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Borrowdale road: A stretch of prestige shadowed by tragedy
Driving along Borrowdale Road offers a stark contrast to the chaotic scenes common on many other city roads. Known as the route favored by Zimbabwe's elite-politicians, business executives, and securi...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:44hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Only Now, they can speak IsiNdebele!
Gone are the days when Shona people had visceral hatred of IsiNdebele. Instantly the so-called revolutionaries realize the advantages of speaking multiple languages that could be of benefit to the cur...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 17:05hrs | 1837 | by Nomazulu Thata
Book Review | Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, famously argued that "until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter". In his recently minted book, Od...Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 14:08hrs | 260 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Assassinations, rituals, and power struggles within ZANU PF
Socialite and activist Susan Mutami has stirred controversy with explosive claims regarding internal conflicts within ZANU PF, alleging that state security agents were involved in assassination plots ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 14:23hrs | 5084 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa exhibits traits of a megalomaniac dictator
ADVOCATE Nelson Chamisa and his loyalists in the strife-torn Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have been left in a quagmire as they contemplate what to do to stop the opposition party from tumbling ...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:00hrs | 17 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Zimbabweans must stay away from occult wealth seeking
IMAGINE being instructed by an inyanga or sangoma to take soil from a stranger's grave that will be used to perform a ritual to invoke the spirit of a dead person to help you get instant wealth and po...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
15-yr-old girl deserts home for drugs and sex
SEX and drugs seem to be the order of life for a teenage girl from Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo.The 15-year-old girl is in Form Three at a secondary school in the city.Her parents disco...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dark days back for Zimbabwe
DOZENS of armed police officers, two water cannons commandeered from Harare, three smaller trucks and two dogs - all belonging to the Zimbabwe Republic Police - lined up to barricade the entrance to R...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV positive former DeMbare star regrets not zipping up
THERE is no doubt that throughout the years there are plenty of footballers and sports personalities in general who in addition to giving their all on the pitch, also give their all off the pitch, esp...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
RG Mugabe is gone but his dark side still haunts Zimbabwe?
I offer my condolences to the son of soil, the icon of Zimbabwe's liberation, a pan africanist,..... and an emancipator of our nation. May his sould rest in eternal peace.These words I utter w...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 10:26hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Zimbabwe Communist Party May day Statement 2019
Revolutionary Greetings to all Zimbabwean working people from the National Steering Committee of the ZCP. As Proletarian Internationalists we extend our revolutionary greetings to workers, communists ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | 4 | by ZCP
Jah Prayzah fights back cyber bullies
AWARD-WINNING musician, Jah Prayzah unleashed his dark side on Saturday afternoon, while responding to Twitter critics who had taken him to task over spelling errors on a post he made last Thursday....Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe a 'deeply conflicted zealot'
In 2017, the Daily Maverick published a series of articles based on Stuart Doran's monumental history of Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, titled Kingdom, Power, Glory. In this major review of the book, form...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by David Owen, British politician
Mugabe has always been a pawn for the power-hungry
If there is one thing I completely agree with what the military said, during their so-called 'operation restore legacy' in November 2017, is that, then Zimbabwe president Robert Gabriel Mugabe was sur...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Welcome to the dark side of Donald Trump
Taking a walk into the world of our imaginations and picturing how our geo-political environment has taken us so far. I have always desired to see a real change in the global political dichotomy and e...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Tuku's dark side exposed
When Oliver Mtukudzi's former publicist Shepherd Mutamba revealed the dark side of his former employer in his book "Tuku Backstage", many critics treated it as a case of sour grapes.Among othe...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vanakkam Mthwakazi! Hello Mthwakazi! Vanakkam Tamils!
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) is pitching up its aggressive networking Agenda with other suppressed and oppressed Nations that have suffered Genocide that are...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 20:05hrs | 14 | by 1893 MHRRM
'Gukurahundi was a collective decision'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa remains a closed book for most people.Some say he is cruel while others say he is as soft as wool. The Daily News on Sunday's chief writer Fungi Kwaramba sat down ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wife slayer died a bitter man, left 5-paged suicide note
Elisha Murimba (54), who sliced open his wife's throat in a blood-curdling murder and later committed suicide, died a bitter man and laid a host of allegations against Mrs Victoria Murimba.The...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 09:18hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Mbeki should be the last person to preach Zuma about values
That the administration of Jacob Zuma has structural flaws is no longer in dispute. But - having masterminded his accidental elevation to power - the last people to preach to Msholozi about values and...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 20:14hrs | 2 | by Khaya S Sithole
Downtown shops must pay tax
The trend in town is that unless one wants to buy from a supermarket, he has to be armed with a credit card only east of Julius Nyerere Way. Tradition has it that downtown shops trade only in hard cas...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 14:02hrs | 15 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Mvhana dzeku Diaspora: women-headed-homes or desperadoes!
