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Son bashes mother's boyfriend
A Harare woman has been granted a protection order against her son, whom she accuses of violent and controlling behaviour rooted in disapproval of her romantic relationship.Bridget Chigwedere ...Published: 04 May 2025 at 20:22hrs | 1415 | by Staff reporter
Mudslinging, namedropping intensify ahead of ZIFA polls
The race for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency has intensified, with candidates raising objections against rivals as the vetting of their credentials continues. The elections, set fo...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 15:43hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Objections filed against Kweza, Magaya, Machana nominations
The ZIFA Normalisation Committee is facing significant scrutiny after receiving objections to the nominations of Martin Kweza, Prophet Walter Magaya, and Philemon Machana for key roles in the administ...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 10:30hrs | 1171 | by Staff reporter
2 Paralympic athletes to represent Zimbabwe in Paris
Zimbabwe will be represented by two athletes at this year's Paralympics in Paris. The team, coached by the legendary Paralympian Elliot Mujaji, includes sprinters Kudakwashe Chigwedere and Tinotenda B...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 13:45hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Hysteria attack at Mashonaland school
LEARNERS at Chigwedere Secondary School in Hwedza experienced hysteria attacks, and turned violent, forcing the school to suspend lessons.School authorities had to seek assistance from traditi...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mubaiwa village headmanship wrangle rages
THE fight for the Mubaiwa headmanship has continued even after the death of former Education minister and Mashonaland East governor Aeneas Chigwedere with villager Raines Chadoka accusing him of havin...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rivalry rocks NPRC
Zanu-PF's factional fights have spilled into the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), where President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reconfigured the commission booting out a top commissioner ...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 triggers fatal disputes
COVID-19 is said to be one of the major causes of a surge in disputes within communities and has also contributed significantly to loss of lives.This was said yesterday by National Peace and R...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
MDC-C finalising Chamisa assault report
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende yesterday disclosed that the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition party had resolved to lodge an official complaint with the National Peace and Reconciliation Co...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hasn't filed violence report
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has acknowledged political violence perpetrated by the ruling Zanu-PF party on the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa, but said it would not lau...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: Politics of sabotage in 'Jambanja'
The opening chapter of Eric Harrison's memoir, "Jambanja" (2006) is telling in that it places Zimbabwe in the context of the many sanctions the country had been exposed to, either by the United Nation...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 13 | by Elliot Ziwira
Gukurahundi a very sensitive issue: NPRC
NATIONAL Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) deputy chairperson Lillian Chigwedere yesterday told Parliament that the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s was a very sensitive issue which still ne...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu appointed NPRC spokesperson
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) yesterday appointed former MDC-T vice-president Obert Gutu as its spokesperson and chairperson for its complaints handling, investigations and l...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa swears in Gut and NPRC commissioners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped a busy day by swearing in six new commissioners to the Zimbabwe Peace and Reconciliation Commission (ZPRC) at the State House.The six commissioners, who ar...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu shortlisted for NPRC interviews
FORMER MDC vice-president Obert Gutu, who recently defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party, has been shortlisted as one of the 30 candidates to fill eight vacancies at the National Peace and Reconciliati...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament nominates candidates for Peace Commission posts
The Parliamentary Committee on Standing Rules and Orders (CSRO) has nominated 30 candidates who include former MDC-T vice president and lawyer Obert Gutu for interviews on those aspiring to become Nat...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC boss granted bail over tender
ZESA Holdings' distribution arm, ZETDC's managing director Lovemore Chinaka, was yesterday granted $30 000 bail on allegations of violating tender procedures involving US$1 405 920. He was also ordere...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
People should not celebrate death
The country recently lost Cabinet ministers Sibusiso Moyo (Foreign Affairs), Joel Biggie Matiza (Transport) and Ellen Gwaradzimba (Manicaland Provincial Affairs), as well as former Primary and Seconda...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Angry Citizen
Chigwedere buried
Former Education Minister and Mashonaland East Governor Aeneas Chigwedere, who succumbed to Covid-19 on January 22, was buried yesterday at his farm in Marondera. Soon after his death, Preside...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CONDOLENCE SUPPLEMENT: High profile deaths rise as Covid-19 surges
ZIMBABWE is reeling from a sharp surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. By 23 January 2021, the country's caseload was at 31,007 while fatalities were at 974. The victims include high pro...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 19:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi Ziyambi hospitalised, battling for his life in the ICU
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs retreat to farms as Covid-19 bites
SEVERAL government and Zanu-PF bigwigs have retreated to their farms and villages as the Covid-19 pandemic bares its teeth with four Cabinet ministers having died so far and President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Goodbye Aneus Chigwedere
In as much as the death of a person is not celebrated, but the death of Chigwedere brings about relief and a possible leeway to historical justice. Chigwetere out of his hate for Mthwaka...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 18:54hrs | 4 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Aeneas Chigwedere dies of Covid-19-related complications
Former education minister, Mashonaland East governor and historian Aeneas Chigwedere has died at the age of 81. His son Casper said his father died following "Covid-19 related complications"...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Defence takes police officer to task over Mafume bribe claim
Defence lawyers on Thursday chipped away at prosecution claims that Harare mayor Jacob Mafume tried to bribe a key witness in his impending corruption trial.A senior police officer was forced ...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 18:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC mayor charged with contempt of court
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume today appeared in court on obstruction of course of justice or alternatively contempt of court for allegedly interfering with a key witness, Edgar Dzehonye, in another matter...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man kills co-tenant
A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly severely assaulted his co-tenant until he fainted, rushed him to hospital where he pretended to be his next of kin and disappeared when doctors called and informed him th...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi's State Of the Nation Address
Good evening Mthwakazi Omuhle ondlela zimhlophe.I wish to have started by acknowledging the so called Zimbabwe's hereos and defense forces day, but I am too angry to go through such kind of fo...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 21:43hrs | 6 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
MDC Alliance urged to avoid violence
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) has urged MDC-Alliance to put in place strategies to ensure demonstrations called for on August 16 do not degenerate into violence. In a...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Does Bona Mugabe's censorship board still exist?
