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SADC's compromised chairmanship failing the people of Mozambique
The recent elections held on October 9 in Mozambique have proven to be a significant turning point in the country's history, but not for the reasons the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w...Published: 26 Dec 2024 at 16:59hrs | 966 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
5 Reasons to Choose Melbet in Zambia
Online betting is rapidly gaining popularity in Zambia, attracting more players thanks to its convenience and vast opportunities for entertainment and winnings. Among the many platforms available, Mel...Published: 26 Dec 2024 at 10:48hrs | 228 | by Staff Reporter
Mwaruwari takes dubious Zifa Committee head-on
Former Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari has demanded clarity from the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Normalisation Committee regarding his exclusion from the final list of candidates eligible ...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:18hrs | 2347 | by Staff reporter
Farai Jere's O-Level certificate bears the name Farai Mutimbo
The ZIFA Electoral Committee, chaired by Lincoln Mutasa, has reaffirmed its commitment to adhering strictly to the rules and regulations set by the ZIFA Congress, as the field for the association's pr...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:17hrs | 985 | by Staff reporter
How Ugandan providers block Melbet and Ways to restore access to the bookmaker's website
The internet landscape in Uganda is becoming increasingly regulated, especially regarding access to foreign betting platforms. Melbet, a popular international bookmaker licensed by Curaçao, often fac...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 17:14hrs | 86 | by Staff Reporter
Why ACKO Drive is India's Most Trusted Car-Buying Platform
With multiple car-buying platforms, finding a service that combines convenience, transparency, and trust can be challenging. Enter the online platform ACKO Drive, designed to make the entire process s...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:06hrs | 45 | by Staff Reporter
Hooray! Farai Jere fails eligibility test
Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairperson Farai Jere's ambition to ascend to the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) presidency has hit a dead end after he failed the eligibility vetting process. The Z...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 11:50hrs | 1916 | by Staff reporter
New cooking tools reduce wastage while improving taste
Are you aware of some staggering statistics concerning our food supply? According to the Shoprite 2024 survey, South African Food Security Index is at its lowest point in more than a decade. ...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:49hrs | 132 | by Emmanuel Koro
City Parking bribes journalists to evade scrutiny
City Parking has extended free parking services to state media (Herald, Sunday Mail, H-Metro and Zimbabwe Television Network) and a journalist from an online p...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:58hrs | 1056 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Victoria Falls Town Clerk suspension sparks division
The recent suspension of Victoria Falls Town Clerk, Mr. Ronnie Dube, has caused a significant rift within the city, resulting in growing tensions both within the local council and among residents. The...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:46hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will always suffer as long as we rely on politicians for change
Over the past two and a half decades, the country has faced unprecedented economic challenges, from record-breaking hyperinflation and extreme poverty to massive deindustrialization and soaring unempl...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 12:41hrs | 216 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Welshman Ncube was outsmarted by Sengezo Tshabangu
Politics is an interesting game with a lot of surprises. Professor Welshman Ncube who leads a faction of the CCC has dragged Sengenzo Tshabangu to the High Court of Zimbabwe after he wrote to the Spea...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 18:32hrs | 507 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Woman stones son to death after failing to get job as a maid
An 18-year-old woman from Mkwanise has been arrested for the brutal murder of her 2-year-old son, an act reportedly committed after she failed to secure employment as a maid in Chiredzi.The tr...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:46hrs | 570 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa's son arrested
Rest Chiduku, son of self-proclaimed King Munhumutapa, born Timothy Chiminya, has been arrested in Bulawayo for allegedly masquerading as a government official and commissioner. Chiduku was reportedly...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:34hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Chinese man on the run over rhino horns
A Chinese man, Lin Wang, is on the run after a clearing agent, Cuthbert Maoko, was arrested for attempting to facilitate the smuggling of five rhinoceros horns hidden in an owl-shaped plastic sculptur...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:07hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's relatives embrace his 'secret son'
A man claiming to be the son of former President Robert Mugabe was arrested in 2015 after he stormed State House demanding to meet his alleged father, it has been confirmed. The individual, identified...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 10:02hrs | 4489 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will be a different creature in next elections
If you grew up in the village as Bishop Lazi did, you learned to trust your instincts and nature.You also learned to appreciate that human beings have an innate biological alarm that is trigge...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:27hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Bosso striker hacks daughter's ex with machete
Former Highlanders FC and Railstars FC striker Njabulo "Tshiki" Ncube, celebrated for his goal-scoring prowess, is now making headlines off the pitch for the wrong reasons. Ncube appeared before Bulaw...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 11:33hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businessman successfully challenges conviction, sentence
