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South Africa's celebrity snake handler dies of snake bite
One month after he was placed in an induced coma following a snake bite, South African YouTuber, Graham 'Dingo' Dinkelman, has passed away.In a statement, 44-year-old Dinkelman's wife Kirsty D...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 09:24hrs | 3231 | by TimesLive
Duo nabbed for possession of giraffe meat
Two individuals from Dete in Matabeleland North province have been apprehended for violating the Parks and Wildlife Act after being discovered with giraffe meat.Thulani Dube (28) and Smart Ban...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:38hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Hunting benefits truths can collapse Anti-hunting Animal Rights Groups
The recent 'flooding' of the media and British House Lords with the truths about international hunting benefits not only caused a rethink on the UK trophy hunting imports ban Bill but can also eventua...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:13hrs | | by Emmanuel Koro
'UK Bill torments Zimbabwe'
BOLD moves by the British Parliament to enact legislation shutting African wildlife trophies out of that market have shaken Zimbabwean authorities, as fears mount that the country's major tourism plan...Published: 21 Apr 2023 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Nkulumane Complex: A sleeping giant
The Nkulumane Mall is named after Nkulumane who was King Mzilikazi's son. Nkulumane was born in Mhlahlandlela, near modern-day Pretoria in South Africa. Nkulumane was named after Kuruman, where Dr. Ro...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 10:18hrs | 220 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
This & that with Mal'phosa: When the honeymoon is over
I was in a train the other day, which happened to be stationary for over an hour because of load shedding. Most of the passengers look restless; some were shouting their lungs out; others were mummeri...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Bulawayo Game Sanctuary gets new furry resident
Tshabalala Game Sanctuary on the outskirts of Bulawayo has a new tenant; a three-year-old male lion that was released yesterday to the facility from Hwange National Park.Still nameless, the li...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe airport security screener 'stole US$2 million'
It was the perfect crime. Almost.Roselyn Dunga, a 31-year-old woman working as a security screener at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport was close to the end of her shift sometime...Published: 07 May 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black Americans and black Africans relations
THE relationship between black Americans and black Africans has been a subject of interest for social scientists and writers for a long time.Some black Africans, especially students who go to ...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome
Pastor, colleague nabbed over US$2m theft
A HARARE pastor and colleague have been arrested for alleged money laundering involving over US$2,2 million which they had splurged on houses and vehicles.Edmore Chipiso (33), a pastor at Hatc...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:41hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's upper-middle income economy plans in disarray
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his administration will be able to push to fulfil its long-term plan of transforming Zimbabwe into an upper-middle income economy in line with Vision 2030 if the illegal e...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Giraffe poacher nabbed
A suspected giraffe poacher Remember Mereki (32) was arrested in Bindura on Wednesday after he was caught by security guards at a farm trying to kill a giraffe.The two security guards Takudzwa...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 18:39hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Victoria Falls experience charms American executives
VICTORIA Falls is a must-visit basket of attraction and leisure. That is how 10 American executives summed up their three days and two nights at one of the worlds' prime tourist resorts. They came, th...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
'It is sink or swim time for the MDC'
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, says the opposition will receive a heavy electoral shellacking in 2023, unless it changes tack quickly and ditches confrontational politics.In addition, the MDC bo...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fear paralyses Zimbabwe opposition
OPPOSITION big shots say their fight for a better Zimbabwe for all is being slowed down by fear, as authorities continue to crack down on people who stand accused of breaching the country's laws. ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SADC silence on trade in wildlife embarrassing
Why does it take people in power seemingly forever to accomplish something good for the people they serve and the wildlife they look after? Are our leaders so concerned with taking care of the...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 14 | by Emmanuel Koro
Speeding 40-tonne mine truck kills 2 elephants
Concern has been raised after a speeding 40-tonne coal mining dump truck belonging to Zambezi Gas and Coal Mine hit and killed two jumbos last Tuesday night.The accident happened near Sinamate...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe elephants, giraffes join 'Jerusalema' Challenge
ANIMALS are the latest to join in on the human fun that is the Jerusalema dance challenge.In a viral video, elephants and giraffes from the Wild Is Life Trust's Zimbabwe Elephant Nursery (ZEN)...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When losers seek to overthrow winners
Quite burdensome are the times we are living in, and one hopes to wake up from this nightmarish existence wiser. What with all this talk about overthrowing a constitutionally elected Government or coe...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Elliot Ziwira
Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism
One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Of prophets-cum-political activists
A few senior Government officials have taken ill over the past few months, which in itself is not an unusual event. What is unusual is the birthing of a new menace in Zimbabwe which this writer opts t...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 11:46hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
Zimbabwe to receive gorillas from DRC
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is soon expected to take delivery of okapi and gorilla breeds in a wildlife exchange programme with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Paul Siwela: Lion King that is about to roar
The Lion is not called "Lion King" for no reason. Paul Siwela is the Lion King that is about to roar and when he does (roar) all other animals in the political jungle will go to hiding.In the ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Israel Dube
Gukurahundi has lost value as a political currency
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Whither ZAPU: The morning after
Now that the 2018 plebiscite has emphatically placed my party ZAPU in its rightful political space, it is time for members to sober up to reality. Let me begin by congratulating all those who stood in...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Mso Ndlovu
Maasai Boy Behind Invention of Lion Lights
