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Fadzayi Mahere v Edmund Kudzayi - Plea to set aside proceedings
Return correspondence to the address on record (Ref: .H4531/22). High Court of Zimbabwe Civil Division Mapondera Building Corner 3rd Street & Samora Machel Aven...Published: 14 hrs ago | 615 | by Edmund Kudzayi
Zimbabwe's 2 rotten apples
One of life's greatest follies is assuming that what matters to us matters equally to others. That our fears are shared, our desires understood, our sense of decency mutual. Quite the contrary, realit...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1539 | by Edmund Kudzayi
Bosso captain invites Chivayo to watch them
Highlanders captain Ariel Sibanda has extended a heartfelt invitation to club benefactor Wicknell Chivayo to attend one of the team's matches at Barbourfields Stadium, praising the businessman's gener...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 20:45hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi in global advocacy to address Gukurahundi
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has petitioned the United Nations (UN), seeking international intervention and support for justice over the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland an...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 08:54hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Bosso clear player dues after Chivayo's US$57,000 bailout
Highlanders Football Club has paid off all outstanding signing-on fees and winning bonuses owed to players from the 2024 season, thanks to the intervention of Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo....Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 18:04hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
50 Joshualites awarded Scholarships amid debate over tribal bias
Fifty academically gifted students from across Zimbabwe's 10 provinces have been awarded the prestigious Joshua Nkomo Scholarship, administered by the Higherlife Foundation, in the latest effort to su...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 22:52hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland still waiting for justice, says Sikhala
The launch of opposition politician Job Sikhala's memoir, Footprints in the Chains, turned into a powerful platform for raw and impassioned calls for truth, justice, and national healing-particularly ...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 12:15hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Maize seed sales surge in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean farmers have significantly ramped up grain production this year, marking a powerful rebound from the devastating El Nino-induced drought of the previous season. The renewed agricultural mom...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 09:40hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Rautenbach land seizure sparks outcry
The contentious seizure of productive farmland in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, meant to benefit close business associate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, has taken a ...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 12:11hrs | 2524 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on govt over Gukurahundi hearings
Political activists and opposition leaders in Matabeleland have called on the government to immediately halt the ongoing Gukurahundi public hearings, citing concerns over their lack of transparency an...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:34hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Internal disputes rock Highlanders
Premiership side Highlanders Football Club continues to grapple with internal conflicts as revelations emerge about questionable financial practices within the club's executive. Reliable insiders have...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 15:32hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Councillors propose harsher penalties for littering
Bulawayo city councillors are pushing for stiffer penalties against littering, arguing that current fines are too lenient to effectively deter illegal dumping and growing urban filth, especially in th...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:07hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo Trust clarifies on Chivayo US$250k donation
The Joshua Nkomo Legacy Restoration Trust (JNLRPT) has issued a formal clarification denying that it received the recent US$250,000 donation announced by businessman Sir Wicknell Chivayo.In a ...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:35hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
German firm wins Zimbabwe trademark dispute
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer Aktiengesellschaft has emerged victorious in a landmark trademark dispute after the High Court of Zimbabwe, sitting as the Intellectual Property Tribunal, ruled in it...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:22hrs | 4421 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ANC calls for July 1 to be declared Joshua Nkomo Day
The opposition Zimbabwe African National Congress (ZANC) has urged the government to declare July 1 a public holiday in honour of the late national hero and former Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nyongo...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 17:43hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo donates US$250,000 to honour Joshua Nkomo's legacy
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has paid glowing tribute to Zimbabwe's late Vice President and liberation icon, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, while pledging a significant donation of US...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 13:26hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi to protest at UN Office in Pretoria
The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) is set to stage a demonstration outside the United Nations (UN) offices in Pretoria this Friday, July 4, as the party intensifies its calls for justice over the Guku...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:15hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Riot police besiege Bulawayo High Court
Heavily armed riot police yesterday descended on the Bulawayo High Court, blocking journalists and activists from attending a high-profile hearing in which opposition leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo sought ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remembers Dr Joshua Nkomo, 26 years on
Today marks 26 years since the passing of Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, affectionately known as "Father Zimbabwe," with the nation pausing to reflect on the enduring legacy of the late liberat...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 17:59hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses ZAPU bid to halt Gukurahundi hearings
The Bulawayo High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the opposition party ZAPU seeking to stop the government-led Gukurahundi Outreach Programme, ruling that the matter did not meet the thre...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 17:22hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Umdala Wethu: The Statesman who united a nation
In the story of Zimbabwe, there are names that echo. And then there is Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo - a man whose name is etched not merely in memory, but in the bedrock of the nation itself. As Zimb...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 10:30hrs | 354 | by Dereck Goto
D-Day for Gukurahundi hearings court challenge
The Bulawayo High Court is set to hear a case today brought by ZAPU leader Sibangilizwe Nkomo, who is contesting the manner in which public hearings into the 1980s Matabeleland massacres, commonly kno...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:22hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo commemoration set for tomorrow
The Joshua Nkomo Restoration Project Trust, together with The Joshua Nkomo Foundation, will host a commemoration event tomorrow at the Matshamhlope Museum to mark the 26th anniversary of the death of ...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 13:16hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zapu seeks court order to stop Gukurahundi hearings
The opposition Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) has lodged an urgent application in the High Court seeking to stop the commencement of the Gukurahundi community outreach hearings scheduled to beg...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:11hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala reunites divided Zimbabwe opposition leaders
In a historic and unprecedented gathering, Zimbabwe's long-divided opposition leaders came together on Friday night, sharing the same stage and microphone in a unified call to end Zanu-PF's decades-lo...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:18hrs | 2266 | by Staff reporter
Secrecy shrouds launch of Gukurahundi public hearings
Zimbabwe's long-awaited public hearings on the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities officially began today under a cloud of secrecy and mounting criticism, with observers and victims' groups describing the pr...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 09:58hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road reconstruction begins
The Government has launched the long-anticipated reconstruction of the 435-kilometre Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road, a vital economic and tourism corridor, with expectations that the project will create...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 09:05hrs | 9881 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's online visa system now fully operational
Zimbabwe's Online Border Management System (OBMS) is now fully operational, ushering in a new era of digitised immigration services that allow travellers to apply for visas and complete border formali...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 17:12hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
When Mnangagwa buries his colleagues, does he ever reflect on the legacy he will leave behind?
