Search / Cold
PM May resigns over Brexit and sheds a tear – ED Pfee will shed buckets of crocodile tears but never ever resign
"Brexit means Brexit!" said British Prime Minister Theresa May when she took over from David Cameron in 2016. After three years of blundering from pillar to post, she has failed to deliver Brexit and ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 593 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Dabengwa's mother was shot and left to rot for two days'
The mother of the late former ZPRA Intelligence Supremo Dumiso Dabengwa was shot in cold blood by Rhodesian Special Branch forces and her body was left untouched for two days in a plot to trap t...Published: 7 hrs ago | 3795 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Special Message from Prof Welshman Ncube
Fellow MDC members, in the next twenty four (24) hours we will gather at Ascot Stadium in my hometown of Gweru for a historic, momentous occasion in the history of our party and our nation.For...Published: 23 May 2019 at 21:42hrs | 4953 | by Welshman Ncube
Perence Shiri dissolves CSC board
The Minister of lands, agriculture, water, climate and rural resettlement Air Marshal Perence Shiri has dissolved the Cold Storage Commission Board.In a press statement on Wednesday the Minist...Published: 22 May 2019 at 17:47hrs | 3559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa has little to show for $27bn
When Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the leadership of Zimbabwe from Robert Mugabe in November 2017, he promised to revive the moribund economy and adopted a mantra he's repeated regularly ever since —...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:44hrs | 3710 | by Bloomberg
Zanu-PF is a subculture of demonic evil
I have often wondered what it would have been like if my great, great, great grand-father; who, until that very moment had only seen the distorted image of his own reflection in pool of water and told...Published: 22 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3367 | by Wilbert Mukori
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3574 | by PUMA
Obert Gutu pours cold water on MDC 'victory'
MDC-T Vice President Obert Chaurura Gutu has pour cold water on a fake Nelson Chamisa led MDC Supreme court victory ruling that circulated all over social media on Monday evening.The fak...Published: 21 May 2019 at 11:32hrs | 10855 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ANC (South Africa) and Gukurahundi
Amhlophe to the African National Congress for resoundingly winning another term under President Cyril Ramaphosa. There is an obligation for South Africa to avoid the tribal and racist path of ot...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:47hrs | 1534 | by Sihle Ndlovu
Warts of democracy can be an eyesore
Cynics often say politics is like a sewage as it allows stinking and filthy scum to rise to the top.In a twisted way, it's pretty much like milk, which, as it matures, allows cream to rise....Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:05hrs | 68 | by Bishop Lazarus
Complications of the congress season
WELCOME to the MDC Congress season. The circus has just dropped right down at Harvest House. All the actors have already donned their stage costumes, save for Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, whose congress ap...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:37hrs | 1486 | by Chenai Mutasa
Let's put our heads together and help Loner
Driving from Harare to Bare via Chinehasha School in Mash. Central Province, I stopped at a rural lay-by near Jaji with Bare Growth Point visible on the horizon. On a long trip, seasoned motor...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:51hrs | 221 | by Thomas Murisa
I did not ask his name in case he cried
Driving from Harare to Bare via Chinehasha School in Mash. Central Province, I stopped at a rural lay-by near Jaji with Bare Growth Point visible on the horizon. On a long trip, seasoned motor...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:41hrs | 485 | by Thomas Murisa
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF welcomes back prodigal son, Didymus Mutasa
Long-serving Zanu-PF member Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the party at the height of factionalism and readmitted in October last year after spending two years in the wilderness is retracing hi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CSC sold to a UK briefcase company?
I'm sure by now we have all heard that the government has sold our national beef processing company, the Cold Storage Company, to a "UK Beef Giant". Thankfully, Zimbabweans were quick to point out tha...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | 533 | by Online
'Mnangagwa dialogue waste of time'
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC yesterday poured cold water on the political dialogue to be officially launched today by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing the process as a waste of State resources....Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:29hrs | 4012 | by Staff reporter
Tensions boil over at a Zanu-PF Parly caucus forum
TENSIONS boiled over at a Zanu-PF parliamentary caucus meeting on Wednesday morning as MPs confronted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube over the parlous state of the economy and their welfare issues....Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 3485 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni stage-manages attack?
