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Wicknell is bumping with the big boys
HE dropped out of school just before he turned 15 and went straight into employment as a wages clerk for a bus company, when, around 1997, he could barely read or write— let alone manage company rec...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 19:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Chamisa, Tshabangu fight for Bulawayo offices
NELSON Chamisa's loyalists are engaged in a bitter fight with a Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) rival camp and the MDC over control of Bulawayo party offices.The offices, which once belonge...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charamba accuses Ngadziore of faking abduction and forging Zanu-PF signatures
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba has accused Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator, Takudzwa Ngadziore, of faking his own abduction and forging a Zanu-PF signature.Ngadziore,...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo
'CCC will win the 2023 elections' Need a reality check here, especially after 42 years of rigged elections
"Our motive is clear, we want to win the 2023 Presidential Election. Let it be known that Chigumba cannot stop the wave of change, said CCC Task Force Com...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 21:27hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
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
Who is behind forex dealers?
NO matter how well-meaning and determined, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions are ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Nathan Gurira
Sanctions are real, but we're shooting ourselves in the foot
No matter how well-meaning and determined the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) could be towards uprooting rampant delinquency in the economy, the effort may count for nothing if other institutions that ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Nathan Gurira
President Mnangagwa did not reward POLAD but empowered the spirit of development
POLAD has been the power to peace in Zimbabwe after the 2018 elections. By giving them cars to enhance their work MNANGAGWA did not seek to bribe but to empower those who love their country at any cos...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 16:50hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ziyambi should stop huffing and puffing
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi must understand that the term democracy means: government of the people, for the people and by the people.As such that definition has been rendered irrelevant ...Published: 18 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by CHAWAZ44
Soul Jah Love debacle exposes rot
A popular dancehall artiste, Soul Musaka, known to many as Soul Jah Love, passed on just under two weeks ago.What happened subsequently sparked the now fickle and feeble debate on the conferme...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
What you need to get if you want to safely try recreational marijuana
Using recreational marijuana these days is a liberating and enjoyable experience. As more and more states are changing their stance on the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, peopl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 19:17hrs | 15 | by Staff writer
Justice Matanda-Moyo: The new sheriff in town
FOR a long time people have been accusing Zanu-PF and President Mnangagwa in particular of not doing enough to deal with corruption. These critics accused the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commissi...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:20hrs | | by Khumbula Vodloza Sibanda
Poll results dash young people's hopes
IT is just after 6pm in the city centre and human traffic is at its peak as pedestrians race to conclude a gruesome day of socio-economic activities.Zimbabwean youths, many of whom threw their...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies fall
Some of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's key allies fell dramatically in Zanu PF primary polls held between April 29 and May 1, setting the stage for what is promising to be nail-biting general election...Published: 03 May 2018 at 14:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mugabe due for a face-to-face meeting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, are laying the ground for talks to thaw frosty relations between them, the Daily News reported.The first face-to-face meeting b...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Calling the future by its name - the most accurate political forecasts
As the political dog-fights in Zimbabwe took spiralling turns with each twinkle of an eye, Zimbabweans were not spared from a bunch of fake analysts, and sweet-sounding unsubstantiated news. But I lay...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 19:35hrs | | by Munyaradzi Rukanda Mhaka
Another Mugabe legacy of failure, neglect
There is no doubt that President Robert Mugabe's 37 years at the helm of Zimbabwe have been a disaster to the economy.Every sector of the country's economy has been affected directly or indire...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Tapiwa Zivira
Tsvangirai urges povo 'to vote wisely next year' - They did better than that in 2008, you twat!
Tsvangirai is just an example of a failed leader who cannot think and, like a car locked in one gear with a broken stirring shaft and no breaks, he can only go in one direction regardless how stupid a...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 19:58hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Sex on roof lands teens in trouble
THE higher you go, the nicer it becomes?Two adventurous teenagers from Gweru's Ivene suburb became spontaneous in their sex sojourn on the rooftop of a neighbour's house.It took noise ...Published: 05 May 2017 at 12:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bishop Lazarus, Manheru, Sharp Shooter afraid of change
The Sunday Mail never fails to surprise and annoy me about its viciousness and malice against anyone who opposes the failed Robert Mugabe and his corrupt system. Now that we are getting close to t...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 11:04hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Tsvangirai has his forlorn hope of Zanu PF rigging the vote and losing election
Tsvangirai and his MDC friends are hopeless simplistic and naïve as Chief Chirau who thought that he, Chief Chirau and a band of black MPs whose very political existence was by the grace of Ian Smith...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 01:33hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
The story of the Gamatox cabal
Forget about the bad guys for a while.I mean forget about Harry Thomas Jnr and his last ditch effort to curry favour with Donald J Trump by condemning the arrest of the church-less pastor call...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 22:35hrs | | by Vukani Madoda
Rapist claims he was castrated
A JOTSHOLO man, who was facing charges of raping a seven-year-old girl, claimed he was castrated and, therefore, unable to commit the offence.But the magistrate convicted and slapped him w...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'lost generation' turns to drugs, sex
PAIDA (not her real name) says she has sex more than once a day with different men. But she does not enjoy it, as she is only doing it to put food on the table.Paida is a sex worker at Gaz...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
DJ Sbu rips the stage at Pabloz VIP
South African deejay‚ philanthropist‚ television and radio personality Sibusiso Leope was at the weekend on fire when he made a guest appearance at the upmarket Pabloz VIP Lounge in Harare. ...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Remove the log in your eye
This writer once attended a workshop that was designed to encourage a health reform in the eating habits so as to reduce cancer, which was said to be the number one killer disease the world over....Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Happy birthday, Comrade Mugabe
You turn 92 today; amid unprecedented turmoil in the country, especially in the party you lead. Your birthday comes on the back of the cruel irony of both party and country firmly stuck in a post-Muga...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:31hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Zanu PF is imploding and Mugabe is desperate to stop it with a peace offer and a coup de grace!
