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Nobel Peace Prize circus as Zelensky is nominated
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but he is not expected to win Reuters reported.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been nomi...Published: 05 Oct 2024 at 15:29hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump issues fresh challenge to elderly Biden
The former president has called for a debate and golf game so that his rival can prove he's capable of leading the countryFormer US President Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden to a "no-hol...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
On what basis is a law school named after Mnangagwa?
So, the MSU (Midlands State University) in Zimbabwe named its law school after President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. This institution is currently under construction in the city of Kwekwe. ...Published: 13 Apr 2024 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nelson Chamisa's CCC resignation
ON 25 January 2024, Zimbabwean opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa quit.Looking through the dancing ropes, it is more like a boxing match. Remember when Mi...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:52hrs | 2 | by Vivid Gwede
Mnangagwa congratulates DRC's Tshisekedi on re-election
President Mnangagwa has congratulated DRC President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo on his re-election after garnering over 70 percent of the vote, according to results announced by the electoral ...Published: 01 Jan 2024 at 17:50hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zimbabwe Minister sues over farm eviction
FORMER Co-Minister of National Healing and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu who is facing eviction from his farm in Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province which he claimed he has occupied for the...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Artificial intelligence and robotics: Great expectations and daunting existential risks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both exciting and challenging. There are opportunities and dangers. There are fascinating possibilities and existential risks.The starting point is to understan...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Arthur Mutambara
Mohadi implores councils to promote waste recycling
FORMER Vice President Kembo Mohadi says recycling plays an important part in waste management, which is missing in local authorities as they struggle to manage waste collection.Officially open...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean tech start-up wins US$250,000 Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa
ZIMBABWEAN tech start-up Vaxiglobal was recently named among the first winners of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa which attracted 330 applicants from 38 countries across the continent....Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
University rankings don't measure what matters
International rankings of universities are big business and big news. These systems order universities on the basis of a variety of criteria such as student to staff ratio, income from industry, and r...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:02hrs | 9 | by Sioux McKenna
Desmond Tutu dies
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died at the age of 90.Tutu, the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in Cape Town.President Cyril Ramaphosa sa...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa guards brutalise motorist
Soldiers that were part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's escort yesterday assaulted a Harare motorist and later detained him on charges of intercepting his long motorcade.The incident happene...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 12:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Apartheid leader De Klerk to be burnt
The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died last Thursday aged 85, will take place on November 21 in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statem...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
FW de Klerk dies at 85
FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85.Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation's transition to ...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 11:31hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Families of apartheid victims call for FW de Klerk to face law for involvement
With the National Prosecuting Authority having recently committed a new specialist unit to probe apartheid-era atrocities dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, family members of apartheid victims have c...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Persistent moaning for COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver by Africa questions our intellectual capacity
Please allow me to start this discourse with a list of names - Max Theiler, Allan McLeod Comack, Aaron Klug, and Sydney Brenner.I am not sure if these names ring a bell for most of us, but the...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What makes the people of Myanmar so different from Zimbabweans, who can't even fearlessly stand up for their own rights?
There is nothing that gives me a renewed hope for human survival, and a reinvigorated sense of pride in the ability of an oppressed and brutalized people to finally say, "enough is enough", pluck up t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 13:46hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Arrested journalist Simbarashe Sithole fined under duress
Bulawayo24.com journalist Simbarashe Sithole was finally released from police cells after 9 hours of detention at Machipisa police station on Thursday....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 01:24hrs | 6 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Panicky Mnangagwa gives nod to controversial Covid-19 drug
JOLTED into action by the tragic loss of four ministers, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has approved mass importation of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to battle Covid-19.Covid-...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe testing COVID-19 'drug'
GOVERNMENT is clinically testing anti-parasite drug, Ivermectin in a bid to establish its efficacy in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The second wave of COVID-19 currently affecting the countr...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Samantha Power
University rankings misleading
INTERNATIONAL rankings of universities are big business and big news.These systems order universities on the basis of a variety of criteria such as student-to-staff ratio, income from industry...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:59hrs | | by Sioux McKenna
Amazing astronomical discoveries that changed our vision of space
Today, we might be living in a period that could eventually be called the beginning of space exploration era. One space company after another is working to make ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 20:12hrs | 9 | by Staff writer
Masiyiwa invited to speak at New Economy global Forum