The last time the nation heard of a Censorship board was when Ignatius Chombo was the Minister of Home Affairs. Then Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo announced a new Board of Censors that...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
Evidence that Shonas arrived in Zimbabwe 300 years ago (1700's)
Dr. George MacCall Theal, Translator of Portuguese Documents to EnglishLet us start off t...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:55hrs | 20 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, PMP
Biti says, 'Mthuli is a loud mouth that doesn't have a connection with its brain'
Wednesday 5 June 2019 saw Honourable Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's former and without doubt most successful Finance Minister this Century, visit Chatham House in Westminster, London.Honourable Tenda...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Thabo Makuyana
Chigwedere seeks son's incarceration
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has approached the High Court, seeking a 30-day jail term against his son, Mangwiza, in order to compel him to undergo paternity tests as the witchcraft sag...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Embracing ICT in Pedagogy of History and Heritage Studies in Zimbabwe
Three schools in Harare on 1st March 2019 converged at Seke One High school in Chitungwiza for the History Exchange program under the theme, Embracing Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 09:57hrs | 18 | by Brian Maregedze
Call to end violence against women and girls in public transport
In pursuance of the creation, promotion of safe spaces for women and girls, and the provision of gender responsive public services, ActionAid Zimbabwe (AAZ) and the Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 13:30hrs | 23 | by Alfred Towo
Chigwedere plots to dethrone Chief Svosve
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has filed an affidavit in support of a High Court application filed on October 7 by one Aaron Maruta, who is seeking to dethrone Chief Svosve, real name Wes...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere wins order to force son to undergo DNA test
FORMER Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere, who is embroiled in a nasty witchcraft saga with his son Mangwiza, has obtained a court order compelling him to undergo DNA paternity tests.Chigwed...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Missing polling station in Harare
There was a missing polling station in Glen View North Constituency in Harare as polling stations opened Monday, the Election Resource Centre has said."The polling station that was meant to be...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigwedere, son ordered to get paternity tests
Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has been ordered to have his son Mangwiza undergo a paternity test after the politician disowned his offspring after he accused him of practicing witchcraft...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Board of Censors in limbo
THE new-look Board of Censors, which was appointed in May last year, has not been operational since November 15 last year and are awaiting regularisation.The members of the statutory body hold...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shona man axed in tribal attack
A 27-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo allegedly axed another man saying he was of the Shona tribe and that disgusted him.Bekithemba Dlamini tried to strike Mr Fanuel Marecha (28) on his side, but he...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unlicensed taxi driver jailed for killing pedestrian
A BULAWAYO man who was driving a taxi without a driver's licence and was involved in an accident which killed a person, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison.Nkosi Moyo (41) from Emganwini...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa and the Scarf became inseparable
As my friend Robert Mukondiwa aptly puts it; since the turn of the century and even as early as the advent of Independence, Zimbabwe has been battling to define a culture that makes its mark on the wo...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Opposition parties, CSOs promoting culture of violence
Recent developments in the public domain in which MDC-T youths assaulted the party's co-Vice President Thokozani Khupe and Secretary General, Douglas Mwonzora and attempted to burn a hut in which the ...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:49hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
Mthwakazi activists accused of misdirecting their anger
CHRISTIAN lobby group, Shalom Project Trust, has rapped Mthwakazi activists for disrupting a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) outreach programme in Lupane on Monday, describing the ...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Shona commissioners cause abortion of gukurahundi consultative meeting again
ACTIVISTS led by separatist group Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were at it again yesterday when they disrupted a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) consultative meeting in Lupane....Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPRC condemns violence
NATIONAL PEACE AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION PRESS STATEMENT CONDEMNATION OF ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE:The National Peace and Reconciliation...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 16:50hrs | | by L'tian Chigwedere (Commissioner)
WATCH: Shona dominated commission disrupted
SOME Bulawayo civil society groups led by separatist movement Mthwakazi Republic Party yesterday disrupted National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) stakeholder consultations challenging the...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 01:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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