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Chief Charumbira finally confirms that 5th Brigade targeted Ndebeles only
"We have heard lies being thrown around in the media. They are saying we have been captured to white-wash the gukurahundi reburial. Well let me make it clear that is not the case. Only Chiefs from Mat...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 10:18hrs | 5321 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa honours King Lobengula's commander
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2331 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 increases vulnerability to HIV infection
COVID-19 is said to be increasing vulnerability to HIV infection, increasing the need for Zimbabwe to scale up its fight against the epidemic.This was revealed by the National Aids Council in ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:08hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
National Hero status for Gen Mtshana Khumalo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aims his guns at Zanu-PF land barons
IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa blew a gasket on Wednesday after he learnt that some Zanu-PF bigwigs were allegedly land barons who were using the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains t...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 16:00hrs | 2737 | by Staff reporter
What Zanu-PF can learn from China
(In December 2016, ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, then the editor of The Southern Times newspaper based in Namibia, was dragged over the coals and subsequently fire...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1295 | by Ranga Mberi
Every Zimbabwean deserves secure land rights
IN 2019, Zimbabwe embarked on a long-awaited land policymaking process.The Land Policy's emphasis on gender sensitivity echoes global recognition and acknowledgement of the strategic importanc...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:05hrs | 277 | by Gaynor G Paradza
Mnangagwa threatens to cut loose errant Zanu-PF bigwigs
A LIVID President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu-PF bigwigs to be loyal to the party or risk being cut loose, as he bids to contain growing divisions in the former liberation movement.Addr...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:18hrs | 6353 | by Staff reporter
Why it is wrong to draw parallels between Trump and Mugabe
On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist Leigh Sales criticised what she saw as an outgoing ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 08:47hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's batty sore losers
WE RECKON that even Donald Trump - the fibs-addicted, master of conspiracies and troubled outgoing leader of the United States of America - would marvel at the level of lying that has followed the iss...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:40hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
We are not enemies of the State, says Majongwe
DIVISIONS rocked teachers unions recently over salary negotiations with government following a workers' strike which lasted for about two months. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:36hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Remains of Ginimbi's foreign friends repatriated
THE charred remains of Malawian Limumba Karim and Alishia Adams from Mozambique were Saturday repatriated to their respective countries, police have confirmed.Karim, a controversial fugitive b...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:54hrs | 1630 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 809 | by Prosperity Mzila
Open Letter to the heads of state of SADC nations
More than business as usual needed to save wildlife and people from covid-19 destructionYOUR EXCELLENCIES:We are facing an unprecedented wildlife conservation crisis. With COVID-19 imp...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:33hrs | 825 | by Emmanuel Koro
Need 'very hard-working' ethics back to fix Zimbabwe - no, need thinking caps on
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic and political rot is that Zimbabweans have lost their work ethics, Dr Simba Makoni, former Zanu PF Minister of Finance during Mugabe's days, told Trevor Ncube. ...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1186 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa commissions MSU Industrial Park
AN industrial park established by Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru was yesterday commissioned by President Mnangagwa, who reiterated the need for all institutions of higher and tertiary educat...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans live in fear of terror attacks from Mozambique
A POLITICAL science student from the University of Zimbabwe, Jethro Ngara, sees doom and gloom as his country dares to wade into Mozambique's war on terror.Ngara, 25, said he is too young to d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:53hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in poisoning scare
Zanu-PF commissar Victor Matemadanda is recuperating after he fell seriously ill amid suspicious that he was poisoned at a ruling party event a week ago.Matemadanda was taken ill after attendi...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:03hrs | 6260 | by Staff reporter
Mambo dynasty to construct monuments for late Kings
THE Mambo dynasty has set in motion plans to construct monuments at the burial sites of its founding fathers, inclusive of the founding king of the Lozwi/Rozvi empire, Changamire Dombo.The lea...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
How we started MSU: Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa together with the late Vice President and national hero Cde Simon Muzenda, national heroes Cdes Richard Hove and Cephas Msipa, were members of the first committee that resulted in ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:23hrs | 2082 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa goes down as Mnangagwa rises high
After 37 years in power, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe resigned via in November 2017. His successor and former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, promised a break from Mugabe's authoritarian ru...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 08:33hrs | 9520 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Setting the record straight about King Mzilikazi The Mthwakazi King
THIS narrative that King Mzilikazi subjugated other tribes and forced them to join his Nguni tribe to form the Mthwakazi nation is as false as falsehood itself. The narrative is refuted by both eviden...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 1274 | by Reinford Khumalo
Jay-Z inks another South African athlete
Proteas' right-arm fast bowler, Lungi Ngidi, has become the first cricketer and third athlete to be signed under American rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation.Michael Yormark, President of Roc Nation Spo...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 13:25hrs | 2547 | by Daniel Itai, Cape Town, South Africa
Netone launches a better airtime facility
Due to Covid-19 pandemic, the mobile service provider Netone has moved a step further in making airtime available to its customers through the launch of *519#.Speaking at the launch in Harare ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 10:29hrs | 3418 | by Simbarashe Sithole
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 1187 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ginimbi buried with a fortune
LIVING in a multimillion-dollar mansion, driving expensive cars and flashing money, the late socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure went on to be buried with a fortune in Nyamande villag...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 11505 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch Development Strategy 1 today
The National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), which charts policies, institutional reforms and national priorities needed from 2021-2025 to achieve an upper middle income economy under Vision 2030, is e...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:40hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Can black arts (Kuromba) be sole source of wealth in Zimbabwe?
