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Chamisa says opposition leaders cannot liberate Zimbabwe
OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa has criticized self-serving opposition leaders, stating that their lack of gravitas and focus on personal gain undermines efforts to liberate Zimbabwe from its cur...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 04:51hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
CCC 'shocked' as Parliament effects changes made by Tshabangu
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has expressed strong disapproval over the Parliament's decision to implement changes in the opposition's parliamentary leadership, following a directive from se...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:53hrs | 1528 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest onlookers for filming CBD clampdown
In an unexpected development, dozens of bystanders found themselves detained this morning during a police operation targeting illegal taxis and kombis in the Central Business District (CBD). The arres...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 10:02hrs | 894 | by Staff reporter
Winky D bought Holy Ten 2 bottles of Gin, pizza on recording Ibotso
Almost two years after the release of Ibotso, Winky D's hard-hitting ZimDancehall track that featured Zanu-PF-aligned rapper Holy Ten, the artists have finally addressed the storm caused by the song, ...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:11hrs | 1892 | by Staff reporter
'Refrain from farming on Wednesdays and honour cultural customs'
Traditionalists have called on citizens to embrace cultural farming practices to mitigate the effects of the ongoing heatwave, which has severely impacted crops and livestock in parts of the country....Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 17:59hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional tensions escalate
A contentious push to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028 is rapidly gaining momentum, as factions within Zanu-PF rally around the idea, despite the President's public stance agains...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 18:13hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
Trump suggests Canada should become the 51st US State
US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that Canada should become the 51st US state unless it manages to halt the flow of illegal migrants and drugs across its border with the US, Fox News repor...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 11:05hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Mzila Ndlovu honoured for championing human rights in Matebeleland
Veteran freedom fighter, former minister, and opposition politician Moses Mzila Ndlovu has been honoured with the General Lookout Masuku Award by the 1893 Matebeleland Human Rights Restoration Movemen...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Confusion rocks CCC over Mnangagwa programme
A wave of confusion and internal conflict rocked the embattled Jameson Timba-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction last week as councillors were left divided over whether to attend an annual...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:25hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Shock as Ekhaya Kip Keino Children's Home in Mat South refuses free borehole
A puzzling development in Makwe North, Matabeleland South Province, has left the community divided after Ekhaya Kip Keino Children's Home declined a free borehole offered by Lungisani Twominutes Ncube...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 15:30hrs | 2016 | by George Tshuma
'Mnangagwa's ED2030 a complete impossibility'
As Zimbabwe approaches the midpoint of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's second term, growing scepticism surrounds his Vision 2030 initiative and the increasingly controversial push to extend his preside...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:43hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa in tribal storm, appoints son secretary
The self-appointed King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, is facing a growing controversy after allegedly sidelining some of his Bulawayo commissioners and appointing his son, Chiduku, as secretary of th...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:10hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, Brenthurst crew same WhatsApp group?
Some political analysts are asking why some individuals are complaining about Zanu-PF interference in regional elections but look the other way when The Brenthurst crew interferes and influences elect...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 14:32hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks estranged wife's claim to hubby's estate
A United Kingdom-based woman, Joyce Charlie, has lost her bid to be recognized as the surviving spouse of her late husband, Martin Charlie, after a lengthy legal battle in the High Court. Joyce, who h...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 08:15hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Know your Zimbabwe ID number
The Zimbabwe National ID is a critical document for citizens, serving as a means of identification, voting registration, and access to various government services. It contains coded information t...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 07:50hrs | 3888 | by Staff reporter
Security Guards petition Kazembe over poor salaries
The Zimbabwe Security Guards Union (ZISEGU) has called on the Minister of Home Affairs, Kazembe Kazembe, to urgently repeal Statutory Instrument 58/2024, which the union claims contributes to the low ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:36hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faction attacks Mnangagwa allies?
Tensions within Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party are reaching a boiling point as Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's military-backed faction takes a hard stance against President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 15:02hrs | 4843 | by Staff reporter
Edgar Lungu, the Tonse Coalition, and Zambia's political landscape: A clash of visions ahead of the 2026 elections
As Zambia gears up for the 2026 elections, the country's political scene is increasingly defined by the emerging rivalry between former President Edgar Lungu and current President Hakainde Hichilema, ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 12:28hrs | 655 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Zimbabweans blast government over WhatsApp licences
A wave of backlash has erupted across Zimbabwe following the government's announcement of new regulations requiring WhatsApp group administrators to obtain licenses and comply with stringent data prot...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:12hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's bold plan to dismantle the 'Deep State'
In a sweeping statement, former President Donald Trump has outlined his comprehensive plan to dismantle what he refers to as the "Deep State," a term he uses to describe the entrenched bureaucratic ap...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:56hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has endured such attacks for the longest time
OFTENTIMES, there are those who have a proclivity for spreading malice in an attempt to mislead people. There are those who are inclined towards creating idealistic and unrealistic situations to serve...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:08hrs | 107 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
South Africa plans to say goodbye to cash?
Despite the surging adoption of contactless payments in South Africa, more than half of the country still relies on cash as their dominant payment method, and the digital divide is slowing the migrati...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 13:54hrs | 3058 | by Staff reporter
Botswana vote shaken up by angry ex-president
Botswana holds a presidential election on Wednesday energised by a campaign by one previous head-of-state to unseat his handpicked successor whose first term has seen rising discontent amid a downturn...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:21hrs | 3309 | by AFP
Factionalism dominates Zanu-PF central committee meeting
ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has revealed that factionalism, which is threatening to fracture the party, was the dominant topic during the central committee meeting held on Wednesday, j...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:51hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Chafuka on Zimbabwe social media will topple Mnangagwa government!
