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US hunter kills two Zimbabwean elephants; claims self defence
AN American hunter who who shot dead two elephants with his friend has seen his company's website and social media sites swamped with furious messages.Photos of Mike Jines standing over the co...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 09:02hrs | 2471 | by Agencies
Several feared dead as Wanderer Mine collapses
Several illegal gold panners are feared dead after the collapse of a mine shaft at Wanderer Mine in Shurugwi.The number of people trapped inside is not known but police and experts are on the ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 14:05hrs | 3362 | by Staff reporter
What if witchcraft is our technology?
One of my aunts is a drama queen. She is bubbly and energetic, and a storyteller of note. Whenever she is around, we all find ourselves surrounding her and listening to tale after tale of her adventur...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 751 | by Thandekile Moyo
Chiefs in a fix over settling witchcraft cases
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matabeleland said they were in a fix over how to handle cases of witchcraft because of the contradictions between constitutional law and local culture.The Constitution d...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 722 | by Staff writer
One Night Stand
When we met at the bar last night, slurred speech and double vision had set in and it wouldn't have mattered to me if she had said she was a Zanu PF supporter - I still would have gone home with her. ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 4218 | by Jerà
Confusion over Botswana’s elephant population
Botswana’s parliament recently passed a motion considering lifting the ban on elephant trophy hunting, citing an increase in both the elephant population and human-elephant conflict (HEC) as their m...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1255 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Zimbabwe fire incidents explained
Zimbabwe Republic Police has urged members of the public to be cautious of individuals or groups who are trying to link recent fire incidents to all sorts of speculations yet facts on the ground are c...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:39hrs | 6659 | by Staff reporter
Founded on cruelty, fuelled by money
Are we about to see the end of one of South Africa's most infamous practices - Captive Lion Breeding (CLB) for hunting and trading of their parts? If Parliament adopts the recommendations of a hard-hi...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 11:56hrs | 1154 | by Andreas Wilson-Späth
Missing cop found dead
A POLICE officer stationed at Tsholotsho who reportedly went missing last month was found dead in Gweru, with an inyanga who had lured him alleged to have killed him. Constable Edmond Sibanda ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:23hrs | 2455 | by Staff reporter
Threat to Mnangagwa's economic agenda
As prices rise and the foreign currency black market becomes volatile, Zanu PF will find it harder to resist the urge to repeat its old errors. And, in the centre of it all, will be Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2938 | by newZWire
Chamisa gets backing from war vets
War veterans in Joice Mujuru's National People's Party (NPP) yesterday took part in the time-honoured Zimbabwean political tradition of switching team jerseys to Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance....Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 15:38hrs | 2658 | by Staff reporter
Hyena snatches, kills boy (6)
TERROR has engulfed Buhera after an aggressive hyena snatched a six-year-old boy from his parents' doorstep, viciously killed him and dropped off his mutilated skeleton in a nearby riverbed in the mid...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 847 | by Staff reporter
Another GNU in the making?
