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Characteristics of good presidential candidates for Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
EVERY five years, Zimbabweans go to the polls in general elections - including the presidential race - to elect their representatives at various levels of government.However, the most high-pro...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bungles own poll
Zanu-PF has failed to run clean primary elections in its own backyard amid vote rigging complaints by some losing candidates coupled with claims of intimidation among rival groups.Long accused...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are Zimbabweans the easiest people to oppress?
Zimbabweans never cease to amaze! I was watching a local news bulletin, when there came a report, whereby villagers in Chingwaru, Murewa North, were celebrating and praising the ruling ZANU PF...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:08hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will it take one or two more generations for Zimbabwe to finally be free?
The past few days have been quite encouraging for me – and, they have ignited in me a flicker of hope for the country that I love so much…Zimbabwe....Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 07:32hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bosso resume training
COULD there be a cold war at Bosso? Perhaps not, judging from the shift that players put in at yesterday's training session amid rumours of player unrest at the club. From the outside, it woul...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Exam disruptions feared as teachers renew pay grumble, call strikes
Disgruntlement is growing among teachers after one union declared a 12-day strike, and a second said its members would not be invigilating final year examinations for Grade 7, Form 4 and Upper Sixth....Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's bus shortage is making commuters miserable
Masimba Gwazho waits in a line at a bus terminus in Harare's central business district."I have been in this queue for close to an hour," the 39-year-old bricklayer told Al Jazeera.More...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Workers must be treated fairly, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, under siege from a restive government workforce constantly demanding increased and US dollar wages, has made a surprise appeal to Zimbabwean employers to treat their work...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tramples on constitution over Malaba
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba is back on track after a temporary derailment of a controversial extension of his tenure linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 re-election bid.This comes afte...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rats cannot think beyond peanuts
AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a gen...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Shebeen queen beats up hubby
A BULAWAYO man is living a "hellish" life at the hands of his abusive wife who is said to be a shebeen queen and allegedly takes pleasure in beating him up.Raphael Dube from Mzilikazi claimed ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Vengere's bumpy surface unsettles Highlanders
THE last time Highlanders visited Vengere Stadium in Rusape, they left a disappointed lot. They complained about almost everything.They were disappointed with the way the match officials had h...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omar al-Bashir flees to Zimbabwe?
A PRIVATE jet hired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa from Dubai made a curious stop in Khartoum on Tuesday, raising speculation that Sudan's former leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir or his family could have...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF grabs cyclone aid
THERE are fears that relief aid meant for cyclone victims is being "looted" after eight branded Zanu-PF vehicles yesterday drove off with foodstuffs from Silver Stream distribution centre in Chimanima...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ncube, Shiri summoned over tobacco auction ruckus
PARLIAMENT has summoned Finance and Agriculture ministers to come and clear the air on why government has gone back on promises to pay tobacco farmers 50% of their earnings in United States dollars....Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:03hrs | | by newzimbabwe.com
When seers failed to see the Ides of March
Bishop Lazi always tells his followers that as a people, we have been involved in a brutal rat race for the past two decades as we struggled for survival in choppy economic conditions.But the ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:24hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
MDC Congress countdown: Chamisa out of his depth
The MDC Alliance elective congress has been pencilled for 24 to 26 May after many months of wishing it away to buy time on the part of that party's leader, Nelson Chamisa.Since seizing the lea...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 13:58hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Obert Mpofu praises Mthuli Ncube
THE Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration, Dr Obert Mpofu, has praised the 2019 National Budget announced by Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week, saying it raises...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
CONFUSION: Zanu-PF draws fresh list of candidates
Zanu-PF Matabeleland South Provincial Co-Coordinating Committee (PCC) has drafted its final list of candidates for the 2018 harmonised elections after unanimously rejecting a document from the nationa...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-bodyguard bares all on Nikita Mangena
THE late Zipra commander, Rogers Alfred Nikita Mangena, was recently honoured by the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa by naming a cantonment area which houses Zimbabwe National Defence Unive...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
24-hour police patrols introduced
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga said the recently launched Harare Province Patrol Unit was aimed at preventing and reducing crime in and around the city, and warned officers deployed to per...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T senator grumbles over political discrimination in parastatals
MDC-T senator for Bulawayo Gedion Shoko has grumbled that there was serious political discrimination in parastatals as he experienced its during his time at National Railways of Zimbabwe.He sa...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Power hungry MDC-T activists should have waited until after Tsvangirai burial
MDC-T supporters have criticised Nelson Chamisa and his cabal for rushing to appoint him as Acting President just soon after the party leader Morgan Tsvangirai died and was yet to be buried saying he ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 08:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mudenda grumbles for money
The Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday expressed displeasure at the budget vote for Parliament and the Ministry of Health and Child Care describing them as paltry and im...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
How, ONLY Dabengwa, would afford Mnangagwa efficient Presidency?
