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South Africa's elections body accused of vote rigging
At least 11 disgruntled political parties are demanding a recount of the votes and accusing the IEC and the ANC of vote rigging.The parties have lodged complaints to the IEC saying they have a...Published: 01 Jun 2024 at 20:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CONFESSION: How Tsvangirayi used me to label Welshman Ncube a CIO
In a startling revelation on X (formerly Twitter), opposition activist Freeman Chari opened up about his past role as a "hired gun" within the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), shedding light on h...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bosso to face CAPS without Ariel
Highlanders are facing the likelihood of playing without their injured star goalkeeper, Ariel Sibanda, for the first time this season as they prepare to take on struggling CAPS United in a Chibuku Sup...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders versus Dynamos: The anatomy of violence
Once again — and not for the last time — a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the o...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:33hrs | 11 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zimbabwe election disinformation spreads on WhatsApp
From doctored photos making small crowds big to posts praising government accomplishments that never were, WhatsApp has become the channel of choice for disinformation in Zimbabwe before this month's ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 19:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF names candidates for Matebeleland North provincial council
ZANU-PF Matebeleland North province has selected 10 candidates who will represent the party in the Provincial Council in line with the country's Constitution.The Constitution provides for a ne...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I-Bosso yakhiwa ngabaniniyo'
FEBRUARY is significant in the history of Zimbabwean football as it is the month the country's oldest football club Highlanders was formed.Established at royal level, Highlanders have overcome...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jeys Marabini is back!
Afro-Jazz musician Jeys Marabini announced his return on stage through an awe-inspiring performance on Saturday night during the launch of his 10th album titled Xola. He performed in front of a packed...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF old guard wins central committee elections in Matebeleland
Most of the senior Zanu-PF members in Matebeleland won in the party's central committee elections held on Saturday.The central committee is the party's highest decision-making body outside of ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa called a 'criminal', 'gangster' as opposition demand release of Phala Phala report
Opposition political parties described President Cyril Ramaphosa as a "gangster", "thief", and a "criminal" as they demanded acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka release her report into the Phala P...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders win ZNCC award
HIGHLANDERS were honoured with a Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) Matabeleland Chapter Lifetime Achievement award presented to board member Methuseli Mafu at a Bulawayo hotel on Friday...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ANC Parliamentarians defend their embattled Ramaphosa
The ANC is circling the wagons around President Cyril Ramaphosa to protect him from parliamentary scrutiny as he faces his biggest political crisis during his term as the president."Now you wa...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 16:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube says was ‘wrong' to back Mnangagwa, renews Chamisa criticism
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner Trevor Ncube has admitted he was "wrong" to assume President Emmerson Mnangagwa would govern better than Robert Mugabe.Ncube, one of Mnangagwa's biggest cheerl...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Horrific tales of murderous weapons in Zhombe, Silobela
ON 21 January, a team of police officers and journalists led by Officer Commanding Midlands province Commissioner Winston Muza descended on Silobela to meet community leaders, who included those from ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 21:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Brothers stab 2 to death over woman
TWO brothers from Silobela allegedly ganged up and stabbed two imbibers to death in a major fight over a woman.The tragic incident occurred at Crossroads Business Centre on Friday.The ...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prince Zwide Khumalo mourns King Zwelithini
PRINCE Zwide Khumalo and the Amangwe clan in Zimbabwe are mourning the death of Zulu monarch King Godwill Zwelethini saying they join the Zulu nation and South Africans in this time of sadness. ...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Master KG promotes Zimbabweans on upcoming Jerusalema album
South African musician and record producer, Master KG is rising fast and he is doing so with Zimbabwean artistes, Nox Guni, Tyfah Guni and Mr Brown who he has been working with on various projects thi...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa repeating Tsvangirai's mistakes
In the aftermath of the 2013 elections, then MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai cried foul, claimed the polls were rigged and threatened to go to the Constitutional Court with a dossier to prove he had be...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Mnangagwa's government: The mask has slipped
In April last year, on these pages, I expressed concern at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government's obvious fascination with Rwanda and China.On the face of it, it seemed as if Mnanga...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
#ShutDownZimbabwe: Why Chamisa's MDC needs to spell out its objectives
On June 2, 2003, the MDC undertook its most ambitious action ever; they were going to stage a three-day demonstration known as the "final push", with the intention of either forcing then President Rob...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Chamisa's MDC at crossroads: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
FOR the best part of the last 12 months, the MDC has been threatening to roll out demonstrations and mass protests to either force President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of power or at least to the negotiat...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Token anti-corruption drive breeding apathy and despondency
Last week, I agonised on what to write about. I had travelled and had a bit of work to do, but still thought I could get my column in.In the end, I did not write anything because I failed to f...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Applying lipstick on a pig will not work Mnangagwa
EACH American election cycle produces a phrase or word that either becomes controversial or defines the election.In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama found himself in the eye of a storm when he ...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Sunshine journalism: What happens on cloudy days?
