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Zimbabwe government's continued web of lies on ZiG gold-backing exposed!
Yesterday's statement, in a ZBC interview, by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mushayavanhu has sparked confusion regarding the country's new currency, the Zimbabwean Gold (ZiG). The gov...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 2298 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Funeral parade for Tshinga Dube at Barbourfields Stadium
Today, Bulawayo will host a send-off funeral service for national hero Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube at Barbourfields Stadium, as the city pays tribute to one of Zimbabwe's most distinguished liberatio...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Latest ZiG song unites musicians
Kulcha Houz Studios, a prominent creative space in Harare, has become a key hub for Zimbabwean musical talent. It hosts studios in the central business district and Belvedere, where artists like Freem...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:28hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled pistols: Hearse driver, assistant denied bail
In Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, a magistrate denied bail to hearse driver Mehluli Nkomo (35) and his assistant Wellington Ndhlovu (34), both from Bulawayo, ruling them flight risks. They are accused of using...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge 'hearse' pistols: More details emerge
Police have identified three individuals arrested for smuggling 10 boxed pistols and 100 bottles of Bron Cleer syrup hidden in a coffin at Beitbridge Border Post on Sunday. National police spo...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe border police intercept 10 pistols in hearse
Police in Beitbridge intercepted a shipment of firearms smuggled into Zimbabwe in a hearse bound for Chipinge yesterday. The discovery was made during a routine inspection at the Port Health Authority...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans prepare more for death than life
Zimbabweans prepare more for death than life with 76% of all insurance taken being funeral policies, Old Mutual Zimbabwe Group CEO, Samuel Matsekete has said.The uptake of life policies is low...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 2 | by Vivid Gwede
Makhadzi lashes Winky D
ORGANISERS of the "Africa Music Festival 2023 - The Legends Tour" which was held in Leicester in the United Kingdom on Saturday have come under fire for failing to manage the show well, leaving Makhad...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
EU-EOM plot to tarnish Zimbabwe polls exposed
A PLOT to tarnish and discredit the outcome of harmonised elections being held in Zimbabwe today by the European Union Observation Mission and the United States-based Carter Centre has been exposed am...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 06:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Who is who inside a Zimbabwe polling station
Typically, a polling station has about 10 polling officers headed by a Presiding Officer, who is in charge of the polling station and the voting process from start to finish. The setup inside a pollin...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwean family buries four Boksburg gas victims
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Lushongwe Village in Gwanda as relatives and friends of four family members who were part of the 17 people who died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksbu...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Biker arrested over fake Zimbabwe licence in South Africa
Police in Ekurhuleni have arrested a 45-year-old man who was riding a motorbike, after he initially ignored instructions to stop, and later produced a "fake" Zimbabwean driving licence.Spokesp...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 18:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car crash ends 10-day marriage
PAINFUL wails and heart-wrenching sobs filled a local mortuary hall in Bulawayo yesterday as two families that were brought together through marriage 10 days ago said their goodbyes to the couple that...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Chamisa showers Tsvangirai's mother with goodies
CCC leader Nelson Chamisa has sent Christmas goodies to the founding father of MDC and former Trade Union Stelwart Morgan Tsvangirayi. Chamisa was reported by his deputy Spokesperson Gif...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 17:20hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sandra Ndebele was sold to sexual suitors without her knowledge
WHILE she is now a seasoned performer, Sandra Ndebele still recalls a time when she was a young star caught in the glare of the limelight, with socialites taking advantage of her naivety to "sell her"...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:50hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
National hero Nkomo burial set for Sunday
Liberation stalwart Highten Nkomo, who died a fortnight ago and was on Wednesday declared a National Hero, will be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare on Sunday.Yesterday his body mad...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to beat Mnangagwa predicts Afrobarometer
A MASS Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) survey has predicted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa stands no chance against opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa if elections...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:36hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF denounces violence
VIOLENCE has no place in the Second Republic and any violent characters should face the full wrath of the law, the ruling Zanu-PF party has said.The warning from the Revolutionary Party comes ...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on murdered CCC activist
Attempts by opposition political formations and foreign agencies to place blame for the kidnapping and subsequent death of Moreblessing Ali on Zanu-PF is perfectly choreographed to destabilise Zimbabw...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex on wheels: Cheated hubby loses marbles
Residents in Maphisa were on Tuesday last week treated to free and unrehearsed reality street theatre when a jilted man busted his wife in the act in her car with her boyfriend at 3am outside a superm...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Taona T. Denhere
Doves fires whistle blower driver
DOVES Funeral Services (Doves) has fired its hearse driver, Sam Chitsike, on allegations of failing to do due diligence after learning that he had carried an empty coffin for burial to Nyanga....Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 19:04hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abusing social media to bolster fake abuses
When many protests go unnoticed, creating drama can seem like a good strategy to draw attention. But if they become self-harming and harming others the public opinion can turn against the protestors....Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:57hrs | 9 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
When First Lady beneficiaries are coached to express gratitude for donations
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, you ought to have known that true beatitude comes not from earthly riches, but from the milk of human kindness. You should have intuited. All...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty
Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Veh...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 10 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Funeral parlours mix up bodies families fear identifying relatives because of Covid-19
The third wave of coronavirus has been unforgiving. There has been an explosion in infections and deaths since mid-June.In the 54 days from June 19 — when fatalities rose to double digits â€...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Bishop L
Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid-19 burials?
