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British Govt shows the world how to deal with rioters
It's, unfortunately, depressingly familiar. Violence has broken out in the United Kingdom led by loosely organised thugs driven by fake news and hate speech on social media that was made acceptable by...Published: 08 Aug 2024 at 07:46hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs: Whose interests are they serving?
THIS writer was shocked to learn about Finance minister Mthuli Ncube giving in to the demands of the Zimbabwean MPs regarding the need for an upward variation for the budget for Parliament (NewsDay, D...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 07:28hrs | 11 | by Nicholas Aribino
Hands off King Lobengula, he was not a Zimbabwean!
Unformed, ignorant and reckless Zimbabwe satirists, journalists, whatever they call themselves, should be advised that His Majesty, King Lobengula of Matabeleland was not a Zimbabwean. Ingqungqulu Ema...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 09:46hrs | 15 | by Israel Dube
Is Forex Trading Halal or Haram? A Comprehensive Analysis
Forex trading, or the act of exchanging currencies on the foreign exchange market, is a topic of debate in various circles, particularly among Muslims who seek to ensure that their trading activities ...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:39hrs | 24 | by Staff Reporter
Dembare juju takes centre stage
THE Dynamos leadership has come out against the use of juju amid reports of a dressing room split over some unorthodox practices pushed by members of the technical department.Dynamos fired coa...Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows to run Zimbabwe on Christian values
Some Zimbabweans have lambasted the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) for declaring in its election manifesto that it intends to run the country on the basis of Christian values.Party leader...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean candidates solicit church votes ahead of Zimbabwe elections
Zimbabwe's major political parties are turning to religion in a bid to secure votes in the general elections next month.Zanu-PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) are attending church...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Swedish govt must prevent anti-Qur'an gatherings, apologise to Muslims
THE recent move by the Swedish court to issue permission to anti-Islam extremists to desecrate the Holy Qur'an outside the main mosque in the capital city of Stockholm on the day of Eid al-Adha, under...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Zimbabwe
Muslim nations denounce Quran burning in Sweden
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE and other Middle Eastern nations on Thursday condemned the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, warning such acts "inflame" the feelings of Muslims around t...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 16:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga commends church
VICE President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga has commended the church for the role it is playing in keeping the citizenry, particularly youths, away from societal ills ...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe condemns attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Zimbabwean government has called on Israel to unconditionally withdraw its occupying forces from Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and to stop all unilateral actions.A press statement i...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the radar of the new US Africa strategy
The United States foreign relations committee held confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden's Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Rwanda and Niger ambassadorship nominees on Wednesday.The four countries a...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 20:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 13 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Apostolic sect seeks to cash in on followers
AN apostolic sect is seeking business ventures with food manufacturers in a deal that would see some products bearing the logo of the religious group.In a letter to food companies dated Decemb...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Women abuse UK justice system to settle scores
John Mabhureza of Northampton United Kingdom sits in a corner in prison. He has grown so thin and he is not eating well. He has reduced himself into a silent dying man. Mabhureza's problems star...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC 16 August Demonstrations: Why there shall be a huge turnout!
In 1918, Eller Wheeler Wilcox the great American author once said "to sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of many" . Subsequently, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has call...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Erasmus Pongo
Chamisa conflates religion with Christianity
Many people think, and they are wrong to think this, that Zimbabwe starts and ends in Harare.In fact, many in the opposition believe, and this is a clue to why they lose elections, that Twitte...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Tinomudaishe Chinyoka
Zimbabwe, North Korea, Syria and Myanmar among countries defending China's actions in Xinjiang
Ambassadors representing 37 countries praised China for its "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights," just a day after a group of 22 other countries formally condemned Beijing for the ma...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Joshua Berlinger, CNN
'Dangerous religious group to bomb Southern African countries'
Members of the extremist Islamic groupings are plotting to unleash a wave of violent strikes and bombings in Southern Africa, a prominent clergyman has revealed. Pastor Ian Ndlovu of Divine Ki...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rihanna prays for Sudan
Barbadian singer and businesswoman Robyn Rihanna Fenty on Sunday posted an urgent message praying for the people of Sudan who were conducting a peaceful protest demanding a civilian government. ...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 19:31hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
40 million Americans live in poverty
America is known for flash. But all that glisters is not gold, according to the latest United Nations report on President Trump's country. From the outside, America is heaven, "God's own country" they...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Religious imperialism? Count me out
I WAS pleasantly surprised when people from near and far, from within Zimbabwe and beyond the borders, white and black, Christian and non-Christian came to the defence of the Zimbabwe Bird after the n...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabweans will find Chamisa's Zimbabwe bird remark quite offensive
SOME people make it impossible for anyone to misquote them or exaggerate about them.Just when you thought politicians across the divide would tone down on rhetoric in the spirit of Independenc...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe drifts towards online darkness
One year after jubilant residents celebrated on the streets of Harare when Zimbabwe's army removed Robert Mugabe from power, the country is in darkness.In January, after days of protests over ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:26hrs | | by Ray Mwayera
3 Religious Sites to Visit When in Israel
Israel attracts thousands of people every year to visit the religious sites scattered throughout the country, a good number of which are significant to several Abrahamic religions because of their sha...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe I want
