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Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 22:50hrs | 1393 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Chamisa's spin-nurse relives prison nightmare
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzai Mahere was arrested recently and charged for allegedly communicating falsehoods in a matter involving a baby who was initially reported dead following a baton stick st...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | 2778 | by Staff Reporter
David Chapfika and the Jatropha years, a memoir
David Chapfika came along as a snappy dresser- shiny suits and foreign cologne were the hallmark.As a rookie reporter with New Ziana then, I had the opportunity to mix and mingle with the elit...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 21:25hrs | 2471 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Soldiers severely tortured 2 men while praying on mountain
TWO Harare men were recently severely tortured by soldiers while praying on a "prayer mountain".According to Takudzwanashe Mudenga, he and a friend Perfect Khumalo on 13 December went to a mou...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa revolt call lands man in trouble
A 23-YEAR-OLD Harare man was arraigned before the courts on charges of inciting public violence after he allegedly called for commuters in the city centre to revolt against President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 24 ZDF members to Colonel
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promoted 24 members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to the rank of Colonel.The 24 members of the Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) including three females were promo...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3812 | by Staff Reporter
Operation restore legacy was a no brainer
This regime that looked democratic in appearance but grounded in authoritarian rule is a time bomb and waiting for the right time to explode.The country also looked like a civilian regime wher...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 17:10hrs | 895 | by Leonard Koni
Bosso to train in Dembare colours
HIGHLANDERS on Friday officially launched their new kit to be used in the period 2020/21, which is being supplied by On the Ball Looks on a three year arrangement.Bosso and OTB Looks have ente...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:46hrs | 3463 | by Staff reporter
Bosso launch kit, declare war on counterfeiters
HIGHLANDERS have declared war on counterfeit replica jerseys, saying they will take legal action to confiscate and burn all imitations, as they seek to maximise on club merchandise sales. Boss...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean women in Diaspora financial bullies
Many married couples, the world over, develop a shared understanding of who does what in their relationship. It is sometimes an unspoken recognition of an inevitable division of labour and responsibil...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 721 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dynamos best signing of the Season: Yvone Mangunda
The club management is as good as its own mouth-piece. The impact of a good marketing should not be understated for the success of a club hinges on how it is presented outside. A good marketing manage...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 09:46hrs | 3770 | by Energy Mavaza
Sikhala says, 'Zimbabwe has reached tipping point'
ZENGEZA West Member of Parliament Job Sikhala celebrated his 48th birthday on Friday. The politician was recently arrested and charged with inciting violence ahead of the abortive July 31 protests. He...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Ngarivhume vow more govt resistance
DEFIANT opposition MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala has threatened unspecified action against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government in the wake of a corruption storm involving Zimbabwe ...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:45hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter
Lets learn from Zimbabwe Cricket
The Zimbabwe Cricket bubbles in the sweet waters of success regardless of the disturbed year calender by the COVID 19 pandemic. It could have been one of the busiest year for Chamu Chibhabha led Chevr...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 12:03hrs | 1396 | by Energy Mavaza
Traditional healer speaks on Murehwa boy's murder
THE mystery surrounding the whereabouts of slain seven-year-old Tapiwa Makore's missing head and hands has deepened.The traditional healer suspected to be the brains behind the ritual murder i...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1308 | by Staff Reporter
Mystery surrounds Mnangagwa meeting with sheik
MyStery surrounds the recent visit to Zimbabwe by a top United Arab emirates (UAE) official, Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi, who arrived in Harare last Sunday to reportedly discuss invest...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga is Joshua Nkomo of Mashonaland
Like Joshua Nkomo, Chiwenga is too generous with political power. Imagine a man who spent grueling weeks at the Blue Roof and State House in 2017 wrestling for political power from the late President ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 10485 | by Israel Dube
Another military group attacks Mozambique
The armed resistance group Renamo Military Junta launched attacks on a Correios de Moçambique (Mozambique Post-Office) passenger bus on Sunday, Mozambique media has reported. According ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 12:38hrs | 8011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 13071 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
'Zimbabwe problems won't lead to civil war'
AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe's long running crises, University of Zimbabwe's politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and h...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe crisis is sapping Zanu-PF's supremacy
ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises that have gone on for two decades are weakening Zanu-PF's hold on power and could soon have dire consequences on the ruling party, one of the country's leading...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 3562 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt must admit crisis'
WHILE government insists on telling the world there is no crisis in Zimbabwe, analysts believe the time is now ripe for an honest assessment which should lead to collective efforts to find a lasting s...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:25hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ripe for change!
When I read the statement by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa in her reaction to the Catholic bishops' pastoral letter, I was shocked at the ignorance and arrogance displayed in it. I said to my...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:17hrs | 614 | by Ken Mufuka
Are men still legally relevant to women?
