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If I can be Chamisa’s advisor only for a day
Nelson kindly allow me to be your advisor only for today. In Shona they say ‘vamwe vakaudzwa hondo nemurwere wepfungwa’ which can be loosely translated as, in life you can get advice even from the...Published: 16 hrs ago | 498 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyoo
Misihairabwi stands by Khupe
FIREBRAND Proportional Representation legislator for Matabeleland South, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, yesterday filed nomination papers on behalf of former MDC-T vice president, Dr Thokozani Khupe...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu courts chiefs' wrath
THE legal fight between Minister of Home Affairs and Culture Dr Obert Mpofu and Chief Felix Nhlanhla Ndiweni got a little nastier last Friday, when the latter teamed up with two other chiefs from Mata...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1813 | by Staff reporter
Jukwa threatens to kill wife
A GWANDA woman has been granted a protection order against her abusive husband who was in the habit of locking her outside their house while undressed in the middle of the night.Mrs Thalia Juk...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:45hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa delivers US World Cup bid
ZIMBABWE yesterday stuck to its promise and delivered a vote to the United Bid fronted by the United States in its successful battle to win the rights to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup finals. The Unite...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:14hrs | 798 | by Sports Reporter
DStv should stop abusing its customers, or get out of Zimbabwe!
Digital television satellite service provider, DStv - which is operated by MultiChoice Zimbabwe - has had a pride of place in Zimbabweans' homes for a long time, and had always been regarded as an alt...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | 4191 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Hold me to account for my pledges,' says ED - good, he pledged free and fair elections
The more I listens to President Emerson Mnangagwa the more I dislike the man. He is a corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs who is out to con everyone that he has changed when he has ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:16hrs | 754 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa heads to Masvingo
Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans Victor Matemadanda has urged Zimbabweans to vote for President Mnangagwa on July 30 as he is an exemplary leader who pursues national interests. He said this while a...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:06hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Squatter camps turned into Sodom, Gomorrah
From illegal settlements in Crowborough, Churu and Eyestone farms to poky informal shelters built on undesignated sites, there are now a huge number of squatter camps mushrooming across Zimbabwe's cap...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 16:27hrs | 3655 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere disappointed Mugabe party - Mliswa
Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa has said National Patriotic Front Party (NPF) are disappointed that Saviour Kasukuwere did not join them after coming back from exile.Mliswa took i...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 12:28hrs | 4511 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa 'employs' underfire prison officer
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa (pictured) has promised to employ in his security department a Chiredzi prison officer who was charged and is set to appear before an internal tribun...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:58hrs | 3026 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance too unstable to govern
A delusion is defined simply as a belief or impression that is falsely held despite being contradicted by reality and rational argument. There have been many of those around. One of the most prominent...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 06:41hrs | 456 | by Nick Mangwana
Mama: please give us a sign; Mat'land region is doomed with either Chamisa or Mnangagwa as president! What should we do, Mama?
Chamisa's advisers tell him to lie, shout, make a lot of noise and utter falsehood as much as he can until July the 30 the election day. Chamisa does that eloquently, does not disappoint. Malema's wor...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 20:26hrs | 3411 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa charms military
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has pledged improved living standards for the country's servicemen and to depoliticise the national spy agency which he says has been abused to torme...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:58hrs | 6750 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park after goblins
TWO weeks ago, residents from Cowdray Park in Bulawayo, who had been haunted by an alleged goblin named Maqobola, heaved a sigh of relief after it was exorcised by self-styled prophets.Despite...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
The hypocrisy of Chamisa's Manifesto
I admit it. I am a geek. I am probably one of maybe ten Zimbabweans who actually read the manifestos from start to finish. Yes, to an extent manifesto writing is almost as much of a waste of time as r...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:59hrs | 1376 | by Anthony Mkondo
Ray Goba risks losing his job
PROSECUTOR-general Ray Goba risks losing his job after the Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) asked him to give reasons why a tribunal should not be set up to investigate his suitability to hold offic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:47hrs | 934 | by Staff Reporter
Social media liars, you better get it straight, ask Chofamba Sithole
There is no better combination in a journalist than possessing both intelligence and objectivity in equal measure, particularly so in this knowledge-based world where information and misinformation is...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 17:21hrs | 369 | by Conway Tutani
Grand National Unity?
