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Zimbabwe cricket hapless and hopeless
It was a comprehensive and ruthless display of cricketing dominance at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo today, as South Africa completed an innings and 236-run demolition of Zimbabwe to seal a 2-0 Test ...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 15:58hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Turning the CIO into a party militia
It is 11am, Tuesday 3 June, 2025.A red Honda Fit notorious for political violence in Gutu District screeches to a halt and stops in the middle of the highway cowboy style.Clad in a blu...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:23hrs | 373 | by Matthew Takaona
Peace be unto our motherland, Zimbabwe!
Sometime in 2018 - it must have been on December 19 - protests broke out in a small town in Sudan, Atbara, which was relatively unknown to the world, after bread prices more than tripled.It wa...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:43hrs | 84 | by Bishop
The war of liberation was not a walk in the park, lest we forget
Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents, and siblings did not matter anymore;...Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 18:33hrs | 425 | by Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwean permit holders say life in SA has become intolerable
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha) has urged the Zimbabwean government to facilitate an urgent voluntary repatriation programme for Zimbabweans living in South Africa, citing wo...Published: 03 Mar 2025 at 11:57hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU to establish Gukurahundi genocide museum, expose ZANU-PF
Preparations are at an advanced stage for the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) to establish a Gukurahundi Genocide Museum in Bulawayo and all people should [instead] wear black in remembrance of...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 11:15hrs | 982 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
IFP faces exodus if it picks DA for power deal
Speculation is growing that the pending official decision by the IFP to snub the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) in favour of the ANC-DA coalition in the hung KwaZulu-Natal could backfire.This com...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 13:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Driver left for dead in pirate taxi turf wars
BEING all brawn with no brains has landed three muscle heads who beat up a Honda Fit driver for allegedly being off-route, in hot soup.Not taking time to consider that they were illegally hire...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Thief forced to eat raw, unplucked chicken
A MAN from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo will forever rue his love for chicken when a vigilante group in the neighbourhood forced him to eat the raw meat of the bird that he had been caught stealing....Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man beats up cheat girlfriend and lover
SEETHING with anger an artisanal miner allegedly bashed his love rival before turning on his naked girlfriend and assaulted her with a rope after he allegedly caught them getting cozy on the bed....Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Hail King Nero: Impotence as strength
Hail King Nero, The First and Last!"There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champi...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:42hrs | 17 | by @Jamwanda on Saturday
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2
What's the sense in removing term limits for an 81-year-old president?
No one can deny that having a long life on earth is truly a blessing.It is especially so in a country as Zimbabwe - where the life expectancy is only 64.7 years, based on the 2022 Population a...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ED will always know SADC knows ZANU PF cheated!
So, the much-anticipated results of the recently-held Zimbabwe presidential elections are officially out!ZANU PF's Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was announced winner over his main rival, CCC's N...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:32hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The war of liberation was not a stroll in the park
Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents and siblings did not matter anymore, ...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:26hrs | 14 | by Thomas Murisa
Dembare cast 5 demons
Dynamos 5 - 1 Yadah DYNAMOS' fairy tale at Barbourfields Stadium continued after they clobbered hapless Yadah in a tepid Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match yesterday.DeMbare have not...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
He left without telling anyone
Seized by the prophetic words of the mystic and condemned Mbuya Nehanda, "My bones will rise again", young Jorum left home without telling anyone. School, parents and siblings did not matter anymore, ...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 18:18hrs | 18 | by Mutanda Wachingama
The pitfalls of Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 15 | by Tawanda Majoni
Death sentence passed by Zimbabwe court
HIGH Court judge Justice Munamato Mutevedzi yesterday sentenced to death Tapiwa Makore Snr (60) and Tafadzwa Shamba (40) for the murder of a Murehwa boy.Mutevedzi said the duo showed no mercy ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
The pitfalls of the 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 14 | by Tawanda Majoni
From baba to daddy; the epic transformation of our time
SUNDAY was Fathers' Day. In our days, the father in the home was called baba/ubaba. Today, the children call him daddy. They also call me daddy in my own home but I grew up in the era when the father ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:52hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Kasukuwere: Red herring, Chamisa's double
Becoming a political clichéGustave Flaubert of the 19th Century licentious novel, Madame Bovary, said this of language: "Language is indeed a machine that continually amplifies emotion."...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:46hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 0n Saturday
If anyone has to withdraw from Zim elections then it should be Mnangagwa!
So, political commenter Jonathan Moyo believes that, for the good of the Cowdary Park (Bulawayo) constituency, possible opposition CCC candidate Thokozani Khupe should withdraw her bid, and allow the ...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 13:57hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: Bulawayo streets erupt as cheating hubby faces wife's wrath in public confrontation
In a jaw-dropping scene that has set tongues wagging throughout the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's vibrant second largest city, an unsuspecting man found himself at the mercy of his enraged wife, whi...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:49hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Hoping for tricks of providence
A belch from a priest has greater valueFor a shiny trinket / Give not away your country / The foreigner is a trafficker / To mind him is no bargain / If you were skilled and artful / You'd sta...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe's tragedy is being led by a coward!
