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Woman steals US$24 000 from employer
A 35-year-old woman from Barham Green, Bulawayo, appeared in court yesterday facing charges of stealing US$24,000 from a steel manufacturing company where she worked. The accused, Nothando Banana, all...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:47hrs | 871 | by Staff reporter
Drunk wife kills hubby
People of Muzarabani were saddened by a suspected mentally ill wife who fatally struck her sick husband in a beer dispute.Martha Mushawemhuka (44) of Madoka village in Muzarabani allegedly mur...Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 12:34hrs | 1478 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Gukurahundi hearings: Where from and possible outcomes
IT'S 42 years now since a dark cloud of Gukurahundi engulfed Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces, in which the Zanu-PF government, then led by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, unleashed No...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 09:19hrs | 358 | by Silas Nkala
US ally pulls out of Zimbabwe match amid diplomatic tiff
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has quickly assembled a squad to play against the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) select team on Tuesday at Rufaro Stadium after the Zambia Defence Forces withdr...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:06hrs | 2191 | by Staff reporter
Bunjira Jnr gets Warriors select call-up
CAPS United winger Alois Junior Bunjira has been called up to the Warriors select squad for an exhibition match against the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) team at Rufaro Stadium. This match was organiz...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:03hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
4 candidates shortlisted for Warriors top job
Zimbabwe's Warriors are expected to appoint a new head coach by the weekend, with Zifa narrowing down the candidates to four from an initial 200 applications. The appointment is crucial as the Warrior...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:10hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Zifa to name Warriors coach
Zimbabwe's Warriors are set to have a new coach by the weekend, as ZIFA has shortlisted four candidates for the senior soccer team. The Warriors have struggled in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and are...Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:01hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Lifeline for Bulawayo ex-prisoners
Inside Out Development Trust, a non-governmental organization, has launched a rehabilitation program aimed at supporting ex-prisoners to reintegrate into society and prevent them from returning to cri...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's son loses US$33,000 to conmen
FORMER Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere's 21-year-old son Christian lost close to R550 000 in a botched grocery supply deal.The suspects Jethro Mubaiwa (32) and Jonathan Mbunga (25) on Satu...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 12:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police identify, launch manhunt for Nedbank robbers
POLICE have identified and launched a manhunt for seven suspects, three of them notorious brothers accused of robbing a Nedbank branch in Bulawayo of US$272 500-00, ZAR 2 420 000-00, and five gold coi...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Attack on CIO boss leaves behind emotion of bitterness
THE brutal attack on Zimbabwe's state security service, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) co-deputy Director-General Gatsha Mazithulela in late August has left him and his colleagues enveloped i...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fears revolt over elections
THE Zimbabwean government is running a security operation, mainly in Harare, around the clock to prevent gatherings as it is fears an uprising and post-election violence over disputed poll results, in...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another school under makorokoza threat
FIXED infrastructure and movable property at Kwekwe's Camelot Group of Schools is under threat from illegal mining activities that are taking place within the premises and outside.Worryingly, ...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umguza villagers tussle over land
A VILLAGE secretary at Bells Farm in Umguza, Matebeleland North province, and a member of the community are at each other's throat over "unlawful" resettlement of villagers in the area.The vil...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara
To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a "dream" in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging.The provocation and the challenge come from the...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mutambara finishes a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series
Oxford-trained Zimbabwean academic Professor Arthur Mutambara has finished a third volume of his new enlightening autobiography series, Ideas and Solutions: Deputy Prime Minister and Beyond; In Search...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:03hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Chief in Zanu-PF primary election backlash
VILLAGERS in Chief Chireya's area of Gokwe are living in fear after their traditional leader embarked on a witch-hunt to victimise people who led a campaign for the Zanu-PF candidate who won primary e...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate assaulted and stabbed
Zanu-PF candidate for the Emakhandeni-Luveve National Assembly seat in the forthcoming harmonised elections Brian Samuriwo was allegedly assaulted and stabbed by two suspects who appeared in court yes...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF turns State land into campaign tool'
VIILAGERS in Plumtree's ward 14, Matabeleland South province, have accused their community leaders of turning State land into a Zanu-PF campaign tool.They claimed that land was also being dist...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 66 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Brain drain cripples Zimbabwe
UNFULFILLED electoral promises of creating an environment conducive to youth development by the Zanu-PF-led government in 2018 have fuelled a mass exodus of young people to faraway lands in search of ...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest 'wrongful billing'
UMZINGWANE residents in Matabeleland South are up in arms with the Umzingwane Rural District Council (URDC) for wrongfully billing them using outdated by-laws.Amhlohe Sibanda of stand number F...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is the voice of people really the voice of God?
