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Mudenda re-elected Speaker of the National Assembly
Advocate Jacob Mudenda iscongrau.ieted beetle( kite. Luke Malebo Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Advocate Jacob Mudenda has been reelected unopposed for the Speaker of the National Assembly post....Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Belarus equipment to spur Zimbabwe agric'
The US$66 million agricultural equipment deal entered between Zimbabwe and Belarus last week is expected to further boost agricultural productivity, ensuring national food security and restoring Harar...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
There's no greater curse than being led by an idiotic dictator!
It is terrible and painful enough being oppressed by a dictator.Nevertheless, it is utter devastation and catastrophic having a dictator who is also a brainless idiot. There is no grea...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mkoba Teachers' College starts producing liquid fertilisers
Mkoba Teachers' College (MTC) in Gweru, Midlands Province has started producing vegetable and fruit pickles, herbs and liquid fertilisers in line with Education 5.0 philosophy.The liquid ferti...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe business people involved in potatoes smuggling in Botswana
ZIMBABWEAN business people are reportedly involved in the alleged smuggling of potatoes syndicate with South African farmers and Botswana business men fol...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 07:00hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Potholes eat into Bulawayo motorists' pockets
MOTORISTS driving in Bulawayo's city centre are having a torrid time negotiating potholes, a hazard that is resulting in accidents and damage to cars in some cases.Last month, the Bulawayo Cit...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need to repair our sick politics
AS strange as it might sound or seem, you can be sure there is an imbecile somewhere in our beloved teapot-shaped country that is very unhappy the weatherman is forecasting we might have a very good r...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Bishop Lazi
Nust director applies genetics to farming
MOST people know him as the director of the National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) Applied Genetics Testing Centre involved in DNA testing.Mr Zephaniah Dhlamini was among the f...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Construction of Zimbabwe’s largest conference centre launched
The new conference centre being built with a hotel in Harare's Braeside will be the largest in Zimbabwe and is an example, says President Mnangagwa, of what Zimbabweans can achieve when they work unde...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries?
A reflection on Nkirote, a woman from a small village in Kenya, and James, a country director of an NGO.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.90 a day. I have often ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | | by @NGOsceptic
Zimbabwean man jailed for robbery in Botswana
A ZIMBABWEAN man and his Motswana accomplice have been slapped with a 10-year effective jail term each for an armed robbery which they committed in Maun, Botswana in 2018.Llyod Choto (37) and ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Christmas fever grips Bulawayo
HUNDREDS of people yesterday thronged supermarkets in Bulawayo to make last-minute shopping ahead of Christmas Day today. Shop attendants said they recorded much business with many outlets res...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean beetle makes a seasonal snack
Earnmore Chikavaza takes a mouthful of fried beetles and munches happily, downing the crunchy snack with a mouthful of water.He runs out of superlatives to sum up the benefits of a food that i...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 18:07hrs | | by AFP
Injiva's million dollar bet on Tsholotsho
OWEN Sibanda's childhood was typical of thousands that grow up in Tsholotsho, one of the poorest districts in Matabeleland South province.He walked at least 18km to and from school every day a...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cops to sue Botswana govt for unlawful arrest
TWO Zimbabwe Republic Police constables who were arrested and later acquitted on alleged theft in Francistown, Botswana early this month, want to sue the neighbouring country's Attorney General for un...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Reforms are empty words, lipstick on Zanu PF crocodile' - and MDC meerkat
I once watched a documentary on a family of meerkats. In their daily foraging they group came across an ostrich egg. The whole group was certainly very excited with the find, there was a lot of good f...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Social media - loitering hall for sociopaths
Even though Jesus was/is God, and even though he was immaculately conceived, during the time he walked this earth - more than 2 019 years ago - he was a man of flesh and blood.A man - despite ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:33hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Eating soil, a pregnancy craving that can kill . . .
The smell of soil after light rains is divine. I like to think of it as the smell of nature, pure and fresh. Many women experience iron deficiency during pregnancy and subsequently develop a craving f...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:12hrs | 7 | by Andile Tshuma
Mnangagwa's legitimacy discussed
Human Rights Lawyer Dr Pedzisayi Ruhanya has contradicted with Constitutional lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku who said President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the legitimate President because legitimacy is ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Heroine of Matabeleland is fallen! Matabeleland has heroes and heroines too!
The beautiful ones were born, but not acknowledged; these are women from Zapu - Matabeleland: Soneni Ngweny-Matiwaza is a nations' heroine: who cares today!The lyric from Bob Dylan goes like t...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 18:56hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Tuku's death: What a lost chance to foster national unity
LEGENDARY musician Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's death on Wednesday last week touched many in an extraordinary way, compressing the world into a tiny village, as people from all over converged in one froze...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Falling In Love - Part 1
Her desire is deepest in the morning. She is too much woman for me, at sunrise. But I sip eagerly from her cup and inhale her essence. She is my thick cup of creamy coffee.We both wake up earl...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 22:40hrs | 2 | by Jerà
VIDEO: Car burns in Harare
A car was burnt to ashes in Harare Central Business District at Corner First Street and Jason Moyo. The cause has not yet beet ascertained....Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 17:00hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Stolen cellphone tower items found on Zimbabwe bound bus
Several cellphone tower solar panels and batteries believed to have been stolen from around the Nelson Mandela Bay area were confiscated after police pulled over a bus travelling to Zimbabwe.T...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We are prepared to die for free elections!,' says Biti - read, 'to sacrifice povo for gravy train seat!'
