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Traditional chief posts porn on social media
Zhombe traditional chief Gwesela born Weight Gwesela allegedly embarrassed himself by posting a pornographic video on his WhatsApp status before blaming his phone for the mistake last night....Published: 16 hrs ago | 5120 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Not yet Uhuru for Africa: Africa Day message from ZAPU
Africa Day has come and gone on May 25 2020, just like any of the previous years. A day that was set aside by mother Africa herself for commemorations, recognition and appreciation of our African iden...Published: 16 hrs ago | 420 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
ZR police teargas imbibers in Karoi bottle store
KAROI - Members of Zimbabwe Republic Police deployed to monitor Covid-19 regulations violations had throw tear gas to force out imbibers who sought sanctuary in a bottle store at the weekend.T...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1272 | by Naume Muza
Banana skins characterise Zanu-PF
Energy Mutodi came and went. Just like many others political mavericks before him, they all thought they were invincible, drunk as a lord by the maddening power of high political office....Published: 16 hrs ago | 2550 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Africans have never enjoyed genuine freedom and prosperity, as yesteryear heroes now modern day demons
As the people of Africa, including those in the diaspora, commemorate the establishment of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) on 25 May, one can not help feel a deep and heart-rending sense ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 447 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's govt needs to respect media rights
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from his long-time mentor, the late Robert Mugabe in November 2017, one of the noticeable things was his approach to the media, he was more accessible, will...Published: 18 hrs ago | 361 | by Staff reporter
Stakes raised higher in MDC
Interim MDC president Thokozani Khupe has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country's main opposition, vowing yesterday that she will reject her rivals from the party's Harvest House he...Published: 18 hrs ago | 3223 | by Staff reporter
No pay-cut for Warriors coach Loga
ZIFA have revealed that they will not ask Warriors coach to take a pay cut due to the coronavirus pandemic since they are still in a comfortable financial position to meet his monthly salary as per co...Published: 18 hrs ago | 315 | by Staff reporter
Many Mutodis in Mnangagwa's government
The Zimbabwean government is still grappling with many incompetent and inexperienced government officials due to appointments made through nepotism and regionalism.It is unfortunate that we st...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:51hrs | 5936 | by Leonard Koni
MDC official granted bail
HARARE Ward 23 councillor Stanley Manyenga, who is also the opposition MDC Alliance Harare provincial chairperson, was freed on $1 000 bail on Friday after he appeared in court on public violence char...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:01hrs | 609 | by Staff reporter
Spare a thought for the orphan this winter
Very soon some orphans, lonely widows and the neglected elderly will be shivering like reeds in flooded rivers because of the cold. It is that time of the year when those in better situations should s...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 124 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Police shoot 'naked' getaway driver dead
A man who was possibly being intimate with his girlfriend in a "suspiciously" parked car, was on Saturday night shot dead during a high-speed chase after failing to comply with orders to stop his vehi...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Cops guarding hospitalised MDC activists accused of mental torture
POLICE details deployed to monitor three hospitalised female MDC Alliance youth leaders have been accused of mental torture on the activists through alleged harassment.Harare West MP Joanna Ma...Published: 25 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1517 | by newzimbabwe
The fear of lightening is called astraphobia
Folklore and hearsay has it that some people from Manicaland could and still can 'even it out' with home made lightening. The fear of lightening is called astraphobia which is very prevalent i...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:57hrs | 107 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
The excitement is difficult to hide
The tobacco selling 'season' is upon us and with it, 'Dollars are in the air'. There is visible excitement in the village, even kids are now laughing louder than before as if aware that once the tobac...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 101 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Arrested journalists to spend four nights in remand prison
Two journalists arrested for trying to interview three hospitalised MDC Alliance activists will spend at least four nights in remand prison after they were denied bail yesterday.Frank Chikowor...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:55hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 952 | by Tawanda Majoni
Attacks evoke memories of Gukurahundi tactics
LAST week on Wednesday night (May 13, 2020), I woke up to find several missed calls and messages from fellow human rights defenders telling me that Zimbabwe's youngest MP, Joanna Mamombe (27), and her...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:40hrs | 320 | by Thandekile Moyo
Are the West suckers for cheap propaganda?
