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Nelson Chamisa: The Biblical Joshua that never was
With Zimbabwe being largely a Christian nation where religion and politics are juxtaposed, the former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa touted himself as the Biblical Joshua sa...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:17hrs | 642 | by Brighton Chiseva
Cigarettes worth R100 000 seized in border operation
SOUTH African border security officials on Monday destroyed a wooden raft used by criminals to smuggle goods between Zimbabwe and the neighbouring country. The team also recovered smuggled cig...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust mbanje smuggling racket
THE police intercepted a contraband of mbanje (dagga) and illegal cough syrups that was being smuggled into the country via the Beitbridge Border Post.The value of the illicit drugs which were...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabweans praise Executive Coaches bus plying the Harare-Bulawayo route
In the dynamic landscape of travel, there's a new player in town, and it's poised to revolutionize the way we journey between Harare and Bulawayo. Fly One Logistics proudly introduces Executive Coache...Published: 30 Mar 2024 at 13:43hrs | 364 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
'We want regime change!' clamoured Mt Pleasant 'fat cows'. They did not get it, punishment for decades of navel-gazing
A picture is worth a thousand words. A recent Zimbabwe Daily cartoon was one such picture. It depicted Mt Pleasant resident family, the fat cows in Pharaoh's dream, shouting "We want change! Ngaapinde...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:01hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
CCC and MDC were led same corrupt leaders and both accomplished nothing. Same again are leading new blue party!
There is an eye-catching Zimbabwe Daily cartoon depicting a Yellow Kobi with three drivers (the three rotational presidents in the Tshabangu CCC faction). The Kobi has no wheels and resting on bricks....Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Excited by the killings: How The Chronicle covered the Gukurahundi genocide
AbstractTHIS paper examines and interrogates the role of the state-controlled media during the Gukurahundi genocide in Zimbabwe. Gukurahundi is a genocide that took place in Zimbabwe betwe...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9 | by Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube
2 500 Cowdray Park houses connect to Zesa
FOR almost two decades, Mrs Juliet Sithole was not able to use a fridge while her children were somewhat divorced from watching cartoons on television and playing video games. They would use t...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 20 | by George Mkhwanazi
US diplomat outlines an ambitious vision for Zimbabwe
BOTTOM LINE- The US Embassy in Harare has identified the potential for Zimbabwe to become a growth hub for Southern Africa.- This is a curious conclusion to draw given the fact that Zi...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 18:33hrs | 10 | by Michael Walsh
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 14 | by Israel Dube
ZimDaily recycling a discredited historical myth
While most progressive Zimbabweans are genuinely outraged by renegade political activist Sengezo Tshabangu's calculated and determined assault on democracy at the behest of forces of darkness by disru...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:32hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Tribalists advised not to perpetuate a stereotype that King Lobengula betrayed the struggle for sugar
Media lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Professor Mphathisi Ndlovu advised media houses that representation matters in their content. This follows the publi...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tribal rifts widen in Zimbabwe after stupid cartoon
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, the perpetual tribal conflicts are becoming more intense. Most tensions exist between the Shona people, the country's largest tribe, and the Ndebeles, who ...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 21:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZIMDAILY CARTOON: Chamisa told to distance himself
Leading community activist and Zimbabwean Community in South Africa leader, Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena, has called upon the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, and the party to...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 10:12hrs | 56 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabweans resort to comedy to cope with failing economy
Zimbabweans are resorting to comic relief in the face of a failing economy, as the local currency loses value by the day. After all, laughter is the best medicine.This week, government workers...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean author to turn book into cartoon series
EUROPE-BASED Zimbabwean academic, writer and poet Mthulisi Ndlovu (27) is set to publish a children's book titled Maria Goes To Africa, which he says is based on Afrocentric history paying more attent...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa portrayed as a two-headed snake
Former Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Norton legislator Temba Mliswa recently got emotional after being ridiculed for his Zanu-PF links by a ZimbabweDaily cartoonist. The ...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo' insist Mnangagwa - Reality, Zimbabwe is a failed state in ruins, mocks him
On Monday, 12 December 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwean entities and removed seventeen Zimb...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 10:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe paying the price for not holding leaders to account
AS much Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders.I try to imagine if I h...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Tendai R Mbofana
Let's not be a nation of stooges!
Zimbabwe scares me, sometimes!It is terribly unsettling and outright creepy, to say the least, whenever I watch how some Zimbabweans treat their leaders....Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 19:17hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans not silent accomplices of Zanu-PF oppression
Zimbabweans have never been silent accomplices of their oppression with citizens expressing their grievances through cultural artefacts, a South Africa based academic has said.Speaking a...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
South African police crackdown on tobacco crime
Police in South Africa's Limpopo province has intensified their crackdown on the smuggling of cigarettes between the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe.Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi, Mutoko learners access digital resources without data connection
Learners in Chiredzi and Mutoko districts are set to access digital resources without data connection through Rural Light Program, an initiative of a Not For Profit Organization, Teach For Zimbabwe (T...Published: 30 May 2022 at 15:23hrs | 7 | by Chamunorwa Matanhike
Desmond Tutu dies
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90.Tutu, the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Cape Town.President Cyril Ramaphosa sa...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF a terrorist organisation MDC Veterans Activist Association (MDC VAA)
MDC Veterans Activiust Association (MDC VAA) National Spokesperson Mandava Blessing has described the Zanu PF as a terrorist organisation following admission by Zanu PF Commissar Patrick Chinams...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa to turn Around Zimbabwean fortunes
MDC-A President Advocate Nelson Chamisa is being seen as the beckon of hope by many Zimbabweans. The current and previous ZANU PF administrations have dragged the once prosperous country into the mud....Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 10:46hrs | | by Prince Njagu
Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe
"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prices continue to skyrocket beyond reach of citizens ...as basic commodities now beyond reach of many
MDC Alliance MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has said the basic commodities like bread, meat, sugar and cook...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 07:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
What has gone wrong with South Africa's Constitutional Court?
