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Mugabe in low-key village send-off
IT was billed to be his historical final homecoming trip, complete with ecstatic crowds lining up the highway, which he travelled on so frequently during his long life.Yet, whether as a result...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 7079 | by Staff reporter
7 Chinese 'felons' flee Zimbabwe
SEVEN Chinese nationals facing charges of money laundering and illegal possession of more than 20kg of rhino horn pieces with an estimated street value of about $1 million are feared to have fled the ...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Minister in plot to scuttle NRZ deal
TRANSPORT minister Biggie Matiza is reportedly manoeuvring to smuggle through the backdoor a Dubai-based firm into the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal, despite...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:22hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses hero's burial fight
HUNDREDS of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday walked away disappointed after the Mavhunga family refused to bury the late Dominic Martin Mavhunga at Mashonaland Central Provincial Heroes Acre in Bindura....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 4302 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lines up events to celebrate Mugabe's life
ZANU-PF has lined up a number of events to celebrate the life of the nation's founding father former, President Robert Mugabe, until the day of the burial at the national Heroes Acre. Presiden...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1598 | by Staff reporter
Mavhunga's family shuns Heroes Acre
Chief Provincial hero Martin Mavhunga, who was supposed to be buried at Mashonaland Central Provincial Heroes' Acre yesterday, will now be buried today at his rural home in Mashonaland West as per his...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF fights over another corpse
RELATIVES of the late Dominic Martin Mavhunga husband to minister of state for Provincial Affairs in Mashonaland Central, Monica Mavhunga are breathing fire after Zanu-PF and their in-laws allegedly h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: The socio-genesis, posterity of Pan-Africanism
My heart agonisingly aches in sullenness for Robert Gabriel Mugabe's demise. While weeping can only endure for a while, Mugabe's passing on offers a solid premise to recollect and curate the mortality...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 117 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Sables beat Zambia, win Victoria Cup
ZIMBABWE are the winners of this year's Victoria Cup, a four nation rugby contest following their impressive 41-5 triumph over Zambia at Lusaka Show Grounds in Lusaka yesterday.The Sables ran ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 298 | by Jason L Riley
NRZ - DIDG deal awaits guidance from Treasury
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has received the submissions for funding made towards the US$400 million recapitalisation project by Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG)/Transnet C...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:19hrs | 361 | by Advocate Martin Dinha
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1588 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Granny attempts suicide after being raped by Gumbura cleric
A 63-YEAR-OLD Chivhu woman attempted to kill herself after she was allegedly raped by a pastor belonging to convicted rapist Robert Martin Gumbura's RMG Independent End Time Message Church.Wal...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:59hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name used for extortion
Two people have been arrested for allegedly abusing the name of First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, to extort more than US$40 000 from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Wa...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:57hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Magaya nearly loses US$40 000 to Auxilia Mnangagwa fake agents
Two people have been arrested for allegedly abusing the name of First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, to extort more than US$40 000 from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder, Prophet Wa...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2194 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa's supporters demand military training, guns
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa should consider recruiting youth for military training if he is entertaining any thought to taking power in Zimbabwe, the party's supporters in Matabeleland North have said....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:10hrs | 1808 | by newzimbabwe
NRZ deal back on track
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project is now back on track after the utility's board yesterday approved a US$420 million funding offer from the Diaspora Infrastructure Devel...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:57hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Afrophobia and the Zimbophobes among us
Africa and the whole world are perturbed by the gory sights of acts of Afrophobia which are perpetrated against African foreign nationals in South Africa by some citizens of that country. And rightly ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 14:53hrs | 2488 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mugabe's nephew pained by the loss
Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95.First heralded as a liberator who rid the former Brit...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | 1156 | by AFP
Fabisch pulls out of Young Warriors
YOUNG Warriors midfielder, Jonah Fabisch, has pulled out of the team to take on South Africa in an Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier tomorrow. The first leg of the final qualifying roun...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invited to World Economic Forum in Davos
President Mnangagwa will next year participate at the global World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, following an invitation by the executive chairman, Professor Klaus Martin Schwab. ...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Gift Lunga Jr resigns as Mosi Rovers coach
VICTORIA Falls-based Southern Region Division One League side Mosi Rovers failed to fulfil their away fixture against Ajax Hotspurs in Bulawayo following the sudden resignation of coach, Gift Lunga Jr...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Protests split Chamisa's MDC
SHARP divisions have emerged in the opposition MDC over how to confront the ruling Zanu-PF over the deteriorating economy and achieve meaningful political reforms before the 2023 elections.Ins...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2255 | by Staff reporter
Fabisch son called into Young Warriors
JONAH Fabisch, the son of the late Dream Team coach Reinhard, has been included in the Young Warriors squad for their duel against South Africa. He is on the books of German side Hamburger SV. It coul...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 870 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 365 | by Bishop Lazi
Gumbura wives stand by hubby