According to Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, diplomat and retired general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-2005, a dream does not become r...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:40hrs | 2268 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD)
BCC investigates United Refineries water cuts
THE Bulawayo City Council has ordered an investigation into circumstances that led to one of the city's largest companies, United Refineries Limited (URL) suspending operations due to water challenges...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:17hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
A tale of two funerals
THE angel of death has once again struck - it has paid the nation the all but unfamiliar visit.It is not the visit that surprises many, but it is how it stole from the roll-call of the famous ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:24hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 708 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Real issue in Zim is a crisis of (Zanu PF) leadership' said Biti - admitting half the truth, as usual
"At the end of the day the real issue in Zim is a crisis of governance and leadership. "The nation carries the burden of illegitimacy, of corrupt incompetent clueless and incompetent leadershi...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 15:41hrs | 1275 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Justice Ndewere challenges suspension of salary, benefits
SUSPENDED High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has petitioned Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, seeking restoration of her terminated salary and benefits following the a...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa use the same script on elections
"Stop counting the votes" screamed the outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump on realising that he was fast losing to the now US president-elect Joe Biden. He quickly jumped...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 12:45hrs | 2663 | by Prosperity Mzila
Where wildlife produces medical doctors
In Africa, some communities still don't have a single person who has graduated as a medical doctor. The reasons are many. It could be a lack of funds for brilliant children to further their ed...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1897 | by Emmanuel Koro
Excitement over city status grips Victoria Falls
IT'S finally happening for Victoria Falls. The city fathers are excited that the resort town municipality is upgrading into a city. Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini said the lev...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1047 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF jingle angers MDC Alliance
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance officials in Masvingo are up in arms against a Zanu PF jungle which "wrongly" credits First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa for building an orphanage at Chambuta refugee camp in Chired...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 4364 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 strikes at elite college
ONE of Zimbabwe's elite schools, Watershed College in Marondera, has been hit by COVID-19 after one of its staff members yesterday tested positive to the virus.The affected staff member has si...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's waterworks buffer dries up
CITY of Bulawayo's Criterion Waterworks buffer is now left with 10 days supply, a situation which could worsen the water crisis in Bulawayo where some residential areas have gone for a month without s...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Chief Charumbira's inclusion in Gukurahundi genocide reburials raises a stink
THE opposition party, Zapu has expressed strong reservations over the National Chiefs Council president, Fortune Charumbira's involvement in the exhumation and reburial of Gukurahundi victims, claimin...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:51hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
The Importance of Unity, Mzilikazi's legacy
The legacy of Mzilikazi "the Trailblazer" who left Kwa-Zulu in the early 1800's to trail through the rigid Territories of the North-West, passing through certain areas and establishing his 'Kraals' wh...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1429 | by Sizwe Mda
Mnangagwa congratulates new US president
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led Zimbabweans in congratulating United States president-elect Joseph Robinette Biden (Joe Biden) who won last week's US presidential election, beating incumbent Donald ...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:04hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to host African war vets museum
PLANS to establish a War Veterans' Museum for African Liberation in Zimbabwe are underway after President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave it the nod. This was announced by war veterans association sec...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Plans to transform King Lobengula's Inxwala venue
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is in the process of engaging stakeholders towards turning the large expanse of land at corner Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and Masotsha Ndlovu Avenue where King Lobengu...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya arrest: A case of rampant elite corruption?
THE ongoing trial of Henrietta Rushwaya over charges of attempting to smuggle gold bars weighing 6kg to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in a high-profile case that has sucked in President Emmerson Mn...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1108 | by Staff reporter
War vets salute Mnangagwa
WAR Veterans have saluted President Mnangagwa for establishing the Museum of African Liberation in the country as that will immortalise the heroic works of the continent's liberators. Speaking...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:30hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
BCC intervenes in United Refineries hitch
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) is expected to resume operations at its factory on Monday following interventions by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to solve water supply challenges that forced the co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Underfire judge to appear in court today
UNDERFIRE High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere, who has taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court seeking to interdict him from setting up a tribunal to investigate her for alleged misconduct, has...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:58hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean signs first pro deal at Ipswich Town
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean teenager Tawanda Chireva has signed his first professional contract with English third-tier club, League One side Ipswich Town.The 17-year-old, who plays as a m...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Healing pain through addressing Gukurahundi massacres
NOW that the government of Zimbabwe is opening up to ad-dressing the Gukurahundi massacres with the aim of healing the people of Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from the trauma and pain they suffe...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | 284 | by Reinford Khumalo
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