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Prophet Magaya plans bigger and better Heart Women Soccer League
As the curtains fell on the Heart Women Soccer League season this past weekend, title sponsor Walter Magaya has set his sights on an even bigger and better competition for next year. The businessman, ...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:01hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
The Health Centre is desperately in need of curtains
Curtains are for privacy, decor, cooling effect and giving the first impression of an institution or home. If curtains fail to provide none of the aforementioned then they are not worth hanging up. By...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 17:55hrs | 318 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Being with the people all the time.
When the Zanu-PF legislator for Mazowe North Constituency Hon. Cde Tsungi Makumbe heard that there was a confirmed cholera case at Chinehasha Health Centre in Chiweshe, he quickly mobilised medicines ...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 23:11hrs | 12 | by Thomas Murisa
Woman up for stock theft
A woman appeared in court facing charges of theft of livestock and property.Hezel Ndebele (21) was not asked to plead to charges when s...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean man accused of murdering SA girlfriend and hiding body in freezer
A shocking and gruesome discovery in the Samora Machel community of Philippi, Cape Town, has led to the arrest of a Zimbabwean national, Brian Miripiri, who stands accused of murdering his 56-year-old...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police ban fireworks on New Year's Eve
AS the year 2023 curtains come down, many people may be tempted to celebrate with fireworks on New Year's Eve. However, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned the public that the sale and use of fire...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 08:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
African Spelling Bee Championships Conclude in Kampala with Remarkable Success
KAMPALA, UGANDA - The African Spelling Bee Championships 2023 (ASB23) recently came to a thrilling conclusion in Kampala, Uganda, showcasing the linguistic prowess and intellectual acumen of participa...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 22:48hrs | 11 | by Agencies
Cosmas Zulu challenges Bosso intellectuals
FORTY years down the line at Highlanders FC, Cosmas Zulu has become a voice that the family cannot ignore and claims he is what he is because of the Black and White tide of Zimbabwe soccer.Zul...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe highway 'mysterious' bus demystified
Today, Zimbabweans are being treated to yet another story of a "talking bus" that has been parked by the roadside along Harare-Nyamapanda Highway for over three years.Tales of "talking" buses ...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU doesn't have solutions to Zimbabwe issues
European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe Jobst von Kirchmann says Brussels will not impose any solutions to challenges facing the country as it is the responsibility of locals.Von Kirchmannn (JVK...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2 arrested for stealing church assets
TWO Bulawayo men have been arrested for allegedly stealing assets at a church.In a statement yesterday, police confirmed the arrest of Collet Nyati (50) and Moses Ncube (58) after they receive...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 21:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 'fake abduction' activist says still living in terror
A Zimbabwean human rights activist who alleges she was subjected to harrowing torture after she was abducted by suspected state security services said she still lives in terror des...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Landa Nkomo's son lover spared jail
FORMER Vice President John Landa Nkomo's son Sandlasami's ex-lover who broke into his house as punishment for dumping her was spared the agony of jail life when she appeared in court charged with unla...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps sick hubby, moves in with married lover
IN a sad love story, a woman from Bulawayo abandoned her husband of 20 years after he suffered a stroke and allegedly eloped to her married lover who also reportedly dumped his wife to accommodate her...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC scoffs at formation of copycat opposition
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere says her party will lose no sleep over the formation of a copycat opposition she dismissed as a Zanu-PF plant to confuse voters ahead of...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remembering gukurahundi genocide
The spirit of Mthwakazi insecurity and why the Mthwakazi prosecutor general must bring the perpetrators of these henious crimes to justice.Greetings to all!For forty-two years, the insecur...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 10 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Mnangagwa attends Rupiah Banda's funeral
President Mnangagwa yesterday attended the State funeral of former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, whom he described as a regional icon and a pan-Africanist who wanted to see illegal sanctions imposed...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staf reporter
Who is Nemaisa?
A new version of Bruce Lee was born in Zimbabwe as little known Nemaisa gunned single handedly gunned down robbers at his house in Chadcombe, Harare....Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 11:49hrs | 9 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
Marry Chiwenga and Sipho Malunga bring bad omens to Zanu-PF!