I RECENTLY read on the ZBC website that Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa had "urged the media to write positive developmental stories about Zimbabwe in the new dispensation", and this reminded m...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Deny, deflect and divert: Zanu-PF's flawed approach to governings
When the news that the Association of Rural Teachers of Zimbabwe (Artuz) boss, Obert Masaraure had allegedly been kidnapped, brutalised and left for dead first filtered in, the government and by exten...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Ndiweni, the chief who dared bell the cat
IF ever you did history in a Zimbabwean school or at least watched ZBC-TV, you are sure to have come across the name of Manicaland traditional leader Chief Rekayi Tangwena, who is famed for helping Ro...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Heavily armed police invade Bulawayo
Bulawayo woke up to heavy police presence on Monday morning. The police who were moving around in armoured vehicles urged the people of Bulawayo to shun calls of violoncello by people from outside Bul...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
In the beginning there was Madinda, then Peter and Adam came along
SCOTTISH writer Stephen Walsh, who spent some years teaching in Zimbabwe in the early '80s, says the Ndlovu brothers - Madinda, Adam and Peter - had amazing football skills and belong to a special gro...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
No fuel price increase - Zera
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has dismissed reports on fuel price increases.Zera says the recent regulations will not result in the increase in the price of fuel but were mea...Published: 21 May 2019 at 09:03hrs | | by Ndou Paul
New proposed fuel prices leaked
Fuel dealers and the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority are locked in talks about fuel prices, award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has revealedDealers are reported to have stopped sel...Published: 20 May 2019 at 22:23hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Herald-Newsday fight escalates
The altercation between The Herald and Newsday newspapers escalated on Monday with Acting Herald Editor Tichaona Zindoga accusing his Newsday counterpart Mr Wisdom Mdzungairi of employing "subte...Published: 20 May 2019 at 12:20hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Court removes Chamisa as MDC President
A High Court judge ruled on Wednesday that Advocate Nelson Chamisa is not the legitimate leader of the MDC, that the party must hold an extraordinary congress within a month using 2014 structures....Published: 08 May 2019 at 10:22hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zambian n'angas jet in to deal with Gukurahundi
Witchdoctors from Lusaka are reported to have landed in the country to conduct cleansing rituals for members of the fifth brigade and other government officials who participated in the Gukurahun...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 10:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Minister Sibusiso Moyo's wife to lead Anti-Corruption Commission
Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo the wife of Minister of Foreign Affairs General Sibusiso Moyo might be the next Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, a top journalist Nqaba Matshazi has r...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 11:48hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTO: #ShutdownZimbabwe - Woman shot both legs
This woman was on her from work, when she was shot near a police station. (Pic by ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 11:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Massive protests shut down Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe to have its own currency in 12 months
Zimbabwe should brace itself for its own currency within the next 12 months the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube said.He was speaking at a Town Hall meeting with organ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:44hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira defends Chinotimba
MDC-T National spokesperson Linda Masarira has defended ZANU PF MP Joseph Chinotimba who is being accused of sexism and tribalism after referring to MDC National Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo as a prost...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is it Inkosi or Mambo for Matebeleland?
Just when we all thought the three-dimensional intra-Khumalo royal feud pitting Princes Bulelani Lobhengula, Peter Zwide and Raphael Stanely was enough of an unnecessary impediment in the path of the...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Imbovane YaMahlabezulu
Fuel queues vanish from Bulawayo filling stations
FUEL supplies have started to normalise in Bulawayo with both diesel and petrol being available at most service stations in the city. Over the past few weeks, fuel was in short supply resulting in lon...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:27hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must face Gukurahundi head on says Biographer
Sunday Times Journalist and Author of President Mnangagwa's biography, Ray Ndlovu has urged Mnangagwa to face the Gukurahundi issue head on if he is to win the majority support of the people of Zimbab...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 19:50hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
New parliament to focus on devolution
THE promulgation of a law to complete the implementation of devolution power is expected to take centre stage when Parliament resumes sitting, the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs,...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T offices in Bulawayo closed by police
A journalist in Zimbabwe has tweeted an image of police closing off an MDC-T office in Bulawayo. He tweeted earlier that "Harare is closed for business".Violence erupted in the capital of Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ariel Sibanda's decade of mixed feelings
HE was born in a well-to-do family, with an aerial view of life and saving was part of Ariel Sibanda's culture as he grew up in the Nketa area of Bulawayo.The 29-year-old Sibanda, who drives a...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zec has failed the credibility test
WE have projected and forecast, analysed and pontificated on the elections and in four days' time this comes to an end, as Zimbabweans will have their say on who their next leader is.These ele...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Beyond the rhetoric, what does Mnangagwa offer?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)came to power, I was one of the sceptical ones, as he has been in government since independence and I believed he was as much to blame for the economic, pol...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zanu-PF bombing: Barwe feeds reckless ethnic narrative
At the height of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, I read about an interesting concept in South Africa, "swart gevaar" (black danger), as the athlete's defence was that he thought there was an intrude...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Gukurahundi: The axe may forget but the tree remembers
I ALMOST threw up in my mouth recently when I read that Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) secretary general, Victor Matemadanda had said former President Robert Mugabe wa...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
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