The 2018 elections in Zimbabwe bear strong similarities to those of 1980: the promise of a new beginning after almost two decades of political strife, economic crisis and social decay; the numerical d...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | 1006 | by Ibbo Mandaza
It's a do-or-die for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a precarious course, as he faces critical and possibly realigning elections - which could usher dramatic changes in the political landscape - and bring to a sudden h...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:23hrs | 5884 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF a league of hynas and jackals - Mujuru youths
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The general elections are 10 days away and we still haven't seen any electoral reforms, worse, the voters roll is still littered with ghost voters coupled with clumsy...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 20:14hrs | 954 | by NPP National Youth Chairman
Witch-hunters divide village
CHAOS has rocked Mbonqani Village in Bulilima as villagers are divided over witch-hunters with some dismissing them as robbers who stripped them of their livestock after "planting" goblins at their ho...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Cleansing ceremony for Gweru- Kwekwe highway black spot
Redcliff town is set to conduct a cleansing ceremony along the 20km stretch from Hunters bridge flyover to Kwekwe bridge flyover along the Gweru-Kwekwe highway to curb the surge in fatal road traffic ...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 06:45hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
SA hunters to shoot 2000 Zambian hippos
South African hunters will take part in the slaughter of 2 000 hippos in the pristine Luangwa Valley in Zambia. This follows a shock move by the Zambian government, which overturned a 2016 decision to...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:33hrs | 1489 | by Janine Avery
WATCH: Cowdray Park 'goblin' captured
A Goblin, Mike Maqobola, alleged to have been leading a gang of invisible beings in terrorising Cowdray Park residents, has finally been captured in a two-hour dramatic Nigerian movie style exor...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | 5881 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Rapist goblins
A PESKY goblin called Mike Maqobola is allegedly leading invisible beings to terrorise Cowdray Park residents, assaulting, sodomising and sleeping with women.Sources from the suburb said they ...Published: 30 May 2018 at 08:28hrs | 2628 | by Staff reporter
The continuous aggression in the unmaking of African religion
African religion continues to suffer violence and aggression in the post-colonial era in the hands of its own target beneficiaries! (Matthew 11:12). And it is them that must rise and save it by force ...Published: 28 May 2018 at 15:58hrs | 1666 | by Reginald T. Gola
Tsikamutandas recover school property
COMMUNITY members at Makupa resettlement area in Kezi, Matabeleland South province heaved a sigh of relief when stolen school roofing material was recovered through the services of a witch hunting ban...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:58hrs | 634 | by Staff rpeorter
Mugabe farm: Chaos reigns in 'Grace lands'
A few metres from former first lady Grace Mugabe's sprawling soya bean crop in Mazowe, about 40km north of Harare, a group of men are opening up mother earth using pickaxes, hoes and shovels scouting ...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:34hrs | 2738 | by Staff reporter
Voting for Zanu pf will take us further back
People always make a comparison between Zimbabwe and our neighbours, South Africa, especially after a visit there. Someone will say our country could have been like this Africa economic giant because ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 07:27hrs | 603 | by AT Kadada
Man fights crocodile with bare hands
February 2, 2018, will forever be ingrained in the mind of Takawira Marume (55) from Mudetsa Village under headman Murwira in Buhera.It's a day that he will never forget.The day starte...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | 2037 | by Staff reporter
'You want lunch in Dubai!' Chivayo taunt MPs - MPs accepting bribes is accepted gravy train etiquette
"What were MPs expecting to find on a site for a potential solar power station? A triple story 10 bedroomed mansion with a tennis court and a swimming pool?" commented Nicknell Chiyayo, the young bucc...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 20:30hrs | 4018 | by Nomusa Garikai
U.S. the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies
The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump's recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Departmen...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 09:02hrs | 3046 | by Adam Cruise
Efforts to revive NRZ gather momentum
GOVERNMENT and a consortium led by the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) and South Africa's Transnet, have signed a framework of agreement as efforts to revive the National Railways of ...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:08hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Two officers die on the spot in road accident
Two Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement extension officers in the Midlands died on the spot when their motorbike was hit from behind by a speeding Nissan Navara on Monday evening, po...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 22:39hrs | 4498 | by Staff Reporter
Ginyilitshe defends Zimbabwe military coup in new book
Ambassador Cain Mathema, who is also the Minister of State for Matabeleland North Provincial Affairs, has written and published a book entitled: 'I Defend Zimbabwe`s Defence and Security Forces,' with...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:14hrs | 2138 | by Staff reporter
Man fathers son with own daughter
In a bizarre incident a 78-year-old man from St Albert's in Mashonaland Central allegedly raped his daughter and fathered a son.Vasco Vega (78) from Gweshure village under chief Nembire was ex...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 15:55hrs | 1880 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Flying witch' falls, breaks arms and legs
A self proclaimed witch allegedly broke her legs and arms after falling from a winnowing basket in an alleged 'head on collision' in the air.The 73 year old widow, Regina Simion, from Lucknow ...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 20:20hrs | 4593 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tsikamutandas planted strange objects
FAKE Tsikamutandas in Chakohwa Village are placing witchcraft paraphernalia in villagers' homesteads and accusing people of possessing goblins in an attempt to lure clients.This was revealed b...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:27hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
Obituary: Jamusi MacKenzie (1973 - 2017) - A Brave Hunter and Conservationist
Most people know the late Jamusi MacKenzie only as a Professional Hunter and Guide, but he was a lot of other things to many people.I first met Jamusi MacKenzie in the 1990s when we were both ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 12:22hrs | 1091 | by Laiton Kandawire, a Patsaka Correspondent
Cyanide poisoning claim 251 elephants since 2013
251 elephants have been killed due to cyanide poisoning since 2013 as the country continues to battle with the worrying scourge of poaching which is threatening Zimbabwe's wildlife heritage.Th...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 13:00hrs | 551 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa want tsikamutandas arrested
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for the arrest of witch-hunters, commonly referred to as tsikamutandas, describing their practice as unlawful.Mnangagwa made the call during Parl...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:45hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
The origins of Doma tribes and their displacement
The Doma tribes originated from Doma North of Mhangura nine.The Doma of today are slightly different from the Domas of yesteryear, culturally, economically and socially.Today the Doma trib...Published: 20 Sep 2017 at 18:32hrs | 1195 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Mnangagwa's fate in Mugabe's hands?
