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Prayer for Zimbabwe
People of Zimbabwe, the state of our nation is disturbing, discouraging, baffling and getting worse. The answer to our suffering is Jesus Christ. Our enemy is not President Mnangagwa or ZANU-PF, but t...Published: 11 hrs ago | 870 | by Sheila Magudu
Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 405 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy is palatial Blue Roof for himself and condemn povo to mud hovel - Sodom and Gomorrah of greed
-A lot has been said about Robert Gabriel Mugabe's legacy; some declared him a Pan-Africanist liberation hero per excellence, the founding father of Zimbabwe, etc. A picture speaks a thousand words an...Published: 13 hrs ago | 592 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiefs demand Mugabe be buried according to traditions
As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2635 | by AFP
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1151 | by Leonard Koni
Trailgater, Tandem Bike Attachment, or Tandem: What's the Difference?
Most parents and adults want to bring their kids along for longer bike rides, but they don't have the stamina and skills to catch up. You don't have to wait for them to be in their adolescent or teena...Published: 22 hrs ago | 173 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga rejected Mugabe's offer feared trapping
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga turned down an offer by the late president Robert Mugabe to take over the presidency at the height of the coup as he feared it might be a trap to rubberstamp the mi...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4913 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1475 | by Conway Tutani
Mugabe fights Mnangagwa from coffin
THE bitter fallout between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the late former president Robert Mugabe which has divided their families, Zanu-PF and government, as well as the public - exacerbated this w...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Black market running amok
Claims by under-pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube that his much-criticised policies will start bearing fruit towards the end of the year look increasingly nonsensical, as the wobbly Zimbabwe doll...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2293 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe is dead, but old men still run southern Africa
THE death of former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (95) saw another of the first-generation leaders of newly independent southern African states leave the world stage.Southern Africa was the ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 484 | by Henning Melber
Abductions: It's the State stupid!
ZIMBABWE'S response to the callous abduction of Peter Magombeyi and other citizens is pathetic. Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, and Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana have blamed the th...Published: 24 hrs ago | 842 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Mugabe delayed land reform for SA
FORMER South African President Thabo Mbeki said the late former President Robert Mugabe delayed embarking on the land reform programme to allow successful negotiations between the African National Con...Published: 24 hrs ago | 769 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe to make a graceful exit from politics?
The future of former First Lady, Grace Mugabe, who arguably created more enemies than friends during her husband's last days in office, now hangs in the balance.The demise of the former presid...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 19:52hrs | 14034 | by Mandla Tshuma
6 traditional questions stalling Mugabe's burial
Traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe are demanding that the body of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been part of a dispute ove...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 18:42hrs | 5029 | by AFP
Doctors march to parliament
Over 200 doctors joined by other health workers marched from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament on Thursday to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union.The march was all...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:52hrs | 3352 | by Reuters
Mugabe was a complex man, said Bona
There were few dry eyes by the time Bona Mugabe ended her speech.Former president Robert Mugabe's eldest child spoke from the heart to an audience that held her father in messianic reverence, ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:40hrs | 3870 | by ZimLive
Chombo's health deteriorates, denied passport to seek medical attention in abroad
FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday said his health was deteriorating and needed urgent medical attention abroad, but a Harare magistrate again denied him his passport to enable him to t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 5685 | by Staff reporter
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1225 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Zivhu defies party directive
Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu has come under fire for continuing to defy the Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive's directive stopping him from carrying out party and parliamentary business in ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2051 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1020 | by Daniel Itai
Chombo denied his passport again
Former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo's bid for the temporary release for his passport has hit a brick wall once again after a Harare magistrate dismissed his application.Chombo made an appl...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Mashaba refuses to apologise for deadly xenophobic violence
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has said he has "nothing to apologise for" following a spate of xenophobic attacks in the city. Mashaba was being interviewed by CNBC Africa and asked whether...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 12:38hrs | 2969 | by AFP
New Zimdollar the worst-performing currency in the world
If you thought Argentina's currency crisis was bad, spare a thought for Zimbabwe.Measures to protect the Zimbabwe dollar - including sky-high interest rates - seem to be coming to naught....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:41hrs | 2846 | by Bloomberg
Mugabe's funeral fuels tensions due to traditional beliefs, rituals
As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been p...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:20hrs | 4063 | by AFP
In Zimbabwe, surviving means improvising, and some luck
In crisis-stricken Zimbabwe, where prices are soaring, the local dollar is plummeting and time is always short, even a trip to the gas station can be an adventure in the struggle to survive.Fi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 678 | by AFP
