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MMA star shreds Mnangagwa, blames 'scarf' for 28 seconds defeat
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Themba "The Answer" Gorimbo has openly criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing his administration of corruption and oppressive governance. Gorimbo's outspoke...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:07hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Oppenheimer, Soros exerting undue influence to prevent Hlophe's ascension
In a contentious development, a coalition of civil society movements has raised objections regarding the appointment of Judge John Hlophe to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).The issue has...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:18hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera documentary on Zimbabwe's gold mafia won't change anything
THE whole hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash.The country‘s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearl...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:51hrs | 3 | by Chris Mutsvangwa
The whole gold hullabaloo about Zimbabwe illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash
The whole gold hullabaloo about illicit gold is plain codswallop and balderdash. The country‘s detractors coalesced around George Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africa are clearly ...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:33hrs | 6 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
Matabeleland does not need leaders from Mashonaland, we have our own
"The buzz word "change" in Zimbabwe has generated hope and excitement that will deliver gloom and doom only to be felt and experienced after the elections. Removing Zanupf and E.D Mnangagwa is not Cha...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Israel Dube
'Dont re-ignite gukurahundi', Mnangagwa threatens Matabeles with second genocide
"As we give space to our traditional leaders to lead processes of reconciliation and repair, we should guard against those negative elements which aim to re-ignite frozen differences to throw us back ...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 09:48hrs | 13 | by Israel Dube
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 | 6 | by Israel Dube
Faith is for low level Christians, to know God is the Apex
No one has ever seen oxygen, and yet, every second, we all breathe in oxygen. A very basic learner, needs to have Faith, as transition to know that oxygen exists. A lower than basic person, does not e...Published: 04 May 2019 at 23:44hrs | 17 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mutodi blasts UK over 'double standards'
Deputy Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Energy Mutodi has accused the Western countries of having double standards when approaching the recent reports of state crackdown on cit...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 12:57hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sessel Zvidzai's garden boy now Gweru Ward 3 councillor
In a notable tale of grace to grass, former MDC-T Gweru Urban MP and senior official in the MDC Alliance, Sessel Zvidzai's gardener is now City of Gweru Ward 3 councillor.Doubt Ncube, who is 3...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF poised for landslide election victory
Zimbabwe's political parties are now campaigning vigorously ahead of the harmonised elections slated for July 30 with the two main political parties – Zanu-PF and the MDC Alliance –promising to me...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Dirty prophets abuse God's name
The abuse of God's name and the bible by dirty politicians and fake pastors as available tools to brainwash, mislead, deceive and conquer is an out dated tactic. White colonisers came to Africa holdin...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
How am I making the life of my Mthwakazi brother better
I appreciate the reality of Shona hegemony, however it does not justify the levels of hatred that we exhibit here. Secondly, none here has been able to convincingly articulate the direction of a Shona...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by unknown
No substitute for quality, says Mnangagwa
Addressing senior officials of the Communist Party of China in Beijing last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said of Zanu-PF: "In my party we say if someone makes a slogan, we give him a post. That ...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Zuma is like South Africa's Mugabe'
Pretoria – If President Jacob Zuma is not recalled by Sunday evening, a group claiming to comprise ANC and SACP members vowed they would take to the streets and march to the Union Buildings in Preto...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 12:48hrs | | by news24
Zanu-PF planning for Mugabe rallies for University students
Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) says it is ready to meet President Robert Mugabe as announced by the Zanu PF youth league that they are planning for students interface rallies at universitie...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC tent burning
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's latest presidential bid could run into serious trouble as he battles to steady the ship rocked by internal party strife.This comes as the MDC leader is at logger...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'PSL has vendetta against Highlanders'
Ndumiso Gumede might be enjoying his retirement but he is still in touch with events in local football, neither has he lost interest in the sport that gave him fame.The former Highlanders chie...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stateless Matebeles to be affected by ant-immigration policies in the world
After failing to get jobs in the Zimbabwe labour market where people are employed on the basis of their tribe, Matebeles would quietly sneak into South Africa, Botswana or any other country in the wor...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
'Bantu Education' Imposed In Matabeleland schools
Explaining his evil and controversial Buntu Education Policy, architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoed said, "there is no place for Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of l...Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
Brig Muchemwa recounts horror at Chimoio
BORN in Mhondoro, Ngezi in 1945 in a family of four girls and three boys, the late national hero Retired Brigadier General Felix Muchemwa started his education at Nehanda Primary School, then went to ...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 12:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Dear Lenox, I read your article "Where have the good maids gone?" on Bulawayo 24 7th May 2016 with great excitement because the plight of maids in Zimba...Published: 08 May 2016 at 19:29hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Where have all the good maids gone?
