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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 | 377 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
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
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
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
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
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
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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
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
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
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
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
Chiwenga suffers from a rare condition
Zimbabweans in the social media have taken chances to cartoon the Vice President Cde Chiwenga because of his unique pronunciation of the words with letter "L" in English. Most people have found joy in...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 14:45hrs | 18 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Parent involvement helps students to do well
To date, quality education has become one of the important points in the development of a social individual. But no one is born with good academic skills. So some students need more attention and guid...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:31hrs | 36 | by Agencies
'I was labelled a prostitute'
HAJIRAH Belinda Potts was recently crowned Miss World Zimbabwe at a colourful ceremony in Domboshava's Orchid Gardens, shrugging off stiff competition from 13 other contestants. NewsDay Life &...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim state broadcaster played cartoons during Chamisa's presser
Some Zimbabwean viewers did not get to hear Chamisa vow to prove that he was the true president, because ZBC decided to prioritise cartoons instead.The Zimbabwean state broadcaster found a way...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 13:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
The story about Chamisa's wife
It really looks like Nelson Chamisa is missing something and we are all not being helpful at all. The boy is missing something terribly, yet we choose to stay political with him as if he is a re...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:43hrs | 3 | by Bishop
Mugabe fires Muchinguri, Chinamasa, Mushowe and 29 Mnangagwa allies - REPORT
Several unconfirmed reports are claiming that 32 key allies of under-siege Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have been fired from Zanu PF, and will likely be expelled from government.According...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 12:51hrs | | by Khuluma Afrika
Snail smugglers nabbed with R26 million haul
TWO Mozambicans have been arrested at Plumtree Border Post while allegedly smuggling R26 million worth of sea snails weighing almost two tonnes.A third unnamed accomplice allegedly escaped aft...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Education and Fancy Clothes Do Not Erase The Savage Nature of Humans
It hasn't been long since a lot of us finally got our lives back - after enduring the massive media hype that surrounded the fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. Just like every other bo...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Nimi Princewill
ZUJ looking for bloggers and journalists
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has called for all interested bloggers and journalists to post their blogging material/work onto its newly-created website portal, The ZUJ Bloggers.In a...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The young dynamic Mthethwa
Hie, my name is Emms Nyambose and I am 28 years. I am young upcoming artist who has not got the exposure to show what Zimbabwe (Bulawayo) has got. I write this article because of the many undiscov...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 16:33hrs | | by Emmanuel Mthethwa
Zimbabwe bloggers hacked after Mugabe memo
A Zimbabwean online platform for bloggers claims to have been hacked after publishing an article on 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.The article by ilizwi263 blogger ...Published: 21 Dec 2016 at 08:04hrs | | by ilizwi263 team
Screaming headlines won't win polls
Recent trends in some sections of the media have served to confirm the lack of depth and quality in the country's opposition parties. It can be argued that this misfortune has even led to the ruling p...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Nicole Hondo
Bulawayo animators to tackle folktales
FOLKTALES which have been passed down through generations since time immemorial will soon be brought to life as they will be shown on the big screen.This was revealed by Zenzele Ndebele, the p...Published: 24 Feb 2016 at 11:06hrs | 17 | by Nhlalwenhle Ngwenya
Open Letter: Chronicle cartoonist must resign
We write in reference to a cartoon by the Chronicle cartoonist Musapenda on the Chronicle of 4 February 2016. We need to put it on record that whilst appreciating that Musapenda as an art...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 14:50hrs | | by Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights
Fist fighting is the characteristic of MDC-T
Morgan Tsvangirai's references to himself as being imbued with leadership qualities are laughable and misplaced in a serious autobiography. The man has no nationalist institutional memory apart ...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 18:45hrs | | by Stewart Murewa
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
'Zimbabwe army ready to deal with any threat'
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces is prepared to deal with any insurgent groups that might pose a threat to the peace and tranquillity the country is enjoying, Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-Ge...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 06:13hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Zim to host Fourth Southern Africa Journalists Association congress
Zimbabwe will, this year host the fourth Southern Africa Journalists Association (SAJA) congress for two days this week, it has been learnt.Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) announced th...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 07:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZUJ on Cartoons and pictures programmes of accountability
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has begun the process of implementing a program that will use visual media such as cartoons and pictures to enhance accountability while ensuring the safety...Published: 12 Jun 2015 at 06:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe bus robberies in South Africa
time to reflect on ways of doing businessRecently a number of Zimbabwean buses bound to South Africa carrying mostly small to medium business people an...Published: 11 Jun 2015 at 15:17hrs | | by Collen Maenda
Tsvangirai faces Doom
At this moment in time fresh storm is brewing in the MDC-T with party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, threatening to dissolve the party's provincial structures accused of waging a social media campaign to ...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Stewart Murewa
Pakistan condemns fresh caricatures of prophet Mohammed
Islamabad - Pakistani lawmakers on Thursday criticised fresh caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed which appeared in a special edition of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, officials said....Published: 15 Jan 2015 at 14:15hrs | | by Sapa
Jilted Zimbabwean man jailed in UK for ex-girlfriend attack
A FATHER who dragged his ex-girlfriend from her bed by her hair before cutting it off in a jealous rage was today jailed for a year.Ian Hassen, 28, took Rebecca Watton, 29, from her bed and c...Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 13:33hrs | | by Agencies
A Zimbabwean cartoon project launched online
It started as a simple project by a team of cartoonists throwing in ideas and making funny scenes through a culture window. Fast forward the scenes, the project has caught the attention of many Facebo...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:19hrs | | by Chido Wilcox
Algerian court refuses bail for Facebook blogger
Algiers - An Algerian court on Sunday refused to release on bail a blogger held for nearly a month for posting cartoons on Facebook lampooning the president, his lawyer told AFP.The judge in A...Published: 20 Oct 2013 at 10:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No justification for Tsvangirai's 'demonic' fall in front of Zanu-PF's eyes
As Zimbabweans, we have a serious problem of making our political leaders little gods. No matter how wrong they are we go to death saying they are right and in the process we create huge beings that w...Published: 09 Oct 2013 at 14:33hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Emirates keeps children entertained this season
Emirates, which flies daily from Harare to Lusaka and Dubai, has plenty to keep its younger travellers happy whilst they travel this holiday season. From its inflight entertainment system ice, rece...Published: 05 Jul 2013 at 12:57hrs | | by Mathews Estell
Lift illegal and racist sanctions against Zimbabwe - NLM youth formations
DECLARATION OF THE MEETING OF HEADS OF YOUTH LEAGUES AND WINGS OF POLITICAL PARTIES OF FORMER LIBERATION MOVEMENTS HELD AT FREEDOM PARK, TSHWANE, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRIC...Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 12:01hrs | | by ANCYL
Cop in court for possessing 350 cartoons of Zed destined for Bulawayo
A Fairbridge police officer was last week arraigned before the courts after he was found in possession of 350 cartoons of illegal Zed whisky from Mozambique.Allec Mataruse (39) of Fairbridge P...Published: 08 Mar 2013 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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