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Man steals US$7 259, R10 000 blows it on cleansing ritual
A 51-year-old Bulawayo man, Bongani Matshazi, has been sentenced to six months in prison after being convicted of stealing US$7,259 and R10,000 from his employer to pay for a spiritual cleansing ritua...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 15:22hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwe Property Expo 2024 - Excitement is Building!
We're thrilled to announce that the Zimbabwe Property Expo 2024 is just around the corner, and we can't wait to welcome you to this one-of-a-kind event at Celebration Centre, Harare, on the 4th and 5t...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 08:27hrs | 131 | by Agencies
Active Youth Zimbabwe set to build drug rehabilitation center
ACTIVE YOUTH ZIMBABWE is planning to build a drug rehabilitation center which will be located at Pumula South, Bulawayo.In an interview, Active Youth Zimbabwe Editorial Director, Romeo M...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 14:59hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
CONFESSION: How Tsvangirayi used me to label Welshman Ncube a CIO
In a startling revelation on X (formerly Twitter), opposition activist Freeman Chari opened up about his past role as a "hired gun" within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), shedding light on h...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Secret affair with married woman exposed
Bulawayo-based anti-drug campaigner Romeo Matshazi has been caught cheating with a married woman, Blessed Maturure, who is the wife of Clement Gwatidzo.The illicit affair was exposed after Gwa...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:50hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders versus Dynamos: The anatomy of violence
Once again — and not for the last time — a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the o...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:33hrs | 11 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe election disinformation spreads on WhatsApp
From doctored photos making small crowds big to posts praising government accomplishments that never were, WhatsApp has become the channel of choice for disinformation in Zimbabwe before this month's ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 19:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Scientologists commemorate birthday of late Scientology founder in Bulawayo
Scientologists recently celebrated the birth of Scientology founder the late Lafayette Ronald Hubbard at the Bulawayo Club.Scientologists have not been able to gather for over two years due to...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 22:43hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Trevor Ncube says was ‘wrong' to back Mnangagwa, renews Chamisa criticism
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner Trevor Ncube has admitted he was "wrong" to assume President Emmerson Mnangagwa would govern better than Robert Mugabe.Ncube, one of Mnangagwa's biggest cheerl...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's drug problem spirals out of control
ABOUT 250 drug addicts are attended to at Ingutsheni Central Hospital monthly amid worries that the number of youths abusing drugs keeps rising in Bulawayo.Statistics from Active Youth Zimbabw...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
13 Zimbabwe prisoners struck by lightning while having lunch
Police have released names of 13 inmates who were struck and injured by a bolt of lightning at Hwange Prison.The incident occurred last Friday when the 13 inmates convicts, were having lunch a...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
The Liberation War in Nkayi, Matebeleland: The Agenda by Rhodesian Army & State to starve 'terrorists', a personal experience!
In today's Africa, we often ascribe the violation of African rights to only African governments and easily forget a long-standing history of wanton violation of African rights by gun-ho racialist geno...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:38hrs | 15 | by Thembani Dube
Gun toting robbers disarmed, beaten
A BULAWAYO man allegedly teamed up with an ex-soldier to rob people that his in-laws were selling a house to, at gunpoint. Covering their faces with face masks and caps tilted to further hide ...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF calls for peaceful DCC campaigns
ZANU-PF Matabeleland North leadership has called for a peaceful campaign as the party prepares for the District Development Committee (DCC) elections. The ruling party disbanded the DCCs in 20...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa repeating Tsvangirai's mistakes
In the aftermath of the 2013 elections, then MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai cried foul, claimed the polls were rigged and threatened to go to the Constitutional Court with a dossier to prove he had be...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mnangagwa's government: The mask has slipped
In April last year, on these pages, I expressed concern at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government's obvious fascination with Rwanda and China.On the face of it, it seemed as if Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
#ShutDownZimbabwe: Why Chamisa's MDC needs to spell out its objectives
On June 2, 2003, the MDC undertook its most ambitious action ever; they were going to stage a three-day demonstration known as the "final push", with the intention of either forcing then President Rob...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Chamisa's MDC at crossroads: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
FOR the best part of the last 12 months, the MDC has been threatening to roll out demonstrations and mass protests to either force President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power or at least to the negotiat...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Token anti-corruption drive breeding apathy and despondency
Last week, I agonised on what to write about. I had travelled and had a bit of work to do, but still thought I could get my column in.In the end, I did not write anything because I failed to f...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Sunshine journalism: What happens on cloudy days?
