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Mnangagwa donates 1 000 goats to schools
First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa last week donated 1 000 goats to kick-start a massive goat-rearing project for schools and children's homes in the province.The project was unveiled at Helen McGh...Published: 3 hrs ago | 722 | by Staff reporter
Jailed Tsikamutanda moos like a cow
IN a suspected case of juju use, a jailed Tsikamutanda moos like a cow which disturbs other inmates at Harare Central Prison. Lukas Sakala, 45, of Alaska Mine in Chinhoyi, who was sentenced to...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 15:14hrs | 8201 | by Staff reporter
The ED administration has made significant strides
Last week the opposition and other anti-Government detractors were excited by the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of States for Africa, Matthew Harrington's submission on Zimbabwe to the US S...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | 1477 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Cont Mhlanga enjoys village life
After achieving so much in the arts and having founded Amakhosi Cultural Centre, multi-award winner Cont Mhlanga has retired to his rural home of Lupane in Shabulani Village, Matabeleland.Over...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:07hrs | 2206 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Conference: What is at stake?
Next week, the ruling Zanu-PF party holds its 17th Annual People's Conference at Mzingwane High School in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province. This year's conference comes a year after last...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:23hrs | 209 | by Tichaona Zindoga
From God, to Sheperd E.D Mnangagwa, about Orphans in Diaspora
34 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Wo...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 19:45hrs | 1478 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Teenager caught pants down with goat
A MARONDERA teenager, who was allegedly caught pants down with a neighbour's goat, yesterday appeared before a local magistrate, Sharon Mashavire, facing a bestiality charge.Tawanda Rangwani (...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:13hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches goat project
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday launched a goat rearing project in Masvingo province and donated 1 000 goats to orphanages to kick-start the project in a move aimed at economically empowering t...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:09hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's statements haunt him
Exiled former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo was forced to explain what he meant when he said, 'Harare is not Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe is not Harare in 2002'.This was after he posted tweets ...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 08:06hrs | 4870 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fear as 40 000 couples re-marry in the sacred of month of November
Fear has gripped some sections of the Zimbabwean community after reports that Forty thousand couples from over 200 countries will rededicate their marriages in Harare on Wednesday in a huge ceremony t...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 09:19hrs | 5190 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shiri explains CSC $130m deal
LANDS, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Development Minister, Retired Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, yesterday opened up on the $130 million Cold Storage Company (CSC) joint venture recapitalisation...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
ZOU Vice Chancellor in court over $180k goat scandal
The Zimbabwe Open University Vice Chancellor Professor Alfred Champion Ncube and Finance Director Mr Garainesu Shoko appeared at the Harare Magistrates court on 15 November 2018 over a charge invo...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 11:44hrs | 4727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 768 | by Brian Maregedze
Letter to Mnangagwa from a white Zimbabwean
We have quickly come to realise that Operation Restore Legacy meant Zanu PF perpetuating it is stay in power. It is nothing to do with Zimbabwe at all. A white Zimbabwean woman Nanette Allmark...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 16:37hrs | 25208 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zinara bosses off the hook
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)'s bid to revive corruption charges against five Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) bosses yesterday hit a snag after the Supreme Court threw out t...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the politics of paranoia
Yours truly was one of the vociferous critics of a proposition proffered by some Zanu-PF legislators on the need to have a 55 year- threshold for a presidential hopeful.The events of Saturday,...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 13:20hrs | 1540 | by Tafara Shumba
Zanu-PF regalia a disgrace, party youths tell Matutu
Few weeks after President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed a politburo meeting and ordered Zanu-PF bigwigs stationed at Shake-Shake building to always put on party regalia, national vice youth chairperson...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:12hrs | 3187 | by Staff reporter
'ED stepping up fight against graft' Mangwana praised - praise as contrived as fight itself
Nick Mangwana has worked hard as a Zanu-PF apologist and was recently rewarded with the appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Media, Publicity and Broadcasting Services. The post was h...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | 271 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Do not strip our forests
Commercialization of wild fruits has left creatures of the wild with no food. Attendant to this 'tragedy' is the wanton cutting down of trees that is destroying the natural habitat of animals and bird...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:17hrs | 67 | by Tondo Murisa.
Top DJ goes broke?
Top Bulawayo wheel spinner DJ Liz (real name Sharmaine Waldman) has allegedly gone broke and resorted to selling isitshwala as a means of alternative survival.In a video posted by social...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:07hrs | 4026 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Motlanthe commission report could be Mnangagwa's test
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa counts down to his maiden first citizen anniversary, as I see it, the probable outcome of the commission of enquiry into the August 1 brisk shooting of civilians in Har...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 2378 | by Cyprian Ndawana
The Zimbabwe Kakistocracy
A Kakistocracy is a government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power (Oxford Dictionary). This has been the case since 1980 when Zanu pf took over, a year ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 13:26hrs | 1030 | by AT Kadada
Sanctions a convenient scapegoat for Zimbabwe’s political elite
One of the issues that has dominated the Zimbabwe political landscape for a while is the matter of sanctions, with campaigners for their removal saying they are holding back Zimbabwe, but I argue this...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 17:48hrs | 627 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Tsikamutanda kills two over lobola
A TSIKAMUTANDA grisly murdered his lover's brother and mother after being duped in love.Lovemore Majaradha, 42, who is polygamist and serving a life sentence at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, said ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:28hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Dembare suspend Lloyd Mutasa sympathisers
DYNAMOS have suspended four of their key players in the relegation fight for reportedly sympathising with former coach Lloyd Mutasa which led to the team's exit from the Chibuku Super Cup on Sunday....Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:27hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zimbabweans, 'Don't panic'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has urged depositors not to panic over the value of their Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances and bond notes as there is no change in policy to warrant offloading them. ...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:14hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Woman hits hubby's second wife with a brick
A 26- YEAR- OLD unemployed Guruve woman appeared before a Guruve magistrate on Friday for assaulting her husband's second wife with a brick on the head in a jealousy affair.Shupikai Jack...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 14:09hrs | 1183 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa expose government's lack of appreciation of Zimbabwe's problems
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that social media is to blame for the current economic meltdown has exposed the government's lack of appreciation of Zimbabwe's problems that now require decisive ...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:10hrs | 566 | by Editorial - The Standard
Mthuli Ncube on a trajectory of vendettas?
