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Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1312 | by Staff reporter
About 600 die while Mnangagwa holidays
Just as Covid-19 was bouncing back at the beginning of the new year with ferocity after a relatively mild and contained first wave in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa was going on leave.He left co-Vice-Pre...Published: 3 hrs ago | 589 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Covid knows no 'Supermen' calls for unity
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said there are no action heroes after four of his cabinet ministers succumbed to Covid-19 within a week.In his state of the nation address on Saturday, ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 824 | by Staff reporter
Father's snakes feast on daughters
THERE are many relatives today who do not talk to each other anymore as they blame witchcraft for all their problems, with the "witches" being their relatives. There are those who believe in witchcraf...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2363 | by Staff reporter
God takes the fight to Zanu
Not long ago, Zimbabwe's Vice President and a remorseless henchman, Constantine Chiwenga fired healthcare workers across the binary for speaking out about the dire situation they were working under an...Published: 8 hrs ago | 3301 | by MLF
Retired Major-General Nyambuya NOT dead
Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well.There are some sections of the media which repor...Published: 14 hrs ago | 4763 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blasts Biti over Covid-19 statement
ZANU-PF has rubbished accusations by MDC Alliance vice-president Mr Tendai Biti that the Government is deliberately imprisoning opposition members as a way of "exterminating them" through exposure to ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1429 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week. Dr Moyo succumbed to Covid-19-re...Published: 14 hrs ago | 535 | by Staff reporter
Tikoloshe with giant manhood spotted at Ngozi Mine
SETTLERS at Ngozi Mine squatter camp in Bulawayo are living in fear after a short hairy man-like creature with a giant manhood was spotted early Sunday morning roaming the illegal settlement before it...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2023 | by Staff reporter
Businessman breaks up marriage
THE serial bed-hopping antics of Plumtree-based businessman Bhekisisa Bhebhe, who was chucked out of his in-laws' house after his shenanigans were exposed, caused the marriage dissolution that befell ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1299 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Somizi: I am not going to let anyone use me as a doormat
Somizi Mhlongo-Motaung has said he is not going to apologise for having a rant at journalists, Julia Madibogo from City Press and Kabelo Khumalo, from the Sunday World.Prior to the rant, over ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:51hrs | 1576 | by Daniel Itai, Johannesburg, South Africa
Chiwenga mourns heroes
Acting President Dr Constatino Chiwenga has sent condolence messages to the families of three national heroes who died in the past week.Dr Chiwenga condoled with the Moyo family following the ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:12hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Bank closes Donald Trump's accounts
A Florida bank announced Thursday that it has closed down former President Trump’s account, joining a growing list of entities that have cut ties with the former president following the deadly Jan. ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 7475 | by Staff reporter
Residents bemoan delays in bodies collection
BEREAVED families in Bulawayo have complained over delays in the collection of bodies by health workers and authorities.Government recently ordered that every death should be treated as a COVI...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo, the coup announcer, declared national hero
The late Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo, has been declared a national hero.The message was delivered by Defence and War Veteran Affairs Minister Oppah ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2165 | by Staff reporter
Dr Shingi Munyeza showed the Character of a leader
Sometime at the end of the year 2020, my Senior Founding Apostle at Victory Fellowship Church in Bulawayo, gathered his Senior Assembly Pastors and reminded them that in 2019, he had prepared the lead...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:51hrs | 3190 | by Tomson Dube
SA's Minister in the Presidency dies of Covid-19-related complications
Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu died of Covid-19-related complications on Thursday, just 10 days after testing positive for the disease.President Cyril Ramaphosa described him as "a...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:00hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has voluntarily become the 10th province of South Africa
After protracted and emotional denials by Zanupf leaders that Zimbabwe is a country in crisis, masses of Zimbabweans that were stuck at Beitbridge border post a few weeks ago exposed Zimbabwe not only...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | 2599 | by Israel Dube
Ginimbi's empire is crumbling
The late socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's Botswana empire is crumbling after the neighbouring country's Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) ordered the closure of his Quick Gases ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:56hrs | 12179 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo's infamous Mugabe coup speech
Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved t...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 3308 | by Major-General SB Moyo ZDF spokesperson
Mnangagwa calls for 3-day COVID-19 fasting
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwean women to fast and pray for three days following a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths and infections.The fasting will start today until Saturda...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains cause damage in Mutare
HEAVY rains continue to cause heavy damage in Mutare, damaging some houses and bridges in the eastern border city this week, leaving some residents in desperate need of help.Currently, incessa...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1234 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy
"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then M...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1325 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2307 | by Staff reporter
Polad salutes SB Moyo
POLITICAL parties yesterday expressed shock at the death of Dr Sibusiso Moyo, saying the nation had been robbed of a dedicated veteran of the liberation struggle, a decorated soldier and an accomplish...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife in prayer call
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called on women to join her in three days of prayer and fasting from today to Saturday for divine intervention to end Covid-19 related deaths in Zimbabwe, that have n...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mourn SB Moyo
