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WATCH: Zimbabwe snake charmer succumbs to Puff Adder bite
A well-known Chinhoyi snake charmer, Show Chedhu, popularly known as "Mabhemba," tragically died early Thursday morning after being bitten by a Puff Adder, one of the most venomous snakes in the regio...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:16hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
British newspaper brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a 'dreadful fellow' after state visit to UK
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been labelled "a dreadful fellow" by the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, where he was described as a man who prefers "folded stuff" over chequebooks.In the...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by jamwanda
'Nelson Chamisa wants elections postponed for 7 years' Charamba says
CCC President Nelson Chamisa wants elections in Zimbabwe to be postponed for 7 years, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says. Writing on his weekly Saturday column in the state-owned H...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 09:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is changing the game
Within a few days, President Mnangagwa threw serious warning shots.Some are already calling them silencing shots.The President gave opposition opportunists a teaser of forthcoming attr...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Which way Prof. Ncube?
Somebody observed rather poignantly ,that every cobbler , house wife ,vendor and taxi driver in Zimbabwe is a spontaneous master of economic phenomena , aerodynamics ,football formations and medicine!...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Three children burn to death
THREE children from Tsholotsho were burnt beyond recognition while four others were saved by their 12-year-old sibling after a fire gutted a room they were sleeping in while their parents attended a f...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo: From pedigree political scientist to high profile political witch!
The man who once and severally gave Zimbabwean retired president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a most thorny political bed! The political scientist who once belonged to the stable of The Big Five intellectu...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 14:17hrs | | by Reginald Thababi Gola
'PSL has vendetta against Highlanders'
Ndumiso Gumede might be enjoying his retirement but he is still in touch with events in local football, neither has he lost interest in the sport that gave him fame.The former Highlanders chie...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meet Zimbabwe's own snake charmer
With every video he posts on Facebook the fame of Chawatama Marimo, or Chawa as he is commonly known, has increased as thousands of eyes marvel at his mystifying skills.While Zimbabweans h...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 08:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ex-District Administrator arrested over mbanje
A FORMER Plumtree District Administrator has been arrested for selling marijuana, known locally as mbanje.Khululeka Charmer Mabuza, 45, of Rangeo Suburb in Plumtree, said he had been strugglin...Published: 02 Mar 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
When the bitch is back in heat!
I WILL share this one with you my reader. After all, my performance in the past weeks has been culpably erratic.So this other day a friend taps my shoulder, a sure sign aida kundibatisa (to co...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 08:38hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Post Mugabe Era fantasy back fires
Recent developments in Zanu-PF, which have seen the public unmasking of vultures who have been abusing their positions of trust to betray the nation is the perfect warning against the pitfalls of appa...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 14:23hrs | | by The Herald Editorial team
Zambia Hunts for Successor 58 - Cabinet Crisis: Time to defang and cure Sata
As the Honorable Minister shut the door to his official car, a sense of worthlessness threatened to overwhelm him. He closed his eyes and felt anger rising in tandem. "This is too much," ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 18:34hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Witchcraft scare as strange creatures drop from ceiling
RESIDENTS of Mutare's Dangamvura high-density suburb were last Thursday left shell-shocked after a pack of "mysterious mongooses" were exposed after dropping from a ceiling at a house in the Area 14 s...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Has Mugabe made his choice?
President Robert Mugabe returned home on Friday and chaired a no-holds-barred politburo meeting on Saturday, settling in one stroke his party's succession feud at an epic meeting that saw his deputy J...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 04:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
In defence of Liz Tsvangirai
Just how did my fellow Zimbos become such hypocrites. I sit here and read this story on Elizabeth Tsvangirai's alleged love affair with one Kennedy Ngirazi. Now, let's just get one thing very clear, ...Published: 25 Aug 2013 at 08:32hrs | | by Curvaceous
Mugabe - towering figure that confounds critics
Love him or loathe him, one thing is beyond dispute: President Robert Mugabe, in the words of the late hero Stan Mudenge, is "a man of unmistakable intellect, great oratory skills, alluring wit and c...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 06:18hrs | | by Annonymous
Robert Mugabe rebrands, rises from the ashes
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe goes to the forthcoming elections with a spruced up image, after over four years of leading a fractious coalition government, analysts have said.After the 2008 bloody e...Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by Patrice Makova
Mugabe's many faces
WELSHMAN Ncube, the Minister of Commerce and Industry and leader of one of the factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), lost his grandfather in the 1980s Gukurahundi. The violent Guk...Published: 04 Feb 2013 at 17:13hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I guardian.co.uk
Girl snatches mum's boyfriend, elopes with him after getting pregnant
A Bulawayo woman has been left nursing her love wounds after being dumped by her boyfriend who later eloped with her 15-year-old daughter, who surprisingly is still in grade 6!The girl (name s...Published: 05 Jul 2012 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
This and that with Maluphosa:- Khukhulawun
The setting sun always brings over me an enigmatic melancholy - the one that must have been felt by the great king Lobengula when it dawned on him that he had lost his vast kingdom to Rhodes, for eve...Published: 24 Jun 2012 at 19:03hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Ebusuku - Mauzah Releases Scintillating Video
In her otherwise unbeknown poem, Kaavyaa Kriday, once wrote that Night is not the time to rest; Night is the best to party. It is the time the subconscious rocks. This bewilderment of ideas is lively ...Published: 09 Jun 2012 at 03:45hrs | | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
Mugabe praises Benjani
President Mugabe admires the autographed soccer jersey that was presented to him by former Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari at State House yesterday √ɬ¢√¢‚Äö¬¨√Â...Published: 26 May 2012 at 22:13hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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