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Harare needs $1 billion to end water woes
HARARE needs over $1 billion to end water and sewer reticulation challenges, which are the source of recurrent cholera outbreaks currently blighting the nation, newly-elected mayor Peter Gomba said ye...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge put on high cholera alert
Beitbridge District has been put on high alert following a cholera outbreak which has affected several people and claimed 31 lives in Harare, an official has said. District medical officer Dr ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Expectant mothers vacate clinic over goblins sexual attack
HEALTH workers, expecting mothers and some patients have allegedly vacated a clinic in Lupane following sexual attacks by suspected goblins, authorities have confirmed.Expecting mothers in wai...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Bride and groom die on way to marriage ceremony
Three family members died in a road traffic accident at the 49km peg along Mazowe-Centenary highway this afternoon when a Toyota Wish driver lost control of the vehicle.One of the victims who ...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 13:38hrs | 17968 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa supporter fights UK deportation
Human rights organisations have accused the Home Office of breaking international law after it decided to deport a Zimbabwean member of the opposition party whose life would be in danger if he returne...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 10:59hrs | 4816 | by theguardian.com
Its time for Mthwakazi to ensure their aspirations are met - activist
Mthwakazi activist Hloniphani Ncube has said now that the usually fraudulent elections have come and gone, it's time for the people of Mthwakazi to ensure that, their aspirations are met.He sa...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 09:06hrs | 979 | by Stephen Jakes
New Mnangagwa Cabinet gets thumbs up
President Mnangagwa's new Cabinet is a refreshing start to the Second Republic as it blends young brains with seasoned technocrats with capacity to revive the economy, analysts said yesterday....Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1289 | by Staff Repotrter
Mnangagwa's Commission political grandstanding
Zapu spokesperson Iphithule Maphosa has said the recently appointed commission of inquiry into shooting on 1 August 2018 is nothing but an act of hypocrisy that lacks genuine intent.He said th...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:39hrs | 420 | by Stephen Jakes
Do not kill a dead snake!
This is what former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma said in reference to Thabo Mbeki who was voted out of the party and government as party leader and president of South Africa in Polokwane. This...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 15:49hrs | 3873 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bulawayo woman has miracle baby
A 36-YEAR-OLD woman naturally delivered a five kilogramme baby at Kings Poly Clinic in Bulawayo on Saturday morning. Medical practitioners have said the average weight of a "big" newborn child...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 08:46hrs | 10368 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans throng SA hospitals
SCORES of Zimbabweans are crossing the Beitbridge Border Post on a daily basis to seek medical attention in South Africa, as drug and medical equipment shortages continue to haunt hospitals north of t...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2003 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga represents the 'New Disorder' not New Dispensation
While the nation awaits eagerly in anticipation of a typical Chief Justice Maraga (Kenya's Chief Justice) style and caliber of overturning presidential election results from our apex court on Tuesday,...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 10692 | by Knowledge Hakata
UK Zimbabweans die of HIV after being fooled by faith healers
A number of Zimbabweans in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking lifesaving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors. Pastors have taken advantage of the respect they g...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:44hrs | 3945 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ekusileni opening date set
EKUSILENI Medical Centre in Bulawayo will open its doors on 1 January next year as stakeholders are now finalising terms of contracts that will ensure the project gets off the ground.Ekusileni...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
USAid funds abusers push for Zimbabwe GNU
A GROUP of NGOs is contriving reports of State-sanctioned post-election human rights abuses in an effort to get Western countries to pressure President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa into forming a "Governm...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1224 | by Staff reporter
Shady NGO caught offside on violence
A group of NGOs is contriving reports of State-sanctioned post-election human rights abuses in an effort to get Western countries to pressure President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa into forming a "Governm...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa: Your parents taught you better
The so-called experts fail to understand that it is the unshackled youths that can bring change in any country, not the rah-rah lying politicians. In addition, for street protests to work, they must b...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 22:27hrs | 12375 | by Sam Wezhira
MDC Alliance slammed over sanctions
THE MDC Alliance invited sanctions on the country in an act of political expediency resulting in the United States passing the amended Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (ZIDERA), ...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
'Opposition leaders called for more sanctions'
THE MDC-Alliance invited sanctions on Zimbabwe in an act of political expediency, resulting in the United States passing the amended Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (zdera), For...Published: 14 Aug 2018 at 06:29hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
The military has a constitutional mandate to support a civilian authority and maintain peace
On the eve of the elections results and for three further nights, a small minority took to the streets in some of our urban centres looting, vandalising, burning, terrorising the law abiding majority....Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 21:53hrs | 1418 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's statement made him sound like that false Pentecostal prophet
Last Friday, Nelson Chamisa declared that he would be challenging his electoral loss to Emmerson Mnangagwa, and even promised his supporters that change was still coming. His latter statement is unbel...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1367 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimbabwe elections: power versus popularity
Now that the Zimbabwean July 2018 elections have passed, and as we await the final presidential results, I have been hearing more and more debate among Zimbabweans about which presidential candidate i...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 15:37hrs | 877 | by Tau Tawengwa
What an opportunity missed by Emmerson Mnangagwa
When the military occupied the streets of Harare and parked their tanks on every corner of the streets of Harare, the people of Zimbabwe celebrated in anticipation of a better Zimbabwe. The military, ...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 16:24hrs | 4308 | by Frazer Muzondo
Gukurahundi skeletons tumble out of the closet
AS Zimbabwe inches towards critical general elections on Monday, skeletons of Gukurahundi massacres - which remain an emotive political and electoral issue in the country - are tumbling out of the clo...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:19hrs | 1942 | by Staff reporter
The dirty truth about OIL
What does "oil" make you think of? Do "invasions" and "emissions" top your list? Why have leaders thought it worth spilling so much blood for the sake of this pungent mud? And why has it been so hard ...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:13hrs | 2587 | by Erick Matotoba
