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WATCH: Angry mob bashes security guard for 'kidnapping' boss' 5 kids
AN angry mob severely assaulted a security guard suspected of kidnapping five children in Bulawayo today.Angry residents hauled the bloodied guard to Bulawayo Central Police Station but left i...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 23:15hrs | 7591 | by Methusi Ncube
Vuzu parties trigger storm
TEACHERS' unions have added their voice to the proliferation of Vuzu parties in the second city, saying there is a real danger that the country may lose a whole generation to drug and alcohol abuse if...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 761 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents reject new budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will have to go back to the drawing board after stakeholders, including residents and vendors, rejected its plans to hike rates by a whopping 57 percent.This comes ...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Elliot Moyo died vomiting blood
While he got the world in hysteria and shock for the past weeks for being resurrected and dying again, all that Thabiso Proud Mlanje who is popularly known as "Elliot" has left are deep wounds among h...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 17:11hrs | 16383 | by Staff reporter
NSSA pensioners are work veterans
Amon Taribho struggled to stand up as he rose to reach his medication for diabetes and hypertension, the sachet is kept on the top most shelf of his wardrobe, away from kids. The former machin...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | 438 | by Tondorindo
Mtukudzi did not leave a will, 4 more children emerge
CONTROVERSY continues to stalk the family of the late national hero, Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, as the entire clan gathers today in Madziva to decide how the vast wealth the singer left behind will be...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:28hrs | 5927 | by Staff reporter
New voice charms ZBCtv viewers
There is a new kid on the block at ZBCtv. Hazel Zisanhi, who exudes cool confidence, has within a short space of time charmed ZBCtv viewers during the weekend bulletins. The delectable and "fore...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Youth poverty and unemployment: Revisiting the January 14 violent protests
The violent disturbances that rocked Harare and other major cities in August 2018 and January 2019 saw an unprecedented numbers of youths participating. To ignore the reasons why these young people to...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:24hrs | 483 | by Brightface Mutema
Chief Ngungumbane blocked the building of a school in his area?
Cultural Activist Nothiwani Dlodlo says Chief Ngungumbane working with some political leaders in Mberengwa blocked the construction of Ngungumbane satellite Secondary school in 2012.Dlodlo sai...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:46hrs | 2114 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'She tells me how good my husband is in bed'
A Harare woman claims her husband's girlfriend has been sending her text messages telling her that her husband was good in bed.Nancy Mivirimi appeared at the Harare Civil Court accusing Prince...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 15:38hrs | 5434 | by Staff reporter
Elite school Peterhouse in Twitter storm over 'racist' picture
An elite Zimbabwean school was forced to take down a tweet on Tuesday after it created an internet uproar amid racism allegations.A second tweet put up to calm the anger was criticised for per...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:49hrs | 10022 | by ZimLive
TelOne to end DStv monopoly
TELONE has moved to end DStv's monopoly on the showbiz scene by introducing real time gross settlement dollar prices for its Digital Entertainment on Demand (DEOD) packages through which viewers can a...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | 5638 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport office has backlog of 200 000 documents
CECILIA Majanyuke flips through the pages of her passport everytime it is stamped by immigration officials.She pays particular attention to the number of free pages in her travelling document ...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 16:38hrs | 3665 | by Staff reporter
Lunar Park comes to Bulawayo
OWNED by Spares Mania and trading as Family Amusement Park, Lunar Park is in Bulawayo for the Easter, Independence holidays and the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair.Having started in the 1970...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 23:00hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Financial Expert Shalom Govero shares insight into earning and saving money
This past week, the world celebrated Global Money Week, an initiative by Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) which is an annual financial awareness campaign built to inspire children and youn...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 18:57hrs | 490 | by Shalom Govero
Zimbabwe's runaway prices good for malayitsha business
Towering piles of cooking oil, tyres, biscuits, microwaves and toilet paper filled a small and damp Johannesburg basement – all destined for Zimbabwe.The items are loaded onto trailers attac...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:35hrs | 5927 | by AFP
Shock as Mnangagwa divides Ndebele leaders
United Kingdom based scholar Dr. Brilliant Mhlanga has come out gunz blazing against civic society leader Dumisani Nyongolo Nkomo over the meeting that the later had with President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:47hrs | 10417 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The theory and practice of educational games as a means to promote better education
When educators and parents think about games, they see them as tools of distraction. They instantly imagine kids glued down to their smartphones, paying zero attention to what's going on outside that ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 734 | by William Steward
Zimbabwean couple hijacked in Durban, wife missing since Monday
A Zimbabwean businessman who travelled to Durban with his wife might have to return home alone after they were allegedly hijacked and the criminals made off with her in their bakkie.She has be...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:28hrs | 5492 | by Staff reporter
Dan Tshanda's Zimvavwe protégé keeps Splash alive
In the heat of a nostalgic moment as revellers are dancing and singing along to the sounds of the late Dan Tshanda at the Red Café' koBulawayo on a hot Sunday night, DJ Keitho drops a splash song by ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 13:58hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
39 school kids feared dead
NEARLY 40 students from Dzingire Primary School in Chimanimani are feared dead as the country continue to count the cost of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.This comes as the death toll from...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:25hrs | 3726 | by Staff reporter
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 5666 | by STaff reporter
MDC Alliance congress: Of a leopard devouring its cubs
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 442 | by Tafara Shumba
Cyclone swept away entire growth point
Three women spent nearly 24 hours hanging onto a tree undressed before they were eventually rescued after Cyclone Idai-induced floods swept away 80 houses at Dzingire Growth Point, popularly known as ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:05hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds of Zimbabwe’s youth write peace letters to Mnangagwa
Zimbabwean youth join in this campaign to plea to His Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa to support the DPCW. The spirit of the campaign is based on the values written in the Declaration of Peace...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 11:00hrs | 2497 | by Yolanda Ndlovu