At face value, the title of this week's piece can be misleading. The males would think I am making reference to beauty and other anatomical attributes, sadly, no. Read on in order to keep your male ho...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:17hrs | | by Lenox Lizwi Mhlanga
Coltart: (Hi)story and our story as Africans
As I sit down to write this piece, it is February 18, 1978, and David Coltart has just taken off for South Africa, to start his university studies at UCT, the University of Cape Town. He leaves behind...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mbudziyadhura bounces back
Popular comedian Blessing Chimhowa popularly known as Mbudziyadhura for his role in the "Gringo" series has bounced back with a number of skits on social media platforms.Chimhowa hogged the li...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Sophia Chese
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 45 | by Nomazulu Thata
Man sodomises employer's grade 3 son
A MAN from Inyathi was hauled before the courts for allegedly sodomising his employer's Grade Three son. The 20-year-old was employed as a gardener at the victim's house in Goodwood Village sometime i...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Gapare
Open letter to EFF and its commander in chief Comrade Julius Malema
Dear Malema and EFFDaughters and Sons of African soil, comrades in the struggle for Economic Freedom, representatives of the poor, the unemployed, miners, garden boys and domestic worker...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 06:09hrs | 3 | by Innocent Ndibali
Chiyangwa launches bid for ZIFA presidency
HARARE businessman Philip Chiyangwa has formally launched his bid for the ZIFA presidency, promising to bring light to a game that has been staggering in the darkness for years, restoring transparency...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 09:16hrs | 4 | by Robson Sharuko
Empower the girl first before she gets married Pt 2
Taken from eBook "Sweetmother"I changed to another dress and it was a sign that we had to prepare to leave for Dombwe where my new husband lived....Published: 08 Jun 2015 at 13:06hrs | 15 | by Nomazulu Thata
This n that with Maluphosa - The Xeno at the Hospital
Last Thursday night I was at Johannesburg Hospital with a friend when a couple with an obviously ill baby arrived in an ambulance. They were in obvious panic as the baby fitted and groaned continuousl...Published: 25 May 2015 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Domestic work in Zimbabwe means modern slavery of the 21st Century
Case study: Sibusisiwe Dlodlo I was born in Bulilimangwe in 1955. I managed to pass standard six well with division two. I did not have the money to...Published: 02 May 2015 at 19:12hrs | 24 | by Nomazulu Thata
In the name of Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai
The name of Dr. Morgan Tsvangirai is the game changer in the Zimbabwean social, economic, political, academic and religious circles. The son of a peasant whose meteoritic rise to prominence is unrival...Published: 18 Dec 2014 at 16:33hrs | | by Dr. Wangu Mazodze
Garden boy scalds tenant with porridge
A BULAWAYO woman suffered serious burns after her landlord's garden boy scalded her with porridge following a misunderstanding over the use of a fireplace, a magistrate heard.Magistrate Chari...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 07:16hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
'Rhodesian garden boys were better than Zim workers of today'
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the standard of living for the majority of workers in the country has fallen below that of people who worked as "garden boys" and housemaids for the w...Published: 10 Aug 2014 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Garden boy impregnates employer's teenage daughter
A PLUMTREE domestic worker dated his employer's 15-year-old daughter for a year and impregnated her right under his boss's nose.The juvenile's mother, Eunice Zibani who teaches at a local scho...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 08:48hrs | 8 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
'Have sex with a 'pure' girl to exorcise evil spirits'
A RAPIST claimed a prophet instructed him to have sex with a "pure" girl to exorcise evil spirits.Bongani Ndlovu, 29, a garden boy in Bulawayo's Montrose suburb, appeared in court accused of r...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:28hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Granny assists 'garden boy' to rape niece (13)
AN elderly woman in Nyanga was last week arrested after she allegedly assisted her domestic worker to assault and rape her 13-year-old niece.Ever Kunyarimwe allegedly held the juvenile's legs ...Published: 17 Feb 2013 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Garden boy' (74) set to get ID, grant
AN ELDERLY man who was removed from appalling conditions on a South African farm in the North West will be given an identity document and receive a pension grant in the next two weeks.The old ...Published: 22 May 2012 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
This and that with Maluphosa - Please, stay put!
A chirpy Sqhezema came to the workshop last Sunday, excited and fidgety like a calf thirsting for its mother's milk. He announced that he had discovered what had taken Mqabuko Nkomo from us. He said i...Published: 06 May 2012 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Malema quotes on suspension: 5 years is better than 27 years in prison
The African National Congress disciplinary committee ruled last week against Julius Malema, 30, for questioning President Jacob Zuma's leadership and support for the government of neighbouring Botswan...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 10:56hrs | | by -
Garden boy posing as gynae 'examines' women
A gardener has been charged with rape after he apparently pretended to be a gynaecologist and "examined" two heavily-pregnant women.The 30-year-old man from Jagersfontein went to the Diamant H...Published: 29 Sep 2011 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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