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Chamisa's father was a Rhodesian soldier?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's father is a Rhodesian African Rifles soldier who does not know the definition of a war veteran, according to Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans and Deputy Minis...Published: 20 hrs ago | 10255 | by Staff reporter
Justice in traditional courts put on hold
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed the justice system in limbo as traditional courts remain closed in response to the global pandemic.Traditional leaders play a key role in dispute resolution an...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:12hrs | 444 | by Stephen Jakes
How to get a licensed gun in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has, of late, been inundated with reports of criminals as the economy continues on a nose dive and people try to find alternative means of survival. Most people, small businesspersons...Published: 26 May 2020 at 18:25hrs | 6688 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Copper smuggling women caught in Beitbridge
Beitbridge - Two women from Karoi farming town we're arrested at Beitbridge border town on Thursday as they tried to smuggle copper using a donkey cart.According to Beitbridge police s...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:29hrs | 2247 | by Naume Muza
Mnangagwa approached in chieftainship row
A MEMBER of the Jaka clan in Chivi has written a letter to President Mnangagwa protesting over the imposition of Mr Chishanu Magora Muzogwi as Chief Jaka. Mr Jere Jaka, who is being represente...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa's scathing letter to Mnangagwa
Sir, I address you, not because you personally abducted, tortured and sexually abused JOANA MAMOMBE, CECILIA CHIMBIRI and NETSAI MAROVA. Neither do I address you because I know or am in other way conn...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:59hrs | 8047 | by Beatrice Mtetwa
Grandpa covets, murders neighbour's wife
A 70-year-old grandpa has appeared in a Beitbridge court for allegedly fatally stabbing his suspected lover who was married to his friend and neighbour.Juta Makoni of Chabeta village under hea...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 1500 | by Staff reporter
A place in Zimbabwe where load-shedding is 'taboo'
A handful of revellers, disregarding global and national recommendations to stay at home and reduce the possibility of contracting or spreading the deadly coronavirus, mingle in a pub at Hauna growth ...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:03hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft ramps Gokwe north over donor funded food
Villagers in Chitekete,Gokwe north now live in fear of their lives over donor funded food by Zimbabwe Red Cross as people are allegedly fighting &nb...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 04:03hrs | 1554 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Machete gangsters go underground
Hundreds of militias in the gold mining sector who were responsible for waves of terror nationwide have significantly retreated after a recent police clampdown.The militias were notorious for ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1305 | by Nomazulu Thata
Police, Zanu-PF clash over gold claims
Zanu-PF was last week forced to dispatch a high-powered delegation on a fact-finding mission to Mudzi district after illegal miners, who are its members, were driven out of gold-rich Makaha area under...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:40hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Miriam Tose Majome: noch etwas, noch etwas!!
I read your articles with great interest because I know there is a message always for me to take home with. Your last two articles; "Public Drinking and Educated Fools" and "Black Business and Superst...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1312 | by Nomazulu Thata
Village head complains over complicated Traditional Leaders Act
Villager head Khumbulani Joseph Nkomo of Skali Village in Lupane under Chief Mabhikwa has complained over the contradiction made in the Traditional Leaders Act as to who is in charge of villager heads...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:33hrs | 216 | by Steve Grays
Villagers dismayed by Zanu PF aligned headman
Villagers in Makoni West constituency have expressed dismay over the headman aligned to Zanu PF who failed to produce receipts for the levies he had collected from his subjects in the past...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1513 | by Steve Grays
Why Zimbabwean crisis is insoluble!
