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Starlink : A potential digital lifeline for rural Zimbabwe
In a world where connectivity is a lifeline for information, education, and economic opportunities, the promise of Starlink, SpaceX's ambitious satellite internet project, shines brightly for rural an...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 05:30hrs | | by Robert Ndlovu
Starlink: A Potential Lifeline for Rural Zimbabwe
In a world where connectivity is a lifeline for information, education, and economic opportunities, the promise of Starlink, SpaceX's ambitious satellite ...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 04:50hrs | | by Robert Ndlovu
Gukurahundi genocide closure needs sincerity, maturity and solemnity
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, it is not conscionable for you to rope in tribal chiefs in the process of bringing closure to the Gukurahundi atrocities. Common...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | | by Cyprian Ndawana
'Biti baiting journalists with sensational but false claims'
A Harare Company West Properties Zimbabwe has exposed parliamentarian Tendai Biti's malicious attack against them after the legislator claimed that the company received 200 000 hectares of land from t...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Madhuku option: Proverbial low hanging fruit?
THE out of court negotiations (herein termed the Madhuku Option) being mooted by NCA president, Polad member and prominent legal buff, Lovemore Madhuku, on the continued detention of CCC political pri...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Ted Noham
Why HH has been invited to the White house by Biden
President Hakainde Hichilema has been invited for a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House while in the US attending the United Nations General Assembly. ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:58hrs | | by Mwansa P. Chalwe snr
Janet Banana was publicly shamed and not her gay husband Canaan
The public knowledge that the former President was gay was suffered by Janet Banana his wife more than Canaan Banana. She was shamed, she was whispered by those patriarchal voices of our women in our ...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 17:40hrs | 19 | by Nomazulu Thata
Malaba strayed from straight, narrow path of rectitude
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, it is a shame for government that the power to extend the tenure of senior judges beyond retirement age that was recently vested in you was s...Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:15hrs | | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zanu-PF MP wails in Parliament
ZANU-PF MP for Nkayi South Stars Mathe shocked legislators on Wednesday after she requested for an opportunity to wail over sanctions in the National Assembly in the middle of a debate.This co...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking the Kambarami -Town Clerk suspension saga
The wait is over.Yesterday (11 July 2019) I promised to give my opinion on the “alleged suspension pending disciplinary investigation” of the Bulawayo Town Clerk Mr. Christopher Dube by th...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 15:45hrs | 2 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
Masiyiwa-Chamisa gives Biggie Matiza a five-day ultimatum
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe National Road Administration Authority (Zinara) chief executive officer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa has given Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza a five-day ultimatum to issue a public...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time for a holistic approach to Gukurahundi genocide
In social and other media there has been debate and speculation on where President Emmerson Mnangagwa is headed regarding resolution of the Gukurahundi issue.In the run-up to Zimbabwe's Indepe...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Strike Mkandla
Businessman's death opens can of worms
THE sudden death of Mirirai Driving School proprietor, Washington Jekanyika (35), who died in unclear circumstances last Saturday has been the mainstay of public discourse in Mutare over the past week...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU response to 'Gukurahundi' moves by President Mnangagwa
In social and other media there has been debate and speculation on where President Emmerson Mnangagwa is headed regarding resolution of the "Gukurahundi" issue. In the run-up to Zimbabwe's Independenc...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Dr. Strike Mkandla
Zimbabwe Communist Party respond to attacks by ZANU PF mouthpiece
"The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo-communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking to do, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal att...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 13:23hrs | 1 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
Response to The Patriot: Unmasking Pseudo Communists
The Patriot, 31 January 2019, carried an article titled 'Unmasking a pseudo communist organisation,' although obviously there was no unmasking do to, instead it degenerated to slanderous personal atta...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Dr. Samukele Hadebe
Mnangangwa panics
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing l...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aborts annual leave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to report for duty, hardly a week into his annual leave, as the crisis in the country continues to deepen, with his deputy Constantino Chiwenga failing to ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans demonstrations at hospitals
GOVERNMENT will not allow any demonstrations at hospitals by the striking junior doctors, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said. In a statement he released when he was Acting President ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dismayed by doctor's stance despite concessions
The Government is dismayed by junior doctors' continuation of industrial action despite authorities meeting the majority of their demands. Government has met eight out of 10 initial demands ma...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's statement on the ongoing industrial action in the Health Sector
Following a series of meetings involving striking Health Workers and their employer, the Health Services Board, Government is gravely concerned that the situation in our country continues to deteriora...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:12hrs | | by Chiwenga
Chiwenga claims govt has met junior doctors' demands
The government says it has met almost all the demands by junior doctors who withdrew their services at beginning of last month, but will not concede to payment of salaries in US dollars.Briefi...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt dismayed by doctor's stance
The Government is dismayed by junior doctors' continuation of industrial action despite authorities meeting the majority of their demands. Government has met eight out of 10 initial demands ma...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Condemning Israel is not hate speech, SA Appeal Court finds
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this week delivered a judgment that provided much needed clarity about the meaning of "hate speech" as prohibited in the Equality Act. Understanding wha...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Wilmien Wicomb I GroundUp
Zanu PF factional wars worry ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has expressed some worries over the nature of incidents recorded in December although the number of cases were in a downward trend, 124 from 190 recorded in November in whic...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
German's CDU of Angela Merkel: no coalition with Neo-Nazi party! And opposition parties in Zimbabwe?
Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party is having a horrendous task in forming a coalition government: in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF was spoilt for choices: who in the opposition can they pick-and cherry: t...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 14:38hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Has Jah Prayzah gone political in his music
POPULARLY known for his signature full military combat regalia, Jah Prayzah has once again been sucked into the vortex of artistic controversy following the release of his latest album Kutonga Kwaro w...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 13:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah threatened over songs
Some youths, believed to be aligned to Zanu-PF's G40 faction, have threatened award-winning music star Jah Prayzah for allegedly composing songs meant to prop up embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kembo Mohadi's brother terrorises farmer
MANANJE Conservancy in Beitbridge is under siege yet again as the fight to take over the wildlife sanctuary from Ian Ferguson intensifies.The picturesque Mananje Conservancy on Denlynian Farm,...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe the ultimate 'prophet'
While the majority of Zimbabweans believe in prophecy in the Christian sense, there is one "prophet" they must surely consider following religiously and heeding his words when he says something politi...Published: 07 May 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African Rand not an option, says Zimbabwe
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has continued to turn down overtones to adopt the South African rand as the country's option to cash challenges saying Zimbabwe does not have its own currency which is...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Untold story of Zipra Women's Brigade
Starting this week, The Sunday Mail will be publishing excerpts of the biography of Group Captain Sithabile Sibanda aka Ntombiyezizweni Mhlanga. Under the working title "A Woman's Choice, The untold s...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cheating driver nabbed
AN adulterous affair between a Marondera-based Proton Bakery delivery truck driver and a married client was recently exposed following a shocking incident in which the driver mistook his lover’s hus...Published: 29 May 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Blessing Rwizi
Afro pop Group Sinazo collaborate with SA’s Byron Khumalo for a House Hit
For those late-night revelers who believe that entertainment is from the magical realm that exists in the clouds to the risqué to the seedy, this one is your special dedication."The concept o...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 18:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Killing in the name of God
RELIGION, seen by many as an oasis of tranquillity and hope, appears to be going bonkers with strange stuff happening in most faiths, particularly in Christianity and Islam.With followers bein...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Fatima Bulla
To stop Zhuwao implementing indigenisation law, first remove vote rigging Mugabe
"Indigenisation is a policy based on race; that is a fact. It is a policy that specifically seeks to give black people an advantage over white people and the justification is that white people have pr...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 19:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Is Mujuru perceived as playing fair at home?
The national political pot sweats and effervesces. The faggots beneath burn wild and incandescent, heating up the medley soup inside which leaps wild, jumping past the giant pot's rim, out to infinity...Published: 11 Apr 2015 at 16:11hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
ZAPU SG says ZAPU has to think safety in a big way
Mnangagwa's intemperate outburst about ZAPU's plot on his life could be one of the most serious threats to the security of individuals and peace in Zimbabwe today. For ZAPU to simply dismiss these m...Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Dr Ralph Mguni
Zim men responsible for infertility problems - Research
The majority of infertility problems that Zimbabwean couples experience can be attributed to men's health and social strains, latest research findings show.A study by Ms Stancia Moyo of the Un...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 06:04hrs | | by Tinashe Farawo
MDC-T Statement on Indigenisation
Thursday, 29 May 2014Statement by the Alternative Minister for Industry and Commerce, Dr Tapiwa Mashakada on Indigenisa...Published: 29 May 2014 at 15:56hrs | | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
Tsvangirai being pushed to gang up against Biti
The state media on Sunday reported that MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, under pressure from some Western diplomats, is frantically trying to convince some senior party members to gang up against se...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe to make first post-election speech
Robert Mugabe is to deliver his first public speech since he won Zimbabwe's disputed presidential election.Mr Mugabe will address a Heroes' Day celebration in the capital, Harare, to commemo...Published: 12 Aug 2013 at 08:30hrs | | by BBC
Zimbabwe @ 33:- Independent but not free
Today Zimbabweans take stock of their achievements since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain 33 years ago. ZAPU is humbled by how resolute Zimbabweans have remained in the face of total ...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 12:26hrs | | by Mjobisa Noko
MDC-T counters Zanu-PF's indigenisation
Demoralised by failure to unseat President Robert Mugabe in the 2008 vote, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC's chance to unseat the veteran ruler is facing a major stumbling block - an indigenisa...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Community Share Ownership Scheme politicised, polluted
The MDC-T's position is that Kasukuwere's Community Share Ownership charade is nothing but another ploy to hoodwink voters ahead of elections.The Community Share Ownership Scheme in its curren...Published: 06 Feb 2013 at 05:50hrs | | by MDC-T
Residents expressed outrage at Bev's type of dancing
THE Bev and Sexy Angels show that was held last week in Bulawayo at the Basement Night Club has stirred a hornet's nest.Residents of the city have expressed outrage at the type of dancing and ...Published: 28 Jul 2012 at 05:19hrs | | by Saturday Leisure Reporter
Ebusuku - Mauzah Releases Scintillating Video
In her otherwise unbeknown poem, Kaavyaa Kriday, once wrote that Night is not the time to rest; Night is the best to party. It is the time the subconscious rocks. This bewilderment of ideas is lively ...Published: 09 Jun 2012 at 03:45hrs | | by Titshabona Malaba Ncube
Clint Eastwood's family to star in reality show
Clint Eastwood's family is set to star in the upcoming reality show called "Mrs. Eastwood & Company."The legendary Tinseltown actor and director, 81, will only make occasional guest appea...Published: 14 Mar 2012 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never meant to keep any of the promises he made to SA
HARARE - Ex-South African leader Thabo Mbeki's government was so frustrated with President Robert Mugabe that it reportedly considered ditching him prior to the 2008 harmonised elections, ex...Published: 11 Feb 2012 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Zanu-PF coughs
Let's keep a tab on Libya. It is very important in understanding how imperialism works nowadays.Forget the ongoing operations to subdue Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown. That is a sideshow, a real sm...Published: 08 Oct 2011 at 03:46hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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