Like one at the end of a bungee rope, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa always springs back while those who love the nerve-wrecking sport talk of their experiences.After falling sick in Gwanda...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:01hrs | 1454 | by Staff reporter
Feared sngaoma turns neighbour's son into goblin
A VILLAGE in Filabusi has "distinguished" itself as an extraordinary haven for wizards and witches.This came to light after a family claimed their son who went missing in February this year wa...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:58hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
'Headman's snake' wipes out village herd
JACK the snake!A headman from Insuza Matabeleland North's Village 19, Cephas Mdlongwa is being accused of owning a snake that has killed villagers' livestock.The snake reportedly resid...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Cry the beloved Zimbabwe, our nurses have lost the passion to serve, at your pocket's service
Nurses have a professional duty to respect patients' dignity. But a visit in our hospitals back home is a chilling experience. Where starting from the door the security guards treat relatives of patie...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 14:44hrs | 1310 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Khupe, Moyo, Bhebhe tribalists
THE thinking of Thokozani Khupe, Lovemore Moyo and Abednico Bhebhe should not be entertained and any attempts to listen to them in my view will be first-class stupidity. The three are against the invo...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 06:44hrs | 1935 | by Gugu Magorira
Cops warn chiefs against witch hunter invites
POLICE have warned traditional leaders against inviting tsikamutandas into their communities as their activities are illegal.Speaking to chiefs from Bulilima District at the third quarter Mata...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:43hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
This is Zimbabwe, We should back Strive Masiyiwa
Children of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana and King Lobengula Khumalo can you hear the new Zimbabwe echo from rock to rock and shrub to shrub in the wet and weathered hills and ridges and slippery slopes ...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 07:49hrs | 8392 | by Tafi Mhaka
Dog meat vendor records brisk business in Bulawayo
A HOMELESS Bulawayo man has been skinning carcasses of dogs that would have been put down by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and selling the meat to some residents....Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 06:30hrs | 3871 | by Staff reporter
Irregularities surrounding death of Cecil the Lion's son
The death of Cecil's son, Xanda at the hands of trophy hunters on 7 July is mired in confusion. He was shot just outside Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, near the spot his father had been killed by Am...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 09:27hrs | 986 | by Adam Cruise
Zimbabwe should not allow export of Xanda's remains without a full investigation, says HSI
In a letter to The Honorable Oppah Muchinguri MP, the Minister of Environment, Water and Climate of Zimbabwe, Humane Society International is calling on the government of Zimbabwe to investigate the i...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 16:08hrs | 809 | by Agencies
Zimbabwean exiles: Life in the dark valley between starvation and desperate poverty
A fresh wave of reluctant economic exiles from across the Limpopo River now calls South Africa home. And burrowed deep within a five-kilometre radius of one nondescript shopping mall situated in the h...Published: 13 Jul 2017 at 10:50hrs | 713 | by Tafi Mhaka
Witch hunters in bid to kill magistrates
BUSINESS at the Gweru Magistrates' Court was brought to a standstill on Friday after two self-proclaimed tsikamutandas arrived at the court looking for two magistrates and an interpreter saying they w...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 07:58hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
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