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IDBZ student hostel project nears completion
THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ)'s US$14.8 million student accommodation project in Bulawayo is now 69% complete and expected to be fully completed in November this year....Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 07:59hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
My suspicions go beyond the allegations against VP Mohadi!
I have been battling with the question of the power of the press. To tell you the truth, I have not made up my mind where the line should be drawn. The allegations against Vice-Presi...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:58hrs | 2388 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 439 | by Ken Mufuka
My heart is in Zimbabwe!
As we pass from the year 2020, let us establish some homegrown truths about ourselves as Zimbabweans.While I will challenge our readers to this debate, on penalty of paying a fine of a goat if...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 936 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe's intellectual prostitutes and the national question
My Ghanaian broth er, Dr George Ayiteyi, was the first to connect fraudulent claims to the title of professor to Professor Jonathan Moyo as the quintessential intellectual prostitute. I scolded Ayitey...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:41hrs | 853 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Professorships must be earned
Professor Jonathan Jansen thinks that South Africa is suffering from some kind of professor fraud. It is about the way in which people are running about in South Africa calling themselves "professors"...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:02hrs | 660 | by Ken Mufuka
US media has become the true opposition
LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:59hrs | 866 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe ripe for change!
When I read the statement by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa in her reaction to the Catholic bishops' pastoral letter, I was shocked at the ignorance and arrogance displayed in it. I said to my...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 614 | by Ken Mufuka
Mat North schools ready for June exams
SCHOOLS in Matabeleland North province are ready for the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) June exams, the Provincial Education Director Mr Jabulani Mpofu has said.Speaking during...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 646 | by Agencies
Food aid for Mabuthweni and Emakhandeni residents
THE Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, has urged residents in the city to unite and assist each other during the difficult times as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic b...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Boost for Zimbabwe students as Cassava Edutech launches Akello E-library
Cassava Edutech has launched the Akello E-library, an online library platform offering hundreds of school curriculum books that are set to strengthen Zimbabwe's education sector by providing learners,...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 546 | by Agencies
Non-tourism businesses start to re-open in Victoria Falls
VICTORIA Falls is slowly coming back to life as some businesses reopen but tourism, the town's mainstay, remains the missing link. A snap survey around town showed that shops, construction sit...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Botswana moves to stage 3 Coronavirus lockdown
Botswana has announced that it will be entering Phase 3 of the Coronavirus lockdown on Friday. The phase will see the government lessening restrictive measures that came with the lockdown regulations....Published: 14 May 2020 at 22:28hrs | 3888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube thoroughly disgraced himself!
No man intentionally disgraces himself. But brother Mthuli Ncube should have known the possible risk, and the possibility of being thoroughly disgraced if such confidential communication was broadcast...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 4558 | by Ken Mufuka
Betrayal of UK returnee proves betrayal is a weapon by some people
The cynical weapon that some Zimbabweans know best is betrayal of one another in various aspects of our lives. The cynical weapon of an African is best described as betrayal of self and the other to g...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2619 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bookshop plans online academic channel
With schools having closed early and learners under lockdown, a bookshop in Bulawayo, Dingani Bookshop and Stationery has come up with an online academic channel meant to assist secondary and high sch...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:59hrs | 431 | by Agencies
Bleak future beckons for businesses after lockdown
AS the 21-day lockdown continues with shops that sell non-essentials closed, there are concerns in the Gwanda business community that some of them might collapse while others might be left crippled. ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:16hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube is going nowhere
Every Saturday morning, especially when the weather is beneficent, I take a copy of the Big Saturday Read by the supreme brother Alex Magaisa to my garden chair and settle myself with some expectation...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1399 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Why Zimbabwean crisis is insoluble!
For a 15 million population, a resource base that reproduces every mineral available in South Africa, the best educated population in Africa, Zimbabwe's problems should be easy to solve.In thi...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:37hrs | 525 | by Ken Mufuka
Dingani Bookshop sponsors athletes
BULAWAYO located bookshop sponsored just ended NAPH and NASH Mat North games which were held at Mosi oa-Tunya High school in Victoria falls. As part of corporate social responsibility the bookshop spo...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 18:23hrs | 547 | by Agencies
Is the US ready for a gay president?
