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Gold miner buried alive as flash floods hit river
A tragic accident unfolded in Umzingwane District when flash floods swept through the Lunga River, burying a 20-year-old illegal gold miner alive in a pit that was meant to be his livelihood. The mine...Published: 19 hrs ago | 171 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says opposition leaders cannot liberate Zimbabwe
OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa has criticized self-serving opposition leaders, stating that their lack of gravitas and focus on personal gain undermines efforts to liberate Zimbabwe from its cur...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 04:51hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family buries Lesotho citizen in tragic body mix-up
A family from Cross Roads, Mangwe, was left in shock after discovering they had buried the wrong body two months ago, a mistake that saw them laying to rest a Lesotho citizen instead of their relative...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 16:58hrs | 1241 | by Staff reporter
Why Botswana's shift has Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF on edge
As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changin...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 14:39hrs | 1253 | by Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
Another State-assisted funeral for Mashonaland accident victims
Eight victims of a tragic road accident that occurred near Hwedza on Tuesday have been granted State-assisted funerals, Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training Minister and Hwedza South...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:22hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
8 die in Hwedza-Goto road accident
A devastating accident on Wednesday afternoon has resulted in the deaths of eight people and left 11 others injured when a Nissan Caravan veered off the road and overturned multiple times before landi...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 17:10hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Tragic morgue mix-up: Family buries stranger in Mangwe district
What was meant to be a solemn farewell for their beloved son turned into a shocking and bewildering ordeal for the Ndebele family from Matanka Two Village in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South. The f...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 08:10hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Attempt on Zuma's life flops?
Police arrest 51-year-old man for drunk and reckless driving after he crashed into Zuma's armoured state vehicle.South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma survived a car accident after a vehi...Published: 29 Mar 2024 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shona youth that attack Matabele possessed by the demon of gukurahundi
Shona youth that drive all the way from Mashonaland to Matabeleland armed with machetes and fire arms to invade Matabeleland and violently attack and kill...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 23:53hrs | 35 | by Israel Dube
'23 years of sanctions embolden Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S story is that of resilience, innovation, people-centred policies and the undying resolve to defeat illegal Western sanctions that have continued to pound the country for over 23 years....Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Survivors petition chiefs over Gukurahundi hearings
A CIVIC society organisation (CSO) fighting for victims, the Gukurahundi Genocide Survivors 4 Justice (GGS4J), has cautioned traditional leaders not to be hoodwinked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala raring to flex muscle
FORMER opposition Zengeza Member of Parliament, Job Sikhala, says he will embark on "Thank You" rallies for the support he received from ordinary citizens across the country while he was in detention....Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mines minister orders stop to artisanal mining
Mines Minister Soda Zhemu has called on artisanal miners to "completely stop" mining activities during the current rain season which poses a high risk of mine disasters.In a statement, Zhemu a...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa made lots of mistakes; he is trying.' Participating in flawed elections out of greed in NOT a mistake. Trying what?
Zimbabweans love burying their heads in the sand and see and hear only what they want to see and hear - even in the face of a mountain of evidence saying otherwise. There is a dear price to be paid fo...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 12:39hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mthuli Ncube's budget dilemma
DON'T tell me what you value, show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value:" Joe Biden.Ordinarily, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube should have presented the ZWL$47,8 trillion 2024 nation...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:59hrs | 10 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Insimbi ZeZhwane's triumphant return
AMID a palpable buzz of anticipation, over 2 000 fans packed Palace Hotel Gardens on Friday last week to witness a triumphant comeback by Insimbi ZeZhwane, just three months after the tragic loss of t...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora called Mnangagwa after ZEC's decision to bar 87 of his MPs
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora called President Emmerson Mnangagwa to air his grievances over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's (ZEC) decision to bar 87 of the party's aspiring Parliamentari...Published: 15 Aug 2023 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Death sentence passed by Zimbabwe court
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday sentenced to death Tapiwa Makore Snr (60) and Tafadzwa Shamba (40) for the murder of a Murehwa boy.Mutevedzi said the duo showed no mercy ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
4 arrested for assaulting chief over burial
Four villagers from Boroma resettlement area in Masvingo Central have been arrested for public violence after they teamed up with a mob on Wednesday that assaulted their traditional chief, Chief Murin...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's son says 'It will be a big mistake to vote for Zanu-PF'
ZAPU leader, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has criticised how Africa is divided, allowing imperial interests to divide the continent while misgovernance and abuse of human rights by post-independent governments...Published: 26 May 2023 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
To see the saboteur, Mr President, look in the mirror
NewsdayHAVE we seriously gone back to blaming ghosts and shadows for the economy bottoming out?Are we going to be turning every stone, nook, and cranny looking for perceived "saboteurs...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bus crash toll rises to 14
Another passenger has died from injuries sustained when a Timboon bus crashed at the 5km peg along Chivhu-Murambinda Road, taking the death toll to 14.Mr Cephas Muringani (46) succumbed to his...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zanu-PF is burying opposition-led councils
