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Citizens underestimating their potential to effect change
Last week we discussed the worrying manifestation of the dysfunctional characteristics of self-pivoted human beings whose primary purpose in life is themselves, the idiots. We discussed a slightly adv...Published: 3 hrs ago | 18 | by Zifiso Masiye
14 year old boy rapes girl in church
A 27-YEAR-OLD man from Figtree, on the outskirts of Bulawayo along Plumtree road, who was jailed 15 years for raping an 86-year-old woman has claimed that he sneaked into the octogenarian's hut becaus...Published: 19 hrs ago | 5682 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK top the cruelty bar against their own
You might think that slavery is something you only read about in history books. Unfortunately, the sad and shocking truth is that slavery exists today both in our country and around the world. It is k...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 23:07hrs | 18322 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nkayi goblins shut down schools, female teachers wake up wearing male counterparts' trousers
Fudu primary and secondary schools in Nkayi, Matabeleland North Province, have been closed for three weeks after teachers fled in terror when female teachers woke up wearing their ma...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 20:50hrs | 3776 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube cut his nose to spite his face
ZIMBABWE businesses, grappling with the realities of hyperinflation and exchange rate induced losses, have pressed the panic button over worsening macro-economic conditions in the country, with severa...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 18:26hrs | 1916 | by Phillimon Mhlanga
The curious case of Peter Lobengula, the Prince of Salford
On a Wednesday morning in the spring on 1899 the Union Ocean liner called Goth sailing from Cape Town South Africa, docked in Southampton United Kingdom carrying the entire cast of a show called â€...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:50hrs | 53 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
Sanctions; the anguish of Zim women
Sanctions placed on Zimbabwe are erroneously said to be targeted on a few individuals and selected companies. I am a simple Zimbabwean woman and I have a harrowing tale that is shared by many a Zimbab...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:57hrs | 8 | by Gift Mashoko
Mnangagwa's spokesman back on Twitter after Pornography storm
Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has reactivated his Twitter account after shutting it down following an embarrassing pornography scandal.On Tuesday night, Charamba posted a link on h...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 11:18hrs | 181 | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe's nephew dumps Harare water project
LATE Former President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo Mugabe is under fire over failure to complete the Oddis Plant project his company and some Israelites were long contracted to work on by the Harare Ci...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:02hrs | 37 | by newzimbabwe
Grandpa swindles homeseekers of US$11 340
A 77-YEAR-OLD Harare grandpa has been arrested on charges of fleecing homeseekers of US$11 340 and $34 510 in a land scam.Oswell Nduma Gwanzura appeared before Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuch...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 14 years for raping former girlfriend
A MAN from Siantibule village in Binga has been jailed for 14 years after kidnapping his former girlfriend and taking her to his home where he allegedly raped her four times.Pangayitari Mudimb...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance' gang bail deferred
Bail ruling in the case of 11 suspected MDC-Alliance marshals who allegedly assaulted a police officer at a food court in Harare after declaring it a no-go area for police officers was yesterday postp...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 08:45hrs | 6 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MDC seeks police interdict
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has approached the High Court with an urgent application seeking an order to interdict Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Off...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Airport capacity utilisation drops to 10%
Kariba Airport, which is in urgent need of an upgrade, has been recording a decline in capacity utilisation, with latest figures showing that this has dropped to around 10 percent in 2018. Abo...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Lightning strikes woman fixing fowl run
A MATOBO woman died after she was struck by lightning while fixing a fowl run with her husband at their homestead. Matabeleland South acting provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Loveness ...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:18hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, govt running scared, says Chamisa
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accused authorities of running scared and working to destabilise the MDC - after hundreds of police cordoned off the party's national headquarters in Harare....Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:03hrs | 930 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police lock down Chamisa's HQ
POLICE yesterday shut down the MDC headquarters in Harare following the alleged discovery of 210 riot police and 41 municipal police helmets in a basement of a nearby building, but the opposition part...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:00hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland civic groups threaten to disrupt nurses' training
A GROUPING of civic groups, under the banner Matebeleland Collective (MC), has threatened to disrupt nurse training lessons at Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to force government to address ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:53hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Midlands mend cracks
MDC Midlands says it is busy mending cracks that emerged ahead of the 2018 harmonised elections within its structures in Shurugwi South district which saw the opposition party losing the parliamentary...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:47hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Govt, doctors head for arbitration
Government and striking doctors are now heading for arbitration following the expiration of the 48-hour ultimatum given by the Labour Court last Friday. Addressing a Press conference in Harare...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:31hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's plan to ship 33 of its baby elephants to China
A Chinese ground crew has just arrived to prepare 33 baby elephants for imminent shipment to China, according to sources near Hwang National Park. These elephants have been held in captivity for nearl...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 16:40hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Chemplex to supply water chemicals to all local authorities
Government has reappointed Chemplex Corporation, the country's largest chemical and fertiliser maker as the sole water chemicals' provider for all local authorities as a measure to promote import subs...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:25hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand US$ wages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been pushed against the wall by its restive workers who have tabled a new salary demand of at least US$475 or its equivalence of $7 267 at the prevailing ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2311 | by Staff reporter
Zupco kombis have come to towns and cities
If you can not beat them join them goes the legendary saying. Very true with kombi operators who are now literally stepping on each other's toes queueing to join the Zupco franchise. There is a lot of...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 18:07hrs | 4241 | by Tondo Murisa
Doctors' right to strike not absolute
THE right to strike distinguishes employment hum slavery. This is one of the reasons there was instantaneous revulsion when one very powerful country mendaciously claimed that Zimbabwe is using child ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1911 | by Nick Mangwana
'Hlabangana was operating illegally'
HLABANGANA Lounge was shut down by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) last Friday because it was operating illegally and Highlanders Football Club (where it was situated) were on the verge of losing thei...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:27hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Primary school pupils throw stones at Mnangagwa
A video of a group of primary school pupils stoning a banner of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2018 election banner has gone viral on social media. The pupils are seen throwing stones and othe...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 10:18hrs | 16605 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MaShurugwi are mere peace loving hardworking mortals!
