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Ghosts of colonialism still haunt Zimbabwean names
In African cultures, the names given to children play an important role because they are often laden with meanings.As a team of professors of literature, linguistics and onomastics (the scient...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32hrs | 234 | by Tendai Mangena
President Chamisa remains our Strategic Ambiguity going forward
Mnangagwa controversially won the recent election which is hotly disputed, he emerged badly wounded and with serious problems from the poll, which may make his authoritarian rule far more complicated ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:38hrs | 1066 | by Knowledge Hakata
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 4822 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
King Mambo hosts national cultural day celebrations
DR Mike Moyo, who proudly identifies as the King Mambo of the historical Rozvi Empire (Dzimbahwe), is hosting the National Traditional Cultural Heritage and Spirituality Celebration Day. The momentous...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:35hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture
Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 2765 | by Ben Farmer
Religion is new trump card ahead of Zimbabwe elections
EVER wondered why President Emmerson Mnangagwa has, in one breath, donned apostolic sect robes, practised traditional African religion, on the other, and congregated with the charismatic Protestants â...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 18:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Heroes Day: Guns that silenced history's villains
Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes called for an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 2 | by Elliot Ziwira
The curious case of Chicken Inn: Unraveling the Chicken Conspiracy
Picture this: It's a beautiful day in Zimbabwe, and you find yourself in the bustling streets of Gweru. Your stomach growls, craving something delicious to satisfy your hunger. Your eyes catch a glimp...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:30hrs | 5 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Shadowy US organisation raise questions about Tagwirei mine purchase
A joint investigative report by The Sentry and Open Secrets exposes how Zimbabwean presidential advisor and business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei, the subject of numerous corruption allegations, was abl...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
If Zim economy 'growing' under sanctions, why was it not growing in the past 20 years?
So, the ruling ZANU PF regime wants to be given another term in power on the basis that it has managed to grow the economy, in spite of sanctions supposedly imposed on the country?That is perf...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:52hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa bishop dodges US$800,000 payments
Zion Christian Church (ZCC) bishop Nehemiah Mutendi is dithering in paying a company that designed his massive multi-purpose Mbungo church building in Bikita, which can accommodate up to 40 000 people...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 19:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to win 2023 Election
Since the 1990s the Zimbabwean political landscape has been shaped by political succession fighting raging within the ruling party. The internal fights have been prolonged and leaving the majority of ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 21:47hrs | 4 | by Leonard Koni
Mother poisons, kills two children
A ZIMBABWEAN woman based in South Africa allegedly poisoned her two children to death lacing food she prepared with an unknown substance, feeding them and also eating in an attempt to commit suicide....Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa named among only 17 black billionaires in the world
ACCORDING to Forbes, there are currently 2,640 billionaires in the world. They are collectively worth $12.2 trillion. The United States is the number one home of billionaires with 735 of them, followe...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US foreign policy and the Zimbabwe dollar!
In my life journey, my three years stay in Jamaica was probably the most traumatic and most revealing as to how the imperialists work.I am, therefore, surprised that Mthuli Ncube and his handl...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:37hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimpapers staff down tools
Journalists and other staffers under Zimpapers' Bulawayo based divisions, Chronicle and Sunday News have downed tools after management announced cutting of allowances and further curtailment of other ...Published: 24 May 2023 at 17:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cowboy country
I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible....Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross
Chamisa takes dig at Mwonzora
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Monday launched an indirect criticism on MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora for allegedly forging unholy alliances with cunning foe Zanu-PF he said...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mugabe son in-law's claim a paltry of the mega empire:, says lawyer
The late former president Robert Mugabe son-in-law Simba Mutsahuni Chikore is content to literally walk away from the matrimonial home with a paltry share because all he has claimed is 50 percent of t...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe is Harare's true rich aunt
"One man one farm" was a Mugabe mantra for the longest time after the fast-track land reform programme that took land from around 4000 white former farmers into the hands of thousands of landless blac...Published: 03 May 2023 at 21:50hrs | 1 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mnangagwa expands empire in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of the First Family and his close allies, who include former State Security minister Owen Ncube, have amassed significant wealth in the form of immovable property...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Obama was 'fundraising phenomenon' but nothing compared to Mnangagwa's US$ 240 startup, thanks to Gold Mafia
When elections costs in an impoverished nation like Zimbabwe are comparable and even exceed those in a very rich nation like United States of America; you can be sure of one thing the Zimbabwe electio...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who are Zimbabwe's Gold Mafia?
