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Search for Crystal Lounge armed robbers continues
A police tactical unit was deployed to the rooftop of Crystal Lounge on Sunday afternoon amid suspicions that armed robbers, who earlier held six workers hostage, could be hiding there.The dra...Published: 16 hrs ago | 458 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers storm Crystal Lounge in Bulawayo, hostages rescued
There are unconfirmed reports that panic gripped Crystal Lounge patrons and staff earlier today after a group of armed robbers stormed the popular entertainment spot, locking employees inside during a...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1343 | by Staff reporter
South Africa blackmailed on United States consulate in Johannesburg
South Africa could lose its United States consulate in Johannesburg if the city changes the name of Sandton Drive to Leila Khaled Drive.On Thursday, 13 March 2025, a motion to rescind renaming...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 13:27hrs | 1706 | by Staff reporter
Israeli-Palestine genocide statistics record women, children most victims
The Palestinian Embassy to Zimbabwe has released shocking genocidal statistics recorded during the 470 days of attack by Israel between 7 October 2023 to January 18, 2025 with over half of identified ...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 20:34hrs | 176 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Jail in America is for commoners
Just remember that jail in America is for commoners, not for the rich and politically connected. You can do drugs, traffic women, evade taxes, buy and toss away guns and your father will spare you jai...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 10:00hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Netanyahu orders UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw UNIFIL peacekeepers from southern Lebanon, adding that by remaining there they are "providing...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 15:33hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes....Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South African soldiers have not 'surrendered' to M23 rebels in DRC
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has refuted reports claiming that two South African soldiers deployed as part of the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic R...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 14:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru's stranger-than-fiction robbery
In the quiet cemetery-like ambiance of the Northlea Suburb in Gweru, during the night, a group of audacious robbers forcefully entered a residence. They corralled the occupants into a corner, rummaged...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
How hope dies with every election in Zimbabwe
"People died. The fear of being asked whether you wanted a short or long sleeve cut (cutting your hand or your arm) by soldiers made people vote in fear, not with their heads. We were voting with our ...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 13:10hrs | 4 | by Beauty Dhlamini
Incompetent Western puppet faking political bravery
There is a sequence that can be employed to identify CCC leader Nelson Chamisa as a snollygoster!A snollygoster is a political candidate, usually willing to be an instrument of another country...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 12 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Even if Mnangagwa gave me a house today, I will never vote for him as long as Zimbabweans suffering!
Already in 1980, at the dawn of Zimbabwe's independence, we experienced major transformations in our lives.Our parents managed to purchase houses, including in previously racially segregated a...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
You can't 'negotiate' for reforms with a criminal government!
Here is a picture. Let us say, for instance, information minister Monica Mutsvangwa - in her press conference a week ago, responding to the Gold Mafia exposé being aired by Al Jazeera - had s...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Armed robbers kill farm security guard
Police in Mashonaland Central have launched a manhunt for a gang of 11 robbers that pounced on three security guards at Harvey Farm in Glendale annd fatally assaulted one them.Provincial polic...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa betrays SA war vets
SOUTH AFRICA'S elite task force rescued two cabinet ministers and a deputy after they were held hostage by war veterans demanding reparations for their role in the fight against white minority rule....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns 79
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa today celebrates his 79th birthday with the dream of a better and greater Zimbabwe still his main mission. Since his inauguration in November 2017, Mnangagwa has remained ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man sets armed thugs on mum & sister
A BULAWAYO man bit the hand that feeds him when he connived with three men armed with machetes and knives to rob his mother and sister who had just arrived in the country from the United Kingdom....Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe exhumation and the legend of Chief Zvimba
I will not enter the debate on where the late Robert Mugabe's body must be buried or reburied.Hearing the debate raging in the media reminded me of the legendary Chief Matthew or Matewu Zvimba...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tererai R. Mafukidze
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 22 | by Thembani Dube
Mnangagwa says unity never wears' silent on gukurahundi genocide
Zimbabwe commemorated the 33rd National Unity Day brokered by the two liberation movement parties, Zanu (PF) and-PF-Zapu to form the new Zanu-PF. President Mnangagwa has been consistent, since he took...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T raps G40 elements
The MDC-T says it will soon repossess the party's Morgan Tsvangirai headquarters, which they allege was seized by the rival faction led by Mr Nelson Chamisa with assistance from criminal G40 elements....Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 6 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Robbers pounce on Bulawayo firm, 2 seriously injured
TWO Chinese businessmen were seriously injured on Thursday night after they were attacked by robbers brandishing a pistol and machetes.The robbers stormed Naizonel Investments in Bulawayo's Ke...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
For Mnangagwa, it's not over until it's over
TODAY'S harmonised elections are a highpoint in judging Operation Restore Legacy. The watershed elections that have created so much interest in Zimbabwe, the region and beyond will see President Mnang...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Tendai Manzvanzike
ZEC: A menace tormenting Zimbabwe
It has become a norm that every election in Zimbabwe is mired by a series of despicable irregularities cooked by the same body which is mandatory for presiding over elections. For so long, ZEC refused...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 16:45hrs | 1 | by Benny Gudo
Zimbabwen family in Johannesburg hostage drama
A ZIMBABWEAN family endured a tense 45 minutes of movie style hostage drama at a Shoprite outlet in Johannesburg, South Africa.Four masked robbers clad in army fatigues, who wielded "huge rifl...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ubuntuism and Mnangagwa's new trajectory
STANLAKE Samkange, a historiographer, educator, journalist, author and African nationalist, sought to outline an African theory of knowledge in Ubuntuism or Hunuism (1980). He is widely credited for p...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:54hrs | 4 | by Limukani Ncube
Zifa 'capture' exposed
Former Zifa board member Felton Kamambo has fingered the local football mother body's president Philip Chiyangwa as the architect of the leadership crisis bedevilling the domestic game, after detailin...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reject Nelson's Tyranny
After three decades of tyranny and oppression, Zimbabwe needs, now more than ever, peace, unity and moderation. We desperately need our political leaders to be robust in their work and criticism of ea...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 17:40hrs | 1 | by Charles, Student
Zanu-PF has no supporters, only victims
Ax Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has claimed that the ruling Zanu PF party has no supporters but victims of its coercing and abuse."We present here a special case of a psychological condition ...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Wither Zimbabwe?
