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Mohadi in mid-air chopper scare
A MILITARY helicopter carrying Vice-President Kembo Mohadi was yesterday forced to abort landing at the Josiah Tungamirai Airbase, formerly Thornhill in Gweru and return to Harare under unclear circum...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4759 | by Staff reporter
Drones, choppers to police Zimbabweans borders
THE Government is mobilising resources to procure drones, helicopters including all-terrain vehicles to improve the efficacy of patrols along the country's borders with neighbouring countries. ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Chopper reunites Chimbetu siblings
One of the surviving founders of the Orchestra Dendera Kings, Allan Chimbetu, will next Saturday lead a coterie of the Chimbetu siblings in commemorating the death of Simon "Chopper" Chimbetu....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:56hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean contract killer faces competition in Mozambique'
The Mozambican government is reported to have hired a Dubai based private military contractor to compete with the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) owned by Zimbabwe's Retired Colonel Lionel Dyck in fig...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 20:26hrs | 12636 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga tours Mashonaland East
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday toured a number of COVID-19 isolation centres in Mashonaland East as the fight against the deadly coronavirus intensifies. Chiwenga, who flew to China las...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:37hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Zambian army arrest Zimbabwean Pastor for drug smuggling
Zimbabwean born Pastor of Mount Zion Christian Centre in Zambia Kyka Ncube (also known as David Ncube) has been caught in the eye of the storm after he was dramatically i...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 16:03hrs | 4995 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The liberation war was not a stroll in the park
A shot rang breaking the tense silence, followed by a high pitched cry associated with death and severe anguish. A crack shot enemy sniper had taken out comrade Bvuma, number two in command of a group...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 94 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zanu-PF's game of fools to deceive the downtrodden
THIS week, two leaders of the Zanu-PF youth league were seen in public ranting against corruption. These were sights reminiscent of youths high on "bronco", shouting at their own reflections in the lo...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12hrs | 468 | by Muckraker
Stampede to check if Mugabe is really dead
THOUSANDS of people yesterday stampeded to view the body of the late former President Robert Mugabe at Rufaro Stadium, where he took his first oath as the country's founding Prime Minister at midnight...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:06hrs | 2350 | by staff reporter
Thousands bid Mugabe farewell at Rufaro
Thousands of mourners, mainly from five provinces, yesterday braved the scorching heat as they thronged Rufaro Stadium in Mbare to bid farewell to national hero and former President Robert Mugabe who ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 05:51hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visits San community
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday landed in the San community area of Makhulela in rural Plumtree aboard an Airforce chopper, becoming the first high-ranking official to arrive in such style in ...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:29hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Botswana President survives near-chopper crash
Reports from Botswana indicate that the country's President Masisi survived a potential helicopter crash in the country's second-largest city Francistown on Saturday.In a statement issued by t...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 12:40hrs | 7258 | by Mandla Ndlovu
American billionaire Tudor Jones flies into Zimbabwe
Sixty-four-year-old American billionaire - founder of Tudor Investment Corporation and Hedge fund manager - Paul Tudor Jones II landed at Buffalo Range Airport in Chiredzi yesterday afternoon aboard a...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:22hrs | 1864 | by Staff reporter
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 13931 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
Chimanimani will never be the same again
The thought of 'lost in a nightmarish reverie soon' gave way to reality of unparalleled disaster, in no time I was in pitch black darkness, injured and alone. Super time had come and gone like...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:03hrs | 688 | by Thomas Murisa.
