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Election buzz has not gripped Zimbabwe
ELECTION 2023, A FIRST IN 43 YEARS: As Zimbabwe holds a General Election in the Heroes & Defence Forces MonthWhen it comes to the meaning of things whose spiritual force can move mou...Published: 25 May 2023 at 18:46hrs | 407 | by Jonathan Moyo
Indeed life was hard under colonialism but there were plenty of opportunities
Over the weekend I drove my mother to her rural home in Rusape for an important family gathering.To be expected, as soon as we hit familiar territory, which held significant memories for her -...Published: 23 May 2023 at 14:01hrs | 578 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe will prosper if we speak for the suffering, not for politicians!
There is a justifiable reason why I never became a politician and have stayed clear from participating in party politics.One simply needs to go through social media, and the reason will be rig...Published: 18 May 2023 at 21:14hrs | 653 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals
From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral v...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 382 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Call for suspension of Zimbabwe's 2023 polls
PEACE activist, pastor and businessman Anglistone Sibanda says the Zanu-PF-led government should consider postponing this year's polls because the situation on the ground demands it.Sibanda ma...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1626 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Shock as Ramaphosa tears Thabo Mbeki speech apart
South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa shocked South Africans during his 2023 State Of the Nation Address when he began hi opening remarks by tearing apart the "I Am an African" speech that ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 10:45hrs | 4388 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Madzibaba confesses to serial kidnappings
A white garment apostolic church member (Madzibaba), Willie Chindundundu (21) confessed to serial child kidnappings after he was caught by people trying to kidnap a one-year-old toddler in Glen Norah ...Published: 09 Feb 2023 at 10:27hrs | 2047 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Chamisa ready for polls
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says the relentless arrest of its legislators and supporters will not scare or deter the party from participating in general elections to be held lat...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:37hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
'We aim to win big!' insists Chamisa oblivious Zanu PF is rigging big, there is verified voters' roll, etc., etc.
"The world is flat or round not because you or me say it is flat/round. It is round because the mountain of supporting evidence say it is round," my Secondary School teacher used to say. Zimba...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 17:04hrs | 1416 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa confident of 2023 win
ZIMBABWE's main opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) marked its first anniversary Tuesday.The party was formed on 24 January 2022 after a prolonged ...Published: 24 Jan 2023 at 16:34hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Muvevi was a feared man in the police service sector
JAISON Muvevi, the ex-cop who gunned down three people in Wedza last week was a feared man in the police service sector, former colleagues have reportedly told one of his victims' nephew.Muvev...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:29hrs | 6506 | by Staff reporter
ZEC to address delimitation concerns
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has pledged to deal with concerns raised by Parliament and those it received from the President next week as it prepares the final delimitation report which it ...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Police dispatched helicopter in hunt for killer cop
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday dispatched an army helicopter to Hwedza district's Chiduku area as the hunt for killer ex-police officer Jaison Muvhevhi intensified.Muvhevhi, who is a f...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:23hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Murewa CCC violence victims recount ordeal
Elderly Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members who were assaulted by suspected Zanu-PF activists for supporting the opposition were forced to spend the night in the mountains fearing for th...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:20hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Writing's on the bright yellow wall
The Bishop is back.What a restful, restorative and therapeutic sabbatical it was!Once in a while, it is quite helpful to extricate ourselves from the maddening rush of our manic lifest...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:38hrs | 177 | by Bishop Lazi
Haulage truck robbers on the loose in Zimbabwe
POLICE have warned haulage truck drivers on Harare-Chirundu highway to be on the lookout for dangerous criminals who are on the prowl targeting trucks during the night.In a statement, national...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: Will the real Ndebele please stand up
There has been a lot of talk about the resorgimento of the Ndebele Kingdom and crowning of the King himself. We have had so many pretenders to the throne, all claiming to be the rightful heirs or Prin...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 18:40hrs | 563 | by Clerk Ndlovu
14 Zimbabwean Vapostori drown in SA
FOURTEEN members of the Johanne Masowe Baptist Church, believed to be Zimbabweans, have been confirmed dead after drowning during a baptism ceremony that went wrong in Jukskei River in South Africa....Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife gets an honorary doctorate degree from Russia
RUSSIAN State University for the Humanities yesterday conferred an honorary doctorate degree in Philosophy (Honoris Causa) on First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa in recognition of her philanthropic work ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:34hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Fortune seekers descend on Mberengwa in Zimbabwe lithium rush
THE country's policies are once again in the spotlight after more than 5 000 artisanal miners and fortune seekers, including foreigners, mainly of Chinese origin, have descended on the former Sandawan...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:37hrs | 4036 | by Staff reporter
Britain actually demanded Zimbabwe independence and majority rule before ZANU PF!
