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Passengers Association of Zimbabwe calls for online taxi registration
The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has expressed concern over the increasing number of violent attacks on taxi drivers and is calling for mandatory registration of taxi operators to enhance ...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:44hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
High-tech Western weapons 'useless' in Ukraine conflict
Satellite-guided shells are particularly vulnerable to Russian jamming technology, commanders in Kiev have told the newspaperRussia's electronic warfare capabilities have rendered precision-gu...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:07hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Illegal regime change in Zimbabwe already happened in 2017!
Recent utterances by President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have raised an issue that has bedeviled Zimbabwe for the past few decades. In his wild alle...Published: 13 Jun 2024 at 22:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK scientists are developing a vaccine for an unknown disease
UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infe...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 26 | by Erick Matotoba
Mnangagwa's wife honoured in UK, lifts global award
ANGEL of Hope Foundation patron First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa was yesterday presented with the 2023 Global Education Leadership Award by Cambridge International Education Conference and a shield by...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Putin and the Wagner mutiny
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)On 23rd June 2023 the Western media became delirious with joy when the heard that there was a ...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 15:39hrs | 11 | by Ian Beddowes
The International Criminal Court a ridiculous organisation
The world has recently been surprised to hear that the ICC has issued a ‘warrant of arrest' for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The central charge against him is that he is responsible for the abd...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Ian Beddowes
Mnangagwa's wife gets an honorary doctorate degree from Russia
RUSSIAN State University for the Humanities yesterday conferred an honorary doctorate degree in Philosophy (Honoris Causa) on First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa in recognition of her philanthropic work ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abstains from inflammatory UN vote condemning Russia
Zimbabwe on Wednesday joined 34 other countries that abstained from a United Nations vote to condemn Russia's "attempted illegal annexation" of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.The U...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda
US, West 'weaker than before'
The leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the US and West have become weaker than before, adding that despite great efforts and spending, "their policies in regional countri...Published: 21 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 13 | 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
Russia's rouble comes roaring back
The rouble has surged all the way back to where it was before Russia invaded Ukraine, closing at 79,7 in Moscow on Wednesday.In the days after the Ukraine war began, the rouble's collapse was ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
We are on the brink of World War III
A Third World War is looming after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The military action which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a special military operation to disarm a neo-Nazi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:02hrs | | by Energy Mutodi
Lessons on how Russia is dealing with Western sanctions
It is just about a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So far there are no signs of abating even when both sides have continued to express willingness to engage in dialogue and end the war. While the ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:51hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Who is behind the biohazard threat in Ukraine?
From the very beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States has unleashed a massive campaign to accuse Moscow of all sorts of crimes.Protecting the civilian population...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei eyes government fuel monopoly
Rapacious oligarch Kudakwashe Tagwirei would supply all government departments with fuel when he completes the capture of Petrotrade and Genesis, the two government-owned petroleum companies, ZimLive ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party says to the USA, NATO and their allies hands off Russia!
Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has challenged the right of the USA to implement regime change through the use of extremist groups, terrorism and media manipulation and then establish ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:46hrs | 29 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc
In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. O...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | 12 | by Peter Hitchens
Another set of futile Western sanctions
History shows that sanctions rarely achieve the kind of political objectives they are designed for, although they can cause fairly sizable economic damage to the sanctioned country.Former Unit...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Respect Russia's interests, says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday that the settlement of the situation around Ukraine is possible only if Moscow's interests a...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The paradigm of war and interests
The unbalanced informational diet from western media outlets makes it seem so ordinary, normal, and even natural that President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, is the real devil in all this.West...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 1 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Invasion of Ukraine was inevitable
DEVELOPING the future of knowledge involves understanding the "relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone".This endeavour demands a...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
We're defending ourselves from threats
CITIZENS of Russia, friends, I will begin with what I said in my address on February 21, 2022. I spoke about our biggest concerns and worries, and about the fundamental threats which irresponsible Wes...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by President Vladimir Putin
The Invasion of Ukraine was Inevitable: Understanding Russian Concerns and the Folly of Western Diplomacy
Developing the future of knowledge involves understanding the ‘relationship between what we know and what will happen, for the purpose of improving both, for everyone'.This endeavour demands...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Arthur G.O Mutambara
US trying to draw Russia into war
RUSSIA'S President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine.In his first significant comments on the crisis in several weeks, he said America's goa...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Nothing to celebrate on Nurses Day'
LOCAL nurses yesterday said they had no reason to celebrate International Nurses Day which is commemorated annually on May 12 due to their measly salaries.Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses are essential workers, the police must respect all essential workers
At around ten thousand strong, nurses are the backbone of the Zimbabwe healthcare industry, as well as its largest profession. Consistently ranked the most trusted profession in The world year after y...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 09:16hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dabengwa: A hero who rejected 'our time to eat'
APART from his phenomenal liberation struggle exploits and heroics that earned him the nickname "Black Russian" and his principled politics, former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa, who died...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military stake stymies $4bn platinum project
A plan to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine at a cost of about $4 billion is floundering because a military stake in the project has deterred potential backers, according to people familiar with ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Bloomberg
The fad of sanctions: Crimea lessons for Zimbabwe
Well, Zimbabwe has been under sanctions for about two decades now and it has become very clear to all and sundry that the United States of America and its allies, will continue using one excuse after ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Zimbabwe should pay medical bills for its citizens in SA, says ANC bigwig
The South African government should start billing foreign countries whose citizens pop into the country to take advantage of free services.The foreign countries should also be sent invoices if...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's supporters jailed for smashing Mugabe party supporter's home
Four Zanu PF supporters have been jailed for a year each for causing damage to the home of a National Patriotic Front (NPF) supporter in a midnight raid.Jenny Mucharungama, 41, Heriatte Neruen...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 20:30hrs | | by ZimLive
Kasukuwere and Chombo will not be convicted, this is why?
