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Mayhem at mine leaves suspects hospitalised
Two violent suspected thieves are nursing injuries at Parirenyatwa group of hospitals while their accomplice is currently detained at Bindura prison...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 18:07hrs | 986 | by Simbarashe Sithole
2 men killed during beer drinking spree
TWO men died over the weekend in separate incidents following an argument during beer drinking sprees in Southlea Park and Hatcliffe in Harare.Some of the suspects have since been arrested whi...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 14:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 19 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
City man attacked by tout, run over by bus
A TRAGIC incident occurred yesterday when a mechanic, Daniel Dandawa, was attacked and run over by a bus after a dispute with a tout identified only as Dread.The incident happened on the route...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Passengers steal $30 000 from Zupco kombi
THIEVES pounced on a Zupco kombi in Bulawayo and got away with $30 000 and US$30 and mobile phones on Sunday morning.The three suspects, who are still at large, according to police, boarded th...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF councillor reported to police after erecting campaign banners at polling station
ASPIRING Zanu-PF Chinhoyi Ward 12 councillor, Enock Fombo, has been reported to police after displaying his campaign banners close to a polling station.He was also dishing out Zanu-PF regalia,...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Boko Haram' wins Zanu-PF primary election
THERE were wide celebrations Friday night after Zanu-PF official, Ruth ‘Boko Haram' Chikukwa won the right to represent the ruling party in the Chinhoyi Ward 2 upcoming council by-elections....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Pupil up for writing exam for friend
A 20-YEAR-OLD Form 6 pupil at Churchill Boys High School was arrested for writing the Ordinary Level Shona examination for a friend whom he charged US$3.Leon Chimufombo on Saturday appeared be...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zupco conductor shot dead
A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) female conductor was shot dead last night in Dzivarasekwa 4, Harare at around 9pm. The deceased only identified as Joy was a conductor with a Lofombo bus op...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 19:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Whose who in Mwonzora's shadow Cabinet - Full list
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Douglas Mwonzora Thursday announced a 26-member shadow cabinet which he said will monitor and check the performance of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ca...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 17:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Double heroes' burial today
President Mnangagwa will today preside over the burial of two national heroes, Zimbabwe National Army Commander, Lieutenant General Edzai Chimonyo and Michael "Vhuu" Chakabva at the national heroes ac...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
'The path had to be set for Mugabe'
Last week, Farai Tafirenyika claimed there were Zipra cadres eliminated by Zanla combatants at the front during the ZIPA era. Levi Mukarati continues to seek answers on events surrounding the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Nama Facebook Live disrupted
This year's National Art Merit Awards Facebook Live broadcast announcement of nominees was abandoned following power outage.The organisers were broadcasting live from the Reps Theatre in Harar...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
How Rhodesian forces burnt three comrades
COMRADE Noel Museredza whose Chimurenga name was Ignatius Dzvotsvotsvo joined the liberation struggle in 1972 and went for military training at Mgagao camp. Later he became an instructor at Mgagao and...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe using Chipanga to test the bite of the lion?
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe, and her G40 faction used Zanu PF Youth leader Kudzai Chipanga to literally ‘test the bite of the lion',this according to Khuluma Afrika co-Editor Maynard Manyowa,...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 14:02hrs | | by Hubert Sithole
Mugabe, Chiwenga now locked in dangerous game
Ruling Zanu PFs warring factions are now locked in what could potentially be a deadly game of nhombo / fombo, according to political commentator Ian Makomeya, reported ...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We killed sellouts mercilessly'
When we started the series of interviews with David Todhlana (born Chrispen Tapfuma Mataire) a few weeks ago, we warned about his brutal honesty. This week, he tells Munyaradzi Huni and Tendai Manzvan...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Turmoil afte Chitepo’s death
Last week, Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai spoke about his time at the war front and his time with Cdes Nhari and Badza who later became leaders of the famous N...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 23:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nhari-Badza rebellion was always coming
Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai (born 1952), was deployed to the war front in Rhodesia in 1972. He fought many battles and was at one time mistaken for a sello...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:39hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Drunk driver hits cycling schoolboys from behind, flees scene on foot
A Guruve driver allegedly hit two children on bicycles from behind before fleeing the scene on foot leaving his car.Sources close to investigations allege the vehicle, a Toyota Ipsum - registr...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 13:06hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
My fallout with Ndabaningi Sithole
OVER the past few weeks, John Munodawafa Gwitira whose Chimurenga name was Kenneth Gwindingwi (KG) narrated how he grew up in Nyanyadzi and later joined the liberation struggle in 1970. He narrated ho...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drinking our own urine and sleeping with snakes
COMRADE Florence Mudzengerere whose Chimurenga name was Pronica Mabhunu voluntarily joined the liberation struggle in August 1973 when she was 13 years old. She left without saying goodbye to her pare...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The instructor who trained Joice Mujuru
BORN in 1954 Emelda Musanhu whose Chimurenga name was Suzan Rutanhire joined the liberation struggle in November 1972 soon after her wedding to a catechist George Rutanhire. Suzan, from Mt Darwin, und...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru only trained for 3 weeks'
A little known Zanla female freedom fighter Francis Komboni Gondo has claimed that Zimbabwe People First interim leader Joyce Mujuru is a half baked war veteran.She said Mujuru only receiv...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Mujuru war claims trashed
