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Zimbabwe teachers vote with their feet
HUNDREDS of teachers are leaving the country or preparing to do so to escape worsening economic problems amid deteriorating working conditions, a new report says.Over the past couple of weeks,...Published: 3 hrs ago | 192 | by Staff reporter
City fathers under fire over water
SOME former Bulawayo councillors say the current council leadership cannnot escape blame for the grave water shortages in the city amid accusations the local authority is failing to manage the limited...Published: 4 hrs ago | 94 | by Staff reporter
Robbers bundle family in vehicle, set it ablaze
POLICE in Beatrice, Mashonaland East province, have launched a manhunt of four men who ransacked a Harare home, tied the family inside a car and drove to Beatrice where they set the vehicle ablaze....Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2721 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appears in court…refuses to be jailed
A self-proclaimed nephew of President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment by Guruve resident magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa yesterday for theft.Tafadzwa Mnangagwa pleaded...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 10:52hrs | 16624 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Day-old chicks demand spikes
THE demand for day-old chicks is on the rise and the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) is advocating for the importation of hatching eggs to boost supply ahead of the festive season. ...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:19hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in its own league
Readers had a lot to chew last week. So much to chew that if one was not perceptive, he or she could have ended up in a maze. Let's dissect events of last week one by one and assess their impa...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC piles pressure on Mnangagwa
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has vowed to keep the Zimbabwe crisis on the table despite a spirited campaign by Zanu-PF to shrug it off.Lindiwe Zulu, the head of the AN...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 5426 | by Staff reporter
Man dies in accident
A MAN died when his car was involved in a head on collision with a truck at Sezhube near Gwanda on Tuesday after he encroached into the opposite lane.Matabeleland South provincial police spoke...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Trio up for gold dealer murder
POLICE in Penhalonga have arrested three suspects linked to the murder of a gold dealer at Tsvingwe business centre on Tuesday this week.Manicaland police spokesperson Inspector Tavhiringwa Ka...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:23hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu shooting: Details emerge
Chivhu residents were left in awe of the manner in which security services tracked, shot and killed two gunmen who had attacked two other soldiers on Saturday, killing one and seriously wounding anoth...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:48hrs | 3166 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's recolonization complete with Mnangagwa land giveaway to Europeans
The Zimbabwe Government has decided it will give back retaken stolen land--to the white Europeans who stole it in the first place during the colonial era.2020 is indeed a strange year....Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Malawi businessman kills pregnant Zimbabwean lover
THE Malawi High Court sitting in the neighbouring country's old capital city, Zomba, has sentenced to life imprisonment, businessman Misozi Chanthunya for murdering his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gas...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Chivhu shootings: Fresh details emerge
FRESH details on circumstances surrounding the weekend shooting incident that claimed the life of a soldier in Chivhu, about 140km south of Harare along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, have emerged....Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 11113 | by Staff reporter
South Africa has no capacity to make demands on Zimbabwean internal affairs.
The rumour monger has again started to spin into overdrive against Zimbabwe. There has been a talk of intervention by south Africa in Zimbabwe. This rumour is spread and calculated to make people beli...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 4391 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Honouring the war spirit
COMRADE Muchazotida, born Sekai, was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, better known as ZANLA.She died during the 1977 Chimoio Attack by the army of racist Rhodesia....Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 325 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Ramaphosa finally starts to lean on Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe government wants South Africa's help with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as support in trying to secure international loan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 5579 | by Peter Fabricius
Mnangagwa halts Gukurahundi hearing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday caused the postponement of a court hearing where survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres wanted to interdict him from tampering with the survivors' mass graves un...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:17hrs | 1455 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires drones for border surveillance
GOVERNMENT has acquired drones for surveillance and patrolling of the country's porous borders as part of efforts to capacitate security personnel in addressing security challenges posed by border jum...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1886 | by Staff reporter
Tragic: illegal gold sisters trapped
Two female illegal gold miners were trapped while prospecting for gold in Mount Darwin yesterday.Perseviarance Manuwere (29) died on the spot while her sister Hilder Manuwere escaped with mino...Published: 03 Sep 2020 at 13:42hrs | 2269 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Everyone is taking potshot at Zimbabwe' tweeted Mnangagwa in exasperation, knows the game is up
"In sending back the first delegation led by gentleman Sydney Mufamadi with tails between legs, Mnangagwa simply racked up pressure on himself. Now the ANC sends in the hard man (Magashule)," said Pro...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 6799 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ANC mediation divides Zanu-PF
SHARP divisions have emerged in the ruling Zanu-PF party with hardliners rubbishing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts to intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis while moderates have welcome...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 9035 | by Staff reporter
ZRP ropes in Interpol
POLICE have roped in the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) and their counterparts in South Africa and Botswana to assist in locating four armed robbers who escaped arrest following...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:34hrs | 2469 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean bank escapes US sanctions
CBZ Bank has escaped the US$385 million fine it was facing under the United States' Zimbabwe sanctions regime after the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) decided only to warn the bank.In...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:58hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
'Talking to Chamisa is Mnangagwa's only viable option'
Renowned political analyst Ibbo Mandaza believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa should swallow his pride and engage MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to settle the deepening political crisis in the cou...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs estranged wife seven times
