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Munhumutapa vows to eradicate chieftainship disputes
King Munhumutapa born Timothy Chiminya of the Rozvi clan has vowed to end chieftainship wrangles in Zimbabwe which he attributed to decades of corruption in the selection of chiefs.Chiminya, w...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs edgy over gay rights
SOME parliamentarians believe Zimbabwe must not grant members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community freedom to openly exercise their sexual rights.T...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Why I hate politics
So yes. I hate Zimbabwean politics. Obviously. I hate how every five years we get into this circus about giving people already with immeasurable riches and privilege the opportunity to get even more r...Published: 21 May 2023 at 09:34hrs | | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Mr. President, its you making Zimbabwe 'subaltern' to world powers!
It was most strange, if not entirely queer and incomprehensible, reading President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa latest diatribe against Western countries' insistence on observing our elections. ...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 11:08hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Uganda ban gays
Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence....Published: 22 Mar 2023 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutare family 'disowns' gay son
GALZ has slammed Zimbabwe's laws for fuelling hate against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQl+) community following the recent publicity of a Mutare based family "diso...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
When it gets cold outside Zanu-PF
Last week various social media platforms and some online publications were awash with the news of a meeting in South Africa between former Zanu-PF members namely G40 kingpin, Saviour Kasukuwere, expel...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Why Zanu-PF is under siege
If Africans knew even half their history, they would understand the reason why they continue to stew in poverty, misery and disillusion while other parts of the world are swimming in prosperity, happi...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 08:59hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe's Cape Town consulate besieged as protesters demand gay rights
AN official at the Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town, who would not give his name, refused to sign a memorandum calling for gay rights that was delivered by about 20 people.They had marched from...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt one of the worst in the world'
THE United States has adjudged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as one of the worst administrations in terms of human rights violations in the world.This came out in a report titled 4...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 'advisory'
DO not put your suffering or sickness to waste. Your greatest template on just how to conduct yourself both in health and in hardship and adversity is none other than Jesus Christ.Is not our g...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Zii Masiye
Chamisa and Trumpism - Sanctions, Sex and Infiltration
That the MDC-Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is an ailing force is no longer a subject for debate.The party suffers mostly from self-inflicted wounds - ones that its opponents are grac...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:00hrs | | by Grace Kwinje
Sanctions were fashioned to kill Zimbabwe - Academic
THE sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe, are no longer about inculcating good governance and freedoms but a tactless, miscalculated economic warfare, fashioned to ‘kill' Zimbabwe.Curio...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by David Matsanga in London United Kingdom
Chamisa demo: a bad govt and bad news
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa wrested power from Robert Mugabe with the help of soldiers in late 2017, he promised his government would give us the economy, economy, economy, and less of badass po...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bulawayo: The absent citizen
He must have been a pro. We never had a glimpse of the camera-man. He stood afixed to the door and focused on the desk and the town clerk's quivering face and frothing mouth. Even watching, many faint...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:24hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Of heroes betrayed, forgotten
When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the pow...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Stay away: A manifestation of the MDC's violence DNA
The MDC Alliance and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s so called protest stay away ostensibly meant to register disquiet over the ongoing economic challenges paradoxically turned out to b...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 13:26hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
$130m CSC deal backfires
THE decision by government to go it alone in negotiating a US$130 million Cold Storage Company (CSC) deal with a foreign firm without involving the meat processor's board in scrutinising the package h...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) remains a controversial figure in colonialism and imperialism studies. Paul Maylam's 2005 publication is useful in confronting debates on his role in the colonization of ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
'No to continued plunder of our resources' - Marange: The Imprisoned Community
The discovery of diamonds in Marange in 2006 located in the Eastern part of Zimbabwe did not translate into the much anticipated benefits to the local inhabitants. The yearning for positive developmen...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Dembare will never die
Dynamos 2-1 Caps United A TACTICAL half-time substitution proved the masterstroke as Dynamos took a huge leap in their fight against relegation with a polished second-half show helping them clinch...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty prophets abuse God's name
The abuse of God's name and the bible by dirty politicians and fake pastors as available tools to brainwash, mislead, deceive and conquer is an out dated tactic. White colonisers came to Africa holdin...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:00hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa yet to formally invite EU for Zimbabwe poll
Daily News staff writer Farayi Machamire sits down for a wide-ranging interview with European Union head of Delegation Philippe Van Damme. Find below, excerpts of the interview.Q: We have hear...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peter Dube's suspension lifted
EMOTIONS ran high at Zifa's Annual General Meeting in Harare yesterday with the 58-member assembly differing on a plethora of issues.Members of local football's highest decision making body - ...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa ropes in Fifa
EMOTIONS ran high at Zifa's Annual General Meeting in the capital yesterday with the 58-member assembly differing on a plethora of issues.Members of local football's highest decision making body -...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
FUZ warns players
Footballers Union of Zimbabwe president Desmond Maringwa has warned Premier Soccer League clubs to follow the dictates of corporate governance and resolve contractual issues with players to avoid some...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'This is who we are' - Mujuru PRC
People's Rainbow Coalition, a Coalition of Opposition Political Parties led by Dr JTR Mujuru, also President of NPP notes with keen interest the the grand public relations exercise being done by the m...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 19:52hrs | 1 | by Advocate Gift Nyandoro
Pupils caught in cemetery sex
WHEN it comes to sex, sometimes real life mimics fiction.These words were played out by a seemingly disturbing incident of two shameless pupils from two different high schools in Bulawayo (nam...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays pin their hopes on Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is one of several African countries that do not acknowledge the rights of queer bodies. But members of Zimbabwe's queer community are hopeful that the country's new president Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora breaks the record of Zim's short-lived govt ministers
If there was someone queer enough to apply to Guinness Book of World Records to have the title "shortest lived government ministers" added to their database, the category will certainly not be short o...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Are LGBT+ Folks Even Considered Humans in Zimbabwe?