HARARE - Zimbabwe-born billionaire Strive Masiyiwa is set to participate in the Bloomberg New Economy Forum slated for November 16-19 this year. The Econet Group founder and executive chairman...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 5 | by Agencies
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
Why protests are important
LAST night as I was scrolling down latest postings - usually not very useful except for banter and comic relief - on our WhatsApp chat group feed with former journalism training classmates, I came acr...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:55hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Mnangagwa's Polad needs gravitas
Polad (an acronym for Political Actors Dialogue) is a voluntary platform for national dialogue launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa just a few days after the Ides of May 2019.Polad was fla...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Willard Chinhara
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 12 | by PUMA
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
'Zimbabwe invented State Capture and SA refined it,' says Tendai Biti
Zimbabwean opposition MP and constitutional lawyer Tendai Biti told a Durban audience on Tuesday night that his country had invented state capture and South Africans had merely refined it. "I ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by African News Agency (ANA)
Zimbabwe's Casino Economy: Extraordinary Measures for Extraordinary Challenges by Gideon Gono
The paperback novel written by Gideon Gono, revolves around the issues regarding his position as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the opportunity Gono had to serve his president and th...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 22 | by Joe K
Zimbabwe's new currency, a maxi-devaluation
Until February 20, Zimbabwe produced a quasi-currency. It was dubbed a "Zollar". On February 20, the quasi-currency became Zimbabwe's official currency. This new currency is called RTGS dollars and co...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:13hrs | 9 | by Steve H Hanke
Time is right for alternative money
THE controversy surrounding the introduction of another local currency continues unabated. This time it was the former Finance minister, Tendai Biti, who ignited the current debate when he announced g...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 12 | by Zimwara
'Evil little bishop' saddened by the current repression in Zimbabwe
Nobel Peace laureate and well known South African cleric - Desmond Tutu said he was saddened by the current repression in Zimbabwe - which he said the international community thought had ended with th...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'ED to surprise with prosperous 2019' argued Mavaza - insane to allow him to last another year in power
"ED will surprise Chamisa with a prosperous 2019," Dr Mavaza argued in Bulawayo24. Why wait! Why did ED fail to surprise the whole nation with a prosperous 2018?Mnangagwa was a senior ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Reviving the 'New Zimbabwe' dream in 2019
As Zimbabweans enter 2019 from a forgettable festive season, probably the worst in the past decade, uncertainty abounds about Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.Zimbabweans are deeply concerned a...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Vivid Gwede
Building Africa's scientific talent
Ten years ago, South African physicist Neil Turok made a bold prediction: the world's next Einstein will be from Africa. A decade later, it is worth considering whether the continent is any closer to ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:16hrs | | by Daniel Mundeva
Never give up
In 1964 in Oslo Norway Dr King was awarded the Nobel Prize for great work he did which was birthed from his passion to see equality in the nation of America despite your race ,color,tribe.Few people i...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 16:21hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Is Tobin tax regime helpful?
Against the backdrop of the ongoing debate and rhetoric about the recently proposed 2% transaction tax which was announced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, ostensibly to widen Zimbabwe's tax base....Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Panicked ZCC still want illegitimate Zanu PF to rule - even after 38 years corrupt and tyrannical rule
It is the great Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, who is credited with exclaiming "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results".W...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
British have cut ED adrift, has he even Smith's common sense to admit 'game is up!'
South Africa's then president F W de Klerk and the man who would succeed him, Nelson Mandela, were co-recipients of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.Nelson Mandela's citation for the prize was easil...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 00:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Please persevere! Your journey is worth it!
The road to success isn't for the faint-hearted. Sometimes, you will want to give up! Please persevere! Your journey is worth it! Many great achievers have written inspiring statements about success. ...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 18:51hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Bulawayo scientist in Nobel Laureate Meeting
A BULAWAYO-born scientist based in South Africa recently participated in the 68th Nobel Laureate Meeting which was held in Lindau, Germany.The meeting, which is held every year, allows some of...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Kofi Annan
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has joined other world figures in paying tribute to the late former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan (80), who died on Saturday at a hospital in Switzerl...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'deeply saddened' by the sudden death of Kofi Annan
Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa says he is "deeply saddened" by the sudden death of "the iconic Kofi Annan" whom he met "a few days go" just before the Zimbabwe elections.The focus...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by AP
Kofi Annan dies
The former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, has died aged 80.International diplomats said Annan was the first black African to take up the ...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
A farewell to factual journalism (now extinct)
The state of a democracy can best be measured by evaluating its journalism. A free press is often called the "Fourth Estate", and its importance is second-to-none for every prospering society. ...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 14:47hrs | | by Jonathan Matika
Chamisa ignores wise and sage advice at all our peril
Over the last few days, MDC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's plans to get the nation to disrupt the elections have taken hard hits. While most of the country is looking forward to casting their ballot in ar...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Mike Tawanda
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