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Son of a Zimbabwean nurse is bookies' new favourite for James Bond
He is the dashing Netflix duke who could be about to swap regency era London for the secretive world of MI6. Regé-Jean Page left women swooning as the suave star of smash-hit British series Bridgerto...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:40hrs | 2934 | by Staff reporter
Catching up with Lovemore Majaivana
IT was quite refreshing to be able to speak to Lovemore Majaivana again after 13 years. False rumours had begun to do the rounds that he was dead.In 2008, we boarded the same flight from Harar...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:32hrs | 1658 | by Fred Zindi
Is there anything for Zimbabwe's presidium to be proud of, after turning country into a shameless charity case?
I honestly had all the intentions of attentively watching and following the live broadcast of the delivery, that arrived today at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, of an addit...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 17:17hrs | 759 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC Alliance Mpumalanga District leadership vowed to throw Mnangagwa into a political Dustbin in 2023
MDC Alliance Mpumalanga District leadership strengthen its base as it recruits and mobilises more Party members in Mpumalanga, South Africa. ...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:03hrs | 957 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Marabini switches to reggae
AFRO-POP ace Jeys Marabini will face the biggest test of his career with his new reggae track and video, Jah Deliver Us, as he seeks to expand his market and fan base.The award-winning artiste...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Are we heading for disaster? - An Open conversation
This article is an open conversation that touches the many issues that have brought our country to where it is today. It is not an article of opposition but a call to introspection. It is a call for u...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 12:19hrs | 1054 | by Liverson Mdongo wa Habe
Gun-totting land barons terrorise vapositori
Unrepentant gun-wielding lands barons have beyond reasonable doubt become a menace in Harare's Budiriro high-density suburb where they invade land earmarked for Johane Masowe Nyenyedzinomwe low income...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 15:01hrs | 2178 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Death celebration exposes MDC-Alliance's shallowness
The third week of this month was perhaps Zimbabwe's darkest as the nation lost four national heroes, who included three Government ministers and 70 Zimbabweans dying in one day due to the Covid-19 pan...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:33hrs | 1265 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Anti-graft dragnet to sink bigwigs
AT LEAST 41 high-profile figures face imminent arrest over corruption allegations, including those sucked in a US$23 million scam at the embattled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).The wide ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Security forces move in to refurbish buildings
BUSINESS enterprises that were destroyed during violent protests in January 2019 are set to reopen after Government availed affordable loans to business owners, with security forces already on the gro...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:47hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
2019 protests: Affected businesses qualify for loans
BUSINESSES destroyed during protests in January 2019 qualify for affordable Government loans and now a team from the security forces is on the ground reconstructing destroyed and damaged buildings. ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:43hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns Western embassies over January 2019 'insurrection'
GOVERNMENT has condemned a coterie of Western embassies, which have gone on a co-ordinated and biased social media attack on Zimbabwe over the January 2019 violent protests that rocked the country's m...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Police bust NRZ fuel theft scam
POLICE in Bulawayo have bust a fuel syndicate and arrested five people, two of them National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workers for stealing more than 1 400 litres of diesel from the parastatal's loco...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 509 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown violator rams into police drums
POLICE officers manning a roadblock in Bulawayo survived death by a whisker after a speeding motorist ploughed into barricades resulting in his car veering off the road and uprooting a street light. ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Mark Ngwazi poised for sungura throne
RISING sungura musician Mark Ngwazi is poised to take over the sungura throne if the new heights scaled by his latest offering is anything to go by.The Njanja Express frontman is riding high w...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:02hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see gloomy 2021
ZIMBABWEANS are not enthused about the New Year, 2021, and see no improvement in the social, economic and political problems that bedevilled the country throughout 2020.Most people entered January...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC fires all workers
BELEAGUERED MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday terminated contracts for all the 105 party workers, as the opposition party falls into financial doldrums. In a letter written by th...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe artistes face a bleak 2021
TOMORROW we celebrate the New Year as we wave goodbye to the disastrous 2020.The year 2020 will be remembered as a painful one after the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.Caught u...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:38hrs | 74 | by Plot Mhako
Zimbabwe police revoke churches gathering permission
POLICE have revoked the permission which had been granted to churches intending to hold crossover gatherings into the New Year saying every other gatherings including the use of fire crackers, skiddin...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:32hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Songstress, Congress, Compress not Oppress
Whenever the die-hard cadres in the MDC Alliance see smoke in the MDC-T, they wish it was gehena manifesting, except that this it is a braai not gehena. It is common cause that the victims of Khupe's ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:19hrs | 672 | by Robert Sigauke
Zimbabwe police ban New Year's Eve festivities
Zimbabweans will this year celebrate the New Year's Eve indoors following a police ban on unsanctioned parties, use of fire crackers, skidding of vehicles, beating and overturning of bins and drums in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:54hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Central government at the epicentre of the challenges facing local authorities
IntroductionToday is Christmas day, the day we celebrate the birth of the Son of Man, our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a day that is supposed to be a day of love, unity, togetherness and cel...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 20:19hrs | 1244 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
What ZANU PF would do as an Opposition - PART 1
It was at the funeral gathering of the late MDC Alliance MP, Anna Muyambo (MHSRIP) where Job Sikhala noted that the MDC Alliance, despite its so called huge following and popularity, will still be elu...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:40hrs | 1339 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Mnangagwa deals Chamisa blow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has dealt opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa another blow after allocating a paltry $2,3 billion to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), an amount inadequat...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 5710 | by Staff reporter
Chaos mars Gringo burial