It is no secret that our nation is very intolerant towards the LGBT+ community. Various reasons are put forward to justify the blatant and, seemingly, unrelenting hatred that queer folks continue to b...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Mx Joyline Maenzanise
A Zimbabwean coup that swept away its cook
Marujata - the sharp-tongued "fierce lady" and the wicked witch whose infamy, poor grooming, insatiable hunger for power and whose unbridled ambition and uncouth etiquette brought her crushing down in...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:55hrs | | by Mathabelazitha/The Anvil
Obituary: Jamusi MacKenzie (1973 - 2017) - A Brave Hunter and Conservationist
Most people know the late Jamusi MacKenzie only as a Professional Hunter and Guide, but he was a lot of other things to many people.I first met Jamusi MacKenzie in the 1990s when we were both ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 12:22hrs | 5 | by Laiton Kandawire, a Patsaka Correspondent
It is not a bedroom affair, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, the situation on the ground has forced me to make changes to my Cabinet as a matter of urgency. I could not wait to make these changes when I assume...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by CZ
Chihuri blasts 'crooked' MPs
ZIMBABWE Republic Police Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri said some Members of Parliament are of "crooked and small minds" for alleging that people who won prizes during the recent Commission...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 02:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sparked Harare chaos, says ZimRights
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has fingered Zanu-PF activists in Harare as being behind the commotion that engulfed the central business district this morning.The human rights m...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 15:52hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Ian Khama deserves the Nobel prize
Botswana's President Ian Khama deserves the Nobel prize for doing the unthinkable: telling an African leader to step down because he has passed his sell-by dateThe Herald's reaction is tha...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 21:53hrs | | by ZimVigil
Botswana has witnessed unprecedented killings and purges of Khama's opponents
There are two things that loom large when people discuss Botswana's president Ian Khama in Zimbabwe: his maverick (if queer is not the word) nature and a particular knack for taking potshots at Presid...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 17:23hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Badza-Nhari rebellion: An insider's story
EACH time Noah Mbira whose Chimurenga name was Chemist Ncube sat down to continue his shocking narration during the liberation struggle, he would first demand to be given time to pay respects to the c...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A speech by Dabengwa to ZPRA Veterans
04 June 2016, Jotsholo, Matebeleland North, ZimbabweGreetings and slogan(s)Salutation - All protocol observedComrades and FriendsIt is a rare opportunity that we have a public meeting ...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 14:59hrs | 4 | by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
Chief banishes Johanne Masowe members
A CHIEF from Gwanda has banned members of the Johanne Masowe Apostolic Church from his area after accusing them of conducting rituals that were not allowed in the area during a burial of a village hea...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Lynnia Ndlovu
Zimbabweans to die due to lack of doctors
Patients are losing their lives in the once glamourous central hospitals across Zimbabwe due to an overwhelming shortage of junior doctors in the health institutions since the 1st of March 2016. Peopl...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 22:09hrs | | by staff Reporter
Supper that smells too doggy
Zimbabwe: Assassins without gunsOctober 31, 2015 Shingirai Huni Features, Opinion & Analysis, Headlines, Nathaniel ManheruJoram NyathiNathaniel ManheruI will part w...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Jonathan Moyo scoffs at plans to introduce O' level industrial attachment
HIGHER and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has scoffed at government plans to introduce a mandatory five-month industrial attachment programme for Ordinary Level students, describing the...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman shocked to death after learning of hubby's demise
A WOMAN died two days after learning of her husband's demise, it is believed from shock. Christine Dube, 57, of Esigodini, died on Sunday evening while she was still mourning her war veteran ...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Oswell Moyo
'Grace Mugabe derails gender movement'
The remarkable gains that have been made in elevating women to positions of authority have been obliterated by the "cat fight" pitting the First Lady Grace Mugabe against the Vice-President Joice Muj...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I'm stronger, prouder and more gay than before'
A SIZINDA gay man, who has attracted ridicule from many people in the suburb after reportedly going around cross-dressed and courting unsuspecting men with the promise of large sums of money for a "on...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dead woman turns into a man
Mhondoro villagers were left dumbfounded when the corpse of a woman who died last week mysteriously developed a man's private part.The corpse of Modester Gida (30), who was from Nyamweda area...Published: 08 Mar 2013 at 08:19hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Teacher 'turns into a goat'
Pupils at a Bulawayo college ran out of class during a lesson after a teacher started making goat sounds while teaching.The teacher is employed at a college (name withheld) in Bulawayo city ...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Father of six, married for 25 years discovers he was a woman
A US man married for 25 years who had six kids went to the hospital fives ago with a kidney stone and left with a piece of life-changing news - he was a woman.Now, Stevie Crecelius - formerly ...Published: 08 Jul 2012 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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