A group of women sing hymns at the cemetery in Harare as undertakers, dressed in Covid-19 protective gear, gently lower a white casket into the grave."This world is not our home," they sing, a...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours warn of mass graves
FUNERAL service providers have indicated that they are overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths and warned that the country could be forced to bury deceased citizens in mass graves if the upward trend of new in...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt punishing the young through its Covid-19 lockdown measures
Emerson Mnangagwa's government has been making some anti young people decisions since April 2020. While it is agreeable the unprecedented nature of the Covid 19 pandemic has destroyed any forecasting ...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Taruberekera Masara
'Be wary of fly-by-night parlours'
PEOPLE must be wary of fly-by night funeral parlours that survive on milking desperate clients in their time of need, Vineyard Funeral Assurance company chairperson Samson Mavende said yesterday....Published: 29 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police 'harass' mourners to block Chamisa from attending funeral
THERE was drama Saturday night in Chitungwiza when anti-riot police details besieged the funeral of the late popular Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) cleric Tabeth Chiweshe and ordered mourners disperse....Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Catching up with Lovemore Majaivana
IT was quite refreshing to be able to speak to Lovemore Majaivana again after 13 years. False rumours had begun to do the rounds that he was dead.In 2008, we boarded the same flight from Harar...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:32hrs | 9 | by Fred Zindi
President ED Mnangagwa - A lucky Daka-boy?
In the aftermath of the 2017 military coup, emerged a darker force to take over the peaceful nation of Zimbabwe. A man with something of the night was suddenly thrust into the forefront of Zimbabwean ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 10:39hrs | | by Nobukhosi Moyo
Chaos at Soul Jah Love burial
ONCE again, the police had a torrid time in enforcing Covid-19 regulations as scores of people thronged Warren Hills Cemetery for the burial of the much-loved Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Love.W...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 lockdown: How times have changed
It was after four aborted attempts at assembling that customary team of amadombo, an attempt at receiving and meeting our prospective in-laws as a non-negotiable precondition to observe the cultural r...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Funerals without mourners the new normal
IT WAS one cold winter evening and the streets of Corby were deserted because of the snow. As John was sleeping, a sharp ring interrupted him. He jumped out of his bed and answered with his hands trem...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:39hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Funeral drama at cemetery
THERE was chaos at a Bulawayo cemetery yesterday when the family of a deceased injiva blocked undertakers from removing a coffin from a hearse in protest over the funeral parlour's refusal to allow th...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 patients told to buy their own ventilators
Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world's most run-down health systems.Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues d...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Burial rites set to change
"AMA, where am I ever going to see you? Is this how it's going to end?" cried a heartbroken 21-year-old Chido Sibare as the funeral hearse carrying her mother's body drove past.Her mother succ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Lorraine Muromo
Worthwhile Mugabe buried
Worthwhile Mugabe who died on New Year's and was laid to rest at Umvutsha Park Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday.Mugabe succumbed to Covid-19, two days short of his 53rd birthday at the prestigio...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Plot to extort Makandiwa exposed
A leaked video has exposed Spirit Life Church in South Africa founder, Jay Israel's plan to blackmail Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa by concocting a lie that businesswoman Blessing Mashangwa was the Unite...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean hearse driver jailed 15 years for smuggling explosives
A 38-year-old Zimbabwean man employed by a South Africa parlour as a hearse driver, was on Thursday jailed 15 years for smuggling explosives worth R420 000 into the neighbouring country through Beitbr...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smugglers intercepted
At least 38 people have been arrested in Beitbridge in separate incidents on allegations of crossing into South Africa illegally before attempting to smuggle various goods worth over R156 000 into the...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family wrangle defers Moana funeral service
SOCIALITE Michelle Amuli, affectionately known as Moana, will be buried the Muslim way, her father declared yesterday, despite the chaos, family feud and drama that characterised her funeral wake....Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:30hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi in another 'bizarre' accident
THE late socialite Genius Kadungure aka Boss Ginimbi's hearse was involved in yet another accident on Friday afternoon as his body was being carried home from a funeral parlour, his father told mourne...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dead Ginimbi brings Harare CBD to a stand-still
FRIENDS and family of late Genius 'Ginimbi' Kadungure Friday staged a huge send-off for the late businessman and socialite at the Doves Funeral Services premises in central Harare.Harare CBD c...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 20:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flamboyant send-off for Ginimbi
THE late socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi has proved to be a character larger than life itself as this Friday thousands of people thronged Doves Harare street to ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by zbc
Cal Vin receives hero's send-off
Thousands of people from all walks of life convened at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre yesterday to say their final goodbyes to the country's rap king, Mgcini "Cal Vin" Nhliziyo. It was more like a ...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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