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Burning Spear jets into Zimbabwe
Jamaican roots-reggae legend Burning Spear touched down in Harare yesterday ahead of his much-anticipated debut performance in Zimbabwe. The 79-year-old will take the stage at Glamis Arena as part of ...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:52hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Jamaica still colonised by UK
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness told Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate on Wednesday his country wants to be "independent" and address "unresolved" issues, a day after protesters called...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Glen Norah graves to be relocated
Over 40 graves are set for exhumation from an old cemetery in Glen Norah B to pave way for the construction of houses by private property developers.The exhumed bodies will be reburied at Gran...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warts of democracy can be an eyesore
Cynics often say politics is like a sewage as it allows stinking and filthy scum to rise to the top.In a twisted way, it's pretty much like milk, which, as it matures, allows cream to rise....Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Pricing madness hits Victoria Falls
NZALA Milimo was born in Victoria Falls in 1974 and did her primary and secondary education at public schools in the resort town's ghetto townships.But unlike the thousands of well-heeled fore...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe turns 95, 9 things you didn't know about him
Robert Mugabe is turning 95 and his birthday has been declared a holiday in Zimbabwe. The holiday was mooted by the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to honor their then icon, whose birthday had since the 1...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 23:19hrs | | by BBC
Pupil barred from school over beard
St John'S College has been accused of discriminating against students on racial and religious grounds after a Muslim pupil was barred from attending lessons for refusing to shave his beard. Th...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru coalition to unveil campaign strategies
THE People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) led by former Vice-President Joice Mujuru has announced plans to unveil its 2018 election campaign strategies in Bulawayo on Friday next week following its launch ...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Judge demands MP's flag-coloured jacket
The High Court has requested pictures of MDC-T legislator Trevor Saruwaka's jacket bearing colours of the national flag, in a case in which the politician seeks to enforce his right to freedom of cons...Published: 27 Jun 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP forced to remove jacket with national flag colours again
MUTASA South legislator Trevor Saruwaka was yesterday forced to remove his jacket with colours resembling the national flag at the Parliamentary pre-budget seminar at the Zimbabwe International Tr...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muna Hacha Maive Nei? The first speculative fiction novel in ChiShona re-published.
A United Kingdom based Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza, five years after publishing MunaHacha Maive Nei? has again issued the first ever science-fiction novel in ChiShona, and the first novel in tha...Published: 04 May 2016 at 13:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe opens the way for inter-religious harmony and peace through dialogue of scriptures
Zimbabwe - Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) The Zimbabwe branch worked together with religious leaders to host the 2nd HWPL WARP (World Alliance of Religions' Peace) Office o...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 20:50hrs | | by HWPL
SA man sees mbanje dealing as something legal
Loyiso Maqela* doesn’t see himself as a drug dealer or a criminal.The 31-year-old dagga grower from a village near Mpande, south of Port St Johns on the Wild Coast, sees himself as more of a...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 12:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
My stolen bible will convert my attackers- Pastor
A pastor from Mamelodi area in Tswane South Africa has expressed hope that his muggers who attacked and stole his bible and other documents will be converted by his bible they stole.Daily Sun ...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Aborted babies won't enter heaven'
ALPHEUS Tshwane wants to share the vision he says was given to him by the Holy Spirit.The 50-year-old man from Nellmapius, east of Tshwane, says he's a Rastafarian prophet and God has told h...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe is NOT a Christian nation
During one of the main news bulletins on ZTV a few weeks ago, a corporate figure made some disconcerting remarks.He referred to Zimbabwe as a "Christian nation" and that "80 percent of Zimbabw...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 10:17hrs | | by Shingai Rukwata Ndoro
Zimbabwean man's story about seeking asylum in the UK
Growing up in Zimbabwe, Masimba Musodza's perception of British life was from the TV show Only Fools and Horses."I thought they only talked like that because it was a comedy," said the 38-yea...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 19:43hrs | | by Sarah Dale
'There is no freedom of religion in Zimbabwe' - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 12:29hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Winky D, brother fight over money
TROUBLED times lie ahead for the Ninja fraternity as the Ninja 'President' and heir-apparent to the throne are reported to be in a fight that is likely to undo all the hard work they have put into bui...Published: 07 Dec 2013 at 04:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Herbert Wants To Come Home'
UK-based Zimbabwean author Masimba Musodza has launched a serialised first edition of a new horror novel, Herbert Wants To Come Home. This is the story of the Mutsepe family who gather in August to co...Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Masimba Musodza
'I love African music' says Snoop Lion
Former U.S. rapper now known as Snoop Lion, who recently visited Durban, South Africa, for the MTV All Star concert told Grace Kerongo of The Star - Kenya - that he loves African music.Snoop s...Published: 27 May 2013 at 06:26hrs | | by Moyo Roy | Grace Kerongo
Sniper steal Hifa thunder
As the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa), dubbed the "longest night of the year", slowly fades into a distant memory, the reminiscences that the festival left in the minds of those in a...Published: 12 May 2013 at 04:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Rastafarian family drags school to court
A Rastafarian family in Bulawayo has dragged a school to court after authorities sent away its child for being a Rastafarian and wearing dreadlocks.The girl, who is aged 13, and has been weari...Published: 12 Jan 2013 at 04:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rastas smoke weed to communicate with creators - court told
A Harare Rastafarian aggrieved of being arrested for smoking his favourate mbanje has approached the Supreme Court complaining over his arrest saying he is being discriminated.Amos Mupf...Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 07:43hrs | | by Alois Sibanda
Grade Zero dreadlocked pupil wins court case
The newly appointed Bulawayo high court judge, Justice Martin Makonese has ordered the headmaster of Masiyephambili junior school in Bulawayo and the Minister of Education , Sports and Culture to en...Published: 16 Jan 2012 at 08:39hrs | | by -
Rastafarians pray for peace in Zimbabwe
Hundreds of Rastafarians from across the country converged on the Cherutombo House of Nyahbinghi in Marondera on Saturday to pray for peace in the country.The prayer meeting coincided with pre...Published: 26 Nov 2011 at 22:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim Rastafarians to hold national prayer meeting
The Cherutombo Rastafari House in Marondera will next Saturday hold a national worship meeting to pray for the country and its leadership.In an interview last week, Cherutombo Rastafari House ...Published: 19 Nov 2011 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Here and there: Transport eMalokishini
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but ...Published: 15 Apr 2011 at 13:16hrs | | by Courtesy of William Phiri Chronicle 4 June 2005
'MARIJUANA', Legalise it, ZANU MP says
A Zanu PF MP for Mashonaland, Simbaneuta Mudarikwa on Wednesday asked the minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development why Zimbabwe is not legalising the growing of mb...Published: 18 Feb 2011 at 16:46hrs | | by Byo24News
Here and there: Transport eMalokishini
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside. I could not h...Published: 21 Oct 2010 at 04:43hrs | | by Courtesy of William Phiri Chronicle 4 June 2005
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