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'Racism remains deeply rooted in the Western Cape'
The African National Congress (ANC) has stepped in and condemned the actions of a prestigious Cape Town boarding school after its chairman had resigned.The ANC's Khalid Sayed MPL said racism r...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 19:49hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP $16,000 fraud case deferred
Tinashe Maduza, the former Member of Parliament for Kambuzuma, has been remanded in custody following his appearance at the Harare Magistrates Court on charges of fraud involving US$16,025. Ma...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:30hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
SA police offer R20k reward for information on Zimbabwean criminal
LOVEMORE Musoyi, a Zimbabwean national believed to be about 35 years old, is wanted by Limpopo police in connection with more than 10 criminal cases, including murder, attempted murder, armed robberie...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:51hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man escaped from SA police custody
Detectives in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo have launched a massive manhunt, seeking to arrest their "most wanted suspect", Lovemore Musoyi, a Zimbabwean national believed to be around 35-years-o...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 15:30hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
SA police on hunting for Zimbabwean murder suspect
POLICE in South Africa have launched an "intensive hunt" for a Zimbabwean suspect linked to a series of violent crimes including murder, attempted murder, armed robberies, house robberies, business ro...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:19hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips rural and peri-urban areas in Zimbabwe
Fear has gripped many rural and peri-urban areas in Zimbabwe after the authorities unleashed a new wave of house demolitions leaving countless families homeless. Already, stranded people are counting ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 20:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
UN court to rule Friday in South Africa's genocide case against Israel
The United Nations' top court will issue a decision Friday on South Africa's request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza.The ...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why is Welshman Ncube being ethnically targeted and bullied?
I repeat and for good reasons, no matter what it takes, Shona ethnic majoritarianism, Gukurahundism and imperialism has to be fought in the following spheres: culture and language , education, healthc...Published: 16 Dec 2023 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Bekithemba Sibhalwa Jnr
Former Zanu-PF MP up for fraud
FORMER Kambuzuma Member of Parliament Tinashe Maduza of Zanu-PF appeared before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa on Friday facing fraud charges.Maduza (35) and his accomplice Rasta Phiri (48) were...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 18:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls lodge named among Southern Africa's best
Victoria Falls continues to stand out as the preferred destination, with Matetsi Victoria Falls Lodge, situated on the banks of the Zambezi River, ranking as the seventh-best resort in Southern Africa...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can Afrikaners save South Africa?
I AM not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation because I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Zanu-PF's 'terror' squad arrested
Police in Gutu have arrested four members of a Zanu-PF gang notorious for terrorising people in the district. Two of the members were arrested for allegedly obstructing the course of justice after the...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers lose crops to buffaloes, elands
VILLAGERS in Hurungwe's Nyamakate area have lost substantial amounts of their maize crop to buffaloes and eland that have invaded the community.The affected villagers are under Chief Chundu in...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Zondo's Commission did not want South Africa to know
An explosive affidavit that turned the state capture narrative on its head never made it to the final report of the state capture commission of inquiry or was even considered by Chief Justice Raymond ...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Online Ndebele lessons excite diaspora
AFRICAN parents, Zimbabweans in particular, living in the diaspora are having a hard time passing on their culture to their children through language as each generation passes.This is because ...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean becomes Corby town's first ever black mayor
Corby Town Council, in North Northamptonshire, was Monday night expected to elect the town's first ever black mayor.Cllr Tafadzwa Chikoto was due to be formally given the role at a meeting at ...Published: 10 May 2022 at 15:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Biti and CCC manifestly lack patriotism
While the yellow fever may have gripped the nation, and the youth seems to be captured in the idealistic bankruptcy, the CCC remains the most unpatriotic outfit which uses the current economic stress ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ramaphosa speaks on xenophobia
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged companies in his country to employ local citizens and train them to the levels required by the industry instead of relying on cheap undocumented migra...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Offensive' King Lobengula and Nehanda mural erased
OVER the course of this weekend, Bulawayo woke up to a mural of King Lobengula and Mbuya Nehanda in the City Centre and after gaining traction on social media, the artwork has been erased by City Coun...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 16:56hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
ED's penchant for dodgy deals ruins economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's penchant for dodgy deals from businesspersons and shady companies was once again brought into the spotlight this week after the government awarded Lithunian printing com...Published: 18 Dec 2021 at 11:23hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers in their societies.African leaders today ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa surrounded by dodgy characters
ALMOST four years after getting into power, riding on the narrative of removing criminals that had surrounded the then president Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's circle of associates and ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
International hunting makes Botswana communities improve wildlife conservation
Botswana hunting communities in the wildlife-rich Chobe District have decided to further improve wildlife and habitat conservation as well as community development, using the millions that they earned...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 13:43hrs | 12 | by Emmanuel Koro
Mnangagwa's penchant for dodgy companies astonishing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's appetite for opaque deals from shady shelf companies and dodgy businesspersons was once again brought into the spotlight this week after British-registered Coven Energy ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A are 'terrorists' smacks of 'Ndebeles are cockroaches'