What is the truth? What does it set you free from? The Webster's Dictionary definition below says what the word truth means: "truth: being in accord with fact or reality." Thus, the truth sets you fre...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Betting shops have sprouted across Zimbabwe
In recent years, soccer betting shops have sprouted across the country.From early morning till late into the night, the betting outlets are always a hive of activity.Indeed, betting ha...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Beyond the captive state
The phrase "state capture" comes very easily into our formal and informal communication these days.What is not easy, however, is true understanding of what the phrase fundamentally means. In S...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Trump under fire over South Africa land reform
SOUTH Africa's land reform policy was long overdue and attempts by United States President Mr Donald Trump to muddy the programme is clear testimony of his administration's defiance to black self-dete...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
If they're shooting at you, you know you're doing something right
In a memorable episode of the hit US political drama, The West Wing, there is an assassination attempt on the (fictional) president by a white supremacist group. As his team tries to process the event...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 11:18hrs | | by Charles Kanye
Reflections from the church learning and best practice
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Faith Based Organisations from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Burundi and Togo converged at Holiday Inn in Harare to reflect on the religious mandate of churches, strengthen c...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Isis threatens Ronaldo, Messi ahead of World Cup
Fundamentalist group the Islamic State (Isis) has issued an eerie new threat ahead of the World Cup in Russia, this time aimed at soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.In chilling ne...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by News.com.au
Cholera jibe angers Chegutu Muslims
The Chegutu cholera treatment centre has been closed, but the local Muslim community is insisting on an apology from the government after accusations they were to blame for the outbreak.The go...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
White woman dresses as a Muslim, horrified at response
A WHITE woman who dressed as a Muslim for a week was subjected to Islamaphobia by strangers – and even asked "if she was going to blow us all up".Katie Freeman was taking part in a social ex...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sheer innocence leads many Zimbabeans to UK prisons
MOST Zimbabweans see their dreams of prosperity tumbling down like a sand castle as they are bundled into police cars and eventually taken to prison for being Zimbabwean. In many British prisons, ther...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 16:24hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe has no preferred religion: Research
ZIMBABWE remains among 106 countries globally with neither an official or preferred religion while Zambia is the only Christian country in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a Pew Research Centre report...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Can our Human Rights come in handy this year?
If you know your Rights, you're to blame for every Human Rights violation which you let slide right under your nose. If you aren't aware of your Rights, you're slightly worse. People who are equipped ...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
As secessionist wave sweeps through the world - the case for Mthwakazi
As the secessionist wave sweeps through the world - especially in Spain's Catalonia, Iraq's Kurdistan, the United Kingdom's Scotland, Nigeria's Biafra, the English-speaking people of Cameroon, and man...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Trump a threat to world peace
US President Donald Trump's inaugural address of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday shocked many political players the world over due to the American government's intransigence and threat ...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Tererai Danga
SEX with 1,000 men
A CHITUNGWIZA woman has sensationally claimed that she slept with more than 1 000 men locally and abroad as a sex workerJoylene Musemwa of Unit N also stunningly revealed that she could lure m...Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko wants death penalty for graft
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has called for sweeping law reforms which impose stiffer penalties such as cutting hands and shooting people tried and found guilty of corruption.Mphoko's cal...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko demands public officials to declare your assets
All public officials should publicly declare their assets and sources of wealth to engender transparency, curb corruption and end criminal abuse of public funds, Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned against abusing media
THE Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Dr Chris Mushohwe, has castigated politicians who fight factional battles using the media, saying they were abusing their Constitutional r...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet T.B. Joshua commended for donating 10 million Naira to less privileged Muslim community
General Overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua has been commended for donating the sum of 10 million Naira to the less privileged in the North in the spirit of R...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 19:26hrs | | by Patience Amaka
Prophet T.B. Joshua, please don't go!
TEMITOPE Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, is undeniably a global brand. His Emmanuel TV is watched by millions across the world. Joshua recently made headlines when he ann...Published: 06 Jun 2017 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Obadiah Mailafia
'Islam is rising in Zimbabwe'
ISLAM is spreading in Zimbabwe as people increasingly understand and accept the religion's teachings, a Muslim scholar has said.Sheik Shaibu Asali, head of the Arabic department at an Islamic ...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Recognizes Efforts in Bahrain, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. This year's laureates are Zimbabwean activist and playwright...Published: 06 May 2017 at 11:50hrs | 13 | by HRF
Dokora's Muslim syllabus
The diaspora was surprised to learn from the Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Lazarus Dokora, that Islam was Zimbabwe's biggest religion in 1980 and was the country's 'designated' indigen...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Zimvigil
Stateless Matebeles to be affected by ant-immigration policies in the world
After failing to get jobs in the Zimbabwe labour market where people are employed on the basis of their tribe, Matebeles would quietly sneak into South Africa, Botswana or any other country in the wor...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe donkeys are at risk
Rural communities across the world, including those in Zimbabwe, are at risk of being impoverished by "relentless" Chinese demand for donkey products such as meat and skins, which are stewed to pr...Published: 05 Feb 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by staff reporter
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