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KwaNtuthu Comedy takes shape
The KwaNtuthu Comedy Festival will take place from October 24 to 26 at the Bulawayo Theatre, featuring a theme of "Engage, Educate, Entertain." The festival's schedule includes a theatre performance o...Published: 21 Aug 2024 at 10:17hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Tackling Zimbabwe's property price surge
The Zimbabwean property market is facing significant challenges, marked by skyrocketing property prices that seem incongruous when compared to those in neighbouring South Africa.These challeng...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 10:13hrs | 80 | by Dr Bekithemba Mpofu
Ablism must fall!
My blood boils when I think about how some people normalise the treatment of persons with disabilities as second class citizens in Zimbabwe even against the existence of government policy and pronounc...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 10:02hrs | 12 | by Abraham Mateta (Mukoma A)
Chiwenga and wife celebrate first anniversary of their marriage
Zimbabwean Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and his wife Colonel Miniyathabo Baloyi, popularly known in publuc just as Minnie, are today celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage after hi...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 16:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Charumbira sex attack saga deepens
The sexual assault case against Chiefs Council president Chief Fortune Charumbira has taken a new twist with claims that a deep-seated family feud and a protracted chieftainship wrangle could be...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Can Afrikaners save South Africa?
I AM not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation because I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
'Dead' man and wife arrested for murder, car theft in South Africa
South African media have reported a hair-raising incident where a married couple was arrested and charged with murder after the husband who reportedly died in a house fire last year, was caught drivin...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 11:01hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chamisa says politicians behind police brutality
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said securocrats in the country were being used by politicians to clamp down on civilians ahead of polls expected later t...Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mohammed Bushera's physical training is no exercise in futility but the future
The Mohammed Bushera story is a story of perseverance, possibilities and posterity. A story of heroism, help, honesty, health and happiness. Perhaps for someone who has never ever delved into some kin...Published: 30 Dec 2022 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Tribute to arts legend Cont Mhlanga
On my on behalf and that of my organisation, Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme (RLRDP), I convey my sincere condolences to Mrs Mhlanga, family and the arts fraternity in Zimbabwe on ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Dr Obadiah Thembani Moyo
New details of 'Passion Java accident' emerge
FIFTY-seven-year-old Tangai Tandi gazes into the sky with tear-filled eyes as if to ask the heavens why."Nature has it that children bury their parents. It's painful and difficult for a parent...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
9 000 farmer field schools on cards
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would set up 9 000 field schools for farmers to improve the country's agricultural extension services.Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Lands and Agri...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nicola Faith Dyakonda winners the 2022 Girls in ICT hackathon held at the University of Zimbabwe
As part of the nation’s commitment to the success of the girl child in the information and communication Technology (ICT) sector. On 28 April 2022, ZICT and ZIE joins girls around the world to mark ...Published: 08 May 2022 at 15:26hrs | 18 | by Agencies
NRZ, Dubai firm sign deal to set up dry ports
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) yesterday signed a deal with Dubai-based DP World to set up dry ports in the country, with three potential sites having been identified.In a statement, NRZ ...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora recalls 'crippling' Mutare
Former Mutare mayor Blessing Tandi says recalls of councillors has crippled operations at the local authority.Tandi was recalled recently by MDC-Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora and one of his...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in messy love triangle
Zanu-PF Makoni district coordination Committee (DCC) chairperson Albert Nyakuedzwa's mistress, who is accused of threatening to kill her illicit lover for ending their relationship, says she is deeply...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:45hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Ana leaves a trail of destruction
An estimated 300 households in Mutasa and Nyanga districts in Manicaland province are in need of assistance after their homes were damaged by Cyclone Ana last week.Many parts of the country ex...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Counterfeit whiskies floods Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's official distributor of Jameson Irish Whiskey is being forced to introduce extra security features on packaging of its products due to proliferation of "Counterfeit whiskies" in the country...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Malema to build RDP houses in Sandton
THE upmarket area of Sandton will see the construction of RDP houses near the affluent northern area if the EFF takes over the City of Joburg after the November 1 national local government elections....Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 20:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives private doctors farms
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is offering land to medical practitioners in private practice drawn from across the country's 10 provinces.Close to 372 medical practitioners under the Medical and...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
School, parents clash over fees
Parents and management at Maranatha Junior School in Harare are at loggerheads after the institution demanded payment of fees for a "non-existent second term".Government deferred the re-openin...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma's jail case was a golden opportunity: a catalyst to real issues
Criminals have taken a golden opportunity to hide behind another criminal who disdained the nation's constitution he once presided. Chinua Achebe writes about corruption in Nigeria's early independenc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 18:40hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mbeki criticises ANC and Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership
Political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki has criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa's leadership and the ANC's governance of the country.In an interview, Mbeki said with the government's deployment of t...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs risk losing properties worth US$4m
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is investigating a plethora of cases involving executives at several urban local authorities, who are accused of corruptly acquiring properties worth as ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can South Africa come to Zimbabwe's rescue by ending 'quiet diplomacy'?
