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Willies Mchunu dumps ANC of Ramaphosa
Former KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu has resigned from the African National Congress (ANC), expressing deep concerns about the party's current trajectory and its handling of key political allia...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 16:16hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
The MK Party and the contestation of history
An angel of history is haunting the ANC - the spectre of the historical uMkhonto Wesizwe. The announcement of the MKP on December 16, 2023 by President Jacob Zuma conjured certain spirits or the ghost...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 20:11hrs | 453 | by Sankara Bizela
South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Cold Monday morning for DA, FF+, ACDP, BOSA as Dr John Hlophe elected to JSC
Several parties in the new governing coalition firmly supported Hlophe's nomination, while the Inkatha Freedom Party stayed on the fence.The National Assembly on Tuesday designated John Hlophe...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:53hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Tony Leon reminds Ramaphosa of who's in charge
President Cyril Ramaphosa's plea to avoid a public spectacle over negotiations with the DA "mean nothing" after former DA leader and GNU negotiator Tony Leon wrote another letter reminding Ramaphosa o...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 14:30hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Not possible to give the DA deputy president post'
AS South Africans eagerly await the announcement of Cabinet, following President Cyril Ramaphosa's swearing in on Wednesday, media reports suggest that the Democratic Alliance is demanding the post of...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 10:25hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe opposition should learn from SA'
Zimbabwe maintains strong adherence to democratic principles, similar to South Africa, but faces challenges with its opposition, which often does not accept unfavorable election results, according to ...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
IEC, ConCourt ignoring South Africa election rigging evidence
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party says the Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Constitutional Court have ignored evidence provided to support the party's claims of last month's elections being rigged....Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in South Africa to witness 'the return of apartheid'?
President Mnangagwa has arrived in South Africa for the inauguration of his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa.South Africa's African National Congress and the Democratic All...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 08:59hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Zuma to expose 'white agents'
Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party leader, Jacob Zuma, through the party's spokesperson addressed the media on Sunday night where he slammed the newly formed Government of National Unity. Zuma while ...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
White-led DA party seal South Africa unity pact with ANC
The African National Congress and its largest rival, the white-led, pro-business Democratic Alliance, agreed on Friday to work together in South Africa's new government of national unity, a step chang...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 13:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC and MKP set for another brusing battle in by-elections
The African National Congress (ANC) and the Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) are set for a significant political confrontation in upcoming by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, June 19. Twe...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:52hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zuma's MK party snubs ANC coalition overtures
The African National Congress (ANC) has confirmed engaging in coalition talks with several opposition parties following their failure to secure a majority in last week's elections, marking the first s...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hamba Kahle ANC, we won't miss you!
IF you are not following the unfolding electoral drama south of the Limpopo River, you can't be real.When South Africa votes, Zimbabwe catches a proverbial cold. And for good reason.Of...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 26 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Mangosuthu Buthelezi dies
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) founder and traditional Zulu prime minister, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, died in the early hours of Saturday morning.His death was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa....Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by porter
Love triangle drama turns nasty
IN a suspected love triangle drama that turned nasty a woman from Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province is living in fear after her husband's suspected lover allegedly threatened to consult witch-...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF plots reign of terror despite electoral victory
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former State security minister, Owen Ncube, has been fingered in a gory plan to unleash a reign of terror in Gokwe-Kabuyuni and Gokwe-Kana constituencies targeting oppos...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Maponga apologises to Ndebeles over Gukurahundi rant
Former Seventh Day Adventist Bishop Joshua Maponga has issued an apology to the people of Zimbabwe after he posted an article saying the people of Matabeleland should forgive the Shona people of the G...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 10:23hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean truckers want to sue Operation Dudula leaders - but can't find them
Legal representatives for the Zimbabwean Truckers Association say they are trying to serve papers on the leaders of the Operation Dudula ('Push away') movement to stop them intimidating and harassing ...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man Killed with his own knobkerrie
A man from Bulawayo suffered the indignity of being killed by his own weapon after a man waylaid him as he headed home, snatched his knobkerrie and hit him on the head with it, resulting in his death....Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Liberation war propaganda has lost its aura
SOUTH Africa's African National Congress (ANC) seems headed towards the same route as other African liberation movements which delivered their countries from colonial rule but failed to deliver on the...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 7 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo poet to launch album on Zupco bus
It's a listening session that can't be missed!Bulawayo actor-cum-poet Prince Ncube otherwise known as Mazilankatha in the local showbiz, is planning a bus trip for his fans where they will enj...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Police arrest gold panner for murder case
POLICE in Matabeleland South province are investigating a murder case where a teenage gold panner was struck on the head by his colleague with the back of an axe and three months later, he died from s...Published: 31 May 2021 at 18:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabele artistes honour Chief Maduna
ARTISTES from Matabeleland South have honoured the late revered Chief Vezi Maduna Mafu through artistic projects. Chief Maduna died last Saturday at his Avoca homestead in Filabusi, Insiza Dis...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Where have all the dribbling wizards gone?
