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Young Warriors, Young Zebras draw
Zimbabwe Under-20 1 - 1 Botswana Under-20Zimbabwe's Under-20 football team, the Young Warriors, were left to rue missed opportunities and lapses in concentration as they drew 1-1 against Bot...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:15hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
I am suffocating and sick of crying
I am suffocating and sick of crying and dying for fresher air. I died in May, June and July, last year, and died forever in a shallow swamp on April 18, 1983. Later on, I died in a river full of class...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 28 | by Tafi Mhaka
'Ideologically bankrupt' Ramaphosa's ANC in a governance tailspin
To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement.Never has the party with a majority of votes fou...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Sipho Seepe
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cop sent robbers to raid best friend
THE person you trust might be the one who could betray you and leave you with scars of betrayal and heartbreak.This is what businessman Never Sarukore who was recently robbed at gunpoint by a ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Scammers invade Bulawayo using job offers, many residents cry foul
As universities are churning out thousands of graduates to the world, Bulawayo residents have their lives at risk as they try to navigate survival means a...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:03hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Barbara Rwodzi's assault case takes new twist
Lawyers representing Citizens Coalition for Change (Chirumanzu South losing candidate, Patrick Chez and four others, who are accused of assaulting Tourism deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi have que...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields, the new theatre of dreams
IT is an abomination that might cause the likes of George Shaya, Gift "Ghetto" Mpariwa, Shacky Tauro and Joel "Jubilee" Shambo to turn in their graves.But that is the reality on the ground....Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Electoral uncertainty is a form of rigging
FOR any election to be adjudged as free, fair and credible, it has to have a certain level of certainty in how it's called, conducted and results announced. However, in Zimbabwe's case nothing is cert...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stage set for bruising August 23 polls
ZIMBABWEANS head to the polls on August 23 after President Emmerson Mnangagwa made the long-awaited proclamation yesterday.Mnangagwa's proclamation in an Extraordinary Government Gazette set t...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stage set for bruising August 23 polls in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEANS head to the polls on August 23 after President Emmerson Mnangagwa made the long-awaited proclamation yesterday.Mnangagwa's proclamation in an Extraordinary Government Gazette set t...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt shuts down Bikita Minerals
ZIMBABWE'S largest lithium mine Bikita Minerals, currently owned by China's Sinomine Resource Group, has been ordered to suspend operations until it complies with legal provisions that include labour,...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Munetsi calls out SRC, Zifa, again
FRANCE-BASED Warriors midfielder Marshall Munetsi has rued the missed opportunity to play 2022 World Cup semi-finalists Morocco in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers, owing to the Zi...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must reign in his son in-law, says football fans
FOOTBALL supporters have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in the impasse between Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) and suspended Zifa board members which led to Zimbabwe's suspe...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Young Turks plot surprises
DAGGERS are out in Zanu-PF as aspiring youthful candidates turn on the heat on the party's old guard ahead of the ruling party's primary elections.It appears the ruling party has opened up the...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean sangoma kidnapped and forced to say he is 'a fake healer'
Zimbabwe-born and South Africa-based traditional healer Khokhovula Gandabaloyi has opened a case of kidnapping and extortion against who he believes are people responsible for his kidnapping in Januar...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Phase out single-sex schools in Bulawayo'
EDUCATION authorities are considering transforming single-sex Government schools in Bulawayo into mixed ones as part of measures to address gang-related violence in learning institutions.Bulaw...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
U2 announce comeback on the Las Vegas Stage
Everyone's favourite Irish rock band, U2, will make a more than welcome return to the stage later this year. The world-famous group has followed in the footsteps of Adele and Celine Dion, announcing t...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 15:22hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Fire Minister Kirsty Coventry
I am not sounding like a racist but whoever thought that introducing Kirsty Coventry to take charge of the Ministry of Sport just because she excelled well in winning swimming awards needs their brain...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 22:44hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Triple C: Puny-wise, Pint Foolish!
Obdurate immaturityIT is not like Nelson Chamisa had not been warned, whether by living men or by past circumstances. Both did; yet he still hurtled headlong towards yet another blunder, which...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Jamwanda
Chariots of death' on Zimbabwe's roads
WHILE speaking at the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) in Bulawayo recently, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona revealed that 1 559 people were kille...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | | by Pamenus Tuso
Fluttering the Triple C dovecote
Horror times for Triple CKikikiki, Professor Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have caused a perfect storm in Chamisa's already troubled, and inexorably shrinking space. They have written to "c...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law not in a hurry to get Zimbabwe's FIFA suspension lifted
ZIMBABWE Football Association (ZIFA) and Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) have indicated that they are in no hurry to get the country's FIFA suspension lifted. Mlotshwa, who was presenti...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1 | by on Saturday
Rogue drivers menace on Zimbabwe roads
THE general behaviour of motorists on Zimbabwe's roads ranges from shocking to bizarre.It is now common to see motorists breezing through red traffic lights or overtaking in prohibited zones. ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's wife claims she was arrested for refusing to pay a bribe to traffic cops
JAILED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Job Sikhala's wife Ellen has pleaded not guilty to the charges of violating road rules telling the court that officers wanted a bribe from her....Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa finally proves 'sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe' a big fat lie!
