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Highlanders snap winless streak
Highlanders 2 - 1 Arenel MoversBulawayo, September 26, 2024 – Highlanders Football Club finally found their winning formula, delivering a stellar first-half performance to secure a 2-0 victory a...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:59hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Fading Harare dwarfs falter against Bulawayo Chiefs
Bulawayo Chiefs 1 - 1 DynamosIn a recent Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match, Dynamos faced heightened security measures around their team bus as frustrated fans gathered after a disappointin...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 06:49hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Fresh blow for CCC
RECALLED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) candidates have lost a High Court challenge to remain on the ballot paper for the February 3 by-elections after the court ruled in favour of the self-impos...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court to hand down judgement on CCC MPs' challenge against ballot removal
The High Court has reserved its judgement in a matter Citizens Coalition for Change self-imposed secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu is seeking to block recalled MPs from contesting under the party du...Published: 19 Jan 2024 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man kills uncle using wrestling tactic
A tragic incident unfolded in Masvingo involving Vetengeni Kwaramba (35), who, as revealed in court, accidentally caused the death of his 62-year-old uncle using the "sharpshooter" wrestling move....Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has no one to blame but wapusa wapusa
Growing up in the country's ghettos, playing plastic balls was commonplace. Young boys stripped to their shorts, sometimes with holes that revealed their nether parts, and ran in the scorching...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
How the EU captured Sadc observer Mission
THE SADC Election Observer Mission (SEOM) and the opposition CCC were pawns in the European Union (EU) grand scheme to effect regime change in Zimbabwe with the August 23/24 harmonised elections the t...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Mliswa bounces back as councillor
OUTGOING Mashonaland West Provincial resident minister, Mary-Chikoka Mliswa has bounced back as a Hurungwe rural district councillor under the proportional representation quota system.On Sunda...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Election: CCC 23:00 update
Good evening. As we head into election night and the count begins, dozens of polling stations have still not opened for voting to commence. Urban areas such as Harare and Bulawayo are particularly bad...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 06:14hrs | 8 | by Charles Kwaramba
Zimbabwe Election: 20:00 CCC update
As evening falls, voters continue to queue up in droves to cast their ballots - some have been waiting hours to exercise their democratic right.By now, every single one of the 12,374 polling s...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 19:09hrs | 15 | by Charles Kwaramba
Zimbabwe Election: 17:00 CCC update
Good afternoon. Serious problems with voting persist as several polling stations, particularly in urban areas, remain unopened. However, there are reports of great morale among opposition voters on th...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:37hrs | 15 | by Charles Kwaramba
Zimbabwe Election: 13:30 CCC update
Good afternoon. In the past few hours, CCC presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa cast his vote at Kuwadzana primary school in Harare. Meanwhile, I gave an update to the press on voting irregul...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 16:30hrs | 14 | by Charles Kwaramba - CCC Presidential Chief Elections Agent
Citizens unite - Zimbabwe decides
Polls have now opened on the most important election day in Zimbabwe's modern history. An estimated 6.6 million Zimbabweans will cast their votes today in presidential, parliamentary and council elect...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 07:21hrs | 19 | by Charles Kwaramba - CCC Presidential Chief Elections Agent
Massive blow for Gems World Cup hopes
THE Zimbabwe netball team's hopes of progressing to the next stage of the 2023 Netball World Cup suffered a massive blow after they suffered a shock 52-48 defeat to lowly-ranked Fiji in Cape Tow...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must bolt the doors to biased observers
Recently, an African teenage boy living in the French ghettos known as banlieues was shot dead in a botched traffic stop that was captured on video, spotlighting systematic violence and racism in Fran...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Bid to reverse 2007 Harare land deal flops
A group seeking to reverse a 2007 land deal between Harare City Council and Augur Investments has, for the second time, failed to get permission to appeal against a High Court ruling dismissing it for...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 'O' Levels requirement for councillors rocks Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF is battling fierce strife within its Women's League following exclusion of long-serving and supposedly deserving female cadres, who were disqualified from nomination as Proportional Representa...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at Zanu-PF Mashonaland West women's quota nomination meeting
Zanu-PF Mashonaland West top activists came to near fist-fights as tempers rose at Thursday's party Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting to endorse local authority women's quota candidates....Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tough time ahead for 'zvakarongeka' Ncube
EARLY last year Finance and Economic Development minister, Mthuli Ncube made the infamous statement "zvakarongeka", loosely translating to "all is in order" as far as the country's financial reserves ...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Top mines official arrested for abuse of office
MASHONALAND West acting provincial mining director Sibongile Mpindiwa has been arrested for allegedly unlawfully forfeiting mining claims, changing ownership and then handing them over to other people...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former Zanu-PF bigwigs eye return
THREE former Zanu-PF Members of Parliament (MPs) from Hurungwe district are eyeing central committee positions in the ruling party ahead of elections slated for this weekend.They include forme...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Chinese Parly building complete
Epitomising magnificence, the imposing six-storey circular Parliament Building in Mount Hampden sitting on a 70-metre platform above the picturesque surrounding area, symbolically projecting legislati...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Village heads to get funeral and medical assistance
Village heads will soon receive funeral and medical assistance from the government, as some could not access medical facilities due to lack of resources.Chiefs, headmen and village heads earn ...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Growing number of Zimbabwe couples opt for child adoption
IN most families, news that a loved one is going to have a child is usually received with joy.But when Kuteesa "Tess" Gweshe and her husband announced that they were going to have two more chi...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Surely, there is no honour among thieves