For a 15 million population, a resource base that reproduces every mineral available in South Africa, the best educated population in Africa, Zimbabwe's problems should be easy to solve.In thi...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:37hrs | 496 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe importing more grain to avert hunger
Government is importing grain to ensure everyone has enough food until the next harvest following two years of drought as a result of climate change. This was said by President Mnangagwa while...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Haulage truck crushes 3-year-old boy's head
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy was crushed to death while his father sustained injuries after they were hit by a haulage truck towing a trailer while cycling along Woodville Road in Bulawayo on Tuesday....Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 17:19hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni remains Chief Khayisa
The decision by ZANU-PF to remove Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni as Chief Khayisa is of no consequence, neither does it have any effect in as far as the people of Ntabazinduna, myself and ...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:31hrs | 1365 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Inside Zhombe's mining cartels
CONTRARY to the common perception in which fingers are only being pointed at the machete-carrying illegal gold panners for the chaos and lawlessness that characterises the small-scale gold mining sect...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 08:18hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Diasporans in road rehab drive
In a development that is set to inspire diaspora-homeland co-operation, a group of Zimbabweans from across the world, have joined hands to rehabilitate roads in the area under Headman Mzilawempi. ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Man assaulted over adultery suit
A man from Lower Gweru was severely assaulted by his neighbours with an axe handle for refusing to withdraw adultery charges before the headman's traditional court.The man, Zibonele Mashobelel...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:41hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Lightning strikes 13 pupils
A headman drowned in Mbire, while at least 13 learners at Chitenje Secondary School in Karoi were yesterday struck and injured by lightning as heavy rains wreak havoc in different parts of the country...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:53hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Police use on opposition a clear sign of an urgent need of security sector reform
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has indicated that the trend in which the ruling government continue to use the police against the opposition political parties and dissent is a sign that there is urgent ne...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:09hrs | 332 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF aligned headman assaulted by villagers over social welfare food
A Zanu PF aligned headman was recently assaulted by his subjects in Hurungwe following a dispute over social welfare food.This is revealed in the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project Report."...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1521 | by Stephen Jakes
Chris Mutsvangwa; the hand behind ZANU PF factionalism
Chris Mutsvangwa wanted to be the Minister of Energy after the November 2017 revolution which ousted Robert Mugabe. While in South Africa organizing the revolution Mutsvangwa made promises to South Af...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 07:29hrs | 8323 | by Nicholas Ncube
Soldiers storm wildlife conservancy
A SAFARI and mining firm running the Mujingwe Conservancy in Mwenezi has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Defence Forces Commander, Philip Velario Sibanda, Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri and 12 ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:10hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Who is Matemadanda to dare the Americans
Following the news that cde Matemadanda has issued a stern warning to America, many people held their mouths with two hands. Today we want to see who cde Matemadanda is. Comrade Victor Matemadanda is ...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 21:24hrs | 15279 | by Masimba Mavaza
Women's group piles pressure for women to achieve gender equality
Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has said it is concluding the year at a high note by engaging aspiring women leaders to share and discuss strategies to achieve gender e...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 14:18hrs | 140 | by Stephen Jakes
Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni remains Chief Khayisa
The decision by ZANU PF to remove Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni as Chief Khayisa is of no consequence, neither does it have any effect in as far as the people of Ntabazinduna, myself and ...Published: 16 Dec 2019 at 09:27hrs | 4462 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Nasty divorce for Zanu PF stalwart
ZANU PF activist Headman Sibanda is embroiled in a nasty divorce case with his wife whom they have lived separately for 18 years.Sibanda accuses his wife Alice Sibanda Nee Mudzimwa of wa...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:24hrs | 443 | by Stephen Jakes
2008 violence haunts Zanu-PF officials
THE ghost of the 2008 violence ridden election has returned to haunt a Zanu-PF Councilor, a headman and eight other party activists who unleashed a reign of terror in rural Zaka at the height of the e...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:36hrs | 1412 | by newzimbabwe
Man torches headman's houses
