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Zimbabwe and Zambia suffer simultaneous blackouts
Zimbabwe and Zambia experienced nationwide blackouts on Sunday night, a disruption believed to be caused by a surge on power lines connecting the two countries to South African power utility Eskom....Published: 25 Nov 2024 at 19:35hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fire brigade lets family down, as US$350 000 home goes up in smoke
The Vella family from Bulawayo's Suburbs area will never forget July 28, 2024, when a fire ravaged their home, reducing nearly all their possessions to ashes. The blaze, suspected to have been caused ...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 17:33hrs | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Who is reaping now?
In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a rather alarming phenomenon: the emergence of what can only be described as "gospel-preneurs." These are individuals who have cunningly crafted churches with t...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:56hrs | 1 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Children terrorised by invisible creatures
THE way your skin crawled after watching goosefleshers like The Conjuring , Gothika and The Ring, will pale into insignificance when you read through this living nightmare for three children from Magw...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 20:04hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
What will freedom truly cost us?
In the depths of despair, there exists a flicker of hope. Or so we dare to believe. As a nation, Zimbabwe has been haunted by a tumultuous history, riddled with oppression, corruption, and a desperate...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:32hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Frustration and Triumphs: Chronicles from the Frontline of Political Commentary in Zimbabwe
As I sit here on this Reflection Sunday, penning down my thoughts and experiences as a political commentator in Zimbabwe, I find myself contemplating the tumultuous journey that has brought me...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 08:40hrs | 11 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabwe's political landscape: Analising the past to shape a better future
As I sit here on this quiet Sunday, my mind is filled with reflections on the intricate political landscape that has shaped Zimbabwe. It is a landscape marred by years of tumultuous struggles, triumph...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:42hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mnangagwa's dark trail
CorruptionAs for the optics and visuals, you wouldn't say President Emmerson Mnangagwa - where corruption is concerned - has disappointed.During the hot days - months before the late R...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:33hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Will it take one or two more generations for Zimbabwe to finally be free?
The past few days have been quite encouraging for me – and, they have ignited in me a flicker of hope for the country that I love so much…Zimbabwe....Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 07:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ramaphosa is 'useless, spineless', must resign says South African billionaire
Calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign are mounting, though he is showing signs that he is not fazed.This time South African billionaire Rob Hersov has said Ramaphosa was an embarrassme...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's VP escapes death by whisker
The Vice President for Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Lynette Karenyi-Kore on Sunday escaped death by a flicker after a car she was travelling in hit a cow on her way from Bikita South.T...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
It's the economy, stupid!
Eons ago, in Bishop Lazi's village, there lived a pint-sized legend who was known far and wide.Everyone always surmised — and with good reason too — he had inherited the worst biological q...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Stubborn smugglers dice with death on treacherous Limpopo
DECENT Mbedzi (42) sits uncomfortably as he frantically nails together some wooden boards to make a wooden raft, just metres away from Dulibadzimu Gorge, about five kilometres south of Beitbridge bord...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Taona T. Denhere
Crossing the Limpopo River
NKANYEZI Dube is a 25-year-old young woman from Lubhangwe in the Matobo District of Matabeleland South. She attended Lubhangwe primary and secondary schools. She did not qualify to proceed to universi...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
It rained 'Elephants and Buffaloes' in Chiweshe today (29 December 2021)
To say it rained cats and dogs may be actually being economic with the truth. Saying it rained elephants and buffaloes may give a modicum of justice to the copious rains that pounded my home area on 2...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 11:27hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself
I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 8 | by Ken Mufuka
5 killed in Ghana election violence - pray not slipping backwards to join likes of Zimbabwe
For many years now, Ghana has successfully held free, fair and credible elections, a successful and stable democracy. And the country has benefited greatly for with stable and functioning democracy th...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power crisis turns night into day for Zimbabweans
Around 9 p.m., a siren pierces the pitch-black night at the Willowvale industrial park in Zimbabwe, signalling that power has been restored after a day-long outage.Moments later, eight men in ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 16:38hrs | | by Reuters
ZHRO Vigil celebrates World Refugee week
The ZHRO Embassy Vigil on the 19th of June 2019 at 429 the strand outside of the Zimababwe embassy started on a rather clammy day. The small talk before the protest started was filled with despa...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 13:06hrs | | by ZHRO
Finally the one causing fires in Zimbabwe revealed. Where there is fire, there is politics
"Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches . . . we shall liberate this country."- Winnie Mandela, 1986As one stood surrounded by billowing smoke, In the shack industrial settlemen...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 21:06hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
What government awaits Zimbabwe next week?
How is it that with such a long, rich history of pain, and deep experience of heartbreak, abuse and lies, smart girls still fall for the lies of cheap confidence tricksters and con-lovers? How is it, ...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:37hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Chamisa opts to Jameson Timba as his election agent
What an incongruous title to use in describing politics of the Savannah! Yet such is the beauty of communication: yoking together things that are violently dissimilar, all to drive home a key point. A...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:42hrs | | by Igomombe
Killing Dynamos softly, slowly
SO Dynamos were in the news again this past week. Not for the glamour that had come to define the Harare giants over the past decades but the plethora of problems bedevilling them.Coach Lloyd ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Moffat Mungazi
Running with Mother explores Gukarahundi atrocities
Have you got a haunting or rather dangerous story to tell? Just give the task to a child narrator. Christopher Mlalazi's narrator in Running with Mother, Rudo Jamela, recounts the story of the Gukurah...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:59hrs | 6 | by Beniah Munengwa
Zimbabwe opposition can win 'if it overwhelms polls'
Former president Robert Mugabe's attempts to stay in the limelight and a new party formed with his blessing could be good for the opposition in Zimbabwe's upcoming elections, #ThisFlag pastor Evan Maw...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 11:11hrs | | by Carien Du Plessis
2018: Why do we prefer bad leaders?