In a significant ruling, the High Court of Zimbabwe has quashed the conviction and five-year jail term previously imposed on Marondera businessman Francesco Marconati, stating that the lower court had...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:36hrs | 1553 | by Staff reporter
Court evicts miners from Kuruneri's farm
High Court judge Justice Christopher Dube-Banda has ordered the eviction of miners engaged in gold mining activities on Ascotvale Farm in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central, following a legal challenge by Pa...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
School threatens to expel 500 learners
The future of at least 500 learners at Mother Patrick Convent Primary School in Harare hangs in the balance after the school expelled 40 students for allegedly disrupting lessons. The expulsion letter...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 06:52hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF is the big monster
AS recent as last week, Elon Musk's fortune had swelled to a stupendous and eye-watering US$348 billion, making him probably the richest man on the planet.It is just obscene that one person's ...Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 08:25hrs | 300 | by Bishop Lazarus
Murder charges against trade unionists withdrawn
The State has formally withdrawn murder charges against two prominent leaders of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), Obert Masaraure and Robson Chere. The two had been facing all...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:06hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must be summoned to Parly
Dzivarasekwa legislator, Edwin Mushoriwa, has called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be summoned to Parliament to answer pressing questions on matters of national interest. Speaking during a Parli...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema blamed for Zambia's recent electricity blackout
Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu has criticized his successor, President Hakainde Hichilema, for a nationwide power blackout on Sunday that left hospitals and other critical institutions without e...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 20:12hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Professor Welshman Ncube biting the hand that fed him?
HIGH COURT YET TO DECIDE WHICH IS THE LAWFUL CCC IN HCH 6872/23: ONE WHOSE MAIN DEPONENT IS JAMESON TIMBA OR ONE WHOSE ONLY DEPONENT IS SENGEZO TSHABANGU.Will the real or lawful CCC please sta...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 14:38hrs | 1097 | by Jonathan Moyo
'ANC MPs acted unlawfully on Ramaphosa's Phala Phala'
ANC MPs broke the law when they voted against holding President Cyril Ramaphosa accountable for failing to report the theft of millions of rand in undeclared foreign currency in his Phala Phala farm....Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 13:58hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to simplify business licensing
The Zimbabwean Government is taking proactive steps to simplify the business licensing process and reduce associated costs, with the aim of improving the ease of doing business in the country. A Cabin...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 10:05hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
By brazenly rigging Mozambique elections Zanu PF crossed double red lines, Zimbabwe must be booted out of SADC
"Former President of Botswana Ian Khama has called on the Southern African Development Community SADC to expel Zimbabwe if proven to have meddled with member states' elections," Bulawayo24 reported....Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 12:49hrs | 555 | by Wilbert Mukori
Hichilema is persecuting Bembas, Easterners
POLITICAL commentator Sishuwa Sishuwa has accused President Hakainde Hichilema of using the courts and police to persecute Bemba speakers and Zambians from Eastern Province. In an interview ye...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:18hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Mondlane accepts Nyusi's invitation to meet
Venâncio Mondlane announced today that he has accepted the meeting requested by the Mozambican President with the four presidential candidates for the October elections, to resolve the post-election ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 18:49hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive Zambian MP apprehended in Zimbabwe
Emmanuel Jay Banda, a Zambian legislator who escaped from lawful custody earlier this year, has been apprehended by Zimbabwean police after being on the run for over three months. Banda, the Independe...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:32hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should learn from Ramaphosa's mature approach to international recognition
On the global stage, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has long been an emblem of measured leadership and diplomatic tact, in stark contrast to his counterpart in Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 21:14hrs | 501 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Project fraught with significant hurdles
The long-awaited Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Project, heralded as a potential solution to Zimbabwe and Zambia's ongoing power shortages, may face insurmountable challenges that could delay or derail it...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 07:06hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Land barons fund ED2030 sloganeering campaign
Most of the land barons dominating Harare, Masvingo and Midlands provinces have spent their loot towards funding an exercise to push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's foiled unconstitutional term ext...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 17:01hrs | 626 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Change will not come from participating in more rigged elections, protests, etc. We have been down all these rabbit holes
"Winds of change don't blow automatically: Zimbabweans need to fearlessly stand up against oppression," argued Tendai Ruben Mbofana in his blog, mbofanatendairuben.news.blog. "In recent y...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:28hrs | 1099 | by Wilbert Mukori
So, when will the UN hold a Summit on democracy and human rights?