First, they came for the Ndebele people of Matabeleland and Midlands, I did not speak out because I was not Ndebele. Then they came for white Zimbabwean farmers, I did not speak out because I was not ...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 18:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Sexually transmitted leadership will not take us anywhere: flouting democratic values
My previous article regarding the nomination of Sibangilizwe Nkomo to contest the Zapu presidential candidacy must have been too emotional to appreciate my perspective. What is disturbing is that be i...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Independence Day' a continual reminder of how Zimbabweans are still in painful bondage
I have never had any hesitation asserting that the holidays that I regarded most appealing to my heart on the Zimbabwean calender, were "Independence Day", and "Heroes Day" - not for the skewed and ba...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:47hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drowning cases mushrooming in Mash Central
Three people drowned in Mashonaland Central this week, with two of them being minors, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Mashonaland Central Police Acting Spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole/Lloyd Rabaya
David Pocock set for return to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE-BORN David Pocock, one of the finest rugby union players to represent Australia, has announced his retirement from the sport to pursue his interests in grassroots rugby and conservation in hi...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 08:27hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual responds to Zimbabwe shareholder who want the Board to resign
Thank you for responding to my request for the Chair and the Board to resign. I am aware that you could not say much because this issue is before the High Court. For you to suggest that these court pr...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Old Mutual
We are here waiting for the signal
As Bishop Lazi writes this, somewhere in Tripoli, Libya, a family is hunkered down or huddled in an apartment, fearing that if they venture out onto the streets, the likelihood of parting with their l...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Bisho Lazi
SA hospital reports foreign residents to Home Affairs
Robertson Hospital confiscated the passport of a 25-year-old Zimbabwean woman on 19 May after she went there to seek treatment.Chiedza* said that on the first day she sought treatment she was ...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:00hrs | | by GroundUp
ZimTrade - PUM Nerthelands host the Zimbabwe Tanneries Workshop in Bulawayo
ZimTrade and PUM will hold the Zimbabwe tanneries workshop in Bulawayo from 20-21 May 2019. According to Ms Karen Mukwedeya from ZimTrade. "The workshop is aimed at bringing together local tan...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Enos Denhere
When things fall apart
OUR planet earth comes from the infinitely skilful hands of our Maker. When he had launched the whole of creation, "he found it very good" (Gen 1: 31).Creation is ongoing and is still "very go...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Fr Oskar Wermter sj
2019 Rugby World Cup
Another World Cup year has finally arrived in the Rugby World as Japan get set to host the ninth edition of the competition. It is set to take place between September 20th and finishing on the 2nd...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 08:52hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's fat cats too must feel pain of ordinary citizens
THAT the majority Zimbabweans have started feeling the pain of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's economic reforms as a necessary rite of passage in the healing of the Zimbabwean economy which has been s...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Hiding in the comforts of Sweden: Paul Siwela pens a letter to Mnangagwa
Dear Bhudi Paul, With dismay I read the letter you wrote President Mnangagwa today. I hasten to say that I was disappointed by this militant language you have now adopted as a party: MLO. What...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 20:25hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa's crony gets Zimplats claims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's crony Lucas Pouroulis, whose company, Karo Resources, recently signed a controversial US$4,2 billion platinum deal with government, has grabbed mineral claims stretching...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mining speculators invade Zimbabwe's Great Dyke
THE politically well-connected Cypriot Pouroulis family - which is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa - and is associated with speculation in mining has hit the jackpot in Zimbabwe.After cl...Published: 24 May 2018 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
The mystery of the Pay-For-Your-House scheme
One would ask, what happened to the Pay-For-Your-House scheme funds? The noble scheme came to a saddening and unexplained stop after only a few blocks of flats and houses had been completed. Many of t...Published: 22 May 2018 at 15:01hrs | | by Tondorindo Murisa
Mgagao clashes: A ZIPRA narrative
COMRADE Joseph Sibuko Mbedzi whose Chimurenga name was Joseph Sibuko was born in 1951 in Beitbridge. He grew up in a family that was heavily involved in politics. His big Brother John Mbedzi was expel...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
How SA Home Affairs has been putting asylum seekers at risk
In July 2012 the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) closed its Refugee Reception Office (RRO) in Cape Town. Despite two court orders to do so and devastating consequences for asylum seekers, it has fail...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 22:09hrs | | by Leigh Hamilton
Why Africa deserves the sh*thole tag - part 2
African leaders after being told what the US President thinks of our continent were planning to gang up and ask the US administration to condemn the statement. This is the only time they find common v...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by Albert Madya
Flip-flopping Nkosana Moyo expressed willingness to be part of Mnangagwa's government!
To verify my facts regarding Nkosana Moyo's flip-flopping: Google the social media: Pindula and The Zimbabwean Mail. Here are the results. November 29, 2017 - Harare - Presidential aspirant and ...Published: 06 Dec 2017 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jonathan Moyo refuses to recognise similarities between Mnangagwa & Mugabe! Two sides of a coin!
Jonathan Moyo sees an iconic leader in Robert Mugabe: we see a cruel fuehrer in Robert Mugabe who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist. Jonathan sees a great statesman in Robert Mugabe, we see a ruler who...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 17:27hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Mugabe Must Go!', Old system remains intact with Mnangagwa! - Generals protecting their loot
We saw General Chiwenga lifting up and waving a document that was supposed to be a constitution of Zimbabwe. He was painfully trying to quote some legal frame works from the constitution to legitimize...Published: 19 Nov 2017 at 09:02hrs | 10 | by Nomazulu Thata
Why Mnangagwa's move to rejoin Zapu would quickly escort Mugabe out?
Conventional, predictable methods appeal to no one. An unconventional political moves produces surprises that stink to the high air while opening unexpected doors for a clever man.If Mnangagwa...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 19:45hrs | | by Dr Takesure Tazvishaya
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