I have always asserted to my friends that, as much as state media is an insufferable drag to read or watch - due to the pathetic and disgraceful substandard work - but, most of the Zimbabwe regime's l...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 09:31hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bosso's Tandi on the mend
HIGHLANDERS central defender Andrew Tandi, who has been out of action for four months, is happy with his recovery.Tandi sustained a fibula fracture following a challenge by former Dynamos stri...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cricket attracting UK talent
Somerset will be looking for a new bowling coach over the winter, with Steve Kirby set to leave the county to take up an equivalent role with Zimbabwe.Kirby, a former player for Somerset befor...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 07:44hrs | | by Associated Press
Chamisa says nobody has monopoly over state institutions
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has blasted Zanu-PF leadership whom he claims are behind violence orchestrated on his party faithful saying the ruling party must always bear ...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bosso road woes hit 32 winless matches
Herentals 1 - 1 HighlandersBULAWAYO giants Highlanders' struggles on the road continued yesterday when a late equaliser by Herentals striker forward John Zhuwao ended hopes that Bosso had of...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Businessman locks horns with top judges
A Harare businessman has accused deputy chief justice Elizabeth Gwaunza of abuse of office in a case where he lost a property worth over US$230 000.Tendai Mashamhanda, who is fighting to regai...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in no hurry to relax masks mandate
GOVERNMENT says it is in "no hurry" to relax mandatory wearing of face masks despite a decline in new COVID-19 infections in the country.On Tuesday, Information and Publicity minister Monica M...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Your 'new dispensation' claims are banal
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, authority of the Office of the President is being undermined by the incumbent.Oftentimes your speeches are unwholesome and not in tan...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa's govt snubs salary talks
GOVERNMENT yesterday snubbed the much-awaited salary talks with its restive workers under the auspices of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC), a development likely to fuel mistrust and escal...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fail to break nurses' strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday dispatched riot police with dogs at Harare's Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in a futile attempt to stop nurses from protesting against low salaries and poor working conditions....Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants fret over stagnant salaries
CIVIL servants have expressed dismay over government's failure to increase their salaries to cushion them against inflation and the country's weekly price rampage.Since Monday this week, gover...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change in Zimbabwe is a big word and act
THIS country requires to make hard decisions and act in a radical manner for any sensible economic transformation to be upon us. However, we are expecting change of our economic fortunes using the sam...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Brian Sedze
EU divided over Russian sanctions
EU citizens are being asked to make great sacrifices to support a sanctions regime against Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine. But how long will Western consumers be willing to live without...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | | by Robert Bridge
Mnangagwa's son in-law not bothered about Zifa suspension
THE Sports and Recreation Commission have said they are not in a hurry to lift the suspension of the ZIFA board as a condition for reinstatement of Zimbabwe's membership by FIFA and will only do so on...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC duo reveal abduction ordeal
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) activists Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have revealed horrific accounts of torture, including being forced to sing war songs and drink each other's urine by th...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-army general's son says gukurahundi is his priority
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday pledged to bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue once he assumes power, saying Zanu-PF officials were not in a hurry to ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagnwa's son-in law needs to resolve Zifa suspension urgently
AS had been expected, the decision by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC), the sports regulating body in Zimbabwe to meddle in the affairs of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has come a...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa can only lose and Malema has everything to gain
As things stand, Cyril Ramaphosa has no more than six years to get South Africa on the road to shared wealth and prosperity, while Julius Malema has at least a decade to build his base and whip up the...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Ismail Lagardien
Mugabe was indeed better but so scary to imagine what that means for today's Zimbabwe!
Sitting around waiting for electricity that has been gone for over eighteen hours - from around midnight, and still nothing as I write this article at five in the afternoon - so as to engage in some p...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 16:03hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BREAKING: Mwonzora expels Thokozani Khupe from Parliament
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has recalled MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe from parliament. This was revealed by Khupe during a press conference held on Wednesday...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 09:41hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Warriors seek AFCON consolation
IT'S a tournament the players would want to forget in a hurry, given they flattered only to deceive in light of the massive financial support they have received from the Government through the Sports ...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP's wife granted protection order
BULAWAYO lawyer and former MDC-Alliance Member of Parliament for Binga North, Prince Dubeko Sibanda has been ordered to allow his wife back into their matrimonial home by a local magistrate.Si...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bosso in no hurry to appoint substantive CEO
HIGHLANDERS Football Club are not in a hurry to find a substantive chief executive officer after the club parted ways with Nhlanhla Dube whose contract expired at the end of last month.Highlan...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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