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South Africans languish in Zimbabwe prisons
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has told IOL that scores of South African nationals are languishing in Zimbabwe's Harare Remand Prison, awaiting deportation, after they were arrested for breachin...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:33hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs, Churches unite to promote religious tourism
CHIVHU - As custodians of culture working closely with clergymen, several chiefs and indigenous churches in Chikomba District (Mashonaland East province) coalesced into establishing infrastructures wh...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 12:05hrs | 356 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Chikomba
Rohnan Nicholson makes history with podium finish at Tour of Angola
Zimbabwe's Rohnan Nicholson has made waves in the cycling world by securing a podium finish in Stage 1 of the prestigious Tour of Angola. His impressive performance not only showcased his skills but a...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 12:37hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Bosso bombshell
Highlanders Football Club has made sensational claims that their abandoned Chibuku Super Cup quarter-final match against Simba Bhora was rigged, accusing match officials of orchestrating the chaos tha...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 09:59hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors face grim Afcon draw
Zimbabwe's national football team, the Warriors, faced a setback in their FIFA rankings after recent losses to Lesotho and South Africa, dropping seven places to 129th globally and 38th in Africa. Thi...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
South Africa stun Morocco to clinch Afcon quarter-final slot
Second-half strikes from Evidence Makgopa and Teboho Mokoena earned Bafana Bafana arguably the shock result of an Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) characterised by upsets as they sent World Cup finalists...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZBCtv Secures Full Broadcast Rights For 2023 AFCON
The broadcasting rights for all fifty-two games of the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in the Ivory Coast have been secured by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television (Z...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans can now go to Angola visa-free
ANGOLA has joined the growing list of countries in Africa allowing visa-free entry.The move passed in a resolution last week will allow visa-free entry for 90-day stays to nationals from over ...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Charumbira survives PAP ouster bid
AN attempt to unconstitutionally dethrone Pan-African Parliament (PAP) president Chief Fortune Charumbira, led by his second vice president Dr Ashebiri Gayo from Ethiopia, fell apart spectacularly aft...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 09:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry confident Warriors will play at home
Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry is confident that the senior national team, the Warriors, will play their matches in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers at home following the ...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Warriors in World Cup draw
ZIMBABWE has been placed in one of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying draw pots ahead of the expected lifting of its ban by the World governing body.A delegation from Fifa, Caf and Cosafa are ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 20:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces renewed HIV funding burden
ZIMBABWE is facing a renewed HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) funding burden, health officials have said.Speaking at a regional workshop recently in Harare, chief di...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Maridadi seeks new markets for Zimbabwe products
As the manufacturing sector continues to increase production driven by favourable policies introduced by the Second Republic, Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal James Maridadi has decided to help the fi...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy gets land from Senegal for production of white maize
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Senegal has been availed with more land to spearhead the production of white maize in a diplomatic show of food security initiatives that the continent is putting in place....Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 07:50hrs | 37 | by Staff Reporter
Biden's US$55 billion fails to entice African countries to ditch Russia
FRESH from the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, with a US$55 billion financial package over the next three years, African leaders from the region find themselves confronted with a reality check of a...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now 80 years old
ON what was his 80th birthday, President Mnangagwa chose to put in a full day shift on duty as he joined other Heads of State at the inauguration of Angolan President Joao Lourenco in Luanda yesterday...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malema praises Chief Charumbira
SOUTH Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader, Mr Julius Malema, says anyone could have been elected as leader of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) but they found Zimbabwe's Chief Fortune...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Southern African opposition parties need to form a shadow SADC to represent oppressed masses!
It has now become an open secret that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is nothing more than a leaders' club, which seeks to serve and protect the interests of those in power, at the e...Published: 16 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Warriors date Bafana again
FORMER Warriors coach, Sunday Chidzambwa, believes the senior national football team have been drawn in a fair Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group that has Morocco, South Africa and Liberia....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Oliver Mtukudzi releases latest album 'Abiangi'
My Better Half, the latest duet from the late music icon Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's features a fellow Zimbabwe Afro-fusion musician, Mbeu.The song, released by Gallo Record Company and Tuku Musi...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
James Maridadi optimistic
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to Senegal Mr James Maridadi is optimistic that the embassy would be officially accredited in Mali, Guinea Conakry and the Gambia this year.Ambassador Maridadi represents...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga were not present at the formation of the Patriotic Front in 1976
The People of Zimbabwe were united under the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Z.A.P.U).When Z.A.P.U. was banned, the party leadership decided that it will not form another political party, aga...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:41hrs | 15 | by Report Phelekezela Mphoko
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement propaganda hollow, falls flat
WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home last week blowing his own trumpet about his purported diplomatic victory at the United Nations climate change summit in Glasgow, the reality that he ma...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA removed from UK Covid travel red list
Zimbabwe has been removed from UK Covid travel red list, the British government has said.According to BBC, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other 45 countries will be removed from the red list, whic...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 20:33hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe hits 3 million first jabs
More than 3 million Zimbabweans, 20 percent of the entire population, have now entered the national vaccination programme by having their first shot of Covid-19 vaccine with more than 2,157 million of...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 8 | by William Jethro Mpofu
1 million more doses expected today
Another one million Covid-19 Sinovac doses are expected to arrive today taking Zimbabwe's total deliveries to over 11 million doses, as the country goes overdrive to protect its people from the pandem...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination rates continue to dwindle
While the third wave of Covid-19 infection continues to trickle down to just 4,8 percent of its mid-July peak, the vaccination rate is also continuing to slow with 286 134 jabs given last week between...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba to miss Bafana showdown
MARVELOUS NAKAMBA is now certainly out of the Warriors' 2022 World Cup qualifier against South Africa, next week. The English Premiership revealed they will not release any players for matches set for...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Warriors date Sadio Mane
THE Warriors will open their 2021 AFCON finals campaign against Senegal's Lions of Teranga, whose quest could once again be spearheaded by Liverpool superstar, Sadio Mane, on January 10, in Bafoussam,...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warriors face tough Afcon draw
THE Warriors will not have it easy in tonight's 2022 Africa Cup of Nations' (Afcon) finals draw for the showcase to be held next January and February in Cameroon.For the draw, the 24 teams tha...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warriors suffer biggest plunge
ZIMBABWE were the biggest losers in the world in the latest FIFA rankings after the country plunged four places down the table into 112th place. The Warriors shed four places down the ta...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mapeza rejected Warriors job, why is it that ONLY Mashonaland coaches are given that chance?
