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Zimbabwe's Sakhile Dube comes second after Finland in the popular vote
Zimbabwe's stunning beauty queen, Sakhile Dube, has captured the spotlight as she prepares for the grand finale of Miss Universe 2024 today, Saturday, November 16, at the prestigious Arena Ciudad de M...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 15:08hrs | 26927 | by Staff reporter
Great Zimbabwe's hidden tunnels, Mutirikwi sunset view to boost tourism
The iconic Great Zimbabwe's hidden monumental tunnels and majestic lake Mutirikwi sunset view have been identified as part of complementary tourism sites ...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 07:27hrs | 3229 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Masvingo
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 | 247 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Bleak outlook for Zimbabwe's consumers
Inter Horizon (IH) Securities, a prominent financial services firm, has released a sobering report on Zimbabwe's consumer spending patterns for 2024. The analysis paints a bleak picture, attributing t...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zapu slams Zimbabwe's new currency ZiG
The 'mother' party ZAPU says as long as the country lacks legitimacy derived from free and fair elections, people will have no faith in a currency produced in Zimbabwe.On April 5, 2024, the ne...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders sign defender from American club
HIGHLANDERS have made their first signing of the 2024 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season after a United States-based player - Marvin Sibanda - inked a three-year contract.The 25-year-old, w...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 19:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Shock as fraudster creates fake Charity Charamba's Facebook account
In a press release issued today, Mr. Michael Chiwoneso Mukura, the Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has alerted the public to the existence of a fraudulent Fac...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 10:18hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Chamisa has a solid plan.' Muscle into new GNU and thus guarantee yet another wasted opportunity to implement ALL reform
"Chamisa has a solid plan!" read the Bulawayo24 headline!If each one of Chamisa’s "solid plan" was a brick then one would have built by now a pyramid of solid brick ten kilometres square and...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:27hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Hustler nation: among the fragments, a new Zimbabwe takes shape
The world has forgotten about Zimbabwe. Few outsiders know, or would care, that the country is due to hold elections this month. And that's among those who could point to it on a map. For decades, Zim...Published: 03 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 10 | by The Strategist
Chinese national arrested over E-creator Ponzi Scheme
A 39-year-old Chinese national has been arrested for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting members of the public through the E-creator ponzi scheme.E-Creator was a firm that promised investors qui...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 13:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ponzi scheme founder flees with 'investors' US$1m
THE founder of an online Ponzi scheme, E-Creator, has left his clients seething with anger after duping them of large sums of money before vanishing.In a statement issued to clients yesterday,...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'US debt is a pyramid scheme used to defraud other nations'
Senior Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin has branded US federal government debt a global pyramid scheme that is heading for an inevitable collapse. The comments come as Washington struggles to agree...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cement dealers flee country
The two suspected fraudsters who fleeced more than 70 people of US$300 000 in a cement supply scam and splurged their loot on fancy cars are believed to have fled the country, with South Africa the mo...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politics: Lineaments of stock characters
What are stock characters?LET me be basic so I am accessible to many of my readers, whatever level of education, and from whichever discipline they hail.In literature we have what are ...Published: 22 Apr 2023 at 19:00hrs | 10 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Duo reaps US$300,000 in cement bonanza scam
Two suspects are reportedly on the run after fleecing more than 70 people of US$300,000 in a non-existent cement buying scheme.The suspects identifies as Andy Baleni and Tinashe Zimunya, alleg...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 21:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Zimbabweans don't care about your 'critical pronouncements' as long as we're hungry and poor!
Recently, during a performance contract signing ceremony, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa chided his information and communications personnel for failing to properly articulate and disseminate h...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:27hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Lee Ndlovu's goal ensures his non-league side continue FA CUP run
Boreham Wood have form for a giantkilling in this competition and were in the fourth-round draw for the second season running - but goalscorer Lee Ndlovu admitted the National League side were di...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 10:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
RBZ strangles street money changers
They don't know what has suddenly hit them. It is no longer business as usual for most, if not all, illegal street money changers.They used to call the shots in the last few months, de...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dembare striker set for SA trial
BUSTLING striker Tinashe Makanda is set to become the latest Dynamos player to try his luck across the borders after he was invited for assessment by an unnamed South African side.Makanda, who...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another star plots Dembare exit
DYNAMOS's roving right-back Emmanuel Jalai is set to break into the South African topflight league amid reports that he is scheduled to undergo trials with an unnamed club in the coming three weeks....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 08:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos to lose star for a song
DYNAMOS are set to miss out from a possible transfer fee of star player Shadreck Nyahwa, who is undergoing trials in Tanzania after it emerged that his contract with the club has expired.Nyahw...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach's offshore family trust
Records from a massive offshore data leak have provided the most detailed account yet of buccaneering mining and fuel magnate Billy Rautenbach's family empire.It started with a marriage settle...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Daily Maverick
Covid-19 may have exposed the false prophets
It's difficult not to talk about them, I mean the later day gospelpreneurs. Some would call theirs prosperity gospel Prophets since they thrive in flamboyance and opulence, promising their followers a...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Bitcoin pyramid scheme collapses
INNOCENT Matongo, a Zimbabwean expatriate worker based in Boksburg, South Africa is ruing the day he decided to latch on to a get-rich-quick scheme.After investing thousands of United States d...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Zimbabweans lose US$5m in Ponzi scheme
ZIMBABWEANS who invested more than US$5 million in a pyramid scheme in a bid to get rich quickly have been left counting their losses after the owner of the scheme failed to give them back their inves...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Erecting statues more important and should be applauded
Zimbabweans received the unveiling of the great statue of Mbuya Nehanda the first ever recorded Woman army commander after Deborah of the bible. Many were elated and praised His Excellence the p...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MPs demand formalisation of artisanal mining
LEGISLATORS have called for policy reforms that lead to formalisation of artisanal mining and the informal sector to ensure they play a major role in stimulating economic growth and promote a flexible...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gata tells Mnangagwa's govt to trim ministers' powers
ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata yesterday urged government to revise its architecture of public enterprises as well as clip powers vested in Cabinet ministers to enable the country to successfu...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
400 storm Police station over US$80 000 pyramid scam
More than 400 residents of Mvuma and nearby areas thronged the local Police Station this week after they allegedly lost US$80 000 to a pyramid scam (mukando) operated by an organisation called Devine ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mob bays for pyramid scheme founder's blood
MORE than 400 people besieged Mvuma Police Station baying for the blood of a 60-year-old woman who initiated a pyramid scheme that collapsed and prejudiced them of more than US$80 000. Police ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar will maintain a 'fragile stability' this year report
ZIMBABWE's currency will maintain a "fragile stability" this year, continuing from the volatilities that haunted the domestic unit even after the introduction of theforeign currency auction system...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Since when did Father Christmas come in February?
