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'Chamisa tactics miserable'
AS TURMOIL consumes the country's opposition, renowned professor of World Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Stephen Chan, has once again warned Nelson...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:55hrs | 4244 | by Staff reporter
Tribalism at its best: Khuphe a leader sent from hell! My reply!
They see everything is wrong and going wrong because of Thokozani Khuphe. But who ignited the whole shenanigans going on in the MDC opposition parties? Indeed tribalism is embedded, it is entranced in...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 15:10hrs | 5746 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa under growing pressure for failing to tackle Mnangagwa & Zanu-PF
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 18:40hrs | 3337 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala tells Chamisa that popularity alone won't be enough
LARGER-THAN-LIFE MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has advised his principal Nelson Chamisa not to think that popularity will guarantee him to become Zimbabwe's next leader...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 6639 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF creating fake MDC to win 2023' - why bother, won 2018 with genuine MDC
Dear Knowledge Hakata, "As a political student this is my prediction of what is happening and what is going to happen in Zimbabwe. Zanu PF knows that they won't stand a chance in 2023 presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1933 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Khupe set to recall Chamisa's VP, 5 MPs
MDC-T interim president Thokozani Khupe has set her sights on recalling MDC Alliance co-vice president, Lynnette Karenyi-Kore and five other MPs from the beleaguered rival opposition.The six M...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 18:30hrs | 3401 | by Staff reporter
Donkey thief jailed
A 21-YEAR-OLD Bindura man who stole a donkey valued at US$ 500 has been jailed by a Bindura magistrate.Samuel Gadzikai was sentenced to 5 months in prison by magistrate Ethel Chichera....Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 14:22hrs | 1939 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cross-border donkey rustlers on the prowl
To new arrivals, "Dip 27" is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.Yet locals know that the daytime semblance of law-abiding p...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 669 | by Oscar Nkala
Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women's fight for property
When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in southwestern Zimbabwe and took the three donkeys ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 2061 | by Reuters
Donkey cart traders invade Bulawayo with cheap goods
DONKEY cart operators from Bulawayo's nearby peri-urban areas have invaded low-income suburbs in the city selling mostly cheap firewood and vegetables to hard-pressed residents.The cart operat...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
'If Zanu PF has failed, vote them out' insist opposition - ballocks, not when they can rig elections
"The (November 2017) coup has been over taken by events and there has been an election in between, the disputed results notwithstanding. It is what it is and now we must focus on getting Zimbabweans t...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 12:09hrs | 1200 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
White farmer compensation: A stunt that backfired
IF you have lived in the village, or had the chance to visit one, you will remember how an ass be-haves. Stubborn and carefree, but very poor of judgement. It spends the whole day hee-hawing, tossing ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:14hrs | 830 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 762 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cattle, donkeys border jumps into Botswana, shot dead
OVER 180 cattle and 109 donkeys from Mashaba in Gwanda and Beula in Kezi were shot in Botswana in the past week after they strayed into the neighbouring country. In 2006, Botswana introduced a...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF's mask is shifting at the everest of the Covid19 Pandemic
For donkey years, the Zanu PF's tin-pot trimvirate has been playing a game of musical choirs to keep itself in power amidst the deepening and excruciating economic and constitutional free-fall. Zimbab...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 724 | by Matthew Dube Esquire
From herdboy to professor
WHEN Solwayo Ngwenya was herding goats, cows and donkeys in rural Lupane in the 1970s, never did he imagine that one day he would be a celebrated obstetrician. But on Monday he was appointed a full ti...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 2850 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 13357 | by Staff reporter
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2789 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
Denial, blame game: Root cause of opposition failure
Back in my village, in the proverbial land of milk honey and dust - Guruve - my clique of friends often meet at the growth point early morning on weekends to buy bread or newspapers. Here, we ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:52hrs | 125 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Chamisa insists that ball is in Mnangagwa's court
AS ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises continue to deepen, Nelson Chamisa says the ball is in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's court to initiate sincere and inclusive national dialogue to help reso...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:47hrs | 5125 | by Staff reporter
Massive political implosion beckons
BACK in the day, there was nothing as maddeningly hectic and nerve-fraying as the monthly pilgrimage of shepherding cattle to the communal dip tank.It really tested your tolerance, patience, s...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:40hrs | 282 | by Bishop Lazarus
Arrest Collins Mnangagwa and Mthuli Ncube: send them to rot in remand prison!