When the ancient Romans saw the African horse (the zebra), they announced that those who want to experience wonders must visit Africa. Today, the surprising showing of 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, a ga...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:41hrs | 637 | by Kenneth Mufuka
When they come with dirty hands!
I want to support my supreme brother Ibbo Mandaza and his attempt to shed light on the last election in Zimbabwe. But, first allow me to illustrate what happens when protagonists in a battle come into...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 404 | by Ken Mufuka
Tshinga Dube ready to launch book
ALL is set for former Cabinet Minister, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube's much-anticipated 'Quiet Flows The Zambezi book launch. The autobiography will be launched at the National Art Gallery of ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:06hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2749 | by Ken Mufuka
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1174 | by Kenneth Mufuka
A Guide to Islam: An Advanced Level Textbook on Islam
Shaibu Asali in, A Guide to Islam: An Advanced Level Textbook on Islam is a 2019 publication grounded on an insider's perspective on Islam as a religion. Shaibu Asali's eight chapter book of 95 pages ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1494 | by Brian Maregedze
Tafataona Mahoso: A man of many hats
Rupise: Poetry of Love, Separation and Reunion 1977-2017; By Tafataona Mahoso; Mutare, Samwasika Heritage Products.136 PagesISBN: 978-1-7706-070-9 (Paperback)INDEED Tafataona M...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:09hrs | 2365 | by Staff writer
Bulawayo bookshop inspires authors
DINGANI Bookshop and Stationery was launched two months ago in Bulawayo. The book shop sells different types of books, this includes; Academic, Motivational, Marriage and Leadership books. The book sh...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 07:28hrs | 824 | by Staff Reporter
Ginyilitshe defends Zimbabwe military coup in new book
Ambassador Cain Mathema, who is also the Minister of State for Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs, has written and published a book entitled: 'I Defend Zimbabwe`s Defence and Security Forces,' with...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:14hrs | 2138 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 15 year old author pens a book
Fifteen (15) year old boy, Tatenda Kosana of house number 3041 in Nketa 7 in Bulawayo has published his first motivational book titled "The Powerful Youth" while being a form four pupil at Tennyson Hl...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 17:21hrs | 1862 | by Bakidzanani Dube
Grade 1 Ndebele book with Shona spellings causes outcry - photoshopped
It has come to light that there was some mischief and the title of the book was photoshopped. An investigation was done and there is nothing like that in bookshops and schools. We retract the article....Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 17:25hrs | 4558 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls to get $10m mall
CONSTRUCTION of a $10 million up-market shopping mall in Victoria Falls is expected to start anytime soon.The complex will be built by Zimre Property Investment (ZPI). ZPI chief executive offi...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:06hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi and the silent whispers and cries behind hatred, death and disunity
The only time I saw Eddison Zvobgo in the flesh I was on my way to Rezende Bus Terminus to catch a bus home on a busy Friday afternoon in 1992. His black ministerial Mercedes Benz was parked near King...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 19:04hrs | 1048 | by Tafi Mhaka
A letter from Robert Mugabe
Then on 8 February a major fight erupted at Connemara barracks between Kwekwe and Gweru in the Midlands province between ex-Zanla and Zipra guerrillas. Although that fighting at Connemara was quas...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 12:32hrs | 4231 | by David Coltart
Banks urged to scrap bank charges
BANKING services should be provided free of charge in order to achieve financial inclusion and increase business for the sector, Steward Bank CEO Lance Mambondiani said yesterday. Officially launching...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:46hrs | 2241 | by Prosper Ndlovu
ZOU Byo branch opens