Airlifted leather sofas trigger PR disaster as Mnangagwa meets Idai victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa made his way to Manicaland this week to take in the damage from Cyclone Idai and meet with officials responding to the disaster, but the trip was sullied by featherbedding...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:37hrs | 3755 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe deploys defective chopper
THE Air Force of Zimbabwe deployed a defective helicopter to Chimanimani which failed to do anything on its first day after the weather finally cleared to permit them to make an aerial assessment of t...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 18:50hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to tour cyclone-ravaged areas
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is reportedly planning to visit the Cyclone Idai-ravaged Manicaland province this week for a first-hand assessment of the disaster and appreciate the needs of the ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:32hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean military chopper fires tear gas at demonstrators
A Zimbabwean military helicopter on Tuesday fired tear gas at demonstrators blocking a road and burning tires in the capital on a second day of deadly protests after the government more than doubled t...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 12:43hrs | 1037 | by AP
Chamisa's MDC calls for probe into crashed military chopper
Nelson Chamisa's opposition MDC has called for an inquiry into an Alouette III helicopter that was forced into crash landing in the Mchakazi area in Gutu Central this week.The helicopter crash...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:39hrs | 3860 | by Staff reporter
Official must be held accountable for crushing military helicopter
The crush landing of a military chopper in Gutu exposes the rot in the public sector. That a public official, a mere Permanent Secretary flies around on private visits in a military chopper is mind bo...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 14:01hrs | 2607 | by Jacob, Mafume MDC National Spokesperson
Zimbabwe army chopper in forced landing
An Alouette III helicopter carrying Secretary for Defence and War Veterans Mr Martin Rushwaya force-landed in Gutu on Saturday after developing a mechanical fault. No one was injured in the in...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:42hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Panic as military chopper lands in Jerera
People at Jerera growth point and surrounding areas were thrown into jitters last Thursday after an army helicopter landed twice in the area.Various leaders in Zaka confirmed that there was an...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:12hrs | 3985 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targets rogue soldiers
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe will lead a seven-member commission of inquiry tasked with investigating circumstances leading to the post-election violence of August 1.The ap...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 13:02hrs | 4146 | by Staff reporter
UK in Zimbabwe: From tragedy to farce
A poetic cliché by Karl Marx which claims that in the life of nations "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce" does not only keep gaining new meanings for all countries but at ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:05hrs | 4453 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Villagers relive horrific battle
FOR 88-year-old Mrs Bhikhayeli Moyo (nee Dube), reliving the events of February 1979 is like recalling a gruesome scene from a horror movie, as it is the day her village of Ratanyana in Kezi ran red w...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:52hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
The treatment of our nurses is unpatriotic
Nurses can only render quality services if their work environment provides conditions that support them and the patience. Positive work environments are important in achieving patient and employee saf...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:07hrs | 386 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Spare us these arrests and sex tapes
As the election mood gathers momentum, the mudslinging and smear campaigning have been propelled to another level. The arrest story of MDC-T Acting President Nelson Chamisa on allegations of causing a...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 14:09hrs | 4651 | by Leonard Koni
Funeral UPDATE: Tsvangirai's body in army chopper
The body of the late former Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is now at One Commando and is it now on board An Agusta 412 bell helicopter which is set to airlift it to Humanikw...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 13:01hrs | 14879 | by Staff Reporter
How Oliver Mtukudzi sheltered a Zimbabwean refugee in downtown Harare
Music is soulful shelter. I became a refugee when I discovered potential life hidden in the works of Mbare-born guitarist Louis Mhlanga and the late Mozambican Afro-Jazz singer Gito Baloi and slowly r...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 17:07hrs | 2471 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa poisoning witch-hunt
A senior Zanu-PF official has sensationally claimed that one of the passengers in a helicopter ride to a presidential youth interface rally held in Gwanda last August tried to take the life of then vi...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 10:43hrs | 7966 | by Staff reporter
Roy Bennett dies
There are reports that former MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett and his wife Heather were killed in a chopper accident in Canada.According to Senator David Coltart, Bennett died in a helicop...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 18:37hrs | 5447 | by Staff Reporter
