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Mnangagwa has reclaimed Harare's 'Sunshine City' status, said mayor Mafume. Dumb and stupid singing for his supper
"Usa kangamwa chezuro nehope!" so goes the Shona adage, warning of the dangers of a selective memory. Zimbabweans have a very selective memory, they see only what they want to see and ignore the rest....Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:06hrs | 996 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mamombe, Chimbiri trial date set
Harare regional magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa has set September 19 as the trial date for Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri on allegations of insulting police officers.The two are facing charge...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:19hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa: Obliterating, political cleansing of left leaning socialists
South Africa is witnessing a significant shift in its political landscape after the African National Congress (ANC), under President Cyril Ramaphosa, lost its majority in Parliament. This development ...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 235 | by Marshall Ndlela
Africans of the world, unite
UNITING this great continent called Africa is of paramount importance. Perhaps more than that, it has always been crucial that the people of this continent flourish beyond measure. This is ver...Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:47hrs | | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Wicknell is bumping with the big boys
HE dropped out of school just before he turned 15 and went straight into employment as a wages clerk for a bus company, when, around 1997, he could barely read or write— let alone manage company rec...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 19:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 20 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Attack on CIO boss leaves behind emotion of bitterness
THE brutal attack on Zimbabwe's state security service, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) co-deputy Director-General Gatsha Mazithulela in late August has left him and his colleagues enveloped i...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 3 | by Larmbert Ebitu
Zimbabwe CIO boss attacked by State Security Agents?
The Zimbabwean government is running a security operation, mainly in Harare, around the clock to prevent gatherings as it is fears an uprising and post-election violence over disputed poll results....Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:46hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fears revolt over elections
THE Zimbabwean government is running a security operation, mainly in Harare, around the clock to prevent gatherings as it is fears an uprising and post-election violence over disputed poll results, in...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money changers defraud man of $23 million
A Harare man recently lost $23 million to money changers who had promised to give him US$14 000 cash in exchange for making two transactions to different bank accounts.Justice Mahuni who appea...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
What do we have to show for Africa Day except traditional attire?
When the OAU (Organization for African Unity) was established on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the main objective of the founding fathers was the unity and solidarity of all the people Afr...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Ian Beddowes
ZimCopter inventor still wants to fly
"Since 1994, my social life has been a mess. The helicopter and African rifle project just consumed me."That's how the long-forgotten and probably never heard of by some – retired Flight Lie...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 68 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Why did African leaders cease speaking for ordinary citizens but standing with oppressive leaders?
Whenever I watch clips, repeatedly replayed on state television, of a couple of African leaders calling for the 'lifting of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe', my heart sinks, as I am quite sure, it also ...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:50hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa, please deliver a govt that will attract Zimbabweans back home
DEAR President MnangagwaI write to you humbly, as a pan-Africanist, one pregnant with hope that one day Africa will be one. I feel comfortable writing to you because I know that you are a pan-...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Maruping Phepheng
Shangani dam a fulfilment of Dr Nkomo's dream
"NKOMO made Freeman" was the bold headline in the Chronicle edition of Friday 28 February 1992, with the accompanying sub-heading; "Vice President tasked to make the Zambezi project a success."...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
The death of the Zimdollar shows the King has no clothes
The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is proof that with all our education, there is something terribly rotten in Simbao (ancient name for Zimbabwe).I want to make an apology to Sister Fay Chun...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Despotic leaders to blame for Africa's economic morass
ON May 25, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in marking the 59th anniversary of Africa Day.The day has tremendous significance for Africans and was set aside to commemorate the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
State ready with trial date for Mamombe, Chimbiri
The State yesterday indicated that it was expecting to furnish CCC members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri, with a trial date on a matter they are accused of criminally-insulting the police in Har...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The political agency of xenophobia, violence in SA
SOUTH Africa is home to millions of immigrants, mainly from Lesotho, Nigeria, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The regional giant has played an immense role for more than a century in attracting labour for it...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Tatenda Mazarura
Mnangagwa explains mantra
The Nyika Inovakwa neVene Vayo (a country is built by its own people) mantra is an ideology of self-determination and national responsibility and stresses the centrality of Zimbabwean people in the co...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | | by E.D. Mnangagwa
'I'm on course to rule Zimbabwe,' Chamisa tells Tanzanians
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says his newly established party is well set for victory in next year's crunch general election.He said this while addressing delegate...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 9 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwe is a prima facie failed state and incapable of self-governing - will we finally take the cure
"Blacks are incapable of self-governing!" was the standard justification for continued white colonial rule. Not many things said and done by the white supremacists got under my skin half as deep as th...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:35hrs | 8 | by Wilbert Mukori