For the last two years I have warned that Zimbabwe was facing a perfect storm - the unique convergence of several factors which could tear the country apart. The eye of that storm hit Zimbabwe in mid ...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 17:12hrs | 1 | by David Coltart
Mnangagwa, a past tainted by a brutal massacre
When the soldiers in the red berets arrived in Alice Mwale's village in the fading light, they were not happy, ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by CNN
Jonathan Moyo refuses to recognise similarities between Mnangagwa & Mugabe! Two sides of a coin!
Jonathan Moyo sees an iconic leader in Robert Mugabe: we see a cruel fuehrer in Robert Mugabe who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist. Jonathan sees a great statesman in Robert Mugabe, we see a ruler who...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 17:27hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
'We should never remain hostages to our past,' says President Mnangagwa - without reforms, we are
Throughout his inauguration speech, President Mnangagwa, very careful NOT to promise the nation that next year's elections will be free, fair and credible. "That peace and harmony should be ch...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 17:30hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
President Mnangagwa's inauguration speech in full
This is the Acceptance Speech delivered by President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa at his inauguration at the National Sports Stadium on November 24, 2017Zimbabwe bac...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:01hrs | 30 | by ED Mnangagwa
Political Wisemen from The East! Where are you as political illiteracy grips The Opposition?
Today, I here-by, strangely, start my discussion with a multi-million US $ question! Multi-million US$ question with the intention of provoking pedigree political introspection upon Zimbabwe's mass bu...Published: 02 May 2017 at 18:06hrs | | by Reginald T. Gola
Robert Mugabe: Africa's finest son
Battles are won by men and women of physical, mental and moral mettle. They are fought in the trenches and the mind. The battles of the trenches are easier because the enemy is easily identifiable....Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Sekeramayi hand in Gukurahundi 'exposed'
DEFENCE minister Sydney Sekeramayi has been implicated as having been instrumental in the post-independence atrocities committed by President Robert Mugabe's government that left over 20 000 civil...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of Nera, Election Boycotts and Rigging
INTRODUCTIONCruel as it may sound, for progress sake I think it's safe if we assume that most Zimbabweans suffer from an extreme and dangerous case of dementia and are in dire need for medical att...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 17:51hrs | | by Mangosuthu Mbele
Malayitsha to appear in SA court on murder, robbery, assault charges
AN umalayitsha from Bulawayo with his South African wife and two other cross border drivers allegedly killed Zimbabwean travellers, raped dozens, kidnapped more than 100 and extorted cash from others....Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Escaped Nigerian girl misses her Boko Haram 'husband'
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) - Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.Amina ...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 07:21hrs | 31 | by CNN
Is Mugabe a hostage of his own power hunger?
Whenever I think of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, I am always reminded of those movies whereby an armed bank robber is trapped in the bank as he is now surrounded by the police and SWAT team, and ...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BREAKING: Gunman shot dead in cinema complex in Germany
There are reports that the gunman who had barricaded himself inside a cinema complex in western Germany has been shot dead.German media reports suggest a masked man with a gun and ammunition ...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Skull basher' arrested, found with victim's belongings
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man suspected to be the infamous "skull basher" who allegedly unleashed a reign of terror on residents mugging them and bashing their skulls with stones. At ...Published: 21 May 2016 at 21:52hrs | 2 | by Nqobile Tshili
Madhuku a victim of Stockholme Syndrome
Professor Lovemore Madhuku made a stunning volte face with regards to the way elections are conducted in the Republic of Zimbabwe. "Elections in the country have never been rigged and are ...Published: 19 May 2016 at 22:47hrs | 1 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Bishop takes a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe
Enough is enough says Bishop, Tudor Bismark. The leader of New Life Covenant Church was speaking to congregates at his church when he took a swipe at the corrupt political leadership in Zimbabwe....Published: 16 May 2016 at 21:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zapu's first intelligence officers
COMRADE Fox Adolphus Urayayi Ndambakuwa Muwani whose Chimurenga name was Larry Dube is one interesting comrade. He joined the liberation struggle from Ndola, Zambia on February 3, 1965 and went on to ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
900 Boko Haram hostages freed
Yaounde - Cameroon troops killed around 100 members of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group and freed 900 hostages in a three-day operation in the far north of the country, the defence ministry said ye...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 23:54hrs | 1 | by AFP
BREAKING: Hostage stand-off in French town
Lille - One or more armed men have taken hostages in a house in the northern French town of Roubaix, authorities said on Tuesday, but there was no immediate indication of a link to the Paris attacks....Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 20:44hrs | | by AFP
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