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Police officers terrorise villagers; abduct, torture suspect's wife
In their futile effort to apprehend a suspected thief who allegedly stole irrigation sprinklers, armed members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police dispatched from Rusape indiscriminately terrorise communi...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 11:51hrs | 1299 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Rusape
Mnangagwa promises free food for all in need
The government has committed to supporting food-insecure Zimbabweans affected by the El Niño-induced drought, intensifying its food aid program nationwide to ensure no one dies of hunger, President E...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 09:49hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Hlophe hits back at detractors over his appointment to JSC
In a lengthy statement issued on Friday, Hlophe told nay-sayers that he was ready to take them on."Regarding their threats of a lawsuit to have me removed from the JSC, I say to them; Bring it...Published: 13 Jul 2024 at 12:56hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Nicholas Zakaria told to go and see Victor by Chivayo
Legendary Sungura musician Nicholas "Madzibaba" Zakaria is the latest artiste to receive a car gift from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. Posting on his social media pages from Duba...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pedzai Sakupwanya scoffs at insanity rumours
BUSINESSMAN and Mabvuku legislator Pedzisayi 'Scott' Sakupwanya has scoffed at rumours circulating on social media that he has gone insane. He laughed off these rumours and mocked those sharin...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foot-and-mouth disease hits Buhera, Chikomba
GOVERNMENT has prohibited the movement of livestock from Buhera district in Manicaland and Chikomba in Mashonaland East provinces following an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease.The Depart...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Law fare has intensified in Zimbabwe'
HUMAN rights defenders have accused the Zanu-PF-led government of intensifying its use of the law to punish critics.In its latest human rights report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Music that doesn't speak for the oppressed is not really music!
Of late, we have witnessed divided opinions on our music legend Winky D (Wallace Chirumiko).This is on account of his recent songs, which have mainly touched on the social injustices faced by ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:12hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Allow artists to perform without censorship
Winky D born Wallace Chirumiko popularly known as 'The Big Man or Gaffa' deserves that respect amongst his peers. We have freedom of expression in the country so people should be allowed to air their ...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 20:09hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Winky D now a politician?
DANCEHALL chanter Wallace Chirumiko, otherwise affectionately known as Winky D, has sparked a fiery debate following his December 31, 2023 show at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC)....Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Calls for Charumbira's arrest over sex assault
THE family of a 27-year-old Masvingo woman, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by president of the Chiefs Council, Fortune Charumbira, has demanded the former deputy minister's arrest.The vi...Published: 21 Apr 2023 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prepares for SA returnees
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has started registering residents in a mapping exercise for the anticipated return of residents whose exemption permits are set to expire in June this year....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa salutes Winky D - 'Famba Winky Famba!'
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has heaped praises on Zimdancehall singer Wallace "WinkyD" Chirumiko after the release of his controversial album Eureka.Winky D has been a subject of ...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 09:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF youth secretary makes U-turn on Winky D's album criticism
Zanu-PF's secretary for youth affairs, Tinomuda Machakaire, has made a major climb down on his criticism against Zimdancehall kingpin, Wallace Chirumiko, better known as Winky D, urging fellow critics...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not ready for free, fair elections
FOR decades after independence, Zimbabwe seems to have been disillusioned by the electoral system.Democracy has been elusive. Elections have been marred by violence. Every past election has be...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Innocent Mpoki
19 firms blacklisted for fuelling black market
NINETEEN contractors providing Government with goods and services have been blacklisted for channelling funds to the foreign exchange black market, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor ...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAPS United heading towards collapse?
IT'S no longer just a crisis.It's now a mire. A pandemical predicament.CAPS United are in desperate need of life support. But, as it stands, no one is willing to give them a hand....Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAPS United hammer hapless WhaWha
CAPS United 6 - 0 WhaWhaAFTER a rocky start to the season, CAPS United finally remembered how to win, in emphatic fashion, when they put hapless WhaWha to the sword in this Castle Lager Premiershi...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Caps disconnect ZPC Kariba
Caps United 2 - 1 ZPC KaribaAn inspired second half performance saw struggling Harare giants Caps United rally from a goal down to beat ZPC Kariba and end their dream of progressing to the C...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAPS United crash out of Chibuku Cup
Dynamos 1 - 1 CAPS UtdHARARE football giants CAPS United crashed out of the Chibuku Super Cup after playing out a stalemate with bitter rivals Dynamos in the penultimate round of the Group O...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
View from Up Here: Gukurahundi Genocide: An Open Wound Part 1
Gukurahundi is a thorny issue for our leaders. They do not want to talk about it, neither do they want it discussed. The objective is to relegate it to the dustbins of history. But can a nation move o...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Muzira
Winky D demands US$12 000 from Magamba TV for copyright breach
PROMINENT Zimdancehall artiste, Wallace Chirumiko, popularly known as Winky D has slapped Magamba TV Network with a US$12 000 lawsuit for infringement of copyright after network reproduced and played ...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Father and son share woman
WHAT is the world coming to?Villagers in Marumisa area, under Chief Nemangwe in Gokwe, were left in shock after it emerged that a father and son were having sex with the same woman.The...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 15:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Elderly couple killed over witchcraft allegations
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly killed a Mhondoro couple after accusing them of witchcraft. The incident occurred last week in Mhondoro, under Chief Chivero. Fredd...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:15hrs | 8 | by Staff repporter
