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Zanu-PF violence changed man's life forever
He was an energetic man, running his own life and fending for his family. He loved and embraced the supposed freedom brought by the country's liberators hence multi-partyism was just one of those frui...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 11:04hrs | 524 | by Matthew Takaona
Army captain killers get life sentences
Two Masvingo prisoners, who had been on death row for the brutal murder of an army captain in 2018, have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment following Zimbabwe's recent abolition of the ...Published: 21 May 2025 at 19:56hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
Paedophile jailed 20 years
A 51-YEAR-OLD man who turned a minor girl into a sex slave has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars by Bulawayo regional magistrate Shingirai Mutiro.Francis Charichidembo was sentenced after...Published: 05 Mar 2025 at 12:11hrs | 1496 | by Simbarashe Sithole
I'm not prepared to continue suffering until 2030!
Zimbabwe, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has sank deeper into poverty.Granted, when President Emmerson Mnangagwa took power in November 2017 through a military coup, Zimbabwe was already ...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 22:56hrs | 1193 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's malnutrition crisis worsens
AS Zimbabwe is facing a severe drought, families in rural areas are unable to feed their children. The government and international agencies are falling short of addressing this growing crisis....Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:02hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to empower traditional leaders to issue IDs
The Zimbabwean government has been called upon to expedite efforts in training traditional leaders to issue essential primary documents, such as birth and death certificates.This initiative is...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 16:07hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
DA leader upgrading his matric certificate enrols with Unisa
Following criticism of his academic qualifications, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has officially enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA). His studies will focus on manage...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 11:30hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Poverty drives early marriages in Mzingwane
The prevalence of early marriages in Empisini, Ward 14, has become a pressing issue, as many young girls are being forced into marriage at a young age due to harsh economic conditions. This troubling ...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 21:02hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF violence changes Gutu man's life forever
He was an energetic man, running his own life and fending for his family. He loved and embraced the supposed freedom brought by the country's liberators hence multi-partyism was just one of those frui...Published: 12 Aug 2024 at 15:40hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump issues fresh challenge to elderly Biden
The former president has called for a debate and golf game so that his rival can prove he's capable of leading the countryFormer US President Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden to a "no-hol...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden has entered the twilight zone!
The debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump has revealed a terrible secret Democrats have been hiding from American citizens for the last three years. London'...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:42hrs | 5 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Mnangagwa's govt letting Matebeleland down'
Matebeleland South Senator Sithembile Mlotshwa has criticized the government for its failure to adequately build schools in the region, attributing this oversight to the rise in teenage pregnancies an...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Job Sikhala speech at the UN Geneva Summit
Iwant to greet you, honorable guests of this important summit for Human Rights and Democracy, from all the four corners of the world. I am Job Sikala, the surviving political prisoner from Zimbabwe. I...Published: 17 May 2024 at 16:38hrs | 62 | by Jo Sikhala
Schoolchildren in Zimbabwe drop out for lithium mines
In August 2023, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa inaugurated a lithium processing plant in the eastern province of Manicaland, aiming to support operations at the expansive Sabi Star lithium mi...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:30hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
19 countries confirm ZITF participation
ZIMBABWE International Trade Fair (ZITF) chairperson, Busisa Moyo, yesterday said 94,9% of exhibition space has been taken up with exhibitors from 19 countries having confirmed participation at this y...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sexual harassment rampant in the Zimbabwean media
Sexual harassment is rampant in the Zimbabwean media and continues largely because the media ecosystem itself - the journalists, editors, media managers, Human Resources Departments and proprietors - ...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Insiza North to get more secondary schools
Leadership in Ward 13 of Insiza District in Matabeleland South Province has identified a piece of land with plans to establish a secondary school. According to local headman Mr. Julius Maromo, communi...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Drop out in schools hits Matebeleland South
A TOTAL of 1 753 pupils from Matebeleland South dropped out of secondary school during the second quarter of the year due to a number of reasons, among them long distances to school and financial chal...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Brick by brick, a country is built by its owners'
The two often repeated philosophies of the Second Republic - "A country is built by its owners" and "Leaving no one and no place behind" - are not mere rhetorical statements to pontify the niceties of...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Sex worker's ngozi surfaces 50 years later
A Nyanga family is living in fear of a vengeful spirit that claims to be a sex worker who was murdered 50 years ago by the family's patriarch.The spirit, which speaks through various possessed...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:04hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Mnangagwa's Minister 'torments' NUST female student
The Minister of State responsible for Agricultural Colleges, Water Resources, and Irrigation Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Davis Marapira, has allegedly brought a National University of ...Published: 07 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2 teenagers up for killing colleague
Two teenage boys from Christon Bank have appeared in court for allegedly killing an older acquaintance, Nisand Maruza (25), by stabbing him with two knives on the chest and in the back after a misunde...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Teachers lament inhumane, exorbitant Zimsec fees
TEACHERS unions have expressed concern over the high cost of Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations saying this would deny some poor students from conti...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
I left Zimbabwe to live in South Africa. I want to go back. This is why it's hard
