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Zifa tells ex-footballers to 'go back to school'
Former Mighty Warriors coach Rosemary Mugadza has called on former footballers aspiring to lead the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to pursue education if they want to qualify for top positions w...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:12hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Jostling for top Zifa posts starts
While the date for the upcoming ZIFA elections is yet to be set, lobbying for votes is already in full swing. Bulawayo-based members of the ZIFA voting cluster met with two prospective presidential ca...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:43hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe football fraternity divided over 5 O' Levels clause
Zimbabwe's football community finds itself divided ahead of the crucial ZIFA elections scheduled for January 2025. With the Lincoln Mutasa-led Normalisation Committee's term expiring at the start of t...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:42hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army school expels Gr 6 pupil over uncut hair
A PRIMARY school in Bulawayo has expelled a Grade 6 pupil over uncut hair.The pupil was given her marching orders two days ago.NewsDay has it on good authority that on Tuesday, Indlovu...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa niece's legacy woes haunt ZBC
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is grappling with serious management challenges linked to Helliate Rushwaya - the newly appointed board chair - during her tenure as the acting chief execut...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lobengula denigrating presenter, ZBC board fired
Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Jenfan Muswere has dismissed the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board, while getting two television present...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:04hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Today's defenders are sissies'
DOUGLAS Mloyi and Henry Jones, two former Highlanders defenders believe today's defenders are too soft.Mloyi and Jones played alongside each other in 1981 and 1982. They were part of a defence...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa consoles Matiza family
President Mnangagwa has today consoled the Matiza family following the death of Mrs Lilian Matiza, widow to national hero and former Cabinet Minister Joel Biggie Matiza.Mrs Matiza died on Sund...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl (10) screams for help after rape attempt
Residents of Highfield, Lusaka suburb were shell-shocked to see a dagga seller in the room of a 10-year-old neighbour in an attempt to rape around 2am on Friday when she was coming from the toilet aft...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 14:08hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man offers $30,000 for child's upkeep
A Harare man on Friday offered to pay $30 000 as maintenance for his 13-year-old son.Lundi Mupani told Harare magistrate Ayanda Dlamini that he could not afford the US$130 that his estranged w...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists jailed 18 months
A MARONDERA magistrate yesterday invoked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-violence mantra while sentencing two Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters accused of assaulting a Zanu-PF support...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP candidate ropes in Moses Chunga and Dexter Blackstock
TALENTED young footballers from Mabvuku and Tafara suburbs are set to benefit from an ambitious scouting project that will involve the legendary Moses Chunga and former English Premier League player D...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Die cast in Zanu-PF primaries
THE stage has been set in what promises to be a tough contest in the much-awaited Zanu-PF primary elections to choose the candidates that will represent the ruling party in the forthcoming harmonised ...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese national arrested over 30t lithium loot
A 45-YEAR-OLD Chinese national appeared before Marondera magistrate, Esther Mabika, on Thursday last week facing charges of trying to smuggle 30 tonnes of lithium out of the country.Lu Minghui...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Alleged drug dealers accuse police of bias
A CHITUNGWIZA couple charged with unlawfully dealing in drugs has accused police of bias whenever they conduct drug searches in communities.Armstrong Tayengwa (33) and Joylene Mabika (41) were...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains continue to destroy property
More damages to infrastructure and households have been recorded in various parts of the country as downpours persist with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) expecting isolated thunderstorms...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infant dies as mother gets beaten over alleged adultery
POLICE say a four month old baby died last Saturday whilst strapped on its mother's back after she was assaulted in Shamva over adultery accusations.In a statement yesterday, police said the i...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Man murders wife, rapes corpse in front of children
A 36-YEAR-OLD man from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo mercilessly murdered his estranged wife and went on to sexually abuse her corpse in full view of their children before he later committed suicide...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo wife killer commits suicide
Judge Evans Zinzombe, the Bulawayo man who callously murdered his wife Wednesday and went on to sexually abuse her corpse in full view of the couple's minor children, was found dead with police linkin...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$600k Kwekwe heist an inside job, says police
The robbery which occurred at a service station in Kwekwe last month where nearly US$600 000 and over R63 400 was stolen, was an inside job involving a female employee who supplied information to her ...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
A paranoid government seeking to legislate 'patriotism' is a danger unto all citizens!
