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South Africa apex court reverses GMO approval
After an arduous nine-year legal battle, a full bench of the supreme court of appeal (SCA) has set aside the commercial approval of a drought-tolerant genetically modified (GM) variety of maize....Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1845 | by Staff reporter
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
Zimbabwean cuisine is very diverse and varied just like its cultures and languages. The staple food is sadza, pap, that can also be called differently by minority tribes. Sadza features in most ...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:13hrs | | by Tondo Chinehasha
RBZ is the problem not ZiG!
Before going to press on the Zimbabwe currency crisis, I had seven questions I wanted authoritatively answered. Professor Gift Mugano was the answer."Isn't he the one who is supposed to disapp...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:58hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Maize, mealie meal prices skyrocket
The prices of mealie-meal and maize have gone up by over 100% amid indications that the commodity is fast disappearing from shop shelves as the effects of drought set in.Indications are that t...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO residents have been urged to exercise extreme caution and adhere to strict hygiene standards following reports of a diarrhoea outbreak linked to water shortages, with Cowdray Park suburb bein...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umjolo gone bad
WHAT do women want, really?There are times when men ask themselves if they will ever satisfy their wives. They never find the answer.Simply put, it seems some women never get enough....Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Colourful place names of Rhodesia and their origin
THE TRACING of place names in a country in Africa can be both fascinating and frustrating. One must know – or quickly learn – something about history, about geography and the origins of word...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 40 | by Phillippa Berlyn with some amendments by Tony Tanser
Mozambican hustlers take over Harare streets
In the bustling heart of Harare, with towering skyscrapers and vendors hawking wares amid the honking symphony of traffic, a unique brand of entrepreneurship thrives.Young Mozambican men, thei...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official in land dispute
A RUWA farmer last week accused a Zanu-PF politician of plotting to abduct and kill her in a dispute over control of her late father's properties in Mashonaland East province.Danai Jirira said...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers cook, eat before US$2 500 heist
A terrifying incident unfolded in Gweru as a family had to endure a nightmarish experience when a gang of five intruders broke into their home. These daring robbers, armed with a machete and a knife, ...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:42hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Messenger of Court in soup over graft
The corruption charges laid against the Kwekwe Messenger of Court (MOC) Energy Pedzera continue to worsen as more victims emerge....Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 09:50hrs | 3 | by Desmond Nleya
Massive corruption at Kwekwe Messenger of Court
A red flag has been raised amid indications of massive corruption at Kwekwe Messenger of Court (MOC) where the latter is accused of illegally using 'attached and removed property' in his possession be...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 15:13hrs | 2 | by Desmond Nleya
Plot to subvert 2023 Presidential elections foiled
The arres tof thirty-nine (39) activists from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), on 23 August 2023, foiled a plot to subvert the 23 August 2023 Presidential elections.Reports from a...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 14:30hrs | | by Joice Munemo
Landlord vs lodger: The battle continues
"LANDLORD fatally stabbed by lodger over rent!" screamed a newspaper headline.In 2021, Prayer Banda (22) of Mbizo 18 in Kwekwe, was fatally stabbed by his lodger Victor Moyo (24), following a ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
The curious case of Chicken Inn: Unraveling the Chicken Conspiracy
Picture this: It's a beautiful day in Zimbabwe, and you find yourself in the bustling streets of Gweru. Your stomach growls, craving something delicious to satisfy your hunger. Your eyes catch a glimp...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:30hrs | 9 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
'Unserviced stands blamed for Beitbridge cholera'
BEITBRIDGE Municipality has said the occupation of Kwalu 2 residential area has fueled cholera cases as the area has not been fully serviced but has close to 50 families residing there already, with v...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tourists flock to Kariba for the famous bream
LAKE Kariba is arguably one of Africa's best, and prettiest spots to execute fishing expeditions.Over 40 different fish species call the lake home from shoals of Kapenta to the fighting Tiger ...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills hubby in fight over relish
A 53-YEAR-OLD woman from Chitungwiza has appeared in court on allegations of killing her husband following a fight over relish.The court heard that the now deceased was irked when he arrived h...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Persecution of Donald Trump!
If I were in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's situation, and the US I had an audience with the ambassador whereby the honourable ambassador would lecture me about free and fair elections, the rule of la...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Woman kills hubby in dinner fight
A 53-year-old Chitungwiza woman has appeared in court on allegations of killing her husband following a fight over relish.The court heard that Wilson Muchimwe (53) was irked when she arrived h...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Pumula supermarket in residents' crosshairs
PUMULA residents have taken to task a local supermarket for allegedly selling rotten meat."I bought meat this Monday and when I got home and opened the packet, the whole house was immediately ...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magriza Made me Cook clothing brand launched
MR PRINCE Mahlangu (33) the producer of the YouTube show Magriza Made Me Cook (MMMC) show and his partner have created a clothing brand with personalized messages of traditional food for people who ar...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 20:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans returning from SA battling to make ends meet
The Zimbabwean government says it has put in place a range of measures to help Zimbabweans returning from South Africa. But many say they are battling to make ends meet.Faced with the expiry o...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man poisons his three children, kills self
A 37-year-old Lower Gweru man gave his three minor children some porridge laced with poison before he went into the bush and committed suicide following a misunderstanding with his wife.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 21:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kazembe Kazembe drawn into forex scandal
Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner General Godwin Matanga have been dragged to court for refusing to arrest a Chinese national who used to supply leather products to the arm...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man threatens to kill wife for cooking imboza
A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been fined $9 000 after threatening to kill his wife over undercooked isitshwala (imboza).True to the "hungry man is an angry man" adage Mncedisi Khumalo th...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Even a five year old can tell that Mnangagwa has failed!
