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Zanu-PF MP blames opposition for loss of livelihoods
Parliament has urged the government to conduct a comprehensive investigation into a spate of fires that have recently devastated informal trading spaces and buildings in Harare. The call for inquiry f...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:33hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
EU avails €3m for urban communities in southern Africa
The European Union (EU) has allocated €3 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to assist vulnerable urban communities in southern Africa, focusing on Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Madagasca...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare gives ultimatum to CBD property owners
THE City of Harare has warned owners of dilapidated buildings in the central business district (CBD) to refurbish their properties.The city also advised the proprietors to make written present...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Non-Aligned Movement is a big sham!
Is there anyone who is genuinely unbiased and neutral in their views or stances on particular issues?We can even move on to the political landscape.Who can claim to be totally impartia...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 19:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe flyovers a ticking time bomb
RESIDENTS in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, are suing the government over some defective flyovers.The residents, through their association, Harare Residents Trust (HRT) are seeking a High Cou...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 10:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue govt over defective flyovers
HARARE residents are suing Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona, over some defective flyovers, which are posing a serious safety risk to inhabitants of the capital city....Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 20:49hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's ouster inspired author
BULAWAYO-based author Lucky Zihundi says the late former President Robert Mugabe's fall from power in November 2017 struck a chord in him to put pen to paper and come up with the novel On the way to D...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and Other Leftist Heroes: Progressive Endorse Tyranny
The death of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe sparked a controversial debate about leftist heroes and their legacy. Many progressive activists and intellectuals have hailed Mugabe as a liberator who ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 11:32hrs | 9 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Bogus cop arrested in Harare
A 31-year-old Harare man has been arrested for taking US$10 from a motorist after he masqueraded as a police officer who was conducting traffic blitz in the central business district.The suspe...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe citizens less willing to embrace new street names
FOR the one-year period he has been selling wooden utensils in Harare's central business district, Blessing Magocha (35) has been using popular buildings and landmarks as a meeting point with his clie...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Ntando Dumani
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa's govt told to deliver free education
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa should fulfil his promise of free education made in 2017 following a major fee hike by the Unive...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by @ Jamwanda2
MDC mayoral fights hold city to ransom
MDC-Alliance has simply turned Harare into a circus. Mayoral fights pitting councillors Jacob Mafume and Musarurwa Mutizwa, both claiming to be in charge of the city, have further exposed the shortcom...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Works on Mbudzi flyover start today
Construction of the vital Mbudzi Interchange Flyover in southern Harare is expected to start very soon with contractors moving on site today to work on the detour roads for diversion of the perennial ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
More buses, new train coaches coming
More than 288 new buses will be delivered next month, while an additional 279 are expected before year-end to boost Zupco's capacity to provide an efficient and reliable mass public transport system, ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Billiat signs new Kaizer Chiefs contract
KHAMA Billiat has finally ended the uncertainty surrounding his future after signing a new two-year contract at South African football giants Kaizer Chiefs.The 30-year-old Zimbabwe internation...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intelligence tactics, not juju saved Big Josh, says ex-aide
The late Father Zimbabwe Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo is known to have evaded many assassination attempts by his enemies during the liberation struggle, hence the name Chibwe Chitedza.As the countr...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaliphani Phugheni pounces on the smaller fish but exonerates the mighty crocodile
It is not different: the modus operandi is the same: Phugheni sees no evil in Mnangagwa but sees loads of evil in Obert Gutu. This is the same with Jonathan who blamed Gukurahundi to Mnangagwa and les...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 14:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabweans in 1 million Pula heist
TWO Zimbabwean men are languishing in a Botswana prison after being arrested for armed robbery where a local businessman lost cash and valuables worth 1 million Pula in Gaborone.Castro Ncube (...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF commits to non-interference'
Zanu-PF will respect the principles of state sovereignty and non-interference as each country in the world has the right to determine its own destiny, the ruling party national chairperson Oppah Muchi...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Katsande set for Chiefs exit
FORMER Warriors skipper, Willard Katsande, is among a group of players who could move away from Kaizer Chiefs, at the end of the season. South Africa's glamour football club are trying to find a way o...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat is back
Kaizer Chiefs forwards Khama Billiat and Leonardo Castro appear set for a return to action after being spotted back in training at The Village.The Fifa international break may have caused desp...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bosso at the same level with Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns
FORMER Zimbabwe international, Robson Muchichwa, says Highlanders are an African football giant at the same level as Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns. The ex-Kaizer Chiefs ...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Is UK impeding Zimbabwe's democratisation?