I always find it most disingenuous and particularly infatuating listening to the Zimbabwe ruling elite distract from valid demands from the international community for the respect of human rights in t...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 22:13hrs | 980 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Malawi did it, Zambia did it, Lesotho has done it. We are next,' says Chamisa
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa commended the upset election victory in Lesotho by a newly formed opposition party and vowed that Zimbabwe would be next.L...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
NGOs demand voters roll ahead of delimitation
ELECTION watchdogs have expressed concern over plans by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to go ahead with the delimitation exercise without availing the voters roll.Zec yesterday releas...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula's most trusted chieftaincy seeks reinstatement
EARLY on Sunday morning last week, Mr Minus Mabhena made his way to the back of the Maphungo homestead in Nkayi's Sikopo area, in Matabeleland North province and stood on what looked like an anthill....Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs pledge to act on political violence
TRADITIONAL leaders have pledged to deal with perpetrators of political violence, including supporters from the ruling Zanu-PF by summoning them to their courts ahead of the 2023 elections.The...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientist explains rare discovery
A TINY frog called the cave squeaker had not been seen for more than half a century and it had been placed on the international red list of threatened species.Dr Robert Hopkins (80) of Parklan...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:07hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
If Edmund Kudzayi is gay, so is Chamisa
PROFESSOR Jonathan Moyo has jumped to the defence of journalist Edmund Kudzayi, who has over the past week fallen victim to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters' attacks for criticising thei...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4194 | by Staff reporter
Oliver Chidawu burial set for today
The memorial service for the Minister of State for Harare Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Engineer Oliver Chidawu, who died last Tuesday, was held yesterday at the family home in Harare ahead of bu...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 06:26hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Robbers axe pedestrian to death
A 21-YEAR-OLD Shamva pedestrian was axed to death by four suspected robbers who met him on a foot path in Shamva last week.One of...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:34hrs | 1668 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Joshua Nkomo was a strategist, says Tshinga Dube
THE late Vice-President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, was a shrewd military strategist who championed military training initiatives for several freedom fighters, which led to the country's independence in...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP arrested
Citizen Coalition for Change ( CCC) Mkoba Member of Parliament (MP) Amos Chibaya has been arrested in Gweru on allegations of convening an unsanctioned meeting in April this year.CCC spokesper...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 19:16hrs | 1369 | by Staff reporter
'Manjuzu' craze hits Harare
IN one of his letters to Timothy, a fellow brother in the Christian faith, Apostle Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus) offers counsel to a brother.Writes Paul in 1 Timoth 6:10: "For the ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 5804 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Exemption Permits holders' choice: Restart in a broken country or live undocumented in SA
THREE Zimbabweans who held Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), which the South African government has now scrapped, share their anxiety and anguish as they face deportation, uprooting their lives and...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:42hrs | 2174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shedding crocodile tears
LAST week's threat by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to punish miners who have decimated swathes of mineral and agricultural fields demonstrated that he has suddenly awakened from his slumber and realis...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
Hollywood star goes on a safari in Zimbabwe
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi continued to explore the African continent on Friday as they went on a safari in Zimbabwe, after recently traveling to Rwanda.The comedian, 64, shared four ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:30hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
The burdened party politician
As the 2023 elections draw closer, jockeying and jostling for political party candidature will soon become the order of the day. The process itself is far from clean.It involves pleasing the e...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 226 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Councils dig in as residents cry foul
NAOMI Chimbganda is still agonising over last month's council bill, which puts her debt at a staggering $1,8 million.The widow now has sleepless nights over how she will settle it, considering...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:28hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
'Need pact and reforms to avoid disputed elections.' Need to end CCC sell out and confusion galore
One says this, another says that and a third says something else that is neither this nor that. Indeed, in Zimbabwe politics the same individual will say one thing now and say the exact opposite in th...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:29hrs | 1090 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bus crew relives moments before horror crash that claimed 36 ZCC members
THE speeding St Charles Lwanga High School driver, whose bus lost brakes, veered off the road and rolled several times before landing over 200 metres down the steep, killing 36 people on the spot on T...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
King Mambo tells subjects to stop pursuing foreign traditions, religion
KING Litshe kaligiqeki Domborenyika Dr Mike Moyo, known as King Mambo, has expressed concern over churches and people who defile mountains and cultural sites.King Mambo made the remarks while ...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:14hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime politicking in urban areas creating vicious circle of worsening service delivery
It is one thing holding our local authorities answerable for their deed and misdeeds - but, it is a completely different story when those in national gove...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 21:44hrs | 450 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa wows Binga folks with fluent Tonga
BINGA District, particularly Siabuwa Business Centre was yesterday a hive of activity with multitudes of people turning the place into a sea of green and gold as they attended a Zanu-PF's star rally....Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:29hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Women should be wary of the 'Black police chief phenomenon' but strive to hold real power and influence in society
It is always encouraging reading news reports of women raising up the most treacherous ladder of power - which is usually fraught with seemingly insurmountable challenges, and much resistance from tho...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:02hrs | 333 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boy (6) strangled to death over sweet reeds
A 71-year-old man has been arrested in Chivi on allegations of strangling to death a boy for stealing sweet reeds in his field as murder cases continue to rise countrywide.The six-year-old boy...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane ward 9 villagers walk 16km to clinics
UMZINGWANE villagers in Matabeleland South province have called on government to construct a clinic in their area, lamenting that they have to walk eight to 16km to access health services.They...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
How politics destroys home-grown solutions
FOLLOWING the success of politics in liberating African countries from colonial injustice, a mindset that has been planted in Africa is that politics has a monopoly on all solutions. Unfortunately, th...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:54hrs | 261 | by Charles Dhewa
CZI sexual harassment case struck off roll
THE Supreme Court has dismissed a case where the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) was being sued by its former employee Rita Marque-Mbatha, who alleged that she was sexually harassed in 2002...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Smith was right when he predicted that Blacks, not necessarily ZANU PF, would destroy Zimbabwe!
I really get thoroughly disappointed with the direction in which our country has gone.In fact, disappointment is never the appropriate word - rather, anger and downright infuriation.Of...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 12:02hrs | 1720 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt grabs Chombo's farm, gives to ex-wife
Government is continuing its retributive land seizures targeting political opponents, real or imagined, this time cancelling former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's 99-year lease for Allan Grange Fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:01hrs | 2339 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri's Pastor shot dead in South Africa
The Shepherd Bushiri led Enlightened Christian Gathering family has been thrown into mourning after one of South Africa leaders was shot dead at a prayer mountain. According to Bus...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 13:52hrs | 4642 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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