I remember when my son was still a little child, in the early 2000s, whereby we had to give him millions of Zimbabwe dollars to buy sweets and 'freezits' ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa says his activists are innocent
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed that the 14 Nyatsime party supporters accused of inciting violence are victims of political persecution.The 14 were releas...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman busted sending nudes to lover drags hubby to court
A woman who was busted by her husband allegedly sending her nude picture to her secret lover has dragged the husband to court accusing him of verbally, physically and sexually abusing her.Feli...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Courts, security forces belong to Zanu-PF'
NATIONAL Housing and Social Amenities minister Daniel Garwe who doubles as Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson has issued a chilling warning to the opposition while also bragging tha...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baobab tree faces extinction?
THE Baobab tree faces extinction in a few years as elephants are eating its bark a lot at Manapools National Park in mid-Zambezi region, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZIMPARKS)...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Biti baiting journalists with sensational but false claims'
A Harare Company West Properties Zimbabwe has exposed parliamentarian Tendai Biti's malicious attack against them after the legislator claimed that the company received 200 000 hectares of land from t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC MP relives torture horror
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) MP Jasmine Toffa has described her last weekend's ordeal at the hands of suspected Zanu-PF hooligans as dehumanising and traumatising.Toffa was brutally att...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF responds angrily to Matobo violence allegations
Zanu-PF Director of Information, Tafadzwa Mugwadi has fired salvo at Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) for blaming the ruling party over recent violence that rocked Matobo, describing the oppositio...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF behaving like murderers says CCC
A DEFIANT Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has vowed to forge ahead with preparations for next year's general elections despite a rise in related violent attacks on its members and supporters by ru...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants protest over bonus
GOVERNMENT has said not every civil servant will get a bonus this year because a performance-based payment system would be used to select deserving individuals.The development, which is likely...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos on 5th Avenue gives Bulawayo city a perennial headache
GAINS made from the recently concluded Bulawayo City Council Spring Cleaning exercise could be quickly reversed as authorities continue to struggle to bring sanity along 5th Avenue where illegal...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
White bride on rural stoep
ONE of the hallmarks of a marriage in the Ndebele culture is ukucola, a ritual to introduce the daughter-in-law to the ancestors which is conducted by the groom's family. The process invo...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC feeding Diaspora with lies
The Diaspora recently was fed a glut of fake news on the situation in Zimbabwe.As the CCC and few others calling themselves human rights activists tear the name of the country, portraying a pi...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Magriza Made Me Cook takes township tourism to another level
IN our African society, grandmothers play an integral part in the family. From telling folktales to disciplining, and taking care of grandchildren, these matriarchs are the glue that strengthens blood...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hotties shine at Curvy Kitchen
Sinah Sandra Mvemve and Emma Mayibongwe Ncube took Harare by storm after preparing tasty dishes that left the crowd asking for more at the Curvy Kitchen hosted by the organisers of Miss Curvy....Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 10:44hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man slaughters uncle, cooks and eats body
WEIRD! How else can one describe an incident where a 38-year-old Hwange man allegedly gruesomely murdered his 62-year-old uncle, dismembered his body, cooked and ate the remains while hanging the inte...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman nabbed for poisoning grandfather
A Guruve woman is in soup after allegedly food poisoning her grandfather.Alice Phiri is facing a murder charge and she was ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 19:43hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
ZimStat debunks Steve Hanke's cooked data
TEMPERS flared over Zimbabwe's rioting inflation yesterday, with the country's chief statistician hitting out at an American economist and the media for querying the validity of data produced by his o...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
NGOs' anti-Zimbabwe stance hits new low
Western-sponsored non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have once again contrived a bad statement alleging cooked up human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, all to cast the country in bad light, ahead of the...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere takes aim at Mnangagwa regime
EXILED former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday took a dig at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime for using the Judiciary and police to persecute political opponents.In ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:26hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Manjuzu' craze hits Harare
IN one of his letters to Timothy, a fellow brother in the Christian faith, Apostle Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus) offers counsel to a brother.Writes Paul in 1 Timoth 6:10: "For the ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
There is need to professionalise ZRP
AN opinion written by Paidamoyo Muzulu titled Pro-lege, Pro-patria, Pro-populo: This is not our ZRP refers.I could not agree more with the writer. There is need to reform the Zimbabwe Re...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Chief Chiduku
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