chigumba writes to Beatrice Mtetwa
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba this week wrote to human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa expressing anger over a Zanu-PF official's public incitement to the mu...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Illegal Malawi immigrants jailed
TWELVE illegal Malawi immigrants were sentenced to three months in prison by Mutoko magistrate Rumbidzai Mhandu for illegally staying in Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 19:28hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF disowns official who called for Nelson Chamisa to be killed
Zanu-PF has disowned a party official filmed telling a rally in Mberengwa that Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa, his supporters and their children should be murdered.Zanu-PF...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa demands arrest of Zanu-PF leader
RIGHTS lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, has written to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), demanding the arrest of Zanu-PF member, Abton ‘Bhito' Mashayanyika, who recently called for the murder of Citizens ...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chilling death threat bishop defiant
A top Zanu-PF official, who is also church leader in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands province, says he will never be arrested for threatening to kill opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police persecutes Chamisa's CCC, shields Zanu-PF rogue elements
POLICE are once again on the spotlight over allegations of selective application of the law where they stand accused of moving at lightning speed to arrest and lock up opposition members suspected of ...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCC not taking threats against Chamisa lightly
Zanu-PF has been described as a "criminal gang" after a ruling party member threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his family with death.The police were evasive yesterday when contact...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man strikes neighbour dead with log
POLICE in Mashonaland Central are hunting for a Concession man Imigrame Malaki (40) who allegedly struck and killed his neighbour with a log during an unk...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 06:45hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cattle rustlers jailed 18 years
A Notorious Muzarabani based senior citizen was arraigned before Guruve magistrates courts on Friday facing stock theft charges.N...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 16:12hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo politicians 'weak'
A BULAWAYO-faith-based organisation, Habbakuk Trust has accused local politicians of being "politically weak" and unable to advance the devolution agenda in the region.The new Constitution ado...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man strikes wife with hoe after catching her with a boyfriend
A 40-year-old man from Guruve is on the run after fatally striking his wife with a hoe three times above the right eye after catching her red-handed with a boyfriend along Mukura River.Mashona...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Panic as COVID-19 deaths hit schools
COVID-19 has hit educational institutions, with Harare Polytechnic College and Dambudzo Primary School in Mbizo Kwekwe, recording deaths and a rise in infections.One person died at Harare Poly...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation and the legend of Chief Zvimba
I will not enter the debate on where the late Robert Mugabe's body must be buried or reburied.Hearing the debate raging in the media reminded me of the legendary Chief Matthew or Matewu Zvimba...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | | by Tererai R. Mafukidze
Mutare man forges O-Level certificate
A MUTARE man appeared in court yesterday for forging his ordinary level certificate in a bid to apply for a job with the Zimbabwe National Army.Arnold Jokoto (19) pleaded guilty to a forgery c...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Turning Point - HRM King Mzilikazi II
Mthwakazi omuhle ondlela zimhlophe, sizwe senkosi yohlanga ngiyalibingelela!Sesiside isikhathi lingezwa lutho oluvelela ngapha nges'Godlweni. Isizatho yikuthi njengothunyiweyo, kumele ngizwe N...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:27hrs | | by HRM King Mzilikazi II
Fans beg for album as Lovemore Majaivana turns 68
It is not every day that a new picture of Zimbabwean music legend Lovemore Majaivana is shared on social media, but when it does surface, it is always a special occasion.Recently, Majaivana wa...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 23:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Minister elbows war veterans Chairperson at a funeral
Fights in Zanu Pf camp Mashonaland Central province escalates as Minister of state for the province Monica Mavhunga allegedly elbowed war veterans chairpe...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 20:22hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Businesswoman under pressure to perform as she angles a final push
On signing an agreement with a prodigal Ezekiel Mtapuri who is under curatorship, in 2014, Theresa Ndambakuwa started to flag the Deed of Agreement she signed with Ezekiel Mtapuri to prospective land ...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 08:25hrs | 7 | by Lot Zuvanyika
Chaos in Zanu-PF DCC polls
CHAOTIC scenes characterised the Zanu-PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections at the weekend amid allegations of vote-rigging, burning of ballot papers and violence in most parts of the co...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bussinesswoman bounces back to court on anti-corruption ticket
Theresa Ndambakuwa, a local businesswoman who signed a Deed of Agreement with Ezekiel Mtapuri, a prodigal, has bounced back to court, it has emerged. Theresa Ndambakuwa has managed to resuscit...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 09:20hrs | | by Lot Zuvanyika
Seven perish in road accidents in Mash Central
SEVEN people died in separate traffic accidents in Mashonaland Central Province this week.Mashonaland Central province deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Fidelis Dhewu confirmed th...Published: 22 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Terror in Seychelles Zimbabweans in crossfire
THIS is the second in a three-part series about the hijacking of an Air India Boeing 707 flying from Harare to New Dehli India on November 26, 1981. The plane flew into a coup attempt in the S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Losing MDC-T councillors plot Mafume ouster
NEWLY ELECTED Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume might not stay longer at the helm of the city's affairs after it emerged losing MDC-T candidate Luckson Mukunguma and other councillors aligned to the party fac...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are South Africans our brothers?
In 1980 Zimbabwe got independent and we were happy, very happy. However, South Africa,Namibia and another country on the horn of Africa were still under colonial rule.I remember when I joined ...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 18:02hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mnangagwa blows US$1.7 million on Swiss luxury jet for Japan trip
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hired a US$30,000-per-hour Swiss luxury jet to fly him to Japan last week, leaving the Zimbabwean taxpayer with a bill of over US$1.7 million, ZimLive can reveal.T...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
MRP members summoned by police
Two MRP members Cde Marshall Sibanda and Cde Luckson Maphosa have been summoned by police over the foiled ZANU PF v MDC demonstrations. We are yet not sure of the link between our Cdes and the said de...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 12:01hrs | | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
WATCH: Refreshing from Zimbabwean radio station
Lona ngu Nombulelo "Mntase" Mariah Masoka (39) ongumsakazi kumsakazo weKhulumani FM. UMntase wakhethwa kumaBAA kusicoco seOutstanding DJ koBulawayo lokhu kuyakukhomba italenta analo emsakazweni....Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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