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Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF
Decoding and explaining the co-existence between Nelson Chamisa and ZANU-PF in the Zimbabwean authoritarian context: A case of captured popular opposition leadership1. Introduction...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 09:34hrs | 2015 | by Justice Alfred Mavedzenge
Chamisa in the shadows of political darkness
Justice Alfred Mavedzenge has done a very informative analysis on the behavior of Nelson Chamisa, and the radical change in his political personality since his ZINASU days of a firebrand student polit...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:08hrs | 662 | by Reason Wafawarova
Harare Poly students resort to prostitution, drug trafficking
In their tireless efforts to settle school fees arrears and sit for their forthcoming end-of-term examination, several students from Harare Polytechnic College have resorted to prostitution and drug t...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 21:05hrs | 2019 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Hexco fails to pay examiners
Over 300 lecturers from polytechnics, vocational training colleges, and independent colleges affiliated with the Higher Education Examination Council (Hexco) are protesting over unpaid dues. These lec...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:39hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Harare Poly ordered to accept Zimdollar fees
THE High Court has ordered the Harare Polytechnic College to accept payment of tuition and other levies in the free-falling local currency.The institution had issued a circular on January 12 t...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises new dawn if elected president
"I was called to do this … my mission is to finish the work that was not fulfilled by [Robert] Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, and Morgan Tsvangirai. When I am done, I will say I have fixed the country," the ...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises new dawn if elected president
On August 23, the 45-year-old will contest the polls for the second time in five years against incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a man almost twice his age.Nelson Chamisa believes he has...Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC installs its first Smart Meters
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has launched its first smart meters, a modern innovation meant to improve the electrical supply chain.According to ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Zimbabwe farmers turn to aquaponics
A CRICKETER turns his back on the excitement of pro sports to take on a whole new challenge: farming without soil.Yasser Parker thought he had fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a profe...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Democracy is not about generational entitlement
Following the United Parties for National Development's (UNPD) win in Zambia's August 12, 2021, general elections, the MDC Alliance faction leader Nelson Chamisa became unnecessarily excited.T...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:52hrs | 11 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Panic as COVID-19 deaths hit schools
COVID-19 has hit educational institutions, with Harare Polytechnic College and Dambudzo Primary School in Mbizo Kwekwe, recording deaths and a rise in infections.One person died at Harare Poly...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange radio takes Baz to court over licence
A HWANGE community radio initiative has dragged the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) to the Administrative Court challenging its decision to deny it a licence in the wildlife and coal rich-dis...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff report
6 more radio licenses issued
Six more broadcasting licenses have been awarded to community and campus radio stations as Government moves a gear up in liberalising the airwaves in line with President Mnangagwa's aspiration to enge...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dreaming of Zimbabwe: Stories from the diaspora
NEARLY 24 years ago, Lance Guma came face to face with a gun. A man had followed him out of the main post office in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, before attempting to provoke him into an argument. L...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZBC Journalist dies of Covid-19
VETERAN journalist and ZBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, Janet Munyaka, has died. She was 48.Munyaka died Saturday evening at Harare's St Anne's hospital where has had been admitted since last w...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Details of the Tanzanian plot bared
A senior official working for the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has bared details of how the civic society organisations had planned to stage a demonstration on the sidelines of...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:26hrs | | by John Sigauke
Lecturer in trouble over anti-Mnangagwa slur
A LECTURER at the Harare Polytechnic College has been suspended for allegedly denigrating President Emmerson Mnangagwa over poor civil servants' salaries during a conversation with a soldier at a bar ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council penalised over vehicle spikes
HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirai Kwenda has ordered the City of Harare to pay $35 000 plus R138 256 to a Harare pedestrian, who was knocked down by a commuter omnibus whose driver was attempting to ev...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NGOs fear government ban
Human rights organisations and opposition parties in Zimbabwe fear the "old days" are back after the government threatened to deregister civic organisations that get involved in politics. The ...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Defining and identifying the new leadership trajectory in MDC-T
The last days of President Morgan Tsvangirai will always be remembered as the episode when the truth was the biggest casualty as the succession debate moved from his office to his death bed. After a w...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
Acid test for President Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will face his first greatest test when he selects his new Cabinet in which he will have to strike a balancing act between his old Zanu PF lieutenants' political interests ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fist fight over Mukupe's alleged rigging
VIOLENCE broke outside the New Government Complex in Harare yesterday when Zanu-PF youths aligned to Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe clashed with students from various tertiary institutions who...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Leave politics to politicians, says SK Moyo
Acting Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Simon Khaya Moyo has called on journalists to stop meddling in politics and stay ethical for the greater good of the profession....Published: 03 May 2018 at 18:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
These six women
They came at different stages of my life and all had some impact on my life. Some are long gone from my life but their memories I will carry till I die, if I will die, I am one of those who stil...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 09:08hrs | 2 | by Velempini Veap Thuthani Ndlovu
Where art thou my child if you are my child?
If ever you were born, you were born during the year 2000 in January or February. Your mother said I wasn't the father, your father was the other guy who she was also involved with at the same t...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Veap Ndlovu
Mnangagwa calls for financial prudence
There is a need for strong legal framework to enhance State entities' capacities to deal with financial crimes and corruption, vices that have plagued the economy, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa ha...Published: 01 Aug 2016 at 08:29hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Veteran journalist Sibanda to be buried tomorrow
VETERAN journalist and former Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (Zuj) president, Dumisani Sibanda, who was found dead at his home in Bulawayo on Monday morning, will be buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery tom...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Veteran journalist dies - full report
VETERAN journalist and former Zimbabwe Union of Journalist (Zuj) president Dumisani Sibanda was yesterday found dead at his home in Bulawayo in what police described as a case of sudden death....Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 07:02hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
TechnoMag partners with Zimbabwe government on Tech@School
TechnoMag, a leading local online Technology Magazine has partnered the government of Zimbabwe to bring all the nation's higher and tertiary students studying Technology and journalism to converge at ...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Pussycat-walking' model gets $100 bail
A 21-year-old Harare Polytechnic college model who allegedly cat-walked without her panties yesterday appeared in court facing public indecency charges.Appearing before Harare magistrate Ms ...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Fungai Jachi
'Pussycat-walking' model nabbed
THE Harare college model who catwalked without panties has been identified only as Panashe and has since been arrested.Pictures of the model exposing their privates have gone viral on social m...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Suspected 'Ebola student' discharged
The Zimbabwe government has instructed Wilkins Hospital to discharge the suspected Ebola patient after testing negative for the deadly virus that has killed thousands in West Africa.There ...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factions in bare-knuckle fights
"TIRIKUFAMBA naChipanga! (We are voting for Kudzai Chipanga!)," whispered Zanu-PF national commissar Webster Shamu to this reporter last Saturday at Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare as the battle for t...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 07:23hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Student leaders still in police detention
Twelve students from the Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu), arrested while addressing other students at Harare Polytechnic College on Monday, are still detained at Harare Central Police Statio...Published: 29 Jan 2014 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zim media houses nail their political colours to the mast
IN Zimbabwe, the media is either green or red and during election period, media houses nail their political colours to the mast.While ECF-Sadc said it was happy with the establishment of the Z...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 06:23hrs | 9 | by Mail&Guardian
25 Harare Poly students to tour Chimoio shrine
A group of 56 students from Harare Polytechnic College has left for Chimoio, Mozambique, where they will see the shrines in what organisers of the trip say is an attempt to make youths appreciate the ...Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 15:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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