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Hwange's graveyard a tourism hanging fruit!
Rutendo Mapfumo is one of the few scribes who deserve special mention in a Hall of Fame of Zimbabwean journalists because of her doggedness, which leaves latter day fundis salivating with awe in terms...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Burzil Dube
Mnangagwa's dogs comment lands CCC activists in court
SIX Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists appeared in court facing a charge of insulting police officers calling them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni (51), Batsirai S...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, break these chains
ONE of Zanu-PF's defining traits is impunity - accentuated by the party leaders' utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionalism.The primitive arrogance is on display everywhere. Someo...Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Brezh Malaba
The girl at the market
They stood at the edge of the busy market, two complete opposites like night and day, winter and summer. The light-skinned girl was a life-size cut-out from a fashion magazine; smooth caramel skin...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 11:28hrs | 8 | by Jera
Zanu-PF perpetuating poverty
Would you believe that your poverty is being created by your own government? I know it is hard to believe, but here is the story.Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in their 2012 seminal book...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Vivid Gwede
Beyond the rhetoric, what does Mnangagwa offer?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)came to power, I was one of the sceptical ones, as he has been in government since independence and I believed he was as much to blame for the economic, pol...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
MDC Alliance holds Zimbabweans at ransom
In any democracy, every political party or any individual has the right to make checks and balances in as far as the implementation and non-implementation of reforms are concerned. Likewise, t...Published: 21 May 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Bruce Zvandasara
MDC Alliance primary elections: bottled smoke
African politics appears simple, yet it is a delicate balancing act. The most savage part of it is that those involved never tell each other the truth of what they think of each other, but what the ot...Published: 11 May 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Bruce Zvandasara
WATCH: Ammara Brown turns up heat with raunchy video
THE Akiliz video is finally out and Ammara Brown has pulled out all the stops with somewhat raunchy scenes on the music video that has got some fans hot under the collar.https://www.youtube.co...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Karanga people under attack - Zodwa Wabantu rescues Masvingo
Karanga people are clever. Korekore people are uneducated. All Ndebeles want to do is drink, burn meat over fire and dance, if they are not stabbing people. Manyika people learn a few English words an...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 18:38hrs | | by Jera
Grace Mugabe conflating party and State
President Robert Mugabe's spin-doctor - George Charamba - is a British-trained Chevening scholar, who has admirably shaped the president's public image and runs the Munhumutapa Building communications...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill - an unjust Law in the making
"An unjust law is no law at all" this is a quote from Saint Augustine, an early Christian theologian whose writings influenced the development of politics and law. This quote pretty much sums up t...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Msipa
Mystery 'talking' tortoise haunts Nkayi family
A Mpofu family from the Nkayi area of Matabeleland North province was gobsmacked and left wondering what on earth was going on as a tortoise was discovered in their daughters' bedroom, apparently plan...Published: 08 Oct 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gumbo, Mutasa to disregard Mugabe's orders
Zanu-PF stalwarts, who are taking their party to court over its democratic deficiencies, as well as its contested damp squib "elective" congress that was held in Harare last December, will disregard P...Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doomed Didymus
President Robert Mugabe flew back from his long and controversial holiday in the Far East on Thursday afternoon and, sadly, went into a predictable but mindless rant against hapless former Presidentia...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is Chinotimba serious?
EDITOR I refer to the story "Chinotimba invades 300ha farm". And so this is the wise, caring, humorous MP and the one who won some "human rights" award?Truly, I am gobsmacked at this ...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 08:10hrs | | by NM
Zimbabwean banks ignoring social media at their own peril
IN EUROPE and America, right now, bankers are the people everyone wants to hate. These so-called masters of the universe drew the ire of the public as their ‘voodoo' banking practises saw them thro...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 15:06hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
'We gave Mugabe free rein,' say Rugare Gumbo
FORMER Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo, who was expelled from the party just before its recent sixth congress, says he and other senior party officials hounded out of the party are partly to blame f...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official sues local bank for $700 000
FORMER Zanu-PF Harare district coordinating committee chairman Jaison Passade has filed a $700 000 lawsuit against a local bank, First Banking Corporation (FBC), accusing the financial institution of ...Published: 18 Apr 2013 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bank teller jailed for theft, collapses after sentencing
A FORMER chief teller with the First Banking Corporation (FBC) was slapped with a five-year jail term last Friday for defrauding Zimpapers of over $30 000 in a well-organised scam dating back to Sep...Published: 20 Mar 2013 at 07:13hrs | | by Court reporter
UK couple arrested for bonking in public
A couple in one of UK's beaches was caught having sex on a beach in broad daylight in front of gobsmacked parents and children, the UK Mirror reported.Disgusted Simon Cummins and his mates we...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Exposing the truth and the fear of the Mugabe era
Peter Godwin exposes the truth and the fear of the Mugabe eraIn mid-2008, after nearly three decades of increasingly tyra...Published: 13 Mar 2011 at 16:44hrs | 2 | by Robbie Stammers
Chancers
Hugo’s heart was pumping and he knew that his life depended on what he did in the next few minutes. He had never been as frightened in his life and...Published: 25 Dec 2010 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Janine Dube
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