We received this article from a senior banker at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, supporting his colleagues who are facing corruption allegations. We are withholding his...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 07:58hrs | 10062 | by The Banker
Tendai Biti always has something to say
The Daily News on Sunday's Pauline Hurungudo sits down for a wide-ranging interview with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy national chairperson for the MDC, about the state o...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:19hrs | 1443 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer dies in accident
A ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services officer stationed in Kezi in Matabeleland South, died on the spot while the driver of a pirate Honda Fit sustained serious injuries in a car crash that occ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:42hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
'ED has done nothing wrong' argues Mahiya - he rigged the elections and not for first time but will be last time
"Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association spokesperson Douglas Mahiya yesterday accused the MDC of "conniving" with former colonisers and global capitalists to cause chaos in the country...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 13:58hrs | 6875 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mangudya borrowing to buy food to stem 'panic-buying' - loans are drying up, then what! PANIC!
I gave President Mnangagwa full marks for successfully rebranding Zanu PF as the "new democratic dispensation" and the country as being open for business. He had me and millions of others out there fo...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 17:30hrs | 2360 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chamisa now ready to engage Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, who had threatened to make the country ungovernable if cheated out victory, has indicated that he is ready for talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa despite rej...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 06:07hrs | 22286 | by Staff reporter
Overhaul social security
I GOT a phone call from a man in Bulawayo who said he wanted to see me on a personal matter. We arranged to meet and he told me that he had worked for a major and well-known company for 40 years. The ...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:47hrs | 267 | by Eddie Cross
Lloyd Mutasa speaks out
FIRED Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa says he is not bitter at being shown the exit door, but feels that the club might have made a huge mistake by sacking him as the move might prove costly to the team....Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:45hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Be wary of the ways of the crocodile, Cdes!
MANY of you appear to be convinced about this nonsense that I am now warming up to my tormentors. Do I look like the type of person who flip-flops on matters of principle? I will never compromise on w...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 20:34hrs | 1831 | by CZ
Hyena snatches, kills boy (6)
TERROR has engulfed Buhera after an aggressive hyena snatched a six-year-old boy from his parents' doorstep, viciously killed him and dropped off his mutilated skeleton in a nearby riverbed in the mid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
Rustlers wreak havoc in Beitbridge
VILLAGERS from Mapayi and Dumba areas on the outskirts of Beitbridge have this year lost 39 cattle and 150 goats to cross-border livestock rustlers who are believed to be slaughtering and selling carc...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:18hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Letter to Nelson 'Mischief' Chamisa
Dear Mr Chamisa First, greetings from the cotton tuft-haired elders in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve. Admittedly, this is the first time that the council of Karitundundu, the agel...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | 3333 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | 3126 | by Igomombe
No one has a monopoly on use of 'president' in Zimbabwe
MDC Alliance official Discent Collins Bajila has said there is no one who has a monopoly on use of the term "President" in Zimbabwe after some Zanu PF members seemed to be angry and threatening when M...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 09:29hrs | 3356 | by Stephen Jakes
Dirty City Mayor lifts lid on cholera
NEW Harare mayor, Herbert Gomba says the central government and Zanu PF should take responsibility for the cholera outbreak which has so far claimed the lives of 21 people, alleging that a caretaker c...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Khupe takes sides with Zanu-PF
THE Senator representing people with disabilities, Watson Khupe, has aligned himself to Zanu-PF party, in a move which might benefit the ruling party, which does not have a two-thirds majority in the ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Make kombi travel a pleasure
Travelling on kombis can be a nightmare or utter intrigue depending on the day, crew or particular trip. Some of the conductor and driver teams can be quite good and polite guys who even greet and cha...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 21:22hrs | 1078 | by Tondo Murisa.
Legitimacy comes from the people, Cdes!
OUR doubts about the efficacy of our hopeless legal system have now been proved beyond any reasonable doubt. After that charade of an election court hearing, it is little wonder this country is in the...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 15:56hrs | 1679 | by CZ
Open Letter to Makandiwa and Mahiya
It came not as surprise to Zimbabweans to hear the words of Makandiwa denouncing USA concerning sanctions to Zimbabwe. Your prophesies are fake. Remember you were to vocal in support of introd...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 09:01hrs | 6636 | by Isaac Nkomah
Elderly woman burnt by veld fires
A 64-YEAR-OLD Chikomba woman is battling for life at Chivhu General Hospital after she was recently burnt by a veld fire.The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) in Mashonaland East province ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF promises fake, claims MDC Alliance partner
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary-general Japhet Moyo has challenged the ruling Zanu PF government to honour its pre-election promises, which he described as "fake"."Towards t...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1231 | by Stff reporter
Kembo Mohadi's life at risk
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Campbell Mohadi has sensationally claimed that he now feared for his life following an acrimonious fallout with his official wife, Tambudzani Bhugadi Mohadi (nee Muleya), whom he ...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:23hrs | 8445 | by Staff reporter
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