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Coltart bemoans culture of violence
Former Education minister David Coltart says Zimbabwe has a disturbing culture of violence that needs to be dealt with.Coltart, who is the new treasurer-general for the main opposition MDC, sa...Published: 3 hrs ago | 804 | by Staff reporter
Why street protests don't work... How can so many demonstrations accomplish so little?
Street protests are in. From Cape to Cairo and Madrid to Moscow, in Hong kong it has taken ten weeks these days not a week goes by without news that a massive crowd has amassed in the streets of anoth...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:35hrs | 278 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
To what end Mr Chamisa, does the end justify the means?
Dear Nelson ChamisaI write to you with a very heavy heart for ever since you usurped the MDC Presidency Zimbabwe has never known peace and thousands of people have been brutalized, hundreds ma...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 14:48hrs | 1480 | by Munya Shumba
Pupurai Togarepi invests CDF in clinic
Gutu South Member of Parliament (MP) Pupurai Togarepi is investing part of the $50 000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocated to him by parliament to resume work on a clinic project in Ward 28 ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:06hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
'Solve socio-economic crisis' prescribe UN - rubbish, treat disease, bad governance, not the symptom
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has captured all state institutions so that the Police, Army, Judiciary, etc. are...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:48hrs | 311 | by Wilbert Mukori
Police assault journalists covering protests
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) anti-riot officers assaulted Talkmore Fani Mapfumo a local journalist with online publication Zim Morning Post today, 16 August 2019, in Harare for filming the police of...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 16:44hrs | 2048 | by MISA
'Don't care how Zanu-PF got power, account for it' - too late, MDC gave them absolute power
"THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use th...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:54hrs | 3067 | by Wilbert Mukori
Harare protestors brave riot Police to demand 'CHANGE!' - still with no clue 'WHAT CHANGES!' it's futile
The nation heaved a huge sigh of relief when it was reported that the Zanu-PF regime had given the green light for the MDC demos to go ahead. This morning it was clear the Police were deployed determi...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:46hrs | 1312 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga bounces back
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, has reportedly started to fully recover from his health woes at a top notch Beijing military hospital and is bouncing back, Spotlight Zimbabwe reporte...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 7780 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State,that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve t...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 177 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe - MLF
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State, that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 299 | by MLF
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:49hrs | 478 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Join demos, 'cowards sin by silence' - village idiots sin by ignorance, they know not destination
Man is a creature of reason, our superior brain should be our greatest strength but, like everything else, in the wrong hands a blessing is a curse. "In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the gre...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 15:50hrs | 827 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The economics of demonstrations
Demonstrations are a huge mark on a nation's economy. The average man is not aware of this. Maybe after reading this piece, the common man will be able to contextualize what a political demonstration ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:10hrs | 1439 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Zimbabwe cash crisis spirals out of control
IT is an August morning in Harare. Winter winds are blowing cold. Samuel braves the cold, wakes up at 3am from his Kuwadzana home and treks to the central business district to look for cash at the ban...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 949 | by Staff greporter
Mrs Mnangagwa vows to send health practitioners' requests to Govt
Health and Child Care Ambassador, First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to forward requests by medical practitioners and local leadership to relevant authorities for Glenview Polyclinic to be...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming on ways of...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 3068 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
#ShutDownZimbabwe demos: Political warfare morphing into insurgency
The pending demonstrations ought to be viewed within the realms of a sophisticated effort at blackmail, whose sole agenda is to have the international community turning screws against the Government....Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:11hrs | 361 | by Andrew Maimba
Fearful of demo violence, ZHOCD 'exhort politicians to dialogue' - hearts in the right place, alas not heads
There are many reasons why Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess; Zimbabweans' failure to pay attention to detail and thus resulting in the country blundering from pillar to post, is one, th...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 18:42hrs | 935 | by Nomusa Garikai
Events at Mthuli Ncube's ministry disturbing
ZIMBABWE is indeed not only going through painful times, but an extra-ordinary period as the southern African nation grapples with very difficult socio-economic and political circumstances.Las...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | 4321 | by Editorial - Newsday
Heroes' Day eclipsed by new lows
It is sad that the relevance of Heroes' Day has been obliterated by the new levels of suffering going on in Zimbabwe.It seems incomprehensible that any other matter can overshadow the levels o...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | 633 | by Learnmore Zuze
Mnangagwa says 'Good times are near'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged Zimbabweans to remain vigilant and steadfast under the prevailing socio-economic challenges saying the end of the bad patch is near. Addressing thousands of...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
US community raising money to send Zimbabwe 'agent of change' home
Williamson Chitiyo was over 9,000 miles from home when he died in July.A nurturer, educator and member of his country's main political opposition party, Chitiyo came to the US from his native ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 21:48hrs | 10081 | by Kayla Henson Forum News Service
Chamisa's MDC request recount of Lupane East by-election results
THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) applying for the recount of Lupane East by-election results. This comes after Za...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:59hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's SONA was empty promises and murderous defence of status quo – antithesis of what nation dying for