Mugabe's son-in-law acquitted
The late former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore has been acquitted at the Harare Magistrate's Court after a High Court judge threw away the lower court's verdict to dismiss his appl...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 2168 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo in trouble
BULAWAYO magistrate Tinashe Tashaya yesterday issued an administrative warrant against MDC chairperson Thabitha Khumalo for failing to show up in court yesterday.Khumalo (58), senator Helen Zi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to present human rights report to UN, AU for review
ZIMBABWE has made significant strides in promoting and protecting the human rights of citizens since 2007 in line with international agreements and is due to present reports to world and continental b...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda ordered to pay $6,750 debt
THE High Court in Bulawayo has ordered the MP for Vungu in the Midlands Province, Omega Sibanda to pay back a personal loan of US$6 750 which he got from a local freelance photographer eight years ago...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1430 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa ally skips court, warrant of arrest issued
A Bulawayo magistrate Tuesday issued a warrant of arrest against MDC chairperson, Thabitha Khumalo after the lawmaker failed to attend a hearing before her court.The firebrand politician, toge...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2963 | by newzimbabwe
Trevor Manuel proves that he is a delinquent
Old Mutual chair Trevor Manuel, who proved that he is a delinquent, has apologised for his remark about a judge who delivered a ruling against the company in litigation involving its axed CEO Peter Mo...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 22:08hrs | 2777 | by Staff reporter
Kings and Mambos must be careful
In English they say "let lying dogs lie", in Ndebele there is a saying that goes "lala lulaza sikwengule."Have we been sleeping in the stupidity slumber that we haven't seen all this coming, some men ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 12:50hrs | 2265 | by Presia Ngulube
Chamisa linked councillors snub Bulawayo budget meeting over Kambarami issue
BULAWAYO councillors yesterday snubbed the 2019 second supplementary budget meeting as well as the 2020 budget announcement which the finance department was scheduled to present to council. The counci...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:06hrs | 1915 | by Staff reporter
Fresh calls for price controls
INDUSTRIALISTS and economists have said the Competition and Tariffs Commission (CTC)'s suspension of price and commodity monitoring programme has led to a drastic increase in prices of basic commoditi...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:03hrs | 1605 | by Staff reporter
Doctors paralyse Zimbabwe hospitals
ZIMBABWE's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa apology for xenophobia welcome
WE welcome the public apology issued by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the African continent for the recent wave of xenophobic attacks on foreigners of African descent in his country. The ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 226 | by Editorial - Chronicle
Road accident 5 kills, 25 injured
At least five people were killed, while 25 others were seriously injured on Sunday when a Mitsubishi lorry they were travelling on veered of the road and overturned several times at the 54-kilom...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:25hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe sliding into authoritarian rule'
Human Rights Activist Dr Pedzisayi Ruhanya says the recent waves of abductions happening in Zimbabwe are signs that the country is sliding towards an authoritarian rule. Writing on Tuesday Ruh...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:06hrs | 430 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on abducted doctor
At around 10pm, Saturday 14th September 2019, state agents armed with automatic weapons abducted Dr Peter Mugombeya, President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) in Budiririro, Harar...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 03:57hrs | 1595 | by ZCP
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 3320 | by Morgan Changamire
Chamisa, diplomats crank up pressure on Mnangagwa
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday pointed an accusing finger at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime following the abduction of the doctors' union president....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 2088 | by ZimLive
Anger over Mnangagwa regalia as Mugabe's body goes to Kutama
The body of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6, arrived in his home village on Monday for a subdued farewell at a dusty sports field after a weekend state funeral with Af...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:03hrs | 3888 | by AFP
Mnangagwa's minister condemns doc's 'abduction'
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has condemned the alleged abduction of Harare Central Hospital medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, saying he has since engaged State secur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:02hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance members urged to 'repent' and join Zanu-PF
MDC-Alliance members have been advised to "repent" and join the ruling Zanu-PF which enjoys overwhelming support from the generality of Zimbabweans. The call was made by the ruling party Women...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:54hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family feuds over body
HUNDREDS of people yesterday waited in vain at the late former President Robert Mugabe's rural home in Zvimba where his body was scheduled to lie in state after the programme was cancelled at the last...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:48hrs | 2320 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF has no reason to destabilise Zimbabwe' - has, insatiable greed for power and loot
Zimbabwe is a failed state. The last two weeks following the late Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe's death have provided the international community with some gruesome details of the coun...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 17:42hrs | 1511 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 5561 | by Staff reporter
Police probe doctor's 'abduction'
POLICE have launched investigations into the alleged abduction of the acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA), Dr Peter Magombeyi by three unidentified armed men in Harar...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
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