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Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland's untapped acting talent impresses film producers
AUDITIONS for the upcoming Zimbabwean film featuring Tongayi Chirisa have closed with producers now finalising the selection for the lead role.Auditions for the film which is set to be shot in...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 13 | by Stephen Bates
New 4-star hotel opens in Victoria Falls
A NEW 4-star hospitality facility, Palm River Hotel, will be officially opened in Victoria Falls today. It is located on the shores of Zambezi River, more than 6km away from the city centre an...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 08:56hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Masiyiwa urges young Africans to lead 'wealth revolution'
ZIMBABWEAN telecoms mogul Strive Masiyiwa has called on young African business owners - whom he calls "digital, liberated young entrepreneurs" - to lead a wealth-creation and entrepreneurial revolutio...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II
Newman Madzikwa jailed for criminal abuse of office
A HARARE magistrate yesterday convicted and sentenced former NatPharm acting managing director Newman Madzikwa to 20 months imprisonment for criminal abuse of office after he ordered the increase of m...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Olonga bowled out of The Voice
FORMER Zimbabwe fast bowler, Henry Olonga, has been knocked out of The Voice Australia singing competition after his coach Kelly Rowland chose rapper Denzel over him during the battle round. ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Olonga forgets lyrics on stage
Former Zimbabwe fast bowler, Henry Olonga, forgot lyrics to the song he was singing during the knockout phase of The Voice Australia on Monday.Olonga who is on Team Kelly Rowland was singing E...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Henry Olonga mocks Zimbabwe cricket standards
Former Zimbabwe national cricket team fast-bowler Henry Olonga has mocked local cricket standards, suggesting that even a substandard player can make it into the national team.Olonga was speak...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe, Mnangagwa fight started in 1984' USA files reveal
The fallout between former President Robert Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa started during the height of Gukurahundi atrocities, an American declassified cable has revealed.The cable s...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Suppliers demand cash up-front from NatPharm'
National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) has said foreign suppliers of drugs are now demanding cash up-front from Zimbabwe before releasing orders, further worsening the supplies of medicines in the...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Asiagate haunts Zifa
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to pay a collective amount of $600 000 to a committee that investigated the match-fixing deals that came to be known as the Asiagate...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti's property divorce list raises eyebrows
Former Finance Minister and lawyer Mr Tendai Biti should explain his source of wealth that enabled him to acquire properties in Harare's affluent suburbs and top of the range vehicles, as exposed in t...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's wife files for divorce
Former Finance Minister and Harare lawyer Mr Tendai Biti's wife of 10 years has filed for divorce at the High Court, citing loss of affection and love for each other.Mrs Charity Biti (nee Magu...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
British policy towards Zimbabwe during Gukurahundi massacre: licence to kill
In January 1983 Robert Mugabe's government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fift...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 18:35hrs | | by Hazel Cameron, University of St Andrews
Zimbabwean prisoners walked out of Botswana prison
EIGHTEEN prisoners, 15 of them Zimbabweans escaped a jail in Botswana in January by literally walking through a hole on one of the fences while armed prison guards were watching, it has been establish...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Britain's vested interests in the newly independent Zimbabwe
THIS is the third in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between 1982 and 198...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Hazel Cameron ,British academic
UK 'turned blind eye' to Gukurahundi killings, Mnangagwa 'fully aware': Study claims
New research has claimed that UK officials apparently downplayed the massacre of up to 20,000 dissidents by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK’s interests.According to ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean migrants feared dead in SA
South African Police are investigating murder cases after six bodies, all with gunshot wounds and believed to be illegal miners, were found in an open veld next to a railway line in Benoni, Ekurhu...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 05:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Botswana cops arrests Zimbabwean jail-breaker
Botswana police have arrested the eighth Zimbabwean who escaped from Gerald Estates Centre Prison recently.The man was arrested last week. This was after 18 prisoners breached prison secur...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
15 Zimbabweans escape from Botswana prison
Police in Botswana have launched a manhunt for 15 Zimbabwean fugitives who escaped from a prison in Francistown on Saturday after destroying the prison fence with manhole cover, ...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 09:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Seek urgent medical attention if typhoid is suspected, says Cimas
Cimas Medical Aid Society has urged anyone displaying symptoms of typhoid fever to seek urgent medical attention as soon as the possibility of typhoid is suspected."Typhoid fever is highly con...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Agencies
Britain has bloody hands in Zimbabwe