"Mnangagwa ndiChomugore!" (Mnangagwa is Chomugore!) was my instinctive response to President Mnangagwa's State Of Nation Address (SONA) yesterday.Chomugore was a mean old man who would ask you...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:21hrs | 1475 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa hits out at Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of betraying the vision of Zimbabwe's liberation heroes by presiding over the collapse of the economy.Chamisa, w...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:13hrs | 2787 | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget: Women of the struggle
Tomorrow, Zimbabwe celebrates National Heroes Day, an important day on the national calendar to honour the gallant sons and daughters of the soil who made extraordinary sacrifices to liberate the coun...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 362 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa's Heroes Month message to the people of Zimbabwe
It is exactly twelve months since disputed and stolen election of 2018. The majority of Zimbabweans are still in shock at the brazen manner inwhich their vote was stolen. Disputed ele...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 17:24hrs | 1670 | by Nelson Chamisa
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer challenges ZACC
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's lawyer, Thabani Mpofu, has challenged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to arrest "the real big criminals" involved in the looting of National Social Security ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:37hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
'Jealously guard and defend our peace'
Address by his Excellency President Mnangagwa marking his first elective year in office, 30th July 2019. This month marks one year since our watershed d...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | 304 | by President Mnangagwa
War heroes who died in vain
The war was raging on. Every person in the village had had an encounter with the freedom fighters. We all knew the drill. The arrival of the freedom fighters in a village was so secret but an open one...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2518 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mkhululi Bhebhe ties knot
SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean contemporary gospel singer Mkhululi Bhebhe tied the knot with his long-time sweetheart, Ashleigh Nonxoloba, in a low-key ceremony at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Courts on W...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:10hrs | 2933 | by Staff reporter
Adamski's 'retired' number 13 shirt resurfaces
WHILE Prince Dube might have joined legends Shackman Tauro, Vitalis Takawira, Peter Ndlovu, Knowledge Musona, Agent Sawu and Gilbert Mushangazhike when he bagged a hat-trick against Mauritius, the mem...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:45hrs | 1960 | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps hubby over sex drought
A woman from Lupane in Matabeleland North province dumped her husband after he failed to indulge sex with her for five years.Nomater Mathe (32) complained bitterly before Lupane resident magis...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:42hrs | 2361 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa advisor lashes govt, Mthuli Ncube
One of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's most loyal backers, Eddie Cross, has attached the government-accusing it of "practising the worst kind of corruption" and struggling to keep the country afloat. ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 12214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs paying lip service to electorate
Growing up in the high-density suburb of Mufakose, more than two decades ago, life was a potpourri of events. Seemingly with no form of entertainment to fill up the mundane township life, we s...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:17hrs | 132 | by Ruth Butaumocho
MDC MPs told to reject diplomatic passports
MDC Members of Parliament have been told to snub the offer by the President Emmerson Mnangagwa government to give them diplomatic passports. Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono said, "I...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 13:42hrs | 3228 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We trust Zimbabwe has a future
We are not exactly optimists in this country. We have seen too many disasters; man-made disasters I should hasten to addWe have seen a Tsunami like Cyclone Idai, and we expect "the next cyclon...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 418 | by Fr Oskar Wermter SJ
Zimfest delivers another 'phenomenal' festival
Every summer, Zimfest Live is the epicenter of the Zimbabwean music and arts scene and for a third consecutive year, it did not disappoint.The popular southern African festival takes 'musiophi...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 16:28hrs | 656 | by Tidi Kwidini
Mnangagwa braces for chaos, violence
There are fears that Zimbabwe could once again be plunged into deadly violence, after the main opposition MDC set a date for its planned mass demonstrations around the country against President Emmers...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | 6267 | by Staff reporter
3 court witnesses die in car crash
THREE witnesses in a case involving a police officer, Constable Peter Muzulu, who allegedly molested 21 pupils at Bulu Primary School in Mpoengs, died on Monday after a truck that was ferrying them fr...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Chifunyise's death shocks arts industry
LEGENDARY playwright and multi-talented artist Stephen Joel Chifunyise, who died at 70 on Monday after a long battle with cancer, was an influential creative who wore many hats and contributed to the ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:24hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa declares August 16 as day of ShutDownZimbabwe protests
Nelson Chamisa declared on Monday that he was ready to lead his MDC party in "practical" and "decisive steps" to bring an end to Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis.In a pre-recorded vide...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 17:47hrs | 8937 | by ZimLive
Masomere hits out at Manica Diamonds
Former Manica Diamonds coach Luke Masomere, who was sacked on Sunday, has claimed that the club is struggling financially and it failed to back him on the transfer market to achieve the set targets....Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
Time to appreciate Zimbabwe progress
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 288 | by Nobleman Runyanga
30 July election: one year later
It is a few days after the first anniversary of the history-making 30 July 2018 harmonised election when Zimbabweans participated in the first harmonised elections in the new dispensation. And what a ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:28hrs | 565 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance boycotts unwarranted, retrogressive
The MDC-Alliance is known for boycotting Parliament, national events and other important occasions in a bid to create side shows and fool its supporters into thinking the party is still relevant. But ...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:20hrs | 491 | by Staff reporter
Khupe accuses Chamisa's MDC of being sponsored by Mugabe
MDC-T leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe, has accused the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa of being sponsored by former President Robert Mugabe.Khupe said this in a statement on the just Lupane by-election w...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:05hrs | 6527 | by Ndou Paul
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