I RECENTLY read on the ZBC website that Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa had "urged the media to write positive developmental stories about Zimbabwe in the new dispensation", and this reminded m...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Deny, deflect and divert: Zanu-PF's flawed approach to governings
When the news that the Association of Rural Teachers of Zimbabwe (Artuz) boss, Obert Masaraure had allegedly been kidnapped, brutalised and left for dead first filtered in, the government and by exten...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Ndiweni, the chief who dared bell the cat
IF ever you did history in a Zimbabwean school or at least watched ZBC-TV, you are sure to have come across the name of Manicaland traditional leader Chief Rekayi Tangwena, who is famed for helping Ro...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Heavily armed police invade Bulawayo
Bulawayo woke up to heavy police presence on Monday morning. The police who were moving around in armoured vehicles urged the people of Bulawayo to shun calls of violoncello by people from outside Bul...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
No fuel price increase - Zera
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has dismissed reports on fuel price increases.Zera says the recent regulations will not result in the increase in the price of fuel but were mea...Published: 21 May 2019 at 09:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
New proposed fuel prices leaked
Fuel dealers and the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority are locked in talks about fuel prices, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has revealedDealers are reported to have stopped sel...Published: 20 May 2019 at 22:23hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Herald-Newsday fight escalates
The altercation between The Herald and Newsday newspapers escalated on Monday with Acting Herald Editor Tichaona Zindoga accusing his Newsday counterpart Mr Wisdom Mdzungairi of employing "subte...Published: 20 May 2019 at 12:20hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Court removes Chamisa as MDC President
A High Court judge ruled on Wednesday that Advocate Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of the MDC, that the party must hold an extraordinary congress within a month using 2014 structures....Published: 08 May 2019 at 10:22hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zambian n'angas jet in to deal with Gukurahundi
Witchdoctors from Lusaka are reported to have landed in the country to conduct cleansing rituals for members of the fifth brigade and other government officials who participated in the Gukurahun...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Minister Sibusiso Moyo's wife to lead Anti-Corruption Commission
Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo the wife of Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Moyo might be the next Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, a top journalist Nqaba Matshazi has r...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 11:48hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe's donated parcel detained by Zimra
The Umuntu Movement Zimbabwe Trust a permaculture organization in Bulawayo received a donation of fruit tree seeds from a donor from Pakistan. The donor agenda was to empower the organization an...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 15:52hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
PHOTO: #ShutdownZimbabwe - Woman shot both legs
This woman was on her from work, when she was shot near a police station. (Pic by ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Massive protests shut down Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe to have its own currency in 12 months
Zimbabwe should brace itself for its own currency within the next 12 months the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube said.He was speaking at a Town Hall meeting with organ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:44hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe writing a book?
Former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe might be writing a book to record his memoirs after being ousted from power in a bloody coup that ended 37 years of his rule.The revelations were mad...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 16:55hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira defends Chinotimba
MDC-T National spokesperson Linda Masarira has defended ZANU PF MP Joseph Chinotimba who is being accused of sexism and tribalism after referring to MDC National Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo as a prost...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi head on says Biographer
Sunday Times Journalist and Author of President Mnangagwa's biography, Ray Ndlovu has urged Mnangagwa to face the Gukurahundi issue head on if he is to win the majority support of the people of Zimbab...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 19:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC-T offices in Bulawayo closed by police
A journalist in Zimbabwe has tweeted an image of police closing off an MDC-T office in Bulawayo. He tweeted earlier that "Harare is closed for business".Violence erupted in the capital of Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zec has failed the credibility test
WE have projected and forecast, analysed and pontificated on the elections and in four days' time this comes to an end, as Zimbabweans will have their say on who their next leader is.These ele...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
MDC Alliance, independent candidates clash
MDC ALLIANCE activists in Matabeleland North are up in arms with Tsholotsho South independent candidate, Lawrence Hastings Matshazi, whom they accuse of illegally using the alliance's campaign picture...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beyond the rhetoric, what does Mnangagwa offer?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)came to power, I was one of the sceptical ones, as he has been in government since independence and I believed he was as much to blame for the economic, pol...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zanu-PF bombing: Barwe feeds reckless ethnic narrative
At the height of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, I read about an interesting concept in South Africa, "swart gevaar" (black danger), as the athlete's defence was that he thought there was an intrude...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Gukurahundi: The axe may forget but the tree remembers
I ALMOST threw up in my mouth recently when I read that Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary general, Victor Matemadanda had said former President Robert Mugabe wa...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabweans rise to the #ChamisaChallenge - 'I bit the apple on the iPhone'
Zimbabweans on social media have taken up the #ChamisaChallenge, a tongue-in-cheek response to opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's claim at a weekend political rally that he advised Rwanda on its progr...Published: 31 May 2018 at 13:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's July 30 elections: Will the will of the people slay Goliath?
A few weeks ago, a colleague, who was not registered to vote, told me he thought voting was a pointless exercise. He strongly believed that the new administrators would not relinquish power if they lo...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Woman drags ex-son in law to maintenance court
A MAN from Bulawayo has been dragged to the Maintenance Court by his ex-mother-in-law for the upkeep of two minor children.Ms Nelly Matshazi told a court that she was applying for maintenance ...Published: 24 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
The British could be wrong on Zimbabwe once again
In early 2017, a colleague, Everson Mushava, stumbled upon a story about British involvement in Zanu-PF factionalism and that the United Kingdom had a dog in the fight.At the centre of it all ...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Who will target the criminals around Mnangagwa this time?
The Zanu PF primaries have come and gone, but the lingering worry for me is the number of people that have either criminal records or have been implicated in something dodgy that took part in the elec...Published: 10 May 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
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