If anyone thought kicking out of Mai Mujuru and her supporters on the new and spurious charge of "factionalism" in 2014 would end the infighting in the party events on the ground have proved them wron...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Snoozing to lose again - the ANC and Zapu!
As the curtain comes down on Mugabe, the region's perennial losers - the ANC and Zapu - are set to be confirmed losers - again!The same forces that effected 'regime change' in Rhodesia (after ...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 16:00hrs | | by Niles Mtshede
Press statement on Tsvangirai rigging
06 October 2014Bulawayo1. I would like to acknowledge the presence of the national leadership of Renewal Hon Dr Sipepa Nkomo, Hon Dr Gorden Moyo, Hon Reggie Moyo, Hon R Nkomo, Hon Beki...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 08:50hrs | | by Albert Mhlanga, MP
Press Statement on Tsvangirai Rigging!
1. I would like to acknowledge the presence of the national leadership of Renewal Hon Dr Sipepa Nkomo, Hon Dr Gorden Moyo, Hon Reggie Moyo, Hon R Nkomo, Hon Bekithemba Nyathi, and Madam Sakhile ...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 19:38hrs | | by Albert Mhlanga, MP
'Tsvangirai massive support base, a myth,' says Nkomo
The belief that Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC has more numbers than any other opposition political party is a myth says national chairperson of the MDC Renewal Samuel Sipepa Nkomo amid more defections of MD...Published: 06 Oct 2014 at 20:29hrs | | by Makhosi Sibanda
This and that with Mal'phosa - Not necessarily a prophet
Picture this: a visibly pregnant woman, almost term, sits on a cansi in front of a very hysterical man who is obviously in some 'trance' – saying a lot of indecipherable speech. He is so emotion...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 13:15hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
Prisoner escapes after being caught having sex with calf
AN inmate at WhaWha Prison was so embarrassed after he was caught being intimate with a calf in a cattle pen at the prison farm that he escaped from the correctional facility. In shame, th...Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 20:07hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Man beats 1-yr-old son to death for soiling himself
IN a heartrending incident that demonstrates cruelty, a one-year-old epileptic toddler who had a running stomach was beaten to death by his father with a whip for puffing, soiling himself and wetting ...Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bev video goes viral
Raunchy dancer Beverley "Bev" Sibanda’s new video in which she re-lives her arrest, has gone viral on t...Published: 01 Nov 2012 at 05:40hrs | | by Entertainment reporter
Inside a polygamous marriage
In the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve, a man who swallows a mango seed, surely trusts that he has a big opening, for, the undigested seed would want to come out one day. What w...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 08:10hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe
Girl torches house with cigarette stub, stabs self to death
Tragedy has struck a Gweru family after a 15-year-old Gweru girl who reportedly wanted to smoke mbanje accidentally torched the family house before committing suicide by stabbing herself with a kitche...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese men popular with Zim women
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Amid pomp and fan fare in one of the popular joints in the city center, a group of ladies' eyes are fixed on a drove of Chinese men conversing at table. As the Chi...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 11:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Married man caught red-handed with neighbour's wife
A LUSTFUL and adulterous Harare landlord was recently banished from his homestead after he held his neighbour's wife captive for four days in his house for a series of sex romps.The incident ...Published: 12 Jan 2012 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
She cheats because she passes gas and producing noise, court told
A Nobsec security guard claims that he had long suspected that his wife was cheating on him because she regularly passed out gas (fart) producing noise in the process. Bernard Ngiyani (44) of Epworth ...Published: 17 Nov 2011 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Irritating smokers' habits
What are the things that some (happily not all) smokers do that would make normally timid non-smokers reinstate certain medieval methods of dealing with offenders?...Published: 11 Nov 2011 at 05:28hrs | | by Susan Erasmus
MDC-T should 'be scared, very scared' of Sata's victory in Zambia
A VERY good friend of mine in the MDC-T national executive called me last Friday morning, sounding a bit worried."Munya, Zanu-PF has won in Zambia." I asked him what he meant, and he responde...Published: 27 Sep 2011 at 06:10hrs | | by Munyaradzi Huni
Mugabe is expired political and historical merchandise
THE mentally "young" and politically "restless" Psychology Maziwisa has taken to political blogging with the gusto of an infant bird at first flight - unequal to the demands of the heights, rudderle...Published: 26 Aug 2011 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
This and that with Maluphosa:- Home sweet home!
I was at home affairs Marabastad on the early January. I made some disturbing observations from naughty to serious hatred. Two guys who looked like friends fought almost to the death- for nothing r...Published: 28 Jan 2011 at 13:19hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
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