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Zimbabwe opposition quietly celebrates Tsvangirai on 5th anniversary of his death
TUESDAY marked five years since former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai died.Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer in South Africa aged 65.Touted...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Globetrotting Mnangagwa walking in Mugabe's footsteps
IN June 2017, the late former president Robert Mugabe attracted an angry backlash following his trip to a United Nations (UN) conference in Mexico on oceans even though the country is a landlocked sta...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court tosses Tsitsi Dangarembga freedom bid
Celebrated film maker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga will next week stand trial on public violence incitement charges after a Harare magistrate Thursday dismissed her application for discharge at the c...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC in battle of Zimbabwe for bragging rights
THE ruling Zanu-PF faces a tough challenge as it locks horns with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in tomorrow's by-elections, which were delayed by two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Subdued trade fair mirrors state of the country
AN old Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) flag flutters at the entrance outside the exhibition grounds in Bulawayo. The sun-burnt and worn flag has clearly seen better days and maybe should have...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
2021 Mid Term Monetary & Budget analysis
The latest mid-term budget and monetary policy statements were presented in a low key mode with emphasis on avoiding policy shocks that can rock the economy. The Zimbabwean government revised upwards ...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
South African Rand trades near 2021 highs after US inflation data
The South African Rand continues to be one of the most-watched emerging markets currencies by retail FX CFD traders, as the new COVID-19 cases seem to have plateaued at low levels and economic prospec...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:10hrs | 19 | by Staff writer
Experts warn of third Covid-19 wave after Easter
HEALTH experts have warned of the possibility of an explosion in Covid-19 cases immediately after the Easter holidays if the public fail to comply with lockdown regulations. Easter holidays ar...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
What to do after a car accident
No one expects to be involved in a car accident, but any driver on the road is at risk, regardless of their own driving ability and caution. If you find yourself in the aftermath of a car accident, yo...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 18:21hrs | 19 | by Staff Reporter
Day-old chicks in short supply
A serious shortage of broiler day-old chicks has dogged the market with farmers spending nights at the retailers' premises to buy the chicks.With the easing of COVID-19-induced lockdown restri...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Tonga Chief upsets Auxilia Mnangagwa'
Binga traditional leader Chief Siansali is reportedly to have upset the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa during an event held recently. Posting on Twitter senior journalist Mduduzi Mathuthu said, ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 12:54hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government mourns former ZDF Commander
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has issued a statement mourning the passing away of former Zimbabwe Defense Forces Commander General Maclean.In a statement, the Ministry of Informati...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 20:00hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Lovemore Majaivana sneaks into Bulawayo
Musician Lovemore 'Maji' Majaivana reportedly sneaked into Bulawayo on Friday afternoon from the United States. Sources told Showbiz yesterday that Maji of the Umoya Wami hit was in the countr...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
If 'Trump is just a phone call away'
. . . what does this tell us about Chamisa? A few days ago while addressing his supporters on International Women's Day, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Cha...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 2 | by Prosperity Mzila
Throwback Monday:- The rise and fall and rise of Tendai 'Wananchi' Biti
THE political circus unravelling in the country's opposition politics needs no introduction. The tag of war between the Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti camps over control of the opposition MDCT has ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 12:43hrs | 1 | by Wezhira Marihwepi
Zifa to bring Warriors games to BF
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo has promised to bring some senior national team games to Bulawayo's Barbourfields Stadium in a move that is expected to be warmly embraced by soccer crazy footballers lov...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retracing the life and death of Dr Sithole
This is the third and final contribution on the life, abduction, disappearance and subsequent death of Dr Edson Sithole - a veteran nationalist, barrister and national hero whose heroic life remains s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 21 | by Isaya Muriwo Sithole
Zimbabwe awaits EU, USA, etc. elections reports: honest and constructive or patronising BS
In next day or so the international community election observer teams will be releasing their preliminary reports on Zimbabwe's 2018 elections. The reports must answer the central question: Where the ...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 16:42hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZTA postpones cultural fiesta du to elections
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA) has been forced to move this year's edition of the annual Harare International Carnival, which had been set for July 17 to 21, to the first week of October, as it has ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Khupe MDC-T to field 112 parly candidates
The Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T is unable to field candidates in all the country's 210 constituencies and will conduct its first fully fledged campaign in the capital this Friday.The party says ...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rigging fears as Zanu-PF blocks reforms
There are unmistakable signs that results of the forthcoming general elections could be contested once again after Zanu PF's rivals raised alarm over the ruling party's refusal to allow key aspects of...Published: 10 May 2018 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru dumps mass rallies, goes low key
OPPOSITION National People's Party leader Joice Mujuru has resolved to forego mass campaign rallies, saying she preferred door-to-door and ward-based meetings ahead of this year's general elections....Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time Mnangagwa shuts up Mugabe
Amid the deepening rift between deposed past President Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF, an intraparty onslaught is inevitable. Given his dictatorial inclination, as I see it, all hell is bound to break loos...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Govt faces tough task in graft fight
THE government faced a herculean task to stamp out deep-rooted corruption and needed to do more than just establishing anti-corruption courts, experts have said.President Emmerson Mnangagwa ha...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dear Robert, you must stop it