Over the past few days, I was in the breath-taking mountain city of Mutare - attending a dear cousin's funeral.During this visit to this captivating and awe-inspiring place - besides the immer...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 18:11hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa left the fact-finding Mission deeply unimpressed
One Morris too manyWhat it's a name?The name of the old Triple C activist "beaten" in Murehwa is Morris Seremani. Morris as also the name of one turncoat freedom fighter who betrayed t...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 4 | by Jamwanda
Hubby axes love rival on the face after finding him pants down with wife
A CHEATED husband went bananas after allegedly arriving home to find his wife canoodling in bed with a teacher from a local school, on his matrimonial bed.It was gathered that Elson Moyo Matam...Published: 07 Jan 2023 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ruling elite detachment from reality makes them insensitive to citizens' suffering
If I were elected into political office tomorrow, I can confidently tell you that, should I still be in power after ten years - my policies would have become divorced from the ordinary people....Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 22:04hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'African solutions to African problems' shouldn't be excuse for oppression and looting of resources!
I definitely do not have any objections to the concept of 'African solutions to African problems' - since, who can be better placed in addressing challenges than the one faced with such?Indeed...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 14:45hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Will he really 'face down' China?
The UK has a new prime minister… Today's world news is evidently dominated by a variety of interesting and illuminating stories, expectations, theories, debates and analyses about Mr. ...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:25hrs | 2 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Mr Bean' causes huge 'rivalry' between Zimbabwe and Pakistan
A Twitter spat between Pakistan's cricket team and a Zimbabwean user on the platform is snowballing into a "rivalry" between the two nations.Most astonishing of all is that the cause of the di...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Majaivana's love-hate relationship with Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is a subject that runs like a thread through Lovemore Majaivana's extensive catalogue of music.Perhaps, because he hails from the city, some might take it as given that Majaivana, wit...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's epic speech on epic day
MEMORY is a site of the struggle. Only in the rubric of yester-year memories can we trace where we have come from so that we use the lessons of the past to forge and sharpen future struggles on the an...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:11hrs | 12 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
The day South Africa closes the border
THE past two decades have seen over 1,5 million Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa as economic refugees. Most of the refugees are unskilled and, therefore, directly compete with locals for menial job...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
At least Mnangagwa regime subtly admitting there's hardly any meaningful development to talk about in Zimbabwe
It is common knowledge that one can analyse and form an impression about an individual in a matter of seconds - based on their behaviour, countenance, mannerism, and even their logic when talking....Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 11:14hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When a president is forced to donate food to a starving nation then it proves he has failed as a leader!
When a country reaches a level - whereby, the president donating food to starving school pupils, who had cried out to him in desperation for help, is touted as a sign of good leadership and progress -...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kasukuwere: To be or not to be!
Widening Russian War Aims What a week we have had! War works largely on laws of the unforeseen and the unintended. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ominously hinted at ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:27hrs | | by Jamwanda
ED has absolutely nothing to show for his five years of misrule!
It was quite intriguing learning of a group calling itself, Varakashi4ED, reportedly traversing the width and breadth of Zimbabwe - ostensibly, on a mission to showcase achievements made in the countr...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 11:03hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Muchinguri passing the buck on state of roads in Muzarabani
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri was in Muzarabani last week to officiate at the handover ceremony of a classroom block, a mothers' waiting shelter and a solar-powered water ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Colonialism is not dead, Your Royal Highness
ON June 8 2022, at the start of his "landmark" six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Belgium's King Philippe expressed regret for the countless "violent acts and humiliations" t...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Tafi Mhaka
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PSL suspends games over Dembare hooliganism
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has indefinitely suspended its programme as it seeks a lasting solution to acts of hooliganism that are tainting the image of local football.The biggest match i...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 6 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by jamwanda
Why is Zimbabwe's 'listening president' fearful of people's voices, but rather blames 'outsiders' for challenges?
Quite frankly, I have never understood the mentality behind hero-worshipping and praise-singing another human being, since, my parents taught me five valuable concepts of life and human relationships ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:10hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's to celebrate; that independence replaced white oppressors with black ones?
On 18 April 2022 Zimbabweans should have been celebrating the country's 42 years of independence. For the overwhelming majority, there was really no cause to celebrate, and many did not bother. The pe...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:37hrs | 4 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Precedent that undermines credibility of Human Rights Council
On April 7, the UN General Assembly decided to suspend Russia's membership in the Human Rights Council. This establishes a destructive precedent not only for the future of the Human Rights Cou...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Alfred de Zayas
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