Finance Minister must answer charges of attempting to defraud international finance houses arguing that the funding is meant to alleviate coronavirus challenges and imminent coup. From the press confe...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 23:32hrs | 7068 | by Nomazulu Thata
Farmers start preparing for dry season
Farmers in Bulilima are seized with gathering hay and maize stalks to avert an impending drought crisis attributed to the effects of climate change.Over a thousand cattle and donkeys in the di...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1321 | by Stephen Jakes
Biti warns Mnangagwa
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under-pressure government that the country is facing imminent implosion.Speaking in an interview with the Da...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:38hrs | 8447 | by Staff reporter
Solving political turmoil key to addressing Zimbabwe's economic crisis
ZIMBABWE is experiencing one of its worst economic crises since independence characterised by cash and foreign currency shortages, fuel scarcities, rampant prices hikes, hyperinflation and increased v...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:35hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Copper smuggling women caught in Beitbridge
Beitbridge - Two women from Karoi farming town we're arrested at Beitbridge border town on Thursday as they tried to smuggle copper using a donkey cart.According to Beitbridge police s...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:29hrs | 2254 | by Naume Muza
Nelson Chamisa you are now pissing us off
Sir you have become a Twitter President of which most of the people who are following you are in the diaspora the ones who did not vote for you.We now need you to call for a Massive Civil Diso...Published: 20 May 2020 at 21:45hrs | 4576 | by Knowledge Hakata
Trio invokes ancient Tonga custom in 'kidnap and rape' incident
TWO brothers and their cousin who allegedly invoked an ancient Tonga custom to kidnap a girl (17) and take her to their homestead where one of them raped her before introducing her to relatives as his...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:40hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans arrested for beer smuggling in SA
Four Zimbabweans have been arrested for smuggling alcohol into South Africa. The quartet separately crossed into South Africa with bottles of whisky through the Beitbridge port, but after a tip-off. S...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Duo steals car, swaps it with 3 donkeys, cart
TWO men from Bulawayo's Old Pumula suburb allegedly stole a Toyota Ipsum motor vehicle and swapped it for three donkeys and a cart.Michael Moyo (26) and Leeroy Sibanda (22) pleaded guilty to a...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2117 | by Staff reporter
Brother kills brother over harness
A 25-YEAR-OLD Gwanda man allegedly fatally stabbed his elder brother with a knife for taking his harness without permission. Proud Siziba from Ndibe area in Gwanda was not asked to plead when ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
The lost industrial glory of the city of Bulawayo
AFRICAN nationalism demands that the history of British colonialism must be condemned at every opportunity and I must be counted among those who lose no opportunity to condemn this phenomenal episode ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 882 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
WATCH: Zimbabwean smugglers laugh at South Africa's border fence
A stream of people illegally transporting groceries and cigarettes between SA and Zimbabwe this week laughed off SA's hastily constructed R37m border fence as a "joke".The Sunday Times visited...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 17:05hrs | 5027 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown puts pregnant Zimbabwe women at risk
Pregnant women in marginalised communities are struggling to access prenatal care due to the current lockdown, it has emerged.Zimbabwe commenced a 21-day lockdown on March 30 and extended it b...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:31hrs | 473 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Smuggling has reached alarming levels along the Limpopo river
In the photo above, villagers from Beitbridge form a beeline across Limpopo River as they carry boxes of groceries from the South African side into Zimbabwe. Far in the sandy bed of the Limpopo River ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 09:17hrs | 3188 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers, army, police open own border posts along Limpopo river
SMUGGLERS operating in cahoots with security service personnel from both Zimbabwe and South Africa have reportedly opened unofficial border posts at a number of points along the Limpopo River, defying...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:17hrs | 8630 | by Staff reporter
Is Obediah Moyo the black sheep of Zimbabwe amidst Covid-19?
Presidents have never been know- it-all executives posessing godly powers to rely upon in running governments.Instead, they have advisors- men and women whose prowess, expertise, foresight and...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 20:42hrs | 2566 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Molested, caressed and disembowelled by the 5th Brigade!
It all went wrong at the birthing of Zimbabwe, or just before. It is exactly what happens when a cow encounters dystocia during parturition. The calf refuses to come out properly by arrogantly facing ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2055 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Why I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died!
I wept bitterly when Robert Mugabe died, leaving me discombobulated and severely pained. Indelible, agonizing, stabbing, chronic pain! Pain that eats into my liver, intestines and buttocks. The ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59hrs | 7148 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Sikhala is not an American project'
MDC national deputy chairperson Job Sikhala has cleared the air on rumours purporting that he wants to take over power from his party's president Nelson Chamisa under the backing of the Americans sayi...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 06:54hrs | 2962 | by Staff reporter
Gweru barred from killing stray donkeys and dogs
The High Court has issued an order barring the killing of stray donkeys and dogs in Gweru urban following an application by animal rights organisation, the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:47hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa regime cannot silence me,' says Sikhala
Masvingo High Court judge, Justice Garainesu Mawadze, recently acquitted MDC vice chairperson Job Sikhala of treason charges after he allegedly called for the overthrowing of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:22hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
'Will not rest until Zanu PF is extinguished' - shadow boxing, failed to implement even one reform in 20 years
As much as Zanu PF thugs would want to believe they will rule Zimbabwe until "donkeys have horns" the reality is that change is coming. The best they have...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 07:58hrs | 363 | by Nomusa Garikai
Residents call for ban of donkeys in city
GWERU residents have implored the local authority to come up with a by-law effectively banning the rearing of donkeys in the city following an upsurge in their numbers as they are used as draught powe...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
'Revolutions if don't chuck out leaders a.s.a.p' said G Orwell - 40 years, our supremacists still there
"Despite all the hurdles and all the barriers, Zimbabwe in 2019 leaped 15 places in the Global Ease of Doing Business rankings. As we look to improve this in 2020, privatisation is a big part of this ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1270 | by Nomusa Garikai
Man threatens mum with machete
A MAN from St Peters Village near Bulawayo's Old Pumula suburb has been arrested for allegedly threatening to attack his mother with a machete forcing her to sleep at a neighbour's house. Lizw...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:17hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Stray donkeys, scotch-carts a menace in Victoria Falls
THE increase in the number of stray donkeys and scotch-carts in Victoria Falls town has irked residents who have taken the local authority to task to deal with the domestic animals and their owners as...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's political demise beckons
It is a view expressed by astute political observers, this scribe included, that unless the MDC-Alliance denounces violence and joins President E.D. Mnangagwa and other political parties in the Politi...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:45hrs | 474 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Jonathan Moyo's EXCELGATE is mastery of deception; focuses on vote computation but ignores illegal process
Jonathan Moyo knows Zanu PF has been rigging elections for donkey years, especially since his rejoining the party in 2000. He is just being very selective on what he says."I studied electoral ...Published: 02 Jan 2020 at 08:57hrs | 6139 | by Nomusa Garikai
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