A CHIPINGE village head was left counting losses after his homestead was torched by his subject who accused the traditional leader of bewitching him and harbouring intentions to evict him from the vil...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:11hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Stolen goat gets stuck on thief's back
A NOTORIOUS thief was caught in the most bizarre way after a goat that he had stolen stuck to his back.Villagers in Chikondori area under Chief Ndanga in Zaka, Masvingo, were left in shock aft...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 4925 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for torching mother's huts
A 46-year-old man from Chirumanzu who once hit the headlines after assaulting his mother for sleeping out, has been dragged to court for setting his mother's five huts on fire.Jacob Chinotawai...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:40hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni threatens to expel traditional leaders
CHIEF Nyangazonke Ndiweni of Matobo District has threatened to expel traditional leaders under his jurisdiction, whom he is accusing of conniving with self-proclaimed witch-hunters, known as tsikamuta...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 08:48hrs | 6298 | by Staff Reporter
Women wake up with no panties at funeral
IN a bizarre incident that has left villagers in Mkuze Village under Chief Mkoka in Gokwe South shell-shocked, women at a funeral wake miraculously woke up without their panties last week.The ...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 3295 | by Staff Reporter
Murdered headman's family demands 70 beasts for ritual
RELATIVES of a Mberengwa headman who was murdered by his neighbour for facilitating a botched donkey trading deal are demanding 70 heads of cattle to conduct a cleansing ritual for the deceased's spir...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:56hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diamond ban by the USA an act of sabotage
The Chiadzwa community and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) workers have described the barring of rough diamonds from Zimbabwe into American Market on allegations of ‘forced labour' ...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 18:55hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
British couple robbed during holiday in Zimbabwe
A private lodge on the edge of Hwange National Park is offering RTGS$16 000 to any person with information about two suspected robbers that broke into one of its rooms and stole some goods and cash be...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 46 | by newzimbabwe
Charumbira, Bere chieftainships feud over boundary
New areas of contention are emerging between Chief Charumbira and Chief Bere, with the former accusing the latter of attempting to invade land that is out of his boundaries, TellZim News can reveal....Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 19:05hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zaka East headmen back Zanu-PF candidate
TWO traditional leaders in Zaka East, Masvingo Province defied the Constitution in the just-ended parliamentary by-election by openly declaring allegiance to the ruling Zanu-PF and intimidating voters...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Chief attacks Zimbabwe army for abusing 'illegal immigrants'
Chief Sengwe has dismissed accusations that he is working with soldiers and police officers to exploit vulnerable illegal immigrants, and has blamed government for failing to stop what he called were ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Nemanwa chieftainship revival a threat to 'Chief' Charumbira?
The impending resuscitation of the Nemanwa chieftainship should not cause friction with the Charumbira chieftainship because each will exist within its own boundaries, Masvingo Provincial Development ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:17hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba chiefs felt betrayed over Mugabe controversy
The late former President Robert Mugabe, who passed on 10 days ago, has courted controversy even in death with speculation over his burial, place of burial and his place in the history of Zimbabwe....Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 23:50hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family feuds over body
HUNDREDS of people yesterday waited in vain at the late former President Robert Mugabe's rural home in Zvimba where his body was scheduled to lie in state after the programme was cancelled at the last...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 23:48hrs | 2333 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP releases album
VETERAN broadcaster and Bulilima West legislator Dingumuzi Phuti has released an album titled Mpfula Webhundu, which commemorates culture and also calls for the reinstatement of Kalanga chiefs who wer...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official assaults MDC councillor, fined $200
ZANU-PF treasurer for ward 17 in Chipinge has been fined $200 for assaulting an MDC Alliance councillor over the distribution of presidential inputs.Lizzie Jumburu (48) of Kondo village under ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 1132 | by Staff reporter
13-year-old girl married off for $80 in Zimbabwe
A FAMILY from Mpopoma village under Headman Chilonga, south of Chiredzi town, which is predominantly Shangani, has set tongues wagging after marrying off their 13-year-old daughter for $80 as the area...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands Chief Ndiweni's unconditional release
Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna was jailed for an effective 18 months on Friday, a ruling criticised by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.The popular traditional leader was...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 21:51hrs | 4746 | by ZimLive
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