The death of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Rtd), yesterday morning from Covid-19 complications came as a great shock, President Mnangagwa said...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso B. Moyo, the man who read Mugabe the riot act
November 15, 2017 is not an ordinary day in Zimbabwe's political history. The day was characterised by action-packed events that culminated in the resignation of former president Mr Robert Mugabe....Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 18:33hrs | 2696 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, China mourn SB Moyo
CHINA and South Africa have sent messages of condolences following the death on Wednesday, of Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo through Covid-19.In a statement, the Chinese emb...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 17:51hrs | 2105 | by Staff reporter
President grieves for SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa was visibly shaken by the demise of the minister of Foreign Affairs cde Sibusiso B Moyo. He has described Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo as a devoted public servant, friend...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 17:10hrs | 1846 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Pastor Munyeza caught in adultery storm
OUTSPOKEN Harare cleric and businessman Shingi Munyeza has surrendered his post as Faith Ministries pastor after he was forced to publicly admit to adultery by his daughter.Munyeza admitted in...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7644 | by Staff reporter
UK, US, EU wants Mnangagwa to probe 2019 killings
THE United States (US) yesterday said Harare should investigate and bring to book the perpetrators of the January 2019 killings, where soldiers and the police allegedly shot and killed at least 23 peo...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
BCC workers end five-day strike
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) workers yesterday resumed work after a five-day strike over poor salaries, a situation which crippled critical services such as refuse collection, primary health care and b...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Carlos Max in Covid-19 storm
FORMER Zimbabwe international Carlos Max has described as a storm in a tea cup the video that has been circulating on social media which shows him partying with friends in Arcadia without following th...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Trail of relatives' deaths exposes cruel hand of Covid-19
My brothers and sisters last Friday I lost my elder brother Elvis to Covid-19. Elvis Maplanka was a prominent businessman in Bulawayo in the transport and retail sector. Over and above his business, h...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:44hrs | 876 | by Apostle St Paul Maplanka
Towards meaningful diaspora engagement
Globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 people is a migrant. Though this measly figure appears to be statistically insignificant and to give credence to the critics of the so-called mobility bias in mig...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 89 | by Mutsa Murenje, Queensland, Australia
Chamisa now wants Mnangagwa to behave like a father figure
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has admonished President Emmerson Mnangagwa for stoking fires of hostility through weaponising the law and arbitrary arrests of his opponents and government criti...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 21:13hrs | 2433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's advisor outed for cheating on his wife
Businessman, pastor and member of President Mnangagwa's Advisory Committee, Shingi Munyeza, has stepped down as a Pastor of his church after being outed by his daughter for cheating his wife.T...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 20:21hrs | 9023 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's spin-nurse relives prison nightmare
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere was arrested recently and charged for allegedly communicating falsehoods in a matter involving a baby who was initially reported dead following a baton stick st...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | 2702 | by Staff Reporter
Former minister grilled over land
THE government is probing former Labour minister Petronella Kagonye on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm, Glorious Properties.On her ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Mumbengegwi 's wife dies
Emily Mumbengegwi, wife to Zanu-PF's secretary for external relations and ex-minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi who is also a member of the Politburo has died. Zanu-PF released sent a condolence ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 14:59hrs | 4631 | by Staff Reporter
Kombo Moyana dies
Zimbabwe's first black central bank governor Kombo James Moyana has died.Moyana, who was at the helm of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1993, succumbed to Covid-19....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 08:33hrs | 3581 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Mnangagwa against 'stoking political fires'
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against "stoking political fires" through arbitrary arrests of his opponents and silencing of divergent voices....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 3287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt clueless on COVID-19, says Zapu
THE opposition Zapu party has criticised government for lack of vision to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic which is ravaging the country.Zapu presidential spokesperson Mkhululi Zulu...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:38hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Burglary hotspot suburbs revealed
POLICE in Bulawayo have identified six western suburbs as hotspots for burglary and theft cases while revealing that some of the break-in incidents are leading to rape cases. The criminals are...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 1273 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro FM caught in Bosso elections storm
Bulawayo based radio station Skyz Metro FM has been caught in the Highlanders elections storm after its popular presenter Babongile Sikhonjwa allegedly declared during his Saturday morning show that h...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:45hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Six soldiers in gruesome murder case
Six members of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) deployed at Guinea Fowl base claimed a life during their target on copper cable thieves in Gweru on January 16.Fortune Mambure (30), Shaibhu Ndara(2...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 14:15hrs | 3996 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
ZimStat stops releasing poverty data
THE Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZimStat) has abandoned the release of poverty datum line (PDL) data for a family of five to focus only on individual data, the NewsDay Business has establishe...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
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