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Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's critically ill ex-wife wheeled into court
THERE was a heartrending spectacle at the Harare magistrates court Wednesday after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife, Marry Mubaiwa, was assisted into the court room in a wheelchair....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:11hrs | 2049 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga traces his and Mnangagwa's lineage to Mzilikazi
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has claimed his family, and that of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, have roots in Mzilikazi's kingdom of Matebeleland.In a 17-minute video shot during his mee...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 8997 | by Staff reporter
CCC ditches Chamisa's face as it unveils new party logo
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party yesterday unveiled a new logo with the sun replacing its leader Nelson Chamisa's image in the old logo.Chamisa formed the CCC party in Janu...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:30hrs | 11578 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami spills beans in tell-all sexual abuse scandal
A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu-PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 9352 | by Staff reporter
Berita's husband blames Nyovest, publicist for marriage breakdown
THE break-up of the marriage between Zimbabwean songbird Berita Khumalo and South Africa's Nhlamulo "Nota" Baloyi took a new twist last week, with the music personality blaming rapper Cassper Nyovest'...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:00hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Chidawu leaves bitter-sweet legacy
THE untimely death Tuesday of Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs minister, Oliver Chidawu (68), due to suspected cardiac arrest, ignited social media amid revelations the top engineer-cum-politici...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 08:19hrs | 2498 | by Staff reporter
Of Joshua Nkomo and the raging fires of Matabeleland independence
"The fly that does not heed advice follows the corpse to the grave", goes the Igbo proverb. MLO is happy that Matabeles refused to follow the Joshua Nkomo political corpse to the grave.It must...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:15hrs | 1097 | by Israel Dube
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo through the eyes of his bodyguard
THE late Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo was an open -minded and friendly person who freely interacted with everyone throughout his entire political life regardless of social standing, one of h...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Boris is still PM, he never 'mentioned resign' - fake news to sooth jarred regime change sensitive nerves
"We must all remember that until a British Prime minister talks to the Queen he will not resign without her majesty's consent. So, until then Johnson is very much the Prime minister. Not once in his s...Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 09:12hrs | 1045 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
For a country that was a British colony why has Zimbabwe not learnt that no leader is remotely indispensable?
As I was listening to the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing his expected resignation, this afternoon, I could not help being engulfed with a sense of admiration for the beauty of democra...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 15:35hrs | 3035 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Inflated BCC bills spark outrage
BULAWAYO City Council's decision to index charges in foreign currency and convert these at the prevailing official exchange rate has sparked outrage with residents saying they have received shocking b...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:04hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Disrespect for constitutionalism source of violence
THIS week, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) released its 2021 State of Peace Report based on a survey done in six of the country's 10 province aimed at gauging the mood of nationals a...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
'DNA tests will resolve Ndebele kingship wrangle'
ONE of the claimants to the Ndebele kingship, Stanley Raphael Tshuma Khumalo, has challenged other contestants to a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test to determine genuine heirs to the throne.Al...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:39hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Govt keeps focus on Zimdollar
Government will not let-up on implementing fiscal and monetary measures to contain resurgent inflation and tame Zimbabwe dollar volatility, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli N...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | 235 | by Jamwanda
'Beer brawl triggered CCC activist's disappearance'
The disappearance of a Chitungwiza woman three weeks ago, Moreblessing Ali, who was eventually found dead in the Nyatsime area last weekend, was triggered by a beerhall brawl between the deceased and ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:34hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Journalist threatened with violence
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)-Zimbabwe has condemned the harassment of freelance journalist Simbarashe Sithole by unknown persons over his stories exposing corruption.Sithole o...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:17hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Chasi throws Kazembe's faction under the bus
Mazowe South Member of Parliament Fortune Chasi (ZANU PF) has castigated corrupt council officials at Mazowe Rural District Council (MRDC) who are alleged...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 21:16hrs | 6209 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Glendale
Ramaphosa 'concealed a crime', says former spy boss
Former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser has opened a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa.Fraser's attorney, Eric Mabuza, confirmed to News24 on Wednesday ...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 21:20hrs | 2443 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa hikes petrol, diesel prices
The price of 95-octane unleaded petrol will rise by R2,33 a litre from today, while 93-octane unleaded petrol will go up by R2,43 a litre, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced yest...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:28hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
Woman brings lover home soon after hubby's burial
"HONOUR your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you".This Biblical advice seems to have no meaning for a 43-year-old man from Bulawayo, w...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 4007 | by Staff reporter
Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
7 feared dead in mine collapse
SEVEN miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn are feared dead after hoisting ropes to a skip bringing them up the shaft from underground snapped, plunging them back on a free-fall of about 200 meters....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt jittery
GOVERNMENT is in panic mode and fears an uprising hence resorting to using the police, military and other security organs as a section of Zimbabweans push for economic order, with analysts predicting ...Published: 15 May 2022 at 17:56hrs | 3121 | by Staff reporter
Wifey tug on privates blacks out hubby
A man from Bulawayo apparently feared that he may never be able to use his sexual organ again after his ex-wife allegedly clasped and squeezed it together with his testicles so hard that he struggled ...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 1963 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 385 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Chamisa's CCC now claims it doesn't have money for congress
THE Citizens Coalition for Change's (CCC) now claims the only reason it will not be holding an elective congress anytime soon is because it does not have money.The party's secretary general, C...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:00hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
Zimra officers feared dead in accident
SOME Zimbabwe Revenue Authority officers are feared dead while several others were injured after their staff bus was involved in an accident just outside Masvingo along the Beitbridge – Harare road ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
3 die in Zimra bus accident
Three Zimra employees are feared dead after a bus they were travelling in was involved in an accident along the Beitbridge-Harare highway yesterday after 6pm. The bus was travelling from Beitb...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:05hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Uhuru Cup cautions won't carry over to PSL
THE red card shown to Dynamos' utility player Shadreck Nyahwa by referee Arnold Ncube in the Independence Cup final against Highlanders at Barbourfields Stadium on Monday will not have any effect in P...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:02hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Who is really behind the R2bn Tongaat Hulett bid?