Life offers us countless moments for introspection - but it is up to us to seize them.This evening, I watched a news bulletin covering the burial of the late Luke Mushore - another in a long l...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 11:29hrs | 694 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
13 year old gives birth mid-air in Helidrive rescue
In a breathtaking display of medical precision and courage, a 13-year-old girl gave birth mid-flight aboard a Helidrive National Air Rescue Service helicopter as she was being airlifted from Maphisa H...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:38hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Vumbachikwe Mine moves to evict workers still occupying company houses after 2022 closure
GWANDA, Matabeleland South - Management at the struggling Vumbachikwe Mine has filed court summons seeking the eviction of two workers from company-owned houses, despite hundreds of others still occup...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 22:25hrs | 326 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU never fought against the British - lets not distort history
When we distort the past, it ceases to be history and becomes propaganda.In Zimbabwean politics, the manipulation of history is as common as the empty promises made during election campaigns.&...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 22:46hrs | 1003 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa under fire over controversial land to Rautenbach
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing mounting criticism after it emerged that his close business associate, Muller Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach, is receiving over 1,000 hectares of productive farmland ...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 10:01hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2025 queens receive prizes
The newly crowned Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2025 winners were officially honoured with their prizes on Saturday, marking a key milestone in their journey toward representing Zimbabwe on the global stage ...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:35hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Mourners arrested for killing burglar breaking into house next door
Four men attending a funeral in Bhule Village, Tsholotsho, have been arrested for allegedly beating a suspected burglar to death after catching him trying to break into a nearby home.The incid...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:17hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Muswere appoints ZBC board
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Jenfan Muswere has officially appointed the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board, more than a year after several members began servin...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:05hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council flats 'a time bomb'
City officials in Bulawayo have expressed deep concern over the worsening service delivery and living conditions at Sidojiwe Flats, a colonial-era housing complex in the Belmont Industrial area that w...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:00hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Zapu rebels revive original Zapu
A group of former ZAPU members yesterday officially unveiled a new political party called the (Original) O ZAPU during a vibrant launch event held in Bulawayo.The party is led by Mathew Siband...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:54hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
The ZANU-PF–Britain alliance is a self-serving bond that never served the people
The political theatre designed to deceive Zimbabweans seems never-ending.A few days ago, senior Zimbabwean officials and British nationals gathered in Harare to celebrate King Charles III's bi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 670 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo's total donation to Bosso is US$1 million
Zimbabwe's oldest and most iconic football institution, Highlanders Football Club, has secured a landmark US$1 million sponsorship from prominent businessman and philanthropist Wicknell Chivayo, marki...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 13:26hrs | 3565 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo donates US$250,000 to Highlanders FC
Prominent tenderprenuer Wicknell Chivayo has made headlines with a major donation of US$250,000 to Highlanders Football Club (Bosso), the oldest and one of the most culturally significant football tea...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 09:49hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council renames major roads
In a landmark move to celebrate African liberation heroes, prominent national figures, and influential global revolutionaries, the Harare City Council has officially renamed several of the capital's k...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:43hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Zim man assaults cheating wife in Botswana
A jealous husband is in trouble after he allegedly assaulted his wife with stones and fists, accusing her of infidelity.Moses Nkomo (28) allegedly bashed Kelebetsi Sibanda (29) on their way fr...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 22:06hrs | 1757 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
Son bashes father's girlfriend
An angry son allegedly bashed his father's girlfriend with a sjambok in a bush, accusing her of making the family suffer as the father is spending more on her than on his family.The matter cam...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 22:03hrs | 1804 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
Drug dealer (20) jailed
A 20-year-old Plumtree drug dealer has been sent to jail for possessing 215 grammes of cannabis.Advance Ncube was sentenced to 15 months in jail by Plumtree magistrate Joshua Nembaware....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 21:57hrs | 536 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Plumtree
IMF kicks off crucial talks in Zimbabwe
A high-level delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has begun formal meetings with Zimbabwean authorities, launching a critical mission to assess the country's reform trajectory under t...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:33hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Airport set for major security upgrade
The Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) has unveiled plans to upgrade the Integrated Security System at three of the country's key international airports - Victoria Falls International Airport, Robert ...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 09:57hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs terrorise Bulawayo
Residents of Bulawayo are gripped by fear as machete-wielding gangs continue to unleash violent attacks across the city's high-density suburbs. The brutal assaults have left many victims nursing serio...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:31hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promises 6 more interchanges in Harare
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled ambitious plans to expand Harare's road infrastructure, including the construction of multiple new interchanges and the introduction of smart traffic manageme...Published: 31 May 2025 at 14:00hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Opposition parties urged to back Zapu candidate in Insiza North by-election
Opposition parties in Matabeleland have been called upon to unite behind the Zapu candidate ahead of the upcoming Insiza North parliamentary by-election, after the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:24hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
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