China vs USA: In the battles over lowly Zimbabwe, it is what Zimbabweans want that is important
There are a number of new stories that are emerging about the role of China in Zimbabwe. In the past, the Chinese Embassy would have been less robust in defense of its bilateral aid to Zimbabw...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Council re-opens CBD roads
ROAD users in Harare have welcomed the announcement by the City of Harare that roads that were closed to facilitate various projects in the capital's central business district will be opened.P...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself
I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged ...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 7 | by Ken Mufuka
When it comes to Zimbabwe’s 41 years and counting of rigged elections - it takes three to tango
When it comes to Zimbabwe's rigged elections - it takes three to tango. The ruling party Zanu PF, the MDC opposition and the ordinary Zimbabweans have all played a part in historic fact that Zimbabwe ...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Woman bites off 'Peeping Tom's' lip
A HARARE woman has been arraigned before the courts for biting off the lower lip of a man she claims was groping her while she was relieving herself.The woman, Catherine Ruvimbo Gotora (25) ap...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 5 | by William Jethro Mpofu
What good is Mutambara prosperity pentagon if buffoon can, once again, rig elections and impose voodoo policies
Dear Nomazulu Thata, Thank you for your thought provoking article "Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking" in Bulawayo24.com. I agree that...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 07:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa says Mugabe was 'principled’
Former president Robert Mugabe distinguished himself as a principled man who did not deviate from what he believed to be right, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. The President said this in a...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Mugabe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday paid glowing tribute to his predecessor, the late Robert Mugabe who was toppled by the military in November 2017, describing him "as a principled man who would n...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kenneth Kaunda: His dream for southern Africa came true: hailed & sung with praises in heaven!
He left his mark: he left a void in southern Africa just like Mandela, we are struggling to get the calibre of leaders to take over from where they left. KK was an indisputable great son of the soil. ...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimra launches witch-hunt
TOP Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) executives are panicking over recent revelations by The NewsHawks of corruption involving the tax collector's multi-million-dollar whistle-blowing fund as they s...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 19:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimfirst statements on government economic policy inconsistency
Zimfirst is the right choice and a visionary party set to assume command of government. You can trust Zimfirst as we know what has to be done and the challenges that lay ahead. Most of Zimbabweans pro...Published: 27 May 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Dr Maxwell Zeb Shumba Rusike - ZIMFIRST President
Vehicle theft case exposes smuggling racket at Plumtree border
A case of theft of a vehicle at Plumtree Border Post could have exposed a vehicle smuggling racket after the car was recovered in Harare at the residence of a man once accused of importing cars under ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa naivety exposed by stance on UN R2P vote
It has long been said that Nelson Chamisa, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A) leader, is not ready to be a proper statesman, but rather chooses to be stuck in his old Ahoyi student po...Published: 20 May 2021 at 19:56hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Grace Mugabe's huge daily cash withdrawals exposed
FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe allegedly made multiple United States dollar cash withdrawals amounting to US$300 000 per day in 2019 from her CBZ Bank account at a time ordinary Zimbabweans were allow...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's liberation pilgrimage
In my previous instalment in this publication, I indicated that Zimbabwe's independence history is connected to that of all post-colonial African nations. Likewise, Africa's liberation is also grounde...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
Brief Treatise for my Beloved Sister Nomazulu Thata
Just to briefly put our differences in perspective, I am forwarding a few words for you to consider ahead of our conversation. I have always valued and still do, your deep and ingenious analytical ski...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 13:04hrs | 1 | by Anonymous Writer
Money changers camp outside shops
Illegal money changers in Harare and other parts of the country are now hanging around and even inside supermarkets that might have a reasonable number of shoppers using foreign currency offering to p...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NMB opens Money Transfer and DSTV Centre
It is now possible to experience quick and focused service when collecting money sent from abroad and paying DSTV subscriptions. NMB Bank has opened a centre in Harare's central business district dedi...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | | by Agencies
Mamombe, Chimbiri bail ruling today
PROSECUTORS are opposing bail in the case involving MDC-Alliance members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri, who are charged with undermining police authority since they may commit further offences as...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'2023 elections must be transparent, free, fair and credible or will be declared null and void!' ZSD draw battle lines nice and
Zimbabwe Social Democrats Press release 29 January 2021 We in the Zimbabwe Social Democrats demand the implementation of democratic reforms necessary for transparent, free, fair and credible e...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 20:40hrs | | by Zimbabwe Social Democrats
NPA ring-fences prosecutors
Prosecutors will now be housed in their own blocks of flats to curb corruption and to offer protection to those handling high-profile and sensitive cases in line with President Mnangagwa's strategy to...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No permanent friends but interests' Zim-China relation expedition
Late 2020 China and Zimbabwe launched 5 year policies towards the realization of vision 2030, sustainable development goals. Zimbabwe being an ally to China, one can question if this was due to diplom...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Theophelous Fifteen
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