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Girl (12) rescues 3 minors from burning house
A 12-year-old girl from Chitakatira, Mutare, is battling for her life at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after sustaining severe burns while rescuing three young relatives from a raging house fir...Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:32hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Inmates trade sugar, porridge for weed
GWANDA - Two serving prison inmates, Hloniphani Mkwananzi (42) and Tiisetse Ngulube, have been sentenced to 15 months in prison for trading food items received from relatives in exchange for cannabis....Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 16:01hrs | 555 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Toddler dies after falling into dish of hot porridge
A heartbreaking tragedy has struck a family in Nzovunde Village, Binga District, after a two-year-old child died from severe burns sustained when the toddler fell into a container of boiling porridge....Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 14:20hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's malnutrition crisis worsens
AS Zimbabwe is facing a severe drought, families in rural areas are unable to feed their children. The government and international agencies are falling short of addressing this growing crisis....Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:02hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's driver dies mysteriously at Bulawayo hotel
In a shocking turn of events, Ishmael Maburisa, the driver of Deputy Finance Minister David Mnangagwa, was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday, October 27, just hours after the conclusion of the Za...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 5080 | by Staff reporter
60% of pupils hungry, feel El Niño pinch
At least three million out of 4.9 million pupils across Zimbabwe have been severely impacted by the El Niño-induced drought, with the government facing significant challenges in consolidating its sch...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 09:07hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
The power of goblins (Ontikolotshe)
A FEW days ago, my attention was drawn to some screaming and sensational headlines on social media. "Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Malawi." I never thought the story that appeared in the Malawi Voi...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 12:19hrs | 315 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Man kills wife with pick
A man from Bulilima, Honest Nkomo (34), has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife, Milikani Moyo (27), after suspecting her of trying to poison him. The incident occurred on July 16 in the Kham...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:07hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Minor beats 4-year-old brother to death
A 13-year-old boy from Chief Chivi's area in Masvingo faces murder charges after assaulting his 4-year-old brother to death.According to the State, on May 5, 2024, the informant left the 4-yea...Published: 23 May 2024 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby with hot porridge
A cheeky Shamva woman who scalded her husband with hot porridge was dragged to Bindura magistrates courts yesterday.Monica Mlauzi (32) pleaded guilty to the charge before Magistrate Tatenda Ma...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 12:39hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Outrage over Mopani worm porridge, blood samples
SOME parents and guardians in Gwanda's Mawane district, Matebeleland South province, have expressed fear after a group of people collected blood samples from learners as part of the national school fe...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man scalds wife with hot porridge
HARARE magistrate Tamara Chibindi has granted a protection order to a woman after her husband poured hot porridge on her during an altercation.Rejoice Ngwena told Chibindi on Monday that she w...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Eat to live, not live to eat
None communicable diseases are on the rise and claiming more lives than wars. The terrible and horrible 'siamese' twins, diabetes and hypertension are the ring leaders of these phantom hit squads. How...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 22:35hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Esau Mupfumi claims to have lost to sellouts
MUTARE Central Zanu-PF losing candidate Esau Mupfumi has broken his silence over his defeat to Citizens Coalition for Change's Brian James in last week's parliamentary elections, saying he lost to sel...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:57hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Africans must stop eating Sadza; Here is why
Sadza is a staple food across much of Africa, particularly in Southern and East African countries. Made from ground cornmeal or cassava flour and boiled to a thick porridge consistency, sadza is a fil...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 17:50hrs | 197 | by Erick Matotoba
Police hunt girlfriend killer
POLICE in Plumtree have launched manhunt for a 21-year-old man from Tshitshi Village in Mangwe District of Matabeleland South who allegedly killed his 21-year-old girlfriend.Mqondisi Ndaa Ncub...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 18:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans resort to comedy to cope with failing economy
Zimbabweans are resorting to comic relief in the face of a failing economy, as the local currency loses value by the day. After all, laughter is the best medicine.This week, government workers...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The tragedy of Zimbabwe
Main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere last week spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy - a major United Nations conference that shines a sp...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Fadzayi Mahere
Mnangagwa is much worse than Mugabe, Mahere tells UN summit
"Half the population lives under extreme poverty, US$2.2 billion is lost to corruption annually and we have the highest hyperinflation rate in the world – all because those in power would rather loo...Published: 18 May 2023 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man poisons his three children, kills self
A 37-year-old Lower Gweru man gave his three minor children some porridge laced with poison before he went into the bush and committed suicide following a misunderstanding with his wife.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 21:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nurses barred from leaving Zimbabwe
With a salary worth the equivalent of less than $100 a month, Agnes Masarira can't afford to buy lunch at the hospital in Zimbabwe where she works as a nurse. She dreams of a nursing job in Canada, bu...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
National Foods hires Sikandar Raza as brand ambassador
National Foods has engaged Chevron's star, Sikandar Raza as the brand ambassador for their new range of cereal products.The Pearlenta Nutri-Active range comprises a wide array of breakfast cer...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Senior CIO directors given US$350 000 cash windfall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's financially struggling administration has given senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors US$350 000 housing loans each in a desperate bid to appease crit...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, please also explain why ZANU PF imposed sanctions on my one-year-old son!