Waving banners saying "Mugabe must go" and "We can't wait until 2002", a crowd of 25,000 massed in Harare's Rufaro Stadium to celebrated the first anniversary of the founding of the MDC. Drawing roars...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Tafadzwa Masango
African athletes shine in 2018 Winter Olympics
In the years leading up to Alberta Canada's 1988 Winter Olympics, a motely group of bobsled enthusiasts trained for the Bobsled Competition. The event, which was immortalized in Walt Disney's "Cool Ru...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 18:40hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Mugabe birthday low key event
FOR the first time in decades, former President Robert Mugabe's birthday will be a low key event, without the attendant largesse and extravagance, which had come to characterise it, in spite of the da...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri, Khupe boycott meeting with Chamisa
THE embattled opposition MDC-T yesterday inched closer to a monumental split with co-vice presidents Engineer Elias Mudzuri and Dr Thokozani Khupe boycotting the opposition party's standing committee ...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T technically splits
MDC-T yesterday inched closer to a monumental split, with co-vice presidents Engineer Elias Mudzuri and Dr Thokozani Khupe boycotting the party's standing committee meeting convened by their counterpa...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sons back in Zimbabwe
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's sons-Robert Junior and Bellarmine Chatunga-this week met their parents for the first time since the long-time leader was ousted through a military intervention in his ...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru signs coalition
A MISHMASH of small opposition political parties yesterday signed the People's Rainbow Coalition and endorsed National People's Party president Dr Joice Mujuru as its president for the 2018 elections ...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Self-proclaimed (Goliath) Mugabe plot to kill (David) Mnangagwa flops, Fraud probe now preferred
Grace Mugabe and G40 strategy to eliminate, decapitate, debilitate and eradicate Emmerson Mnangagwa from any slightness chance of him succeeding the geriatric incumbent President Robert Mugabe was pla...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 05:57hrs | 3 | by Themba Mthethwa
MDC's not-so-happy birthday
That was the story of September 11, 2017, the occasion of Zimbabwe's biggest opposition party as it turned a significant 18 years of age.The year 18 is often celebrated as the legal age of maj...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khupe tears MDC-T apart
MDC-T vice-president Ms Thokozani Khupe, national chairman Mr Lovemore Moyo and suspended national organising secretary Mr Abednico Bhebhe yesterday boycotted the low key launch of the MDC Alliance in...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Low key activities at ZITF opening day
The 58th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair kicked off today with some exhibitors putting up last minute touches at various stands.Bulawayo24.com saw scores of exhibitors and bus...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 15:33hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF's hot potato
FIVE years ago, the Research Advocacy Unit (RAU) - a non-governmental organisation that researches on human rights and governance issues - produced a penetrative report titled Succession and the Z...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
American pyramid scheme makes inroads into Zimbabwe
AMERICAN empowerment-based membership programme iRaisers International has entered the Zimbabwean market, the latest pyramid scheme in a slew of money-making initiatives that are finding more and ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PDP official savages Mavhaire for poaching Sipepa Nkomo
A People's Democratic Party official Fortune Mlalazi has savaged ZimPF national Coordinator Dzikamai Mavhaire for poaching his party's Vice President Samuel Sipepa Nkomo at a time when the two parties...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Broke MDC-T downgrades anniversary celebrations
Opposition MDC-T is set to hold low key 17th anniversary celebrations on Saturday in Bulawayo.The party leadership blames economic conditions for not holding huge festivities."We are o...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Fresh crisis hits Zanu-PF
THERE is growing acrimony between Zanu-PF cadres whose suspensions were lifted by the party's National Appeals Committee (NAC) and those who assumed their positions in the wake of a ruthless purge...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai leads a low key peaceful protest in Masvingo
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai led a low key peaceful protest in Masvingo with a handful of supporters marching from Mucheke suburb to the city centre on Saturday.The march was meant to...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
A dead horse named Morgan Tsvangirai
Five days ago, a local newspaper thundered with the headline, "Tsvangirai roars back". For those who are familiar with the dynamics of Zimbabwean politics, historically and as currently in flux, one w...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC-T mourns Mugabe globe-trotting yet did nothing to end his dictatorship
"After the so called million man march in Harare where crowds were rented and school heads suffered extortion to surrender school buses by force, President Mugabe is at it again. His foreign trips nev...Published: 28 May 2016 at 16:16hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru rally attracts 100 people
FORMER vice president Joice Mujuru's People First party failed to attract the bumper crowd it expected in Victoria Falls after about 100 people attended its rally on Sunday.Stakes were high fo...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Mugabe feels the heat
With Zanu-PF's deadly factional and succession wars reaching what insiders say is "a tipping point", and Zimbabwe continuing on its precipitous economic decline that is blamed on the ruling party, all...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Year 2015 in review
THE year 2015 was another disappointing year for Zimbabwean sport although some people continue to hope that things will improve.Our sport, whether it be football, cricket or rugby, was largel...Published: 01 Jan 2016 at 11:31hrs | 4 | by Ricky Zililo and Sikhumbuzo Moyo
'Work together for Zimbabwe’s sake,' says Bishop Magaya
Speaking in Harare at the signing ceremony of the NERA pact, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya exhorted opposition leaders to speed up their mooted coalition plans. NERA is a pact involving political...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso finally get second bus
HIGHLANDERS yesterday finally took delivery of the bus donated to the club by Nyaradzo Funeral Assurance Company two years ago. Bosso were handed the bus at Nyaradzo's Tshabalala suburb complex at a l...Published: 30 Oct 2015 at 07:26hrs | | by Senior Sports
Mozambican leader alive after convoy attack
Maputo - Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama escaped unhurt when his convoy was hit by gunfire while returning from a rally in the central Manica province in what police said was crossfire....Published: 14 Sep 2015 at 09:57hrs | | by AFP
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