They operate from the shadows. Al Jazeera's latest investigation, The Gold Mafia, brings their crimes out into the open. Last week, Part 1 of ‘Who are the Gold Mafia?‘ dove into the lives of some ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawyers support Mnangagwa's call for death penalty
In 2015, PRESIDENT Mnangagwa said he knows the tribulations faced by those on death row as he survived the hangman's noose when the Ian Smith regime sought capital punishment to stop him from fighting...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Farai Matsika suffers court setback in Croco Motors ownership row
The Constitutional Court Monday struck off the roll, an application by businessman Farai Matsika who was appealing a Supreme Court ruling as the legal battle for control of Croco Motors rages on....Published: 21 Mar 2023 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cecil Rhodes's grave still haunts Zimbabweans
It's a sacred hill where for centuries Zimbabweans would go to consult their ancestors.It's also where the notorious British coloniser Cecil John Rhodes chose to be his final resting place....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga will never rule Zimbabwe while Karangas watch
"Dunderhead", is how the biggest Zimbabwe gold smuggling syndicate describes Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. It is fascinating that even the criminals are aware of this fact. His below p...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 08:12hrs | 122 | by Israel Dube
Beitbridge woman builds successful business empire
ONLY yesterday, Beitbridge-based businesswoman, Dr Anna Muleya (50) operated a barbershop in the border town.Today, she is a multi-award-winning successful businesswoman with a thriving busine...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Croco's Matsika gets a lifeline
EIGHT years after acrimoniously falling out with his cousin and Croco Holdings boss Moses Chingwena over the ownership of a busines empire worth more than US$100 million, Harare automobile tycoon Fara...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:52hrs | 45 | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 25 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Waverley Blankets ownership wrangle: trial begins under private prosecution
The trial of Aron Vico for fraudulently taking over Waverley Blankets, a company owned by the late prominent industrialist, Victor Cohenm has begun under private prosecution.Vico appeared in c...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 23:35hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Chicken Slice say Chicken Inn are bullies
Chicken Slice founder and chief executive officer Tawanda Mutyebere has accused his competitors the Simbisa Brands-owned Chicken Inn of bullying and of trying to stop his business empire from using re...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:11hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
July Moyo's empire crumbles
Literature pundits, especially those who have read William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would be familiar with the reason Brutus participated in the murder of his very close friend.Brutus justi...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe slams Western media onslaught
The onslaught being directed to Zimbabwe by the West and its media is as a result of vast wealth endowments the country has which they want to resume their old habits of looting, a Cabinet minister ha...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF thrives on chaos
PHEW, what a chaotic start to the year!A dazed Zimbabwe dollar is wobbling precariously into an eventful 2023, as the authorities comically plead with government contractors to desist from tra...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnagagwa's son and Mrs Tagwirei added to US sanctions list
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwea...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 22:40hrs | 4 | by Staff Reports
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Jamwanda
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Bulawayo's iconic Post Office Gardens crumble
A gaping hole now exposes the western part of the Post Office Gardens. It is perhaps ironic that a building also known as the War Memorial Park or the Cenotaph, now looks like it was the victim of a n...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ireland's drug lord planned to start new life in Zimbabwe
Drug lord Christy Kinahan planned to start a new life in Zimbabwe with his long-term partner and their children, leaked documents have revealed.The FBI most-wanted criminal also hoped to buy a...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Pat Flanagan for Ireland Live
Spare us the sanctions rant, please!
IT should be about time many in government spared us the sanctions narrative, especially when some issues affecting us have absolutely no link with the so-called Western sanctions.In fact, gov...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders campaigning for ED akin to Jesus' apostles campaigning for Pontius Pilate!
It is undeniable that the Christian Church, particularly over the past centuries - after its institutionalization by the Roman Empire, through Constantine the Great, over 1,700 years ago - has been a ...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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