Many South Africans wonder why so many of us Zimbabweans came to be settled in their country, and wonder why we do not simply return to our homeland.This is my story - about my rural homestead...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central has most unregistered births
Mashonaland Central has the lowest number of registered births, a situation that exposes girls to early marriages, a Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat)'population and housing census report ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Students shutdown NUST
Students barricaded gates and forced a shutdown of the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo on Monday to protest a shock fees increase.The university later abandoned the n...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Holy Ten opens up on Winky D beef
The 24-year-old Harare rapper, songwriter, and producer Holy Ten (real name Mukudzei Chitsama) has for the first time opened up about the controversy surrounding his collaboration with award winning a...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 08:11hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Form 3 pupils help classmate give birth during lessons
A FORM 3 learner at Loreto High School in Kwekwe District, Midlands Province, shocked all and sundry when she delivered a baby in a classroom during a lesson. The 15-year-old pupil, who cannot...Published: 18 Jan 2023 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War on shocking teen pregnancies
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Examination fees shocker
GOVERNMENT has raised examination fees by up to three times, and immediately attracted brickbats from weary parents.Many parents, still to come to terms with school fees hikes and already batt...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Massive 50% drop in 'O' Level candidates
THE number of candidates sitting for Ordinary Level examinations has plummeted by 50% in five years, prompting teachers unions to raise alarm.The number of candidates sitting for the Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 May 2022 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu fails to pay maintenance...children drop out of school
Celebrated Zimbabwean soccer star and Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has been dragged to court by one of his baby mamas who is pleading with the courts to grant her an order barring Ndlov...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:55hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
No free education yet, says Mavima
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima has admitted that the government does not have a budget for free primary school education yet, but was hopeful that funds will be made available next year.S...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'840 000 children drop out of school'
AN estimated 840 000 schoolchildren have quit school since 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19, a United States embassy report on the 2021 state of human rights in Zimbabwe has shown.But g...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant girls troop back to school
SEVERAL teenage girls in Ntabazinduna who had dropped out of school after falling pregnant during the Covid-19 pandemic when schools were closed for the better part of last year have returned to schoo...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Unpacking a Prospective Councillor's Political Manifesto: Education
On the 7th of December 2021 I published my Political Manifesto as prospective councillor for Gokwe-Mapfungautsi Constituency Ward 25 Zimbabwe 2023 General Elections.My manifesto was received with mixe...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 22:13hrs | 11 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mnangagwa's govt tells NGOs to go assist in war-torn Ukraine
MIDLANDS Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavima has said non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the country should not cry foul over the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment B...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NPF gives up Kwekwe seat
THE opposition National Partriotic Front (NPF) which was linked to former president Robert Mugabe and his backers has all but collapsed and will not be fighting to reclaim the Kwekwe Central seat in t...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers petition Parly over surge in COVID-19 cases
TEACHERS yesterday petitioned Parliament demanding safety guarantees in the face of the fast-rising COVID-19 cases.In 2021, several schoolchildren were infected with the virus, resulting in pr...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZRP probe Chinese marriage to minor
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has launched an investigation into a case where a 15-year-old girl from Kadoma was married off to a Chinese national and forced to drop out of school.The vic...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teen pregnancy rate rises
ZIMBABWE'S teenage pregnancy rate has risen by two percent to 24 percent, with the majority being schoolgirls that are forced to drop out of school.The worrying trend has also led to debate ov...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Rapist gets Grade 6 pupil pregnant
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a Grade Six pupil who was impregnated after she was allegedly raped by a stranger at the family house in Mzilikazi suburb.The matter came to ligh...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mudha Ncube chickens out of Zanu-PF Midlands race
STATE security minister Owen Mudha Ncube has dropped out of the race for the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial chairmanship as the deadly internecine fights for control of the party heats up following the i...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lauded for safeguarding girl child education
ZIMBABWE has been lauded for being one of the African countries that are deliberately safeguarding the right to education for pregnant girls and adolescent mothers through amendments to the Education ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
26% drop out before O-Level completion
AT LEAST 26 percent of pupils dropped out of school before completing their Ordinary level last year and most of them were boys.The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education 2020 Statistical...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
AU's $1,3 million scholarships open doors
AS the first semester of 2021/22 begins, Africa University has awarded close to US$1,3 million in scholarships and financial aid to students in need. Six hundred students from 20 countries received th...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
24% of pupils fail to return to school
TWENTY-FOUR percent of pupils have not returned to school following the reopening of learning institutions due to early pregnancies, school boys venturing into artisanal mining and failure to pay fees...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unions cast doubt on new school term
Two unions representing teachers yesterday cast doubts on the smooth re-opening of schools tomorrow, saying their members would not be able to go back to work because of poor pay.In a surprise...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School fees to go up 33%
THE Government has given schools the green light to increase fees through a prorata system that will see some classes pay an extra 33 percent to cover for the extra days of the term, as schools open f...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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