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said that the government is "burying" opposition-led councils across the country. He made the remarks while addressing a Zanu-PF rally in Marondera on Saturday....Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Man (68) axed to death over infidelity, buried in sorghum field
A 68-YEAR-OLD Maphisa District man was allegedly killed by two men after being accused of having an affair with one of the suspect's wive.According to Police, they have since arrested Member N...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF Midlands strengthens cell, village structures
Zanu-PF has embarked on a cell and village structure building verification programme in the Midlands province as it leaves no stone unturned in its bid to make sure that President Mnangagwa and the pa...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to answer questions in Parly
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) member of Parliament for Mbizo, Settlement Chikwinya, has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to attend the National Assembly and answer to pressing issues fac...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 70 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Mnangagwa chronicles how his clan fled to Zambia
President Mnangagwa yesterday chronicled how the Mnangagwa clan moved from Zvishavane communal areas to Zambia during the colonial era when he and his siblings were still teenagers.The Preside...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Be patriotic, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe will remain for Zimbabweans and outsiders intending to contribute towards developing the economy should do so without dictating the path for citizens, who have the rights to do that themselve...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family exhumes body for reburial at family shrine
A Kwekwe family has been forced to exhume the remains of one of their family members for reburial at their rural home in Chipinge, Manicaland province amid claims that the deceased's burial in the Mid...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings rival Chiwenga to his knees
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has brought his bitter rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to his knees - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress which ended in Harare yester...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time for Zimbabweans to reclaim lost glory
THE Communities in Action Platform (CAP) last month penned down reflections on the economy to alert the responsible authority, government, and bring awareness to the general citizenry on the deteriora...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Martin Stobart
Zanu-PF and MDC bigwigs unite in mourning Information boss Nick Mangwana's mother
IN true African tradition, opposition MDC president, Douglas Mwonzora joined Zanu-PF top officials in mourning the death of Information Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana's mother in Kwekwe Saturday....Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Fury over Heroes Day celebrations at Bhalagwe mass graves
MATOBO villagers have taken exception to government holding Heroes Day celebrations in Matabeleland South at Bhalagwe mass graves where Gukurahundi victims are buried.The infuriated villagers ...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
60% of population owns houses
Almost 60 percent of Zimbabwean households own their home and more than 83 percent of Zimbabweans now live in modern houses and flats, showing both the high levels of home ownership and the rapid impr...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sadc wilfully blind to Zimbabwe political, economic crises'
POLITICAL analysts have taken Sadc to task for ignoring political violence in Zimbabwe in their recent statement on peace and security.Their concerns came in the wake of a glowing synopsis of ...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ziyambi in feisty Gukurahundi exchange
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Vice President Tendai Biti and Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi had a feisty exchange in Parliament this week over the exhumation and reburial of victims of the 198...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
Family demands compensation for United Bulawayo Hospitals death
FOR eight months, a family from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb did not bury the body of a loved one who died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he fell from the third floor of a building at the insti...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family demands compensation for UBH death
FOR eight months, a family from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb did not bury the body of a loved one who died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he fell from the third floor of a building at the insti...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 07:00hrs | 19 | by Staff Reporter
Paranoid Zimbabwe regime that sees enemies everywhere can't be trusted with solving country's problem!
In our growing up, we were told of individuals who were always prone to accusing their enemies (whether real or imagined) for everything that went wrong in their lives.When they fell sick, in ...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:27hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Brother pushes for late Johane Marange High Priest's exhumation
THE late Johane Marange Apostolic church leader Noah Taguta's brother, Clements Momberume, has been granted an interim interdict barring the sect from using the sacred burial shrine he was buried at i...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blames sanctions for Zimbabwe health sector woes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has blamed sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western powers for crippling the county's health sector.Addressing delegates at the national Independence Day celebrati...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa delivers a 'glowing' speech at the Independence Day celebrations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered a 'glowing' speech at the Independence Day celebrations in Bulawayo, Monday, which showed a country that is on a recovery path, particularly under his administra...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 18:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the Goliath Complex Afflicts
My early days in primary school were dominated by the story of Goliath, the giant of Philistine.Goliath's name was onomatopoeic; this sonorous name heavily suggested physical hugeness afflicte...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mugabe's children stand their ground
CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so.This emerge...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 8 | by Staf reporter
CCC duplicity: insidiously participated in rigged elections banking on '(violent) peaceful protests' to end Zanu PF dictatorship
Zanu PF is rigging the 2023 elections! No one in Zimbabwe should ever say they did not know this! "Team Pachedu said a total of 170 867 addresses that were in the 2018 voters roll have been ed...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 12:54hrs | 9 | by Nomusa Garikai
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