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Zimbabwean-born prophet jailed in Scotland
Walter Masocha, a self-styled prophet and founder of the Agape for All Nations Church in Scotland, has been sentenced to 14 years following his conviction on charges of rape, attempted rape, and sexua...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 15:35hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Chissano criticises liberation movements for betraying founding ideals
Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, a revered statesman and close ally of the late Robert Mugabe, has delivered a powerful and introspective critique of liberation movements in Southern Afri...Published: 27 Jul 2025 at 21:35hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF SG Obert Mpofu arrives in Johannesburg
Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, Secretary-General Obert Mpofu has arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was warmly received by leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of the L...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 20:15hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei, Mnangagwa golf video sparks outrage
A video showing controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei casually interacting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a golf outing has ignited public outcry and intensified speculation over the...Published: 25 Jul 2025 at 18:37hrs | 1719 | by Staff reporter
It's time Zimbabwe redefined who we call a national hero
The recent declaration of the late ZESA executive chairman, Sydney Gata, as a national hero has once again reignited a longstanding and deeply divisive debate in Zimbabwe. At the core of ...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 11:07hrs | 614 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Machakaire launches scathing personal attack on Mahere
Youth Empowerment Minister Tinoda Machakaire has launched a blistering personal attack on former opposition legislator and lawyer Fadzayi Mahere after she posted a series of pointed questions on socia...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:54hrs | 702 | by Staff reporter
Gata declared national hero
ZESA Holdings executive chairperson, Dr Sydney Gata, who passed away last Thursday in Harare after a short illness, has been declared a national hero and will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on ...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 17:50hrs | 1297 | by Staff reporter
Chief Sogwala to be laid to rest Sunday
THE curtain will fall on one of Zimbabwe's longest-serving traditional leaders as Chief Sogwala of Lower Gweru is set to be buried Sunday 6 July 2025, at his homestead in Ward 7, Sogwala Village....Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 11:12hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ANC calls for July 1 to be declared Joshua Nkomo Day
The opposition Zimbabwe African National Congress (ZANC) has urged the government to declare July 1 a public holiday in honour of the late national hero and former Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nyongo...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 17:43hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo donates US$250,000 to honour Joshua Nkomo's legacy
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has paid glowing tribute to Zimbabwe's late Vice President and liberation icon, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, while pledging a significant donation of US...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 13:26hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's apple anointing sparks social media frenzy
Zimbabwean preacher Prophet Walter Magaya has once again set tongues wagging online after images emerged of him praying over and anointing crates of apples, sparking a flood of humorous and skeptical ...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:54hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
When Mnangagwa buries his colleagues, does he ever reflect on the legacy he will leave behind?
Life offers us countless moments for introspection - but it is up to us to seize them.This evening, I watched a news bulletin covering the burial of the late Luke Mushore - another in a long l...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 11:29hrs | 694 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Legendary broadcaster Phumlani Msibi dies at 57
The South African sporting fraternity is mourning the death of legendary football and boxing commentator Phumlani Msibi, who passed away on Friday at the age of 57 following a short illness.Bo...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 10:02hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Academic scandal rocks University of Zimbabwe as standards plummet
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), once revered as the nation's premier institution of higher learning, is now engulfed in a deepening academic scandal that threatens to destroy its already battered rep...Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 10:01hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
Turning the CIO into a party militia
It is 11am, Tuesday 3 June, 2025.A red Honda Fit notorious for political violence in Gutu District screeches to a halt and stops in the middle of the highway cowboy style.Clad in a blu...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 13:23hrs | 373 | by Matthew Takaona
Nemashakwe dies
Veteran educationist and traditional leader Chief Nemashakwe of Gutu, Clanous Devera Chirikure, has passed away at the age of 108.Chirikure died on May 14 at Mvurwi Hospital in Mashonaland Cen...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 16:21hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry's George Shaya state funeral promise unfulfilled
