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ANY nation has its own historical landmarks, political or otherwise, that are peculiar to its survival and embedded in its heritage.Such landmarks are revered in certain ways, in the form of p...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Vivian Siziba
Chamisa, Tshabangu emissaries in crunch 'interparty' talks
There have been at least two formal meetings between Nelson Chamisa and Sengezo Tshabangu "parties", on 15 November 2023 and 16 November 2023, both in Bulawayo.The meeting on 15 November was a...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 20:37hrs | 5 | by Jonathan Moyo
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Mudenda to decide on Chamisa's recalled MPs
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has written to the Speaker of Parliament urging him to ignore attempts to recall over a dozen lawmakers by a man claiming to represent the par...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
40 workers trapped after mine shaft collapses
On Friday, a tragic incident occurred at the Bay Horse mine in the Chakari region of Chegutu, situated approximately 100 kilometers to the west of Harare, resulting in the loss of six miners' lives....Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's conviction rocks Zimbabwe opposition and civil society
THE conviction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala on Wednesday has rocked the opposition and civil society, with critics saying it showed an intensifying crac...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man seeks US$24,000 for heart surgery
A 46-YEAR-OLD man from Nkulumane suburb whose main artery to the heart has a weakened wall and expands abnormally when the heart pumps blood, is seeking US$24 000 to replace the defective valve....Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure
Born-Again Nelson?I NOTICE Nelson Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure, constructive in the mould of his bete noire...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda2
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Russian people to decide on Putin's future, not Biden, says the Kremlin
The Kremlin has hit back at President Joe Biden's remark on Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," saying that such a decision lies with the Russian people."It's n...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Something stinks in Nelson's yellow shack
The fissures in the country's opposition party recently ruptured as Mr Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party going by the ideologically-barren name; Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), but ther...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Fungi Kwaramba
Prince Dube set for another operation
ZIMBABWE international forward, Prince Dube, is set to face six more weeks on the sidelines after he was taken to South Africa this week for surgery. The Tanzania-based striker was set to go u...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Old Joe Biden trips and falls 3 times boarding Air Force One
President Joe Biden stumbled three times and fell on the steps of Air Force One on Friday, prompting fresh questions about his health.The 78-year-old - the oldest president in US history - app...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why the colonial UK sanctioned Zimbabwe security chiefs
UNITED Kingdom ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson says the British government is not happy with President Emmerson Mnangagwa government's pace of reforms.Robinson (MR) told Alpha Media Ho...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Ken Mufuka
Toddler injured by exploding fuse
A five-year-old Kwekwe boy was seriously injured after a fuse he had picked up before putting it in a fire, exploded in his right hand. The boy, who is a son of a police officer, is admitted t...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couple found dead
Police are investigating a case in which a married couple was found dead in Mudzi on December 24. The bodies of Robert Muchenga (31) and his wife Patience Machaka (26) were discovered by villagers. ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2020: The year Zimbabwe opposition was decimated
The year 2020 put Zimbabwe's democracy to the test as many political activists were arrested for trying to exercise their rights to demonstrate while others were allegedly abducted.Political a...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gringo appeals for help after suffering relapse
Veteran comedian Lazarus Boora, known by his legion of fans as Gringo, has fallen sick again after failing to raise money for medication.Gringo, who turned 47 last month, is battling tesnel or...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 12:56hrs | | by Staff reportetr
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | | by Bloomberg
Chiwenga says his life was saved at UBH
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's visit to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) last Friday rekindled memories of how his life was saved at the institution after he ruptured his appendix 37 years a...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
Chamisa says he asked Tsvangirai to leave Mudzuri as party leader
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says he was asked by his late predecessor, Morgan Tsvangirai to take over as leader of the main opposition but initially declined the offer saying this was going to put him i...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe army creates temporary bases in suburbs
The presence of soldiers patrolling most high density suburbs across the country has instilled fear and uncertainty in citizens as some areas are reporting forced curfews.Coupled with this is ...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2 | by Maxwell Sibanda
MDC-T statement on fuel increase and labour crisis
CONSIDERING the challenges that our nation is facing, the press conference by the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa last night, showed the world how our current government is detached from real...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:33hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Jim kunaka's testimony: an epiphany of society's rupture
Zimbabwe is struggling to establish common ground on conflict resolution where even the formations of conflict-resolution institutions have turned to be spaces of ideological contest and score settlin...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Micheal Mhlanga
'Detectives beat suspects to death, shoot corpses in cover-up'
NINE Bulawayo police detectives allegedly fatally assaulted two suspected armed robbers and shot the bodies in a bid to claim that the suspects were killed while trying to flee from custody during ind...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
9 cops accused of killing suspects
IN a shocking expose, police officers would allegedly fatally assault suspects and in a bid to conceal the act, allegedly shoot at the dead bodies and claim the suspects were killed while trying to fl...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tapuwa Kapini now fixing cars
Former Warriors goalie Tapuwa Kapini has ventured into the vehicle repair business when he is not saving goals on the field.Kapini now co-owns a workshop that fixes gearboxes in Pomona, Kempto...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Sithabile Mafu
Mnangagwa charmed by 'mega' Sakubva crowd
President Mnangagwa was yesterday "mesmerised and charmed" by a mega crowd at a ruling party campaign rally here, before challenging any other province that had the prowess to draw such a mmmoth crowd...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nathaniel Manheru resurfaces as Igomombe?