I cannot stand it when the powerful and wealthy whine over clearly banal ‘injustices' inflicted upon their high and mighty little angels - yet, these same people have, themselves, perpetrated the mo...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 16:22hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
School head nabbed for stealing porridge
The headmistress for Nkanyiso Primary School in Tsholotsho was reportedly ...Published: 24 Dec 2022 at 01:35hrs | 4 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Chamisa chides CCC MPs for getting US$40 000 loans
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says the US$40 000 loans given to legislators were in fact bribes to stop the MPs from speaking out against ongoing looting.He says a...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baobab tree faces extinction?
THE Baobab tree faces extinction in a few years as elephants are eating its bark a lot at Manapools National Park in mid-Zambezi region, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZIMPARKS)...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mkoba Teachers' College starts producing liquid fertilisers
Mkoba Teachers' College (MTC) in Gweru, Midlands Province has started producing vegetable and fruit pickles, herbs and liquid fertilisers in line with Education 5.0 philosophy.The liquid ferti...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Khumbula reaches for aerospace dreams in the US
Born in a maize field in Zimbabwe, Samuel Khumbula never dreamed he would come to the United States. The son of the seventh wife of a polygamous patriarch, he grew up poor, sleeping on the ground in a...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:07hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni cautions Mnangagwa's wife
EXILED former Ntabazinduna chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Felix Ndiweni has advised First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa to respect local cultural norms and values during her planned visit to Ntabazinduna for a men's...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Man thrashes wife to death
A man from Tsholotsho has been arrested after he thrashed his wife with a Mopani stick, kicked her and stomped her throat resulting in her dying after he busted her sleeping on her alleged lover's bed...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NGO links up rural entrepreneurs, markets
A LOCAL non-governmental organisation, Hand in Hand Zimbabwe, is using the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) to link emerging rural entrepreneurs with local and external markets in a bid to bui...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pupils to receive amacimbi fortified porridge
GOVERNMENT is set to introduce a school feeding programme for pupils aged between seven and 11 years who will receive mopane worms fortified porridge in a bid to address the pupils' nutritional challe...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Guka kills Centenary man
Centenary based drug addict Richard David (44) died on Thursday last week after consuming too much drugs without eating.He died on his ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 20:33hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man kills 3-year-old for wetting her pants
A MAN from Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North province, has been arrested a year later after he allegedly whipped his three-year-old daughter to death for wetting herself, before digging a grave inside ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi processing plant set up in Beitbridge District
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with development partners has set up the country's first state-of-the-art mopani worm processing plant in Matshiloni area in Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South. The amac...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grey hair comes with wisdom
Mature age comes with wisdom, nephews and nieces but sometimes it comes alone. My progeny extension so far is to the power of six, two boys and four girls, grandpa's pride. The eldest a boy, second ye...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 19:17hrs | 1 | by Tondo. Chinehasha.
Triplets for sale! . . . father attempts to give away daughter
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has offered to support one-year-old triplets from Marange abandoned by their South Africa-based father. Minister Mut...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dies after consuming too much alcohol
A 35-YEAR-OLD Concession man died last week Thursday after taking too much alcohol without taking in food.Richard Ranjisi Muriswa (39) ...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 22:53hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
New flour plant for Bulawayo
DIVERSIFIED agro-industrial concern, National Foods is set to install a new state-of-the art US$5 million flour milling plant at the firm's factory in Bulawayo. The new plant, whose installati...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bring back the reed basket
Some of our African identity paraphernalia, artifacts, customs and traditions continue to vanish right under our noses. Time gnawing at them slowly as we all pretend not to notice, do not forget its s...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:10hrs | 10 | by Tondo Murisa
Mr President open Ekusileni Hospital - People are Dying
In June 2018, ahead of the July 2018 general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the government had engaged the Indian Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI) to operate the health facil...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 19:14hrs | 3 | by Dr Edwin Moyo
Chamisa's spin-nurse relives prison nightmare
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere was arrested recently and charged for allegedly communicating falsehoods in a matter involving a baby who was initially reported dead following a baton stick st...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 3 | by Prosperity Mzila
Nestlé commissions US$2,5m plant
FOOD and beverages processor, Nestlé Zimbabwe yesterday commissioned a US$2,5 million cereals manufacturing line in Harare, taking its total investment to over US$40 million in the past decade....Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa use the same script on elections
"Stop counting the votes" screamed the outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump on realising that he was fast losing to the now US president-elect Joe Biden. He quickly jumped...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 12:45hrs | 2 | by Prosperity Mzila
Gringo appeals for help after suffering relapse
Veteran comedian Lazarus Boora, known by his legion of fans as Gringo, has fallen sick again after failing to raise money for medication.Gringo, who turned 47 last month, is battling tesnel or...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 12:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reportetr
'Zimbabwe army not trained to feed porridge'
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army are not trained to feed porridge to the masses, but to ruthlessly crush any public protests whether peaceful or not, deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda ha...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:21hrs | 15 | by Staff writer
The Wayward Child
After an uneasy pregnancy and long hours of labour pains, there was a great celebration when baby Lerato was finally born. Lerato was born into a broken family of school dropouts. Her elder siblings n...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 12:05hrs | 4 | by Salom Shilongo
Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi
TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Securit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 17 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
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