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Families stopped from registering adopted children
The High Court has dismissed a request by two families seeking to register adopted children under their names for birth certificates, citing that the matter raises constitutional issues.Taonga...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:24hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
WATCH LIVE: Zimbabwe vs Kenya
THE Warriors take on Kenya at Nelson Mandela Stadium at 1500 hours in an Afcon qualifier under new coach Michael Nees.This is how the teams are lining upTeamsKenyaByrne Omondi,...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 15:48hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Pardon Tapfumanei: Pioneering Political Harmony in Mpopoma-Mzilikazi
In an inspiring move towards political unity and community engagement, Pardon Tapfumanei, affectionately known as "The Duke," has set a groundbreaking precedent in Mpopoma-Mzilikazi. As an aspiring In...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 17:38hrs | 4 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Kenyans caught smuggling mbanje in Zimbabwe
TWO Kenyans have been arrested in Victoria Falls for possessing more than 60kg of mbanje.Muchai Kamau (47) and Sammy Duke (33) were arrested at the Kazungula Border after police and Zimbabwe R...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 15:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nanny was surprised by the way Harry and Meghan first greeted her
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle surprised Prince Archie's former nanny Lorren Khumalo, from Zimbabwe, when she was first introduced to the couple.Lorren, a paediatric nurse and consultant, was ...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 19:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in UK pile pressure on Mnangagwa regime
A GROUP of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom recently petitioned that country's Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, calling on Britain to use its diplomatic links to engage Harare authorities over the abduct...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman stabbed to death on the street in Manchester
A Zimbabwean woman based in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, has been stabbed to death in front of her two children in the street.Perseverance Ncube, 35, was stabbed in the chest in Du...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister joins world's swimming immortals
The inaugural class of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1965 held a special place in the annals of aquatic sports history. It was a star-studded lineup featuring luminaries like Johnny Weiss...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 20:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Duke Maplanka to stand as ZAPU UK Chairperson
First of all allow me to humbly express my gratitude for the nomination to represent our province as Chairperson. Our province is unique. Through history and time, seldom has there been a less...Published: 22 May 2023 at 14:03hrs | 1 | by Duke Maplanka
What do we know about the 2023 Asia Cup?
Cricket fans have much to look forward to in 2023. As well as the regular domestic competitions of the Big Bash League (BBL) and the Indian Premier League (IPL), there are also annual international ev...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 06:15hrs | 5 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa compensates 258 ZIPRA cadres fired from ZNA during Gukurahundi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly ordered payment of compensation of 258 former ZIPRA combatants who were summarily dismissed from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) during the height of the G...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Why Prince Harry's book is a must read!
The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, has written a biography of his life and times in the House of Windsor, the ruling family of Great Britain. He was paid US90 million.This type of a book is cal...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:08hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mpopoma's famous personalities
BULAWAYO city, just like other towns and cities in Zimbabwe, had residential areas allocated according to race before Independence. Europeans, Africans, referred to at that time as "natives," Indians ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prince Harry reveals late Queen's role in breakup with Zimbabwean girlfriend
Prince Harry has claimed that the late Queen Elizabeth II's opinion on his ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, led to their breakup.In an excerpt from the Duke of Sussex's forthcoming b...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man robbed US$100 at gunpoint
A Mazowe man was unlucky after boarding an unregistered dark blue Mercedes Benz with three armed robbers on Sunday.Rodrick Haisaswe (42) was left counting losses after he was robbed of his two...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 14:05hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwean nanny on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as parents
Archie's former nanny has described the moment she met Prince Harry, revealing he was ‘walking around barefoot' outside of the marital home Frogmore Cottage.Lorren Khumalo, from Zimbabwe, sp...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
British-Zimbabwe comedian playing the former Prince Charles in Channel 4 satire
When a drag queen called Baga Chipz is selected to play Margaret Thatcher in a TV show, and that's not even the most delicious bit of casting, you know you're onto a winner.In Channel 4's...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:55hrs | | by Agencies
Plumtree pilot defies racial attitudes to pursue dream
FORTY years and still counting years of flying different aircraft types, heads of States, the late Prince Philip; husband to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and roles spanning basic flying, advanced flyi...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why I boycotted Queen Elizabeth II
I WAS a Lower Sixth student at Prince Edward School in Harare, Zimbabwe, when Queen Elizabeth II visited our school in October 1991. Zimbabwe was hosting that year's Commonwealth Heads of Government M...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa's US$500m Zim Cyber City 'murky' investor exposed
MULK International, the United Arab Emirates-based company roped in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to build a US$500 million Zim Cyber City in Harare, secretly bought Nigeria's National Theatre for U...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afrikaner nationalists to patrol Musina border in with sniffer dogs
The ultra-right-wing Afrikaner organisation, AfriForum, has announced it has launched a new initiative to patrol with sniffer dogs at the porous South Africa-Zimbabwe border in Limpopo's Musina area....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pro whites group launch project to help secure South Africa's Beitbridge border
Afrikaner rights organisation, AfriForum has launched a new project to help secure South Africa's borders, this comes after South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed vigilante groups to oper...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZBC journalist speaks of 'hiding' atrocities
VETERAN journalist and former ZBC correspondent Tapfuma Machakaire has shed light on challenges faced by state media journalists when covering Gukurahundi, saying they were only shown dead bodie...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fatal accident as commuter omnibus hits pothole
TWO people died on the spot, while 15 others were seriously injured when a commuter omnibus hit a pothole before overturning last Friday near Mutora business centre in Gokwe.Midlands provincia...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 18:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Population growth in Africa a concern to Europe?