Conmen are at it again, reaping where they did not sow. Some Hararians and a sizeable number from 'Blues' are ruing the day they joined a get rich quick pyramid scheme where the investor was promised ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 18:11hrs | | by Tondo
Mnangagwa signs Africa Factbook
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday signed copies of The Africa Factbook and accompanying letters, which will be distributed to the heads of state and government of the other 54 African Union countries. ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whilst the politicians scramble for power, who cares about suffering Zimbabweans?
If ever there is one major lesson I am so grateful to have learnt very early in my life, it was that, politicians, and participating in active political party politics, have absolutely nothing to do w...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ex-Warriors star explains RS Berkane's success
Former Mamelodi Sundowns striker Cuthbert Malajila, who won the African Champions League with the South African champions in 2016, spent a year in North Africa shared between Tunisia and Libya. After ...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | | by Busisani Sangweni
Ex-Warriors star explains RS Berkane's success
Former Mamelodi Sundowns striker Cuthbert Malajila, who won the African Champions League with the South African champions in 2016, spent a year in North Africa shared between Tunisia and Libya. After ...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 17:27hrs | 21 | by Busisani Sangweni
Let's save Nkayi from irresponsible timber extraction!
One can not silently bear the pain and sadness of the wanton harvesting of the teak and pine trees from Sivomo and Gwampa Forests, in Nkayi District, coupled with the degradation of the enamel-rich so...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:22hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Oh Ntuthuziyathunqa, my heritage, kindly refuse to die!'
It is with utter dismay, sadness and inexplicable shock, to native Bulawayans and Matabelelanders in general, to hear through the grapevine, of the proposed monstrous intentions of the culturally inse...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Toyota launches limited-edition Hilux Sport
Toyota has launched a limited-edition model Hilux boasting the 'GR' logo. The Hilux GR Sport is the second tier in its GR-product...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 21:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poem: The Warriors of Our Time
They entered the lions' den with their arrows,Gallant are their spirits which frighten the Pharaohs,Casting their forlorn underdogs shadows,Imprinted in a mirage from Cape to Cairo,The...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 21:31hrs | 8 | by Wilson Chipangura
Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism
One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
DD: The man, soldier, pacifier
The light of the armed liberation struggle icon has been extinguished. Dr Dumiso Dabengwa, affectionately known as DD, passed on 23 May 2019.There was grief and anguish when news about his dea...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Phathisa Nyathi
Zimbabwe customers hit back at unscrupulous businesses
Prices of some local products appear to have entered a self-correction mode as consumer demand is said to have declined by at least 40 percent. Just last week, listed beverages giant Delta Cor...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugaba denies links with Mugabe sons
The persisting economic hardships bring no joy to the showbiz industry with a number of local arts promoters raising red flags over the situation, which they say has brought misery to the creative sec...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Look into Pay-For-Your-House Scheme Housing Fund
The government initiated Pay-For-Your-House scheme of the 90s was a very noble project that later morphed into a pyramid scheme in which some of the would be beneficiaries where abandoned withou...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimbabwe Warriors face Mohamed Salah in opener
ZIMBABWE'S Warriors will open the 2019 Afcon finals with a showdown against Mohamed Salah and the Pharaohs of Egypt at the Cairo Stadium on June 21 in a repeat of the national team's first match at th...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors face Egypt in opener
ZIMBABWE'S Warriors will open the 2019 Afcon finals with a showdown against Mohamed Salah and the Pharaohs of Egypt at the Cairo Stadium on June 21 in a repeat of the national team's first match at th...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 9 | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
Time is right for alternative money
THE controversy surrounding the introduction of another local currency continues unabated. This time it was the former Finance minister, Tendai Biti, who ignited the current debate when he announced g...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 12 | by Zimwara
Zimbabwe I want
What is the truth? What does it set you free from? The Webster's Dictionary definition below says what the word truth means: "truth: being in accord with fact or reality." Thus, the truth sets you fre...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | | by Enos Denhere
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