NORMAN MAPEZA was offered the chance for another romance as the Warriors coach, ahead of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, with the coach ready for a return to the ultimate job in domestic football. Howe...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
West Africa bloc currency ECO to launch in 2020
Leaders of a 15-nation West African bloc have called for greater structural reforms as they step up efforts for the introduction of a shared currency, aimed to be launched in 2020.In a stateme...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - End of an era, resilience of a vision
Speaking notes for ZAPU statement at the funeral of party President Dr. Dumiso DabengwaNtabazinduna, Umguza District, Matebeleland North, ZimbabweDr. Strike Mkandla, Secretary GeneralSatur...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:09hrs | 11 | by Dr. Strike Mkandl
Corruption is the elephant in the room
No rocket science is needed to appreciate that, coupled with the debilitating effects of sanctions, corruption is one of the major drivers of the political and socio-economic decay in Zimbabwe today. ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Obert Gutu
30 heads of State console Mnangagwa
More than 30 Heads of State and Government from across the world have sent messages of sympathy to President Mnangagwa following the Cyclone Idai disaster, a development seen as a sign that Zimbabwe's...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The best destinations for an ethical holiday
Whether it's changing our diet, thinking about how we consume materials in our everyday lives or deciding on where's best to spend our next holiday, it's fair to say that a lot of us are getting much ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 21:17hrs | 14 | by Staff Repoter
Fierce battles for Afcon finals slots
The 24 countries to play at the Total 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt will be known at the end of the week when the final round of qualifiers are played across the continent.While some slo...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by CafOnline
Zimbabwe is not the worst country on earth!
At the beginning of this new weekly column, more of which is going to come in the next months and years Inshallah, let me make this humble appeal to the authorities on behalf of the suffering resident...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 15 | by Baffour Ankomah
Mauritius and Rwanda top the countries with freest economies in Africa
The African Countries Ranked by Economic (Freest Economies). Mauritius is proving to be the best destiny in Africa to do business as it topping the list and is Africa's most developed country. The...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Enos Denhere
Rigged votes aren't just an African thing
AFRICA has a reputation for particularly poor quality and controversial elections. I have just come back from Zimbabwe, where the election campaign was heated and the outcome explosive.When de...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Nic Cheeseman
Zimbabwe through the eyes of Ghana
On December 31, 1981, when Fte./Lte. Jerry John Rawlings seized power in a military coup in Ghana, it was the second time he had burst onto the political scene; the first was in June 1979. Back then, ...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Dr Ayittey
Do we celebrate International Day of Democracy in Zimbabwe?
Friday 15th September 2017 is International Day of Democracy whereby we should be found promoting the need to strengthen democratic means world-wide including Zimbabwe. This would promote peace and st...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Pythias Makonese
Musona flirts with greatness
KNOWLEDGE MUSONA'S first half goal - the first on his way to a memorable hat trick in the 3-0 demolition of Liberia last Sunday - was another historic statistic for the new Warriors skipper.Th...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Musona magic
KNOWLEDGE MUSONA became the first Warriors captain to score an AFCON hat-trick - and the first Zimbabwean footballer to do so in 22 years - with a breathtaking individual performance rich in both puri...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranked among the most fragile states in the world
Zimbabwe has been ranked among the most fragile states in the world - just a few weeks after President Robert Mugabe, 93, insisted that his country was the "most highly developed country in Africa aft...Published: 27 May 2017 at 17:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mapeza to take charge of Warriors's 2019 Afcon battles
EXACTLY seven years after Norman Mapeza guided the Warriors in their opening 2012 Nations Cup qualifier against Liberia, life will come full circle for the gaffer when he, once again, takes charge of ...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farai and the Forest Dawn take band to new heights with star performance at London’s prestigious Rich Mix Theatre
LONDON - From the centre stage of Islington's prestigious O2 arena to the heart of one of the biggest theatre venues in the UK, Farai and the Forest Dawn (FFD) have joined the hub for real artists fro...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 22:54hrs | 3 | by Tidi Kwidini
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