I should be forgiven if I said this man is an implant of president Mnangagwa masquerading as a revolutionary. Yet he is playing a political game that speaks the opposite to loo as many as he can get t...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:12hrs | 1560 | by Nomazulu Thata
Anxiety grips divided Zanu-PF
This week, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) will convene its annual conference in Bulawayo, facing a turbulent future marked by factionalism, a leadership crisis, and cont...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 14:13hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai had a team of CIO officers for protection
On March 6, 2009, serious tensions erupted between the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and medical staff at Avenues Clinic in Harare following a tragic road accident involving then-Prime Minis...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 10:35hrs | 2855 | by Staff reporter
Maids steal US$26,000 from employer, blow US$18,000 before arrest
TWO housemaids from Mutare were sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $26,000 from their employer's bedroom. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed the sentencing of the accused,...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 16:02hrs | 1995 | by Staff reporter
BCC limits number of public transport operators
The City of Bulawayo has expanded its public transport network by collaborating with a fifth transport company as part of its ongoing efforts to improve urban mobility. This move comes as part of the ...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:26hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe woman shares bedroom with 2 husbands
In a shocking case brought before the Harare Civil Court, two men are living with the same woman as their wife, sharing the same bedroom at a house in the capital city. One of the men, Takemore Kagair...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 2663 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe football fraternity divided over 5 O' Levels clause
Zimbabwe's football community finds itself divided ahead of the crucial ZIFA elections scheduled for January 2025. With the Lincoln Mutasa-led Normalisation Committee's term expiring at the start of t...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:42hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Trump's odds of winning have suddenly surged
A data scientist who constructed a model to predict who will win the 2024 presidential election says Donald Trump has surged ahead in the last week.Dr Thomas Miller from Northwestern Universit...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 16:48hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema alarmed by prospects of defeat and prosecution for corruption
When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare has been a constant theme of Za...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 17:08hrs | 2638 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Mukwasha Chiwenga in Math-South improvements. Is development holistic?
Whatever development VP Chiwenga is bringing in Matabeleland South, that should never be interpreted as "Mukwasha inzunza". School children especially benefit from good and safe schools, health care f...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:27hrs | 2062 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bosso 'okay' ZPC Kariba match boycott
Highlanders Football Club management has approved a fundraising function organized by a faction of its supporters, scheduled for this Sunday at the team's sports club. The event coincides with Bosso's...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:47hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo gifts Daisy Mtukudzi a 2024 Toyota Fortuner
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has made headlines once again, this time by gifting Daisy Mtukudzi, widow of the late music legend Oliver Mtukudzi, a brand-new 2024 Toyota Fortuner. The ges...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 13:42hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi family circus continues
The ongoing tensions within the Mtukudzi family resurfaced in a recent no-holds-barred interview with DJ Ollah 7, where Oliver Mtukudzi's daughters, Selmor and Sandra, aired their grievances against t...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:15hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
China mining firms partner with Zimbabwe on lithium mine
Chinese miners Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. and Tsingshan Holding Group Co. are defying low lithium prices to develop a deposit of the battery metal with a Zimbabwean state company.The two firms...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:56hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
War veterans reject Mnangagwa's third term
In a significant political development, war veterans have publicly declared their opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's push for a third term as part of the ED2030 campaign, signaling widening ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 13:41hrs | 2752 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa feigns shock at ANC decline
Despite the writing being on the wall for all to see, President Cyril Ramaphosa has revealed that it took him a while to admit that the ANC has truly failed to achieve a decisive majority in the recen...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 10:26hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Ralph Mupita addresses letter to staff to allay their concerns
MTN group CEO Ralph Mupita has moved swiftly to allay employees' concerns following allegations from multiple sources against his leadership, favouritism and under-performance of the group.He ...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 13:34hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Revolt at MTN over CEO's 'female favourite'
An ugly battle is brewing at MTN over the direction Africa's biggest mobile network operator is taking under group CEO Ralph Mupita, with executives threatening to quit en masse over his leadership st...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 11:58hrs | 4573 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean bishop deported from Nigeria
Bishop Eben K. Nhiwatiwa of the United Methodist Church Zimbabwe was arrested and subsequently deported from Nigeria while on a mission to oversee the election of a new church leader. The inc...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
ED2030 slogan tears Zanu-PF structures
The push within Zanu-PF to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's tenure beyond the constitutionally-mandated two terms has left the party's provincial chairpersons in a difficult position, uncertain a...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:12hrs | 2381 | by Staff reporter
Lovemore Moyo was Speaker of GNU Parliament yet did not know its primary task was implementing reforms. Shocking!
In a LIVE HS TV interview with Blessing Mhlanga, Lovemore Moyo revealed that he did not know that the primary purpose of the 2008 to 2013 GNU was to implement the democratic reforms. Shocking! ...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 21:47hrs | 970 | by Wilbert Mukori
Commission exposes Harare land scam
The Commission of Inquiry into the Governance of Harare City Council recently uncovered tactics used by city councillors, mostly from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), to loot council land thro...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 07:09hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
CCC members conspiring to have Chamisa arrested?
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Zimbabwe's main opposition party, is reportedly grappling with internal discord, as some party members are allegedly conspiring to have their former leader, Ne...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 10:47hrs | 2191 | by Staff reporter
Sadc can't be divided
President Mnangagwa emphasized the unity and shared history of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in his remarks at a State Banquet following the 44th SADC Summit. He stressed that desp...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:12hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Cracks in Bosso camp
ALL is not well at Bulawayo football giants, Highlanders with an audio going viral in which secretary-general Morgen "Gazza" Dube is overheard painting a picture of a divided house.Dube is acc...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:21hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Mighty Warriors coach appointment divides ZIFA
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Normalisation Committee is experiencing internal discord over the appointment of the new Mighty Warriors head coach. The tec...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
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