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Tichaona Jokonya's family lives in fear

The family of the late liberation war hero and former Information Minister, Tichaona Jokonya, is living in fear following the reported invasion of their privately owned farm in Beatrice, Mashonaland East, by men allegedly acting under the …

Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 14:55hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter

Gunfire and fear: Bulawayo grapples with a surge in deadly crime

The streets of Bulawayo have become a theatre of escalating gun violence, with a recent spate of chilling incidents raising alarm over public safety and law enforcement's growing vulnerability. The brutal murder of Sergeant Abel Masava on …

Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 08:38hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe sex workers turn fear into strength

The streets of Mbare and Epworth are more than just a workplace for young sex workers - they are battlegrounds where they face violence, stigma, and limited access to health care. However, a growing network of peer educators, supported by …

Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 12:32hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter

Fear grips Gwanda villagers

Residents of Gwanda South are living in fear following a daring armed robbery at the homestead of Chief Marupi last week, where gunmen made off with his newly allocated Isuzu double-cab vehicle, R2,700, and two mobile phones. The robbery h…

Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 11:54hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt fears civil unrest

The Government has issued a stern warning to political groups, politicians, and certain civil society organizations against orchestrating disruptive activities aimed at creating chaos in the country. Acting Minister of Home Affairs and Cul…

Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:17hrs | 3 | 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 their losses in areas including Masving…

Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 20:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Cholera fears for learners mount as schools reopen

FEARS abound that learners' lives are at risk due to the prevailing cholera outbreak as schools open tomorrow.Health experts have urged government to strengthen its surveillance and case management systems in schools to avoid a disaster.Ac…

Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Fear and intimidation cloud Mabvuku-Tafara by-election campaign

Political tension has intensified in the Mabvuku-Tafara constituency ahead of Saturday's by-election, prompting opposition candidate Munyaradzi Kufahakutizwi to go into hiding.Kufahakutizwi, vying to retain his parliamentary seat under the…

Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt fears revolt over elections

THE Zimbabwean government is running a security operation, mainly in Harare, around the clock to prevent gatherings as it is fears an uprising and post-election violence over disputed poll results, intelligence sources have told The NewsHa…

Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

July Moyo uses fear mongering, cash in bid to win elusive constituency on August 23

Fear pervades the peri-urban farming community of Matava in the Midlands Province's Redcliff Constituency on the eve of Zimbabwe's harmonised elections following a campaign allegedly anchored on coercion by one of the region's ruling party…

Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:28hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Overcoming the fear of public speaking

FOR over 10 years, my life has been centred on training and coaching public speakers and corporate communicators. The question that comes up all the time in these sessions is: How do I conquer the fear of public speaking?I will use this ar…

Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:02hrs | 4 | by Jonah Nyoni

'Zimbabwe security forces stifling dissent'

THE ruling Zanu-PF party is expected to win the forthcoming general elections while the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will reject the results setting Zimbabwe on another disputed poll, a report by global research firm, Fit…

Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Donel's song featured in new movie 'FEAR'

UK-BASED Zimbabwean musician, Donel Mangena's song was featured in the new movie, Fear, which premiered in Atlanta, USA. Raised in Zimbabwe, the 21-year-old singer has spent the last few years honing his unique pop music, seamlessly blendi…

Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 00:53hrs | 30 | by Staff Reporter

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition starts looking for money through fear mongering

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition believes the country will have one of its bloodiest elections since independence in 1980.The group of more than 80 organisations, among them human rights bodies, churches, labour unions and student groups, …

Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Mnangangwa 'wants to inject fear'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of railroading proposed legislation to punish "unpatriotic citizens" in order to avoid scrutiny and accountability.Critics said the proposed law will further close the democratic s…

Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa

Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for being in the country without papers.South A…

Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Bhora musango' fear grips Zanu-PF

THE recent primary elections to select candidates for the March 26 by-elections have exposed deep-rooted factionalism in Zanu-PF Bulawayo province with growing fears that the G40 faction might be firming its grip on the ruling party's prov…

Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Gukurahundi survivors vote for Zanu-PF out of fear'

HUMAN rights pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu has claimed that Gukurahundi survivors voted for the ruling Zanu-PF party in the past elections out of fear of a repeat of the genocide.The pressure group said each election since the early 198…

Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Fear grips farmers

Fear has gripped local farmers following the government's ultimatum giving them up to the end of next week to submit production return forms with many believing it is a ploy by authorities to remove them from their land, Business Times can…

Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Chief Tshugulu lives in fear

The institutionalization of tribalism and the government sponsored segregation of uMthwakazi people has caused a lot of pain and agony for Matabeleland people since 1980 and nothing has been done since. We have witnessed the massacres of o…

Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo

Let's stamp out fear of witchcraft

Whenever some calamity befalls us; illness, catching an infectious disease, an accident and injury, a bankruptcy in business, a failed examination, a failed marriage - we want to know what caused it in the first place.This is not just Afri…

Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Fr Oskar Wermter SJ

Fears of 'embezzlement' of ex-Zifa staffer's pay resurfaces

FEARS of misappropriation of funds by a former Zifa senior staffer resurfaced this week after Caf publicly confirmed that they had been releasing funds for the remuneration of then Zifa education officer, Brian Moyo. Moyo was appointed to …

Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Fear Versus Hope

Even after 37 years, it's till fear vs hopeFear of the unknown, fear of death, fear of dictatorshipNo Otis, don't go into politics, you'll die young they sayIn some way it is true, if not, it is a cause I am willing to die forIt's no secre…

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 17:44hrs | 26 | by Otis Mabikwa

Fears of voter apathy in Zimbabwe's 2018 polls

After the voter apathy which marred the recent Chiwundura by-election, analysts have said electoral reforms are the only way to increase voter interest in 2018 elections.In the by-election, a large number of people refrained from casting b…

Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:16hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's campaign of fear

Fears of violence are growing as the 2018 elections approach. The fears are especially acute in rural areas such as Gutu West constituency, where a local NGO reports that Zanu-PF intimidation has triggered panic in the entire community.Vil…

Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by ZimVigil

Zimbabweans: Is it cowardice or fear?

Remember firebrand politician and former Zanu-PF legislator Margaret Dongo who in the early 1990s caused pandemonium in Parliament after she called Zanu-PF MPs, including cabinet ministers, "Mugabe's wives"?Among those incensed by the rema…

Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 16:42hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Sibanda

MDC-T, Tsvangirai most feared by Zanu PF

The revelations that the MDC-T and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai are the most feared by President Robert Mugabe among other opposition political parties emerged during the ruling party's annual conference in Masvingo where most of the membe…

Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 18:49hrs | 1354 | by Stephen Jakes

The Brits have voted to leave EU, there is nothing to be feared other than fear itself

The British people have voted to leave the EU. Those campaigned for remain on basis of fear of the unknown are scratching the bottom of the barrel for the doom's day economic collapse they had predicted and feared. The "proof" of the doom'…

Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 20:23hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori

Fear grips Nkulumane, Emganwini

THE working-class suburbs of Nkulumane and Emganwini were gripped by fear yesterday as police reported that a FIFTH child had gone missing.Winnie Museredzo, 14, of Nkulumane 12, is the latest to mysteriously disappearances.Winnie, a Form 1…

Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Bulisile Mguni

The collective fear of all Zimbos has reached frightening levels: Part 2!

The very essence of the "FEAR NOT" command as stated briefly in Part 1 is not that you can die for Jesus himself or anyone even if you are to become a martyr. The same Christian bible says Jesus died for you and everyone, which is the only…

Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 12:20hrs | 1 | by ZIM-ID

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