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 15 May 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Our bad patch called Nelson, more ambitious than Satan
DEAR reader, we regaled each other leisurely under the eaves last week. But it can't be play, play, play forever. We have to get down to the business of interpreting our times, what with so much happe...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:23hrs | | by Igomombe
Manheru is back with Mnangagwa's 100 Days: Defying Horace's Burden
In one of his mature Odes, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known in the English-speaking world as Horace, coined the famous "delicta maiorum immeritus lues".Now sounding pedantic and obscure ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by George Charamba
Air Zimbabwe plane blows two tyres
An Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) plane failed to travel from the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg after it ruptured its two rear tyres on Friday morning.The flight, Boeing 767, which was...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills fellow imbiber 'for talking too much'
A MAN who fatally kicked a member of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee for "talking too much" during a beer drink in Plumtree has been ordered to perform community service.Enock Chiveya (25), ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khupe snubs crucial MDC-T meeting
MDC-T vice-president Thokozani Khupe and national chairman, Lovemore Moyo yesterday snubbed a crucial meeting to discuss widening ruptures over the succession of ailing party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No jostling for Tsvangirai post in MDC-T'
ACTING MDC-T president, engineer Elias Mudzuri (EM) says reports that there is serious power struggle between him and his two fellow deputies in the party, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, are a fi...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC-T must choose Tsvangirai's successor'
MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai's Monday statement that he was considering exiting the political arena and pave way for a younger successor has been welcomed by social and political analysts, who actu...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man suffocates, dies in well
A MAN from Tsholotsho died after he suffocated in a well which he was working on after using explosives to blast rocks.Dominic Moyo (23) of Mbalibali area suffocated in the well that was about...Published: 21 Dec 2017 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe recidivated to the 'Mugabe normal' or worse
In the aftermath of Zimbabwe's so-called military-assisted takeover of the 37-year-old fatiguing era of the regime of former President Robert Mugabe, the country has quickly recidivated to the "Mugabe...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Paul Simon
Slow pace in resolving ARVs shortage irks CSOs
THE Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Diocese of Mutare Community Care Programme (DOMCCP) express grave concern over the slow pace ...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:45hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF dominates human rights violations record
Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the ruling Zanu PF is on the top of the record in the commission of human rights violations in the country.ZPP said the majority perpetrators of human ...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 07:38hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF bigwigs bleed banks dry
Politicians, particularly the elite in Zanu-PF, are proving to be a thorn in the flesh for the financial services sector, with hardly a month passing without the Deputy Sheriff being called in to put ...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
What June 16 2017 should mean to the Zimbabwean Youth
The day that is celebrated internationally in honour of the Soweto youth ( 5 - 10,000 students) of 1976 who marched against apartheid in South Africa leaving some dea...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 16:32hrs | | by Vimbai Mavherudze
What June 16 should mean to the Zimbabwean Youth
THE DAY THAT IS CELEBRATED INTERNATIONALLY IN HONOUR OF THE SOWETO YOUTH ( 5- 10 000 STUDENTS) OF 1976 WHO MARCHED AGAINST APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA LEAVING SOME DEAD AND INJURED AFTER BEING ATT...Published: 15 Jun 2017 at 15:29hrs | | by Vimbai Mavherudze
Gwanda community living in fear
Villagers in Nhwali Gwanda South say they are living in fear as mugging and robbery cases have continued to go on unabated with perpetrators of the criminal activities allegedly still walking scot fre...Published: 09 May 2017 at 21:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Around claims of a dying Zanu-PF
One question many of my readers pose and even criticise me for is taking contrary thoughts too seriously. I fully understand where my readers are coming from. We have become a virtual community of opi...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar
A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, En...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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