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DJ Shugeta bashes secret lover over light
National FM radio presenter Tafadzwa "Dj Shugeta" Ben (30) has been dragged to Chitungizwa magistrates courts by his secret lover Power FM radio presenter...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:00hrs | 847 | by Paul Ndou
Ghosts of colonialism still haunt Zimbabwean names
In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings.As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and onomastics (the scient...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Mangena
Go well my friend, Cde SK
COMRADE Simon Khaya Moyo is no more. He has joined the pantheon of Zimbabwe's finest patriots throughout the ages. Of recent note are fellow heroines and heroes of Chimurenga II who sacrificed to bury...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:12hrs | 14 | by Amb Chris Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa rallies Team Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied Team Zimbabwe competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and said he is proud to see young swimmer Donata Katai leading as one of the flag bearers at the world's biggest...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fertility doctor in court for sexual assault
A PROMINENT Harare medical doctor Tinovimba Mhlanga (36) was Monday brought before a Harare magistrate facing aggravated indecent assault charges after he allegedly inserted his fingers into the priva...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean swimmers in SA for trials
PROMISING swimmer, Donata Katai, says she is motivated by the support she has been getting. She left the country yesterday for the South Africa Olympic trials that get underway tomorrow in Port ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry salutes new pool queen Mikayla
YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has saluted child sensation Mikayla Makwabarara and backed her to grow into a world-class swimmer.This comes as Makwabarara broke the...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jessie Majome: 'Salute' A Zimbabwean woman breaking the glass-ceiling!
Quote: Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will, "She doesn't have what it takes."...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 16:37hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
9th Anniversary ZAA UK Nominees Out
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards UK (ZAA UK) have released the much anticipated list of nominees for the 9thAnniversary ZAA UK event set for Saturday 25 May 2019 in London at The Millennium Gloucester Ho...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 09:28hrs | 5 | by Agencies
Chamisa's much ado about ZEC, ballot paper
Change is in the air for this election in more ways than one. Voters in Zimbabwe will be presented with a new format ballot paper on July 30, 2018. They will not see the usual ballot paper, where Pres...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Vusi Nyamazana
Why I married Olinda, Tytan speaks
Those who thought the relationship between musician Tytan (born Njabulo Nkomo) and social butterfly Olinda Chapel was a publicity stunt plucked from a Hollywood movie scene got a shock of their lives ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man, the silliest animal
A soldier looks at buildings ravaged by war in SyriaIT is perhaps true that human beings in their true state of nature began as citizens of a small world in a huge planet; through intelligence...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
SPEECH by Mugabe - What is your cause today?
AMAI Murozvi and the bereaved Murozvi family,Vice-President, Comrade Emmerson Mnangagwa and Amai Mnangagwa,The President of the Senate, Mai Ednah Madzongwe,...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Robert G Mugabe
WATCH: UK based Zimbabwean drink driver launches car in air over big roundabout, with baby inside
A UK based Zimbabwean woman who launched her car in the air, while driving under the influence, after failing to negotiate a roundabout has been sentenced for two driving offences,.According t...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chameleon: Patterns in the Ubuntu and Aboriginal Culture
My name is Wisdom my sister is Respect.My last name is LOVE so is Respect.My life based on Truth gains me Respect.My cousin Honesty loves sister Respect very much.M...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mavambo et al foot-stomping rejection of BVS sends political shock wave
In a very rare moment of genius (common sense amongst this lot is so rare it is considered genius) a few of Zimbabwe's opposition parties have actually said something that is sensible. They have conde...Published: 28 Jul 2016 at 23:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Time to change from our dogmatist approach
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest" Maya Angelou. The resonance of wise words by Maya Angelou allow for applic...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by Tanaka Karanda
Kirsty Coventry honoured again
NEW YORK - Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry survived an epic year by Egypt's Farida Osman to claim a record eighth Swimming World Female African Swimmer of the Year award.In a particularly difficult...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 05:08hrs | | by Sports reporter
The Good Days
If you remember what I'm about to say then all I can say is you are old now ugugile wakwegura. Today I have just decided to remind people of the good old days in the then Zimbabwe, our country which h...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 16:25hrs | 1 | by Thandekile Zikhali
Kirsty Coventry carries Zimbabwe medal hopes
Zimbabwe hopes to clinch its first medal tonight in the finals of the swimming competitions when Kirsty Coventry, Peter Wetzlar and Sean Gunn return to the pool.Coventry managed the best t...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 16:02hrs | | by Sports reporter
Tsvangirai blames SADC for rigged 2013 in a blame-some-one-else stupid game!
