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The Christian attack against the native family and The Native Religion Beyond Jerusalem! Rome and London
"I have travelled across the length and breath of africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country such high moral values, people of ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 248 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The curse of education?
I was jolted by a friend's tweet last night. It said "I have learnt much in my life… but the biggest stumbling block to my learning has been my education!"So it turns out, life is really one...Published: 11 hrs ago | 522 | by Zifiso Masiye
The science of winning by-elections
URBAN folks are shocked how and why Zanu-PF is winning by-elections amid the economic turmoil. Again, their reasoning still stumbles back to how they mistakenly universalise city aspirations to assume...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1289 | by Michael Mhlanga
The Chief can do no wrong
In Nguni "inkosi ayoni" the Chief can do no wrong. This is derived from the concept that all decisions made by the Chief represent the collective wisdom and aspirations of his people. Unlike a Judge t...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1581 | by L Dube
Cambridge English On The Go
In the 20 odd years that I have been in the Zimbabwean education system and ten years spent in English remediation, I have identified a number of factors that cause students to fail their Cambridge O'...Published: 21 hrs ago | 364 | by The Language Coach
Living together during a divorce - What you should know
Living together during or after a divorce might sound really strange, you might even think that that could be the worst idea ever! You got divorced for a reason, right? But you would be surpri...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1693 | by Staff Writer
MDC activists, family members brutalised in midnight raids
Fears are mounting over the safety of opposition activists, following abductions of members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a night raid allegedly by armed gunmen in Bulawayo last week....Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
BCC mulls tuition fee hike
BULAWAYO city fathers are considering hiking tuition fees at council-run schools next term, arguing the cost of subsidising education, among other services, had sunk the local authority into a $2 mill...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Chief Ndiweni's dilemma: A balanced analysis
The obfuscation of issues seems to have reached unprecedented levels and it is therefore necessary for sober voices and sound arguments to be part of the national discourse to preclude the noise from ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:46hrs | 4694 | by L Dube
13-year-old girl married off for $80 in Zimbabwe
A FAMILY from Mpopoma village under Headman Chilonga, south of Chiredzi town, which is predominantly Shangani, has set tongues wagging after marrying off their 13-year-old daughter for $80 as the area...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
A Letter to Zimbabwe National Army Officers
DEAR ZIMBABWE NATIONAL ARMY (ZNA) OFFICERS, WE, YOUR FAMILIES, ARE SUFFERING I write to you as an ordinary Zimbabwean civilian. But I am not just an ordinary civilian. I write to you as ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:04hrs | 6030 | by Poverty-Stricken Zimbabwean
Austerity measures: Is Zimbabwe drinking poisoned chalice?
On September 7, 2018, Mthuli Ncube was appointed as Zimbabwe's Finance minister. Being a technocrat he is, his appointment brought a breath of fresh air. At least, Zanu-PF was breaking with its past o...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:18hrs | 393 | by Cliff Chiduku
Mliswa praises ZNA efforts
Minister of State for Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has applauded the Zimbabwe National Army for handing over two new classroom blocks to Ayshire Primary School in Zvimba Nor...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:15hrs | 3158 | by Staff Reporter
Toddler drowns
A SIX-YEAR-OLD Nyazura child drowned in Mucheke River after slipping from a rock while playing with her friend on Friday last week.Manicaland deputy police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Lu...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:23hrs | 883 | by Staff Reporter
Top 10 teaching sites for kids
The internet has had a major impact on the way people search for information, giving us access to a much wider spectrum of knowledge than was once the case.The world-wide-web has undoubtedly p...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 16:54hrs | 1314 | by Staff Writer
English made easy: The art of writing
Many of us struggle with composition which is a core component in any English Exam. As a result this is our topic for the day. My first piece of advice to anybody who wants to become a good writer is ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:29hrs | 123 | by The Language Coach
Coltart bemoans culture of violence
Former Education minister David Coltart says Zimbabwe has a disturbing culture of violence that needs to be dealt with.Coltart, who is the new treasurer-general for the main opposition MDC, sa...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
UZ investigating student accommodation scandal
Further to the story on Thursday, 15 August 2019 under the heading, 'Accommodation scandal rocks UZ', the University of Z...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:35hrs | 2545 | by Staff reporter
Fellow Zimbabweans, could you please help me find my young children who were abducted in UK?
