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Churches pray for Dabengwa
Churches have come together to pray for ailing Zimbabwe liberation war stalwart Dumiso Dabengwa, wishing him a speedy recovery.The Zapu leader, who has been unwell since November last year, wa...Published: 2 hrs ago | 776 | by Staff reporter
Religious imperialism? Count me out
I WAS pleasantly surprised when people from near and far, from within Zimbabwe and beyond the borders, white and black, Christian and non-Christian came to the defence of the Zimbabwe Bird after the n...Published: 2 hrs ago | 260 | by Conway Tutani
Zifa draw up preps grand masterplan
ZIFA have drawn up a grand masterplan that could see the Warriors taking on three of Africa's football heavyweights and holding a month-long training camp in South Africa, Nigeria and Dubai ahead of t...Published: 2 hrs ago | 118 | by Staff reporter
'No elections for 10 years whilst focus on reconstruction' - what if leaders focus on corruption, what then
"Elections have become a problem that has sunk us into vicious violence, unreformed state institutions, political and economic strife.Let us do away with them for 10 years and focus on reconst...Published: 3 hrs ago | 354 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zesa re-bundling part of parastatals reforms, says Chiwenga
THE re-bundling of Zesa and merger of its five previously separate entities into a single integrated company will cut overhead costs and boost power generation efficiency, Vice President Constantino C...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Kenneth: Zimbabwe not in danger
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has dismissed messages circulating on social media that Cyclone Kenneth will hit Zimbabwe. In a statement, MSD refuted claims that Cyclone Kenneth ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Support Unit told to be proactive
Government has challenged police officers from the Support Unit to be proactive when deployed to maintain law and order rather than wait for a directive from the command centre. The sentiments...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:48hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
CPU warns of Cyclone Kenneth, landfall
The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has issued a warning of a tropical storm that is developing into a cyclone named Cyclone Kenneth, which is projected to make a landfall in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Kenneth cannot be avoided but can be prepared for
Southern Africa has been ravaged by a wave of cyclones at a proportion never experienced before. preparing for a cyclone can start before there is an immediate threat.The aftermath of Cyclone Idai wer...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 00:51hrs | 4319 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Where is Zimbabwe getting it wrong
Since the fall of Mugabe in November 2017 the Zimbabwean economy has been struggling. While much of the blame for the economic problems that the country is facing is directed at the Mnangagwa gov...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 19:14hrs | 6037 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matabeleland Collective battles to shrug off Zanu-PF links
MATABELELAND Collective (MC), a grouping of civil societies from the southern region are increasingly coming under pressure from different corners as they continue to be attacked by those who have lin...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 15:12hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
UK based initiative to launch development platform to empower Matabeleland communities
A new UK community initiative group, with interests in Matabeleland, will launch a series of workshops at the end of May aimed at driving growth and development in the region.Promoting Communi...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Tiger Wheel & Tyre Opens in Borrowdale, Harare
Vehicle owners in Borrowdale, a suburb of Harare, now have access to the world's biggest wheel and tyre brands, along with award-winning service from Southern Africa's best-loved and most trusted reta...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1011 | by Staf reporter
Madinda blames pre-season strike
With alarm bells starting to ring at Highlanders following a bad start to the 2019 season that is dampening fans' expectations, coach Madinda Ndlovu has absolved himself of any blame, instead pointing...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Two war veterans die
TWO liberation war heroes, Prichard Ndlovu and Allen Tshuma have died. Ndlovu whose liberation war name was Chaka Dlamini died aged 64 on April 20 at his Nkulumane home. He will be laid to res...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Highlander's worst start
HIGHLANDERS will have to replicate Monomotapa's incredible turnaround produced in 2008 to win the league after losing their opening four games to appease their army of restless fans. Defunct M...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Ndiraya takes over at Dembare
LLOYD Chigowe said his face was not the most popular in Harare on the eve of Dynamos' third straight league defeat, and a day after that embarassment, he was gone. The lanky gaffer, nicknamed ...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Mum flushes baby down the toilet
A Chitungwiza woman has been ordered to perform 420 hours of community service for flushing her newborn baby down the toilet system. Letwin Jeyi (18) was convicted of infanticide by Chitungwiz...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
Dembare is sinking and very fast
WE are sinking fast. I had always believed that the only person who could take Dynamos FC to the top is Sunday Chidzambwa and his firing in 1991 had been wrong. In my view, Sunday is the greatest coac...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:01hrs | 260 | by Memory Mucherahowa
Mutodi tells Mnangagwa to form Inclusive Government with Chamisa
The Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting and a well established Mnangagwa ally Energy Mutodi has implored on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to consider setting up an inclusive go...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 19:54hrs | 21649 | by Mandla Ndlovu
uLoyiko ensemble to Premiere at Pretoria's Momentum State Theatre in South Africa
South African theatre ensemble, uLoyiko has informed umthwakazireview.com that it will premiere at Pretoria's Grand Momentum State Theatre in South Africa in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:54hrs | 325 | by Thembani Dube
Zanu-PF, war vets in fresh row
TENSION between Zanu PF and war veterans continue to simmer after former freedom fighters stormed out of the Independence Day celebrations in Bindura last Thursday after their leader was blocked from ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2280 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned of brewing unrest
THERE are growing fears that Zimbabwe's fast-deteriorating economic situation - marked by shocking price hikes and severe shortages of foreign currency, fuel and vital medicines - could trigger social...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:49hrs | 19184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is illegitimate by virtue of rigged elections - regardless Chamisa climb-down
As far as Mnangagwa is concerned last year's elections were free, fair and credible. He has invited opposition parties, civic society and all other interested parties to a national dialogue to discuss...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2509 | by Wilbert Mukori
Of market forces and price hikes
Not too long ago, three months ago in fact, fuel in Zimbabwe was cheaper than bottled water and flights from the country were some of the cheapest around. This was thanks to a fixed exchange rate that...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | 477 | by newZWire