Zimbabwe's worsening economic and political crises seem to be never-ending and still getting worse. The misplaced expectations that the "new dispensation" would provide an escape route following the 2...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | | by Ian Scoones
Prominent doctor's house gutted by fire
A suspicious fire on Friday destroyed prominent Harare physician Johannes Marisa's house in Ruwa's Riverside suburb in a suspected act of robbery.Marisa, who is also the president of the Medic...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Killer truck' owner identified
ONE of the trucks that was involved in a pile-up accident in Zambia in August last year resulting in more than six people being burnt beyond recognition belongs to Ephias Munodawafa, the current chief...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police holding cells 'super-spreaders'
POLICE holding cells in Zimbabwe could be Covid-19 super-spreaders owing to the conditions at most of the country's police cells.Standardpeople yesterday witnessed Covid-19 violators, most of ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala 'berates' Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved to be one of the worst authoritarian leaders to ever lead Zimbabwe, an accusation that comes as the nation ne...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fair or Unfair 2023 Election - Opposition is going to Win - Teedzai
Maxwell Teedzai, the leader of Zimbabwe's newest opposition part Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) has advised the opposition camp in Zimbabwe to stop wasting precious time on...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 18:11hrs | | by Agencies
'I'm intentional about provoking empathy' Sue Nyathi
Congratulations on your latest novel! Can you tell us a little about A Family Affair?A Family Affair peers behind the facade of what appears to be a picture-perfect middle class family. The Ma...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Staff writer
SA-based Zimbabweans edgy over planned anti-foreigner demo
ZIMBABWEAN migrant workers based in South Africa yesterday expressed fears after South Africans circulated videos of a planned demonstration to force their government to kick out foreigners whom they ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass demonstration for deportation of foreigners in South Africa set for 16 October
A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Changing face of the 'Zimbabwean' funeral
Funerals are an inevitable sad part of our exit from mother earth.This exit to another world yonder, confirms human being's mortality.This is despite their status, power, influence and...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gays and Lesbians targets Zimbabwe universities, colleges
THE Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) has started a process of engaging universities and other higher learning institutions as part of a broader strategy to strengthen academic freedom of members o...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Chief Ndiweni pushes for Dabengwa honour
OUTSPOKEN Matabeleland North traditional leader Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni has said local traditional leaders are working on rewarding the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa's clan with a chieftainship....Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Global Climate Fund a major breakthrough For Green Projects In Zimbabwe
Long-term changes in the earth's climate system have been significant and are occurring more rapidly than in the past. Continued emissions into the earth's atmosphere are projected to cause further wa...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:49hrs | | by Enos Denhere
ZimTrade - PUM Nerthelands host the Zimbabwe Tanneries Workshop in Bulawayo
ZimTrade and PUM will hold the Zimbabwe tanneries workshop in Bulawayo from 20-21 May 2019. According to Ms Karen Mukwedeya from ZimTrade. "The workshop is aimed at bringing together local tan...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Global Climate Fund a major breakthrough For Green Projects In Zimbabwe
Long-term changes in the earth's climate system have been significant and are occurring more rapidly than in the past. Continued emissions into the earth's atmosphere are projected to cause further wa...Published: 17 May 2019 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Warriors make preparations for 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
As the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) loom large, Zimba...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 16:33hrs | 8 | by Staff Writer
You need a barrier breaking mindset
You need a barrier breaker mindset. Sometimes situations can be so stubborn to the extend of accepting them as part of life. You are born to succeed. If others are making it in life . It's a sign whic...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 13:41hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Joshua Malinga fundraises for Disability Expo
Presidential Advisor on Disability Dr Joshua Malinga has held a meeting with members of the business community to encourage them to partner in the 2019 Edition of the Disability Expo. In a sta...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa disowns Twitter comments
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is distancing himself from a call made on his Twitter account that there should be a national dialogue to deal with the developing economic and political crisis in Zimbabw...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 11:14hrs | | by ZimLive
MDCs welcome Mnangagwa's call for dialogue
THE MDC and its breakaway party say they were ready to embrace President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Tuesday call for national dialogue but quickly warned the Zanu-PF leader must be sincere about his overtur...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:58hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa, Chamisa warm up for talks
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for dialogue involving the country's main political actors, church and leaders of civic groups to find a lasting solution to the country's deteriorati...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa demands release of 'looters'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, responding to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call for national dialogue, says the Zanu-PF leader is insincere.Here is what he had to say:We continue to mourn...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 16:21hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Chamisa demands end to crackdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised on Tuesday to investigate a brutal crackdown by security forces on anti-government protesters, as two of his supporters spoke of a possible plot to remove him fro...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 16:17hrs | | by Reuters
'Release political prisoners before dialogue' Chamisa says
We continue to mourn our lost relatives and empathise with the wounded and displaced fellow citizens. Our solution to the crisis requires sincerity, honesty and compassion for those we lead. It is not...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Nelson Chamisa
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