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Chin'ono challenges Jonathan Moyo's view
Who holds the reins of power in Zimbabwe - civilian politicians or the military? The longstanding debate has resurfaced following a fiery analysis by award-winning investigative journalist Hopew...Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:23hrs | 2605 | by Staff reporter
If the liberation struggle was for all Zimbabweans, then war veterans should refuse to be bribed
The love of money is the root of all evil, it is said. Over the past month, Zimbabwe's government has rolled out a series of "empowerment schemes" tailored for veterans of the liberation strug...Published: 24 Feb 2025 at 14:55hrs | 455 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cops, municipal police shield mshikashikas
In the heart of Harare's central business district, lawlessness and corruption are rife as pirate taxi operators, known as "mshikashika," continue to defy traffic regulations with apparent impunity, w...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:41hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Phelekezela Mphoko aka Report Ndlovu: A pioneer freedom fighter
THE late former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko was one of the pioneer freedom fighters of our armed struggle. He joined the armed struggle soon after being released from prison and was immediately ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:55hrs | 183 | by Brigadier-General (Rtd) Abel Mazinyane
The greatest tragedy to Zimbabwe was the hijacking of its liberation struggle
Yesterday, I received a heart-wrenching message from a former combatant of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, now residing in South Africa. His words, laced with pain and disillusionment, will fo...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 20:50hrs | 1338 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Harare robbery ring busted
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested five individuals suspected of being behind a series of high-profile armed robberies in Harare, including a major heist at Dinwoo Investments where US$30...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 06:56hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Zapu's request to honour Dabengwa stalls at Coltart led council
A request by the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) to name a street in Bulawayo after the late liberation icon Dumiso Dabengwa remains unaddressed at the local council offices. The proposal, init...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:20hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Teaching Ndebele in Zimbabwe schools will have helped Shonas
There are times when you think you are spitting someone, when in fact, you are destroying yourself.One such instance was when Robert Mugabe and his colleagues in ZANU (before it became ZANU-PF...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:21hrs | 299 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mnangagwa helicopter raises serious political and security concerns
Investigations into the crash landing of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's helicopter at Masvingo Airport on Sunday are ongoing, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe and state security services ...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 15:37hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Man is regretting the day he packed his bags and left for SA
A 45-year-old Bulawayo man is regretting the day he packed his bags and left for neighbouring South Africa in search of what he thought could be life-transforming opportunities.All he carried ...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:29hrs | 1471 | 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 | 31 | by Tafi Mhaka
Nicholas Zakaria told to go and see Victor by Chivayo
Legendary Sungura musician Nicholas "Madzibaba" Zakaria is the latest artiste to receive a car gift from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. Posting on his social media pages from Duba...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:45hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Fleeing armed robber dies in accident
AN armed robber died in a horrific accident last week, while his three gun-toting colleagues sustained serious injuries after their gate-away vehicle hit a tree during a high-speed chase with vigilant...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Major roads in Harare closed for rehabilitation
MAJOR roads in Harare have been closed for massive rehabilitation ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government Summit scheduled to be held in Harare in...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked space barons invade Bulawayo CBD
A GANG of suspected Zanu-PF space barons illegally parcelled out new vending bays to illegal traders in Bulawayo's Central Business District (CBD) on Thursday this week.The bays were reportedl...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:39hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 55 | by Wikipedia
Potholes re-emerge in wake of recent rains
HEAVY rains being recorded across the country have caused more extensive damage to some major roads in Bulawayo, which are now riddled with potholes making driving a nightmare in the city. Apa...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zipra was behind Salisbury fuel tanks bombings
Former Zipra chief of logistics Thomas Ngwenya has challenged claims that Zanla forces bombed the Salisbury fuel tanks in 1978, insisting that it was Zipra that was behind the sabotage that proved to ...Published: 26 Dec 2023 at 20:10hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 36 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Fire these rogue police recruits
I bemoan the fall of dignity of a once noble profession. I got recruited into Zimbabwe Republic Police in 1997 and was so much excited to be part and parcel of the police force. I was not driven or in...Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 14:14hrs | 14 | by Leonard Koni
Heroes Day: Guns that silenced history's villains
Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes called for an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question....Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:42hrs | 21 | by Elliot Ziwira
'Mucheche used his resources to sustain liberation struggle'
THE late national hero, Ben Mucheche, was a towering figure who defied segregatory colonial policies to establish a thriving business and went on to selflessly avail his resources to sustain the liber...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Electoral safety - MPs pile pressure on minister
PARLIAMENT has raised questions over the safety of Zimbabweans ahead of the 23 August general election, with legislators challenging Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to issue a ministerial statem...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lone anti-govt protester pleads guilty
A Harare resident, Itai Makombe (51) who was arrested while staging a one-man demo at the intersection of Sam Nujoma and Josiah Tongogara streets has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and unlawful ...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lone anti-Mnangagwa govt protestor charged with unlawful possession of firearm
