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'National interest' should never be a pretext for violating the Constitution!
Last week, I was watching a ZTN (ZimPapers Television Network) program, focussing on media coverage around Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonized elections. In attendance were representatives from the...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 14:28hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt ducking responsibility by urging new graduates to start companies!
I remember soon after graduating from journalism school in 1998, I was so eager to be my own boss, such that I implored my parents to help establish a newspaper for me. I had always been passi...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:14hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Goblin terror after child's mystery death
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb are living in fear after a six-year-old boy died under mysterious circumstances following chilling revelations that he was allegedly attacked by an invisibl...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NetOne fails to fix abuse of US$1m Covid-19 fund
MOBILE network operator NetOne has failed to properly account for a US$1 million fund the organisation was mandated with distributing to vulnerable citizens whose livelihoods were adversely affected b...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chebundo's ambitious promise to Zanu-PF collapses
FORMER MDC-T legislator Blessing Chebundo's Zanu-PF promise to win back two Kwekwe seats for President Emmerson Mnangagwa spectacularly collapsed, denting his capacity to deliver, amid high expectatio...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chisora battered by Parker
Zimbabwe-born British heavyweight boxer Derek Chisora was sent crashing to the floor and was punished by a barrage of heavy punches by Joseph Parker in their heavyweight rematch in Manchester on Satur...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa throws Bulawayo councillors under the bus
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has thrown his party councillors in Bulawayo under the bus, accusing them of treachery, betrayal, playing tomfoolery and hobnobbing with Zanu-PF.Chamisa told...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Growing up in the village
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve the moon rose slowly, tentatively and imperceptibly, its soft rays breaking the virginity of the night. Slowly darkness gave w...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:40hrs | 9 | by Isdore Guvamombe-
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
MSU ordered to pay over US$3,2m for engineering services
The Midlands State University (MSU) has been ordered by the High Court to pay Galaxy Engineering Designs Consultants (Pvt) Ltd over US$3 207 450,68 for the civil engineering services provided to the t...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira bail ruling reserved
High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere yesterday dismissed an application by Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Priscah Mupfumira to have her case referred to the Constitutional Co...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira tried to flee to SA
AN Investigating Officer (IO) in the case in which Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira is accused of abuse of duty has said the minister tried to flee to South Africa when she became aware that police w...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 22:15hrs | | by newzimbabwe
August 1 victims dead before soldiers arrived
On an extraordinary and defining day in the quest for the truth over the August 1 military massacre on the streets of Harare, the men who made the key decisions on that day all totally denied they had...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 09:48hrs | | by zimlive
Mnangagwa must answer to past 'transgressions' first
Oftentimes, age is said to be nothing but just a number. Ask anyone in a cross generational romantic relationship and most assuredly, they would parrot like answer that age is only but a number. At fa...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Authorities ducking and diving over Umbabat lion trophy hunt
SOUTH AFRICA - An extraordinary cat and mouse game is being played out in Mpumalanga over the baiting and shooting of what could be a much-loved Umbabat Reserve pride male lion named Skye. Sin...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Adam Cruise
Ministers in trouble over Zanu-PF funds
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo and his Local Government counterpart July Moyo are in deep trouble over US$300 000 which was sunk in a botched deal in which controversial airline Zimbabwe Airways (ZimA...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mukupe goes after Mnangagwa's aide
Under-fire Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has accused one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's closest aides of being behind an alleged plot to tarnish his image after the Zanu PF politician lat...Published: 27 May 2018 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Story of Zipra field commander
GROWING up in the arid district of Beitbridge in Matabeleland South after his family had been removed from the rich soils and good pastures in West Nicholson, Joseph Mbedzi pseudo name Joseph Sibuko h...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Chiyangwa?