NO honour among thieves is a universal truth, a biblical saying that has found resonance globally to denote the actions of robbers who usually double-cross each other, never mind the perils involved i...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Stayaway that never was exposes Western puppets
TODAY, Pachedu, a shadowy troll on Twitter, manned by some faceless characters, stands starkly naked, exposed as a Trojan horse of Western nations that have an incurable colonial hangover.In t...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
State ready with trial date for Mamombe, Chimbiri
The State yesterday indicated that it was expecting to furnish CCC members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, with a trial date on a matter they are accused of criminally-insulting the police in Har...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drama at City of Harare bosses trial
Greek property developer George Katsimberis caused a scene at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday as he insisted on testifying in his native language, saying he was not conversant with English....Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: Illusions of democracy, statesmanship
LAST week CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa was pontificating about the sovereignty of Ukraine, railing against the Russian special mission into its neighbour as a travesty that trampled on international s...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Something stinks in Nelson's yellow shack
The fissures in the country's opposition party recently ruptured as Mr Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party going by the ideologically-barren name; Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), but ther...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Chiyangwa wins Old Citrus Farm fight
THE High Court has dismissed an urgent chamber application by 30 land invaders of Old Citrus Farm in Chinhoyi seeking to stop businessman, Philip Chiyangwa from evicting.Justice Pisirayi Kwend...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bosso gored by Rhinos
Black Rhinos 2 - 0 HighlandersHIGHLANDERS paid the price for their awful defending and were left ruing the absence of veteran keeper Ariel Sibanda when they were punished by a well drilled B...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:06hrs | 7 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa in court over farm violence
About 30 residents of Old Citrus Farm in Mazowe say they are living in nearby mountains in fear of flamboyant businessman Phillip Chiyangwa, whom they claim has hired police officers to harass them....Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Top cop denied bail over firearms
Mashonaland West police Armoury officer-in-charge Inspector Crive Kadambure and his three-co-accused facing charges of illegally acquiring and selling firearms to armed robbers and poachers while smug...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 20:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All set for schools reopening
Parents of pupils in the three examination classes that start today were doing last-minute shopping yesterday, boarding schools had their buses ready at pick-up points in time yesterday morning while ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya clashes with World Bank
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya yesterday clashed with the World Bank representatives as he vehemently disputed their projected annual inflation rate.This played out at t...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Swaziland born top human rights lawyer says Zimbabwe police should be sued
TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa says police officers who take the law into their own hands through visiting forms of brutalities on suspects or turn some incidents into political cases, must ...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC's Madzokere abandoned by wife
FREED MDC activist Tungamirai Madzokere carried a broken figure as he narrated how he only got to know his wife had abandoned their matrimonial home eight months ago.Dejected and seemingly out...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa has changed face of Zimbabwean politics'
Former MDC Kwekwe legislator Mr Blessing Chebundo (BC) is among many opposition members who have jumped ship to join the ruling party this year. Below he shares his experiences with our Political Edit...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC A violence is a constant threat to be stopped once for all' - devil quoting Bible for his devilish purposes
"TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was f...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 08:55hrs | 8 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
MDC violence a threat to national peace
TIME and again many have inked articles articulating how the MDC-Alliance is wired in violence, with the streak running so deep that removing it simply means an end to the political outfit that was fo...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Fungi Kwaramba
Zanu-PF, MDC MPs unite over civil servants pay
Zanu-PF and MDC MPs showed rare unity on Tuesday as they combined to demand better salaries for public sector workers who have declared "incapacitation".Civil servants are currently working a ...Published: 06 May 2021 at 12:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest another firearms smuggler
A CHINHOYI man was last week arraigned before Chiredzi magistrate Joy Chikodzenge over allegations of dealing in firearms without registration as defined by section 14 of the Firearms Act Chapter 10:9...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance's Marova trip to Liberia flops
MDC-Alliance activist Netsai Marova, who is facing a number of criminal charges at the Harare Magistrates Court including making a false report about her alleged abduction, yesterday could not get her...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora wants compulsory vaccination
LAST week in the resort town of Victoria Falls, President Mnangagwa received his first Covid-19 jab at an event witnessed by several political leaders, who included main opposition leader Mr Douglas M...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU condemns MDC activists' continued incarceration
THE European Union (EU) has urged the Zimbabwean government to desist from applying the law selectively following the continued incarceration of opposition MDC Alliance MP Joanah Mamombe (Harare West)...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
The brutality of March 11, 2007 and its impact
Back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues.The Save Zimbabwe campaign (SZc) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA).Its members include ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
MDC youth leaders fight for freedom
MDC Alliance youth leaders Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have applied for bail at the High Court seeking to overturn a decision by the lower court which remanded them in custody last week. ...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri bail ruling today
PROSECUTORS are opposing bail in the case involving MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri, who are charged with undermining police authority since they may commit further offences as...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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