Miracle baby survives winter dumping
A NEWBORN baby who was stuffed with stones in the mouth, stashed in a black plastic refuse bag and dumped in Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo, was found alive.The baby who was bleeding from the...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1484 | by Staff reporter
Mnangangwa accused to favouring military over teachers
Teachers have re-ignited their feud with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government by accusing the authorities of favouring the military and police whom they have awarded allowances.The rest o...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:13hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Lifting the lid on Chamisa's dark past
Throughout this election campaign we have heard a lot of discussion about ED's past. And rightly so. He has been an integral figure in our national history, for better or worse, and it is only proper ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:22hrs | 31609 | by Precious Kwaramba
Mnangagwa rewards soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has awarded a whopping 22,5% "special allowance" rise to members of the security service, raising fears that the gesture could be a vote-buying gimmick as it ...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:35hrs | 3310 | by Staff rpeorter
Bulawayo Council frets over 24-hour clinics demand
Bulawayo City Council has been put under pressure to introduce 24-hour clinics at a time when financial challenges stalk the local authority to the extent of even failing to pay its workers on time....Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 956 | by Staff reporter
'Ndebeles are dull thats why there are no medical schools in Matabeleland
Are Matabeles really dull as we are told every day by Shona supremacist? That is wogwash. Anyone who believes this would believe that Emmerson Mnangagwa is a saint.In our last two articles we ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:48hrs | 4184 | by Israel Dube
MDC-T Councilor throws in weights for the Luveve Constituency contest
Dear ZEC, I am writing to you this letter raising my concerns as an MDC-T MP candidate for Harare Central Constituency with regard to the Harare Central Constituency voters roll which is...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 09:52hrs | 593 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Mnangagwa's spin-doctor calls Chamisa's spokesperson a 'spin nurse'
Zanu-PF has dismissed claims by communication upstarts in the MDC Alliance's information department that President Mnangagwa has been seeking to meet the coalition's leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for a pol...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 08:20hrs | 1948 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo pins Gukurahundi blame on Mnangagwa
Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo says he has always held President Emmerson Mnangagwa in contempt mainly for his role in the Gukurahundi atrocities which left an estimated 2...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 17:18hrs | 2215 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to give unemployed teachers, nurses jobs?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Government has plans to ensure that unemployed teachers and nurses in the country end up getting jobs. Speaking during a well attended Zanu-P...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa deserves the highest office'
President Mnangagwa is the only candidate who deserves to be voted into the highest office on July 30 as he has a practical vision for Zimbabwe. Addressing a campaign rally to drum up support ...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1576 | by Staff reporter
Director 'blocks' NGO
MANICALAND provincial medical director Patron Mafaune has come underfire for allegedly blocking a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Rural Mobile Health Care, from providing free health services to ...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
The bomb that strengthens the party and the country
The bomb attack on the White City Stadium in Bulawayo on the 23rd June 2018, was first and foremost an inhuman, undiscriminating attempt to massacre innocent, unsuspecting men and women attending a wa...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1327 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Panicky Chamisa beginning to sound like Tsvangirai
Hey hoo, the Zimbabwe Defence Forces have a new quartermaster! One who knows it all, and manages the national armoury from far-away Kenya. Maybe these are the wonders of a twitter epoch: you know it a...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:57hrs | 2247 | by Igomombe
Zimbabwean women abroad pull each other down
A man asked Is there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women?I really can't count the number of times I've heard or read that quote. For some time it did not make sense ...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 06:40hrs | 779 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | 219 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Mnangagwa needs a miracle, says Chamisa
MDC-T leader and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that next month's general elections can only be adjudged as free and fair if he wins the presidential race agains...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1777 | by Staff rpeorter
'Only ED deserve your vote,' argue Dr Mavaza - how so, fool; he is one wielding the veto
People like Dr Masimba Mavaza have such poor memory, they forget yesterday's troubles with sleep. "Kukangamwa chezuro nehope!" as one would say in Shona."The world believes that only ZANU PF h...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 17:06hrs | 1570 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Only ED deserves your vote
On the 30th July 2018 this country goes to the polls. This election will decide the future direction of our nation and regions for generations to come. Our jobs, homes, and living standards, our child...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 09:13hrs | 1148 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Opposition leader hails peaceful campaign
THE president of the newly formed Zimbabwe Rainbow Democratic Party (ZRDP) Mr Cuthbert Ncube has hailed the peaceful environment obtaining in the country, saying his party's election campaigns that ar...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Our country, our future - ONLY ED deserves your vote
On the 30th July 2018 this country goes to the polls. This election will decide the future direction of our nation and regions for generations to come. Our jobs, homes, and living standards, our child...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 16:35hrs | 1133 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Tshinga Dube says he is wearing the right political jacket
While the people of Makokoba constituency agree that the incumbent Zanu-PF legislator Tshinga Dube has done well, there are others who think he is wearing the wrong political jacket.Bulawayo h...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 14:08hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
'Tshinga Dube - a generous, supportive legislator'
THE constituency consists of some of the oldest suburbs in Bulawayo such as Makokoba, Thorngrove, Westgate, Steelgate, Westondale, Barbourfields, Mzilikazi, Nguboyenja and Burombo. Most property owner...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa donates
Zanu-PF Zvimba South candidate Philip Chiyangwa has sourced medical equipment and other supplies for hospitals and health centres in the constituency. The equipment includes blood pressure and blood s...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Fire razes down hospital, police station
PROPERTY estimated to be worth over $35 000 is reported to have been destroyed after a nurses' quarters at St Paul's Clinic in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province was razed by fire on Thursda...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:48hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
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