WHO sits behind Magister Investments, the prospective new owner of the sugar giant? This mystery is now front and centre in a last-ditch battle by minority shareholders to block the controversial R2 b...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:36hrs | 707 | by Dewald van Rensburg for amaBhungane
Fifa get brazenly fast start at keeping Infantino in office
LESS than a week after Fifa's Congress in Doha and president Gianni Infantino's announcement that he would be standing for election for a third term, Fifa's administration have begun aggressively poli...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda's self-made mechanic
A 43-year-old self-made mechanic from Gwanda, Matabeleland South province has invented a petrol-powered quadbike using scrap metal.Nhlanhla Gabula was born in Gwanda and went to Gwanda H...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:13hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Naysayers will be buried in own ignorance
For Bishop Lazi and his ilk, today - Palm Sunday - marks the beginning of Holy Week.It is a sacred period that commemorates Jesus Christ's ‘triumphal entry' into Jerusalem for the Passover w...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 84 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa rally murder takes new twist
The grisly murder of Mboneni Ncube, the Citizens for Coalition for Change (CCC) Kwekwe activist who was killed at a rally in the Midlands town in February has taken a new twist with the suspected kill...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:39hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
Granny axed to death as family watches
RESIDENTS of Gwanda are in shock following the death of a 68-year-old woman who was killed by an axe wielding man who had a score to settle with the woman's daughter and grandson.The woman, Em...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:25hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 7689 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 5264 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri wealth inquiry opens
The inquiry seeking explanation from former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri on the sale of five properties that were part of the family's large property portfolio opened at the High Cour...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:11hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's personality is what kept America out of war
Former President Donald Trump claimed his personality is what kept the US 'out of war' during his presidency while speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday.'The fake news said my pers...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Matutu promises to tear CCC in Masvingo
Former Masvingo urban Member of Parliament Tongai Matutu who defected to Zanu-PF after a fall out with then MDC Alliance party after he was disqualified from contesting the provincial chairmanship pos...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 17:03hrs | 1853 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally feared abducted
UNKNOWN men stormed into former Harare mayor Herbert Gomba's house before seizing and driving off with him Saturday afternoon, raising fears he may have been abducted.Gomba is running for a mu...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | 1599 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 7043 | by Staff reporter
So the Zimbabwe govt can murder innocent Matabeles, bury, exhume & rebury just like that?
So the government of Zimbabwe can deploy Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade in Matabeleland to murder more than 40 000 Matabele civilians, bury them in shallow graves, rape more than 100 000 Matabele ...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 09:39hrs | 894 | by Israel Dube
Chamisa a predator of press freedom
When Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party which he christened the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), many people had expectations that there would be a paradigm shift from the MDC, where the ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 512 | by Tafara Shumba
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 194 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean nationals deported from UK to Harare
HUMAN rights groups have said they fear for the lives of Zimbabwean nationals deported on a Home Office charter flight on Wednesday night.One campaigner, who was on the phone to a deportee on ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:51hrs | 4040 | by Staff reporter
Had Chamisa actually said to bring back whites he would have surely been guaranteed my vote!
I hate political correctness! I also loath not expressing what I truly feel and think - for fear of what people would think, or of a public backlash.In fact, the main reason the world ...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 15:27hrs | 2044 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa lashes out at Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters braved tear smoke, water cannon and buton attacks by police determineed to stop the opposition party leader Nelson Chamisa from addressing a campaign ral...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:38hrs | 2219 | by Staff reporter
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