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Chiwenga eats humble pie
AFTER a captivating month where Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and his estranged wife, Marry, threw brickbats at each other in riveting court applications in their ongoing divorce proceedings, th...Published: 8 hrs ago | 4420 | by Staff reporter
Schools, parents must meet halfway
Schools open in a few days' time and almost all Zimbabwean parents, to their immense credit and often with great financial sacrifice, have made the required arrangements to send their children to clas...Published: 12 Jan 2020 at 08:04hrs | 814 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo man honoured by Queen Elizabeth
A Bulawayo man has been honoured by Quuen Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom for his contribution in the education, music and relations between Zimbabwe and the UK. Michael Bullivant, a for...Published: 30 Dec 2019 at 10:20hrs | 22945 | by Staff Reporter
Hollywood stars visit Victoria Falls for Christmas
HOLLYWOOD stars and couple Mr Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are in Victoria Falls for a festive season holiday as the resort town continues to attract world personalities.Local tour...Published: 27 Dec 2019 at 21:23hrs | 5549 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa reveals his source of funds
President Emmerson Mnangagwa told members of POLAD on Sunday that banks stamped at his office to offer him loans for his personal and business use. Mnangagwa was addressing reports that he use...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 11:03hrs | 12451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Christmas isn't christian: The pagan roots of the winter holiday
The world over people have lived on the hope of another Christmas. in some cultures years are measured by Christmas. People are super sensitive when it comes to Christmas, and that's understandab...Published: 21 Dec 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1628 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zozibini and decolonial aesthetics
THE saying that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" is an old English saying that has its roots in Ancient Greece. The roots of the saying are deeply philosophical as were its Greek geneal...Published: 15 Dec 2019 at 12:07hrs | 446 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Ex-soldier jailed for stealing $18 536 meat
A FORMER soldier has been sentenced to four years in prison for breaking into a butchery twice and stealing meat worth $18 536. Tafadzwa Mahlahla (35) from Pumula East suburb in Bulawayo, who ...Published: 14 Dec 2019 at 08:02hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Decoloniality: Did somebody say China?
The name "China" invokes mixed reactions from a mixed bag of many different people from varied interests and locations in the world. For others China represents the alternative to Euro-America...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:47hrs | 223 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
DJ Zwesta embroiled in bizarre murder
WITH his star on the ascendancy, Nkayi (Matabeleland North) born house music producer, Zwelihle "DJ Zwesta" Mathe, finds himself in the news for all the wrong reasons, as one of his acquaintances' all...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:45hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga files for divorce
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured) is on the brink of divorcing his wife, ex model Marry Chiwenga, after the pair had a nasty fallout when he was seriously ill and hospitalised in South Af...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:34hrs | 11319 | by Staff reporter
Violence at Mugabe farm
VIOLENCE broke out at the late former President Robert Mugabe's farm on the outskirts of Harare on Saturday night, resulting in the injury of a farm security worker.The worker was allegedly ha...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:20hrs | 647 | by Staff rpeorter
Chiwenga torches storm
HARDLY a day after his arrival from a four-month long medical trip in China, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga torched a fierce storm when he blasted MDC-run councils for failure to address service ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 5545 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga return raises eyebrows
The government yesterday made conflicting statements about Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's return after his four-month-long stay in China where he was receiving treatment.Chiwenga quietl...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2416 | by Staff reporter
What is Decolonial Heroism?
EVERY living philosophy has its dilemmas and frustrations. Philosophies, if they are not sophistry and charlatanry, always arise from perplexity. The perplexity of decoloniality as a philosoph...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:15hrs | 97 | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Rhodies we know, where are Zimbos?
MONDAY, November 11, marked the 54th anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by then Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, a move that severed the white colony from the B...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 752 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
MDC to launch TV station
The opposition Movement for Democratic change will be launching a fully-fledged media empire soon. The Secretary General of the MDC Charlton Hwende announced that the party is recruiting media...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 09:58hrs | 5537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Uncle Sam cannot afford to ignore Sadc's voice
On Friday, October 25, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) made it clear to Washington and Brussels that the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe two decades ago must go without any fur...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 213 | by Ranga Mataire
Ex-soldier in court for 'stealing' $18 536 meat
A FORMER soldier from Bulawayo allegedly broke into a butchery twice and stole meat worth $18 536. Tafadzwa Mahlahla (35) from Pumula East suburb, who was based at Imbizo Barracks in Bulawayo ...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:03hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa asked to resolve wrangle over ownership of Waverley Blankets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been asked to help resolve the wrangle over Waverley Blankets after a relative of the company's founder allegedly seized control of the textiles giant through corrupt ...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 10:33hrs | 5297 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF believe owned choicest fruits' - with economy in ICU, they still demand pound of flesh
"The new' regime can be viewed from different angles, but the nub of it is this: there's a recognition that the economic fiasco of the last 20 years was suboptimal, but Emmerson Mnangagwa and his fell...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 20:17hrs | 620 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe tycoon's children lose 13 firms
A Harare tycoon's children might have lost control of at least 13 companies after a relative allegedly forged their signatures on registration documents following his death in 2017 amid suspicion of c...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:53hrs | 9649 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe faces eviction
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's business empire is headed for the cliff, as a Mazowe gold miner she displaced during her late husband, Robert Mugabe's reign, is now seeking to evict her and repossess...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:21hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Jean, come back home to Zimbabwe and leave your Ghanaian husband, my response to activist Nomazulu Thata
Dear Nomazulu Thata, I recently read an article in Bulawayo News 24 where you were saying I am in an abusive ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 13:14hrs | 1935 | by Jean Gasho
Jean Gasho: Do you realize you are in an abusive marriage in Ghana? Come home!