As world leaders make their way back to their respective countries after the COP29 Climate Change Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, one can't help but ask: when will the United Nations (UN) hold a summit de...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 20:22hrs | 299 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugodhi's son loses Supreme Court appeal ending power wrangle
Washington Mugodhi, the son of the late Bishop Tadeu Mugodhi of the Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church (MAFC), has suffered another legal blow after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against a High C...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 18:21hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
NGOs told to adhere to Zimbabwe laws
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe must adhere to the country's laws and regulations in order to avoid tensions with the government, a senior official has advised.Simon Masanga,...Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 08:41hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
There're now two Zimbabwes: One for a small elite and the other for millions of poor Zimbabweans
Over the past few years, Zimbabwe has reportedly experienced steady economic growth. According to government statistics, GDP growth rates have shown positive movement, suggesting that the coun...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 22:05hrs | 583 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC/CCC have 'fought in the trenches for change' said Mahere. Nonsense! Name one change they have brought in 24 years?
The sheer chutzpah and hypocrisy of Zimbabwe's opposition leaders stinks!"On the 1st of November, I spoke on the phone with Duma Boko to congratulate him on an outstanding victory in Botswana'...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 21:58hrs | 872 | by Wilbert Mukori
Dynamos faces financial troubles
Dynamos Football Club is on the verge of a mass exodus of senior players at the end of the current season, with a number of key figures set to leave the team after a challenging campaign.The G...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 11:11hrs | 1061 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa now a regional pariah: The cost of meddling in neighboring countries' electoral processes
Since Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed the presidency of Zimbabwe in 2017, his leadership has been marked by a series of controversial political decisions, both within his own country and in the broader Sou...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 15:17hrs | 1644 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fired BancABC managers threaten to wash 'dirty linen' in public
A bitter and escalating dispute between dismissed BancABC managers and the bank's leadership is threatening to destabilize one of Zimbabwe's leading financial institutions. The conflict, which involve...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 11:04hrs | 1487 | by Staff reporter
Edgar Lungu announces return to save Zambia
On October 28, 2023, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, the sixth President of Zambia, formally announced his return to active politics during the 9th memorial ceremony of President Michael Sata, the founder of the ...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:34hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter
Man loses gold to 'Harare buyers'
Nyasha Rusike (38) appeared before Harare Magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa on Thursday, facing robbery charges after allegedly stealing gold and other valuables worth US$5,649 from a gold miner in an...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:04hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
SADC toothlessness to blame for post-election conflicts in the region
In recent weeks, the southern African region has been thrust into yet another political crisis, this time in Mozambique, following a contentious election and violent protests. The country, whi...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 14:51hrs | 298 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The uncanny parallels between Zanu-PF and the Rhodesian Front
THE white Rhodesian regime by all accounts waged a highly effective counter-insurgency war against the guerilla forces.Its successes were across the military and intelligence spheres.T...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:15hrs | 559 | by Rigid Kondongwe
MPs demand answers on closed Bulawayo industries
Opposition members of Parliament have called on the government to provide clear timelines and concrete plans for the revival of Bulawayo's once-thriving industries, which have faced a steep decline in...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:01hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's fitness to lead ANC renewal questioned
In a recent interview with Sunday World Engage, Solly Mapaila, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), reiterated his long-standing concerns about President Cyril Ramaphosaâ...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 08:46hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
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