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The truth about symbiotic survival of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga!
Citizens, forget about these fake social media channels news, one called Chatufa voices and his admirers. We are subjected in a web of fake news and meanings that spin themselves constantly, finding i...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:54hrs | 897 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZAA Founder on Diaspora, ZIG, Xenophobia and Julius Malema
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."Aristotle's age-old dictum has been used and sometimes abused to the point of cliché.But whatever truth; b...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 571 | by Staff Reporter
Fake products flood Bulawayo markets
A NEW crop of ‘entrepreneurs' has invaded Bulawayo's marketplaces where they sell fake branded products to unsuspecting consumers in broad daylight.In essence, the traders pretend to sell po...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lake Kariba water levels rising steadily
WATER levels in Lake Kariba are rising steadily as the second peak arrives from the Upper Zambezi catchment and the live storage, the upper levels of the lake between the inlets to the two power stati...Published: 28 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Gift Banda targets MDC treasury post
MDC Alliance Bulawayo provincial chairman, Mr Gift Banda, is said to be eyeing the party's national deputy treasurer's post during the opposition party's congress set for May. MDC Alliance pre...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora finds muti stashed in his mailbox at Parliament building
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said that he discovered a plastic container with a strange-looking liquid when he checked for his mail at Parliament in a suspected case of juju.The MDC ...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 09:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora hints at contesting Chamisa
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed claims that he is settling for the deputy presidency at the party's forthcoming congress in May, the latest hint that he is preparing to challenge ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo supply dams only half-full
BULAWAYO supply dams are now averagely half-full despite the heavy rains that the country experienced recently, a far cry from previous years' levels at the same time, raising concern over the water s...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looking 'through' the MDC Alliance protest
After watching Thursday's MDC demonstration, I had a seminal tête-à-tête with a comrade in the academic struggle. We decided that we should focus on protests as political strategies, inquiring thei...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:18hrs | 1 | by Micheal Mhlanga
Let's protect our progress
On Monday 30 July Zimbabweans will head to the polls to choose their next government, with millions of voters desperate for a functioning economy. International election observers have been invited to...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Dr M Mavaza and Paul Mugari
More Zimbos expect 'better' next year than otherwise - just foolish eternal optimism at play
More Zimbabweans expect life to be better in the next 12 months than those who think it will be worse, according to a survey by African think-tank, Afrobarometer.Afrobarometer is a Zanu-PF fun...Published: 25 May 2017 at 15:12hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mysterious hot tap water baffles residents
NEW Lobengula residents were spooked at the weekend when one resident's water taps suddenly had hot water running.On Saturday Simiso Tshabalala who does not have a geyser had miracle hot water...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National Schizophrenic anger is the Cost of doing nothing for too long.
Anger and absolute desperation breaks all conventions. In Zimbabwe, ordinary people have resorted to extreme insults directed to the imbecile Presidium. Today on Facebook, a normally very respecting h...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 17:09hrs | 4 | by Venus Mlalazi
Zuma and his corrupt cronies now desperate
President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies inside and outside the government are now desperate. The decision to lay criminal charges against the former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, is just the...Published: 28 Nov 2016 at 12:23hrs | | by Justice Malala
WATCH: Drunk driver walks out of crashed car holding half full beer bottle
A man in Brietbridge was caught on camera walking out of a car he had just crashed on the 22nd of Novermber this year.Its not clear how the accident happened but the barefoot man was holding ...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 15:42hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Mbare tense after mega demonstration
MBARE was yesterday tense following Friday's bloody clashes between riot police and protestors following the disruption of a High Court sanctioned opposition political parties demonstration in Har...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare gate master in trouble
A 20-year-old man who claimed to be a gate master at Dynamos FC appeared in court yesterday accused of three counts of drug possession. Magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo ruled that he pays a total of $60 in...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 06:34hrs | | by Daniel Kachere
Zimbabwe is a land of investment opportunities
Zimbabwe is a case of a glass, where an optimist investor sees a half full glass, while his pessimist counterpart sees a half empty glass. Investors such as Mr Aliko Dangote, Nigeria and Afric...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
MDC MPs are incompetent who cares that 21 or all are recalled
The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, has acted on MDC-T's request to have all the MDC-renewal MPs and senator recalled because they had "crossed the floor". "It is a political decision be...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 20:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
South Africa begins turbulent new political transition
THERE are two ways of looking at the state of South Africa as 2014 nears its tumultuous end.The usual glass half empty option is to condemn the country to a continued free-fall both economical...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Daniel Silke
NAMA award winners - list
"TSVIRIYO" hitmaker Jah Prayzah was the toast of the night as he scooped four awards at the 13th National Arts Merit Awards held on Saturday at the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel, Zimbojam reported.He...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 08:23hrs | 229 | by Arts reporter
Son tries to poison stepmom, kills niece instead
A jealous step son's attempt to eliminate his father's second wife with a poisoned soft drink backfired when his own niece died after taking the drink.Five-year-old Hazel Mbavha consumed the ...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Baby drowns in bucket of water on New Year's Eve
A 7-month-old baby died in Nketa after he drowned in a bucket of water on Tuesday afternoon. Ngonizashe Makombore fell head long into the half full bucket of water while his mother was in the ...Published: 01 Jan 2014 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
New York train derails killing four, injuring 63
(Reuters) - A suburban New York train derailed on Sunday, killing four people and injuring 63, including 11 critically, when all seven cars of a Metro-North train ran off the tracks on a sharp curve, ...Published: 02 Dec 2013 at 00:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hifa roars into life
The annual Harare International Festival of the Arts opens tomorrow with organisers saying everything was now in place.What a mixed bag at this year's annual event!Fans will be treate...Published: 29 Apr 2013 at 04:56hrs | | by Problem Masau Arts Correspondent
School closes down as pupils start seeing visions of the headmaster holding a bottle full of blood
Neshaya Secondary School in Hwange was last week forced to close after pupils boycotted classes following a series of strange occurrences that saw female pupils reportedly becoming entranced and see...Published: 24 Feb 2013 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baby drowns in a water bucket
A TEN-MONTH-OLD baby from Mutandahwe village in Chisumbanje drowned in a bucket containing water.The Officer-in-Charge of Chisumbanje police, Chief Inspector Mutseta confirmed the incident tha...Published: 04 Jan 2013 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Malawi revives debate on gay rights
By selling the presidential jet and getting rid of 60 limousines driven by high-ranking officials, Joyce Banda, Malawi's new president, is making waves. But even before trimming the fat from the state...Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Jocelyne Sambira
Beware of the opportunist!
"Dear Optimist and Pessimist, while you were busy arguing whether the glass was half-full or half-empty, I drank it! Yours Opportunist!" I do not know who came up with this telling quotation, but one ...Published: 14 May 2012 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Ceasar Zvayi
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