The widow of the late football legend George "The Mastermind" Shaya has broken her silence, revealing that a government promise of a state-assisted funeral - allegedly made by then Sports Minister Kir...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:36hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Hartsfield Rugby Grounds gets major facelift boost
Hartsfield Rugby Grounds, the revered home of Zimbabwean rugby, is undergoing a long-awaited revival as restoration efforts gain momentum—bolstered by a vital donation of field maintenance equipment...Published: 17 May 2025 at 11:59hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
Former Zimbabwe Stock Exchange boss dies
Former Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) chairman and revered stockbroker Ndodana Mguquka has died. He was 51.Mguquka passed away in the early hours of the morning at Samuel Leon Medical Centre in...Published: 02 May 2025 at 16:57hrs | 2163 | by Staff reporter
Johane Masowe's remains at centre of dispute
Two rival factions of the Gospel of God Church International are locked in a bitter legal and spiritual battle over the intended exhumation of their revered founder, Baba Johanne - born Peter Shonhiwa...Published: 02 May 2025 at 07:59hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Njani Moyo only accorded liberation hero status
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conferred Liberation Hero Status on the late veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, Elias Sikholiwe Njani Moyo, who passed away on April 26 at the age of 100....Published: 01 May 2025 at 16:56hrs | 2684 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for discipline, loyalty in ZDF
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for continued loyalty and dedication within the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), paying tribute to the late Brigadier General Tapiwa Rungani and national hero Wal...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Air Vice Marshal Mandeya declared national heroine
Air Vice Marshal (Retired) Winnie Mandeya, a trailblazing liberation war veteran and distinguished officer in the Air Force of Zimbabwe, who died on Monday at the age of 64, has been declared a nation...Published: 01 May 2025 at 08:43hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Minister under fire over 'Ndebele King'
In a striking letter dated 22 April 2025, Zimbabwe's Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Honourable Daniel Garwe, launched an unprecedented attack on the cultural identity of the Ndebele pe...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 18:28hrs | 1355 | by Mzingaye Khumalo
Ibhetshu LikaZulu defends Ndebele King claimant
Ibhetshu LikaZulu has expressed deep concern over the letter written by the Minister of Local Government and Public Works, which condemned Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart for meeting with King Bulelani K...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:42hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bury 2 colleagues on Wednesday
A double burial for two national heroes, Brigadier-General (Retired) Victor Rungani and former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director Walter Basopo, has been tentatively scheduled for Wednes...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:30hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Former Zapu cadre Njani Moyo dies
Elias Sikholiwe Njani Moyo, a revered figure in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, has passed away at the age of 100. Moyo, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the brutal Rhodesian regime in 1976 f...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:19hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
National hero status for ex-CIO
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred national hero status on Retired Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director Walter Basopo, a decorated liberation war veteran and career in...Published: 26 Apr 2025 at 09:35hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Italy to attend Pope Francis' funeral
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has called on world leaders attending the burial of Pope Francis to embrace and uphold the virtues of peace, love, and compassion that the late Pontiff exemplifi...Published: 26 Apr 2025 at 09:31hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Catholic church to hold masses honouring late Pope Francis
The Catholic Church in Zimbabwe will hold special masses to honour the life and legacy of Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88 due to a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart ...Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:37hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
More pain awaits Chitembwe at BF
He's a legend of CAPS United, a multiple league winner and the only coach to ever guide the Green Machine into the CAF Champions League group stages. But as Lloyd Chitembwe turns 50, the once-revered ...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:43hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
New Ziana journalist dies suddenly at work
The media fraternity in Zimbabwe is mourning the sudden and tragic death of senior New Ziana journalist Hebert Mutugwi, who collapsed and died at work around noon today. He was 58.Mutugwi, a r...Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 20:20hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
The idea of Zimbabwe and Matabeleland question
I think the best way to understand the present day manifestations and character of Matebeleland politics is to situate them properly historically and politically within the broader terrain of the deve...Published: 29 Mar 2025 at 17:01hrs | 2187 | by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Mnangagwa missed one fact: Unlike Mugabe, he has never been genuinely respected within ZANU-PF
