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How to stay focused when you need to accomplish important tasks
Who has not faced the need to do something important that can no longer be postponed, but then we want to drink tea, play fun games at https://22bet.co.zm/casino...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 11:32hrs | 13 | by Stephen Jakes
The standardisation of the Ndebele language through dictionary-making
The thesis assesses the contribution of dictionary-making in Ndebele on the standardisation of the language. The production of the m...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 18:42hrs | 399 | by Samukele Hadebe
Mnangagwa should know that demonstrations at international events are nothing new
First of all, let's get one thing straight.There is a huge difference between a demonstration and a riot.I felt that I needed to clarify a misconception that, in my book, has been deli...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 10:40hrs | 891 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's political crisis has dragged on for too long
The phrase "political economy" has entered the dictionary of the World Bank and other development organizations around the world.Academic interest in the components of the political economy of...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 11:35hrs | 25 | by Evans Mathanda
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Copyright claims plague artists due to ignorance
THE legal principle ignorantia juris non excusat, meaning: Ignorance of the law is no excuse, underscores the fundamental responsibility that individuals have to abide by the law, regardless of person...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 13 | by Clinton Chipo
Zapu leader calls out Charumbira's Gukurahundi genocide denial
Sibangilizwe Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, has criticised Chief Fortune Charumbira, the deputy president of the National Chiefs Council, for publicly denying that the atrocities during Gukurahundi ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
A generation of EDiots
THE politicians keep fiddling while Zimbabwe is burning. The opposition is at sixes and sevens, while Zanu-PF is at sea when the education system is now in comatose and the peril of having a generatio...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa reverses PV Sibanda appointment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Saturday that he had "stayed" his controversial appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the Zanu-PF politburo, just...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa defiant on defence forces boss's appointment into politburo
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended his unconstitutional appointment of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda into the Zanu-PF politburo telling critics he wields powe...Published: 10 Nov 2023 at 22:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Curry's 'white c*nt' incident was lost in translation
South Africa hooker Bongi Mbonambi has denied he used discriminatory language towards England flanker Tom Curry in their Rugby World Cup semi-final last month, labelling the allegations against him "u...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 06:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC and Zanu-PF fail to unveil manifestos
Two of Zimbabwe's foremost political leaders launched presidential campaigns at the weekend, calling on compatriots to buy into their vision for the southern African country, however, now produce...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel will neither be prosecuted nor charged!
Dear Bulawayo 24 News Staff Writer: Upon reading, your article entitled: 'Mnangagwa throws Prophet Uebert Angel under the bus,' I went to my dictionary to verify the meaning of the idiomat...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:41hrs | | by Tawandah Mudzingwah
Resource curse in Africa
The African continent is bestowed with so much natural wealth such as diamonds, coal, petroleum, natural gas, copper, and uranium to mention a few. Still, it has been the poorest continent in the worl...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Jeremie Kalombo
Chicken Slice say Chicken Inn are bullies
Chicken Slice founder and chief executive officer Tawanda Mutyebere has accused his competitors the Simbisa Brands-owned Chicken Inn of bullying and of trying to stop his business empire from using re...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:11hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
'Sikhala was advocating for violence,' says last State witness
THE State's last witness in the trial of Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala (CCC) for allegedly inciting public violence sometime in 2018, yesterday claimed that the video evidence showed the opposit...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:34hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
She is a living LEGEND and a HERO!
Barbara Makhalisa, also known by her married name as Barbara Nkala, is a teacher, Zimbabwean writer, Ndebele translator, novelist, editor and publisher, one of the earliest female writers published in...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 09:02hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa coronation day
NONE gave the Chevrons a chance against Pakistan in a Super 12 stage at the T20 Cricket World Cup currently underway in Australia. It is a biblical David v Goliath story and the Chevrons passed the te...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:40hrs | | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe govt lacks spine
THE Zanu-PF government is at long last trying to get back to the basics on its initial promises at Independence in 1980, reintroducing a minimum wage.However, questions will continue to linger...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Where is Generation Z age group born 2000-2004? The missing '1.5 million voters'
More than 1.5 million people turn18 since the last general election, and these youngest eligible Generation Z (Gen Z), Gen Zers or Zoomers form a diverse, active, and potentially decisive voting bloc ...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 5 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Colonialism belongs to old time Britain
ASSERTIONS by one Tendai Ruben Mbofana (Zim leaders eagerly defending Chinese colonialism! NewsDay May 25, 2022) that China has colonised Zimbabwe cannot go unchallenged.The contents of the so...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Christopher Mahove
When the West, opposition believe their own propaganda
Following the March 26, 2022, by-elections, the Western media and the opposition have been very childishly excited by the performance of the Nelson Chamisa-led CCC.In the process, the West and...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Women decry sextortion
WOMEN'S organisations have lamented the rise in sextortion cases in the country's tertiary institutions and workplaces, pushing back the fight to achieve gender equality.According to the Colli...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Resources wasted by by-elections
Freebies worth US1,2million delivered to Polad membership will never be a resources wasting agenda but a legal, useful and necessary adventure bent on the betterment of Zimbabwean peoples lives and vi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 17:22hrs | 8 | by Phosiwe Ncube
Top South African sangoma invades Bulawayo
Controversial South African traditional healer Dr. Khehlelezi, (real name is Bhongolethu Mzozo) will be in Bulawayo on the 9th of January for a miracle service which will be held at BAC leisure ...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 12:09hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu declared national hero posthumously
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday posthumously declared the late Cdes Rabelani Choeni, Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, Elliot Ngwabi, Professor George Kahari and Professor Sheunesu Mpepereki as national heroes. Pr...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 and International Relations: Forces of Change, Continuities and Discontinuities
Forget about all its devastating impacts to humanity, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about interesting and new dimensions to international relations as an academic discipline which raises pivotal i...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 16:19hrs | 2 | by Wallace K Musakanyi
'Mnangagwa must learn to embrace democracy' - after 41 years, it's for us to learn to confound elephant in room
"An elephant in the room! means a very large issue that everyone is acutely aware of, but nobody wants to talk about. Perhaps a sore spot, perhaps politically incorrect, or perhaps a political ho...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 17:46hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Do you need a degree to become a professional game developer?