ARE Zimbabwean men falling into legal obscurity or perhaps they already have? There was a time when en were indispensible in the legal lives of women, but many things have changed and continue to. ...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 1584 | by Miriam Tose Majome
We are our own liberators, says Chamisa
Zimbabwe's socio-economic and political crisis has received the attention of regional political players and civil society, with many calling for SADC and the African Union (aU) to intervene. envoys se...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Kariba tension-gripped as government departments dither tactlessly
Kariba is a tense town this week for both tourists and local stakeholders, with emotions boiling over in some instances. Government departments' inept handling of important issues is at the core of th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4903 | by Laiton Kandawire Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2748 | by The Big Interview
Zimbabwean born actor invades Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES-BASED Zimbabwean actor Rick Cosnett has disclosed that his journey to become a Hollywood star did not come on a silver platter, but he travelled a difficultroad.Cosnett is popu...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1015 | by Staff reporter
The Ecocash heist - A modern tale of irresponsible corporate behaviour
Sometime in 2013, I applied and became an Ecocash Agent (Agent), and immediately set shop in at least two locations within Harare CBD. The setup and running costs for me as an Agent were high, but the...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 19:27hrs | 6943 | by Tendayi Mudhadha
Malaba's lawyers dress code directive reversed
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has withdrawn Practice Direction (PD) 6 of 2020 banning tight-fitting, body-hugging and colourful attire for legal practitioners appearing before the Magistrates Courts. ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 728 | by Staff reporter
New dress code for Zimbabwe lawyers, body-hugging and colourful attire banned
Chief Justice Luke Malaba has banned tight-fitting, body-hugging and colourful attire for legal practitioners appearing before the Magistrates Courts. For female lawyers, skirts must at least ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwean opposition parties are always caught pants down
I believe this statement that I am making now seems controversial and unacceptable to some quotas but l still believe its a fact. If national elections are to be held today it will be an open check fo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:32hrs | 2212 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Khupe vows to return MDC to its founding principles
MDC acting president Thokozani Khupe yesterday made several appointments to the party standing committee - vowing to return it to its founding principles - while declaring that preparations for an ext...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2119 | by Staff reporter
Khupe must stop rewriting history
A DANGEROUS narrative being pushed by the Thokozani Khupe-led group that they are the legitimate founding members of the MDC should be challenged strongly, because it is incomplete and, therefore, mis...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1453 | by Chofamba Sithole
Teachers plot interdict against schools opening
A TEACHERS' union said it would approach the courts to block the government's "ill-informed and premature opening of schools" in light of the increase in COVID-19 infections in the country.The...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1672 | by Staff reporter
No longer the Sunshine City
The Zimbabwe capital city which was once called Salisbury during the colonial era changed its name to Harare on 18 April 1982.During the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence, th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 14:37hrs | 980 | by Leonard Koni
Former Mugabe minister faces jail
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Samuel Undenge's appeal against a 30-month jail term for abuse of office was thrown out by the High Court yesterday which found that the sentence was not e...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1455 | by Staff reporter
'Army, police receiving lockdown bribes'
MEMBERS of the military and police countrywide are reportedly receiving cash bribes from lockdown violators during deployment, findings by a regional civic society group have revealed.The rese...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
SADC says political situation in the region is relatively stable except for Mozambique
A communiqué released after the Sadc troika meeting concluded that the political situation in the region was relatively stable except for the situation obtaining in Mozambique."The Extraordin...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants Zimbabwe on Sadc agenda
THE opposition MDC Alliance has pleaded with the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to put Zimbabwe on its agenda for the next summit, arguing that the situation in the country was ripe for...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe camps in early talks to end brawl
IT HAS emerged that warring MDC factions are engaging in tentative talks, in a bid to end their damaging power feud, the Daily News on Sunday revealed.This comes as concerned insiders have als...Published: 17 May 2020 at 19:57hrs | 10199 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora to recall dozens of Chamisa's MPs
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende has revealed that the MDC Alliance had gathered information to the effect that the Khupe camp intended to wield the axe on dozens of MPs who have chosen t...Published: 16 May 2020 at 19:33hrs | 6106 | by Staff reporter
MDC official recounts 'abduction' ordeal
ONE of the three MDC Alliance officials, Cecilia Chimbiri, who was allegedly abducted on Wednesday, yesterday recounted the horrific sexual and physical abuse they endured at the hands of the kidnappe...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4480 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and his lieutenants appear to be in disarray
THINGS are moving from bad to worse for Nelson Chamisa and his top MDC allies, after more party MPs defied his decree to withdraw their services from Parliament yesterday, the Daily News reports....Published: 15 May 2020 at 16:06hrs | 3201 | by Staff reporter
3 MDC legislators defy Chamisa
Three parliamentarians elected on the MDC-Alliance ticket yesterday defied a boycott and attended a sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement. The ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1280 | by Staff reporter
What are Zimbabweans known for?
IT matters how a nation portrays itself and how it is perceived by the world. How nations are per-ceived determines critical decisions by outsiders such as investment, tourism, international relations...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:50hrs | 12218 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe@40: Still standing . . . going strong
APRIL 18 marks Zimbabwe's Independence Day.We commemorate this auspicious national occasion heroically fighting Covid-19, a global pandemic that has claimed and is still claiming thousands of ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 113 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Is Zimbabwe ready for a third force?
With so much else taking place around the world this could not have crossed the radar. Presently the country is on autopilot as most people are not aware of what their future would be like after this ...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 19:02hrs | 4573 | by Leonard Koni
Zimra urged to fully implement single window customs facility
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) should take advantage of the reduced paperwork during the lockdown period to fully implement the single window customs system. Under the model, border op...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:38hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
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