Enact sanction-busting measures
Editor,Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith on November 11, 1965, the international community imposed economic sanctions on Rhodesia. The Rhodesian said, "if we ha...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:28hrs | 783 | by Nyonyana Gwabini
NUST graduate turns plastic waste into diesel
A National University of Science and Technology graduate is turning Harare's plastic waste into diesel in a pioneering project that could go a long way in addressing Zimbabwe's chronic fuel shortages....Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:38hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
MDC always sees the shadow of Zanu-PF
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:51hrs | 554 | by Tafara Shumba
When hate has a shadow and body
Those hell bent on tarnishing the image of a democratically elected government of Zimbabwe have gone a gear up in their desperate efforts now bordering on insanity. Who in his/her right senses...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:27hrs | 268 | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha
Zimbabwe police bosses dressed down over dirty cells
A GROUP of MPs from Zimbabwe's parliament on Monday took time to dress down police bosses at Harare Central police for allegedly beating up and keeping suspects inside dirty cells.This is afte...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 676 | by newzimbabwe
Democrats hold democratic congresses
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 19:41hrs | 1328 | by Tafara Shumba
Of a leopard devouring its cubs
In May this year, the MDC holds its first elective congress after the death of its founding president, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. It is the first congress under the stewardship of its youthful leader,...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | 2295 | by Tafara Shumba
Cleft surgery mission dedicated to Mtukudzi
An all-volunteer United States and Canadian surgical team, Operation of Hope, will in May embark on a cleft surgical mission in Zimbabwe.The 30-year-old US/Canada-based surgical charity has de...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:50hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
56 pupils eat jatropha fruits, hospitalised
FIFTY-SIX Grade Four pupils from Sigombe Primary School in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb have been hospitalised with one reported to be in a criticial condition at Mpilo Central Hospital after eating po...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:52hrs | 252 | by Satff reporter
Mnangagwa, Khupe talks no different from Smith, Muzorewa engagement
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's false attempts at a dialogue process without the main opposition leader but with Thokozani Khupe as oppos...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | 3547 | by newzimbabwe
Transport blues hit Harare
SCORES of commuters were on Monday night stranded in the city centre as public transport operators either stopped early in the evening or were not there at all.This was because of an unanticip...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:31hrs | 2595 | by Staff reporter
The RTGS dollar compounds Zimbabwe workers' troubles
THE government's decision to dump the United States dollar and adopt some form of local currency will hit workers the hardest as their incomes have been eroded with the floating of the exchange rate, ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1615 | by Staff reporter
Aux Mnangagwa pledges to assist street children
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has pledged to assist children living and working on the streets acquire formal and vocational education, which will help them realise their full potential.During...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa invite a step in right direction'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa recently held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the country to lay the foundation for dialogue. Here, The Herald Senior Reporter Tendai Mugabe (TM) speaks to MDC leade...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:53hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Selmor relives childhood in Tuku household
IN the aftermath of legendary musician Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's death his daughter, songbird Selmor Mtukudzi, has said that she always felt that her father did not belong to just her or the Mtukudzi f...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa invite a step in right direction'
President Mnangagwa on Wednesday last week held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the country to lay the foundation for dialogue. Here, Tendai Mugabe (TM) speaks to MDC leader Tho...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:02hrs | 225 | by Tendai Mugabe
Chamisa, Mnangagwa must swallow their pride and dialogue
SOMEONE has to point it out: We Zimbabweans, and, indeed, Africa are such a lousy lot. We are such an embarrassing people that we keep repeating the same mistakes time and again.And after maki...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:39hrs | 754 | by Editorial - newsday
Riot police sold a dummy
Residents in the western areas of the second city woke up yesterday to see a huge presence of riot police who were anticipating another round of protests.Apparently, the police were reacting t...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4251 | by Staff reporter
'A praying bridge of Driekhoek'
A bridge is a perfect symbol of life with hope. It has the beginning, the middle and the end. And when one put the first step on the bridge he hopes to pass to the other side. It carries the significa...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 19:56hrs | 220 | by Eric Shikobela
Mnangagwa, Chamisa commit to dialogue?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated that his door was open for dialogue to move the country forward and benefit Zimbabweans, in line with his approach for a broad-based and inclusive national int...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions enable Zanu-PF to mishandle the economy'
As the United Kingdom is considering putting fresh names of Zimbabwean authorities under the European Union sanctions list for human rights violations following recent alleged killings by members of t...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 14:58hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
'We are guilty of the mess' Chamisa confesses
MDC Leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa told the National Leaders Dialogue Breakfast meeting on Wednesday that politicians are guilty for the mess that Zimbabwe is facing today.The meeting was orga...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 12:56hrs | 8084 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe economic revival: none but ourselves
"Government must create jobs for us, we want our hospitals to be top notch medical facilities, we want to eat what we want anytime, there is no bread on the shelves, all our roads should be tarred, ha...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 10:25hrs | 956 | by Elijah Chihota
Parents withdraw kids from schools
TEACHERS reported for duty yesterday in Bulawayo, Midlands and parts of Matabeleland North but education authorities decried the decision by some parents to withdraw their children from schools. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
Gang of robbers subjects Bulawayo family to torture
FOUR masked men armed with iron bars and an axe subjected a family from Mahatshula North suburb in Bulawayo to a horrifying ordeal, torturing them before getting away with R18 000 and $400 in bond not...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:38hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
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