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Swindlers cash in on UK's certificates of sponsorship
FOR close to two years, Maud Kwembeya (33) - of Zimunya in Mutare - has been harbouring thoughts of one day migrating to the United Kingdom (UK) in search of greener pastures.A vastly experien...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:33hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Disabled people of Zimbabwe arise...it's time to fight
Dear friends, persons with disabilities, disability activists, disability development workers and all who wish us well:Revolutionary greetings from Kenya. The situation has reached another lev...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 19:18hrs | 13 | by Mukoma A
ZEC unfit to run free, fair elections - Study
A NEW study on Zimbabwe's electoral politics, processes and institutions has found that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is deeply distrusted by voters, hence cannot be trusted to preside over ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 21:13hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF linked vendors defy BCC
Zanu-PF backed vendors, who recently invaded Fifth Avenue in Bulawayo, illegally allocating themselves trading bays, are accusing the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) of corruption.The ruling party...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Senator Watson Khupe booted out of parliament
National Council of Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe has recalled Senator Watson Khupe who was representing People Living with Disability in parliament. In a hard hitting letter to the Zimbabwe El...Published: 06 May 2022 at 17:59hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 13 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Zimbabwe political terrain tough for disabled persons
DISABLED women, especially in rural set ups, aspiring to take up leadership positions are facing a double blow to their ambitions.Barbra Nyangairi, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust executive director, said...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa blasts govt for neglecting PWDs
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) has blasted government for failing to take care of people with disabilities (PWDs) as stipulated in section 83 of the Constitution.Section 83 of the Consti...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Citizens are collateral damage in sanctions matrix
SEVENTY TWO-year-old Sihle Jani* wriggles and whimpers in pain in a dim-lit kitchen hut where a cloud of smoke belches out in no particular order through the grass thatch giving evidence of life at a ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
MDC candidates sell Tsvangirai legacy as trump card
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective; election and power are, according to American columnist Calvin Thomas.The MDC Alliance's elective cong...Published: 23 May 2019 at 19:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Roadmap to inclusive dialogue in Zimbabwe: A grassroots perspective
The current state of affairs in Zimbabwe calls for inclusive and participatory dialogue. Such an engagement requires a development oriented approach rather than political pursuit. It unequivocally dem...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:38hrs | 2 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Blind Zimbabwean loses SA refugee status
A BLIND Zimbabwean living in South Africa has lost his disability grant after his refugee status was withdrawn. The Department of Home Affairs says he has been visiting Zimbabwe, but the blind 53-year...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:00hrs | 2 | by GroundUp
Joshua Malinga fundraises for Disability Expo
Presidential Advisor on Disability Dr Joshua Malinga has held a meeting with members of the business community to encourage them to partner in the 2019 Edition of the Disability Expo. In a sta...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Knives must be for cutting bread
we are now in 2019 and it seems the road is already bumpy with unusual challenges. On apersonal note, I am having to contend with the hard reality that using public transport, my assistant and I need ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 14:22hrs | 1 | by Abraham Mateta
International Disability Day Message: Dr Joshua T. Malinga
The 3rd of December is the official United Nations day for Disabled People. I therefore invite you all to think of the different challenges, areas of support needed by Disabled People and po...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Joshua Malinga
Knives out for Rowdy Mabaudhi
Members of the disability community have come out guns blazing against one Gift Rowdy Mabaudhi whom they accuse of misrepresenting himself as the champion for the disability cause in a secret bid to s...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 11:57hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Disabled sidelined in HIV information dissemination
Thirty-year-old Chenai Murimbika of Dunzvambeva village under Chief Kazangarare, 60km north of Karoi, looks older than her age.She has endured untold suffering, marked by stigmatisation couple...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges govt depts not to side-line people from Matebeleland
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday challenged Government departments not to side-line people from Matebeleland region when rolling out development projects.Addressing the elderly and disab...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa to resume issuance of grants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will resume issuance of grants to institutions that cater for the disabled once the economy improves.The President was speaking during an interface...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 15:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Andrew Langa baptized at SDA
Zanu PF Insiza North legislator Andrew Langa is now a Christian as reports say he was recently baptised by the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Filabusi after several baptisms from several churches....Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
$10 million for youth projects
GOVERNMENT has availed $10 million to fund youths and people living with disability empowerment projects countrywide.National Disability Board deputy chairperson Mr Edward Mundanga said this d...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Phathisa Nyathi's Mnangagwa dream
PROMINENT Bulawayo based historian and cultural activist Mr Pathisa Nyathi is well known for his captivating historical articles, but it seems he is also gifted in clairvoyance considering his prophes...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The People vs A ZANU PF Cult, a Tale of Chipinge's looting club
Hundreds of people were left disappointed after ZANU PF representatives actively stopped a positive engagement that was being made by the Chipinge Stands Beneficiaries Association (CSBA) in relation t...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 14:39hrs | 4 | by M.C
Unicef conducts dialogue for persons living with Disability
UNICEF Zimbabwe convened a meeting with organizations representing persons living with Disability, to allow members to talk about challenges they face on a daily basis.Participating organisati...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 10:20hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Factionalism threatens to tear Mujuru's NPP
National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has admitted that all is not well in her Bulawayo party structures, in a development she attributed to infiltration.Factionalism and tribalism...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another survey puts us top again, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, just a year before we go into another election, yet another survey has revealed the obvious … that a preponderating majority of our people trust u...Published: 11 May 2017 at 21:36hrs | 2 | by CZ
Olinda Chapel Woman of God - Apostle Try Immanuel Prophecy comes true
Popular Rapper Stunner real name Desmond Chideme's ex-wife Olinda Chapel was prophesied by Zimbabwean Based Apostle Try Immanuel on a live prophetic session on Facebook about her call to be a Woman of...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 17:44hrs | | by Panashe Makufa
Advocate Fadzai Mahere: Wheelchair-metaphor to depict our aged President- a joke that crossed red line!