Easter Holiday accidents kill 24
The death toll of people who died during the Easter Holiday rose to 24 on Sunday night after 11 people perished on the spot in a fatal head-on collision at the 118km peg along Harare-Mutare highway in...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Zec warms up for 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissioner has started warming up for the 2023 harmonised elections by convening a national multi-stakeholder conference aimed at reflecting at the July 30, 2018 general polls...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:06hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
List of Zimbabwean celebrities who became politicians
Sports and Showbiz fraternities has become a springboard for most celebrities who later became politicians either due to their own desires or by being asked by different audiences to participate in po...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:33hrs | 5061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa pleads with Diasporans
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded with the Diaspora community to return to Zimbabwe and assist with rebuilding the country's ailing economy.Mnangagwa made the remarks while officiating ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:16hrs | 2922 | by Staff reporter
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4156 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Apostle Vutabwashe blasts Mnangagwa's government
Heartfelt Ministries leader Apostle Vutabwashe has blasted the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa over its failure to create an enabling environment for the country to produce wheat. I...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 13:33hrs | 6050 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa lied about his arrest by whites?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly misled the nation when he created a narrative that he was arrested by the white minority regime for derailing a goods train and sentenced to death but was spared...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 10:31hrs | 8995 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Genocide: A tool used by Mashonaland to demonise Ndebeles
There are those people who still believe that the Genocide ended with the 1987 so called unity accord which was a mere marriage of political convenience. The agreement did not even come close to addre...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 09:43hrs | 2093 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Mnangagwa told to be realistic
GOVERNMENT needs to be realistic about the economic situation in the country, captains of industry have said.They were reacting to statements made by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his keynot...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Military rifle recovered from poachers
POACHERS cornered in a section of the vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge recently abandoned an AK-47 assault rifle traced back to the Zimbabwe National Army, police sources said at the weeken...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
It's time for South Africa to rethink the economy
ON May 8, South Africans go to the polls to choose their next governing party for the next five years. The election this year marks the country's sixth general election since the dawn of democracy in ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 225 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Artisanal miner shot dead
Shamva Mine security guard Holy Zindi (42) is in hot soup after reportedly firing at and killing an artisanal miner who had trespassed into the mine in search of the precious mineral last week....Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:36hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Land compensation and IMF re-engagement: A legacy of an Anti-poor government.
The full import of Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe is open for business mantra is now being painfully realized by the working class of Zimbabwe. Salaries of the workers have been eroded, the majority of our popu...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 20:10hrs | 2243 | by Obert Masaraure
'Foreign aid will not bail out Zimbabwe'
UNITED States professor of economics Steve Hanke has said foreign aid will not bail out Zimbabwe from its current economic quagmire, adding the country's problems can be solved from within.Spe...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:30hrs | 4170 | by Staff reporter
'Peasant farmers now driving Zimbabwe's economy'
THE agricultural sector, seen as the mainstay of the country's economy, is now being powered by peasant farmers following the chaos that decimated commercial farming, the Daily News on Sunday can repo...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 12991 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
Mnangagwa must apologise for his role in gukurahundi genocide
VICTIMS of the 1980s Matabeleland and Midlands massacres, known as Gukurahundi, have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the killing of over 20 000 innocent civilians, sayi...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:58hrs | 3159 | by Staff reporter
Hailstorm kills one, displaces families
A hailstorm ravaged parts of Hurungwe onthe eve of Independence Day killing one farmer after a tobacco barn collapsed on him.The violent storm left a trail of destruction while at least 23 fam...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
RTGS$ plunges
Zimbabwe is nearing the much dreaded economic horrors of 2008 punctuated by hyperinflation, widespread shortages of foreign currency and fuel coupled with a spike in prices of everything, including st...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | 6296 | by Staff reporter
Chavhanga excited about new Zimbabwe role
AFTER a remarkable career which saw him rise from humble beginnings in Zimuto to become the fastest rugby player on the planet at the peak of his athletic powers, record-breaking former South Africa s...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:54hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Velaphi: Daring by bringing first batch of weapons into Rhodesia
IN the past few weeks we have been focusing the spotlight on what may be considered the pioneers of Zimbabwe's armed liberation struggle. This was done as part of a build up towards independen...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:24hrs | 4818 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 46587 | by Methusi Ncube
Cyclone Idai buried people with their belongings
WHEN we arrived in cyclone hit Chimanimani a week after the monstrous Idai, what we could only see at most places are stone boulders that had buried wholesome villages underneath and someone coming fr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4797 | by Staff reporter
Disgraced Australian journalist arrested in Zimbabwe
Television news producer Stephen Rice has been arrested while working in Zimbabwe - three years after he was jailed on assignment in Lebanon.The Australian journalist, Rice, flew into Zimbabwe...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:43hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
MDC Structures keep the dream alive, the Jewel of Africa returns
Julius Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere referred to Zimbabwe as the jewel of Africa that needed heart and soul to protect it. Decades of independence later, Zanu-PF has changed that view. Zimbabwe has been c...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 10:05hrs | 1654 | by Jacob Mafume
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