"The turbulence in India this time hasn't come from foreign invasion or conquest; it has been generated from within. India cannot respond in her old way, by a further retreat into archaism. Her borrow...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:38hrs | 126 | by Igomombe
We played your game for too long
As present day events unfold in front of me, I enviously look back at my past, and characters that were around me when I grew up. The picture of my late grandmother, (Mbuya Chikaka) flashes vividly in...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 17:34hrs | 3844 | by Garikai Mafirakureva
'Hubby cuts my undergarments'
A HARARE woman is at loggerheads with her husband whom she accused of cutting her undergarments with a scissors.Hilda Chamboko bared it all at the Harare Civil court where she was seeking for ...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | 2537 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's Attitude Problem
Manifestos are often mundane policy heavy affairs. The launches are produced with much fanfare, and policies are thrown around from housing to health, infrastructure to ICT. Policies which...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:14hrs | 4406 | by Jealousy Dutiro
NPA stops prosecution of Lumumba over Mugabe insult case
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has withdrawn charges against opposition political party leader William Gerald Mutumanje Lumumba after conceding that prosecuting him on charges of undermining...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 14:50hrs | 308 | by Stephen Jakes
Despite his youth, Chamisa today proved he is stuck in the past
For a while, I have had today, the date of the MDC manifesto launch, pencilled into my calendar as Decision Day. For weeks and even months now, as social media has been full of people proudly declarin...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 14:45hrs | 2828 | by Charles Kanye
Gukurahundi: The axe may forget but the tree remembers
I ALMOST threw up in my mouth recently when I read that Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary general, Victor Matemadanda had said former President Robert Mugabe wa...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | 878 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Insults, nastiness do not win votes
The election date has been proclaimed and campaigning has shifted gears upwards for all serious political parties.We are seeing all sorts of attention- seeking gimmickry being deployed. The pr...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 265 | by Nick Mangwana
A time for calm heads
Anyone with even the most basic understanding of Zimbabwean history will have been nervous last week to hear the chilling words of MDC-T youth chairperson, Happymore Chidziva, that "we will make the c...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 09:41hrs | 723 | by Mike, Harare
Zanu-PF supporters vow to 'donate' Tsholotsho to MDC
THE chaos that characterised the Zanu-PF Tsholotsho North constituency primaries could turn out to be a bane for the party, with some supporters vowing to play a bhora musango on the "imposed" candida...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi challenges Zanu-PF members
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has challenged party members to close ranks to ensure a crushing victory for President Mnangagwa in the forthcoming harmonised elections to enable him to deliver his vision...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa made sure I was removed from Zanu-PF party structures'
FORMER Kwekwe Central legislator Masango Matambanadzo - affectionately known in Kwekwe and national political circles as "Blackman" partly due to his dark complexion - has opened up to The Standard on...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:17hrs | 5442 | by Staff reporyer
'Zimbabwe banks ripping-off clients'
Employees in the financial and banking sector under the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (Zibawu) have accused banks of ripping-off clients while paying them slave wages.The workers, in...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:28hrs | 2323 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa scarf' causes storm in Parly
ZANU-PF Kuwadzana Member of Parliament Betty Kaseke caused a stir in the National Assembly on Wednesday after she entered the august House while putting on a scarf with colours associated with the Zim...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 15:02hrs | 6354 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mliswa calls female politicians 'bench warmers'
Female lawmakers in Zimbabwe criticised a male colleague after he referred to them as "bench warmers." Temba Mliswa made the comment while contributing to a debate about the welfare of war vet...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 13:45hrs | 422 | by Satff reporter
Mliswa causes Parliament storm
NORTON legislator, Temba Mliswa (independent) caused a storm in Parliament yesterday, when he proposed that war veterans should dump Zanu PF for neglecting them, adding that the proportional represent...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2451 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mohadi speak on elections
Zanu-PF members who contested in the party's primary elections should reconcile and sell Zanu-PF to the electorate to win the harmonised elections slated for July 30, Vice President Kembo Mohadi said ...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga panics over bhora musango
Zanu-PF members who contested in the party's primary elections should reconcile and sell Zanu-PF to the electorate to win the harmonised elections slated for July 30, Vice President Kembo Mohadi said ...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | 454 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean comedian discloses her HIV status online
FACEBOOK comedy sensation Mai TT is trending after hogging the limelight on Monday when she openly stated that her ex-husband Tapiwa Mutikani infected her with HIV years back and was spreading the dis...Published: 30 May 2018 at 07:33hrs | 3724 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo Women! Boycott Highlanders-Bosso Games!
