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Emotions charge up as Army victims are buried
Emotions were highly charged up over the weekend as three of the reported twelve army victims were buried. One was laid in Harare, one in Marondera and another in Chimanimani.During th...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 07:19hrs | 3421 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa crossed the line and change is nigh,' declares Chamisa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa on Saturday attended the burial of Kelvin Tinashe Choto, a 22-year-old man shot by the military during fuel protests on January 14, before declaring: "Change is nigh!"...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 10:00hrs | 8479 | by ZimLive
Buyanga offers medical, burial aid to victims of Zimbabwe crackdown
THE African Medallion Group (AMG), a precious metals company owned by business tycoon Frank Buyanga, yesterday offered to pay medical expenses and extended burial assistance to victims of Monday's vio...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:57hrs | 1811 | by ZimLive
Chamisa accuses Mnangagwa of violence
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of abrogating on his duties and resorting to violence in the face of demands by people that he fulfils his constitutional mandate....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Jason Ziyapapa Moyo
ON Tuesday marks 42 years since the death of Zapu Vice-President Jason Ziyapapa Moyo (JZ) in a parcel bomb in Lusaka, Zambia. JZ Moyo became the Secretary of the new ANC of Southern Rhodesia, which wa...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 325 | by Rtd Brig-General Mazinyane
Chamisa's violence streak
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa - who is easy bedfellows with the NGOs who are doing his bidding - has even been intimating that the MDC-Alliance has the capacity to take up arms.Duri...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:06hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Chamisa attends funeral of 22 year old army victim
MDC President Nelson Chamisa attended the funeral service of 22 year old Kelvin Tinashe Choto before his burial at Zororo cemetery in Chitungwiza on Saturday afternoon.A gifted footballer, Kel...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:58hrs | 9363 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans need to find each other as a nation
As we begin 2019, there are key lessons from the coup and Zimbabwe's post-coup experiences. The key lessons going forward relate to ethical leadership, public sector performance management, service de...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:00hrs | 123 | by Brian Kagoro
Death penalty should be abolished in Zimbabwe
Laws and statutes play a pivotal role in the way disputes among people are settled. It is therefore incumbent upon every country to lay down its own justice delivery system to fulfil the mandate of up...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 16:07hrs | 224 | by Joyce Chigiya
Military in civilian life: lessons from the fall of Mugabe
Since the fall of long-term ruler, Robert Mugabe in a coup in November 2017, Zimbabwe's military has become a daily part of the country's political life, in your face and very much in charge.B...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:06hrs | 593 | by The Source News Agency
REVEALED: ZANU PF fingered in violent protests and looting
ZANU PF members have been fingered as the ring leaders behind the violent protests and looting that happened in some parts of Harare fueling speculations that the protests were hijacked by criminal el...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 08:49hrs | 3769 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC factional tensions reaches boiling point
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has relented to pressure from some of his senior lieutenants to bring forward the party's long-awaited congress from October to June this year as factional tensions in the co...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:59hrs | 2089 | by Staff reporter
Shangani community fumes over killer cops
Shangani traditional and community leaders in Chikombedzi are up in arms with authorities over the death of a villager who was allegedly fatally shot by a drunk police officer on Christmas Day....Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:34hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Chimene dodges daughter's funeral
Mandi Chimene, former Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister failed to attend the burial of Ellen Zimondi, her daughter, who passed on after suffering from an undisclosed ailment.Chimene is be...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:04hrs | 2953 | by newzimbabwe
Schoolboy was murdered
A SCHOOLBOY from Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo who was certified by a post-mortem last month to have died due to excessive alcohol consumption was actually killed, a second post-mortem has revealed. ...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:18hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Khupe raises security fears at Tsvangirai memorial service
THE memorial service for the late MDC Alliance leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has been set for February 14 but his former deputy Dr Thokozani Khupe is unlikely to attend amid fears over her security. ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:50hrs | 3392 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highlights for 2018
January ED visits sick TsvangiraiApart from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the home of the late Morgan Tsvangirai, another highlight for January 2018 was the arrest of se...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Dan Tshanda to be buried Saturday
DALOM music founder Dan "Ndivhiseni" Tshanda, who died in South Africa at the weekend, will be laid to rest in Soweto on Saturday, family spokesperson, Moudy Mudzielwana has said.Tshanda succu...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2504 | by Staff reporter
Former top cop buried
Former police officer commanding Matabeleland South and North Provinces, Senior Assistant Commissioner Boyathi Ngwenya who died on New Year's Day, was laid to rest at Umvutsha Cemetery Park in Bulaway...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi buries brother, Marry Chiwenga attends burial
The year 2019 has started on a bad note for Harare businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure who lost his brother Andrew Kadungure on New Year's Eve. Andrew died during the early hours of Monday ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:37hrs | 6454 | by Staff reporter
Corpse changes attire in hearse
MOURNERS were forced to wait as relatives of the deceased changed her clothes in a hearse at a graveside before burial at Glenville Cemetery on Wednesday. The body of the late Agnes Mabvira, w...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 20:27hrs | 6213 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai family’s pre-emptive masterstroke the way to go
The funeral service in December 2018 for the late 41st President of the United States, George H Bush, who was in office from 1989 to 1993 (not to be confused with his son, George W Bush, the 43rd Pres...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 1600 | by Conway Tutani
Zanu-PF seeks hero status for Matangaidze
ZANU-PF Manicaland Province has recommended that prominent Mutare businessman Mr Hlanganiso Matangaidze, who died over the weekend, be accorded provincial hero status. Mr Matangaidze died at the age o...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to attend Tsvangirai memorial
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T party will attend former Morgan Tsvangirai's memorial next month after getting security assurances from the late opposition icon's family.Tsvangirai, the founding...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:21hrs | 1175 | by newzimbabwe
Man fatally stabs uncle with kitchen knife on Christmas Eve