ONE question that people who accuse the Government of Zimbabwe of complicity in the alleged abduction and torture of citizens have not attempted to answer is: For what benefit?What does the Go...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:13hrs | 240 | by Nick Mangwana
Jack Ma dispatches more equipment to Zimbabwe
AUTHORITIES are appealing for calm amid warnings by doctors that the shortage of coronavirus test kits and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) in the country could see more local infections, ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Lodges closure fuels bush, car sex
THE Covid-19 pandemic which has forced the temporary closure of lodges to stop the spread of the coronavirus has also pushed some randy lovebirds to brazenly use cars and bushy areas close to their su...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:52hrs | 6216 | by Staff reporter
Omalayitsha feel Covid-19 pinch
IT'S a Tuesday morning and Dennis Dube, popularly known as Ndlesto, is basking in the sun gazing at the pride of his life, a spotless Quantum that is parked at a car park in Emakhandeni suburb. ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance official in court
MDC-Alliance Harare provincial chairperson and Ward 23 councillor, Stanley Manisa Manyenga (38) appeared in court yesterday on allegations of participating in illegal demonstrations held by members of...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Brinkmanship failed Mutodi
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa finally wielded the axe on Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi on Wednesday.The junior minister had become a danger to the country's international image, spe...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:14hrs | 3763 | by Staff reporter
MDC circus in new twist
THE battle for the control of the MDC took a new twist yesterday after Nelson Chamisa's allies convened a meeting in Harare that was attended by many of the party's 2014 members.The gath...Published: 22 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 4398 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi fire tender under probe over Banket hospital inferno
CHINHOYI - The Government has instructed a probe into Chinhoyi municipality fire brigade after it failed to react to put down ravaging fire that destroyed a drug room at Banket district hospital on We...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:31hrs | 448 | by Naume Muza
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (II)
IT is important to analyse why Zimbabwe was successful in the first two decades of Independence, and became a failure in the second two decades. One fundamental reason is that the whole nation was uni...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 908 | by Fay Chung
Mutodi's firing was long overdue
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to fire his long-blundering Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi on Wednesday did not come as a surprise because that decision was long overdue given the m...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2080 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi taunts MDC 'abductees'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has taunted the three MDC Alliance abductees of being "very happy to be at the hospital" where they are recuperating at a private hospital in Harare after being tortur...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwean banks removed from sanctions list
Agribank and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) have now been fully removed from the US sanctions list, the American Department of the Treasury has announced, allowing them to do i...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 positive cases rise to 51
THE number of confirmed Covid-19 infected people in the country has risen to 51 after three new cases were reported yesterday. According to an update issued by the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:23hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Abductions, social media and the new dispensation
On May 13th three MDC-Alliance members, Cecilia Chimbiri, Netsai Marowa and legislator for Harare West constituency Joanna Mamombe were allegedly abducted after staging a flash demonstration in Harare...Published: 22 May 2020 at 00:27hrs | 856 | by Godard Thabani Bvungidzire
Biti freezes in court as judge tears into his arguments
THERE was drama in the High Court of Zimbabwe last night when MDC Alliance lawyer Tendai Biti froze after being shown the MDC Alliance agreement by Justice Tawanda Chitapi, moments after he had counte...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:47hrs | 11165 | by Staff reporter
Embarrassed Mnangagwa's regime must stop illegal arrests of youth leaders!
The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly spokesperson Stephen Sarkozy Chuma has noted with great concern an ongoing blitzkrieg by some notorious law enforcement agents as a veneer to cover up for their g...Published: 21 May 2020 at 12:00hrs | 2078 | by Stephen Jakes
Police to intensify night patrols
POLICE have noted an increase in the number of urban commuters who are being robbed, saying night patrols were now being intensified to protect the masses. Criminals are now targeting people w...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
EU, UK, US light fires under Mnangagwa
THE international community has unequivocally told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it expected his government to carry out swift, thorough and credible investigations into last week's abduction and ...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:08hrs | 3440 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted MDC ladies had gone for a romantic night with lovers in Bindura'
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi says the three MDC officials who were allegedly abducted last Wednesday had gone for a night out with their lovers in Bindura the night of the alleged abdu...Published: 20 May 2020 at 13:47hrs | 11322 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'South Africa does not qualify to go to Stage 3' WHO says
South Africa does not meet the World Health Organisation (WHO standards to move from the current Level 4 to Level 3, the country's Health Minister Zwelini Lawrence Mkhize has said.Speaking dur...Published: 20 May 2020 at 12:16hrs | 4532 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Diabetic 73-year-old widow relieved as Bigtime gives aid to 1,100 Zimbabweans
For 73-year-old widow Ellen Ndlovu, who lives in the mining town of Gwanda, south of Zimbabwe, lockdown has been nightmarish. The diabetic granny, responsible for the upkeep of her late son's seven-ye...Published: 20 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1030 | by Busisani Ncube
Mnangagwa's son in gunning totting storm
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Tarirai, has landed himself in trouble after he reportedly fired into the air repeatedly, threatening to shoot a Zesa employee deployed to record the meter reading a...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 7359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to tighten Zimbabwe lockdown
Government is set to deploy more security forces on the streets in urban areas to tighten the extended lockdown as fears of a second wave of the coronavirus grows. This also comes as positive ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 6553 | by Staff reporter
Army, police lock down Harare CBD
Police and soldiers yesterday locked down central Harare, ordering jaywalkers and those not formally employed to go back home.On Monday, following the easing of the lockdown restrictions by Pr...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 7247 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants conned in grocery scam
HUNDREDS of civil servants in Matebeleland South province are reportedly counting losses after paying huge sums of money to a conartist a fortnight ago who reportedly misrepresented that he could supp...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1596 | by Staff reporter
Dead returnee was chronically ill, says Mavhima
ZIMBABWEAN returnee from South Africa, Nomathemba Ndlovu (31), who died on Sunday night at Mkoba Teachers College quarantine centre in Gweru, was chronically ill and still awaiting COVID-19 polymerase...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:31hrs | 1481 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans escape from South Africa jail
FOUR prisoners, among them three Zimbabweans awaiting trial, are on the run after escaping from their remand holding cells at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Services facility in Pretoria, South Afr...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
23 escape from quarantine centres
Nineteen people escaped from quarantine at the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) Hotel in Beitbridge on Monday night, with five others absconding mandatory quarantine at Rupangwana Isolation C...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:51hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Beatrice Mtetwa's scathing letter to Mnangagwa
Sir, I address you, not because you personally abducted, tortured and sexually abused JOANA MAMOMBE, CECILIA CHIMBIRI and NETSAI MAROVA. Neither do I address you because I know or am in other way conn...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:59hrs | 7598 | by Beatrice Mtetwa
Complete guide on how to stop spending above your means and what to do when it is too late
Let's agree that often we spend too much on many things and forget that money might come to an end. This is the moment when you might realize that there is a lot of time left before the next paycheck,...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:46hrs | 708 | by Staff writer
VISET says there are no clear interventions on the extended Lockdown
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) have complained that as the government continue to extend the lockdown there are no clear interventions to curb the spread of the Covi...Published: 19 May 2020 at 10:02hrs | 698 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa using coronavirus as cover for arbitrary rule
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa "opened an avenue to arbitrary rule" when he extended the coronavirus lockdown for an indefinite per...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
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