Video games are currently the new order in the gaming industry. Every player wants to interact with the visuals when they are playing. Any time they play, they love seeing their opponents on the scree...Published: 10 May 2021 at 18:55hrs | 10 | by Staff writer
In Zim, we need another dictionary to define the term 'Development'
Zambian President, Edgar Lungu has Commissioned more than five hospitals in less than six months, apparently, he has decongested Lusaka city, by Commissioning four fly overs, in less than a year. Forg...Published: 07 May 2021 at 10:07hrs | 22 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
For an African man, sex is power to shut up a woman's mouth
An activist is a person who campaigns for social change. Someone who's actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist. Forms of activism range from mandate bui...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Boys and men are raped also - urgent need to eliminate double-standards in prosecution of sexual gender-based violence cases
As a survivor of childhood sexual gender-based violence - which I was subjected to at the tender age of seven years old, at the hands of an older female, whom we resided with, and for some strange rea...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Both ZANU PF and MDC have betrayed and failed people of Zimbabwe, and it's time for citizens to reclaim their power
There is no better definition of 'fail', as the one provided by my trusted dictionary, which says, "Not to achieve a particular stated goal" - and as such, there is no other more appropriate way to de...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Enter the Covid passport: A new apartheid system
I stumble off the plane. It's seven in the morning and it's freezing cold. Half an hour ago I was downing a bottle of miniature red at 20 000 feet. I live wild! What can I say? I've been up for the be...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Mufaro Makubika
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 22 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe Era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:32hrs | 4 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Moana was no slay queen'
SiNce her tragic death last Sunday morning, minutes after celebrating her 26th birthday at Dreams Nightlife club, Michelle "Mimi Moana" Amuli has dominated local conversations as the public attempts t...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
If ZANU PF were the opposition, wouldn't they see a crisis in Zimbabwe?
My most trusted dictionary defines 'crisis' as, "An unstable situation, in political, social, economic, or military affairs".Over the past three months, Zimbabwe - as well as regional and glob...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 10:16hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Keep your EU Brexit and I will keep my Zimbabwe'
HISTORY has a tendency to repeat itself, but in Zimbabwe, the frequency is just phenomenal. The country has twice in a decade suffered hyperinflation as a result of bad governance.For the seco...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Cambridge English On The Go
In the 20 odd years that I have been in the Zimbabwean education system and ten years spent in English remediation, I have identified a number of factors that cause students to fail their Cambridge O'...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by The Language Coach
Our 'scoop' obsessed jurnos, first things first
A middle-aged woman lay still, probably injured or fainted as a result of mayhem in Harare CBD. Common sense from common people would mean springing into action to render assistance to the motionless ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:01hrs | 1 | by Tondorindo Murisa.
Cambridge English on the go
In the 20 odd years that I have been in the Zimbabwean education system and ten years spent in English remediation, I have identified a number of factors that cause students to fail their Cambridge O'...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by The Language Coach
Chamisa and allies: Don't start wars that you can't finish
To hide a lie, a thousand lies are needed.The main opposition MDC was caught totally off-guard when one of their own, the talkative Job Sikhala, revealed the party worst-kept secret: That they...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
An economy cannot be managed by propaganda
AN economy cannot be managed through propaganda. Back in high school, the term "propaganda"used to tickle us as students of history.The famed Oxford Dictionary defines propaganda as informatio...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Zuze
End of the road Emerson
That's it. Its the end of the road for Emerson Mnangagwa. He should just pack his begs and go back to Zvishavane, or, by the way, is it Zambia. Once a dictator starts changing the constitution to limi...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 20:07hrs | 2 | by Clemen Moyo
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Miracles and the New Testament
The word "miracle," is derived from the Latin word miraculum, which is so translated in the New Testament of the Authorized Version from two Greek words. On twenty-two occasions the word semeion is tr...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by Brian Maregedze
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies Analysis: Death of Jesus and the Brandon theory
Question: Critically analyse the Brandon theory on the causes of the death of Jesus.This paper seeks to analyze Brandon thesis on the cause of the death...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 11:06hrs | 16 | by Brian Maregedze
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