Mr Tendai Biti you, like everyone else have the right to enjoy freedom of expression just remember that with every right comes a duty. Your right to freedom of expression does not include the right to...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 19:43hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Peter Ndlovu's story told in World Cup advert
THE Warriors might have been barred from the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but the greatest Warrior of all-time has been roped into the global show as part of a package of the television broadcast b...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are fools if we continue hoping and speculating under a cloud that does not drop any rain
All this jostling, fighting, killing and crossing of roads from one party to the other as we approach the crucial 2018 general elections is only about strategic positioning to continue or join the rus...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Chikuni Gaba
Zimbabwe has 'stable political environment,' says Zulu - rubbish, cannot even hold free elections
The Zanu PF propaganda machine is going into overdrive as it tries to give a positive spin out of nothing!"Fortunately, complementing his (President Mnangagwa) economic vision, the country's o...Published: 12 May 2018 at 22:18hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is Mugabe the criminal mastermind?
The events of the past few weeks in the post-Robert Mugabe era have led many Zimbabweans to introspect on Operation Restore Legacy (ORL). The operation, which culminated in the voluntary resignation b...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Trevor Shiri
United Refineries adds vegetable juice to range
BULAWAYO giant cooking oil manufacturer, United Refineries Limited (URL), has added vegetable juice manufacturing to its wider product mix as it diversifies operations.The agro-processing firm...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Raw food treatment for cancer - Alternative cancer treatments
The Editor,I thought this information can help improve someone's quality of life.https://www.cancertutor.com/rawfood/This is a very potent cancer treatment; however, it should ...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwean man nabbed in Botswana over fake ID, passport
A 35-year-old Zimbabwean Lizwe Ngwenya pleaded guilty to fraudulently acquiring a Botswana national identity card, commonly known as Omang, and a Botswana passport.Ngwenya was arrested by a sp...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Compare Odinga to Tsvangirai is comparing cheese to cyanide impregnated chalk
To compare Kenya's Raila Odinga with Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai is like comparing tasty wholesome Swiss cheese of the finest quality with cheese coloured chalk impregnated with deadly cyanide, even ...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 07:32hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe getting a taste of his witchcraft medicine
Three years ago President Robert Mugabe peddled some fanciful witchcraft tales when he wanted to get rid of his then deputy, Joice Mujuru.He claimed Mujuru was so desperate to take over from h...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man steals 10 goats and 2 beasts
A man from Umguza is in trouble after he allegedly stole ten goats and two cattle belonging to a villager recently.The man Beetwell Ncube (26) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Sithembiso Nc...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 07:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
WATCH: Mnangagwa says 'pasi ne Zanu-PF'
WATCH: Mnangagwa says 'pasi ne Zanu-PF'Mnangagwa says pasi neZanu-PF pic.twitter.com/u05zz...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by online
In trying to 'baby dump' Mnangagwa, Grace will be crushed like a bug, she is
Grace Mugabe tells VP Mnangagwa he is only an appointee serving at Mugabe's pleasure and therefore can be fired at the drop of a hat. She too is any appointee but one Mugabe cannot easily fire....Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 20:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Cyclone Dineo devastates Zimbabwe
After praying for much-needed rains for years, the drought-prone Matabeleland region is counting the cost of flash floods which have left a trail of destruction in the area after violent Cyclone D...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 12:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Keeping ZDERA alive
A key strategy of imperialism is raising false dust so as to cloud national focus and vision. Or to blur a clear identification and knowledge of who the real enemy is. History, including our own, is r...Published: 21 Jan 2017 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Angry Mugabe vows to personally assault Mutasa
President Robert Mugabe repeatedly vowed to personally beat up former close colleague Didymus Mutasa for backing Joyce Mujuru, it has been learnt.Mugabe (92) made the threat way back in 2014 d...Published: 01 Nov 2016 at 07:43hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Granny, 86, strangled to death
A 30 -year -old man from Mapatse settlement near Marapong village appeared in court this week charged with the murder of an 86- year old granny whom he accused of ‘spoiling’ his good name....Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe embodies African fighting spirit
For many Africans at home and abroad, when President Mugabe presented not only Zimbabwe, but all of Mother Africa's case before the United Nations last Thursday concerning Sustainable Development Goal...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Drunk Zimbabwean stabs Motswana
A 37-year-old Zimbabwean living illegally in Botswana has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a Motswana in a drunken argument over money. According to Botswana paper The Voice, Lungisani Ndlovu, is ...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Leonard Ncube
'Zanu-PF killed Herbert Chitepo and Solomon Mujuru'
ZANU-PF's declaration of the late Victoria Chitepo a national heroine should not be seen as a sincere gesture as the party was responsible for the assassination of her husband, Herbert, says Tendai Bi...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church Deacon caught red-handed with stolen meat
A DEACON was caught red-handed with stolen meat.Daily Sun reported that the discovery comes barely two weeks after church members complained that their cows were constantly going missing....Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 14:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Serial rapist convicted
An unemployed 20-year-old man has been found guilty of four separate counts of rape involving four different women.The Voice reported that repeat offender, Serenyatseng Bikina Garetshele, of L...Published: 06 Mar 2016 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean jailed 10 years for raping woman after handcuffing her
A young Zimbabwean rapist who handcuffed his victims before sexually violating them was on Tuesday slapped with a 10 year jail term and three strokes of the cane.The Voice reported that Xolani...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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