In recent months our public media has been awash with stories of a group of artisanal miners by the name MaShurugwi, who for unfair reasons have come to be associated with a streak of cases of violenc...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1942 | by Sizalobuhle Khumalo
Matabeleland Collective speaks on tribal recruitment of student nurses in Matabeleland.
Matabeleland Collective strongly condemns the unfair, tribal motivated recruitment of student nurses at Brunapeg, Mangwe, Gwanda, only one student at St Lukes, over 95 % of student nurses at Mpilo Sch...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 12:52hrs | 1283 | by Matabeleland Collective
Nursing schools to be shutdown over tribal recruitment exercise
Matabeleland residents have vowed to shut down the nursing schools in the region until the recent recruitment exercise that saw a lot of students from Mashonaland being recruited in place of locals is...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 10:05hrs | 3128 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Thief' spears man (65) to death
A 65-year-old man from Inyathi died after being stabbed three times with a spear by a suspected thief who had broken into his son's homestead and stolen four bags of cement. Acting Matabelelan...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders Hlabangana Lounge shut down
BARELY five months after the opening of Hlabangana Lounge in Bulawayo, the popular outdoor joint has reportedly been shut down by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), allegedly due to licensing issues. ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Daily News lampoons Jonathan Moyo
The Daily News has lampooned the self-exiled former Cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo, for suggesting that its sister newspaper, The Financial Gazette, is owned by the country's notorious Central Intell...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:23hrs | 7885 | by Staff reporter
'Real churches do not reward sin' MDC youths tell pastors
The MDC Youth Assembly is highly appalled by the Zimbabwe Head of Christian Denominations' suggestion to suspend all electoral process for a period of seven years.While we agree that the...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 17:20hrs | 858 | by Stephen Sarkozy Chuma
BCC defends channelling of funds to 'Zanu-PF' ward
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has defended a decision to channel devolution funds towards Ward 28 saying the ward was considered a priority area as it is the least developed. Bulawayo ...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:21hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
8 new magistrates sworn-in
The Judicial Service Commission yesterday swore-in eight new magistrates, seven of them female, in a move that acting Chief Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi said would ease the backlog of cases before th...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:14hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's tax evasion outs govt
The Zanu-PF government is taxing people dead on one hand, but is an artful dodger of tax on the other. That's an insulting contradiction.Months ago, Mthuli Ncube, the Finance minister, introdu...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:40hrs | 747 | by Tawanda Majoni
Become a fashion influencer
A FASHION influencer is a personality that has a large number of followers on social media, creates mainly fashion content and has the power to influence the opinion and purchase behaviour of others w...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:22hrs | 27 | by Rutendo Chidawanyika
The Mugabe legacy, the ignominy of failed G40 politicking
The controversy and contradiction surrounding the memory of the late former President Robert Mugabe is telling of the extent to which his legacy was abused both in life and in his afterlife.Th...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:06hrs | 55 | by Lewis Matutu
24 suburbs on 48hr water shutdown
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday effected a 48-hour water shutdown affecting 24 suburbs mostly in the western areas to stabilise water supply at one of its reservoirs that has fallen to critical ...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zexcom thanks Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe Ex-Combatants (Zexcom) will convene an Annual General Meeting today at the Zanu-PF Headquarters which will seek to inform members on the current state of affairs and thank the New Dispensatio...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 05:50hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South EPO challenges rural schools
RURAL schools should embrace the new curriculum and come up with programmes that will enhance development within their provinces, Matebeleland South Education Planning Officer, Mr Godfrey Mathuthu has...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 288 | by Siphosami Mhlanga
Mnangagwa tries the Kagame way
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to emulate his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame's economic development model, which blends authoritarian practices and homegrown solutions with international best...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2115 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF behind machete-wielding panners'
The opposition MDC has alleged that warring machete-wielding artisanal miners in Mashonaland Central province are under Zanu-PF control.MDC's provincial chairperson George Gwarada challenged a...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
US ups economic war on Zimbabwe
The United States has escalated its political and economic war against Zimbabwe in the past few weeks, despite spirited efforts by the New Dispensation to re-engage on an equal footing with a vi...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 227 | by Trevor Shiri
'People vote Zanu PF notwithstanding hardship and repression' - repressed, per se, don't have free vote
Professor Lovemore Madhuku, leader of the opposition party the National Constitution Assembly, should wash his mouth with bleach; the foul insults coming from him are intolerable. "Go to a by-...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 06:09hrs | 242 | by Nomusa Garikai
High Court sets EcoCash hearing date
The High Court on Wednesday set Friday as the date when it will hear the case in which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) ban on mobile money cash-in and cash-out services is being challenged....Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 19:53hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Fear, uncertainty for migrants in SA after xenophobic attacks
Reeling from a terrifying surge of unrest that saw his shop wrecked and plundered, Nigerian-born Alvan Akujinwa toyed with the possibility of leaving his adopted home of South Africa for the first tim...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 19:42hrs | 294 | by AFP
Mnangagwa sets up special team to deal with state violence
BARELY a week after United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Clement Nyaletsossi Vaule delivered a damning report on Zimbabwe's state of human rights and eager to please the world, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 532 | by newzimbabwe
SA-based brothers sjambok dad to death
Two South Africa-based siblings are on the run after they allegedly fatally assaulted their father in Mwenezi after accusing him of witchcraft. According to the police, Clayton (22) and Langto...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:32hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
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