A JAILBIRD from Bulawayo's Matshobana suburb fatally stabbed his uncle with a kitchen knife following a dispute revolving around a protection order granted against him. The incident occurred o...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3336 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe under-reported cholera deaths'
The recent cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe could have killed over 100 people amid fears an official government count did not capture a majority of the deaths in a bid to conceal negligence.Offici...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 14:05hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Mistress claims body, estate of deceased lover
A woman employed in the judiciary sector in Bulawayo allegedly tried to claim the body of her deceased married lover, while also trying to forge nullification marriage documents, all in a desperate bi...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:44hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
'Slain' MDC councillor's family arrested
The family of the late MDC Bulawayo Ward 28 Councillor Hapson Ncube has been arrested over allegations of accusing former Councillor Collet Ndlovu as being the one behind the death of their son....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 14:56hrs | 4230 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Chaos mars MDC Alliance councillor's burial
CHAOTIC scenes rocked the burial of MDC Alliance Ward 28 Councillor Hapson Ncube in Bulawayo yesterday with party members taking the deceased's body to former councillor Collet Ndlovu's business premi...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 04:40hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
Gweru hikes burial fees 100%
GWERU City Council has proposed to more than double burial charges to $160 from $60 for non-residents and $80 from $30 for adults and children respectively, a senior council official has said....Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillor dies
THE Councillor for Ward 28 (Cowdray Park) in Bulawayo Hapson Nyasha Ncube (MDC) has died. Clr Ncube died yesterday morning at Mater Dei Hospital and the cause of death has not yet been establi...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane will not be buried with crooks at Heores acre
The family of national hero Professor Phinias Makhurane has snubbed a National Heroes Acre burial, insisting instead on interring him at his rural home in the Gungwe area of Gwanda.Family spok...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:20hrs | 4781 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo holds funeral service for Prof Makhurane
BULAWAYO will today hold a funeral service for the founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust), Professor Phineas Makhurane, an academic giant who pushed for t...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:44hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) remains a controversial figure in colonialism and imperialism studies. Paul Maylam's 2005 publication is useful in confronting debates on his role in the colonization of ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1024 | by Brian Maregedze
West Nicholson bus inferno victims named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has identified the names of people who died in the West Nicholson bus disaster two weeks ago.In a statement, ZRP spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner C...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 21:58hrs | 2759 | by Staff reporter
22 West Nicholson bus accident victims positively identified
There is progress in the process of identifying victims of the West Nicholson bus accident as the Department of Applied Genetic Testing Centre at the National University of Science and Technology (NUS...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 3958 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa badly wants a deal with Mnangagwa
FROM the time Nelson Chamisa entered mainstream politics as the youth chairman for the then newly formed MDC in 1999, his ambitions were quite evident. At the time all he was armed with was political ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 14009 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mai Chaza; Guta Ra Mwari's first God in human flesh
1960 was a remarkable year for Africa, 17 African countries got their independence from colonial rule on that very year. It was also the year God Departed with Her Holy Host after six years (195...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 12:53hrs | 5321 | by Taurai Chirandu
Death by 'snake bite' in deep well story takes new turn
THE story of a Lupane man who was allegedly fatally bitten by a snake in a 49-metre deep well has taken a new twist amid claims that he fell to his death in the shaft after a rope he was using broke. ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:59hrs | 4087 | by Staff reporter
'Give NPRC more powers to deal with Gukurahundi of the 1980s'
A Matabeleland South traditional leader has called on government to amend the Constitution to give the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission more powers to allow it to bring closure to the emot...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:05hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Chief Maduna takes Gukurahundi issue to UN
Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu of Fibalusi in Matabeleland South has taken his plea for the setting up of a special commission to investigate the Gukurahundi atrocities to the United NationsChief Vezi...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 14:00hrs | 2687 | by Zenzele Ndebele - cite.org.zw
Cremations 'threaten' Zimbabwe's ancestral spirits
Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare."For you were made from dust,...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 981 | by Brian Hungwe
Is Linda Masarira right on violent MDC militia?
Linda Masarira the spokesperson of the MDC-T led by Dr. Thokozani Khuphe has come under fire after being quoted on state media that MDC member were trained in acts of sabotage by a group of Serbians. ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 11:11hrs | 3014 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC Alliance accused of recent fire outbreaks
MDC-Alliance sent some of its members for military training in some southern African countries ahead of the July 30 harmonised elections and the recent outbreak of fires in several cities could be the...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:33hrs | 3306 | by Staff reporter
Drama at sex worker's burial
HOOKERS stopped a Catholic priest from giving a graveside speech with their seductive dances arguing that their departed friend was never into church.Sex workers accommodated in the Avenues hi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:52hrs | 5493 | by Staff reporter
Doctor ordered to pay $20 000 damages over negligence
A Mutare farmer who lost his wife due to medical negligence has been awarded $20 000 in damages after an eight-year legal battle. The High Court last week ordered Dr Miriam Kanyenze to p...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally declares West Nicholson accident a national disaster
Local Government minister July Moyo told journalists yesterday in Bulawayo that another person had died later on admission at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, bringing the death toll to 33. ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:47hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Accident victims to be buried after two weeks
THE identification of the Brooklyn bus accident victims will take two weeks with the Government calling on families of the victims to be patient as authorities go about the meticulous process of ident...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:39hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Paupers' burial for 80 bodies
A TOTAL of 80 bodies of paupers were laid to rest at Luveve Cemetery last Thursday before sunrise.Pastors that included Reverend Archford Balance and Washington Jembere and councillors Febbie ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:29hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
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