You often hear about politicians facing public corruption charges in the news. Public corruption refers to any time of instance in which a government official abuses their position of power or public ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'A brazen attempt to murder civilians on British soil' - OpEd
On a quiet Sunday in one of Britain's most beautiful cathedral cities, a father and daughter were struck down by the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.S...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 11:28hrs | 1 | by HMA Catriona Laing
Doctors should value people's lives
In as much as doctors' demands are valid, it is also essential for them to consider the precious lives of the people of Zimbabwe who need their special attention across the nation.Among other ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 15:20hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Tsvangirai may have been poisoned, same way as Mnangagwa was
A political activist Elliot Pfebve has claimed that late MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai may have been poisoned, in the same way President Emmerson Mnangagwa was poisoned during a rally in Gwanda....Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 07:46hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Claims Kasukuwere visited Russia to secure lethal drugs to used on political opponents
A political activist Elliot Pfebve has made sensational claims that former Zanu-PF National Comissar Saviour Kasukuwere before he was ousted had been assigned by his party to go to Russia to secure le...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Time to end Zanu-PF election rigging, Cdes
MY Comrades, I am pleased to finally announce to you that something is happening on the ground. As you are now all aware, a lot of work is underway to ensure that the New Patriotic Front (NPF), a gran...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:55hrs | | by CZ
Mugabe juggling balls in the air
THE current situation in Zanu-PF is fragmented and fractious; it needs a unifier. There is serious factionalism, infighting and political hostilities. It's a dog-eat-dog affair.So President Ro...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia expels 775 US diplomats over sanctions
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said the United States would have to cut 755 diplomatic staff in Russia and warned of a prolonged gridlock in its ties after the US Congress backed new sanctions aga...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4-metre snake found in supermarket fridge
A merchandiser got a little more than yoghurt when he reached into a fridge and found a chilled snake at the Komatipoort Spar in Mpumalanga on Friday.According to ...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
A bleak future with Hilary Clinton
At the time of writing, the US elections are still in progress with the expectation that the 'respectable' Hilary Clinton will defeat the crude racist, sexist redneck Donald Trump.Many liberal...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 19:34hrs | | by Future Msebele Zulu
Marange, a rich land with the poorest inhabitants
For decades, Marange has been known for nothing else save for poverty until some years ago when the greatest and most spectacular find of the century was made in that area. Expectations were h...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 15:49hrs | | by Rufaro Mufundirwa
Diamond looters must be brought to book
INVESTIGATIONS into the alleged looting of proceeds from diamond mining in Chiadzwa must be expedited and culprits brought to book, a Government minister has said. Speaking at the official ope...Published: 18 Jun 2016 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Looted Zimbabwe diamonds money 'stashed' in UK
Investigations into alleged looting of proceeds from the Chiadzwa diamond fields have extended to London following revelations by a British Parliamentarian that some of the money was stashed in th...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Netflix heads for Zimbabwe
Popular US Video On Demand service (VOD) provider Netflix could be a potential new competitor for MultiChoice's DSTV after it launched in Zimbabwe and other African countries on Wednesday. The US TV g...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Bruce Ndlovu
What really is happening in Syria?
A lot of people ask questions on exactly what really is happening in Syria? A political analyst has prepared an interesting explanation of the crisis in Syria which goes:President Assad (who i...Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 16:17hrs | | by Correspondent
Gang attacks couple, rapes wife, drowns husband
A gang of men accosted two couples, raped one of the women and then forced them to watch their husbands being drowned in a lake at Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg.Gauteng police spoke...Published: 18 Oct 2015 at 12:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia bombs CIA trained rebels
Beirut - Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the r...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 17:43hrs | | by Reuters
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