There are some behaviours, which the wisest among the Bantu call bad omens. These are signs, real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.When we were children, and my f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 12 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe to introduce drones at border posts
THE country's porous border posts will soon be under tight surveillance following Government's decision to acquire drones worth US$2 million to patrol the borderline to curb smuggling. The dro...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daring thieves breaks into houses of CIOs
TWO suspected habitual thieves yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi to answer to charges of house-breaking, including nreaking into houses of State security agents.Kudakw...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dead body dumped at home of MDC-T's Elias Mudzuri
The body of a man who died following a brutal assault in a Harare bar has been dumped at the rural home of one of his alleged assailants, the MDC-T vice president Elias Mudzuri.Relatives left ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Several Zimbabweans killed in Mozambique, the battle of palmer
Michael Chandada was so excited when he got a Job in Mozambique. His company is involved in extracting oil and gas and again runs marines in the area. Michael was posted to work from a plant in Palma ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:19hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Errant cross border transporters fined US$200,000
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has intensified the crackdown on errant cross border transporters who are smuggling goods from neighbouring countries, mostly South Africa during the Covid-19 in...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimra rakes in US$1.3 million from cargo tracking
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) said on Thursday it raked in over US$1.3 million last year in cargo sealing fees and associated violation fines.Through its Electronic Cargo Tracking Sys...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra to acquire US$2m surveillance drones
Zimbabwe will speed up the process of buying drones worth US$2 million to be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling, while plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at borde...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimra continues to curb transit fraud
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), continues to enforce controls to avoid importation of restricted or prohibited goods through the Electronic Cargo Tracking system (ECTS). In 2020, ...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 16:00hrs | | by Agencies
Josiah Magama Tongogara 41 years on
A day after celebrating christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 17:42hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mayoral mansion now football club house
The gigantic mayoral mansion built by Harare City Council in Gun Hill for more than US$500 000 as the grand luxury residence for the now-defunct executive mayors is a white elephant gradually rotting ...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
A non winning horse is a liability to Uncle Sam
The writing is on the wall and the die has been cast. Big brother has changed his mind. The seemingly charismatic but useless yet hopeful youthful presidential aspirant seem to have lost favour in the...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:27hrs | | by Gabarinocheka
War vets offices bombed
ELEMENTS believed to be linked to the opposition, MDC-Alliance that has called for nationwide demonstrations this week against the Government early yesterday morning raided and petrol-bombed war veter...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sandra Ndebele fraudster's property auctioned
'GOD fights my battles' are the words that dancer-cum-singer Sandra 'Sandy' Ndebele-Sibindi said after the Sheriff of the High Court last week auctioned property belonging to a woman who defrauded her...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The new Zimdollar: What could go wrong?
ZIMBABWE last week made its interim currency, the RTGS dollar, the country's sole legal tender, drawing the curtains on a decade of United States dollar dominance. Harare was forced to abandon its own...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Ed Stoddard
Mnangagwa's speech hit by load shedding
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Thursday came face to face with reality after he was forced to temporarily stop engaging captains of industry at the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) conferenc...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:42hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Bogus UK company investing in Zimbabwe exposed
A bogus United Kingdom based firm, Bestfield Consulting, has reportedly invested a whooping US$100 million to train small-scale miners in modern mining methods.The Herald reported that t...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 12:09hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rape is social terrorism, stop rape
The desire to rape and at times commit murder is nurtured and not natured. What is so amusing and exciting in fighting to subdue and violate someone who does not love nor like you. Cases of ra...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 21:21hrs | 4 | by Thomas Murisa
Cyclone Idai buried people with their belongings
WHEN we arrived in cyclone hit Chimanimani a week after the monstrous Idai, what we could only see at most places are stone boulders that had buried wholesome villages underneath and someone coming fr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribute to Josiah Magama Tongogara 39 years on
A day after celebrating Christmas swimming through the stiffed hard but good festive seasons on the 26th December 1979 duty called. In the call of duty the son of the soil breathed his last breath....Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Curtains: an anthology of poems
The Harare based poet and author, Takunda Chikomo made his first contribution to poetry with Curtains: an anthology of poems, published by TafaPrint Publishers Zimbabwe, 2018. Takunda recently finishe...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 09:28hrs | 6 | by Brian Maregedze
Edgars Zimbabwe customers win big in fashion extravaganza
THE annual Edgars Fashion Extravaganza's show curtains came down in Harare on Saturday as Zvishavane-based Nelly Mariri scooped the $10 000 grand prize at the promotion's grand draw.The ultima...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's corrupt investigating officers scuttling his efforts
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-graft crusade appears to have been thrown off the rails amid indications top investigators and officials tasked to spearhead the operation are conflicted, Business ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man waters garden at midnight, commits suicide
A MAN from Bulawayo's New Lobengula suburb removed all household property from his family home, watered the garden in the middle of the night before allegedly committing suicide. Mr Togarepi M...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust student kills self
A SECOND-YEAR finance student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Atumisoe Makhurane, who was found hanging in his hostel room at the institution on Saturday was buried on Tues...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nust student commits suicide
A SECOND-YEAR Finance student at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo was found hanging in his hostel at the institution yesterday in a suspected case of suicide....Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 19:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Churches, CSOs press panic button
Churches and civic society organisations have expressed concern at the rate at which Zimbabwe is plunging into political and socio-economic decay following the disputed July 30 elections and slammed c...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance council's grand corruption, shady deals exposed
Corruption and bad governance are rife at Gweru City Council (GCC) and its management has no problem admitting that, albeit behind closed doors.This publication, working in collaboration with ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 15:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa challenged to end their fight
A CIVIC group has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu PF and the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to end their fight over the outcome of the July 30 elections as this was now taking a toll o...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fire razes another house
A THREE- roomed house was gutted by fire in Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb after a 16 year old boy doing homework using a candle for light dozed off. Ndaitai Muchimba fell asleep at around 10PM on T...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZTA to restore Bulawayo's tourism legacy
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA)'s chief executive Karikoga Kaseke yesterday said they were committed to restoring Bulawayo's tourism legacy.Addressing a media briefing, Kaseke said they were ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
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