CHAOS is imminent at Zifa, with the football governing body facing a leadership crisis that threatens doom for the local game following yesterday's resignation of two of the federation's board members...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, back from the brink
Three weeks ago a young elephant wound her trunk around my arm and began – politely, elegantly, insistently – to pull my hand into her mouth and suck the salt sweat off my fingers. It was the happ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Katherine Rundell
Sekuru Munya's prognostications - Zimbabwe after the elections
I was sitting in companionable silence with my Sekuru Munya, enjoying sundowners on the stoep of his farmhouse. As the night settled, thousands of diamonds were splashed across the velvet of the Masvi...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
Heat on Mnangagwa over Obert Mpofu
Nearly a month after receiving a dossier on former Mines and Mining Development minister Obert Mpofu's purported corruption, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is ducking and diving on the...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Jah Prayzah running away from a funeral
JAH Prayzah's bid to pay his last respects to his former aide, the late Crispen Nyemba, backfired when he was manhandled and stoned at Glen Forest Memorial Park yesterday. Nyemba died in a car acciden...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 19:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza takes aim at MDC-T
THE MDC-T should urgently come out in the open and discuss its succession plan if the party wants to maintain confidence Zimbabweans have in the movement, says political analyst Ibbo Mandaza.L...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Rhodesia ended tribes
The year 1970 saw the birth of a publication titled "The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa". Edited by a Canadian academic, the late Peter C. W. Gutkind, the publication challenged entrenched Anglo-Saxo...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe is a master at ducking responsibility
Ever since the controversial July 2013 elections, Zimbabweans have been scrounging for survival amid a plethora of challenges.The ruling Zanu-PF - victorious in the heavily contested polls - e...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to nail Jonathan Moyo
SHOCKING details of a plot to nail Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo over the alleged abuse of funds from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (ZIMDEF) emerged this week as th...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's hot potato
FIVE years ago, the Research Advocacy Unit (RAU) - a non-governmental organisation that researches on human rights and governance issues - produced a penetrative report titled Succession and the Z...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru tells Mugabe to boot Jonathan Moyo out or go
Former vice president and now Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, has given President Robert Mugabe an ultimatum - either suspend Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo and his depu...Published: 13 Oct 2016 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire left Zimbabwe under hard-to-understand circumstances
One basic rule in politics is never to concede ground, still less to allow shrinkage of the space you hold or dominate.You live true to this motto both by being careful not to tread on doubtfu...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:34hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Women push for Mnangagwa ouster
The Zanu-PF women's and youth leagues are plotting to have Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa pushed out through this year's congress which they want to be elective, according to local media report...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 14:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lowveld dominates NASH provincial boxing tourney
Schools from the Lowveld dominated a boxing tournament organised by the National Association of Secondary School Heads (NASH) to select a team that will represent Masvingo at the National Youth Games ...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Muhammad Ali dies at 74
Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead.Ali died Friday at a...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
No to divisions, says Mugabe
We publish here the full text of President Mugabe's address to the Zanu-PF Central Committee yesterday.Vice President Mnangagwa, President of party CFC secretary, vice president Phelekezela Mp...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
TV journalists shot dead live on air - Video
Bedford County - Two television journalists were shot and killed in Virginia on Wednesday morning while conducting a live television interview, their station, WDBJ7 said.The incident occurred ...Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 14:27hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwe fan makes $1m Cricket World Cup catch
WITH a beer in one hand Zimbabwe fan Travis Committie leapt over ducking fans to catch the second stray ball of the Cricket World Cup, winning his share of a possible $1 million.The 23-year-o...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 16:32hrs | | by Stuff.co.nz
Mayweather wants Pacman fight
Los Angeles - Floyd Mayweather says he is willing to fight Manny Pacquiao next May in a blockbuster world title fight but only if he receives a much bigger share of the purse.Speaking to Showt...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 11:34hrs | | by AFP
Ezra Sibanda, Mduduzi Mathuthu in tweeter war
Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda, the Chief Executive Offcier of one of Bulawayo aspiring commercial radio station Skies FM was last night embroiled in a Twitter 'war' with Chronicle Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu...Published: 03 Sep 2014 at 21:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean boxer claims the WBC title
History was made in the city of Lusaka on Saturday night when Zimbabwean boxer Charles Manyuchi claimed the World Boxing Council welterweight international title after knocking out Ghana's Patrick Al...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 06:42hrs | | by Fatima Bulla
SA Polo clothing store a fake?
Global marketing gurus have done a brilliant job of marrying lifestyle aspirations with premier luxury brands according to ...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 18:19hrs | | by Megan Power I Times LIVE
When the dollarisation cure poisons
THE past three instalments have seen this column deal with sample thoughts on Zimbabwe, our country. Of course the underlying issue is a Lenin-like question: What is to be done. As you notice, I avoid...Published: 24 Nov 2013 at 12:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
MDC: Building a war psychosis
In the early eighties I had a friend who worked in the security establishment. He was in charge of VIP protection. One day he was tasked to ensure a VVIP was transported to Kushinga-Pikhelela, transpo...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
'The way forward for Zimbabwe remains a free and fair election': Tsvangirai
PM Tsvangirai's speech at the launch of the MDCs minimum conditions for document for a sustainable election in Zimbabwe (CoSEZ) Harare Vice President H...Published: 08 Mar 2012 at 13:47hrs | | by MDC-T
Give it to him, Tendai Biti has seen the light
This week I propose to build my case through information vignettes. But first, let me pay my bills. I am grateful to one of my readers from Masembura who wrote to The Herald from the United Kin...Published: 04 Mar 2012 at 05:27hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Vitali Klitschko v Dereck Chisora - WBC heavyweight title fight live
11.30pm: That's all from me, we'll have a report from Chris Eubank Jnr later, he is in the ring soon. Goodnight.1.27pm: Dereck Chisora: 'I'm not going to hide behind excuses, I got beat by exp...Published: 18 Feb 2012 at 22:46hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
International media lied (propaganda) as Gaddafi's son re-emerges
The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early today a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance...Published: 23 Aug 2011 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elephant Man loses his phone at a violence mared gig in Harare
Violence reared its ugly head when rowdy fans took advantage of lax security to storm the VIP section close to the stage at the Elephant Man Winter Warmer Concert last Friday at the Glamis Arena....Published: 27 Jun 2011 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
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