The Zimbabwe Open University Bulawayo branch officially opens today.The building is located along 12th Avenue.Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo is expected to grace the occasion....Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 08:55hrs | 5366 | by Thobekile Zhou
Chiyangwa ropes in Pick n Pay in his $65m shopping mall projects
PROPERTY mogul Dr Phillip Chiyangwa, whose investment vehicle Kilima Investments recently profited from pieces of commercial land compensated by the Harare City Council, is in the process of construct...Published: 03 May 2015 at 04:40hrs | 6148 | by Staff reporter
Man steals Bibles
"THOU shalt not steal" is one of the Ten Commandments, but a Dangamvura man chose to thumb his nose on it after he stole two Bibles from the Scripture Union bookshop recently. However, for his...Published: 21 Feb 2015 at 09:16hrs | | by Liberty Dube
UK based gospel music group releases debut CD
THE England-based African gospel music group, Swindon Gospel Choir has released its first ever CD in Britain, a senior official said yesterday.The CD entitled You are the same is expected to ...Published: 16 May 2014 at 15:12hrs | 11555 | by Staff Reporter
Love tutorial book launched
Budding author Felix Zinhara last Saturday launched a personal development book that focuses on love tutorials.Titled How To Make Anyone Fall in Love with You, the book was launched at Ster K...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 11:00hrs | 3967 | by Staff reporter
NoViolet Bulawayo shortlisted for Guardian first book award 2013
The Booker-shortlisted novelist NoViolet Bulawayo is among five writers shortlisted for this year's Guardian first book award.Bulawayo's We Need New Names joins three other novels and one non-...Published: 16 Nov 2013 at 06:04hrs | 2272 | by Guardian
Running With Mother: Reliving Gukurahundi
It's been a long-standing promise to myself that I should get round to reading the novel 'Running With Mother' by Zimbabwean writer and playwright, Ch...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 09:55hrs | 3302 | by Fungai Machirori
Scores of Women with kids stranded at Beitbridge Border Post
A large number of Zimbabwean women travelling to South Africa with minors are stranded at Beitbridge Border Post as the neighbouring country's immigration officials are demanding a...Published: 03 Aug 2012 at 02:50hrs | 3254 | by Staff reporter
Amakhosi releases theatre journal
Amakhosi Cultural Centre has partnered with a local consultancy firm to produce a journal on theatre.LMT Research and Documentation Consultancy Company in conjunction with Amakhosi Cultural C...Published: 17 Jun 2012 at 13:03hrs | 2014 | by Entertainment reporter
Man jailed for possessing Mugabe cartoons
Man jailed for taking pictures at Beitbridge border Post and being found with Mugabe cartoons.Beitbridge is deemed a restricted area and taking photos there is forbidden.Arresting off...Published: 03 Jun 2012 at 16:01hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Man faces jail for commenting about Mugabe's sexual prowess
Maxwell Mutsetse (30) from Mutare faces jail after he was overheard commenting about the sexual prowess of the country's president Robert Mugabe, it was reported yesterday.Mutsetse allegedly t...Published: 19 May 2012 at 10:24hrs | 4059 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's literacy rate disputed
Zimbabwe's much touted literacy rate of more than 90% has been disputed as having been outdated since the figures are based on data collected by UNESCO and the government more than a decade ago....Published: 02 Apr 2012 at 22:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donated textbooks flood informal street market
THOUSANDS of textbooks donated to primary and secondary schools countrywide under the Education Transition Fund have flooded the informal market.There are reports that some officials involved...Published: 26 Mar 2012 at 21:48hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Bookshop to appear in court for insulting Mugabe
Rosepet Bookshop will appear in court on Friday, the 23rd of March 2012 to face allegations of contravening Section 33 (1) (b) o...Published: 22 Mar 2012 at 06:45hrs | 327 | by Own Correspondent
Tsvangirai bookseller released on free bail
Sinikiwe Mutore and Mlamuli Mabhena, the two co-directors of a Victoria Falls bookshop who were arrested at the weekend on charges of selling Morgan Tsvangirai's memoirs "At the Deep End," were relea...Published: 24 Jan 2012 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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