Man kills mother (89), uncle (87) over witchcraft
POLICE in Murewa, Mashonaland East province, have launched a manhunt for a man who allegedly murdered his biological mother and uncle on Monday last week after accusing them of practising witchcraft....Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stockfeed prices surge 886%
THE cost of procuring raw materials for manufacturing stockfeed rocketed by 886% in 2020 after maize prices rose threefold during the period, according to the stockfeed Manufacturers Association (SMA)...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dies after police raided a nightclub
A GRIEF-STRICKEN family is demanding justice after a relative died in custody in Murewa on Boxing Day following a police dog bite outside a nightclub, although a police statement to this publication s...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe Rugby Union announces women's national team to face Zambia
Zimbabwe Rugby Union has announced the squad for the Women's national team that will face Zambia Women tomorrow at the Machinery exchange Stadium at Harare Sports Club.The squad features 10 pl...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tamborinyoka must resign
It was disturbing to read the press statement issued by the MDC Deputy Spokesperson published on the party's facebook page a day before Jacob Sikhala was arrested by the Zimbabwe Republic police on Tu...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:18hrs | | by Etiwel Mutero
An abiding tortoise of White House goons
Politics, as an existential science, can be characteristically hot, heavy and heady.In its very extreme form, politics can be similar to religious fundamentalism, where it becomes a matter of ...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Winky D to receive award as ZimAchievers pay Tuku tribute
Celebrated Zimdancehall artist Wallace Chirumiko, popularly known as Winky D has been announced as the recipient of the inaugural Oliver Mtukudzi Zim-Based Musician of the Year Award at the ZororoPhum...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC Alliance condemned by Misa-Zimbabwe
PRESS freedom group Misa-Zimbabwe has blasted MDC Alliance for the harassment of ZBC's Midlands bureau journalist Tafara Chikumira during a rally held in Gweru's Mkoba.The opposition security ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa politics shatters society's mirror
The dawn of the new dispensation brought along a glimpse of hope to many, including artistes, with the leaders ensuring the upholding of fundamental human rights.This was reinforced by the ret...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
The problem with kaSong Kejecha
WHEN all is said and done, 2018 has been another good year for Winky D as his anticipated album, Gombwe, reasserted his position as Zim dancehall's top dog.A year is a long time and 11 months ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bishop Mutendi pushes for Chamisa, Mnangagwa deal
Zion Christian Church (ZCC) leader Bishop Dr Nehemiah Mutendi has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage the opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and all opposing voices for the go...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free for all bananas after truck accident
Villagers from the surrounding community, passengers in buses and other vehicles ignored a trapped driver and quickly helped themselves to bananas that were strewn all over the Mutare-Harare highway a...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electoral court hears urgent application as candidates protest over intimidation and ZEC conduct
THE Electoral Court will today preside over the hearing and determination of three urgent chamber applications filed by aspiring opposition legislators seeking to interdict some ZANU PF party supporte...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ZEC sets up 'shady' polling stations
INDEPENDENT biometric voter registration (BVR) and data science experts analysing the voters' roll, yesterday claimed they had unearthed another suspected vote-rigging loophole, where the Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Planetarity: From Third World to Global South
Presently it is the true stuff of political and intellectual fashion to refer to Africa, Latin America and even Asia as collectively the Global South.For the reason that there are more politic...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by Cetshwayo Zindaba Mabhena
Mother beats 4-year-old son for being 'promiscuous'
A woman from Kwekwe undressed her four-year-old son and whipped him with a belt while recording the act before sending the audio of the wailing child to her ex-husband as a way of revenge for du...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe not yet independent'
Disgruntled Guruve youths waved placards demanding the missing Itai Dzamara saying they were not yet independent though the country has marked 38 years of Independence.When Bulawayo24.com visi...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 12:35hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa drops Tsvangirai's strategy of boycotting of national events
Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa says his party will now attend all national events as it is now time to "cast away the image of bastards in our own motherland"."From now o...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Road to Victory (R2V): Nelson Chamisa on Tuesday
1. The national Council and its deliberations The national council on Friday noted and acknowledged the fact that the party had positively rebranded is rene...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa
Beware of the false prophet
MDC President Nelson Chamisa waves his Christian credentials about quite a lot. It is rare that he won't have a series of quotes from the Bible at the tip of his tongue and he will invoke the Lord's n...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Charles Kanye, Student (Theology)
Zimra threatens to wield axe
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which is contending with widening tax defaults by both individuals and corporates, says it is open to payment plans to prevent ballooning interests and penaltie...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Same old Bob, same old Joice?
We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It's too late, unfortunately. ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Winky D vs Jah Prayzah
WHAT a way to celebrate turning 35 years old!With a discography that boasts of five successful albums, launching his sixth on his birthday at the home of international shows, Harare Internatio...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
The era of 'Deng' Mnangagwa
TRUE to Isaac Newton's axiom, which eloquently asserts that for one to see further it is only by perching on the shoulder of giants, the new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, affectionately k...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Tich Mushambadope
Companies fleeced in Zimra fiscal devices supply
THOUSANDS of Zimbabwean businesses may have lost millions of dollars in an alleged scam by a group of companies contracted by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to supply fiscal devices, two years...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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