Never give up on your dreams
I AM greatly inspired by people who have experienced adversity and never to for a moment, ever chose to give up.I believe in fighting, and working towards your dreams. Most people give up on t...Published: 07 Jan 2018 at 14:05hrs | 1724 | by Clive Chiridza
WATCH: Mnangagwa arrives in Zimbabwe
Soon to be President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has landed at Manyame airbase where he has met army generals for debriefing.Mnangagwa will leave for Zanu PF headquarters where he is expec...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 14:30hrs | 20217 | by Staff reporter
Tables turn on Mugabe
For 37 years Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has led his country on the back of brute force, incredible wit, and constitutional gamesmanship. When tables have turned on him, he has used his...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 12:12hrs | 3392 | by Maynard Manyowa
Chiwenga refused to meet Mugabe at his Blue Roof house
The military are reported to have today refused to meet President Robert Mugabe at his Blue Roof house in Borrowdale Harare saying it is not his official residence hence his (Mugabe) motorcade was see...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 12:25hrs | 18676 | by Staff reporter
The day Mugabe crushed Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe chose the recent Zanu-PF Youth League Bindura interface rally to define for the first time his relationship with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the context of the liberat...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 11:07hrs | 15848 | by Farai Maguwu, Civic activist
10 base stations to be built in Gwanda
THE Minister of Information Technology, Postal and Courier Services Supa Mandiwanzira has donated laptops to 10 Gwanda South secondary schools.The Minister arrived in Manama in an army helicop...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 08:54hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Sekeramayi denies poisoning Mnangagwa
Cabinet ministers accused of poisoning Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have rubbished the allegations as ludicrous, saying their hands were clean.This comes as one of Mnangagwa's loyalists, ...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | 4076 | by Staff reporter
Helicopter crash-lands in Hwange National Park
A Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) helicopter crash-landed in Hwange National Park yesterday afternoon.Reports show that none of the two people who were on board the...Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 06:47hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe the physical man naturally retreats
PERHAPS we must do that; abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It". We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 Aug 2017 at 13:00hrs | 1332 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Ian Khama's chopper banned from British airspace
Politicians love helicopters, quick-moving aircraft that don't need a runway and can get you between meetings while others are stuck in traffic.But in Britain and Norway, a ban on a model used...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 14:33hrs | 2339 | by Staff reporter
Cde Chinx family opts for private cemetery after Zanu-PF snub
The family of the late liberation stalwart and musician Dick "Cde Chinx" Chingaira has passed on the chance to bury him at Harare Provincial Heroes Acre - instead opting to have him interred at the Gl...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 12:44hrs | 4779 | by Staff reporter
Cde Chinx to make history?
Liberation war musician Dickson Chingaira, aka Cde Chinx, could make history by becoming the first musician to be declared a national hero.Cde Chinx succumbed to prostate cancer last Friday an...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 13:21hrs | 2018 | by Staff reporter
Mudenda slams corrupt politicians
THE Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday condemned corrupt and dishonest politicians who manipulate the electorate into voting them into leadership positions through unorthodox means...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:11hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Season of the MOU and the end of Political Innocence
Perhaps we must do that. Abandon the "Him" and deal with the "It." We must leave the man and engage with the phenomenon. There are many profits in the present for reading and understanding Robert Muga...Published: 04 May 2017 at 17:27hrs | 400 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Missing hunter might have been eaten by Zim crocodiles
Polokwane - Teams searching in Zimbabwe for missing SA hunter Scott van Zyl, 44, have found what is possibly human remains in two crocodiles they shot. According to ...Published: 14 Apr 2017 at 21:48hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: SA residents demand proof of residence from foreigners with RDP
Scores of Olievenhoutbosch residents demand proof of residence from foreign nationals with RDP houses....Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 12:16hrs | 4547 | by online
WATCH: Army choppers rescue Tsholotsho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0S_6YCzA...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 16:20hrs | 1992 | by Staff Reporter
Let's all protect brand Zanu-PF, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am unable to fully address you this week, as you are all aware that I am away for yet another important engagement.I should make it very c...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 21:16hrs | 816 | by CZ
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