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ZANU PF is the black sheep of liberation movements
So, Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU PF is currently hosting a conference of former liberation movements.Nonetheless, just how is the party viewed by their colleagues in the region?Are they trul...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nyarota's latest book takes aim at opposition
Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has released his latest book, 'The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimbabwe.'Alpha Media Holdings chairman, Trevor Ncube was the gues...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare outcast resurfaces at Caps United
Dynamos outcast Tendai Matindife has resurfaced at Caps United where he is training with hopes of earning himself a contract.The winger was an integral part of the Dynamos team at the start of...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota to launch his fourth book
Award-winning veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoff Nyarota, one of the best local scribes, will tomorrow launch his fourth book, The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimba...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide over land dispute
A family land dispute turned tragic when a man from Hurungwe committed suicide last Friday. Lovemore Mbasera reportedly took his own life at his homestead in Chakupamwari village, Masokoti, ward 9, Hu...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere: Ndebeles amongst noise makers in Zimbabwe?
A wannabe Zimbabwe President who turns a blind eye on Matabeleland restoration cause is making a fatal political miscalculation which may lead to unprecedented political upheaval.As we navigat...Published: 28 Jun 2023 at 14:46hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
If only Zimbabwe also had a respectable leader whom we could revere as the British do their Queen!
As the British, and others around the world, mourn the death of their dearly beloved Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away yesterday, at her Balmoral Castle in Scotland - I cannot help admire and be mov...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Beer drinkers church: when the love of God and booze meet
THE inviting, melodious echoes flow downhill as we make the final ascend.In the absence of musical instruments to enhance output, they use their palms to issue out some rhythmic claps which bl...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Charamba exposes Mwonzora, Mnangagwa alliance
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has exposed that MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora for being the ruling Zanu-PF party's project to destroy the opposition led by Nelson C...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Tsvangirai's MDC
D-DAY has arrived for the MDC brand, with the electorate expected to decide its fate, as analysts say the iconic party associated with the firebrand Morgan Tsvangirai may disappear into oblivion if it...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pomp, fanfare at National Youth Day festivities
Thousands of youths from the country's 10 provinces yesterday gathered at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Square in Harare to commemorate National Youth Day, running under the theme: "Alleviating substance ...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
The rise and fall of the MDC: Winners, losers and neutrals
AS Zimbabwe approaches crucial by-elections in March, which will test the strength of main contestants while determining the authentic opposition, there is no denying that the MDC, which has posed the...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Youths take Mliswa to task
THE Zimbabwe Action Youth Platform (ZAYP) has challenged "serial political turncoat" Temba Mliswa to stop meddling in Zanu-PF affairs and feigning loyalty to President Mnangagwa when he surreptitiousl...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is COVID-19 narrative driven by science or just pure psychology?
In life we have those who question whatever they are told, and those who believe what is either said by an authority figure, or accepted by the majority.In psychology, it is referred to as "co...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 18:08hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF sidelines relocated villagers from Pfumvudza
Zanu-PF is reportedly sidelining Marange villagers resettled at Arda Transau Relocation Area from benefiting from the Pfumvudza government-funded agricultural inputs programme, the Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere guns for Mnangagwa?
EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed that it was time for him to make "difficult decisions" to "save the revolutionary movement" and to act on the injustices that President Em...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 05:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa needs to tone down rhetoric
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa's dramatic Press conference on Tuesday represents everything rotten about the leadership of this country.From arrogance, insatiabl...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suicide cases trigger alarm in Zimbabwe
"It is so hard to take it in because I could not hear him scream or anything, it is too painful," those are the heart-breaking words from Farai Munemo's mother Felistas Mundere.Munemo would ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho San community embraces modernisation
THE San community in rural Tsholotsho is embracing modern ways of living and mainstream development.Often labelled as outcasts or primitive by other ethnic groups, the San community has been o...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Tallach's successful battle against Covid-19
PARENTS and teachers feared for the worst and learners were in panic mode after 170 Covid-19 cases were recorded at John Tallach High School in Ntabazinuna, Matabeleland North, late last year. ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Night curfew is killing us' Sex workers moan
A LOBBY group fighting for the rights of female sex workers says the extended lockdown restrictions and night curfew hours have curtailed their work, as business for them flourishes during the night....Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa now feeling the consequences of its own myopic irresponsible policies towards Zimbabwe
Each and everyone of us has a family, has friends, and lives in a community - and, there is one common thread between all these: a strong sense of peer review, as we have a responsibility towards one ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 18:52hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'A Family Affair' by Sue Nyathi
Family is complicated...Meet the Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As leaders of their church, The Kingdom of God, Pastor Abraham and his wife Phumla are guiding th...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 20:16hrs | 3 | by Pan Macmillan
The Truth about Jesus on Believers and Church of Today
Jesus came to earth to forgive our sins, break down those barriers and restore the peace and unity that Adam and Eve lost in the Garden of Eden. He made Himself of no reputation. He laid aside the glo...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere Freelance Journalist and Pastor
Pupil (15) suspended for 'drug abuse' approaches High Court
A FORM Four pupil at Falcon College in Esigodini, who was suspended from attending school for alleged drug abuse, has approached the High Court challenging his expulsion. The 15-year-old schoo...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabwe benefit from boris johnson's ascendents to power?