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai uses the final release of the Zimbabwe 2002 election report by the SA government to blame SADC for Zimbabwe's rigged 2013 elections as well; a cowardly move that cannot ...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 06:18hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Big Bother Africa finalists off to South Africa
Five finalists who auditioned to represent Zimbabwe in Big Brother Africa Season 9 are set to leave for South Africa this week where two housemates will be selected.The auditions held at the M...Published: 15 Jul 2014 at 09:26hrs | | by Tafadzwa Zimoyo
Mugabe blames the system he created
President Mugabe continues to blame the system he created Zimbabwe is now perfectly designed (at a structural, or systemic level) to get the results it now delivers. Corruption and economic decline a...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 06:33hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Kenny Kunene launches a political party
The Patriotic Alliance's details were available on the Independent Electoral Commission's website on Wednesday.The contact person was Thapelo Kenny Kunene. The Citizen newspaper reported tha...Published: 27 Nov 2013 at 13:46hrs | 2 | by Sapa
UK based Zimbabwe an nurse on a mission to build a school for poor children
A poor rural primary school in Zimbabwe is set to benefit from the proceeds from a Zimbabwean nurse based in the UK whose book launch and fundraiser scheduled for 9 November 2013 in Bristol, UK. ...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Muzvare Betty Makoni Empowerment Initiative
Bosso touch heavens with vintage show
HIGHLANDERS touched the heavens on Saturday, with a vintage second-half show that had champions written all over it, as they cleared one of their toughest hurdles in their bid to end six years of wait...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 04:20hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Swimsuit makers produce swimsuits that turn athletes into barracudas
NEW YORK - The sharkskin has been retired. The swim bladder, too. For London's Olympic swimmers, the watchword is more "barracuda", the Reuters reported.Swimsuit makers...Published: 18 Jul 2012 at 03:25hrs | | by Reuters
Here and There - ibhavu yemalokitshini
A Chronicle roving photographers on an assignment to cover Makopo's (Emakhandeni's) water woes on Tuesday captured a woman proudly holding her waist in front of a queue waiting for a water bowser fro...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by Courtesy of the late William Phiri
Headman killed by a butterfly, witchcraft suspected
IN a suspected case of witchcraft, a 64-year-old Gokwe village head collapsed and died when a butterfly flitted around him and landed on his chest while he was picking cotton in his fields.The...Published: 29 May 2012 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry named the Female African Swimmer of the Year for 2011
The Zimbabwean swimming sensation, Kirsty Coventry was on Tuesday named as the Female African Swimmer of the Year for 2011 after her exploits in the pool at this year's 10th All Africa Games in Maputo...Published: 29 Nov 2011 at 21:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Men Across America Organize
National Strategic Planning Summits for Black Male AchievementFathers Incorporated and The Black Star Project Help Coordinate25 Cities to ...Published: 25 Oct 2011 at 08:10hrs | | by Kenneth Braswell
Zimbabwean, NoViolet Bulawayo's 'Hitting Budapest' takes the 12th Caine Prize
Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa's leading literary award, for her short story entitled 'Hitting Budapest', from The Boston Review, ...Published: 12 Jul 2011 at 14:44hrs | 10 | by .
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