JAILED Independent End Time Message leader Robert Martin Gumbura's wife have vowed to remain loyal to their husband and united despite negative coverage by some sections of the media. Even fro...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:01hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Gumbura reunites with family
Former leader of the RMG Independent End Time Message Church in Zimbabwe, Robert Martin Gumbura had a happy day during the Zimbabwe Prisons Family Day when his wives and children visited him at the Ch...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 09:56hrs | 11536 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimdiaspora in final push
In one of the Largest planned peaceful demonstrations this year, the Zimbabwe Diaspora in the UK made so much noise, that, over 15 Police officers, including rapid response, Armed and West Minster Enf...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:49hrs | 2045 | by Thabo Makuyana
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1039 | by Kennet Mufuka
Mnangagwa presents new coup-proofing measures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa - under siege in the face of worsening economic hardships fuelling a groundswell of social discontent - is coup-proofing his regime by giving the security forces preferent...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC request recount of Lupane East by-election results
THE Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) applying for the recount of Lupane East by-election results. This comes after Za...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 16:59hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
ZACC goes after Dinha
FORMER Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Province, Advocate Martin Dinha is being investigated by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on allegations of criminal abuse of office duri...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army to declare martial law to crush Mnangagwa and MDC protests
The country's military is reportedly preparing to declare martial law in the event of planned opposition protests becoming violent insurrections and grinding the nation to a halt, Spotlight Zimbabwe, ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 21355 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mthuli Ncube's 'illegal' budget causes chaos in parliament
THERE was chaos and drama in Parliament yesterday as tempers flared when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi ignored issues raised by opposition MDC Alliance MPs and Nor...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 2016 | by Staff reporter
Sables beat Kenya to remain unbeaten in Victoria Cup
Zimbabwe 30 - 29 Kenya ZIMBABWE remained unbeaten in the Victoria Cup rugby competition after yet another hard fought victory, this time at home against Kenya at Hartsfield Rugby Groun...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:18hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Judgment in MDC MPs violence case deferred
JUDGMENT in a case in which MDC Alliance legislators, Settlement Chikwinya (Mbizo) and Lloyd Mukapiko (Redcliff), who are accused of public violence and inciting mayhem during the January fuel price h...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC goes for broke
MDC has gone all out to grab the Lupane East constituency from Zanu-PF, dispatching party heavyweights and its president Nelson Chamisa to drum up support for candidate Dalumazi Khumalo.Chamis...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 20:59hrs | 5745 | by Staff reporter
Latest on Obert Mpofu arrest story
Reports that ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Moses Mpofu has been picked up by officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission are not true the party has said. Social Media...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 13:15hrs | 13041 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Temba Mliswa: a hero or villain?
The firebrand Norton legislator Temba Peter Mliswa is a refreshing and entertaining contributor to every Parliamentary session he attends. He has won the admiration of many hearts in Norton over his d...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:12hrs | 2618 | by Nicholas Ncube
Chamisa to fire Kambarami?
THE MDC Alliance has summoned Bulawayo councillors to its headquarters in Harare where party president Mr Nelson Chamisa is expected to deal with the chaos and alleged corruption dogging the local aut...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2303 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala arrest cost us Bikita East by-election, claims MDC
SMARTING from a defeat in the Bikita East ward 31 by-election held on Saturday, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC party has blamed Zanu-PF and the State for intimidating voters through the arrest of party de...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2928 | by Stafff reporter
Murisa honours Ali 'Baba'
FORMER Soccer Star of the Year and Caps United legend Stewart Murisa will this year donate all his birthday gifts to one of the best junior coaches ever to emerge in Zimbabwe, Ali 'Baba' Dube, who has...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:45hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Botswana: A base for future US military control of Southern Africa
The Zimbabwe Communist Party is seriously concerned about the continuing links between the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) and Africa Command (AFRICOM) of the United States Army.We were alerted b...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 20:05hrs | 3181 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
We are all thieves, Zivhu admits
Chivi South Member of Parliament (MP) Killer Zivhu has all but admitted that he and other well-connected ruling party politicians as well as government officials are corrupt and would not miss a good ...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:51hrs | 4749 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables call-up 8 debutants ahead of Zambia
Zimbabwe Sables have announced eight debutants in their squad for the ‘Battle of Zambezi' against Zambia at the Machinery Exchange Stadium at Harare Sports Club on Saturday – this will be the open...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 21:17hrs | 806 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami suspends Bulawayo Town Clerk, trying to capture City council
Acting Bulawayo mayor Tinashe Kambarami has reportedly suspended the city's Town Clerk Christopher Dube on allegations of misappropriating council funds.In a letter dated July 11, 2019, Cllr K...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 5165 | by Staff reporter
New Zealand edge out India in ICC World Cup semi final
The ICC Cricket World Cup is reaching fever pitch. The tournament kicked off in England on the 30th of May and is now just a few days away from the final. The first semi-final game was between New Zea...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:08hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Answers still needed for Warriors horror show
THE horror show in Egypt as we succumbed to a 4-0 thumping to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at AFCON on Sunday night sums up the mediocrity in the ranks of Zimbabwean football. We wer...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1079 | by Phillip Zulu
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