Since the beginning of his meaningful post as Mugabe's right-hand man in 1976, President Mnangagwa has made many errors. The biggest error which can quickly be pointed out as much as it cannot be hidd...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
#Zimbabwe junior military ranks grumble about unfinished mission
THE New look Zanu-PF and War Veterans proceeding with a process to impeach beleaguered President Robert Mugabe".According to NewsDay, a Zanu-PF MP who spoke on condition of anonymity said that...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 14:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is every dictator and tyrant's paradise
I can just imagine a gathering of all the dictators and tyrants who have ever lived on this earth, and they are asked which country would be the easiest to rule over - I bet most of them would choose ...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans' passiveness a huge enticement for dictators
As I was watching a news report on the protests by Kenyans who felt cheated in the recently held elections, won by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta, I could not help but be bewildered by Zimbabweans' ap...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 12:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Tsvangirai forms coalition, shuts the door on Mujuru
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai flaunted his dictatorial tendencies once again and unilaterally decided to form a coalition with four minor opposition parties, shutting the door on Dr Joice Mujuru's...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T whines again
The Shona adage, shiri ine muririre wayo haiuregeri best describes the MDC-T when it comes to elections, as the party seizes any opportunity to grumble over the possibility of losing an election to ri...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 11:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T whines again
The Shona adage, shiri ine muririre wayo haiuregeri best describes the MDC-T when it comes to elections, as the party seizes any opportunity to grumble over the possibility of losing an election to ri...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 10:06hrs | | by Daphine Zulu
Fikile Mbalula sparks diplomatic spat between Zimbabwe and South Africa
THE Government has engaged South Africa over remarks by its Police Minister Fikile Mbalula alleging that the Zimbabwean ex-soldiers were responsible for violent crimes in the neighbouring country....Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looking ahead to a future without Mugabe
As the world's oldest head of state approaches his 93rd birthday on Tuesday, Zimbabwe has been planning a party for thousands of people in honour of President Robert Mugabe.For weeks, stat...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 10:31hrs | | by Agencies
Businesses grumble over fiscal devices
SOME businesses which are expected to be in the process of installing fiscal devices are still grumbling about the price of fiscal devices, but the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is determined...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo tweets about Gukurahundi instigators
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has accused his rivals who want him arrested for alleged corruption saying the same people who used the media to lie about the dissidents to justif...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 09:57hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Relocation of Lupane State University a milestone
Writer Ken Kesey once said: "You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case". Warren Bennis, another American scholar, organisational...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When life becomes a living hell
Owen Dzapasi (28) of Village 4A in Simoona, Bindura must be could be cursing the gods. His fortunes - which appeared to be on the rise - have just crushed with a thud. The young man is admitted in...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 10:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A Dose Of Motivation From The Motivator - Motivational lessons I learnt from EURO2016
1. Sell Messi's Ball For US$30000! The ball which Lionel Messi kicked when he missed a penalty against Chile is being sold for US$30000 by a fan who picked ...Published: 09 Jul 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Zimbabwe struggle - Has Zambia been paid enough?
Over the past two editions, Zambian veteran politician Dr Vernon Mwaanga has been narrating Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from a Zambian point of view.This week, Dr Mwaanga concludes his narr...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube heckled at Zanu-PF conference
Deputy minister of War Veterans, retired lieutenant colonel Tshinga Dube was yesterday heckled by war collaborators at Mucheke Stadium in Masvingo.Dube, who is MP for Makokoba in Bulawayo, had...Published: 08 Nov 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean citizens slipping through social safety net
MY late father-in-law never tired of seeking to persuade me that the true measure of the success or failure of any given nation is never the successes of its well-to-do citizens but how that nation ma...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Desperate govt targets teachers
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 13:32hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
US condemns MDC-T poll boycott
Zimbabwean opposition parties must participate in elections than grumble from the sidelines, a senior United States Congressman said this week. In what seemed to be confirmation of the US...Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Robert Gabriel Mugabe
DARE PRESIDENT WRITES A LETTER TO MUGABEAn Open Letter To Robert Gabriel MugabeHope I find you relaxed far from the madding crowd but in the serenity of Indonesia .You are obvio...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 08:23hrs | | by Gilbert Dzikiti
Zimbabwean tables must serve what Zimbabwean farms produce
One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers' indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: "We are a sexually active nation!"...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:49hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Standing up for a New Zimbabwe - Itai Dzamara
Speech by Itai Dzamara for Occupy Africa Unity Square (OAUS) presented by Tendai Kwari in the United Kingdom. STANDING UP FOR A NEW ZIMBABWE...Published: 29 Nov 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Itai Dzamara
Grace Mugabe must account for own wealth
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's wife Grace has been systematically attacking Vice-President Joice Mujuru accusing her, besides claiming she has been plotting to oust and assassinate her husband and her...Published: 21 Nov 2014 at 07:16hrs | | by Zimbabwe Independent Editorial
Grace Mugabe fires party chair
Factional fighting in Zanu-PF has worsened in Masvingo after Grace Mugabe fired provincial chairperson Shylet Uyoyo and replaced her with former minister Senator Shuvai Mahofa.After a lengthy ...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
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