Behold the Ides of March are come and gone with little event and no fanfare, save for some bitter blue roof rantings of an aged, vanquished, fangless rattlesnake.The dim headlamp of Election 2...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Diaspora shocked by cultural erosion in Zimbabwe
Diaspora shocked by cultural erosion in Zimbabwe.by Dr Masimba MavazaZimbabwe had its culture as its identity as it affords it due recognition. it should be mentioned that there is a p...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 21:46hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's permanent friend
THERE may be good reason for the new president's praise for Zimbabwe's former leader.It is not usual for a person who has seized power through a military coup to heap praise upon his deposed p...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 15:57hrs | | by Derek Matyszak
NPC petition Mnangagwa to postpone 2018 elections - unconstitutional and dangerous suggestion
"The convention held under the auspices of a gathering of civil society organisations, labour unions and churches, provided the new President with a varied range of issues he may need to attend to as ...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 17:35hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe wanted a Civil War in Zimbabwe
THE so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which President Robert Mugabe's then guerrilla army, Zanla, fought that of his nationalist rival Joshua Nkomo's Zipra, a...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 15:18hrs | 3 | by Stuart Doran
Gukurahundi Origins: Myth and reality, part 1 - 'war' in Bulawayo, 1980-1
The so-called Entumbane disturbances of November 1980 and February 1981, during which Robert Mugabe's guerrilla army fought that of his nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, are typically cited as among th...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 08:00hrs | | by Stuart Doran
When Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar made Zimbabwe dare to dream
The following is an extract from Ian Hawkey's article from Issue Nine of the Blizzard, published in June 2013. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Ian Hawkey
Its development in retrogression Mr President
The President of Zimbabwe made stunning remarks that Zimbabwe is the second most developed country in Africa. Ours is development in retrogression Mr President. We as a people have every reason to be ...Published: 08 May 2017 at 14:01hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Robber stabs woman (60) three times, demands her belongings
A 60 year old woman from Mzilikazi was attacked by a robber using flicker knife demanding her valuables.This was heard by a Bulawayo magistrate when Stephen Moyo (34) was convicted for stabbin...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 04:55hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man arrested for possession of flicker knife
A Bulawayo man has been arrested after he was found in possession of a flicker knife which the police described as dangerous weapon.Mthandazo Mpofu (21) was not asked to plead to the charg...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
We need NTA to guarantee free elections - forerunner of economic recovery
In his article "Biti's NTA a pointless idea for a fruitless exercise" Whitlaw Mugwiji (Nehanda Radio) has made an attempt to convince the readers on why he thinks the NTA is a "fruitless exercise" as ...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Discussing Arts in diaspora (pt3)
Today's Topic is: The Value Of Collaboration in arts Over the past years the music industry has seen many artists producing award winning collaborations...Published: 22 Oct 2016 at 20:18hrs | | by Future Moyo aka Jamelah
Tsholotsho beat Chapungu
Tsholotsho FC 2 - 1 Chapungu FC CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League relegation candidates, Tsholotsho FC gave themselves a flicker of hope when they earned three points after beating Chap...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - a socio-political soap opera!
Every African or Zimbabwean citizen is quickly reminded of a vivid satire by George Orwell the Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart by the Great Chinua Achebe, In the Dust by one South African Author Malope...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Zim kwaito stars make waves in UK
"We have never been good at following the norm. We don't follow trends nor feel the need to fit in. Neither are we worried about a target audience as our demographics are unknown but what we do know i...Published: 28 May 2016 at 16:03hrs | | by Showbiz Reporter
Zim kwaito stars shine in the UK - Interview with Xolani Nqo
"We have never been good at following the norm. We don't follow trends nor feel the need to fit in. Neither are we worried about a target audience as our demographics...Published: 09 May 2016 at 10:06hrs | | by Showbiz Reporter
Daily News is back to old love
Yes, it is, and that old love is the MDC-T party, which the Daily News title is almost synonymous with – to the extent of appearing as though they were cousins in an incestuous relationship....Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff write
Zimbabwe govt no longer issuing 99 year leases on land reform beneficiaries
Government is no longer issuing 99-year leases to land reform beneficiaries after private companies commissioned to survey farms pulled out over a US$6 million debt. Standing regulations mandate the S...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Lincoln Towindo
Proud to be African
Dear EditorI get ridiculously annoyed, yet amused by the narrow-minded and condescending attitude most people in the Western world have about Africa. Their perception is skewed by non-obje...Published: 26 Jun 2014 at 10:36hrs | | by Kufakunesu Mawira
3 months on, missing Malaysia plane - relatives still struggling
Beijing - In the more than 100 days since her husband disappeared along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Zhang Qian's world has collapsed. She quit her job, sleeps rarely and prefers not to go out, ...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
All eyes on $1 trillion
African agribusiness is set for a huge leap, according to a World Bank report Imagine for a moment the impact of a $1 trillion African agribusiness...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor and Aissata Haidara
Makosi's talk show lights up Zimbabwe television
Lately, local television has been hit by a lack of well defined locally produced lifestyle talk shows.Several socialites have attempted to produce talk shows but could not stand the heat....Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Priest writes book on Kalanga, Ndebele burial rituals
FATHER Innocent Makawule Ndlovu, a priest with the Roman Catholic Church has written a book that addresses succinct issues concerning death and burial rites among the Kalanga and their Ndebele counter...Published: 05 Dec 2013 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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