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'There are no angels in Zimbabwe, President!'
Kapish Sir, forgive the Chinese, but such erratic, gladiatorial and unhinged exuberance, exuding brute visceral and coming from any one never too shy to publicly comport embedded bats in belfry charac...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:54hrs | 3712 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Zimbabwean MTV Base host weighs in on career
The first Zimbabwean television host to be on MTV Base South Africa and MTV Africa, Kimberley Robinson, aka Kim Jayde, says even though her career is often seen as an overnight success, consistent har...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 18:55hrs | 8180 | by Staff reporter
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6202 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
A Win for Malawians ls A Win for Zimbabweans
Democracy has triumphed over in Malawi.The Courts proved they can deliver justice independently without external influence from those in power.In the end the Court declared a new election afte...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1038 | by A Kadada
Bread does not grow in supermarkets
IF there is an immutable truism that has stubbornly stood the test of time, it is the fact that common sense is not at all common.It is fair to say while common sense is rare, nonsense is ubiq...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 171 | by Bishop Lazarus
Tsenengamu vows Mnangagwa confrontation
EXPELLED Zanu-PF youth league commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has made startling claims the country was better governed by late former President Robert Mugabe than it is now under Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 16:58hrs | 2508 | by newzimbabwe
Open letter to the Minister of Local Govt and Rural and Urban Development Hon. July Moyo
As concerned citizens, it is our belief that Local Government refers to the establishment of participatory and democratically elected structures that can identify with the needs of people at grassroot...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 1818 | by Concerned citizens of Bubi Rural District
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1066 | by Charles Murindo
Prisons boss to testify in fraud case
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi is on Monday next week expected to testify against three former top prison officers at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, who ar...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Biti and Job Sikhala to be struck off the roll?
Zimbabwean politics has always been full of mystery. Politicians are normally identified by their getting into public office. There are a lot of politicians fine politicians who had never ran for an o...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05hrs | 15519 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Chinese are treating us as junk in our mother land' - a microcosm of omnipresent and omnipotent Zanu-PF
"Several Zimbabweans have been treated like junk in their own country. The Chinese have been left to do as they please in our mother land," wrote Dr Masimba Mavaza, in a recent article."While ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:35hrs | 1795 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
RBZ launches foreign exchange auction today
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)today replaces the interbank market with weekly foreign exchange auctions to determine the Zimbabwe dollar exchange rate with those in industry and commerce cautiousl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe buffoons plotting another coup to avoid ICC justice - after 40 years ransom - enough is enough
"The country's military leaders have reportedly agreed in private, to invite former Zanu PF political commissar and ex-local government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, to return back home from South Afr...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:53hrs | 6131 | by Nomusa Garikai
What has happened to the 16 June 1976 Soweto Uprising revolutionary spirit in today's Zimbabwe youths?
For a very long time, whenever I see the world-famous picture of the lifeless Hector Pieterson, being carried by a crying fellow female schoolmate - fleeing from a volley of fatal bullets being fired ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 09:50hrs | 953 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans have a duty to free themselves from crocodile jaws
EVERYTIME I travel to and from the US, I have noticed, the flight crew will always ask those who are serving or have served in the military to board first. As they present their boarding passes to the...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 476 | by Dr Shepherd Mpofu
Tshinga Dube lays into Charamba
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has accused presidential spokesperson George Charamba of ‘'living in the past" and exhibiting a condescending attitude after the former suggested a governme...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 3755 | by Staff reporter
'You have pinned my neck down. I can't breathe!': The spine-chilling cry of Matabeleland
The sad narrative of underdevelopment in the generality of Matabeleland is a horrendous and unattractive delineation of the unceasing marginalisation of the region since the primitive and callous deth...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 723 | by Nhlanhla Moses
COVID-19 exposes Zimbabwe's lack of leadership
THE COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over, but Zimbabweans must have had enough of their selfish, clueless and callous leadership. By leadership, I am not referring only to political leadership, b...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry grabs farm from Mugabe's nephew
Former Olympic swimming gold medallist Kirsty Coventry has been implicated in the seizure of a property allocated by Zimbabwe's government to Robert Zhuwao, nephew of the late former president Robert ...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 21:44hrs | 9083 | by Staff reporter
Welcome to Chambia
Save Zambia or PerishCome on now Zambians, are we that ignorant, stupid, foolish, gullible, brainless, naïve, primitive we can't see the consequences of the "wonderful Chinese gifts" in roads...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 21:39hrs | 3349 | by Field Ruwe EdD
Tribalist Chamisa shuts the door on Ndebeles again
It is him again. Nelson Chamisa, the troubled leader of the so called MDC Alliance. Right at the time when his decision to fire Thokozani Khupe has come back to haunt the MDC Alliance, he has done it ...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 19:49hrs | 7684 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa tightens lockdown
ZIMBABWE yesterday tightened the COVID-19 lockdown in major cities, with police and army blocking motorists and commuters from entering central business districts around the country after infections t...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 10:14hrs | 7185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to march to the US embassy on June 4 over slain black man
ZANU-PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States. ...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:58hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
'Am not at liberty to disclose covid-19 cases' - yet, per se, to condemn 100s X 1000s to covid-19 death
"We do have new (covid-19) cases at the hospital and the figures have changed but am not at liberty to disclose anything at the moment," said Mpilo Central Hospital Clinical Director and Acting CEO Dr...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 23:00hrs | 4192 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabweans turn to alternative foods
BULAWAYO residents have resorted to finding alternative foods to boost their diets as prices of basic commodities continue to increase beyond their reach. Profiteering businesses are taking advantage ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:33hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa still happy to be handling rubbish
THIS week, the pre-historic relic Patrick Chinamasa was dusted off and wheeled out at Zanu-PF headquarters to face the press and take his turn at telling lies.In the absence of Simon Khaya Moy...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2694 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note.Late one evening, Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Harare, Z...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2012 | by Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
The African COVID-19 conundrum: Risking death to avoid death
WHEN the coronavirus (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, for most countries, it was a problem far from their horizons. Little did they know that in no time, it would inf...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:00hrs | 225 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1553 | by newzimbabwe
Let's clean our dirty stables!