WHERE have all the magicians who used to specialise in the fine art of dribbling gone? This was something, which kept haunting me, as I watched the CAF Confederation Cup play-off's first leg tie betwe...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Charles Mabika
Mthwakazi activists dragged to court
FIVE members of the radical Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) were recently dragged to court, ostensibly for disrupting court proceedings and violating lockdown restrictions.Bulawayo provincial m...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists arrested for saying Shonas killed Ndebeles
Five members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party have been charged with participating in a gathering to promote public violence , breaches of peace and bigotry or alternatively disorderly conduct in publi...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 17:34hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Five Mthwakazi activists arrested at Chief Ndiweni hearing
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested members of MRP for demonstrating outside the Bulawayo High Court. Various online reports said at the time of writing the activists were locked at the ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 15:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pair steals US$2 300 from cars
TWO men from Bulawayo have appeared in court for allegedly stealing more than US$2 300 and other valuables from two motor vehicles in the Central Business District. Valet Nyoni (27) from Mzili...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:04hrs | | 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 | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Woman raped as lover flees
A GROUP of five men reportedly ambushed a Filabusi couple, threatened the man who fled from the scene before one of them raped the woman.Kennedy Wonder Ndlovu (23) of Marumba B Village in Fila...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by L Dube
CIO officer up for kidnap & robbery
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and four accomplices allegedly kidnapped two suspected illegal forex dealers and hired people to attack them before robbing one of the victims of hi...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldier arrested for 'carjacking, rape'
A SOLDIER has been arrested for allegedly hijacking a car from a woman who had offered him a lift before robbing her of RTGS$400 at knifepoint. Pym Vengai Togara (35), who is based in Harare, ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Carjacking & rape charge for 35-yr-old
A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly hijacking a car from a woman who had offered him a lift before robbing her of RTGS$400 at knifepoint. He later raped another woman that he had offered a li...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Serial 'rapist' arrested
A SUSPECTED serial rapist who had terrorised women in Bulawayo's Harrisvale suburb has been arrested. Innocent Goredema (43) of Mzilikazi suburb allegedly raped a woman in the suburb on Thursd...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman arrested for Whatsapp EcoCash fraud
A WHATSAPP group fraudster from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly defrauding clients through a fake WhatsApp trading group. Ngelihle Magonya (28) pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud bef...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knife-wielding robbers waylay victims in CBD
TWO knife-wielding men allegedly attacked two men in Bulawayo's Central Business District and got away with $500 from one of their victims in separate incidents, police confirmed yesterday. Both incid...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in court for escaping police custody
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has appeared in court for escaping from Bulawayo Central Police Station.Lewis Moyo (28) from North End suburb pleaded guilty to an escaping from lawful custody ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 18:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami fined for threatening someone on WhatsApp
BULAWAYO deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami has been fined $50 for sending threatening messages on an MDC Alliance WhatsApp chat group. Kambarami threatened Mr Mpikelelo Khumalo in a WhatsApp grou...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 17:26hrs | | by Methusi Ncube
Man 'rapes' neighbour's daughter
A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Hope Fountain on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly raped his Grade Six neighbour. Michael Ngwenya appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Franklin Mkhwananzi and pleade...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 more Choppies tellers arrested
TWO more Choppies supermarket till operators from Bulawayo have been arrested for allegedly stealing about $ 2 300 after hacking the shop's systems. Precious Moyo and Rachel Sibanda appeared b...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 22:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Menstrual cycle saves woman from rape
A 23-year-old woman from Lobernvale suburb in the Rangemore area of Bulawayo will forever be grateful to Mother Nature for perfectly timing her menstrual cycle, which literally kicked in before she co...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Widow loses $40 000 in card cloning scam
A Bulawayo widow lost more than $40 000 after a Harare man allegedly cloned her late husband's bank card and went on to conduct illegal point of sale (POS) transactions at various retail outlets. ...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Relatives fear the worst, as activists go missing
JOHANNESBURG - While Zimbabweans and the rest of the world, have been seized with the latest shooting of protesters, who were demonstrating against an unexpected fuel price hike, reports are that doze...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
6 kombi drivers remanded for 'fatal assault'
SIX kombi drivers who allegedly ganged up and fatally assaulted a protester who was among violent protesters who had barricaded a road, appeared in court yesterday. Mthulisi Sikwabayila (24) o...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Trio 'rapes' neighbour
THREE men from Manningdale suburb in Bulawayo allegedly raped their 27-year-old neighbour who had gone with them for a beer drink at a local shebeen where they also smoked dagga. Two of the su...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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