VOX populi, vox Dei is a common Latin phrase loosely translated to mean "Voice of the people is the voice of God". Sometimes this same conjecture is replicated as the will of the people is the will of...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:30hrs | | by Tendai Makaripe
Zambia acting as a strategic hub for US military operation in the region
Investigations have revealed how President Hakainde Hichilema was forced to agree to set up the controversial AFRICOM office in Lusaka by the Brenthurst Foundation.Highly placed diplomatic sou...Published: 10 May 2022 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
March 26 by-elections drive final nail in the MDC's coffin
THE names, Morgan Tsvangirai, Gibson Sibanda, Welshman Ncube, Fletcher Dulini Ncube and Isaac Matongo have been immortalised in some sections of Zimbabwe's political discourse. Against all odds, they ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
The ugly face of political violence
"NATIONAL liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonisation is a violent event."...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga mourns Dauramanzi
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has consoled the Dauramanzi family following the death on Wednesday of Jetro Dauramanzi who has since been granted a State-assisted funeral.The late Da...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 21:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters hit Zimbabwe Exemption Permit visa seekers
DESPERATE attempts by some Zimbabweans in South Africa to clandestinely acquire special work permits are reportedly backfiring amid reports that many are being conned to believe they will be assisted ...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:39hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints legend dies
ZIMBABWE Saints legend Shacky Toindepi Nyathi has died.He was 58.Nyathi collapsed and died at his Mzilikazi home in Bulawayo on Sunday.His best friend and former teammate Godfr...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe re-engages retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has turned to retired nurses and training of Primary Care Nurses (PCNs) as a solution to the massive brain drain currently bleeding the country's health sector, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bees bring unholy tryst to abrupt end
A man from Gokwe had the most unromantic end to a bout of love-making with a married woman after he was attacked by a swarm of bees in the middle of a tryst in the bush.After being stung multi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Citizens were misled by unity accord
Zipra Veterans Association member Jethro Mkwananzi has accused late former President Robert Mugabe and late former Vice President Joshua Nkomo of misleading the nation in their signing of the unity ac...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 4 | by William Jethro Mpofu
My desperate plea to billionaire Masiyiwa
Last Sunday I dwelt on the depressing theme of the hardship that journalists often endure for failing to toe the ill-defined line drawn by intolerant politicians.Newspaper editors must be the ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 9 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
WATCH: Mnangagwa's efforts not sincere, says Dr Mpofu and Chief Ndiweni
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently met traditional leaders over the Matabeleland Genocide which occurred in 1982 to 1987, actually Dr William Jethro Mpofu contends that the genocide is still on-goi...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 20:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sabbath School Summary: 'Come to Me...'
Lesson 5 Memory Text: Matthew 11:28 " 'Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' Another week has passed. Out...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 12:57hrs | 2 | by Elder Dr Masimba Mavaza
Daily News sues editor of online paper over Tagwirei link
Elias Mambo, editor of the online publication Zim Morning Post is being sued for defamation by owners of The Daily News who are demanding Z$10 million in damages over an article linking them to contro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife beats hubby for failure to impregnate her
WELL, isn't that strange that a woman assaults her husband while accusing him of being weak and failing to impregnate her.Wonder no more, because this has happened after a man from Chademana V...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
My suspicions go beyond the allegations against VP Mohadi!
I have been battling with the question of the power of the press. To tell you the truth, I have not made up my mind where the line should be drawn. The allegations against Vice-Presi...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:58hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Man dives into wheels of a moving truck
A KAROI man decided to end his life tragically Thursday after diving into the wheels of a trailer which was being towed by a moving haulage truck.The now deceased was identified as Jameson Tal...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Don't take life for granted under COVID-19, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged citizens to remain vigilant and follow prescribed health protocols until the COVID-19 pandemic is declared officially over.Mnangagwa made the remar...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent messages of condolences to the Ndlovu and Phiri families following the death of Ambassador Jethro Ndlovu and High Court Judge Justice Clement Phiri.In sep...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
An independent state is the only viable option for the people of Mthwakazi from the MLF president
Greetings to all! It is important to underline in addition to the emphasis on the importance of skills development for Mthwakazi which was published last week, that we look forward to fruitful...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 15:04hrs | | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans live in fear of terror attacks from Mozambique
A POLITICAL science student from the University of Zimbabwe, Jethro Ngara, sees doom and gloom as his country dares to wade into Mozambique's war on terror.Ngara, 25, said he is too young to d...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for torturing, robbing usiphatheleni
A MAN who was part of a seven-men gang that raided an illegal money changer at his Pumula home before torturing him into revealing where he had hidden cash has been sentenced to an effective 10 years ...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Axe attack gangster in court
A MAN who was part of a seven-man gang that allegedly attacked a storekeeper in Nkayi with okapi knives, an axe and knobkerries for being rude has appeared in court. Khangelani Nkomo (42) was ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 armed robbers hit money changer's home
A SEVEN-men gang of suspected armed robbers allegedly raided an illegal money changer at his home in Bulawayo before torturing him into revealing where he had hidden cash. The suspects alleged...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 3 pupil jailed for armed robbery
THE Form Three pupil from Sizane High School in Bulawayo who was recently arrested for armed robbery has been sentenced to five years in jail.However, he was lucky to be spared jail on conditi...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The death of Dr Dumiso Dabengwa - A fiting tribute to an enigma
1. Paying tribute to an enigma I was on a bus on Thursday morning, the 24th May 2019, travelling through Botswana from Kwa Bulawayo, Mthwakazi when news abo...Published: 30 May 2019 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Dr Mpiyesizwe Churchill Guduza
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