AS human beings, we need to accept that there are often both comprehensible and incomprehensible life forces around us.Where Bishop Lazi comes from, for example, you cannot venture deep into t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 90 | by Bishop Lazarus
Nelson Chamisa you are now pissing us off
Sir you have become a Twitter President of which most of the people who are following you are in the diaspora the ones who did not vote for you.We now need you to call for a Massive Civil Diso...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:45hrs | 4572 | by Knowledge Hakata
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3893 | by Wilbert Mukori
Shifting Attitudes on Higher Education: A Radical Approach to Bridging the Critical Skills Gap
Young people are Africa's most valuable and the single most important key to unlocking sustainable economic growth. The United Nations' Strategic Development Goals (SDG 4) commits countries to ensure ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:05hrs | 587 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
8 tips for keeping a healthy routing during Covid-19
For the most part, we can all say that our lives have been completely uprooted because of the Covid-19 pandemic. While most of us understand the implications of not cooperating, it is still hard to ov...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:00hrs | 383 | by Staff Writer
Pondering the Post-Covid-19 world
Ndamase is a serious type. Very serious that he sees a fault in every joke. He regularly feels that whenever people joke and laugh they waste too much time not thinking about their inevitable death on...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:21hrs | 104 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Fighting for nothing, living for anything
Blessed are those who will intently read Bishop Lazi's sermon today and take it to heart for they will be able to see the future.You see, politics is not a beauty pageant: You cannot just catw...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:17hrs | 143 | by Bishop Lazarus
Separate boys from men in MDC-Alliance
MDC Alliance must not ring fence those who want to join the ZANU PF jamboree fronted by Thokozani Khupe , Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri. They must do so freely and there is no nee...Published: 16 May 2020 at 13:04hrs | 1213 | by Leonard Koni
Grace Mugabe and Mnangagwa were never Presidential material, says Jonathan Moyo
EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says he did not at one time find the now President Emmerson Mnangagwa and then First Lady Grace Mugabe close to being presidential material.Respond...Published: 16 May 2020 at 09:11hrs | 4937 | by newzimbabwe
Separate boys from men in MDC Alliance
THE MDC Alliance must not ring-fence those who want to join the Zanu PF jamboree fronted by Thokozani Khupe, Douglas Mwonzora, Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri. They must do so freely and ther...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 3474 | by Leonard Koni
MDC must show strength and defy headwinds
THE ongoing battle for the heart and soul of the MDC is unfortunate, coming at a time Zimbabwe needs a strong, united and focussed opposition to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's incompetent admin...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 595 | by Owen Gagare
Dr Shingi Munyeza; a canary in a coal mine
As a millenial growing up in the digital age where millions of videos whizz about online, it's hard to take it all in and make head or tail.But I could not ignore one snippet last Sunday in wh...Published: 14 May 2020 at 14:06hrs | 2531 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Zanu-PF braces for post-Covid-19 pandemic, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF is bracing for the change of the world order post Covid-19 pandemic when digitalisation will take centre stage, party national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has said. Matemada...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1349 | by Staff reporter
UK has become Zimbabwe's tribal tower
The MDC sings from Zanu PF's hymn books without shame when it comes to tribalism. How do you replicate a party you are opposing in all aspects of its operations? MDC is comfortable with tribal allocat...Published: 13 May 2020 at 19:22hrs | 3117 | by Nomazulu Thata
BREAKING: Thieves break in at Ekusileni Medical Centre
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana has reported that thieves broke into Ekusileni Medical Centre last night and got away with a compressor and components of a borehole switch.T...Published: 12 May 2020 at 13:25hrs | 2618 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chris Mutsvangwa guns for Vice Presidency?
Christopher Mutsvangwa claims to have been the brains behind the operation restore legacy which saw the removal of former President Robert Mugabe. Mutsvangwa was seen in a video celebrating th...Published: 12 May 2020 at 10:15hrs | 5152 | by Tinashe Matavire
Khupe faces MDC-T ouster
THE fight for MDC-T presidency has taken a new turn amid reports of a plot to push out acting party leader Thokozani Khupe from the race because of her close association with President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:29hrs | 6621 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's suicidal response to internal storms
Following the March 31, 2019, Supreme Court ruling which declared that the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa's ascension to the leadership of that party in 2018 was unprocedural, there has been turmoil in th...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2011 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Call for mass resignations of MDC-Alliance MPs: Will it work?
This article uses the "big picture" or political analytical approach to show that both the MDC-A and MDC-T under Thokozani Khupe ought to examine the political, social and constitutional contexts they...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2113 | by Sharon Hofisi
Mnangagwa's controversial 'baker' buys state owned Zimglass
The name Douglas Kwande has, in the past months, been associated with a controversial picture of him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa seated inside a car with bread awkwardly placed between them. ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 12757 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rise and shine Zimbabwe
After attending a burial of my sister in February, in Plumtree, it was only normal that we would gather, lighten the moment a little bit and catch up as close family and extended family alike. It was ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 882 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
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