For many years, our Constitutional Court basked in glory. It was lauded worldwide. Its judgments were studied in legal academies around the world. Many of our judges were in demand to teach seminars o...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:53hrs | 7 | by Ziyad Motala
South African study reveals how people perceive emoticons
Most of the youngsters, including people both from the millennial and Gen Z generation prefer to use their smartphones, not only for staying active on different social media platforms but also for cha...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:31hrs | 4 | by Staff Writer
Mohadi's Covid-19 contact tracing app fails to take off
FORMER vice-president Kembo Mohadi launched a non-existent Covid-19 contact tracing mobile application a year ago, Zimbabwe Independent investigations have revealed.The contact tracing applica...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
101 Amazing Facts About the Life and works of Emperor Haile Selassie
On the occasion of the 129th birthday of the Emperor, I have selected one out of 101 extraordinary achievements he accomplished during his reign: from Ras Tafari- Emperor Haile Selassie. The May 5th V...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza originally written by Mulugeta Haile
R3m cigarette smugglers nabbed
SOUTH African police have arrested two suspected Zimbabweans caught with R3 million worth of Remington Gold cigarettes they were smuggling into that country through the Beitbridge border post....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
A plot to dethrone Matanga from police exposed
Once again social media was abuzz with Twitter messages spread by Temba Mliswa attacking the Police Commissioner-General Godwin Tandabantu Matanga. Themba is a big mouth and an attention seeker who ha...Published: 27 Jun 2021 at 23:12hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
History will absolve Mwonzora
MDC-T president Douglas Mwonzora (DM) has often been described as a sellout and likened to Rhodesia-Zimbabwe quisling Bishop Abel Muzorewa.Mwonzora, nicknamed "Mwonzorewa" by critics who are d...Published: 20 May 2021 at 22:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Skiing in the Dolomites
The dream skiing holiday requires appropriate preparation and the choice of the best location. A guarantee of the appropriate weather? Great skiing conditions? Rich tourist infrastructure? You will fi...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 10:59hrs | 11 | by Staff Writer
Makandiwa a 'Sanballat and Tobiah' of our time
Over decades and if not centuries, the world vaccinated and controlled measles. The world vaccinated and stopped polio in its tracks. Tuberculosis is under control because of vaccination. The same goe...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 17:19hrs | | by Tirivanhu Kateera
Zimbabwean man fined R40 000 for smuggling cigarettes into SA
A 25-year-old Zimbabwean man has been fined R40 000 by a Polokwane Magistrate Court for smuggling into South Africa 330 cartons of Remington Gold Cigarettes worth R87 000.Walter Madhongi was a...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble in General Chiwenga's backyard?
Marondera town is a constituency by the official name Marondera central constituency with around 40 000 voters and was under MDC MP Caston Matewu before being recalled. So there is a pending by-electi...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 18:53hrs | | by Anonymous
Morgan Komichi, the Simon Khaya Moyo of MDC
"It had become evident that his conduct in the discharge of his duties had become inconsistent with his official responsibilities. The Vice President has consistently and persistently demonstrated tra...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 09:40hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
South Africa police in R1 million cigarettes haul
THE South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested three people for illegal possession of 707 620 cartons of cigarettes valued close to R1 million all of Zimbabwean origin.The arrest was mad...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Which era had the best dramas?
So brilliant were their exploits such that long after the closing credits, their action on the small screen lingered, never to be forgotten.Their delivery was so sublime. Decades later, snippe...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Prince Mushawevato
Mhondoro-Ngezi Shadow MP eases the struggles of old people
At a time in Zimbabwe's electoral cycle, when elected officials forget those that voted them into political office and concentrate on fattening their own welfare, shadow Mhondoro-Ngezi Member of Parli...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Own Correspondent
Unite against big business' deathly grip
THERE is a lot to criticise about what is going on, but not all price increases we are seeing are that inevitable because in many cases, these are contrived with many big retailers taking advantage of...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Top dog fashion trends to follow in 2019
It's hard to keep up with the latest fashion trends and always dress to impress, especially since the designers' preferences for certain colors, fabrics, and patterns change at least twice a year. How...Published: 27 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | 5 | by Staff writer
Fuel crisis has nothing to do with MDC unconstitutionalism
Some of the problems Zimbabwe is facing today are clearly due to faulty thinking resulting in people mixing issues —and not knowing what the idiom "fair game" means.For starters, if Presiden...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:32hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe National Dialogue happening in the coming week
On 24 April at Harvest House press conference Nelson Chamisa responding to State of The Nation (online) reporter Tafadzwa Nyikadzino on him seeming to be a choir master singing all of Zimbabwe's probl...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Terence Simbi
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