A BULAWAYO soldier followed his estranged wife to her family home where he allegedly fatally stabbed her seven times and in the process ripping open her stomach using a kitchen knife after she refused...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:33hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
We must not politicise the Zimbabwean judiciary system
Zimbabwe has been on the social media, news , whatsapp and any other news outlet took time to cast a flood light upon Zimbabwe. Indeed the world in now global village and any events in any country are...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 13:08hrs | 4093 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Criminals around President: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked (II)
THE first part of this series, which was published last week articulated the unconstitutionality of the military intervention in November 2017, which was a coup d'etat.This week, Part II of th...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:21hrs | 1842 | by Jonathan Chando
How to successfully run a business from home
Running a business from home is something that many people dream of, and for most people, it was just that, a pipe dream that was a nice escape from reality when your boss is shouting at you for the t...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1762 | by Staff Writer
Notorious robbers nabbed in Beitbridge
POLICE in Matabeleland South on Monday arrested eight notorious armed robbers, among them a serving police officer and former cop, who have been linked to a spate of heists committed in Harare and aro...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2279 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United on the edge
CAPS United Football Club boss Farai Jere, who is facing a US$3 566 878 fraud charge involving an electricity smart meter tender, has accused jealousy competitors of causing his arrest to hijack his c...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1465 | by Precious Shumba
Machete gang attacks guard, gets away with loaded firearm
POLICE in Umguza, Matebelaland North province have launched a manhunt for a six-member machete gang that attacked and killed a security guard at Arda Balu Estate before they went off with his .303 ser...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Genocide happens when democracy is absent
Tali Nates founded the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC) in 2008 to foster an understanding of the history of genocide, which happened between 1939 an...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 380 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Bad apples and forces
In 1963 the dark forces of western intelligence identified a few bad apples within the Nationalist movement of Rhodesia, ZAPU, which had survived bans and detention of its leaders. Independence was ga...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1443 | by Patrick Gabavu
Vote for the Corrupt and Reap Corruption Simple!
It's a challenge for the President to chose from the dung who to appoint as Ministers. Constitutionally, he has reached the maximum number he can appoint as Ministers outside of Parliament and he is l...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:41hrs | 936 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Thokozani Khuphe - kambe uthembeni mtaka mama?
I am breaching my own covenant I made never to critique Thokozani Khuphe in the public taking into consideration the trauma she had to endure at the funeral of Richard Morgen Tsvangirai funeral in Bhu...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:28hrs | 5538 | by Nomazulu Thata
Letter to the nation of Zimbabwe
Pamusoroi Dzimbabwe There are people to whom Zimbabwe is ok as it is. Kwavari yakatonaka . This situation that the majority of us call a crisis, to them is their opportunity to make money, to ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1888 | by Shungudzaishe Julius Machingura
Mnangagwa's rise, fall from grace
ON the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military - which was holding his family captive while a parliamentary proce...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 5578 | by Staff reporter
34 border jumpers arrested
POLICE have intercepted 34 suspected border jumpers and arrested two haulage truck drivers on allegations of smuggling bales of clothes, electrical gadgets, skin lightening creams and various prohibit...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:24hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Over 6 000 kombis impounded
Over 6 000 kombis and pirate taxis have been impounded countrywide for violating Covid-19 regulations, as police reiterated that inter-city travel remained banned unless the traveller has exceptional ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:44hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
UNcle Tom queries South Africa 'sham' envoys
Prominent South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane believes President Cyril ramamphosa's special envoys appointed to find ways of solving political problems in Zimbabwe are too compromised to lea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2338 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa foundation director hounded over Zanu-PF masks
THE Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation's director Mthulisi Hanana has skipped the country, fearing for his life and that of his family after his home was broken into and children harassed by unknown people....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
First Mbeki now Ramaphosa seeking solution to Zimbabwe's crisis - Solution is still to deliver free elections
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has reportedly appointed former South African Security minister Sydney and ex-Vice-President Baleka Mbete to "engage the Zanu PF regime and other relevant stak...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:59hrs | 421 | by Wilbert Mukori
'We want Zanu PF led GNU' ZCC doggedly insist - it's the curse we should never tolerate ever again
One of the most enduring legacy of Mugabe's Zanu PF dictatorship is that it has sired hundreds of thousands of copycat corrupt and incompetent dictators, all with trademark Mugabe mentality that they ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 494 | by Wilbert Mukori
Border-lying communities get tough on returnees
RURAL communities in Matabeleland provinces have taken it upon themselves to curb the increase in imported COVID-19 cases by apprehending returnees from South Africa and Botswana sneaking into the cou...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 145 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Credibility of Ramaphosa's Zimbabwe envoys under scrutiny
The credibility of the South African envoys appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage the Zimbabwe government and other stakeholders following the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the country h...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1430 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4210 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Jealous man douses ex-wife and son with petrol, sets room alight
A 26-year-old Bulawayo woman miraculously escaped from her burning bedroom and rescued her four-year-old son after her jealous ex-husband allegedly doused them with petrol before torching the room the...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF cannot celebrate blocking July protests, given worsening economy, it is when, not if, for next protests
There is no doubt that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies will view the nonevent July 31st Street Protests as a political victory. But if the truth be told, this is not even a Pyrrhic victor...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 19:56hrs | 2718 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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