Donald Trelford exposed Robert Mugabe's murderous methods 25 years ago, but couldn't persuade Whitehall to intervene ------- The baby was already dead, but the crowd weren't to know t...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
NUST headhunts for Pro Vice- Chancellor
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is head-hunting for a Pro-Vice Chancellor to be in charge of academic affairs.The institution said the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic af...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:38hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
'Nust caused the death of Prof Lindela Ndlovu'
The family of the late former National University of Science and Technology Vice Chancellor, Professor Lindela Rowland Ndlovu, has accused the institution's leadership of causing his sudden death. ...Published: 23 Nov 2015 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU mourns Prof Lindela Ndlovu
ZAPU has said it learnt with shock and sadness the passing on of former Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Prof Lindela Rowland Ndlovu.Prof Ndlovu rep...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 05:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC: Professor Lindela Ndlovu condolence message
The MDC has learnt with great shock and sadness of the passing of former National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Vice Chancellor, Professor Lindela Rowland Ndlovu, who succumbed to di...Published: 18 Nov 2015 at 13:39hrs | | by Kurauone Chihwayi - MDC National Spokesperson
Prof Sibanda replaces Ndlovu as NUST Vice Chancellor
PROFESSOR Samson Sibanda has been appointed the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) acting Vice Chancellor following the expiry of Professor Lindela Rowland Ndlovu's contract....Published: 11 Nov 2015 at 05:22hrs | | by Whinsley Masara
Cimas CEO Mac Chaora retires
Cimas Medical Aid Society group chief executive Mac Chaora will be leaving Cimas at the end of the year, after more than 17 years at the helm of Zimbabwe's oldest private sector medical aid society....Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gaza truce collapses as violence resumes
A week-long truce in Gaza has collapsed in tatters after Palestinian fighters launched rockets into Israel and Israel attacked "terror sites" inside the enclave.The Israeli military launched...Published: 20 Aug 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gore declared liberation war hero
Rowland Muketiwa Gore, who died in Harare on Wednesday, has been declared a liberation war hero.Gore (55) joined the liberation struggle in Mozambique in 1976, and trained at Pungwe Three Trai...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Brian Sherif
Mugabe pardoned trio at it again
BARELY a day after release from Khami Maximum Prison on Presidential amnesty, three unrepentant Bulawayo men were at it again! The trio broke into a house in Nketa 7 suburb and stole a plasma ...Published: 22 Feb 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Doctor sued over patient's death
"I WILL not rest until justice is done." This was a Nyanga villager, Mr James Makunura's bold statement following the death of his wife and mother of his only daughter as a result of Dr Miriam Kanyen...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 06:58hrs | 11 | by Cletus Mushanawani
'Independent or private media is a fallacy,' says Prof J Moyo
THE following is the full text of a public lecture delivered at the National University of Science and Technology by Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 26 Nov 2013 at 15:01hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Joice Mujuru's long, tough political journey
"Politics is addictive," says 58-year-old Joice Mujuru, and laughs loudly.She would know, as she has been on the frontline of Zimbabwe's rough politics since she was a teenager when she ran ...Published: 21 Nov 2013 at 16:11hrs | | by Independent Foreign Service
'I know why Philip Chiyangwa lost'
Philip Chiyangwa is still clueless about how he lost the Chinhoyi legislative seat to medical doctor Peter Mataruse.The tycoon mounted a spirited campaign, roping in Jah Prayzah and Suluman C...Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 08:55hrs | | by WeekendPost
Asylum seekers threaten to sink Australian govt
Australian Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare crouches uncomfortably in a suit on the canvas of a youth boxing ring in Sydney's hardscrabble Western Suburbs, shaping up for the election fight of his li...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mr Malaba's Joshua Nkomo lecture
A very good afternoon to you ladies and gentlemen. Thank you Mr MC for accusing me of being 'handsome'. An accusation I would like to deny. Could I begin by saying what a great ho...Published: 08 Jul 2013 at 17:49hrs | 6 | by Titshabona Ncube
'If anyone was defending Nkomo, it was I. I was the last to leave Zapu,' says Mugabe
[Ed. Note: We are deeply indebted to the generosity and solidarity of Baffour Ankomah for sharing this historical interview:]Before the 2003 celebrat...Published: 19 Feb 2013 at 12:02hrs | 1 | by Interview by Baffour Ankomah - September 1, 2003
Police find dead body in Belgian shooter's garage
Police have found the body of a woman while searching a garage linked to a gunman whose shooting spree in the Belgian city of Liege left at least three other people dead and scores more wounded, Aljaz...Published: 15 Dec 2011 at 04:47hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Bulawayo man gets 28 years in prison for robbery
A Bulawayo man,Mehluli Dube (34) who in the company of three accomplices went on a robbery spree, was yesterday sentenced to 28 years in prison.Dube of 4120 Cowdray Park will however ser...Published: 02 Dec 2011 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I wouldn't miss the birth of Beyoncé's baby': Kelly Rowland
Singer, UK X-Factor judge Kelly Rowland has vowed not to miss the birth of her Destiny's Child pal Beyonce's baby.Kelly revealed to The SUN that she wasn't present for another friend's ...Published: 23 Nov 2011 at 18:03hrs | | by A.L
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