Dear Ms. Loveness Saurombe, Dear Sister,I watched your video or "you tube" on Nehanda Radio with absolute excitement. The topic exited me because of the experiences I had about a Zimbabwea...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 19:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo: marking his death on the 1st of July
If I was at home I would be drinking utshwala bamabele, but I am here in Germany where our party Zapu sent us to acquire that education which was to fight economic independence, you said. However, I a...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 15:33hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mugabe faces nasty endgame
JUDGING by his unprecedented attacks on war veterans in Harare yesterday, President Robert Mugabe - wobblingly on his 92-year-old legs - is clearly heading towards a nasty clash with the ex-combat...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Muleya
Hence home! you idle creatures, get you home! Leave the Square Harare at once!
"Is this a holiday?" The play begins on the theme of not knowing one's proper place. Two Roman tributes, Flavius and Murellus, representative of the Roman nobility, a...Published: 26 May 2016 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
No bad blood between President and war vets
Amidst the flimsily internal squabbles in ZANU PF, President Robert Mugabe's speech in Gutu, Masvingo last Friday became a directive for unity and cohesion in the party.President Mugabe rebuke...Published: 17 May 2016 at 13:44hrs | | by Gwinyai Mutongi
Mutsvangwa it was not only Magamba who were sexually abused Chimbwidos too
"Outspoken Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa is back in the spotlight claiming that Joice Mujuru failed to protect female combatants abused by seni...Published: 22 Apr 2016 at 15:46hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Geek to gun-runner: the super-villain with Zimbabwean links
Cape Town - He established hothouses in lawless Somalia, protecting them with a private militia to grow opium poppies, cocaine and other narcotic substances under scientifically controlled conditions....Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 10:09hrs | 13 | by Ivor Powell
Navigating multi-currency challenges
PreambleTHIS week's economic focus is a continuation of last week's instalment which was titled "Lack of monetary policy sovereignty — the dark side of multi-currency regime". Due credit has bee...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Bongani Ngwenya
Sex pest robbed after failing top pay prostitute
The dark side of illicit sex trade got darker for a Gaborone man over the weekend after he was invaded by a gang of three men and two women armed with Okapi knives and accusing him of raping one of th...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Vapostori and satanism, by Prophet Magaya
This is the third and final part of the sermon delivered recently by Prophet Walter Magaya, on marine spirits:The same applies to the one who was a wit...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:42hrs | 16 | by Prophet Magaya
The Chinotimba Dilemma
When Zimrights, one of Zimbabwe's oldest civil society organisations, awarded a human rights defender award to Zanu-PF MP and war-veteran, Joseph Chinotimba towards Christmas, I thought the organisati...Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 11:27hrs | | by Alex T. Magaisa
Reflections on Zanu PF Anti-Corruption drive
The Zanu PF Annual Conference held in Gweru in the year 2012 marked the revolutionary party's determination to weed itself of the rot of corruption. At that time Zanu PF was in the Inclusive Gover...Published: 09 May 2014 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Dingizulu Mahlathini Moyo
How the 'prosperity' gospel destroys Africa
I'm not an African, but in 2008 some Nigerian friends gave me a Yoruba name ("Akinwale") because I have been to that country so often. My visits there, along with trips to Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, South...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 16:13hrs | 5 | by J. Lee Grady
Farai Maguwu discusses conflict diamonds on Al Jazeera
This Friday on Al Jazeera's talk show South2North, author and media personality Redi Tlhabi discusses conflict diamonds in Africa with journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, author of Blood Diamonds: ...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 03:29hrs | 1 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Scientists in Australia identify 280 craters on the moon
Australian scientists have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before, utilizing ultra-high resolution mapping techniques.The researchers at Curtin University in Wes...Published: 18 Jun 2013 at 10:49hrs | 39 | by Tech Reporter
Chitungwiza explosion caused by 'sandawana', traditional healer explains
The mysterious blast which killed five people and seriously injured three others at a traditional healer's house in Chitungwiza could have been a case of sorcery gone wrong, experts said yester...Published: 23 Jan 2013 at 18:50hrs | 194 | by Staff Reporter
The power of positive thinking
The power of positive thinkingHarness your positive powerA negative outlook usually leads to negative experiences, but taking an optimistic approach to life, and everything it throws your...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 11:08hrs | 4 | by realbuzz.com
Steve Jobs put Apple back on top - 2010
When Steve Jobs walked on to the stage at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center in January, it capped the most remarkable comeback in modern business history.It wasn't simply a matter of the illn...Published: 23 Dec 2010 at 05:32hrs | 6 | by Byo24
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