A Harare resident, Itai Makombe who was arrested while staging a one-man demo at the intersection of Sam Nujoma and Josiah Tongogara streets has been charged.According to police spokesperson A...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 16:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'bound by blood'?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa and his deputy, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, are "bound by blood" and often laugh off "idiots" who try to sow divisions between them by alleging a non-existent rivalry....Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man steals car from church
A 22-year-old Bulawayo man has been arrested after he stole a vehicle that was parked in front of a church before being involved in an accident.The suspect identified as Tatenda Mudonhi allege...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family snubs Mnangagwa
Late former President Robert Mugabe's artefacts are not part of the fascinating array of Zimbabwe liberation heroes' war relics currently on display at the much-hyped Museum of African Liberation in H...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 youths trespass into Mnangagwa's State House
FIVE youths yesterday pleaded guilty to trespassing into State House grounds when they appeared before Harare magistrate Noticia Shenje.Paul Muchena (24), Kupakwashe Pswarayi (24), Daniel Ishe...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lives in fear in Joburg as Harare steps up pressure
SELF-EXILED former Zimbabwean minister and Zanu-PF political heavyweight Saviour Kasukuwere is living in fear in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the Harare government steps up pressure behind the scene...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo celebrates 79 years as a city
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) on Sunday held its annual civic service, which was punctuated by dance and song as the local authority celebrated 79 years of the declaration of Bulawayo as a city....Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in tough Zanu-PF balancing act
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have pacified his deputy Constantino Chiwenga by picking some of his close lieutenants into the central committee to stop factionalism.There was specula...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa recycles deadwood
Some forgotten Zanu-PF stalwarts had their political careers resurrected at the ruling party's just ended congress after spending years in the cold following the creation of a council of elders and ap...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff rporter
BCC acts on garbage collection backlog
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday launched a massive clean-up campaign dubbed "Big Spring-Cleaning Week" in the city centre and pledged to rope in community tractors for refuse collection as heaps...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Margaret Dongo lifts lid on liberation war sex abuses
WAR veteran Margaret Dongo says the story of sexual abuse of women ex-combatants by their commanders during the armed struggle in the military camps is yet to be told fully.Dongo lifted the li...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Report Mphoko never deserted Zapu to join Zanu
The former members of the Rhodesian special branch are the ones who claimed that I deserted the struggle in 1976, to join ZANU.They forget that ZANU was banned in Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambi...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:54hrs | 16 | by Phelekezela Mphoko
Zipra was behind the Salisbury fuel tanks bombings
Former Zipra chief of logistics Thomas Ngwenya has challenged claims that Zanla forces bombed the Salisbury fuel tanks in 1978, insisting that it was Zipra that was behind the sabotage that proved to ...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
2022 population census kicks off
THE 2022 population and housing census, which is conducted after every 10 years by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), begins today.Yesterday marches were held in all major citi...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Even ZANU PF 'denigrated' the country and called for 'crippling sanctions' that hurt ordinary citizens!
Whenever I mention my watching of the state-controlled broadcaster ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) - albeit, grudgingly and under insufferable str...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 19:18hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Beer drinker loses car to bogus cops
THREE bogus police officers stole a Honda Fit in Harare after confronting the owner who was drinking beer outside the vehicle at a city flat on Tuesday and accused him of violating Covid-19 regulation...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rains a blessing, roads a disaster
Waterlogging and potholes have made driving a nightmare in Bulawayo, while tyre traders are reporting brisk business.Bulawayo resident Mr Thamsanqa Sibanda was driving his vehicle along Intemb...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga were not present at the formation of the Patriotic Front in 1976
The People of Zimbabwe were united under the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Z.A.P.U).When Z.A.P.U. was banned, the party leadership decided that it will not form another political party, aga...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:41hrs | 15 | by Report Phelekezela Mphoko
Munatsi family speaks on banker's shock death
THE family of the late banker Douglas Munatsi yesterday said they were heartbroken and are still in shock over a fire incident that claimed his life last week.Munatsi, the Zimbabwe Investment ...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt splashes $30 billion on Harare-Beitbridge road
THE Government has spent more than $30 billion on funding the reconstruction of over 260km of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway, while an additional $1,3 billion has been directed towards the reh...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Munatsi death: New details emerge
POLICE yesterday said they had started investigations into the mysterious fire incident that claimed the life of Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency chief executive Douglas Tawanda Munatsi on M...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:39hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police probe into death of businessman Douglas Munatsi
MEMORANDUMSUBJECT: SUDDEN DEATH BY FIRE OF DOUGLAS MUNATSI AT NUMBER C9 NORTHFIELDS FLATS, CORNER JOSIAH TONGOGARA AND FIFTH AVENUE, HARAREThis memorandum serves to put on record circu...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabwe Top Banker burnt to death in his house
CEO of the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency, Douglas Munatsi, has died. He was burnt by a fire that gutted his flat located at the corner of Fifth Street and Josiah Tongogara Avenue on Monda...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 08:29hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Political elites' vacuous populism not serving Zimbabwean people's interest
IN a recent eloquent but rather dense article titled "Dynamics of the Zimbabwe crisis in the 21st century" adopted from a 2003 academic paper of a similar title, Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni ma...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:45hrs | 13 | by Dr Mike Chipere
Nothing new from tired Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF's annual conference is underway in Bindura and, predictably, the former liberation party is not proffering any fresh ideas to extricate Zimbabwe from the quicksand of corruption-induced povert...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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