Zimbabwe People First leader Dr Joice Mujuru was not in the first group of 74 female recruits who joined the liberation struggle in 1974 and only received basic military training for three weeks u...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Badza-Nhari rebellion: An insider's story
EACH time Noah Mbira whose Chimurenga name was Chemist Ncube sat down to continue his shocking narration during the liberation struggle, he would first demand to be given time to pay respects to the c...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru rose through sleeping with powerful men'
OPPOSITION leader Dr Joice Mujuru was at the periphery of the Second Chimurenga, primarily rising through the ranks via a combination of benevolence and her romantic liaisons, senior struggle stal...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
State media 'unmasks' Joice Mujuru - 'rose through sleeping with powerful men'
This article was originally published by the state media, Sunday Mail. Opposition leader Dr Joice Mujuru was at the periphery of the Second Chimurenga, ...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 08:15hrs | | by Sunday Mail
Mujuru warned against manipulating history
ZimPF leader Dr Joice Mujuru has a lot to be grateful to President Mugabe who transformed her from a nonentity to a respectable political figure in the country's history, Presidential spokesperson Mr ...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:19hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Mujuru told not provoke history
ZimPF leader Dr Joice Mujuru has a lot to be grateful to President Mugabe who transformed her from a nonentity to a respectable political figure in the country's history, Presidential spokesperson Mr ...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Mujuru has a lot to be thankful for to the man she now vilifies
THE article, "Mugabe is ungrateful: Mujuru", ran by NewsDay on Tuesday preposterously seeks to re-invent and re-write history in the vain hope of a hard-to-achieve political gain. Quoting a spokespers...Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by George Charamba Press Secretary to the President
Mbuya Nehanda's chilling Six Commandments
COMRADE Julian Maodza Murenga Mukomawashe, last week said things that have divided many Zimbabweans, regarding Mbuya Nehanda. That debate is still raging.This week, Murenga continues this "str...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Rhodies part of Badza, Nhari rebellion'
ON Independence day, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Guveya Chiwenga was tough talking, and in his interview with The Herald, he collapsed the country's historical, military ...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:48hrs | | by Hildegarde The Arena
Chitepo's last few hours in Zambia
Veteran Zambian politician, Dr Vernon Mwaanga who held different positions in the Zambian government during the days of the liberation struggle last week spoke to Munyaradzi Huni about how Zambia took...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 23:03hrs | | by Munyaradzi Huni
ZANU-PF: In the absence of the big idea
LET me work and play with an observation by a Marxist literary critic, Walter Benjamin, who noted: "All great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one". Elaborating this great observation, th...Published: 14 Nov 2015 at 07:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Man (73) attacked, killed in front of wife
A man from Zaka was hit with an iron bar by unknown assailants and died in the presence of his wife as the two walked back home from a beer drink.Fombo Machele (73) of Machele Village was with...Published: 29 May 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Annual National Sports Awards winners
1. Junior Sports Woman of the YearRebekah Oberholzer - BMX (Gold)Daniella Cara Du Toit - Rowing (Silver)Enrita Ncube - Athletics (Bronze)...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean history that is nothing
THE War of the Axe had ended, serving the Xhosa nation a stunning defeat. And the British treachery had settled that war expectedly through characteristic British deceit.The year was 1847,...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 11:15hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Robert Mugabe's real dilemma
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will soon convene a special Politburo meeting to get to the bottom of the rot that reared its ugly head at the just-ended Zanu-PF Youth League conference at which senior offici...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBC biased against MDCs
THE NATIONAL broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) mandate as a public broadcaster came into question again this month over the gross partisan manner in which it covered activities of Z...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 14:54hrs | | by MMPZ
MDC-T aspiring MP finally released on bail
The MDC-T aspiring legislator for Makoni Central Patrick Sagandira and his campaign manager Lovemore Chifomboti, who have been locked up in remand on public violence charges, for the past two weeks, w...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T official locked up over intra-party violence
THE State media reports that the MDC-T parliamentary candidate for Makoni Central, Patrick Sagandira and two members of his campaign team, who were this week arrested on allegations of public violence...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 04:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Another bus accident claims 4, leaves 13 injured
FOUR people were killed while 13 others were injured when a Toyota Hiace they were travelling and a Lofombo bus side-swiped along Kirkman Road in Harare yesterday morning. The injured were taken to Pa...Published: 21 Apr 2012 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife catches hubby pants down, with niece!
THERE was drama in Cold Comfort last Thursday when a cheating married man clashed with his in-laws over an incestuous relationship he was having with his niece.The 33-year-old man, William Ch...Published: 30 Jan 2012 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chawasarira bus accident victims named
Zimbabwe police have released nine names of the 20 people who died in a horrific crash on Thursday morning at the 59km peg along the Harare – Bulawayo road. The accident occu...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe bus accident, death toll rise to 20
One more person has died from injuries sustained after a Chawasarira bus was involved in a road accident along the Harare-Bulawayo highway on Thursday morning, bringing the death toll to 20.Th...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bus accident leaves 19 people dead
19 people have died in a road accident along the Harare-Bulawayo highway today.The accident occurred this morning when a Chawasarira bus going to Chivi burst its right front tyre and side sw...Published: 25 Aug 2011 at 12:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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