EXACTLY 150 years ago, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck became the Chancellor of the Germany Empire. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first Chancellor until 1890, i...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mapeza disappoints
Zimbabwe 1-1EthiopiaTHE Warriors brought the curtain down on the 2022 Fifa World Cup football campaign to a disappointing note after they blew their only chance of winning late on in the final qua...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ecstasy as Mnangagwa returns from the UK
A large crowd of Zanu-PF supporters thronged the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport yesterday to give President Mnangagwa a thunderous welcome on his return from his successful trip to the Un...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
African Leaders Must Urge G20 to Stop Covid-19 Vaccines Apartheid to Save Our World
The novel coronavirus has shown glaring flaws in the world's collective ability to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, with none more evident than wealthy countries' self-destructive unwillingnes...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 22:05hrs | 4 | by Penny Lutung Amor
WHO ranks Zimbabwe high in vaccine procurement
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have rated Zimbabwe among the best countries in the world when it comes to buying and acquiring supplies of Covid-19 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
BCC writes to Mnangagwa's govt over street name changes
THE Bulawayo City Council is waiting for Government approval on their own individual street name changes after the High Court ruled that they cannot adhere to the names that were effected through a St...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Queen Elizabeth II's husband dies
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the lo...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | 8 | by Staff reporter
Umkhuba omubi ngokukhuzwa kuka Bayethe/ Bayede!!!!
Ngiyabingelela Mthwakazi kaNdaba, Mthwakazi kaMzilikazi, Mthwakazi omnyama, lina bonduku zibomvu, izindlela zimhlophe. Kuleshlava esesangena shiqe esizweni seMbabala sadala umonakalo omkhulu n...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:32hrs | 6 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
'Inspect dams to avert disasters'
Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs and Devolution Senator Monica Mavhunga has urged farmers in the province to ensure that their dams are inspected regularly by the Zimbabwe ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 drown taking pictures of flooded river
TWO unidentified men aged 22 and 21 died in Glendale, Mashonaland Central province after they encroached the edges of the flooded Mazowe River while taking pictures from their mobile phones before bot...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 19:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean born doctor appointed Save the Children UK chair
ZIMBABWEAN-BORN doctor, Tsitsi Chawatama (42) is the new Save the Children United Kingdom chairperson. Chawatama, a consultant paediatrician who grew up in Zimbabwe, has a wealth of clinical a...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's 'brother' implicated as foreign firms defy govt ban on river bank mining
FOREIGN-LINKED companies - particularly from China and Belarus - are deploying heavy machinery to river banks to mine for gold under the guise that they are desilting the watercourses, it has emerged....Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabwe get COVID-19 vaccine?
Pictures of the first people being vaccinated against Covid-19 haven't filled everyone around the world with joy. In some places - in countries such as Zimbabwe, Mexico and Pakistan - the battle to ge...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who Owns England?
Who Owns England? The question sounds oblique, when one considers the country's documented long history of "civilisation". One would think that, by now, this question should have long been settled. Ye...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:33hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
So Mnangagwa will finally Resign?
On August 16 some people of Harare high density suburbs will yet again brave the wind and toyi-toyi the streets to exert pressure on a constitutionally elected and military backed government to resign...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Cape Town
Zimbabwean entrepreneur launches Europe's first autonomous delivery vehicle, Kar-go
The vehicle was praised by both English Dukes and Zimbabwean dignitaries Zimbabwean, William Sachiti and his team at the Academy of Robotics laun...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:08hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Warriors' Umbro kit met with fierce resistance, and rejection
AMID the gloom that descended on domestic football yesterday, as the Warriors' Umbro kit was met with fierce resistance, and rejection, by furious fans, the team's former captain, Moses Chunga, provid...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura takes matter to ConCourt
Jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura has filed an application seeking referral to the Constitutional Court, arguing that his rights were being violated by forcing him to his defence at the magistrate's...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbura's application to stop lower court proceedings dismissed
Jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura yesterday unsuccessfully filed an application to stop proceedings in a case in which he is facing charges of attempting to break from Chikurubi Maximum Security Pri...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gumbura has case to answer'
HARARE magistrate Francis Mapfumo yesterday dismissed an application for discharge filed by jailed RMG Independent End Time Message Church founder Robert Martin Gumbura, who together with his six alle...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Queen Elizabeth consoles Zimbabweans
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, her son Prince Charles and her grandsons and their wives the Dukes and Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex have conveyed their heartfelt condolences to the gove...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Behold, Chamisa's circus comes to town
The pen, when wielded by the most potent hand, can indeed become mightier than the sword.As Bishop Lazi told you last week, there are a few men and women who belong to a pantheon of gods who c...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:31hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Guards exonerate Gumbura from prison break
Two members of the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services yesterday said they did not see jailed cleric Robert Martin Gumbura attempting a jailbreak at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.Gum...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Jonathan Moyo's farm collapses
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo's Patterson Farm which was once hailed as having the best maize crops in Mashonaland Central is reportedly dilapidating due to the harsh economy ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
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