I live in Swansea, and have lived there since 2007. In March 2008, l met a woman who comes from Swaziland and we were blessed with our first girl in January 2009.In 2012, we were blessed with a ba...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:17hrs | 2958 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Vuzu parties stoke fears of upsurge in HIV cases
The raging phenomenon of wild parties organised by teenagers, where sex orgies and alcohol binges are commonplace, is stocking fears of a surge in new HIV infections in Bulawayo.The National A...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Handcuffed rape suspect bolts from court
A Kwekwe man who could not stand the prospect of being thrown behind bars for allegedly abducting and raping a 11-year-old juvenile, bolted from the Kwekwe magistrate courts while in handcuffs leaving...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:06hrs | 1497 | by Staff reporter
Wife snatching businessman at it again
A GWANDA businessman – who last year was thoroughly bashed by a group of angry young men accusing him of sleeping with their wives – is at it again after he allegedly snatched another man's wife a...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:02hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
Cambridge English on the go
In the 20 odd years that I have been in the Zimbabwean education system and ten years spent in English remediation, I have identified a number of factors that cause students to fail their Cambridge O'...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 590 | by The Language Coach
Nyamukondiwa gets US scholarship
Zimbabwe's golf sensation Tafadzwa Nyamukondiwa has moved to the United States after he clinched a golf scholarship with Western Texas University.The 18-year-old golfer made an impressive perf...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State,that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve t...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 192 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
NPRC reduced to a lobby group fails to put closure on human rights violations
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has been reduced to a mere lobby group as some people within the Junta led government continue to meddle in the business of the Commission that is mean...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 44 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Zimbabwe is not Mthwakazi and Mthwakazi is not Zimbabwe - MLF
When the situation is good Mthwakazi people are told in the face that they are enemies of the State, that they must go back to South Africa. When it is bad, then they are a much needed piece to solve ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 304 | by MLF
Ezimnyama are Chibuku Neshamwari champs
POPULAR Bulawayo-based dance ensemble Ezimnyama are this year's champions after they ruled the roost at the national finals of the annual Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival held on Saturday...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Injiva's million dollar bet on Tsholotsho
OWEN Sibanda's childhood was typical of thousands that grow up in Tsholotsho, one of the poorest districts in Matabeleland South province.He walked at least 18km to and from school every day a...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:27hrs | 3622 | by Staff reporter
Inside the 'secret' world of Gule Wamkulu
THE Nyau or Gule, popularly known in Zimbabwe as zvigure, are an enigma. Mystic, misunderstood and feared — their secrets have been hidden for centuries behind gory masks, cryptic dances and bizarre...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand 50c to mark pupils' work
Many teachers at Mketi Secondary School in Mberengwa district under Chief Mketi are said to be demanding a 50c fee from the pupils so that they can mark their daily work, TellZim News learnt that....Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:34hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi activists fined for public hearing violence
THREE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) activists were yesterday fined $200 for engaging in public violence during a public hearing conducted in Bulawayo by the commission of inquiry led by ex-South Afri...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:56hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
By-elections TKO and below the belt politics
If the Matabeleland North by-elections held recently were a boxing match, the MDC-Alliance would have been dealt a technical knock-out (TKO).After jabs and uppercuts, then a flurry of combinat...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
War heroes who died in vain
The war was raging on. Every person in the village had had an encounter with the freedom fighters. We all knew the drill. The arrival of the freedom fighters in a village was so secret but an open one...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2527 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mthwakazi members jailed for public violence
Three members of the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) have been jailed for 30 months in prison for engaging in public violence during the Kgalema Montlante Commission of Inquiry outreach meeting which w...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 19:53hrs | 950 | by Staff reporter
Sex scandal hits school
A massive sex scandal has hit Mahlothova Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North amid allegations that one Form Three girl dropped out of school after being continuously defiled by one...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | 3545 | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps hubby over sex drought
A woman from Lupane in Matabeleland North province dumped her husband after he failed to indulge sex with her for five years.Nomater Mathe (32) complained bitterly before Lupane resident magis...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:42hrs | 2363 | by Staff reporter
Cassava set to introduce ease of travel
Vaya has speeded the introduction of its new services, Vaya Carpool and Vaya Shuttle, in a bid to help ease the fuel and foreign currency crises in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe has been facing a crisis i...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Police warn youths on vuzu parties
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned pupils who are returning from boarding schools to desist from organising the now infamous vuzu parties as they risk being arrested.Pupils, particularly those wit...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
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 | 538 | by Staff reporter
Pastor in hiding after impregnating Form 3 pupil
A FAMILY from Binga is looking for a Zaoga Church pastor who disappeared after allegedly impregnating their 19-year-old adopted daughter who is a Form Three pupil. The pupil was adopted by the...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Unsung Freedom Fighters Of Zimbabwe who deserve our salute
Feel Proud! For here you are now. At a comfort zone uncomplainingly busy with personal goals and aspirations. The everyday troubles that you face, you call them miseries.But there are ...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 4182 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe govt neglect driving citizens across borders
RURAL communities in southern Zimbabwe are bearing the brunt of government neglect, 39 years after independence forcing them to turn to neighbouring South Africa for greener pastures and general upkee...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 12:53hrs | 2380 | by Staff reporter
Nurses and doctors to get free transport from Vaya
Nurses and doctors at hospitals throughout Zimbabwe are set to get free transport for 30 days as Vaya once again rolls out exciting new services. These are a car-sharing service called Vaya Carpool an...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:16hrs | 2182 | by Staff reporter
4,000 shonas to get Kenyan IDs
The dream of recognition for at least 4 000 members of the Zimbabwean community living in Kenya came closer to reality at last as the government began issuing them with birth certificates.For ...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:23hrs | 1616 | by Staff reporter
Massive school fees hikes
SEVERAL boarding schools have increased fees for next term by an average of 100 percent, with some now demanding parents to add groceries to guard against the erosion of the value of the money....Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:13hrs | 947 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo school to return disputed bus to Harare manufacturer
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry-appointed commission probing the purchase of a defective bus by Lukanyiso Primary School in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, two years ago has ordered that the controver...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission protesters found guilty
Three MRP members who protested against ZANU PF Youths who stood up to silence Terrence Wisdom Mkhwananzi who was testifying at the Motlante Commission concerning the death of his parents at the hands...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 17:05hrs | 4486 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Robert Mugabe's son opens up
Former President Robert Mugabe's son Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe says the former first couple gave him money to start his business ventures that he is running in Sandton.Speaking to Hmetro Chat...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 15:11hrs | 55287 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Registrar decries late birth registrations
IT is an offence not to register a child within 42 days of birth and more needs to be done by way of publicity to ensure people know the importance of the requirement, Mashonaland Central provincial r...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
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