Tough times are like physical exercise .You may not like it while you are doing it but tomorrow you'll be stronger because of it. Difficult doesn't mean impossible. It simply means you need to work ha...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 18:20hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Chamisa the person enriching Chamisa the moment
It all began two years ago when MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai appointed a then 38-year-old Nelson Chamisa as one of his two additional vice presidents following his diagnosis with cancer of the co...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Millennium Footwear records uptick in local demand
ONE of the country's leading exotic leather shoe manufacturer, Millennium Footwear, has pushed up capacity utilisation to over 40% due to increase in local demand, the company's director, Stuart Simal...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, back from the brink
Three weeks ago a young elephant wound her trunk around my arm and began – politely, elegantly, insistently – to pull my hand into her mouth and suck the salt sweat off my fingers. It was the happ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Katherine Rundell
Signs of a collapsed economy vivid in Zimbabwe, says Nkosana Moyo
The 2018 presidential aspirant Dr Nkosana Moyo has said the signs of a collapsed economic situation in Zimbabwe are so vividly that people have to wish for a better government to save their lives....Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Kembo Mohadi's brother terrorises farmer
MANANJE Conservancy in Beitbridge is under siege yet again as the fight to take over the wildlife sanctuary from Ian Ferguson intensifies.The picturesque Mananje Conservancy on Denlynian Farm,...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Avoid speaking against each other,' says Mugabe
Below is President Mugabe's full address at the Mashonaland West Presidential Youth Interface Rally in Chinhoyi yesterday. Ndinoda kuvamba nekukutendayi, kukutendesesayi, nokundimuka kwamaita ...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to translocate 2 000 wild animals to Mozambique
Zimbabwe has approved the translocation of 2 000 wild animals from Save Valley Conservancy in the Lowveld to a park in Mozambique as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen co-operation in the Great Lim...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Let's unlock potential in our African youth
My heart is bleeding for betterment of an African Youth. Who can identify the potential in our youth in Africa ? Its our duty as an African family to develop our youth into better people. I am moved w...Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Govt should stop seeing diaspora merely as cash cow and start investing in real relationship
I've just read a news article which reported Small and Medium Enterprises Minister, Sithembiso Nyoni, as having said that the government has dispatched a delegation to Nepal to study how ‘to organis...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 11:42hrs | | by Chofamba Sithole
Timbavati Reserve plan to hunt a super tusker may be a bridge to far
Private game reserves with open fences to Kruger Park have applied for permission to shoot 34 elephants, among them an iconic trophy bull, as well as 5 444 other animals, including rhinos, lions, leop...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock, Environmental journalist
Ambush at Lesoma, 35 BDF soldiers, 3 Zipra combatants ambushed
In the evening of 27th February 1978, a detachment of 35 BDF soldiers, 2 teenagers from Lesoma village and 2 or 3 ZIPRA combatants were ambushed by Smith's Rhodesian Soldiers at Lesoma sand ridge. 15 ...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Boletilemang Gabokgatlhe
Kenyans invade 44,000 acre farm
There's a standoff at Suyian Ranch.For the past week traditional herdsmen have invaded the land, burned down the tourist lodge and brought in thousands of cattle to steal pasture.Now p...Published: 04 Feb 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwe's white farmers once helped feed Africa
Martin Fletcher is former foreign editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent. Follow him at @mfletchertimes. His assignment in Zimbabwe was financed by the Pulit...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Martin Fletcher
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Unmissable Things to do in South Africa
South Africa is a favorite for holidaymakers who enjoy a varied itinerary full of adventure and culture. There is safari where big game can be seen, beaches, vineyards, dry deserts and of course the f...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 13:31hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Hope, fear over bond notes
Ordinary Zimbabweans have expressed a mixture of both hope and fear over today's introduction of bond notes into the market by under pressure authorities who hope that the surrogate currency will ease...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond notes finally out
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is expected to introduce bond notes onto the market today with the majority of people expressing optimism that the new measure will be the panacea to cash shortages afflic...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warrior's song an ugly beauty
There is something beautiful about the song by Charles Mabika and superstar Jah Prayzah for Afcon next year. Then there is something bad and ugly as well.It is probably in order to explore eve...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 17:07hrs | 1 | by Robert Mukondiwa
Cde Jonah is an exemplary leader
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I notice with great dismay that even some among you, who are supposed to know better, are joining our ignorant detractors in baying for Cde Jonah's ...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 12:37hrs | | by CZ
Disjointed protests useless and only hurt innocent citizens
Some 20 000 years ago, there lived the oldest tribe in the Southern Africa, referred to as the San. The most intriguing thing about the San was their hunting methods. They used bow and arrow...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 01:09hrs | | by Garikai Mafirakureva
Botswana shoots stray Zimbabwean cattle
BOTSWANA authorities have started shooting Zimbabwean cattle that stray into its borders to guard its herd against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) as it kowtows to the European Union (EU) beef export req...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 13:06hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
Tanga Wekwa Sando is still here
"IT has been a fascinating journey and I would just like to thank God that I have enjoyed many great moments throughout my career."These were the words of Tanga Wekwa Sando as he commented on a musica...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Andrew Moyo
Zimbabwe commemorates 36th Heroes Day
ZIMBABWE tomorrow commemorates the 36th Heroes Day with provinces saying it's all systems go as they are making final preparations for the big day.The country marks Heroes Day every year in Au...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff Reporters
Heroes' Day preps on course
PREPARATIONS for the Bulawayo provincial 2016 Heroes' Day commemorations are at an advanced stage, with the provincial mobilisation committee urging people in the city to honour the country's heroes....Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
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