Late yesterday evening I got WhatsApp from a friend who lives in Belgium. She had an article to share with me. This time around it was article from Jean Gasho extracted from her blog? I got another on...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 23:23hrs | 1551 | by Nomazulu Thata
No citizens here, just tribal warlords and a bunch of idiots
Just how is it that we have sunk to this place of self-worship, of hyper individualism and vain-glory — the place where our common humanity takes a backseat and the groans of a neighbour are an...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 451 | by Zifiso Masiye
Temba Mliswa goes after Mutumwa Mawere
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused South African based business tycoon Mutumwa Dziva Mawere of seeking to use his business empire to dictate who was going to be a President in Zimbab...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 05:57hrs | 1306 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe's Mazowe Orphanage 'fraud' exposed - REPORT
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe's empire is teetering on the brink of collapse following reports that she will be stripped off powers to the US$7 million Mazowe Orphanage project that she had usurped, ...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 21:12hrs | 11472 | by Staff reporter
Grace battles to keep Mugabe empire
Former first lady Grace Mugabe (pictured right) fears that the government will go after her husband's sprawling empire that consists of commercial farms and a mansion in Harare, it has been revealed....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:39hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former president Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks after his passing on September 6 in Singapore. The Generation 40 group of self-exiled former ZANU-...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:33hrs | 418 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Hard-pressed Zimbabweans resort to gambling for survival
When a local pub in the southern city of Masvingo introduced four casino slot machines, *Tendai Moyo went there "just for the fun of it".After all, it was his first time to gamble.A fe...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 13:13hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Dear Strive Masiyiwa
I greet you cordially.I just want to let you know that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and President ED are moving fast to destroy your cash cow Ecocash. It has come to my attention that they banned ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 3757 | by Don Chigumba
Chronicling the G40's hatchet job on Mugabe's legacy
Former President Robert Mugabe was buried at his Zvimba rural home last Saturday, three weeks since his passing on 6 September in Singapore. The former liberation icon and Zimbabwe's founding fa...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1177 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Grace wanted to exhume the body of Mugabe's mother from Zvimba
EVENTS leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday - 22 days after his death in Singapore - betrayed former First Lady Grace Mug...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 22:55hrs | 8194 | by Staff reporter
Shocking details surrounding Mugabe burial
Events leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday – 22 days after his death in Singapore – betrayed former First L...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:14hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Shocking details on Mugabe burial, Grace tries to exhume Bona's remains
EVENTS leading up to the burial of the country's founding President, Robert Mugabe, at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday - 22 days after his death in Singapore - betrayed former First Lady Grace Muga...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 11:28hrs | 9178 | by Staff Reporter
Is there a benefit of being in the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of independent and equal sovereign states.Its member governments have agreed to pursue shared goals such as development, democracy and peace. These ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 22:17hrs | 1070 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
REWIND: Mugabe: A good candidate for Egyptation
I am still looking and searching for the vocabulary and diction with which to name and describe what I saw in Bhengazi. After what I saw, I believe that God is the people and that the people are God. ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1191 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Mujuru facing liquidation as business empire collapse - one in Blue Roof is worried sick, she is up next
"Former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun Investments, have approached the High Court seeking an order stopping a couple she owes money from attaching her property as she fears goin...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 19:35hrs | 5351 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 678 | by Reginald Nyathi
Mnangagwa to protect Grace Mugabe's business empire
FORMER First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe is receiving Government assistance to protect part of her business empire - Gushungo Farm and Dairy - she founded with former President Robert Mugabe, which in recen...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 09:30hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Kalanga association rubbishes recently installed Mambo King
The Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association (KLCDA), a representative association of the Kalanga Nation in Zimbabwe and affiliated to the Society for the Promotion of iKalanga Language ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 2117 | by Kalanga Association KLCDA
Preserve rather than bury RGM's good
In the play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, unarguably Britain's greatest playwright, pens lines that must serve as humankind's guidelines while still in this carnal world. In his eulogy a...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 07:07hrs | 174 | by Stephen Mpofu
How UK failed to dislodge Robert Mugabe
BRITAIN'S 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country's great post-war foreign policy failures. It is a story spanning six UK prime ministe...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:10hrs | 3143 | by Patrick Wintour
Robert and Grace Mugabe's US$1 billion fortune
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace built up a huge personal fortune and property empire while their countrymen suffered in the starvation and grinding poverty that his brutal regime brought about....Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2975 | by Mail Online
Who owns Papa's land?
Quoting from some long parted Roman Empire politician, I 'will go to bury Mugabe not to praise him'. When there is death in the village, sullen faces and inactive pigeons tell it all especially where ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 19:48hrs | 372 | by Thomas Tondo
Zanu-PF youth league UK & Europe pays tribute to Mugabe
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said it is not length of life, but depth of life." It is certainly fair to say that our Former President Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe was granted length but also utilised his...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:45hrs | 769 | by Zanu-PF
Mutodi suffers backlash after he labels Ndebeles refugees
Deputy information minister Energy Mutodi received a backlash on Tuesday after appearing to suggest that Ndebeles were refugees in Zimbabwe.The gaffe-prone minister was calling on South Africa...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:34hrs | 2242 | by ZimLive
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 888 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The Chief can do no wrong
In Nguni "inkosi ayoni" the Chief can do no wrong. This is derived from the concept that all decisions made by the Chief represent the collective wisdom and aspirations of his people. Unlike a Judge t...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:07hrs | 1894 | by L Dube
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