WHERE persuasion does not work, the big powers continue turning to sanctions.The imposition of sanctions against perceived powerful individuals in "undemocratic regimes" like Zimbabwe has been...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
'Town clerk' escapes police chase
Self-appointed acting Harare City Council town clerk Engineer Zvenyika Chawatama yesterday escaped arrest on charges associated with abuse of office after evading the police in a dramatic high speed c...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
David Chapfika and the Jatropha years, a memoir
David Chapfika came along as a snappy dresser- shiny suits and foreign cologne were the hallmark.As a rookie reporter with New Ziana then, I had the opportunity to mix and mingle with the elit...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:25hrs | 6 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Khama Billiat suffers fresh setback
Kaizer Chiefs have suffered a fresh setback after revealing that talisman Khama Billiat faces an extended period on the sidelines after suffering a leg injury.Amakhosi announced on Tuesday tha...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Billiat thanks Chiefs boss
KHAMA Billiat who played a starring role in Kaizer Chiefs' 1-0 win against Primeiro de Agosto on Tuesday to put the Soweto club through to their first-ever Caf Champions League group stages‚ says Am...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Billiat, Katsande fight for their future
Zimbabwe's international football stars Khama Billiat and Willard Katsande have been placed among five players who are "fighting for their future" at South African Premiership giants Kaizer Chiefs....Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cuba to bring more doctors
Cuba is set to increase the number of medical doctors operating in Zimbabwe on a Government-to-Government arrangement, a development that is expected to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two co...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Jonathan Moyo's advice is premised on "cut yangu yakamira sei" in the future dispensation, then this country is in for a joke
Listening to the lecture Jonathan Moyo gave in last week one-hour video now circulating in the social media, it felt sick in the pit of the stomach. It is for this reason one must be careful what soci...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 20:22hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Dark web criminal bought 'quadrillions of Zimbabwe bank notes'
A drug dealer who used dark web marketplaces to ply his trade apparently used part of the proceeds to buy vast quantities of Zimbabwean cash.The FBI said Richard Castro, of Florida, had bought...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 20:57hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwe opposition and lost opportunities
Election 2018 was largely considered a landmark event for the different meanings and opportunities that were attached to it, particularly for the new faces in the presidential race, Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Russia double-crossed ZIPRA with ZANLA?
Regarding a joint Zimbabwe-Rhodesian and South African military strike in Mozambique against ZANLA / FRELIMO in September 1979 (Operation URIC - ZRSF / Operation Bootlace - SADF), queries have been as...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 16:57hrs | 6 | by John Frame
A dying (public) intellectualism in Zimbabwe
THE late Masipula Sithole taught me (and many others) how to perceive and think about our country, Zimbabwe's politics.Not only formally via the university lecture room, but also more signific...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
The view from up here
Stalin's Chicken Part One: The case of Zimbabwe Just as axiety.org describes Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Jos...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 19:03hrs | | by Peter Muzira
How Mugabe survived assassination in Gutu
Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Kenny Ridzai, makes stunning revelations about their confrontation with the British authorities after they had been sent as the advance team for...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat best player in PSL, says Kaizer Chiefs coach
Cape Town - Kaizer Chiefs coach Giovanni Solinas gave high praise to Khama Billiat on the weekend, saying he is the best player in South Africa.Billiat scored Amakhosi's first goal in their 2-...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Four weapons of mass destruction Chamisa needs, to bury the evil system in 2023
I'm not so sure if Nelson Chamisa would love to dine with the devil in an Inclusive Government but that is up to him and the MDC T National Standing Committee. It is unfortunate that I have wrote this...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 15:05hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Aide shares memory of Joshua Nkomo
One of the founding fathers of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo, a larger than life character is still alive in the hearts of many, for he was and still is an ico...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's tactics persist in first election without him
Most Zimbabweans have only ever known one president: Robert Mugabe.But on July 30, a new man will represent the ruling party on the ballot for the first time in 38 years. Emmerson Mnangagwa, w...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:10hrs | | by WashingtonPost.com
Mzilikazi honoured for Copa success
MZILIKAZI High School in Bulawayo tasted the joy of winning the country's most prestigious schools football tournament, the Copa Coca-Cola, four times when they received a donation of books from the s...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporterq
Plumtree High School old students seek to privatise school
PLUMTREE High School Old Prunitians (OPs) are seeking avenues to engage the Government to privatise the school.The idea to privatise the school was mooted in 2013, after some OPs conducted som...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa knows that Western countries are more interested in business than democracy
When new Zimbabwean president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ursuped power from then leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in a military coup, in November last year, he knew fully well that there would not be an...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teenage Hadebe scores his first goal for Chiefs
WARRIORS' defender, Teenage Hadebe, scored his debutant goal in the Absa Premiership that helped his side Kaizer Chiefs beat Free State Stars 1-0 at Goble Park on Wednesday night.The for...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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