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna, with the aid of known anti-Government activists, yesterday stage-managed an attack on himself by people he claimed to be Zanu-PF youths in Bulawayo....Published: 15 May 2019 at 23:45hrs | 2945 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's beef industry stampedes back to life
After more than a decade in limbo, beef farmers are back in business Zimbabwe's famed beef industry, which collapsed in the 2000s following outbreaks o...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:50hrs | 1852 | by Ray Mwareya
Address the Pay-For-Your-House Scheme
Zimbabwe government to construct high rise flats - this is music to the ears of many who are still finding it hard to get a roof over their heads. We hope and wish such rhetoric turns into vis...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | 335 | by Tondorindo
UK beef giant takes over CSC
CABINET has approved a joint venture between the Cold Storage Company (CSC) and a United Kingdom firm, Boulstead Beef (Pvt) Limited, which will see the investor injecting US$130 million into the meat ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2257 | by Staff reporter
Defiant in the face of a Tyrant
Whilst protesting outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London on Wednesday 8th of May 2019, ZHRO members took to the busy, cold, wet and windy streets to continue standing up against the tyrannical regime ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 136 | by Thabo Makuyana
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 562 | by Pathisa Nyathi
We must flash out all the sloths
Hairdressers of Natpharm head honchos must understandably be worried since they might not be seeing their clients anytime soon, especially after they received quite the "hairdryer treatment" last week...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | 320 | by Bishop Lazi
Pan African Parliament considers engaging civil society organisations wider
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) members have requested the Bureau to consider civil society organisations from other countries rather than always using South African based ones.While debating...Published: 11 May 2019 at 18:53hrs | 340 | by Staff Reporter
Chief Ndiweni calls for more sanctions on Zimbabwe
POLITICIANS and analysts have slammed outspoken Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni, for his unrelenting call for the United States of America and the European Union to add more il...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2406 | by Staff reporter
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 3209 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland hay for Matebeleland cattle
EFFORTS are being made to move hay from Mashonaland region to the southern part of the country so as to save livestock in these areas from succumbing to the effects of drought, an official said....Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:48hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
White farmer bounces back
OVER 22 families spent the night out in the cold, having been evicted from a subdivision of Glenara Estates along the old Mazowe Road on Thursday, following a High Court order.The farm was all...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:16hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: A Jacana Pocket Biography, a Review
Book Review: Onslow, Sue & Plaut, Martin. 2018. Robert Mugabe: A Jacana Pocket Biography. Johannesburg: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd. 208 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4314-2668-3...Published: 03 May 2019 at 21:04hrs | 6638 | by Paul Hubbard
Look into Pay-For-Your-House Scheme Housing Fund
The government initiated Pay-For-Your-House scheme of the 90s was a very noble project that later morphed into a pyramid scheme in which some of the would be beneficiaries where abandoned withou...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1462 | by Thomas Murisa
'Challenging Mtukudzi's will herculean task'
THE late music superstar and national hero, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's children may find it difficult to challenge his will and testament lodged with the Master of the High Court early this week, as the...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:47hrs | 4570 | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa tampers with evidence
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to sanction the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi Genocide victims is an attempt to tamper with incriminating evidence South African based political analys...Published: 02 May 2019 at 10:43hrs | 15271 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dear Lord, for lack of wisdom, courage and/or serenity, grant me the sanity to stop repeating same foolish mistakes
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."The prayer by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (189...Published: 02 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | 542 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe govt only repays 2% of $9,5m domestic debt
GOVERNMENT has, in the first two months of the year, only managed to pay $195 million, or 2%, towards the country's domestic debt which is currently hovering around $9,5 billion, Finance and Economic ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
The nexus between confidence and economic growth
A change in the Zimbabwean government in November 2017 was somewhat a confidence booster in the economy as the new administration announced business oriented policies and went on an overdrive to re-en...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 08:45hrs | 781 | by Victor Bhoroma
Nurses sell repacked water in hospital wards
THE country's continued economic meltdown has forced nurses and staff at Chiredzi General Hospital to device bizarre methods of supplementing their meagre salaries.It is alleged that they have...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6194 | by John Frame
Zimbabwean man advising governments and oil companies
Growing up in central Africa in the '50s and '60s gave Duncan Clarke an early appreciation of his surroundings and the wider environment – but very little indication of the significance the oil ind...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 06:03hrs | 3363 | by geoexpro
Revolution is the great teacher
Those living in luxury from the exploitation and suffering of others have traditionally always been opposed to emancipation struggles; they continue to be opposed to such struggles by the people today...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 249 | by Reason Wafawarova
Velaphi: Daring by bringing first batch of weapons into Rhodesia
IN the past few weeks we have been focusing the spotlight on what may be considered the pioneers of Zimbabwe's armed liberation struggle. This was done as part of a build up towards independen...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:24hrs | 5017 | by Pathisa Nyathi
MDC Structures keep the dream alive, the Jewel of Africa returns
Julius Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere referred to Zimbabwe as the jewel of Africa that needed heart and soul to protect it. Decades of independence later, Zanu-PF has changed that view. Zimbabwe has been c...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 10:05hrs | 1692 | by Jacob Mafume
Mnangagwa's fear over Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and top government officials, particularly Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and Agriculture minister Perrence Shiri, are scared stiff of personal criminal responsibilit...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:15hrs | 8912 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans told to brace for thunderstorms, wet Easter
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted a wet Easter in some parts of the country with isolated showers and scattered thunderstorms expected. In a statement issued on Wednes...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:17hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Rigging, vote-buying alleged at MDC Alliance provincial congress
Commotion and allegations of vote buying marred the MDC Alliance provincial congress held at Masvingo Sports Club that saw incumbent chair Mr James Gumbi retaining his position after winning by a narr...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 3878 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'MDC has no hand in sanctions'
The Daily News on Sunday Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda caught up with journalist, and human rights advocate Grace Kwinje who is the MDC Alliance's European Union representative based in Brussels. S...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 17:48hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Remove Zimbabwe flag from Mthwakazi
Every time we look at the Zimbabwe flag flying high in the places of our Country Mthwakazi we feel very enslaved.That flag reminds us of the daily suffering the Zimbabwean evil regime has been putting...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3213 | by David Magagula
We've failed to guard our independence
ZIMBABWE's independence in 1980 did not come on a silver platter but it came at a huge cost and most of the people who made sure this day became a reality are long gone.But for those who were ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 122 | by Harry Peter Wilson
Religious leaders must pray for bloodless separation of Matabeleland and Zimbabwe
China's revered revolutionary, Mao Zedong, was spot on when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Zimbabwe is the product of the barrel of the gun so is the 2nd Republic tha...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | 3822 | by MLO
Load More Stories