Who can deny that ZANU-PF is teetering on the brink? As factional fighting within the ruling ZANU-PF intensifies - and even threatens to get ugly with the so-called "uprising" slated for 31st ...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 22:52hrs | 984 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa honours vapostori4ED leader
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has honoured apostolic sect leader Moses Gwasarira with a commemorative plaque, which has been placed on the walls of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, a site revered a...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 14:46hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to honour Sam Nujoma at burial
ADC Chairman and Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to arrive in Namibia on Friday to attend the burial of the country's founding father and revered liberation struggle icon, Dr. Sam Nujom...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 06:59hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Johane Masowe's remains to be exhumed
The High Court has issued a declaratory order affirming the inalienable rights of Peter Jack Masedza's children to exhume and rebury their father's remains, 50 years after his passing.Masedza,...Published: 15 Feb 2025 at 07:48hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Sir Wicknell Chivayo clears Highlanders' US$27,000 debt
Prominent businessman Wicknell Chivayo has delivered on his promise to settle Highlanders Football Club's US$27,000 debt owed to former head coach Baltemar Brito and his assistant Antonio Joao Torres....Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 16:43hrs | 2066 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revives Guruve chieftainship
The people of Guruve District in Mashonaland Central Province have expressed their heartfelt gratitude to President Mnangagwa and the Second Republic for the revival of the Chimbwerere Chieftaincy, wh...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:32hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Former Manicaland Governor dies at 83
Former Manicaland Provincial Governor and decorated liberation war veteran, Tinaye Elisha Nzirasha Chigudu, has passed away at the age of 83.Chigudu died last night at his home in Mt Pleasant,...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 15:54hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo proves that the love of money is the root of all evil
The pursuit of wealth and material possessions has long been a source of fascination, aspiration, and, indeed, controversy throughout human history. The Bible succinctly captures this paradoxi...Published: 13 Jan 2025 at 13:32hrs | 1507 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Madzibaba's grave sets tongues wagging
Fourteen years after his controversial passing, the final resting place of the late Madzibaba Godfrey Nzira continues to spark debate and controversy, highlighting the intersection of social status an...Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:38hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Makwinji Soma-Phiri enters ZIFA race
Benjani Mwaruwari and Makwinji Soma-Phiri have officially confirmed their candidacy for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency, marking their intent to lead a sport in desperate need of r...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 18:29hrs | 6342 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa declares Mnangagwa the intellectual and ideological guru of Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa has publicly declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the intellectual and ideological leader of the ruling party, emphasizing his quick absorption of new ideas a...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 10:48hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko died in India
The repatriation of the body of the late national hero, Report Phelekezela Mphoko, has officially commenced, with the Zimbabwean Government confirming that it is taking all necessary steps to ensure t...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:52hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Mugodhi apostolic sect leader dies
Tony Sigauke, the acting bishop of Mugodhi Apostolic Faith Church (MAFC), has passed away at the age of 88. Sigauke, who had been serving as the church's acting bishop since 2019, died of natural caus...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:10hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
TD Jakes enjoyed his recent Zimbabwe visit
Popular American preacher, Bishop Thomas Dexter Jakes, well known as TD Jakes, headlined the revered preacher Bishop Tudor Bismark’s 50th anniversary in ministry celebrations which were held at Hara...Published: 23 Nov 2024 at 19:42hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Sakhile Dube costume turn heads in Mexico
Miss Universe Zimbabwe Sakhile Dube has captivated audiences in Mexico with her national costume, "The Soaring Eagle," ahead of the Miss Universe preliminary show. Her stunning ensemble, which embodie...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:40hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland leaders fail to push for proper Pathisa Nyathi honour
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced only a State-assisted funeral for revered historian and author Pathisa Nyathi, who passed away on Saturday. The man deserved an honourary doctorate and a nat...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:22hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Britain to apologise
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the British government to apologize for its century-long colonial rule in Zimbabwe, which dispossessed indigenous people of their land and subjected them to ...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:17hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
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