So, the government of Zimbabwe has finally decided to stubbornly proceed in enacting the controversial 'Patriotic Act'.Only this time s...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jumbo, croc attack victim seeks help
A BINGA man who miraculously survived an elephant and crocodile attack that left him clinging onto the straws of life is appealing for financial assistance to enable him to undergo further treatment o...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charles Mabika not dead1
VETERAN sports journalist Charles Mabika has taken to Facebook to dismiss rumours of his death. Social media, particularly Whatsap was awash with news of his passing on Tuesday morning. ...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa blows top over factionalism
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister Monica Mutsvangwa has reportedly threatened to deal with Manicaland members who leaked information on internal party fights to the Press...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Manicaland Women's League burns
Zanu-PF national women's league has reportedly assigned Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa to go on a fact-finding mission over sharp divisions in the Manicaland provincial structures.The ...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
4 machete robbers arrested
FOUR robbers who were part of a six-member machete gang which has been terrorising people in Gweru's Mkoba and Woodlands areas have been arrested.The machete robbers stole cash and many other ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Msindo duped
A-SENIOR staffer at the Destiny for Afrika Network (Danet), led by Obadiah Musindo, was yesterday arraigned before the courts facing allegations of swindling Musindo of his shares in a company they co...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meet the new ZANU PF Youth leadership
The ruling ZANU PF party has elected a new leadership in the recently held youth conference. The Conference saw all your familiar figures like Tendai Chirau and Mabutho Moyo stepping down at the expir...Published: 06 May 2022 at 12:50hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tagwirei clears air on Dynamos
SAKUNDA Holdings chief executive Kuda Tagwirei says he has no intentions to acquire Dynamos, adding that all his company wants is to reconcile the warring parties at the country's biggest football clu...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as more boreholes are sunk in Harare
THERE was jubilation in Glen Norah yesterday after President Mnangagwa dispatched borehole drilling equipment with the aim of providing clean water to residents.It was the same in Epworth, whe...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staf reporter
Cop arrested for stealing handcuffs
A COP stationed at Jotsholo Police Station in Lupane, Matabeleland North, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a wheelbarrow, duty roster book, stock clearance book and handcuffs from the police s...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ineligible candidate wins Zanu-PF primaries
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East province yesterday conducted a rerun of its primary elections in ward 13, Wedza South, after it emerged that the winner, Trust Mabika, was ineligible.Mabika, an ex-sol...Published: 26 Jan 2022 at 04:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chapungu losing its feathers under Bambo Chunga
Life is no longer rosy for former premier league side and current Division One Gweru Air force outfit Chapungu FC which seems to be gambling its hustles between a rock and hard place.They say ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Madiro, war veterans square off
RECENTLY re-elected Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro has blasted "a few war veterans" whom he accused of causing divisions in the party.His statement comes after war veter...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rebranding is a matter of life and death for MDC-Alliance
WILLIAM Shakespeare, the 16th century English playwright who once prominently featured on the Zimbabwean Ordinary Level and Advanced Level English literature school curriculum, once rhetorically asked...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:16hrs | 7 | by Taona T. Denhere
Mike Madiro gives up contesting Zanu-PF internal elections
Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial chairman Mike Madiro has vowed not to contest in future highly contentious party elections to allow new leadership to take over.However, the decision has been vie...Published: 13 Jan 2022 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for truce
WARRING Zanu-PF factions have been urged to bury the hatchet and stop dropping names of party bigwigs during campaigns.The call was made by party secretary for commissariat Mike Bimha in a sta...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blood and thunder as Zanu-PF polls kick-off
FIREWORKS are expected as Zanu-PF provincial elections kick- off Tuesday, with officials and big wigs involved in heavy campaigning often spilling overnight MondayAhead of the internal polls, ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF frets over infighting
Zanu-PF bigwigs are expected to meet today for a politburo meeting amid reports of worsening infighting that has rocked the party's restructuring exercise and protests against senior leaders.P...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:16hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA to woo Billiat out of retirement
ZIFA are set to persuade midfielder, Khama Billiat, to come out of retirement and have one last dance with the Warriors at the 2021 AFCON finals, in Cameroon, next month.Billiat, who has been ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 40 in gold rush
Police have arrested more than 40 illegal miners during a gold rush at Insukamuni Business Centre in Lower Gweru, impounding four vehicles in the process.Hundreds of illegal miners descended o...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean banker in failed West Ham bid
A LONDON-BASED Zimbabwean investment banker was part of a failed bid by a high-powered consortium, which wanted to take over high-flying English Premiership club West Ham United, in a deal worth about...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes swipe at opposition
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday took a swipe at the country's detractors and their local lackeys who thrive on the suffering of the people but said despite their machinations, Zimbabwe will be great aga...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans fume over Obadiah Moyo's acquittal
ZIMBABWEANS have been left fuming over the recent acquittal of former Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo who was facing corruption charges.Moyo was being accused of illegally approvin...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 14 suspected armed robbers
Police have arrested 14 armed robbers who besieged a horticulture farm in Marondera and stole a disc plough valued at US$3000.The arrested are Godfrey Tatenda Nyapokoto (35), Fungai Mutigwina ...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tollgate leakages: Zinara losing millions
COLLUSION between officers manning toll gates and corrupt motorists has seen banned kombi and pirate taxi crews sneaking through boom gates without paying, prejudicing the Zimbabwe National Road Admin...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chunga humbled by Tagwirei's gesture
ZIMBABWE football icon Moses "Bambo" Chunga was left humbled by Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei's gesture after the petroleum mogul pledged to buy the former Dynamos and Warriors midfield maestro ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dead woman 'haunts family'
A Cowdray Park family in Bulawayo says it is being haunted by its 22-year-old daughter, who died in a car crash nearly three months ago as they constantly "see" her in the house. The family wa...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe child bride reported dead is alive
IN a soap opera-style development, police investigations have revealed that Memory Machaya, for long thought to be the girl who died while giving birth at the Johane Marange shrine in Bocha, is alive ...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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