Boris Johnson, Britain's prime minister, is the quintessential nostalgic leader. Since the Brexit referendum, in order to make Britain's future outside the European Union appealing, he has playe...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 16:33hrs | 8 | by Masimba Mavaza
Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet review
News doing the rounds says the Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe has passed on , it seems Chiwenga and Robert Mugabe have one thing in common - they both die in the media and resurrect miracu...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 09:51hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Gukurahundi mass graves exhumation intent - is the Matebelalnd Collective accomplices?
History is littered with many heinous crimes committed by man against man all in the name of power, from the Turkish genocide against the Armenians, the Nazi Jewish holocaust, Pol pot madness, the Rwa...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Fikile wa Malikongwa
Zimbabwe on the knife edge
Legitimacy issues will continue to follow Mnangagwa. All forms of cheating were applied, hence our elections fell below international standards, thus the continuation of sanctions. ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:52hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Rogue police, soldiers turn to crime
More and more members of the security services are being arraigned before the courts for playing a major role in perpetrating blue-collar and violent crime.Analysts attribute the breakdown of ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament debates trifles
At a time when many people in Zimbabwe wonder where their next meal is coming from and whether it is worthwhile taking someone to hospital for treatment, the House of Assembly has been preoccupied by ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 18:40hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
ED's taken the politics out the economics, and given us all a brighter future
As we all take giant strides in the history of Zimbabwe, we should all take a moment of reflection. Let us remember from whence we have come. Just over a year ago, we were stuck in a rut. A pari...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:12hrs | | by Charles (student)
When a woman says NO it is a No! Period!
This is the strong message that President Ramaphosa of South Africa gave to the women of South Africa who demonstrated at the Union buildings on the 2nd of August 2018, commemorating the past event of...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Family sues over unsanctioned son's foreskin removal
A Bulawayo couple is suing the Minister of Health and Child Care and Population Services International (PSI) Zimbabwe for allegedly depriving their 10-year-old son "the pleasure of natural and n...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSI, govt sued over unsanctioned circumcision
A Bulawayo couple has sued the Population Service International Zimbabwe (PSI) and Health minister David Parirenyatwa for allegedly circumcising their 10-year-old son without their consent.Sho...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shiri endorses Dutiro
Agriculture minister and former Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri has endorsed Guruve South legislator Patrick Dutiro as the ZANU PF candidate while blasting his rival W...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Fifa boss invites 'outcast' Chiyangwa
THE hawks at the Sports Commission might be hunting for his head but Philip Chiyangwa's fine romance with FIFA continues to bloom with world football boss, Gianni Infantino, inviting the ZIFA presiden...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Blackman' turns bodyguard into a podium
HIS bodyguard-turned-podium is now sweating profusely as the Kwekwe Central MP and former Zanu PF member, Masango "Blackman" Matambanadzo, keeps extending his speech during a National Patriotic Front ...Published: 11 Jun 2018 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to be better than South Africa, promises Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday promised to fix the economy in "a short space of time" if he is elected after the July 30 elections.Addressing a rally at Ruteng...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gomwe hailed for sticking to Lacoste faction during Grace chaotic era
Zapu spokesperson Iphithile Maphosa has hailed the Zanu PF youth member Godwin Gomwe for sticking to the Lacoste faction that supported now President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the era of former First ...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Fury over Khama treatment
SIX years after his endorsement by Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand opened the doors for a move to South African giants Mamelodi Sundowns, Khama Billiat is at the centre of a social media explos...Published: 18 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chitembwe happy with his project
LLOYD CHITEMBWE, who ended CAPS United's lengthy wait for the league title two years ago, says he is beginning to see his team taking the shape he wants to challenge for honours again this season. The...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe's departure unfortunate, but necessary
I recall vividly the year 2000, when the Movement for Democratic Change broke onto the political scene scaring the hell out of a complacent Zanu-PF. It had never happened in the annals of Zimbabwean h...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Son kills father over vehicle
VILLAGERS in Chitakatira were left shell shocked last week after the body of a 42 year old man was exhumed a week after his burial following revelations that he had been poisoned by his son over inher...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ralph Matema resurfaces at Yadah
FORMER Highlanders striker Ralph Matema has resurfaced at Yadah FC after signing a contract with the Walter Magaya-financed team.The veteran striker was one of the senior players released from...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chipanga is back!
Outspoken musician, Hosiah Chipanga feels he is back in the fold after an excruciating sabbatical from the music scene that saw him and his music being sidelined by radio stations and promoters who ac...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
White farmers still being kicked out of Zimbabwe farms
White farmers in Masvingo continue to face eviction despite moves by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to return some of their land, as part of efforts to revive the ailing agricultural sector which used t...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ndebele King's Christmas Message, 2017
It is that time of the year when the world celebrates in different celebrations; it is time of Christmas, a celebration unknown to us as a people before the advent of the white man. This time ...Published: 24 Dec 2017 at 14:20hrs | | by Stanley Raphael Khumalo
NPP celebrates own in 16 days of activism
Revolutionary greetings dear comrades. We recently witnessed the inauguration of Mnangagwa's cabinet which is not gender sensitive and deficient of young blood. That did not come as a surprise bec...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 15:24hrs | | by NPP National Youth
The cost of firing an African Vice-President
Events of the past week were pregnant with both surprises and lessons. One of the key surprises was that the unthinkable can happen and can be executed unflinchingly by those who wield the power to de...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
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