THE burial of the late popular comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora at his rural home in Rukweza, Rusape, yesterday was marred by chaotic scenes as the family clashed with members of the Johanne Masowe eCh...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 3172 | by Staff reporter
Excitement over city status grips Victoria Falls
IT'S finally happening for Victoria Falls. The city fathers are excited that the resort town municipality is upgrading into a city. Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini said the lev...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean leaders should heed GNU calls
REPORTS that the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe has started low-level talks with Zanu-PF to negotiate the formation of a government of national unity (GNU) must be welcomed by all well-meaning Zimbabweans...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:08hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
'The corrupt will be arrested. No one is above the law!' twittered ED - What law! Scrapped laws to legitimise corruption
"The achievements scored so far by President Emerson Mnangagwa's New Dispensation have raised a ray of hope that Vision 2030 is indeed possible, more so if unity of purpose prevails in the country," c...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1219 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Brick by brick, Vision 2030 is realisable
The achievements scored so far by President Emerson Mnangagwa's New Dispensation have raised a ray of hope that Vision 2030 is indeed possible, more so if unity of purpose prevails in the country....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1133 | by Grace Chekai
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 342 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Creating in-roads for sustainable peace
The New Dispensation is engrossed with the ever growing malcontented youths, coupled with exasperated civil society owing to the perceived economic meltdown. This disgruntlement has manifested...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:50hrs | 145 | by Emmanuel Murema
4 robbery suspects arrested in Gwanda
POLICE in Matabeleland South province have arrested four suspects who are alleged to have committed a series of robberies in Gwanda.Provincial police spokesperson, Chief Inspector Philisani Nd...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 21:47hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political crisis deserves SADC attention: MDC
Opposition MDC-A has maintained that genuine inclusive National dialogue to agree on a comprehensive reform agenda through an agreed neutral facilitator supported by SADC remains the only plausible ro...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 1298 | by Stephen Jakes
Communities plunged into vulnerability
The prevailing harsh economic conditions coupled with the devastating impacts of climate change have plunged communities into the doldrums of vulnerability. Habakkuk Trust in its latest ...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:46hrs | 313 | by Stephen Jakes
'Have identified problems, will now revive health service' promised Chiwenga - No: 1 problem remains, Zanu PF
"Things will never be the same again. We are restructuring and reforming our health delivery system. We want to rebuild the structures from village to referral level. Things will never be the same aga...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:53hrs | 8099 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Police act on fake roadblocks
Rogue police officers have been putting up illegal roadblocks and conducting patrols countrywide to extract bribes from the public, but the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is urging those who suspect t...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:48hrs | 1694 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's superstitious regime unmasked
Behavioural economists and psychologists tell us that we have inherent biases that influence our actions. These experts tell us that we humans have some default behaviours as a result of our lived or ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:21hrs | 15841 | by Edzai Zvobwo
NRZ: Mnangagwa's govt in catch-22 situation
GOVERNMENT has instructed the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board to fire the parastatal's management for poor performance and gross mismanagement of the parastatals' affairs, Southern Eye on Su...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
How General Philip Valerio Sibanda survived assasination attack
Commander Zimbabwe Defense Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has relieved how he survived the assassination attack by the Rhodesian settler regime at Freedom camp in Zambia. Speaking durin...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 18:31hrs | 5148 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe could speak!
I am a country like no other I am Great Zimbabwewith a heart that pumps full of love for my inhabitants endowed with an assortment of mineral resources, Gold, diamonds, platinum and al...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3782 | by Brilliant Pongo
Mthuli Ncube must apologise for 'lying', says Biti
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti (Harare East MP) yesterday demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube appear before Parliament to explain fiscal policy inconsistencies and apologise for "lying th...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'can't breathe'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has psyched up hard-pressed Zimbabweans to liberate themselves from the heavy Zanu-PF yoke which he claims has shrunk the democratic space and deprived ci...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:45hrs | 5359 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe far from democracy
This country is founded on the principle of ubuntu respect of law freedom and democracy. The stone age politics being exhibited in Zimbabwe by the ruling party is a cause of concern.Th...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1118 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF MP demands to be sent us to foreign hospitals
A Zanu-PF MP has demanded a special dispensation for legislators to be treated outside the country saying some of them are sick and failing to get adequate treatment in Zimbabwe. Murewa West M...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
The mafia was at work in the Nuanetsi Ranch
THE acquisition of Nuanetsi Ranch and its subsequent use as a base for the founding of the Development trust of Zimbabwe (DtZ) has an interesting historical link with the nationalist struggle for inde...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:46hrs | 631 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
MPs to test for Covid-19
Legislators are set to be tested for Covid-19 to prevent the spread of the virus after Parliament resumed business recently. Parliament was among the first institutions to close its doors when...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 16:55hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Jesse Nyakudya: Teenage drumming sensation
All she saw four-year-old toddler pummel her pots as though they were a musical drum set. None of it made sense at that point. But as the boy grew, it became clear Jesse Nyakudya was a drummer-in-the-...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:13hrs | 908 | by Busisani Ncube
Mozambique's problems are ours too
A FEW months ago, I travelled to Mozambique. I was struck by the stark dichotomy on one hand between the unmistakeable sense of optimism which is palpable when you talk to the local intelligentsia and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1521 | by Brezh Malaba
These strange funerals
In 2004 I attended a bizarre funeral ever. It took place in sleepy tiny English village on the outskirts of Salisbury, Wiltshire County, United Kingdom. I had taken a temporary live-in care worker job...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1560 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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