Mr. Collen Chifamba wrote a passionate letter to Advocate Mahere about her the insensitivity and indeed an insult to the disabled people generally. The content letter of Collen Chifamba is of a ...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 14:57hrs | 5 | by Nomazulu Thata
Where Ian Smith still rules
THREE decades after Independence, villagers in Mudzi district still live in terror of the seeds the colonial military sowed in their soil.Here, Ian Smith - dead and buried - still cont...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko tables Peace Bill
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, who is also responsible for national healing, yesterday tabled the new National Peace and Reconciliation Bill in the National Assembly after it was withdrawn fro...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 09:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe surrounds himself with clowns
SINCE December 1987 when President Robert Mugabe masterminded constitutional amendments to create the imperial executive presidency, he has reduced the country to some form of theatre by appointin...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 14:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Seeking ethnic solutions in Zimbabwe is going global - Part four
We are in Germany today! Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape Is she now going crazy to think that African...Published: 30 Apr 2016 at 15:29hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Opposition members denied food aid
Traditional leaders in Chimanimani East are reportedly working in cahoots with Zanu PF councillors in identifying perceived opposition party supporters and excluding them from receiving food ha...Published: 13 Dec 2015 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Muzenda's dying wish
Dr Simon Vengesai Muzenda was my nephew, his mother and I were related, both being of the Hungwe totem.HOWEVER, I only got to know Dr Muzenda better when he returned from the liberation war in...Published: 28 Sep 2015 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Hon Josiah Hungwe
Bulawayo, Gwanda benefit from Australian grant
The Australian government has contributed about AU$3.8 million as part of the Urban Peri-Urban project that is being implemented in Bulawayo and Gwanda. The project is being supported by ...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 07:59hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF youth member condemns treatment of disabled people
Zanu PF youth member Fidelis Fengu has expressed great love for his party leader President Robert Mugabe but bemoaned failure by his government to treat disabled people well.·"I love and ...Published: 13 Jul 2015 at 18:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Calls for govt to establish ministry for the disabled
Organisations representing disabled people have called upon the government to establish a ministry that looks into their affairs to ensure they are included in key national programmes.Represe...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 18:13hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt called upon to create ministry for the disabled
Organisations representing disabled people have called upon the government to establish a ministry that looks into their affairs to ensure they are included in key national programmes.Represen...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare world class status a pipedream
IT's 7am on a Tuesday morning and already there is traffic congestion on almost all the narrow roads leading into Harare's central business district.For almost half an hour at the corner of Sa...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:48hrs | | by Hazel Ndebele
Mphoko out of touch with reality
FEARS that Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was out of touch with the plight of Zimbabweans, having spent so much time abroad as a diplomat, were confirmed last week during his charm-offensive in the...Published: 30 Jan 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Stewart Chabwinja
Prophet Makandiwa miraculously heals a Mutare boy
AFTER two failed surgical operations and exhausting all medical options that money could buy to cure his perthes disease, 18-year-old Norman Sithole was miraculously healed by Prophet Emmanuel Makand...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Ngoni Dapira
War Vets, village heads abusing funds for vulnerable people
WAR veterans and village heads in Bulilima District are reportedly abusing funds which are meant for vulnerable people.Councillors, who spoke during a Rural District Development Committee meet...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Involve disabled people in decision making'
Harare - People with disabilities often get sidelined in decision making and suffer discrimination within their families and communities that there live in, it has emerged.This came to lig...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 11:07hrs | | by Portia Sigauke
Blind beggars worry senator
Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi has expressed concern about people with disabilities, especially the blind who are forced by poverty to beg at the border post.Mohadi told Senate last week...Published: 19 May 2014 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pope Francis washes feet of disabled, including elderly Muslim
Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen elderly and disabled people including a Libyan Muslim during an Easter ritual in Rome on Thursday imitating Jesus Christ's humility.The 77-year-old bent...Published: 19 Apr 2014 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Disabled YES! but we can also do it, give us a chance'
My name is Sibonokuhle Theodora Dube. I was inspired to write this article to everyone who is able bodied and those with disabilities to show everyone that being disabled doesn't mean inability....Published: 01 Apr 2014 at 18:26hrs | 2 | by Sibonokuhle Theodora Dube
Prophets warned
Zimbabwe Council of Churches secretary-general Dr Solomon Zwana has slammed clergymen who are taking advantage of the challenges the country is facing to dupe people of their hard- earned money and th...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Farirai Machivenyika
Good bye February 2014
Zimbabweans are a defiant people. They can do the least expected things anytime.They invest a lot in educating their children and brag of being the most educated people in Africa, yet they...Published: 26 Feb 2014 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Discent Collins Bajila
Grass Pastor not welcome, says Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to the news that the South African pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries who became popular after making his congregants eat grass, will grace ...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 15:51hrs | 3 | by Makhosi Sibanda
People living with disabilities are important in society - Timothy Stamps
The Health Advisor in the President’s Office, Dr Timothy Stamps says people living with disabilities play an important role in developing the nation.Dr Stamps said this at th...Published: 22 Jun 2013 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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