This misogynist: woman-hater Mandla "Lulu" Mpofu must be taught a lesson by the very women he hates apparently with passion. Mandla thinks a car is better than his wife. He manhandles his wife for jus...Published: 29 May 2018 at 16:44hrs | 2710 | by Nomazulu Thata
Prison officer in soup for 'praising' Chamisa
A PRISON officer based in Chiredzi has been summoned to appear before the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services internal disciplinary hearing after he allegedly heaped praises on main opposition ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:31hrs | 2269 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to subpoena Chamisa's youth militia commander
THE Dr Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is planning to subpoena the commander of the so-called Vanguard youth militia, Mr Shakespeare Mukoyi, from the rival Mr Nelson Chamisa camp, to tell the court of the g...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:27hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer arrested for allegedly undermining the authority of Mnangagwa
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have charged a 36 year-old man for allegedly undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa through posting some political comments on social media.The Zimbabwe Prisons and Co...Published: 28 May 2018 at 16:01hrs | 3917 | by Byo24News Reporter
Beyond bullet trains and homestead airports
What exactly is the MDC Alliance offering in this election? I ask because I have failed to point precisely what I, as an ordinary person, stand to benefit under their Government, should they win the f...Published: 28 May 2018 at 14:24hrs | 1537 | by Mapozho Saruchera
The world trusts Mnangagwa, So should we
From the moment he assumed office, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set about reversing the slide into the economic decay, isolationism and a foreign investor's nightmare.The numbers have spir...Published: 28 May 2018 at 09:10hrs | 1973 | by Charles (student)
In German language: 'Chamisa ist nicht mehr zu retten'
These are sexist and misogynistic punctuations of Chamisa the Advocate yet again. Having made several gaffes the past five months: it appears he needs to open up his mouth, off comes another gaffe fro...Published: 27 May 2018 at 20:07hrs | 2720 | by Nomazulu Thata
CIO wants to kill ex-minister
Former Higher and Tertiary education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has accused members of the Central Intelligence Organisation of threatening to kill him after his decision to contest the forthcomi...Published: 27 May 2018 at 18:21hrs | 5183 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels heat over Mukupe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under huge pressure to sack under fire junior minister Terence Mukupe over a litany of controversial actions and statements that he has made in recent weeks, whic...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:32hrs | 3215 | by Staff reporter
Mukupe enjoys good relationship with Chinamasa
Under-fire deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe has claimed he enjoys a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.This comes amid reports of fierce run-ins between the two a...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:29hrs | 1116 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa clueless on Matabeleland
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the tribal monster that feeds the political appetite of the Harare parties is finally exposing it's expiring phase in Matabeleland after what it claimed was total cea...Published: 27 May 2018 at 11:59hrs | 2409 | by Stephen Jakes
Noisy neighbour barred
A Harare woman was granted a protection order at the civil court after she accused her neighbour of insulting her and knocking too loudly on her gate.Anna Taperewa appeared before magistrate M...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:24hrs | 1508 | by Sytaff reporter
Woman demands cash over witchcraft claims
A Harare woman is demanding $500 from her neighbour whom she accuses of often calling her a witch.Melody Gwati appeared before civil court magistrate Manase Masiwa claiming Priscilla Choto's b...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:23hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
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